Welcome to chapter 5 guys. Please enjoy.
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(The next morning)
The sun rose and over the zoo. The entire place brightened up and the animals began to stir. That is with the exception for two wolves and the new lemur. The wolves lied about in their habitat sound asleep and the lemur lied in the bed he had. However the lemur was awakened from his slumber when he felt someone poke him.
"What's a what? Who touched me?" Billy said as he sat up in bed.
Billy turned his head and saw the flat headed penguin standing in front of him.
"What do you want?" Billy said in a slightly high pitched voice in an effort to disguise it.
Skipper eyed Billy and asked, "What were you doing last night new lemur?"
Billy growled and said, "I was here, asleep."
Skipper continued glaring at Billy and asked, "Oh really? Even with all that racket going on last night? I don't think that anyone can sleep through the lemurs dance music."
"Well I coul," Billy argued back.
"What about those two wolves you came with?" Skipper questioned even more.
"How should I know? Iwasn't with them last night. Now if you'll excuse me, I want to be left alone right now. Or is that a little too suspicious for you? Maurice told me all about what you and the other penguins are like," Billy said angrily and then he rushed past Skipper and out of the stone house.
"I'm watching you new lemur," Skipper called after Billy.
(Wolf habitat)
Portia woke up to see Tybalt's face in front of her's. She backed away and scrambled to her feet. She then quickly kicked Tybalt's front left leg and woke him up.
"Huh? What? What was that for?" Tybalt asked.
Portia jumped Tybalt and pinned him to the ground.
She placed her mouth next to Tybalt's throat and said, "Try to comfortable with me again and I'll rip your throat open. Understand me?"
Tybalt nodded and Portia patted his head.
"That's a good little dummy. Remind yourself of that and I'll let you live," Portia said with an evil chuckle and Tybalt just gulped.
They then heard a shuffling sound and they looked over to the wall to see Billy climbing over the wall.
Billy saw the two of them and asked, "Is this a bad time?"
Portia got off of Tybalt and said, "No. Just trying to teach him a lesson about getting comfortable around me. Now what brings you here?"
Billy sighed and said, "We might have been seen last night. The penguins might have seen something. Trust me, they are not to be messed with."
"And how would YOU know?" asked Portia.
Billy sneered and said, "Cause they are the ones who killed me. That crazy one with the mohawk delivered the final strike."
""Ouch! What makes you say they saw us last night?" Tybalt asked.
"Their leader was just questioning me. He just can't leave well enough alone," Billy grumbled.
"So why don't we just kill them?" asked Tybalt.
Portia growled at Tybalt and said, "Because we can't you idiot. The dolphin needs them alive."
"And it's pissing me off," Billy complained.
Billy then bagen punching the habitat wall in rage.
"I need something. Something to quench my temper. But do we do? What?" Billy complained some more.
(Dumpster. Behind the zoo wall.)
Since it was garbage day, the main buildings dumpster had been placed outside the zoo wall. The garbage truck was approaching too. Behind the wheel was a mustached middle aged man. He was driving his truck and drinking his morning coffee out of his thermos. He was unaware of what was going to happen.
He drove his truck towards the dumpster and hooked the truck up to it. Slowly, but carefully the truck's lift raised the dumpster over the truck and dumped it's contents into the back of the truck. Inside the dumpster, a certain someone was still trapped. The vibrations that the truck was emitting woke him up. He could still feel the intense pain in his chest. He didn't know how, but he was still alive. But before he could pull himself up, the dumpster tipped over and the contents spilled into the truck. The man fell out of the dumpster and hit the garbage inside.
He managed to pull himself out of the garbage and he mustered all his strength and began to scream.
"HELP ME! PLEASE HELP ME! GET ME OUT OF HERE!" the man yelled.
The trucks operator couldn't hear the man at first. That is until he lowered the loader and then he heard the man's screams.
"PLEASE! HELP ME!"
"Oh shit! OH SHIT!" the driver cursed and then he scrambled out of his truck and climbed up to the opening.
(Billy)
Billy and the wolves were all walking around the zoo together. Billy was observing the area around him. His anger was still evident within him. But then both Tybalt and Portia perked up.
"Huh? What is it you two?" Billy asked.
"Shh," Portia said and kept her ear up.
After a moment Tybalt said, "I hear someone. He's calling for help. He's outside the zoo wall."
Billy was about to forget about it, but a sudden realization came to him.
