All the penguins were sound asleep in their holes in the walls, peacefully in slumber when suddenly, Skipper's eyes snapped open as he hopped out of bed and commanded, "Rise and shine, boys!", Private popped up with his cheer, "Mornin', Skippa'!", but after that it was silence. The leader looked up to see that Kowalski and Rico were still sleeping. Skipper didn't take kindly to that.

"Well, isn't this just peachy. Darnit, we have a schedule to keep to and Kowalski is the only one who knows how to work around the schedule. Private, wake up Kowalski and Rico and tell them to meet me up top.", growled Skipper.

"Uh, what're ya' gonna do to them Skippa'?", asked Private in fright.

Skipper looked back with an wicked smile and said, "Don't worry your pretty little head, Private. They'll survive.", he then patted Private's head and proceeded to the exhibit. Private nervously gulped and was glad he was free from whatever Skipper was cooking up and to make sure that was true he quickly went to wake up Rico.

Rico was giggling very lightly, an odd sight for the naive penguin and now that he did he, the youthful birdy felt a bit guilty because of Rico and Kowalski's soon to be fate. "'Ey, Rico. Wake up.", Private shook the scarred penguin awake, semi-gently. Rico slowly opened his eyes from a peaceful zen state to one of unimaginable horror. The psycho hopped out of bed and as he landed on his sleep-addled legs, which buckled causing him to roll into their stitched together bowling pin training dummies, thus dazing himself slightly. "Guess 'e knows what's up now." , as Private moved onto Kowalski's side.

"Nnnngh...science states that...non-repeatable, spontaneous, and unreasonable actions...isn't scientific...unless there's something stating the otherwise...", mumbled Kowalski in his sleep which temporarily stupefied Private, but he brushed it off and continued to wake up Kowalski.

"Kowalski, wake up, you're late.", urged Private to Kowalski.

"Five more minutes, please. The isotopes are near finalization..." , the genius said in his sleep.

Private sighed and then violently shook Kowalski finally waking him. The analyst looked around, "Where's Skipper?"

"Up top, waitin' for you and Rico.", Private still hadn't a clue what was going on, he'd never disobey Skipper, though Rico and Kowalski's reaction just made that just a little more true.

Kowalski looked down in dread, "Oh, right. Private, go on ahead. I'll get Rico". Private scooted along to Skipper's side. Kowalski carried Rico over his shoulder heading up top but since the storage compartment always had at least three items inside of him, one of which usually being explosives, he slowly trudged towards punishment as Rico slowly regained his conscienceness, looked around and then proceeded to struggle fiercely in Kowalski's flippers, as he tried to reason with him, "Rico, calm down. If you run away from punishment again, I can't ensure that Skipper will forgive you. The best thing to do now is face straight forward and look this straight in the eye! However impossible that saying is."

Rico calmed down, but to more of a weak shiver. He didn't really finish the last punishment, Rico just got real lucky that day. Back in the motherland, the North Pole, the last trial Skipper put him through was for him to bring back a seal's head. At first he laughed like a maniac thinking that Skipper actually had a sense of humor, but when he saw that Skipper's expression didn't change, he realized how serious Skipper was. After a few wasted attempts to get out of it: Pleading. Bargaining. Abandonment. Which didn't work out because Kowalski tracked him down to the centimeter, Rico waddled toward his doom into the water. A couple minutes passed and there were no seals to be found. He might of considered this fortunate if he hadn't needed something to acquire something from the aforementioned. After some failed attempt of baiting even one seal he took a break in an ice cavern with giant icicles. Rico marveled at the sight, however dangerous, the icicles were glistening with a brilliant shine from the wind and sun. The scarred penguin decided to enjoy the good view for awhile; no need to rush through life in his eyes. Just enjoy the moment, ya' know?

