Hey everyone. Here I am with the next chapter to this story. I want to thank everyone who is starting to review this and anticipating more chapters, but I would still like to get more. Enjoy this chapter and please give me reviews and suggestions.

Chapter 3: Mission

Finally 2200 hours rolled around just as all the zoo keepers had finished off their day and locked up the zoo gates. Skipper, Rico, Kowalski, and Private were gathered together on top of their concrete island. Making sure no one was listening on them he said, "Operation: Collar is a go." The other 3 sprung into action as they did several flips into the pond surrounding their concrete island and finally jumping out and over the railing onto the concrete sidewalk. Skipper looked around the corner and signaled his team to go by placing his flipper at his eye and pointing away from him around the corner. Kowalski, Rico, and Private jumped on their bellies as the bellied slid with Skipper taking the rear. They all hopped to their feet at the directory sign just outside their habitat.

"Rico. Flashlight please." Rico regurgitated their flashlight and shined it at the directory. Kowalski hopped onto the directory and grabbed a pointer he had stowed away and explained.

"Skipper. As this map indicates, we are here." Kowalski pointed at the area with a red X. "To reach our objective, we must make way past the elephant exhibit, past Joey's pen, and finally past the tiger's pen." Their was a building just beyond the tiger pen that Kowalski smacked with his pointer and circled. "And then we will be at Alice's office."

"Okay. Let's go boys." Skipper ordered as they all again slid on their way to Alice's office. Without any problems reaching the office, they forgot the door was going to be locked. That wouldn't deter them though, they just made their own door. Skipper threw Rico onto the roof of the small building as he regurgitated a stick of lit dynamite. It took a few seconds, but the stick finally blasted a huge hole in the ceiling.

"Keep the racket down!" Could be heard by several animals throughout the zoo due to the blast waking them.

"Do you think there may have been a more polite way to get inside Skippa?" Private asked.

"Nonsense. It's perfectly fine." Rico finally unlocked the door. Rico invited his "guests" in.

"Why thank you Rico." Private said waddling in behind the others. They all grouped together on the table where Alice would work.

"Okay men. We are trying to find anything that may lead to these collars having anything to do with the people being able to understand us." Skipper looked over to Private who seemed to be preoccupied with something else.

"Private!" Private jumped almost a foot into the air and fell of the edge of the table into a trashcan below. Kowalski, Skipper, and Rico looked over the edge of the table to see Private. He was face down into the trashcan allowing him to find something.

"I believe I've found something sir." Private said in very obvious pain. Skipper, Kowalski, and Rico jumped down in the order just beside the trash can Private had just fallen into. Rico was ordered to knock down the trashcan and once he did, Private came tumbling out in a heap with several papers following him. He was in a bit of a daze as Skipper handed a flipper to Private. He lifted Private up and said, "Nice find Private."

"I try sir." Skipper looked at Private with a bit of a glare.

"No need to get cocky Private." He looked down at a piece of paper with a picture of the exact collars they were wearing and rubbing his flippers together. "Kowalski. Analysis. I want to know what we've got here."

"It may take a while, but I should have it into you Skipper in a few minutes."

"Great. Let's look around and see if we can find anything else that may help." Skipper and Rico started to look in various places at the other end of the room. Private hopped onto Alice's chair and looked through several drawers at her desk. Kowalski was down at the sheet of paper struggling to read it. He was taking lessons with Phil and Mason, the chimps, the last few weeks learning to read, having found it necessary over the last few months. Private finally found something very interesting piece of information in one of Alice's organized folders. He grabbed it out of the folder and held it over his head.

"Skippa. I think I may have found something." Rico and Skipper waddled over to where Kowalski and Private were already waiting. It had the exact same picture of the collar.

"It appears to be a shipping order." Private speculated.

"Good job Private." Skipper high-fived him.

"It appears to be. I also found out what this says." Kowalski held up the original paper Private had landed in. "To sum it up. It is an advertisement of a device that is suppose to make animals speak to humans."

"Just as I expected." Skipper said. "Now what does this order form say." Kowalski looked over it for a few minutes until he was finally able to make it out.

"Um. It says these collars were shipped in from Denmark by some doctor. I'm not able to make out his name however, sir."

"Denmark you say."

"It appears so Skipper."

"Uh oh." Rico grunted.

"I thought you weren't allowed to step foot in Denmark sir." Private reminded him.

"I'm not. We shouldn't dwell on it though. Mission accomplished." They all then started to quickly high-five each other as tradition after a successful mission. "Let's go home men."

"Is there something you want to talk about Skipper?" Private asked seeing he looked really uneased. By now, Rico had shut off the lights and locked the door behind them.

"Negative Private. Let's just go home." They all did as they were ordered by their leader and belly slid back to their habitat and hopped inside. Skipper ordered everyone for sleep, but not because they really needed it, but really because they needed it, but just so he could have a few precious hours of silence to think about what had happened. They all climbed into their respective bunks and Private, Rico, and Kowalski fell asleep fairly quickly, while Skipper stayed up with his flippers behind is head just thinking.

Well there was chapter 3. I'm sorry for the lay off on the story. I just didn't get to it for a while. It also helped that I started to get a few more reviews, and author and story alerts with my story so thanks to those who did. I may also need some help later on in the story. I have a few ideas for a little later on in the story and I want anyone that is interested I helping PM me and don't mind spoilers to help me with what you think idea is better. You don't need to if you don't like spoilers, but I hope you enjoyed this story so far and reviews and suggestions are greatly appreciated.e