Author's Note: Well I didn't lie, it IS longer than last chapter…heh… I don't really feel like rushing this story with long chapters that give away all major points at once. So I shall take it slow but next chapter does speed up the plot a bit and hopefully we can get to the wonderful torture of King Julien- er uh I mean completely painless and child friendly questioning. Yeah.
~Natty.
A Real Spy Guy.
~PoM~
With a gulp he started to sweat drop at the sight of the angry aye-aye stomping towards them. The private chuckled nervously. "Oh, uh, hello Maurice…"
"Either of you two seen Mort or Julien anywhere?" Maurice asked, surprising both penguins.
"Moht? Julin? Nope!" Rico shook his head quickly.
"Rico…" Private hissed in a scold before looking to the adviser. Oh dear he was no good when it came to lying or being deceitful. How on earth was he going to get through all this he didn't know. Maybe if he answered without taking sides he would be alright. "You're looking for them?"
"Uh yeah. That's kinda why I asked if you saw them!" The aye-aye raised a brow then shook his head. Sometimes penguins made no sense at all but they sure were helpful. He was sure they could help him find his fellow lemurs. "So have you?"
"H-have I what?" The private answered, shaking slightly. Oh he was no good at this and it felt like global warming all over his body all of a sudden!
"Seen Mort or Julien!" Maurice clarified impatiently.
"M-Mort or J-Julien?" Private repeated, gulping and shaking harder. He felt like he'd have a panic attack any moment! The rotund lemur was seeing right through him! Probably calling him all sorts of terrible words in his head. 'A liah, that's what you are! A dirty liah whose pants are on fiah! Guah! He knows! Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear…!' "OU!" The little penguin whimpered out in fear, both flippers over his beak as his whole body just shook and shook.
Maurice just stared, a bit disturbed and with his paws on his hips, tilting his head.
Rico face-flippered with a broken groan and grabbed the aye-aye by the shoulders, turning the lemur away from the hay-wired private. "Um, haven't seen anthing. O.K?"
The aye-aye shrugged. "Okay. Was just wondering that's all." Maurice looked in the direction of the smallest penguin with concern, pointing. "Uh, is he…?"
"Oh yeah. Nomuhl." Rico waved it off as normal.
"Well thanks anyway. I'm gonna keep looking." Maurice said and went off to go search for the two missing lemurs.
"Bye, Maurice!" The weapon's expert called, waving a flipper. Then Rico turned to the private with flippers on his hips, glaring with disapproval and a head shake.
Snapped out of it, Private blushed and looked guilty. "I suppose I didn't handle that too well, did I?"
"Nuh-uh!"
"Right…hm…" The private rubbed the back of his head, looking down and rubbing his foot in a circular motion over a lone pebble. "Well at least we weren't found out. That's all that matters now, right? But there is one thing I'm confused about." Private looked up, lowering his flippers. "If Maurice is looking around for them and Julien is down in the HQ, then where did Mort run off to?"
Rico looked around. "Um…" He scratched the back of his head with a flipper before pointing to an abandoned snow-cone cart. "Snow-cones?"
Private frowned. "What is it with you and snow-cones?"
The weapon's expert began walking over to the cart, ignoring the private and his objections. The smaller penguin even tried pulling Rico's flipper but only ended up falling backwards when it pulled away.
"Oh!" The private exclaimed as he was sent tumbling back on his tail feathers. "Rico, Skippah wants us to work together! Not you walking off for something as silly as snow co-" It was then that Private noticed the brown bushy tail sticking out of the snow-cone cart. He brightened instantly. "Mort!" The little bird ran over giggling with happiness. "You found him, Rico! That's so wonderful!" He clasped his flippers cutely.
Rico climbed up on the cart to pull the tail up, revealing the little mouse lemur upside down licking a snow-cone.
Mort frowned with a pout. "Rodney doesn't like snow-cones!" He smiled and hugged the frozen treat to his cheek. "But I dooo!" The mouse lemur went for another lick when the snow-cone was ripped away from him and he was thrown down into the Private penguin's flippers.
The weapon's expert proceeded to lick the artificially flavored treat without care.
"Uff!" Private frowned as he caught the little lemur with a huff. "Well we've found Mort but what now?"
Rico threw the snow-cone into his mouth and burped. "Snow-cones!" He then dived into the cart head first, legs and tail sticking out.
The private rolled his eyes with a laugh. "Oh Rico…"
Mort cheered, waving his little arms. "Yay! They found me!"
