A ngày without myself *unfinished*
skipper was siting at the table, waiting for his team mates to report. He had been calling them for half an hour.
As usual, they were all ignoring him.
Kowalski was doing whatever in the lab.
Amber was drawing whatever in her bunk.
Rico was exploding whatever somewhere else.
Private watched the lunicorns in front of the TV.
And Cassidy was watching whatever on YouTube.
"Will bạn guys acknowledge me?" he asked.
"Not really." came Cassidy's reply, while private and amber, in the same room, just grunted.
"that's it! I have had enough!" skipper said. He marched over to the TV, and unplugged it. Next, the lap top. Then, he ripped the pencil out amber's flipper and snapped it in half.
"you are to go outside and do nothing but train. TRAIN. That's it. Any questions?" skipper fussed.
"okay skippa."
"I don't even like YouTube anyway..."
"I wasn't doing anything important." 
Everyone muttered, climbing the rungs out onto their little island. Skipper began to follow, but turned toward the lab.
He knocked on the door.
Kowalski came out holding a small object that looked like a remote combined with a meat grinder.
"what is that?!" skipper asked.
"oh, this? It's my-" 
"whatever! Outside! Train! Now! In fed up with your five paying no attention to me whatsoever!" he marched up With his team.
"RICO!!!" he called, the psychotic bird jumping in to tham gia his team.
"attention!" skipper ordered, "you five are pathetic! bạn do nothing but entertain yourselves with flashing lights and deafening music! I wish I was the leader of a better team! Now, I want this HQ clean as a whistle bởi the time I get back!"
"but, where are bạn going, Skippa?" private asked.
"no where. But that doesn't mean bạn don't have to do what you're told. Now go!" skipper said. He walked into the park, glancing back every now and then.
As he sat in a branch, far from human eye, he was startled bởi a voice.
"Hello, silly pen-goo-in!!!" shouted a madagascarian accent.
"Ringtail!!!" skipper fussed.
"I'm not julien. It's me, skipper!" đã đưa ý kiến a feminine voice.
"Marlene?" skipper asked.
"no! Now go clean your room hoặc I'll eat you!!!" Called a cranky voice.
"Mom?!" Skipper said, even thêm surprised.
"No, skippa, I'm not anyone bạn know. My name is Jhon. I am here to warn you-" 
"That there are three ghosts coming to hiển thị me the error of my way blah blah past present future blahdey blahdey blah! I've heard this all before! There's so many fanfics about this it's not even funny!" skipper said.
A surprised looking Chicken Hawk swooped down in front of him.
"your a hawk, and your British?" skipper sounded skeptical.
"MAAAAAYBEEE!" đã đưa ý kiến John.
"whatever." skipper said.
"ditto." đã đưa ý kiến John, sulking away. 
"overdone! That's what it is! Why cant I be a Cupid already, huh? At the rate everyone read the book- er, watches the movie. . . Movies, theyre gonna know all what happening, and I'll be stuck in this position forever!" John muttered.
Skipper got bored sitting in the benches, and went to walk around the zoo. Just as he passed the vong linh, vượn cáo exhibit, he was pulled into a tree.
"HI!" đã đưa ý kiến a hyperactive female lemur. She looked like julien, only she had darker colors, a fluffier tails and sharp claws and teeth. She had cat ears, a grey faded hoa behind one, and her hair was all combed into one, pointed bundle gelled into place, half covering her right eye.
"uh, hi?" skipper said. He noticed she was slightly hollow.
"who'r you?" he asked.
"Im Kateline! Call me Katt! I'll be your ghost of something past this evening! Now, just dont scream as we fall." she said.
"fall?" Skipper asked.
"Fall!" she said, and with a snap of her fingers, skipper and Katt fell through never ending treetops. Then they landed on flat cement. Skipper could barley get up, but Katt was out and about, looking around.
"whatcha doin down there? Get up!" Katt said.
