Disclaimer: Life NEVER was Normal is a story set in an alternate universe of Kingdom Hearts, set immediately after the second season of the previous story Life DEFINATELY not Normal, after the first season Life FAR from Normal and after the Epilogue of, "The Betrayal of Light", also featuring many characters from Disney and Final Fantasy that haven't made it to Kingdom Hearts games or Manga yet.
Author's Note: Sorry that this is late again. Having a bit of trouble in how the next episode of the third season would be turning out, and if you're reading this, Pokeball645, I completed "Sailor Moon: Spirits Within" and intend of updating both "Kingdom Hearts 3: Second War" and "Case of Team Rocket" at some point...probably not until either next year or next month as well as begin new ones again.
Without further delay, here it is. Oh, by the way, a special Kingdom Hearts character will make an appearence here and possibly in the next chapter which will be a slight cross-over with a future midquel to one of my other series.
I don't own anything here.
EP 6: A bit of a BIG problem-Part 1.
A couple of weeks had passed since Kairi had her tonsils removed and after a good long rest, the five year old girl had recovered and things relatively returned to normal at Radiant Academy. Genie had gone off to visit Eden for a few days for a date, which Ven and the others praised as they were happy for their friend. In the meantime, so far, things has been peaceful and quiet and not a single wacky thing happened.
Of course, we all know that it wouldn't last long...and it all started on this day. First, it began with one of the certain redheads who was busy trying not to die...figuretively.
"Ah! No! NO! Faster! Faster! C'mon! AHHH! NOOOO!" Lea cried out...before tossing his controller of his video game system onto the floor in frustration as he groaned when the screen of his TV turned dark with red blood words appeared slowly, saying 'Game Over'.
"Stupid Dahaka. Always too friggin' fast for me!" Lea complained before lying on his back of his bed, with Isa and Iago sitting next to him with looks of boredom and acknowlagement, and in Iago's case, annoyance. But what else is new?
You see, Lea has bought a new PS3 system and has managed to get his hands on the remastered Prince of Persia: Sands of Time Trilogy that was originally for PS2. Moment he saw it, he immediately grabbed hold of it as soon as he had enough money to splouge on both the console and the games themselves.
So far, he managed to get through Sands of Time, the first of the trilogy...even though he had no ends of trouble handling that game. Now he was onto Warrior Within and couldn't even get through the first escape the Dahaka route.
"That's like your tenth try this week, Lea." Isa commented with a knowing smirk. "Though, at this point, you do kinda suck at it."
"Tell that to the horned-masked guy." Lea grumbled. "Ugh. I swear, that game cheats. Either that, or the bigger guys are, the faster they are for some stupid reason."
Iago rolled his eyes, saying in exasperation, "Whoever thought that making these games either had a crazy imagination or liked to make stupid animation games in pretend 3D that still makes a person's or bird's stomach turn."
"Welcome to the modern world." Lea grinned, placing his hands behind his head. "Besides, the only games you probably seen anybody play were Cards or Pool, or even Golf."
"At least I know how to play golf, not like Genie who's the biggest loser when it comes to any games!" Iago pointed out. "He'd even lose to the Carpet I know, even at Chess."
"Hard to believe that you even know how to play golf." Isa shook his head. "Other than that, one would think that seeing these games based on what you're used to probably gave you bad memories, right?"
The parrot facepalmed himself, before answering, "No...it's enough to give me nightmares, and the setting is kinda similiar to what I was born and grew up in and then some, but at least there wasn't something as stupid as what's in those games. And if that black guy chasin' that stupid whiny, dumb and non-thinker prince got any bigger, I hope this game ends with him getting a rip in his pants!"
"Yeah, ya' gotta admit, the Prince in these games ain't bright, is he?" Lea nodded in agreement. He then smirked and added, "Then again, the richer people are, the more gullible, stubborn, and snobby they are."
"That explains why that Vizer guy in the first game is like a non-Genie-stealer version of Jafar. Not to mention paler, a little bit older and uglier too." Iago dryly commented, shuddering at the memories of his past.
Before the teenage boys could comment on that, Lea's bedroom door was slammed open so suddenly that it made the three of them jump and while Lea and Isa jumped to their feet to see what was going on, Iago yelped, as a panting Aqua had slammed the door open, with Melody, Mickey, Goofy, Minnie, Ven, Mushu and surprisingly, Sebastian behind her.
"Have any of you seen twin babies?" Aqua frantically asked, in desperation.
"Uh, no." Lea muttered, still in shock at the unexpected alarm.
"Twin babies?" Isa asked, blinking in confusion.
"Twins!?" Iago cried out. "That's double trouble!" He added, before gazing at Sebastion and asked, skeptically, "And why are you here, Crabby?"
Sebastian, not exactly thrilled to see Iago either, replied, "I came here to see how Melody is doing and came here a little while ago, and then I came across them babysitting little twins."
"And the twins are here because...?" Isa began.
