A/N Okay here's the second chapter, it has been a long time since I had a rapid review, and that really made me want to get this out as soon as I could, well its out, and the 3rd chapter is nearly finished. Enjoy.
One of the zoo workers was sitting at the computer in the office it was a female just sitting there bored out of her mind, she pulled out a paddle ball and started hitting it, but failing to hit it properly and the ball started going all over the place. She finally got fed up with it and threw it in the trash. "Dang kids contraptions." Suddenly there was a ding sound, she was shocked at first, but then she realized it was just the computer letting her know she got a message.
Dear Alice,
A couple of zoos in the area have been deemed as cruel to animals, so they have shut down, we are sending a few to your zoo as a temporary place until we can get them situated, sorry, but you don't have a say the zoo commissioner already accepted the offer.
This message is just to inform you that you will have to deal with a male leopard, a female and male otter, and a rare Albino raccoon, please do take care of them, or the commissioner will ensure you wont like the outcome, thank you.
Regards Samantha Relisha
Alice looked around and then laughed at the e-mail, "Great more rotten animals, that I'm going to have to take care of." Alice then got on her walkie-talkie, all that was coming out of it was just static, that apparently only she under stood.
"Why am I the one always stuck with these horrible creatures, they sit and do nothing." The walkie-talkie just makes static noises, "Yeah I get that, but you know what whatever, the otter will have company, and we get to get a rare animal, that I am sure will draw in the crowds."
The second Alice said that, one of the penguins stuck their head in the window ceil from the outside and pulled the other three into the room. They looked around and noticed Alice walked out of the door and shuts it. "Okay men, seems we are going to have more potential enemies, we need to keep an eye on." Skipper looked at the computer.
"Kowalski save this information on paper and get the chimps to read it, we need to know who and what we are dealing with." "Aye Skipper" Kowalski said while going and pressing several buttons on the computer until he finally managed to print out the information, Skipper was standing next to the printer grabbed the printed sheet and folded it up and put in a folder labeled 'Classified'.
"Now lets get the intel on our new 'guests' before they arrive." Skipper said, as he jumped out the window, Private fell a little behind, being a little pre-occupied watching a butterfly, but once he realized the other three jumped out the window without him, he made a break for the window.
Private jumped and hit the window ceil knocking the breath out of him and falling to the floor. Lucky for him it was around the new sign for the leopard exhibit, he heard the door knob start to twist and as quickly as he could he got behind the sign and out of sight.
"As I said whatever, as long as they don't disappear, or consistently require an eye on like the penguins, and the lemurs, then things will be fine." Alice put the walkie-talkie down and looked at the computer seeing the confirmation that documents on it was printed out. She sighed and figured she accidently hit print earlier so she went to the printer to find nothing was printed.
"Great, another day at the office." Alice shrugged and then sat back down in the chair and started to sit around being bored like she normally does, she looks at the computer again for the time and saw it was nearly time to open the gates.
Private was sitting behind the sign trying to still regain his breathing, but knew he had to get out of there soon, before Skipper realizes he is late for morning training. Private looked over and saw a rope hanging down, he then figured it was Skipper coming back for him, so he grabbed it and looked up seeing Skipper smiling at him.
Private smiled back, Skipper gave the signal to Kowalski that knocked on the door of the office, making Alice who was now leaning back in the chair nearly asleep snap awake and fall out backwards.
"Oh, uh, hang on a minute just finishing filing for the transfers." Alice said thinking it was someone needing her, she then got up, dusted herself off and proceeded to open the door. "Hello…" She started to scratch her head and look down the hallways, but no one was there.
"Typical, why am I even surprised this happens." She then walks back in the room shuts the door and sees the rope hanging in the window. She stares at it for a short time then she sits back in the chair and continues her nap…
Skipper and Private were sliding on their bellies away to the ice floe, where they would start their morning training, Private training his sneak attacks on Rico trying to catch him off guard, Skipper sparring with Kowalski to keep him in a flipper to flipper, or flipper to paw combat.
