The time machine had appeared near the Los Angeles zoo. It was 2003.

The robot David covered the time machine with the cloak.

‘Alright my lads!’ - said the colonel - ‘We are boots on the ground!’

‘HUZZAH!’ - shouted the troopers

‘This is not a shopping trip lads, this is our most dangerous and daring mission yet! Captain, how are we looking?’ - said the colonel

‘All systems normal sir’ - said the captain

‘And we have the money?’ - said the colonel

‘Yes sir’ - said the captain

‘Okay - mission green light captain. Take us out!’ - said the colonel

Robot David walked from the bushes with his strange gate, and odd smile. Robot David was still wearing the olive green fatigues and black boots.

‘Hey buddy!’ - said robot David as he passed a man sweeping the sidewalk.

The man stared at robot David as he walked past.

There were hundreds of school children waiting outside the gates of the zoo. The children were lined up, waiting to head in.

Robot David barged through the lines of children, heading to the ticket office.

‘Hey buddy!’ - robot David said to the children as he barged through.

‘Hey, excuse me sir’ - shouted one of the teachers at robot David

Robot David stopped.

‘Oh hey!’ - said robot David - ‘I just love your dogs, they are so cute!’

‘Sir, you should be careful where you are walking’ - continued the teacher - ‘you knocked some of the children over sir’

‘You know, I just love magical creatures. Do you love magical creatures as well?’ - said robot David.

‘Asshole!’ - said the teacher.

‘Stay on mission captain?’ - said the colonel

‘Yes sir’ - said the captain, turning the dial.

Robot David walked to the ticket office.

‘Hey buddy!’ - said robot David

‘Good morning sir, how can I help?’ - said a man sitting in the booth.

‘One’ - said robot David

‘One?’ - said the man in the booth

‘One’ - said David

‘One ticket?’ - said the man in the booth.

Robot David laughed maniacally.

The man in the booth stared at David.

‘You know, you are pretty cool. We should hang out’ - said robot David

The man stared at robot David.

‘One’ - said robot David

‘So one ticket?’ - said the man in the booth.

‘So very cool, brother!’ - said robot David

The man in the booth pressed the buttons on the register - ‘$20 sir’

Robot David took a stack of money from his pocket and held it out.

The man pulled a $20 bill from the stack, and handed robot David a ticket.

‘Hey, my brother is having a barbecue. Do you want to come?’ - said robot David, taking the ticket.

‘No thank you’ - said the man in the booth.

David dropped the stack of money and walked to the gates to the zoo.

‘Hey buddy!’ - said robot David to the school children and teachers as he walked to the gates. The money was blowing around on the floor behind him, and the school children began screaming and trying to grab the bills flying around in the wind.

‘Good morning sir’ - said the security guard at the gate.

Robot David stood and stared at the guard.

‘Be ready captain - we have had dealings with these violent animals before’ - said the colonel

‘Yes sir’ - said the captain, hands on the dials

‘Your ticket, sir’ - said the security guard.

‘My ticket’ - said robot David

‘Yes sir, your ticket’ - said the guard

‘My ticket’ - said robot David

‘Sir, you have to give me your ticket’ - said the guard.

Robot David laughed maniacally.

The guard lent over and took robot David’s ticket, and then punched a hole in it.

‘Be ready captain’ - said the colonel.

The guard handed the ticket back to robot David

‘Enjoy your visit, sir’ - said the guard.

Robot David laughed maniacally again and then wandered into the zoo.

‘Must be a Canadian tourist’ - said the guard to another guard.

‘Excellent job captain’ - said the colonel

‘Thank you sir’ - said the captain

‘Phase 1 completed. Proceed with phase 2’ - said the colonel

‘Yes sir’ - said the captain

Robot David strode through the park. A man was changing the garbage sack in a trash can.

Robot David walked up to the garbage man.

‘Hey buddy!’ - said robot David to the man

The man continued to change the garbage sack - ‘I just take care of the garbage man, I don’t know nothing about the zoo’

‘Penguin’ - said Robot David

‘What?’ - said the man

‘Penguin’ - said Robot David

‘I told you man, I just take care of garbage’ - said the man

‘PENGUIN!’ - shouted robot David

‘What the fuck is your problem man?’ - said the man

A security guard walked upto robot David and the garbage man.

‘Is there a problem here?’ - said the security guard.

‘Penguin’ - said robot David to the security guard

‘You want to see the penguin exhibit, sir?’ - said the guard.

‘Penguin’ - said robot David

‘Just follow the path sir, and you will see the penguin exhibit next to seal island’ - said the guard.

‘Let’s go captain - phase 3’ - said the colonel

‘Yes sir’ - said the captain, turning a dial and flicking a switch.

Robot David turned from the guard and sprinted down the path towards the penguin exhibit.

The guard and the garbage man looked at each other.

Robot David arrived at the penguin exhibit, and there were crowds of children watching as one of the zookeepers spoke to them through a microphone.

‘...and who knows where these penguins are from?’ - said the female zookeeper.

Dozens of children put their hands in the air. The zookeeper chose one.

‘South Africa’ - said a young girl

‘That’s right’ - said the zookeeper

Robot David barged through the crowd of children.

‘Penguin’ - said robot David

Some of the children had fallen and were crying.

‘Hey buddy, what the hell are you doing?’ - shouted a man at robot David.

‘Penguin’ - said robot David, and started climbing over the barrier.

‘Excuse me sir, you cannot do that’ - said the zookeeper.

