Next chapter is here, I admit it's not my best one.

It's a bit short too...

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Chapter 2: Feelings

Kowalski and Private looked at each other. A duo mission? That has never happened before. Private knew that Kowalski would be his supervisor, so he prepared himself for all those boring speeches he would have to endure when Skipper said something unbelievable.

"Private will be the commander for the time that Rico and I are on the mission."

Skipper and Rico had just left the HQ and everything went wrong already. Kowalski wasn't excepting Skippers orders. He was the lieutenant, the second in command and he would not take orders from a private! Even if it was Private… Although Private had ordered him to do 15 laps in the pool, he had just walked away to his lab. He had tried to repair an old coffee machine which he wanted to improve, but everything just exploded. He guessed that he forgot to carry a two, or maybe it was just not his lucky day.

Private was really excited that he was the one in charge, but Kowalski seemed really upset about it. Skipper had to talk to him for over 30 minutes to make him calm down, but Kowalski was still a bit angry and upset about it. Private had asked him if he would join his swimming exercises, but Kowalski just walked away. Private had not the faintest idea what he should do now, so he just did his own laps before getting inside their HQ. He was turning on the television when he heard the explosion coming from Kowalski's lab. He went inside it. "Kowalski, are you okay?" Everything was smoking, but he still could see Kowalski's silhouette with his clipboard. He knocked it to his head and seemed really frustrated. Private knew that he probably forgot to carry the two again, so he decided to be friendly to him. "Kowalski, do you need my help with anything?" Kowalski looked at him in a strange way. "No, Private I don't need your help." He was probably still mad at him and probably at Skipper too.

Kowalski knew that it wasn't Privates fault that Skipper had made him the new commander. It was just an exercise, it was not necessary to get so upset about it. But now the boy had interrupted him on a very bad moment and he couldn't help picking on him. He just wasn't in the mood. At first Skipper picked Rico, I mean really, Rico? Over him for this duo mission and now he was leaving Private as the commander too. He felt totally out ruled. What if he wasn't a key to this unit anymore? He knew that they would be lost without his intellect, but he couldn't help thinking about leaving, for the first time he arrived at this very place.

He really had never heard of such dangerous operation in his whole life. He wasn't sure if it was the wisest decision to take Rico with him. At this point it seemed even a bit suicidal. But name one time that he made a decision that was wise or not suicidal. At this very moment, he couldn't, so he would just have to wing it and hope for the best. Just like he would always do. He signed to Rico that they had to move in.

A sudden cold feeling fell over Private, as if you forget something important, and you know you have forgotten something, but you can't really lay a flipper on it. Until it explodes in your face. You know that kind of feeling when something bad is about to happen, but you don't know how to escape it. That was exactly the feelings he had. He tried to shake it off, wondering if this was that gut feeling Skipper told him about. He waddled out of Kowalski's lab and made his way to Marlene's habitat. She surely knew what to do about it.

Kowalski heard Private go out of their HQ. He knew that he probably had to listen to Private, just to make him happy, but he didn't feel like it. He went back to his blown up coffee machine. His premonitions were right, he'd forgotten again to carry the two. He went to his clipboard and started making some notes and some illustrations. He now knew what he needed to do to make this thing actually work. He almost forgot the two again, but when he rechecked his notes he found the error and started making his newly designed project.

Skipper's feeling had been right. This was the most unwisely decision he had ever made. They had got into big trouble and he really needed some options here. But without Kowalski, no one was able to give him these. He decided to make his own option, which made the situation worse before he could even think of one. What could he possibly do to get out of this?

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