Me: Hello and welcome, readers who fell asleep with the computer switched on!
Skipper: ARE YOU GOING TO LET ME DOWN FROM HERE OR NOT!
Me: Well... Are you still angry?
Skipper: ANGRY? ANGRY? *coughs* No, I'm not angry at all. Now, could you please let me down?
Me:Hmm... I'd still rather not. You're a big tough military penguin, figure a way down on your own.*turns back to computer and continues to type*
Skipper:CENSORED!
Me:Anyway, where was I? Oh yes! As you can probably tell, Skipper is annoyed at his teammates for tying him up. Private learns of Kowalski's latest plan, and Rico... well, Rico just seems to want to blow stuff up. A lot. Anyway, what was it that Kowalski meant when he said Private wasn't going to like what he heard? Time to find out, I suppose.
DISCLAIMER: After this. I don't own the characters! There, are you happy now, Dreamworks/Nickelodeon? Yes? Well, that's fabulous, isn't it?
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"You're darn well right I don't like it! How can you just do... this!"
Kowalski sighed, and hung his head sadly. He had known that Private would react badly to the plan they had come up with.
"Private, please, calm down and let me explain-"
"SHUT UP!"
Kowalski never got the chance to "explain", as Private had given him a slap so hard that it echoed round the HQ, silencing even Skipper's angry yells. Kowalski slowly lifted his flipper to the side of his face that Private had slapped-and Private had slapped Kowalski so hard, though they didn't know it at the time, that the bruise would take several months to go away. Rico just sat there, with his mouth hanging open. After the sound finished revertabrating off the walls, he said "Wow."
"I... probably deserve a lot worse than that."
This little comment just about shocked the others into a coma-Kowalski had admitted to deserving punishment? Picking himself up off the floor, Kowalski dusted down his feathers, and looked as though he wanted Private to slap him again.
"W-what do you mean?"
"It was... it was me who suggested this plan."
"You? You, Kowalski? But, but, you always seemed to be the least inclined to violence out of us all. And then... to suggest that we had to... to kill Marlene to save ourselves? How... How could you even think of something like that?"
"I wasn't thinking right! It was just something I blurted out, a, a contingency plan, that was all! But, the more we thought about it... well, the more it seemed that this was the only way. And, much though I hate to say it, we need your help to carry out this plan."
Kowalski had, by this point, petered off and was staring very pointedly at the floor, avoiding everyone's gaze.
"How-how could you even think I'd help you with this? Kill Marlene? I'll never do something like that, no matter what anyone says to me! And Kowalski?"
Flinching at the harsh tone Private was now using, Kowalski meekly whispered "Yes, Private?"
"Sucks to your machine. I'm saving Marlene. But I'm saving her as an otter, not a penguin." And here Private regained that cold, military glare he could use so well to intimidate people. "I don't need to be a penguin, to be a commando. And Marlene doesn't either, Skipper. Puzzle that out. Should only take twenty years, at the speed your brain works at."
Having said what he wanted to say, Private walked out of the HQ, calmly and coldly. But that, as the others well knew, was when he was at his deadliest.
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A/N: Wow. Okay. Not quite sure what to make of Private or Kowalski anymore. On the one hand, I feel kinda sorry for Kowalski, cause he's upset about his idea actually been taken seriously(genii, go figure), since it might lead to the death of a good friend. On the other hand, Oh my god! Poor Private! What the heck were the others even thinking, agreeing with Kowalski's crazy idea? Still, Private not changing back to a penguin was a good thing in the end. It helped make this scene more dramatic, and who knows, it might even be used again in the future. Oh, yeah, one other thing. OUCH! I felt that slap, Private! Who knew such a small penguin could pack so much power, huh? Still, it's bound to be helpful later on. Hopefully I'll have the next chapter up and running soon, but until then, enjoy the story so far.
