Hello readers and writers! I hope you all like this story! It's kinda like a… Father's Day 2, but it includes the Red Squirrel! Dun, dun, dun!
And Roz doesn't belong to me, she's Halfhuman123's, and she's awesome for letting me use her. And my O.C.'s are teenagers in this story.
I guess I better get on with the story, huh? I don't own the Penguins of Madagascar, and I hope you enjoy! Review if you wish. :)
The red squirrel, penguin enemy number one, sat in his little lair. The chalk tally marks covered the walls of the room he sat in, scheming of course. He needed a plan, a good one at that. Something that will make the Central Park Zoo's penguins fall to their… knees? Oh, whatever they had, they'd be falling to them! He knew that. What he did need was a—
"I got it!" The squirrel cheered with his Russian like accent. His yellow eye brightened up with excitement, the other one unnoticeable because of the eye patch. "I shall make those penguins bow down to their enemy, by over riding their own!" He pressed the red button on his log, excited to get his new plan into action. He had learned that the penguins, as well as the other animals, had gotten a few arrivals that meant a lot to them. He grinned evilly, knowing this plan may have not only those penguins, but penguins all over the world bowing down to him.
Meanwhile, the targets of the evil squirrel were hanging out with said penguin group…
"Dad," Marshal called out to Skipper. "Check it out!" He slid over to a light post that stood near the penguins' habitat and tried to do a flip, but instead slammed into it. "Ow." He mumbled, starting to walk dizzy like. "Ugh. How do you do the flips again?" He asked, but his dad just chuckled and patted his head.
"Hours of training, son," The leader penguin answered.
Roz, a blonde otter that stood behind Skipper at the time, laughed. "Marsh-Mellow, that was too good!" She punched his flipper playfully, but Marshal quickly wiped his flipper as if she rubbed something from the monkey habitat on it.
"Ew, now my flipper has to be cut off." Marshal mumbled.
Roz rolled her eyes. "Yeah, complain about me being gross, window licker."
"Ha, ha, dog breath." Marshal shot back.
Skipper slapped them both on the back of the head. "Ah, ah, ah, no fighting," He said to them. "Or I'll get Rico to get the—"
"Not the bucket!" The teenage penguin and otter shouted at the same time, looking frightened.
"Oh, yes, the bucket," He chuckled darkly.
Roz leaned in to Marshal and whispered, "You know, Skipper can be scary when he wants to be."
"Pft, no kidding," Marshal whispered back. Marlene then walked over to the three.
"There you guys are!" She exclaimed. "Have any of you seen Kowalski? He and Athena have been missing all day, and it's starting to get late." She looked up at the darkening sky as she said this, the stars already starting to find their spots. Well… the ones that didn't look invisible by the bright lights of New York City.
Skipper tapped his flipper under his beak. "That is a little suspicious. It's not like Kowalski to run off like that. Maybe he's showing Athena something. Either that, or he's trying to keep her away from Buttons." As he said this, he thought back at the intelligent penguin's attempts to keep Athena away from her new boyfriend.
It wasn't as if Buttons was a bad boy for Athena. He loved her, and she loved him. But Kowalski kept an eye on them. Skipper didn't know whether it was the fact that Kowalski was just over protective or that Buttons was Rico's son. He probably would've thought on it more if a certain lemur king hadn't interrupted Skipper's thoughts.
"Hello, neighbors!" King Julien called out, walking over to them with a brown furred lemur behind him, commonly known as Prince J.J. "What is it dat you are doing on de royal walk about with me?"
"The zoo's ground is for everyone, Ringtail." Skipper reminded him. "As in, we can all walk on the side walk if we wish."
"Well, of course you must walk." King Julien let out a small chuckle. "For you are flightless, and it is not possible for you to do anything else."
"Oh, is that so?" Skipper asked. "May I remind you that we penguins flew not only you, but a lion, a Hippo, a Giraffe, and a Zebra to Africa?"
