It was an average day at Central Park. Skipper was snuggling up against a fire they made on the penguins center island, along with his team. Since barely anybody ever came to the zoo during winter, they knew that it would be unoticable. Of course the girls wouldn't mind. Kowalski was roasting fish over the open fire. Each one had hot chocolate. All seemed right with the world. Suddenly the girls came into the zoo. Private smiled at their entrance into the gates. "He-hey. There are the girls. Hello Brenna and Tera." The greeting was not returned. They looked worn out. Private stared at them, as they lifted their water mugs. They were ready to drink it, but it just went all over their faces instead. He tried talking to them. "Oh, dear. You two look terrible."
Brenna looked down at Private and smiled. "And you look magnificent, as always." She was not lying to the most adorable animal in the zoo. "Ugh! My arms feel like jelly."
Tera raised an eyebrow, and looked at her sister, rolling her eyes. They were bickering over who had it worse. "Hey. Aren't you the athelete? Besides mine are like pudding." They slumpt to the fence of the penguins habitat, and splayed their body on the fence.
Brenna shifted her eyes to her sister. "Well, Theodore's skull shattering screams were driving me nuts." She pulled a ice pack from her purse, and held it to her forehead.
Tera sighed in response to that. "Well, I won't argue there. Theodore is a loud one, and Jeremy is a chocolate diaper."
Skipper could tell that they were very tired, and worn to the muscle. "Hey what's the grumps and slumps?"
Tera explained. "Well, our cousin Sarah had a pair of twin boys, and we have been babysitting them for a little while. When you have a pair of babies, you need to hold them alot, and I will tell you right here, and now your arms get tired." They had not been lying the penguins could smell baby powder, baby food, and formula on the girls clothes.
Brenna doubled that. "Yep. And not to mention that there were two of them, so we had to hold them at the same time." The boys all stared at them. "Well, you should know by now that every person in the family has a twin. It's the genetics. Anyway. We watched them for two weeks, since they went out of town." The two girls laid horizontally on the benches.
Skipper chuckled. "Oh, please. Taking care of babies is a breeze."
They both stared at him with a confused look. "What?' they both said not believing what they heard.
Skipper smiled. "It's just like growing a plant. Only a smarter plant."
"Childcare is hard Skipper believe me." Brenna groaned.
Private was ready to disagree with that one. "No really. We've watched an egg before, and it wasn't too hard."
Kowalski agreed with the shortest youngest one. "True. We might be a little on the manly side, but we coud take care of a child easily."
Tera was thinking that this must have been a joke. "Oh, my. You boys have it all wrong."
Brenna and Tera sat with them on the island. The boys gave them cups of hot chocolate, and they sipped it, slowly. "Yeah. You boys can't raise it like a plant or egg. You can't just go commando with them. Babysitting is well . . . messy." Brenna said shrugging her shoulders. They all sat there when all of a sudden they saw a delivery truck pull up to the zoo. It had a big sign on the side that said D.B.P.D.S. A man walked out of the truck, holding two boxes. he looked pretty suspicious. As he held two packages, and his eyes seemed shifty. He walked into the zoo, and looked at some chart he had in his hands. "Uhh, hello, anyone? I'm looking for a Brendaline and Teraline King?"
The girls looked at the man, and waved from the island. "Over here. Oh, and call us Brenna and Tera. It's an easier name. That's what most of our friends call us anyway." He stared at them, as if they were crazy. then again, it did look a bit odd that they would sit in the middle of the habitat.
"Uhhh, yeah. Here, these packages are for you." He said holding the chart up to them. "They're pretty heavy for their size. It's like bricks or something." They both signed their names.
"Oh, well what is it?" They both said at the same time. He shrugged his shoulders. They should have assumed he didn't know when he guessed that they were bricks. They handed him the chart, and they were handed their packages. They seemed to be similar. A simple plain brown paper covering, a plain string to tie it with. They were pretty ordinary. There was a note on top of each one. They were both in cursive fancy letters. Brenna's was written as Brendaline. Tera's said Teraline. They both had the same paragraph.
