Author's Note: Sorry for not getting back to this story sooner, I took a break, and when returning from my break, my neighbors were making some noises that freaked me out, so stopped dead in my tracks for a while, till things quieted down, only to fall asleep, but now that I'm back, let's get on with the next chapter! And, I think how I'm going to play it out while Tommy and Chuckie are switched, is I'll go by who's body is talking or doing something, rather than which character is doing something, since Tommy is in Chuckie's body, and Chuckie is in Tommy's body. This way my readers can be just as confused as the other characters in the story.
Chapter 2, The Most Confusing Day Ever!
Once Chaz got Chuckie into the car, he calmed down, as they headed for home. When they got there, they saw Kimi already seated at the table in her booster seat, and Kira, setting the table for dinner. Chuckie, now calmed down, decided to look at this as a new adventure. After all, maybe having Kimi as a little sister would be fun. The Finsters sat down for dinner, which was more or less, uneventful. At the Pickles home, Charlotte and Angelica left shortly after Chaz and Chuckie did, and the Pickles sat down to dinner. Their dinner was more or less uneventful, until Dil threw a handful of vegetables at Tommy.
"Hey! That's my face." Said Tommy.
Dil laughed.
Then, Tommy picked up a meatball on his plate, which was kind of big, so when he tried to eat it, the sauce went into his nose, and he sneezed, sending the meatball on to the floor, where Spike and Spikfi dodged for the piece of meat, and started eating it. Dil continued to laugh and throw food at his brother, unknown to him that his brother was really Chuckie on the inside, till Tommy started to cry, no longer interested in what of dinner was left on his plate. Didi came over and got him out of his booster seat, comforting him.
"There there Tommy, it's ok." Said Didi, hugging Tommy, and stroking his back, trying to help him calm down.
When things really started to get confusing was at bathtime. After dinner in both homes, the kids went upstairs for a bath. At the Finsters home, Chaz and Kira got Chuckie and Kimi ready for their bath. They were so surprised at how cooperative Chuckie was being about taking a bath, as he usually didn't like it. Once in the bathtub, Chuckie said something to Kimi that totally took her by surprise.
"Come on Kimi, let's pretend we're sailing the high seas and we're pirates." Said Chuckie.
Kimi gave him a confused look.
"But I thought you didn't like playing pirates Chuckie." Said Kimi.
"I'm not Chuckie, I'm Tommy, and Tommy is Chuckie. Peter caused us to switch places." Explained Chuckie.
"Huh?" Said Kimi, confused.
"It's true Kimi, now come on, let's play pirates. A pirates life is a life for me, yo ho ho and a bottle of yum!" Said Chuckie, as he splashed water on to Kimi's face, making her giggle.
A little while later, Chaz showed up to finish washing the two toddlers off, wearing his famous bathtime puppets.
"Look Chuckie and Kimi, it's our old friends, Mr. Soap, and Mr. Water." Said Chaz, as he made the puppets talk, and got them cleaned up.
Chuckie and Kimi were amused by the entertaining show that Chaz put on to wash them up, which usually bothers Chuckie, taking Chaz and Kira by surprise, as Kira was watching everything from the doorway. Nonetheless, they got the two kids cleaned up in their bath, brushed their teeth, put them into their jammies, and into bed, where they more or less, fell asleep immediately, and the Finsters, had a peaceful night sleep.
At the Pickles house however, was a different matter. They were use to Dil not liking his bath, but tonight, they had to deal with both, Dil and Tommy, being uninterested in taking a bath. They were standing in the bathroom, watching Didi fill the bathtub with bubble bath, Tommy, getting more scared by the minute. No sooner than Didi had filled the tub and had it ready for their bath, when Tommy and Dil collapsed on to the floor, and started crying.
"Now now kids, there's nothing to worry about, it's just soap and water." Said Didi, picking up her two boys, trying to comfort them, but it was no use. They continued to cry.
Stu even came in at this point, wearing a clown puppet on his hand, putting on a show for his boys, trying to cheer them up, but Tommy proceeded to bury his face into Didi's stomach, continuing to cry even louder.
"Maybe we should skip bathtime tonight." Suggested Stu.
"Maybe you're right." Didi said with a sigh, as she began to empty the tub, and got the boys into their pajamas, after struggling for several minutes, to get Tommy into a clean diaper.
Finally, the kids were ready for bed, and Dil was tucked into his crib, while Tommy was tucked into his bed.
