Part 2
We all gasped.
"Missing?" Private asked. "What do you mean he's missing?"
"Okay earlier today when I was out having my morning stroll, I saw today's headline in the New York Times, someone has kidnapped the groundhog!" We all gasped again.
"But, but we can't have Groundhog's Day without the Groundhog." Private said. "That's like a birthday party without the guest of honor, Christmas without Santa, snow, or gifts, Halloween without candy, Easter without Easter eggs, we can't have that. It won't be the same without him. We have to do something."
"You're right Private!" Marlene told him. "You have to do something! Groundhog's Day without the Groundhog just won't be the same without him now, would it?"
"No." Marlene looked at me then with an encouraging smile. I smiled back.
"Marlene," I told her. "You always know the right penguins for the job. Of course we'll help!"
"Oh thank you guys!" Marlene cheered. "The children and everybody in New York will love you for this." I smiled again.
"No problem Marlene. Anything for the kiddies, we'll be happy to do." I looked at my men. "Men, line up!" My men did just that. When they were all lined up, I paced back and forth, explaining the situation before us.
"Okay troop." I told them. "We got a serious problem on our flippers. The groundhog is no where to be seen. Now we got to find him before its too late. We got…" I turned to Kowalski. "Kowalski! How mush time do we have?" Kowalski looked at his watch, looked at me, and saluted.
"We have 10 hours before the sun sets to find him." I paced again.
"Okay 10 hours that gives us…"I scratched my head. "Let's see, 10 hours, so that gives us about…"
"That's 10 times six Skipper." Kowalski said. "Which leaves us with 600 minutes."
"Perfect! So we have 600 minutes to…"
"559 minutes now Skipper."
"We have 559 minutes to find our furry friend, now, any ideas where he might be?" My men thought this over, shook their heads, and shrugged. I slapped my face with my flipper.
"Okay here's an idea, let's have a look outside our habitat, shell we?" My friends nodded in agreement, then one by one, jumped out of our home.
"Skipper," Kowalski said to me. "Just to tell you, we only have 558 minutes now."
"Egad!" I realized. Then I shouted to my crew, "Come on men, we're burning daylight here; let's move it!" Kowalski climbed up the ladder and looked at his watch again.
"Oops, now it's 557 minutes." I sneered at him.
"Kowalski!" He looked at me, and then snapped back to business.
"Oh, oh right!" He left the habitat. I was about to leave when Marlene toughed me.
"Skipper," She began. "You are doing New York and all of America a huge favor. Take care, will you?"
"Marlene, Marlene." I told her. "This is me and my boys we're talking about, we're always careful, you know that!"
"Right!" She released me. "You solve this mystery, I'll prepare for the children; good luck!" She left through the back door. I waited a while, and then went up after my friends.