what if the gang had another with them. what if the gang took a friend from Africa to Europe?

Issibah (name i totally made up) aka Izzy, she's a black leopard a few inches taller than Alex and has bright yellow eyes and a burn scar on right hip. She was once part of a circus from the Canary Islands off the coast of Spain a few years before she was sold to the resever to help repopulate, so yeah, she has the accent. She was used for jumping through a hoop, but in her spare time, she'd dance and sing, but especially knew how to juggle with anything (clubs, burning torches, knives, produce, etc...). Sadly, She had an accident with a fire hoop and was burned so badly that the fur never grew back. She was never helpful with repopulating the species, but she was accepted by the pride of lions. especially by Makunga, kinda creepy. When Alex and his parents were banished, Makunga keeps pushing Izzy to be his wife and queen. When saying no doesn't help, She actually attacks him and nearly kills him. The only reason she didn't is because Teetsi pulls her off of him and restrains her. Makunga then says that she's banished as well. While Alex and Marty go find water, Izzy stays behind to help Gloria dig for water. She chooses to stay with the rest of the animals and wait for Alex when the plane is used to rescue him. When they returned with water and Makunga is dragged away by the old lady, she attends Skipper's wedding and is in the end sequence. By the way, Izzy is being voiced by Selma Hayek. She voiced Kitty Softpaws if you didn't know.

Izzy walked over to find her friends in the old mud hole with a creation of some sort. "What is this." She asked.

The zoosters turned to face her with crying faces. "This is Alex's birthday present. It's New York City."

"New York City?" Izzy asked. "It's much smaller than I thought it would be?"

"No, no, no, Izzy." Melman said. "This is just a small scale model of New York City."

"Oh, guys. You both made and ruined my day." Alex said.

Gloria sniffled before saying, "Make a wish, sweetheart." She held out a cake with a lit candle.

The moment Alex blew the flame out, Julien, Maurice and Mort jumped out of the cake. "Your wish has come true." Julien said confidently. Maurice didn't look so happy since he was holding Julien up. But Mort was happy and excited.

"Oh, yay!" The mouse lemur cheered. His stomach then growled. "My tummy is speaking to me!" He then vomited on the plate with a smile still on his face. Everyone cringed except for Izzy. Being from a circus, she was used to seeing children do this.

"Uh, I wouldn't eat that side of the cake if I were you." Julien said with a disgusted look.

Gloria angrily threw the plate of lemurs away and asked, "Alex, what was you're wish?"

"I wished we could go home. I mean, don't get me wrong. I love this." Alex gestured to the model of the zoo. "But it's not the real thing."

"Well, that's because it's a mud model, Alex." Marty explained. "It's not really New York. I hope that was clear."

"What are we doing?" The lion suddenly asked.

"Talking about a miniscule mud model of a colossal city." Izzy said. Marty chuckled.

"No, I mean, here we are relying on the penguins to come back for us. But...we should just go to Monte Carlo and get them." Alex explained.

"How do a lion, a zebra, a giraffe and a hippo walk into a casino in Monte Carlo?" Melman asked.

"I don't know. Ask the rabbi!" Marty joked.

"Hey, I'm serious." The giraffe stated.

"C'mon. We can do it. We can do anything! It's us!" Alex exclaimed. "We've gone halfway around the world! Compared with that, Monte Carlo's just a hop, skip and a swim away!" Melman nodded while Gloria giggled in excitement and Marty smiled. Alex then put his paw forwad and said, "To home."

The other large animals agreed. But Alex seemed to be waiting for another agreement. He looked over and saw the sad look on Izzy's face. "Izzy...We wanna go home. But it's not fair to you to just leave you here." That was when his ears and smile perked up. "You wanna join us?"

Izzy's face brightened at the thought of traveling again. She nodded vigorously, wanting the adventure to start. The black leopard put her paw on top of the others and said, "Home."

"Tell ya what, bet those penguins will be glad to see us." Alex smirked.

"Yeah," Marty agreed. "They're probably bored outta their minds!"

The zoosters and their friends and sadly, tiny fuzzy parasites called lemurs, started walking to the edge of the continent. It was strange though how it didn't seem totake that long to reach Monte Carlo, because the next thing she knew, herself and the zoosters were rising from the water in diving masks and snorkles to find Monte Carlo in front of them. In order, it was Gloria, Izzy, Marty, Alex and Melman. Melman said something no one understood dew to the snorkle. He quickly spat it out and repeated himself. "There it is. The casino."

