Africa
(Skipper's POV)
"Okay Wind her up, boys!" I shouted over the roar of the Super-plane. "Not all of us are boys!" Elsa shouted. "Ignore her!" I replied, "It's Monte Carlo or bust!" "Struts," I shouted. "Check," Kowalski replied. "Flaps!" I said. "Check!" Elsa replied. "Diamonds and Gold!" I shouted. "check!" Mason shouted as he tested one of the diamonds. "Music!" I shouted. Private put the "boston dance mix" tape into the cassette player. "More than a feeling" blared out of our speakers.
We were all on the dash as a chimp steered, "We'll be back from our gambling spree in a couple weeks," I said. Alex, Marty, Melmen, and Gloria were waving below, "Bye!" everyone shouted. "Or whenever the gold runs out!" "Buh-bye!" Marty shouted. "Good bye," Melmen added. "All Right!" Alex shouted, "We're be waiting for you!" I decided at that moment to joke with alex, "Just Kidding!" I shouted, "We're never coming back!" "Sorry what was that?" Alex asked (Or I think that's what he said I couldn't hear him over the rotor). "Initiate wrap drive!" I ordered. We rocketed away the plains of Africa only a memory. "Skipper…you are joking about the never coming back part right?" Elsa asked. "Oh yeah," I said, "I'm sure that lion will realize that in a couple of days."
"I'm not so sure," Kowalski said, "the joke about eating people's livers was taken quiet seriously." "Kowalski can I talk with you," I said. "Yes Skipper?" "Can you not use truth but unhelpful comments please…" "Um way not?" he asked. "Well they may be true but if their unhelpful it won't do us any good," I said. "Okay?" "And sometimes we just have to wing it!" "So we are going back for them?" Elsa asked. "OF course once we win enough money from gambling we're going to buy a new plane," I explain, "and pick up the hippies in style!" "Can we buy an Airbus A-280?" Kowalski asked. "Um…I'll think about it," I said, "I was thinking about one of those new-fangled Boeing 787's." "Too bad there are no more concords," Kowalski muttered.
"Skipper if they ever decide to go and get us," Elsa said, "I will say I told you so!" I looked at my second-in-command in shock, "They go and get US?" I said, "They don't know the first thing about a covert operation!" "they barely survived Madagascar," Kowalski said, "and Africa!" "And Christmas and valentine's day," I replied. "Alex leading a covert operation," Elsa mused, "that will be the day." "I have a bad feeling about this," Private said. "Private in a few days…We're going to be rich!" I said, "and you will have a community college fund." "I'll get to be president!" Private shouted. "Yes you do!" I said.
(Alex's POV)
"Did they just say they were never coming back?" I asked. I received no anwer, "Guys?" I asked. I found my self in the middle of a dead savannah with no other animals in sight. I turned around and saw marty on his treadmen, "Marty?" Marty turned around and I found myself face-to-face with a elderly marty, "Oh, goody, you're here!" the old marty said. "Ahh!" I shouted. "Why don't you just chew on this?" Marty said stuffing some dry grass into my mouth. "I'm hungry," he said making chomping noices.
The treadmill turned into on gaint convey that drops me out from a door supended off the ground. I landed with a thud on top of melmen's leg, "Owww!" he said. Melmen then laughed as he said, "I'm just messing with you…I lost all feeling in this thing years ago." Melmen then feel asleep, "Melman? Why do you look like that?" I asked.
Elderly Gloria placed her walker on my hand, "Look who's talking," she said. "Gloria?" I said moving to face her, "Why are you guys so…elderly?" "Now," Gloria replied as a clock floated behind her, "when was the last time you looked in the mirror?" "What?" I said as I bumped into a mirror. I looked at my reflection "No!" my elderly self and I said in unison. My older self popped out of the mirror and said, "Wake up! Wake up, Ally-Al!" I woke up to marty shaking me, "Wake up!" Marty said. "Marty!" I said breathing a sigh of relief, "Marty, it was horrible!" "That same nightmare again, huh?" he said.
