P o M adventures: Breaking minds

Chapter 4: Big Brother

Morning came and the penguins started the day by doing their usual morning work out routine before the zoo opened. Marlene came by with some flowers in hand.

"Hey guys, we've got a new animal in the zoo, they just dropped him off today." Marlene said.

"Ooh a new member to the zoo. How exciting!" Private cheered.

"I know right! I'm heading over there right now to say hi. You guys wanna come?"

"Sure, we'll go. This animal might be a spy." Skipper added. Marlene rolled her eyes at the comment. "Skipper, you think everyone is a spy."

"But of course. Its a big ugly world out there, Marlene. And I don't intend to be swallowed by it."

"Sure... Anyway, lets go." Marlene said. They all left the penguin habitat, heading down to the new habitat. "Oh yeah, I almost forgot to ask. How goes it with the girl penguin?"

Skipper's face seemed quite sour, recalling last night's events.

"Oh yeah... She's a real peach..." Skipper muttered.

"Her name is, Camryn. She's from South Africa. She's also really sick so she's staying with us till she's better and till she's well enough to walk around more." Private added. "Aww... The poor thing." Marlene felt bad for the girl. She considered perhaps bringing her some home remedy fish soup might help. "So what's up with, Skipper?"

"Um...Camryn and Skipper didn't exactly get off to a good start."

"Oh..." Marlene completely understood. She gets that he was a paranoid guy and that can get on someone's nerves. He was probably accusing her of being some sort of bad guy or spy or something and it probably peeved her off.

"Not to mention her lapse of memory." Kowalski noted. Marlene raised a brow at the strategist. "What do you mean?" she asked. "Well what I mean is that she seems to act out one moment and then the next doesn't recall what she's done."

"Probably just faking it." Skipper prompted.

"How can you say that, Skipper?! The girl is hurt, for all we know she could of gotten a brain injury or something." Marlene defended.

"You and Private are honestly too naive for this world. And may I add the real world eat naivety for breakfast and spits it out like a rotten salmon."

Finally arriving at the new habitat they realised it was kind of built similar to Joe's. A large pit but with grassy terrain and a single forest tree. A small cave like structure across from the tree, most likely the new animals living space and a pond of water. Usually a habit in the formation of a pit is used for larger wild animals more likely to do harm to the zoo visters, like lions, tigers, any dangerous animal cable of jumping out of a standard sized habitat.

"Where do you suppose the new animal could be?" Private asked, looking to the older penguins for answers. "Most likely in there." Kowalski pointed to the man made cave like structure. The penguins and Marlene jumped into the habitat, all of them taking a defensive stance in order to protect themselves if needed to, aside from Marlene who was walking casually behind them. It was then, Rico had noticed the pile of what seemed to b chicken and steak bones laying in a pile near the entrance.

"Arghh!" Rico alerted pointing to the pile. This time they stood in a defensive position which was back to back from one another in order to watch out from every angle. Marlene staying in the middle, considering she is a very inexperienced fighter and they'd have to ensure that she was at least protected. They stood at the mouth of the cave. The sound of light foot steps were echoing inside, getting louder and louder till a figure emerged. Rico hacked up a pair of nunchucks and swung it above his head to look some what threatening. The figure finally emerged into the light, revealing a dark brown furred wolf, the fur was almost black. He snarled, baring his fangs out and walked slowly forward to which the penguins slowly walked back, waiting to see whose going to make the first move. The wolf looked around and then back down to the penguins and otter standing infront of him. His frightening expression faded quickly and was replaced with a tired sheepish one. He stood up on his hind legs, letting out a tired yawn and scratched behind his ear.