"We were babysittin'." Goofy replied.
"Well, Aqua was." Mushu corrected, "We just came by to help out, and man are the kids a handful."
"It kinda all started out like this..." Mickey began telling Lea, Isa and Iago the story.
Twenty minutes earlier...
Crash! Bang! Smash! Clang! Thud!
Two babies, identical twins to be exact with brown hair and blue eyes, wearing the same blue baby outfits, were a lot harder than Aqua had expected the young one year olds to be. She'd volunteered to babysit them when the preschool/kindergarten teachers took the four, five and six year old students out for the day and had no time in babysitting, and that the twins' parents were on a tour with Serah who volunteered to guide them since art-class was off today.
Despite Ansem's warning, Aqua was confident that she could handle. Boy did she underestimate the kids. Fortunately, Ven, Minnie, Mickey, Goofy, Mushu and Melody came in time to try and get the children to settle down, but even they were having trouble and all of them were trying to get the kids away from breaking anything they could get ahold of. Everyone else were busy with whatever they were doing.
For example, Donald and Daisy were out on a date, Terra was training with Zack and Cloud, you name it.
"Gee...I don't think even I was this bad when I was a baby." Mickey commented, carefully putting the books back onto the shelf.
"Or this fast." Goofy added, about to place the vase back onto the table when he accidently stepped and slipped onto a lingering book and stumbled and wobbled clumsily before crashing onto the floor and accidently tossing the vase into the air which then landed right on top of his head which ended up stuck in the vase the moment it went through the hole.
"Babies, be careful with...!" Minnie was too late as the twins pulled more books off the shelf in the lounge of the Academy. "...Those books."
The group then heard a gasp behind them and turned to see, to their surprise, a familiar talking red crab that managed to make his way into the Academy from the ocean. It was Sebastian whom Mickey, Goofy, Mushu and Melody hadn't seen since during the search for the treasures to stop Chernabog.
"Melody! What is going on here?" The crab asked.
"Oh! Just uh...helping our friend Aqua here babysitting, Sebastian." Melody explained, sheepishly, gesturing at the said twins who were still playing by making a mess, as all babies do. Aqua, Mickey, Minnie, Goofy, Ven and Mushu all shrugged with similiar sheepish expressions.
Sebastian's eyes widened in shock as he was seeing double, knowing that twins were twice as a handful as just one baby. Deciding to take matters into his own claws, he went over to the young people, lecturing to Aqua, "Young lady. You're being too quick in handling babies."
"Like how? I helped look after four and five year olds." Aqua responded, puzzled. She couldn't understand what she was doing wrong here.
"Well, first off, you need to be careful with them in playing with them." The crab then demostrated as he went over to the now curious babies, "Speak in a gentle voice, and tickle their chins." before gently ticking the twins' chins which made the babies laugh as he cooed, "Coo cee coo cee coo. Coo cee coo cee coo."
As he was doing this, Sebastian was impressing the others who smiled.
"Wow! You're a natural." Ven commented, amazed.
"He did the same when I was babysitting twins." Melody giggled.
"Coo cee coo cee coo!" Sebastian continued, before chuckling as the kids settled down while laughing as they'd been tickled. "See? I know how to handle babies."
But then he was grabbed by the twins who decided that the tickling was a new game and they then tickled Sebastian who was left helplessly laughing hysterically, "St-Stop! Babies! S-stop! Hahahahaha!" which made the others laugh at the scene that was happening.
"Say, uh, I'll go and get some toys from the kids playground." Aqua spoke up, about to head out the room. "Some old and unbreakable toys, I mean."
"I'll go with you, Aqua." Ven volunteered, following his friend out.
"Me too." Minnie added.
"So will I." Goofy added.
"That makes four." Melody added.
"Say uh, Mushu. Can we trust ya's to keep the kids and Sebastian busy while we're gone?" Mickey asked to the small dragon as he began to follow the others. "And keep a good eye on them too!" He added, sternly.
"Hey, if I can handle and entertain Lucky, these kids will be a piece of cake!" Mushu said proudly(as shown back in Episode 21 of "Life FAR From Normal"), waving his friends off as they all left the lounge, before turning back to the scene as Sebastian, still laughing and being in the tickle attack, couldn't handle it anymore and managed to squeeze himself free before returning to the dragon, panting from the hysterics.
Calming down and managing to breathe again, Sebastian then began to say to his current companion...and as the two were distracted, the two unfortunately failed to keep a good eye on the babies who, with all doors open, began to crawl away to venture out into their new surroundings.
"Mushu, let me tell you a little secret, when it comes to handling kids. You see, I've seen so many and helped out quite a lot. In fact, it-it's been such a long time, when I was a baby." Sebastian remembered, tearing up a little at memories of his much, much earlier years. "I was a little whipper snapper...with real tiny claws..."
"How're things going with the kids?" Ven asked when he and the others came back, arms full of many toys that were unbreakable.
