Chapter 3
Penguin Ladies
The girls looked at themselves. To their surprise, instead of seeing hands or mouths, they saw beaks and flippers and ... feathers? The first one to speak was Jewel. "What in the duece?!" screamed Jewel. Private started giggling as he heard her. "What's so funny, is it the fact that am a penguin now?" Private shook his head. "You almost sound like Skipper!" he said and started giggling. "Skippah, mind if we untie the girls?" Private asked. Skipper shook his head and Private started untying them. The four females looked around. Kowalski couldn't help being pleased with himself. "Well I think that might have been my greatest invention yet," Kowalski said. Skipper shrugged. "Well atleast it didn't explode." Kowalski glared at him. "That was meant to be a compliment, soldier!"
"Sorry to interupt your little conversation," Natalie said putting her flippers on her hips," but I thunk you should change us back to our human form." The four boys ignored her. She pretended to clear her throaght. "Ehrm! I was talking to that brainiac!" Kowalski realised who she meant by that and turned around. "If I turned you back, you'll just tell everyone about us," he said.
"You do know that there is not going to be a single person out there who will believe us, except a couple of mad guys and that won't help," she retorted. Kowalski sighed. "Even if Skipper allowed me to turn you back to normal, you would have to wait," Kowalski said. "I didn't add anything to my machine that would turn you back to normal and dit will take atleast a month to do that," he squeaked. The girls got furious. "Oh...oh" piped Private. The girls leaped on to the boys and started punching them. The fight had started. "Owchie!" cried Rico who had been hit in the stomach by Jemma. He tried to kick her but only managed to kick a table, which only gained him more pain. "Boys, are we wooses or are we men, men don't cry, men stand and fight!" commanded Skipper. He managed to get a hold of Natalie's flipper and slash her so that she fell back. The rest managed to get out of the girls' grasps and fight them.
It took them half an hour to stop the fight, but atleast ev everyone had calmed down. Kowalski decided to come up with a solution and so he quickly said his plan. "I suppose I could try and make my machine capable of turning you back into humans, but you'll have to wait. No animal or human can work non-stop," Kowalski told the four girls, who were trying to catch their breath. One of them nodded. "But I need to figure out how to recognise which one of you is who, so I am going to have to give you each a bracelet, one will have blue, one yellow, one green and one red," Kowalski added and handed each one a bracelet. They were all basic, but they did their job well enough. Natalie had red, Helen yellow, Jemma green and jewel blue. "Well, seeing as you four are going to have to stay here for the next couple of days, I think Rico should add four more bunks!" Skipper said. Rico quickly created four bunks, each exactly the same. "Now how long were you meant to stay with Alice?" Skipper asked the girls.
"A week and time's running out fast!" Helen replied. Kowalski took out his abacus, then a whiteboard and pen and started writing down numbers. "I recon we could send your mum and your nanny each a letter about a trip and once your back to normal we could give you fake suveniers, so that it looks realistic, or put a reminder on your mums phone, so she'll think she just forgot about the trip," he said. Skipper and the rest agreed on option number two.
Soon the four commando penguins disapppeared to commence their operation : Fake Reminder. The four qaudruplets were left behind. They decided to think of something to pass their time. Jewel found some cards and decided to plat stomp the wombat, a game they nearly mastered, but not quite. The boys returned half an hour later, when Helen was about to win. "Hi there, see your operation is finished," Jemma said. Private smiled. "Sure is," he said. "I think it's time for lights out, Skipper, isn't it?" Private asked.
"Yes, young Private, it sure is," Skipper agreed and switched the lights off. The girls dozed of to sleep.
I sure do hope that you enjoyed this chapter and please review. I am currently writing the first chapter for another story, that will be the follow up to 'Another Penguin in the Zoo', so I might not update this story very quickly.
