Idea by Ultimate-Kowalski-Luvr.
Note: I have never watched Penguins of Madagascar before and I last saw Madagascar years ago so apologies if anything in this doesn't meet expectations.
What if the monsters met the Madagascar penguins?
There was a bright flash and the three monsters landed face first on the cold, hard floor. Link peeled his face off the concrete and looked around, the sky was dark but there were lights everywhere, disorientated, he tripped over Dr Cockroach and was back on the floor again.
"Ow!" he exclaimed. "Doc, please tell me we've transported somewhere safe this time!"
Doc picked himself up and brushed his lab coat down, looking around, his antennas went up high, "New York city! This most definitely is the big apple!"
"There are apples here? Oh boy!" said B.O.B.
"I'd say we've teleported into the city zoo, all these enclosures are for the animals," said Doc.
"Great, from one prison to another!" groaned Link.
"You three," came a voice, "Which continent do you hail from?"
The monsters looked around; the voice had come from the nearest enclosure, looking over the railing they saw four penguins staring at them, the second shortest stepped forward and squinted his sapphire-blue eyes at them, "You speaking the English?" it said.
The monsters just stood there for a second with mouths open, "Did…that penguin just speak?" asked Doc.
The penguins suddenly moved up to the fence and stood on each other's shoulders till the speaking one was looking Doc in the face, "This penguin can hear too!"
"Err, Skipper?" said the shortest penguin, "I don't think these are animals!"
"Well they're definitely not humans either, Private!" said Skipper, "Maybe they're some kind of hideous mutants from the sewers?"
Link, not taking the insult, simply poked Skipper and the tower of penguins toppled over. But the penguins performed aerobatics and landed safely on the ground, posing in a ninja style.
"You want a piece, little fishy?" said Skipper, "Come and get it!"
Link was about to step in when Doc held him back, "Link, we did not escape from monster prison to fight penguins!"
"Wait a second, your telling me that you three are monsters?" asked Skipper.
"Yes, I am Dr Cockroach; I used a device that ingeniously…"
"Accidentally." Link muttered.
"..turned our friend B.O.B here into a living transmat device!"
"Hi, I'm B.O.B!" said the blob.
"A transmat device?" said Skipper, he turned to the tallest penguin, "Kowalski, is this possible?"
"By the evidence that they are here I would say that they are telling the truth. But it seems unstable, seeing what it's done to the blue one there, he's completely melted!"
"I've always looked like this!" B.O.B protested.
"Alright, alright!" Skipper cut in, "Intros over, the sun will be up soon and the zoo will open shortly after, you three need a place to hide!"
"Pingu here's right. We can't go into the city, we'll never get anywhere without being spotted!" said Link.
"Rico, check the perimeter, make sure the zoo staff have not yet arrived!" said Skipper.
The fourth penguin saluted and waddled over to a bowl with a fish bone in it, sliding it aside was a deep hole, Rico jumped down it and the bowl covered the hole up again.
"Right, you three weirdo's are gonna have to stay here for a while, you can use King lemur boy's old turf. It hasn't been used since he got, accidentally, transferred to another zoo. It's been dormant for ages and there's plenty of space there for you to hide, but before you go there'll be a number of things you'll need to know around here. Kowalski, pad." Said Skipper.
Kowalski revealed a pad and pen out of nowhere and prepared to take notes.
"First, when the bell rings, it's show time. Just smile and wave at the people, if they throw anything at you, under no circumstances do you throw it back," Skipper momentarily looked at Private, "Secondly, ignore the chimpanzees,"
"Why's that?" asked Link.
"They're rude, plain and simple. And lastly of all, don't go into the sewers!"
B.O.B was scared at this warning; he nearly jumped when Rico emerged from the hole giving the all clear.
Kowalski ripped off the paper he'd been writing on and handed it to Dr Cockroach, "Memorise it." He said.
Dr Cockroach looked at the paper, there was nothing on it, it was just a bunch of scribbling. Dr Cockroach didn't say anything; he was foolish enough to believe that a penguin could write anyway.
"Right Doc," said Skipper, "Take Fish-boy and Bubble-gum there with you to the lemur enclosure and try not to attract any attention!"
The monsters slowly walked away from the penguins towards the lemur enclosure, "What you think?" B.O.B asked his friends.
