Hello everyone! Today, I bring to you the first chapter of the 8 chapter-ed book, The United Force of Madagascar, or UniForM for short. Because, who has the time. So this story is the continuation of Episode 13 of Season 4, according to what I think will happen. Which means that this is Episode 1 and Episode 2 of Season 5, Chapter 1 to 5 is Episode 1, and the rest is Episode 2, like Season 3 where they split the first episode into two. This story will be an alternate ending once Season 5 is released. For now, it will be like a theory or something like that. And this story has three different point of views. King Julien, Clover, and the slaves. It's not a First POV kinda point of view, but once chapter is split into three parts which focuses on the three views. So, without further ado, I present to you, Chapter 1 of UniForM, 'Leaving, Planning, Sadness'.
Leaving your kingdom isn't easy, especially when you're one of the greatest leaders of that place and you abandon your own people who is now forced to become slaves of an evil king. King Julien stared at his kingdom, especially the Baobab Tree which is now controlled by the person which he thought was his friend, Koto.
"It was all my fault," King Julien said before stepping down from a stool which stood in front of a window of the submarine which is heading towards an unknown destination.
Maurice came and patted his back. "It isn't all your fault. Koto's army is strong and unstoppable, compared to our unprepared army who is basically just Clover. And Ted, who can't even fight."
"But I let Koto in," King Julien said. "If I didn't let him in, the mountain lemurs are still out there waiting for us to open the door. We built a wall to stop the mountain lemurs. And we opened the wall for the mountain lemurs to come in."
"Well, I can't deny that fact there," Maurice said. "But I mean, even Clover was fooled at the moment. In fact, everyone thought he's our friend. Come on, let me prepare you some food to cheer you up."
"I'm not hungry!" King Julien said before slamming himself into a chair in the submarine. "Oww," King Julien said before he got up slowly, rubbing his back after it slammed on the hard metal chair.
"Come on, you haven't had breakfast yet today," Maurice said, but the only response he got was a crossed arm as King Julien sat there, thinking about his people and his kingdom. And more importantly, his boombox. If Koto didn't find any use of it, he might even throw it and that will be the end of the life of his potential brother.
Maurice sighed, giving up as he left the plate of food which was kept in the submarine for emergency purposes. He went over to Pancho who was piloting the submarine and asked him.
"So, any good news?" Maurice asked, hoping that Pancho can find an island which can help them.
"I don't know," Pancho said. "I am unfamiliar with this place. We've gone too far from the island that everything seems new to me. We should be seeing an island soon, and hopefully, they will help us with getting our kingdom back."
Clover went back to the rock mountain where Sage lives as she rode Sage's bird before Sage dropped her from his feet as she landed on the ground, softly this time. Clover looked towards the direction of her kingdom, only being able to see the Baobab Tree, and not even the plane due to her point of view. She wondered what is happening there, are the people being tortured, will Koto forever be the king? And most importantly, where is King Julien? Is he still alive? Can he survive on his own without help from someone else? Clover left all those unanswerable questions alone as she began to think of a way to counter attack. She has a map that covers several kingdoms in Madagascar and so she began to make some plans for their attack which shall begin either tomorrow, or the day after that.
As for Sage, he had a wonderful lunch, being fed by his hawk before he set off to save an animal or a plant that needs his assistance.
After being thrown back in the wall by the mountain lemurs, Mort began to cry, saddened by the fact that their life is ruined. Even though he usually believes that his king can save the people whenever they get into trouble, this time there is no way King Julien can defeat Koto and his army of mountain lemurs without the help of a miracle.
Ted tried to cheer the people up by singing a song as he took out his guitar. It worked, for a while, until everyone got bored of Ted's songs and they began to do all sorts of things. The crocodile ambassador went to sleep to put away all the sadness from his mind. Horst refilled his beverage and began to drink it as he sat on his bed. King Joey who sat on the upper bunk above Horst began jumping up and down while cheering.
"Yay! We're gonna build a maze!" King Joey said before singing a terrible song about building a maze.
Hector was building a new tower of matches before he got up and shouted at the rat king. "For the last time, we're not building a maze!" Hector, who's bunk is beside King Joey's resumed building his masterpiece.
"We're not?" King Joey asked. "Guys! We're not building a maze!" King Joey began announcing to everyone in the prison that they are not building a maze, as he went down his bed and went to each and every person there to tell the bad news.
"Oh, things are getting even worse after every second!" the crocodile ambassador said after King Joey woke him up to tell him that they are not building a maze.
"It will never get worse if we fight ourselves through. Let's do this!" Mort said before slamming himself onto the wall, trying to bring it down as everyone just looked at him lazily and blankly. He pushed it, he punched it, he lifted it, he licked it, but nothing seem to work. He then decided to climb it and jump down. But it was useless as the mountain lemurs kick him back inside the prison as he landed directly on King Joey.
"Oof!" King Joey said before asking. "Are we building a maze?"
"Nope, we're not doing this," Hector said before he brought his matches away as the gate opened and the mountain lemur captain came in.
"King Koto wants you all to pick some mangoes for him," the lemur told the slaves, as four more mountain lemurs came in and brought them all outside of the prison, bringing them to the mango trees.
And that is it. Thank you for reading, and before I end this, I need to talk about something. If you followed The Rise of Maxene (TRoM) as it is being published, you will realise that the chapters are released every two days. For UniForM, I am publishing it weekly. Except if DreamWorks announces that Season 5 is near, and if so I'll have to publish each chapter more frequently before Season 5 is released. And I shall be posting it on Wednesdays or Mondays. So for example, if I need to go somewhere next Wednesday, I'll post the next chapter on Monday. But if there's nothing on Wednesday, I'll post it on Wednesday. And if I am busy on both Monday and Wednesday, I'll have to either ask my sister to post the chapter at home, or I'll have to postpone the release. So again, thanks for reading. I really hope you enjoyed this chapter. The Clover parts in this and the coming chapters might be a bit boring since there's not much to tell about, but the others should be decently good.
Please tell me if there's anything wrong. From writing style, to grammar mistakes, and even if the characters are OOC. I don't mind negative comments, because most of the times they are good and help me improve my writing skills and all. So once again, thanks for reading this and see you next week.
