With the penguins going further inland, they were going farther into the snowstorm. Mark wasn't completely healed, but he offered to go anyway. Skipper insisted that he had strength enough for it. But the penguins left the ship in the hopes of convincing some of their own species to go as well, preferably the females of their kind.
Mark,
on the other hand, was making friends fast. One of his closest
friends, Jem, was a frog who was very much concerned about his stint
with the extreme temperature. With Private being his first friend,
Mark was bored in the ship with nothing to do until
Jem came
along and offered to pass the time with a game of checkers every day.
Mark was slowly regaining health and making friends, some of which
were a rhino named Artie, a monitor lizard named Bax, an elephant
named Darnell, and Ted the polar bear.
-Note: I thought that Artie would be voiced by Danny Trejo, Bax would be voiced by Steve Carell, Darnell would be voiced by Omid Djalili and since I'm sure that many of you who have seen the short film with the penguins going to New York; I won't bother explaining who Ted is. Anyways…
With this group of animals seen with Mark as though they were his fans, they were dubbed Marky Mark and the Fan Bunch (I, at first meant for these animals to be called The Fun Bunch, but shortly after, it occurred to me that they be referred to as Marky Mark and the Fan Bunch), and they were strong believers of the "All for one-one for all" policy.
With that, they set up a grand dinner for all other animals on board, with the penguins as the guests of honor but it became apparent after but a few hours that they were no-shows…