A.N.— Here is chapter two! Please enjoy! :D
Chapter 2: World War Three
"What the Buckingham?!" Trixy exclaims in surprise as she looks down at the small chick that is happily hugging her leg.
"Mamama." The chick squeals with delight as he continues to hug her and rub his little cheek on her leg.
Trixy reaches down and picks him curiously up. "Ehm...Who may you be, and why are you hugging me?" She mumbles as she looks at him. "Are your parents close by?"
Elliot only goes in for a hug around her neck. "Mamama." He again repeats. He looks towards the bush some and wonders why his big sister isn't coming to hug 'Mama,' too.
Trixy follows his gaze at the bush. "Do you know someone who lives in a bush?" She quietly asks and waddles over to the bush. "Are your parents over there, little one?"
Nova looks at Gweny as she has finally awoken. "Elliot has made contact with Trixy. He went completely against the plan!"
"Well, he's a chick he doesn't—He's with Mum?!" Gweny then exclaims as her tired mind comes to attention. She then pushes out of the bush and almost runs into Trixy and Elliot. "Oh, Buckingham, I'm sorry…" She gasps a little. She finds it amazing how much her mom resembles her at this age.
Trixy only looks at her for a moment, taking in the fact that Gweny a similar style as herself with a very close accent to her own. "Ehmmm…." She mumbles for a moment before pushing the thought away. She holds Elliot out towards Gweny curiously. "Euhm, is he yours?" She asks, thinking the penguin before her seems a little young for a mother, but she tries not to judge.
"Well, he's my little brother actually." Gweny replies and doesn't take the chick. She glances nervously at the bush for Nova's two-cents on what to do. Nova gestures that she should get on with it. "And to be technical...You are his mum…" She says and clear her throat.
"What?" Trixy blinks and looks at her confused and shakes her head. "No...No, I think I would remember laying an egg...And I know I haven't…" She says slowly.
Gweny takes a breath and shakes her head. "No...I mean...You're his mom in the future." She says. "Nova, please come out from the bush. You'll be better at explaining this." She then pleads at the bush.
Nova exits it with a small sigh and then clears her throat upon seeing Trixy's confused and curious gaze. "You see...Da—Er, Kowalski built this Chronotron. We were able to use it to come back to the past. I will explain in better detail later, but could you please take us to Liam's mom and uncle?"
"Who?" Trixy looks even more confused.
"Skippsy and Skipper, please." Gweny jumps in.
"Oh...Ehm...Sure…" Trixy says and looks them over. "And...Can you prove you're from the future somehow?" She asks.
Nova and Gweny exchange glances and looks at Elliot. "Maybe...Elliot? Where's Mummy?" Gweny then asks the chick.
"My Mamama." Elliot smiles widely and hugs Trixy again.
"Is that proof enough for now?" Nova asks. "I have more proof, but I prefer only doing demonstrations once…" She says and clears her throat.
Trixy nods a little slowly. "I guess…" She murmurs and then looks towards the zoo. "Well, the zoo is that way...Skippsy is probably still in a bad mood, though, just to warn you." She says.
Nova and Gweny nod. "Alright." They shrug, thinking it cannot be much worse than her usual in the future.
Trixy nods some and then waddles towards the zoo with Elliot. She curiously looks at the chick in thought. She wonders who his 'future father' is if she is his mother and then glances at Gwney. 'And she said that she is his sister...So then she must also be mine in the future...What even is her name?' She looks at the chick again. 'I think she said his name was...Elliot maybe?' She looks at Gweny again. "And your names are…?"
Gweny looks at her. "My name is Gwendolyn, his is Elliot, and hers is Nova." She answers with a smile.
"Okay...And I am...Well, you already know mine…" Trixy says, a bit awkwardly, still kind of in shock of this all.
Nova nods some with a small smile. "The confusion is only natural. Time travel is always confusing…Or so I've been told…" She says and opens the fish hatch and gets Elliot from her and hands him to Gweny. "And would you go first please?" Trixy nods some and hops down into the HQ.
Skippsy looks up at her as she mops at some red goo. "Took you long enough…" She mutters.
