A/N, Greetings POM fans! I'm very glad you've chosen to take the time out of your day to read this newest fic of mine. I've wanted to try an adventure story for a while now with the characters of Penguins of Madagascar and now finally have the time to, so please review if you may and tell me your honest thoughts of what you did or didn't like.

Disclaimer: I own nothing in this fic except the OC's

Three penguins and two lemurs exchanged glances toward eachother as they stood before a rather heated argument between Skipper and king Julien. It had originally started off with a mere snort of suppressed laughter by the penguin leader as the lemur king began his normal proclaiming of his own greatness bestowed upon him. This had unfortunately not fallen upon deaf ears, for the lemur's were actually quite responsive to everything within several hundred feet.

*snort* Julien turned and narrowed his eyes at the smirking penguin,

"Is something being funny about my kinglyness?" Skipper stifled back a chuckle,

"Oh its nothing Ringtail, only the part about you actually accomplishing something tickled me a bit." He said in a somewhat taunting voice. The penguin leader was not really one for insults as much as the lemur may have been, but when anyone decided to brag about every little thing they believed they did themselves when the flightless bird knew different, he'd find a certain buildup of distaste in his stomach. Julien frowned,

"What is being so funny about that?" He poised to the flightless bird, the lemur standing straight with his tail up tightly against his back. Skipper looked the ringtail in the eye before shaking his head. A voice in his head began spouting off,

Oh give me a break, he can't be serious!

"Ringtail, you're just a "king" because you decided to call yourself one." This line seemed to strike a nerve with Julien, his glare growing darker by the minute. Maurice and Mort both slightly flinched at Skipper's jab at their friend's status. Julien scowled before speaking slowly, seeming to choose his words carefully.

"I am being a king because I am worthy of the position."

Thats such a load of..

Skipper put a wing to his brow and facepalmed at the lemur's ignorance. He was like a broken record with this royalty nonsense.

"You're not though, don't you get that? Maurice would be a better leader than you!" He exclaimed, the shorter gray lemur put up his paws,

"Hey leave me out of this, and anyway how can you be so sure Skipper? You weren't with us long enough on Madagascar to even know if king Julien earned his way to the top or not." Maurice said in his king's defense, he knew this could turn ugly within moments and had to get Julien and Mort out of there soon.

The bird eyed the shorter lemur for a second.

"You're right, I don't, and I think because of that, Julien hasn't proven himself that he should be a king." A loud crack was heard as Julien balled a fist at his side, truly doing his best not to attack the penguin for his accusations. His tail began swishing side to side in an aggressive motion as the lemur stepped right up next to the penguin, his mammal form towering above the bird.

"Do not be insulting my abilities Skipper!" He growled as his glare intensified, the penguin stared straight back at him, unmoved by the lemur's threatening stance.

"Or WHAT Ringtail? Face it, you couldn't even last two days on your own and you think you actually deserve to be noticed as a king? you're delusional!"

Julien finally lost his composure and shoved the bird up against the way, Skipper's head smacking against the concrete as he felt the lemur pin his wings to the wall. Julien's tall frame allowed him to stand away from the attempted sweeping kicks by the flightless bird, Maurice and Kowalski began to try and pry the two away from eachother. Private watched in horror, seeing the two friends of his at eachothers throats, Rico staring in energized fascination, his mind pleading for more. Skipper fought hard against his teammate's struggles to keep him still as Maurice found himself having to yank Julien back by the tail as he clawed at the bird.

"I will show you flightless bird who is being king around here and why! You just wait! My kingdom shall be expanded and soon you will be seeing it!" Julien yelled as his aye aye drug him out the hidden entrance of the penguin habitat and back toward their own.

"Don't worry about showing me because you're outta here Ringtail! You're no longer allowed in this zoo, PERIOD!" Skipper cried out in frustration at the lemur that was being pulled away from his sight. Once the door had closed, Kowalski released his grip on Skipper, taking his place between Rico and Private. Skipper turned to them, heaving a deep breath as he tried to get his emotions under control. Private nervously eyed his commander,

"Skippah, do you really intend to banish Julien from the zoo? He does have his own home here..."

