After the penguins' short mission to recover a wild Marlene from the park after she had accidentally been knocked into it, Private learns that the zoo had acquired a badger exhibit. Afraid, Private begins to panic, but Marlene drags him to the exhibit to meet the badgers and get over his fear. When the two meet the friendly badgers, Becky and Stacy, all four soon become friends and spend the rest of the day together. But after the badgers surprise Marlene in her habitat that night, make her partake in undesired adventures, and fail to leave her alone, Marlene insists that they stop "badgering" her. Becky takes the remark as an insult, and Marlene soon fears retaliation from the angry badgers. Later, in a chase, Marlene and the badgers end up in the park, knocked into it by tennis balls launched by Private, where Marlene reverts to her wild form and easily takes down Becky and Stacy in a one-sided tussle.