Another Penguin To The Zoo

Chapter Eight

Another Attempt

Next morning Lindsey began training again. She tried as hard as her energy allowed her trying to even it out with Skipper after missing out last days' training. "Lindsey, why did you allow Julian to dance with you?" Kowalski asked giving her a very serious look. Yet there seemed to be something else there too.

"First, I didn't agree with dancing with Julian he just pulled me to the dance floor and it be stupid not to dance with someone when I'm already on the DANCE FLOOR - it's for dancing you know, the thing you dance on, you'd look stupid if you got there and then went back," Lindsey said looking angrily at Kowalski. "You got a problem with that?" she asked Kowalski as she saw the embarrassment in his face.

She walked off and bump into Skipper. "See you're getting the hang of the training, you seem to be a little feisty though," Skipper said smiling.

"What so bad about dancing with Julian, except from making Kowalski jealous and that's not to hard to do. It didn't do anything that bad, did it?" Lindsey asked. Skipper just shrugged.

"You're asking the wrong penguin. I disliked Julian since I met him, although we can sometimes look like a great team," Skipper replied. "You sure Kowalski's jealous? He's a hard penguin to understand and not because he always has a scientific answer to everything. He might just feel worried that you picked the wrong guy. You know, like when you and Rico became "brother and sister", Rico wants to protect you, so does Kowalski, Private and so do I. You're a good soldier, you learn fast and you are like family since our actual family is Antarctica and you're the only innocent penguin round these parts- with the exception of Private," Skipper said. This made everything sound rather simple and made Lindsey happy about the fact that the penguins are taking her as on of their family.

It was afternoon when Lindsey and Rico got sent out to search the storage house. They went in as quite as mice and whilst Rico stood on guard, Lindsey searched every bit of the storage house. Finally, she managed to find something. There was a paper pinned to one of the walls. It had a big penguin picture in the middle and two smaller pictures on the sides. One of the smaller picture had a dolphin on it, a very beautiful lady dolphin on it, being strangled by rope. The other picture was a picture of a mother possum and five kids trapped in a fiery circle. "Rico, time to go," Lindsey said and the ran of, to the HQ with the paper.

She never even bothered to look at the remaining picture, one which extremely familiar.

Meanwhile

Kowalski had been busy in his lab, testing some substances. He was think about a couple of things that had happened as he test the substances. Suddenly as he was taking out a test tube with a very dangerous, fiery-looking substance, Lindsey came in and exclaimed: "got a clue Kowalski!"

The test tube landed on the floor and smashed. As the test tube smashed the liquid which it had held previously started to ooze from it and the it covered the laboratory's floor. The two penguins dashed out of the lab.

"What do you think you were trying to achieve there miss? You made me drop that test tube, really? It could have held a highly toxic type of dart frog poison! You and I could have even been killed. Do not ever do that again, you understand?" Kowalski screamed at her, talking so fast she only heard half of what he had said.

She felt really bad, but it wasn't her fault she appeared at the wrong time. "Yeah ... sorry about that, but at least I got a clue, might be handy," Lindsey explained, " I found these pictures - something tells me that these are gonna be the next victims," she said pointing to the two other pictures.

Kowalski smiled. "You're probably right, but if you're trying to find a way how to make me happier, then trying to make me forget about what happened beforehand won't make that any easier."

"I wasn't trying to make you less angry, maybe I should have left you grumpy after all, I was just trying to suggest a possibility." This made Kowalski smile even more.

"I'm not the one whose grumpy- you are," he said.

Lindsey groaned, "really, Skipper was right in saying that you're a MAD scientist."

"And you're a mad teenager."

"That's because I'm seventeen, so I am a teenager!" she replied.

"What?! So Skipper is training a child," he retorted, laughing.

"I'm not a child."

"You are a child."

"So not."