"I'm thinkin we're screwed!" said Link.
The next few days were touch and go, most of the visitors didn't go near the lemur enclosure because they knew it was empty. But when some did go near it, the monsters had to hide, Link hid in a bush, Dr Cockroach in an empty wooden hut and B.O.B pretending to be water in an empty pool.
After the zoo closed for the night and the staff went home, the monsters emerged from their hiding places. Link peeled leaves and twigs from his scales as Dr Cockroach emerged from his hut, starting to smell a bit like it.
The penguins emerged from a hole in the ground and stood in formation as Skipper walked up to Dr Cockroach with a fish under his flipper, "We understand you're short of food supplies?"
"Well, we are," said Link, "Doc just goes foraging through the bins each night!"
"It's such a waste what people throw away!" Doc said.
"Well we've got a ton of fish we've been keeping in reserve when we were making our escape plans, just in case food was scarce on the outside. Anyways, we thought you might like a fishy?"
Link took the fish Skipper offered and bit the head off it, Private started to feel sick and covered his mouth, then the fish ape swallowed the rest, "That (burp) hit the spot!" said Link.
"That is repulsive!" said Doc as he quietly nibbled on an old newspaper.
"Anyways, the main reason we're here is cos we think we might have an idea to help you with your escape plan. Kowalski?"
Kowalski waddled up to the monsters and placed a visitor's map of the zoo, "Okay, you three are here,"
He placed a piece of blue tack, another fish and a cockroach on the lemur section. The cockroach tried to escape but Rico quickly flattened it into the map with a stick.
"Nice job, Rico." Said Skipper, "You were saying, Kowalski?
"And the outside of the city is here," he placed his flipper on the grass off the map.
"We know that," sighed Dr Cockroach, "What's your point?"
"You said your blue rubber ball there can teleport you places?"
"I can? Amazing!" exclaimed B.O.B.
"Yes he can," grumbled Link, "But he keeps sending us to the wrong places and the wrong times!"
"And we don't know how he can actually trigger a teleportation." Added Dr Cockroach.
"Aah, we have worked that one out!" said Skipper, "We get your blue booger there goin again and you three can make your escape to freedom!"
"You can? How did you manage to work it out?" asked Dr Cockroach.
"We are quite capable or working out something that doesn't work." Kowalski said sternly, "Now, if you two will place your hands on blue boys head?"
Link and Dr Cockroach did so, placing their hands on top of B.O.B, "Ooh, is this a game?" the blob asked excitedly.
"So now what?" asked Link, "How do you make B.O.B do his teleporter thing?"
"Like this," Kowalski waddled up to B.O.B and began waking him with his stick.
"That's it?" spluttered Dr Cockroach, "That's your great plan for getting us out of…"
FZIIIIT!
With a bright flash the three monsters disappeared, leaving only a smouldering patch of where they originally stood.
"Mission accomplished, boys!" Skipper said triumphantly.
From the other side of the zoo, two chimpanzees had watched the whole scenario; one used sign language to the other, "Couldn't agree with you more, Phil. What a bunch of weirdo's!"
The monsters landed with a thud on the floor, B.O.B reformed and laughed, "That was fun!"
Link looked around as Dr Cockroach muttered from the floor, "Wow, guess those tuxedo-wearing chickens really did know what they were doing?"
"Oh yeah, they did," Link grumbled, "They've sent us right back to prison!"
Dr Cockroach got up and looked around, they were back in the cold metal cells of Area 52 and they could see Monger approaching on his jet pack, "B.O.B, quickly, teleport us out of here again!"
B.O.B let out a massive belch of green energy, it was the energy that had made him capable of teleporting after eating the cake bomb, after tasting the burp he looked at his friends, "Sorry, what did you say?"
"Oh forget it." Groaned Dr Cockroach as he rested his head in his hand.
Back at the zoo, the penguins were returning to their enclosure, "I'm gonna miss those, guys." said Private.
"Me too, Private." Said Skipper, "But they're gone now and we won't be seeing anything like that again…"
A rumble of thunder and a bright flash appeared over the middle of the zoo, then a blue looking human with a large head landed face first onto the floor, along with what appeared to be a fish floating inside a robotic body, slowly they got up.
"Er, sir. I don't think your genius invention worked properly." Said the fish-robot.
"Drat it!" said Megamind.
