Title: Candy Challenge

Summary: It's October 31st 2017 and the Penguins are celebrating Halloween with a candy gathering competition. Skipper tasked some of their friends to hid candy stashes all over the city and is allowing the teams to raid grocery stores, snack shops, candy stores, and the zoo gift shop as well. The Penguins and Lemurs are racing to gather the most Candy(by weight) by the end of the night. Skipper has three rules for this challenge... the sweets they gather must be Candy (no baked goods, no salty snacks, no fruit), no stealing from trick-or-treaters, and most importantly NO cheating. But things start to go wrong when The Rats find out about the contest's Candy Stashes.

Timeline: After "Awesome Adventures: Into the Penguin"

Characters: Skipper, Kowalski, Rico, Private, Julien, Mort, Maurice, Archie, Marlene, Mooncat, Fred, The Rats, The Rat King, Burt, Clover.


October 31st 2017

18:00 Hours (6:00 P.M. Eastern Standard Time)

Penguin Habitat

(Skipper's POV)

"They did the mash they did the monster mash..."

"All right," I said, "First of all Happy Halloween everyone."

"Happy Halloween Penguins," Mort said.

"Alright," Julien said, "you didn't drag me away from my important Spook day celebrations..."

"Spook day?" I said.

"A traditional Lemur holiday," Maurice said, "That evolved into a holiday every kingdom in Madagascar celebrates."

"Who invented it?" I said.

"King Julien the second," Maurice said.

"Of course only a Julien could come up with something like that," I said.

"How dare you insult my ancestor," Julien pointing a accusatory finger at me.

"He probably meant that as a compliment," Maurice said pulling Julien's arm down.

"Where's Clover by the way," I said.

"I put her in charge of the kingdom," Julien said.

"Is that a good idea?" I said.

"Probably not," Kowalski said, "Since she is basically the four of us concentrated into a single individual...and need I remind you of...JJ..."

"You mean Eggy," I said.

"NO he means JJ...you know my heir...JJ..." Julien said.

"pretty sure it's Eggy," I said.

"Need I remind you about JJ's name?" Julien said.

"He's name is Eggy. And There is nothing you can say that will convince me otherwise," I said

"Oh yeah...what if I sing..." Julien asks.

"Uh oh," Rico said.

Julien smirks and then starts to sing, "Me and my JJ..."

"NO!" I said, "No...his name is JJ...he had no other name!"

"That's what I thought you said," Julien replied with a smirk.

"Anyway on to why we're gathered here on Halloween," I said.

"That I really like to know," Maurice said.

"I'm kind of curious too," Private said raising his flipper.

"Lemurs...men...annoying lemur kings," I said.

"I am not annoying!" Julien said.

"Oh no your majesty, you're not annoying...not annoying at all," Maurice replied sarcastically.

"Thank you," Julien said not picking up on the sarcasm.

"Welcome to The Halloween Candy Challenge!" I said.

"Candy Challenge!?" Julien said, "Prepare to lose silly penguins!"

"Uh... what's the candy challenge?" Julien said.

"Remember the candy run from a couple years ago?" I asked.

"Oh the one where it was rigged for Private to win!" Julien said.

"That was also the one where the fire queen almost burned the city to the ground," Kowalski said.

"Excuses, Excuses," I said.

"All right where's the list of houses?" Julien said.

"Ringtail," I said, "There are no lists...this one is going to be a little different."

"This year there are no lists," I said, "This year the team with the most candy...by weight... is the winner."

I pull out a handcart with a large industrial scale on it, "The weight-in is at midnight and failure to return by that time will result in a instant lost."

"Now you can hit up any candy store, grocery store, snack shop, the zoo gift shop, vending machines, or any vendor selling candy..."

"Mort likes candy," Mort said.

"Now to make things more interesting... I had some friends of ours hide massive stashes of candy throughout the city," I said.

"Now finding them all is not necessary to complete the challenge...but finding them will put you at a advantage."

Kowalski pulls out some maps, "Now each team with get maps...the maps will show you every place that sells candy in the area from vending machines to the checkout lanes of hardware stores and even banks that give out free candy to it's customers. The maps also show the relative locations of the candy stashes as placed their by the third-party hiders."

