0700 hours or 7:00 A.M., Marlene, the Otter, was slowly waking up to the sun's bright light as it peaked through her habitat, but this was nothing out of the ordinary. Every day she woke to sun's early light and every day she would get out of bed eat something for breakfast then wait a few minutes before taking a nice cool swim in her little pond. Yet today she just felt like laying there, besides it was Sunday and the zoo was closed, why get up and get ready for guest when none where coming. So she did, she laid on her bed staring at her ceiling, day dreaming, but as she did, sleep slowly crept into her brain, making her vision of her ceiling go fuzzy and then dark, sleep had won. She didn't really care for the battle anyway, she was tired and sleepy. The day before she had gone with the penguins on one of their stake outs and she couldn't possible see how anyone or anything could stay up all night staring at one thing the whole time, of course nothing happened while she was there. She had thought it might have been exiting, that's why she tagged along but, if she were to have known, she would have never even asked, she fell asleep thinking of the stake out. She tried to concentrate on what her self-consensus had remembered from the stake out. Pictures formed as she thought, slowly four black and white figures appeared. One tall, one short, one sort of short and one really short, she looked at them. Kowalski, obviously the tall one, was staring at his note pad, Skipper, the short one, was looking at her, Rico, the sort of short one, looked a bit devise as he stared at nothing but thin air, and Private, the really short one, was looking at her to, he smiled and waved as soon as he noticed her. She smiled and waved back, Private looked as if he was going to say something, but before he could Kowalski spoke up.

"Marlene?" asked Kowalski, surprised to see the Otter; he had not noticed her walking up.

"Hay Kowalski!" she answered back, letting a hint of excitement escape her voice.

"Hello" he said acknowledging her greeting.

"Hi Marlene!" both Private and Rico said, (well in Rico's own way of saying it).

She waited for Skipper to greet her to, but no voice came. She looked at him when it took her by surprise that Skipper looked in a horrible mode; his eyes directly locked one Private.

"Uh Skipper?" she said "are you ok?"

Private by now had looked at Marlene and seen her looking directly at skipper, in which instinctively he looked at Skipper. Marlene, herd a gulp come from Private. She quickly turned her attention to Private, who was no longer smiling, a look mixed with sadness and fright planted on his face, as he coward down. Marlene wasn't sure what to do, but there was one thing she knew for sure and that was that this is defiantly not what happened during the stake out .just then a loud noise sounded.

"What the …?" said Marlene, just then another loud noise sounded, this time causing the image of the penguins to fade then come back. Then all of a sudden the noise came again, this time the picture of the penguins faded, the image did not come back.

"Ahh!" yelled Marlene as she immediately sat up right in her bed, the loud noise still ringing in her ears.