This story takes place seven years in the future...

...Skipper's team have split up, each ibong dagat gone to do their own thing before each retire...

...Kowalski had gone to be a science teacher at the Calafornia unibersidad for Penguins...

...Rico had left to be a security gaurd for the ibong dagat museum...

...Private and CC, had gotten married, and settled down...

...Skipper, however, had stayed at the Central Park Zoo...

Our story begins with little Rune, not so little anymore, now tweleve years old. She stayed at the zoo too. Ever since CC and the rest of the team left, she had been lonely. The lemurs had gone back to Madagascar, so she didn't even have Mort anymore. Marlene had been transfered, so Alice had turned her old habitat into Rune's.

"I can't take this," she cried. She looked at a picture of CC, Mort and herself. "Why did you have to leave me?" tears formed in her eyes. "You promised you'd never leave me!" She threw the picture across the room, and it crashed against the wall. Rune stared at the shattered glass, and ran out of the habitat, to the penguin's.

"Skipper!" she cried, dropping through the door. Skipper looked up from his papers.
"Rune?" he asked. "What's wrong?"
"I miss CC!" Rune sobbed, running up to Skipper, and hugging him.
"CC's been gone for two years already. How come you just suddenly started missing her?" Skipper asked.
"I've been missing her for along time," Rune admitted. "She hasn't come to visit, even though she'd promised."
"She's busy with her own family now," Skipper told her. "Didn't you know?"
"No," Rune sighed. She spotted the papers on the table. "What are those?"
"These?" Skipper asked, looking at the files. "They're some old mission files from years ago. I'm sorting them out."
"But didn't Kowalski sort them out, peck them up, and stick them in the closet already?" Rune asked.
"Alright, you got me," Skipper admitted. "I'm just remembering all the missions we used to do..."