With the penguins gone, the company was worried about what to do. It was understandable that the penguins had their odd little dealings here and there, and that the penguins were known to be, well, to put it softly, thought Ted. But being gone for four hours! NO!
Ted decided that he would go and look for the penguins, come heck or high water for debts needed to be repaid, the penguins got the group of them out of the crates and they needed to repay them. And so Ted decided to do something.
"We have to go out and find them!" he said to Mark. "They could be gone out in the cold, hurt by so many things!"
"Hmm. You're right. They could be skewered, pickled, burned" began Artie in his sad tone.
"We gotta save them, Mark! Darnell, you're with me, right?"
"-roasted, smashed, squashed, poisoned-" Artie went on.
"Yes" replied Darnell. "If it means saving them, yes, I will help. They would do the same for us."
"Mark said "All right. I'm in. I can go, but I need to go alone. You guys stay here."
As could be imagined, the others broke out into protests.
Ted shouted "We have to follow the number one rule of penguins!"
Mark replied "Never bathe in hot oil and Bisquick?"
Ted said "No. Never swim alone"
Artie merely replied "I don't swim. I'd drown"
Bax replied, but gave no sign that he heard the others "Only if you guys will go, I can dig it. If I can dig it, you can dig it, we can dig it-dig it-dig it-dig it-dig it-dig-it dig-it baby! Can you dig it!" he said insanely. "But I need a sweater. I'm a reptile, if I go out there, I may freeze!"
"Sweater granted" said Mark. "Let's go!" And with that, Mark pulled out from the supply closets a blanket which, courtesy of Ted's claws and Darnell's nimble trunk-work, was turned into a lizard sweater with hood, tail warmer, and booties to match.
"I'm a-comin' wit ya!" croaked Jem.
"No, Jem, you can't. You'd freeze!" said Mark.
And with that, the group rushed off in hot pursuit for the footprints' end, with Bax as a scent hound.
"When I find them, I swear I'll never call Rico weird or Skipper insane again!" said Mark.
"I never did, but I won't either!" replied Darnell.
"FOLLOW THE SARDINE SMELL ROAD!" screeched Bax, doing what he did best, quoting songs.
(theme from the A-Team)
But little did they know that they were followed….by a small, hopping somebody.