"I can't!" skipper said.
"oh, we'll, derp!" she said, face palming. "forgot to spectify you!" without a millisecond in between, she snapped her fingers, and all of a sudden, skipper felt hollow and pain free!
"now, keep in mind-"
"now one can see hear hoặc touch me?" skipper asked expectantly.
***(INTERMISSION: skipper will now be called "ghost skipper.")***
"yesh!" đã đưa ý kiến Katt, as she began walking.
"now, this is when bạn were 12, remember this?" Katt asked.
Skipper was looking upon the scene of two young penguins fighting. Over a girl.
"She's mine!!! She loves me more!" đã đưa ý kiến a taller one. Kowalski.
"No, she knows I can do better than you!" đã đưa ý kiến a flat headed one. Skipper.
"yeah right. đã đưa ý kiến the guy who everyone calls Skippy!!!" kowalski said.
"says the person everyone calls 'That kid.'" đã đưa ý kiến a young skipper.
Katt grabbed present skipper's head and turned it. In that direction, there was a girl in the corner of the giáng sinh decorated gym. She was crying. She had long black hair, and her bangs were neon green. She had a dress to match.
Amber.
"she, she was crying?" ghost skipper asked.
"yeah. She couldn't chịu, gấu the sight of her two best Những người bạn fighting. Right about then, bạn wish bạn didn't go to an academy with such, erm- let's replace your term with the word 'idiots' shall we? I'm not a người hâm mộ of vulgar language." Katt explained.
"so, why have bạn brought me here?" ghost skipper asked.
"well, because! bạn wished to be the leader of a better team. So, I'm here to alter the past so that can happen!!!" she said. Katt lifted skipper bởi the arms, digging her claws into his flesh, and lifted him up.
"wow, bạn need some fitness!" Katt said.
"you need to stop clawing my arms." ghost skipper retaliated.
"okay!" she said. She dropped him and again they fell through a bunch of cây tops, landing right where they had before.
"your past has changed!!!" Katt said.
"what?" ghost skipper asked.
"look." she points to the same scene as before, only, no one was fighting and no one was crying in the corner. Instead, everyone was watching as a young amber and young kowalski slow dance in center stage. Among the crowd was young skipper himself, holding hands with a cute looking peragrine falcon.
"who's that?" Asked ghost skipper.
"take a guess." đã đưa ý kiến Katt.
Ghost skipper squinted in the giáng sinh moonlight.
"is that. . . Kitka?" he asked.
"MAAAAAYBEEE!!!" đã đưa ý kiến Katt.
"so, how does this change history?"
"well, in the original version, bạn and kitka never met, and instead bạn met amber. bạn two had some feeling for each other. And same with her and kowalski. As time passed the three of bạn became friends, but at the 6th grade giáng sinh party, bạn two broke out fighting over her. After that kowalski thought she would choose bạn and she gave up. And started goin out with Doris. Amber, meanwhile, gave up on bạn two and started dating Hans. bạn stayed single." Katt went on, "and in THIS version, bạn met kitka and went out with her. bạn were a dream team!!! Such an awesome match. And meanwhile, kowalski and amber hit it off well. Hans and Doris were left out of the picture, though. And so, bạn never fought Hans, kowalski never like Doris, amber never liked Hans and the future was changed!!!" đã đưa ý kiến Katt.
"how?" ghost skipper asked.
"that's not mine to tell. . ." she had a devious smile on.
All of a sudden, skipper noticed they were in a white box room. He looked around. When he looked back at Katt, she was gone. And in her place was a small chim cánh cụt who looked four hoặc five years old.
"okay, I'm pretty sure bạn know the drill, so let's go!!" he said. "by the way, I'm Ronan." he said.
"okay, hiển thị me how the present has changed." ghost skipper asked.
"first, I should hiển thị bạn how it originally was!" Ronan argued.
He took skippers and and pulled him high up, they dropped through what looked like a bunch of hospital curtains.
