Author's Note: I hope you all enjoy this chapter, despite its short-ness. If anyone seems out of character, tell me. Remember to review! I need you to tell me what you like, and what I need to improve on so I can make the story better. Well, enough of that! Time for the story, right about..... *pauses* NOW!

Kyle, getting a shovel from the warehouse to clean out the elephant dung noticed Rai watching the penguins.

"Shouldn't you be working?" He asked, wondering what was so fascinating.

"I'm making sure the new penguins adapt well to their environment, and that the others don't cause a fight. Animals are unpredictable, and you know that." She responded plainly.

"They'll be fine." He assured her.

"Do the math, Kyle: four male penguins, two new organisms, one territory. There's going to be a fight, I know it!"

"Are there any last minute adjustments we need for the welcome party?" Private asked, taking a final look around.

"Everything seems to be in order." Kowalski replied, comparing the perimeter with his plans, check list, and final sketch of the den's interior.

Rico was making final adjustments to the two newly carved-in bunks. Rico's amazing abilities with knives and explosives come in handy, even when the team wasn't on a mission. With his head held high and pride in his work, he jumped down from the bunks to join the other three penguins.

"Excellent work, boys. Though I can't help the feeling something's missing…" Skipper said. It was impossible, since everyone made sure they did their jobs, and did them right. "Never mind. Let's give these guys a New York welcome." He said, making his way upstairs. Skipper and company was shocked when they noticed that there was a single female penguin where there were originally two. The penguin gave a shy wave as the team cautiously approached her.

"Um… hi?" Skipper greeted, eyes scanning the platform, wondering where the second penguin was.

"BOO!" The soldiers jumped, startled by the second penguin who jumped from behind the first. The two female penguins laughed joyfully, though the eldest one tried resisting for the sake of being polite.

"My apologies," she said, almost inaudibly. Her green eyes avoided any chance of eye contact. "My sister enjoys a good joke every now and again. I hope she didn't startle you too badly."

"That's alright, miss!" Private chirped, happy to finally meet the sisters.

"Not to worry! In fact, we weren't startled at all!" Skipper stated cooly.

The younger of the sisters rolled her eyes, scoffing at Skipper's pride. She then began speaking in a strange language, leaving all remaining penguins, including her sister, clueless.

"Pardon? I didn't catch that." Said Private.

"Carmen is an expert when it comes to languages," The elder sister said. "I believe that was Greek…" she pondered out loud.

"It was Portuguese." Carmen said, as though it was the most obvious thing in the world.

"See, Rai? You worry too much. They look fine. So are you going to help me with the elephants or what?" Kyle asked, walking towards the elephants. Rai reluctantly followed, still skeptical, but much less worried.

The others were obviously impressed with Carmen's ability. Yet annoyed that they won't be able to understand her whenever she speaks a foreign language. It was already a bit difficult to understand her because she had a very strange accent when she spoke English. Kowalski concluded that this was a result of being able to speak so many languages, most likely since a fairly young age. Carmen wanted to change the subject, speaking something in Spanish about introductions.

"O, right, sorry… I'm Addie." Said the green-eyed penguin.

"I'm Skipper. Allow me to introduce my team. Men, fall in!" Like a well-oiled machine, the penguins shifted from their disorganized grouping into a horizontal line in height order. "State your names and occupations!"

"Private, special operations." Private peeped, giving a salute. The sisters couldn't help but grin at the military life-style the penguins had.

"…'Ey!" Rico smiled and waved with his usual crazy look.

"That's Rico, he's our weapons expert. He doesn't talk much, but he is a vital member of the team." Stated Skipper. After the introduction, Rico also gave a salute.

"Kowalski, tactics expert." And he too gave a salute.

"It's great to meet you all!" Said Carmen warmly. "Yo, Adds, maybe we should have used a military fashion as well!" She said, laughing as she saluted. Addie only smiled at the troops.

"What is this that is ringing my ear?" Asked a heavily accented ring-tailed lemur.

"I knew I forgot something!" Skipper muttered with annoyance.

"Presenting your royal highness, self proclaimed king of the lemurs, etc, etc, King Julian XIII." Exhaled an aye-aye tiredly.

"Hi! I like new neighbors!" Popping in between Private and Addie was a small brown Goodman's Mouse lemur.

"Mort, get away from my new worshippers! You might scare them off with your annoying-ness!" Shouted Julien.

"So who's the squirrel?" Asked Carmen rudely. Julien shot a glare that lasted a second before laughing loudly.

"You silly flightless bird. I am not what you call a 'squirrel'. I am King Julien XIII, king of the lemurs, which I am! Me!" Julien posed majestically, though the penguins appeared unimpressed.

"Hey, Kowalski?" nudged Carmen.

"Yes?"

"We're not in Antarctica anymore, right?" She questioned.

"Affirmative."

"Isn't this America?"

"That it is."

"You guys have a democratic system, right?"

"Correct."

"It's been that way since the end of the Revolutionary war in 1783." Addie added.

"Meaning no kings, and the people vote for their leader?" Carmen continued.

"Yup."

Carmen and Addie put a flipper to their beak, pretending to think.

"Hmmm…. Interesting." They said, staring at Julien, who was ignoring everything they were saying.

"What's that? You began talking a talk about… what's it called again, Maurice?"

"Democracy," answered the aye-aye.

"Ah, yes, democrapee, then I just went out the zone." He said.

"You mean you 'zoned out?" Asked Private.

"Yes! That is the phrase! Thank you, smaller penguin!"

Everyone rolled their eyes except Julien, and Mort, of course.

"I'm rather nervous at the fact there's a 'ruler' at this establishment who does not even know the meaning of the word 'Democracy'. My sincerest apologies, sir, but I'm only being truthful when I say…" Addie took a deep breath before saying what she dared say, "a ruler who knows not of other forms of government is an ignorant ruler, and thus a dangerous ruler." Addie practically peeped this, hoping that no one heard what she had said. Everyone in the group, and those who had the incredible hearing ability to overhear Addie's words gasped, or showed some other sign of shock. Carmen physically exclaimed what the other penguins exclaimed mentally: "Speak the truth! I'm so proud I could cry!" Carmen said dramatically and giving Addie a big hug. Addie on the other hand, had the color combination of black and red; mortified at what she told Julien, who was now steaming with anger. And who can blame him?

"You dare call your king 'ignorant?!" He screeched. Addie flinched. She mentally slapped herself for saying something so stupid out loud. But when it came to what she knew was right, ethically or logically, she was powerless to her natural habit to blurt it out. Skipper, Kowalski, Rico and Private took a fighting stance in front of Addie, in case this turned out to be one of Julien's infamous 'freak-outs'.

"Ignorant and dangerous!" corrected Carmen.

"Carmen!" Addie scolded firmly. With that, Julian's attitude went beyond his steaming point. Before Julien had the chance to say or do anything, tranquilizing darts were shot at him, causing his eyelids to become heavy.

"Mommy? Can I have my milky-milk?" He said dizzily before falling back, unconscious.

"I guess it was a good thing you forgot your shovel…" Kyle said from outside the penguin's habitat. Rai was frozen with the tranquilizing gun in her hand. The only movement she had was from her quivering hand, and her chest bouncing up and down from her 'fight or flight' response (also including running from the habitat to the warehouse for the tranquilizer gun and back). She knew there was going to be a fight, but that display she witnessed was completely unexpected.