Howdy, howdy fellow writers and readers on fanfiction. This is my SECOND STORY!!! *dances like a maniac* Like mort said. "I like number 2." (two feet high and rising)

Disclaimer: I don't own the penguins of Madagascar.

Now on with the story…

I also want to give credit to a girl named Chatterbox on deviantart. This is a little similar to her story, but I changed some things.

It was a regular Friday night at the H.Q. Skipper and his team were just relaxing at the H.Q. after a long and busy day of entertaining the humans. Fridays and the weekends were the zoo's busiest days.

"Oh, I've face planted in the pool so much, my beaks stinging." Private complained rubbing his beak with his flippers, while he sat on his stone bunk.

"I hear you Private" Skipper said a little worn out. He was sitting next to Kowalski and Rico in the H.Q.'s living room. (A/N: I'm guessing that's what it's called.) They were relaxing as well by rubbing sore feet from dancing and sore butts from a tail wag. (Their own, not each others)

Private lay back trying to get a little nap, but he heard a faint, almost impossible to hear, noise. It sounded like crying.

"Skippa, do you hear that?" Private asked starting to sit up.

"No do you hear something?" Skipper asked.

"I thought I did" Private said with his British accent. Even though he was sore, he waddled over to the telescope they use to observe the zoo and their surroundings. "Oh dear" he said with his eye looking through the lens.

"What is it Private?" Skipper asked starting to get a little worried, but he knew private said "oh dear" at a lot of things.

"It's Marlene" Private said turning to his team with a worried expression.

That's all it took for Skipper to get up. "Team, I know I promised you a day off, but Marlene could be in trouble."

Rico groaned, but got up with Kowalki next to him. Then, the penguins headed toward the otter habitat.

They jumped on the top of the H.Q. in their fighting stances.

"Look! Look!" Private said pointing towards Alice, who was leaving the otter habitat with a crate.

At Marlene's habitat. . . . .

The closer they got to Marlene's cave, the louder the faint noise got. Now it was a loud wail.

"I sure can hear it now." Skipper said covering his ears, or whatever penguins hear out of. He noticed two things. 1. It wasn't Marlene's cry. 2. For the first time in his life, he heard a noise that made Julian's boom box seem likeable.

"It sounds like crying Skipper." Kowalski yelled over the noise.

"Hoover Dam! What's with Marlene's new roomie?" Skipper asked out loud.

They then jumped up on Marlene's Platforms, after swimming in the water, and made their way through the cave.

When they saw Marlene, she was franticaly running around trying to calm down a baby otter, or pup. She then put her finger in its mouth. It stopped crying and began sucking on her hand, even though it didn't get any milk.

"Uhh… Marlene?" Skipper said trying to get her attention.

"Wha- oh, hey guys." Marlene said facing the penguins.

"Marlene is there something you want to tell us?" Skipper asked pointing to the pup sucking on her finger.

Sorry for a cliffhanger, but that's what keeps you coming back right? Don't forget to comment and review.

See ya next time.