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Normal POV

Clemson sighed as he watched the lemurs with disinterest. He'd admit that he was disappointed that Sara had turned him down, but he figured she had a good reason. At least, he hoped she did and not because she didn't want to spend time with him. Leaning against the fence, he tried to block out the blasting music from Julien's boom box.

Looking up, he saw her standing some feet away from the penguins... With her hand to her head. Immediately alert, Clemson recalled how she often did that action. Now that he knew about her personas, everything made sense to him. He walked over, hoping she wasn't losing it again, "Hey Sara. You alright."

She looked at him causing him to stop where he was. Her eyes. They had no emotion. This confused him since she always had some kind of emotion.

"I'm fine." She responded with a deadpan voice.

He dared to take a few steps, "Are you sure? You don't seem yourself."

"You don't need to worry about me all the time yah know."

He shrugged, "Yeah I know, but I can't help it. Um you heading out somewhere?"

"To go prepare for tonight." She started walking away. He followed.

"So you're meeting with the penguins?"

She stopped and looked at him. This time, there was emotion. An angry, annoyed one. Through gritted teeth she replied, "Never you mind."

He stepped back, taken back by the sudden change in mood. She continued walking, but he didn't follow her.

Hans, from a distance, saw the whole thing and didn't like what he was seeing. Clemson was only trying to talk to her, being nice, something the Hobokeners didn't do often, but she just shrugged him off. Frankly, it annoyed him. He and Sara were definitely talking after tonight.

As she walked out of the zoo, the girls were arguing... Again.

"Why are you being so mean to him? There's no reason to be." Childish questioned.

"Oh but there is," Dark snarled, "A reason YOU won't understand."

"Yes I can!"

"No you can't. You know why? Because you only look at the positive side, ever consider the negative side? No! That's why I'm here."

"Knock it off Dark. Childish does have a point, though. Why are you being so mean to him?" Brainiac muttered.

"Because, unlike all of you, I actually pinpoint the origin of every problem that irritates me. And he... Is the beacon of it all."

"How exactly is he irritating you?" Fangirl asked.

"Of course you wouldn't understand. None of you will understand!"

"Quiet. All of you," Their attention turned to the host, "Stop fighting. It doesn't help in the slightest."

All but Dark disappeared. She refused and continued to corrupt Sara's mind.

And she accepted it.

Later

Private's PoV

The day had gone by quickly. Out of all of us, I was the most excited. I cared for her a lot. She's the only human friend we have and it's quite interesting having her around. And since she visited every night during the summer, it was strange without her here. In a way she got along with all of us.

Kowalski was happy to have someone there to actually listen to him explain his inventions. Apparently she took a liking to science and planned to become one. Elated, he was eager to teach her everything he knew.

According to her, almost every teenager loved explosions or anything that involved fire. Rico loved pranking Alice with firecrackers with her. But while Rico was excited to see explosions, it was lighting the firecrackers that Sara loved to do. For some strange reason, fire fascination her.

Since Skipper didn't talk to her at first, the two didn't get a lot of time together. But even after she was grounded, she snuck out to see us and spent some time with him. Apparently she wanted to prove to him that mammals and females aren't as submissive as he thinks. They bonded over what Skipper calls 'manly things'. Most of the time they watched wrestling or challenged each other. One thing was for sure, she wasn't like other girls who preferred shopping or talking about boys.

She and I connected through similar traits. Both if us were kind and liked to help the animals both in the zoo and outside. It was nice to have someone who understands you. It's even better after being around those who don't.

I jumped slightly when Kowalski came out exclaiming, "I've done it! I've perfected the Psychotron!"

Skipper groaned, "That thing again? Did you steal from Mort again?"

Kowalski looked insulted, "Skipper! It was one time and I learned my lesson! As I was saying, the new and improved Psychotron has a much more advanced circuit board that I made myself. It is guaranteed to work without it over heating."

He pointed it at me and my thoughts were immediately read aloud, "I bet Sara would love this invention."

