*Evil laughs* Sorry about that, but it fits in perfectly with this story! I want to thank Kowalskiluva11, AmaraBellaGirl, and Skoolgrl09 for the idea. Marshal steals Skipper's log and …. I think you know where this is going. I'll give you a hint if you don't. SKILENE!
BTW: Phil taught the other animals to read and write. I didn't want to confuse anyone, because there will be reading and writing in this story.
Yeah, this used to be part of one of my other stories, but I wanted to edit it and put it up as a whole new one! This should be better though!
"Here's my dad's diary." Marshal said handing a gray tape recorder with several buttons on it to Eggy and Peanut at the duck habitat. The two boys starred at it funny. They sat down in their little club house, which was an abandoned hot dog cart that was always empty for some reason.
"Dude, that's not a diary. That's a tape recorder!" Peanuts said waving the box in front or Marshal's beak. "A diary is a book that you write in." he said with his voice making a small echo in the metal food cart.
"I think your dad's on to us." Eggy said looking around to see if Skipper would pop out and go Jackie Chan on them. He could just see it now, one minute they're enjoying a nice evil scheme, then Skipper pops up in tights saying "no need to fear! The grounder is here! You're grounded!"
Marshal chuckled and pressed a button on the tape recorder. "Skipper's log" he pressed it again to make it stop. "Before the chimps taught the others how to read, my dad used this thing as a journal."
"Cool" Eggy said relieved that his dad won't pop out like a monster in a scary movie.
"Here's my favorite part." Marshal said pressing a button. "I've fallen hopelessly in love with Marlene." He pressed a button to make it stop. (I did get that from Esperata's story "Skipper's Log)
Peanut starred at the tape recorder shocked. "Your dad does like my mom! Oh, next time we get in trouble, I so call dibs on cleaning the H.Q." he said pointing at the device with a happy look on his face.
Marshal chuckled. "Sure, but I'm pretty sure I found all the good hiding places. I one time did tell my dad that since he's not my real dad, he shouldn't give me harsh punishments, but that only made me clean it for four weeks!"
Eggy smiled until his little orange bill reached the sides of his yellow feathered head. "Guys this really is a plan. We could bring them together!" he said excitedly.
Marshal and Peanut smiled at the thought of them being brothers. "Yeah" they both said at the same time lost in their thoughts.
"But first things first" Eggy said facing Peanut breaking the two out of their trance. "We have to figure out if you mom likes Marshal's dad back."
Peanut smiled a little devil smile. "I know just how to do that."
The next day . . . . . . . . . . . . .
"Hey mom?" Peanut asked as Marlene was cleaning the cave. She was dusting the sides of the walls along with her beacball collection.
"Yeah Peanut" she said not taking her eyes off of the feathery duster she was using to clean the walls with.
"Do you….um….I don't know, like anybody?" Peanut stammered trying to sound like he wasn't up to something.
Marlene dropped her duster from shock, which caused a bunch of dust to fly in the air and made both the otters start coughing. "What?" she asked as she faced her son with a shocked expression.
"Do you have a crush on anybody?" he asked more clearly now.
"A crush? Who said I have a crush? Cause I don't. I don't have a crush!" she stammered with a nervous laugh between the words.
Peanut smiled. "Who is he?" he said crossing his arms around his little creamy white chest. He had a feeling it was Skipper.
Marlene blushed, but luckily it was blocked by her fur. "Listen Peanut" she said as she knelt down on her knees to put her black paws on his little shoulders. "That's a little personal. Don't you think?"
Peanut sighed accepting defeat and looked down on the ground and his little black paws. "I know, I just thought that he could be my future dad or something." He said before looking up at his mom with one of his big blue eyes.
Marlene blushed at the thought of her and Skipper getting married, but it also made her feel good on the inside. It was like a tingly feeling or butterflies. What am I thinking? He's a military leader, so he doesn't have time for that. Right? Marlene thought to herself. She came back to reality noticing she still had Peanut's shoulders in her arms. "Right, so why don't you go see if your friends can play?" she asked taking her paws off him.
Peanut shrugged. "Okay, bye mom." He said before heading out the cave door. To tell them I know you like. He thought, cause he sure wasn't going to say that out loud!
"Hey, no pranks!" Marlene said a little sternly pointing her finger at him.
Peanut laughed, but he didn't turn around from the exit to see it. "I'll try" then he was out the cave.
"Goodness gracious, where does he get this stuff?" Marlene whispered to herself before going back to cleaning, but she still couldn't get Skipper out of her mind. His charm, his looks, or even that smirk of his!
Later that day. . . . . . . .
"And then I left the scene." Peanut finished.
"So she does like my dad?" Marshal asked after he explained the story to him and Eggy a few minutes after the scene in the cave.
"Well…she likes someone." Peanut said with an innocent smile. "I wouldn't be surprised if it was Skipper though."
Marshal sighed thinking that this wasn't going anywhere. "Well, let's just find out."
The three friends went through different ideas.
