Fall had come to New York and the Central Park zoo was feeling it's effects. Red, brown, yellow, and orange leaves were carried by the brisk wind and falling into habitats. To Alice's credit, she did at least try to organize other zoo keepers to remove the leaves but then her flash of giving a darn wore out.
Kowalski wished that Alice's drive had lasted long enough for her to have the lemur habitat cleared of leaves. Now instead Julien insisted that Kowalski invent something to remove the leaves. Thankfully Kowalski managed to convince Julien a simple leaf blower borrowed from the zoo's tool shed would do.
That was turning out to be a big error in judgement.
"Your majesty, I don't think leaf blowers were meant to be used on Mort!" Maurice yelled out over the sound of the working leaf blower.
Kowalski turned to see Julien enjoying his power over the "windy leaf" machine. A little too much it seemed as he was focusing the leaf blower on Mort. It was time to step in.
"Julien. I don't think that is a good thing to do to Mort." Kowalski said.
"I'm all fluffy!" a poofy Mort declared.
"I am not thinking Mort is actually minding." Julien said.
Okay, Kowalski had to admit that Mort didn't seemed bothered by this treatment. So Kowalski decided to let Julien have his fun. Suddenly, with a mischievous grin on his face, Julien turned the leaf blower on Kowalski.
"You wouldn't dare." Kowalski said.
"I think I might be daring." Julien said, his finger inching ever so slowly to the leaf blowers ON button.
"Don't you-"
A blast of air blew into Kowalski's face, messing up his head feathers so that they stood up in random directions. Julien stopped his assault and laughed. Kowalski took the time to smooth down his feathers before giving a grin and tackling Julien.
The next few moments were a flurry of tumbling, arms and flippers wrapping around each other, and laughing. By time they stopped rolling, Julien nuzzled the side of Kowalski's face.
"I am loving you Koko." Julien said.
"I love you too, Julien." Kowalski said, leaning in to preen the side of Julien's neck.
"Kowalski!" Skipper called out as he flipped onto the top of the wall of the habitat.
Skipper's sudden arrival made both Kowalski and Julien look up in surprise. Kowalski eased his flippers off from around Julien's midsection and addressed Skipper.
"Is there a problem, Skipper?" Kowalski asked.
"Not a problem really. More like you have a visitor." Skipper replied.
"A visitor?" Kowalski questioned.
"She said she's your mother." Skipper said.
That got Kowalski's attention.
"Mama's here?" he asked.
"Yeah. Back at the HQ. I'd hurry. I'm not worried about any civilian being around Private but you know how Rico can be." Skipper said.
Kowalski let out a quick swear and dropped Julien before running off to the habitat.