Chapter 6:
Back at the Central Park Zoo, Mort was in a frenzy.
"The king!" he panicked. "The king's feet must be saved!"
"Dude, why do you talk about Julien's feet?" LarryBoy asked, still lounging in Julien's chair and picking a card from the stack that sat on the Candyland board. He was disappointed when he picked out a card. "Still stuck in the licorice guy's hood."
"No need to talk so gangster," Maurice said, rolling his eyes and picking a card from the deck. He jumped with joy as he read the card that he picked. "Finally!"
"Let me guess. You get to go all the way to that princess or whatever her name is?" LarryBoy guessed.
"I get to start all over again!" Maurice grimaced, and then grumbling to himself as he placed his blue game piece back to the starting point on the board.
LarryBoy shrugged. "Join the club."
"The king must be saved!" Mort complained.
"The penguins are on the case, Mort," Maurice assured him. "They'll handle it."
"NO!" Mort snapped. "The king needs ME!"
So then Mort jumped onto the lemurs' moonwalk and bounced out of the zoo. However, the little lemur bounced onto the side of Archie's head, as he was riding up to the zoo entrance on his scooter. Archie fell flat on his face on the street.
"Ouch!" Archie's yelp was audible to LarryBoy's plunger ears. The superhero jumped out of Julien's chair in an instant.
"Whoa!" Maurice said, seeing this. "Why so jumpy, LarryBoy?"
"Don't tell Archie that I was here!" LarryBoy said. "He thinks that I'm still look for the space alien! He doesn't know that I was sitting here doing nothing!" He jumped out of the lemur habitat and hid into the bushes.
"And consider our game postponed!" the hero shouted in the bushes. "I never really liked Candyland!"
All was quiet afterwards.
"Wow," Maurice said to himself. "Mort and that superhero are jumpy people. I wish I was so jumpy, that way I'm one of 'Penguins of Madagascar''s least favorite characters."