Private was having a really good time up in the clouds. He happened to fly by the duck family, who were very confused about why he was flying. "Private, why are you flying? Penguins don't fly!" Mama duck stated. "It's obviously the work of Dr. Gooseman!" Eggy suggested. "No, he has wings, so he can fly!" Yoko, Eggy's sister added. "He probably fell off of an airplane..." Omelet, Eggy's brother informed. "Quack!" Shelly, Eggy's youngest sister interrupted. "I think I have superpowers! If I jump off of the ground, I can fly!" Private answered. Just then, Private heard somebody scream. He scanned the ground, and noticed that the scream came from his toxic frog buddy, Barry. He had fallen into Joey's habitat and was trying to avoid getting beat up (Joey was smart enough to wear boxing gloves to protect against the poison) "No! Don't hurt me!" Barry cried. "C'mon, we have to help him!" Private informed the ducks. Just as Joey was about to punch Barry, a squirrel fell out of a tree and into Joey's habitat. "Ain't that a treat, I get to beat up two mates for the price of one!" Joey said, pleased with himself. "Uh, did he just say we were married?" The squirrel asked. "No, that's just a term that Australian people use. I'm Barry." Barry greeted. "I'm Fred." The squirrel replied, reaching out to shake Barry's hand. "Trust me. You don't want to shake hands with me." Barry stated. Then, they proceeded to dodge Joey's blows. Private did a really deep dive from the air and managed to knock Joey off of his feet. Then, as Private began to punch Joey, the ducks helped Barry and Fred escape. The fight was getting the attention of the rest of the zoo inhabitants. After about ten minutes, the whole zoo was watching Private beat up Joey, plus Barry, Fred, and the ducks were watching too! "Go Private!" Skipper and Kowalski cheered. "Kaboom!" Rico added. All of the other animals were cheering too. Unfortunately, even though the zoo was closed today, Alice, Hallie, Marla, Max, and Dexter were right across the street. Alice and the girls had just finished packing everything into the car. "I wish Macy was here... She was tall and strong, but pretty too." Marla complained. Macy was a friend of Juliana, Kylie, Hallie, and Marla that they had gone to school with. It was true that Macy was tall, VERY tall as a matter off fact. She was the tallest girl in sixth grade, being 6'8". Kylie, the fifth shortest girl in sixth grade, was well under Macy's height, being only 4'11". Marla was an inch taller than Kylie, still short. Hallie was 5'3", and Juliana was 5'4". Macy had to transfer schools in the middle of the year, but Kylie often wrote letters to her. "Marla, remember Percy Bobby? That boy who joked a lot?" Hallie asked. Percy Bobby was a boy they had gone to school with. One time, they were watching a video about "The Ring Of Fire" in geography class, and a volcano erupted on screen, spewing out tons of gas. Percy was sitting next to his friend Joe, so he said "Joe! I told you not to eat those beans!" Everyone had started to laugh, Hallie and Marla even laughed remembering that. Alice heard some noises coming from the zoo. "What's that noise?" Alice asked the girls. "Uh, I'm thinking, I'm thinking, I'm thinking..." Hallie began to blabber. Marla put her hand over Hallie's mouth to keep her from wasting time chattering. "Hallie, we're aware that you're thinking! I'll go investigate!" Marla shouted as she stomped off toward the zoo. Alice, Hallie, Dexter, and Max waited in the car. "I wonder what my animal friends are doing that's making so much noise." Marla thought as she climbed over the fence. Then, she followed the sounds of cheering to Joey's habitat, where she saw Private beating up a screaming Joey. "Okay! You win, you win!" Joey yelled as Private continued to punch him in the face. "No! You have to learn your lesson about beating everyone up!" Private replied as he kicked Joey. "Well how is you beating me up helping?!" Joey screamed. "Everyone stop!" Marla yelled as she jumped into the air. To her suprise, she managed to fly. "Hey, I can fly! I beleive I can fly!" Marla sang, distracted from what she was doing. All of the animals stopped cheering and directed their attention to Marla, amazed that a human could fly. "Only birds can fly!" Pinky exclaimed. "Some mammals can fly." Kowalski added. Private stopped beating up Joey, who was now looking up at Marla. "Wow, you can fly too?" Private asked Marla as he flew around. "I guess I can." Marla replied. "I want to fly too!" Mort cried as he jumped up into the air and began flying. "Okay, now things are gettin weird..." King Julien informed. "Now? Things have been weird since killed Kylie's parents way back on Sunday! It's Wednsday now, and things are still weird!" Skipper exclaimed. Marla stopped flying and landed next to Joey. "Now what was I doing again... Oh yeah! Guys, please go back to your own habitats and stop making noise. You're getting the attention of people outside of the zoo. Be nice to one another, and at ten thirty tonight, all of you will meet me and my friends at the zoo gift shop for an important confrence, okay?" Marla explained. "Agreed." All the animals replied. "Do we have to come to?" Barry and Fred asked. "I suppose so, if you want to. You could live in that tree by the zoo gate, so you won't have to walk as far." Marla suggested. All of the animals went back to their habitats, Fred stayed on a tree branch and Barry was perched in a knothole on the side of the tree, and Marla went back to the car with her friends. They drove home, and once they got back, Hallie accidentally set Kylie's favorite stuffed animal on fire (fortunatley, when Alice was using the bathroom, so she didn't know that the girls had superpowers) Kylie took her cup of water and dumped it over the animal before yelling at Hallie to be more careful. "Guys! Calm down! Tonight at ten thirty, we sneak to the zoo and discuss our superpowers with the animals, okay?" Marla informed. "Okay." The girls agreed. After eating dinner, the girls went to their beds and pretended to be asleep. They did not know that something bad was about to happen.
