Skipper watched the chick out of the corner of his eye. Of course, it being seven years after Shelley's death, the chick was now not a chick. Rico was teaching him to wrestle again. It was adorable, Private was pushing at Rico with all his strength,trying to defeat him, and the other penguin stood like a heavy boulder.
Eventually, Private gave up.
"You're too heavy." He told Rico. Rico's beak dropped in shock.
"Nuh-uh! 'Ou too 'i'le."
"I'm not!"
"Uh-huh!"
"Nuh-uh!"
"Skipper!" Both of them protested.
"This is your problem."
"I'm not little am I?" Private quizzed him. He only came up to Skipper's waist. Kowalski looked like a giant next to him.
"Not too little to wrestle."
"See?...Wait, I meant..."
"You'll grow one day."
"When?"
"A couple of years."
Private sighed.
"It's not fun being tall, I think you'll find." Kowalski said, emerging from his lab. He absent-mindedly patted Private's head and began rootling in one of the drawers of the cutlery chest for something. While he searched for whatever he wanted, he kept talking to Private.
"My father..." This earned a grunt of diapproval from Skipper who despised Kowalski's father with a passion. Private had only met him once. Rico had thrown a spoon at him and they hadn't heard from him since. Although Skipper had denied it and bellowed at Rico, Private had seen a look of delight when the bowl of it had knocked into Sr's eye.
"...used to put bricks on my head to make me shrink. And if one of them fell off..." Kowalski didn't finish his sentence.
Private looked quizzically at Skipper.
"Oh, we won't do that!"
"No, no,no. It doesn't work."
Private looked at Kowalski in horror. The scientist didn't see as he was still hunting for something and Rico took the opportunity to attack Private in his moment of non-suspicion.
As they rolled around and Kowalksi suddenly jerked upright with a box of matches, Skipper sighed and rolled his eyes. Sometimes, he felt like the only sane penguin in existence.
Hey, people! It's me, I'm back! The weirdest,wackiest Princess here is back in business! I promised you a sequel and now you have it! I hope you enjoy it as much as The Lady and The Egg!