Turned out long but I'm quite satisfied with this story and there will be probably part 3 but not in this fanfic ;)
Head of the Tiger - part 2
Back in the H.Q, Kowalski was finishing to dry the head of the stuffed tiger with a hairdryer, wondering why he hadn't installed a UV laser in the device yet. Earlier the plushie part had a meeting with the washing machine. The scientist sighed, he could have already got down to his lab work but noticing Private's happy beak, he carried on. During that time, the Brit threw down a whole bunch of cloth on the table – striped, dotted, in every possible colour and started to pick just those pieces which were vivid, like: pink, yellow and lime, putting aside black, brown and grey ones. He had been gathering them, because he wanted to learn how to sew.
"Alright, Private. I'm done with the drying, what now?"
"Ugh...do you have any options?"
"First we need to sew the cloth in such a way that we will get four limbs, a torso and a tail. Then we will fill it with a soft material and combine the parts, including the head, to create one body."
"Brilliant, so...we need a needle and thread..."
"Rico..." Kowalski turned to the weapon expert who, after a second, choked up a big needle and black thread. Seeing it, Private felt dizzy and held on his beak, he didn't know how the penguin was able to keep a needle in his stomach, not to mention bringing it up. Shivers went down Kowalski's spine, even thought he should have got used to the content of Rico's abdomen. He didn't feel like holding the needle in his flipper. "Rico...ugh...haven't you ever wanted to try your hand at sewing?"
Rico just shrugged and threaded the needle, starting his task.
"And with what will we fill it?" Kowalski looked around but neither in his lab, nor in the living room could he find anything soft enough. Rico shook his head which meant that he was 'empty' in that case.
Then Private waddled towards the bunks and took Skipper's pillow. "How about that?"
"What?!" Kowalski and Rico asked simultaneously.
"Oh, come 'on. We will find a new one somewhere later. It will be there before Skippah comes back. It's not his mug, he won't see any difference. I want to be ready with it already!" And with that the small penguin threw the pillow at the taller one's face. Kowalski ripped it open "Alea iacta est."
After an hour the complete tiger was sitting on the table. It had its previous head; a big torso, white on the front and with a rose pattern on its back; small green, pink, yellow and light blue limbs; and finally a long tail with red and white polka dots. "Salvador Dali would be impressed..." Kowalski commented sarcastically.
"Who?" Private looked from the plushie up to Kowalski. Anything but to see how Rico was gulping the needle back.
"An artist...anyway, now you can play with your new toy, Private."
"Actually...I thought that..." The Brit made a pause, took the tiger from the table and handed it to Kowalski, "Rico has Miss Perky, I have the Lunacorn...could you take care of him, Kowalski?"
The scientist looked down on the not-so-pretty-oh-my-burning-eyes thing. It was made from Private's heart, Rico's ability to create something from nothing and even Skipper took part in it, absent in body, present in soul. "I'll, thank you." Kowalski smiled, accepting the gift.