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clubpenguinheadcanons · 7 years

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you should do a headcanons thing or maybe a mini fic (no pressure tho dw!!) of if operation: blackout was like?? Longer??? Like everyone still gets captured after the first week or so but the agents on their own for like, a few months or so , I think that would be :^) fun (seriously no pressure tho love your blog so much keep up the good work !!!!!!!!!!)

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Ace woke up to a knock on the door, with caution, Ace slowly went towards it. Hoping it wasn’t a certain white bear. Ace looked at the calendar to see the date, marking it the third month. To many, this would be the third month of Herbert’s takeover of Club Penguin, but to Ace, it was the third month of their failure, the third month of them trying to take back what was rightfully theirs and every other penguin’s freedom.

Months ago, after The Director was taken, Ace led a mission to hack into Solar Laser that Herbert took from G. Yet that mission sunk faster than the Clock Tower Gear being thrown into the water. While it seemed like the defenses of Herbert’s laser would be easy to break through, what they did not account for was Herbert tracking where the agents were while trying to break in. So, during the operation, not only did Herbert put up his defensives which made the mission go nowhere, he found where the agents were and broke into the secret base, capturing many other agents, almost Ace as well.

Ace took in a shaky breath from that last thought. They were almost captured as well. That wasn’t good, they remembered the frenzy that all the agents were in, including themselves. Ace only got out of there in the nick of time before Herbert could even put a paw on them. But what was the point of running away like a coward? None, and now Ace could only do what they felt would be the right thing, staying with the EPF, and trying their best to fix this. Yet, it was much harder than they thought it would be. They were able to make a new secret base, yet it wasn’t as good as the last one. They had to make so many precautionary measures, such as only having a handful in there at a given time, and for Ace to check who the penguin was. Ace was pretty much living in the base, planning and overseeing all missions to try to stop Herbert’s hold on the island.

Ace was taken out of their thoughts with seeing PH outside, having the Puffle Squad in tow. Through the small peep hole, Ace could see that PH had some supplies in her flippers. It was a miracle that the two weren’t taken from Herbert yet. With a sigh, Ace went through the same script they have given to every agent before.

“Show your ID.” Ace could see PH looking at the door with annoyance. “PH, I know it’s you, but I just…” Ace sighed. It annoys them too, but, it’s best to be on the cautious side.

“I know, it’s okay, it’s just I have my flippers full…just give me a moment.” PH put some of the supplies and held up her ID to the peep hole. “That good for you?” PH asked.

“Yeah, you’re good…” Ace opened the door, and helped PH pick up the supplies and put them on the table, to examine and make sure they were what they were, and nothing that could give Herbert their location or anything. “So…are you going to do rounds with me today?” Ace bit the bottom of their beak. It was hard for them to get agents to do rounds with them. Most of them prefer to do rounds by themselves, or with their friends, and while Ace prefers to do rounds with a partner, they tend to act like they are soloing it. Which makes their round partners a bit annoyed with them. PH knows how Ace acts, and is able to work with it, which makes them good together.

PH nodded. “Yeah, of course I would buddy! I would be out of my mind if I didn’t…” Looking around, she noticed how empty it was. “Crikey, it’s empty in here…any agents came through earlier tonight?”

“It’s only 5am PH, I doubt anyone would want to wake up that early, but yeah, a few agents came through to do rounds…” Ace yawned. They haven’t been able to get a good sleep in months, but hey, it’s what they deserve for messing up this big.

“So, when are we going?” PH asked. They know Ace wouldn’t want to leave the base alone, that’s why she was hoping another penguin would be in here.

“When another penguin gets here that I trust…” Ace felt bad to say that, yet they both know, that some agents here, aren’t that good. Heck, penguins make jokes about Rookie for being a bad agent, but Rookie, despite some of their faults, is a good agent. They take orders well, even if the execution isn’t that great, and once they know what not to do, they won’t make the same mistake twice. He also, despite feeling bad for messing up, or needing help, is willing to ask for help. Which is something that some agents don’t have the gall to do. Some say that asking for help is swallowing your pride, but heck, it’s courageous. As well that he can make any gloomy room shine with positivity. Ace sighed, wishing that Rookie was here, that would make the dark days of trying to make the island shine again even brighter. Ace was taken out of their thoughts with another knock on the door. “Show your ID.” Ace peaked through to see an agent. After seeing their ID and getting them in, Ace looked at them and to PH. “Okay agent, PH and I will leave to do rounds…just make sure the base is in one piece when we get back.” They chuckled, hoping humor would lighten the mood.

“Hopefully it will…” The agent responded in a deadpan tone. Signaling that the joke has not.

“Come on Ace, let’s go…I’m guess you’re taking your puffle?” PH put Chirp on a leash, knowing that he would want to go on a walk with them.

“Yeah…” Ace leashed on their black puffle and the two of them, with puffles in tow began making rounds. Their base being right off of the map of the forest that leads to the cove, so after they got there, they looked around. Seeing nothing different, or any suspecting penguins, or crabs, they began to discuss where to go first.

