Kowalski quickly hopped down various branches and out of the पेड़ as quickly as possible; he was sure that some animals, almost certainly the other penguins, would be scaling the पेड़ in मिनटों in order to see what had caused the ‘disturbance’. As Skipper tried to calm the crowd, Kowalski waited behind the पेड़ for a bit to make sure he was telling them of his demise. When he was satisfied, Kowalski slipped away from the पेड़ as silently as possible and dashed behind a bench, waited until he was positive none of the जानवर were looking in his direction, then ran until he reached the nearest manhole. Quietly, he pulled off the lid and slipped inside, then replaced the cover. Phase one of his plan was complete.


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Skipper was not in a good mood द्वारा the time he got back to the पेंगुइन habitat. Forgetting that they had completed installing the alarm that Private had been messing with the other day, Skipper kicked open the plastic मछली secret passage and set it off. Skipper swore as he ran over to turn off the alarm, forgetting that Private was right behind him. Rico covered Private’s ears.

“I don’t know why I don’t just take this piece of कचरा, जंक, रद्दी down, it’s not doing anything now that Kowalski’s not around” कहा Skipper as he began to kick the alarm when it would not turn off.

“Why don’t आप Skippa?” कहा Private, thinking it was one of those questions.

Skipper ignored Private and continued to kick the alarm until he kicked it so hard his foot went right into the machine. Skipper swore again and began to hop around on his other foot, yelping in pain. However, the alarm did stop.

“Now that’s और like it,” कहा Skipper when he finally recovered. “Rico! Get this piece of garbage out of here, pronto!”

Rico nodded and some of his saliva flew off his tongue, which was, as always, hanging out, and hit Skipper in the face. Skipper didn’t even make a noise this time; he just reached up with his flipper and wiped it off.

Skipper watched Rico pull down the system for a minute, then turned over to Private, who was still standing अगला to the mounted मछली and looking very sad.

“Don’t worry little Private, you’ll get your chance to audition, remember, the chimps just changed the तारीख, दिनांक to अगला Thursday…”

“It’s not that Skippa,” कहा Private, staring at the floor. “It just that speech आप gave all those animals…it was so sad and yet…so brave…”

Skipper didn’t particularly think of the act as being brave, but he decided to go along with it in hopes of cheering Private up…whenever Private was upset, it just made everyone else upset, not because Private whined but because he was so hard to upset that when he was it seemed to the others that their little ball of cheerfulness had just been taken away. Skipper gave Private a friendly hug and suggested he go watch TV. Private was obviously trying to cooperate with Skipper, but it was made hard द्वारा the fact that the only things on at the time were a bunch of business shows and soap operas.


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Kowalski, meanwhile, was down in his little sewer lair, pouting. He was upset that he had to stop the auditions and make his escape before the zoo जानवर had a chance to sing; he had been waiting all night to hear Marlene’s audition although he was rather looking आगे to Private’s as well. And while he was glad that he had managed to get Skipper to tell everyone of his ‘demise’, he was irritated that he would have to wait until अगला Thursday to hear the rest of the auditions, not to mention people would probably be much और alert. And to चोटी, शीर्ष it all off, the cloth across his face had been ripped द्वारा a पेड़ branch and was coming undone. He pulled it off and threw it on चोटी, शीर्ष of the organ, as he was not planning on going anywhere for awhile.

He waddled over to a spare calendar he had taken from the Zoovenir खरीडिए and wrote down the तारीख, दिनांक for the remaining auditions with a little pen with an हाथी टोपी that had come with the calendar. After scribbling down a few और things, he threw the pen down and walked over to the organ, wondering what to do. He could not play the organ, as that was sure to attract attention from the other animals, and he wasn’t in the mood to work on any of his inventions that he had brought down with him. He reluctantly grabbed the cloth off the चोटी, शीर्ष of the organ and inspected the damage, wondering how long it would take it to fix it. Maybe spying on the other जानवर would be fun.


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The auditions had been held fairly late at night so द्वारा the time they had finished all the penguins wanted to do was go to bed. However, Skipper had other plans.

“I don’t know if that गिलहरी was telling the truth या if he just fell out of the पेड़ himself and कहा that someone pushed him, but nevertheless I believe that someone should be on recon duty tonight.

The other two penguins, who were struggling to stay awake, both groaned.

“I don’t want to hear it!” कहा Skipper, putting his flipper in their faces. “Now we have to decide which one is going out there and which of us get to…sleep…” Skipper yawned.

Skipper shook his head back and forth violently, trying to wake himself up, then disappeared into a side room. He rummaged around for a bit before coming back out with the makeshift ninjas, bows and arrows that they had been practicing with before the entire ordeal began. He handed Rico and Private one of the bows and an arrow.

“The two that deal the most fatal shots to any दिया ninja will be allowed to stay here. The third will have to go out on recon. आप get one shot. Private, go.”

“But SKIPPA!” Private whined. “It’s not fair…you’ll win!”

“I कहा go Private! The longer आप stand here and argue the longer we have to stay up and feel all tired.”

Private grumbled and shot at a ninja. It hit the ninja in the stomach.

Skipper grunted, as though approving of the shot. “Rico, go.”

Rico shot and hit the ninja in the leg. Skipper scoffed slightly and Private gave a sigh of relief.

“Alright, now आप two pay attention on how it’s done” कहा Skipper, taking aim at the ninja’s head. Right as he was about to shoot, however, Rico belched loudly behind Skipper, causing Skipper to stumble and release the ऐरो accidentally. It flew passed the ninjas and hit the wall.

“Rico!” कहा Skipper. “Turn your head when आप do that!”

Rico chuckled. Skipper walked over to his arrow, picked it up, and notched it, getting ready to आग again.

“Skippa! What do आप think you’re doing?” कहा Private, a hint of amusement in his voice.

“Getting ready to take my REAL turn, of course. If Rico did that to आप and made आप miss, you’d probably be taking a सेकंड shot too.”

“True, sir” कहा Private “But…you did say that आप got only one shot.”

“What do you…I…!” stuttered Skipper. Rico and Private both stared him in the eyes.

“Alright, fine” कहा Skipper. He kicked over the ninjas and climbed up the ladder and out of the habitat.

As soon as he was gone, Private turned to Rico. “Nice one, Rico!” he said. They high-fived.