More Penguin Days of summer: Caught in the act

by penguin adventures

the penguins are caught in the act during a mission to break into the zoo administration office. The Penguins managed to escape and evade the suspicion of zookeeper Alice again. but when another of Kowalski's inventions goes wrong their entire operation gets compromised. The Penguins get captured and sent off to a government lab. is this the end of team penguin?

3. Chapter Two: Zoo lockdown

Penguin HQ

6:00 P.M. Eastern Standard Time

(Skipper's POV)

"Hmm…Kowalski's lab seems quiet…too quiet," Private said. "He's probably going to brust out of there right now with some crazy invention…" I said. "Eureka!" Kowalski shouted throwing open the door to his lab a black gun in his hands. "what?" I said. "I present the new and improved plasma blaster with repeating action and laser sights." "Oh no," Private said. "what so improved about it other then the color," I said. "The new extreme setting," Kowalski replied. "Yahhhhhh!" Rico said. "Your not testing it up here are you?" I said. "of course not," Kowalski said, "I have a targeting range set up in the hanger." "Okay then," I said, "down to top secret Level Sixteen then." We piled into the elevator and descended.

Top secret level 16

The Hanger

We gathered on the far end of the hanger where Kowalski had set up some targets. "Plasma blaster set to extreme!" Kowalski said. Kowalski aimed at a fridge and fired. The blast destroyed several targets and damaged the rest. The blast also caused the hanger doors to jump a little. "Yes!" Kowalski said. "now that is what I call extreme," I said laughing manically. Rico laughed crazily, "ka-blamo!" "I have a bad feeling about this," Private said. The chimps reset the "range" with fresh targets clearing out the damaged and destroyed ones.

"Plasma blaster set to Intense!" Kowalski said. Kowalski fired…this time at a fireproof safe. There was a bang and intense flash and the safe was simply gone. A blast mark was the only sign of the safe. And the rest of the targets were shattered in pieces around the hanger. The shockwave had pushed the superplane off of it's landing pad. The backup superplanes meanwhile were no longer in neat rows. The biplanes were upside down, the glass domes of the soft-nosed fighters were cracked, The Penguin One was on it's side, and jetpacks, Copter-packs, anti-gravity socks, and Hovercraft Headrests where shattered about. "You don't have any other setting do you?" I said.

"No…just…the insane setting!" Kowalski said as the chimps reset the range and tried their best to get everything back to normal. "Plasma blaster set to insane!" Kowalski said. And then Kowalski's weapon started to shake violently. "Kowalski?" I said. "overload!" Kowalski said. "what?" I said. "I just need to remove the power pack," Kowalski said. Kowalski touched the powerpack only to find that it was extremely hot. Kowalski then yelped in pain and dropped the plasma blaster. The Blaster was now glowing as it contiuned to overheat.

"Move! Move! Move!" I said, "that's thing's about to explode!" the chimps evacuated the area. A lone chimp in a fireproof suit and a pair of metal tongs carefully moved the blaster to the far end of the hanger. And the chimp just barely made it into the "safe" zone when the blast doors lowered sealing the area off from the rest of the hanger. Of course when the gun exploded the explosion blew out the outer door. The shockwave could be heard all the way to alice's office.

Alice's office

"What the?" Alice said running out of the office and out of the zoo following the smoke trail. "was that an explosion?" zookeeper Maurice said. "I'm moving in," Alice said, "and are the police coming!" "they are on their way…and taking their sweet old time."

The Hanger

The blast door had a massive hole blasted into it revealing the damage to the outer doors. Equipment and weapons that were previously in rico's stomach were shattered about. All our emergency distress deacons were damaged beyond repair. Thankfully all the craft in the hanger were still intact and more importantly operational. And thankfully the space-time teleport was still inside Rico's stomach. The New and Improved plasma blaster was a twisted scrap of metal that was completely unrecognizable as a weapon. "Okay," I said, "the chimps can work thru the night to repair the hanger door…then we can do some damage control…." "Um…Skipper," Private said.

Alice was standing on the other side of the damaged blast doors. Her mouth was dropped open in shock and there was fear and confusion in her eyes. "The…the…p-penguins!" Alice said, "They have a whole secret lair down here…with weapons!" "Oh no," rico said. the ground was rocked by another explosion. I looked over in Kowalski's direction. "I may have left one of my more tempermental inventions on the table…" "the infrared Herring toaster!" I shouted. "Um…yeah," Kowalski said.

"Um…alice forgot the airplane hanger," Maurice said, "you should take a look up here!" Alice rushed out of the hanger, "should we call back the elevator…" "No the stairs!" I shouted. WE rushed up the stairs but when we made it to the first floor landing Alice was already above the base. "what…they have a multilevel base under this zoo?" Alice said, "I knew they were up to something!" "Um…and what is that exactly" Zookeeper Maurice said. Kowalski quickly typed something into the speak n' spell. "You didn't see anything?" the speak n' spell said. I facepalmed. Kowalski shrugged, "it was worth a try…" alice grabbed a cage… "Run!" I shouted. we climbed out of the base and ran off. "I wonder how many of the animals know…" zookeeper Maurice said.

we rushed into the lemur habitat. "What are you doing in my royal estate fugitive penguins," Julian said. "we're not fugitives…" Private said. "sorry we can't have your mess here," Maurice said. Marlene entered as Julian said, "as King I'm going to turn you in…HEY ALICE! THE PHYSCOTIC PENGUINS ARE OVER HERE!" Marlene ducttaped Julian's mouth shut, "Julian do you know what the humans will do to them?" Julian ripped the tape off of his mouth, "celebrate them as the heros of new york?" "Uh…no," Kowalski said, "they going to ship us off to a government lab to be painful dissected!" julian looked at Kowalski in confusion. "that means cut into," Kowalski said. "Ah!" Julian said, "stop disguising me like that!"

