Skipper stretched and jumped down from his bunk, taking a moment to survey his new HQ. He smiled and grabbed his mug from the table and filled it with coffee.
Manfredi and Johnson were still sleeping soundly.
It had been two months since Deadshot had been captured, and during that time Skipper and his team had shown the zoo what they were capable of. Now, helping the zoo animals had become a daily occurrence for them. Johnson had proved to be an excellent fighter, and Manfredi had shown to be smart enough to think things through while on missions, but capable of taking down foes.
Skipper snorted, he remembered the first few missions where he'd taken the two into the city. Both had had a hard time following orders the first mission where they went to find Burt, the elephant some peanuts. They certainly got into trouble a lot, Johnson and Manfredi especially liked to bug Alex the lion, but then again Skipper wasn't one to talk, because he liked to bug him too.
"Come one boys, time to get up" Skipper told his team, setting down the mug. He hopped up the latter they'd installed to be able to get in and out of HQ easier. The two penguins sleepily followed him out.
Once they were outside on their island, they swiftly ate their breakfast and chatted a little.
"So what are we doing today Skipper?" Manfredi asked, yawning.
"I was thinking about-" Skipper was suddenly cut off.
"You'd think three penguins would be enough for the zoo" Alice complained. Alice was a red haired woman who seemed to hate her job as their zoo keeper. Alice had replaced Tom as their keeper after Tom retired from the zoo a few weeks ago.
"What she talking about?" Johnson asked, tilting his head to one side in curiosity.
"We have a new penguin?" Skipper said shocked. Why hadn't they been told?
"Here you go little guy, here's your new home" Alice came into their habitat, using a board to cross over onto the island, she sat down a wooden crate. Skipper warily approuched it.
"Play nice" Alice said as she opened it, revealing a young seven month old male penguin. He looked older than he actually was though, as he was tall and had a serious look in his river blue eyes.
"Hey kid" Manfredi and Johnson stood on either side of Skipper as he watched the young penguin. There was something . . . . . . Different about this penguin, he wasn't like Manfredi or Johnson whom every mission was an adventure, or every order a struggle. He seemed smarter more mature.
"Hi" the penguin said, "Who are you?" Straight to the point, I like it Skipper thought.
"This is Manfredi and Johnson" Skipper told the kid, "My name's Skipper, and you are?"
"I'm Kowalski" he said. Skipper smiled despite himself, even the kid's name sounded intelligent. He'd make a good friend Skipper thought, I hope he stays for a while.
Well, that's the end. Please tell me what you guys thought. Also I've been thinking about doing a new story that show the time period where Rico and Private joined the team, and what actually happened to Manfredi and Johnson, as well as what happened that made Blowhole and Skipper hate each other. Please tell me if you want me to, if not then I won't do it.