I would love to hear your opinions and look to working further on the story.
I do not own or have connection with the "Criminal Minds," "NCIS" and "Numb3rs" programs or their characters.
Chapter Two. Why Are We Here
Our three teams awaken in their beds and wonder can they get up or will they be electrocuted. Over the speakers in each room, a voice comes over and says, "Good morning my babies, the floor is now off and you can use the bathroom now. When you have completed your morning ritual, get dressed you have ten minutes before the floor is once again electrified. You will go through the door and down the corridor. When you reach the end, there will another door which will open for you and you will walk through it. I will talk to you then. We'll see you soon my babies."
The team leaders, Aaron, Don and Gibbs got off their beds first and when they were not shocked, the remainder members of the teams get up and they begin to get ready for the day. Each member of the teams was done and in the corridor heading to the end of it before the ten minutes was up. When they get to the end of the corridor, they each enter the room that has a long table with many chairs each having a name on it.
The voice comes over the speaker, "Please sit in your chairs babies. Breakfast will be brought to you; this is not a restaurant you do not get to choose. You will eat everything placed in front of you. You will not speak to the people bringing in the food. If they place something on your body, you will allow it to be done. Your wishes and wants are not really cared about now. Eat well babies."
"Why do you keep calling us babies?" says Hotch. Eighteen other faces turn to look at him and then around to hear an answer.
The voice chuckles, "Because Agent Hotchner that is what you and your fellow federal agents have been brought here to become, my babies whom I will care for, the government is being paid a great deal of money for me to do this experiment. Sit and eat your breakfast now baby."
Each of our agents sit at the chair that has their name, no agents of the same unit were seated next to each other, the six females were spread throughout the table, not sitting next to another female. A group of people come in from another door with carts of plates of different foods. There were plates of eggs with potatoes and meat, pancakes, bowls of cereal and oatmeal and fruit. There are tumblers and pitchers of different types of juices and milk. Beginning with the end, a worker places an adult bib on our agent and the second worker puts a plate or bowl in front of them, a third worker puts eating utensils down and a fourth worker places a tumbler down with either juice or milk. The agents are not exactly happy with the bibs being put on them but when one of them tried to take it off; the man had his hands slapped and the food removed. He was taken away from the table. They went on to the next agent and the agent taken away was last to be fed when he was sat down into a baby style adult high chair with an even more babyish style bib placed on him. This was an example to each of them that they had no choices if they want to eat or have anything else and what the consequences of disobedience were.
When they had completed their breakfasts; the workers came back and removed the food and the bibs from the agents. Several of our agents tried to talk to the workers but were given no responses to their questions. When the table has been cleared, our agents are still sitting there and the voice comes over the speaker, "Well, my babies, I hope you enjoyed your breakfast. You will now get up from the table and walk through the open door, there you can explore the apartment and then you will return to this room and take a seat again."
"Before we leave is there a way that we can get some coffee." asks Gibbs
"No, each of you has had your last cup of coffee." She laughs as she turns off the speaker.
Our agents go to the next room, the agent in the high chair had to have help with someone releasing the catches to remove the tray in front of him and unbuckling the straps holding him into the chair. He got out of the chair angry and feeling humiliated at the way he was treated. It was definitely a very visible example of what happens when you don't follow the rules.
Going in the room they see a dining room with a large round table with seventeen chairs around it and two adult size high chairs along the wall. The room is attached to a large country style kitchen with a big island in the middle, a double oven on the wall and a six-burner range down the counter. There is a large refrigerator and a walk-in freezer and pantry. A large double sink and dishwasher is along another counter. A swinging door takes you into the family room with a media entertainment area in one area and a large play rug area with toys for children of all ages. They go from this room into a hall with five doors. In one door, there is a bedroom with three sets of bunk beds, a vanity table, three large bureaus of clothes, and three wardrobes of clothes. There is a door leading from the room to a large bathroom, with double sink, separate toilet and large bathtub. Going back into the hall, they go into the room across the hall where there are two triple bunk beds and two double bunk beds for ten people to sleep in. There are six large bureaus and three wardrobes of clothes, there is a bathroom that leads off the room with a double sink, separate toilet and large bathtub. They go back to the hall and enter the large room at the end in which there is a queen size bed, an adult size cradle, two adult size cribs and four large bureaus with two wardrobes of clothes. There is a changing table with a full cabinet of diapers, lotions, wipes and what is needed to keep babies clean and dry. In the attached bathroom there are two washers and dryers, laundry table, separate toilet, Jacuzzi tub, and single sink. There is a walk-in linen closet attached. They return to the dining room where they see the third high chair had been brought back in.