I am dreadfully sorry that these two packages took so long to get to you. They were intended to get to you on Christmas day. Anywho they are the gift that I se3nd to you. I hope you enjoy them.
Your secret admirer.
They were surprised that they got a secret admirer. Not to mention liking both of them. They opened it up, and all of a sudden, bright yellow glow came from the inside package, followed by a flash. The whole zoo shooke violently. When the flash dimmed, the girls were no where to be seen. The bos were fixed upon two little red headed baby girls. One had big brown eyes, and the other had big blue eyes. They saw that the two packages were silver boxes. Suddenly a lense opened up and a simulation of Blowhole appeared.
"Hello, penguins. If you are watching this, that means that I succeeded in transforming your girls. They are no more than simple babies." The boys looked at the two infants as they laid there staring up. "I would count this as a chance for Kowalski to test his skills." That's when the simulation turned off. As soon as it did, the girls crying. The boys were totally blown away. What were they going to do now?
Skipper slowly turned to the tallest of the four. "Kowalski?"
Kowalski slowly turned to him as well. "Yes, Skipper?"
Skipper took a deep breath. "Tell me you can fix an antidote."
Kowalski pulled out his abacus, and started pushing beads around. "Hmm, it will take a few days, if done correctly, but if I could just-"
"DAYS?" Rico freaked out.
Private was hystarical too. "We can't leave them like this for days." He picked Brenna up, and rocked her to calm her down, Rico did the same with same Tera.
Skipper shot back. "Well, it's the best idea we have at the moment." He paced the floor, and Tera started crying. Without a second to spare, he reached into Rico's stomach, and pulled out a pacifier. He stuck it in Tera's mouth, as Private stuck his tongue out in disgust. "For now, I guess we'll just have to execute operation Take care of the twins ourselves. We'll have to need all of the stuff to take care of twins. We'll need diapers, formula, bottles, toys, cribs, baby powder, wipes, baby food, milk, and of course a whole lot of patience."
They sent the chimps requests to take some money to pay for all of the things on the list. In the mean time, they were baby proofing the HQ. Which meant that Rico and Kowalski were cleaning out most of their tools, and weapons, and crazy machines. As soon as they were sure they were done, they took a break. As it turned out, there was alot of dangerous things in the HQ. No wonder they decided to never have children. As the four slumpt against eachother, they stared at the baby proofed HQ. While it didn't look as tough and macho as before, it did look safe. While Rico stared at the babies, he noticed that Tera was holding onto Brenna's ankles, as she was diving into the chronotron.
Florence Italy 1508
Leonardo da Vinci, now an older gentleman of the later Renaissance, was busy painting his latest masterpiece. Lisa del Giocond was seate in a chair smiling enigmatically. She sat still as he worked with his oils. Mixing one with the other. As she sat in her chair, she raised a question. "So what is this painting going to be called?" She asked.
He looked at his model, and pondered it for a moment. "Well, how about Mona Lisa?" He smiled a bit as he began. Her smile returned.
"That's wonderful. What about the baby twins. Will they be in the portrait?" Leonardo looked a bit confused. He stared up from his canvas only to see two little baby red headed twins laying in Lisa del Giocond's lap. The two babies were giggling in her arms. Leonardo honestly had no clue as to how the two children could have gotten there. In a flash of light, a strange looking bird came out of nowhere, and snatched the two up.
"I'll take those two girls." He said as he grabbed one in each flipper. They were snatched out of her lap, as they nustled into his chest. he smiled a smile of satisfactory, and stuck his back into the light. "Kowalski help me out here."
Suddenly a second bird came out of the light. He was a bit longer and more slender than the flat headed one. When he appeared out of the light, the two sitting in the room were not surprised. They simply thought this was a miracle of the time. He took the blue eyed one, then as soon as she was in his arms, he looked over at the brilliant man that was known worldwide. "Hello, sir. I'm Kowalski, and may I say it is an honor to finally meet the Leonardo da Vinci." He said getting jittery. "I can't believe it is actually you. Here of all places!" He could barely sit still.
Without wanting to cause more trouble, Skipper was ready to leave. "Come on Kowalski. You worry about making an impression on the past later." The two left the chronotron before anything worse could follow through.
