A\N: Yes, writer´s blocks even strike the simple stories. xP Anyway, we have one special guest appearance. X)
11) Convince everyone in the zoo (except from Skipper) that it's hippie-day and they all should dress up like hippies and when Skipper sees it, say 'You don't know how to have fun' over and over again to him:
At first his day started off like a pleasant dream. He woke up fine, he had fine breakfast and he felt fine. Except that his team weren´t here. But Kowalski had written a note and told him they were topside. They couldn´t be training, because today was their day off.
Then Skipper decided to make a fatal mistake and go out. That´s where his ´dream´ turned into a nightmare.
Hippies! Everywhere! The whole zoo was decorated with rainbows, flowers and peace signs. "Is this some bad joke?" Skipper asked himself, horrified.
"Of course not, man!" A thick accented voice said beside him. Julian looked worse than the zoo could ever look like. He had ´skillfully´ put on make-up, making him look like a child´s painting left out in the rain. He had tattoos drawn all over his body, and waaaaay too many necklaces, bracelets and rings on. He even wore long grass skirt and a huge tie-dyed shirt. The penguin had to remind himself to breathe.
Julian smirked as the penguin tried not to look horrified. Then he frowned. "Where is your costume?"
"Hey Skipper!"
Said bird turned and stared. Marlene was holding flowers and paper hearts. Her large, silver peace necklace swayed when she walked and her tie-dye headband hung loosely over her scalp. Her smiled quickly faded though. "Where´s your outfit?" She asked.
Skipper gripped his head, his eyes squeezed shut. "No! No no no, this can´t be true! I´m only dreaming. That´s it. This is all just a nightmare."
"Happy friends day!" Mort shouted. The penguin carefully opened an eye and screamed when he saw just how the little mouse lemur prepared himself for ´friends day´. He ran past them, jumped over the wall and slid off.
Everywhere he looked were flowers, hearts, peace signs, animals hugging, dancing, music was playing…
Then he saw them. Private´s purple lunacorn shirt looked like a little dress on him. Rico and Mrs Perky were holding hand\flipper and were kissing. Kowalski was chatting with Maurice, both enjoying a pink smoothie.
The image was enough to burn the leader´s eyes.
"ARGH!"
Everyone stopped what they were doing to look at Skipper.
"Oh hey, Skippah! Universal peace to you!" Private called and smiled. "Would you like a lunacorn cookie?"
"I would!" Burt called and sucked up the cookies, getting pink-and-purple crumbs all over his face.
"THIS IS WRONG! EVERYONE TAKE OFF THOSE HIDEOUS COSTUMES NOW!"
Everyone stared. Then glared.
"You just don´t know how to have fun." Marlene told him and marched off.
"You´re definitely no fun, mate!" Joey grumbled and hopped off, Leonard in his pouch with a smoothie.
"Seriously, Skippah!" Private said, disappointment clearly reflecting off his tone.
Kowalski walked away with Rico, who was still clutching Mrs Perky.
Skipper shook his head. He needed to get back to the hippie-free HQ, take some aspirins and have a nice long nap.
12) Call him a chicken:
"Hello Mr Chicken!" A young, annoying voice said. Skipper looked up from his newspaper. "Hi, Sad Eyes…" He said, a bit irritated from being called a chicken.
"I´m hungry!" The furry mammal said. "And you want me to do what exactly?" "Lay an egg and make amulet!" "What?!"
Mort seemed to think about it. "Oh wait! King Julian told me you needed a girlfriend to lay an egg… I´ll be right back!" He scurried off.
Skipper stared after him for about five seconds, before shrugging and going back to reading.
"Here, Mr Chicken! I have brought you your girlfriend! Now you can be laying eggs and making me an amulet!"
"First, its omelet and second," The penguin looked up and almost leapt out of his feathers. "Sweet Mother MacArthur! Marlene!"
"What´s going on, Skipper?" The otter asked, totally bewildered.
"Mr Chicken is needing you to be laying an egg!" Mort told her helpfully.