"Private I'm initiating an order at this moment, that at 0800 hrs, that crazed lemur is banished until I say otherwise!" He said in a commanding tone, forcing a small flinch by the smallest of the group followed by a gulp. The young bird nodded and then headed toward the hatchway,

"Private where are you going?"

"Well I just wanna say goodbye if that's alright." He said, Kowalski stepped up beside him,

"We should also mention the actual fact Julien will no longer be allowed in the zoo quarters so perhaps I should..."

Skipper," Yes Yes go on!" The two birds headed out of the HQ and went to the Lemur exhibit. They found Mort sitting at the edge of the fence crying into his paws.

"Mort, whats happened?" The lemur didn't acknowledge them but continued crying, Kowalski motioned for Private to stay with Mort as he headed into the lemur's habitat. He climbed up onto the stone walkway where the lemurs seemed to be having some kind of argument, though only one seemed to be arguing.

Maurice, "But you're majesty! You know you're needed here, things will cool off, just think about-"

"No Maurice! I will not be thinking about this! My kinglyness has been challenged! You know that flightless bird is attempting to steal my royal position but I will not be giving it away so easily! If he is wanting proof of my ruling abilities then he shall be having it!" Julien yelled as he worked hastily at stuffing several things into a blanket and tying it to a stick.

"Julien, you're..you're leaving?" Kowalski asked, he knew the fight between Skipper and the lemur had been one to hit certain low points, but this seemed to have fully pissed the lemur off. The only upside though would be the fact he wouldn't have to be the bearer of news about Julien's banishment now, except that did hardly anything to aid the situation. Julien finished his packing and flung the stick over his shoulder, he laid a paw on Maurice's shoulder. The gray lemur looked up to him, his face saddened by his friend's decision to depart, he knew his king would be alright back in their homeland, but this was a city, a complex area with several levels of danger that changed by the minute. Maurice took Julien's paw for a secound, he looked at his friend with eyes that begged him to stay home, to keep from going out and getting hurt possibly. Julien shook his head,

"Maurice, donot be giving me the look of sadness...Stay here until I return." He said, the gray lemur knew it was an order, if he was to come back safe, the least Maurice could do is prove he could keep his word.

"MY loyal subject, you are herby relieved of your duties until I have returned, oh and keep Mort from getting hurt." The aye aye's ears dropped and he nodded to Julien. The ringtail looked to everyone in his habitat, Kowalski approached him with a cellphone.

"Well if you are leaving, take this phone and call us if you get into trouble, its set to speed dial, just hold down 2." He said, Julien took the phone, holding it in his paws eyeing the numbers.

"I am not supposing you happened to have de chinese take out in the speedy dial as well?"

"Oh that's number 5." Julien smiled a little before letting his face turn serious, giving one final nod to everyone near him, he marched out of the habitat and off into the darkness. Maurice and Kowalski, Private with Mort in his flippers watched as the ringtailed lemur disappeared from sight. Private set Mort's broken up self in Maurice's arms as the two birds made their way out of the habitat and back home. Private slide up to the fence and leaped over, opening the hatch for Kowalski,

"Do you think he'll be okay out there Kowalski?" The tall bird shook his head,

"I'm not confident but at least he has a safety line to call for help." With that, the two birds leaped down to the bottom of the HQ, Rico and Skipper had already hit the hay, the almost synchronized snoring gave away the birds unconscious position. Private glanced to Kowalski and then climbed up to his bunk above the leader's, trying to move silently as he could, his commander needed nothing more this evening to set him off. The young member of the team laid in his bed, assessing the day's events, hoping for everything to be back to its original order sooner rather than later, winter was about to raise its wings and bless them with snow and ice, he only hoped Julien would be back by then.

Julien walked through the light streets of New York, several blocks already from the zoo. He'd chosen to stay next to the sidewalk for the time being, but to lurk in the shadows the best he could. Shivers went through him as he journeyed down the street's dark and quiet atmosphere, evening outside of his home in the zoo felt very different. There was a new life to it that was unlike in the daytime where everyone walked and drove all over the place, not now, it was only him and the streetlamps. He pulled out a small LED flashlight keychain he'd picked up off a visitor previously at the zoo, finding the button he clicked and scanned over the road before him. The stillness of it all made him very nervous, he could feel his soft tail beginning to bunch up quickly, his teeth chattering a small bit. He brushed his tail with a paw while he looked around.