"Told ya' it was a piece of cake." Mushu said, distractedly. "I think they're taking a nap right now." jerking a thumb behind him...only to flinch when he and the others looked to see that it wasn't the case at all. In fact...
The others gasped and inadvertedly dropped the toys when Aqua cried out in horror, "They're gone!"
"Ahhh!" Minnie shrieked in panic.
"Well, c'mon! We gotta go find them!" Mickey cried out, taking hold of Minnie's hand and sped all over the room to find the children, with Ven, Aqua, Goofy, and Melody racing after them, which caused both Mushu and Sebastian to be spun around in high speed before the two eventually followed the group to search all over the Academy...
Back in the Present...
"Annnnnd things went down hill and that's why we're in town right now lookin' for them, right?" Lea sighed dramatically as he, Isa and Iago joined Aqua and the others to find the children and had come to conclusion that they managed to sneak past everyone and could be anywhere in Radiant City.
"Yep." Mickey sighed, looking under outdoor shelves of a video store to see if the twins were there, before seeing that they weren't and continued the search after he concluded what happened. "Kinda."
"I wish Genie was here. He'd know what to do." Ven sighed, shaking his head as he looked between the gap of two buildings, ending up empty handed.
Iago, annoyed in being dragged in yet another disaster, grumbled, "We're never gonna find them, guys. It's like looking for two needles in a haystack that's the size of this town!"
As usual, the others ignored this and continued their search. Eventually they found a young girl, close to fifteen and seemingly either new or was just visiting, with orange long hair in a loop loose style and a white and purple garment with blue eyes.
"Excuse me." Aqua called up to the girl who turned to face her and the others. "We're looking for twin babies. Have you seen them?"
"Yeah, they look like this." Sebastian added, trying to look like the babies, with Mushu doing the same by both of them making a puppy-eye and goofy and slightly disturbing expressions that were nothing like the children. The crab then added as his and Mushu's expressions returned to normal, "Only cuter."
"Uh...I'm sorry, but I haven't." The girl said apologetically, while a little creeped out at what the crab and small dragon just did, while the group sighed in disappointment and growing despair.
"This is all my fault." Aqua sorrowfully sighed.
"C'mon, Aqua. Don't blame yourself." Ven tried to assure his friend. "We'll find them."
"He's right, Aqua." Mickey added, before turning to glare at Mushu and Sebastian, "They're the ones who lost the kids, because Mushu was supposed to keep a good eye on them."
"Hey! I was about to do that, but the crab here distracted me and made me lose them!" Mushu argued, glaring at Sebastian who felt insulted by the blame.
"Me?" The crab asked, before pointing out at the two, "Aqua's the babysitter."
"Oh yeah? Well, you said you were the baby expert!" Mickey yelled back, turning to continue the search, as the others also glared at Sebastian with expressions of agreement.
"Well, everybody makes mistakes!" Sebastian yelled back.
"Excuse me." The girl whom Aqua spoke to regards to the babies' whereabouts. "If you like, I can help you look for the missing children." much to the group's surprise.
"Really?" Melody asked, surprised.
"Of course. I cannot bear the thought of innocent children being lost on their own." The girl replied.
"That's so sweet of you. Thank you!" Aqua smiled, relieved, before introducing herself, "My name is Aqua. Nice to meet you."
"I'm Ventus. But you can call me Ven." Ven added with smile.
"I'm Mickey." Mickey added.
"I'm Minnie." Minnie added kindly.
"Name's Goofy." Goofy added.
"Hi! I'm Melody." Melody greeted happily.
"I'm Mushu." Mushu added, "It's a long story."
"I'm Iago." Iago responded in a bored tone.
"My name's Isa." Isa nodded politedly.
"I'm Lea. Got it memorized?" Lea added while tapping the side of his head when he said his catch-phrase.
"And I'm the Great Sebastian. Perhaps, if you heard of me." Sebastian bowed politedly.
The girl nodded, finding all of them unusual but very friendly even though she had slight doubts about Iago, and introduced herself, "Pleasure to meet you. My name's Strelitzia."
Unknown to the group, an old nemesis that they haven't seen in months was watching them from around the corner with a Moogle who was dressed up in a dark shirt and had, hovering next to him. It was none other than Pete who came on an excersion with his new class of Galbadian Academy, and since he wanted revenge on Mickey Mouse and his friends of Radiant Academy, not to mention wanting to steal some valubles, he listened in on what he and his new companion, Moggler of Galbadian Academy had just heard.
"Looks like they're looking for twin babies, Kupo! Heheheheh!" Moggler giggled mischeviously.
"Which just gives me a great idea." Pete grinned evilly. "If we find those kids first before those pipsqueaks do, we can use them to steal whatever we want for an exchange."
"Great idea, Pete, Kupo!" Moggler cheered, before asking as he realised a bit of a problem. "But what if they find them first and try and stop us, Kupo?"
