YAY! The last chapter! Kowalski's birthday! XD

Oh, and I don't own the song. I re-wrote it a little to make it related to Kowalski's birthday, but the real version was found by Halfhuman123 on YouTube. It's called the Happy Birthday Song by BabyFitz.

Enjoy!

Kowalski was truly excited about his birthday coming up. It was close. He had to wonder what his presents were, and sometimes, he'd made a good guess on what people were getting them based on the person. Knowing Skipper, it might be something that would come in handy for a mission or even have a lesson to it. Rico might get him a painting of his dolly or something that could explode. Private would probably make him something sweet and from the big area in him called his head. That was his teammates, but what about the zoo's newest animals?

Mostly, his thoughts on the zoo's minis were on Athena. She might have made him a new invention! That would be interesting. But what would this new invention be? He focused on that theory of his adopted daughter's present being an invention so much, now knowing that Athena wasn't doing that.

But at the time, Athena was standing in front of an electronic object.

"Marshal, where did you get a karaoke machine?" Athena asked, starring up and down the large device. On the front were the speakers, a small screen for lyrics of songs to show up and of course a few microphones. It wasn't the best karaoke machine on the market, but it was better than a plastic microphone.

"Erm… none of your business," Marshal said in the same tone Skipper would say 'classified' in.

"Well that wasn't suspicious!" Athena rolled her eyes as she spoke the sarcastic term.

"Oh, quit the sarcasm and get up on de crate to shake it!" Prince J.J. said, rooting his penguin friend on.

"Shake it? Marshal, I'm not dancing up here!" Athena faced him with a shocked expression. "I'll make a complete fool of myself! I'll ruin my dad's birthday!" She grabbed Marshal's shoulders and shook him like a gorilla and a monkey cage. "EVIL TUTU'S WILL TAKE OVER LIFE AS WE KNOW IT!" She then released him and panted heavily. "I… sorry about that last one, I… freaked out." She blushed.

"Oh, Athena, calm down!" Eggy said. "You'll do fine!"

"How do you know?"

"Because you're good at singing," Eggy answered flatly.

"Just… let's get to practice." Athena grabbed the microphone. "Okay… OH MY GOSH!"

"What?" Marshal asked, munching on a bag of chips. "Did you forget to feed your calculator?"

Athena glared. "No! We don't have a song to sing!"

Marshal chuckled. "Athena, you really think I didn't think of that already? I've got the song."

"You… do?"

"Uh huh," Marshal reached behind a small crate and picked up a wrinkly sheet of paper. "And it's great!"

"What's the song called?" Athena picked it up and her eyes widened. "Marshal, this song's great! It mentions my dad's love of science… and his birthday date… and it even mentions the word hatch day?" She looked at him with a raised brow. "There's no way a song could be this related to the cause."

Marshal sighed. He figured she'd get suspicious. "Come with me." Marshal took Athena's flipper and walked her over to the corner of the warehouse. "Athena… I… I… I wrote that song." He finally spat out. He waited for laughter, poking, and teasing, but his reaction was…

"Gasp," Athena said flatly, as if she weren't shocked at all. "So what if you write songs? You're better than… them." She pointed over to Buck and Jack when she said this.

"Really?" he squeaked.

"Yeah," Athena then frowned. "This means… I owe you…" she shuddered.

"Hehe, yeah!" the boy smiled. "Do my homework for a week!"

"It isn't gold on paper, Marshal." Athena said. "But I'll do it for… a day." She looked up and thought for a minute then looked back down. "And you're only getting a C."

"I'll take it!" Marshal gave her a small high-five and to practice they went.

Kowalski's birthday…

"I wonder what this big hoo-ha is for your hatch day, Kowalski." Skipper said, sitting down on a picnic blanket with his team mates at his side at the lemur habitat. "I've never seen this many people at Ringtail's with a smile on their faces." He chuckled. He let his blue eyes wander around the zoo, seeing all the animals waiting eagerly for his strategy expert's birthday surprise.

"I don't know, Skippa," Private said. "But whatever it is, it must be whicked!"

"Or a trap," Skipper's eyes widened and he sat up. "Evacuate!"

"Oh, don't be ridiculous, Skipper." Kowalski said, sitting him down. "If anything, it'll be Julien doing something. Probably dancing," he said.

"You're right." Skipper said. "Now… EVACUATE IMMEDIANTLY!"

"Music," Rico grunted out.

"Exactly, we don't want to hear Ringtail's music." Skipper said.

"No, no, he hears music. I hear it, too." Kowalski said.

Private gasped. "I do as well, Skippa!"

"Huh, I hear it as well, team. It doesn't sound like dancing music so far. Just… guitars strumming," Skipper sat down. "But who do we know that can play a guitar?"

"You do, Skippa." Private said, but was immediately slapped on the back of the head.

"Well, if I'm here, then it can't be me, can it?"

"Sorry," Private uttered out.

Kowalski gasped. "You used the time machine, too, didn't you!?" He accused, believing that a future Skipper was in his presence. Not too long after that, the two were arguing over how stupid that sounded and how dangerous it was to the universe.

"Hey, um… I'm Athena." Athena's voice reached Kowalski's ear holes.

