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Disclaimer: I thought I should do this, cause well...you know. Don't own POM no matter how much I wish I did, and if I did the world would explode into a million pieces. I only own my OC's and this story. Speaking of which, enjoy the chapter!
It has been a week since the girls have been hatchlings and it was getting more interesting every day. The girls were improving in their speech already, except for Madison, who didn't speak at all. They were also more aware of everything and were more physically stronger then before. This said a lot, since they could already hold a heavy frying pain and smack it around. Kowalski, of course, found this out multiple times when they made the mistake of leaving Madison alone around the fridge.
Kowalski was currently in his lab, working on his invention. Skipper was getting very impatient and was putting a lot of stress on the scientist as of late. It wasn't helping him with the lack of sleep he already had from working on it endlessly.
Kowalski looked up when he noticed the door had been pushed aside slightly. He sighed exasperatedly when he saw it was Flora crawling in. He looked at the pile of metal in front of him and muttered, "Not now," under his breath. The strategist looked back up and was rather surprised that Flora was gone already. "I wonder…" he trailed off. He shook it off and went back to the metal in front of him. He let out a startled yelp when he saw Flora sitting there.
"Walski!" Flora giggled and stretched out her flippers.
Kowalski couldn't help but smile at her voice. "Hey there…" he cooed. He picked her up and tickled her stomach, something he found out that she liked a lot. Just as he assumed, Flora started giggling and laughing. Kowalski drew his face closer to here and made cooing sounds with a large grin. He smiled wider when she held onto his beak.
"Walski," Flora giggled out again.
Kowalski chuckled. "Yes Walski." He put her back down, much to his and her disappointment.
"Up!" Flora cried and held a tiny frown as she lifted her flippers up.
Kowalski's smile vanished, and he sighed at the baby penguin. "Sorry, but I need to get to work on this," he explained to her reluctantly.
Flora seemed to understand. "Help?" she asked in her baby voice.
"You can't really help me here." Kowalski shook his head. He wished Flora was able to help him though. It would make the progress of the machine go by much faster and maybe he could squeeze in a couple minutes of rest too. His eyes were already rimmed red from the lack of rest and he wasn't sure how much longer he could go on without burning out.
"Can help!" Flora squeaked. She stumbled over to his notebook and pencil and started scribbling something over it.
"Flora, no!" Kowalski gasped. He took the notebook which made tears start to form in the hatchlings eyes. Kowalski scolded her. "You can't just-" he stopped himself when he noticed something. He looked closely at the notebook and gaped at what he saw.
In a matter of seconds, Flora had finished the equations he needed for an invention. Sure, it might not have been for the invention he was working on right now, but she had done the equations for his teleportation device. "How did you-?" He looked up from the notebook and started panicking when he saw silent streams of tears coming down the brown hatchlings face.
"I'm so sorry Flora! I didn't mean to make you cry!" Kowalski started rambling on and on about how sorry he was. He stopped himself when he realized that she probably didn't follow anything he had been saying.
There was a moment of silence before Flora looked back up at him.
"It's ok…" Flora mumbled.
Kowalski sighed in relief. She was still rather intelligent for a baby. Why hadn't he noticed this before? "Would you still like to help me?" Kowalski asked hesitantly.
Flora smiled warmly at him and squealed, "Sure!"
Kowalski let out a breath of relief and wiped away the stray tears on the hatchling's face. "I suppose you still got it." He smiled.
"Private! What if that was a real ninja? You would be dead and bleeding everywhere, with your guts!" Skipper scolded the private.
Private grimaced at that mental image. He had been knocked over when a bowling pin crashed at his side during training. He was pretty sure that his leader had thrown it at him to test his reflexes. Skipper had decided to take this specific quick training session for him to test his reflexes actually.
They had taken Amber up with them. Well, they were practically forced to when she stayed attached to Skipper. She was literally attached to him and just wouldn't let go. She was still hanging loosely at his side, watching the training with a large grin.
Private got up from the ground and saluted. "Right Skippah. Won't let it happen again."
"Make sure it doesn't." Skipper nodded. "You're dismissed for now."
Private made no hesitation to go back down the fishbowl entrance.
Skipper looked down at his side and raised a brow when he noticed the silver penguin was missing. He looked around and sighed in an aggravated way when he spotted the hatchling. She was next to a standing bowling pin and was glaring at it.
"Hi-ya!" Amber let out a war cry and kicked the pin, sending it flying across the habitat. It landed into the water and floated in the pool. She gave her own baby smirk and got in a fighting stance that looked similar to Private's. "More!"
Skipper looked at the hatchling, rather surprised, but that didn't stop him from waddling up to the hyped up chick. "You want to do some training?" he asked with a smirk.
Amber gave an excited squeak and nodded her head.
"Well let's see here…" Skipper rubbed the bottom of his beak thoughtfully and planned out how he would set up the habitat with ninja bowling pins. He smirked when he finally pictured it out and started setting up the pins.
When he was done; he marveled at his work. The perfect set up for a hatchling like Amber. "Alright." He looked over at the excited hatchling next to him. She looked a lot like Rico when you offered him fish. "You ready?"
"Yes!" Amber squealed.
It was hard to imagine that this hatchling had turned into the tough penguin he knew. "Alright then and…GO!"
Amber immediately jumped over and kicked a bowling pin away. She smacked her body against another one, and it knocked over two other bowling pins in the process. She ran over to another and jumped up in the air till she was a foot high up and punched the pin. It was sent spiraling into the water. She landed on the ground with a soft thump and did a back flip to another pin. She attacked it with a swift kick and, just like the others; it was sent into the water. She stared at the last pin and got into a fighting stance. She jumped over to it and picked it up.