"Now before we get started," I said, "There are three important rules..."

"Rule one..." I said, "All sweets gathered must be Candy...no baked goods, no packaged snack-cakes, no salty snacks, no fruit. And none of those Treat plus toy things or any kind of chewing gum or gumballs."

"Aw," Mort said.

"Rule two," Kowalski said, "No stealing Candy from Treat-or-treaters... that's worst then stealing candy from a baby."

"And Rule three...and this is very important," I said, "No...and I mean Absolutely NO CHEATING!"

"Not even a little," Julien said.

"No not even a little," Maurice said, "Cheating is bad..."

"And by not cheating it makes it more fun," Private said.

"SO no cheating," Julien said.

"Nope," I said.

"Got it!" Julien said giving me a thumbs up.

"Now get to the starting line by Nineteen Hundred Hours!" I said.


19:00 Hours (7:00 P.M. Eastern Standard Time)

In front of Marlene's Habitat

We stood at the in front of Marlene's habitat, Lemurs standing to one side...us standing opposite them. We were lined up and ready to move. The Lemurs and us glared at each other as Marlene grips a air-gun.

Marlene was standing between us, "You got your maps?" Marlene asked.

"Yup," Julien said holding his out.

"Of course," Maurice said.

"I got mine!" Mort said.

"Uh...Mort," Maurice said, "That's a children's menu."

"No it's a map," Mort said.

"We got ours," I said as we each hold out our maps.

"Remember the three rules," Marlene said, "Candy Only, no stealing from costumed children, and no cheating!"

"I want a fair game," Marlene said, "We will meet near the zooviner shop at midnight...do not be late."

"We won't," Julien said.

"On your marks..." Marlene said as we got to the starting line chalked on the pavement.

"...get set..." Marlene said as we got ready to run.

The bang of the airgun filled the air as Marlene screams, "GO!"

We all ran off as Marlene walks away. Lemurs make a beeline for the front gate possibly to search the city. While he wastes time we'll clear the zoo of candy.

"Kowalski?" I said as we slid forward, "Options?"

"I suggest we start from the zoo and work our way outwards," Kowalski said.

"Split up and scour the zoo!" I said, "hit every candy cart, gift shop, and vending machine!"

"Kowalski!" I said, "your on vending machine duty! Private! Rico! Hit the gift shop! I'll search the staff break room!"

We split up Kowalski making a beeline for the vending machines. Private and Rico rushed to the zoo gift shop while I slid over to the staff offices. Kowalski used his lockpicking skills to open both of the vending machines. He then jumped inside and grabbed all the candy leaving the salty snacks and snack cakes. Kowalski slid over and quickly hit the twelve remaining public vending machines.

Private and Rico hit the candy vendor cart in the children zoo. They then hit the candy store located in the visitor center of Jurassic Zoo. Private filled several canvas bags with candy before putting them in storage (A.K.A Rico). The pair then hit the zooviner shop clearing out the candy section of the gift-shop. They also went over the gift shop in the expansion area and clear it of candy.

I slipped into the staff break room. First I took the individually wrapped candy in a bowl on the table. I grabbed Alice's key and unlocked the vending machine in the break room and took all the candy out of it. I then scoured all the cabinets in the break room and put whatever candy I found into a bag.

"Break room cleared of candy," I said into a walkie talkie, "Boys sound off...over..."

"All vending machines cleared of candy, Over," Kowalski said replied.

"Gift shops and candy carts cleared, over," Private said.

"And the shops back rooms? Over." I said.

"We cleared out the zoo's entire stock! Uh...over." Private said.

"Uh roger that," I said, "meet me at the zoo's food storage area! Over."

"ten-four," Kowalski said, "over."

"Bang up idea Skipper," Private said, "over."

"Yah! Yah!" Rico said.

"Over and out," I said releasing the "talk" button.


Shortly...

"I don't know what the lemur are up to," I said as we relieved the zoo's food storage of candy.

Kowalski looks out a window, "Still heading to the snack shop," He said.

We were wandering over by the merry-go-round, "Kowalski where is the first candy stash?" I said.

"It should be around here somewhere," Kowalski said looking at the map.

