Well here's the next chapter. Miss Kitka will come in probably in the next chapter. Please enjoy and review.
IT TAKES A PENGUIN
CHAPTER ONE
Marlene sent the rest of the day wondering about the events that had just passed, running over each scenario, what could possibly have happened and what had happened to Private. His happiness, cuteness, lovingness, all of it had gone. He was a different person. Some how something had happened that had changed his entire state of being and that's what had attracted her to him. His optimism was a powerful ally in hardships and now that had gone. And the battle scars they had sustained proved a bad battle but against what enemy? Had they won? She decided to visit them again and try to coax the information out. As she was going out, she heard a loud scream and looked to the source to see a falcon flying off with Mort in its talons.
"Oh my God!" Marlene cried and rushed toward the penguin habitat.
Heart pounding out of her breast, nearly bursting, she flew down the fishbowl entrance and hit the ground on her feet. The penguins were all lying around; Skipper was playing solitaire, Kowalski was drinking a coke, Rico was hugging his doll, and Private was sitting in his bunk, slumped and staring at his feet, his eyelids lowered a little.
"Guys! Mort's being kidnapped by a falcon!" Marlene shouted at them.
They didn't even look up at her. They just continued with what they were doing for a second (except Private continued what he wasn't doing) Skipper spoke without looking up from his cards.
"And?" he asked
"What'd you mean 'And'?!" Marlene shouted
"And what?"
"What?! Mort's being kidnapped!" Marlene exclaimed
"Marlene," Skipper said with a sigh. "You can't go through life trying to give to others."
"What?" Marlene asked
She'd never seen this attitude from Skipper and surely the others would object to this behavior?
"What do you think we're going to do? Save him?" Skipper asked shuffling the cards for another game.
"Uh- yeah! That's what you do! You're a team!"
"Marlene, Marlene, you'll always be so cute and naïve. Does this look like a team?" He gestured at the others without looking up.
"What's happened to you guys?" She asked
"We got smarter. We learned an important lesson in life. You should learn it to."
Marlene was getting really peeved now. What the hell did they mean?
"What happened to the penguins? The team?"
"I just told you," Skipper said, matching the cards. "We learned. You can't give back to a world that does nothing but hurt you."
"You guys never acted like this before. What made you start thinking that?!" Marlene cried
Skipper looked up this time and a strange look came over his face. A mixture of rage and sorrow.
"That's classified." He said and went back to his game.
"What team is it classified to now? You gave up, like a bunch of cowards!" Marlene shouted and all of them looked at her.
Skipper stood up, his face twitching with anger.
"Marlene," he said in a low voice. "If someone tells you it's none of your business, then it's none of your damn business!"
"Why are you guys so freaking stupid! What'd you're brains rot?!" She shouted
Skipper hopped forward and pushed his face right into her's.
"Marlene… if you want to be annoying with you're little save the planet attitude… go and share it with someone else. We didn't give up. We got wiser. Now Go!" He said in a low threatening voice.
"Fine!" she shouted and smacked him across the face.
"You bit-!"
"I'll go and save Mort myself!"
And she stormed out in a hurry.
