It was a day like any other in the central park zoo, the penguins where doing their usual morning routines, the lemurs where dancing to their boom box, Marlene was doing her early swim, and Alice was 'busy' sitting at her desk sleeping.

"Yo, Alice!" the microphone in Alice's lap sounded, making Alice jump in surprise and land on the floor.

"What!" Alice hissed back scornfully.

"Did you hear that the female penguin needs her check up today?" asked her co-worker.

"Oh yeah, she might have picked a mate." Alice then got up from her desk and stepped outside.

Skipper, Kowalski, Rico, and Private were dancing for the early crowd of people surrounding the outside of their home. "And now…convert!" ordered Skipper as he began to roll along side with the others into an adorable stance, which the humans just awed at, threw some fish, and walked away proceeding along to see the other animals performances. Private smiled as he grabbed a piece of salmon. Just as he did, Alice, seemingly out of nowhere, grabbed Private away from the group and tucked his small body under her arms as she carried him away.

"S-Skippah!" he yelled as he stared horrified at his leader while he was being carried away.

Private was placed on the cooling table at the front desk.

"Well hello little one, have you picked a mate yet?" asked the doctor as he popped out of the corner.

"Mate?" thought Private as he stayed still.

"Well, don't worry, I'll just do a quick check up on you." consoled the vet, after the… 'weird' check up, the doctor placed him back on the table. Private was shaking vigorously.

"Why would he do that?" he thought over and over again to himself.

"Well, you did very well, very corporative, not like most females here, ok, you can go, just promise me you'll pick a mate soon girl." The last sentence left Private in shock.

"G-girl?...GIRL?" He was outraged. Did he really act like a girl THAT much?

"Well hey there young Private, how was your visit to the doctor?" asked Skipper as he smiled while playing cards with Marlene. His smile quickly faded as he watched Private walk limply into the HQ.

"Whats wrong Private?" asked Marlene as she put her cards down to walk over to Private.

"Well I…I…I can't tell you!" admitted Private.

"What do you mean Private? You can tell us anything, so whats on your mind?" asked Skipper as he stared at him now with concern. Private sighed as he sat on his bunk and rubbed the back of his neck with one flipper. All eyes were on him as they stared patiently for a response.

"I….am a girl…" Private finally answered. Skipper starred at him in shock, Marlene's eyes widened, and Rico was trying to wake up Kowalski, because he had already fainted….