Yeah, this is a cute story and I got the idea from Stargazer128, who wrote a part of this series called Bad Grades, so go check it out when ya can. Part of Little Zoo Series!

I don't own the Penguins of Madagascar.

Marshal handed his dad and his uncles a pair of ear muffs for each of them. "Yep, Prince J.J. said King Julien's gonna throw a big party tonight." He said trying to keep back a snort as his tiny flippers handed them the blue and black spotted ear muffs. "I'd put these on if I were you."

"Thanks Marshal!" Private exclaimed putting them on his head, but Skipper got a little suspicious. Private went to head off to bed, but Skipper's flipper stopped him before he could climb into their stone bunks.

"And when did you start caring about our slumber on Ringtail's parties?" he asked giving his son a small look that said he wasn't buying it.

Marshal opened his beak offended. "Wha, oh come on! Do you think I'd really pull a prank on you guys while you were sleeping and the ear muffs are on your heads to keep you from hearing me?"

Marshal's answer was four ear muffs tossed back to him. "Guess so." Skipper said turning to their bunks.

"Dad" Marshal said with a small laugh getting their attention. "I swear on the penguin credo that these earmuffs aren't to keep you from hearing anything." He said putting his small flipper on his chest making it blend in with this down feathers. "Promise." He said with a small smile looking up at them.

Skipper sighed and put the pair earmuffs on his head. "Okay, I trust you word son, so let's not turn this into a boy who cried wolf situation." He said with a warning look before climbing into his bunk.

Athena, Elli, and Buttons waddled in and saw their dad's sleeping with earmuffs on. "Marshal, why are our dads wearing earmuffs?" Athena asked cocking a brow at him and pointing to their dad's bunks.

Marshal smiled. "Wait for it." He said with his trouble grin.

"Ahh!" the adult penguins shouted as a blast of loud rock n' roll music blasted out of their earmuffs and into their ears. Each of them ripped them off and flung them across the H.Q. before giving Marshal a death glare. "MARSHAL!" They shouted getting up and walking to him with their flippers on their sides in an angry manner.

"Could someone explain what just happened?" Elli asked confused.

Marshal rolled on the floor with laughter. "Headphones!" he said between laughs still on the concrete. "They're really headphones! Man, I told Eggy and Peanut that this was a good idea, no one saw it coming!"

"Marshal, what am I gonna do with you?" Skipper asked shaking his head and rolling his eyes with his flippers still in on his sides.

Rico hacked up a red and lit stick dynamite with an angry look on his face from Marshal's prank. "KABLAMO!" He shouted.

"Let's not put lethal force into this. All it needs is a little parental talking to." He said giving a look to Marshal, who was sitting up now. "Don't think I haven't thought about it though."

Marshal shrugged. "It's just a prank." He said in an innocent tone with a cute smile.

Skipper sighed and picked up his son so he was in his flippers. "What is this, the fourth lecture this week?" he asked as he carried him into another part of the H.Q.

"Third, I think you're mixing it up with last week." Marshal answered. He looked up at his dad with sad blue eyes. "Do I need another lecture?"

"No"

"huh?"

"WHAT?!?!" all the other penguins shouted watching the two.

Skipper sat down on a stone chair and placed Marshal on his lap like a dad would do. "You like challenges right?" he asked.

Marshal looked up and thought for a minute with a thinking look on his face tapping his flipper to his beak, but he smiled and had his trouble grin on as he nodded his head when his head was back down and facing his dad. "Yep, I'm the king of dares and challenges!" he exclaimed proudly. "Oh, and don't forget pranks."

"Because no one with a brain would touch their tongue to the green substance in the toilet" Athena said rolling her brown eyes and crossing her flippers when he mentioned his dare title.

"Yuck" Buttons grunted out sticking hit tongue out in a sick manner.

"Anyways, since you like challenges, how about we make a deal?" Skipper asked.

"You have my attention, but what's the catch?" Marshal asked.

"I dare and challenge you to go not pull one prank for three weeks." Skipper said.

"And, if I take this challenge, what are my advantages?" Marshal asked getting more and more interested in this.

"If you win, then I'll do your chores for a week." Skipper said.

Everyone's beaks dropped open. "Whoa" Rico said.

"Okay, but what about you? I mean, I've got to have some motivation in this. Three weeks without pranking? I'd die!" Marshal overly dramatically said. He fake coughed. "I'm getting sick just thinking about it!"

"Fine, I'll stop doing something for three weeks." Skipper said thinking he already won. What does he have that he can't live without for three weeks?

Marshal smiled. "Deal, but I'll have to think of something." He tapped his beak and looked around the H.Q. Think! What can my dad not live without for three weeks? He scanned the area and saw a piece of dynamite. Maybe, if this was Rico or Buttons, Clip board? Nah, Uncle Kowalski, Come on dude, a week without chores! He thought harder and harder, then after a few moments he snapped. "I've got it!"

"What?" Skipper asked.

"Every day when I'm getting ready for school, I see you with that fish coffee." He said, making Skipper frown. "Three weeks, my dad!"

"Skipper, can I talk to you for a minute?" Kowalski said dragging Skipper over to him, Private, and Rico. "Skipper, have you gone mad?" he yelled in a whisper to his leader. "If you take this challenge, not only will you go crazy, but you being tired in the morning will make you grumpy and that will affect us! I can barely stand the normal you already-oh" the intelligent penguin said realizing that he said too much.

Skipper narrowed his blue eyes at him. "Listen Solider, I don't give up a challenge, so maybe I'll have to find a way to wake up in the morning, but I will not do my son's chores for a week, I'll tell you that right now! Besides, the boy loves to pull his pranks, he won't last a day." he said poking a very scared Kowalski in the chest. He turned around to his son. "Okay deal." He said shaking his flipper as if he were a grown up.

Marshal smiled, but then he frowned. "Can this start tomorrow?" he asked.

"Why?" Skipper asked.

Just then they heard a big boom behind them and when the smoke cleared, three paint covered penguin soon recognized at Athena, Elli, and Buttons. "MARSHAL!" the three shouted glaring at him.

Marshal snorted. "Surprise!" he said waving his flippers in the air, but he frowned and ran when the three started to chase him around the H.Q. "It was a Joke! Come on!" he shouted fleeing for his life.

The four penguins watched their kids run around the H.Q. "Should we stop them Skippa?" Private asked.

Skipper yawned. "Night men, if I'm gonna get operation, three weeks up to a good start, I'm gonna need all the shut eye I can get." He said before climbing into his bunk for the night.

"Guess not." Private said before jumping into his bed.

Well, there ya have it! See what happens when Skipper and Marshal take in their new challenges in the next chapter!

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