It was a quiet Sunday morning in the Nabootique. Howard was running the shop, Naboo and Bollo were food shopping in the local Tescos and Vince was just waking up.

"Howard, can you make me some cereal please?" Vince called down.

"I'm trying to run the shop, do it yourself," Howard called up to Vince.

"It's Sunday, there won't be anybody around," Vince said, hoping that he was right.

Howard sighed. Vince was completely right. "Fine, I'll be right up," he groaned.

Howard sometimes felt like Vince's dad. He washed Vince's clothes, cooked his food, he'd even started giving Vince pocket money to make sure that the Nabootique didn't go bankrupt.

When Howard got up to the flat Vince was sitting on the sofa daydreaming. Howard poured Vince some Cookie Crisp and carried it over to him. "Cheers Howard," Vince smiled.

"When are you going to start doing things for yourself Vince? You're meant to be an adult," The older man pointed out. Vince shrugged and started eating his breakfast.

Howard made his way to the kitchen to get a drink. He swung the fridge door open and found a bottle of Ribena. When Howard drank the Ribena he noticed two things: the first one was that it tasted odd and the second one was that he suddenly felt really tired.

"Hey Howard, come and look at this," Vince shouted from the living room. Howard stumbled into the living room and collapsed onto the sofa.

"Are you ok?" Vince asked concerned.

"Yeah I'm just really tired and..." Howard passed out before he could finish his sentence.

"Howard? Howard!" Vince shook his friend to try and wake him up, but Howard stayed slumped against the sofa.

Vince quickly ran into his room where his phone was charging. "Hurry up," he growled at it as it took what felt like a number of decades for it to turn on. When it eventually turned on Vince rang Naboo.

"Hey Vince what's up?" Naboo asked.

"It's Howard, he went into the kitchen, I called him from the living room but when he came in he said he was tired and passed out on the sofa," Vince panicked.

"Ok, stay calm. Me and Bollo'll be home in 10 minutes," the shaman reassured him.

Vince hung up and went to check on Howard. Little did Vince know he'd be in for the shook of his life. Where Howard had been on the sofa was a small toddler who was awake and looking around.

"Vince?" the child called out. Vince took one look at him and screamed.

"WHO ARE YOU AND WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH HOWARD?" he shouted.

"I am Howawd," the toddler said, his lip trembling slightly. Now that he had said that, Vince could see some of the adult version of the jazz freak. He had Howard's smoke-like brown hair and his eyes were identical, only on a child they looked about the same size as a normal person's eyes. The child was also drowning in the clothes that Howard had been wearing earlier that day.

"You do kinda look like Howard I guess," Vince sighed.

"I'm Howawd and you're Vince. Vince, where is Naboo and Bollo?" the young boy grinned. Vince sat down next to Howard on the sofa.

"They went to go shopping, remember?" Vince smiled at the toddler version of Howard.

"When are they back? I wanna hug," Howard giggled and threw his arms around the slightly shocked Vince.

"Ok what happened to the no touching rule?" Vince laughed and hugged Howard back.

"Can I has some sweeties? Pwease?" Howard looked up at Vince innocently.

"Yeah ok let's have a sweet party; it's a genius idea," Vince said excitedly "Stay there while I get some sweets," Vince ran off to the kitchen in search of some bootlaces.

A couple of minutes later Vince ran into the living room, his arms full of sweets. Howard reached his arms out and Vince filled the little boy's arms with sugary treats.

"Yummy yummy yummy," Howard sang as he shoved sweets into his mouth. Vince starred at him and looked slightly afraid.

"Don't eat too much or you'll be sick," Vince warned him. But the toddler took no notice and continued to eat. When Howard had eventually finished eating his pupils went huge and he stared at Vince.

"!" Howard shouted and started running around the flat.

"Oh shit," Vince groaned to himself "HOWARD GET HERE RIGHT NOW!" Vince yelled and began chasing Howard.

Howard giggled and screamed with excitement. Vince eventually managed to grab him just as Naboo and Bollo walked through the door.

"FINALLY, WHERE THE HELL HAVE YOU BEEN?" Vince screamed at them.

"We came as soon as we could," Bollo grunted.

"Vince, please tell me you didn't give him sweets," Naboo groaned.

"I didn't know he was gonna go mental," Vince said handing Howard to Naboo.

"NABOOLIO!" Howard cheered.

"Howard, did you drink anything from the fridge this morning?" Naboo asked.

Howard thought for a while and nodded "It looked kinda like Ribena but it tasted funny," Howard said.

"I got a bad feeling about this," Bollo said to Vince.

Naboo groaned "He drank some water from the fountain of youth. I put some Ribena in to give it some more flavour so I could drink it later,"

"Sowwie," Howard looked tearful.

"It's ok," Naboo sighed and hugged Howard so that he wouldn't cry.

"What are we gonna do?" Vince asked.

"Me and Bollo are gonna have to go to Dennis and see if we can find a cure. You're gonna have to look after Howard," Naboo said.

"What, I don't know the first thing about children," Vince said.

"Vince you're gonna have to. Howard's your best friend. I know he'd do the same for you and if you need help just ring me," Naboo convinced Vince.

"Ok I'll try. How long do you think you're gonna be?" Vince asked.

"A couple of days maybe. But hey, you can go shopping to buy him some stuff," Naboo grinned as Vince's eyes lit up and Howard looked fearful.