"Athena?" Kowalski turned his head around, and indeed, she was on stage. This confused him. He knew as well as everyone else that Athena had stage frights. He started to get worried, knowing that it wouldn't be hard for Athena to get sick and puke in front of… everybody in the zoo.

Athena felt like the world was frozen and everyone starred at her, waiting for her to do something. The girl knew that just talking wasn't going to keep their attention for long, but she wanted to delay the singing all she could. She felt her stomach churn, her flippers seemed to freeze and shake as if she was standing in the middle of snow, but somehow the sun that shone upon her seemed ten times hotter on her. Either that or it was the embarrassment rushing through her. Like her whole body was blushing. She wouldn't be surprised if it was so.

"H-hey, I'm here to," she gulped, "wish my dad a happy hatch day and… you know, it's his hatch day." For one of the first times in her life, Athena felt stupid. She realized that some of the animals were turning away and she puffed out her chest with a determined look on her face. She was going to sing.

Buck and Jack, who were sitting to the side of the stage, read her face and began strumming.

Athena closed her eyes, pretending the others weren't there all she could, but the chances that everyone wouldn't see her just because she couldn't see them? She knew it wasn't possible. After her eyes were closed, her beak was open. Then she sang.

"This is just a little something

That I want you to remember,

Cause today is a special day

That I want you too…what rhymes with remember? Huh?"

Athena let her eye open one peek. She looked for her dad, but she couldn't find him. There were too many animals in that one little habitat. She gulped. The animals weren't booing or turning away, in fact, all eyes were on here.

"Word on the street that someone's getting old here,

It's not me, or she, or he, I believe it's you dear.

I'm so lucky to once again with you near.

One more time and now you're turning one more year."

Athena didn't know exactly when or how it happened, but her voice was getting louder. When did this turn fun? She didn't know, but she just went with it. The lyrics poured out of her beak like a water fall, happy that it wasn't her breakfast she barely nibbled that morning. At least her dad would know why she was so nervous now.

"It's you! Yeah, it's you!

You're the main attraction today.

Yeah it's you; you're on year older,

On the 22nd of October,

It's your hatch day… happy hatch day."

Buttons smiled and cheered her on silently, finding himself tapping his now dance loving feet to the rhythm of the song.

"This is great." Marshal said, smiling.

"Dude, we did something… good." Peanut said.

The penguin, otter, and duckling looked at each other shocked.

"We're still… pranking, right?" Eggy asked.

"Oh, yeah, duh," Marshal and Peanut said at the same time.

"I wish you all the love and happiness in the world.

Lots of wishes come true from your favorite girl… me!

Give you lots and hugs and kisses oh so sweet.

You deserve all of the best things you can meet."

Elli smiled. She wanted to see her dad's, as well as her uncle's faces, so she ran in the crowd to find them. She was zooming past all the animals, saying excuse me and pardon when she bumped into them. Then… it hit her as she was running faster and faster.

"I'm… fast." She paused and considered this. She then smiled. "I'm fast!" Elli liked it. It may not be fighting off piranhas or swimming, but it was nice. She figured out her hidden talent at last. She made a quick note to put her ventriloquist dummy away, which was her next theory for her hidden talent. It was giving her the creeps anyways.

"It's you! Yeah, it's you!

You're the main attraction today.

Yeah, it's you. You're one year older.

On the 22nd of October,

It's your hatch day… happy hatch day!"

Buck and Jack strummed their little instruments quickly before finally ending the last note on the song.

Athena smiled and faced the crowd, then frowned. Now that the song was over, what should she do?!

"Umm… thank you." Athena said.

As soon as she said that, the zoo filled with cheers and hoots for the little penguin.

"Athena! Athena! Athena!" They all chanted.

Athena then felt her stomach churn. "Hehe, be right back." She threw the microphone behind her and scurried off the stage, flipper over the tip of her beak.

After Athena rested for a bit, the loud chanting had winded down to one familiar voice.

"Athena! Athena! Athena!" Kowalski ran up to her.

"Dad!" the girl turned around, felt her father pick her up, and hug her tightly. "Ow… so… you… liked… it?" She choked out. Kowalski heard her choking and loosened his grip on her. "So, you liked it? I mean, it's okay if it was terrible. In fact, it probably was. I mean, I know it was." She stammered on.

"No, Athena, that was… the best present I ever had." Kowalski leaned down and smoothed out the feathers on her head. "It was a surprise, alright."

"But dad," Athena started. "You're supposed to say that. I could've walked up there in a clown wig and you'd still say you loved it."

Kowalski chuckled. "Is that so?"

"I… I guess."

"Well… I thought, no, I know you were great out there. And I know everything."

Athena and Kowalski laughed.

Athena hugged her dad. "Happy hatch day, dad," she said, burying herself into her dad's shoulder. She smiled as the familiar feelings of her father's feathers wrapped around her. "I love you."

Kowalski smiled and kissed the top of Athena's head.

"I love you, too, Athena." He patted her back. "Now, let's crack open that piñata!"

Athena giggled, knowing her dad's obsession with candy. And then the two waddled off.

I hope you all enjoyed it!

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