Even Otter Things Have Happened
Plot Summary: Takes place after 'Otter Things have Happened'. Julien tries to make up with Marlene, but she doesn't want to. He enlists the help of the penguins to create a love potion for him, but things don't turn out quite right….
Disclaimer: The Penguins of Madagascar is the property of Dreamworks Animation Studios in association with Nickelodeon. I do not own The Penguins of Madagascar.
Wow, didn't expect great feedback even from the first chapter! Thanks to Poette O'Deal, Icicle1Penguin, and Hazel the Rabbit for the reviews. Thanks again to the one and only Miztah Han, and to Drunken_Rookie for all the help with King Julien! Enjoy:
Chapter II: Super Squirrel
"Maurice! Aha, look at what the silly peng - uh – look what I have!" Julien screamed as he burst into his kingdom, looking for his right-hand man.
"Ohkaaay, what am I supposed to be looking at?" said Maurice skeptically.
"What? 'Dis!" carelessly replied the King, holding up his hand, with nothing in it. "What? Where is da lovey potion they – I mean – I made?" Julien looked around, searching for the potion.
"Love potion? What love potion? Were you going to use it to date Marlene?"
"Duh, Maurice? What else is a lovey potion is being used for?"
"Hmmm. Come Maurice, we be needing to search all over my kingdom for my lovey potion. Starting with the stupid penguins!"
*Later On*
"Well hello there, neighbor-y penguins!" said Julien, coming out of fish bowl entrance and landing on Kowalski.
"What is it now ringtail?" Skipper said annoyed by Julien's intrusion.
"Umm excuse me, but I was wanting to be talking to the other silly penguin, so be shutting up a little." Julien replies, waving off Skipper and walking to Kowalski.
"What now Julien?" Kowalski finally said rubbing his head where Julien fell on it.
"My lovey potion, is in the missing. I need you and your fellow silly penguins to look for it."
"And what do we get in return?" Skipper said, trying to start a negotiation with him.
"Eh…" Julien said trying to think of something.
"See." Skipper said as if he had won the war.
"Aha! I will give you all of Mort's food, and Mort too."
"Fine ringtail. We'll look for your toy." Skipper said, finally agreeing despite the fact that the reward was absolutely worthless.
The four penguins jumped out of their habitat and searched all over the zoo, sliding on their bellies and checking every habitat. Finally, after nearly two hours of searching, Skipper calls his team back for a break. The penguins slid on their bellies back to their habitat.
"Ringtail!" screamed Skipper, searching for the lemur that had started this whole mess. "Could you be a little more specific? Like where you were when it got lost?"
"Wat wid da wat wat now?" asked Julien absentmindedly, checking the nails on his perfectly manicured hands.
"Skipper does seem to have a point King Julien.", replied Kowalski. "By retracing your steps from the lab to the lemur habitat, it would increase the chances of our finding the potion by 23.7%."
"Wat? Okey fine. I left your home, then walked over to the wall over derr, then started laughing at how the stupid peng – uh – and started laughing for no apparent reason at all or which you should all be concern-y about it, so be shutting up a little!"
"Hmm, over the wall, you say? Hmm, is it possible the potion fell out of your grasp and into Central Park?"
"Of course it is Kowalski." answered Skipper. "Bug out men, check the park. Uh, you're coming with us too ringtail."
"Silly penguin! Why will da King go out to do such tings, when he has his servants to do it for him? Maurice! Go with the penguins."
They ran out of their habitat once to search the park. After nearly an hour of searching, and a small interrogation of Mother Duck, they turned to Fred to search for it.
"Bushy tail!" Skipper screamed as the four penguins slid on their bellies to the tree…
They hurried to the tree but when they got there, it was already too late, Fred had already drank the love potion, the empty vial was seen next to a big bush. Private called Fred down from the tree, knocking on the trunk.
"Oh hey guys!" Fred's voice from behind them said. Surprised, the penguins fell down to the ground. When they turned around, Skipper and Rico both opened their mouths, Maurice hit himself to be sure he wasn't dreaming, and Kowalski covered Private's eyes as they all saw what the potion has done to Fred.
