Undertow | By : pronker Category: +M through R > Penguins of Madagascar Views: 11341 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0 |
Disclaimer: I make no profit from this fanfiction set in Dreamworks' Penguins of Madagascar franchise. I do not own its characters, basic premise or settings. |
Kowalski sipped his purple drink thoughtfully. "It was horrible. Our Big Boss blamed herself, called in all her operatives in similar sitches and never was the same afterwards."
"Oh no. Poor Rico! Poor Xochi!" The sultry day cloyed Marlene's face and she swiped a paw over her eyes. "Did you catch whoever --- "
"We never did. We completed our mission, thanks to Manfredi and Johnson, and came back to our HQ here that we hadn't even kitted out yet with our tails between our --- oh you know what I mean."
Three black blobs trailing bubbles raced by Marlene's and Kowalski's lie out spot. She couldn't tell which one was Rico. "Manfredi and Johnson ... disappeared ... before I got here at the zoo. They must have been quite the pair."
Kowalski's chuckle was subdued. "Manfredi planted his big feet right in Rico's path a few weeks after Xochi passed and gave him Miss Perky brand new in a box. Johnson stood beside him and admitted that he, Johnson, could never have taken the bad news so well as Rico. Manfredi was the cute one as Skipper always maintains. Johnson was wilder and a bloody pillock, as Private says, about his various loves. I couldn't keep track of them all even with a flow chart."
Marlene swirled her straw. "More loves than Skipper?"
"Obviously. They were waaaay seasoned above us four and played hard all over the globe, at least the part that has penguins. From Capetown to Galapagos, love 'em and leave 'em, that motto served them well --- why do you look like that? They were never mean about it."
Marlene had to think without judging and she sometimes had trouble with that. "I can't say they were, I can't say they weren't. But back to Rico --- "
Kowalski warmed to one of his favorite subjects for conversation. "Rico keeps bits of Xochi with him still, like her old tutu and when he favors sleeping on his belly b-because it feels like his bed is giving him a hug from her on the Endless Iceberg across the Eternally Foggy Sea." He cleared his throat. "I admire Rico for giving up his original Miss Perky to the little girl guest who lost her dolly. I don't think I, I --- couldn't have --- wouldn't have given up Doris like that."
Now this was LaLaLand, or it was Kowalski pulling her leg to prove he was a Fun Guy. "Doris is a dolphin and the little girl is human, 'Ski, and that is so not likely --- "
"Experiment and control, Marlene! Basic science! Rico was the control in that hypothetical scenario and I was the experiment! I ought to have given up Doris if needed. I couldn't do it, I'm certain of it." He slumped and placed his unfinished drink on the cement faux floe of the penguin island. His brow dipped low. Marlene had to be the grownup in the, um, habitat.
"Yeah, reality check here,'Ski, if you are the test tube overflowing with oozy green goo and Rico is the stable green goo, that's --- not right. We both know Rico is --- "
Kowalski's eyes turned dangerous. "Is what?"
Uh oh, dissing someone's love had gotten her in trouble before, back in her Internet Scandal days. "Is a big bundle of precious" --- Kowalski came off high alert --- "aaaaand let's get back to Manfredi's big feet, go on --- "
Kowalski muttered, "Miss Perky can't die like Xochi did, so Manfredi and Johnson were smart to give her to him in the state he was in. Their strategy worked with the ingenious tactic of a plastic lovey." He looked away at the black blobs making another circuit that had to end their race in a minute or so. "They were ... gone ... before we even constructed their bunks. I miss them. They were smart in ways I am not."
"I understand about Miss Perky now," Marlene said in a small voice.
With a shudder, Marlene quashed her reminiscences, undid Miss Perky's hurtful pose and tossed her atop Private's trophy fish where she perched in solitary splendor these days. Miss Perky fell. Marlene tried again but it was no good, she would need to scramble up there. Very well, a leap with Miss Perky over her shoulder was awkward, but anything for friendship remained her personal motto. "Come on, lady, straddle the fin like me" --- Marlene wrestled the plastic dethroned lovey to shove the stiff legs on either side of the big fish --- "there you go --- aaaaaaah!"
The fish plaque affixed to the door to the evac tunnel slammed open and then rebounded as one little penguin waddled into the HQ. Marlene and Miss Perky tumbled ungracefully onto the floor with a screeunch from one and a huhooomph from the other.
"Wot a smashin' day out, Skippa --- intruder alert!"
"Backup is right behind you, Private! Rico, bazooka pronto!"
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