Trixy nods some and nervously taps her flippers together, copying a motion Private usually does. "Yes...And I um...Brought a couple visitors?" She hesitantly says.
"Visitors?" Skippsy repeats with a raised nonexistent eyebrow.
"Yes, ma'am." She nods and looks over at the ladder as Gweny and Nova climb down. "They claim that they're from the future."
Skipper spits out his coffee in surprise when he hears this and looks at them all. "Future?" He says. "Not again…" He groans to himself, remembering the last time they have had to deal with future Kowalskis.
Nova nods and adjusts her glasses. "Yes, sir." She says. "About seventeen years in the future from today."
"Ooh, has the apocalypse hit yet?" Skipper asks.
"Eheh, depends on how you look at it, I suppose…" Gweny answers and pets her little brother who tiredly leans his head on her and yawns. "World War Three is in action."
Skipper and Skippsy both look excited and flipper pump with an excited "Yes!"
"No." Nova says and shakes her head. "Not yes! Not yay! Not a good thing at all." She frowns. "You for instance got brainwashed and now are on the opposite side, the rest of you have just completely vanished." She says. "Presumed that you kidnaped them."
"Easy, Nova." Gweny says and lays her flipper on her friend's shoulder. She looks at the slightly stunned faces before her. "Maybe some more explanation and less blame game?"
Nova sighs and nods. "Yes, yes, sure." She says. She gets out her notepad and flips through some sheets to a small script she and Gwendolyn had jotted down before they came. "Gwendolyn and I are from the future. We are kind of in a rush since we had to leave the HQ in the flippers of two rather irresponsible teenage boys, Liam and Martial, and we'd like to fix the future before they do anything stupid."
Gweny rolls her eyes. "You're really no help Nova." She says and hands Elliot to her. "We came using Kowalski's old Chronotron…"
"The Chronotron?" Skipper says and narrows his eyes a little at the lab. "I thought that thing was destroyed…"
Trixy taps on the lab door as she listens to them.
"What?" Marissa opens the door and then looks curiously at Trixy and the newcomers.
"You two need to come out here...Like now…" The teen replies silently.
Marissa and Kowalski curiously nod and step out of the lab. They waddle closer to the group and look at Gweny and Nova. They are just in time for Skipper to turn with an almost glare at Kowalski. "I thought the Chronotron was destroyed, Kowalski." He repeats.
"Erm, well...It was...I may have built another not long after it?" Kowalski says hesitantly and looks at them. "Who are they?"
Gweny sighs and rubs her flipper down her face. "Couldn't you have all been in here at once a moment ago? Buckingham…" She groans. "I am Gwendolyn, this chick is my brother Elliot, and her name is Nova. We come from seventeen years in the future and this is the last time I'm saying it."
Nova nods some and looks at Kowalski and Marissa silently for a moment as she feels a pang of despondency of ever seeing her parents in the future again. "As I was saying…" She continues after clearing her throat. "In the future World War Three is going on. It isn't looking well for us rebels as the rabbits and puffins are actually pretty formidable...Especially since they now have her teaching soldiers and taking out her own troops." She shoots a quick glare of obvious blame at Skippsy.
"Now, Nova and I were able to trace the war's start to what would have been the very root of it." Gweny states. "In a day, Clemson is going to come and kill some King Julien fellow...We aren't entirely sure of who he is, but we DO know that his death caused Skipper to lose focus, allowing Tutmosis Fluffington to be broken out by Nefertiti."
"Clemson kills Ringtail?" Skipper snorts some. "As if I'd lose focus, if anything I should be able to be more focused with how I don't have to be kept up by his all night dance parties and how he's always in our way." He says and crosses his flippers.
Gweny smiles a small, 'you're an idiot' smile with a silent chuckle to herself. "So you say now, Skipper, but we are from the future and have heard you say that that is what happened with your own beak." She says. Skipper doesn't say anything more and just crosses his flippers more tightly to his chest, obviously still disagreeing with the girl.
Kowalski looks at them. He thinks that this "Nova" from the future must be the team's future scientist and probably knows what she is talking about. "What happened after Julien's demise?" He asks, looking at the young scientist.
