A.N. ~ Please enjoy the next chapter! :D
Chapter 1: Movie Night
"Trixy...Trixy, wake up." Private shakes her shoulder softly. Both teams are over at Skipper's team's HQ watching movies. The one they were just watching has just started showing the ending credits.
Trixy sits up and stretches some. "I wasn't asleep…" She mumbles with a yawn.
"Nor were you drooling on Marissa either, eh?" Skippsy chuckles as she takes a sip from a cup of water. "I thought you at least would have found the movie interesting with all the fighting and the adventure."
"I did like it." The Brit nods and yawns again.
"Did you stay up too late again last night?" Private asks curiously and watches as she sleepily nods. He wonders if she might have stayed up working on an invention or something.
"Mmhm hmm…" She mumbles with a nod as she gets up and waddles to the table. Kowalski and Marissa have already vacated the room to the lab, she notices as she starts to actually wake up. Rico and Skipper are in their bunks, looking at magazines and training tactics books. She looks around for Rachel with another yawn.
"Rachel is out getting another movie from our HQ. She should be back momentarily." Skippsy says as she notices the curious look on her private's face. "Maybe you should go on to bed, though. You don't have to stay up so late." She smiles at her.
Trixy shakes her head and stretches again. "No...I'll watch it." She says and rubs her eyes a little. "What movie is she grabbing?"
Skippsy shrugs some as she takes a sip of her cup again. "Not sure, but knowing her probably a horror."
"Well...I doubt that I'd be able to sleep through that anyway…" She says with a small frown and looks at Private. He is over cleaning up a bit around the new TV.
Skippsy smiles at her and slides a can of soda across the table to her. "You may need the caffeine to stay up then." She chuckles. "I would give you coffee, but you're too young and we do not need you to be bouncing off the walls."
Trixy nods and then looks curiously at Skippsy as she opens her soda and pours it into a cup with ice. "And why aren't you having coffee then, if I may ask, ma'am?"
"I wasn't in the mood for coffee?" The skipper shrugs and looks at her water. She swishes it around in her cup with an unenthusiastic look.
"Oh." Trixy says and shrugs a bit, still drowsy. She decides that that could be a logical reason. She then looks over at the hatch as Rachel drops down with the next movie.
Rachel waddles over to them and hands it to Skippsy. "This one?" She asks. "If it's not a good one, I grabbed a couple others." She says.
Skippsy looks at the movie and reads the back of its case and shrugs. "I actually haven't watched this one myself yet, but it sounds good to me." She says and waddles over to the DVD player and puts it in. She looks over to Rachel. "Go see if Marissa and Kowalski are going to come watch or not." She orders.
"Sí, Skippsy." She nods and slides into the lab. "MARISSA!"
Marissa jumps and nearly dumps all of a highly-reactant substance into another in her surprise as she looks at Rachel. "What?" She asks. "Is someone hurt?"
Rachel shrugs and shakes her head. "No, but Skippsy is wondering if you dos are coming to watch the segunda película or not." She replies.
Kowalski and Marissa each look slightly annoyed at her now. "You come in shouting like the headquarters is on fire about a movie?" She says.
"Yeah...But it is the movie that you've been wanting to see." She answers.
"Oh? Which? That new documentary on Newton?" Marissa asks, slightly interested.
"No?" Rachel looks at her curiously. "That one with zombies and that dude and stuff."
"Well...That was an extremely informative description…" Kowalski mutters sarcastically, but shrugs. "Sure, Rachel, you can tell Skippsy that we will be in there in a moment. We're finishing this experiment first."
"Okay." Rachel shrugs and waddles back out. She waddles over to her spot and sits down. "They said they'd be in here in a minute." She tells to Skippsy.
"Well, then they'll miss the beginning because I'm starting it now." Skippsy says loudly enough that she is sure that the scientists can hear her. She presses play on the player and sits down in the floor with her cup of water and a bowl of mini pretzels.
Just outside of the zoo there is a brilliant flash of light. "Whoa!" A young voice exclaims as she quickly flips in order to avoid landing on her face. She lands perfectly on her feet and softly pets the chick in her flippers. "And this, Elliot, this is the past." She says as she curiously looks around. Amazingly to her, it looks very much the same as it did before the war had started.
There is then another flash followed by a small thump as Nova falls through and lands on her face. She pulls herself up and looks unamusedly at Gwendolyn. "How the heck is it that when you go through time you land on your feet, and I face-plant? I don't find that fair." She grumbles as she rubs her poor beak.
Gweny shrugs as she pets little Elliot. "Maybe you just have a secret attraction to the ground." She says. "Like gravity has a crush on you."
"Haha, very funny." Nova frowns as she gets out a cloth and wipes off her glasses. "Now...How exactly do you think we'll go about this?"
"What do you mean?" She looks at her. "Didn't you think this through before we went through the thingy?"
Nova uncomfortably laughs a little. "Heh…No...It was kind of a spur of the moment thing...Going into the past…" She says and rubs the back of her neck. "I guess we can't just barge right in as we'd probably give them all heart attacks...But how else can we get to them and tell them about what's going to happen?"
Gweny nods and ponders this some. "Well, at least none of us exist yet to risk harming that pair of ducks..."
"Paradox, not pair of ducks." The young scientist replies with a look.
