Welcome to chapter 14. As usual, *'s = notes, (P) means perspective or time change, and italicized words means quoting or reading. Let's reveal the Pengotters to the world, shall we?

CHAPTER 14 – A Pengotter Reveal

The six of us at the table chuckled to ourselves, knowing that we had once again managed to change the world forever, not to mention it was now a year since we had done that last time. We also had another fun surprise as well, just like last time.

"Thank you for coming. We'll take questions now," I said to the press. Like last time, they started shouting and raising their hands and begging to ask questions. "You there," I said, pointing to a reporter. * "How come all the species were changed around for the last week?" they asked. "That was my fault. I was experimenting to see if we could just change ourselves into humans for when we came here, but for a reason I still don't know, it malfunctioned," Kowalski said.

"How come we can still understand you guys, but I can no longer understand my dog?" another reporter asked. "I have a theory that people can only talk to other species if they get changed by the universe itself. Seeing as I did that and the universe did not, that's probably why," Kowalski explained.

"Can we travel to the other universe so we can understand our pets again?" another reported asked. "Absolutely not," Skipper said. "You can't, as it might throw the balance of people out of whack. We're not going to let anyone else travel back and forth except for ourselves," I said. The press looked crestfallen and not being able to explore an alternate universe.

"Next question," I said to the press. "You there," I said to another reporter. "Is that Blowhole dolphin from last year still defeated?" they asked. "Yes. He is still defeated and still does not have a memory of what happened here," Skipper answered. "How long is that expected to last?" another asked. "I'm not sure. Skipper had his spirit guide, which helped him in a few days, while last time Blowhole was Mind Jacked for only a few months," Kowalski answered. *

"Next question," I said. I picked another reporter who asked, "Are you two still together?" they asked of Skipper and Marlene. They simply kissed each other and showed off their rings and replied with "Does that answer your question?" Everyone laughed, knowing it did.

"Any more questions?" I asked the press. Many raised their hands and I picked another reporter who asked, "So have they trained you and have you gone on any missions with them yet?" I looked at Skipper for approval to answer that question and he nodded that I could answer it.

"I thought I've answered this question before, but I'll answer it again. Yes, they all helped train me the day after the wedding. One of these days we'll have to show you all our simultaneous corkscrews. I've been on a few missions, but nothing major yet," I answered.

I covered my microphones and asked the five, "Now is a good time to reveal the kids, right?" Skipper covered his microphone and said, "Yes. Let's have some fun." We chuckled to ourselves, confusing the press for a moment.

I uncovered my microphones. "Now before we wrap this conference up, we have something we would like to show you. Annabelle, Samuel, would you like to come out now?" I asked the two through the microphones. While they got ready, I grabbed two additional chairs. The press suddenly was growing wide-eyed at the mention of two names they had never heard before, knowing these were completely new animals.

After I set the chairs down, Anna and Sam clambered up them and sat down, looking at the crowd. "Hello, it's nice to be here," they said, while simply smiling at the shocked press. Immediately, every single press member raised their hands to ask questions to the two and many cameras started going off, taking pictures of the two.

"You may ask your question," I said to a reporter. "Who are you two?" they asked. "I'm Annabelle, but please call me Anna," she said. "I'm Samuel, but please call me Sam," he said. "So where did you two come from?" a reporter asked. They replied slyly, "Our parents."

"Who are your parents?" another one asked. Sam and Anna looked at each other before Anna said, "We're twin Pengotters. Would you care to guess?" The even more shocked press looked back and forth between them and Skipper and Marlene. "How can a bird and a mammal have children?" someone asked.

"Well, I suppose it's time we told our children that as well, what do you think Marlene?" Skipper asked her, yet knowing her response. "Oh, I definitely think so. Are you ready to learn children?" Marlene asked the kids. "Yes, yes!" they shouted, desiring the answer they had seeked for so long.

"When we first came here, while we were at the lab, a substance fell off a counter and splashed on us," Skipper said. Besides getting us to admit our feelings we had for so long, it also maybe did something else during our first kiss," Marlene said.

"Presumably during our kiss, something changed in our DNA. Something was copied between us, specifically for reproduction genes," Skipper said. "We didn't know that had happened until I became pregnant after our honeymoon," Marlene said. "I ran the math with their changed and original DNA for hours and it worked out with the changed DNA," Kowalski said.