"Soooo are!" And Lindsey stormed off. Skipper came to Kowalski explaining that they should check both the places on the photos. One photo suggested that the victim, which probably was Doris, because of the looks, was gonna be at the sea. The other one should be in a place called U.F.A.K.E.R. avenue. Kowalski thought that he and Private should check on Doris to protect her and Skipper thought that he'd go with Rico to save the possums. Kowalski gave the clues one last look and together with Private he disappeared into the darkness of the night.

Skipper and Rico said 'See you later' and went off as well.

Unfortunately for Lindsey, she had to stay in the penguin enclosure, for safety reasons.

Skippers mission

Skipper and Rico had decided to take a bus. It would complicate things if they had went on a taxi. The bus they went on had led them directly where they wanted. A possum was there playing with her five young ones. "Hey there, I wanted to ask you if you have seen a strange penguin here?" Skipper asked.

The possum mother replied, "except your unique -looking friend, no I haven't." She smiled. The penguins decided they would help mother possum entertain her young and teach them something helpful, but as hours passed there was still no sign of that penguin.

Kowalski's mission

"Kowalski, when do you think we'll get to Doris?" Private asked.

"Hopefully before that maniac does," he replied. He looked at the streets they had passed hoping to find Doris in one piece - not in a million. The two penguins appeared right at the time when Doris was having where midnight swim.

"HI, Kowalski... hi Private," she greeted them sweetly.

"Um... hi Doris," Kowalski greeted the female back, blushing. "Have you seen a strange penguin here, or heard of any strange deaths."

"No, not at all," Doris answered.

"Strange..." Kowalski mumbled. He tied to remember the pictures. It was strange how there was only one large picture and the picture was very detailed. He could also remember something that seemed a bit fishy (and I don't mean the good kind of fishy) bout the smaller pictures. " U.F.A.K.E.R", it sounded strange. It sounded like faker or fake. Maybe it was just a coincidence... No it wasn't! This was all a trap. All the time they were looking for the victims gave the maniac a chance for a kill...

"Skipper, this is all a wild goose chase, the actual victim is Lindsey! There are no other victims, I need your help to save Lindsey! Kowalski shouted into a phone.

End of missions

Skipper and Rico heard it. They tried to reply but the line was dead. Private got to them and said panting heavily, "Kowalski said to me to stay with Rico whilst you to get the maniac."

In penguin enclosure

Lindsey was worrying about the boys. They could get badly injured or worse. She knew what the penguin was capable of. She heard footsteps. "Kowalski is that you?"

"No just me!" a voice said cackling out loud. "Time for revenge, time for the kill! Ha ha, where are your little saviours now, Lindsey? Left you?" He said laughing maniacally as he grabbed her flipper and pinned to the wall of the HQ," don't worry, won't hurt for too long... take it from the bright side, you'll meet up with your parents!"

He took out a dagger but as he was taking it out of his ruck suck- thing, ringtail ran towards Lindsey and shouted at the maniac," You'll have to kill me first!" As the maniac penguin tried to stab ringtail, he kept missing.

"I can kill you with out a dagger you know!" The penguin didn't find it hard and soon managed to punch Julian. He hit ringtail several times until finally, poor ringtail was wincing in pain. But that didn't go without consequences. Julian managed to hit that penguin several times, managing to bruise him.

Finally, the penguins came back seeing that the maniac was gone leaving a severely injured lemur and a terrified and bruised lady penguin. "Ringtail... you saved her?! You are a proper hero, thanks!" Skipper looked at Julian.

"That was nothing... compared to my moon dance," he gave out a weak smile. Maurice hearing the racket ran down and saw what happened.

"King Julian, you look terrible. But, no worries I'll patch you up in no time," he quickly reassured, looking at his leader. Soon the two lemurs were gone and the five sane penguins were left alone.

"Skippah, why do you think that the mad penguin had chosen to kill Lindsey?" Private asked.

"I don't exactly know Private and I don't think it's gonna help if we knew the reason why..." Skipper answered.

Kowalski came a little closer to Lindsey, but as he did, Lindsey burst out into tears, "why?" was all she could say till she collapsed into Kowalski's flippers.