The large cat scoffed before pulling out what appeared to be an accordion squeezer that looked like to make cream curls on cakes out of nowhere, saying, "We'll use this. It's a balloon blower that traps anything and anyone of any size inside a balloon that's only breakable from outside. The science teacher Fuhito made this baby, so I snuck it when he wasn't even looking."
"Does it work, Kupo?" Moggler asked, getting a bit of a closer look to it, only for Pete to squeeze thing which made the sound of an accordion, and the next thing the Moggle knew, he found himself becoming engulfed and stuck inside a blue balloon that was inflated and in confusion, ended up floating away into the sky.
"It works." Pete replied with a calm smirk. Time for phase two.
The babies the meantime were happily playing and exploring, being far too young to know the dangers of the real world just yet. They cooed happily when they saw a blue balloon float by, with Moggler still stuck inside. Wanting to play with the balloon, the twins immediately and surprisingly grabbed it from the bottom, wanting to obviously fly. However, their weight was quickly too much for the balloon to bear.
Pop!
The balloon popped and while it freed Moggler, the babies fell and landed safely into a flower cart which then began to roll away from the flower stand, much to the owner's horror. As the badies were rolling in the out of control cart, many people had to run out of the way and narrowly missed in being run over. Unaware that they were about to get hurt, the babies just cheered, even as the cart lost it's wheels when it slid up on a ramp and over buildings, flying before descending.
Fortunately and unfortunately, the cart landed right on top of a large red family van that was driving along the road. Due to the flowers in the card, the babies had a soft landing. The noise of the landing though nearly scared all of the occupants within that caused the driver to pull to a stop.
Getting out of the door was a man in his late thirties, shaggy brown hair, around glasses, and normal citizen clothing that, if one would guess, would make him a bit of a family man as well as a geeky inventor. Coming out of the passenger's side was a teenager around 15 years of age, obviously the man's son.
"What was that?" The boy asked, startled.
"A flower cart?" The father asked...only to become confused and concerned when he and his son heard sounds of not one, but two babies, slightly echoed by the youngest passenger of the car in the back seat; which was a two-ish year old blond-haired boy. "With...babies?"
Carefully, the two lifted the cart off and lowered it onto the ground. True to the father's question and concern, were the twins who were happily giggling away, playing with the flowers, one of them letting off a sneeze.
"Uh...Dad?" The boy asked, shocked and confused. "Where did they come from?"
"I don't know, Nick." The father sighed. "Guess we're gonna have to babysit these kids along with Adam before we can call the police to take them and call their parents."
"Just my day." Nick grumbled. One Adam was enough, but now having to help look after both his own little brother as well as two obviously lively and trouble-making twins? All he wanted was to be cool boy and win the heart of his crush.
Unknown to them, Iago, who was sent by Ven to search by the air(much to the bird's annoyance), had seen what was happening and hurried to follow, only to arrive too late as the two people scooped up the kids and carefully returned to the car before driving off.
"Awk! Not good!" Iago cried out, before racing to follow them as fast as possible even though the idea of trying to talk that guy and his teenage son into giving him the kids was clearly impossible, especially since there was only one of him, and two of the babies who were bigger than him.
Eventually, two minutes later, they arrived at a house on a small slope in a nice neighborhood, with the father and son carrying both the twins and, to Iago's surprise, another kid, a yearish older than the twins, out of the car. To his confusion, though, the father was having problems in getting his own youngest son out of the babyseat. So, with a last resort, he unclipped the seat from the back seat and carried Adam in the seat and into the house, which raised eye-brows from the neighbors as well as Iago.
"That kid must have some growths spurt or something." Iago shook his head, before snapping out of it and flew off quickly, saying, "Gotta warn Aqua before we end up losing those two kids to the police and then we'd get into even MORE trouble!"
When Iago had returned, he had to use Isa's hair to stop himself and bumped into the teenager's head hard.
"Ow!" Isa grunted painfully. "Iago!"
"Notimeforheadbandage! Wegottamoveonthedouble!" Iago cried out hurried very hastily that he said this all in the one sentence that none of them as they rejoined could understand what he was saying. But they the panicked look on his face, they could tell that something was wrong.
"Did you find the kids?" Ven asked urgently.
"Well, the good news is, yes." Iago panted, before saying panickly again, "The bad news is that if we don't hurry to where I found them, the guy who did find them with his own two kids will take the twins to the police and call their parents and if we don't get there now, we'll be in BIG trouble!"
Aqua and the others paled at the very thought of that when they heard this. The sudden image of being discovered that they lost the twins who would be reunited with their parents who would be so furious of them that they'd place them in jail, or worse...if Serah found out and Ansem found out, they would be expelled from Radiant Academy all together and not just end up in Xehanort's lecture class appeared in their minds.
"Okay, that...is a big problem." Mushu muttered, scaredly.
"What're we gonna do!?" Goofy cried out, hysterically.
