Hello! So this is the first chapter of my new story 'Operation:Penguin Lab Rat'. The reason the story's called that is because if you're wondering what scientists do with small animals nowadays, they experiment on them, but they sometimes test rats for a lot of experiments. These rats are called lab rats because they've been experimented in a lab (Sorry, Kowalski). I hope you still enjoy this story!
Age-Rating (in movie rating):PG
Warnings:Minor violence
Summary:When Skipper gets captured by a scientist to be experimented on, the Penguins must save him before it's too late! Will they succeed?
Chapter 1-Captured?!
It's almost zoo closing time, and the Penguins are finishing up their usual cute and cuddly routine.
"Just smile and wave, boys. Smile and wave!" Skipper said to the other penguins.
They did what Skipper said. The four penguins smiled and waved. Suddenly, the zoo bell rang at 5 pm. Everyone left the zoo, including the zookeepers. Skipper sighed in relief.
"Finally! We're free!" Skipper said.
However, one small boy, one man in a lab coat, and one man who looked like he was from the 1700s didn't leave. Skipper felt scared. Memories rushed back at him.
Meanwhile, the other penguins saw nothing. They thought Skipper was just imagining things.
"Skippah, don't be scared. You're just seeing things" Private said to Skipper.
The figures Skipper saw disappeared from his view. He shook his head.
"Private, I know these three people I saw in my little view. My twin brother is all grown up now. I don't think he remembers me now" Skipper said.
Private felt confused.
"Never mind! I'll be strolling around in the zoo if you need me!" Skipper said.
He hopped out of the Penguin habitat. Skipper strolled in the zoo until he looked down at a puddle. When he was a small baby, he lived in the year 1757 in Chavaniac-Lafayette, France. One day, when he was only 3 months old, he and his twin brother Marquis got captured by an evil scientist from the future. Marquis got rejected, but Skipper, whose real name is Jacques, is the least lucky. He got turned into a penguin by the scientist through experimentation, and after that, he was sent to the year 1983, where he lived in the future for the rest of his live.
Skipper still got scared when a memory with him and baby Marquis popped up in his head every single night before he went to sleep. Skipper's last name is not Evans. It's Lafayette. However, Skipper hasn't told the team his backstory yet. He didn't want them to worry. So Skipper kept it a secret.
Skipper continued looking at his reflection in the puddle. He felt like he was a spare, not a Lafayette.
"Wait! A spare?" Skipper asked himself.
He looked up at the sky and then down at the puddle again.
"Spare?" he asked himself.
He looked around. He's not part of the zoo. He's not part of Manhattan. He's not part of New York. He's not part of America. He's part of France. He's the younger Lafayette twin that no one knows or remembers. Skipper sighed. Is he a spare?
"Am I really just the spare?" he asked himself.
(SONG:MORE THAN JUST THE SPARE)
SKIPPER:
I'm not part of the town
Not born to be king
Just somebody hopelessly in between
He's the scholar, athlete, poet
I'm the screw-up, don't I know it
But then who could ever compare?
Of course they're gonna think I'm just the spare
Well, I won't care!
So I'm the extra button on the coat, in case another one comes lose
But If I have to be a button
Why can't I be a button that's of use? (Oops!)
I may lack style, and I may lack grace
And once in a while I might fall on my face
But this little button deserves a place in the sky!
This button wants to fly-
SKIPPER:
Wait! Buttons can't fly! It just doesn't make any sense!
SKIPPER:
So I'm a rusty horseshoe hanging up over somebody's old barn door
And I'll be hanging there forever, just wishing the horse had one leg more
And maybe I can't be the perfect one
And maybe I err on the side of fun
But horseshoes need a chance to run somewhere
This horseshoe is more than just a spare
Somebody I'll find my thing
The thing that's all my own
That thing that makes me part of something
Not just all alone
If only all this feeling I have in my heart
Could mean something to someone
How I love to play that part
So I'm just the second-born brother
Who most of the town ignores
Like a button, like a horseshoe
Like a penguin that can't do metaphors! (Actually, I can do metaphors)
And maybe I'm not of American heritage
And maybe I don't have a talent as such
Just this heart with much too much to share!
So I'll never be the heir
But I'm more than just the spare!
(SONG ENDS)
"Ow!" Skipper yelled when he bumped onto Julien.