I look around and see our "wiener one" observation station parked, "Hmm...I thought we put that back in the garage?" I said.

"It's near the approximate spot," Kowalski said.

"BUTTONS!" Rico said before rushing the hot dog cart.

Rico knocks the cart over, "Be careful!" Kowalski shouted, "There's some very delicate equipment in there!"

Rico opens the bottom hatch and a avalanche of candy spilled out, "Quick!" I shouted, "in the bags!"

We quickly shoved the candy into a bag. Rico hacked up a couple more bags once those were filled. We then quickly filled the remaining burlap bags with the rest of the candy. Rico then swallowed the bags to join the rest of our collective bounty.

"Alright," I said looking at my copy of the map, "The next stash is hidden in Burt's place."

"Private!" I said, "While I get the second stash...you get the third stash hidden in the reptile house!"

"Kowalski! Rico!" I said, "track down the two stashes hidden in the park!"

We quickly went our separate ways in search of more candy.


19:40 hours (7:40 P.M Eastern Standard Time)

Bailey's Snackatarium

Julien opens the door and immediately falls over gasping dramatically in exhaustion. Julien leans against the wall as Mort and Maurice enter the snack shop. Julien manages to climb up on to the checkout counter and sit down on top of it. Maurice and Mort looks to Julien for further instruction as he catches his breath.

"Mort! Maurice!" Julien said laying back, "Start gathering candy...while I rest a little."

"Right away your majesty," Maurice said as they clearing out the candy from the store.

Maurice walks past some peanut butter winkies, "Hmm...didn't know those were back," Maurice said.

"Oh well...Julien hates those," Maurice said as he notices some Marsh Meow Meows, "Nah those cause Rico to go crazy...er then usual."

"What is taking so long!" Julien screams.

"We're hurrying up," Maurice said quickly shoving candy into his bag.

"I like working on overdrive!" Mort said quickly shoveling candy into his bg.

Maurice and mort quickly cleared out all the candy and rejoined Julien with full bags, "Alright," Julien said, "where to next?"

"The Candy store down the street?" Maurice said.

"Then what are we waiting for...let's gather more candy!" Julien said as the lemurs walk out of the store with their bags.

Julien then slams into a solid wall of muscle, "OW..."

"Did you just bump into me!" Rat King shouts pointing a dirty finger at Julien.

"No," Julien said, "A King doesn't bump into things...things bump into the king!"

"But I'm the King of the Rats," Rat King said, "So...you did bump into me!"

"What?" Julien said.

"News flash," Rat King said, "Your not the king of New York anymore!"

"Stupidly Rats," Julien said, "Don't be ridiculous... Mr. Alex is the King of New York!"

"The Lazy self centered Lion?" Rat King said.

"How dare you insult Mr. Alex!" Julien screamed.

The Rat King threateningly towers over Julien as he glares at him, "Your going to do something about it?" He said.

"No," Julien said with a gulp, "Sorry for running into you...we'll be going now..."

Suddenly Rat King grabs Julien and bring him up to his face, "What's in the bags Clown," Rat King said.

"What bags?" Julien said.

"These Bags," Rat King said holding up the burlap bags of Julien, Maurice, and Mort.

"Oh those are donations for the food bank!" Julien said.

"I know this area..." Rat King said, "There are no food banks over here!"

"It's more of a pop-up event," Julien said.

"Do you think I'm a idiot!" Rat King said.

"Yeah do you?" one of his rat cronies said.

"Yes," Julien said before he realized what he said with wide eyes, "I mean...NO!"

"Please don't be punching me," Julien said.

"I'm in a forgiving mood today, Dude," Rat King said, "tell you what...if you tell me what's really in these bags I won't hurt you!"

"But you would probably take the bags if I tell you what's in them," Julien said.

"We're not that desperate for food," Rat King Julien said, "We're just want to know...What's in the Bag!"

"Nothing," Julien said.

Rat King hoists the bags, "Hmm...Nothing sure has a lot of weight to it."

"It's nothing but Candy!" Mort said.

Julien turns and glares at Mort, "Oops...uh...wasn't supposed to say things."

"Can I have my candy back?" Julien said.

"NO," Rat King said.

