Ah, zoos, peaceful sanctuaries where animals live happily and are considered friends to those who visit their home away from home. And there is no other zoo more peaceful than the Central Park Zoo (sort of).
A large truck drove its way into the Central Park Zoo. Its end opened and Alice the zookeeper peered inside. Unknown to her, she wasn't the only one trying to look inside the truck.
Inside the zoo, lays the Penguin Habitat where visitors flock to see four adorable little penguins strut their stuff and awe the audience with their adorable cuteness. Many would just want to hug them… well, be glad you didn't.
Deep inside the habitat is a built-in secret lair. TV screens showing footage of the delivery were being closely monitored by the sharp keen eyes of a penguin.
"Kowalski," A voice called its name. The penguin turned around and came face-to-face with another penguin, only shorter than him.
"Status report." The other penguin ordered sternly. Kowalski turned his gaze back on the monitors that were showing scenes of the truck edging nearer to a habitat full of water.
"Alright Little Fella, time to get out, now." Alice glumly commanded to the inside of the truck.
"It seems that we have just received a new addition to the Central Park Zoo, Skipper." Kowalski claimed.
"Yay! A new animal friend!" Private, another penguin shorter than Skipper, happily exclaims while another penguin, Rico, was grunting happily, possibly agreeing what Private said. This caused Skipper to slap the two.
"Suck it up, Cupcakes." Skipper scolds them and then stopped to think, "Wow. I'm beginning to sound just like my former old role model, Buck Rockgut." He stopped to look back at Rico and Private and cleared his throat.
"Anyway, this is a highly dangerous mission." He began to talk, "We don't know what monstrosity we're about to come beak-to-beak this time. It could be a shark, a snapping turtle, or even a water badger."
"No!" Private cried to the mentioning of the word "badger" while Rico made a disagreeing grunting noise.
"Yes Rico, there are no such thing as 'water badgers', but we can't be too sure." Skipper replied.
Skipper, Kowalski, Rico and Private were a secret penguin military group. They may look like innocent, adorable flightless "wittle birdies", but in reality, they were trained birds of prey performing various military-like activities, such as spying on the delivery truck.
"I'm getting an image of our new arrival." Kowalski said as he made adjustments in order to get a close look at the new zoo animal.
The animal quickly dove into its new habitat but the cameras connecting to the HQ monitors were able to capture the action.
"Got it." Kowalski said. He began making a few more adjustments, "Now I just have to magnify the image, increase the screen resolution and…" He stammered as he gasped in surprise.
"What? What is it? Is it a shark? A snapping turtle? A, a, a water badger?" Private asked worriedly.
"No. It's worst." Kowalski replied, he was still fearfully gazing at the monitor as it slowly replayed the scene until an image of an animal can be clearly seen, "it's, it's, it's…"
Author's Note:
Who's this new animal? Why did Kowalski look shocked upon seeing the animal? There's only one animal who would give him that kind of reaction, and it's...