"Come on Kowalski, you land a hit the spar is over." Skipper said mockingly trying to get the intellectual to actual try and make a strike without calculating every time, which is slowing down the hits. Skipper just sighed when Kowalski continued to make calculated hits, Skipper figured to end the spar by a counter flip attack that he sometimes does when being hit.
Skipper grabbed Kowalski's flipper and pulled him over himself, which the intellectual was counting on, the second Kowalski was about to hit the ground he himself grabbed a firm grip of Skippers flipper and tossed him off the ice floe and into the cooled water.
Rico and Private both stopped their spar and was looking at Kowalski and then looked over to Skipper who was swimming around the pool, "Umm Skippah, what just happened?" Kowalski looked at Private "Oh nothing just a counter move he never expe…" before Kowalski could finish Skipper jumped out of the pool and tackled him.
"Always be vigilant Kowalski, good counter, but you need to be sure the enemy is down and out, before carrying on a friendly conversation." Skipped helped Kowalski up and they both laughed a little. "Well men ready to see what we are going to be dealing with?"
Private, Rico, and Kowalski all saluted and started to get set to get into formation to get over to the chimps habitat. Skipper then took lead and started their progression up to the chimps habitat.
One slightly dark colored chimp, was sitting on at a chess table having a cup of tea, while a light colored chimp was swinging around on a tire swing. "Chimps, we came across some intel and we need the details." Skipper said as they jumped over the wall and into the habitat.
"My word Skipper, you always interrupt, when I am always having a cup of tea, but I guess if it seems important." The dark colored one said, "Okay Phil come translate." The light colored went over to the group and started to do various hand gestures. "I know you were having fun on the swing, but they need you to read this news." Phil looked at the information on the paper.
"Okay it is an e-mail talking about a four animal transfer from zoos that were cruel to their animals, there is going to be two otters, a leopard, and…" the dark furred looked at Phil trying to understand, but Phil was sitting there nearly frozen.
"Phil, what's the matter ole chap?" Phil shook his head and continued to give them the information. "Okay the last one is a rare albino raccoon… Wow that is unusual, but that's pretty much all it says, doesn't really give much of anything more, but the author of the note." The dark furred chimp gave them the folder back.
"Thanks Mason, maybe they won't be a problem around here, and we can have new guests for tea?" Mason laughed a little "Yes Private, maybe, I'll make preparations just in case." Private smiled "Oh and do have a crumpet plate too, just as a welcome gift." Mason smiled "Yes, there will be crumpets."
Private noticed again he was left behind and sighed "Well got to go now." Private then made his way back to the habitat. Once inside the habitat, he pushed over the food bowl and jumped down a hole, into the Penguins head quarters. "What is with you guys leaving without warning." Private said.
"Oh there you are Private; we were just getting a few of these stunners ready for the potential enemies." Kowalski said as he pulled out a laser that still had a blue and red wire sticking out the side. "Kowalski, but what if they were not enemies, but interesting friends?" Kowalski looked around and chuckled a little.
"Oh naïve Private, leopards are dangerous creatures if they are not taken proper care of, and if the zoos were cruel to their animals, then the leopard, albino raccoon, and the otters are a potential threat of attacking any one that goes around them."
Private looked around trying to think of that even being possible, but he's too optimistic to imagine something so horrible happening. "Well since you put it that way, but do please be careful, we don't want to scare them if they are nice." Private said smiling at Kowalski.
An alarm started to sound, and Private jumped, he completely forgot what time it was, and he figured the transfers were some time away so he had enough time to watch the latest episode of 'The Lunacorns: Space Adventures' Private went over to the TV and turned it on and started to watch, but then he realized he forgot something. He quickly ran over to his bunk and pulled out a fluffy pink lunacorn from under his pillow.
A/N Writing on a size limit to keep interesting is a bit hard for me, but I do have to shorten chapters and give as much detail as possible, I didn't think I did that bad with this one, but I will vary chapter sizes a little, see what's best for readers, Just review if you like long chapters (4k+ words/chapter) or medium (2k-4k words/chapter) or short (2k words/chapter) do keep in mind the longer obviously takes a little longer, but it gives me the writing space I am used to.