"Quick question you didn't steal this from children...did you?" The Rat King said, "Because that would cross a line even for me! And that is not cool..."

"No," Julien said, "that was one of the stupid rules of the penguins candy collecting challenge!"

"What's this map," Rat King said ripping the map from Julien's hands.

"Oh that," Julien said, "The general locations of hidden stashes of Can-"

Julien put his hands over his mouth but it was too late, "Hidden Stashes of Candy?" Rat King said.

"Oh boy," one of the rat said.

Rat King drops Julien and studies his map, "Hmm...there's some locations in the Zoo and Park...but that's flightless bird territory...but it seems the big stashes are in the city."

"Can I have my map back?" Julien asked.

"No," Rat King said taking Mort and Maurice's maps, "In fact...I'm going to keep all of your maps!"

"What!" Julien screamed, "You can't do that!"

"What your going to stop me?" Rat King said.

"Yes!" Julien said, "But can you put me down first!"

"Sure," Rat King said dropping Julien.

Julien lands on top of Mort and Maurice the three of them falling to the ground, "Ow, that wasn't nice!" Julien said.

"Here, Keep your Candy Dudes," Rat King said tossing the lemurs back their bags filled with candy, "I'm not a total Monster...Happy Halloween."


20:00 Hours (8:00 P.M. Eastern Standard Time)

Elephant Habitat

I jumped into Burt's habitat and found the elephant in front of a canvas painting, "Oh hello Skipper," Burt said holding his brush with his trunk, "You came to commission a painting? That's a hundred Peanuts"

"Sorry," I said, "Not today...maybe another time."

"You know where to find me when that time comes," Burt replied with a smile.

"You probably know why I'm really here," I said.

"Oh you mean the candy challenge?" Burt said.

"I'll show you my hidden candy stash if you jump through that burning hoop," Burt said.

"What!?" I said looking at the burning hoop behind him.

"I let him make suggestions," Marlene said from the top of the wall.

I roll my eyes and jump through the hoop, "Okay," the elephant said, "Turn to that wall behind you!"

I turn to the wall, "See the brick that's loose," he asked.

"Yes?" I said feeling the loose brick.

"Push it," Burt said and I pushed the brick in until I heard a clicking sound.

A hidden panel on the brick wall opens and a mountain of candy pours out. I open my bag and it quickly filled up. There was so much candy that I needed to pack four more bags after that. I saluted Burt as I picked up all the bags and left. I returned to the front gate and placed them on the ground leaned against the wall. I then waited for the others to get back so we can put these all in Rico's "Storage".


Reptile House

(Private's POV)

"GET HIM!" Roger shouted as a plunger flew past my head.

"I think you taking this a bit too seriously!" I shouted as chameleons fired there tongues at me.

I ran past a "Stone" hallway with holes in the wall as Spork "Arrows" were launched at me. I made it to a fake platform in the middle of the room.

"Stop right there," Roger said the alligator wearing an eye-patch.

"You got the villain role down quite well," I said

"You think?" Roger said, "Thank you Private...er...I mean... Give me the candy treasure!"

"You mean that treasure?" I said pointing to clear plastic "idol" filled with candy.

I picked up a bag of sand and quickly replaced the candy filled container with it. The dais suddenly started to go down until it clicked into place. A trap door opens behind me a a massive concrete boulder started rolled towards me.

"I made it too realistic!" Roger screamed waving his arms in the air.

"RUN!" Roger screams as he runs past me.

The "boulder" picked up speed as I ran after the gator the spork arrows flying past my head. The chameleons were long gone as I ran towards the exit the boulder right behind me. A fake door was slowly descending as I slid under it. The door closed as the "boulder" picked up speed. I grabbed my copy of the map as the door finally closed the boulder slamming into it with a loud bang.

"I have to say that...that was my best performance," Roger said pulling off the eye-patch.

"You are a true actor Roger," I said as I waddled away.

"Now I said it a lot before but this time...This is the start of my Broadway career!" Roger said with a toothy smile.


Central Park

(Kowalski's POV)

Rico was moving slowly thanks to his current cargo. Rico actually had to empty his stomach of our arsenal for this challenge in order to fit more candy inside. I was struggling to read the map as we walked among the trees of the park. We had already found the hidden stash of one Antonio the otter bachelor and was looking for fifth candy stash.

