Its been around six months since the girls came back to New York. Not much has changed since then. Julien was still having parties with his favorite penguin, Madison. Marlene is still coming in and out from thin air, much to Skipper and Amber's annoyance. And of course that monthly vet check ups, which always seemed to scar the vet each time. Madison's wound had also healed over, so it wasn't a problem anymore.
The penguins were happily doing the cute and cuddly routine. Amber and Sara were currently smiling and waving to the visitors.
"Big crowd today, huh?" Amber said to Sara. She didn't like it.
"Do they think we're expecting an egg or something?" Sara inquired, which made Amber laugh. Like that would ever happen!
"Fish?" Rico offered a fish to Madison. She happily accepted it and back flipped into the water, purposely splashing Rico to make him give into chasing. Rico smiled deviously and jumped in after her. The two penguins quickly swam past Skipper and Private.
Private surfaced from the water and smiled up at Sara while Skipper floated on by, relaxed for once.
"The water feels really good today," Private said happily to Sara. "You have to try it!"
Sara smiled at him and decided to comply. She then flipped into the water, splashing the young penguin. Private laughed happily and splashed Sara when she came back up, which she returned with her giggles. After a while they stopped and swam next to each other, calm and peaceful. "I wish all days were like this," Private sighed, content.
"Hey Kowalski," Flora spoke up from the edge of the concrete island. Kowalski swam to her and awaited her to finish. "What do you think about making a weather machine?"
Kowalski pondered this for a moment and smirked. "No more cold winter days. I like it!"
Flora clapped merrily before getting serious again. "We are going to need a lot of material," she said grudgingly.
"I know where we can get some," Kowalski told her, jumped onto the concrete island, and shook his feathers free of water.
Flora giggled when it got onto her feathers but she simply brushed it away while asking, "Where?"
"The hardware store," Kowalski answered and looked at Flora fondly, the water sparkling on her feathers.
"What about an electrical outlet store?" Flora suggested.
"Either is fine," Kowalski admitted.
"Places!" Skipper suddenly shouted to the other penguins from the floe. They all immediately got into place on the floe if they weren't there already, and started shaking their tail feathers at the audience. "And…stop," Skipper ordered. They faced the audience again and started smiling and waving for the final time.
The bell to the zoo rung promptly, signaling the closing of the zoo. Alice ushered the visitors out quickly and soon left afterwards, happy to be on her way home.
"Well I guess-" Amber started but stopped when Marlene flipped into their habitat.
"Guys! There is some weird guy looking around here. He's coming this way!" Marlene informed them.
"You need to get out of here Marlene. We'll handle this," Skipper said with reassurance and waved her off for her own good.
Marlene nodded briskly and quickly went out of the habitat before she was spotted.
Just like Marlene had said, there was a weird man there. The penguins eyed him suspiciously. His face wasn't visible because of a large hat covering it. He wore a long trench coat and had black pants, signs of mystery. He looked rather bulged at some parts, like his arms that gave him a muscled look. The rest of him was covered up, except for his pale hands and dark black shoes. The man just watched the penguins for a long period of time. It was strange. What was he doing here? The zoo was closed, so how did he get in?
"Maybe we should show him out," Amber growled and folded her flippers behind her back with a menacing glare on her features. With that said, the man walked away and hurtled over the zoo walls, which shocked the penguins. "That is not normal."
The man threw the coat off and revealed three stacked lobsters, one holding two fake hands.
The lobster on top pulled out a cell phone and struggled to dial a number. "Why did doc make us use cell phones?"
"I dunno," the two lobsters replied together and shrugged, briefly loosing their balance that way, making the lobster on top shout at them. "Sorry."
The leading lobster rolled his eyes and continued to struggle with the phone. After a minute or two, the lobster finally got the number and spoke into the phone. "Yeah doc, they're still there. Yeah, I have no idea how the monitors broke down." The lobster looked down accusingly at the bottom one.
"What? A lobster needs his coffee," the bottom one grumbled.
The top lobster rolled his eyes but listened to the voice on the other end. "I don't think they'll be leaving anytime soon. Of course doc. What? Why do we have to do all the dirty work? Alright, alright. We'll do it tomorrow, those penguins are suspicious. Alright, see ya boss." The lobster hung up on the phone. "We strike tomorrow. Now let's go, I remember seeing a bar somewhere around here."
"That guy was suspicious. What do you think he wanted?" Amber asked Skipper. They had all gone back down into the HQ after he left and immediately went about discussing the stranger. It was obvious that it was a sketchy character.
Skipper looked around with paranoia edging his every move. "He could have been a spy."
"You're just being paranoid," Sara sighed. "Not everyone is a spy!"
Private looked at them with innocence. "Maybe he just wanted to see us?" he suggested hopefully, though it didn't seem likely.
"When the zoo was closed?" Kowalski piped in.
"I don't even remember seeing him come into the zoo," Flora added.
"So what are we going to do then? The situation is far too suspicious and sketchy to just forget about it."
"Kaboom!" Rico exclaimed with a stick of lit dynamite that Skipper promptly blew the fuse out.
"No Rico. We're going to avoid explosions. We can't have people seeing that mess." Skipper rolled his eyes.
"Aw…" Rico moaned. Madison patted his back comfortingly.
"We should keep a look out. You never know when something will pop out and take you out!" Skipper exclaimed in his usual paranoia driven world.
"Words to live by." Amber smirked. "I'll see you all later. I'm going to hang around the clock tower to look out for any suspicious activity." She then jumped out of the HQ without waiting for a response.
Amber flipped over the fence and made her way to the tower at the gate. She jumped against walls so she could propel herself upwards. She landed on top and surveyed her surroundings. There was no sign of that mysterious man, much to her disappointment. Amber flinched and turned around when she heard three thumps behind her. She smirked when she saw her team.
"You know you'll have to tell them eventually." Flora crossed her flippers over her chest.
Amber frowned. "We would tell them. They still don't need to know. It's our business anyway," she growled.
"But Amber, our families are dead. Why shouldn't we tell them?" Sara inquired with sadness in her eyes.
"If we tell them then it will complicate our operations. They might even think were using them," Amber replied, as if it were obvious.
Flora took a step forward. "Aren't we kind of already doing that?" she asked hesitantly. Amber rubbed her temple and waved her off. "We're not telling them and that's final. Go back to HQ. I'm going to keep a look out for that human."
The girls reluctantly saluted and jumped off the clock tower. Amber turned back to the Central Park view and sighed. Why is everything so complicated?
Revenge! Amazing how interesting it is. It's the beginning of a new story and hopefully it won't suck. This was more like a filler chapter. It's still the beginning of a new adventure!
Amber: Adventures are cool.
Me: We finally agree on something!
Kowalski: What about hating Julien?
Me: Oh and that too.