"But before you go and use that substance on every single species, it only works between people or animals that love each other in the first place," Skipper said. "So unless you could say, get a dog and a cat to love each other, it won't work. Forcing them to do so won't work either. They must love each other genuinely," Marlene said. "And that's how you two came to be," Skipper and Marlene said to the kids. **

"So we're the result of a science experiment?" Sam asked. "Yes. If not for it, you two would not exist and we may never have gotten married," Skipper said to both of the kids. "Well, at least it wasn't one of Kowalski's inventions or I'd be panicking that we might disappear or something," Anna said.

"Speaking of that, why did you create that invention Kowalski?" Marlene asked. "I wanted to see if we could be humans for when we came here. That way, we could have a disguise, considering Matthew told us about all the fans we have had before and after all of this happening," Kowalski answered.

"That was the first option you thought of?" I asked Kowalski. "Yes, but now it's back to the drawing board, since our humans identities were revealed," he responded. "Just give us all a warning before next time please," Marlene said. After that, the attention turned back to the kids.

"So how old are you two?" a reporter asked the kids. "We're both 9 months old. I'm the older one," Anna said proudly. "Only by a few minutes," Sam said quickly. The press laughed at the obvious sibling rivalry that was taking place.

"So do you two have any of the same skills as both of your parents?" a reporter asked the kids. "Well, we've both been trained by them for fighting skills, so that we do have," Sam said. "We've also been trained to act cute and cuddly back home for the zoo guests. Other than that we're still not sure," Anna said. ***

"Have you two been on any missions as well?" another person asked. The kids looked at their parents, who nodded approvingly at them. "Well, we did run missions here for our parents' anniversary yesterday, plus help out with other missions around the zoo," Sam said.

"We've helped feed animals Alice has forgotten to feed, not to mention clean up after some messy ones. We've also made sure no chlorine mishaps happen again, like one did with Mom," Anna explained. The six of us who saw and experienced what happened that day chuckled to ourselves at their mention of the Arlene mishap. ****

"How have you two controlled your feral sides so fast?" a reporter asked. The six of us who knew what that meant became slightly irritated. "We still don't even know what feral means," Sam said. "That is still classified for now, but there's part of that we can answer," Skipper said.

"Unlike me, our children don't have a feral side at all. We got around that by having them in the park, outside the zoo walls. After all, if your first moments are not in captivity, you're not going wild, as you already are," Marlene answered. ***** "So that's how that works," I thought to myself.

"Time for one final question," I said to the press. Again, hands went up. I picked the final reporter who asked, "How are you all going home? You don't seem to have that Segway thing from last time or any other device." In order to keep the secret of the Universal Walkie Talkie safe, we all said "Classified." The press looked disappointed at our answer, but accepted it.

It was time to wrap up this press conference. "Thank you all for coming this afternoon. As one final thought to leave with, now that you've had experience as animals, please don't be cruel to them," I said. "If you are cruel to them, you will have learned absolutely nothing from this and we will find you," Skipper said. With that, the press shut down their cameras and collected their microphones from us and left.

"That was fun," Anna and Sam said. "I'm glad you two enjoyed it. But if we all go on interviews a lot again, it might get less fun," I said. "One of the first interviews will be with the creators though," Skipper said. "I'll definitely try to do that, seeing as I am the head PR man," I replied.

"Well, let's clean up everyone. It's rude to leave a mess anywhere," Skipper said. With that, we all grabbed the chairs, folded them up and put them back in their spots. We also put the table back, along with the cloth we had used for the microphones and to hide the kids. "Well done everyone. A new record. Snow cones when we get back!" Skipper said. We all cheered, knowing we would get a reward for all this.

With that, we headed out. "I do wonder what our fans think of what we said," Marlene said. "Not to mention what they think of us, now that they know we exist," Anna said. "Well, even before Blowhole last year, Pengotters were a popular subject. It grew even more popular after that, when I put the wedding video online. I imagine it will explode now," I said.

"Kaboom?" Rico asked, regurgitating a piece of dynamite that was thankfully unlit. "Not that type of Kaboom! He means a large increase in a short period of time," Kowalski explained. "Aw man," Rico said, swallowing it. ****** The kids chuckled to themselves at that. I didn't know if it was because of the situation or because they had used dynamite before, so I made a mental note to ask them later.

We reached the street and by this time, all the usual cars and pedestrians were out. The pedestrians looked at us, but passed by, not mobbing us either because of the Pengotters or because they might still have been still angry. We walked across the street at the correct time and all piled in the car in the parking garage and started heading out.

"Finally, I can take a nice vacation. That's my last press conference, at least for a few weeks," I said. "Yes, we'll all put ourselves back in the system with the computer you bought us," Skipper said. "Has that come in handy for any missions?" I asked, curiously.

