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The Red Squirrel was confused at first on why Dr. Blowhole wanted to meet him. They were both evil, had the penguins as enemies, and he was sure shocked to learn that they shared the same target, but then he offered to team up. And after Blowhole explained his diabolical plan, the offer didn't seem half bad.

"Mind control?" The Red Squirrel repeated, rubbing his paw under his head, obviously interested. "How does this work exactly?"

"Oh, don't you worry my new partner in crime." Blowhole told the squirrel. "We shall see it happen tonight. Once the kids are asleep, my mind control devices will take over their minds. And then and there, I have new minions."

"Hmm… good work, but what if their parents stop them?"

"Ah, but that's just the beauty of it. What kind of parent attacks their own children? They'll be forced to not only be captured, but the kids will be able to take any of Skipper's secrets. They'll be the best minions ever!"

"Ahem," a lobster went behind the evil dolphin.

"Oh, but… not that they could replace lobsters," Blowhole said.

The lobster didn't appear to buy it at first, but he just shrugged it off. "Boss, we have the mind control devices ready. When do you want them to be activated?"

"Soon enough, I assure you." Dr. Blowhole said. "I want them activated at night. If only I could see Skipper's face when his own son plots against him," he sighed dreamily at the thought.

"I'm sure it'll be something, boss." The lobster said before crawling back to his work place.

At the zoo, the penguins were getting ready for bed. By now, Marshal, Elli, Athena, and Buttons had out grown their incubation chamber and had their own bunks, but Athena and Elli had their own room carved out in the corner of the H.Q. and Marshal and Buttons had a room on the other end. And now that the penguin teens were dating, it helped Private and Kowalski sleep at night, knowing that their little girls weren't sharing a bed with their boyfriends.

"Night, girls," Skipper said to Elli and Athena, who were patting out the blanket over their beds.

Elli looked up at her Uncle Skipper with a sweet smile. Now that Elli was a teenager, she was near Private's height. She had a pretty look to her. Her light brown eyes just lit up when she smiled, and was especially noticeable when a room was only lit up by a small light like the girls' room was. A small lamp hung over Elli's bed, since she was still afraid of the dark.

Athena smiled and looked at Uncle Skipper, nearly as tall as him now. Her dark curious brown eyes wandered across the room as if to make her brain think a little before bed. She was tired, especially since she and her dad were out on the clock tower.

"Night, Uncle Skipper," Athena gave him a small hug and then went to tell her dad good night, too. She couldn't find him at first, looking around in the main room, but she eventually found Kowalski with his head on his work table in the lab, sleeping and… sleep talking.

"Oh, Doris, you were always there for me." Kowalski mumbled in his sleep. "And of course I'll help cure your disease! What was it again? Oh, the love bug, eh? Hehe," he had on a small grin as he thought of his dolphin crush.

Athena giggled and tried not to laugh out loud as she waddled over to her father. "Dad?" she whispered when she stood next to him. She poked his back lightly when he didn't respond. "Dad, come on, wake up so you can get into bed. You don't need to sleep in your lab again."

"I do, Doris!" Kowalski smiled, but frowned when he felt a flipper tap his back, waking him up from his dream. Once he was back in reality, he saw Athena giggling next to him. His eyes widened and he felt a heat of a blush starting to creep over his beak. "Did you hear—?"

"Yes."

"With the—"

"You bet it."

"And—"

"Everything," Athena let out a small chuckle as her dad turned away from her. "Oh, don't worry, dad. Everyone knows you like Doris!"

"Well, we don't need to figure it out that way!" Kowalski grumbled.

Athena was about to comfort her father, but she stopped short when she heard some clattering about outside the lab's door. Kowalski noticed this, too.

"What's that noise?" Kowalski asked. He started to waddle over to the door, but stopped short when he noticed Athena was following him. "Athena, no, you stay in here. It could be dangerous." He told her in a whisper. "I'll go, and if I require any assistance, I'll call you."

Athena moped and was about to protest, but Kowalski shushed her. She then sighed and stayed.

Kowalski smiled and kissed his daughter's head.

"Okay, I'll be right back." He then waddled out.

Athena sat down at her dad's desk, gliding her flippers over the test tubes. She looked around and smiled before opening her dad's chemistry set. Maybe playing around would give her something to do while her dad was checking out whatever it was. The teenager opened a dark blue beaker with a plug on the top of it, curiously. The penguin didn't know that it would make her drowsy, and before she could take account of this…

It went dark.

The next day…

The golden sun was making its way over the green tree tops of the park that surrounded the zoo early the next day. A few birds chirped from their branches, but other than that, a silence surrounded the zoo. There were no penguins training on the platform, no otters making a splash, and not even a beat was coming out of the lemurs' boom box. It seemed as if the whole zoo was empty.

But inside the H.Q., four teenage penguins woke up. Well… one was still asleep in the lab, but the other three were in their beds.

"Hello?" Elli's little British accent chirped.

"Dad, are you there?" Marshal called out.

"Dada," Buttons said.

"Guys, this isn't right." Elli said, worried. "Where's our parents and where's Athena?"

Athena fluttered her eyes open. "Huh?" She looked around, confused. Wasn't her dad supposed to come back? Did he just fall asleep? No. She waddled out of the lab to find only Elli, Marshal, and Buttons wandering around the H.Q., looking as confused and worried as she did.

