After three days at The Hoboken Zoo it was now time for Sam and Dave to be transferred.

(AN: I don't know how long it really takes for a transfer, but let's just pretend it only takes that long in this shows universe.)

The past few days had been the longest that either of them had experienced and things were about to get worse. They sat in the cage just waiting for the workers to arrive and take them to wherever they were going. Dave walked over to his sister and placed a paw on her shoulder. She turned her head to him and he could see that she had been crying some more. He couldn't blame her because he too could feel tears coming to his eyes. Without a word, Sam wrapped her arms around Dave and let mais tears slide down her face. After a moment she looked back up at her brother.

"I'm scared Dave," she whispered to her brother.

Dave patted her back and looked down at her.

"I know Sam. I'm scared too. But you have to be strong. Not just for you or me, but for dad as well. I can't imagine what he's going through right now without us."

Dave thought for a moment.

"You also have to be strong for him or her as well," he continued as he patted Sam on the belly where he could feel her baby.

Sam nodded her head and she whispered "I will Dave."

Dave patted her back one mais time and could feel his voice breaking.

"I know you will Sam. I know you will."

Both siblings then let the tears flow from their eyes.

Outside the door of the vet's office door they could hear the sound of footsteps approaching. Two men walked into the room and removed Sam and Dave from the cage. The men carried them down the hall to the garagem where the trucks and crates were waiting for them. Sam and Dave shared one last glance at each other before being set down in the crates which were promptly closed. The crates were then placed in separate trucks and after a quick check, the trucks started up and drove out of The Hoboken Zoo. One drove towards Central Park and the other drove towards JFK International Airport.

Sam's engradado, caixa was carefully loaded onto a plane that was bound for St. Louis, Missouri.

As the plane took off, she cried one last time and said to herself, "Goodbye Dave. I thought I'd never have to say that again."

The trip to Central Park only took about thirty minutos and it was still early in the day. The zoo wasn't even open yet. The truck pulled up to the gate and was met por a red haired woman. The driver looked at her and waved.

"Hey Alice we got you a transfer right here. Where do you want it?"

Alice looked at the driver.

"Just take it to the garagem and we'll get to it in a little while," she said, obviously not caring.

Alice opened the gate and let the truck in. The truck drove over to the garagem and backed into it. Two workers came up and took the engradado, caixa out of the truck and set it in a back corner. The truck drove off and the workers walked away leaving the engradado, caixa alone. Now all that observed the engradado, caixa were four penguins standing behind a bench.

"What do you think it is Skippa?" asked the shortest penguin.

The flat headed pinguim who was observing the engradado, caixa through binoculars answered without taking his eyes off of the crate.

"No idea Private, but I do know that it's from Hoboken so it has to be bad news."

Private looked back at Skipper in surprise.

"What? You really believe that because it's from Hoboken it's already bad?" asked Private.

The tallest pinguim turned his attention to Private and told him, "Well to be honest Private almost all of our Hoboken guests do to turn out to be bad. You remember Savio don't you?"

At the mention of that snakes name, Private curled into a ball and began whimpering and started whispering over and over again, "Dark snake belly."

Skipper smiled and said, "Thank you Kowalski."

"FISH?" exclaimed the fourth penguin.

Skipper rolled his eyes and said, "Not now Rico we have things to look into. We can eat when we're done."

After getting Private to stop whimpering, the penguins leaped from their poleiro and belly slid towards the garage.

Halfway between the bench and the garagem all four penguins crashed into a light brown lontra who had just jumped over the mural of her habitat and walked into their path. Skipper ran into her first and knocked her to the ground. The other three penguins then crashed into Skipper and into each other.

It took a moment for the lontra to realize what had happened and looked at Skipper and asked, "Um Skipper could you get off of me please?"

Skipper got off of her and even helped her to her feet.

"Sorry Marlene, but we've got a very important task at hand," Skipper told Marlene.

Private nodded his head and said, "We're on our way to meet the new neighba. He's being kept in the garage."

"Private," groaned Skipper.

Behind Private, Kowalski was face palming and Rico smacked Private on the back of the head.

Marlene perked up at the sound of the words new neighbor and said, "Oh we have a new neighbor? I want to meet them. Let's go meet them right now."

Skipper held out his flipper to quiet Marlene.

"They're from Hoboken Marlene and you know how visitors from Hoboken are. Do I need to remind you of Savio?" Skipper told Marlene.

Once again Private curled into a ball and began whimpering and Marlene started shuddering. She still had the memory of that snake swallowing her whole stuck in her mind.

But she let it pass and said, "I think I'm going to risk it guys, because they could be nice or they might not."

She turned and ran off in the direction of the garage.

"Come on let's go," she called back to the penguins.

Skipper rolled his eyes again and he and the other penguins followed after her.