Skipper walked through the zoo at night while all the other animals were sleeping. He did it every night, he would patrol the zoo to make sure everybody was safe and sound. He enjoyed keeping people safe, it made him feel better about his own life. He smiled as he continued walking, so far he hadn't seen anything to arouse suspicion.
He was about to call it a night when he heard music. Music coming from the area of the gift shop where the animals met. Skipper was curious and decided to go to the shop to investigate.
I'm just whippin' round the bay
Skipper continued walking over to the gift shop, he was conscious of the song. But the lyrics made no sense.
I got daddy's charge card hey.
'Strange' Skipper thought to himself as he continued to walk. Soon he had reached the gift shop.
Said i'm whipping round the bay, hey hey hey hey
Skipper started to climb up to the window of the gift shop. It was an extremely difficult task without help from the other penguins in his squad, but he managed it nonetheless.
i've got daddy's charge card hey
Once Skipper had reached the top of the window and peered inside he was shocked at what he saw.
I saw my mommy, i saw my daddy.
"Mort what are you doing here so late?" Skipper asked the lemur who continued to stare at the boombox.
I saw my mommy, she was on top of me.
"I'm serious Mort." Skipper said as he climbed into the gift shop. He began making his way to the small lemur.
Well won't you tell me why it is so.
Skipper had finally reached the little lemur and put his hand on his shoulder. The lemur stayed still, with his left hand contorted into a fist.
In this world of pain and doubt, i've got to purge my mind with shout.
Skipper chuckled in his mind as the lemur abruptly turned around and shook off Skipper's hand. He stared at Skipper with a strange look in his eye. Almost like he wanted to kill him.
But can you tell me why i feel so lumpy?
Skipper chuckled as the lemur ran up to him with his fist clenched. It appeared that he was going to punch him, but considering the lemur's size. It didn't seem likely to do much damage.
Lumpy lumpy lumpy lumpy
Skipper felt a sharp pain as the lemur punched him. Pain that was very unusual in a punch from a creature 6 times Mort's size.
Life is painful, life is long.
Skipper looked down and was shocked to see blood originating from the spot where Mort had punched him. Closer inspection revealed that a shard of glass was stuck in his stomach.
Life is short, it's like a song.
Skipper gasped with realization as it struck him what had happened. Mort hadn't punched him, he had stabbed him. It was Ironic that he had gone against many things in his lifetime. Killer whales, ninja penguins, insane otters. How ironic that his fate was decided by a lemur less than a quarter of his age. His body lay in the gift shop as the song continued to play.
My life will go,
Who knows where though,
I will go,
I know,
One thing,
One thing for sure,
Gonna end up,
End up in the ground,
And one day,
My flesh will rot away,
I will be found,
A thousand years from now,
And all the things,
I said and brought,
They'll be bought,
They'll be bought,
And all the things,
And all the wings I never wore,
I got Daddy
Chapter 2: Chapter 2
Come one now
Private woke up with a startled look on his face. He could've sworn he heard a scream, but didn't know where it was coming from.
Come on kids
Another scream pierced the calm night air and Private could swear he heard the bloodcurdling scream come from the gift shop.
All your friends
He decided to investigate the noise, and he started heading towards the gift shop.
It's where they live… at
It didn't take long for the belly-moving Private to reach the gift shop. Pretty soon he was in front of the door, he noticed a light coming from the window. He also could hear a strange song playing.
showbiz, showbiz
He started climbing up a little tree near the gift shop window, it was difficult without human hands, but he managed.
Showbiz, showbiz
As soon as he reached the window pane he peered in and gasped at what he saw
Your birthday party comes alive at…
In front of him was a boombox with Mort in front of it. It was an unusual sight, but it wasn't what Private was most shocked by.
Close your eyes
Just behind the little lemur was a body, a penguins body. A body that was black and white and red all over. A body that look amazingly like his father figure.
Splatter flick
"Skipper!" Private screamed as he leaped in threw the window.
It's so sick
He landed and ran over to the dead body of his friend and father. He cried loudly over the bloody corpse.
Splatter flick, it's so sick.