"Hello!" Julien said.
"Sorry!" Skipper apologized to Julien.
"It's fine, silly penguin! I'm fine with it!" Julien said.
"Have you seen any men with a lab coat on or a French man from the 1700s?" Skipper asked Julien.
"Ey, no" Julien replied.
"Darn it! I shouldn't have asked that!" Skipper yelled in anger.
"Okay?" Julien asked.
Skipper slid back to the Penguin Habitat. He saw that the boys are already in the HQ. He entered the HQ.
"Hello boys! What's up?" Skipper asked the penguins.
He noticed that none of the Penguins are in the main room. Rico should be hanging out with his doll by now. And Private should be watching the Lunacorns by now. Kowalski is probably in his lab. Skipper entered the lab. No Kowalski. Skipper decided to check the whole HQ. Every level. The boys are in none of the levels until he reached level 10. He saw the boys! They were happy. Skipper smiled back.
"I'm glad to see you boys are safe!" Skipper said.
No response.
Skipper walked forward.
"I said I'm glad to see you boys are safe!" Skipper said.
Again, no response.
"DID YOU THREE BECOME DEAF?!" Skipper yelled.
No response.
"IT'S ME, SKIPPER!" Skipper yelled.
Nearby, a scientist known only as Malcolm evil laughed in his mind.
'The plan is working perfectly' he thought to himself.
Meanwhile, Skipper kept yelling at the boys.
"MEN, CAN YOU HEAR ME?!" Skipper yelled.
Suddenly, a sleeping dart hit Skipper's back. Skipper passed out, knocking down the cardboard silhouettes of the other penguins. Malcolm evil laughed.
"Yes! He fell for it!" he said.
He picked up the sleeping penguin, teleporting him and himself to his car. Malcolm put Skipper in a cage and put the cage in the back of the car. Malcolm drove the car to his lab in New York City.
Meanwhile, the other penguins woke up in the zoo storage unit. They looked around.
"Kowalski, what happened?" Private asked Kowalski.
"We got hit by sleeping darts on...our bums" Kowalski replied, pulling a sleeping dart out of his bum.
"Ooh" Rico said, pulling a sleeping dart out of his bum and scratching it with his leg.
"Is Skippah alright? One minute I heard him singing, and then the next minute, we passed out, and the next minute, Skippah stopped singing. Is he alright?" Private asked, pulling a sleeping dart out of his bum.
"I'll go check on him" Kowalski said.
Suddenly, a notecard fell on Kowalski's head. The three penguins read it.
"SKIPPER GOT CAPTURED?!" They all said at the same time.
Meanwhile, in Malcolm's lab, Skipper woke up. He was dizzy. He sat up. His vision is blurry. He saw a familiar figure. The figure evil laughed.
"Miss me, Jacques?" the figure asked Skipper.
Skipper got scared.
"Malcolm! Why did you capture me again?!" Skipper asked.
"It's been a long time. 36 years actually! You were just a tiny baby when you and Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier De Lafayette, or Marquis De Lafayette, first got captured by me and trapped in my lab! Marquis got rejected by me because he was too cute of a baby to be experimented on. I mean, his big bubbly eyes made him too cute to be experimented on! But you got experimented on and became the penguin you are now!" Malcolm said.
"Lafayette..." Skipper said in fear.
"He's all grown up now, and he was a solider in the Revolutionary War! One of his services ended in 1792. It's now 1793 for him and 2019 for you!" Malcolm said.
"Marquis De Lafayette..." Skipper said in fear.
"Do not worry about your older twin brother! He still remembers you, but he'll never talk about you. Ever!" Malcolm yelled.
"LAFAYETTE!" Skipper screamed in fear.
"You, Skipper, will be my penguin lab rat for 14 years straight!" Malcolm said, evil laughing.
Skipper gasped.
"LEAVE ME ALONE!" He yelled.
"The only two people who'll help your men rescue you are Queen Elsa of Arendelle and...Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier De Lafayette" Malcolm said.
Skipper sighed, then passed out.
Oh dear! Poor Skipper! Now that his backstory has been told to the audience, what will happen when the other Penguins discover it? I do not own the Penguins Of Madagascar or Frozen or even the historical man mentioned. I only own Malcolm, my human Penguins of Madagascar OC who's a bad guy! Please like, review, and favorite this story!