(my first in a series of episode style người hâm mộ fictions. and bởi that, i mean, the sort of stuff you'd see in an episode)


April 1st, 2013.

The Penguins woke up early that morning. Skipper watched the rest of his team tiredly crawl out of bed. Kowalski was first, followed bởi Private, and Rico....well, he just sort of rolled out of giường and hit the floor. He was still asleep.

Several attempts to wake him up were made until Private had the bright idea of placing a cá near Rico's head, intending for him to eat it when the crazed bird woke up, but just before he could place it on the stone floor, Rico's eyes opened wide and he lunged at the fish, swallowing Private's flipper.

Unfazed bởi the comical scene unfolding before him, Skipper started speaking, but was cut off bởi Kowalski ; "Skipper, today, if you're not aware, is April Fools Day."

"it is?" đã đưa ý kiến Skipper, in horror.

Standing in front of the fourth tường of the HQ, which was covered in various calendars all boldly marked with "April First" , Skipper said," Why wasn't i made aware about this sooner?! How am i supposed to keep track if nobody tells me anything?"

Rico shook back and forth, trying to shake Private off the way a dog would shake off water in the background as Skipper continued, "Will, men, it's April Fools Day, and bạn know what that means! I want all of bạn to be diligent, and on your toes at all times today! bạn never know when someone could sneak up behind bạn and-.."

Just then, their back door opened.

"Hey guys! What's-...." đã đưa ý kiến Marlene, walking in slowly, covered in the remains of a pie.

"SMOKED SALMON!" shouted Skipper, leaping in to a karate pose, "Boys, we have a potential prankster in our midst!"

The others followed Skipper's lead, as Marlene stated, dumbfound.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa.....pranks?! I'm not here to prank anybody! i still have pie on my lông, lông thú from Julien's latest prank!", she said. As if for emphasis, she spit out a few crumbs of pie that fell in her mouth.

The Penguins relaxed from their defensive positions.

Kowalski waddled over to Marlene, goggles on, and examined her all over.

Taking a sample of the cream covering her body and tasting it, he đã đưa ý kiến simply, and cheerfully, " Ooh! trái chuối, chuối Cream Pie!"

Annoyed, Skipper said, "Enough with the taste testing, Kowalski, there's work to be done! We have to beef up security today because of the dangers all around!"

"Uh-huh....dangers...how are pranks dangerous? đã đưa ý kiến Marlene, flatly.

"You don't know the half of it, Marlene! Manfredi and Johnson loved pranking until ....The Accident..... now their unusually harsh voices are a reminder of why NOT to prank people!"

The con rái cá, rái cá just rolled her eyes. "Where's your sense of fun, Skipper?"

"There's no room for fun when you're in an elite team, Marlene!"

In the background, while they began a heated argument about work versus play, Kowalski was doing the usual perimeter check with their periscope when he noticed something unusual.

"Um...Skipper?" he called, nervously, his voice faltering.

They were still arguing, so he called over his shoulder again, urgently, " Skipper?"

Marlene and Skipper both turned to him at the same time and, annoyed, shouted "WHAT?"

"In case bạn didn't notice, I'm trying to have an argument here!" đã đưa ý kiến Skipper, who faced Marlene and began to say, " We're too busy for leisure time! Our finances are low enough as it is, and i don't have enough to pay the boys, and-."

"You don't pay us We're penguins. There's no finances to worry about." pointed out Private, innocently.

Skipper just glared at him.

Not wanting to have what he saw take the back seat, Kowalski said, loudly and quickly, "Oh for the tình yêu of Doris! Just look!", and pushed Skipper towards the periscope.

Peering into it, he was annoyed to find King Julien 's mouth near the lens of the periscope, his breath fogging it up.

He shouted with a voice that could be heard echoing throughout the HQ, " Heloooo? pizza, bánh pizza man? I would like to order a pie! How am i to be using this telephony thingamabob, Maurice?"