"Actually, it saved us two from being transferred," Marlene said while hugging Anna. "Thank goodness for that. How did you stop that?" I asked. "We managed to get into Alice's email and saw before she arrived that someone wanted to have two female Otters transferred to Copenhagen," Kowalski answered.

"Denmark. Of all the places to send my wife and daughter, someone wanted to send them to Denmark," Skipper said. "Alice was not at the zoo yet, so we managed to delete the email and therefore the transfer threat. But for a few days, Alice kept getting emails asking for our transfer," Anna said.

"We kept not responding and deleting and eventually the offers stopped coming in," Anna finished. "Boy, am I glad I got you guys that computer. We might never have seen you again," I said. "After that, we managed to make ourselves immune to any transfers, except by ourselves," Kowalski said. ******

We kept driving back towards the bridge entrance to get home. Suddenly, many people started running at the car. Not knowing the reason why, I immediately locked the doors and the windows. "What's going on? Why are they coming here?" Private asked.

Suddenly we were surrounded. "We're surrounded," Skipper said. "Brilliant observation. What could they want?" I asked. People began shouting things like, "Look, it's the Pengotters!" and "Oh my gosh, Pengotters are finally real!" "I guess that's why," Skipper said.

"I guess we have fans now," Sam said. Both of them, since we were now stuck in the middle of the crowd, stood up and waved at the crowd. The crowd was going absolutely nuts. Suddenly, some of them began pounding on the windows very hard, wanting to have the kids to themselves. Anna and Sam immediately stopped waving and ran into their parents' laps in fear.

Unfortunately, that only made the crowd more adamant to get inside. "Kowalski, is there any way out of this?" I asked, panicked. "Press that button on the dashboard," Kowalski said pointing to one. I immediately hit it, no questions asked. Suddenly, the car started vibrating rapidly and all the rabid fans backed off.

"What's going on?" I asked Kowalski. "While we were in the lab, we made a way for us to get out of somewhere quickly in the car. We gave the car…" Kowalski started to say. It suddenly rose off the ground a few feet. "You made my car fly?" I asked. "Yes. It should get us out of here. Just drive like you normally would, except tilt the wheel upwards or downwards to ascend or descend," Kowalski explained. *******

I immediately titled the wheel upwards and sent us up and out of the city, without having to go on the bridge. "This is really cool Kowalski, but I wish you had asked first," I said. "Sorry about that. But I did have some of the scientists help with my math, so it shouldn't fail," Kowalski said.

We were driving above the path to get home, yet altering it since we could go over hills and water no problem. "Kowalski, I've got an improvement idea. For the next one, can you make an Iron Man suit instead that we can call to ourselves in times of need?" I asked.

"What's an Iron Man suit?" everyone asked. "I guess you haven't seen those movies before. Next movie night, I'll show you all the movies from the first Iron Man through the soon to be released Avengers 2," I said. ********

Thankfully we got home and no airplanes or helicopters spotted us, so we landed without a hitch or any press. We entered and my family was all back to normal. Strangely, though, I was the only one who could talk to my dog again. *********

With that, it was time to go home and on vacation. "Ready everyone?" I asked. "Yes," they all said. We first grabbed the clothes Marlene and Skipper had worn on their anniversary dinner for them to have.

With that, I activated my Universal Walkie Talkie and when the Portal formed, we jumped in. Once again, I changed into a Penguin. "Boy am I glad the bridge fixed the problem for me as well," I said. Another Portal formed and we all landed in the HQ and put ourselves back from the transfer.

That's a wrap on this chapter. Dang, some fans are nuts over the Pengotters. Sorry this chapter was so long. Please rate and review it, though. Time for the set of notes.

* I'd once again use real names of famous reporters, but cannot due to Fan Fiction's rules. Sorry.

** Do you like that way of creating the Pengotters? I hope you do.

*** That gives me an idea as well.

**** Referencing "The Otter Woman".

***** See the upcoming epilogue for further information.

****** Couldn't resist doing a dynamite gag.

******* Flying car idea just came to me. Saved all our butts, though.

******** Remember, this takes place in the future, specifically March 2015. So Captain America 2 and Guardians of The Galaxy have already come out and Avengers 2 is a few weeks out. Also, that was a reference to the Mark 42 suit in Iron Man 3, which Tony Stark can call to himself. I won't do any crossovers though, sorry. Trying to stay as close to the only two universes as possible. But who wouldn't want an Iron Man suit?

********* I essentially dropped them from the storyline after chapter 5, I know. But they were off doing their own things next door for the time they were reversed, so that everyone could stay here while we were all stuck.