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Kowalski paced the dark green grass below him with his flippers crossed behind his back and his head down. Think Kowalski! What would Skipper do? He wouldn't give up. I'm 100% sure on that. You have people counting on you! He thought to himself looking up at the others. They were counting on him.
"Okay, maybe we could walk there and make it before midnight." Kowalski suggested after nearly pacing a six foot moat in the ground.
King Julien and Maurice were still shocked that it was Father's Day weekend. Usualy King Julien remembered all of the holidays. I guess he didn't like thinking of Father's Day because his dad wasn't alive. (A/N- I'm saying that, because in the sond "I like to move it move it", King Julien says his dad was a king as well.)
Doris waddled up to Kowalski with a little trouble. She still wasn't used to her new penguin feet. "Kowalski, if we walk, it'll take us hours to get there." She said placing a flipper on his back.
Kowalski sighed and lifted his head up with a few tears in his eyes. "I know Doris, it's just that I'm out of ideas." He then looked back down ashamed.
Doris opened her beak to say something else, but then there was this huge rumbling noise that shook the ground. "Whoa!" Doris said stumbling on her back.
"Mom!" Ariel yelled trying to run to her, but she couldn't walk much better than her mom could. "Mom, please don't die!"
Doris had to smile. "I just fell over honey." She said getting herself back up with Ariel and Kowalski's help. "What was that noise anyway?"
The animals looked around and didn't see anything. Just then, this huge truck seems to drive out of nowhere! Inside it was none other than Officer X. He stepped out of the van with his usual police uniform on. "Well looky here. Five penguins, three lemurs, and one female slasher"
Carrie popped her claws out of her paws with a very angry look on her face. "Don't worry guys. This won't take long." She said before running up to the officer.
Officer X didn't run, but he did take out a thick rope and lassoed the dangerous wild cat into a hog tie. "Ha! You think I'd fall for that old trick again? Well you're wrong!"
She tried to break free, but the ropes were way too thick! "Oh come one you stupid ropes!" she growled as her razor sharp claws tore at the trap. Eventually, she had to give up.
Ariel held onto Doris and Doris held onto Kowalski. Kowalski, however, wasn't looking at Officer X. He was looking at the van. It was the same one they encountered when Rico gave up his dolly for a little girl.
"It's her." Kowalski said in a small whisper at the red laser shooting van. "She lives!" he said a little louder throwing his flippers in the air.
Doris stared at Kowalski. Her? Who's he talking about? She thought to herself. Then an idea hit her. "Kowalski, we can use the van to drive to the Hoboken Zoo!" she yelled shaking Kowalski's shoulders excitedly.
Kowalski snapped back into reality. "We can drive her-I mean it!" Kowalski corrected. Now he was in love with two..uh…I want to say girls, but you know.
"Why are you calling the van a girl?" Doris asked starting to get a little jealous and crossing her flippers across her chest. "Is there a certain story between you and this...this machine?"
"Now Doris, it was only a small crush." Kowalski said to defend himself. "Nothing happened-oh sweet mercy." He said noticing Doris storming up to him.
"You fell in love with a vehicle when you said you loved me!" Doris yelled with her flippers curled up into fists and shooting him a death glare. Kowalski ran. "Oh come back here you! How dare you cheat on me with another man's car?" Then she started chasing him.
"Ahhhh! Of all the times to fly!" Kowalski yelled waving his flippers as Doris chased him around the trees, rocks, benches, and even Officer X.
Ariel, who was as confused as ever, made her way to Private, "Why's my mom going to kill Mr. Kowalski?"
"Let's just say Kowalski looked at that van's trunk the wrong way." Private answered watching the two run around the zoo like a lion chasing its prey, Doris being the lion and Kowalski being the prey.
Officer X tried to catch the two. "Come back here! In the name of animal control and pretzel cart regulation!" he yelled trying to snatch up at least one of the birds, but they were too fast! After a series of failed attempts, he took out his tazer.
The animals gasped, except for Kowalski and Doris, who were too busy running to pay attention. Just then, Officer X aimed his tazer and hit Doris right in the back.
"MOM!" Ariel yelled reaching out her flipper to her unconscious mother.
Kowalski turned around. "DORIS, NO!" Kowalski yelled running back to her. "Oh Doris, how could I even think that that pile of metal and bolts was more important than you?" he said leaning down to her chest to see if her heart was still beating. It was.
