Haiz! I'm back from the dead, and doing a *GASP* filler chapter here, just to satisfy the very few of you that are still reading this story. Grrr, I almost had a real chapter all done up for you, but my computer had to be wiped, cuz I already picked up a virus, damned things. Sooo, FLAMES BEGONE!

"Oh my gosh, who are you?"

I slid out the end of the tunnel after a particularly slimy spot. Unfortunately for the guys, they had rushed ahead in the confusion that came before we exited the tunnel, and I ended up sliding onto Skipper, Kowalski being a similar pillow for Keila.

"Oof!"

I rolled off of Skipper, deciding now was not the time to be shy. I got up, and looked around. We were in the back of the otter habitat, behind Marlene's cave, but where no one could see us. I looked at my clothes, and they were pretty clean, considering the patches of slime and various goo's that I didn't want to think about where they came from. Knowing the guys, they probably just threw some of Kowalski's old inventions and potions down there to get rid of the evidence, and didn't think twice about using the passageway after that.

I groaned, knowing that multiple bruises were developing as we tried to gather ourselves. I felt really bad for Marlene, knowing that she had to be freaked out pretty bad after having six humans crash into her home. I looked around for her, and she was nowhere to be found. I guess that she would be hiding somewhere so we didn't try to hurt her. I sensed rustling in the bushes, and crouched down a little. I saw a white otter foot poking out from underneath the trunk of the bush, and smirked.

"Marlene, you can come out, ya know. We're not here to hurt you."

She poked her head out, obviously shocked that some human girl knew her name. I guess she decided to voice her concerns.

"H-How do you know my name? What am I saying, you probably can't understand me anyways." I rolled my eyes, grinning.

"Yeah, I can understand you, and your penguin friends here told me a lot about you." I gestured to the boys, who were standing awkwardly. Rico was glaring at Private, making me guess that something happened at the end of the tunnel with them, too. To be quite honest with you, I would be scared for my life if I saw the big guy giving me a look like that.

"Penguins? I don't see any penguins, all I see are a bunch of hu-...mans..." She said slowly, catching on to the whole deal.

"I'd been working on a Human Formula for quite some time now, and I decided that we'd test it out today." Kowalski rubbed the back of his neck. Keila snickered.

"Oh, so you pick now to be all bashful? I swear, I thought you were gonna break out with some gloat-y dance at HQ, and all of a sudden you're being humble? Talk about mood swings."

By this time, we were all pretty much laughing our asses off. Even Marlene threw in a chuckle or two. Bur then, Kowalski did something I found both cute and surprising: He gave Keila a noogie, which wasn't hard for him, since her head came to about his mid-stomach. She swatted him away, trying to fix her hair. Rico and I were rolling on the floor, with tears running down our faces because we were laughing so hard. I had never seen Kowalski resort to anything like that in all the episodes of their show that I've watched, and I wondered if it meant that there was a spart between them that was more than friends. I knew not to meddle, since it seems like anytime someone messes in someone else's love life, all they do is screw it up.

"Alright, alright, stop! I'm gonna pee!" The guys all made faces, and I snickered, knowing that I could get the reactions out of them that I wanted to. My stomach growled, and I realised that I hadn't eaten since dinner two days ago. I wondered why I didn't see that earlier, but I guess I was too high off of fangirly-ness stuff that I just didn't notice.

I guess they heard it, cuz' Skipper turned to Marlene, saying, "We'd better go, sound's like someone's starting to get hungry. We'll be back later." We hopped the fence that wound around her habitat, and headed for the Zoo's gates. We were not five feet away from the exit when we heard:

"Maurice! Why are the silly humans in my presence before the ugly zookeeper woman opens the gate?" I facepalmed. The lemurs were an unexpected speed bump, although Mort is soooo CUTE! Not like, 'I like him' cute, 'little kid with a lolly-pop' cute. Skipper obviously agreed with my first thought.

