"Well thanks again for your help agents." Barnacles smiled, and turned to Rookie,
"Even though you mistook me for Herbert, thank you for saving the Octopod young penguin."
"Yes Rookie, thanks to your quick thinking you save their ship" Gary congratulated him; Rookie beamed.
"Maybe I'm not such a roooooookie!" Rookie tripped over his feet and fell in the snow,
"I don't think you'll ever stop making mistakes, and being a rookie Rookie." Prinsessrock giggled, "But that doesn't stop us from loving you."
"Yeh, you're a one of a kind, Rookie." Eva smiled.
Barnacles then turned to the four friends, "Thank you for rescuing Peso and me."
"You're welcome. By the way, I'm Walle N Eva, call me Eva for short." Eva replied, as she and her friends finally took their spy glasses off.
"I'm Tweakbunny," "and I'm Prinsessrock," "We're big fans of the Octonauts." Tweakbunny and Prinsessrock exclaimed.
"Yes! And I'm Lennyice." Lennyice added,
"Well nice to meet you all." Barnacles smiled shaking each of the penguin's hands.
PH waddled over to the four friends, "Here are ya puffles; they did a great job tracking down Herbert." She said as she handed the three puffles to their owners.
"Thanks PH, good to see you again." Eva smiled as she stroked PIXAR.
"Good ta see ya too!" PH waved as she went over to talk to Dot.
"Well Prinsessrock, I guess you'll want to get back to your Octonaut Newsletter after this." Eva turned to her friend,
"No, I don't, I found out the ending to the newsletter myself today!" Prinsessrock giggled.
"What a marvellous machine!" Gary stood before the Gup-X,
"Yep, I designed and made that Gup, with a little help from the Vegimals." Tweak smiled.
"Wow, what is it made of?"
"It has an unbreakable outer-shell made out of extremely strong metal."
"Interesting, I'm building a vehicle and I need it to be very durable do you have any tips?"
Tweak was about to reply when Shellington came over, "Umm, Gary are you a scientist?"
"Yes I am, are you?" Gary replied.
"Yes, and I have much to ask you about these strange creatures you call puffles."
"And I have some questions about Tunip, you call him a Vegimal?" Gary, Shellington and Tweak were soon deep in conversation.
Barnacles turned to Peso and Kwazii, they whispered for a few minutes, and then turned back to the penguins.
"Rookie, Eva, Prinsessrock, Lennyice and Tweakbunny, for your help in saving me, Peso and the Octopod, we would like you to keep the Octonaut gear." Barnacles smiled.
"Thank you captain." Rookie saluted Barnacles.
"Well, This will be useful if Rookie ever sinks half the Island again." Eva laughed,
"Did you have to remind me of that?..." Rookie said embarrassed, everyone laughed.
"Well what's going on here?" A green penguin with a pink hat and glasses waddled over to the crowd.
"Hey it's the D...ouch" Prinsessrock rubbed her foot, which Eva had deliberately stepped on,
"Oh are you ok Prinsessrock?" Eva pretended to ask, and then turned to the green penguin,
"I think my friend was going to say that, it's Delightful to see you again Aunt Arctic."
"Nice to see you too princess." Arctic winked, Prinsessrock blushed.
"Oh hello Aunt Arctic, these are the Octonauts." Gary introduced them,
"Oh hello, I'm Aunt Arctic, chief newspaper editor for the Club Penguin Times." Arctic shook the Octonaut's hands.
"Nice to meet you Aunt Arctic." Barnacles smiled,
"So what brings you to the island?" Arctic got her notebook out,
"Well we just came for an unexpected visit I guess. Penguins will be able to find out where we've been up to in the next issue of the Octonauts Newsletter." Barnacles explained,
"Oh ok, well I won't need to publish it in the Club Penguin times then." Arctic put her notepad away and looked at her watch,
"Oh dear look at the time, I'd better go, there's lots to do at the Office. Nice meeting you. Bye!" and with that Arctic was off back to the Town.
"Well she seems very busy." Peso remarked.
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"Arrrr, G'day Aunt Arctic!" Rockhopper lifted his hat as she waddled passed,
"Good day Rockhopper." Arctic waved as he went back to the Beach.
"Yarr, look there be Kwazii!" the pirate captain exclaimed to his puffle as he ran over to the cat.
"Hey there Captain Rockhopper!" Kwazii smiled and jumped over to him.
"ARRR! Be that the Giant Crab monster!" Rockhopper gasped looking at the Gup-X.
"No matey, that be one of my ships, the Gup-X" Kwazii laughed.
"The Gup-X?" Rockhopper said bewildered,
"Yes, she be a fine submarine, the strongest Gup of them all!" Kwazii explained.
"Arrr, I see, well I better get going, still got lots to do before the Holiday Party." Rockhopper said as he went back to his ship.
"Hey why don't you stay for Christmas?" Prinsessrock asked the Octonauts, overhearing Rockhopper's conversation.
"We'd love to, but we were going to see Peso's family for Christmas, at the Antarctic. And we'd better get going now, if we're going to make it for Christmas" Barnacles explained.
"Oh ok, well it's been lovely meeting you." Prinsessrock sniffed as she hugged Peso,
"It's been lovely meeting you too." Peso replied.
The agents and Octonauts shared hugs and farewells.
"Have a safe journey." Eva smiled sadly.
"Oh wait Octonauts!" Gary exclaimed running over to Peso. "Here's a spy phone, it'll keep you updated to what's going on here, and also you'll be able to communicate with us whenever you want."
"Oh, that would be wonderful, thank you Gary." Peso beamed.
"Now we'll be able to keep in touch!" Prinsessrock smiled.
"Oh, I've got an idea!" Eva gasped, "Let's have a group photo before you go Octonauts!"
"Great idea Eva!" Barnacles eclaimed. So Dashi set her camera up and everyone got into position.
"Ok everyone say Happy Christmas on three." Dashi said as she set the timer and ran into position.
"1, 2, 3!"
"HAPPY CHRISTMAS!"
As I said near the beginning of this story. It's based around the time, two weeks after Operation: Blackout; just before the 2012 Holiday Party. Please Read and Review, but no swearing, thanks. This is so long, kinda got carried away... ;)
Anyway... Hope you enjoyed this story as much as I enjoyed writing it. :)
- Walle N Eva