"It got to be here somewhere," I said, "Archie promised that he wasn't running a con."

"Who are you," Fred said.

"Fred you know us! It's Kowalski and Rico two of the four penguins from the zoo," I said.

"We have a zoo?" Fred said.

"Why do we keep having this conversation?" I asked turning to Rico.

"Stupid," Rico said with a shrug.

"Who's stupid?" Fred asked.

"You are," I muttered.

"I'm not stupid I'm Fred," Fred cluelessly said.

"Uh see you around Fred," I said.

"And you are?" Fred said.

"Nobody," I said clearly he has a short-term memory.

"Oh... uh...bye nobody!" Fred said.

"How on earth does he remember where all his nuts are buried when he can't even remember what happened a couple minutes ago," I muttered.

"I Dunno," Rico said as we waddled away.

"Bye... who ever you are," Fred said, "Oh acorn."

"It got to be here somewhere," I said as I slammed into a shed.

"Found it," Rico said.

"Good for you," I said through a Clenched beak as pain flooded my nervous system.

I back up from the wall struggling to keep balanced, "In we go," I said.

"Okay," Rico said before slamming the door in my face as he excitedly entered, "CANDY BUTTONS!"

A bent in the shape of me was left in the door as the door slowly closed. I let out a cough as I feel to the ground unconscious.

"Whoops," Rico said as he saw the bent in the door.

Rico went back towards the door when open it and entered. Rico cringed when he saw my bent beak, black eye, and bump on my head. Rico laughed awkwardly as we headed towards the center of the room.

We quickly found four penguin-sized treasure chests filled to the brim with candy, "Okay," I said, "There's no way we be able to carry all of them."

Rico hacked up some bags, "Okay we pick up two of the four of them...and have Skipper and Private come back for the other two. We should pack all the loose candy into our bags."

"What is this?" Archie's fake French accent said.

We turn to see the Raccoon in his "Archer" get-up pointing a plastic "sword" (really a knife) towards us.

"Who dares try and steal from the Archer!" Archie said.

"Uh...we do?" I said.

"HA!" Archer said, "You look in no shape to fight me!"

Rico hacks up a wooden practice sword and approaches the Archer, "You appear to be a worthy adversary...but The Archer shall prevail!"

"This Candy was to go to the zoo-less... but you greedy heartless birds decided to steal it for yourselves!" The Archer said.

Archie then takes out a script, "Wait...You were suppose to draw your sword after I say that..."

Rico rolled his eyes and immediately started to beat up the raccoon, "Rico! No!" I said.

"That quite enough Rico," Skipper said as he and Private enters.

"Aw," Rico said.

"I'm out," Archie said as he left bow in hand as he tipped his hat.

"Okay boys, grab the candy chests and head back to the gate!" Skipper said.


21:00 Hours (9:00 P.M. Eastern Standard Time)

Front Gate

(Skipper's POV)

We emptied the contents of the four chests into bags and placed them next to my bags and Private's candy filled container. Rico swallowed all of them and added them to our growing collection.

"Kowalski," I said, "How about you take a rest with your injuries."

"Nothings broken Skipper," Kowalski said, "it's all superficial. And my beak has already returned to it's normal shape.""

"Good," I said, "But we are putting some ice on that bump and your black eye when this contest is over!"

"Hmm," Kowalski said, "My CCTV feed shows that the Lemurs already hit all the stores selling candy and all the city's outdoor vending machines."

"The Lemurs are currently gathering the next stash," Kowalski said as he showed us footage of the Lemurs leaving the Consolidated Amalgamated building in midtown.

"Are they pulling a wagon?" I said.

"Whatever works," Kowalski said, "besides that not actually cheating."

"Time?" I said.

"Two hours to midnight," Kowalski said.

"How many stashes are left?" I said.

"Four," Kowalski said.

"Where's the first of four?" I said.


Battery Park

We arrived to find a shipping container that was empty aside from some candy wrappers, "Somebody beat us to it," Kowalski said.

"I thought you said the lemurs were at the other side of Manhattan!" I said.

