P o M adventures: Breaking minds

Chapter 1: Another Penguin

It was nothing but a casual day for the zoo animals. Since it was Friday it meant that the zoo closed early. The penguins were finishing up their workout for the day.

"Alright that's enough for today, tomorrow we do some stealth training," Skipper noted. "We'll be working on evading the most adva-"

"Guys! Guys!" Marlene interrupted as she jumped up onto the little island at the center of their habitat. She was jogging in place out of pure alarm and adrenaline. "You have to hurry, someone in the park is hurt and from what I could see it's a penguin!"

"Well then what are we waiting for? Come on men! Our fellow brethren needs our help. Lets move out!" Skipper ordered. The penguins jumped to action, following Marlene out of the zoo, which thankfully for her she is now able to do without going ferrel. She led them into Central Park where a penguin was laying limp on the grassy floor.

"I was out getting a snow cone when I saw this penguin was hurt and unconscious." Marlene explained in a haste, while they ran up to the injured penguin. Kowalski and Private turned the penguin over so they could examine how severe the damage was and to their suprise it was a female penguin. She had a decent figure despite being chubby, from the looks of it she seemed only a few inches taller than Private but shorter than Skipper. Her hair like feathers were short, a few lose strands hanging over her right eye which seemed swollen and bruised right around. Her body was covered in cuts and bruises and from what Kowalski could examine her left arm and right foot were both broken.

"What in the name of Newtons beard happened to her?" the strategist questioned. "Kowalski, I need a status report." he heard his leader holler out.

"From the looks of things, her breathing is a bit raspy, a few contusions causing localized bleeding that extravasated into the surrounding interstitial tissues and a fractured wing and foot as well as a few cuts and scrapes." Kowalski replied. Skipper mostly understood the part about the fractures and cuts not a whole lot from the jibber jabber in the middle.

"Of course...is that all?"

Kowalski placed a flipper on the unconscious penguin's forehead. "Also a mild fever."

"We need to get her to the zoo to get patched up ASAP! Rico!"

And as if on cue Rico hacked up a penguin sized strecher they would use to move the penguin around without causing more harm. Just as Kowalski was about to remove his flipper from the female's forehead it was quickly grasped tightly by her unharmed flipper. This had caused Kowalski to scream out in alarm as his arm was being twisted and ending with him getting quickly flipped over, face dug into the dirt while she pinned him down with the only good arm and foot she had at her disposal.

"Ow..." Kowalski groaned in agony. The female penguin looked up, her eyes fell on the others coldy like daggers piercing deeply into the soul. Marlene stood back while the other three penguins still standing took a battle stance. Despite being injured the female attempted to lunge herself at only the leader, ignoring the others entirely. She threw many punches even with her bad wing as if she could not feel pain of any kind but only causing herself further harm. Skipper fought back and dogdged every hit, he could not comprehend how someone in her state still had the will to fight on as she did. He respected her resilience but this had to stop. With every punch she through that he had blocked, it made his blood run cold after hearing constant cracking and creaking of crushed bones.

"Please stop!" Private begged jumping in between the two. "We're only trying to help you! Your making your injuries worst!"

Sadly such begging fell on deaf ears, it didn't seem as though she cared at all and charged at the young brit but was stopped by Rico who held her up by standing behind her, hooking his wings beneath hers so that she was unable to fight back, but she did thrash wildly. The thrashing quickly stopped, she was still and silent but it wasn't long till that silence was broken by a blood curdling scream and soon after she began falling limp and going into a state of unconsciousness.

Kowalski finally managed to pry his beak from out of the ground, getting up while adjusting it as if it was knocked loose. The others stood their in confusion.

"What just happened?" Marlene asked, seeming the most confused.

"I theorise that her adrenaline kept her from realizing that she was injured till it eventually wore off. Her body might of come to terms with how much pain she was really in to the point it was so overwhelming she past out again."

"We need to help her," Private cried out.

"Help her?! She attacked us!" Skipper retaliated. "Give me one good reason why we should, for all we know she could be operative from some evil organisation, or a hired hitman.. erm... Hitwoman...?"

"I agree with, Private." Marlene said. "She was probably just scared,"

"Tell that to my beak that she jammed into the floor." Kowalski added, rubbing his still sore beak. Marlene rolled her eyes and turned back to the leader. "C'mon Skipper, she's hurt, she didn't know any of you so maybe she thought the only thing she could do was to defend herself."

Skipper sighed, he turned to see the youngest member pleading with big watery doe eyes. "Fine, we'll help her. But remember men, stay vigilant. A woman could easily pull the wool over your eyes by using their vixen ways of manipulation. Do not fall victim to this, stay sharp and alert. We don't know anything about this girl."

"He says, speaking from experience." Marlene joked, which only ended with Skipper giving her a dirty look.

"Funny..." the commander muttered under his breath.

Private cheered internally that they could help the female penguin. He helped Rico place her on the stretcher and carry her to the zoo. Kowalski, Skipper and Marlene snuck into the vets office and grabbed a few supplies to help patch up the injured penguin as well as some medicine to help her fever as well.

Rico and Private moved her into Kowalski's lab, where they set up what seemed like a little hospital bed for her to lay on. Rico even hacked up two nurse hats for himself and Private to wear. When the others came back, Rico and Private helped Kowalski as assistants while he bandaged the poor girl up. He had disinfected most of the open wounds as well as put over a very strong numbing cream to help with the pain, the same that the vet had put on Skipper when he had broken his arm. After the wounds were treated Kowalski had bandaged her up, tying a splint to her arm and foot to keep it straight. Skipper had his team rope her down as well to the bed, just in case she tried to attack them again.

"So what do we do now, Skippah?" Private asked.

"Now we wait till she wakes up."