Chapter 2:
Penguin-Napped!

We were starting to feel tired as we waddled through the park. Then, a giant brick wall blocked our path.

"It's the zoo! Come on!" We ran to the wall and looked up at the massive structure encircling the zoo. "We need to find the entrance. There's no way we'll be able to climb that!" I said. We waddled around and stumbled upon the entrance, just one problem. People were pouring in and out of the zoo.

She glared me. "You want us to walk in from there! We might get trampled just strolling through there!" I told her that maybe we should wait for the zoo to close. I looked up at the zoo clock tower, 5:39pm. Good, just have to wait it out. She then told me that maybe we can see what's happening in the zoo if we climbed a tree.

Climbing a tree was pretty crazy. We had practically no luck in getting a very secure grip on the tree. My sister slipped and fell on me. "Oww! Sorry! I slipped…" She apologized.

Finally, we made it onto one of the tree branches. Alice was already closing up the zoo. "Oh, I can't wait for winter to come and be away from all these pesky animals!" was what we managed to make out as she closed the gates.

"Come on! Now's our chance!" Then, we heard something crack. The branch was breaking! THUD! We fell flat on the grassy terrain below.

"Well, at least we don't have to climb down anymore…" I joked. We got up and cleaned off some of the dirt. We then made our way to the entrance. "How are we gonna get in!" I pointed towards the gaps in the gate. "Oh, right…" she said.

Out of nowhere, we heard some clicking noises. "Hide!" We jumped into a nearby bush. Looking through the leaves, we saw about a dozen red figures, one carrying a haversack. OH NO! It's Blowhole's minions!

They slipped through the biggest gap and headed inside. One or two minutes later, an explosion was heard. Uh oh, what's happening! A few more minutes later, they came out, but this time they were helping each other carry something buldging out in the haversack, making it look HUGE! "Oh no! I think I know what's in there!" I said in my mind.

When the lobsters disappeared from sight, we jumped out of the bush and made our way to the penguins' habitat. I suddenly jumped on my belly and started belly sliding! Oh what a great feeling it was! If you forgot, I was a human before this so belly sliding is new to me.

"Uh oh! Where's the brakes on this thing!" was all I could blurt out before slamming head first into the fence. Nick rushed over to me. "OH MY GOSH! Are you OK!" I moaned, signalling to her that I'm alright.

"Hey guys! Are you doing anyth…" a voice started. We turned to it and there stood Marlene. "Oh, sorry! I thought you guys were…" I interrupted her mid-speech. "…the penguins? Cause we just saw them get kidnapped!" Her expression immediately changed to shock.

"Kidnapped! Who kidnapped them?!" Nick simply answered 'Blowhole'. I got up and the three of us made our way into their habitat. Wow, what it a battlefield this place looked like! The place was a mess! Their table was overturned, broken in half, and fish was all over the floor. Just utter chaos.

"Wow! They sure had a battle in here!" I said. Marlene then turned to look at us. "Oh, by the way, I didn't quite catch your names..." We all then introduced each other, even Marlene. We knew who she is already but I know she'll feel awkward if we said that we knew.

"So, how are WE going to save THEM! We even don't know how to get someone out of detention without getting caught!" Nick said. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Kowalski's Transparent Matter Maker or Transmatterer for short, peeking out from inside his lab.

"Hey, Marlene. You wouldn't happen to know to how get to Coney Island do ya?" She nodded. "Perfect…"