"How about we use love potion number 37?" Marshal asked as he lay on the grass at the duck habitat with his flipper's behind his down feathered head. His blue eyes starred up at the clouds, hoping an idea would just hit him.
Peanut, who was lying down too, shook his head causing the fur on his arms to tangle up a little bit. "Nah, they do like each other, but they just won't admit it. Why's love so frustrating? I mean, seriously, if you dad, like, went over to our cave and screamed I love you, my mom would probably still love him."
Eggy chuckled lying down on the soft grass like his buddies. "Yeah, it's as if girls need boys to sweep them off their feet. I mean, come on! Boys should be able to have a life! If I had a girlfriend," he shuddered at the thought. Come on, he's a little boy. "I wouldn't make her spend all her time on me."
"How about we give my mom Skipper's log?" Peanut asked.
"Yeah, but then my dad would know we snatched his log, and feed us to the sewer gators." Marshal said.
Eggy sighed. "I'll take a crack at an idea. How about love letters?"
Marshal and Peanut sat up in a second. "Heeeey!" they said with a small smile.
Eggy sat up too, but slower. "Whaaaat?" he asked facing his friends.
Marshal faced his yellow feathered trouble maker. "Love letters! It's sweet, and our parents wouldn't know if they sent it or not!" he said getting excited.
"This will be great!" Peanut said accepting the new idea. He faced Eggy. "Good job dude! I think living with two sisters isn't so bad after all!"
"Yeah, but where are we going to get the words? We can't write love letters." Eggy said knowing that their letters won't be believable. "If we're going to pull one on Mr. Skipper, we've got to be thinking outside of the box. And by that, I mean the Skipper's log." He said pointing to the recorder that was lying down between the three.
Marshal smiled a devil smile too. "I know where to get the words."
At the H.Q. . . . . . .
"Marshal, why would you want to know what a boy should say to a girl?" Elli asked after Marshal asked in front of the T.V. while their dads were out.
Marshal blushed and looked away. "Let's just say it involves my dad."
Elli smiled when Marshal blushed, but she was still confused. "Well, a boy should compliment a girl and tell her he can't imagine life without her. Use nice words and maybe set up a small get together. Like a date." Her little British voice spoke out.
Marshal smiled and gave her high-five. "Elli, did I ever tell you I love you?"
Elli's brown eyes must have gotten 3 times bigger with a blush that came to them and Marshal covered his beak with a large blush as well. "I-I mean like a sister." He stammered taking his flippers off of his beak.
"No not really." Elli said shaking her head with her eyes still widened.
"Okay. Well bye." Marshal said after an awkward silence. I love you? What the heck was that? He thought to himself as he jumped out the H.Q. leaving a still stunned Elli sitting there.
Marshal then went back to the duck habitat and began to write a letter with the others. It said:
Dear Marlene,
I just wanted you to know that I've fallen hopelessly in love with you. I think you're the prettiest and smartest gal in the zoo, no, New York. I can't imagine my life without you and if you feel the same way, please tell me in person.
You're awesome. Love (I hope),
Skipper
P.S don't tell me about the letter. I just want to know if you feel the same way.
"Short, sweet, and to the point" Marshal said looking down at the note they just wrote with a satisfying smile.
"Yeah, so do we send it to her now?" Peanut asked scanning the letter as well.
Marshal thought for a moment. "I guess it wouldn't hurt to give it to her now. Elli said that it wouldn't be a bad idea for a date to be arranged too."
Peanut nodded and headed home. "Operation love letter is a go." He whispered as he clutched the fake love letter in his paws. I just hope this works.
At the otter's cave. . . . . . . .
Peanut looked around the cave and saw his mom resting on the rocks. "Uh, hey mom." He said with a small wave. He held up the letter. "This is for you."
Marlene walked up to her son and picked up the letter. Her smile widened the further she read the letter, but then she frowned. "Don't tell me about the letter?" she repeated confused. "Why would he not want me to tell him about the letter?"
Snap! Think Peanut, she's onto me! He thought to himself. "Um, mom" Peanut said trying to get her attention. "What's the letter about?"
Marlene closed her eyes and got lost in her thoughts with a smile.
She was standing in a church wearing a beautiful white gown. She was at her wedding!
"Marlene" Maurice said standing infront of her and Skipper. "Do you take Skipper to be your lawfully wedded husband for as long as you both shall live?" he asked looking up at the dressed up otter.
"I do!" Marlene said she held a bouquet of pretty red roses in her paws.
Maurice turned towards Skipper. "Skipper, do you take Marlene to be your lawfully wedded wife for as long as you both shall live?" he asked.
Skipper turned to Marlene with his usual calm and sly smirk; he wore a small black bowtie and grabbed one of her paws.
She smiled waiting for him to say "I do"
He opened his beak, but Peanut's voice came out. "Mom?"
"What the-"Marlene said confused.
"Mooom!" Skipper said.
Peanut shook his mom's shoulders. "Mom, wake up!" he placed his little black paws one Marlene's brown fur. "Mother? Mommy? Mum? Ma? Mam? Mrs.? Ms? Oh for Pete's sake! MOM, SNAP OUT OF IT!" he hollered in her ear.
