Chapter 10
Thoughts
Skipper's Thoughts
The only thing I can hear is the beeping of the chatter walker and my littless brother crying.
Rico is dead?
...Rico is dead!
I want to do nothing more then scream Rico's name at the top of my lungs, and cry like there's no tomorrow. But I need to stay strong for my remaining brothers. I look to them, Private is crying his little heart out. Kowalski on the other flipper just has a blank expression on his face.
I walk over to Private and comfort him, well I try to, nothing can make this situation better. After half an hour Private has cried himself to sleep. No matter how hard I tried nothing could stop his tears from falling, it will be along time before he is his happy-go-lucky self.
Well one brother to go I guess.
I walk up to Kowlaski his expression hasn't changed, I don't know why I thought it would. I sit next to him hoping it could provide some form of comfort.
"I suspect that the dome will be lifted soon, Skipper"
I'm taken aback from Kowalski's little sentence. It wasn't what he just said it was how it was spoken, the tone didn't match his expression. The tone was like normal but his blank expression isn't his normal one. It's the kind of blank expression you'd see on somones face who hasn't got meaning anymore. He's blaming himself for all of this I know he is, because that's the expression I have on my face when I blame myself.
"Why is that?" I play along with him there's no need to start a argument with him. Speciallly as he's just doing what I did all them years ago.
"Alice and the other zoo keepers will soon realize that the penguin they are looking for isn't coming back."
I guess we really are doing this Kowlaski? I know I did it all them years ago to our parents, but they didn't die. Well if you aren't going to talk to me I know someone you will talk to.
"Ok once the dome is lifted, I want you to go and see how Marlene is. She's probably cried her eyes sore by now."
"Yes Skipper"
"And Kowalski get some rest. That's a order."
Kowalski sighs at my order, but gets up anyway and gets into his bunk.
"What about you Skipper?"
"I'll be getting some rest soon, I just need some air."
Kowalski turns around believing me. So I bet get some of that air I guess, I climb our ladder to get to some "air".
It's dark outside time sure passes. I look to the stars and pick one out, it's next to two other stars I know so very well.
*Flashback*
A little baby penguin is sitting on it's own crying, not really knowing what's going on. A female penguin walk to the baby and picks him up, and cuddles him.
"Why have they gone?" The little baby penguin asks.
"They haven't gone, dear. Their're still here."
"But where? I can't see them."
The female penguin points to the night sky.
"You see them two stars?" The female asks the baby penguin as she points at the two stars. The baby penguin nods a 'yes'
"They're your grandma and grandpa."
"But why are they up there?"
"So they can watch over you and protect you."
"But what about when it's morning? stars aren't out then."
"Well me and your father will."
"But why does the night sky get grandma and grandpa?"
"Well dear, the night sky needs to fill it's dark sky with little lights, so creatures below can see their way. I know it's not fair grandma and grandpa were taken from us, but they were needed somewhere else."
With all his questions answered, the little baby penguin looked to the two stars and smiles.
*End of Flashback*
I look to the two stars and the one I just picked out. With a single tear falling from my eye, I whisper a message to just be heard by the night sky.
"Please take care of him."
Kowalski's Thoughts
I can't believe it
It can't be true!
...Rico...
I turn onto my back to look at the top of my bunk. Skipper went to get some "fresh air" about 20 minutes ago. I know he isn't getting some fresh air, but it's best to just leave him to it. Skipper probably sent me to get some rest, for the pure fact if I go to my lab I'll start blaming myself. But "resting" isn't doing any good either, as I just can't get to sleep. But...
Do I blame myself?
Yes
But why? there was nothing I could of done.
My brain knows that...but my heart is another story
These are the only questions that plague my mind. They just play over and over again, the questions are never different and neither are the answers. But I've noticed as time goes by other little questions, are whispered behind these two. And they are questions I would really not want to know the answer to.
How did Rico die?
Was it slow?
When he did die was his last thought that I hate him?
I quickly cover my "ears" to block out the questions. But I can't block them out, it's hard to block something out when it's in your head. How do I make it stop? My thoughts fall onto Rico.
Rico...
*Flashback*
There's a young penguin playing with his makeshift lab, he's shaking some liquid that he's placed inside a test tube. A smaller penguin that has some of his feather sticking up from his head, that makes it look like he's got a mini Mohawk, walks up to the young penguin and begins to watch what he's doing.
"Wha' t'at?" The smaller penguin asks the older one.
"It's a very powerful liquid" The older one sighed
"Wha' it do?" Now wanting to know more the smaller penguin tries to grab it.
"Rico! no!" As the older penguin tries to make sure his little brother doesn't get the liquid, the penguin didn't notice that it has split out on to his makeshift lab melting it in the process. The smaller penguin noticed though and backed away covering his mouth with his flippers. He knows how much his older brother loves his lab he made and know it's half melted.
The older penguin seeing his little brothers face turns to see what he's looking at. At the sight of little lab the young penguin drops his test tube he was holding, at the sound of shattering glass a female penguin came running in, to see what had happened.
At the sight of her third oldest lab the mother begins to panic. She quickly begins to check her sons for any injury, seeing that both were fine, she begins to ask how it all happened.
