A.N.— And here's chapter dos! I hope y'all all enjoy :D

Trixy: Yes :)

Chapter 2: The Integrated-Decryption-Decipherer 4000

"You're positive that she said that she'd be here today, Priv?" Trixy asks as she tightens a screw on a small mechanical devise in her flippers. She and Private are sitting at the table in the HQ, while Kowalski currently is in his lab humming and doing some last minute preparations for Cecelia's arrival and Skipper and Rico have gone out to go get snow-cones.

Private nods as he watches Trixy work on her invention. "I'm positive that that's what she said on the phone..." He says. Trixy nods and starts on another screw. "I guess Cecelia is just running a bit late."

Trixy nods. "Probably." She says. She starts on another screw, but it falls out of the device and rolls across the floor. "Buckingham..." She mutters as she sees it fall. "Now where did it go?"

"I see it!" Private says and gets up. He waddles over to the little screw on the floor and picks it up. He brings it back to Trixy with a smile.

Trixy takes the screw back from Private with a nod and a smile. "Thank you." She says and starts screwing it into place again.

Private watches her curiously. "What exactly are you making anyhow, Trix?" He asks as he sits back down.

"Umm...I don't really know yet..." She says a bit hesitantly. Trixy gently sits the invention down and gets out some blueprints. "I mean, on paper it is the ultimate hacking device that can be used to bypass any security system be it retina or flipper-print scanners, password or combination locks, or any combination of those...But, that's only if it even works at all." She says a bit quietly as she hands Private the blueprints. She picks her invention back up again and lifts a small wrench before tightening a bolt on the small device.

Private takes the prints and looks at them and turns them some while looking at them with a tilted head. He doesn't really understand a single thing that it says. "I'm sure it'll work, Trixy." He says. "I mean, who else knows about one of these...ampl-whatevah-they-are-s or those...I'm not even going to attempt to guess what that is." Private says as he points at different things on the blueprints.

Trixy hears Private and laughs a little. "You mean amplifiahs?" She asks and looks at the blueprints. "And that is a resistah." She says.

"Exactly my point." Private says and looks at Trixy. "I'm sure it'll work, because you know what you're doing." He says and smiles at her.

Trixy looks back at Private a bit hesitantly. "But...What if it explodes like Marissa's and Kowalski's inventions?...Or what if it doesn't even turn on?" She asks. "Or...Or what if it completely fries the system instead of hacking it?"

Private shrugs. "It may do those things...Just don't give up on it." Private says and smiles a little at Trixy still.

Trixy smiles backs at Private and then gives him a quick kiss on the cheek. "Thank you." She says a bit more confidently.

"You're welcome." Private says with a small blush. "And anyway, what are you going to call this...Uh...Hacking device of yours?"

"Ummm..." Trixy taps her beak a little in thought with the handle of her wrench. She then looks at Private. "I don't know..." She says thoughtfully with a small shrug of her shoulders.

Private thinks for a moment, too. "How about...The Hackah?" He suggests.

"I don't know...That's a really short name for an invention...Most inventions have really long, hard to pronounce names, don't they?" Trixy says. "Like Kowalski's Churrostifishinetizah and Marissa's Minisculuarlaseriah."

Private looks confusedly at her. "Minisculawhata?" He asks.

"Minisculuarlaseriah. It's like a fancy shrink ray." She says with a shrug. "But you see my point, right? And also The Hackah sounds too much like Kowalski's Trackah, doesn't it?"

Private nods and thinks. "That is true...Ummm...How about...The Decipherah?" He suggests.

Trixy looks at Private and ponders his suggestion. "Hmmm..." She gets her blueprints again and looks over them. "How about The Integrated-Decryption-Decipherah 4000?" She asks as she looks up at the ceiling, thinking over the name.

"Well, that is a rathah long and hard to pronounce name..." He says. "But why 4000?" Private asks with a curious look.

Trixy shrugs. "No reason really...I just thought it sounded cool." She says.

"Oh." Private says with a small, understanding nod. Trixy can be so random in his opinion. Suddenly Rico and Skipper drop down through the hatch of the HQ with snow-cones. Private and Trixy look at them with a smile.

Skipper looks at them with the snow-cones. "Lover-boy still in his lab?" He asks as he licks on a rainbow snow-cone.

Trixy nods. "Yes, Skippah." She says as she gets a snow-cone from Skipper.

"Alright, Private, go get him." Skipper orders with a nod towards Kowalski's lab. "And if he won't come at first, tell him if he doesn't come Rico will eat his snow-cone for him." He says and then looks at Rico. "Ain't that right, Rico?"

Rico licks his beak. "Mmmm, s'ow-co'es!" He says. Skipper nods at

Rico and then looks at Private.

Private nods. "Okay, sir." He says and gets up from the table. He slides over to the lab and knocks on the door. "Um, Kowalski?" He asks. The door remains closed. "Kowalski?" He asks a bit louder as he knocks harder on the door. Kowalski still doesn't answer, so Private cautiously opens the door. "Kowalski? " He asks again as he sees Kowalski sitting at his workbench. He waddles a little closer curiously.

"Hmm?" Kowalski asks. He quickly flips a few pages down on his clipboard when he sees Private. "Oh, hello, Private." He says. "Has Cecelia arrived yet?"

Private shakes his head. "No, she hasn't...But Skippah and Rico have returned with snow-cones." He says. "And I was told tell you that if you don't hurry Rico will eat yours for you."

Kowalski looks at Private with a slightly raised nonexistent eyebrow. "Says who?" He asks curiously.

"Says Skippah." He replies.

"Ha, we'll see about that." Kowalski says as he gets up and waddles out of his lab. He sees Rico with Kowalski's snow-cone and Rico fakes a lick. "Rico!" He exclaims as he takes it from Rico and looks at it.

"I wa' o'ly ki'ing." Rico says with a laugh as he finishes off his own rainbow snow-cone.

"Ah! Rico be a bit more careful, please!" Trixy exclaims as she wipes some drippings from Rico's snow-cone off of her invention.

"Sowy." Rico says and looks at Trixy.

Skipper also looks at Trixy curiously and sees her invention. "What the deuce is that?" He asks.

Trixy looks at her invention with a small, nervous blush. "Euhm...An invention of mine..." She says kind of silently. She knows what Skippsy thinks of her attempts of inventing and wonders if Skipper shares the opinion that she shouldn't because she's not old enough or a scientist.

"Invention?" Skipper asks with a raised nonexistent eyebrow. "I thought making those wacky thingamabobs is the job of the team's scientist, not the private?"

Trixy shrugs a little silently. "So? Is there some law somewheah that says that privates can't invent if they want to?" She says immediately getting a little defensive of her invention.

"Whoa there, Trixy, I didn't mean for you to get your feathers all ruffled over this." Skipper says with a small laugh as he finishes his snow-cone. "Maybe you'll have better luck at it, not being a scientist and all." He says. Suddenly a knock is heard from above all of their heads on the hatch. Skipper looks up curious. "I'm going to take a guess that your girlfriend's finally here, Kowalski." He says and then glances at the scientist.

Kowalski looks back at Skipper and then with a small, excited, silent squeal he gets up and opens the hatch. A penguin drops down into the HQ with a smile. "'Ello, everyone." She says with a smile as she brushes some of her long, pink-tipped feathers from off of her shoulders. "I apologize for being so late...I, uh, got a bit held up on the way here." She says.