Kowalski started his tour of course in the main room they were in. He showed his mother everything. The bathroom, the radio, the elevator and the TV. He explained they could watch over 300 different channels thanks to an invention of his. Then he showed her the "kitchen", which also was in the same room. Karolina took a look into their fridge, she needed to know if her son was eating well.
"You're so thin, you should eat more!", she said to him.
Private giggled when Kowalski blushed at what Karolina said. It was just too cute!
But it did made him realize how much he missed his own mother, He was only a little chick the last time he saw her before she died.
Rico thought it was funny to see Kowalski like that. Normally he keeps his emotions to himself, except when he was working on his inventions, when he was excited about something or when he was alone with Julien.
Julien... Kowalski kept quiet about that topic and Rico didn't really cared anyway. Kowalski would only show his real feelings once he was alone with that lemur.
But the way he was acting around Karolina was different. The moment Kowalski saw his mother something... changed!
He was more like a little child, showing his new toy proudly to his mother. And all the time he was holding her flipper, like a strange power was forcing him to.
Kowalski just didn't let go. He then lead his mother to their bunks.
"And this is where we sleep. The second from the top is mine!"
"And you really sleep in there? It doesn't seem to look comfortable. And what if you fall out? I don't want you to hurt yourself!"
Kowalski blushed even more and looked embarrassed over to his team mates. Private covered his beak with his flippers, trying to hold his laughter back. Rico had a goofy grin on his face and Skipper wore his usual smirk, with one raised brow.
Kowalski looked back to Karolina.
"It's ok Mama, I sleep well in my bunk. It's softer then it looks. And I don't fall out... that often... Anyway, there is one more room you need to see!"
He lead her to a big metal door.
"This is my lab. I work here and spend most of my time in here!"
Kowalski opened the heavy door and his mother followed him inside. Karolina was awestruck to see so many different devices which she didn't even knew they exist. How could she anyway? Most of them were Kowalski's own constructions.
"You made all of those by yourself?"
"Well, I don't want to brag but... yeah! Are you impressed?"
"Of course I'm impressed!"
She took his face into her flippers and said,
"I always knew that you're a smart boy. Just like your father. I'm very proud of you my son!"
"You really are?"
Kowalski beamed with joy and his smile grew so big that, if he kept on smiling like that, it would stay on his face forever. Karolina nodded with a warm smile, pulled him close and planted a kiss on his forehead. Kowalski closed his eyes and sighed.
He remembered the last time she kissed him there. He still wore his down feathers that time. It was the day he left his old home, a poor little zoo in Poland. And of course it was the day he left his mother. The only penguin he loved and missed the most. It was HER who had to bend down that time.
Karolina had send him away, to military school for young penguins. Even though it broke her heart to watch him leave, she knew it would be the best. And that's all she ever wanted, the best for her son.
Karolina knew that Kowalski was blessed, his intelligence was something special. And that made him different from the others.
Different from her...
She knew, if he would stay, his gift would go to waste. And the military school was the perfect opportunity for him to become someone great. There, in that poor little zoo, he would have gone down.
So Kowalski left, still young and afraid to be without his mother.
But it had to be.
And now he made it. He became a great penguin scientist, found a new home and he found friends.
That really made her happy.
And Kowalski was happy to have her back. He embraced her once more, feeling the warmth of her soft feathers.
They've always been fuzzy, that's why he always loved to cuddle up to her mother. He felt safe there and very comfy.
"Now that you showed my your new home, why don't you show me the rest of your zoo? I would like to meet all your other friends!"
"Of course Mama! Follow me"
And again he took her flipper in his and they left the habitat.
