" Amnesiac Alice"
Hello and welcome to " Amnesiac Alice". Please enjoy. Warning: Chapter may be revised, again.
Chapter 1
During a cloudy night, at the Central Park Zoo, Alice was standing on a wooden stepladder, changing a
light bulb, over by the penguin habitat. " Stupid bulb," Alice grumbled as she took the old light bulb off the
top of the light post, " I thought I just changed this same lamp post, last week. I knew I should've gotten
the extended warranty."
Meanwhile, in the HQ, the penguins were all playing Stomp the Wombat, while listening to the weather
channel from their cement block built table. " Also, according to meteorologists," a weather woman's voice
tweeted, " A thunderstorm will be heading over New York City, tonight. So, if you're planning on going
outside, don't forget to wear your rain coat and bring an umbrella with you. Thank-you."
" Thunderstorm my beak," Kowalski, who had the nine-of-spades taped to his forehead, grunted as he held
four other cards in his flippers. He was sitting on the side of the table, furthest from the sewer entrance,
right next to Rico.
" What do you mean, Kowalski," Private, who had the three-of-clubs taped to his forehead, chirped as he
held the same amount of cards as the others in his flippers. He was across from Kowalski and sitting right
next to Skipper.
" Weather people are hardly ever accurate," Kowalski muttered, " All they do is half guess the weather.
That's it. Other than that, nothing." Suddenly, thunder vibrated the whole HQ. " I stand corrected,"
Kowalski sighed after he and the others jumped from the sound.
Back outside, Alice jumped when she heard the thunder. Next, she fell off the ladder, causing it to teeter-
totter from side to side, and landed on her butt. The bulbs, which were in the zookeeper's hands, slipped
out and shattered on the sidewalk. Alice snarled then went to stand up, but was greeted by the ladder
falling toward her. She gasped and went to run, but the ladder hit her on top of the head, knocking her
unconscious.
In the meantime, back inside the HQ, the power went off just as Rico was about to win the card game,
against his team. Once it went off, Private screamed in a high-pitched tone and flung his cards in the air,
while Rico groaned. " Rico," Skipper barked, " Flashlight."
Rico coughed up the flashlight then press the button on one of the sides. Unfortunately, the light only lit
one-fourth of the room. " Kowalski, analysis," Skipper roared as he and the other two set their cards, along
with the ones on their foreheads, down on the table.
" We seem to have possibly blown a fuse," Kowalski retorted then stood up from where he was sitting, " I'll
go fix it. Rico, another flashlight, if you please?" After Rico had coughed up a flashlight, the tall intellect took
it then waddled through the sewer entrance. A few moments later, he returned, sliding a flipper down his
face. " It wasn't a fuse," he sighed as he approached the table.
" Maybe the power outage was from the storm," Private rang.
" Or a squid invasion," Skipper uttered then hopped out of his chair, placing his flippers on his hips, " Come
on. It's time to commence Operation: UFO Investigation." After saying that, Skipper and his team exited out
of the HQ, through the fish bowl entrance. Next, they began scanning the area, but it was too dark to see,
even with two flashlights, lighting the way. Apparently, the entire city blacked out during the storm. " I
should've known it would come to this one day," Skipper murmured, " One moment, you're watching
television and playing a nice, quiet card game. Second a black out happens and before you know it, space
squids invade and aim to collect everyone's heads. It sickens me."
" Or maybe it's just regular old black out, like last time," Private, who was standing between Skipper and
Kowalski, peeped.
" That's preposterous, Private," Skipper scoffed then began waddling toward the edge of the platform with
the others following, " That's just what the space squids want you to think." Once the penguins were at
the edge of the platform, they hopped over the fence and landed on the sidewalk. They were just about to
investigate the other habitats in the zoo when they heard a moan coming from behind them. Swiftly, the
penguins turned around, snapping into their defensive positions. The penguins gasped as they saw a dark
figure sitting up.
