Misty: GREETINGS READERS! Wow that was loud, sorry 'bout that. Anyways, yes it is I: Misty, here with another amazing story for y'all, but this time I have a super-duper surprise for y'all! I am working with the amazingly talented: Afrikat! For this story, everyone give a round of applause for Afri!

Afri: Thank you for that intro, Misty! And hello readers, Misty and I have a surprise for you all. We are going to be working together on... A mash-up!

Misty: That's right! Now there have been other times where something similar to this has happened. For instance a while ago, both Afri and I worked with many other fanfic authors on a round robin. Also recently, Afri was given permission to use the CnC universe as well as a few characters in it for her story.

Afri: Yep, and we decided we would combine our talents together on this collab! So, this story, like the one I wrote, will take place in both the CnC universe, and the We . Which means that, of course, our characters will be interacting with one another.

Misty: Squee, are you freaking out as much as I am? Actually, don't answer that. You probably are! Okay also, this is in a sense a sequel to Afri's story: "The Alternate Universe" so we will most likely be referencing it.

Afri: I'm very excited to start this! Also, heads up to you readers, Misty and I will be trading off every two chapters. So, Misty will write the first two chapters, and then I'll write the next two, and so on.

Misty: Yup, this should be exciting. Okay, I believe it's time for the disclaimer, yes?

Disclaimer: Neither Misty nor Afri own Penguins of Madagascar or any characters in the show and or movie. However, Misty does own the CnC universe and all OCs within that universe. Afri does indeed own the We Dream universe and all OCs within that universe. Misty also owns a pair of penguin socks, but that isn't really relevant. This will be here for the entire story unless needed later on. Thank you and have a nice day.

Kia stood back to look at the invention in front of her, it was like a mix between Nothing Normal, and the invention she built with Kowalski awhile back. It was another Melon day which meant that the penguin would be staying with Team Watermelon. However no one else was really in the base.

The penguin sighed and tossed a white cloth over the invention. It had been a day or two after the whole fiasco with Enrique and Rico, and Kia was still recovering. Luckily her teammates seemed to understand and had taken a truce in the middle of their Cold War. Team Watermelon had been on the fritz with each other lately, but luckily things seemed to have calmed down-for a while at least.

Kia tilted her head at the now concealed invention before exhaling. "Now if only I had someone to show you too," she mused quietly. Kia had taken the time to tinker around in her lab and get her mind off certain things while the rest of her team wandered about doing their own things. But once that she was finished with an invention that not even she knew what it did-she really wanted to show someone. However Kia didn't even know where the other three members of her team were, and soon she began to ponder.

CnCD

It took everything Nika had not to personally shred the lemur in front of her to pieces. She had come to guard Julien since it was her job, however what the Russian soldier wasn't expecting was to find the highly annoying, damsel in distress lemur; Yasmin.

The light orange and black lemur sat there shamelessly flirting with Julien while sending the occasional dirty look at Nika.

The two had never gotten along in the past, and the fact that Yasmin was there, standing in front of Nika like she owned the entire zoo really, really, ticked Nika off. She could seriously strangle that lemur right then and there. But no, she had to be the bigger lemur.

Nika breathed out and walked over to Julien, forcing herself to remain calm. "Julien, I have to return to Team Vatermelon, and since I cannot leave you unsupervised-you vwill have to come vith me," she explained simply.

Julien looked over at Nika and nodded. "When are we to be leaving?" He asked, as it turned out. After so many assassination attempts that ended...badly last time, Julien had been very cooperative with obeying Nika.

Right as Nika was about to speak, Yasmin beat her too it. "Oh are you going somewhere? Can I come? I just hate the idea of staying here unprotected while there is a possible assassin running about!" She complained and jumped nervously.

Nika glared at her. "You cannot come."

"If you don't let me come I'll just follow."

Nika sighed and rubbed her forehead. "I do not have the energy to argue, you can come-but eef you touch anything, or cause any trouble, I vwill not be held responsible for any injuries you may receive," she stated and before anyone could argue, she hopped out of the habitat.

Yasmin gave a sly grin. "I promise not to cause any trouble," she said even though Nika wasn't even there anymore. She waved to the other lemurs before following Julien and Nika out of the zoo. Chuckling slightly. "Or at least I'll try."

CnCD

Meanwhile, over in the park...

Ty ducked her head down as a carrot dagger zoomed past her head and hit the tree behind her. "Nutmeg! Did you know Fluffy and Drake were going to be here?!" The cat asked/yelled angrily over at the squirrel as she aimed another punch at Drake.

Nutmeg shook her head. "Of course not! I mean how would I know? It wasn't like I planned this or anything!" She snapped right back to the cat before jumping over and pulling a taser and some electric polls out of Ty's watermelon colored backpack.

