Chapter 4

Akino was lying on a branch in the tree in the badger habitat.

He was looking around until he saw Alice walking through the zoo. Alice noticed him sitting in the tree and had a confused look.

"What? I didn't notice there was another badger in the zoo. Oh well." Alice said, shrugging it off and walking away to her office.

'Well looks like I'm offically a badger of Central Park Zoo.' Akino thought as he leant back again and waited for breakfast.

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Around six o'clock, the breakfast bell rang and all of the zoo animals woke up and began eating their breakfast. After breakfast was tossed into the badger habitat, which was berries and a badger's favorite, earthworms.

'Eww, earthworms.' Akino thought before Becky and Stacy came out of their cave and began to chow down.

'That is disturbing to me in a number of ways.' Akino said to himself as he watched the 2 badgers eat their earthworms. After they finished eating, Akino slid down the tree and walked over to them to greet them.

"Morning, you two." Akino greeted with a smile.

"-Yawn- Morning, Akino." replied Becky and Stacy, returning the smile.

"So do you two have anything planned for today?" Akino asked, swinging his arms back and forth.

"Not right now, we're too tired to think." Stacy replied before the two let out another yawn.

"Oh OK, if you do, let me know. Right now, I'm off to see the penguins." Akino informed as he walked off, recieving waves from the 2 badgers, which he returned. Akino then jumped out of the habitat and headed towards the penguin habitat on all fours.

Once he got there, he jumped into the pool and swam to te center of the habitat where he saw the penguins doing their drills. He saw Skipper and walked up to him.

"Morning Skipper , Rico, Kowalski, Private." Akino greeted as they returned the good morning.

"So what brings you here Akino?" Skipper asked.

"Just want to ask what you were doing today." Akino replied.

"Today, Private will be working on stealth, you're free to join of you want." Skipper explained as Rico and Kowalski pulled out a tennisball launcher.

"Wow, really?" Akino asked as Skipper oulled out a half coconut that had a gold star on the front and wore it on his head.

"Yes, really. What you need to do is collect flags in each habitat and return to this location unnoticed, got it?" Skipper explained as Akino and Private nodded.

"Alright, now, GO!" Skipper said as Akino and Private bolted out of the habitat and took refuge behind a crate.

"Alright Private, I'll get the north side of the zoo, you get the other, got it?" Akino whispered, careful not to get noticed and fearful of getting pelted by a wall of tennisballs.

"Okay." Private replied in his britain accent and headed off.

Akino looked out from the side of the crate at the zoo map and focused his eyes. The habitats on his side were Joey's, the gorillas, the red rodesian slasher, and the badgers while Private had the lemurs, the elephant, the koala, the chimps, and the rhino, who wasn't really agressive at all.

'Son of a, why the fuck we always get the hard shit!' Akino's consience screamed as he let out a silent groan and headed to Joey's habitat.

Once he got there, he lied prone on top of the wall and looked around for the flag. Joey was bouncing his ball around when Akino realised that the flag was in his pouch.

'Got dammit, well better then the red rodesian slasher, that's for sure.' Akino thought as he slid down the wall and walked up to Joey.

"Hey Joey, can I speak to you?" Akino asked, regretting it just as soon as he finished saying it. Joey turned around and bounced towards him with a menacing glare on his face.

"What do you want, you rat bag?" Joey ordered in his australian accent.

"Look, I just want the flag in your pouch." Akino explained, putting his hands up. Joey looked in his pouch and took the flag.

"Well what's in it for me mate?" Joey asked, putting his wrists on his hips.

"Alright, if you give me the flag, I'll get you a bigger, bouncier ball to play with." Akino replied. Joey rubbed his chin and pondered at the deal. After a moment, he agreed.

"Alright deal, you get me the ball, I get you the flag." Joey concluded.

"I'll be back." Akino groaned as he jumped out of the habitat. He snuck between a crate and a wall, still on alert from the other penguins with the tennisball launcher.

'Must be after Private, let's go.' Akino's consience told him as they headed to the the zoo store. After knocking out the cashier and grabbing a ball, he headed out the back of the store and leaned against the wall.

'How the hell am I going to get this ball to Joey with out being spotted?' Akino asked himself as an idea clicked into his mind. He licked his hand and stuck his hand to the ball and used his other hand and his legs to climb to the top of the shop. Once up, he picked up the ball with him in the silver section of the ball and jumped off. He bounced his way to Joey's habitat unnoticed by his camoflouge on the color of the ball.

Once he bounced into the habitat, Joey turned around to see a huge ball that almost came up to his chest.

"So, do we have a deal?" Akino asked as he bounced off of the ball in front of Joey.

"It's a deal mate!" Joey replied excitedly as he gave him the flag and went over to the ball. With his work done, Akino then headed over to his next habitat, the gorillas. Akino easily enough managed to get into Badda and Bing's habitat, but the hard part was getting the flag from them. Akino probed the habitat and looked for options.