"Well we didn't have a "no swinging on trees or lamppost, climbing buildings, riding on top of cars, BASE jumping, or jumping from roof to roof" rule."

"Blast...Next year," I said.

"Is this the next stash location?" Julien said.

"You should know seeing that you nabbed it already!" I said as we slid away.

"Wait...what?" Julien said as we went out of earshot.


Liberty Island

"Who put one all the way out here?" I said staring up at the city's most famous statue.

"Oops," Kowalski said, "I read the map wrong the stash is actually..."


Ellis Island

"Which way the old immigration center or the abandoned hospital complex?" I said.

"In the main entrance of the museum..." Kowalski said.

Suddenly the Rat King and a army of rats appeared with a massive bag filled with candy, "Awesome! This is easy then stealing candy from a..."

"FLIGHTLESS BIRDS!" Rat King shouted the second his gaze fell upon us.

"What are you doing your over-sized rodent!" I shouted.

"What does it look like?" Rat King said, "Winning the candy challenge!"

"You not a part of this challenge!" Kowalski said.

"How do you even know where the stashes are!" Kowalski said.

"Oh these maps we stole from the lemurs," One of the rats said.

"Oh," Kowalski said, "That explains the randomness of their movements."

"One of the rules of this contest is no cheating," I said, "And I pretty sure stealing one of the teams maps is against the rules!"

"Also joining in on a competition you weren't a part of!" Kowalski shouts.

"Do I need to remind you..." I said.

"Of what?" Rat King said.

"This," I said as Rico hacked up a smoke bomb and we disappeared.

"Oh not awesome!" Rat King said, "They used their signature more again!"

"Um...where's the bag?" One of the rats said.

"We been had!" the another rat said.

"Look! Our boat!" somebody else said.

"What?" Rat King said as he turned to see their raft sinking.

"Oh come on! That is totally not fair!" Rat King said.

"So now what?" another rat said.

"Beats me," yet another rat said.

"We swim!" Rat King said before diving into the water his fellow rats following their over-sized leader.


Empire State Building

'Quick!" Kowalski said as we rush to the second to last candy stash, "The Rats Could catch up at any moment!"

We go up to the candy stash and start to pile candy into our bags. Suddenly there is a loud series of dings as one elevator starts heading up to our floor from the ground level. Rico starts shoveling the candy down his mouth and into his impossible stomach. Kowalski quickly grabs Rico and start vacuuming up the candy until none remain.

"Move out!" I said as we shatter in all directions.

The Elevator opens and the Rats step out, "Find the stash!" Rat King shouted as we quickly rushed into the elevator.

"Hey muscular dimwit!" I shouted.

"What!" Rat King said turning around.

"BYE!" I said as the door slid close.

"NO!" Rat King shouted pointing at the elevator, "Call back that elevator!"

The elevator is called back and the doors slid back open, "What!" Rat King said when he saw that the elevator was empty.

The Rat monarch looks into the elevator and finds a small hole in the floor, "No way!" Rat King said.


23:00 hours (11:00 P.M. Eastern Standard Time)

Mooncat's place

"Where's the Candy!" Rat King screams in Mooncat's face.

"I have no idea what your talking about," Mooncat said.

"The Candy for the penguins contest!" Rat King said throwing a punch.

The cat jumps out of the way as Rat King fist smashes into the roof cracking the concrete, "Oh the Lemurs got the final stash already," Mooncat said.

"So you don't have it?" Rat King said.

"Not anymore," Mooncat replied.

"I still feel like punching something," Rat King said, "get him boys!"

Suddenly a dark gray wave of rats rush onto the rooftop climbing up from the street below, "You do know cats eat rats right?" Mooncat said.

"Eat my fist!" Rat King said punching the cat in the face.

"Rat King!" I shouted, "Leave the feline out of this...This is between you and us!"

"Penguins!" Mooncat said, "Boy I'm I happy to see you guys!"

"Quiet!" Rat King said throwing the cat to the ground, "Or I'll send you back to the moon!"

"You know," Kowalski said, "He's not really from the moon."

"Though it is a great nickname," I said.

"STOP BEING NAUGHTY!" Private said.