Skipper watched with interest as the hatchling lifted the much heavier bowling pin and hurled it into the water. Skipper clapped in approval. "Not bad," he praised.
Amber giggled and waddled slowly up to him. "Dada." She hugged him and buried her face in his chest feathers.
Skipper felt extremely embarrassed, but he managed to say, "Y-you still got it."
Private was relieved to be back in the HQ and not have to go through training anymore. He was currently sitting at the table, and he had been there since he had gone back down. He was watching Rico play with Madison, and he had to admit that it was rather cute. He was showing her firecrackers, which seemed to entertain the little bundle of feathers.
Private looked down when he felt a tug on his feathers. He smiled happily when he realized it was Sara. She was looking up at him with her large teal eyes.
"Hi!" she piped up cheerfully in her squeaky baby like voice.
"Hello Sara," Private greeted just as cheerfully. He picked her up and started to rock her in his flippers. She seemed to have liked that, so he did it on a regular basis, much to the annoyance and anger of Skipper.
"Lunacorn?" she asked.
Private smiled widely. He got up from his concrete seat and went to his bunk, Sara still in his flippers. He placed her in his bunk and pulled out his familiar purple lunacorn from under his pillow.
Sara gave a wide cheerful smile and rocked back and forth, sucking on her flipper.
Private smiled at the sight. It was adorable when she did that in his opinion. He reached over to her and did what Kowalski did with Flora. He tickled Sara, which caused her to have a giggle fit. She sprawled out on the bunk and continued to giggle and laugh as Private tickled her stomach.
"You're so cute!" Private cooed. He stopped when Sara managed to grab his flipper. She continued to hold it as she jumped out of the bunk. Now the last thing he expected was to be dragged by a hatchling to the TV area but it happened anyway.
Private stared at the ceiling for a bit in shock, but he could hear Rico's laughter echoing throughout the room along with Madison's. He turned his head, so he could see the hatchling that had dragged him.
"How on earth could you do that?" he asked disbelievingly. It wasn't much use since she was a baby, and he was only earned a confused look from the baby penguin.
"Lunacorn?" Sara took the lunacorn from his flipper, gave it a good squeeze and continued to watch the Lunacorns.
Private sighed but smiled at Sara anyway. "You still got it, but I just wish you would give me a warning next time."
Rico was enjoying Madison as a hatchling, but he missed the older Madison. As a baby; she couldn't do as much but he was still able to show her all his abilities. It entertained her just as much as it had before the unfortunate but cute incident.
Rico laughed at her expression as he juggled a bunch of cutting knives. She looked completely awed. She clapped her flippers, obviously asking for more. Rico hacked up some firecrackers and started pulling the strings. Madison would let out squeals of joy as the streamers fell on top of her. She ended up sneezing and Rico let out a low chuckle.
Rico spared a quick glance at Private. He was watching The Lunacorns with Sara. She was rocking back and forth, sucking her flipper like usual, except she was holding Private's lunacorn this time. He turned his gaze up to the fishbowl as it slid away. He mentally groaned as Julien came in.
"Hello?" King Julien greeted rather hesitantly. "There will be no hitting this time, yes?" The king slowly blinked when he caught Madison's menacing stare. It was amazing on how intimidating a hatchling could be. "She will not be attacking me with a spoon this time, right?" Julien asked.
Rico shrugged. What happened to Julien wasn't his problem. He would actually enjoy it that he was sure of.
He glanced at the chick and watched expectantly as Madison crawled over to Julien. She looked generally harmless at the time. She looked up at Julien and purposely made her eyes go big and round, squeaking. It instantly made Julien melt.
"Aw…so cute!" Julien purred.
Madison rose her flippers up, signaling to be picked up. The only ones she would allow to pick her up was Rico and occasionally Private but never Skipper or Kowalski but Julien could care less as he picked up the hatchling.
"See? The baby is to be liking ME!" The last word was screamed and the reason? Well…Madison had some fur she could play with now and Julien had some missing hair on his face. "That is being mine!" Julien took the fur from her flipper, still holding the chick in his other hand. He should have just put her down, because then she took his crown. "Give me!" He tried to grab it but ended up dropping Madison to floor.
She landed with a painful smack, and Julien's crown fell next to her. Rico gasped in horror when she didn't move. He ran up to her and picked her up. He was relieved when she blinked at him but, then again, moments like this never last.
Rico groaned when Madison's eyes started pricking with tears. All he really needed to do was distract her. With that thought in mind, the psychopath came up with an idea. "Here." He turned Madison around so she was facing Julien and brought her up to Julien's chest. Quick as a flash, she ripped a large chunk of fur from his chest.
"Ow!" Julien howled at the horrible pain. "Why does this accursed baby hate me?"
By now, all the penguins in the room were laughing. Julien bent to the ground, put his crown back on and, with the last bit of his dignity, raced up the hatch.
Rico brought Madison up to his chest and gently rocked her, so she would sleep. He didn't want to deal with the chick's troublesome actions anymore for today. He was in charge of feeding and changing the diapers earlier and he did NOT want to go through that again. It was a disaster.
But as he watched Madison slowly falling asleep, still holding Julien's fur; he couldn't help but think, She's still got it.
Hope ya liked the chapter. Please review and since I've gotten positive feedback, I'll still continue. For now…If nobody likes; I'll delete my story. I have to keep reminding that for some reason. Well until next time, please review.
