Here is another original chapter that I recently finished writing yesterday. The scenario was created by Grojbandfan55 and he/she said:

"Hello,i love you history. I have a little idea... i am new at this...so...What happen if Kin invents a machine that affects age, but accidentally the machine affects Laney and Jackie and returns at five years old."

Nice to know I am getting suggestions from new people. However, I am doing this one a little differently because instead of Laney and Jackie becoming five years old...well, you'll see how it goes. Also, I got inspiration for this particular chapter from the MLP:FiM episode "Baby Cakes" so that's why you'll see a few similarities. Hope you like it!

Chapter 38

Child's Play

One Saturday afternoon, Jackie and Grojband were at home watching an old sitcom on TV.

"Honey! I'm home!" the husband on the show called out.

The wife gave the man a kiss on the cheek.

"Hello darling! How was work?"

"Oh you know how it is around the office. Just meeting after meeting after meeting. Lucky for me they only had decaf coffee today so it was easy to sleep through all of em!"

The sitcom's laugh track played.

"So, how was the baby today?"

"Absolutely wonderful!" the wife chuckled. "She ate all of her lunch, napped until 3, and I never heard her cry once!"

"Ah, don't we have just the most splendid baby in the neighborhood?"

"We certainly do darling. We certainly do."

Corey was impressed.

"Man, if this show has taught me anything, it's that taking care of a baby is a piece of cake!"

Laney raised an eyebrow. "Oh, is that so?"

"Yeah! I mean, look how easy those guys have it! Their kid is a complete angel and they're happy all the time!"

"Core, it's a sitcom." Jackie told the boy. "It's not as realistic as it looks."

"So what are you saying Jacks?"

"Look, taking care of a baby is a lot of hard work. It takes responsibility, tolerance, cautiousness…"

"Blah, blah, blah!" Corey scoffed. "Easy!"

"I'm with Corey on this one Jacks." Kon agreed. "Being a parent looks like one of the funnest jobs in the world!"

"Yeah." Kin nodded. "I can't wait to have kids of my own." He scooted closer to Jackie. "And I know they're going to have the perfect mother."

"You boys are all the same!" Laney complained. "You always jump to conclusions about stuff before you know what it's like."

"We're not jumping to conclusions Lanes." Corey claimed. "We know for a fact that babies are a breeze!"

"You wouldn't say that if you were the ones giving birth to them." Jackie folded her arms.

Kin stood up on the couch. "I know how we can settle this! Follow me guys!"

LET'S FOLLOW KIN TRANSITION!

Kin brought his friends to Jackie's living room where he was hiding something under a giant white cloth.

"Lady and gentlemen!" Kin announced, making Laney growl. "I now present to you my latest invention…"

The scientist lifted up the cloth revealing yet another strange looking machine.

"…The Age-A-Nator 2000!"

"Whoa…" everyone else said.

"See, anyone who gets zapped by this machine can become any age they want!"

"Really?" Jackie asked. "Any age?"

"Yep!" Kin nodded. "From infancy to the highest point of adulthood. It's the perfect way to make yourself feel older or younger!"

"Awesome!" Corey cried out. "Then we can use it to turn somebody into a baby and prove that it's not that hard to take care of them!"

Laney smirked. "Or we can turn somebody into a baby and prove the exact opposite of what you said."

"Now we just need to decide who to change into a baby." Kin started to think.

"I know!" Jackie got an idea. "How about Tracy? I've always wanted to see what it's like to be the big sister!"

"That's a great idea!" Kin took Jackie by the hand. "That way we can both be the oldest in our families."

Kon glared. "Dude, you're only a year older than me because we went one year into the future and now we can't go back."

"Quiet, little brother."

"So Kin, mind showing us how this invention of yours works?" Jackie interrupted.

"It's easy!" Kin started pressing a few buttons on the machine. "You just enter the correct age into the main computer…" he entered in '5 months'. "…set up the maturity laser…" a small laser cannon came out of one of the compartments. "And finally, push the big red button to fire. So simple even Kon can do it!"

