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Family Feuds
Chapter 2: Life in the Aquarium
RRIIINGG! Attention ladies and gentlemen, the aquarium is now closed. Please leave the building immediately. A voice narrated.
"Closing time, Penguins! Woohoo!" Science shrieked excitedly.
Kowalski hushed her and watched the humans leave.
"Alexander, how do you get out of this habitat?" He asked, turning to his son.
"Easy! The air vent." Alexander said, pointing at an air vent on the celling. "I can help you get to the dolphin habitat if you want…. There IS a passage there that leads to the LEOPARD SEAL habitat. I don't even know why they have one…"
Kowalski gulped.
"Relax. Just stick with us and you'll be fine, dad!" Science said, smiling.
Kowalski smiled gratefully at her.
They heard the clicking of the door and assumed that the door was already locked.
"Okay people! Let's get this partey started!" David shouted, kicking the air vent open. He was standing on top of a big snow mountain.
Penguins began jumping up and going through the air vent, rubbing butter on their bellies before sliding in.
"What's with the butter?" Kowalski asked.
"It's what we put on our belly-feathers so we can slide faster in the vent… Just like a roller-coaster!" Science said, clapping her flippers.
"You have to think fast. That's the challenge there. Just stick with us, and you'll be fine." Alexander explained.
"Science! Your turn!" David said, picking her up.
"Science! Wait!" Kowalski screamed as Science was pushed into the air vent, shouting her delight.
"Don't worry dad. You'll go first so I can instruct you along the way." Alexander smiled.
"Your turn, Newbie… Good luck!" David said, rubbing the butter on Kowalski's belly-feathers.
"What? I'm not even ready yet… where do you even get the butTER! AAHH!" Kowalski shouted as he was thrown in the air vent.
"You're doing fine, dad! Turn right… NOW!" Alexander shouted from somewhere behind him.
Kowalski turned right.
"Okay, now left!"
Kowalski turned left.
"Now keep moving forward. After the seven fun loops, take a right the take the first left." Alexander instructed.
"After the seven fun wha – AAAH!" Kowalski screamed when he felt the whole world spin around him.
"Dad?" Alexander's voice was barely heard by the dizzy penguin. Kowalski knew that the seven loops were over but his head was still spinning.
"Dad! RIGHT!" Alexander shouted.
Kowalski kicked the wall on his left, sending him toward the tunnel on the right.
"LEFT! LEFT! LEFT!" Alexander screamed at the top of his lungs.
"Wha? Left?" Kowalski said, kicking the wall on his right, sending him toward the left. But instead of going through a tunnel, he hit the side of the vent.
"DAD! You missed it!" Alexander said, grabbing on the tunnel's edge, fully stopping his sliding speed.
"GOOD GOLLY AAH!" Kowalski shrieked as he fell in a hole.
He smashed headfirst onto a little ice-berg and broke it to 3 pieces.
He sat up on the biggest piece put his flipper on his head, trying to stop his dizziness.
Then he analyzed his surroundings.
He saw a few icicles and lumps of snow, therefore he was in another Antarctic habitat. Then he saw something move toward him. Something that made him scream in fear.
"LEOPARD SEAL!"
Alexander slid through many tunnels, leading him not to the dolphin aquarium but outside the aquariums where the partying penguins were.
"HELP! MY DAD'S STUCK IN THE LEOPARDSEAL AQUARIUM!" he yelled.
But instead of going through the air vents to help, they all rushed in front of the leopard seal aquarium.
"Heh, look! It's the newbie from Central Park. Let the showdown begin!" David cheered with the others.
"You're enjoying this?" Chloe said angrily.
"What? He's from Central Park. And everybody knows that the penguins from Central Park are special and good in hand-to-hand combat." David said, turning his attention to the aquarium.
"Urgh!" Chloe grunted before sliding to Alexander, but he was already gone.
"LOOK! Alexander's joined the showdown! WOOWEE!" David shouted, making everyone cheer louder.
"Alexander?! No!" Chloe screamed, seeing that Alexander had entered the leopard seal aquarium unnoticed by the predators inside.
Kowalski spotted him and opened his beak to call out to him, but Alexander motioned to him to be quiet.
Kowalski had already pushed himself to the edge of the Ice berg with the four leopard seals slowly approaching him with hungry bellies.
The biggest one lunged at him only to be held back by a rope thrown around his neck.
"Hyyah!" Alexander shouted, riding on the big creature.
Distracted, the other three were hit on their snouts by Kowalski.
Alexander was flung side-to-side by the biggest of the bunch. And on each side of the beast he almost met snapping jaws.
"Alexander! Over here!" Kowalski shouted.
The young penguin spotted him on one of the unconscious seals and narrowed his eyes, waiting for the perfect timing.
Then the seal he was holding on to flung him to Kowalski's direction. NOW! He thought, letting go of the rope.
He landed on his feet, right beside his father.
"Air Vent!" Kowalski said.
Alexander nodded and ran toward it with Kowalski sliding after him.
"Alexander! Grab my flippah!" A voice called from the air vent.
Alexander looked up and saw his sitter, Chloe, extending her flipper down from the celling.
How can we get up there? Alexander thought, analyzing the things around him.
"Aha! Dad! Follow my lead." Alexander said. He jumped and kicked the wall, sending him toward the conscious leopard seal. He landed on his head and jumped, caught Chloe's outstretched flipper and pulled himself up.