"It was his fault!" The young penguin shouted pointing at his little brother. Tears began to fall from his eyes. They young penguin couldn't stand being near his ruined lab so ran away crying.
"Kowalski!" The mother shouted after her son. She turned to her second youngest with a stern look. "Don't touch anything!" while that the mother ran after her thirdoldest son.
Once his mother and brother was gone the smaller penguin looks to the now melted lab. Only some of it was melted the other half was fine...maybe.
"Then it got split onto my lab." The young penguin finished his story of how his lab got to how it was now to his mother.
"Well dear, if you ask me it wasn't just Rico's fault was it?"
"...No"
"Then I think you need to apologize. Don't you?"
"Yes."
"Good lets go" The mother lead her third oldest back to the lab. She hopes their weren't gone too long, her second youngest has the habit of getting himself into trouble.
"Rico, Kowalski has something to say...oh my" The mother couldn't believe what she was looking at. Did her second youngest son really do this?
The young penguin followed his mother back into where he placed his makeshift lab. Once entering he couldn't believe what he was seeing.
Stood right where his half melted lab should be, stands a now fixed lab. On the front side of the new makeshift lab said 'Kowalski's Lab' granted that some of the letters were not the right way up, but it looked like Rico did try his hardest at getting it right. Rico stood next to the lab with some paint covering his feathers.
"Did you do this?" The mother asks. Rico nods a 'yes' then points at his older brother.
"Sowwy" Kowalski ran up to his little brother and gave him a hug.
"There's no need to be sorry, Rico. I'm sorry I shouted and blamed you. Thank you so much!" Rico hugged his big brother back.
*End of flashback*
I slowly close my eyes as sleep is finally falling over me. My eyes begin to drop tear drops, but it doesn't bother me. I smile before I fall completely to sleep knowing that inside my now very modern lab, hidden away there's still a little makeshift lab. Yes it's just cardboard and some wood to keep it up, but it means so much more to me, and right now it's never meant more, as it's the only thing I've got that personally reminds me of Rico.
Private's Thoughts
I suddenly wake up from a nightmare. I quickly grab my lunacorn hugging it hoping that the thought of my nightmare may go away. But it's no use as my nightmare was that Rico died...and waking up hugging my lunacorn won't do a thing, as the nightmare is in reality too. I look out of my bunk to see if my two remaining brothers are asleep, which they are. I must of been asleep for awhile as I don't see Skipper or Kowalski getting to sleep straight away. I then look to Rico's bunk and sigh.
When I have nightmares Rico is usually the one to help me. Yes Skipper and Kowalski help too, but Rico helps me in a different way and it makes me feel more safer for some reason. I think Rico helped me the most was because he can be a very light sleeper, and me waking up, wakes him up too.
I curl up into a ball and hug my lunacorn tighter. I close my eyes
"I miss you Rico."
*Flashback*
A very young penguin so young that he still hasn't fully out grown out of all his down feathers, is sleeping within his little bed. But it seems that the little penguin wasn't having a very nice dream, as the little penguin was moving around looking upset. The little penguin suddenly woke up from his nightmare tears in his eyes, the little starts to hug his blanket to try to get some comfort. The little penguin hear some moving from above him and got scared he tightened his grip on his blanket.
A figure jumped from on of the bunks and walks to the little penguins bed. The little penguin looks up with tears in his eyes, still hugging his blanket. A flipper from the figure came towards the little penguin and wiped his tears again. The little penguin grabbed the flipper, as he now knows who it is, and didn't want him to go away.
"Wico" The little penguin happily cheers to his big brother. The older penguin smiles to try to make his little brother more comfortable.
"Nightmare?" The older penguin asks as a respond the little penguin nodded a 'yes'
The older brother then picked up his younger brother and going back to his bunk taking his little brother with him. Placing his little brother into his bunk, the older penguin then gets into it too.
"I'll protect you" The older penguin said to the younger one. With them words the little penguin stopped cuddling his blanket and cuddled his brother instead.
*End of flashback*
Even though Rico didn't invite me into his bunk like he did when I was younger, him just being near was good enough. I think the reason I feel more safer with Rico when I have a nightmare, is because he was the first to ever look after me when I had one. But who's going to protect me now? maybe it's time to protect myself...I just have to build up to it. So I shut my eyes and start to fall asleep.
Hey! finally new chapter up! :3 hope you guys like it. And a big thank you to everyone that has reviewed it means a lot to me!
So like every other POM fan I went to go and see the film when it came out :D it was awesome I fully enjoyed it. But to me it felt a bit too fast if you know what I mean, it didn't really tell us about the penguins past that much.
I know it told us about how Skipper, Kowalski and Rico found Private, but the one thing that not many people did pick up on, was that Skipper, Kowalski and Rico are in fact triplets. The things that was clear though was that Skipper, Kowalski and Rico did adopt Private as a little brother (which was mega cute!).
Also there is alot of argument about the mistakes on the penguins how not much match up with the Madagascar films nor the series, but to be honest I think that they didn't really think the penguins were going to be as popular as they ended up. So they didn't really make a full back story for them or give them little details to stand out from each other, so a result was for the series and their own film fix them problems. But in a result they don't match up with the Madagascar films, but remember there maybe a 4th Madagascar so more will be told. :3
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