Welcome. This is The Lombax Rebirth, it is a sequel so the chapters are longer. I do hope you enjoy this new installment. By the time I am posting this, the story is already complete, but I am putting out the chapters in increments. And if it is necessary I have a nice reference chapter saved up. There are quite a few characters. Just so you are warned.

All non canon characters are mine.

"Claire, Franklin, Ian, Liza!" Kori called. "Time for breakfast!"

Like the floodgates had opened, four young lombaxes competed who would get to the kitchen first for breakfast. Kori and Ratchet expertly avoided the chaos, staying out of their children's way. Grandpa Kaden already sat at the table, grey around his muzzle and ears.

18-year-old Claire smiled at her siblings and activated her hoverboots, beating all her siblings in record time. Her parents, though, frowned. Claire deactivated her hoverboots and sat at the table. "I'm here." She gave her parents a cheeky grin. "What's for breakfast?"

Ratchet sighed and looked at Claire with an eyebrow raised. "No hoverboots in the house."

Claire crossed her arms and looked to her Grandfather. "They didn't state that in the rules," She complained, "Grandpa can't that be a new rule for next time?" Claire had grown into her stripes, but curiously her left side had red stripes with her blue eye and with her green eye had orange stripes.

Kaden laughed and shook his head. "Not my house, not my rules. I can't give exceptions."

Franklin, a brother Claire had gotten when she was two, walked in with his eyes trained on a screen in front of him. "Sorry, I found something quite interesting I had to start reading." Franklin sat next to his father, he had gotten his father's stripes but his blue eyes and orange coat color he got from his mother.

Ian, another brother at age four, followed quickly by Liza, finally a sister at age six, who pestered each other being only two years apart. Ian laughed and beat Liza to the table. "Who stops to start reading something?" Ian got his fur color and eyes from his father and stripes from his mother, while Liza got everything from her mother. Orange fur, blue eyes, and red stripes.

Claire shrugged. "Lin, apparently."

"It's Franklin." Franklin corrected. "I don't call you Lair." Claire shrugged and commented to herself that Lin was better than Frank.

Liza smiled and looked at her father. "Daddy, what would my nickname be?"

Ratchet opened his mouth but Ian answered. "Your name is too short, like mine, Liza. You don't get a nickname like I don't."

Liza nodded and accepted this information. "Right. We can't call you An. That's ridiculous." The twelve-year-old grabbed a pad from her pocket and started to write down nicknames for herself.

Kori came from the kitchen, bumping into several things and almost losing the plates. She smiled as Ratchet came to her rescue and took several things. Claire watched as her parents shared a kiss and her father laid a hand on her mother's stomach. She'd seen him do that before but she couldn't remember when.

Kaden was chatting up Franklin about his latest inventions, Ian was entertaining himself with trying to sneak a peek at Liza's list. She was always making them. But Claire watched her parents until they noticed she was watching and pretended that they had done nothing.

Kori and Ratchet handed out breakfasts before setting down and smiling at their children. Kori whispered in Ratchet's ear, Ratchet nodded back in assumed reply.

The boys had already started eating, while Liza started listing off her ideas to Claire about improvements she could make to her hoverboots. Kaden started to nod off until Ratchet called everyone to attention.

"If everyone could give me their attention," Ratchet announced, waking up his father. The children snickered at their Grandfather as he stuck his tongue out at the lot of them. Ratchet cleared his throat to get all eyes back on him. "Your mother and I have something to announce."

Franklin muttered, eyes still on his screen, "This better be good." Claire motioned for Ian to hit his brother, Ian complied. Franklin told his brother exactly what he thought about being hit in the back of the head.

While the boys had a screaming match at the table, Kaden looked at Kori and Ratchet. "Are you two sure you want to add another to this lot?" Claire and Liza shared a look before they turned to their parents.

Kori looked down before she smiled at Kaden. "There's no more thinking about it." She cuddled up to Ratchet. "It's too late for that."

Claire stood up and slammed her hands on the table. "You can't mean it!"

Liza hit her brothers with her pad. "Shut up you two!"

Ratchet put his head in his hands for a moment before he took a deep breath and blurted. "Your mother is pregnant."

Claire exclaimed how she knew it, that was where she remembered that gesture before. Liza jumped in her chair and clapped her hands with Ian. Franklin groaned and went back to reading. Kaden nodded and patted Liza's head.

Kori laughed and put her hand on Ratchet's. "Mixed reviews, not like we expected any different."

Liza leaned over the table and her breakfast to look at her mother. "Mama, do you want me to make a list of baby names?"

Kori smiled. "You have a while yet until the baby comes, you could make quite the list."

"Count on it." Liza grinned, the young girl ate all her breakfast before she took off on her hoverboots.

"Liza," Ratchet called. "No hoverboots in the house!" He got up and followed after her.

Ian finished his breakfast and ran after his father just to see if Liza would get yelled at. Franklin left quietly to continue his reading and his latest invention.

Kori smiled at her remaining child. "So, Claire," She scooted in her chair. "What do you think?"

Claire shrugged and stood across from her mother. "It's great Mom." She sat back down and gave her mother her best smile. "Listen, Mom, I was thinking about…" Claire cleared her throat and got serious. "Going pro with hoverboarding."

Kaden looked between mother and daughter and evaded the scene immediately. Kori sighed and rested her arms on the table in front of her. "The Hoverboarding Circuit is in the Solana Galaxy this year. Do you know how far away that is?"

Claire shrugged and smiled again. "I promise I'll be safe. I've already planned out the route I would take." She put her hands together. "Please, Mom." Claire folded her hands above her head. "This is me, we're talking about. I can take care of myself, and you know you can trust me on my own."

Kori rested her forehead against her hand. "I'll talk to your father about it." She stood up and pointed at Claire. "I make no promises that he'll say yes." Kori leaned over and kissed Claire on the head before following Ratchet.

Claire ate the rest of her breakfast alone before she went out to the hoverboot course her Grandfather made before she was born. She ran the course slowly at first, but every time she got to the start again she sped up. Claire got to the point where she ran the course backward without any mistakes, throwing in flips and twirls.

Liza sped over to her sister. "Claire!" Liza called. "Claire, Uncle Montay is here!" Claire diverted her course and grabbed her little sister, pulling along her sister. At least once a year Montay visited them to keep the families connected, even inter-dimensionally. When the two girls got there Montay was already giving Kori the new family stills.

Claire gave her sister a light acceleration so she could run into their Uncle Montay. "Uncle Montay!" Liza exclaimed as Montay caught her and swung her around.

"Express delivery." Montay laughed as he put down the girl. "You are getting tall, Liza." He patted her head.

Montay saw Claire coming and he extended his arms to 'catch' her too. Claire slowed down to gently glide into her uncle's arms. "Hey, Old Man," Claire commented, which got her hair messed up by her uncle.

It was in that moment that Claire got an idea in her head. This idea seemed very reasonable for her, but when she bought this up to the adults in her life they looked at her like she had grown a second head.

Her father looked at her mother before focusing on Claire. "Claire, you're not going to the Lombax Dimension."

Thanks so much for reading. I do hope you enjoyed it. Please leave a review, tell me what you think. See you next chapter!