Ty glanced over at her. "What do you plan on doing with those?" She asked and right then Nutmeg tasered Fluffy, making the vain cream colored rabbit hit the ground.

Nutmeg looked back up at Ty. "That," she stated and tossed the electric poll at Drake, making it hit the floor next to him and electrocute him; making the otter also collapse. "Come on Ty, we don't have all day," Nutmeg told her.

Ty blinked in confusion as she watched the squirrel handcuff the two villains. "When did you get so snarky? Did this happen in Egypt cause I don't remember it..." She said, trailing off and Nutmeg just smiled with a slight shake of her head.

"Does it matter? Let's just get these two back to the HQ and lock them up," Nutmeg said, dragging Fluffy away.

Ty picked Drake up and followed after Nutmeg. "Fine, although I still think you planned this. You've been itching for some sort of adventure for awhile now, besides we both know this is the area that Fluffy and Drake rule. You just happened to plan a picnic for the entire team and Wally today, here, at this time? I'm not buying it."

Nutmeg laughed. "What would I have to gain from planning this Ty?" She asked, glancing over at the cat.

"Oh I don't know, getting the team back together or something. After all, you originally wanted all of Team Watermelon at this 'picnic' of yours. I'm just the only one that bothered to come, you might be the detective Sherlock, but you stink at playing the criminal," Ty stated. The two almost out of the part.

Nutmeg laughed and glanced back over at the black and white cat, a mischievous glint in her dark green eyes. "Touché Ty," she said before picking up speed and heading off.

Ty paused. "Wait does this mean I'm right? You never really cleared that up. Nutmeg? Nutmeg!" She complained and quickly followed after the small ginger squirrel.

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Kia sighed and looked over her invention one more time. She still had no idea what it did or what to call it. Oh well, she would just have to figure that stuff out later. She quickly tossed a big white cloth over it and waddled over to check her notes when she heard the sound of arguing coming from the main area.

Leaving her notes and the invention behind, Kia opened the door to the lab and waddled down the hallway, leaving the door wide open as she went to go see who was there.

She soon spotted Nika, Julien, and Yasmin entering from the alleyway entrance, Nika and Yasmin were in a heated argument while Julien looked a little uncomfortable. "Hey Nika, I didn't expect you to be back so soon," Kia said; waddling over.

Nika spotted Kia and gave her a grateful look. "Vhere are Ty and Nutmeg?" She asked, glancing over at Yasmin who had wandered off slightly. "I need to talk to all of you," she explained and gestured her head towards the orange and black petite lemur.

Kia got the idea. "Right, well sadly Ty and Nutmeg are still gone, but I'm sure we can find something to do while we wait for-" The penguin was interrupted by a crashing noise coming from the lemur side of the HQ.

Nika and Kia glanced at each other before nodding silently to each other, and Kia took off; sliding towards the crashing sound while Nika turned to give King Julien a stern look. "Stay put, don't touch anything, I'll be back soon," she ordered before taking off after Kia, completely unaware of the little orange and black lemur that had slipped away.

Yasmin was heading towards the penguin side of the HQ, mainly; the lab.

CnCD

Nika and Kia rushed into the Lemur side of the HQ just in time to see Nutmeg getting up from the ground, and Ty sitting there rubbing her head. Nika took once glance around before asking: "Vut happened?"

Ty looked up at the lemur; still rubbing her head. "Drake and Fluffy happened!" She snapped and Nutmeg took over for her.

"While at the park Ty and I ran into Fluffy and Drake, we took them out-"

"Electrocuted them more like."

"Took them out, and brought them back here while they were unconscious," Nutmeg explained and it took a moment to register before Kia realized what had happened.

The penguin looked at them. "So you brought an unconscious otter here who sleep-evils?" She asked and after a few short moments it clicked for everyone else. "Why would you do that?" The penguin asked.

Ty hissed. "I knew we should have waited for him to wake up!"

Nika spoke; getting their attention. "Vhere are they now?" She asked and Ty and Nutmeg shrugged as they didn't know.

Right then an alarm went off.

Kia gasped. "Someone's in my lab," she explained quickly and the four animals exchanged a look before darting down the hallway to go stop the diabolical rabbit and otter.

They passed by Julien on the way, and the poor lemur King looked just as confused as he undoubtedly felt. Nika stopped in her tracks and looked at him sternly. "Stay here, there ees small problem een lab, nothing we can't handle," she assured him and took off without waiting for an answer.

The team of melons soon made it into the lab just in time to see Fluffy and Drake messing around with some of Kia's inventions.

Kia glared. "Stay away from those! Villains don't get to touch!" She lectured and Fluffy sneered.

"Oh and what are you going to do about it, ay Kiki?" She asked with a smug smirk on her face and Kia's glare thickened.

"Don't. Call. Me. Kiki."

Fluffy simply rolled her eyes. "You Team Watermelon are all bark and no bite-Drake, we're leaving," she ordered and the team of melons stood defensively in front of the door.

