"Lima, Peru!" private exclaimed, examining the spot where Kowalski had thrust the pin.
"Yum!" rico yelled, for he loved South America.
"Right, Kowalski, rico, gather your things, I`m going to go tell Marlene and eggy to do the same, we`re going to South America," private declared. The other two penguins saluted.
At 6 o`clock that night, three penguins, an otter and a duckling, snuck aboard the next flight to skipper`s supposed location. Little did they know that they were on a wild goose chase; for by leaving skipper`s kit bag behind, Hans the puffin had made sure that any rescue party following skipper wouldn't find him. Until he inadvertently left a clue by unknowingly dropping a Danish newspaper with Skipper`s picture on the front, detailing the arrest.
Upon arriving in Peru, the team started to track skipper, they`d all slept on the flight so no one was tired. Private had once again dreamt of the guardians, except in that dream, he was Jack Frost, Kowalski was bunny, rico was sandy, Marlene was tooth and eggy was Jamie. And it wasn't skipper who was missing, but north instead. Also blowhole was pitch. The dream ended when private/jack fainted after pitch/blowhole`s defeat and tooth/Marlene was shaking him. Private opened his eyes to find himself, and his friends back to normal and skipper still absent.
Tracking the kit bag was easier done than said, except they found it hanging on a tree branch with no skipper attached. Kowalski and rico slumped down on some rocks in defeat, "it`s hopeless, we have no idea where skipper could be," Kowalski moaned.
"No!" private disagreed, "Kowalski did you give up jiggles even though you knew what skipper would say?" private asked.
"No, I didn't," Kowalski, replied.
"Rico, did you give up on chasing your doll when Julian tried to return her to Glamourtopia even though you knew that your marble jar would be empty?" the little penguin interrogated.
"Nope!" rico responded.
"Eggy did you give up on getting your commando license, even though everyone thought you were too little?" private questioned his little friend.
"No sir!" eggy saluted.
"What about you Marlene? Did you give up on helping skipper when officer X trapped you in the convince store?"
"No, no I didn't," answered Marlene
"And I certainly didn't give up when Barry the red poison dart frog paralyzed my brothers," private reminded heroically, "don't you see, we may seem helpless without skipper, but we can still pull together and save the day, as long as we never give up!" the little penguin spieled. Kowalski, rico and Marlene applauded while eggy waddled off and ended up with a newspaper plastered to his fluffy yellow body.
"Hey everyone, a little help over here please?" came the duckling`s muffled cry.
"Eggy!" Marlene exclaimed and ran over to help her little friend.
"Ugh, that`s better," eggy commented when the otter pulled off the newspaper.
By now, Kowalski, rico and private had caught up; "Einstein's underpants!" shouted the tallest penguin when he saw the newspaper.
"It`s skipper!" private exclaimed "and he`s been… arrested?" he double-checked.
"It certainly looks that way," Marlene summarized.
Rico babbled gibberish and pointed to something on the corner of the paper.
"Newton`s nickers!" Kowalski shouted, looking at what rico was trying to show them, "skipper`s in Denmark!" he revealed.
"How do you know?" eggy asked, just getting over the fact that his idol had possibly been arrested.
"This is a Danish newspaper," Kowalski analyzed, "see that's the Danish flag in the corner," he pointed out.
"Not yum!" rico commented.
"But why is skipper in Denmark when his kitbag is here in Peru?" private asked.
"Based on available data I have, nothing," Kowalski admitted, somewhat sheepishly
"That`s ok Kowalski," private comforted, "Let`s get skipper`s bag down anyway, it will probably have food and equipment inside it that we can use," he directed.
Not long after, thanks to a little teamwork, skipper`s kitbag was down from the tree and safely in the custody of private and his friends.
"Let`s open it and have a look what skipper had with him," Kowalski suggested.
"Ok Kowalski," private agreed, "you're the second eldest, you should open it," he prompted.
Kowalski unzipped the bag and suddenly felt dizzy, "g-get-a-away f-from it," he stammered, everyone did so and the tallest penguin collapsed onto rico. Rico regurgitated a bucket and Marlene fetched some cold water from the nearby river. The otter sloshed the water onto Kowalski's face, waking him up.
"What was that Kowalski?" private asked, quite concerned for his big brother.
"That was chloroform," Kowalski explained, "skipper was here in Peru, but someone must have put chloroform on the inner fabric of the bag and when skipper unzipped it to get something out, he became unconscious, just like I almost did just then," he deducted.
"Who would do a thing like that?" eggy asked naïvely.
"You`d be surprised," private replied, "Hans the puffin for a start, then there`s Clemson, Savio, Captain Chantal Dubious A.K.A the crazy lady of Monaco, Dr. Blowhole and, i`m sure i`m forgetting somebody, oh that's right, Debby," he listed.
"Dave," Kowalski corrected, leaning on rico, as his legs were still wobbly.
"Who`s Debby, I mean Dave?" eggy enquired.
"Long story, how about when we get skipper back, the four of us tell you when we`re on our way home?" private suggested.
"Ok," eggy agreed.
"Well what now?" Marlene puzzled.
"Isn't it obvious?" interrogated private.
"No, no its not," Marlene replied.
"We go to Denmark!" the little penguin declared.
Kowalski and Rico groaned as a little green, blue and yellow blur sped through the trees behind them.
A/N ok now we`re getting into the swing of things
so, someone put chloroform into skippers bag and used it to knock him out so whoever it was could take him to Denmark for the arrest.
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