Robot David climbed over the barrier and the zookeeper blocked his way.

‘Robbie, call security’ - shouted the zookeeper

‘Okay, let's wrap this up, captain’ - said the colonel.

Robot David struck the zookeeper in the throat, and she collapsed. Robot David walked to the edge of the penguin pool and dove into the pool.

The children were screaming, and the penguins were diving in the water and swimming around. Another zookeeper checked on his collapsed colleague - she was dead.

Dozens of zoo security guards came running to the penguin exhibit. Children were running everywhere, screaming. A man stood and was recording everything on a video camera.

Robot David was swimming through the pool, chasing penguins.

‘What happened?’ - said one of the security guards to the zookeeper.

‘This guy just comes up and climbs over the barrier, and Rosie tries to stop him and he just throat punches her. She's dead!’ - said the zookeeper.

The security guard jumped over the barrier and pulled his gun. Other security guards were climbing over the barrier and were pulling their guns.

Robot David had caught a penguin. He was holding it whilst it pecked his hands and squawked.

‘Put the fucking penguin down and put your hands in the air’ - shouted the security guard.

‘Oh hey! I love your gun, did you buy it with money?’ - said robot David.

‘Okay. Phase three completed. Exfil please captain’ - said the colonel

‘Yes sir - exfil phase initiated’ - said the captain, turning dials and flicking switches.

‘Put the fucking penguin down or we drop you - NOW!’ - shouted the security guard.

Robot David leapt out of the penguin pool, still holding the penguin and then leapt over the barrier and sprinted back down the path to the zoo gates.

The man was videoing everything.

‘Jesus fucking Christ’ - shouted the security gaurd - ‘Everyone out of here and get the fucking guy with the penguin!

The security guards clambered out of the penguin exhibit, and started running after robot David.

Robot David was already at the gates. Two guards had their guns pulled, and were pointing them at robot David as he sprinted towards them.

‘Okay - shoot the fucker!’ - shouted the first guard.

‘What about the penguin?’ - said the other guard.

‘Fuck the fucking penguin!’ - shouted the first guard, and he opened fire.

‘Incoming fire - battle stations!’ - shouted the colonel

‘Yes sir’ - said the captain, and he lifted the cover and pressed the red button.

Robot David leapt high in the air, and landed behind the two security guards. The guards started to turn, and robot David performed a roundhouse kick striking the first guard in the side of the head. The second guard pointed their gun at robot David, and was just about to pull the trigger when robot David performed a pirouette and kicked the security guard in the side of the head. Both security guards were on the ground.

Robot David sprinted back to the hidden time machine and uncovered it. Police cars were turning up at the zoo gates with their sirens blaring.

‘Next destination please captain - you know what to do’ - said the colonel

‘Yes sir’ - said the captain.

The time machine fired up, and disappeared.

‘Incredible scenes from Los Angeles zoo’ - said the TV news presenter - ‘A visitor at the zoo recorded these images of a man that police are hunting after the death of a zookeeper at the zoo’s penguin enclosure’

The video showed robot David climbing over the railings and attacking the zookeeper and then diving into the penguin pool.

‘We go now to our reporter on the scene, Marcie Ramerez’ - said the TV news host.

‘Thank you Dale. Shocking scenes here at the Los Angeles zoo where a man entered the penguin enclosure and killed one of the zookeepers who was in the middle of a presentation to a group of school children. After attacking the zookeeper the man dived into the penguin pool where he captured a penguin. Security staff were quickly on the scene, but the man was able to flee the scene with the penguin. The man attacked two other security staff. Zoo officials say that the two security staff are in critical but stable condition in an area hospital. Witness said that….’

‘Hey Nicole - some guy killed a zookeeper at the zoo and then stole a penguin’ - said Eddie Murphy, sitting on his couch.

‘That’s crazy honey’ - said a woman’s voice from the other room.

Eddie Murphy was in his mansion in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles. It was nighttime. The patio doors of the room were open, and the pool in the garden was lit up. Eddie was drinking a glass of wine and watching the evening news.

‘He just kept saying penguin, over and over’ - said the garbage man, being interviewed on the TV.

Eddie Murphy sipped his wine.

‘Crazy motherfucker - stealing a penguin!’ - said Eddie Murphy to himself.

Eddie Murphy noticed something moving out on the patio. He looked over and saw a penguin standing outside of the patio doors.

‘Hey Nicole, there's a penguin in the garden’ - said Eddie Murphy

‘That nice honey’ - said the woman’s voice.

Eddie Murphy stood and walked towards the patio doors.

‘Shoo!’ - said Eddie Murphy

Eddie Murphy picked up a magazine and stepped out onto the patio. Eddie Murphy rolled up the magazine and said - ‘Shoo!’ - again.

‘What the fuck is a penguin doing in my garden?’

And then there was a bright light, and Eddie Murphy was encapsulated in a white sphere. The sphere morphed into a cube, and then shrank - dropping onto the floor next to the penguin, which pecked it.

A tiny commando ran out and picked up the white cube, The penguin pecked the tiny commando.

‘Ow!’ - shouted the commando, and then dashed off.

The penguin hopped over to the pool, and dived in - swimming around in circles.

‘Eddie baby, what do you think of these swatches - I like the blue, what do you think?’ - said the woman, walking into the room.

‘Eddie?’ - said the woman, looking up from the material swatches she was carrying.

The room was empty.

‘Eddie, why is there a penguin in the pool?’ - said the woman

Eddie Murphy was gone.