When they left Lisa del Giocond was smiling happily. "Wow. Those little girls were so precious. It's not very often you see twins in Florence." Suddenly Leonardo saw something he loved. "Wait. Don't wipe that smil off of your face. That is the smile I must use for my masterpiece." He sat down on his stool, and took out his brushes. "Now, I will begin. Whatever you do, do not change that smile. Think about nothing but those two babies. Those babies have brought a smile that will go down in history!" And he quickly started on the painting we know as Mona Lisa today.
present day Central Park Zoo
Skipper growled in Kowalski's direction and took Tera. "I thought I told you to get rid of that thing!" He growled. "All right I think the chimps have gotten all the things for babysitting. Let's just set it all up, and we can put them down for the night." They started putting the cribs together, and Private laye the baby blankets down. "All right, boys. We can lay them down now. As the antidote stabilizes for the rest of the time, we'll have to be a mommy and daddy team.
That evening they set up the rest of the stuff, as they got ready for bed. When it was sunset, they all started doing what they wanted to do. Private was sewing a quilt, Rico was fixing bottles of formula, for the days ahead, Skipper was reading a baby book, and of course Kowalski was holding the babies, rocking them carefully. After all, as far as he was concerned they would always be his twins. Skipper looked up from the book, as the babies laid in his wings. "Uhh, Kowalski?"
Kowalski looked up, smiling. "Yes, Skipper?"
"You won't be the baby hog, during these next few days, right?" Kowalski looked at the twins then looked back at Skipper, as Skipper raised a questionable brow.
He chuckled quietly. "Don't be silly, Skipper. I am a very understanding person." Skipper wasn't buying it.
Skipper rolled his eyes, as if he was lying a pile. "Oh, really. Private. Would you like to hold one of the girls?"
Private stood up, and layed down his sewing kit. He walked on over. "Oh, yes. I would love to! Can I hold Brenna, please?"
Kowalski turned his back in a defensive manner. "No!" He said stubbornly. He then looked startled looking down, hoping he didn't wake the girls up. He lowered his voice. "They're mine. Mine, mine, mine. They're my twins. Nobody says I have to share. They're my twins, and I'm they're daddy penguin." He said snuggling his beak in their red hair.
Skipper glared at him. "Kowalski, they're not a couple of dolls you can dress up and play with whenever you want. No matter how much you want them to be." He took Tera away from him, and took her near the crib.
"Hey." Kowalski whined. Apparently he wanted to take things over, as he always did.
Skipper was undressing her, and putting her in some pajamas. "I'm going to feed them some formula, and lay them down for the night. I don't expect them to sleep peacefully the whole time, so get ready boys." They fed each girl their desired amount of formula, and that got them sleeping in no time. The boys were finally able to get That wasn't very nicesome rest. They laid down and in no time they were fast asleep. Half way through the night, at about midnight the girls were up again. Ter started crying in her crib on the floor next to the boys bunks. Skipper groaned. "Kowalski. Take care of that."
Kowalski held the pillow over his face. "No, why can't you get somebody else on it?"
Private started whining in his bunk. "Someone do it quick...before she wakes up...the other" Just then Brenna tagged along in the crying. The boys all groaned and the babies kept screaming. Rico reached under his bunk, and grabbed hold of Kowalski's fliper. He clutched it, and yanked him out of his bunk, and onto the floor.
Kowalski grumbled. "Fine. I'm on it." He slugged over to the cribs, and grabbed each one in a wing. He dragged them outside, and they laid there in the freezing cold weather. They started crying louder. He slugged back into the HQ and slimed into his bunk. The boys heard no crying Private looked up at Kowalski. Private smiled sleepily.
"Did you ake care them Kowalski?" He asked returning to his pillow.
Kowalski grinned back and covered himself up. "Yeah. I put them outside." He said as he yawned.
Private smiled closing his eyes. "Good maybe now we can get some- WHAT? KOWALSKI! You can't leave them outside!" He flipped, as he jumped down onto Kowalski's stomach.