“First the cove, and then we go around and back?” PH suggested.

“Good plan PH, like always…” Ace smiled. Then their eyes opening, realizing something. “How about you go to the Cove, and I look around at the Plaza? We get two locations in half the time. And we can meet up in the Plaza before heading off?” Ace knows they are soloing it, but heck, the Cove doesn’t have much, so PH would come and help Ace before they finished up.

PH chuckled and nodded, used to Ace’s antics. “Sure thing Ace…” PH began to go the Cove and Ace and their puffle went to the Plaza.

The Plaza was no different than before the first month of Herbert’s take over, except now…it seems that there is a big screen on the theater building? That’s new…and wasn’t in the report of the agents that did rounds earlier tonight. Did Herbert just get those up? In two hours? Ace’s thoughts were taken away from them, when the screen flickered on, and a camera on top of it, turned red signaling, it was on.

“Good morning my foolish subjects…” Herbert yawned. Rubbing away the tired from his eyes, he looked to see, his great enemy, alone in the Plaza. “My, my, seems that I found an agent, all alone…” He looked to the side, signaling that Klutzy was off camera. “Klutzy! Focus on the Plaza.”

With that, Ace gulped. Fish sticks, they were discovered “Oh-hey-hey Herbert! How are you in this lovely weather?” Ace shivered hoping PH would come and save their flipper soon. Ace looked down to their puffle and dropped the leash, trying to nudge them to get PH. Which, with once being free, vamoosed to get PH. Now it’s just their mission to stall Herbert.

“I have no time for silly chit-chat Agent! But then again…” Herbert pondered, smiling, he was willing to muse the foolish penguin, yeah, he can. “How are you? You seem to be quite…skinny…have you been losing weight?” He took notice how much smaller the penguin was.

“Yeah…famine can do that to you…” Ace gave an awkward chuckle. Because of the lack of sunshine, plants haven’t been growing, and with that, food has been scarce. As well that Herbert taking a good portion of food hasn’t been helping. Because of this, the hospital has been giving out rations to penguins, and Ace, with being how busy as they were, hasn’t had time to go and get rations, or to even eat. “Enough about me though, how have you been eating? You seem more plump than usual…”

“Rude! You shouldn’t be talking about someone gaining weight…but yes, I have been eating well, you penguins, despite being stupid, know how to cook…” Herbert smiled, after grabbing some agents, he had been giving them “jobs” so they won’t be iced. Such as being cooks or cleaners.

“Ahh, so you have some help around the base now?” Ace mumbled…trying to think that would play out if they were to go and invade in there.

“Why yes, I even have some robotic ones…” Herbert smirked, getting a remote out and pushing a button.

“Robotic…” Ace looked in horror, seeing two robotic Herbert lookalikes coming out of nowhere, ready to capture Ace.

“Robots! Capture that penguin!” Herbert commanded. Laughing as he looked to see Ace trying their best to escape. Yet with not eating, Ace hasn’t been quick and agile as before. They could only give huffs and puffs instead of the usual insults towards Herbert. Just trying to get away from the robot’s hold. Up until, Ace couldn’t run away anymore, letting one of the robots grab Ace with their iron grip.

“ACE!” PH ran into the Plaza to see their friend captured by a robot. Stopping in her tracks from seeing a robot coming right up to her, after scooping up Chirp and Ace’s puffle.

“PH, get out of here! Now!” Ace ordered, hoping she could map themselves out.

“But-I-okay! Ace I’m sorry!” PH teleported out of there in the nick of time.

“Blasted! Ah well though…I got my last penguin for my collection…” Herbert smirked. Only gaining a gulp of fear from Ace. “Robots, come to base now…” Herbert teleported the two bots into his base. Herbert, sitting in his seat, while two penguins fan him. The two penguins looked in surprise, seeing one of the top agents that kept escaping Herbert’s attempts being captured. Herbert noticed this and smiled. “Yes…look, look at the one that you guys had your hopes on, being here in this base, and not to free you guys…” Herbert took great pleasure seeing one of them trying to stop themselves from breaking down. “Come with me bots…” Herbert got up, going upstairs to where he would put Ace.

“I’m sorry guys…” Ace mumbled, being taken to where the others were, and the Solar Laser. Ace looked to see that Chirp, was in the other robots hold. Hatching a plan in their mind. “Herbert…” Ace’s voice sounded sweeter, hoping this would work.

“What is it?” Herbert looked at Ace quizzically. Ace’s face, looked like they wanted to…compromise? Or to beg for their freedom? “I’m not freeing you, but feel free to grovel.” Herbert laughed, seeing Ace’s face turn into fear, and anger.

“Oh, I won’t be here for long anyways!” Ace’s voice getting angry. “If I’m captured, then the SEPF will just…-ah-ah-crud…” Ace’s voice stopped short, as if they just, mentioned something they shouldn’t have.

“Wait…SEPF? What’s that?” Herbert now was interested, seeing that Ace just dropped some valuable information.