"Calm down, Goofy!" Mickey quickly said, as calmly as possible. "All we gotta do is go to the house Iago saw and then pick up the kids before he calls the police."
"Sounds like a plan." Strelitzia commented, only to cry out in alarm when suddenly she and the others found themselves strangely caught and trapped inside a pink balloon, leaving them stuck inside it which began to hover slowly into the air.
"Wha-!? What the hell's goin' on?" Lea cried out, stunned and dumbfounded.
"So much for the plan." Sebastian sighed, somehow not surprised that something has gone wrong in less than 24 hours.
"Thanks for the plan, pipsqueaks. Makes things easier for me!" An undoubtfully familiar voice sneered with a grin, as the group turned to see, to their shock, and in Strelitzia and Sebastian's confusion, was Pete who was the one having used the Balloon Maker to suddenly trap the group as he and Moggler who'd returned, approached them trapped in the balloon.
"Who's that?" Strelitzia asked, her eyes narrowing as she could tell, whoever this large cat was, he wasn't one to become friends with. What he just did to her and the others was proof of that.
"It's Pete!" Ven grunted angrily.
"Why you no good Pete!" Mickey grunted accussingly.
"What are you doing here?" Aqua demanded, as she and her friends glared at their former fellow student who had caused so much problems and who they haven't seen since after Hades and Chernabog were defeated.
"I thought you were at Galbadian Academy!" Iago shrieked.
Pete nodded, "Yeah, yeah. I'm actually here on excersion, but it also gave me a least a chance to pay you nimrods back for kicking me out! Thankfully, I overheard what youse were doin'. So, I decided to go and look for the twins and use them to steal for me, see."
"With a little bit of my help, Kupo!" Moggler added cheekily.
"What he said." Pete added, jerking a thumb at his new partner in crime. "We're buddies."
"You'd better let us out or I'll give you a piece of my mind! I'm giving you 30 seconds to do it, starting right now!" Minnie yelled angrily, glaring at Pete which not only made Pete shiver a little, but also made Mickey, Ven, Lea, Isa, Mushu, Goofy and Iago back off a little, while Aqua, Melody and Strelitzia glared at Pete as well. "30, 29, 28, 27..."
"Gawrsh, I've never seen her so mad." Goofy whispered, nervously.
"Ooh! I have." Mickey responded, knowing his girlfriend's temper when it kicked in. This was one of those times, and frankly, he couldn't blame her.
"I'd like to see you try and get outta there." Pete sneered evilly, before giving the trapped balloon a flick and to the trapped group's shock and horror, they began to drift away. "So long, suckers! Enjoy the same expellation as I did! Bwahahaha! Oh! And jail time, too!" before walking off with Moggler to find the said house.
"Hey! Pete! Let us outta here! I'm WARNING YOU!" Lea shouted loudly, but by then, it was already too late as he and his friends were being drifted away in their moveable prison, while Pete and Moggler were heading off to find the twins which meant that things were only getting more and more worse.
Iago tried to pinch their way out with his claws, as did Sebastian, while Mushu tried to melt it with a small flame, and the others tried to push their way out, but it was simply no use. They were all trapped.
"Looks like the only way out is for this balloon to be burst from the outside." Strelitzia acknowlaged gravely, despite still trying to break free as well.
"Uh, and since we're pretty much gettin' higher and higher, I don't think burstin' it now would be a good idea, unless you wanna risk in being splattered like a pancake." Lea pointed out, starting to really panic as they were close to being 50 feet up.
"Gee, this is like that James and the Giant Peach movie, only with a balloon and no bugs, and no seagulls." Mushu commented with wide eyes, shrugging.
"And no eight year old kid named James either." Iago added, rolling his eyes at Mushu's bad timing in making a movie referrence at a time like this.
"Uh...guys?" Melody muttered, worriedly. "We have a problem."
When the others turned see what the half-human-half-mermaid was worried about, their eyes widened in horror as a flock of birds were flying straight towards them, realising that if one or two of them popped the balloon, they were in really big trouble, more than ever.
"To the right! To the right!" Mickey cried out, trying to get the balloon to move, as the others followed his example, panting as it was going a little too slow for them to move out of the way quickly, and trying to lower themselves back onto the ground as quickly as possible.
"Man! This is just like me tryin' to out-run the stupid Dahaka in the Warrior Within game!" Lea cried out, panting as he tried to get the balloon to go to the right with the others.
Thankfully, the group managed to narrowly avoid the flock of birds and sighed in relief while now floating still to the right inside the balloon...only to realise too late as they were heading towards the trees. Screaming, the group tried to turn to the left this time, but they were too late, as the balloon made contact with a couple of branches that had no leaves on them as Fall was approaching.
Pop!
Their prison popped and now the group were sent falling to the ground, though their fall was broken by the same tree as they managed to slide and briefly grab onto the branches, before finally landing into the bushes with a thud, though it wasn't the prettiest landing, as they all moaned with slightly sore spots.
