P o M adventures: Breaking minds

Chapter 3: Fickle Memory

"Alright, Camryn. What do these friends of yours look like?" Skipper asked. Rico hacked up a note pad and a pencil to draw out the discriptions.

"There's four of them. Angelique, she's a long eared bunny, with green eyes, she wears a pink bow on the side of her head. Then there's Sasha-leigh, she's a dark furred siamese cat. Imtiaz, a humming bird with a long red tail feather and lastly is Hashim, he's a wolf." Camryn explained. She and Skipper turned to Rico who revealed a very crude scribbly versions of the animals Camryn had described. Skipper nodded in approval knowing that he had done his best where as Camryn had an internal cringe. Rico smiled in a goofy manner and tore the page off from the note pad and ran off to show it to the others. Camryn picked up the discarded notepad from the floor and sketched a picture of what her friends looked like. Thank goodness she was right-flippered. She revealed the sketch to Skipper to show what they actually looked like. He had to admit, for a rough sketch it was pretty good. The girl had some talent other than fighting.

"Alright we've got a face, now all we gotta do is find the real thing." Skipper said.

"Yeah um... I should probably worn you about a few things." Camryn started. "If you find Angelique, be gentle with her, she scares easily also be careful what you say and do around her. Sasha is very defensive, she won't hesitate to put up a fight. Also if you see Imtiaz wearing a little cape and mask, you have to refer to him as Hummingbird man. Its his super hero alter ego, he won't respond to his own name aside from referring to himself in the third person as sounding like a cool guy. Its vice versa if he's not wearing the mask and cape. Also if you want to lure Hashim out, food always works. Any kind really so long as its not pork. He can't eat that. He'll throw up."

Skipper raised a brow at the girl. She had some very peculiar friends but then again so did he.

Private entered, carrieng a tray with his fancy tea set with the tea he had prepared for himself and Camryn. Its not everyday he gets to brew tea for someone other than himself. He put the tray down at the table Camryn and his leader were seated at. The young brit poured the tea for himself and their guest.

"I hope you like it. Its peppermint rose."

"Thank you, Private." Camryn replied, giving him a warm smile.

"Alright men, let's go searching." Skipper announced to his team. He rolled up the sketch of the animals and handed it to Rico who just came out from the next room with Kowalski. The psychotic bird slurped up the rolled up paper like spaghetti.

"Sir wouldn't it be better to search for her friends during the day with fresh eyes?" Kowalski questioned.

"Nonsense, there's no better time than the present I always say. Lets move out!"

Rico and Kowalski were quick up the ladder but before Private could reach it Skipper had stopped him.

"Sorry, Private but I need you to stay here and keep an eye on our guest." he whispered.

"But why?" Private whispered back.

"I don't trust leaving her in our lair without supervision. So you stay here and entertain her till we get back. And stay sharp."

"But Skippah, she doesn't seem bad."

"There are a lot of things in this world that don't seem bad young, Private. Just like that massage parler in Peru Manfredi and Johnson went to didn't seem bad, that turned out to be a chicken slaughter house. They both lost a limb that day."