P o M adventures: Breaking minds

Chapter 2: Bad Blood

Night had fallen and the penguins had been taking turns to monitor the unconscious female. Marlene had decided to turn in for bed, realizing that the penguins have everything under control. Skipper entered the lab to relieve Private of his duties so that he could have some free time to himself while Skipper took the next shift.

"You're free to go, soldier."

"Yay~Telly time!" Private hopped from his sitting position and joined the others inside. Skipper smiled after the young brit left, it had just occurred to the commander how much the boy has grown over the years but still remains as innocent as the day they first found him. He quickly shook out of his thoughts. This was no time to be trudging down memory lane. He had to keep an eye on the girl who was now tucked in, courtesy of Private who had thrown one of his glittery Lunarcorn blankets over her. Skipper brewed himself a fish coffee and took a seat at the table that was positioned in the center of the room. He was facing the injured penguin while taking sips of his coffee to keep him alert and awake. It was going to be a long night and he wasn't going risk anything happening.

Skipper had a bad feeling about this penguin, if she's able to handle a fight with him she must have gone through some rigorous training. And with such skills he can only assume that she was up to no good. For all he knew she could be a trained assassin, here to take down him and his men and steal all their secrets and learn their weaknesses. Skipper didn't know why but his gut was telling him something about this girl was off and he was going to find out what it was.It's his duty as a leader to his team that he do everything in his power to keep them and the zoo safe. He ran over and over in his head, what type of person this mysterious penguin had to be, his paranoia eating at him and yet now and then he had recalled what Marlene had said about her only fighting to defend herself. What if that was true? What if she was only fighting because she was scared of them? She was hurt when they found her so perhaps she was frightened that the person that had inflicted those wounds upon her had still been around to cause her more pain. But then again... His paranoia had trumped all logic, he questioned to himself what if that is what she wanted them to think, maybe she wants them to think that she's the victim when secretly she's and evil secret agent for Hans or Dr. Blowhole.

Skipper was broken from his thoughts when he noticed some movement from the other penguin. He dropped his coffee and cautiously walked over to her to investigate the situation. She was beginning to stir awake from her slumber. Her eyes opened slowly at first, she blinked a few times adjusting her vision. The girl tried to rub her eyes but couldn't, realizing she was restraint the girls eyes darted wider, the pain also lingering in her body grew, even with the numbing cream.

"Arg! What the heck?!! Where am I?! Angie?! Sasha?!" she screamed and thrashed about. Skipper had to stop her otherwise she was going to hurt herself.

"Woah! Woah! Settle down!!"

The girls eyes set on the leader penguin, and he could see she was not pleased one bit. The look of pain, anger and frustration were quite prominent.

"Who are you?! Where are my friends??!!"

Upon hearing all the screaming the others ran in as their leader's backup. This had only made the girl more tense and aggravated.

"You need to calm down! You have broken wing!" Skipper fumed. "Calm down? Calm down?! No offense but it's hard to be calm when you're strapped down to a bed in an unknown location and surrounded by a bunch of strangers!" the girl screamed.