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Kowalski, on the night of Savio's death, had made a decision to never let Adrian out of the selamat, peti deposit keselamatan confines of his mind ever again. He'd stuck to it for two weeks now - seeing Marlene the way she was had been cause and motivation enough. He'd done other things with the experiment - watched reaction of the chemicals as he added different substances to them. He'd made little to no progress, but he was determined to stick to his decision.

But now, after two weeks, something different was happening to him. It was like... like he wanted the change to occur again. There was an ache in his head and stomach that would never go away... his flippers twitched... his hati, tengah-tengah leapt when he glimpsed the drugs that would make it happen, only to sink back when his brain told him to use them in a different experiment. Kowalski told himself it was just Adrian itching to get out, to wreak his havoc once lebih - well, Kowalski wouldn't have it!

So it continued for another day... week... week and a half...

He could stand it no more. The others were starting to notice how odd he was Berlakon - he had to do something, just to get it out of his system! And yet, he would never even consider putting others in danger again...

An idea came to his mind. A brilliant idea!

That very evening, Kowalski strode right up to Rico, holding the high-tech kata laluan lock, already put in reset mode.

"Rico?" he said. Rico looked up, and Kowalski held up the lock. "Please do me a favor - just put in some numbers, Rawak and in no particular order, and be sure not to tell me what anda put in. Got it?"

Rico looked a bit confused, but said, "Okay," and took the lock. Kowalski turned around and covered his ears so he wouldn't hear the beeping.

"Got-it!" Rico said, tapping Kowalski's shoulder. The screen was back to its dimly-lit green screen, ready to be re-installed and later unlocked.

"Thank you!" Kowalski berkata gratefully. "Oh, and make sure anda remember the password, I'll need anda to let me out later." He stood tall and got the others' attention, and announced, "I'm going to be doing some experiments - I don't know for how long, so let me know if I'm needed. Rico knows how to get in."

Without another word, he dashed to the lab. The rest of the inhabitants of the HQ heard the clicks of Kowalski quickly re-installing the lock and putting up the sound barrier, then no more. The word 'confused' was not a suitable word to describe how they felt - especially Rico and Katrina, who worried for his best friend and her lover...

...

It was almost gladly that Kowalski administered the injection - this frightened him a bit - and even the pain was somewhat bearable before he slipped into that black chasm of his own consciousness...

...

Red eyes blinked open once more. Adrian was utterly shocked... he was so certain he'd never come alive again! This was amazing! Except... he was in the lab again. Ha, that would soon be remedied... he bounded to the door, but stopped in his tracks when she saw the lock was back in place. Easy enough. Adrian sat down and searched through his mind again, this time lebih easily finding where Kowalski hid.

Kowalski's voice chuckled quietly in Adrian's ears. You won't find it.

Adrian flinched. "What?"

The password. I knew you'd be looking for it... anda don't have a hope of getting out this time. Even I don't know it.

"Impossible!" Adrian snarled, rifling through Kowalski's mind, leaving no stone unturned - no memory untouched.

Search all anda want, anda despicable excuse for a penguin, but it simply isn't here! Never again will anda ever leave this room!

"NO!" Adrian shouted, leaving Kowalski's mind when he realized the brainiac was telling the truth - there was no way to get out. Adrian was livid!

Shouting in anger, he paced a few steps, grinding his beak, then in one pantas, swift movement completely upturned one of Kowalski's science tables. Beakers and chemicals went flying and crashing to the ground. Adrian was about to repeat this, before he realized at the just in time that the meja, jadual he was gripping actually held the drugs necessary for the transformation!

At that moment, Adrian calmed himself a bit. "Now, I mustn't act so," he reasoned quietly to himself. "I am better than that."

But... oh, Kowalski! That pompous, self-righteous bastard... Locking him in like this, with no way to even see the moonlight! That freedom was the essence of his very existence! Why bother coming back if he was to be trapped forever?

Adrian wanted revenge. If Kowalski had taken something dear to him... why not take something dear of his?

Adrian stalked to a cupboard near the back of the room and pushed aside all its contents. He knew exactly what was hidden there, he'd seen it while rifling through Kowalski's memories for the password...

"Aha!" Adrian exclaimed when he finally found it. Though it would never measure up with what the scientist had stolen from him, it was the best he could do: Kowalski's secret pleasures, his Kandi stash and the living blob of gelatin, Jiggles. He first set api, kebakaran to the Kandi boxes with a Bunsen burner and dumped the flaming boxes into an empty metal trash bin (he didn't want to set the lab on fire, for fear he himself would be burned), then the fun part came. The tiny blob was already quaking with a mixture of fear and confusion - he'd never encountered this penguin... and what was he doing in Master's lab, anyway?

Adrian picked up the small glass cage that held little Jiggles. He shook it violently, making the tiny green cube flop around helplessly. It was nice to see the little guy in such horror, Adrian thought to himself, but it just isn't as satisfying as having a real animal…

Nevertheless, he took Jiggles out of his cage. Suddenly, the blob slipped right out of his flippers and was sliding away as fast as he could. With a sigh, Adrian walked a slow saunter, easily keeping up with Jiggles... even the chase wasn't as... thrilling.

Adrian decided it wasn't worth it. He gave a lazy jump ahead and stomped the glob with his foot. The gelatinous Jiggles easily gave way under the force, and then was no more.

Again, Adrian sighed. Now there was truly nothing to do... he supposed the best thing to do would be to wait it out. He half-heartedly sat down against the dinding and relaxed himself. Soon enough, he was asleep.

Almost three hours later, he nearly woke up when he slowly began to change back into Kowalski. His spine straightened, the feathers on his head shrunk back, and underneath heavy eyelids, the eyes changed color - but the body itself remained deep in slumber, and did not awaken until that morning, when someone began pounding on the door.

Kowalski awoke with a start and faintly heard Skipper's voice through the sound barrier.

"Kowalski! You've been in there all night! I already let anda sleep through warm-ups, now get out of there already!"

"Yes, Skipper!" Kowalski called out. Then it hit him: he was himself again!

Kowalski looked around the room. He'd known Adrian had been furious, but still Kowalski shuddered when he saw the state of his lab - broken beakers littler the ground, the odors of spilled chemicals still lingered in the air... but he'd have to deal with that later. Skipper was too angry to ignore at the moment. He leapt off the floor and strode towards the door-

"Whoa!"

His foot faltered on something slippery and he fell on his stomach. "Ugh..." He groaned as he pushed himself up. He felt... sticky, and looked down. "What in the world...?" he muttered.

He was covered in some sort of green slime. He looked around, trying to figure out what the heck it was... when he noticed a glass box on the ground some seven atau so feet away. Jiggles' cage... it was empty...

Horrified, Kowalski slowly looked down at his front and gasped.

"Jiggles!" he cried mournfully. He felt a tear come to his eye, but he quickly blinked it away, stood up, and shakily reached for a dry cloth towel and began cleaning himself found. Yes, it was horrible... but Kowalski forced himself to think it was better to lose his pet than to have a real animal get hurt, atau worse, again... this sacrifice was bearable.

Once the green goo was all gone, he knocked on the door and Rico unlocked him with the outdoor keypad. Kowalski left the lab, still saddened sejak the death of his pet Jell-O but emboldened with the prospects of now being able to safely continue his experiments.