"Ugh, Ringtail alert. Men-" 'herm-herm' "-and girls, stay on your toes." Rico tried to do exactly that, but I glared at him, and he sunk into a defensive position. Keila and I stayed upright, crossing our arms and waiting for the lemurs to strut up, unlike the creepy sneak that the guys were preparing for. They did exactly that, Julien only standing tall enough to reach my knee. God, how I wish we could just disappear right now, since they'd never let us get out in time. I thought for a second, trying to make a plan of escape, while the guys were still in their martial arts positions.

"Guys, give it a rest. It's just some lemurs." Some very familiar lemurs. They didn't need to know anything like that yet, or not at all unless they magically are sucked back to the real world with us. Much as I'd love to see that happen, I didn't know what we would do if that were so. I shook my head, having thought of all of those things within milliseconds. This whole "super powers and stuff" thing was cool and all, but sometimes it makes me downright dizzy.

They didn't straighten up, so I did it for them, yanking them by their hair into a full standing position. I got three glares and a hurt look, but I only smirked.

"Ow, Liz! That hurt," Private pouted. I went over to him, stood on my tippy toes, and gave him a peck on the cheek. Everyone looked flabbergasted as I said, "I'm sorry for hurting you. Better?" and walked back to the rest of them. met their stares with a death glare.

"What are you looking at?" I turned my eyes dark purple, the pupils catlike, and silently dared them to say anything back. Skipper and Rico winced, but were brave enough to hold my eyes. Private and Kowalski looked away completely, and Keila just snickered. I hissed at her, a sound similar to air being let out of a tire, and that shut her up. I grinned, dropping the whole "pissed" demeanor, and we just watched the royal pain saunter up to us like he owned the whole zoo. Which, come to think of it, he really thought. That explains so much.

"Who are the pretty human ladies being?" (BTW I suck at his accent, sorry! X.X) Maurice and Skipper rolled their eyes, indicating that they dealed with this a lot. I wasn't one for compliments, since I had come to learn recently that it usually meant that someone wanted in your pants, and that didn't fly with me. I tried to not lose my head, knowing that the dim-witted lemur didn't mean anything by it, but it took most of my willpower not to show my anger.

"We're not lemur-lovers, nor are we all the way human, so don't get your hopes too high," Keila said. It was sad but true, we didn't know what to call ourselves now that we're what I would call freaks. But I didn't dwell, because Julien was looking at me especially with googly eyes.

"I like the red haired one, Maurice." He turned his eyes back to me, which had taken a vacation to look at the pudgy lemur. "I declare that you may be worshiping me now!" I just rolled my eyes, and turned back to the guys and Keila.

"Are we ready to go yet? I'm bored." Julien looked utterly outraged by being bypassed, but I continued to ignore him, knowing how badly it would bother him.

"Does anyone else hear something? It sounds like an annoying lemur, my favorite snack!" Said line shut up the indignant 'king', and I gave an inredilous look to Skipper. I wasn't used to hearing him use sarcasm and, quite frankly, hilarious wordplay like that before. I was used to the straight to the point sort of guy. Huh, who'd have thought he had it in him?

We walked calmly towards the still-closed gate, laughing every now and then while listening in on Julien's angry muttering and occasional snapping at poor Maurice. I felt bad for the portly lemur, since he had to put up with the self-proclaimed king on a daily basis. I wouldn't have enough patience to do such a thing.

We reached the gate, and looked up. "One thing... How're we gonna get out of here?" Private asked.

"Easy! We climb," Keila answered, and she grabbed a bar. I did the same, and soon we were gliding upwards easier than monkeys. She got there first, and flipped over the spiky top, and I did the same. We landed catlike on the other side, and waited for the boys to catch up.

"Geez, how did you two learn to climb like that?" Rico asked. Keila and I shared a grin.

"Natural talent. Where to now?" She asked. We had talked about where we would be going, and we had a few options: The gas station on 54th St., the Walmart on Main St., and a Target on 14th Ave. were just a few of them. We decided on the gas station, since it was closest, and headed down the street in the early-ish morning light.