"Skipper, why are you calling me mom?" she asked with her eyes still closed. "I'm supposed to be your wife not your mother! Why, Skipper? Why?" Then, she snapped out of it to see her son shaking her like a gorilla and the bars of a cage.
"Mom, what's the letter about?" Peanut repeated with his paws on her shoulders now. "Oh and why are you trying to give me a heart attack?" he hollered clutching his chest. "I thought you were going to die or something!"
Marlene smiled. "Oh, it's just a note from Marshal's dad." She twirled around once while she hugged the letter like a small teddy bear. "Now, I'm going to go over to the penguin's H.Q." she said before walking over there, but she felt like she was floating.
"Wow, it worked!" Peanut said then he lay back on his bed with a confused look in his big blue eyes "Your wife not your mother?" he repeated. He shrugged.
At the H.Q. . . . . . .
"Marshal, why are you looking out the telescope? Didn't you want to watch that new T.V. series with the others?" Skipper asked gesturing his flippers to the T.V. where everyone was lying in front of as a professional biker flew over two flaming hoops and doing a flip while he rode over them.
Kowalski's eye widened at the screen where the man was given a trophy. "That looks…"
"Impossible" Athena said shaking her head. "There's no way he could've jumped over that."
"Kaboom!" Buttons and Rico said looking at the flaming hoops with interest.
"Scary" Elli said shuddering at the thought of jumping over two hoops that were on fire.
"Dangerous" Private said.
"I guess it could be all that." Kowalski said as the human removed its helmet on the screen revealing his messy brown hair and green eyes on his freckled face.
"Wha-How come it's always guys? Girls could do that if she wanted! Where do the girls come in?" Athena asked. She looked at the screen, but looked away. "Oh come on!" she said as a couple of girls in bikinis ran up to the guy. "Why? I mean it's just wrong!"
Elli's eyes widened at the pretty girls. "Well, that outfit's a little…"
"Revealing" Athena said noticing their tiny and tight outfits.
"No, it's just little." Elli said quickly before they did the whole finishing her sentence thing again.
Marshal sighed. "I'm watching out for someone-here she comes!" he exclaimed with an excited smile on his face.
"Who?" Skipper asked waddling towards Marshal.
"Marlene" he answered not taking his eyes off of the lens. Oh boy, she's probably gonna expect him to know she's coming! Hurry Marshal! Think, think, think! He thought to himself. He faced his dad. "Dad, Marlene's coming over! Don't you want to look nice?"
This got Skipper confused. "Why would I fancy myself up for another one of Marlene's visits? She comes by here every day." Marshal then jumped onto his chest and knocked him down. "Good pounce there solider. Now get off of me!" he ordered.
Marshal pulled his dad's face to his to see him straight in the eye. "May I remind you a lady is coming over? You're always s'posed to look nice for girls!" Then his dad's odor reached his nose. "Dad, did you train! You reek!"
Athena, Kowalski, Private, Elli, Rico, and Buttons looked away from the screen to watch Skipper and Marshal. "This is so much better than that T.V. show." Athena said before popping some popcorn in her beak.
"Marshal, what are you doing?" Elli asked Marshal, who was getting something from their toy box. He then pulled out his favorite squirt gun. Not only is it guaranteed to hit its target, it's pretty and colorful.
"Hey mister, you had that think confiscated last week!" Skipper said putting his flippers on his sides. He then frowned and backed away from Marshal, who was aiming the gun at him! "What are you doing?"
Marshal closed one eye that way he could get the best aim. "Sorry pop, but unless you can take a two second shower, I have no choice." He then pressed the red trigger which made a blast of cold water hit his dad.
Athena covered her beak both in shock and trying not to laugh at the scene in front of her. Even the others were laughing, or trying not to laugh. Buttons and Elli were rolling on the floor laughing their heads off as soon as the first drop seemed to his Skipper.
"Sweet Sardine Sweat, what are you up to!" Skipper asked holding his flippers in front of him, but it didn't block him from the water and he was dripping like a rain cloud in a few seconds. He glared at Marshal, who only shrugged and mouthed sorry.
Outside the H.Q. . . . . . . .
Marlene giggled like a giddy five year old girl as she walked towards the penguins' habitat. She was halfway there when she started thinking. Don't tell me about the letter? You're aweseome? Since when does Skipper say that? It sounds more like something… she gasped. "Peanut!" she felt embarrassed, but then she got a little angry, but strangely she laughed. "Oh no, grounding won't work this time. I've got a little idea of my own." She said before walking towards the H.Q. with a devil smile of her own on her face.
Oh boy! Marlene found out! What's her little devil scheme? Find out in the next chapter! See, isn't this a little better? Don't worry Skilene fans! There will be a date! LOL and it's funny!
Very Important Note: This takes Place After Father's Day!
Also, I noticed that when I typed in the sign's message, it was supposed to cross out Father's, but it didn't. So, just thought you'd want to know. See ya! :D
And also, I don't own Bop to the top from the last chapter!