Back in New York, Skipper led his team (minus Private) out of the zoo and into an interesting passageway.
"Skipper, we don't know where we are going! According to my cal-" He was silenced with a slap to his face.
"Relax Kowalski," Skipper retorted, "I have contacted someone and I know exactly where we are going." Soon enough, they met up with the someone. Or more like someones.
It was three female penguins, one of them wearing a trenchcoat and bowtie, another with a military jacket with studs on it, and a younger one with a leather cord with only a jadestone charm on it. All three of them had something of a resemblance to Skipper.
"Skippy!" the youngest one ran out to him and tackled-hugged him hard, "I missed you so much! I'm so glad we could visit you!"
"Gah...yeah, I missed you too squirt. Can you stop choking me now?"
"Oops, sorry Skipper, didn't mean to."
"It's alright Nuka. Men, I'd like to introduce you to my distant cousins. Krys, Piper, and Manuka. They're sisters."
"Pleasure to see you again Skip. Piper has been wondering often if she could hang with Rico for some time for some new moves. I've been intrigued to meet Kowalski again. Also his new fiance, I presume?"
Kowalski turned bright tomato, showing through his feathers, "Um...Doris is still my girlfriend at the moment."
"Pity." Krys sighed. "So what do we owe this pleasure of meeting up with you?"
"Private has been kidnapped!" Skipper said holding for a dramatic gasp. "By Jackson King!" They all gasped again, minus the sisters.
"Aw come on! I feel like everyone knows about this guy except for me!" Kowalski complained.
"Skip, I've looked through your record files with your permission and there is no Jackson King as an enemy whatsoever in there." Piper retorted, faceflippering. "You're just being paranoid as hell again, are you."
"I AM NOT!" Skipper yelled in the most paranoid way you could imagine. Manuka rolled her flipper in a circle near her head and pointed at her cousin. "Well, either way we need your help to get him back." Skipper grumbled. The girls looked at each other then back at Skipper.
"Do you know anything about why this 'Jackson King' showed up?" Piper asked.
"Not a single clue," Kowalski shrugged, "All we know is that he left in a private jet and he had two girls with him."
"Well, I think we can read the list of outgoing planes from Kennedy airport and we can start from there" Krys reported.
"Perfect! Oh and I think one of the girls mentioned something about Neverland." Skipper stated.
"Neverland? You mean like Peter Pan? How is that going to help us?" Manuka asked, not seeing a point she really was supposed to see.
~Meanwhile (at Neverland)~
"Maurice, I'm scared..." Private said.
"You don't have to be. I doubt there are any zombies or werecats any more." Maurice teased Private which only made him shake.
"Oh no. I think the penguin is cold!" Maddy exclaimed.
"How does a penguin get cold?" Star asked, confused.
"Maybe he's scared. I mean we did take the poor thing from its home just because Maddy wanted a 'Bubbles'" Michael pointed out.
"Well, Bubbles was a chimp so if we have a penguin we still don't have Bubbles… We should have gotten one of the chimps!" Star exclaimed.
"Star, can you not? What are we doing today?" Maddy asked.
"I think Mac is coming a little later. Maybe we could have a water balloon fight!" Star exclaimed.
"Okay but when Mac comes you have to put Private and Pyro in their home." Michael told them.
"Awww," the girls sighed. However when Mac did come they didn't hesitate to lock their respected pet in the cage to go have a water balloon fight with the child star.
"Private, I want to show you something." Maurice said breaking him and Private out of their cages.
"I'm a little scared, Maurice…or Pyro..." Private said.
"Come on, I think I know the way" Maurice said dragging Private through the petting zoo and into what seemed to be a little store.
"Where are we going?" Private asked. Maurice just laughed.
"You'll see. You'll love this," Maurice turned suddenly and went into a candy shop. "Look, free candy."
"Did you say free candy?" Private asked. Maurice jumped up on the counter and started to eat a lollipop.
"Yeah. The peanutbutter winkies are over there. Go crazy," Maurice winked. Private giggled and ran over to get some peanut butter winkies. He was starting on a box when he felt someone behind him. He turned around and a white tiger was glaring down at him.