"Goodnight boys, sweet dreams." Said Didi, as she blew them a kiss, turned out the lights, and closed the door.
Tommy looked over at Dil in his crib.
"That was the worstest bath I ever had." Grumbled Tommy.
"I've never liked baths, but I always thought you liked them." Said Dil.
"I've never liked them." Replied Tommy.
Dil peered at Tommy, giving him a confused look.
"And the worstest part of all, I'm two-years-old all over again, which means I'll have to get potty trained all over again." Griped Tommy, as he rolled over in bed, trying to go to sleep.
"What do you mean?" Dil asked.
"I'm not Tommy, I'm Chuckie, and Chuckie is Tommy. Peter caused us to switch places." Said Tommy.
"Wow really? No wonder you're ascared." Said Dil.
"Yeah, I don't like this Dil, I don't like it at all." Said Tommy, pulling the covers up over his head.
"Well maybe you'll switch back by morning." Said Dil.
"Maybe, but until then, I'm doomed. Well, goodnight Dil." Said Tommy from beneath the covers.
"Night night Chuckie, I mean Tommy, I mean, oh, whoever you are." Said Dil, as he rolled over and went to sleep, confused at what he just witnessed.
Later on that night, Tommy awoke from a bad dream and started crying, waking everybody up in the Pickles household. Didi came rushing in, to comfort him. It took several minutes, but he finally calmed down and went back to sleep. Dil on the other hand, had a harder time getting back to sleep. He was usually the one to wake everybody up, but thanks to this body switch, it was his older brother that caused all of the trouble on this particular night.
If overnight, things were confusing for the two families, they only continued to be even more confusing the next morning.
Location: Yucaipa, California, Pickles and Finsters homes, December 31, 2013
The next morning, Tommy, forgetting he was wearing a diaper, awoke, having to go to the bathroom. So he ran into the bathroom, ripped off the diaper, and climbed on to the toilet. Didi walked in, surprised at what she saw.
"Oh my gosh! Stu! You're not gonna believe this! Tommy is ready for potty training!" Said Didi, shocked and excited.
"Really?" Stu said in surprise, peering into the bathroom around Didi's shoulder, to see Tommy up on the toilet.
Just then, Didi pushed past Stu and went to grab one of her Lipchitz books, flipping through the pages.
"Tommy is only twenty-eight-months-old, and according to this Lipchitz book, The Two-Year-Old Years, he shouldn't be ready for potty training for another two months! I guess we have a smart little boy on our hands. Too bad we have that party to get ready for tonight, I'd run out and pick up some training pants today and get him started." Said Didi.
"Relax Didi, I'll take care of it." Said Stu, as he got Dil out of his crib, Didi changed his diaper, and the four of them, headed downstairs for breakfast.
But while the Pickles were excited to see Tommy so ready to use the potty, the Finsters, were not so lucky. When they went to wake up Chuckie and Kimi, they found Chuckie's bed was all wet.
"Chuckie! What happened son?" Chaz asked, concerned.
"Hmmm, I believe Chuckie may have had an accident." Said Kira, as she got Chuckie changed into some clean clothes, and Chaz changed the sheets.
"Time for breakfast kids." Said Kira, as Kimi and Chuckie headed downstairs.
At the table, Kira poured bowls of Dummi Bear Sugar Lumps for Kimi and Chuckie. Kimi started eating her cerial, but Chuckie, stared at his bowl in disgust.
"What's wrong Chuckie?" Kimi asked.
"I'm Tommy, remember? And I don't like this cerial. I haven't liked it ever since the firstest time I slept over. And, I forgotted Chuckie's potty trained." Said Chuckie.
"Oh." Replied Kimi, still somewhat confused that her brother wasn't really her brother, as she went on to eat the rest of her cerial.
Back at the Pickles home, everyone had finished breakfast, and Tommy and Dil were in front of the TV. Tommy picked up the clicker and did something that left Dil in shock. He switched the channel to Space Deck Babies.
"I thought you didn't like this show." Said Dil.
"Are you kidding? Space Deck Babies is my favoritest! It's Tommy who doesn't like this show." Replied Tommy.
Dil gave him an other confused look, then remembered that Tommy wasn't really Tommy, he was really Chuckie on the inside.