Kowalski groaned and pulled him off of his stomach, and dropped him down on the floor. "Why not?"
Private growled angrily at him, for making his Brenna and Tera suffer. "What if it rains? And what if Alice finds them?"
Skipper knew that he and his team never took care of humans, but this was rediculous. "Ug, Kowalski. Just bring them inside."
This was not exactly what he wanted. If there was one thing he couldn't stand, it was a baby crying. "Ah! Do we gotta?" Skipper nodded. Kowalski sighed and brought the girls back inside, still crying. "What could they posibley want?" Private looked at Skipper a bit worried. They both picked the girls up. Skipper picked up Tera, and Private picked up Brenna. They both pulled back their diapers, and looked.
"EWWWW!" They both moaned. They never had to change two diapers before. This was going to be a bit tricky. Skipper took a deep breath looking in a clear direction away from them. "Alright. This isn't a problem. Rico, could you mask us?" Rico regurgitataed a few gas masks.
Rico garbled out. "No problem."
Skipper grabbed the powder, and carried it on over. "Kowalski...me and you are on diaper duty. Rico, see if you can find us some clean diapers." They laid the girls down on a clean blanket.
The tall one would not have been so enthusiastic, had he known that this came along with two bundles of joy. "Why do I hafta be on diaper duty?" Kowalski laughed on the inside when he said diaper duty.
Skipper looked at him with his serious face. "Well you did leave them outside all alone, you do owe them one." He shoved a diaper in is wings.
Kowalski was not a happy early waker. "Urg fine!" The penguins were on the job. They got Tera's off first. They stuck it in a bag, and Private stuck a bio sign on it. Kowalski carried it over to the trash with tongs. Apparently diaper duty was unfavored. They got her all cleaned up, and Kowalski was ready to put the diaper on. "All right how do I put this thing on?" He stared at it, raising an eyebrow. "Uh . . . uh"
As he was trying to figure out it's proper function, Skipper was remembering exactly what they had said before they were babies. It rang through his head like a bell. "Babysitting is . . . hard . . . hard . . . hard." He snapped back to reality. When he looked at Kowalski trying to figure things out, he took over. "Stand aside soldier, I got this one. Tera. You have a date with a clean diaper." He managed to get it on her fully, and smiled at his triumph. "Ha ha. I knew I could handle it."
When Kowalski finally saw it, he took care of Brenna, and got it all finished. They looked so much better. When the penguins backed away to see their work, Brenna and Tera looked at eachother, for a moment. After a while, Tera picked up a toy, and smacked Brenna with it. It looked painfull, and actually made a slap sound. Brenna started crying, as Private tried to calm her down. Skipper knew they would fight and hit or yank hair, or something og that nature, and of course he knew that since tera was a fighter, that she would make the first move. "Tera!" Private looked at Tera in an aggrivated stare. " That wasn't very nice."
Kowalski rolled his eyes. "Now, can I put them outside? It was how my father taught me. I'm sure they would be just fine."
Skipper wasn't going to cave in. He took Tera in his arms. "I know things look bad on the first day, but come on, Kowalski. Do you honestly want to loose on a bet to this?" He held Tera up as she drooled slightly.
Private looked outside they didn't have very many hours till the sun came up, so he figured they had better try to get in some sleep fast. "Perhaps a soothing little lullabye will help them get to sleep."
They looked at the girls stare up at them. It was worth a shot. They knew Roger was the best singer in the zoo, but they wold just have to wing it. Private had a pretty singing voice, so he tried to start off. "Go to sleep"
Rico started next "Go da seap."
Kowalski was next. "Go to sleep, tera and Brenna." The birds all yawned a big yawn.
Skipper added on in. " Go to sleep, go to . . . " He didn't finish, since they all flopped to the floor, fast asleep. Rico was sucking his thumb, Skipper was on his back slightly snoring, Private was on his side, apparently exhausted. Kowalski was obviously having a swimming dream causing his flippers and feet to start moving. The wide awake infants stared at the four grown ups on the floor. They grabbed the penguins blankets, and covered each penguin with their personal blanket, and lifted their heads puttng the pillow underneath. They then grabbed their blankies, and pillows. Tera had laid her pillow next to Rico, and covered herself up laying next to Rico. Brenna pulled hers near Private and slept next to him. Before they laid down, they each grabbed the penguin's wing closest to them,and held it close.