"The animals stay in their cages." The tiger growled. Private took a trembling step back.
"Sabu, leave him alone." Another tiger said. This tiger was orange and had a chimpanzee hanging on her neck.
"Yeah Sabu, not every animal has to stay in their cage," the chimp teased.
"I was just scaring him a little," Sabu protested.
"Maybe he's gonna replace us." The orange tiger said.
"Michael would never replace me. I'm his best friend" The chimp said jumping off the tiger. "Hi, I'm Bubbles."
"Wait, you're Bubbles. Like THE Bubbles?" Maurice asked excitedly, coming over to the group.
"Yup, that's me," Bubbles said with a grin. "That's Sabu and this is Thriller."
"I'm Maurice, well Star named my Pyro but you can call me whatever you want. I am such a big fan! Oh yeah, this is Private." Maurice rambled.
"Welcome to Neverland. You're gonna love it here. We have the best food and Michael's the nicest zoo keeper you're ever gonna meet." Thriller said. She then nodded her head to Sabu. " And Sabu is much more friendlier when she gets a snow cone."
"Snow cones?" Private questioned, feeling excitement. First an entire candy shop where everything is free, then sno-cones with two tigers and a famous chimp? He started to reckon this could be better than the lunacorns.
"Yeah, snow cones, Michael gets the best snow cone makers for the kids in the Make-A-Wish foundation." Bubbles informed.
"Sabu smiled at Private. "Sorry for scaring you little guy. Why don't you come with us to get a snow cone and we can talk about where you're from?"
"O-okay" Private stuttered. Sabu grabbed the penguin by the teeth, threw Private in the air and caught him on her back. Bubbles and Maurice were on Thriller.
"I bet I can beat Thriller to the snow cone stand!" Sabu said to Private.
"I bet we can." Private giggled.
Meanwhile…
"Krys, do we have the coordinates?" Skipper asked.
"Yeah, it looks like we are going to the airport in Santa Barbra and we'll start from there." Krys said.
"Thanks Krys," Skipper said. The team started to walk away but were stopped by Piper.
"Where do you think you are going?" Piper asked, folding her flippers.
"Yeah, we got your starting location." Krys said.
"Yup, and you're down on soldier so you could use our help." Nuka said.
As soon as she said that the ringtail and mouse lemur fell from the ceiling.
"Oh hello there silly penguin!" The ringtail exclaimed.
"Ringtail? What are you doing here?" Skipper yelled.
"My royal adviser was stolen from me as well. As your king I demand that you bring me."
Krys sighed, "Now I remember why we decided not to go back to the zoo for a long time. Ringtail is such an idiot." After that, she punched him in the face.
"Kowalski, options?" Skipper asked.
Kowalski thought over everything. With himself Skipper, and Rico they could make it to Santa Barbra but they wouldn't know where to go from there. With Krys and Piper and Nuka with them they would have too many people to look after but if the enemy truly is as bad as Skipper says it is than they might need the extra hands. Then of course there were the lemurs. Maurice was a part of Julian's faux kingdom imagination so it would only be fair if he came. But then of course with the lemurs on there team they were more likely not be able to succeed in this mission. Although Ringtail has proven himself when they were attacked by doctor Blowhole. Kowalski was starting to get a head ache from over thinking this."Ahh my giant brain!" he yelled as he held his head and fell over.
Skipper sighed.
"Alright you guys can escort us to Santa Barbra but as soon as we have direction you two mammals return here alright?" Skipper ordered. "And you three are coming with us, because you're a part of my family." The three girl penguins saluted him.
"Aye Skipper." they they replied in unison.
"Don't do that, that's just creepy! But let's just find our Private." Skipper said as he lead the team to the next plane to Santa Barbra.
Hey Party People,
Okay so this sort of took longer than I thought but we did not just abandon the story.
Panda: Sorry it took a long time, I was distracted with school and the like. =v=
Maybe will have the next chapter up soon. Let me know what you think by typing it out in the review box and clicking the post review button. I got to go work on the next chapter so…
Á tout á l'huere
~Star7K~