Leftover Alphabet Soup

A/N: JEEZ, TASSEL. Way to keep me waiting for my prompt.

Disclaimer: If I were JP, I wouldn't need to do NaNoWriMo. Anyone else out there participating?

O is for: Overzealous Orangutans
By: Ninja C

Borneo. We were in freakin' Borneo. Why? Because Gazzy had gotten smart all of a sudden and remembered Fang's once-forgotten plan to find ourselves an island and settle down. So we had hitched a few currents and were now… in BORNEO. This made no sense to me, as Borneo is the third largest island in the world, and completely inhabited by –

"Check it out!" Gazzy yelled as he came crashing through the trees. We heard him a mile off. I didn't move from my place facedown in the grass. I couldn't. I felt too… calm.

Well, that couldn't last long, now could it?

"Look who wandered near the lake!" Gazzy hollered.

"We're right here, Gaz, jeez!" Nudge snapped, wincing. She'd been dismayed to find no McDonald's within a hundred-mile radius, and was feeling a bit peckish. Can't say I blamed her.

I looked up from where I lay to find a wrinkly, orange little face five inches from mine. Not to say my face is wrinkly, though it is getting a little tan from – ANYWAY.

"AAH!" I yelped, propelling myself backward with a furious flap of my wings.

"What is it?" Angel asked, grabbing the ape's little hand.

"It's a baby orangutang!" Gazzy exuberated.

"Orangutan, Gasman," Fang corrected.

Gazzy scoffed. "Whatever. I found it by the lake, see? See it?"

"Yes, Gasser, we see it," I replied testily. I didn't like this. I didn't like this at all. What if it was missed by the local orangutan clan or something?

"Let's play with it!" Nudge squealed. "Aww, look, it's so cuuuuute! I'm glad this isn't the kind of monkey that has the big red butts, otherwise I don't…"

I tuned out, noticing something no one else seemed to have done. "Anyone seen Iggy?" I asked the flock at large. They all looked around the clearing, bewildered.

"Oh, he's right…" Gaz trailed off. "Well, he was with me at the lake. I could've sworn he was right behind - "

"RUUUUUUUUUN!!!!!"

We all snapped into battle mode, preparing for the worst. Iggy beat feet out of the trees – why didn't he just fly, the dunce? – and right behind him was what I could only assume to be Junior here's mother. None of us moved. We were that weirded out.

Finally, Fang leaped into the air, grabbing my arm. I snapped out of it, yelled, "Iggy, up!" and rose with the rest of the gang.

Mommy Monstrous jumped up and down, trying to get at our feet, making sounds that I really hoped I'd never hear again. "GASMAN!" I screeched in panic. "WHERE'S THE BABY?!?!"

Gaz was still holding him. Well, at least he wouldn't be trampled by his mother. The Gasman held the baby out to me. "Don't give it to me, weirdo! Give it to her!" I pointed down for emphasis.

"Ohh… but… he's so - " Gasman tried to protest.

"GIVE IT BACK, GASMAN!" the whole flock screamed in unison.

Gazzy put on a hurt face. "Okay, okay, jeez!" He darted over to a small tree and put the baby orangutan in one of the highest branches. Murderous Mom gave up her fight for some of our toes and scrambled up the tree to get to her child.

There was a pause. I turned to Fang.

"Let's not live here, 'kay?"

The rest of the flock all shook their heads numbly.

A/N: I grew so fond of the baby orangutan during these five minutes of frantic typing that I gave him a name. It's Tangosaurus Snoopy Darcy. I'm pretty sure only Akira and Tassel will understand this.

Akira… (I'm going to be killed this weekend, aren't I?)… you get… *snicker* Pretty Pretty Princess. *combusts from trying to hold in laughter*

OFF TO DO MY HOMEWORK! But before I go, I want to say thank you so much, readers, for sticking with us. After a few… hitches… *glares at Akira and Tassel* we've made it through this troubling time in our lives and have come back to you.

…Of course, we'll be leaving you again on Saturday to see Where the Wild Things Are. I'M SO EXCITED!!!!! …Okay, I'm done now.