Marshal chuckled. "Yeah, right," he said.
Skipper growled and was about to lecture that the entire story was true, but Marlene stepped between Skipper and King Julien to make peace between them… again.
"Guy, guys, calm down!" She told the two. "King Julien, we all have the right to walk here, and Skipper, we'll believe your little stories." As she said this, she giggled and poked his chest.
"They're not just stories!" Skipper defended.
"Sure," Marlene said sarcastically, patting her friend's back. "Keep telling yourself that."
As Skipper and Marlene got into another one of their little arguments, Kowalski was setting up a telescope on top of the clock tower, his daughter by his side.
"Dad, why did you bring me up here again?" Athena wrapped her sleek, black feathered flippers across her chest to keep the crisp wind from blowing against her. "It's freezing out here!" She complained about the temperature more, but Kowalski was too busy setting up the telescope to hear. Or maybe he was just ignoring her.
After he finally finished, Kowalski faced Athena with a smile. "Okay, I built this telescope here for us to get the best view of tonight's…" he lit up a flashlight beneath his face, making him appear spooky like, "blood moon! Ooh! Ooh!"
Athena didn't appear to be frightened. She crossed her flippers and sighed. "Dad, you and I both know what the blood moon is. During a lunar eclipse, the earth blocks light from the sun from reaching the moon. But some light still diffuses through the earth's atmosphere, which absorbs light on the blue side of the visible spectrum, thus leaving red light to reach the moon. Simple."
"So… you're not scared?" Kowalski turned off the flashlight and rubbed the back of his head, looking down embarrassedly. "Sorry."
The teenage penguin patted her father's back. "Hey, maybe Elli will fall for it." She smiled.
"Pft, and let Private give me a lecture for scaring his little girl?" Kowalski shook his head and waddled back over to the telescope. "No matter, but there is a blood moon tonight," he put his face into the telescope's lens and looked into the sky.
The sky was beautiful at night, but all the lights of the city made most of the stars invisible. But this was New York. After peering around through the star filled sky and identifying a few constellations for fun, Kowalski finally aimed it at the moon. It was a pinkish red that he marveled at. The stars circled around it as if they could make a frame of the beautiful sight the two penguins were witnessing together.
"It's really marvelous, dad." Athena smiled as Kowalski pulled a flipper around her shoulder and hugged her in a warm hug that seemed to make the cool breeze of the night go away. She sighed. "If only Buttons were up here to see it." The teen let her mind wander off to her boyfriend from his dark blue eyes to the way he hacks up dynamite. She was so wound up in her thoughts, she didn't see Kowalski making an annoyed face behind her.
"You bring him up now? I thought we were having a nice father/daughter moment here!" The intelligent penguin crossed his flippers and turned away a little stubbornly, as if he were the child with a temper tantrum.
Athena giggled and hugged her dad. "Sorry, let the father/daughter bonding begin—"
DONG!
"AH!" Kowalski and Athena jumped and held each other as the shock of the bell soared through their bodies. Once the two were calmed down, which took place after a few minutes shaking in each other's flippers; the two finally took a breath and calmed down.
"Okay, well, that was… sudden." Kowalski said, looking up at the clock. "It's getting late. Maybe we should postpone?" He saw the sadness form in his daughter's dark brown eyes, and he didn't sound so cheery either. "But, we'll do it again soon." He added.
Athena smiled and hugged her dad. "Okay. Do we have to leave now?"
Kowalski sighed. "Skipper's gonna want us back soon. He never liked the blood moon."
"Why?"
"Something about… danger, as if the moon is trying to tell us something horrible will take place. It's probably nothing, but you know your Uncle Skipper. If our eyes aren't open, then our guard is down, and the enemy has an advantage."
