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Left Broken

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Chapter 1

The Homeleaving

"We are leaving the zoo"

Everything has been usual, king Julien having his crazy parties that no one wanted to join, Skipper yelling at him to turn of the loud music, Alice bringing food to animals with emotionless face showing how dissatisfied she was with her work, gorillas eating bananas and throwing them away to random places, monkeys playing chess. It has always been like that until the day those words were said by the penguin leader.

"We are leaving the zoo" Skipper stated as if it was nothing special, as if this meant nothing to their lifes.

"We WHAT?!" Kowalski gasped spatting out the coffee he had just drunk.

"Exactly what I had said. We are leaving"

"But sir, What happened? Why now?"

"There's not much to talk about. I will explain you on the way. Pack your things"

"What's up?" Private, who had heard them talking, came in and looked at the two penguins.

"Skipper decided that we are leaving the zoo like right now" Kowalski replied.

"You can't be serious"

"I am your leader, you must obey" Skipper told them and turned toward ladder to leave HQ, leaving his comrades in shock.

"What has gotten into him?"

"I have no idea, but he was serious. It doesn't seem to be a decision made under the influence of random emotions" Kowalski said.

"I think I should talk to him" Private decided to draw Skipper away from the fatal idea. He waddled to climb out of the headquarter and got onto the platform of their habitat. He found his leader standing on the edge of it, looking up at the sky slowly getting dark with late sunset.

"Skippah, are you sure about that? Do you want us to completely change our lives just on a command? We have friends, we have spent our best time here and now we are supposed to leave our memories behind?"

"Young Private, you have to recon with hard decisions that appear in every soldier's life. I got used to it. Instantly changing personalities, leaving the undone past behind, forgetting the memories because there's no place for them. One day you will be old enough to understand it all" The leader penguin spoke, patting Private on his back.

"But we are not like you, it's something new for us, we have never faced such a hard decision…"

"This day had to come, sooner or later" Skipper simply said, he didn't look like he would miss the central park zoo nor its inhabitants "We are leaving this night. You have time to say goodbyes"

"Can you tell us at least where are we going?"

"Classified"

With that Private resigned from asking more questions, it was pointless and nothing would make Skipper change his plans. He returned to share the information he got with Kowalski and Rico. They were waiting for him, hoping he would bring some good news. Their smiles fell when they saw his sad expression. The young penguin lowered his head and shook it.

"We only have time to say goodbye to everybody" He told his teammates.

"So this is the end? Farewell?"

"Ahw, I don't likea fare wells" Rico babbled, his voice unhappy.

"Neither do I" Kowalski joined and sighed "We should go visit our friends for the last time"

Meanwhile Skipper went to an otter habitat. If anyone should tell Marlene about their leaving it should be him. His teammates would not make her understand. Well, probably even he would not be able to make her understand since he wasn't sure himself about it. What he was doing was the best for everyone but he had to admit, the hardest moths of his life were awaiting him. The past was catching up to him. Oh dear. He stood at the mouth of a cave and knocked, waiting for his friend to show up. A while later chestnut-fur otter came out greeting him with a smile.

"Hey Skipper, What's up?" She said cheerfully.

"There's something important I need to tell you. Please try to not get me wrong" He told and saw her face change serious. Then he continued "Me and my team are moving out this night"

"Did I really hear what I heard?" She said after she had analyzed his words.

"I know it's hard, Marlene, this is the last time we see each other"

"But yesterday everything was fine, we played cards, remember? What has gotten into you!"

"Situation has changed"

"No, no, no, do not tell me such things. You are not going anywhere" Marlene said, her voice assertive.

"I hoped you would understand…"

"What's there to understand? What has changed since yesterday!?" She flustrated.

"Classified"

"Oh sure, classified, what else should I have expected in reply from you. You know what? This is just selfish!"

"Trust me, I'm doing what's the best for all of us"

"A greater good huh? I don't believe you. You got bored of us, we and the zoo are not as entertaining as you super secret life. Then fine, have your exciting life back, full of spies, missions, sudden explosions and this stuff. You won't even tell me the truth which I deserve to know. This only means we have never really been best friends"

"The truth is dangerous for you"

"Fine" she just said trying to hold back her emotions shutting her eyes, tears coming.

"Marlene…" Skipper said putting his flipper on her shoulder but she shook it off.

"If this is goodbye then I don't want it" with that the otter turned and walked away to disappear in her cave, not even bothering to look back.

"I am sorry" The leader penguin said quietly and waddled away.