Meanwhile when Rico was gaping at the frozen display, a seal slowly skulked up from the water . The seal thought he might have wasted his chance to get a bite in, but his meal didn't move. So he inched closer and closer, the seal was a foot away when he made a crack in the floor which proceeded to make a sharp echo throughout the cave. Rico turned around to see a hungry seal's maw wide open. The penguin darted away, but with all the baiting he was trying to do, he had worn himself out, just barely missing his predator's teeth by a hair. Rico tried to get out of there, sadly he was too fatigued. The seal got up and smirked at the meal he had so easily cornered. As he leaned down to get closer, he said, "I wish you wouldn't tense up. The ones that're scared are always so grisly...". That's when something in Rico snapped because the next scene he couldn't move his feet at all. How tired he was. His previous fear of this mission to begin with. It had all caught up with him. Throat tightening. Breathing quickening. Heartbeat spiking. He was going to...die. He didn't want to think it, but how was he going to get you of this one? Suddenly, a large icicle came down, decapitating the seal and after the watery guillotine came down it sent the head forward with it's jaw open towards Rico. He saw the head coming at him and decided at the very least to give this guy a violent case of indigestion, so he jumped up reached for the tonsils and as Rico heard the jaw close shut the penguin saw the other side of the cave. After the initial shock of being alive, settled down to a mere hurrah, the scarred penguin rolled out of the seal's head and took in the scene. Rico was taken back for awhile, but he got his leggings after awhile and noticed the grim scene before him and noticed the seal's head was available, cheered and took it without a second thought.

As he returned to camp with seal head in tow and still covered in blood and seal saliva, Kowalski looked on in disbelief, "This by far is the least likely thing to happen on the widest margin and variables. I-I-I have to check the math again. This is statistically improbable!".

Skipper honestly thought he was a goner, though he only challenged the recruit to things he himself had already done. "Well, good job Rico, it seems you're luck is greater than any leprechaun's. Hopefully when the time comes you'll help up with 'Operation : Irish Gold'.", and Skipper patted him on the shoulder and ordered Rico to sleep on a job well done, while the flat headed penguin and Kowalski stayed up to discuss things further.

"The boy's a psycho, plain and simple.", Skipper said. "...but he got the job done. We also might need his brute force in the future. What do you thin-".

Kowalski sharply interrupted, not making eye contact. ,"He's a menace to society and a danger to himself and everyone around him. We should find someone else."

"Hey. Egghead. Calm down. We can mold him. Into a better penguin. Into a brilliant penguin! And I'm not going to let you make us pass up this opportunity.", Skipper sounded like he had found the perfect recruit. One that had the potential and just needed to be molded. ,"Just a couple of runthroughs of protocol and a month or two of training and he'll be good to go."

Kowalski growled a bit, still looking down. ,"Alright, but under one condition."

"What?"

"If for any reason he goes on a rampage, you have to give me the go-ahead to execute him.", Kowalski boldly declared, looking him dead in the eye.

Skipper was surprised to see this side of his subordinate. ,"...Understood, but I'm telling you, that kind of brute force is what we need"

But it wasn't brute force, it was dumb luck and it didn't help that Rico kept having nightmares about the dead seal that woke him occasionally. The scarred penguin was sort of glad himself and the other got captured and sent to the zoo, there he learned that drinking alcohol before prevented dreaming. On the other hand Rico did like dreaming, but dreams more often than he liked turned into nightmares so he took up that habit, but that didn't matter, because after that event Rico swore to himself to always be the most intimidating and threatening force to his enemies. Though Rico had something else even more so intimidating to worry about.

"Rico? RICO! Pay attention or else I'm gonna make this that much harder.", Skipper barked bringing Rico back from his flashback, which meant that it was about to begin.

"So, Skipper what do you have planned for Rico and I?", questioned Kowalski.

Skipper raised a brow, "You seem confident Kowalski. What's the occasion?"

"Oh, nothing. It's just Rico accomplished this with a smile last time. How difficult could you make this?...No offense."

The commando squinted harshly at Kowalski before revealing the agonizing task, "Well then, I hope this won't break your protractor, smart guy, because the task is sneaking into Joey's pen after hours. For 6 hours."