"Kowalski" Doris whispered.
Kowalski gasped and leaned down close to Doris. "Are you alright my dear?"
"Did you mean those things you said?" she asked her heart fluttering in her chest.
"Of course I did." Kowalski answered wiping a few tears from his eyes. "I think that I was stupid to not say that earlier."
Doris smiled. "Have you had any crushes on any golf carts or convertibles I should know about?"
Kowalski had to laugh. "No, I'll never fall in love with another vehicle again. I swear." He then leaned down and kissed her.
Doris smiled when Kowalski kissed her. "Good, cause I'll kill it, which by the way is an it. Not a her!" she said raising her voice a little bit.
"Mom, did you just fall again or are you going to die?" Ariel asked running up to the now back together couple with worry in her voice. "That way I know if I should tell you not to die."
Doris struggled to sit up. "I just fell over. Don't worry sweetie." She rubbed her back where the tazer had hit her. "Who is that guy anyway?" she looked over to the big officer as he pulled out a metal cage from the back of her new worst enemy.
"Officer X, a crazy animal control officer." Kowalski answered. "Remember when we brought that stray cat over to your habitat?"
"Oh yeah, then you had to go because Private said a scary man was coming." Doris said remembering the incident. "That was him?"
Kowalski nodded.
"When did that happen?" Ariel asked.
"That happened before you came to the zoo." Kowalski explained. "I think that I have a good idea how to get to the zoo though."
"Does it involve the van?" Doris grumbled.
"Yes" Kowalski said lowering his head.
"Do you want me to chase you again?" Doris asked already getting up on her feet.
"No! We let Officer X catch us, and then when he's near the zoo, we jump out of the cages. Rico could burst through the van's doors easily." Kowalski quickly explained before Doris had the chance to slap him silly.
Doris smiled. "That works"
Doris and Ariel were ordered to distract the animal control officer by running around, while Kowalski told everyone the plan. When that was done, they let Officer X put them in his truck.
"Hey watch it! My royal kingly hips are to be handled with extreme caution and care!" King Julien yelled as Officer X's beefy hands tossed him in a cage with the others inside of it.
At the Hoboken Zoo. . . . . . . . .
Rhonda was guarding a cage that had Eggy and Peanut in it. They were bored, so they decided to tease Rhonda. She deserved it! They would be safe and sound at home if it wasn't for her. Stupid walrus!
"Why are you two starring at me?" Rhonda asked annoyed using her British voice. She felt more like a babysitter than a guard with these two.
"It's just that….I know people take pride in size, but isn't there a limit of some sort here?" Peanut asked with a small roll of his hands.
"I'm not fat!" Rhonda yelled. "I'm a walrus, its nature's way." Then she turned around to guard and tried to ignore the two.
"Jeez, what did you do to nature?" Eggy asked sarcastically. Peanut snorted and tried to not burst with laughter. He did give Eggy a thumbs up, while he held his mouth with only a few chuckles leaking through.
Eggy smiled a thank you and tried to hold in a few laughs himself.
"I'd stop the giggling if I were you." Rhonda said not turning around from the wall that surrounded the cage. "I'd hate to see anything happen to your friends and families."
Eggy and Peanut stopped laughing the moment their friends and families came in their minds, but they got right back up. "Don't worry, we've got at least eight escape routes. One's in your nose, I'm pretty sure we could fit a month's supplies of snacks in their as well." Peanut said before chuckling again.
Rhonda probably would've squashed them, but Dr. Blowhole gave her strict orders to not lay a hand on them. If I had a weapon on me right now, those boys wouldn't know what hit them. Rhonda thought to herself enjoying the thoughts of getting revenge on them.
A few moments later, a small wooden door in front of her creaked open revealing the red eyed penguin in the door way. "We've got Skipper, and I just received message that Dr. Blowhole arrived." He said with his deep voice
Rhonda smiled. "Thank goodness! I can finally get out of this room" she glared at the pup and duckling then made her way out the door with him leaving Peanut and Eggy alone.
Peanut smiled at Eggy, who took out a key and opened the lock. "Who knew that she was dumb enough to place the key under her?" Eggy said as he and Peanut walked out of the cage's door.
"Hey, at least she's a heavy sleeper. I thought that she was going to wake up from us struggling to get that key out from under her." Peanut said. His light blue eyes started to sparkle with adventure. "Now let's find the others."