"I thought we done with the super hero catchphrases!" I said.

"Debatable," Private replies.

"Rico!" Kowalski said.

Rico appears with his rocket launcher aimed at Rat King.

"I can totally beat all of you!" Rat King said as his rat army formed ranks around him.

"You fight them!" Julien said as Mort and Maurice appeared.

"You fight all of us!" Archie said aiming his bow at Rat King.

Marlene suddenly jumped onto Rat King's face and started punching and kicking his face, "That this...and that...and this again!"

Rat King Just shrugged as Marlene's attacks had no effects, "Are you done?" he asked.

"Oh...You have a really strong face," Marlene said.

Rat King effortlessly knocked Marlene off his face with just a flick of his finger, "Marlene!" I shouted.

"Marlene!" Julien shouts at the same time, "Oh now the gloves are coming off...you going down stupidly rat!"

Rico turns to Julien and shakes his head, "ya kidding' me?"

Rat King knocks the bazooka out of Rico's flippers before sending the crazy penguin flying into a wall.

"Skipper!" Private said as Rat King kicks Private through a wall and into Mooncat's place.

"I just redecorated!" Mooncat said as a loud crash could be heard.

"It's nice...I like it," Private said from inside.

"Thank you," Mooncat said.

I slid up a the only wall on the roof and flying into the air. Once I was high enough up I spun myself and then fell down towards the Rat King. As I feel and picked up momentum my spinning increased as I fell towards him in the infamous corkscrew.

The Rat King predicted this and side step at the last moment. I crash into the asphalt of the roof my beak getting embedded in the roof. A large crack forms as I struggle to pull my beak out of the roof.

"Here Let me help you with that," Rat King said as he grabbed me with his tail.

His tail pulled me out of the ground before he started smashing me into the ground with it. He then flung me at Rico and Kowalski. We all got flung off the roof, bounced off a awning, and crashed through the top of a tree landing on a branch.

"Hello," Fred said, "I'm Fred and you are..."

"We were just talking to you an hour ago!" Kowalski screams.

Archie, Marlene, Mort, Maurice, Private, and Mooncat crashed on top of us a few seconds later, "Ow," Marlene said.

"Later!" Archie said as he fled.

"Heroes don't flee from battle!" Private said.

"Well I'm no hero," Archie said sadly as he left.

"So now what," Marlene said.

Suddenly Rat King lands below us holding Julien in his paw, "surrender all the candy to me...or bushy tail gets it!"

"HELP!" Julien screams.

"That's not how this works Rat," I said.

"Very well then," Rat King said as he was about to punch Julien.

"Wait!" Julien said, "If you hurt me...I will hurt you back!"

"You and what army?" Rat King said.

"Oh...her," Julien said pointing behind him.

"What?" Rat King said turning around to see Clover with a terrifying rage-filled expression on the her face.

"How did she get here?" I said.

"The plot required it I guess," Kowalski said.

"You think you can take me on?" Rat King said, "Have you seen these muscles..."

Rat King then started kissing his biceps, "That's a bad idea," Maurice said.

"It's true," Mort said.

Rat King points at Clover, "One lemur? Four Penguins can't even beat me!"

"Oh when I'm done with you... you'll wish you were fighting the penguins..."

"Don't make me laugh," Rat King said flexing his muscles, "leave before somebody get's hurt..."

Clover grabs one of Rat King outstretched arms and quickly body slammed him to the ground. Rat King tried to get up only for clover to roundhouse kicked him in the face. Rat King passed out his grip on Julien releasing as his arm falls to the ground. Clover helped Julien up as the Rats carry Rat King away as they retreated.

"Ow... my pride," Rat King says as he starts to regain consciousness.

"Well back to the zoo," I said.

"Not if I get there first!" Julien said as he ran off his wagon in tow.

"This isn't a race Ringtail!" I shouted.

"That's King Ringtail to you...wait what?" Clover said.


MIDNIGHT

The clock struck twelve as we stood in front of two piles of bags, chests, and boxes of candy. Clover was standing off to a corner with her arms crossed as she stood "guard". Marlene stood behind the industrial scale and two very large empty bags.

"Alright," Marlene said, "It's time for the weight-in...please put your candy hauls into one of these bags."