"Ow!" They all grumbled.
One by one, the group crawled out of the bush, brushing the leaves off of themselves, and stood up.
"Well, that's just great. We lost the twins again!" Iago groaned in irritation.
"And this time, it was not my fault!" Sebastian quickly said in annoyance, glaring at everyone else before the would go and accuse him again.
Meanwhile, Pete and Moggler were looking for where the twins could be, but unfortunately for them, since they had no idea where to go as they forgot to take Iago with them and demand him where to look, they were stuck in looking for the babies themselves and thus, they ended up outside of Radiant City and into Radiant Forest.
Pete in the meantime, due to still not doing exersises, panted in exhaustion before slumping slightly and commented sarcastically, "For what it's worth...I'm takin' over this here forest."
"Not to point out the dumbness, Pete, Kupo. But why did you suggest to look for the twins here in the middle of nowhere?" Moggler asked, confused as they were now a little bit lost in the forest.
"So I can dump ya' in a lake!" Pete threatened with heavy sarcasm, which made his companion flinch worriedly. Calming down and exhausted, he then said, "You know...when those kids probably got a ride to somewheres, I wish we had a free ride too."
Moggler's eyes bulged out scaredly when he noticed something behind Pete and sarcastically suggested while trying not to panic, "How about that Bear, Pete, Kupo?"
"Good idea..." Pete muttered, distractedly when he looked, but then it quickly registered and he and Moggler's eyes widened when a huge brown bear, who looked rather angry and maybe angry, was charging straight towards them quickly.
"BEAR!" Pete and Moggler panicked and quickly made a run for it, only to smack face first into a boulder next to a tree, and stood there flat against it after recovering. The Bear got closer and closer with it's mouth opened, until the two trouble-makers quickly dodged and ran away.
SMACK!(With the Cymbals dinging for sound effects)
The bear hit the rock jaw and face first hard, sliding to the ground and losing consciousness while seeing stars circle around it's head. As for it's two meals, they simply continued searching through the forest and in completely wrong direction.
Well, at least they're far away from the twins.
At the house of the man who's name is Wayne Szalinski who is a crazy inventor, he and Nick were busy trying to find the tag names of the twins which proved to be far more difficult and trying to get the said children to settle down was a lot harder, especially since they also had Adam to worry about.
Suddenly there was a quick flash and a small movement that rocked the house and caused both Wayne and Nick to glance at each other in confusion, before their family dog came racing into the room, whimpering and looking panicked. He dove under the couch and whimpered.
"What's with him?" Nick asked, blinking. His father shrugged as he had no idea what was with the dog either. Seeing how their pet came from the kitchen, the two decided to see what was happening while leaving the twins on the couch while the babies began to play with the toys that were offered to them.
Almost immediately, they saw the problem and the two let out a scream before they cam racing back into the living room, grabbing the twins and hid behind the couch, shock and disbelief and horror very clear on the two men's faces.
"Dad...how?" Nick stuttered in disbelief, while trying to get the twins to stay with them.
"Where were you in the lab this morning?" Wayne replied, slightly scolding and panicking, "Were you watching Adam?"
"He was off to the side."
"But at the moment of discharge, where was he?"
"Just before, I know, he was off to the side. Wasn't he?"
Wayne, in realization as two year olds were notorious of being escape artists, shook his head as he muttered, "I don't think so."
At that moment, Adam came into the living room, but something was completely different about the kid. He was now seven feet tall.
"Boo!" The giant baby called.
At that moment, Wayne knew what had to be done; he had to get his youngest son back to normal size...even if it meant delaying the normal-sized twins' return to their own parents.
Too bad this plan won't go the way he and Nick were hoping and today will only get worse, not only for them, but for the babysitters of the twins.
Just as Aqua's group finally made it to the place Iago had spotted them, their eyes widened in sheer horror as the family van that had took the twins were now already too far and gone off...possibly to the police station.
"Well...the idea was nice while it lasted." Iago commented dismissively.
Half an hour later...
Unwilling to return to Radiant Academy empty handed, completely humilated and guilty for not being more careful for looking after the twins, Aqua, Melody, Ven, Mickey, Minnie, Goofy, Lea, Isa, Iago, Mushu, Sebastian and Strelitzia sat on the footpath in front of the house, stumped and defeated and worried sick, and all knowing that they were going to be in real big trouble and had become jokes to the Academy.
"Headmaster Ansem tried to warn me." Aqua muttered in guilt. "As a babysitter, I'm a big flop."
"Oh, don't blame yourself, Aqua. Most of us didn't pay attention either and got side-tracked." Minnie assured.
"Not to mention that most of us should've stayed to keep an eye out on the kids. It's my fault for lettin' Mushu and Sebastian to keep an eye on them." Mickey added.
"He has a point." Ven added.
"Hey, come on, don't take it hard on yourselves. Sebastian and I messed up as much as you kids did." Mushu pointed out.
