A.N.— Aaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnnd here is chapter 3! :D

Trixy: Hmmm...

Me: What?

Trixy: Nevermind...

Me: Okaaaay then. Anyway, hope you readers enjoy :D

Chapter 3: A Fox in a Bush

Skipper and the others all nod...Except Trixy. Trixy just looks at her kind of curiously. "That's okay, Cici." Private says happily to his older sister. "We didn't mind the wait."

Cecelia nods with a smile. "Thank you all for being so understanding." She says.

Trixy, though, still looks a bit curiously at her. "Um, Cecelia...What exactly did you get held up by?" She asks. There had just been something in the way Cecelia had talked about her delay that had sounded a bit fishy to Trixy.

Cecelia looks at Trixy. "Umm...Well, you guys know what it's like. I mean...Enemies and all that..." She says almost sounding like she is a little caught off-guard by Trixy's question.

Skipper nods and looks at Cecelia. "Yep, we all know that very well." He says. He then looks over at Kowalski. "Kowalski, why don't you show Ms. Tux here around the zoo?" He says with a nod.

"Right away, Skipper." Kowalski says snapping a quick salute to him with a smile to Cecelia.

Rico rolls his eyes. "Oh, bro'er." He mumbles and goes over to his Ms. Perky doll. When he's over to her, he regurgitates a brush and starts brushing her hair as he watches the others.

Trixy looks at Cecelia a bit curiously. "Where are your pets?" She asks.

"Pets?" Cecelia asks as she stops, turns, and looks confused at Trixy.

"Yes, pets." Trixy nods. "You know, Mr. Snuggles and Wiggles?" She says. "Where are they?"

"Oh...Eh, them...They're—They're back at home still." Cecelia says quickly with a slight hesitation to her voice. "Yes, you see...I figahed that it'd be...Um...Safah there for them than here...You know with this being a military zone and everything..." Cecelia then turns and gets Kowalski's flipper and starts dragging him towards the ladder. "Come on, K'walski, let's start the tour now." She says with a small glance back over here shoulder at Trixy and starts almost pushing Kowalski up the ladder.

Kowalski nods with a smile and climbs up the ladder. He helps Cecelia up after him. The others watch them go before Private looks at Trixy. "What is it, Trixy?" He asks her curiously. He knows the looks that Trixy is making all too well.

Trixy looks at him. "I'm not so sure that that is actually Cecelia...I mean...She loves Wiggles and brings her everywhere...And for her to leave that pink blob at home...I just don't get it..." She says thoughtfully with a small frown. "And then Mr. Snuggles...Even though I really, really hate that pet mutant spidah of hers...It still makes no sense of why she wouldn't have brought him, too..." She taps her flipper on her beak.

Private looks at her with a small shrug. "Well, she did say that she left them home because it would probably be too dangerous for them here." He says. "And she seems like Cecelia to me." He looks at her. "Maybe you're still stressed out from our little adventure on that island?" He suggests with another small shrug.

"Maybe..." Trixy says, though she doesn't really think that. She then shrugs and starts towards her bunk. "That very well could be the problem, Priv...I think I'll just turn in early tonight..." She says as she gets into her bunk.

Sarah sits outside the zoo in a bush, holding a pair of binoculars in her paw up to her eyes as she watches Kowalski and Cecelia exit the penguin habitat. Sarah grins her little evil grin as she lifts her paw to press a button on her ear-piece. "Operation: Plant and Convince is a success, sir." She says quietly.

There is a little static for a moment from the little radio. "Good...Ent S...Do...Pen-g...Ns...Ect...Ny...Ing?" Comes a voice from the static-y radio.

Sarah pushes the button again. "What? I can't understand you. Too much static." She says with a frown. More static is the only reply. The fox growls a little in frustration before she takes out the ear-piece and taps it hard on the hilt of one of her many knives. She then presses the radio back into her ear and pushes the button once again. "Hello?"

"DO YOU HERE ME NOW?!" Says a voice in the ear-piece really loudly.

Sarah yelps a little silently and turns down the volume of her ear-piece. "Y-Yes, sir. Loud and...Clear." She says as she rubs her poor ear a little.

"Do the pen-gu-ins suspect anything amiss?" The voice tries to ask again.

"Oh." Sarah says and shakes her head. "No, sir. It would appear that they've completely bought it." She grins wickedly. "But, then again, what else did you expect? They're a bunch of stupid birds!"

"That may be so, Agent S." Says a new voice on the radio. "But, this is also Mr. Tux and Ms. Guen we're talking about. They're resourceful and tricky...Can't ever be too careful..."

Sarah nods with a small, slightly annoyed sigh. "Of course, sirs." She says. She thinks that once this thing is all over, that she is so going to go on vacation next time her boss decides to team up with another villain who thinks he can boss her around like his own henchwoman.

"Report back here for your next assignment." The second voice continues. The radio then returns to static and Sarah pushes the button again to turn it off.

"I really hate this radio. I really do." She growls as she gathers her equipment and quickly leaves her bush.