Disclaimer- I do not own PoM. :P
Summary: Kowalski goes overboard with an experiment and the penguins turn human! Now they have to try living the ordinary life... Meaning getting part time jobs, going to high school and even learning to drive. But the penguins are not there alone, Marlene and the lemurs join the fun too!
Plot may change. :P
It was a normal day at the zoo. Normal weather. Normal people. Normal surroundings… just TOO normal.
The sun was shining with just the right amount of clouds, casting a happy aura around the small zoo. Not much noise seemed to be bothering the quiet atmosphere; even the lemurs were making very little noise, giving the other animals some well-needed rest.
Everything and everybody seemed fine. No trouble was spotted for miles.
The birds sang and the leaves blew coolly in the wind, while the air was filled with delicious smelling aromas from a pastry store nearby.
Meanwhile, Skipper was going crazy waiting for something (anything) to happen. A mission, a cry for help… something to get him back to action, and out this godforsaken routine.
For two weeks straight, the only thing he did out of the ordinary was perfect his combat training, which to him, seemed like a big disappointment. No mission has been completed and no bad guys have been fought. Huge disappointment.
Even his men were starting to fall into the same old boring routine, and at the moment (as usual) Rico was playing with his doll, Private was watching LunaCorns, and Kowalski was doing some bizarre experiment.
Skipper sighed and continued drinking his bittersweet coffee, sitting on his favorite chair, reading the new copy of today's news. Maybe something different has happened? He flipped the page. No. Slow news day as usual. He took a glance at the headline: "Hippies Taking a higher place in today's society" and immediately felt sick, switching to another page.
He shook his head. Was this his fate? Wasting his time on a lumpy chair, doing nothing but… reading?
"Hey guys!" Marlene interrupted his thoughts, as she entered the HQ cheerfully. Without permission, Skipper noted but let it slide… 'Just this once' he told himself.
"Uhh Marlene! Come, come, don't be shy. Step in, feel at home. Want something to drink? Maybe a quick game of chess?" he asked, desperation edging in his tone. Right there and then he admitted to himself that he was bored out of his wits.
"No thanks, Skipper" she said slowly, noticing a bit of change in his behavior. "I just came to visit. Isn't it a lovely day?" she said with a wide smile played on her lips.
"Hello, neighbors!" King Julian barged in also. 'Dont these people ever knock?' he thought angrily.
"Ringtail? What a... Pleasant surprise." His voice showed no enthusiasm, though Julian didn't seem to notice, and just continued "Are you glad to see your king?" he smirked.
"Delighted." He muttered.
"I knew you always adored me" he smiled foolishly, getting himself a snack from the fridge. "Ringtail!" Skipper growled angrily at the lemur standing before him stuffing his face with stale popcorn. "What?"
He had half a mind to kick that rude lazy annoying lemur out! But deciding against it. "Just… chew with your mouth closed." He rubbed his temples, clearly annoyed.
"Hey what is up with the smarty penguin?" Julian said, mouth still open (to Skipper's irritation) pointing to Kowalski whose invention was glowing bright green.
"Oh that? Just an experiment of Kowalski's. It's supposed to that...I think."
"Anything that Kowalski makes always hands up in a vile explosion, so I wouldn't consider that out of the ordinary." Marlene chimed into the conversation.
"Just because you're in the other room doesn't mean I can't hear you!" Kowalski shouted out.
"Sorry Kowalski" Marlene shouted back.
Odd silence filled the room, but Skipper ignored it and continued to read some boring article about shoes.
"I do believe in the power of friendship, Princess Self-Respectra!" Private's blurted out of nowhere, eyes fixed on the TV.
"Who is this princess you speak of?" Julian took interest and sat next to Private. Private gleefully explained to him, and they started to have a conversation about how "honesty is the best policy" or some sort of nonsense.
'This is NOT what an elite force team should be doing on a perfectly good Saturday...' Skipper thought drily, flipping a page.
"Skipper!" Kowalski came hurdling clumsily, clutching his notepad in one hand and in the other a worn-out pen.
"What is it soldier?" 'Probably another experiment'
"Well I was experimenting..." He started off
"Big shocker."
"And I think I've figured out a way to turn ants into grasshoppers!" he exclaimed excitedly.
'Is this what as become of our team? Now really? Why the heck would we need an ant-to-grasshopper transformer for?'
"So what do you think?" Kowalski looked at him with big eyes, waiting for an answer.
"Yeah, it's good Kowalski. Now you get run along and invent some over useless device, like a fridge to freezer transformer." he rolled his eyes sarcastically.
Kowalski frowned, but continued, "It can also do other stuff!"
"Like what...?" Marlene asked curiously.
"Can it make kings even more kingly?" Julien asked.
"Ummm I'm not really sure yet but I'm sure it's awesome!" he beamed. "Now I can make it turn all the ants in the HQ radius turn to grasshoppers! Just wait and watch..." he typed all type of scientific info into the machine and was about to press enter.
"Kowalski I'm not sure that it's the best ide-" a loud screeching noise cut Skipper short.
At first, nothing happened. "Huh?" Kowalski wondered. "Not another failed experiment!" he groaned, slapping his forehead.
More light came from the machine, and suddenly, the room started to spin and the ceiling disappeared.
"Why am I not surprised?" Skipper thought.
A strange feeling tingled in Skipper's body, as if someone was stretching him, like play dough from the inside and expanding him. He was getting taller, 1 inch, 5 inches, 2 feet….
All his feathers disappeared slowly, one by one...
His flippers started separating into 5.
His beak was gone; teeth started forming in his mouth.
His body lost all of penguin form and began shaping itself differently.
His bones were on fires, the pain was explicable. He couldn't think properly.
"AHHH! What is happening to me?" he asked himself out loud.
"Guys where are you?" he yelled. He couldn't see anything. All he saw was colors... Pretty rainbow colors. 'Am I dead?' he wondered.
Then suddenly it all turned to black and BAM he passed out.
Well I hope you liked it! I really hope it wasn't too rushed… I tried my best not too. Anyways this is the beginning of the story… meaning later chapters will probably be longer! :)
Edited: 4.2.12
This still requires improvement, but it's better than before :)