The next morning, Julien was wondering where his red headed care takers were. He was very well aware of their schedules, since he usually snuck away to peek at them. Today they were not here. How peculiar. He thought that if anywhere they were probably deal with those womanizing penguins. He did not like the fact that Brenna and Tera spent their time with such annoying neighbors. With a hop in his step, he walked over to the island. The hatch was open, and strangely quiet. Julien peeked in to see what was going on. Private was holding Brenna feeding her some formula, as Rico fed Tera hers. "Oh, hello, dumpy penguins. What is it you are doing today?"
Skipper looked aggrivatedly at him with bag under his eyes. "Ringtail, will you please leave us alone? We have to feed the babies right now." He said warming up a bottle in the microwave.
Julien stared at the girls as they looked up at him. He got close to them both as they stared at him. Then they both simultaniously laughed, and held up their hands to him. He looked at them confused, and picked them both up from their flippers. Private and rico's wings flopped down from exhaustion. He smiled as they both hugged onto his chest and looked into his eyes. He let out a single laugh. "Ha! So what happened to them? They are tiny, and so very cute."
Private explained. "Well, they had a bit of an accident, so we are taking care of them for now."
Julien's eyes looked up in a confused. "Well, you need to fix them somehow, because the zoo is opening in a little while."
Private panicked. "That's right. The potion still needs time to set, and the girls can't do their work like this. What do we do?"
Just then Kowalski started to think. He started writing options. Lately twin options were coming in handy, and were also his specialty. At that moment, his brain hatched an idea. "I have some options. Follow me. Private and Rico let Julien alone with the babies. How much trouble could he muster up in a few seconds. They followed him to the dark recesses of his lab. "Well, anticipating something quite like this, I have built robotic replicas of the King family." He pulled a rope, and a curtain came down revealing two finely crafted robots. They were exsquisite, and pristine. Every little detail was taken into account. Even their eyes were differently colored. The three penguins stared at them, and were amazed. "I even equipped them with phrases."
The Tera robot started to talk with a robotic Tera voice. "Hello. I am Tera. Julien talks to much, and us twins are made to serve penguins." Skipper raised an eyebrow at that. That was not exactly something that they would say.
Brenna's robot was even worse with phrases than Tera's was. "I am annoying. Kowalski is better than me at everything including, science, and singing, and dancing. I have no skill." They knew that Kowalski and Brenna argued alot, but that was spitefull. private glared at him in annoyance.
Kowalski blushed a bit at that one. "Whoops! He he. How did that get in there. Anywho we put these out till we can return the girls to normal."
Skipper nodded. "Alright here's what we do. Kowalski. You're on robot duty. Rico. You and I are on display for the happy tourists, and Private here will take care of the girls."
Julien jumped up. "What do I get to do? Please let me help in some way! I'll do anything, anything, anything!"
Private raised an eyebrow. "So you really want to help?"
Julien smiled innocently with a high spirit. "Oh, yes!" They never thought of him as someone to actually care for children.
Skipper thought this over. Sure he never really liked Julien that much, but he was reasonable. "Sheilds up. Private we can't have him doing anything to jeopardize this operation."
Private thought over things for a moment. He looked at Julien as he was giggling as Tera was playing with his tail, and Brenna was playing with his crown. "How about he help me with the babies?"
Kowalski shouted loudly as if not wanting them to have anything to do with them. "NOT GUNNA HAPPEN! NOT TO MY GIRLS!"
Rico glared at him. "Shhhh" He hissed. He needed to keep his voice down so Julien couldn't hear.
Skipper rolled his eyes. "Alright. Ringtail is off baby duty, but perhaps he can work with the robots."
Private nodded. "Agreed?"
Kowalski and Rico nodded as well "Agreed."
Skipper blinked and smiled. "Great. In the mean time, I'll call the chimps in for infant call. Sheilds down."