"Hm. That's right. Sara should be here soon," Kowalski pondered, "But until then let me explain a new feature. A tracking radar. It will allow us to see any enemy from within ten feet. Very helpful for missions."

"Now that I can agree with!" Skipper exclaimed, "But I'll believe it if you can prove it."

"Of coarse Skipper. You see just right here on the handle the screen that detects us and any others near by." He pointed to the screen. It showed four green dots that I guessed represented us, three to one side and the fourth in front of them. But then there was a fifth behind the single one.

"Um Kowalski, I think someones coming right now."

He looked at the screen and turned to the door behind him, "Well now you'll get to see my invention in action."

Smirking, Kowalski aimed at the door.

"I say we vote. Who wants who? I don't care really since they're all awesome!"

"Oh oh I wanna to arm wrestle Skipper or maybe talk with Private."

"Kaboom! Kaboom! Hehaheha! Fire good! Fire good!"

"I'd like to learn something from Kowalski, but if you guys want to do something else... That's okay."

"Arg can't we just get this over with already."

Kowalski turned off the Psychotron. We looked at him confused, but he only shrugged.

Just then the door opened. Out of habit, we got into position and attacked, but were blocked and knocked to the floor, "Whoa! Whoa! Wait! It's me!"

Getting up, we saw it was only a startled Sara. Her hands were up in a defense position.

My PoV

"Sorry about that. Force of habit." Skipper apologized.

"Heh it's alright. I shoulda knocked before coming in. Knowing you guys, I don't blame you."

"So it was your thoughts we heard, no wonder they sounded familiar." Kowalski pondered.

I stared blankly at him, "What?"

"Hehe my apologies, it's just that I've perfected the Psychotron." He held it up for me to see.

"Oh I remember that invention. That was when you stole the thing from Morts game. Wait. My thoughts?" I inwardly panicked, "Um heh w-what did you hear... Exactly?"

"Never mind that. What I wanna know is how you got in here," Skipper demanded, "We blocked off tunnel 13-B."

"Yes... I noticed. I stood in the middle of the dang subway! Anyway, as disgusting as it was, I took the sewer."

"And you got through?" Private asked, "You didn't run into any problems?"

"Well there was the Rat King. But I took care of him."

"How!? He's nearly 2 times your size!"

I smirked and thought to how I dealt with him.

Flashback

"Ugh. How can anyone stand being down here?" I wondered as I walked through the sewer. After I found that tunnel 13-B was blocked off I asked Savio if there was any other way I could get in without going into the zoo.

Good news, there was.

Bad news, it's through the sewer.

I hope I don't run into Rat King or any of his rats. If there was one villain I didn't wanna meet, it was him. Sighing, I continued going deeper. Savio said there was a turn somewhere up ahead, not to far from where I was.

The whole way was quiet. So quiet it made me nervous. I hated silence, there always has to be some kind of sound.

THUD

Nearly jumping out of my skin, I looked ahead and saw just the villain I didn't wanna see. He was only a few feet away and was smirking down at me.

"Well well. What do we have here? A lost little girl? How sad." He started laughing. As he did, more rats started creeping around him, following his action.

Dark glared at him from beside me. She could get angry very fast and because of this... So could I.

"Now how about you skip away out here like the little girl you are. The sewer is my territory and certainly no place for someone like you." He mocked.

"Hm. How about I don't. I got somewhere to be and you're kinda in my way."

He laughed again, "You think I'll just move aside? No one tells me what to do! I'm-"

"The Rat King, I know. And frankly, you annoying me right now, so yes move aside before I make you."

"Make me move? I don't think so! I'm the toughest, strongest rat you'll ever meet. And you? You're just a weak little girl."

I scowled, but then an idea came to mind, "Alright, how about a deal? If I can knock you down in one hit... You let me pass."

"And when you can't?"

"... IF I can't, then I'll leave. Only you can't defend yourself."