"Not mention that the three of us should've been in the lobby or somethin' instead of my room." Lea added, with both Isa and Iago nodding in agreement, as did Goofy and Melody.
Sebastian nodded, concluding, "They're right, Aqua. We're all a bunch of flops."
"Thanks, guys." Aqua nodded, before sighing once more. "How are we going to explain this to everyone at the Academy, though?"
"For one thing, worse case scenario, we're all gonna be expelled and lose our future jobs and have to start right back at square one if we hafta enroll at Galbadian Academy...and I don't wanna go there. Those students there are too snobby!" Lea groaned, burying his face into his hands. "I wanna be a Turk!"
Strelitzia sat there, gazing at the group and feeling very sorry for them. She wished there was something she could do to solve this problem. The problem is, she had no idea how to help in this situation. Suddenly, a car horn got her and everyone else's attentions as they gazed to their left, seeing a taxi slow and being to pull up at where they were sitting.
"Uh oh! Company!" Mushu panicked, before hiding in Ven's shirt while Sebastian hid in Goofy's had as the latter told him to do so since it was the best place to hide, and Iago, gulping, perched himself onto Lea's right shoulder as the group stood up.
Thankfully, the driver and passenger didn't see it, as the latter payed for the trip before getting out of the car and waving a goodbye to the taxi driver who waved back and drove off to find his next costumer. The passenger was a woman in her mid thirties with blonde hair, wearing jeans and a pink shirt an high heels as she approached the group.
"Hi." The woman greeted, "Is there something I can help you with?"
"Well..." Aqua trailled off, not sure how to respond to that. "It's just..."
"We kinda lost twin babies and um, they were taken to the police before we could take them back to their parents." Goofy shrugged, sheepishly, which earned him glares from Mickey, Ven, Melody, Lea, Iago and Isa.
"Are you babysitters?" The woman asked, a little suspiciously.
"I am." Aqua replied, before admitting, "Not a very good one, obviously."
"Most of us were trying to help babysit, but yeah...we kinda lost them." Ven added.
"I was only trying to help find the children." Strelitzia added.
"I see. Maybe my husband found them and took them to the police so that they will call their parents to let them know what happened." The woman nodded, before scolding them, "But you all should've been responsible and kept a better eye on children. As babysitters, it's your responsiblity and you have to keep an eye on them like hawks at all times."
"Yes, ma'am." The students of Radiant Academy said, guiltily, despite that they, Iago and Strelitzia only just met her a few minutes ago. Still, she was right and that only made their guilt even worse.
"Would you all like to come in for soda or tea while you're waiting?" The woman offered after calming down a little.
"Gosh, are you sure it's okay?" Mickey asked, hesitatedly. "We don't wanna intrude you and your family." with the others nodding in agreement.
"Well, considering that you need something to try and think things through, I hate to turn away people who are good hearted and make this sort of mistake. Besides, I live with a crazy husband who always had crazy ideas ever since I've known him. Plus, raising kids isn't easy." The woman replied.
"We'd appreciate that, thank you." Aqua replied kindly.
The group introduced themselves...well, Lea introduced Iago who tried his best to pretend he was just an ordinary parrot, while the woman, who introduced herself as Diane Szalinski who'd just returned from the airport after seeing her eldest daughter Amy off to collage since Amy wanted to study at the Midgar Collage rather than Radiant Academy.
"Guys, I'm home, and I brought visitors." Diane called the moment she and the others stepped through the door. After a few moments, there was a slight pause. "Wayne? Nick? Adam?"
"You have a wonderful place, Mrs. Szalinski." Strelitzia commented. The house was really homey and the living room was admittedly large. Aqua and the others agreed.
"Thank you. It's not much." Diane replied, glancing around while adding, "As for my husband and two sons, maybe they went out to the park or something. Anyway, what would you like?"
"Just a glass of water would be alright, Mrs. Szalinski." Aqua replied kindly.
"Me too, ma'am." Minnie replied.
"I'll have a glass of water too." Mickey replied, as did the others since they all decided it was much easier for the poor woman to handle.
"Would you like some help?" Lea offered with a slight shrug. "Since there's a lotta of us."
"That's really sweet of you, Lea." Diane commented with a smile, which made the redhead blush a little, before he turned to glare at Isa who smirked and snickered.
Diane and Lea, as well as Aqua, Isa, Ven and Melody who also offered to help ventured into the kitchen, only for all of them to pause in surprise, shock and dumbfoundment at what was lying on the floor. It was a stuffed toy bunny that was about the same height as both Aqua and Diane.
"Uh..." Lea began, puzzled. "Didn't know your kids played with toys that big."
"They don't." Diane muttered, dumbfounded, as she picked it up. "It looks just like Adam's Big Bunny toy, but well...bigger."
"You mean you don't know where it came from, Mrs. Szalinski?" Melody quired, puzzled.