" My head," the figure mumbled as it rubbed the top of its head.
" Space squid," Skipper hollered, " Gentlemen, attack." Just as the figure was about to stand up, it was
knocked back down to the ground by the four leaping penguins. " Gotcha, space squid," the lead penguin
honked as he held onto the figure's left arm, holding it down.
" Space squid," a female voice piped, " What's a Space squid?"
" It sounds just like Alice the zookeeper," Private squeaked as he held down Alice's right arm.
" No way that's that Alice," Kowalski, who was holding down Alice's left leg, hissed, " She doesn't
understand animal talk."
" Rico, shine a light on the invader," Skipper grunted as he and the others struggled to hold Alice down.
Rico, who was holding down Alice's right leg with one flipper, shined the light in Alice's face, causing her to
close her eyes.
Private gasped as he looked at the figure. " It is that Alice," he chirped.
" Who's Alice," Alice groaned as she squinted her eyes at the light, trying to adjust them, " Where am I?
How did I get here?"
" You mean, you don't know," Kowalski uttered.
" No," Alice buzzed.
" Well, you're at the Central Park…Ow," Private blurted as he rubbed the back of his head. Skipper was the
one who slapped him.
" I think the question should be is why are you here, Space squid," Skipper snapped as he glared at Alice.
" I don't know why," Alice squealed, " And what the heck is a space squid? And by the way, who are you?"
" Well, we're," Kowalski grunted then got smacked on the side of the face by Skipper, " Ow."
" Kowalski," Skipper barked as Private wandered off toward the fallen ladder, which was partially seen from
the light of the flashlight, " Can't you see that this space squid is just trying to trick us by using our
memories, against us?"
" Skipper, look," Private whistled from over by the ladder. He was looking down at the ground, observing
the broken glass on the sidewalk. The other penguins let go of Alice's limbs and waddled over to the sight.
" Kowalski, give me an analysis on what happened here," Skipper uttered.
Kowalski looked around the sight, taking in as much information as he could. " Hmm," he hummed as he
rubbed the bottom of his beak, before answering, " Judging by the way that ladder is laying on the ground,
along with the broken pieces of glass scattered all over the place, I'd say that the real Alice was
kidnapped."
" Or maybe the thunder frightened Alice, made her fall off the ladder, and caused her to hit her head, while
she was changing a light bulb," Private chirped then paused, " Or maybe, perhaps, the ladder fell, hit Alice
on the head, and made her lose her memory, while she was trying to change a light bulb."
" Private, you just can't keep yourself from saying preposterous things, can you," Skipper groaned as he
slapped himself in the forehead.
" Well, there are pieces of glass scattered everywhere, plus there's a bump on Alice's head," Private
chimed as he pointed to Alice, who was sitting up. She had taken her cap off and began feeling the top of
her head, until she came across a bump the size of a softball.
Skipper rolled his eyes then folded his flippers. " That still doesn't prove that she's not a space squid,
Private," the leader grunted then turned toward the tall intellect, " Right, Kowalski?"
" Actually, Skipper, I have to agree with Private on this one," Kowalski pinged as he looked down at his
leader then began gesturing toward objects around the scene of the accident, " Judging from the size of
the bump on Alice's head and the location of the ladder and the shattered glass, I'd say that Alice was hit
in the head by the ladder, after she had fallen down, thus shattering the light bulbs in the process. You
see, she must've been trying to change the bulb on that lamp post, which, need I remind you, keeps
going out, every single week, for some unknown reason."
" Oh yeah," Skipper half-whispered as he took a flipper to the bottom of his beak, " I almost forgot about
that. So, what do we do about our amnesiac friend?"
Uh-oh. Alice has amnesia...and understands animal talk? BTW: I'm not even sure if a hard hit in the head would actually cause a person to understand animal talk, but it is fanfiction, after all. Anywho. Coming up next in Chapter 2. Catch how the penguins deal with the Amnesiac Alice. Please stay tuned and find out more.