"Athena, have you seen my dad?" Elli asked.

"No. Have you seen my dad?"

"Nope," Buttons grunted out.

"Maybe they're up on the platform or something." Marshal suggested.

The four teens were about to jump up to the top of the H.Q, but were interrupted by someone coming through the Private's First Prize entrance. It wasn't their dads. It was Roz, Peanut, Prince J.J., and Maurisa.

"Guys, our parents are gone! We woke up this morning, and they were all missing!" Roz exclaimed.

Meanwhile…

Skipper wasn't sure if last night was even real. He was just going over a training schedule for his team and suddenly something pushed him down. He started to fight back, but he stopped when it was Marshal. But he could tell it wasn't Marshal… on the inside. His own son wouldn't do this. And Elli and Buttons wouldn't either. What choice did he have? He surrendered. Being beat by a few kids would've been embarrassing, but now, it had a purpose. He was here for answers. In fact, if he never uttered out the word 'Blowhole', it wouldn't be long before he did. This had his arch enemy written all over it.

"Skippa, where are we?" Private asked.

"I don't know, Private." Skipper answered.

"Skipper?" a female voice called out.

"Marlene, is that you?" Skipper shot his head around and smiled when he met the gaze of the female otter. "Marlene, thank goodness you're safe! Did Marshal, Elli, and Buttons kidnap you, too?"

"No, it was…" Marlene sighed, "Peanut. Skipper, what's going on? My little Peanut wouldn't do this!"

"I don't think he did, Marlene. I think this is mind control."

"Ah, you were always a smart one, Skipper." An all too familiar voice spoke out. On his little scooter, rode the evil dolphin known as Dr. Blowhole. He smiled evilly as his prisoners, who were Skipper, Rico, Kowalski, Private, Marlene, King Julien, Maurice, and Mort.

"I knew it!" Skipper barked, glaring at his enemy. "Well, Blowhole, we meet once again."

"Yes, we do, and it may be our last meeting. Because it would be a shame if someone got hurt," the giant screen in front of the animals came up to an image of their kids. "And it's possible… with a push of a button." As he said this, one of the dolphin's lobster agents crawled over to him with a giant red button.

"What do you mean?" Private asked, shivering.

A different image came up on the screen. Now it was a brain. And there was a little grey square inside of the brain.

"See that? That's a mind controlling chip. And with it, your oh so precious children are under my control. As in, they're like my personal minions. All I had to do was implant the chips as they were babies. Now, after years of maturing, I can now bring my plan into action. With the help of…"

"The Red Squirrel!" a voice called out. The owner of the voice being a red furred squirrel that jumped up from behind the cages.

Skipper, Private, Rico, and Kowalski shared a gasp.

"He was real!" Private exclaimed.

"Yes, and now that your Buck Rockgut is disposed of, I have joined Dr. Blowhole for the greatest plan that shall bring you penguins to my knees!" He threw his head back and let out an evil laugh, his large claws sticking out of the tips of his fingers as he held them in front of him as he laughed. A bushy red squirrel stuck out from behind his back which he then used to press a button, making Skipper, Kowalski, Rico, and Private suddenly tied together with a rope.

"Skipper, no!" Marlene called out, running over to her friends. She looked up at Blowhole with a glare. "Let us go!" She snarled in a harsh tone, leaving her usually kind and caring posture to a vicious one as if she were going wile once again.

"Yeah, you are not de boss of me!" King Julien said. "And we didn't run away like a scaredy baby. I have people who shall do that for me." When the king lemur said this, he gestured over to Maurice and Mort, who were standing behind him.

"We're not running!" Skipper said. "Kowalski, give me options!"

Kowalski struggled against the ropes. "Sorry, Skipper, these ropes won't let me reach my clipboard."

"Can't you just make it come from thin air like you always do?" Private asked.

Skipper sighed. "Rico?" he asked the crazed looking penguin next to him.

"No!" Kowalski said, stopping Rico from hacking anything up, much to Rico's displeasure. "We can't risk blowing each other up! If Rico blow up this cage, all of us could go—"

"Kaboom," Rico grunted.

"Oh, Skippa," Private whimpered. "We're trapped!"

"Don't worry, solider." Skipper said in a comforting tone to his youngest team member. "It's all of us against them. So that's…"

"Eight against two and that puts us at four against one." Kowalski stated.

"See? We'll get out of here." Skipper said with a grin.

"Oh, I know you will, they always do." Dr. Blowhole said. "But I have more lobsters, and my new partner in crime, since my last one didn't go so well." As he said this, he glared at King Julien.

King Julien looked up from his paw and glared at the dolphin. "What? I am just looking at de royal nails. You better pray to de sky spirits you didn't break one of dem! Or I will make de sky spirits curse you, and den you will run away like a scaredy baby like de last time."

"Oh, shut up." Dr. Blowhole muttered.

"No, you shut up." King Julien said.

"You shut up!"

"No, you shut up! No talksies backsies!" The lemur king added quickly.

"Will you both shut up!?" Skipper hollered.

"No, you shut up!" King Julien and Blowhole said at the same time, glaring at Skipper.

Skipper sighed and would've slapped his head if his flippers weren't tied against his body. This was going to be a long day, even if they do get out by then.