The older woman shook her head, before muttering, "The only one who would know is my husand, Wayne." as Mickey and the others came into the kitchen to see what was going on, and like their friends and Mrs. Szalinski, they too were dumbfounded.
Suddenly Mickey was having a slight deja vu with a similiar but complete opposite situation, and prayed that, by the sight of the giant toy, this situation wasn't what he began to fear it was. Before he could even say anything, the sound of a car pulling up at the driveway got everyone's attentions.
"I think that's them." Diane muttered, "Excuse me." before she went to meet and greet the rest of her family, while the others, not wanting to be rude and stand in the middle of the kitchen, returned to the living room to see an unfamiliar man standing there who, at the sight of his wife and the toy, apparently froze up in terror and fear.
"Hi, honey. I'm home." Diane greeted, before noticing something in the man's arms. "Are those twin babies?"
"Wait, twins?" Ven spoke up when he and the others heard this, appearing behind Diane, and true to the woman's words, were two familiar twin babies who were happily giggling and obviously wanting to play. But no doubt about it, and while the group were confused on why the man was here and so were the twins, at the moment, they didn't care and suddenly hope returned to them.
"Oh, thank goodness!" Aqua sighed in great relief. "The twins are okay."
"Uh, uh, hi." Wayne spoke, after snapping himself out of the horrified trance, and then giving his wife a kiss. He then turned to the group and asked, "You know these babies?"
"Yes. I'm their babysitter, and my friends and I have been looking for them." Aqua replied, before asking, "How did you find them?"
"Good question." Diane added.
"I have no idea, except that they were in this flower cart and landed right on top of the van while I was out." Wayne replied, handing the twins over to the grateful Aqua who held them close, and the babies, seeing how happy she was, hugged her as well as they began to really like the young blue-haired woman.
"Thank you so much, sir." Aqua told the man.
"At least they're...uh...you know." Wayne replied, now somewhat nervously. This only made the students of Radiant Academy, Strelitzia and Diane immediately suspicious at the look. It didn't take them long to figure out that he did something wrong and due to the giant toy in Diane's hands, it further proved that Aqua and the others were not the only ones who messed up today when it comes to kids.
He didn't get the chance to say anything further, as Diane now demanded in her knowing tone, getting a little agressive, "Wayne...What did you do, and where did this Bunny come from?"
Realising that he's not going to get out of this and having reached his breaking point, Wayne almost wailed, "Alright, I confess! I did it!"
"Did what?"
Suddenly, the front doors opened and lole and behold, the now seven-foot-tall Adam came in, wearing an over-sized man's coat, knocking on the door and calling out, "Peakaboo!"
"Whoa!" Lea, Ven, and Isa exclaimed in shock and disbelief, while Mickey, Minnie and Goofy, even Iago, and blowing their cover, Sebastian and Mushu all screamed in horror, Aqua, Melody and Strelitzia gasped in shock and disbelief, and the twin babies just giggled, not yet understanding this...then again, neither did Adam since he's still just a baby himself.
"I blew up the baby." Wayne concluded, guilty as charged.
Thud!
Diane's eyes had rolled into the back of her head as she passed out in shock and horror and having landed on the ground with a thud, overwhelmed that her husband had caused her youngest son to grow into a seven-foot-tall giant baby.
"Mama fall down!" Adam cried out, worried. "Mama?"
"I feel like passin' out too." Lea muttered, scaredly. Iago, Mushu and Sebastian all nodded in agreement.
"One of my worst nightmares." Mickey muttered, shaking his head in disbelief and wanted all of this to be really nothing more than a nightmare. First the twins and now this.
Then, another teenaged boy, Nick, peaked from behind his giant baby brother, asking to Wayne about Diane, "How'd she take it?"
"About like usual." Wayne commented, "And so did our visitors, one of them being the babysitter to the twins." while Aqua and the others waved sheepishly at Nick, still stunned by this new events.
"Mama sleeping?" Adam asked, not understanding the shock his mother had felt that caused her to lose consciousness.
Strelitzia, cringing at the fact that the situation had gotten more complicated in Radiant City today, instead decided to comfort the giant child, saying, "Y-Yes, sweetheart. Mama is sleeping."
"Well, hah...A-At least we won't get into trouble with the twins." Mickey tried to lighten the mood.
Oh boy. Looks like today has really gotten a lot more complicated, but as Mickey said, at least the twins are found and they wouldn't have to worry about the police calling the babies' parents who wouldn't find out about the group's own baby dilemma.
But now Radiant City had another big problem.
TO BE CONTINUED...
A/N: Probably not the best one, but this continues in the next episode. This is based on both the Little Mermaid episode "Double Bubble" and the sequel movie to Honey I Shrunk the Kids, "Honey, I blew up the Kid" which was the first film I've seen as a child before the first one, actually.
I'll try and update this again as soon as possible, but I'll be busy in two weeks time and probably won't write again until sometime next month before Christmas, or after New Year's Day next year at the latest.
See you soon!