Chapter 3

The Fire's Around

It was about 2 am. when Katherine got to a meeting place of the military. It was in a small forest, where nobody could see them. She slowly went inside the scary forest with the spine-chilling fog.

"Is anybody here?" she asked, at any time she could expect an attack because of safety from the military.

"Your status, soldier" a familiar voice said.

"Katherine Snow, the top class soldier and license of the military spy" she replied. She smiled to herself for meet her old general again.

"Nice to meet you again, Katherine"

Everybody went out from the shadow behind the trees, they had the weapons from the best class.

"So, what's the plan?" Katherine asked, they gave her a weapon; a rifle.

"We'll tell you in the plane, we must quickly get to Denmark" a tiger said (who looks like Vitaly, if you watched Madagascar 3) with a soldier's helmet.

"Aye, General G" Katherine saluted and followed them.

They went deeper into the forest, it was early autumn, so the trees already changed colors into the golden, red and chocolate brown. The grass was wet by the dew drops, but everything even with the golden color looked gloomy. They finally got to the free space, surrounded by the trees, with a high cliff. There was a plane; small, black and military.

They went inside, it looked pretty exclusive. There was light and sits were in beige color, the walls were white.

"Don't worry, we have the best pilots" General G said when they took their sits and fastened the seatbelts "Well, about the plan. This mission needs more spies-soldiers, so that's why I called you. It's a team A, so we're the first ones. Tomorrow Team B will join us with General T, of course if we survive…" he stopped for a while "The whole Denmark's border is guarding by the puffins, we must land far from them and then surround a specific part of the border. We'll attack the puffins and then we'll quietly get inside the country"

"It sounds simply, but in fact it'll be really dangerous" Katherine said more to herself. General G smiled.

"What's a mission without any risk?" he said, everybody nodded "But you know that I can't go further with you"

"What do you mean, sir?"

"You know what. It's my fate"

"… No, you can't do it, sir!" Katherine protested.

"You all know that as a general I have to do everything for success of the mission. They'll kill me… but then you'll get there"

"But we can't be sure…"

"I have a bad feeling this is my last mission. Don't worry, it'll be a honor for me. And that's why you, Katherine, will be a general of this mission after I…"

Silence

"I-I can't…" she said.

"Katherine, after those years I've trained you, I know you'll complete the mission success. Team B will join you and if something gets wrong, you'll make a backup plan B with General T, understand?" he said with seriousness, Katherine slowly nodded.

Suddenly they felt a concussion of the airplane, it wasn't good, Katherine like the others felt sick. The plane flew faster, they felt the plane turbulence and suddenly everything stopped as fast as it started. They put off the seatbelts and stood up shakily.

"We landed. You know, it's a military plane, so I think that you didn't expect a better landing"

"Well, the next time I'll take a helicopter" Katherine said trying to not lose her balance.

"We're near Denmark, if we want success, we must be fast. They should expect nothing, but we should expect everything" General G said, everybody nodded.

They were inside a forest, the plane was left on the free space surrounded by the trees. The black color of it was a really good camouflage. They walked through the spine-chilling wood. There was the strange fog too, as if it was spying them; evil in a mist form. But there was quiet, too quiet, it usually means nothing good. The whole forest was making a bad feel, they grabbed tighter their weapons. General G and Katherine went ahead.

"We are almost on Denmark's border, when we'll pass it, they'll attack us. Somewhere there should be the guards…" General G gave them a mark. They hid behind the trees and surround that part of the boarder. When they moved to the right side, they saw few puffins. The plan started, General G threw a stone to make the noise.

"What was that?" one puffin asked. He raised his weapon and went closer to place with the noise.

"Are you ready?" General G asked, they gave him the marks. He nodded and prepared to attack "I'll attack them, and then you, Katherine, will take the remote control of an alarm from that puffin. You'll switch it off and then you'll get inside Denmark. You know where the classified hiding place is?" General G asked. Katherine nodded. General G jumped out from the forest and attacked the puffin from surprise.

"They're attacking us!"the puffins yelled. General G and few other soldiers went to fight, the rest stayed in the forest and waited for Katherine's mark. She went to an unconscious puffin and found the remote control.

"Excellent, here's no button to switch it off" she said sarcastically and moved the remote control in her hands. There were only few words on its back 'what now?' as a joke from the puffins "But you didn't expect this" she said to herself and opened a cover of the remote control, inside there was a lot of cables. Katherine took a black bow from her hair, it had a sharp clip.

