Penguins of Madagascar Movie Novelization by Tracey West

Author:Tracey West
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Simon Spotlight

CHAPTER 11

The Chase

Skipper, Kowalski, and Rico swam through the pipe, which led to the ocean waters. Breaking the surface, they could see Dave’s submarine speeding away.

“He’s got Private! He’s getting away! He’s getting away! Rico, do something!” Skipper pleaded, frantic.

But Rico was frantic too. He nervously hiccupped a bunch of objects, but none of them were helpful.

“Kowalski, give me options! I need options!” Skipper begged.

“Options! Options! Options!” Kowalski couldn’t think straight. How could he, when Private was gone?

Then Skipper remembered something. “Activate Emotional Override protocol!”

“Yes, sir!” Kowalski replied.

He slapped Skipper. Skipper slapped Rico. Rico slapped Kowalski. Then they did it again.

Finally, they could think clearly.

Kowalski pointed to the VTOL at the end of the dock.

“Skipper, the North Wind’s plane!”

Skipper’s eyes lit up. “Sweet chariot of the gods! But can you fly it, man?”

“There’s only one way to find out,” Kowalski said, his voice more serious than ever.

A few minutes later, Kowalski was sprawled out on the floor of the VTOL with the owner’s manual while Skipper and Rico impatiently tapped their feet.

“No, I still cannot read,” Kowalski reported.

Skipper slapped the manual out of Kowalski’s flippers.

“Then we’re going off book!”

The North Wind rushed up to the pier just as the VTOL jerkily flew up into the air. It spun wildly. A missile shot out and hit the water. The North Wind agents ducked.

“No, no, no, no, no!” Agent Classified roared.

Inside the VTOL, Kowalski sat in the pilot’s seat, slapping a computer keyboard.

“I’m getting the hang of this, Skipper!” he said.

Actually, the VTOL was completely upside down. But that didn’t matter to the penguins.

“Good! Now let’s get our boy,” Skipper said.

The jet blasted off, leaving the North Wind agents coughing on exhaust.

“Those ludicrous butterballs are letting David escape!” he fumed. “Eva, transport! Short Fuse, Corporal, hitch us a ride!”

Eva rocketed ahead. With her head, she rammed a small boat into position at the end of the dock.

Short Fuse whipped out a pen and clicked it. It transformed into a giant cable gun.

Corporal hoisted Short Fuse and the big gun onto his shoulder.

Bam! He fired. A long cable shot out. A magnetic head on the end attached to the bottom of the VTOL.

Classified jumped into Eva’s boat. Short Fuse jumped off Corporal and headed for the boat. Grabbing the cable, Corporal skied on the pier, landing in the boat. Now the VTOL towed the boat while Eva flew alongside it.

Then Classified hooked himself to a pulley, and he attached the pulley to the cable attached to the VTOL. He began to hoist himself up the cable toward the jet.

• • •

Inside the plane, Kowalski watched the blips on the radar screen showing the position of the VTOL and the position of Dave’s sub.

“Sir, Dave is pulling ahead!” Kowalski cried. “We’re too heavy!”

Skipper angrily looked down at his gut.

“Curse our heavily Cheezy-Dibbled diet! Rico, give me a fire sale!” he ordered.

Rico nodded happily.

“Everything must go!” Skipper told him.

Rico opened a hatch in the floor and started chucking down every loose object in reach. Coffee cups, helmets, chairs—they all went flying out of the plane .

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