Going into the room they see nineteen chairs facing a wall with a large custom style board. Down the left side of the board is a column of numbers beginning with six and increasing by eleven at each row going down to the last number of two hundred and four. The column has a letter M at the top. There are more columns; the next one is a Letter Y with numbers going down of 0 through 17 with 6 being used twice. The next column has a letters M/F and then a blank column with each row accepting a sliding tab. At the last column is the tabs to be placed in the blank column, each tab has a name of one of the people entering the room. The top six rows not including the top row is in yellow, the next seven rows is in blue and the final rows are in red. There is a small table off to the side with three buckets which are yellow, blue and red.
The people sit down and look at the board and the table of buckets; they also look at the bracelets that had been placed on their wrists the night before. They are in yellow, blue and red and with their names in beads of baby pink or baby blue, similar to what a hospital gives a newborn infant to identify them. After all of them have sat down, the door opens a woman comes in. She is very tall and muscular and has a smile like an angel. She is a woman who cares about people but is also afraid of them and so limits her contact with them. She is wealthy and wants to create an experiment of how adults would react and act in the situation of becoming children again. They would retain their adult bodies but must act and remain in the role of a child during an unspecified amount of time. She has chosen three units of federal agents. She wanted a CIA unit, but they refused to give her one. The units in front were all selected by their directors and will have to do the experiment in order to keep their jobs.
"Good morning, my name is unimportant because you will be calling me mommy." There are many open mouths and surprised eyes to this remark. "You have each been brought here to help in an experiment. If you agree and then continue to the end of the experiment, you will be on the fast track of promotion and salary increase. If you do not choose to stay, you will lose your current job role but will be able to continue to work for the government at a lower position without promotion and increases. The choice will be yours."
Charles speaks up and says, "I don't work for the government in the same way that the others here do."
"That is correct Charlie. If you choose not to participate, you will lose clearances and will not get them back; instead you will be barred from government work permanently. You will also lose your promotion ability and possibly your current position at the university. You been brought to do this experiment. The experiment is that you will become a family of children. Each will be a different age, no twins. The ages range from a six-month-old infant to a seventeen-year-old young person. There are nineteen of you in the age group."
Colby says, "Excuse me, but you said a six-month-old infant?"
"Yes, there will actually be three of you in diapers 24/7. Two still receive bottles on a regular basis, the third only at night time. But do not make the mistake you will have to maintain the age that you have been given. Before we continue, you need to decide whether you want to stay and do the experiment or leave. But remember if you leave you will lose your current position and your clearances. I will give your five minutes to think about it."
She leaves the room and our agents look around at each other and wonder if this was for real. I mean to have to act like children or even a baby in order to keep you r position. There are a few who think about leaving but decide to stay because they believe what she said about having to transfer to a low-grade, no-promotion job without the prospect of moving forward. These are all ambitious and intelligent people who love their jobs and want to move forward with them. If this experiment can help them, then they really should do it.
The woman comes back in and she begins to say, "Is there anyone who wants to leave." No one stands up. "Once you commit, you must stay committed for the entire time and there will be no visiting of families. Those of you with children will not be able to see them during the experiment without special circumstances. Which would be unknown at this time and I would be the one making that decision. Since it appears that nobody wants to leave, we will begin the process of deciding what your ages will be."
"Do we get to choose the age we want to be?" someone asks.