"Wh-what? N-no!" The penguin sputtered. Marlene turned just as red.
"…I didn´t know you wanted to start a family." She said, raising an eyebrow.
"I-I d-DON´T! Sad Eyes just wants to eat some eggs. And he-"
"No, no, it´s okay, Skipper." The girl smirked. "So, your place or my place?"
The other´s shocked azure eyes stared at her, before she burst out laughing.
"Just kidding!"
Skipper groaned.
"So…will you make eggs?" Mort asked hopefully and got a ´love-kick´ from Skipper.
13) Bring unauthorized personal on a mission:
Skipper turned. He wanted to make sure that all of his team members were behind him. They did NOT need another repeat of last Saturday. Four words: Whipped cream, Officer X.
He stopped dead in his tracks. Then frowned. "Kowalski!"
"Yes sir?" The lieutenant straightened up with the call of his name.
"Who´s the fifth head?"
Kowalski turned to look behind them.
A girl stood behind Private, holding on to Rico´s unlit dynamite sticks.
The scientist turned back to his leader.
"I believe that kind of specie is called a female, the opposite of males. A female is the opposite gender of us boys, with strange attraction to boys with muscles, music and shopping, where they go and buys stuff. Also-"
"Kowalski," Skipper cut in impatiently. "I know what a girl is. I want to know why she is here."
"Oh. For that particular question, I don´t know."
"Alright, then we´ll have to find out my way. You, rookie right there!"
"Me?" Private asked.
"No, the one beside you!"
"Yes?" The girl asked innocently.
The leader frowned. A most likely sign for trouble.
"Who are you and why are you messing up our mission?"
"I´m SweetPanda12 and I´m not messing up your mission. Rico invited me."
"Rico?"
"Wha?"
"Why did you invite a strange female?"
"She…uhhh…is my gi´lf´end?"
Out of the blue, a glaring Mrs Perky doll flew over and hit Rico on the head.
Skipper narrowed his eyes at them. "Why did you bring your girlfriend to our top secret missions?"
"To annoy you?" SweetPanda12 offered.
"Shhh!" Rico hushed her.
"Alright, on second, thought, I don´t want to know. Get your girlfriend outta here, we don´t need to watch an extra body."
Rico saluted then walked away with SweetPanda.
14) Feel free to interrupt any important moment to declare Skipper's afraid of needles:
"Alright, everyone. Don´t panic! We´ve got this under control!" Skipper said, his voice echoing from the dark.
Rico turned on the flashlight. In the dim light, everything was casted in spooky shadows.
Julian immediately dove down to hide behind his right-hand-man. Mort cowered behind his king.
"Another black-out?" Marlene grumbled.
"Yes and another space squid." The lead penguin said without thinking.
"What?"
"Uh, nothing…that point is, we can´t let panic and certain lemur kings make a mountain out of a molehill."
"Pfft, silly penguin! You can´t even fit a mountain in a mole! And who would be so stupid-y to walk around with a Mt. Kilimanjaro* on their face?" Julian shook his head, as if he couldn´t believe that Skipper could be so stupid. The penguin chose wisely to ignore him.
"Anyway, here´s the game plan for tonight. Everyone who has batteries, flashlights or torches will-"
"Hey everybody!" Private suddenly called. The whole zoo looked at him.
"What is it, young Private?" The commanding officer asked.
"Skippah´s deathly afraid of needles! He´d run from any doctor with a shot in his hand!" The small penguin declared.
"…"
Skipper stared at his youngest recruit.
Some of the others snickered, some gave him a confused look like; ´why are you bringing this up now?´
The Brit confirmed his statement with a nod. "Mh-hmm, he even ran away from us when we tried to get him to the vet. It´s Skippah´s greatest fear."
With that, Private grabbed a suitcase from underneath the counter and slid away before Skipper could un-freeze and kill him.
15) Steal his coffee cup:
"Ahhhhh…nothing more beautiful than watching the sunrise with a good cup of joe." Skipper sighed as he watched the glowing orange ball rise over his city, lighting up the world and bathing everything in a carroty shade.