Um..Where should I be going? I am needing to find a place for my royal booty to be resting, but where? He glanced up and down the street till his eyes caught the alleyway on his right side. It looked quite menacing from where he stood, the ground littered with tipped over trash receptacles, large dumpsters on either side. He could see movement up at the end of the alleyway, apparently SOMETHING lived there already.

"Err it is not maintained enough for someone of my stature anyhow." Turning and heading further down the streets of New York, the lemur tried to stay focused on finding shelter for himself. Taking a right and heading straight, he tried reading a map he'd tucked away in his pack, looking at the layout of the streets, he soon realized he'd already made it two miles outside the zoo, from what he remembered, he was heading south. Julien lifted his royal crown and scratched the top of his head for a second of where to go. After much decision, the ringtailed lemur continued south, hoping he could come across someone who knew the street world better than he. Still reading the map, as much he could understand anyway, he soon collided into something in his way.

"OOF!" The lemur was knocked slightly back but seemed to have shoved whatever stood before him onto the floor. He shook his head and looked over who'd he'd bumped into.

"Gahh Don't hurt me!" a male voice cried out, Julien took a look at the one before him, a it appeared to be a cat of some sort, he didn't have any collar or anything like other cat's he'd seen. Julien gasped,

"an alley cat!" The cat lowered his paws a bit and nervously eyeballed the catlike person, he looked like a cat, his tail though had rings..he had back paws,

"AHHH Raccoon!" The cat cried before scampering off in a hurry. Julien had no choice but to chase after him, this would possibly be the one and only help he would find. He seemed to fear Julien as well, that he could use. The cat tried to cross the street, cars were headed in each other direction! He took a step into the road just as a large midnight bus flew towards him on the street, the cat looked at the impossible to cross rest of the street and then at bus coming toward him. Covering his eyes with his paws, he shook as he felt the large truck like vehicle haul toward him,

"Please don't let it hurt!" He whimpered as the headlights gleamed their deadly embrace of his form as the bus rushed into his path.

He then felt himself being jerked back by his tail back onto the street, wind from the bus's trail blowing through his whiskers as he fell back into the sidewalk onto his back. He looked up to see the one he'd ran from just secounds ago towering over him with his paws on his hips.

"Silly feline, don't you know the human vehicles will make you all smooshy and dead?" He asked the cat. the feline raised a brow,

"well yeah but you were gonna get me..."

"Err hating to be the bearer of bad news but it seems I have still got you." He emphasized with the cat's tail in his paw.

"Good point, well go ahead then, eat me!" The crowned one tilted his head to the side,

"Err do what?"Now the cat was truly puzzled,

"you know, eat me, consume, feed on, devour-" This earned hearty laughter from the ringtail,

'Silly kitty I am not to be eating you." The cat looked at him all of a sudden with frown on his face.

"Oh what am I not good enough to be you're meal? You know I'm offended you think that, its not my fault I don't get enough food!" The "raccoon" bopped him on the head once,

"Ahem shut up a minute please, no its not because of that." He said, pulling the cat back up to his feet, the cat brushed himself off, shaking a paw to rid himself of the shedding fur.

"Look, I am looking to build my new kingdom somewhere in the area around here, do you want to be helping me?" The cat raised a brow again to the creature before him,

"um.. if you think you can find us some food then sure." Julien looked in his bag for a moment before handing the cat a small fish. The feline's eyes grew wide with excitement,

"So then you will work for me yes?" The cat nodded eagerly, drool already pouring from his jaws at the tantalizing fish. He handed the cat the fish, who graciously accepted it with a polite nod before tearing into it with a vicousness.

"Do you have a name?"The cat looked up and nodded with a happy grin,

"Max."

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A/N, Ah the first chapter is always the funnest to get out to the public, I am kind of excited about this story because there aren't a great deal of guidelines to follow this time, it being an adventure tale, can go really anywhere. I would like to see an actual episode where Julien has to rough it in the streets for a night, perhaps to humble his character a bit at least. Please review and tell me you thoughts of what I should do with this and what you might like to see. Thank you for reading and have a great day!