Nova flips some through her notepad. "Well, Dad—" She starts, not realizing that she had said that instead of Kowalski.
"Woah, woah, wait." Marissa then interrupts. "Did you just call him Dad?" She demands with a weird look at the girl.
"Eh...Maaaaybee?" Nova says and looks at her and shrugs some. "If you were talking to your past parents, would you not mess up and accidentally call them Mom or Dad instead of their actual names?" She says, but manages to keep from saying anymore hints of the future. She opens her beak to continue, but is once again interrupted.
"Then who is your mother?" Marissa asks.
Nova gives her a slightly annoyed look. "You. Now may I continue, please?"
"Yes. Continue." Skipper orders with a glance towards the two lieutenants. Marissa and Kowalski are eyeing each other with strange, unbelieving looks.
"Thank you." She then nods and continues, skimming over her notes. "For the next five, six years Madagascar was in turmoil. There was a war over the throne. Clemson versus...I have no clue, but there was a war. Mort and Maurice...Don't know who they are either, had to go back to Madagascar during this crisis." She says.
Skippsy looks at her. "I've yet to hear about this World War Three you came in mentioning." She says.
Nova glances a bit harshly at her. "I am getting to that." She growls.
Gweny gets in between Nova and Skippsy. "Nova...Chill out." She says with a certain look.
Nova grumbles some with her flippers crossed and looks at Skippsy viciously for a moment. She then nods and looks back at her notes. "Fluffington managed to gain the support of the puffins after he escaped prison and failed to win over the jackals again. Originally, the war was only animal based...But, the humans have their own stupid war going on at the same time, different fronts and countries, though. So, we penguins are having to fight two wars at once. It's purely catastrophic."
Skippsy and Skipper both nod as they listen to her. "What age are the penguin soldiers?" Skippsy then asks.
"Well, I don't know, how old are you Gwney?" Nova says with a mocking tone and looks at her teammate.
"Ahem, thirteen." The young Brit says and looks at them.
Trixy thinks about this for a moment and then her eyes widen. "That would have made me twenty when I had you...Will be twenty when I have you..." She exclaims to herself, though sounding a bit confused. "Whichever..." Private looks at Trixy, obviously confused. She notices and mouths to him that she will explain soon.
Skippsy hears Trixy and frowns. "Well, that is one future occurrence that will have to be changed." She mutters. "This is a military unit, not a daycare."
"Hypocrite." Nova then says, coughing over it.
Gweny looks sharply at her. "Nova!" She says. "If you can't behave…" She growls a bit.
Nova looks back at her. "Gwendolyn, you forget that I am your elder. Why the kipper should I feel threatened or even listen to you? Hmm?" She smirks.
"Because." The girl growls back. "When they left, Skipper left me in charge. I can't help that none of you have any common sense! And you're acting like your boyfriend for Buckingham's sake! That sure as Buckingham isn't a wise thing!"
Nova growls some and then glares at Skippsy, though obviously allowing Gweny to win this round. "I still don't like her…"
"You'd think you would have gotten over that with her being your boyfriend's mom." Gweny looks at her. "Now, either you chill out and be nice, or else."
Skipper looks really amused as he watches this. "I see why I left her in charge…" He murmurs. He then glances at Skippsy some. "And you are a hypocrite…" He mutters to her.
"Shut it." She growls at him with a glare and nudges him hard in his side with her elbow. He grunts a little, but grins a little as he thinks it was completely worth it. Skippsy looks at the future penguins. "So...What do we need to do?" She asks.
Gweny looks at her. "Well, keeping the lemur from being murdered would be a start…" She says. She then looks at Elliot as he is waking from the cat nap that he had been taking during their discussion as this is much later than he is used to being up.
Elliot yawns and looks around. To him, everything looks nearly normal. The chick smiles widely and then reaches towards Private. "Dadada." He says and leans that way.
"Wh-what?" Private sutters as Gweny puts the chick in his flippers.
Trixy smiles a little. 'So, he would be the father...' She thinks and looks at them. "Apparently Gwendolyn and Elliot are our kids in the future."
Private looks at her a little pale from surprise. "Wh-what?" He stutters again and looks confused at Trixy as she sighs and pats his back.