"well that's what going to happen to us," I said, "and we most likely are going to die!" "No!" Julian said, "we can't let that happen!" "The Penguins are conspiring with the other animals!" zoo administer shouted. "Run!" I shouted as the four of us once again ran off only to get blocked by alice. "Now we can do this the easy way…or the hard way," Alice said. Kowalski pulled out the speak n' spell, "Look out! A dalek's behind you!" "what?" Alice said. We ran off but Kowalski just had to type, "Made you look!" into the speak n' spell. Alice cracked her knuckles, "so that's how you want to play it…"

8:00 P.M. Eastern Standard time

The Central Park Zoo

A bunch of animal control vans pulled up to the front gate. An army of human's in biohazard suits filled out and flooded the zoo. One made sure to lock the zoo with a padlock. Some more people in biohazard suits came down on ropes from helicopters hovering over the zoo. Somewhere else blowhole was probably watching this and laughing his head off. And elsewhere the North Wind were probably rolling their eyes. And Classified would probably have some comment like… "you call that the elistist of the elite Skipper?" and Short fuse would probably said, "have fun at the secret government lab suckers!"

But that was the least of our worries as we hid under a bench. "we been compromised men," I said. "again…" private said. "what was that Private," I said. "what are we going to do?" Private said. "we going to escape and disappear…maybe to a IPSA safehouse." "Um…what?" Private said. A IPSA dropteam is waiting to pick us up…they just need visual confirmation of our escape!" "Options skipper?" Kowalski said as searchlights were now going back and fourth and helicopter where flying around.

"Skipper!" Private said, "they just called animal control in…and they brought back officer X!" "what?" I said. "It's seem you were right about those penguins all along," superviser eubanks said. "see I told…" his superviser gave him a look. "I mean…yes…it seems I was," X said. Officer X sniffed the air, "it's the other animals are trying to block the penguin's scent. We need a specialist…Call in Captain Chantel Dubois Monoco animal control! Tell her we have four penguin heads for her." "Do it!" Eubanks shouted. "Yes ma'am!"

"manevour delta tango vector!" I shouted. we rushed out of the bench only to get electrocuted, netted, darted, and caged. "blast," I said, "should have gone with delta tango foxtrot!" shortly our cages were on a cart being escorted by four people in biohazard suits and Officer X. Dubois meanwhile was giving us a sastified look. "Stay on you toes," X said, "make sure they stay trapped." Meanwhile…Dr. blowhole's Lair. "Trust me," Blowhole said to the screen, "they never stay trapped."

A new reporter who was not ot chuck charles because he decided to keep our secret…we did help him get his job back. Instead of the New York action news team it was NBC nightly news. The report was probably live…or a special report. A announcer reported this, "This is a NBC Nightly New with special report…Trouble at the zoo. Now here's Lester Holt live from the Central Park Zoo." "this is lester holt with a startling discovery that rocks the very understanding of human-animal relations." "I always knew something was off about those penguins," Alice said as the truck was prepped to load four penguins.

"The Penguins will be taken to a government lab where they will be studied…are these commando penguins here to protect or destroy? Are there other military penguins? Are they our greatest enemies or greatest protectors? that is what the government is going to figure out." Meanwhile in the cage, "well the government lab won't be that bad," Private said, "as long as we escape…" "we're not escaping Private," I said, "this was bound to happen eventually." "so your giving up," Private said. "yep," Kowalski said, "luckly we have the speak n' spell…" "Now there is just one more thing I have to say…You just had to add extra settings!" "You know I can't resist overkill!" Kowalski said. "Prime example the next-o-skeleton." "In addition to studing the penguins, The U.S. Government is also sending a team to investigate the penguins base and their equipment." The cages were loaded into the back of the truck one at a time. "Boys," I said as the door was shut, "I has been an honor serving with you boys…"

Meanwhile North Wind HQ

(Classified's POV)

"You had one job!" I shouted into the phone, "bring the penguins back here!" "we couldn't get to the penguins the humans had swarmed the zoo!" the voice on the other end said. "We are the North Wind!" I shouted back, "and nothing breaks the wind…Now get to that government lab and break them out of there!" "A IPSA team is already on the way." "Send a North Wind team over there!" I said, "they activated the North Wind distress signal!"

"Sir!" Eva said, "Director Rockgut of the IPSA is on line one!" "I'll call you back," I said, "put him on the screen!" Buck rockgut appeared on screen. "So you're the director of the IPSA now," I said, "what a promotion…" "cut the suckup!" Rockgut said, "we need to withdraw all our forces from that government lab immeditetly." "What?" "If the humans discover that there is a network of military animals everything we ever worked for would be destroyed!" "Those penguins need our help!" "I am not risking an even bigger compromise of operations!" rockgut shouted. "so just hope that Skipper has a plan…that's your plan?" I said. "That or hope someone rescues them…" Nigel said as the screen went dark. "Skipper," I said, "You better have a plan…"

(end of chapter two)