"this, is the ngày bạn wished to be the leader of another group." đã đưa ý kiến Ronan. The whole scene flashed before him.
"and his is three months cách đây at the new years party." đã đưa ý kiến Ronan. The scene of Amber, Private and Cassidy rocking on stage passed through his mind.
"and this is what's going on right now at the HQ." Ronan said.
There skipper saw his men and girls were carefully Dustin and cleaning and mopping and sweeping. No one was talking hoặc cutting up. They were doing just as he had told.
And that," Ronan pointed to the scene of three months ago, "is how time has changed.
amber was alone on stage. She sat on a ghế đẩu, phân with a microphone in her hand. The words to Taylor swift's song "Ronan" flashed on the screen behind her. She sang each verse softly and sadly.
"c'mon baby, with me, we're gonna fly away, from here. Your were my best four years. . ." she started to tear up. 
Aside from that, she looked different. Her hair wasn't black and green. It was brownish blonde. And her eyes weren't bright green. They were soft greyishly blue.
"why- what- what's she doing?" Ghost skipper asked.
"why, she's hát at the 'stand up to cancer' concert. Its no longer a new years celebration, since her son and three other died of cancer that past December. In fact, her son died on giáng sinh day." Ronan said.
"Who's her son?" ghost skipper asked. Ronan just smiled up at him.
"no. Your not, bạn can't!" skipper said.
"but I am. And in being the leader of a better team, bạn created me just to kill me four years later." đã đưa ý kiến Ronan. 
"right now your grieving one of your team mates. His name is Dustin and he was a great fighter. Died saving your life. Kowalski right now is living a wonderful life as a multi millionaire scientist, discovering something new everyday. Too bad he didn't discover a treatment for cancer." đã đưa ý kiến Ronan. "and private. Oh, private. Bless his soul. Died as one of us who had cancer. Along with Cassidy and Madison, a screech owl. The lemurs are still in Madagascar, and Marlene is back at the aquarium with bạn and your team. Rico is a demolitions expert for the best military penguins headquarters on earth. He's up in Antarctica. And amber is down here. Grieving the loss of her son and friend with her husband, Hans." đã đưa ý kiến Ronan
"so just bởi not being here, I cause this much grief?" Ghost Skipper asked.
"oh this is just cây months ago. In the present, a Disaster wipes oh the whole easy coast of America, leaving millions dead. Kowalski, Rico, amber, julien, mort, Maurice, Hans, Doris and blowhole included. bạn see, amber and Hans still resided in the zoo. And Doris and blowhole, married with a daughter name Sophia, were transferred to the new cá heo exhibit in place of the con rái cá, rái cá exhibit. Kowalski was doing marine biology research on a new kind of crustacean. The lemurs now resided here in the park, I don't know how hoặc why, and Rico was on vacation." đã đưa ý kiến Ronan. "but bạn and your family survived." đã đưa ý kiến Ronan.
"family?" skipper asked.
"yeah. You, Marlene, Jacob and Sammi." đã đưa ý kiến Ronan. Changing the scene once more. And all of a sudden he was gone. A teenage female chim cánh cụt taking his place. 
"lemme guess. Your someone I know in this altered reality and your dead?" Skipper asked, ornery. 
"yup!" đã đưa ý kiến the penguin, with a slightly Texan accent.
She took skipper's hand and brought him way up high. But instead of drop him, she kept holding his hand as they descended through the trees. 
They came upon a scene of an aquarium in California, where two otters were sitting. One was pregnant. It was Marlene.
"so, when are bạn due?" the một giây con rái cá, rái cá asked Marlene.
"sometime late June." đã đưa ý kiến Marlene.
"who is that?" Ghost skipper asked.
"that's Marlene and her sister, Charlene. And that's you, the one walking over to the exhibit." she said, pointing to a flat headed chim cánh cụt holding hoa behind his back.