An hour later, Betty came over with Phil and Lil, to help Didi get things ready for this last minute New Years Eve party they were throwing, since their plans to go away for New Years while Peter watched the kids, got spoiled. Betty and Didi got the kids into the playpen, while they went off to prepare things for the party.
"Hey Tommy, how you doing?" Phil asked.
"Got any adventures planned?" Lil asked.
"No, I don't gots any adventures planned, cuz they're too scary. Let's just sit here, not touching anything till our mommies and daddies come back." Said Tommy.
"Phil and Lil exchanged looks, then looked at Tommy, confused.
"Uh, Phil, Lil, Tommy isn't Tommy, he's really Chuckie." Explained Dil.
"I don't know Dil, it looks like Tommy to me." Said Phil.
"I am Chuckie you guys, Peter switched me and Tommy, and Tommy is in my body." Said Tommy.
Phil and Lil were not buying it.
"Come on Phillip, let's go play in the mud." Said Lil.
"Yeah! Come on you guys." Said Phil.
"No, I don't wanna play in some icky old mud, you guys go ahead, I'm staying right here." Said Tommy, scrunching his knees up to his chest and crossing his arms, uninterested in getting all messy and dirty, or into any trouble.
Dil found a spare screwdriver in the corner of the playpen, and let Phil and Lil out, who proceeded to go into the backyard and play in the mud.
Meanwhile, the Finsters took the dogs and their kids to the park, where Kimi was in for even more surprises. Kira got the toddlers settled into a sandbox.
"Now don't wander off too far, we only have a short time to play here before we head to Stu and Didi's New Years Eve party." Said Kira, as she walked away to a bench to join Chaz, and watch their kids play, while they got caught up with what had been posted on the Lipchitz website via their laptops.
"Come on Kimi, let's play adventure." Said Chuckie, as he hopped out of the sandbox, and climbed on to Fifi's back.
"Well, ok." Said Kimi, as she grabbed on to Fifi's tail, and the three of them, ran off through the park, till they came to the opening of a dark tunnel.
"Are you sure you wanna do this Chuckie? You're so ascared of the dark." Said Kimi.
"Uh Kimi, I'm not Chuckie, I'm Tommy, and I'm ascared of nothing! Now come on!" Said Chuckie, as he led Fifi and Kimi into the dark tunnel, and the three of them, went off exploring.
Just then, Chaz and Kira looked up from their laptops, to find that Fifi, Kimi and Chuckie had escaped.
"Oh no! Where are the kids?" Chaz asked in panic.
"I don't know dear, but we'd better grab Pepper and go look for them." Said Kira, grabbing up Pepper, putting her into her leash, and the three of them, going through the park to look for their kids.
After Kimi and Chuckie finished exploring the tunnel, they came out the other side, and were trying to decide what to play next.
"Wow Chuckie, that was really brave! What do you wanna do next?" Kimi asked.
"I know, let's play Acrabat." Said Chuckie.
"No, let's go to the moon!" Said Kimi excitedly.
"Maybe going to the moon sounds like fun but I'd rather play Acrabat." Said Chuckie.
"Oh, but going to the moon is even funnerer." Said Kimi.
The two adventurous toddlers continued to argue over what to play next, while their parents continued to search the park for their kids.
As Kimi and Chuckie continued to argue over what to play next, Chuckie had another accident in his pants, and started to cry.
"What's wrong Chuckie?" Kimi asked.
"I had another accident." Whailed Chuckie.
Chaz and Kira recognized the whail, and found their kids, where they scooped them up, and took them home and changed Chuckie into some dry pants.
Meanwhile, back at the Pickles home, Celeste and Zack showed up, along with Laura, Dana and Jesse.
"It's so great you guys could make it to our New Years Eve party." Said Didi, walking the Wehrenbergs and Barrows into the living room, where she and Betty had tables of food set up for the party. Meanwhile, Phil and Lil, all covered in mud, came back inside, tracking it into Didi's kitchen, so Betty was in the other room, cleaning her kids and the kitchen up, before putting them back into the playpen.
She got them cleaned up and put back into the playpen along with Tommy and Dil, who had been there the entire time, playing rolly ball and with Goober, which also took Dil by surprise, since Tommy didn't usually like to play with Goober, when Celeste and Laura approached the playpen with their kids. They got Zack and Jesse settled, before going off to help set things up for the party.
"Hey guys." Said Zack.
"Hi Zack." Said Dil.
"How you guys doing?" Zack asked.
