After jumping out of the ship, we walked in a hurried run to the formula room. I looked at it amazed.
There were stacks upon stacks of bottles reaching all the way up to the high ceiling. They towered over us on both sides and Ted just quickly took one and sucked the liquid out of it and into his mouth, swallowing.
After a second, he seemed to relax as he waved at me to hand him his brief case, which I did, and he quickly placed his new formula bottle into it, like it was a baby itself.
I however wasn't paying too much attention to this, as I walked through the aisles of the giant stacks of bottles. It was a dim room, with only a little light casting away the shadows, and I suddenly without warning seemed to reach the end of it. I knew this because I bumped off a stand, it tumbling nearly over and Ted screamed.
"TIM! CATCH IT!"
I caught whatever he was talking about, and looked quickly before me to see I had clutched a glass case, the small marble stand nearly toppling over but Ted quickly ran to it and pressed his back to the other side, pushing it back into a stable position.
He breathed a sigh of relief, before turning his eyes up at me in rage and snapped out, "YOU NEARLY BROKE THE RELIC OF THE FIRST BABY OF BABYCORP!"
I looked at him, confused, before turning my eyes to look into the case and saw that before me was a strand of golden blonde hair, that had been held in place by a tweezer like instrument. I placed it carefully back on the stand, and looked at Ted, saying.
"So, the first baby of Babycorp was a blonde?" I asked with a smirk looking at Ted amused by this fact, "Like you," I added and teased, "Maybe a long lost ancestor?"
"Don't be silly, Tim." Ted said, picking back up his briefcase and pointing for us to leave the formula room, "Each baby is unique and unrelated to one another."
"Right..." I said and suddenly the strangest question popped into my head as I looked at Ted, while we left the giant room and entered back to the main hall that was still dusty with shards of glass on the ground, "Hey, so tell me this, Ted." I had to know "Which came first? The baby or the corporation?"
"Only the first baby knows that."
"So where is he?"
"Oh, he was never seen... not even by Huge Boss Baby that is the chief CEO and the longest living baby up here..."
When he said the CEO baby's name, he said it in spite, the two of us stepping carefully across the glass to the office room in upper management.
When we arrived up there, I could see Big Boss Baby was looking at the pie chart, and how the babies' pie size was all but nearly gone. She looked worried, as chocolate was over taking all the love but she turned around in a hurry when she heard Ted's voice call.
"Big Boss Baby!"
She looked so relieved when she saw him and ran over to Ted giving him a sudden hug as she said in delight.
"You are still alive!"
Her voice sounded happy for once, and she let go of him nervously, the two looking off to the ground, not knowing what to say to one another.
"So!" She demanded then, becoming shy, but her voice had turned back to it's general bossy harsh tone (Though I bet that she was just excited) "Did Francis do it?"
"No..." Ted admitted to her, and she only turned her eyes up to my nervous smile, then back to Ted's.
"And...?" she asked, suspicious now.
"He accidentally got a formula bottle..." Ted said weakly.
Big Boss Baby froze stiff when she heard this, like this was the worse possible thing that could happen, and before she could voice her concerns, Huge Boss Baby wobbled into the room, looking at us with a furious gaze.
"...you," he hissed at Ted, and Ted swallowed. "It's YOUR FAULT!" the red headed baby screamed. He began to run forward on his very chubby legs at Ted, swinging a tiny fist at him but Ted dodged it and looked at the CEO baby shocked.
"What did I do?"
"She's gone!" Huge Boss Baby just cried in bitter tears, and Ted looked at Big Boss Baby for some more of an answer. His old boss sighed and said to him, carefully.
"Giant Boss Baby has disappeared..."
"Oh no..." Ted whispered and I looked confused, trying to guess who this was. I blurted out.
"Who?"
The red headed baby snapped his head up at me, his eyes glaring at me as he barked. "My colleague, you BRAT!"
Suddenly the memory came back to my head of the meek ancient dark baby that sat beside Huge Boss Baby and helped calm him when he had lost his cool at the first meeting with us. I startled back, actually stunned myself at this news and muttered.
"Oh!"
"It's YOUR FAULT!" Huge Boss Baby screamed at Ted, and Ted glared back at him just as angry. "You! You've been making the babies disappear!"
"NO!"
"YES!"
"I'VE BEEN TRYING TO SAVE THEM!"
"YOU CAN'T EVEN SAVE YOURSELF!" Huge Boss Baby shrieked at him, tears rolling down his chubby cheeks, "That child is the one always getting YOU out of trouble!"
He pointed to me when he said this, and I pulled a furious face at that allegation as well.
"Hey!"
"You two! JUST GET OUT!" Huge Boss Baby cried and Ted just looked at him slowly, a look of hatred in his eyes, before he turned and began to walk out of the room.
I watched him go, before seeing Big Boss Baby pull a worried look, till she suddenly chased after Ted.
Before I followed my brother as well, I turned to Huge Boss Baby and just yelled.
"Y'know! You're a real jerk! Maybe if you stopped thinking about yourself for a moment and actually listened to all me and Ted did to find the babies today, you'd give up your position to Ted! Because he'd be a much better CEO baby boss than you, any day!"
Huge Boss Baby just stared at me, aghast, his mouth opened, before he dropped on his bottom and just began to cry even louder.
I shook my head a few times, before going out of the room too, looking for my brother and his old boss.
When I found him, he was looking through the glass in a giant empty room, at the clouds all around the building and the stars and moon that had appeared in the last hour up in the sky.
I could see Big Boss Baby was sitting beside him, but only she was doing the talking as he seemed silent in himself.
Cold and distant.
"Look, Theodore..." she said to him with a sigh, and he only stared out at the window as I watched from away, "Huge Boss Baby is just upset... he's worried and doesn't know what to do."
"Yet he blames me..." my brother only muttered and she sighed, adding.
"Well he shouldn't..."
The two were quiet for a moment and she placed her chubby hand on his shoulder, continuing with worried eyes. "The one he should be blaming is-"
Suddenly I yelled, "WATCH OUT!"
The two turned their heads at me surprised, but I ran forward in such haste as I grabbed my brother and his boss, one in each arm and did a tumble on the ground as within a second later, a giant Puppy Co ship crashed through the glass and skidded across the room till it hit the back white wall with a thump.
Me, Ted and Big Boss Baby looked at it, all of us panting out exhausted and terrified breaths, as before us the ship's metal door unlatched. While it slid to the side... the figure of a chubby blonde baby could be seen and I gasped out the words.
"Francis Francis?!"
He looked at us all, and said with a grin as he twirled the formula bottle in his chubby hand.
"You didn't think you two were the only ones with a rocket ship now... did you?"
He began to laugh as he dropped to the floor and toddled towards us quite cheerfully, an evil cheerful if that was even possible.
"Now," he hissed at us, and pointed the bottle like it was a gun at me, Ted and Big Boss Baby as we watched him, all of us steadying our breaths to keep the fear down.
"Where is he?"
We looked at him, confused, till he shouted in fury.
"WHERE IS HUGE BOSS BABY!?"
