Ch.14: Horrid Memories, Forgotten Screams

In all the years of experince Skipper possessed, the penguin had been blinded in the side by an unfortunate fate. Back behind bars, in the Copenhagen Zoo Jail. Only this time, instead of being alone, his team and Zar were suffering along with him.

Bite stood guarding their cell, while Michael went off to get their Chief. Skipper shuddered in fear at the thought of seeing Cheif Growl again. The german sheperd wasn't exactly pleased what had happened the last time he'd been in Denmark.

All of those horrid memories came flooding back to Skipper now.

Just as his father had been lost on the force, killed in some sick game of a human hunter, Skipper had grown increasily voilent in his assignments. His superiors thought it would be better if he went to a nice quiet zoo to spend some down time, but the penguin wouldn't hear it.

Finally, his superiors forced him to go, with Corporate Hans leading the way. The puffin had promised Skipper that he was going to make the penguin have fun whether he wanted to or not. But Skipper's mind was only on one drive, hatred for the humans.

They were sent to the Copenhagen Zoo, where Majack was a happy little ruler at that time, a happy wife and kids to call his own.

Zar was the welcome wagon to the zoo, and the days rolled past, the smooth feline slowly broke away at the shell Skipper had placed around his heart. If some humans could find it in their hearts to save Zar when he was an orphan, then Skipper guessed they couldn't be all bad.

However, as Skipper was having a change of heart, Hans mind was becoming greedy.

The puffin was furious to hear the news that he now completely going out of the service. Stolen contraband being discovered in his room, with blueprints showing his sinster plans to take down the HQ when he got back. Skipper would now get the promotion of General instead of him, and that made Hans furious.

Well fine then, if he couldn't take over the Penguin HQ, he would take over the Copenhagen Zoo instead. And with that in mind, Hans's evil scheme was set into motion.

It all started with the death of a zookeeper, but not just any one. This zookeeper happened to be the same lady that took care of Zar when he was just a kitten. Even when the humans came to pick up the body a few moments later, the serval would not leave his mother's side.

The great danes Mochael and Bite came down earlier to examine the corspe and reported back their findings to Cheif Growl. There was a definate scent of penguin on the flesh. And Cheif Growl knew that there was only one penguin at the zoo, Skipper.

Hans was questioned immediately about his partner, and the puffin wasted no time explaining Skipper's hatred towards the human race. He was reported to stay close by Skipper and report if the penguin did anything else.

Word soon passed through the grapevine that Skipper was now a suspect in the murder, which made Zar bitter towards his new friend.

But beofre Skipper could explain himself to the serval, he and Hans were coecred by Majack in plot to take down the Copenhagen Zoo and make it theirs. Hans convinced Skipper to tag along, and soon the plot was in motion.

With Hans and Skipper now acting as his enforcers, Majack began ruling the zoo with an iron fist. However, one night when Skipper went enforcing, Zar stopped him in his tracks.

"I can't believe you Skipper" said Zar " I can't. Guess you were never my friend in the first place,"

"Zar I...," started Skipper, but his sentence was suddenly interupted by a scream.

In shock, both Zar and Skipper turned to see fire shooting out of the wolverine habitat. With no time to think, both penguin and serval dashed of towards the rescue.

Jumping in through the inferno of flames, Zar split off to the right to look for victims, while Skipper took off to the left. A shadow soon became clear to the penguin, and he could see than it was Hans. His wicked smile glowing eeriely in the firelight.

"To late Skipper," said Hans, and dashed off into the flames.

Before Skipper could follow the puffin he heard Zar calling for help, Majack's body had been trapped under a heavy piece of concrete. It was tough work, but the two of them finally managed to pull the wolverine out.

Zar's and Skipper's eyes met for a second, and the penguin knew that he was somewhat forgiven, but he rarely had time to register his relief when Mjack slowly opened his eyes, gazing in shock at his burning house.

"Nooo!" howled the wolverine " my wife, my kids, all gone,"

His gleering red gaze soon locked on Skipper.

"You!" growled Majack fiercely " you and your puffin friend is what caused this to happen. Now both of you will die,"

With that said Majack charged at Skipper, chasing the penguin all throughout the zoo. They crossed oer many habitats until they reached the top of the zoo clock tower. Skipper ducked as Majack came back with a slash, and the wolverine fell over the edge of the tower, landing dead in the dirt.

A familair laugh soon cut through Skipper's senses as he looked after the fallen wolverine, soon setting his furious gaze upon Hans. The puffin held a fish sword in hand, and tossed one down to Skipper as he jumped from the bell, landing a fighting stance ready to fight.

Hans had successfully gotten rid of Majack and his royal line, now the only thing left to do was to make Skipper pay for taking his job at the Penguin HQ.

With a slash and a bang the two fish clashed, swinging smoothly to the voilent weilds of their two partners. Skipper had quite an experince with weapons while joining up with the Penguin HQ, but Hans knew the weapons a lot better.

A short perry was all that was needed to knock the fishsword away from Skipper's hands, and soon the penguin found himself cornered by Hans ready for the final blow.

Fortunately though, the final blow never came, as Zar suddenly jumped out from nowhere and knocked Hans away from Skipper. His gleaming sharp fangs telling the puffin that he wasn't playing around.

Accepting his defeat, Hans dropped his fishsword and ran off, promising to finish off Skipper next time. When the puffin was gone Zar turned to Skipper.

"Come on" said Zar " we have to get you out of here,"

And that's when Skipper's life on the run began.

Skipper's flashback was suddenly interupted by the sound of Michael's return, with a furious Cheif Growl following behind him. The german sheperd hadn't lost any of his fearsomeness despite his old age.

A body had been brought along too, it's side marked with blood. Skipper and his team gasped when they saw who the unfortunate victim was. No other, than King Julien.