""Well, if I allowed that, all of you would choose to be the oldest children and I would have no babies. So the answer is no, you do not get to choose your age. You have been placed into three categories, yellow, blue and red. The categories you were chosen for was based on your age, title and length of service in the agency that you are working in. Your sex is also considered, there are six women to thirteen men. Each category as two women in it, the yellow category has six people, blue has seven people and red has six people. Yellow is ages six months to age five, blue has ages six to eleven and red has ages twelve to seventeen. All bosses or head supervisors are blue and will not be aged in the double digits, all babies are male with one from each unit and the oldest child is the oldest person in the room, Donald Mallard. Interestingly there are two units with a David in it, so we will be addressing our Davids by their surnames of Sinclair and Rossi. There are no other duplicates in names, so everyone else will be called by their regular name. Any questions, so far."
"Why do you make the supervisors so young?"
"In order to help them to realize that they are not the bosses here and so I believe it is important that they have siblings above and below them. Are we ready to learn your fates?"
She turns to the buckets and places them in front of her. "You just have to choose a ball and show it to me, if I approve of it, you will then sit back down and do not show anyone else what it is until all have a ball in their hands."
"Why must you approve it?"
"Because in a few cases there are balls that not acceptable for who you are, for example, the blue bucket goes up to age eleven, the unit lead agents choose from this bucket, but must be under the age of ten, so if they pick out ten or eleven, they must put it back. The babies are all male so if a woman who selects that ball she must put it back. Are we ready now? You may come up at any time to pull a ball."
She stands there patiently waiting for the agents to decide to come up and try their luck at the ball to get. The first to come up is Ziva from the NCIS unit. It is not a surprise that she would come first; she is not someone to shirk her responsibilities or waste time. She picks out a ball from the red bucket and shows it to mommy, who approves of it. "You may not look at it until the others have gotten their balls." Ziva sits back down. Tim of the NCIS unit comes up next and picks out a ball from the blue bucket which is approved. Charlie of the FBI unit picks out a ball from the red bucket and is approved. Our people continue as follows:
Spencer of the BAU unit selects a ball from the yellow bucket and is approved
Abby of NCIS selects from the yellow bucket and is approved
Derek of the BAU unit selects from the blue bucket and is approved
David Sinclair of the FBI unit selects from the red bucket and is approved
Penelope of the BAU unit selects from the blue bucket and is approved
Jimmy of NCIS selects from the yellow bucket and is approved
Colby of the FBI unit selects from the yellow bucket and is approved
Jennifer of the BAU selects from the red bucket and is approved
Nicki of the FBI unit selects from the blue bucket and is approved
Emily of the BAU selects from the yellow bucket and is approved
David Rossi of the BAU selects the last ball from the red bucket and is approved
Tony of NCIS selects the last ball from the yellow bucket and is approved
There are three balls left in the blue bucket for our three unit heads to choose from. They had decided to choose last and let their agents have the first choice of balls. Mommy takes the bucket and holds it out to them as they come forward. The men each put a hand in and take a ball out at the same time and each is hoping to be the oldest of what is left. They sit down.
"You have a ball and that ball will determine your age, you may look at the ball now and you will see a number on it, please go to the board and take your name and put your name on the row with that number on it." She sits down and watches as the people go and do as they are told; it seems to come out interesting. Beginning at the top row and going down is:
6-Tony
17-Spencer
28-Colby
39-Abby
50-Jimmy
61-Emily
72-Don
83-Tim
94-Aaron
105-Nicki
116-Leroy
127-Derek
138-Penelope
149-Charlie
160-Ziva
171-Rossi
182-Sinclair
193-Jennifer
204-Donald
"As you can see of what will be. The number that you had represents your age in months. Tony, you are the youngest of the family as our six-month-old baby. You will be cuddled and loved daily and live like that. Our other babies are Spencer at seventeen months old and Colby at twenty eight months. Now that we have your ages, the workers are now preparing your beds, chairs and other things that you may need for the age that you are. It is getting close to lunch time, so please join me in the dining room."
"As one the babies, do I have to eat in the high chair?" asks Colby.
She turns and looks at him and says, "Yes, but you will be able to eat regular food. You might as well get used to the high chair because it will be your normal chair. Tony will have the hardest time of adjustment because this will be his last adult style meal." Tony looks at her in horror as the members of his team come up to give supportive pats on the back.