"We were stuck here in Africa, and we were all super old and wrinkly," I said, "Well, I aged well, but the rest of you looked horrible!" "Relax," Marty said, "cause I have a surprise for you!" I looked up in the sky hopeful, "is it the penguins? Have they come to take us home?" I pretty sure the gold should have ran out by now…but Skipper did say they were never coming back. "Nope," Marty said, "But's it's the next best thing!" I sighed with disappointment and said, "Another day bites the dust." Before I was even halfway finished with the newest tally mark when Marty pull me away from the tally-board. "Come on now!"
Marty had his hooves over my eyes as he guided me, "Watch it! Watch yourselves! Small divots! Sorry little incline there. Back up this hill!" Marty accidently hit my head on a tree branch, "oww!" I said. "A low hanging branch here!" Marty said, "then just over this bluff and voila!" Marty released me and I went tumbling down the hill. "Happy birthday pal!" Marty shouted. I got up off the ground and found myself facing a scale model of New York made out of mud. "Whoa," I said, "Wow! New York City!" "Surprise!" Gloria and Melmen said. "Gloria!" I said laughing, "You're the statue of liberty!" "Bring me you huddled masses, baby!" Gloria said. "And Melmen you're the Brooklyn bridge!" "Actually I'm the Triboro bridge" Melmen said (I'm not that good when it comes to bridges apparently). "Wow! You guys made this?" "Yeah!" Marty replied, "from memory! From crazy obsessive memory!" I ran thru the model street, "Hey, fifth avenue with no traffic!"
"There's Time Square with it's modern day lack of character!" I said of the model time square. I climbed onto the mud model of the empire state building, "Nine duane reades on the same street!" "And the zoo!" I said, "Wow, our home!" "Look!" I said after a moment, "there's a little me. Little all of us-es" We all went into flashback mode…
One Long and emotional flashback later…
I was crying now as I remember the real new york. "You guys!" I said, "You both made and ruined my day!" "Make a wish sweetheart," Gloria said. I was ready to blow out the candle when Julian and mort popped out of it. "Your wish has come true!" "oh yah!" Mort said, "My tummy is speaking to me!" Mort then throw up, "oh gross," we all said. "I wouldn't eat that side of the cake if I were you," Julian replied. Gloria disgusted threw the cake with Mort and Julian away, "Whoa!" they both screamed. "Alex, what was you wish?" Gloria said. Reveal a wish did go so well last time but it going to do this anyway, "I wished we could go home. I mean, don't get me wrong," I said, "I love this but it's not the real thing."
"Well, that's because it's a mud model alex!" Marty replied, "It's not actually New York! I hope that was clear." "What are we doing," I said, "Here we are waiting for the penguins to come back for us. But…we should just go to monte carlo and get them!" "How do a lion, a zebra, a giraffe and a hippo just walk into a casino in monte carlo?" Melmen asked. "I don't know," Marty said, "ask the rabbi!" "Hey, I'm serious!" Melmen shouted. "Come on!" I said, " we can do this! We can do anything! It's us!" "We're us!" Marty said. "Yeah, that's right. We've gone halfway around the world!" I said, "Compared with that, Monte Carlo's just a hop, skip, and a swim away!"
"yeah!" Gloria and melmen shouted. "To home," I said. "Home!" "Home!" "Home!" "Cheeseburger" Julian said. With Melmen, Gloria, Marty, Melmen, and the lemurs around me I said, "Tell you what, bet those penguins will be glad to see us!" "Yeah, they're probably bored out of their minds!" Marty said. Those five penguins? Bored? I don't think so…
Meanwhile
Monte Carlo
(Skipper's POV)
The chimps were going crazy as they got into our gambling disguse jumping all over the room. Bags of money were stack against the walls while we pillow fought no the bed. "You pillow fight like a bunch of little girls!" I shouted. "Excuse me?" Elsa said. Rico appeared behind me and slammed a pillow on top of me. The pillow ripped and feathers flew everywhere, "Chimichanga! These Pillows are filled with baby birds!" I shouted. "Put them back! Put them back!" Kowalski shouted.
(fade to black)
(dramatic music)
Dreamworks'
Madagascar 3
Europe's Most Wanted
Alternate Version