The penguins coming inside my house is get annoying. Maybe I should put up a high tech security system. Seriously though, thanks for the reviews!

Flora's POV

I opened my eyes groggily and heard Sara and Private talking.

"So do you want to see the zoo some more?" Private was asking.

"Sure!" Sara said cheerfully and of course she jumped up and down. Typical, sweet, hyperactive Sara.

"Where are you guys going?" I asked. I know I just heard them say it, but I was curious about what was going on. Madison must be rubbing off some of that curiosity on me.

Sara turned around towards me as I rubbed my eyes. "Were going to see more of the zoo!" she answered. Sara then narrowed her eyes in confusion. "Hey, where's Madison?" she asked.

"And where's Rico?" Private muttered.

I shrugged and jumped out of my bunk. When I landed; I started to stretch my flippers out. For a second, I could have sworn I heard a crack from my back.

"Do you think we should wake up Amber?" Sara inquired.

Madison and Rico would be in trouble then. "It's best we leave her sleeping. She needs it," I replied.

"Alright," Sara sighed. "What about Skipper or Kowalski?"

"What about me?" Kowalski yawned. He tried to get out of his bunk but ended up falling on his face instead.

"Kowalski are you ok?" I gasped in worry. Oh my gosh, didn't that hurt? I came to his side and attempted to help him up.

"Just fine," Kowalski mumbled. "So, what about me?'

"We wanted to know if you knew where Madison, and/or Rico were," Sara explained.

Kowalski got up and examined the bunks, confused. "Nope, I haven't seen them." He shrugged. Sara sighed in disappointment. I looked at Kowalski to see him brighten a bit. "Hey Flora, do you want to do some experimenting in my lab?" Kowalski asked hopefully.

"I would love to!" I exclaimed. We both rushed into the lab, without another word. "So can I see more of your inventions?" I asked once I closed the lab door behind us for some privacy.

Kowalski hesitated. "Um, no, uh, they're not very interesting," he mumbled.

I slumped. He doesn't want show me does he? "Well, ok," I muttered. I tried to brighten my mood up a bit. "Do you want to do experiments together?" I asked hopefully.

Kowalski brightened considerably. "Sure!" He waddled over to a table that had a bunch of chemicals.

I came up behind him with a small smile on my beak. "I've never gotten to experiment with these kinds of chemicals before," I said excitedly.

"Really?" Kowalski questioned curiously.

I nodded sadly. "I could never really do that much, but that's going to change today!" I exclaimed with excitement.

Kowalski grinned and handed me some chemicals. "So what can you do?" he asked.

I gave him a devious grin. "I can make a strong acid," I replied proudly. His eyes widened curiously as I quickly poured the ingredients to make the acid. Once I completed it, the vials bottom was eaten away by the acid, and it fell on the ground. We backed away and watched it eat away the ground. "See?" I said.

"Wow! That's a strong acid! How did you do it?" Kowalski asked. I explained the ingredients and how I came around to making the acid in the first place.

"So it was an accident?" Kowalski was trying to get every detail of my story on his clipboard.

I didn't understand why he was so interested in it but hey, what are you going to do? It was an acid that could eat away at just about anything. "Yup," I confirmed. I looked around the lab for something else to do. My eyes fell on a gadget he was working on. "Hey what's this?" I asked picking up the machine.

Kowalski dashed over and grabbed the machine out of my flippers. He hid it behind his back. "Classified." He spoke so fast I almost didn't understand what he said.

"Classified? Yesterday you were showing me all kinds of stuff! What's so secretive about that one?" I asked suspiciously, putting my flippers on my hips.

"I'm not allowed to show you anything," Kowalski admitted and slumped a bit.

"Why?" I asked sadly, lowering my flippers back down.

"Because…" he hesitated. "Skipper doesn't want me to show you this stuff," he explained.

I'm not going to bother him with any more questions. It'll just make it harder for the both of us. "Whatever. Can we still work on something?" I wanted to work on something so badly! I wanted to make a creation of my own, not remake dumb chemicals that can eat your skin away.

"Well..." Kowalski started but stopped as he stared at my face, which made me feel that familiar discomfort. I decided to do what Sara does and put the cutest face I could to get what I wanted. Kowalski's face went as red as a tomato as my eyes dilated and blinked slowly at him. "Uh... o-ok," Kowalski stuttered.

"Yes!" I cheered. "So what can we do first?"

"W-we could work on m-my other p-projects," Kowalski continued to stutter.

"Excellent!" I exclaimed enthusiastically.

