Chapter two: First Mission

(Rune's POV)

I let out a heavy sigh. I've been running laps and doing training courses 8 hours for seven days. It sucks. I just couldn't run or even move anymore and so I let myself calspse on the cold cement floor.

"Rune?! You alright?!" Kowalski gasped, jogging in place.

"I-I'm fine, 'Walski.... Just....tried out is all..." I half lied. I also wanted to sleep...and beat Skipper with something for making me train so hard. Speak of the tough stubborn penguin, he came just then.

"Fish and Chips, man! What the hell are you doin' on the floor? Do you want to get run over by a stampede?"

"Really, Skipper? A Stampeded?" I sassed. Seriously! What the flick is gonna trample me?

Suddenly, Rico and Private ran over me.

"Oops! Sorry, Rune!!" Private gasped when I let out a painful moan. Rico gave me a concerned look.

"S'all right, Pri, Ri," I muttered as Kowalski helped me up. "Skipper, how long do I have to do this training crap? You've seen first hand what I'm capable of, so why not assign me to something greater?"

Skipper shook his fat head and sighed. "Fine, fine. You and Kowalski can go on a special mission."

"Special mission?" Kowalski repeated, pulling out his notebook from god knows where.

"Yes, a special mission. I think Rune's ready for it..."

I squealed as I glomped Skipper. "Thank you, Skipper! Thank you!" I could tell by his body heat, he was blushing. Strange. Oh well, like I care.

"We salute here, solider, not...not hug!" He shouted, which, by the way, hurt my ears.

I backed off and gladly hugged Kowalski instead. He's so cuddle-able and soft! "Yayz! My first mission-and it's with you!" Now Kowalski was blushing. THAT I cared about. I tried to force and so I turned back to Skipper and saluted him like a solider should. "Thanks, Skipper."

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...Yeah, Skipper, thanks. Thanks A LOT!

I grinned my teeth and crossed my arms. "So all we're doing is investigating strange human activities?"

"Correct," Kowalski told me, scribbling something in his notebook. Wonder what he writes all the time...

"How boring is that?!" I sighed. Nothing to do now but to slip into my secret world. A world where i could fly and touch the clouds. The bad thing about my daydreaming is that I often mutter things I have on my mind and I never relieze or remember what I said. This was one of those times.

"W-what?" Kowalski shuddered speech snapped me back into reality. Oh crap! What did i say?!

"Er...? Wh-what did I s-s-say?" I couldn't help but shake. If I had said something stupid like, 'I want you so bad', I was sure Kowalski would avoid me and never speak to me again and how horror-able that would be!!

"N-Nothing...," was his replied, "Oh look! There's the humans we're suppose to be studying!" He was changing the subject on purpose, I could tell. Never-the-less, he was right. Just around the corner, some crazy-ass humans were yelling and chugging down some stuff in a bottle.

I wrinkled my nose. I could smell the fowl drinks from where I stood. I also heard there conversation;

"Hey, let's go bug those large squirrels," one shouted.

"Dude, do you mean the lemurs?" another asked.

"Y-yeah! Wadda say?!" the first asked.

"Yeah!" the other two shouted.

Great. Three. Three was always a bad number for me. Bad omen. Now I was scared.

"K-Kowalski? We...we should go," I urged nervously.

"Won't the humans be supposed if you're not in your habitat?" he asked, not looking up from his notebook.

"I...I suppose, but..."

"Don't worry! I'll go get Skipper and we'll be there in less than three minutes," he assured.

Three...There was that damn number again. Okay, something is seriously up. I tried to begged Kowalski again. "N-No, Kowalski, please don't leave me!" Tears started to suddenly poor down my face...Sometimes i hated being so emotional...

Kowalski looked as if he didn't know what to do. "R-Rune...It'll be okay. I won't let them hurt you, I promise...," he comforted, wiping my tears.

I smiled weakly and nodded. I signed up to be a solider. Even if it was only to be closer to Kowalski, I had to act like a solider! I rubbed my face again his cheek without thinking and then ran off. It wasn't until I was over to my fence when I realized what I'd done. I blushed deeply...

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I wasn't sure how long it was when the humans came. I tried to protect Julien and Maurice like a solider, using Mort as a shield(Hey, I didn't say good solider).

The crazy-ass humans threw bottles at us and soon, they started to climb over the wall.

"Oh crap!" I gasped, throwing Mort somewhere, "They're coming!"

"W-What do we do, Runey?" Julien asked in a panic.

"It's 'Rune', got it? And stay calm...stay calm...DAMN IT, STAY CALM!" Okay, maybe I could have been calm. I turned to Julien and Maurice and I saw a human sneak behind Julien and reach for him. "LOOK OUT!"

The next thing I knew, I was lifted up into the air. The human smirked and shouted something, but I was too busy struggling to listen. The human prided open my jaw and forced down the fowl substance into my mouth, making me almost drown. I shook my head, trying to think. "Lemme go! Lemme go! KOWALSKI!!!!" I was surprised I called out his name. No time to be embarrassed. I bit the human's hand and he cursed and threw me. I felt my body hit something hard and blood spilling out my head. My vision began to blur and I saw four dots attacking the large blur that I guessed was the monster crazy-ass.

"Rune...? Rune!!"

That was all I heard before my mind slipped into darkness....

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A/N: Bwahahaha! Behold Chapter two! So how am i doing so far? Man, i'm so used to keeping my 'I's lower case, so i had to go back and change it to upper case ^^; Well, please tell me what cha think. Next up will be Kowalski's POV! YAYZ FOR KOWALSKI!!!

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