"Uh...Your Majesty...that's NOT a telephone." replied the Aye-Aye.

"Then what is it?"

Maurice opened up his mouth to speak, but Skipper called out from inside, "It's a periscope, Ringtail! Now get off out roof hoặc we'll MAKE bạn get off!"

Julien gasped in surprise, saying " how did bạn do that? that was being a greattastic Skipper impression! now imitate me!" he ordered

Maurice, embarrassed put on his best attempt at an Indian accent and mumbled, " I am da king and all dat...be bowing down to me...."

"Enhhh...I was liking bạn Skipper better. Now where was I?" he said, unimpressed.

Skipper, the team, and Marlene climbed topside, unnoticed bởi Julien.

"You were just leaving!" he said, shoving Julien as he was walking towards the wooden plank that served as a ramp to get on and off the penguin's ice floe.

"Happy April Fools Day!" cried Julien.

"Yeah, yeah...." muttered Skipper, as the Lemurs walked back to their habitat.

"But what about my pizza?" he called over to them, but was ignored.

Marlene left for her place to get cleaned up, and the penguins reentered their HQ.

"What did bạn want to hiển thị me, Kowalski?" asked Skipper, with no hint of apology in his voice.

"A large and suspicious-looking truck, sir. it was entering the Zoo with what appeared to be live cargo." replied the scientist.

Looking around using the periscope again, Skipper asked, " Any name on it?"

"It appeared as though it đã đưa ý kiến 'Seaville'"

"What?!" cried the others in unison.....well, at least the two of then. Rico đã đưa ý kiến " WHU?!"

"Boys, it's time to investigate! Commence Operation: Fools in April!" cried Skipper, standing up from where he was sitting on the cinder block table.

Later, they were at the Zoo's Offices, looking for the transfer records of the new animals.

Opening the hàng đầu, đầu trang drawer on the left, Kowalski quickly flipped through some files and found the one he was looking for.

"Here we go!" he announced, holding up a large file folder marked with that day's date.

Opening it, he was shocked to find himself staring at the faces of Manfredi and Johnson.(which the idiots at Seaville, who always get the names of their động vật wrong, called Frederick and Johnathon)

"S-Skipper...c-come and look at this." Kowalski stammered.

"What is it, Kowal-......" đã đưa ý kiến Skipper as he snatched the file out of his flippers.

"Manfredi and Johnson!" gasped Skipper, " They're alive?!"

"They're alive?!" cried Private.

Suddenly, they heard Alice coming back in, so they hid underneath her desk.

They overheard her talking to the delivery man.
"Yeah. I put the two new arrivals in with the other four. Funny birds...they never seem to be around."

Exiting her office when she sat in her chair to doze off, they made their way back to their HQ.

"Why did bạn tell us that they were dead all those times, Skipper?" asked Private, in a hurt tone.

"I may have changed the story a few times, but-"

" A FEW times?" questioned Kowalski, his eyebrow raised.

"Fine!" Skipper snapped as they reached their HQ, " Loads of times! but up until today, i honestly thought they'd croaked!"

"So THAT'S why bạn didn't come looking for us!" đã đưa ý kiến a tall chim cánh cụt with a mohawk and his flipper in a treo lên, sling when they entered the HQ. A shorter one with a flat head was beside him

"Johnson!" exclaimed Skipper, "And Manfredi! come here bạn knuckleheads!"

They rushed, to their leader, limping and both hugged him.

"You know, we saw bạn about a tháng hoặc two back. We were at Seaville this whole time." đã đưa ý kiến Manfredi.

"You were?! Sweet dandy candy, i need to get my eyes checked!"

They both laughed at their leader's joke.

"Now what's this about bạn making up stories about us?" asked Johnson, curiously.

"Um....well...you see..... " began Skipper.

"Yes?" prompted Manfredi.

"Um...never mind. April Fools!" he shouted with a small laugh.

The End.