Fred looked very different. He was bigger, taller, and more muscled. He looked like how Mort did when he got hit by the Giant ray, except without all the rage. All Skipper could do was stare at the difference, trying to remember what the squirrel was before this happened.
Kowalski looked around and saw the empty vial near the giant bush, and started thinking. Suddenly remembering, he screamed in horror and picked it up. "This is no love potion! I made the wrong potion for Julien!"
As the others stared at the source of the scream, Kowalski started pacing up and down, muttering to himself. "This was no ordinary potion Skipper. I mean look at this?" he pointed at the bush.
"What? It's just a bush right? I mean it's a little bigger than-?"
"That's grass Skipper. The love potion wasn't a love potion. It's an ultra-serum I designed to-"
"To boost the physical and intellectual capabilities of an individual to the point of meta-human ability by amplifying the genetic material and current brain and physical structure through several chemical reactions." Came a voice behind them that was oddly Fred's. Kowalski stuttered, calmed himself then and said "Bu-but-but how?" as he stares at Fred with his mouth agape.
"I told you, to boost-"
"I don't need to hear it twice!"
"Me neither. Rico!" said Skipper, pointing at Rico.
Rico laughed evilly then regurgitated a stick of dynamite and charged at Fred, who surprisingly counters by dodging the charge and, quickly catching the stick of dynamite, shoves it back into Rico's open mouth.
Private rushed behind Rico and started the squeezing his belly for the dynamite to come out before it exploded. Fred sits down next to his tree, yawns and notices the two penguins. Fred gets up and walks up to Private, sighs and says "You know, you're not doing the Heimlich right."
Private answered back meanly, "Oh! What do you know about it?"
"A lot. Here – Just position your flippers beneath the chest cavity, like this." said Fred, thoroughly bored.
Fred gently pushes Private away, places his paws around Rico, and starts squeezing his belly. The dynamite, and several other things, came out just before it exploded. Fred then turned to Private and said, "There. Now, if you would excuse me." The squirrel ran back up to and into his tree.
"Whoa, man!" Maurice spoke in a shocked and surprised voice. "I never thought Fred would-would turn into that!"
"I don't understand Skipper. It's like he's gotten all of our traits." Private said in a worried voice, returning to the zoo.
"We need to cure that fast. Kowalski, options" Skipper said, pointing at the tall penguin crying beside him, who looked up gingerly.
"Hold on now Skipper, maybe it isn't so bad. I mean Fred needs those skills, especially Kowalski's intelligence." Private said considering how Fred was like before.
"Well he does have a point Skipper. Besides, I can always mix up a real love potion for King Julien, pretend this whole mess never happened." Kowalski said proudly, stopping and posing in pride. Rico nods his head in agreement, and so does Maurice.
"Yay! See, Rico agrees." Private beamed.
"Uh! Fine, we'll see where this goes." Skipper said.
The penguins run back to their habitat, and after promising King Julien they'll look for it tomorrow, they sat quietly, each performing a hobby but only doing it to take their minds of Fred and his new powers, which failed abysmally: Kowalski testing new mixes of various chemicals, although he was just transferring colored water; Skipper in the corner with his fish-coffee, reading a page of 'The New Yorker', but his eyes were unmoving; Rico brushing his doll's hair, even though a few strands already fell out; and Private staring blankly at the television, which wasn't even on at all. Deeply disturbed by the fact that there was someone way smarter than him a few meters away, Kowalski had made many and errors mistakes in his experiments.
During feeding time, they all sat quietly and uncomfortably as they ate their dinner. Skipper began twitching as he was cleaning the habitat. Later that night, all of the penguins had nightmares about Fred replacing them, being better than them and doing all of their missions. Skipper's nightmares however were different; he dreamt about Fred rescuing Marlene from a rabid King Julien, and being the gallant white knight in shining armor (literally, with Archie the Raccoon as his horse), while Skipper was Fred, dumb as a sack of hammers. Another even worse nightmare soon replaced it, that he would be separated from his team and Marlene and was transferred to Hoboken. That was the worst nightmare Skipper had ever had and he knew that that was the last straw. Skipper started screaming again until Private came down to his bunk to try and calm him down….