Suddenly a shadow fell over him.
The leader tensed immediately and spun around, ready to attack.
Maybe Joey dealt with flat-headed short penguins all the time, or the bird didn´t really look threatening with the coffee cup in his left flipper.
Whatever the case, the Australian inhabitant kicked the penguin over, ripped his coffee cup from his flipper and bounced off, yelling:
"Joey got your coffee cup and he ain´t giving it back!"
Skipper slid after him.
"Joey! What the deuce, kangaroo? What do you want with my cup?"
The other just bounced over his fence and let the penguin chase him pointlessly around.
Finally, Skipper collapses with exhaustion.
Joey jumped over to him with a grin.
"Nothin like a good ole game of tag before breakfast, eh mate?"
He slapped the other´s back and dropped the cup.
Skipper grabbed it and held it close to his feathery chest.
"No…one…steals…my…cup…" he panted, hugging it even tighter.
16) Hug him. Claim it´s the hug-the-first-person-you-see day:
"SKIPPY!" Skipper could only do so much as look up before AT had picked him up and hugged him tightly.
"Ack! AT, what are you doing?!"
"Hugging you."
"I can feel that!" The penguin pushed himself away from her.
"Let go of me!"
The other dropped him onto the ground.
"Don´t be so dense, Skippy, it´s the hug-the-first-person-you-see-day! Oh! You saw me first, so you get to hug me!"
Before the penguin could slide away, he was engulfed in another author hug.
17) Say "Why?" after every order he gives:
"Rise and shine boys!" The familiar voice called through the HQ, shaking the penguins out of their dreams.
"Why?" Rico asked, holding back a yawn.
"We have a lot of work to do today, so I want you all topside in ten minutes sharp!"
"Why?" Private said, rubbing his eyes, then looking at his leader innocently.
"Because I said so." The officer replied, looking a bit irritated from the questioning.
After breakfast came the next order.
"As every athlete and trainees know, you always have to warm up before you exercise."
"Why?"
"Kowalski, you out of all people should know that. Especially with all random science facts."
"Why?"
"Why what?"
The genius shrugged.
"Can I continue?" Skipper asked, glaring.
"Yes sir!" All three said in unison.
"Good…anyway, drop and give me fifty!"
"Why?" Came the response in a chorus.
"Because I´m your commanding officer!"
The others dropped and did 50 pushups.
"Next exercise, everyone, into the pool of water and twenty laps…GO!"
"Why?"
"Because…because…UGH! Kowalski, you do the exercises then!"
"Why?" The scientist asked innocently.
Skipper scared him with his famous death-glare.
"I-I meant, f-fine, sir." Kowalski faced Private and Rico and continued to lead them throughout the exercises, without dealing with a single, ´why?´
18) Buy him a pair of bunny slippers. Act offended when he doesn´t wear them:
"Look Skipper!" Maurice raced in, looking quite giddy.
"Whoa there, lemur. What´s all this racket?"
"I bought you something!" The aye-aye held up a pair of pink, fluffy bunny slippers.
Skipper jumped back, his face masked with horror.
"Ar-aren´t those the r-rabbits from the pe-petting zoo?" He asked.
Maurice studied them thoughtfully.
"Yes…now that you mentioned it, they do seem familiar. But no, those are really cute bunnies!"
"Well…thanks lemur…I´ll set them right here." The penguin put them besides his bunk and was just about to go outside when Maurice stopped him.
"Aren´t you going to wear them?"
"Maybe later, I´m about to go outside for border patrol."
"Exactly! You can wear them outside so everyone can see them!"
"But-!"
"I brought them just for you, Skipper. You could at least wear them."
(couple of minutes later)
Skipper walked down the zoo paths, his head low.
"Nice shoes!" Someone snickered from the left.
A\N: &) *Since Julian lived in Africa I thought that if he would talk about a mountain that it would be that one.. ;) Anyway, R&R!
Mort: Why?
Oh shut up.
Mort: Why?
Bye! ")