Private close his eyes to prevent the tears from escaping and mocking his manliness. He knew Skipper wouldn't like to have tears shed over him.
Close your eyes
His crying was stopped short when he heard a little squeak. He lifted his head to see the little lemur standing over him with enormous eyes.
He's dressed to drill
Private gasped as he noticed how the lemur looked from the front. Blood stained his rust-coloured fur, and a bloody shard of glass was held in his left hand. He was grinning at Private maliciously.
Slumber party massacre
Before Private could fully comprehend what was happening he felt a searing pain in his chest.
Splatter flick, it's so sick
He looked down and watched as the blood flowed from the place where his heart was. It appeared as if Mort had pierced an artery. The lemur smiled, as if he enjoyed the death of the young penguin.
Splatter flick, it's so sick.
Splatter flick, it's so sick.
Splatter flick, it's so sick.
Chapter 3: Chapter 3
Kowalski sat up in his bunk as the sound hit his eardums, it perplexed him how such a melancholy melody could slip past his earmuffs and get inside his cranium. It almost seemed like the noise was alive, a living breathing creature.
To rid the earth of this filth
Kowalski's curious scientific nature got in the way of his minimalistic survival instincts and he walked towards the ladder leading to the outside world.
To rid the earth of the lies
Kowalski swam through the surface of the water and once at the edge climbed over the fence that was supposed to keep the penguins isolated from the other animals.
The will to rise above
He started sliding on the concrete towards the gift shop where it appeared the melody was coming from. He didn't know why he enjoyed the sound, smart people's music has always been etudes, or so he believed. Etudes were a difficult way to play a technique in music, such as a scale on piano or on a guitar. In a way 'Eruption' could be considered an etude. He was a smart penguin, so why was he attracted to the simplicity of the song.
Tearing my insides out
He reached the door of the gift shop and was surprised to find it wide open. Although he wasn't too shocked, if someone was playing the song in the giftshop, then he/she would have to get inside. Therefore it was logical that the door be open. He slipped inside and held a gasp in his throat.
I feel my soul go cold
"No" Kowalski whispered quietly as the horror of the bloody sight in front of him truly set in. The dead body of his fearless leader lay on the floor in front of what appeared to be a boombox similar to Juliens. In front of the body lay another, smaller body that probably belonged to the youngest member of the team.
Only the dead are smiling
He ran up to the body of his leader to examine it for a cause of death in his haste and concentration he failed to notice the figure in front of the boombox.
To rid your heart of all lies
"Why you Skipper, why?" Kowalski spoke into the corpses ear as if hoping he could reassure him that a rational explanation existed. He couldn't come to terms with the fact that his leader had died, he had always seemed invincible. Impervious to all forms of attack.
Their poison tongues, poison hearts
"I loved you skipper, we could have been together." Kowalski whispered in his dead leaders ear, it hurt him immensely to confess his feelings for his love. Despite the fact that he was dead, Kowalski still felt his feelings for Skipper as he were alive.
Burning cold
"Skipper" He whispered under his breath as he snuggled up into his chest feathers. the warmth Skipper had even though he was dead was unexplainable, which was something that normally would frustrate him to no end, but he didn't care. He clung on to the feathers warmth and imagined it as a hug, it felt nice.
Now let the darkness fall
His pleasure was cut short quite literally as he felt a sharp burning pain attack him in the back.
I feel my soul go cold
"No" He whispered as he felt the cold embrace of death engulf him.
Only the dead are smiling
"My god" Kowalski whispered as he felt his eyes involuntarily close as death embraced him. The song kept playing while Kowalski listened haphazardly.
22 years of pain
And I can feel it closing in
The will to rise above
Tearing my insides out
And just like that, Kowalski found himself engulfed completely in the unknown grip of death without knowing who gave him the ticket to go there. A penguin who wanted to know everything finds himself surrounded with unknowns in the end, how ironic.
Chapter 4: Chapter 4
Rico walked through the concrete jungle that was his zoo. He woke up in the night to get a cup of milk from the fridge in the habitat, only to find out he was alone in the dark. It terrified him to be alone. He was a little kid on the inside who over-compensated with explosives and chainsaws. Being alone terrified him and he reacted like a little kid would, by searching for his parents.