“It’s…nothing…” Ace had to force themselves to externally cringe, while internally smiling, happy that Herbert took the bait.

“Tell me! I command you to!” Herbert was getting angry. He needs to know, and Ace just, even in the clutches and mercy of their enemy, just being so stubborn to not say anything? Curse them, curse them to the deepest lava pits.

“Nope…why should I?” Ace deadpanned. Just, trying to look like they won’t budge.

“Oh, I’ll give you a reason!” Herbert threaten. Stomping out of the room to get some things that would make Ace talk.

“Perfect…” Ace cooed. Looking at Chirp, hoping this would work. “Chirp, how about you play us a loud tune.”

Chirp nodded, getting their flute out and playing their tune. Loud enough to break the two robots. With now being free, Ace ran to the Solar Laser, trying to hack into the system and to disable it. Ace could feel the sweat drip from their head, concentrating and trying their hardest to beat the clock before Herbert could even come up there. After the Laser turned off, Ace ran up to the tubes that their teammates were in. Quickly, Ace tried to free their friends, or to at least disable their tubes, so they could be slowly, but surely thawed out. Ace’s puffle quickly started a fire, their flame trying to quickly melt the frozen penguins. While Chirp played their flute a few times here and there by the machinery, making sure that all piece of equipment that Herbert had would be unusable. In all their frenzy, they were only taken out of it when Herbert came back, this time with some ray gun on him. He looked shocked to see that Ace has already destroyed their machinery. Making the polar bear’s white face turn into a deep red with rage. Knowing that now, Herbert must leave, with his hold on the island, finally being compromised. But, he won’t leave empty handed, oh no, he would rather die than to let that happen. With that and a quick grab of Ace, he left.

Ace tried to struggle in Herbert’s hold, trying to get out, but was far too weak to even fight it, along with their screams being muffled from all of Herbert’s fur covering their beak. Ace didn’t know what was going on, until they heard whatever weapon Herbert had was starting up, and with a flash, Ace’s vision went to black.

Ace woke up, cold, but alive, feeling like they were just trapped in ice. While they shivered, they felt a blanket wrapped around them. Ace looked to see, after their vision finished focusing to see it was their friends. Rookie in front of them with their face full of worry, to see their missing friend blue in the feathers, and defiantly many pounds too light. After a moment of hesitation, Rookie hugged the penguin tight, only softening their grip when they realized how much weight Ace lost during Operation Blackout.

Ace, after not feeling their bones being squeezed in some bear hug, returned the hug back. Just, trying to capture the warmth that Rookie was radiating. Ace looked around, to notice, they were in some sort of cave, definitely not in the lair that Herbert had before. Lost, and confused, Ace looked at Rookie. “How-how long was I out?” Ace followed Rookie, who was slowly leading them to the others.

“You were…umm…” Rookie didn’t know if he even wanted to answer that. Partly from guilt, and the other half to not freak out Ace. As Ace went towards the others, they all were at first relieved, to see Ace alive, then immediate concern washing over them to see how bad their friend was for wear.

“Ace! You’re alive!” PH ran towards the penguin and couldn’t help but to hug them, just relieved, that Ace was alive, it has been almost a year! “You’ve been missing for about a year now! We thought that Herbert…” Her voice was quiet at the end. Not wanting to say what she feared, it was her fault that Ace was taken, well, it wasn’t, but she felt it was part of her fault for not staying there for Ace, and instead of escaping.

Ace’s eyes widen at that. A year?! Goodness, no wonder why Rookie didn’t want to tell them how long they were out. “Oh…yeah…I’m alive…” Ace couldn’t help but keep them from sounding shocked. “Guess Herbert was hard to catch?” Hopefully, that would be the result for now.

G frowned and gave a small shake of his head, making Ace frown in return, knowing that Herbert was still out there. “Sadly, he escaped…we were mainly concerned with getting you when we found out he had you in this base…”

Ace couldn’t help but give a scowl. “Guess he is trying to take over the island still?…” Ace just, after all of this, now they’re a year behind on everything! Oh goodness…their friends, they probably think that they were. Ace shook their head out of those thoughts, they have much catching up to do, but for now, they should be focusing on recovering, knowing they were too weak to even go after Herbert. Especially with what happened to their last encounter.

G gave a shrug. “Yeah…but he hasn’t been that active as of late.” G realized that Ace should be taken to some medical facility, and out of this cold, dark cave. “Come on, let’s get you out of here.

Slowly, but surely, Ace walked out of the cave to see JPG and Dot, both happy to see that Ace was alive. But that wasn’t what Ace was focused on. Instead, Ace looked up, to notice the sun was out, shining brightly, warming up the island on this early March day, about three months after Ace’s mission failed. Sure, they didn’t save the island when they first tried, and they were captured as well from saving the island. But finally, the island was out of the ever dark and cold grasp of Herbert, including Ace as well. Finally having their cold feathers to be warmed up by the radiant sun, knowing, just like the sun, Ace will have their day to rise.

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