'Hmm, well I could create a distraction, and lift it from there, but where will I get a distraction?' Akino asked just before a Mort came flying into the habitat at high speed. Mort hit the ground, but got right back up.

'How the fuck? He just came down at high speed but got back up like ain't shit go down!' Akino's consience screamed as the gorillas noticed Mort and went over to him. Akino saw that the flag was on the top of Badda and Bing's pile of banannas, so he just climbed it, lifted the flag and got out before they noticed. Once he was out, he ducked behind nearby cover from the tennisball launcher patrol.

'Alright, that was easy, so I know for a fact that the red rodesian slasher will be hard as hell.' Akino thought as he snuck his way to the exhibit. Once there, he snuck around the cage and saw the red predator sleeping in her cage, with her arms wrapped around the flag.

'How do they even get the flag there? It's impossible!' Akino complained as he stomped on the ground, waking the savage beast. The feline faced Akino's direction, but he wasn't there. Akino was hiding behind a rock, probably for his life, and breathing frantically.

'That was waaay too close!' Akino thought as he out his hand over his chest and slowed down his breathing. He looked over the rock and saw the beast looking right at him. His eyes went wide and his blood went cold. The beast began to walk towards him, forcing Akino to take a step back. It was then that he smelled somethong odd.

'Do I smell...hormones?' Akino thought in panic as the ferocious feline pounced on him. He tried his best to get her off, but she was way stronger than she looked. After a minute of fighting, he managed to kick her off and get the flag, with the super wildcat hot on his tail.

'We're too small for this shit.' Akino's bitter inner consience stated as he made a run towards the nearest wall. Out of adrenaline, he managed to scale and clear the wall out of the habitat. However, his luck ran short when the penguins finally spotted him.

'We're spotted, go loud, RUN!' Akino's consience screamed at him as he made a mad dash for the badgers habitat and scaled the wall. He saw the last flag high up in the tree, so he climbed the tre as quickly as he can, but staying opposite of the giant tennisball launcher. Once he got the flag, he jumped straight out of the tree and proceeded to run along the wall to the penguins habitat.

"Skipper, he's making a run for it!" Kowalski yelled as he saw Akino on his binoculars.

"Rico, sticky situation scenario!" Skipper ordered as Rico coughed up a gumball machine, which Kowalski opened and Rico ate. Kowalski then picked up Rico and used him as a gun and shot sticky, chewed gum at Akino. Akino managed to dodge them, but one piece of gum managed to get in between his foot and the wall.

'Are you serious?' Akino questioned as his foot was stuck to the wall. This then made Akino a sitting duck for Skipper and the others. Akino stared on horror as a wall of tennisballs came flying at him. He dodged some of then with his limited mobility, but it was hopeless as he was engulfed in the volley of green, furry, bouncy tennis equipment. Akino was blown into the badger habitat with Becky and Stacy in the way.

"Look out!" Akino alerted as he came flying into the badgers. Stacy managed to move, but Becky wasn't so lucky. Akino flew right into her and they tumbled until she was on top of him.

"Ouch." Akino uttered as Becky was on top of him. Both mammals were nose to nose and panting heavily from the sudden contact. Becky's heart was fluttering and her cheeks were a bright tint of red.

"Akino, are you okay?" Becky asked.

"I'm sure both of us will be once you get off of me." Akino replied as she immediately got off of him and stood up.

"Oh, sorry about that." Becky said, blushing more wildly than before.

"It's good, I should've watched where I'm going." Akino stated as Stacy and the penguins ran up to them.

"What happened here?" Stacy asked as they walking up to them. Akino told them about the CTF game and how he got his foot stuck and how he was thrown into Becky. He also told him about Alice thinking he was a badger, and he was possibly part of the badger habitat now.

"...and that's what happened. Here's the flags by the way." Akino said as he tossed the flags to Private, who already had all of his.

"Well that fiasco lasted until 9:30. I'm about to go take a nap, I will be back at 12." Akino said as he headed into the cave to get some much needed shut-eye. The penguins returned to their habitat, so that left Becky and Stacy on their habitat.

"Sooo Becky, whatcha feel like doin now?" Stacy asked to a still lovestruck Becky.

"Beck, you okay?" Stacy asked as she waved her hand on front of her face, getting her attention.

"Huh? Oh, I'm sorry what?" Becky asked, snapping out of her trance.

"I said whatcha feel like doin now?" Stacy repeated.

"How about we go see Marlene?" Becky suggested.

"Works for me, let's go." Stacy said as they headed off to the otter habitat. Stacy smiled warmly at the cave before she followed Stacy to Marlene's habitat.

Alright, I wanted something ocward to happen to Akino and one of the badgers in each of these 2 chapters, and I made all this to give Akino and Becky their ocward moment. I hope you enjoyed and as always, have a nice day. Peace.