It's complicated. There's probably a bunch of nonsense time skipping involved, and last minute 'pulls'. After all- he didn't exactly have a functioning body for the time he was brain data.

There is some grumbling- as expected. "...It wasn't that much pushing..." he insists, with the sort of tone anyone lacking a real argument would use. The penguins are a good point though. "Ah... ...I should dismiss those ones," he realizes, a few of them coming back from their 'assignment'.

He's still not sure how he wound up with a penguin. But apparently there he is.