Morning came too fast, Sam thought as heard the shuffle of feet on the cement floor. Sam yawned as she slid out of her sleeping quarter and gave Skipper a good morning wave as he continued to drink his cup of coffee with a fish in it. Sam waddled over to the work table and stood across from Skipper. Suddenly, the two of them heard a couple of loud bangs and booms coming from Kowalski's lab. Skipper and Sam looked at each other then the two of them walked to the lab's door.
"Kowalski, are you okay in there?" Sam's voice echoed through the lab door.
"Yes, I am fine." Kowalski mumbled as he opened the door to the lab.
"You sure Kowalski, you sound a bit frustrated." Sam argued.
"I am just flustered about my new invention, that's all." Kowalski confessed to Skipper and Sam.
"What are you making, Kowalski?" Skipper responded quickly.
"Teleporting wrist watches, if I could get them working." Kowalski grumbled.
"Exactly, what would we need Teleporting Wrist Watches for?" Skipper insisted to Kowalski.
"We might need them for quick retreat from our foes." Kowalski replied.
"The teleporting wrist watches sound cool, but how will they work?" Sam inquired to Kowalski.
"I haven't figured that part out yet." Kowalski sighed.
"You want me to help you with your new invention?" Sam asked Kowalski as Private climbed down the ladder in the HQ from the fishbowl entrance.
"Morning Private, where have you been?" Skipper uttered.
Private made no reply to Skipper's greeting, but continued to stare at Sam. Then all of the sudden, Private flung himself toward Sam and tackled her to the ground. Sam and Private wrestled and rolled on the ground of the HQ while Skipper and Kowalski watched in utter shock. After several minutes of wrestling, Sam had Private pinned to floor as she stared at his face with a livid expression on hers.
"What's wrong with you, Private!" Sam shouted at him as she kept him pinned to the floor.
"Must bring the penguin Sam to the baboons." Private announced in a tone that sounded as if he were possessed.
"What... uh Skipper, Kowalski, you might want to see this." Sam stammered as she looked at Private's eyes.
"Will this discovery help us figure out why Private went crazy and attacked you, Sam?" Skipper asked her as Kowalski and himself came over to where Sam had Private pinned to the ground.
"There is a good possibility." Sam answered as Skipper and Kowalski stood beside her as she continued to keep Private pinned to the floor.
"I know we need to find out what is wrong with Private, but are we going to keep him still?" Kowalski pondered as he watched Private start to struggle, trying to get out of Sam's grasp.
"I think I will have to freeze him to the floor." Sam speculated as she tried to keep her hold on Private.
"That's insane!" Kowalski and Skipper screamed at Sam in unison.
"I know it's insane, but is there really any other way to keep Private from attacking any of us." Sam barked at Skipper and Kowalski.
"She's right, in this state, we couldn't hold Private back." Skipper murmured as he watched Sam starting to have difficulty at keeping Private in her grasp.
"Sorry I have to do this, Private." Sam whispered as snowy mist came out of her hands that froze Private up to his neck.
"Nice work!" Skipper chuckled in disbelief as he looked down at Private frozen to the floor of the HQ.
"Thanks!" Sam exclaimed, barely noticing Kowalski examining Private.
"Great Gatsby, Private's eyes have mysteriously turned ruby red!" Kowalski shouted as Skipper and Sam looked down at Private.
"Looks like Private has the eyes of a robot!" Skipper gasped as he stared at Private's eyes.
"I think he is under mind control." Sam replied as she turned her head to Kowalski and Skipper.
"That's a crazy theory!" Skipper laughed.
"Sam's theory is crazy, but true." Kowalski muttered as he finished examining Private's eyes.
"Hold on, where is Rico at?" Sam yelled suddenly.
"Outside swimming, why?" Skipper answered.
"You're not thinking, oh no!" Skipper and Kowalski shouted.
Sam, Skipper, and Kowalski dashed toward the ladder that led up to the fishbowl hatch. The three of them found Rico sitting at the edge of the pool and made sighs of relief because Rico did not look different or changed in any way. But suddenly, Rico turned his head toward them and they stared in horror as they saw Rico's eyes were red like Private's. Without warning, Rico launched himself at Sam and pinned her down to the ground with a hard slam. Instantly, Skipper and Kowalski ran over to pull Rico off of Sam and keep him from attacking her any farther.
"Thanks." Sam huffed as she tried to catch her breath.
"No problem." Skipper and Kowalski grunted as they continued to hold Rico back from attacking Sam.
"Well, isn't that a surprise." A voice replied as the penguins whipped their heads around toward the direction of the voice.
"A penguin that would not hurt any of his friends usually is now." Darla smirked at Rico and then faced Sam, whose feathers were ruffled.
"What have you done to Rico and Private, baboon!" Skipper growled as he narrowed his brows in anger.
"You penguins still think magic does not exist, don't you?" Candace snickered as she and Lily came to stand on either side of Darla.
"Not as much as you think." Skipper snapped at Candace.
"At least, not anymore." Kowalski admitted in a whisper.
"We believe that certain types of magic exist in the world." Skipper groaned in anger.
"Ah, certain types of magic, which are what kinds exactly?" Darla urged Skipper to reveal in a sweet voice.
"Maybe, we don't want to tell you!" Skipper declared.
"Fine, then, we will have to do this!" Darla said as she, Lily, and Candace shot magenta colored beams of magic at Sam, Kowalski, and Skipper.
The beam blinded Sam for a second and when she opened her eyes she saw Skipper and Kowalski collapsed on top of the HQ in front of her. Sam quickly waddled over to Skipper and Kowalski to if they were alright when something grabbed her foot and threw her. Sam landed hard on her stomach right at the edge of the pool, she stumbled as she started to stand and looking straight in front of her to see Skipper, Rico, and Kowalski charging at her. Thinking on her instincts, Sam cast puff of air out of her left palm and let a light mist surround her and in an instant, Sam was invisible to the animals around her. Sam grinned as she stared at the gaping mouths of Darla, Candace, and Lily; while Skipper, Rico, and Kowalski just stood in front of her looking confused and waiting for Darla's orders.
"She just disappeared!" Lily cried in shock.
"Do you think she teleported to another part of the zoo?" Candace asked Darla.
"Maybe, but she will not escape us, since the whole zoo is under our control now!" Darla grinned evilly.
"YOU HEAR THAT PENGUIN, WE HAVE CONTROL OVER EVERY ANIMAL IN THE ZOO AND WE WILL FIND YOU!" Lily shouted to the skies.
"We don't have control over King stupid, his grump of a servant, and the big eyed mouse." Candace reminded Lily.
"Let's get them next!" Lily squeaked with excitement.
"We don't need those dumb lemurs to get a penguin." Darla grumbled to Lily and Candace. "And besides, Sam being the heroine she is, she will come to us." Darla stated.
Sam waited until the baboons left with Skipper, Kowalski, and Rico to return to the baboon habitat. Once she knew that they were out of sight, Sam slumped to the fishbowl hatch in defeat and utter confusion. Sliding down the ladder, Sam jumped into the second bunk hole from the floor and shut her eyes to think of plan for herself in order to save the zoo. Suddenly, Sam heard a shuffle near the floor and saw Private still lying frozen on the floor. Sam started to drift off as curled up in her bunk hole and closed her eyes, going completely unaware of her surroundings.