Chapter 4:
"Miss Chapel report to sickbay!" Bones barked into the comm.
"No put that down!" He shouted rushing to yank a hypospray out of a two year old Kirk's hands.
Yet another mission had gone awry, and when a majority of the command crew went to investigate an old outpost, they had run into some trouble. Upon beaming them back, Bones had been contacted by a very panicked cupcake(or so Jim dubbed him), who relayed the unfortunate incident of the crew's toddler transformations.
Bones had been forced to take them to sickbay, but it was very quickly slipping out of his control.
Whipping around at a delighted squeal, he found Sulu balanced precariously at the edge of a desk.
"Sulu ,no!" Bones shouted, rushing forward to catch the toddler as he toppled off the desk. The kid may have been small, but he was heavy, and bones landed on his stomach with a grunt.
Uhura's laughter echoed from behind a biobed, and Bones ground his teeth. The girl had found his gauze wraps, unwrapped them, flung them in various directions, and draped them over everything, including Checkov.
Bones quickly rescued the boy and placed him on the opposite side of the room; hurrying back to Uhura, he gathered the gauze up and was about to put it away; however that's when he heard banging.
Scotty had found a tricorder (Bones's favorite tricorder) and was now banging it in full force against the floor.
Dropping the gauze on the floor, he scurried over to Scotty, but it was too late. Pieces of tricorder were littered everywhere, and Scotty was about to pop the battery in his mouth.
Mccoy yanked it away from him, desperately trying to ignore the yelp of surprise the Toddler let out.
Scooping up the pieces of tricorder he tossed them on the desk.
Had it been any other time, he would of mourned the loss of the best working tricorder he had ever used; however, this was not the time for that.
He rushed over to stop Kirk from grabbing a surgical tray filled with instruments, but his feet caught in the gauze he had taken from Uhura, and he tumbled headlong to the floor.
His cry of surprise had been enough to distract all toddlers in the room, and looking at him, they began they began screaming with laughter. Even toddler Spock (who had remained silent and peaceful on a bio-bed for entirety of the insanity) let out a uncharacteristic chuckle.
The door to sickbay whooshed open to reveal a very disheveled nurse Chapel; she took in the sight of the chaos. Paper was scattered everywhere, pillows littered the floor, and blankets had been yanked off biobeds. The Toddlers were everywhere wreaking havoc, and Bones was in a heap on the floor with gauze tangled around his feet.
"Do something; they're wrecking my sickbay!" Came Bones's muffled order from the floor.
Chapel smiled and walked over to her desk. Pulling a bag out, she spoke over her shoulder to the toddlers. "If you want candy, go sit on the bed quietly."
They tumbled over each other in order to comply with her wishes, and soon all of them sat happily and quietly sucking on lolly-pops.
Bones had finally extricated himself from the mess of gauze, and sadly deemed it to tangled and dirty to use in the future.
He and Chapel convened in his office.
"Thanks." bones let out a breathless sigh.
"How long until their back to normal?" Chapel asked uneasily.
"They're working on it, but-." Bones was cut off by a tug at the hem of his shirt.
Looking down, Spock stared up at him, before silently pointing to the other room.
Whipping around Bones found the room completely empty; groaning, he alerted the ship to be on the lookout for the kids.
"Nurse Chapel, coat those candies in edible sedatives and get them ready." Bones scowled before leaving the room.
Spock looked up at her, and she handed him a non sedated candy for his honesty.
–- four days later-
An adult Scotty was bent over his work in engineering, when a tray was slammed down next to him.
"Aye, what's this now?" He asked in surprise.
" I need you to fix my tricorder." Bones said with a smirk.
"This thing's shattered into a million pieces, ya cannae expect me to put it back together!"
"You were brilliant enough to break it, you're brilliant enough to put it back together." Bones snapped before walking out.
Scotty stared hopelessly at it and wished he had never become a toddler in the first place.
This was one was a lot of fun to write, and I hope you guys enjoyed it. Hopefully I have another adventure out soon. Thanks for reading!