The three penguins made a round around the zoo to visit every inhabitants. Farewell is never easy. It is never easy to fortget. And even harder to accept. The fate decided to mess up with their lives and they had to put on a mask and pretend that everything was fine. It was what Skipper always did. After the monkeys, Phil and Mason, it was time for the lemurs. They made their way to the habitat and saw Julien dancing near his royal throne followed by Maurice and Mort.

"Guys, can we please talk?"

"What makes you think I would talk to a silly penguin?" Julien said with his pride, as usual.

"Sure" Maurice agreed seeing that situation was serious. He turned off a boombox meeting his king's dissatisfied look.

"Well, we came to say goodbye. We are moving out"

"Oh, that's.." Maurice started trying to find good words. He kinda liked the penguins although they sometimes were annoying him "I haven't expected that"

"None of us did"

"Oh, so the silly penguins are going on a vacation?" Julien, of course, didn't get what they meant by 'moving out' "Bring me a souvenir. It doesn't have to be big. It just have to be shining and expensive"

"Eh, I'm gonna miss his misunderstood-ness" Kowalski thought.

"No penguins in the zoo?" Mort asked hugging Private's foot with tearful eyes.

"Yes Mort" The young penguin answered sadly. Just then their leader showed up.

"Are you ready boys?"

"Remember to bring me something shiny from your vacation!" Julien reminded him.

"Ummm, sure. I am definitely not going to miss you, ringtail"

"Neither do I!" The lemur said resentful and grabbed his furry tail.

"I will take care of your home" Mort stated still hugging Private's foot.

"Don't worry sad eyes" Skipper patted the little lemur "Goodbye Maurice"

They saluted and left, walking through the zoo alley. Probably for the last time in their lives. They weren't ready for that, it's never easy. Skipper's past were classified but he surely got used to it, he didn't feel like they did. Maybe he never did? He wasn't kind of a sentimental person, He might have been created for the life like that. But they did not.

Especially Private, he has always been the one to make friends quickly, maybe he was naïve but he saw the good in everybody. He knew that he would never forgive himself that there was a day when he just said goodbye and turned away from his peaceful life. Maybe Skipper for hunting for new adventures? They had some missions in the zoo but they might not be enough for the leader. There were so many possibilities of what has pulled him into making this decision but Private wanted to hear the reason from Skipper. He demanded it.

The penguins got to the headquarter to destroy any evidence of residency. They had to destroy everything, nothing could be left. Kowalski covered his eyes with his flippers as Skipper let Rico blow up all of his inventions. They took only the necessary things. Even the box of Skipper's logs, the only hint of what he was doing in past got burned by a flamethrower. At least Rico had fun.

"Sir, we haven't been to Marlene's yet" Kowalski spoke.

"No time for that"

"But Skippah, she's our best friend! We must…" Private started but he was cut off by his leader.

"You must obey my order"

"She needs to know"

"She has been informed already"

"But we want to see her"

"Private, believe me, she's not in the best mood to see you" Skipper sighed.

"What did you told her?"

"I just let her know that we are leaving, that's all"

"She was our best friend. Do you order us to leave her like that?"

"She doesn't want any goodbyes. She will accept it, just needs time. Like you boys"

"Poor Marlene, she must fell so lonely…" Kowalski said. But there was no point in continuing on that conversation. The moment they passed through the zoo gate was the moment they left the past behind, stepping into new chapter of their life.

They just followed Skipper with no clue where he was leading them. The passed through dark central park and reached the town. Their leader led them to subway, carefully to not get noticed by humans. They waited for it to arrive and quickly slipped into it, fortunately there were so many people that they couldn't be noticed through the crowd. They took their places on the floor under the seats.

"So, will you finally tell us where are we going?" Kowalski asked.

"Can't you just wait?" Skipper sighed.

"No" Private demanded.

"Okay. We are going to MAAB, a shortcut of Main America Agents Base. The base I used to work for in the past. I got information that I am needed there. It seems they have a problem, an enemy that I dealt with long time ago. They have a mission for me and I can't reject. I have to end what I have started, otherwise we all will be in danger. We had to leave the zoo, you will understand"

"Who is the enemy?"

"Classified"

"So, what mission?"

"Classified"

"Oh Skipper come on" Kowalski pleaded.

"What will happen to us?" Private asked.

"You are soon to find out. Welcome to your new lives boys"

Please read.

Well, PoM is not my main focus anymore, I decided to put all my stories on hiatus because I am writing for other fanbase now. But recently I watched the PoM movie and all the memories of the penguins I love came back to me. I thought it would be a right thing to do to write my last fanfic for them. This is just an idea I got a long time and decided to put it into a story. So I wrote this but I don't know if I should continue. It depends on you guys, so please, leave me a review. I would be grateful.