Okay, new story, yay! This is a Kowalski's point of view story… so yay for first person narration!

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I have been exiled temporarily. It was over a simple thing, really, but Skipper always takes things a bit too seriously. I guess it's not so bad right now; Marlene is over to come visit me, though she isn't supposed to. I guess Private let her pass. Why I am exiled, well, it started when I first met Marlene.

Marlene knocked on our habitat door, saying, "Hello? New neighbors? I brought you something! Can you let me in?" Private opened the door for her. Skipper then got mad at Private for letting the "intruder" in. Marlene did not about the hostility of the penguins, so she just acted quite normal.

"Hey, guys, welcome to the zoo, my name is Marlene! Err, wait, I'm the one who transferred her… but anyways, I brought you some chocolates and flowers! I didn't know you were all guys, so, uh, you might not want the flowers." Marlene said, nervously, for Skipper was "studying" her.

"That's just great. Now get out of our habitat; for all we know, you could be a spy!" Skipper yelled.

"I spy… wha…?"

"Uh, excuse him Marlene… he's kind of… paranoid when it comes to "intruders"," I said calmly. "See, we're an elite military team, and Skipper is the elite commando. I guess the "better safe than sorry" rule to a whole new level." Marlene chuckled a bit. I began to speak again. "My name is Kowalski. So, I guess I should be the one saying welcome," I teased.

"Kowalski!" Skipper yelled. "Don't become friends with the enemy! That's against every rule in the book! I tell you, when Manfreedy and Johnson…" I cut Skipper off. "Skipper, she's obviously not a threat, we should be welcoming her."

Always being the naïve one, Private saw absolutely no danger in Marlene. This makes sense, because she never possessed any threat. "Welcome to the zoo Marlene! I hope you'll love it here, I can't wait to get to know you."

Seeing that his whole team was warming up to Marlene, Skipper became a little friendlier. "Uhh, I guess I shouldn't have acted so… harsh, accusing, hostile-" Marlene chuckled a bit, then cut him off. "Really, it's okay. You can have the chocolates and the flowers; you might want to give them to me later." I couldn't know for sure, but I'm fairly certain that Marlene winked at him, and then proceeded to walk out of our habitat.

"Nice meeting you all! I hope to see you soon! I'm going to go say hi to the lemurs!" Marlene said as she walked over to the Lemur's habitat.

"She's making one big mistake, going to the lemurs," Skipper said. The team laughed a bit, but pretty soon we were all back on our normal schedule.

Everything was even better at the zoo, since Marlene was there. We became really good friends; I guess you could call us best friends. Marlene always called me her "bestie", and I thought it was cute. We hung out as often as possible, usually when I had a break from the military stuff with Skipper. As time passed, Marlene soon came to develop a crush on Skipper…

"You want me to do what?" I asked.

"Uh, you know, be a matchmaker for a little. Please?" Marlene begged.

I was still slightly unsure. "I don't know, Marlene, I've got a gut feeling that this can't be a good thing. You know that my gut rocks." I joked. Marlene laughed at my joke, but got serious again.

"Please, Kowalski? Pretty please? I'll make you a deal. If you be a matchmaker, I'll finally let you run those experiments on my pond… if you match me with Skipper. Deal?" She asked. Well, I couldn't say no to science, so I replied, "Deal." We did a secret handshake, and the deal was set.

Back in the HQ, I decided it was time for me to play "matchmaker".

"So, uh, Skipper? Could I talk to you for a second?" I asked.

"Sure, Kowalski." Skipper replied.

"So, uh, what do you think about Marlene? You've been looking a bit tense lately… and I thought you might want to have a…" I searched for the right word. "Partner."

Skipper was a little puzzled. "Well, yeah, I think she's pretty cool. You always have a blast with her. You aren't already courting her?"

"No, Skipper, of course not! We're just friends! But, I think she should ask Marlene out… I'm pretty sure she's into you," I lied a bit. Of course Marlene was into Skipper! I didn't want it to be too obvious that I was matchmaking.

"Well, I can trust what you say, so I guess I will go ask her on a date. Wish me luck, Kowalski…" Skipper said, before he headed off to Marlene's habitat.

When he returned, he had a strangely wide smile on his face. "I'm guessing she said yes?" I asked. Skipper just nodded. I went over to Marlene's habitat to congratulate her.

When I reached her habitat, I asked, "Can I get the test tubes now?"

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Woohoo, I thought of this and wrote it! There WILL be more chapters, so don't you dare think that this story is over! Anyways… woah, I actually wrote Skilene. There's a first for everything, I guess. Anyways, how did you like it? Was it good? Bad? Anything I can improve? Please review! Oh, and if you were thinking there was going to be Marski... I can't say there will be none, and I won't spoil the plot. :)