He went toward a nearby table and began shifting through multiple blueprints. He picked up a specific blue print. "I've done something similar to this but I wanted to make some better improvements. This is supposed to make things younger. I've wanted to work on it for a while now," he told me.

I nodded my head and grinned up at him. "Let's begin."

For a while, I handed him parts, and we simply calculated the equations for sizes, mass, and chemical separation. We would also work on separate parts, and we were able to construct the base of the machine in less then an hour.

"We're getting some great progress," Kowalski noted. I nodded my head in agreement. "Can you hand me that blow torch over there?" he asked.

"Sure," I replied. I walked as carefully as I could to the blowtorch, careful to avoid the debris, spare parts, and other tools. I grabbed the blowtorch and walked back to Kowalski. Unfortunately, I tripped over some metal piece. "Whoa!" I yelped as I fell forward. I fell right into Kowalski's out stretched flippers. My beak lying against his chest, my flippers were grabbing around his waist. I looked at him embarrassed, and I started turning red. "Um…oops?" I chuckled nervously.

Kowalski was just as red as me. "Um, do you mind?" His tone sounded embarrassed but something else in it offended me.

I quickly got off of him and trailed my foot in a circle along the ground. "So…that never happened?"

"What happened?" Kowalski said, shrugging, trying to lighten the mood.

I chuckled, and my blush went down slowly. I looked around the ground and saw the blowtorch near my feet. "Uh, here's the blowtorch you wanted." I picked it up and handed it to him. He took it gratefully and mumbled his thanks.

I waddled back to the part of the invention I was working on. It was suppose to be an energy chamber for the machine. It was going to be attached to the large base of the invention. "So Kowalski..." I started, wanting to make a conversation. He looked up, curious. "You like candy?" I asked.

"Candy! I love candy!" he hollered.

I giggled. "Me too." I admit that I am a freak for candy. "I don't think I like it as much as you do though." I laughed lightly.

His face went a red again.

I cocked my head. He was red a lot lately. "You ok Kowalski? You're as red as a cherry. Do you have a fever?" I asked.

"No, I'm fine," he mumbled and turned his head away.

I frowned. Did I do something wrong? Maybe I should apologize. I waddled over to Kowalski till I was right next him.

He turned around and jumped slightly when he saw me. "Oh, Flora, what do you want?" he asked hastily.

"Did I offend you Kowalski?" I asked sadly.

"No, what would make you think that?" He stood up, so he was facing me.

"Well-" I started as I took a step forward. Unfortunately, that dumb piece of metal was there again, and I tripped over it. I fell right over and toppled on top of Kowalski. I was right on top of him and he was under me. I could tell our faces were getting redder by the second.

I calmed down slightly when I looked into his handsome blue eyes. I felt myself lean in, and Kowalski doing the same. My eyes dropped down a little, and Kowalski eyes did the same. We were getting closer, our beaks close to touching with our faces still red and burning.

Then we jerked our heads over to the lab door, to see it open and close as Private and Sara came in. Their faces turned red from embarrassment.

"Uh…this is awkward," I said in an embarrassed tone.

Kowalski quickly, and forcefully, shoved me off. He stood up and faced the young, red, penguins'. "It's n-n-not w-what it l-looks like!" Kowalski stuttered nervously.

They didn't listen. Private quickly grabbed a nearby laser, and the two young penguins went out of the lab without a word.

I picked myself up, and I couldn't stop the stutter in my voice. "I'll j-just be o-over there." I scooted myself away and went to working on the piece of the invention.

I screwed in the screws and attached the metal together, piece by piece. I added a layer of protective metal on the inside, to prevent leaks from the chemicals we would be using. Then I tightened the last screw, and I held the completed energy chamber up in the air proudly. "I'm finished with the energy chamber, Kowalski," I announced proudly. I waddled to where he was and handed it to him to observe.

"Good job Flora." Kowalski admired approvingly. He took the chamber to the base part of the machine, and attached it to the invention. "And… a perfect fit!" he said proudly. He turned around back at me and smiled. "You're pretty good at science and building you know?"

"Thanks. I like working on this with you Kowalski," I admitted.

"I like working with you too. It's not often I meet someone who likes and understands science and math like me," Kowalski admitted too. "People think I'm geek."

"You're not a geek." I was blushing again as I took a step closer.

"Really?" He was blushing as he too, got closer.

"Really," I whispered. We got closer and closer to each other. Our beaks were almost touching with our faces burning.

Then Skipper came in the lab and ruined the moment. We jumped away from each other just in time. Seriously! What does it take to get a moment alone with this guy! Do I need to rip my eyeballs out or something? It took all my will power to not throw some metal at Skipper to make him go away.