"Marlene? Got something for you." đã đưa ý kiến skipper, placing a bushel of hoa hồng in her hands.
"Oh, Skipper, they're lovely!" she said.
"I knew you'd like them. bạn always loved roses." đã đưa ý kiến skipper.
"aww, sweet!" đã đưa ý kiến the mysterious ghost penguin.
"hey, yeah, what is your name?" ghost skipper asked.
"tell ya later, just look that way." đã đưa ý kiến the ghost penguin, pointing in another direction.
There was a scene with skipper and a younger female chim cánh cụt in a car, avoiding human cars in the street.
"Sammi, I promise, nothing's wrong with mom." Skipper said.
"But dad!" she had tears in her eyes, "you heard what thy said! They couldn't cure her! I don't want her to die, it's too soon!" she bawled.
"don't worry, mom's gonna be fine." skipper comforted her.
"no she won't Jacob already. . . Passed. He got the same kind of timer and he went into a coma. He didn't wake up before the tumor spread!" she was now read in the face.
"Shes going to be okay." skipper persisted.
"am I going to die?" Sammi asked.
"Sam, listen. No matter what happens, your mother and I will never let anything happen to you. Even if the world ends, bạn will be safe. You'll be with us." skipper said.
All of a sudden, the car veered left. Skipper Mất tích control and the vehicle went spinning. Hearts pounding in both their chests', Sammi and Skipper were tumbling in front of billions of tires. Just barley they had missed being hit bởi a blue van. but, fate had been decided.
Ghost skipper looked away from the ghastly sight before him, where two, crushed, bloody chim cánh cụt corpses lay on the black tar road. Continuously, the car rolled on and on.
"make it stop! Make it stop!" skipper yelled. He felt pain much worse than getting crushed bởi a car. It was like he had broken something. Something like a promise.
All of a sudden he opened his eyes, and he was back on the park bench, the ghost chim cánh cụt bởi his side.
"skipper." she said. "never wish for something thêm than bạn have. bạn never know when much better is actually much worse." she said.
"but, who are you?" skipper asked, between gasps for breath.
"I was the other body lying flattened on the street. And now that my job is done, I must bring my would somewhere else, relive my life in the tattered world where bạn command a better group of penguins." she said. The penguin, er, Sammi hugged him, and left off. Skipper set off back to HQ, where the others were sitting around the table, debating.
"Oh, Skip- ahem. Sir, you're back. We were just-" Kowalski began.
"No, skip it. I want to tell bạn all something." skipper said.
"we know. We've disappointed you. That's why we have decided to become a better crew. We shaped up and got down to work. We are now one hundred percent at your service, Skipper, sir!" amber đã đưa ý kiến , saluting.
"no, bạn don't have to. I-" 
"it's okay, we get it. Your seething with anger. Just sit down and we'll-" Private said.
"Shut up and listen!" skipper fussed. All five of them stood at attention. "at ease, soldiers. I've learned my lesson. I was too hard on bạn guys. I wished for better than I had, but better isn't always good. In doing so I would like to tell you. Free ngày tomorrow! Now get back to cleaning." skipper said.
"we've finished." Cassidy said.
"okay, then get back to not bothering me." skipper said, sitting down with a mug of cá coffee. Everyone scattered around for something to do. 
In the corner of the room, skipper saw four ghosts standing at attention.
"At ease, soldiers." he whispered.
"you say something, skippa?" private asked.
"no, it was nothing." skipper said. He turned back in time to watch Sammi wink at him, then exit through the wall. He smile gently at the though of a family. Then snapped himself out of it before someone noticed. Never again would he wish for anything thêm than the perfect soldiers, I mean friends he had already.

FIN.

*** Author's note: 
Hey, thanks for đọc this. Its probably just a fart compared to everything else bạn read on here. Thanks for volunteering your precious time to đọc my work. And another thing:
Be a Fruitloop, in a world of Cheerios ;) ***