"Pair of ducks, paradox, the universe breaking, whatever you said earlier." Gweny shrugs in reply.
"True." She says and nods a bit. "I guess we can wait out here for now…" She mutters. "At least until I get an idea…" She takes a seat in a bush and Gweny follows her. She takes out a clipboard and an erasable red pen. "Let's see…" She murmurs as she taps her beak with the pen end. "We need a way into the zoo that won't really bring much suspicious attention to ourselves…" She then glances at a cardboard box and grins. "That's it!" She says as she slides over and grabs the box and brings it back.
Gweny looks at her confused. "We're sleeping in a box tonight?"
"What?" Nova looks at her just as confused for a moment before shaking her head. "No...No, we'll make this look like a transfer crate and 'ship' ourselves into the habitat."
"Oh...But which one? I mean...Were they not at two different zoos at this time?" She asks as she looks towards Central Park Zoo.
"Yes...But I am nearly positive that they are all at this one right now...Movie night or something, if I remember right…" She replies and rubs her beak again. "I think this was the same night Mom and Dad blew up the lab from playing around with chemicals."
At that moment there is the sound of a small explosion from the direction of the zoo. They watch as what looks like a dish of fish flies up straight into the air and then falls back down, nearly in the same spot. "I'd say that you may be right, Nova." Gweny says after that.
"Indeed…" She nods and looks at the box. "I think we can all three squeeze into this one with little trouble...But then how would we be able to tape it shut?"
"I guess we won't be able to...Unless we tape it shut from the inside?" Gweny shrugs.
Nova looks at the box and nods some. "I guess that would work well enough for what we need it to." She says.
Gweny nods and gets out a pocketknife and hands it to her. "Here, my flippers are a little full with Elliot. You should probably do the cutting." She says.
Nova gets the knife with a nod and starts cutting little breathing holes along the top edges of the box. "We'll have to be quick about this in the morning…"
"Morning? Why not now?" Gweny asks curiously as she looks at the box.
"Well, Gwendolyn, do crates often get dropped off in a habitat in the middle of the night? I thought we were going for calm and casual, not suspicious and obvious." The young scientist says with a look.
"Oh...Yeah...That's right." She nods. "But I don't really want to stay out here in a bush all night...It's all….Bushy." She says and looks up at the sky. She sees a single cloud. "It looks like it may rain!"
Nova looks at Elliot who is already snoring kind of loudly. "He doesn't seem to have a problem with it." She shrugs and also looks up. "And that is a stratocumulus cloud, not a cumulonimbus..." She mutters. "In other terms, not a rain cloud." She glances back at her.
Gweny kind of ignores Nova disproving her rain storm and looks at her brother. "Of course he doesn't." She says looking at her brother. "He'll sleep just about anywhere that he has a chance. He's a chick. All he ever does is sleep!"
"As I said, he doesn't have a problem with sleeping in a bush." She shrugs again. "And it'll only be for one night…"
Gweny sighs some. "Alright...Bush it is…" She says, though does not sound pleased about it. She curls up in the bush with her brother and Nova, nodding, lays down next to them and looks at the sky.
"Is it me, or are the stars brighter in the past?" Nova murmurs and glances over at Gweny. She smiles some as she is answered by only a snore. "And here I thought you were completely against sleeping in a bush." She silently chuckles and shakes her head. She looks at the zoo after there is the sound of another explosion followed by some loud shouts of an argument. Nova curiously slides out of the bush and stealthily closer to the zoo so that she can hear what is being said.
"Kowalski and Marissa! What part of 'Movie Night' do you not understand?!" Skipper and Skippsy are shouting, nearly in unison. "The movie or the night?!" Nova looks at her parents who are looking towards the ground.
"Movie night has nothing to do with blowing up the headquarters! It has to do with sitting your butt down and watching the movie!" Skippsy growls. "Just in case you did not know!"
"Ehm...We didn't realize that it was going to create such a large explosion...It seemed much smaller according to our calculations." Kowalski answers.
"Well, your calculations must have been wrong! The entire HQ is covered in red goop!" Skippsy continues to tirade. Nova continues to watch them and then watches as Trixy hops out of the hatch behind them. "Trixy, where are you going?! We're going to need all flippers on deck to get this mess cleaned up!"
Trixy looks at her. "I am wanting permission to go for a small waddle and return when everyone is calmer?" She asks quietly; Nova has to really strain to hear her.
Before Skippsy can open her beak to reply, Skipper nods to the private understandingly. "Permission granted, go while you still can." He replies quickly.
"Thank you, sir." She nods and slides towards the Central Park...And Nova's hiding spot.
Nova hurriedly slides back to 'home bush' and only barely catches Skippsy's starting tirade towards her brother about how he has no right to grant orders to her soldiers, and his response that she has no right to yell at his. Nova looks at Gweny and notices that Elliot has awoken. "Ebibibible." He softly babbles and crawls towards her. Nova tries to shush him as she keeps a look out for Trixy. The chick instead gets louder and giggles as he looks at the leaves around them in the bush. He manages to stick his head out of the bush and then his dark blue eyes grow wide. "MAMAMAMA!" He exclaims and darts out of the bush towards Trixy.
"Oh Rutherford's protons...This is not how I intended this at all." Nova murmurs and quickly nudges Qweny awake.