"Hehe go ahead there's no way you can do it."

I walked away.

"Hey! You're not scared are you?"

"Nope. Just gonna get a head start." I smirked

When I was about five meters away from where he stood I whispered, "Okay girls. Lets show 'em what we got."

Crazy and Sadistic both started laughing next to me. Instantly I felt energized and eager to cause an immense amount of pain.

I started running at him. I heard him began to laugh again, "If you think tackling me will get you through, you're wrong wimpy girl!"

Tackling wasn't what I had in mind.

I ran until I was just barely in front of him. Instead of taking another step, I brought my leg straight up into a kick.

The blow made him go up on his toes and I could hear a small whine from him. I stepped back as he fell forward. The rats stared in amazement as he collided with the ground.

Smirking, I said, "Now who's weak?"

I stepped over him and continued on my way.

End of Flashback

I chuckled, "Lets just say he won't be standing straight for a good long while."

They stared at me confused, but then shrugged it off.

"Before we get started, why don't you fill us in on what's been going on in your life." Skipper suggested.

"Um no that's okay. I don't wanna bore you guys. In fact, I was wondering if maybe you guys could tell me what's happened in the zoo lately. There haven't been any new episodes recently."

For the next few hours, we talked and hung out like we did over the summer. I could tell my fondness of them was returning, but at the same time disappearing.

I left feeling more confused then ever. I didn't know what was happening nor did I understand my changing emotions. Everything was so confusing and didn't make sense.

Personally, I blame the girls. With their constant bickering, I had trouble thinking. But somehow, over all of them, all I could hear was Dark. Her pessimistic view always found a way to make me look at everything in her perspective. Something was definitely wrong.

"Ahem."

My eyes widened at the sudden noise. I looked around, but saw nothing.

"Down here."

I looked down and found a puffin looking up at me with interest, "Um... Yes?"

"What's a girl like you doing out here all by you're self? Not safe."

"I can take care of myself."

"Ya never know. Name's DJ. What's yours?"

I hesitated, "Sara."

"Nice name. Now what's a cutie doing out here all alone?"

"I'm..." Oh, that's right. I ran away. Where am I going?

"If you got some time, maybe you'd like to head for my place."

"Eh no thanks."

"Oh geez. Not you again."

My head swiveled to the side in time to see Clemson standing there glaring at DJ, "One girl dumps ya and you go for another. Don't you have something else to do?"

DJ eyed him, "And who are you supposed to be? Her boyfriend?"

I blushed. I never thought of Clemson as a boyfriend.

"Not exactly, but Imma good friend of hers. And it's Clemson. From Hoboken."

"Oh you. Well whatever. Talk to ya later cutie." He winked at me before flying off.

"Creeper," I heard Clemson mutter, "So. How was the reunion?"

I glanced at him. Part of me was happy to see him. The other thought differently, "It was fun."

"That's good. Since you've got some free time, you wanna walk around New York?"

Yes was the first thing that came to mind, but Dark interfered again, "I'm actually kinda tired. Besides I need to find a place to stay while I'm here."

"Uh that's cool. How about we head for New Jeresy then. You can crash at the zoo. The others are already there and I'm sure they'll understand."

"If the others don't mind, thanks."

We both headed for the subway. He tried to start a conversation, but I only remained quiet. The whole way I thought over why Dark was doing all this, how she pinpointed Clemson as the problem. She had to be making me push him away for a reason. I didn't know what, but one thing was for sure, I can really hold a grudge.

And she was making me hold one against him.

Why did this take me so long to update? I'm sorry readers. For taking forever and updating a sucky chapter.

Childish: Can you at least tell us why you don't like Clemson? He's suffering.

Dark: *annoyed* You already know why! And I don't care!

Fangirl: I DON'T CAAAAARRE! *giggles* Sorry, Pewdie reference.

... Okay. Well anyway, can any of you guess which girl bonded with which penguin? Special appearance by dj73910. Enjoy!