Both sides quickly filled up the two bags as Burt walked up, "Burt please stick the Penguins' bag on the scale!"

Burt picked up the massive bag with his truck and put it on the scale, "1,000 Pounds of candy," Marlene said.

"Also known as a half ton," Kowalski said.

"Psst," Julien said.

"Now the Lemurs'," Marlene said.

"I'll try," Burt said struggling to left the lemur's candy onto the scale.

Suddenly the bottom of the bag ripped and out rolled a couple of bowling balls followed by candy, baked goods, treat-o-treat bags, fruit, snackcakes, and salty snacks.

"What is that!" I said.

"You broke Rules One, two, and three!" Kowalski said.

"What?" Julien said.

"You broke the Candy only rule," I said.

"And the no stealing rule," Private said.

"And you tried to add to your weight using bowling balls," Marlene said, "Which breaks the no cheating rule!"

"what?" Julien said, "No it doesn't."

"Last time I checked using bowling balls...which are not candy by the way...to make it seem like you have more candy in pounds...is cheating," Kowalski said.

"But I am the King," Julien said.

Suddenly Clover approached Julien threateningly, "Not following the rules are we?" Clover said her eye twitching.

"Uh..." Julien said before pointing to where he thought Maurice was, "It was Maurice's idea!"

"MAURICE ISN'T HERE!" Clover said.

"Then it was Mort's!" Julien said pointing to Mort.

Clover gave Julien a unconvinced look as she stepped closer.

"Uh...The Penguins won fair and square," Julien said before running off.

"Get back here!" Clover said.

"Maurice help!" Julien said.

"I'm not here," Maurice said.

"You do not Cheat!" Clover screamed.

"I am running away now!" Julien screamed running into the night.

"Challenge accepted," Clover said cracking her knuckles, "On it!"

"You can't run forever Julien!" Clover said before breaking out into manically laughter.

"Should we do something?" Private said.

"Nah," I said tossing him some candy, "Have some candy..."

Kowalski was ruffling through the lemur's pile and grabbed a bag of cheesy dibbles, "Dibbles Skipper?" he asked.

"But that's not candy," I said.

"Can't let all these snacks go to waste," Kowalski said tossing me the bag.

"Good call Kowalski," I said opening the bag.

"Winkies are back!" Private shouts as he holds out a package of his favorite snack.

"Marsh Meow Meows," Kowalski said holding the package, "Oh give me a break."

"Meow Meows," Rico said.

"GRAB HIM!" I shouted as Private and I quickly grab onto the Penguin.

"I'm out," Burt said as he ran away.

Maurice, Mort, and Marlene quickly grabbed onto the Penguin as well, "No bad Rico!" Marlene said as Rico struggled against us.

"MEOW MEOWS!" Rico shouted as Kowalski starts to back away before running off.

"KOWALSKI!" I shouted, "Drop the box!"

"MEOW MEOWS!" Rico shouts as he breaks free of our grip and dashes forward.

"MEOW MEOWS!" Rico scream rushing after Kowalski.

"Not the head... Not the head... NOT THE HEAD!" Kowalski screams from the distance, "NOOOO! MY BRAIN!"

"He'll be fine," I said.

"MEOW MEOWS!" Rico said before he rips the package open.

Suddenly Clover appears bragging a beat-up Julien and gripping a baseball bat, "Don't even think about it," She snaps.

Rico took one look at Clover's killer expression and immediately drops the package, "Aw," he said.

Kowalski appears with a flamethrower and melts the marshmallow treats to ash, "Take that Marsh Meow Meows!"

"Why ya Liddle," Rico said as he tackled Kowalski to the ground.

"This is not good," I said covering Private's eyes.

"Wait!" Kowalski said holding up something, "I have Candy Buttons for you!"

"Buttons!" Rico said taking the sheet of paper with candy stuck to it.

Rico started to enjoy his second favorite treat, "Whew," I said uncovering Private's eyes.

"All in favor of never letting the lemurs participate again...say Aye!" I said.

"Aye!" everyone (INCLUDING JULIEN) said.

"Well there's only one thing left to say," I said.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

The End

(Monster Mash Plays)