It was a beautiful, typical New Yorker morning. But, as usual, Fey had to ruin it.
"Wake up, everyone, it's time for your first Rehearsal..." she shouted.
Marlene trudged out behind her with half-closed eyes.
"What time is it?" she asked, yawning.
"Time for High School Musical, Gabriella! First, we'll do the opening scene, where you and Skipper have to sing together. At the same time, Julien, as my assistant, will practice one of the dances with the rest of the group... it's gonna be a great day!" Fey said and took off.
Marlene shook her head. "Five more minutes... before I wake up and realize that the nightmare turned into a daymare..."
In the Lemur Habitat, Julien was jumping up and down on the bouncy, making poor Maurice fly up in the air. Then he turned very stiff and asked Mort to direct him to the Champagne dressing room with his nose up in the air.
The penguins, on the other hand, were most likely cowering in their Headquarters. Marlene sensed danger.
"Wait," she called out to Fey, before the Red Panda had climbed over the fence. Marlene took out a Red Panda doll from behind her and threw it into the center of the ice block.
Suddenly two lasers shot out of nowhere, hit the plush toy, and crumbled it to dust. Then a big stone fell on the remains, burst into fire, and rolled away. Fey's mouth hung open.
Marlene pulled Fey back, when the four penguins jumped out of the hole and stood by the ashes of the toy.
"Fey never deserved a death like this," began Kowalski, "she will always stay in our hearts. With her dies the memory of-"
"WITH ME DIES NOTHING!" Fey shouted angrily. The penguins spun around suprised.
"What were you thinking?" asked Marlene.
Skipper, Rico, and Private immediately pointed at Kowalski.
"His idea," Rico said.
Fey stared at the penguin angrily.
"Just wait, buddy, just wait," she told him. "With me dies nothing, and so you still have to go to practice, idiots!"
She grabbed Skipper's arms and jerked him with her. With her other hand, she took Marlene, and marched off, direction Storehouse.
"Julien, you're in charge of the dances," she called out, as they passed his habitat.
Fey hit the C chord on the old, dusty piano standing in a corner of the storehouse. It must have been there for several years, and Fey had found it earlier and often played on it now.
"La," she sang sternly.
"La..." made Marlene.
Skipper crossed his arms.
"LA." sand Fey a little louder.
Skipper had still crossed his arms.
"You may take my body, but you will never take the spirit of freedom from-"
"Just sing!"
Skipper sighed, "La." He hit the chord perfectly.
"Ok, now together." Fey told them, and hit the C chord again.
"La," the two made, squirming.
"Ok," Fey said, nodding. She started playingthe intro to the song. "Skipper starts."
Skipper:
Living in my own world
Didn't understand
That anything can happen
When you take a chance
He rolled his eyes.
Marlene:
I never believed in
What I couldn't see
Something turned in Skipper's heart, when he heard Marlene's voice. Was she singing to him?
Marlene: I never opened my heart
Fey: (ooh) She motioned to Skipper.
Marlene: To all the possibilities (ooh)
Skipper and Marlene: I know that something has changed
Never felt this way
And right here tonight
In Julien's Habitat:
The others weren't so lucky. Julien made them work hard... with their booty...
"Shake it, and shake it..."
It proved to be pathetic picture.
Rico, Private, and Kowalski were trying to shake their behinds to the beat, Maurice and Mort were at least looking as if they had booties, and Julien was shaking it like there was no tomorrow.
"Bop, bop, bop, bop it to the top!"
The Catta grabbed a kid's microphone that was pink and started screaming in it...
"What have I done to deserve this?" Kowalski mumbled.
"A lot," Rico answered.
Kowalski stopped the booty shaking and walked away. He ignored the yells of his friends and hung his head in shame.
What has he done? What has come over him? Ever since he has met Fey, he had enjoyed torturing her and it was defnitely the same the other way around. Somehow he knew that nothing would happen, nothing ever did. Fey had this magnet that got her out of situations that got her in as quick again. But, Kowalski told himself, the chances were really big that Fey would have been hurt, and a brainy scientist like him should have thought about that...
He had gone too far.
Kowalski kicked a pebble away, when he noticed he was walking in the direction of the storehouse. Music was coming out of it, someone was playing the piano and two voices were singing together.
It's the start
Of something new
It feels so right
To be here with you (ooh)
Kowalski jumped up to a window and looked inside.
Skipper:
And now looking in your eyes
I feel in your heart.
Kowalski almost fell off. Skipper?
It was then, that Skipper realized that his leutitant was watching. Fey stopped the piano.
"And, that's it for today. Great job, guys. You deserve a break, while CERTAIN OTHERS will have a lovely time practicing with me now," she smiled sardonically.