A/N: Please R&R! :D

Kowalski couldn't focus on the training at hand. He was too tired from last night's operation. Skipper, as worried as he seemed towards Private, managed to black out about halfway. And Private was unconscious during, so Kowalski was the only one up for most of the night. But he wasn't going to let that stop him from at least attempting to train.

Today, Skipper had suggested the team should try to focus on hand-to-hand combat, as he didn't want the same thing that happened to Private to happen to anyone else on the team. No matter how hard the strategist tried, he kept finding himself stumbling over at the simplest techniques and getting attacked by Rico, whom he had been training with. Skipper was supervising, and he was just as dissatisfied with Kowalski's performance as he was.

Kowalski soon found himself being pinned by Rico. He struggled to break free from the penguin's grasp, but knew all attempts were useless, especially in his poor condition. He grunted and let out a sigh of defeat, realizing he wasn't going to get out of it.

"Alright, men. I'm going to go check on Private, so finish this round and start again. I'll be up shortly." Kowalski heard Skipper say, and the last thing he heard was the fishbowl door to the HQ shutting.

Now's my chance to take some notes on those two. Kowalski suggested to himself, but the more and more he waited for Rico to get off of him, the less it seemed that he wouldn't at all. Kowalski looked up at Rico and noticed he had the same stare in his eyes, but there was something else in his hypnotic gaze. It was lust.

"Rico, what are you doing?" Kowalski asked, becoming scared as he saw the gaze turn more lustful. But Rico seemed to snap out of whatever stupor he was in as he got off Kowalski, face extremely red.

:Sorry.." Rico mumbled, still watching Kowalski as he knelt down to the fishbowl entrance, pulling his notebook out.

"I'm going to need you to stay quiet, Rico" He commanded, slowly opening the hatch and peeking in. What he saw shocked him, but gave him an odd sensation of attraction.

Skipper was kissing Private.

Kissing really wasn't the best word for it. It was more like making out, but toned down. Both were on the couch, holding each other in their arms as Skipper moved his beak to Private's neck, nuzzling him and making the little private giggle.

Kowalski could barely manage to keep himself quiet as he shut the hatch, standing up and bumping into Rico, who was watching everything Kowalski saw. Kowalski got knocked onto the ground, still in a completely shocked stupor, as Rico held his flipper out. Kowalski grabbed it, and halfway through getting himself up, he noticed Rico had the same look of lust and passion in his eyes. Kowalski wanted to fight the urge to look back, but they seemed so inviting, so hypnotic.

"Rico, I...uh. I..umm" Kowalski stuttered, but snapped out of it at the thought of the two penguins kissing each other not 5 minutes ago.

"Rico, did you see that?" He nearly screamed, but made sure the two below him didn't hear.

"Uh-huh.." Rico said, somewhat seductively, and moving closer. Kowalski couldn't understand why Rico was so calm about it, or why he was acting so strange.

"Rico, how can you be so calm about this?" He asked, tensing up as the crazed penguin pushed him down and leaped on top of him.

"Don't ask...don't tell.." Rico whispered as he pushed his beak on Kowalski's. Kowalski's eyes widened, but he moaned in pleasure as he felt the penguin's tongue glide in his mouth. But the real Kowalski snapped back into reality and pushed Rico off. After a second of shock from both penguins, Kowalski stood up and glared at Rico.

"What are you doing?" He asked, fear that Rico would do this, and that he enjoyed it. Rico just sat there, blazing with embarrassment. Kowalski didn't know what to do. He couldn't go anywhere. He was too embarrassed to stay with Rico and he didn't want to "Interrupt" Skipper and Private's moment. He panicked, and decided to open the hatch as quickly and loudly as possible as he jumped down. He saw Skipper quickly jump off of Private from the corner of his eye, but it didn't matter, he still slid as fast as possible to his lab, where he locked the door and tried to calm down.

He took deep breaths as he pulled out his notebook and began to write:

I don't know what has happened to the team. I just saw Skipper and Private kissing, and Rico had just kissed me! What has happened that made the team like this? Why did Rico choose me? And another question I don't think I can answer: Why did I like the kiss? I'm not sure how to answer any of these, and though I am concerned I will not understand what I find, I must continue my research on Skipper and Private. But what do I do about Rico?

Kowalski intended to write more, to try to plan his spying on Skipper and Private, and try to figure out how to deal with Rico, but he couldn't handle his tiredness anymore. He dropped his notebook and crayon as he drifted off into sleep...