Chimp Habitat.

Maurice groaned and all he saw was darkness as he regained his senses. He also heard a soft voice start to coax him back to the waking world. He sighed calmly at the gentleness of it.

"…Get up Maurice…" Julien tried to wake his chubby companion. "It is time to get up… Wakey wakey, Maurice…" Then the voice lost its tenderness altogether, screaming at him. "...GET UP! MAURICE!"

"Huh?!" Maurice sat up abruptly, coughing. "What happened?"

"I say, are you feeling alright?" asked Mason.

"Yeah, I'm fine." Maurice put a hand on his head and stood up on shaky feet.

"Well that's a relief, I was just telling Phil here how lucky it is for you to be alive." Mason said gravely. "With these two, your life may as well have been put in the hands of a deadly viper snake." The chimp named Mason pointed a thumb back at Mort and King Julien.

Julien looked confused. "Hey, a snake don't have no hands buddy!"

Mason nodded, grimly. "Exactly my point."

"Right…uh, what are we doing here at you chimps' place?" asked Maurice.

Julien rolled his eyes. "Stupid Maurice! Mort dragged you here after you died in de water again!"

Maurice frowned. "And you didn't help him carry me, did you?"

"Eh, no. I cannot be throwing out de royal back! Then how will I be shaking my groove thing at parties? No, I couldn't help Mort. It would have put me at jeopardy, and I don't understand dat show so why would I want to be in it?"

Maurice shook his head. "Whatever, did you find out what the note says?"

Julien blinked. "Eh…"

"The one we found in the penguin habitat, the one from Blowhole!" Maurice clarified, and still not getting any recognition from the king, he sighed with his eyes narrowed. "From the guy who wouldn't give you one of his Segway's…"

"Oh! I hate dat guy!" Julien scowled, and handed the piece of paper over to the chimps. "Here, you must read this so I may enact my horrible revenge upon him and steal his Seggy-way!"

Mason took the note and handed it to Phil who translated in sign language. Mason nodded as Phil read the note, and Mason read the signs aloud for the lemurs to hear.

"Call me, Skipper…" Mason read. "You know you don't have a choice…Maybe then we can talk things out..." Mason blinked. "The word talk is underlined and it is signed with initials: D.B."

"Oh no!" cried King Julien. "It's dat freaky lady! She has come back to enact her horrible revenge upon me!" the lemur king cowered in fear behind the chimps' feet.

"I doubt that." Mason said to the king. "And besides, her initials are C.D." informed Mason. "Dubois is only one word."

Maurice agreed that the king was wrong. "Julien, we already established that it was that dolphin guy who sent the letter. You know, that Doctor Blowhole guy. And why would Dubois come after you personally anyway? The worst thing you possibly did was sick Mort on her. She shot you with a dart. Twice."

"Eh, actually, de dart wasn't dat bad de second time around. It didn't bother me all dat much…"

"Anyway," Maurice went on. "This is obviously why the penguins left the zoo. They went to go battle the dolphin guy and save the world or something. I hope they get out okay, man. That Blowhole guy is bad news."

"If you're so worried, why don't you go look at their mission logs." suggested Mason. "That's what Marlene does when she's worried about them. Although the word around the zoo is she's mostly concerned for a certain flat-headed flightless bird…" Mason smirked suggestively.

"The otter likes the bossy penguin!" Mort remarked.

"Marlene likes de feather fish, say what now?" Julien blinked, surprised at finding this out.

Maurice shook his head. "Ignore them." the aye-aye told the chimps. "Where do they keep those logs?"

Phil signed something and Mason nodded.

Mason translated. "They are kept in Kowalski's laboratory in a box by the computer, which not oddly enough has a female dolphin as the desktop background."

Phil signed something else, but in dismay and with a tragic shake of the head.

Mason nodded again with a sigh. "You're right; he does really need to get over it."

"Hey thanks, and sorry for them barging in with me like I'm sure they did." Maurice thanked and shook the chimp's hand. The aye-aye was about to shake hands with Phil too when Mason cut in to stop him.

"I wouldn't touch that hand if I were you. You wouldn't believe where it's been only this morning." Mason told Maurice who recoiled back.

Maurice made a disgusted face and drew back his hand.

"Ew…" Mort even said.

"Dat is so gross." King Julien said, amused. "Where did he put it?" he asked excitedly.

Phil signed something and Mason turned up his nose as well. "Oh, I'm not translating that."

"Come on, Julien." Maurice started pulling the king out of the chimp habitat.

"But I want to know where de hand went!" complained Julien as he was ushered away.