Kowalski did the same and shut the air vent right when he got up, breathing heavily.
"C'mon! Let's get outtah here!" Chloe said, leading the way out.
When they got out into the open, every single penguin crowded around them.
"Dude, that… was… AWESOME!" David shouted.
"I mean… why would you want to go to the LS aquarium, dude! That's got to take guts!" Another penguin said.
"B…but… But I didn't…" Kowalski stammered.
"BEST PARTEY EVER! You know what, guys? This guy is worth the keep!" David said, patting Kowalski's back.
"Y…yes, but I saved him alone, and… and I rode on that seal, right? That's got to take guts…" Alexander stated.
But he was ignored.
"HEY EVERYONE! Let's raid the fish storage!" Everyone cheered and David pushed Kowalski into the crowd, leaving Chloe and Alexander alone as they crowded into the food storage room.
Alexander scowled and grunted.
"Daaw, don't be grumpy. David's always been an ignorant fool. Heaaa'll get over the newbie business in time." She smiled.
Alexander growled and crossed his flippers. "Whatever." He said, sliding toward the cleaning supplies room to be alone.
Meanwhile…
"Hurry up, Private!" Skipper yelled.
"I'm trying, Skippah! It's just that I can't… I'm… I'm out of typing practice!" Private reasoned, randomly pushing keys in the keyboard.
"Rico, you think you can help the Private?" Skipper asked.
"Nope." Rico grunted.
"Fine. Let's see what I can do…" Skipper said, pushing Private aside.
He kept pressing keys until he reached the shipping records.
"Skippah, you know how to type all along?" Private said, crossing his flippers.
"Well, yeah! I only do it when neither of you can do it. You remember, Private! Last Christmas? When I searched for the source of Santa Magic?" Skipper reminded.
"Oh yeah." Private said, smiling.
"One proml'm… yoo know reed?" Rico said to Skipper.
"Of course I know how to read… well… a bit… but it's good enough… hmm… let's see here… Penguin shipped off for reasons that support blablabla… Aha! Here it is. He was shipped off to Sea Shell Shore Aquarium?!"
"Skippah, isn't that where we transferred Doris?" Private guessed.
"That mad man! He transferred himself to the big SSSA so he can see Doris the Dophin! … Rico! Tourist Spot map!" Skipper ordered.
Rico puked up a colorful map and handed it to Skipper.
He located the Central Park Zoo and he searched for the SSSA.
"Skipp-r! Skipp-r! LOOK!" Rico said, pointing at a big space on the map.
"Nice work, soldier. That's the SSSA. It's about…" Skipper mumbled, tracing his flipper on the map. "4 hours away if we take the road. But we have tunnels." Skipper smirked. "Rico! Drill hat!"
"Gotcha!" Rico said. He puked up a drill hat and put it on his head.
"Then we leave now. We can't waste a single moment while that brainiac is stuck in the love boat. LET'S MOVE!" Skipper said watching Rico drill on the floor.
The trio jumped down the hole Rico made, making their way to the SSSA.
In Sea Shell Shores Aquarium…
"R…really, David… this is great. But I really need to see Doris." Kowalski said, excusing himself.
"Okay… No prob… But I can't promise you that ther'll be any fish left." David said, gulping down a sardine.
Kowalski walked around the crowd calling his son. "Alexander? Where are you!?" Kowalski then spotted his son alone in a room full of cleaning supplies. He approached him, closed the door and said, "Alex! There you are. Could you please show me the way to your mother's habita-"
"Why don't you find it yourself?! You've got the guts to enter every one of these aquariums, no matter how deadly!" Alexander snapped, not looking away from the wall he was staring at.
"I… I… Er… Alex? Are you… okay?" Kowalski said, touching Alexander's shoulder. But Alexander pushed it away.
"Oh I'm fine!" He yelled sarcastically, facing his father with cold, angry eyes. "Everyone's been fine ever since you got here, Dad!" He faced the wall again, muttering words Kowalski couldn't hear.
Kowalski was taken aback by what he just heard but sat down beside his son and sighed. "What's bothering you? What could be so disappointing as to drive you to be this upset?"
"Why… why would you even c…care? You abandoned us to be in Central P… park. You only came here because Mom told you to come." Alexander said, tears rolling down his cheek.
"I'm a part of a unit. My compatriots and I vowed to protect the zoo, park, and or world from crisis. I didn't want to bring you there because I'd want you and your mother to be safe and no other reason." Kowalski explained.
"Then why didn't you stay with us?" Alexander turned to face him.
"Alexander, I love you. I love all of you! But I have duties and responsibilities. I can't just leave my position as Lieutenant. What we do to save the world also saves you. And I was brought here against my will, you know…"
Alexander chuckled. "Y…yeah… S… sorry 'bout that."
"Anywho, It's Science's hatchday. I would have come here anyway."
"Oh really, Kowalski?" A familiar voice said from near the door.
Kowalski jumped and turned around to face the newcomer, only to be shocked at who he saw…
TO BE CONTINUED…
There you go, guys!
That was chapter 2 of Family Feuds… I'm gonna have a hard time working on chapter 3 so while you wait, why not check out my other stories like How It All Began and Invention Gone Wrong… OKAY!
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