One evening a week later, the penguins were all sitting around the television, watching an old ninja movie and relaxing. All but Kowalski. He was in his lab as usual, but this time, he was planning revenge.
"That should do it," he said to himself, tightening the final screw on his newest "invention." It was his old broken electric-fish-scaler that had turned on him the week before, but now it was remote controlled, and Kowalski could set it on anyone he chose. He had three penguins in mind. This should be fun, thought Kowalski, grinning as he flipped the switch. The machine whirred to life. Kowalski steered it out the door into the large main room, lit only by the glow of the TV. The rest of the penguins had their eyes glued to the set during a particularly intense scene. This is my chance, thought Kowalski.
Unfortunately for him, the machine chose that exact moment to backfire loudly, causing all three of the other penguins to whip around in surprise. Kowalski dived for the shadows. Time for plan B.
"Fish and chips, men! What was that?" He took a closer look at the machine. "Be on alert, boys. I think we're under attack... hey, where's Kowalski?" Suddenly the tallest penguin leaped out from behind the TV and tackled Private, who was closest, to the ground, rubbing his flippers up and down the other penguin's sides.
"AH! Hee hee hee Kowalskiii!" Private giggled. He squirmed around and managed to jab Kowalski in his ticklish spot, causing him to gasp with laughter and clutch his stomach. Private took his chance and jumped to his feet, poking Kowalski mercilessly. Kowalski poked back with one flipper and tried to guard his sensitive spots with the other, causing a full-on tickle fight to erupt between the two.
"Rico! Help!" gasped Private between giggles. Rico was all to glad to join in the fun, quickly pinning Kowalski to the wall while Private tickled him.
"HahahaSKIPPER!" cried Kowalski. Skipper casually wandered over and nonchalantly began tickling Rico under the flipper. To Private and Kowalski's surprise, the tough penguin erupted into very un-Rico-like laughter and fell to the floor.
"See boys," Skipper said, smiling. "You just have to find the right- Hey!" Rico suddenly regurgitated a feather and went after his commander with it. The result was complete ticklish chaos. Rico and Skipper were having at each other while Kowalski and Private wrestled around on the floor nearby. It was complete and utter madness.
"Kowalski!Hahahaoptions!" Skipper said.
"I didn't haha plan on this!hahaha..." came the reply.
Finally they all fell to the floor, panting and giggling and catching their breath. Skipper slowly got to his feet, waddled over to Kowalski, and raked his flippers down the other penguin's belly. Kowalski burst into laughter and covered his stomach with his flippers protectively. "What was that for?" he asked.
"For putting me through that," he replied, repressing a smile in spite of himself.
"Oh, c'mon, it was fun," remarked Private. And while nobody else dared to admit it, they all agreed.