Welcome to the 10th chapter of Book 5. This story (like all the others) is fun to write. Let's go ahead and read, shall we?

CHAPTER 10 – Think Fast

(P to tomorrow and myself) Thankfully, the alarm had woken us all up. I really did not want what happened yesterday morning to happen again. It was just too awkward, probably for both of us. "So who's ready for the interview today?" I asked the group. Everyone raised his or her paws and flippers, which made us all laugh.

"It looks like you all are. Now we should probably head to my world now, since we do have to go cross-country," I said. "You don't live in the other New York?" Emily asked me. "I live on the other side of the country near San Francisco and my version of your old aquarium," I answered. "Have you ever been there?" Emily asked me.

"Actually, I have. It's pretty nice. They sure do love their jellyfish. Monterey, from what I saw, was pretty nice. It's not a small town, but it certainly feels that way," I said. "That's what we thought as well of ours," Marlene said. "Interesting. Did you ever try to see if there was another version of my town?" I asked everyone who had gone on vacation.

"We actually did after we left the aquarium. It was essentially the same as in your world, except for some of the businesses," Sam said. "Not to mention there was not another version of the people who do live in your town," Anna added. "Hmm… I'd like to check that out sometime. Maybe I could turn us all into humans there so that we blend in," I suggested. "But for now, let's head to our interview," Skipper said.

"Hold on, let me just finish my coffee first," Marlene said before drinking the rest. That made us all laugh again. "I'm good now," Marlene said. "Alright everyone, let's get ready," Skipper said. They all called their suits to them.

"Where's your suit?" Emily asked me curious. "Well, since I'm a human in my world, I've got one there instead. This one would probably fall apart when I'm suddenly a human," I answered. "Ah, ok," Emily said, understanding what I meant.

"Oh, before we go, watch out for the first drop into the other world," Marlene said. "How come?" Emily asked curious. "When we went there for the first time, we lost consciousness upon hitting the ground," Skipper answered. "And when we went there a few months ago, we landed on our rears," Anna said. "When I came here, I was in pain when I turned into a Penguin," I said. "Well, hopefully I'll have better luck," Emily said.

We used the Universal Walkie Talkie and jumped through the Portal. Emily was wide-eyed at what was happening while we passed through the Portal. The Portal for my world appeared and we all went through it, with myself returning to being human.

Emily certainly had more luck than everyone else had their first time going through a Portal. She was about to hit the grass, but stopped herself with her suit. I closely watched myself, knowing anything I said or did here could not be changed. "Nice landing sis," Marlene complimented her. "Thanks. I'm liking these suits more and more," Emily said.

I called my human suit to myself and it did come as it was supposed to. We took off into the sky and began our journey to New York. Thanks to the supersonic flight it only took 3 hours to get there. We quietly landed on the roof of the studio, checking for any nutty fans already there. Seeing none, we landed down below and went into the studio.

(P to after the interview) * "That was pretty fun," Emily said smiling as we left. "Glad you enjoyed it sis. Everyone seemed to love you," Marlene said to her. "I know I do," I thought to myself. "Seeing all those fans pressed against the glass was pretty funny. Some of them really are nuts," Emily said.

"Just wait until we get outside. We'll have to get up high pretty quick," I said. "How high?" Emily asked me. "Well, at least out of their reach. So I don't know. What do you guys say? 10 feet or so?" I asked the group. Kowalski did some quick math in his head. "Yes, 10 feet would be a safe distance away," he said. "Hmm, not a bad guess," I said, speaking of myself.

As soon as we stepped outside, the security guards who had tried to keep everyone to get at us were not strong enough to hold the crowd back, so we flew up out of everyone's reach. The fans all immediately looked disappointed and kept trying to get at us, but failing. All they wanted was for us to come back down, but we were smarter than that.

After flying around for a bit and saying thanks to everyone for everything, we started to fly back. While putting the suit to autopilot, I looked up on the Internet what people had said before and after the interview. I heard some chuckling, so I assumed everyone else was doing the same.

"They thought we were going to allow them into our world. Sorry to them, but that won't happen," Sam said. "They thought we were going to have another child. If we were, we wouldn't have come here again until after the child would be born," Marlene said, speaking of herself and Skipper.