"We're fine, but I don't know about Tommy. He's gone, Eh-Wall, whatever that means." Replied Phil.
"Hey guys, check out my newest toy! It's a clown doll!" Said Jesse excitedly, jumping up and down and holding up the clown doll he got for Christmas.
Tommy saw the clown, and ran to the corner of the playpen, screaming, and hiding under a blanket.
"Uh, see what I mean?" Lil asked.
"That's cuz Tommy's not Tommy. He's Chubby." Said Dil.
"Huh?" Zack asked in confusion.
"I am Chuckie you guys." Snapped Tommy from beneath the blanket.
The twins, Zack, Jesse and Dil just all stared at one another, exchanging confused looks.
Just then, Tommy felt he had to go potty, and burst out from beneath the blanket in a panic.
"Guys, I've gots to go potty." Said Tommy in a panic.
"Nah, you still wear diapies, you don't need to use the potty." Said Phil.
"Yeah, you can go right here." Added Lil.
"Oh, yeah, I forgot." Said Tommy.
Meanwhile, the Finsters had Chuckie cleaned up and into some dry clothes, and were ready to head to Stu and Didi's New Years Eve party, so got everybody into the car, and started heading there.
"I'm getting worried about Chuckie Kira, I'm worried he's regressing." Said Chaz, as he started up the car and pulled it out of the driveway.
"I know what you mean Chaz." Kira replied.
"I'm hoping Didi will have some ideas, she's always so resourceful when it comes to this type of stuff." Said Chaz, as they continued down the street to Tommy and Dil's house.
Before the Finsters got to the Pickles, Angelica and her family arrived ahead of them. Drew, Charlotte, and Angelica headed into Stu and Didi's house, where Angelica ran immediately over to the playpen, in hopes she could get the babies to get her some cookies.
She approached the playpen and found Tommy looking out, along side Zack and Jesse.
"Hello babies." Said Angelica.
"Oh, hi Angelica." Said Tommy with a sigh, not all that pleased to see her.
"What do you want anyway?" Zack asked.
"I want you dumb babies to go get me some cookies." Demanded Angelica.
"No Angelica, I'm not getting you your cookies this time." Said Tommy.
"Don't listen to him, he thinks he's Chuckie." Said Jesse.
"I am Chuckie." Said Tommy.
"Oh, we'll just see about that. So Mellon Head, you're not gonna get me my cookies eh? And why not?" Asked Angelica, pulling on the front of Tommy's shirt, Tommy, struggling to get away.
"Cuz, it's way up high, and… I don't wanna go!" Cried Tommy.
"Well Pickles, you have to go." Snapped Angelica.
"Ok Angelica." Tommy said with a sigh, as he reluctantly pulled the screwdriver out of his pocket, and prepared to open the playpen, as soon as they heard the doorbell buzzer ring.
Didi went to answer the door to find the Finsters on the doorstep.
"Chaz, Kira, so glad you made it!" Said Didi, as she led the Finsters into the living room.
"I'm glad we made it too. We weren't sure if we were going to, after having to find our kids in the park, and change Chuckie's pants." Said Chaz.
"Chuckie hasn't been acting like himself." Added Kira.
"He's been regressing Didi. He wet his bed last night, and I'm getting worried." Said Chaz, as they put their kids down in the playpen.
"Oh I wouldn't worry Chaz, I'm sure we can find the answer in Lipchitz, but Tommy's behavior is a mystery too. He had no interest in taking his bath last night, or eating the crust on his sandwich today, and he woke us up, in the middle of the night." Said Stu, who walked in and overheard the conversation.
"But this morning, Tommy took us by surprise, he used the grown up potty all by himself." Said Didi.
"That is quite the surprise." Said Kira.
"There's not a full moon anytime soon is there?" Betty asked, as she arranged a plate of cookies on to the coffee table.
"I don't know dear." Said Howard.
"I'd better consult Lipchitz immediately, this behavior is quite, confusing!" Said Didi.
At that moment, the grown ups left the kitchen, leaving the kids all by themselves.
"Ok you dumb babies, you go get me my cookies." Demanded Angelica.
"No Angelica, you can't make me get you your cookies." Said Tommy.
"Hey! He doesn't have to go get them for you if he doesn't want to." Said Chuckie.
"Oh really carrot top, and what makes you say that?" Angelica asked.
"Well, cuz, he's ascared, right Chuckie?" Chuckie asked.
"Yeah Tommy, I am." Replied Tommy.