Alex did the same thing before he pulled his snorkle out of his mouth. "I said, 'Perfect. That's where we'll find the penguins.'"

Marty even started speaking through his snorkle. It irritated both Gloria and Izzy to find out that he was only babling because he found it funny.

"C'mon, guys." Alex whispered. "Operation Penguin Extraction does not include levity. We can't draw attention to ourselves."

How exactly do you plan for us to not draw attention, Alex?" Izzy asked.

" It's simple. We're invisible! I'm talking really, really quiet." And with that, the five large mammals dove under the water to sneak into the port.

They were able to sneak into the city and climb onto the rooftops and get to the casino. "Ok. Phase One. We break into the casino, grab the penguins, And get them to take us back to New York in the monkey powered Super Plane!" Alex said.

"Check." Marty stated.

"Phase Two. We chew out the penguins for abandoning us in Africa."

"Check." Melman said.

"Phase Three. We apologise to the penguins for overly harsh chewing outing, but we've gotten our point across. Phase Four. Back to New York City." The other zoosters agreed hapily wi the last phase. But Izzy remained silent. "Izzy, don't you like the plan?" Alex asked as they kept searching for the right roof.

"I do, Alex. I'm just nervous. How will the zoo like me?" The leopard asked.

"Are you kidding?" Gloria asked. "Baby, they'll love you."

"She's right, Izzy." Melman agreed. "Back when we were still at the zoo, do you know how long they've been looking to add more big cats? Years. That's how long. You'll be just what they're looking for." The leopard smiled at her friends as they continued their search.

When they found the right roof, they came across five ventilation ducts. And the one Izzy had her eyes on was shaped like a triangle. "Alright. We take these ventilation ducts to the crawlspace above the casino where we find the penguins." The lion explained. "I just need to figure out which duct each of us should take."

After sorting out which duct to take, Izzy ran to hers and slid through it rather quickly. When she flew out, she saw that she crashed into the boys. "¡Ay! ¡La cosa peor que yo jamás me arrastré por!" She grumbled in her native language.

That was when they heard Gloria scream, and it came from the round duct right above them. "Uh oh." Alex said. All four animals tried to move, only to find themselve tangled together.

Just as Gloria was about to squish them, she got stuck just inches above them. "Hi, honey." Melman smiled. Alex and Marty went to find the chimps and penguins while Melman and Izzy were helping Gloria get unstuck. "Okay, okay. I got you. I got you, honey." While Melman was trying to twist Gloria free, he accidentally touched her ticklish spot. Izzy kept thinking that he was doing it on purpose because he always boasted how much he loved her laugh.

"Okay, Gloria. Let out all the air right now." She said. The hippo did as she was told and fell from the duct with ease. She then looked over and saw Alex holding a clock and shooting a harpoon to the wooden ceiling beam so he could godown to th casino on a rope attached to a fishing rod.

"Okay. In exactly two minutes and seventeen seconds, the lemurs will cut the power. I drop down, grab the penguins. You crank me up, and we are out of here." The King of New York explained.

"Oh, oh, oh! Let me drop down! I'll grab the penguins!" Marty suggested.

"You don't have fingers, Marty. Thses are things a leader has to think about." Alex pointed out as he cranked himself from the ground.

"Why should you be the leader?" Marty asked. "Why not me?"

"'Cause I'm the phase tracker." The lion explained.

Izzy noticed the glass starting to crack. "Uh, guys?"

"How did I get phased out?" Marty yelled.

"You're part of a phase. A phase isn't something you own, it's something yo're in." Alex reassured.

"Hey, Guys?" Izzy asked as she saw the cracks growing, though no one paid attention.

"Who voted you Grand Phase Master anyway?" The zebra questioned.

"Me! I voted me! 'Cause I'm the leader!" Alex stated.

"Maybe I should be in charge." Melman said as he stepped onto the glass, causing the cracks to worsen.

"Melman!" Gloria whined.

"I am a doctor." The giraffe explained.

"Guys?!" Izzy yelled again, and again, no one paid her any attention.

"Why can't we all be leaders?" Marty demanded.

"Enough!" Gloria exclaimed as she stepped toward the glass. "I'm gonna lead."

"Gloria! NO!" Izzy exclaimed. But it was too late. Gloria's weight made the glass give in and break, causing all the animals to fall through the ceiling and into the casino.

¡Ay! ¡La cosa peor que yo jamás me arrastré por! - Ouch! Worse thing I ever crawled through!