"They seem to like me," Emily said happily. "And just like us, people would love to meet you in person, Aunt Emily," Anna said. "You mean in Otter," Emily said, making us all laugh. "They also want to see us all perform. Maybe we could set that up later," I suggested. "We'll have to turn you in a Penguin here first," Skipper said. "Yes, that's our biggest hurdle," I said, agreeing with him.

After chatting more about what the fans thought before and after we had revealed Emily, we had arrived back at my home and after introducing Emily to my family, we went back through the Portal after I got out of my suit.

"That was fun. I'll enjoy doing that again in the future," Emily said happily. "We know we've enjoyed it. And it's good that everyone can understand you as well. Everyone here in our world could probably be understood there," Sam said. "Just only we can go back and forth though. But did anyone else feel a bit cold outside of the suit during the interview?" I asked the group.

They all shook their heads no. "Weird. Maybe I'm just too used to feathers now," I said. We all laughed. "Probably. I wonder what we all look like as each other's species, other than humans of course," Anna said. "On it," I said, changing everyone who was an Otter into a Penguin and vice versa. "Hmm, so this is what I would like if Sam and I's positions were reversed," Anna said, looking at her feathers.

"Hmm, claws. Cool!" Sam exclaimed, popping them out for a second before putting them back. "These could be a valuable asset during fights," Skipper said, staring at his. "I have to say, fur is interesting to have. It's a lot different than feathers," Kowalski said, while taking notes.

"Well how do I look?" Emily asked us. I lost control over what I was saying again. "Beautiful. As any species, you're beautiful," I said. Everyone looked at me in shock, but Emily loved that comment. Even so, I erased that from them. Once again, Emily asked the same question. I slipped up again! On the third time, I finally got control over my emotions.

"You look great sis. But I still miss my tail," Marlene said. ** "Same here," Anna said. "Well, I'll return everyone to normal," I said, before doing so. "That was also fun," Emily said after were all back to our normal species. "Glad you enjoyed that as well," I said. For the next few hours, we all changed to different species, except for fish. After all, we all eat fish, so it would be really weird to be them.

After a couple of hours of doing that and me messing up with Emily many times, we stopped. "That was fun. Now we know what we would look like as any species," Emily said happily. "You're most beautiful when you're an Otter though," I said, messing up again. I again wiped that comment.

Emily repeated her comment. "We still look the coolest when we're normal though," Sam said. "Speak for yourself. I like being a Penguin better, except for the lack of thumbs," I said. We all laughed, as we all missed having thumbs. "You really like being a Penguin better?" Kowalski asked me, curious. "Yeah. Belly slides, the fun performances, and the warm feathers," I answered happily.

"We've got another idea for a test," Marlene said after a minute. "Oh? What is it?" I asked her. "Think fast," Skipper said, hurling a knockout bomb at us all. We all fell asleep as the gas hit our noses.

(P to Marlene) "Do you think that was a good idea Skipper?" I asked him. Luckily, we had gotten gas masks on extremely quick. "It was your idea, not mine. But I think it was a good one. Did you grab the Stopwatch?" Skipper asked me. I ran into the lab and grabbed the Stopwatch. "Right here," I said, wearing it. "Good. Now let's help your sister," Skipper said. "We're not exposing her feelings right?" I asked him. "Not yet. That's for both of them to figure out on their own," Skipper said.

We both placed our paw and flipper on the Stopwatch and activated it. We put everyone into their bunks except for Matthew and went out into the park by the pond and pressed the Stopwatch again. We placed his flipper and our appendages on the Stopwatch and waited for him to wake up.

Hey, no fair! You caught us all off-guard! So how was this chapter? Did you like it? Please rate and review the chapter. I've got two short notes today.

* Sorry, but due to the rules of FictionPress, I can't put real people in here. But if they ever allow that, I'll fill all the gaps in this and every story. I'm really sorry everyone.

** People have actually made drawings of the characters as each other's species. Marlene as a Penguin seems to be easy to find. Shouldn't take you that long to find one of all their species reversed, except for my OC's, of course.