"So, you two really did switch places, didn't you." Asked Angelica.
"Uh, yeah Angelica, we did." Chuckie replied.
"Yeah, Peter switchdid us around." Added Tommy.
"Well then, don't you dumb babies know what day it is?" Angelica asked.
All of the toddlers nodded their heads.
"Today is New Years Eve, the day before New Years." Replied Angelica.
"What's New Years Eve?" Lil asked.
"You babies are so dumb, I can't believe you lived to be one, or olderer in some of your cases. New Years Eve is the one night where bedtime doesn't exist, and everybody stays up late, and eats all of the cookies and candies in the world, and counts backwards, to watch a giant shiny ball drop on the TV." Explained Angelica.
"Why don't we just throw this ball?" Tommy asked, picking up the star ball and bouncing it on the ground.
"That dumb old ball won't do, this is a special ball, that only grown ups can throw, and they do it on TV so everybody can see it." Said Angelica.
"Why do they do that?" Kimi asked.
"Oh, do I have to tell you everything? It's to celebrate the birthday of the calendar." Replied Angelica.
"What's a calendar?" Jesse asked.
"I know, it's that thing with numbers on the refridgerator that mommies and daddies are always scribbling on." Replied Zack.
"Exactly, and if you babies don't get switched back to yourselves by the time that ball drops on the TV, don't you know you two will be switched in one another's bodies forever?" Angelica asked.
The toddlers gasp.
"But Angelica that can't be true." Tommy cried.
"Believe it Pickles, if you don't wish to be a scaredy cat forever, then you and Finster better find that machine Peter used to switch your bodies around, or else, you'll be stuck like that forever, and you'd better hurry, cuz there's not much time left." Said Angelica, as she skipped away from the playpen, and spotted the cookies over on the coffee table.
When Angelica approached the plate with the cookies on it, and put the first one into her mouth, her daddy walked into the room.
"Angelica!" Snapped Drew.
Angelica spit out the cookie.
"Now you know these cookies are for after dinner." Snapped Drew.
"But Daddy!" Cried Angelica.
"Sorry Angelica, but there will be no dessert for you tonight." Said Drew, as he took the spit out cookie from Angelica's hand, and led her into the kitchen.
Meanwhile, back in the playpen.
"Tommy, how are we gonna get switched back?" Tommy asked.
"Well, we're just gonna have to find that machine that Peter used to switch us, and switch us back." Said Chuckie.
"But we don't even know where it is." Said Tommy.
"Sure we do! It's in the way downstairs place, where my daddy keeps all of his inventions, and where we went that one time to get my plane back." Said Chuckie.
"Oh please, don't remind me. I got stuck in a matress and was wearing doll clothes by the end of that adventure." Said Tommy.
"I know, but maybe something different will happen this time." Said Chuckie.
"Yeah, don't you two want your bodies back to normen?" Zack asked.
"Yeah… But…" Said Tommy hesitantly.
"Then let's go!" Said Chuckie confidentlly, as he opened the playpen after snatching the screwdriver out of Tommy's hand.
All of the toddlers started heading for the basement door, when they were stopped by Betty, Celeste, and Laura.
"Come on kids, time for dinner." Said Betty, as she scooped up Phil and Lil, while Laura and Celeste scooped up the rest of the toddlers and carried them into the kitchen.
Angelica, who was reluctantly sitting at the kitchen table, with food in front of her that was uninteresting to her, saw the toddlers had been brought into the kitchen.
"What are you dumb babies doing here?" Angelica asked.
"We were on our way to find that machine to switch us back." Said Tommy.
"But as usual, the grown ups stopped us." Added Chuckie.
"Awe, that's too bad." Said Angelica with a grin on her face, as she took another bite of the chicken and rice dish that was on her plate.
"Now what are we gonna do?" Tommy asked.
"Don't worry, I've got an idea." Replied Chuckie.
"Go ahead and try babies, you're not gonna get far, not if I can help it." Angelica thought to herself.
And this, ends chapter 2. So, what is Tommy, I mean Chuckie's idea? Will the toddlers get to the basement to look for Peter's machine? Will they find it? Will Tommy and Chuckie get switched back in time for the ball dropping at midnight? Will Angelica spoil their plan, causing them to not make it in time? Is Angelica right? If they don't make it in time to switch back, will Tommy and Chuckie remained switched forever? We'll find out, in chapter 3.