"Ah shit! It could be that guy we got last night. Where was the yelling coming from?" Billy asked desperatly.
Portia pointed in one direction and Billy's eyes went wide.
"Aw fuck. That's where that dumpster was taken. Looks like we have a loose end to tie up," Billy said and then ran towards the area where the dumpster had been set.
(Truck)
The operator jumped into the back of the truck and began shuffling things around.
"Where are you? Tell me so I can find you?" the operator shouted.
The zoo worker stuck his hand out of the garbage and started panicking.
"Help me," the worker said weakly.
The operator scrambled over to the injured man and saw the wound in his chest.
"Good lord man. What the hell happened to you?" the operator asked quickly.
The worker began stuttering and said, "T-t-the l-l-l-lem-m-mur. The wolves. T-t-they d-did this t-to m-m-me."
The operator looked at the man in confusion and asked, "What? What are you saying man?"
Just then there came a loud hiss and the lid to the opening to the back of the truck began closing up.
"Wait no. There is someone in here. Stop! STOP!" the operator yelled.
(Truck cab)
Billy was operating the controls to the trucks compactor. He and the wolves stood there and listened to the man inside scream. Billy just cackled wildly while the wolves smiled in glee. There then came the shrill squeal of the compactor beginning it's operation.
Billy jumped from the cab and said, "let's get out of here. As far as the humans will know, this was just a freak accident. Nothing more."
The wolves and lemur ran away from the scene as the trucks compactor did it's thing.
(Penguin Habitat)
The penguins were busy doing their daily training. None were aware of what was going on until they saw Alice running to the back of the zoo. She came back a moment later in a panic.
"Someone call 911. Something bad has happened," Alice said in a panic.
One of the workers pulled out a cell phone and quickly dialed the number.
Private looked at Skipper and said, "Skippa?"
Skipper looked at all his men and said, "Move team. Double time, now!"
The penguins all jumped the fence to their habitat and belly slid towards the back of the zoo. They had to climb over the zoo wall, but they managed to see the problem without needing to jump down from the wall. Blood was oozing out a side door from the truck.
Private gagged and looked away. Kowalski shivered. Rico chuckled slightly, but was then slapped by Skipper.
"Shake it off men. We need to search for clues now. Whoever did this can't be too far away," Skipper said.
So the penguins began searching around for anything. Fortunatly, Kowalski climbed into the cab and found some hair. And it wasn't the usual drivers hair.
"Eureka! Skipper I think I found something," Kowalski called out.
Before Skipper could ask anything, there came the sound of police sirens that were racing to the scene.
"Excellent. Now get back to the HQ boys. We can't be here when the authorities arrive," Skipper said and the penguins all jumped the wall and back into the zoo.
Skipper took one last look at the garbage truck and the blood and said, "We'll find who did this to you. I swear it."
Skipper gave a salute and then jumped down from the wall.
(Penguin HQ)
The penguins were solemnly doing their own things around the HQ. Kowalski was in the lab working on the hair sample he found. Rico was singing to his doll girlfriend. And Private was watching the Lunacorns. Except that Private wasn't happy at all.
Marlene burst into the HQ and said, "Oh my god. Guys did you hear about the accident outside? With the garbage truck and the compactor. A man died."
Skipper looked at Marlene and said, "We are aware of it Marlene. And we can asure you that whatever happened was NOT an accident."
"What? What makes you say that?" Marlene asked.
Skipper sighed and said, "The man was in the back of the truck with the compactor. The controls were in the cab. Someone had to have working the controls in the cab while the man was in the back. Machines don't just operate themselves."
"Buh-but the humans outside said-," Marlene started but was interupted.
"Those humans are morons Marlene. It couldn't have been an accident," Skipper continued.
"Yes and I think I may have the key to finding the perp," Kowalski said as he waddled out of his lab.
"What have you found Kowalski?" Skipper asked.
"I found gray hair in the cab. I've seen our regular garbage man. He has brown hair. Not grey," Kowalski explained.
"Maybe his hair just went grey," said Private.
"Maybe. But I'll need to start compairing it to known animals in the area. I have a feeling that whoever did this is NOT human. I'll start with the park animals and then move into the zoo. The zoo animals will stay in one place, but the park animals won't," Kowalski said and then walked back into his lab.
Marlene sighed and asked, "So what happens next?"
Skipper shook his head and said, '"I don't Marlene. I don't know."
Well Billy has done it again. So what will he do next?
Tune in next time to find out.
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