"Have-wait, am I interrupting something?" Skipper asked with a raised brow.

Kowalski and I glanced at each other. I resisted the urge to yell, 'Yes you are! Now go already!' but I knew it wouldn't help our case. "No Skipper," we chorused.

Skipper shook his head, not really believing us. "Have you two seen Amber?" he asked. I shook my head. Is Amber missing or something?

"Negative Skipper," Kowalski reported.

"Well look around here for her. I need to find her!" Skipper said with determination.

Aw, he really does care. For her at least.

"Why don't you look outside for her?" I suggested.

"Good idea!" Skipper slid out of the lab and shut the door behind him.

"So-" Kowalski started awkwardly.

"Let's find Amber," I finished, though I don't know if that was what he was going to say.

We had looked around the HQ, and Kowalski accidentally mentioned something about an elevator. I have no idea what that was, but I was going to keep quiet about it. We had finally given up and were currently waiting in silence for Amber or for Skipper to come back, whichever came first, and give us some instructions with what to do.

After a while, Skipper finally came down into the HQ and faced us with eyes that betrayed his desperation. "Did you guys find her?" he asked. We shook our heads together in sync. He started ranting on and on about how this was so stupid and etc., and I tried to block out the noise by putting my flippers over my head.

After about a minute, Skipper was still ranting and pacing. Someone came down the fishbowl entrance, but I didn't bother to look. Skipper's yelling was giving me one heck of a headache. I heard muffled voices and, when I looked over, I saw Sara sitting next to Kowalski. Private came over and sat next to me.

It wasn't long after they arrived that Madison and Rico came back to. The confused pair stared at Skipper, as he was STILL yelling at the wall. Rico grunted to get his attention, which caused Skipper to slide over to them in a flash of black and white. "Did you find her?" he asked eagerly. The two silent penguins shook their heads. "Where is she?" he exclaimed, before he jumped outside.

"Do you think Skipper will be alright?" Sara asked Madison.

I wonder if my hearing will be alright, I thought bitterly.

Madison shrugged from where she stood. She waddled over toward us and sat next to Sara. Rico wandered over toward us, but didn't sit down. Kowalski got up as soon as Madison had sat down and waddled toward the fishbowl entrance but stopped once he was under it. He appeared to be listening to something.

"What is it, Kowalski?" I asked.

"I think I hear Amber!" Kowalski answered. "Come on!"

We all jumped out and saw Amber talking to Skipper. I smiled in relief once I saw her.

"Actually it was mostly Skipper," Kowalski admitted.

Should've seen him yelling at a wall at one point. I kept that thought to myself though. No use in making Amber think Skipper's a nut right?

"Well that's nice," Amber stated simply. I saw Sara go over for a hug, so I joined in. Surprisingly, Madison also hugged Amber. She never seems big on hugs. Maybe she is getting softer.

We all went back into the HQ, and I joined Amber, Madison, Sara, and Private to watch TV. I looked behind myself to see Skipper pull Kowalski aside for a talk. I think he was at least. Skipper looked concerned and worried. Kowalski just looked a bit scared. Probably thinking about how Skipper saw us earlier.

I waddled over at the others to see Madison holding the TV remote, watching something about monster trucks and explosions. That's Madison for you. Always violent and aggressive. I glanced at Sara and saw her lying back with a small frown as she watched the TV. Knowing Madison and Sara, they probably fought for the remote. That wouldn't be a surprise. They were like sisters that way.

It took a while but the show ended, which made Madison and Rico disappointed like Sara and Private were throughout the episode.

I headed for my bunk, but looked around to see Kowalski snoring away. I was glad to see he was alright and jumped into my bunk. I closed my eyes, but not before I saw Amber and Skipper go up the ladder. I snorted as I fully closed my eyes.

I began to dream of long mathematical equations and future experiments I could do with Kowalski. Kowalski. I then dreamed of Kowalski with a grin on my beak.

I think I'm losing it! Writers block is making it hard for me, and it's driving me crazy! Either way, I liked typing up this one cause of the thing going on between Kowalski and Flora. I admit; I think it's kind of cute. Please tell me what you think in a review.

Skipper: How could you try kissing her Kowalski?

Me: How did you-

Kowalski: She made me do it! *Points to me*

Me: HEY! And I thought I set up the security system.

Private: Oh yeah, you did.

Flora: Kowalski and I disabled it.

Me: -_- Grr any suggestions on how to get rid of these guys?

Sara: Please review!