Athena sighed. "Well, you have to be tip top shape, so let's head home." She held onto her father's flipper and the two made their way down the tower. As Athena climbed down the brick structure of the tower, she could smell the vines that scattered about the sides, but she couldn't see it. In fact, she couldn't see much anything. "It's creepy out at night." She muttered.
Kowalski nodded. "Yeah, but there's nothing dangerous—"
"Hello?" A voice called down below them.
"AH!" Kowalski lost his grip on the wall and fell down, landing on something… soft. "Oh… what happened?" Kowalski tried to look under him to see what he had landed on, but he looked back up and his eyes widened in horror at the sight of Athena falling and about to land on top of him. As quick as he could be, he rolled out of the way.
Athena then landed on…
"Ugh! Kowalski! Athena! What are you doing out here at this hour… and on a bloody moon night!?" It was Skipper. The flat headed penguin pushed Athena off of him and faced the two with a glare, flippers on his sides. "You know it's dangerous!" He sighed and shook his head. "And I left a very good… conversation with Marlene to find you two."
"Sorry, Skipper." Kowalski started, getting up and helping his daughter up as well. "We were just stargazing."
"More like jumping off the clock tower." Skipper rubbed his back.
"Yeah… sorry about that," Athena's felt her face heat up in embarrassment.
Skipper sighed. "Let's just get home. My paranoia is ringing off like a popular teenager's cell phone!"
With that said, the three penguins waddled off.
Meanwhile, yet another enemy of the penguins were watching the kids.
After letting out another dolphin chirp laugh, Dr. Blowhole turned away from the giant screen that had the red moon in full view.
"Yes, this will be the day I defeat the pen-gu-ins!" Dr. Blowhole said as he rolled around on a little mobile scooter in front of his lobster minions. "And now, phase two of my plan is in progress! All we have to do stay patient until the blood moon
"Why the blood moon, boss?" A lobster asked.
"Well, duh, because it's cool!" Dr. Blowhole said, motioning to the screen where the blood moon still appeared in its frame of stars. "And just imagine the look on the animal's faces when their own children turn against them, thanks to this!" In the evil dolphin's flipper, he held a small remote. "With this mind controlling device, I will control the young animals' minds to kidnap their own parents! It's perfect! Just to think, ever since those animals were babies, I've had this in them! Now that they're teenagers, they'll not only be hard to fight off, but they've been with the pen-gu-ins and their other parents long enough so their parents would never attack them."
"But… we have evidence that there are some other kids there who don't have that device, Blowhole." The lobster said. He looked at a piece of paper and read it as he held it in his big red claws. "There are ducklings there, and there's even a new otter pup, named Rozalin."
"Rozalin, eh?" the evil dolphin shook his head. "No matter, we'll have to do this while they're sleeping then. That way," Dr. Blowhole smiled an evil grin that could make a shiver run down your back, "they'll never see it coming."
"Sure thing, boss," the lobster scattered off to his work station.
When the lobster reached his little work place, he went on his computer. The first place he went to of course was a website for evil villains, usually talking about evil plans they were planning to do. Boy, wasn't he shocked when he realized the Red Squirrel was targeting the same people Blowhole was?
This was going to turn ugly.
A few minutes later…
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN MY IDEA'S TAKEN?!" Blowhole shrieked.
"Sorry, but the red squirrel just said that he wanted to kidnap the kids."
"But… no fair!" the evil dolphin whined. "I wanna be the kidnapper! I'm better than some stupid little squirrel!"
"You still can kidnap them."
"How?" the dolphin asked.
"Just… team up."
"Team up?" The dolphin repeated. He looked up at the high ceiling above his lair to consider it. Teaming up might give him a fair advantage, but he had been scheming this plot for years! He didn't want to share it, but… better safe than never. He sighed. "Get me the Red Squirrel, pronto!" He ordered, "Time to team up, and start the greatest plan ever!" After saying this, he let out a dolphin chirp laugh… again.
MUAHAHA! Blowhole AND the red squirrel teaming up?! Find out what happens next time!