First you lived on a farm
Rico squinted as he heard the noise coming from the open door. He had almost wandered through the door in his haste. He probably didn't realize it because he wasn't paying attention.
Then you got your head cut off
Regardless of how he got there he continued onward, he stepped inside warily. The darkness covered every spot in the room like a blanket, or the reapers cape. He had to close his eyes and be surrounded with the known darkness he was accustomed to before he could move.
Then i bought you in a grocery store
One foot in front of the other he walked into the unknown with his black flashlight that illuminated nothing except his courage. After a small bit of walking he was forced to discard the ambivalent light as he tripped and his eyes sprung open.
Pretty soon you'll be on my plate
His eyes set upon the little lemur sitting in front of king Julien's boombox. A smarter bird would have wondered how the small lemur could carry the machine. But Rico wasn't smart in the least bit, so he didn't, he just wondered what he tripped over.
into the oven
He looked down at the ground beneath his feet and gasped at the sight he saw.
Into the oven
He saw the bodies of Skipper and Kowalski, his mommy and daddy, lying on the ground in an embrace. Both were wearing a stab wound in the mirror image of the other's. It was a great romantic metaphor that Rico couldn't comprehend.
Into the oven
Looking a little bit to the side he saw his little sister, Private, lying on the ground as a corpse. Even in death the penguin retained his cute charm, his infamous cute charm and innocence that helped and hindered the team in many ways.
I'm gonna eat you for thanksgiving!
"Friends dead." Mort spoke from behind him, Rico turned around and stared into the lemurs eyes with sheer terror. The lemur didn't appear to notice.
I'm not a faggot vegetarian
"You killed them." The lemur said as he pointed at his friends, Rico gasped. How could he kill his friends without himself knowing.
I don't care if the indians lost their land
He battered his mind against the wall as he thought it over. It was obvious Mort killed them, not him. But why would Mort say such a thing about him, why and how could he summon the courage to kill his friends.
I think it's really funny that they did
Then it hit him in a funny way. He remembered something about those lemurs that tormented them so. He remembered how they died. it was a plane crash that killed them while they were being transported to the zoo.
I like eating lots of food on thanksgiving
He remembered how torn up with guilt they all were except for him. It was a horrible time until Kowalski came up with the brilliant plan.
Into the oven
Kowalski brainwashed all the penguins including himself to believe that the lemurs didn't die and that they made it safely to the zoo. The phychosis affected them greatly, but it cured their depression.
Into the oven
But it also caused multiple personality disorder and made Rico a little more insane than he already was. He couldn't make sense of his situation, he didn't know how to explain it to himself, he didn't know anything.
Into the oven
But he did know that the lemur was right, and the guilt tore him apart.
I'm gonna eat you for thanksgiving.
Chapter 5: Epilogue
Epilogue: Well well, it appears as if the story has reached it's closure. No other creatures in the zoo are left to die.
Ever heard the song 'eyes of the insane' by slayer. That's sort of how this is, or was if you want to be a literal nazi.
What if I were to tell you that the zoo was shut down months ago and was barred from the public. What if I told you that the penguins went crazy during their isolation. What if I were to tell you that everything the penguins have seen in their zoo home was the figment of their own imaginations. Would you think I was mad?
Madmen were often murdered early on in society for being right, so I should probably lock my doors and sleep in a bucket of cold water to keep myself awake. The reapers are going to find me and kill me now I bet. Much like the reaper of 'guilt' and 'isolation' killed these four hapless souls.
I guess the moral to this story is that life isn't fair and that the unexpected happens quite regularly. If you didn't figure it out yet dear reader there was never a boombox and Rico is still alive in the isolation of the empty zoo. I'm sure that he has probably forgotten about his dark deed and sunk back into phychosis. Bless his heart for being too stupid to comprehend the events that he had just witnessed.
The truth in the matter is for me to know exactly in my mind and for you to guess based on my mumblings. You can't truly understand, but you can use my words to draw a diagram inside your head of the basic idea. These eyes have seen the entire story unfold in front of them and understand completely what happened. Treat this as you will, this story has no morals or lessons to teach to the sane-minded.