The origins: Whiteout

Chapter three: (part 1) The littlest penguin

(Author's note: excuse me but barnacles is so cute when he's happy)

(Captain's pov)
It's been some time since Shellington discovered the vegimals, now they are apart of the crew. The vegimals can breathe air and water which was discovered when one of them jumped in the launch bay and didn't surface for over an hour. Today we're in Antarctica helping some creatures that we're affected by a sizable storm "almost done here cap" Tweak's voice sounded from my helmet radio. "Excellent Tweak, report back to me when you're done" I replied. Then I heard someone shout "eh?" I exclaimed, turning towards the noise. The sound belonged to a penguin, a penguin who was being chased by an orca. Seeing the penguin struggling to swim I knew she was hurt "grab on" I exclaimed, as I moved the gup into position.

"Are you okay?" I asked, after helping the penguin out of the water. "Thanks to you but something's wrong with my flipper, it hurts whenever I try to move it" she explained, holding her flipper to her chest. "Can you tell me how you hurt you're flipper?" I questioned. "Yes that strom caused some big waves, one of which pushed me into an iceberg" she replied. I placed my paw on my chin, trying to think of a way to help the injured penguin. "There you go, good as new" a young voice explained. I looked towards the voice and saw a little penguin and a seal with a bandaged flipper "Thank you very much" the seal replied, before waving and diving into the water. "Um..excuse me" I said, walking up to the little penguin. "un oso polar" the small bird yelped. I took a knee to appear smaller as the little penguin was clearly sacred. "Uh..do you understand english? Because I could use you're help" I asked quietly. "A little, w..what seems to b..be the problem?" He asked, still afraid. "I'm here to help any creature who was affected by the storm that came through. I found a penguin with a hurt flipper and I was wondering if you could help" I explained, keeping my voice soft. "I can try" He responded shyly. "Follow me" I said, leading the way.

"What seems to be the problem?" He asked, placing his bag of supplies next to him. "My flipper hurts whenever I try to move it" the much bigger penguin explained. "Hmm..you're flipper is sprained..you need a bandage" He explained, wrapping her flipper in the blink of an eye. Now that was impressive "take it easy on that flipper for a while, it'll start feeling better in no time" He said, picking up his bag. "I will. Thank you both for the help" she smiled, before waddling off. "That was some impressive bandaging" I remarked. "Um..thank you, may I ask for you're name?" He questioned. "I'm captain barnacles leader of the octonauts, how about yourself?" I replied, placing my paws on my waist. "I'm peso" he answered, still somewhat afraid of me. "Tweak to captain barnacles" my radio blared, causing peso to jump. "Go ahead Tweak" I replied. "We found a walrus with a chunk of ice on his tail" Tweak explained, "Alright, I'm on my way" I said, ending the conversation. "Would you mind tagging along peso? In case the walrus is hurt in anyway" I questioned. Peso thought for a while before responding "if a creature is hurt, I need to be there to help" He replied, after taking a deep breath. I nodded and helped peso into the gup-A, I hope this walrus isn't hurt but it'll be good to have a medic on hand just in case

(Translation: "un oso polar" is "a polar bear" in spanish)