Now no one realized that poor scared little Yasmin had heard Fluffy and Drake come in and had hid behind a white cloth, however upon hearing Team Watermelon, she wanted to see if they were there and tripped on the cloth, making it fall down and herself trip into the middle of the fight.

Fluffy reacted instantly. "Drake-grab the lemur."

The otter (still sleeping mind you) did as he was told and grabbed Yasmin while Fluffy hopped on over to the portal that had been revealed. "Well what do we have here?" She asked and accidentally pressed down on something, making the invention come to life.

Kia stepped forward. "Step away from the machine," she ordered and the three mammals behind her followed her lead and stepped forward.

Fluffy shook her head. "Uh, uh uh-" she gestured one of her long cream colored ears towards Drake who was still holding Yasmin. "Not a step closer unless you want to see this pretty little lemur get what's coming to her."

The team froze and Fluffy grinned deviously. "That's what I thought, Drake jump into the portal," she ordered and the team looked at her like she was crazy. "Oh and Team Watermelon-don't follow us, or else the lemur gets it," she threatened before following Drake and Yasmin into the portal.

Once the three mammals were gone, Nika growled in frustration and Ty hissed angrily. "Kia vhere does vee eevention lead?" Nika asked, turning her attention to the penguin.

Kia shrugged. "I don't know-"

"You don't know, how can you not know?" Ty interrupted as she glared over at Kia.

Kia gave another shrug. "I don't know what it does, it could teleport, time travel, dimension travel, world travel, shrink, enlarge...fry. I honestly don't know what it does," she explained and the team fell silent.

It was Nutmeg who finally broke the silence. "It doesn't matter-" she started and her teammates looked at her like she was crazy. "Its our job to go after the villains and save the civilians, so it doesn't matter where it leads-because it's our job to follow them. You three might choose to stay here, but I'm not. I'm going after them, even if I'm going it alone."

Nika, Kia, and Ty glanced at each other before turning to look at Nutmeg.

"You're not going alone," Ty said, and before Nutmeg could argue; Nika continued.

"Because ve are coming vith you."

Kia nodded and smiled as she looked at the three mammals. "We'll face whatever is in there together," she said and the three others nodded before they looked to the portal.

"Together," they all spoke and jumped into the portal one by one, with Nika going first, followed by Ty, and then as Nutmeg was about to go in, she noticed that Kia was hesitating.

"Kia? You coming?"

The penguin looked over at the squirrel. "Oh, of course...it's just, what if it kills us?" She asked and cast the invention a wary look.

Nutmeg gave her a comforting smile. "Then at least we know we died for a good cause," she said and extended her paw to Kia. The penguin smiled a big before taking it and the squirrel and penguin jumped in the portal after their teammates. Unaware that it was beginning to wobble and shake. Smoking slightly.

As soon as the last two jumped in, the invention tipped over and turned off; breaking.

CnCD

Kia coughed as she stood up on wobbly legs, she wasn't entirely sure what just happened. Her mind was still a bit fuzzy, let's see what was the last thing that she remembered.

Well, she was working on an invention in the lab, Nika came with Julien and Yasmin. Ty and Nutmeg had brought Fluffy and Drake in...there was a crash...wait! Fluffy! Drake! The invention!

"My head hurts..."

Kia turned her head and spotted Ty getting up from the ground and Kia offered her flipper to help her up.

The cat let out a groan. "What...what happened?" She asked after getting up and Kia shrugged, she was still trying to figure that all out herself.

Nutmeg was also getting up, she looked a bit energy drained and was holding her head with one paw. "Guys where are we?" She asked and glanced around. "And where's Nika?" She asked.

Right then a familiar Russian voice spoke and the penguin, cat, and squirrel turned to look at Nika, who in turn was looking off at the distance.

"Team-you might vant to come and see vis..."

Kia shared a glance with the other two members of her team before all three headed over and went to go see what Nika was looking at.

It was the zoo, the Central Park zoo. But something just didn't seem right. Even though it looked almost the same. However the weather was different, instead of the hot and sweaty summer heat, the weather was cool and spring like.

It was then that realization dawned upon Kia as she looked at the Central Park zoo.

"This isn't our universe..."

Hey guys, it's Misty, so you are probably really confused unless you have read my story: Cute 'N Cuddly' and Afri's story: We Dream of Our Escape, as A Cute and Cuddly Dream is going on in between certain areas of that story, if you enjoy the story and still want to continue reading it, perhaps you should also read those other two stories. Anyways, thanks for reading. We'll be updating again sometime this week. (Hopefully) until then guys! Follow/fav if you like the story or just want to know when we will update next. (Or both, both is good.) Alright, bye readers! Misty is out: peace! Oh and remember to review! You know how much we adore your reviews. Okay, now out: peace! Cya next time!