The two pals snuck out the door. Surprisingly no one was out in the hallway. They looked around and stayed quiet to listen for a noise of any kind. Hopefully it would be a friend and not of Dr. Blowhole's agents. Both boys shuddered at the thought.
In Officer X's van. . . . . . . . . .
Rico, who had picked the lock of the cage earlier, was looking out of the widow to see if they were close to the Hoboken Zoo yet. "Uh! Here!" Rico grunted pointing out the widow. Kowalski looked through the window as well and saw the Hoboken Zoo coming closer and closer. It was a little hard to tell, because it had recently started to rain.
"We're here!" Kowalski yelled down to the others. Then he turned towards Rico. "As soon as we reach the target, I want you to blow the back of this truck off."
Doris smiled now that her new enemy was going to blow. She covered her ears like the others were doing. "We're ready!"
Rico nodded and laughed his crazy laugh and stood towards the door with a stick of dynamite coming up his throat.
"On my mark….four yards, three, two, NOW!" Kowalski yelled pointing to the weapons expert of the team. Rico nodded and spat out an exploding stick of dynamite that blew the van's back off.
"What the-?" Officer X said confused after he heard a loud band. He pulled over and looked at what used to be the back of his van. His eyes twitched for a second under his sunglasses. Then he got down on his knees. "Noooooooooooo!" he yelled screaming in the pouring rain with his fists in the air. "I didn't get the insurance! Curse you animals!"
Rico, Kowalski, and Private shared a group high-five as they watched Officer X scream in the rain. "Wouldn't Skippa be proud?" Private asked happily with their first mission without their leader being a success.
Kowalski and Rico nodded. Then, they walked into the Hoboken Zoo. "Wow, this entire zoo is indoors!" Ariel said looking at the many doors along the white hallways with a few photos of animals and people on it.
"Shhhhh" Doris said. "We don't want anyone to hear us." Ariel then stayed quiet.
Ariel then saw a funny picture of two teenage girls sticking their tongues out and waddled over to it. She giggled. "Humans can be so funny." She turned around to head back to her mom, but then something pulled at her flipper.
"Athena? Elli?" a familiar voice asked. She immediately recognized it. "Peanut?" Ariel said facing the pup with Eggy at his side.
The two boy's mouths dropped open. "Ariel? You…you're….a-"
"Penguin" Ariel finished smiling a bit. "One of Mr. Kowalski's inventions, it's a long story."
"Yeah, well I'd love to hear it, but we don't have time." Eggy said, letting go of her. "Is your mom here?" Peanut asked hoping the answer would be yes.
"Yeah, Mr. Kowalski, Private, Rico, Maurice, King Julien, and Ms. Carrie too" Ariel said while nodding her head. She took hold of their paw and wing. "They're over here."
"Mom?" Ariel said with Peanut and Eggy behind her.
Doris turned around at the sound of her daughter's voice. "Ariel, don't you dare sneak away like that ever again!" she said sternly.
"Sorry mom, but look who I found." Ariel said pulling Eggy and Peanut closer to them.
They gasped. "Peanut! Eggy!" they yelled running to them and giving them a hug. "Do you two know where the others are?" Kowalski asked looking at the two.
Eggy and Peanut looked down sadly. "No, when Rhonda found us, she put all of us into different rooms." Peanut said shuffling his feet nervously. "We just got out of our cage." Eggy said looking up at them.
Kowalski nodded. "It's okay. Dr. Blowhole plays hardball. I don't think that I could've broken out of a cage when I was your age. I'm just glad to see you're okay."
The two boys looked up with smiled on their faces. "Really?" they asked feeling like heroes.
Kowalski nodded. Then he turned towards the others with a smile on his face. "Now, I know that they're here."
"Should we split up?" Carrie asked.
Kowalski thought for a minute. "It may be dangerous to separate, but if everyone's scattered across this place like Eggy and Peanut say, then we may have to."
"Why don't we travel in small groups the we meet up in the front when we've found someone." Private suggested. "I'll stay with the kids."
Kowalski smiled at Doris. "I'll be with Doris and the lemurs should stay with our toughest members Rico and Carrie for protection."
They nodded and went in the opposite directions of the zoo to find the other kids, Marlene, Maddie, and Skipper with their teams.
Dun Dun Dun! In the next chapter, we will finally get Dr. Blowhole in the story! I hope you all liked this chapter and maybe I'll have chapter 8 posted today too! : )
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