He's my home | Marlex

XI

Alex's Pov

It had been difficult for my parents to accept that they would loose me again or, at least, be without me for a long time. I honestly had no plan of visiting them again, just in case we would never come back to New York

Ever since we moved to our pride my desire to go to New York had grown stronger but not only because I missed home, but because I wanted Marty to be safe. I knew that in New York we wouldn't be able to show our love for each other until the zoo closed and that we could only be together at his room because mine had a camera observing me, but if we were careful enough, we could be able to be together. He would be safe and I wouldn't have the fear that anyone could hurt him

"Goodbye son, take care!" My father said as I finished hugging him. "I will dad" I said softly and hugged my mother. She held me close to her as she hugged me back, like if she was trying to record how it felt like to hug me in her mind in case some day she would need to remember it. Tears threatened to escape my eyes, but I managed to fight them and play strong.

"Goodbye mom, Goodbye dad!" I said softly, seconds before entering the lake in which my friends were waiting for me. Our plan was to dive all the way to Montecarlo. I knew it was going to be difficult to avoid the hunters from seeing us, but we had to try. We had to try it to go back home.

A few hours later we arrived at Montecarlo. The penguins were probably at the casino, so we made our way there. We climbed to the rooftop and got into the ceiling. We were only a glass away from the casino, and that meant we were closer than ever to go back home. Marty and I removed a piece of glass, just the right amount to allow us to get to the penguins without anyone realizing it. "Now they're not gonna let animals on to the casino floor, so expect some type of disguise" I said, explaining the situation to Marty.

We both looked at the people in the casino, examining them, but it took only seconds for Marty to notice something odd. "Wow look at that! That is one ugly, mug-ugly lady!" Marty observed, being quite naive. "That is roach-killing ugly!"

"That's not a lady that's the King of Versailles" I answered, my serious gaze suddenly turning into a smile as I found out the truth. "And that's not the King of Versailles that's the chimps." I bumped Marty's arm with my shoulder to which he smiled. "And the chimps are like smoke and where's there's smoke there's fire and by fire I mean the penguins!" We were so excited to go back home and our plan was going exactly the way I planed it.

"Okay in exactly two minutes and seventeen seconds, the lemurs will cut the power" I explained, attaching a cable to the desk that would allow me to descend to the casino and holding a clock on my other hand. I put a belt around my waist and attached the cable to it "I drop down, grab the penguins. You crank me up, and we're out of here" I grinned a bit.

Marty acted a way I never could have imagined. "Oh oh oh let-let me drop down! I'll grab the penguins!" He said in an excited tone of voice "You don't have fingers, Marty" I answered, quite annoyed at him for trying to change my plan, "These are things a leader has to think of" "Why should you be a leader? Why-Why not me?"

He stood up on two legs and pushed me. "Cause I'm the phase tracker!" I tried to stabilize the cable that had gone loose thanks to him. "How did I get phased out?!" He was so mad, and that was putting my concentration away from the phase. I didn't even know what to do. "You're part of a phase it isn't something you own, it's something you're in" I explained, trying to be as kind as possible to him to make him stop fighting me, but it didn't work.

"Who voted you Grand phase Master anyway?!" He asked, pushing me again. I tried to put the cable on it's place again, trying my best to fight my stress. "Me! I voted me! Cause I'm the leader!" I said with rage. Marty kept pushing me, which made me even more nervous. Melman and Gloria saw us fighting, so they tried to help, making the whole situation worse. The glass ended up braking as Gloria stepped in it, making us all fall into the casino and causing the cable to brake.
At this point my nerves were almost out of control.

I raised the dress the chimps were wearing and found the penguins there. "Marty what phase are we at?" I asked him, showing him that I trusted him. I had forgotten what to do now, blinded by my nerves and trusted Marty with my whole plan. "Uh, phase three, apologize!" He said quickly. "Right" I said and apologized to the penguins. The penguins accepted my apology and rolled away from us.

"Marty, we skipped phase two. We didn't chew them out" I said, trying to swallow my anger and act calm. "Don't look at me. I'm just following the leader!" He answered. I couldn't take it anymore. Marty was trying to challenge me and in a way he had never done before. He wanted to prove that I wasn't a good leader, and he didn't even care that his acts were destroying our only way to go back home

Marty's Pov

The four of us ran through the casino, our hearts pounding loudly. I could tell I had made Alex terribly mad at me and that he was trying his best to calm down, but I was so scared to go back to New York and loose him. I had acted like an asshole, but acting that way was the only solution that went through my mind. The lights started to be switched on and off and we all got way more nervous than we already were, including Alex. "What the heck is happening with the light?!" He asked with frustration.

We went to where the lemurs were and picked Julian, Mort and Maurice up that where dancing and singing, as appropiate as always. We got out of the casino after a while of trying, thanks to the help of the penguins that got us into their car.