"Either succeed, or blow up" she said and with nervous she approached the sharp part to one red cable "Now or never" she cut the cable.

Nothing happened, she slowly passed the border, the alarm didn't switch on, so she gave a mark to the rest. They quickly walked further, but then the puffins attacked them.

"They're here! Switch on the alarm and give me the bombs!" the leader puffin said, a loud alarm switched on and more puffins attacked them. Suddenly something blew up near to them. The leader puffin was throwing small-attack bombs to them. They couldn't attack the puffins, but only the make the dodges.

"Run, I'll stop them!" General G defeated the rest of the puffins on his side and went to the team. Katherine made the dodges and landed next to him by a somersault.

"No, you can't stay here, sir!"

"Listen to an order, soldier" General G said "Puffins, get the general first"

"Let's go" Katherine sighed and finally moved, the others followed her. There was another forest. They could hide behind the trees to lose the puffins, which already caught General G. One of the puffins walked to him and raised a knife… Katherine turned her head to don't look at it.

"We must go, General G gave us a time for escape, he can rest in peace" she said and closed her eyes. She had to concentrate now.

"Check the forest, we must get them" a puffin said and the rest went inside the forest.

"Go!" Katherine whispered, but the puffins started shooting.

"Any options for this situation?" one of the soldiers asked.

"Being in the group is too dangerous when they're shooting. The plan B is a kind of a solo-mission. We must split" Katherine said, they nodded and ran to the different directions to meet in the end of the forest. The puffins followed them, fortunately there were a lot of trees, so they have a 'cover' while they were running. Suddenly something blew up, a second later the forest were surrounded by the fire.

"What now?" Katherine heard voices of her soldiers, she was the general now, it depended on her. She hesitated and looked around.

"Just run, we'll meet in the edge of the forest" she said but then the puffins surrounded her. She made a dodge before they shot her, but it was too late for escape, she stepped back.

"Well, well, well" the leader puffin said with an evil smile on his face.

"They're escaping" the puffin saluted.

"We can't let them go further… the land mines" leader puffin said and raised a remote control with a red button with a skull on it "Goodbye" he said and pushed the button. Before Katherine could stop him, the puffins caught her. Then everything around them blew up.

"You monster! You killed them all!" Katherine cried and tried to get out from the puffins.

"Just sit down and shut up or you'll share the same fate"

"I'll never give up, puffin" she said and kicked the puffins near to her. The leader puffin went to her and took the dagger.

"Bad choice"

"I'm not afraid" she said.

"But you should"

"But I'm not and whatever you're going to do, believe me, I'm not giving up"

"You have the last chance, sit down and shut up politely or…"

"You won't dare" she said and smiled, if she was going to die this night, she wasn't going to be afraid.

"I will dare and you know what? You're annoying"

"Yeah, I heard it. Are we going to stay here for the whole night? Can you release me in that case, please?"

"Nope" the leader puffin said and turned to his work, the burning forest.

"Are you happy? See what have you done and I promise that you'll pay for this" Katherine said with hate.

"Just like you" he said and stabbed her stomach by the dagger.

"Uh, you don't control your anger, you know…" Katherine said. The puffins released her and she fell down and fainted, everything changed fell into a black…

It was about 4 am., none of the penguins could fell asleep. Yes, they slept, but they woke up for the few times. Now they were only lying in their bunks nervously. Private couldn't stand it any longer.

"Do you think she's alright?" he asked.

"I don't know, but I… um, yes she is" Skipper said.

"But what?"

"Nothing"

"Please tell"

"But… I have bad feelings… I don't know, just… we should be calm now" Skipper said.

It wasn't normal feeling and his gut is never wrong, something happened and he knew it. But he didn't want to upset the others. He tried to fall asleep again, so he closed his eyes.

"Ugh" Skipper opened eyes again, he just couldn't fall asleep, so he looked around the dark HQ. He heard the deep breaths, the rest of the team were sleeping again. He decided to get up and he walked to Kowalski's lab. There was a computer with one missed message. Skipper looked at it and stop breathing for a moment. He knew what was that about; message with the information about Team A, but it was too fast and it often means that something went wrong. Skipper nervously went to the computer.

Top Secret

Classified

Team A

Mission Denmark

There was a warming. Skipper opened the mail, to read this he had to print it, so he did. He took a piece of paper and took the deep breath…

Sorry, if this chapter was too much about Katherine, but you should know how that mission went ^^

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