"Cool…" Jackie, Corey, and Laney said simultaneously.

"Hey!" Kon shouted.

"The hard part will be getting the machine all the way to Tracy's room. Luckily, I'm strong enough to handle it." Kin started pushing with all of his might, causing sweat to fall from his forehead. He then stopped to catch his breath and continued pushing. But the machine wouldn't budge.

Kon smiled a little at the scene.

"Need some help 'big' brother?"

Kin panted. "No. I got it."

"Kin, are you sure?" Jackie asked. "We might be able to get it there faster if we all pitch in."

"No way! Um…what I mean is…I can do it Jackie. I just need to put more work into my muscles."

The short teenaged nerd made one last attempt to move his invention, but then he lost his balance.

"Whoa, whoa, wah!" Kin fell over and accidentally hit the red button. The laser cannon began to charge up.

"Hit the deck!" Corey yelled as he and Kon moved out of the laser's range. The girls, however, didn't have time to react because the laser cannon had already fired at them.

ZAP!

The laser created a huge cloud of smoke. All three of the boys coughed. When the smoke finally cleared, Corey gave Kin an angry glare. Kin chuckled nervously and scratched behind his neck.

"Heh, heh…well I guess now I know why Tracy's nickname for me is 'Klutzy Nerd'."

"Hey guys!" Kon called. "Check it out!"

Corey and Kin met up with the drummer and gasped at what was below them. There were now two small babies where Jackie and Laney were standing.

"Aww…" Kin and Kon cooed.

"Wow Kin. I guess your invention worked!" Corey commented. "Lanes and Jacks are totally infantized!" he picked up the baby Jackie. "And they're kinda cute too."

Baby Jackie smiled and giggled.

"Hey guys! I think she likes me!"

"Likes?!" Kin panicked, taking Jackie away from the front man. "Oh you poor thing! Did that blue-haired guy scare you? Kin will make it all better."

Corey picked up the little Laney.

"This is great guys! Not only are the girls too verbally-challenged to complain about our ideas, but now we can prove right in front of their faces that taking care of a baby is easy!"

Jackie and Laney smiled. They couldn't communicate with each other but both of the looks on their faces said 'Let's teach these boys a lesson'. Then they started bawling and screaming really loud.

Kon covered his ears and shouted. "Are they broken or something?!"

Kin rocked Jackie in his arms. "Shh…don't cry Jackie. You know I hate seeing you so sad."

"On second thought, maybe now's not the time to prove I'm right." Corey said. "Let's get the girls back to their current ages."

"Oh…" Kin clenched his teeth. "Yeah, that's gonna be a problem. See, the Age-A-Nator 2000 is only a prototype, so its laser needs to charge for at least two hours before it can work again."

"What?!" Corey yelped. "Why didn't you tell us before all this happened?"

"It would have ruined the plot line."

Kon sniffed the air.

"Hey, do you guys smell something funny?"

Corey sniffed and gagged. "Ugh, what is that?"

Kin peeked inside Jackie's diaper and cringed.

"Uh-oh…"

The babies continued crying. Corey plugged his nose.

"Okay! New plan! Let's find someone else to take care of the babies. Maybe someone a little more qualified than us."

BABIES ARE A LOT OF WORK!

Corey gently knocked on Tracy's bedroom door.

"Ugh! Stop that banging racket!" Tracy called from the inside. "I'm coming!"

The tall teenaged girl came to the door and scowled when she saw three of her worst enemies standing in front of her.

"What do you twizerppy twerps want? I'm totally busy and whatnot!" she pointed inside her room where Macy was pedaling a stationary bicycle connected to Tracy's laptop. "My laptop battery ran out and I can't check hunky Rick Salary's blog every five seconds until it's completely charged and stuff!"

"Sorry, we just wanted to ask a quick favor from you." Corey showed her the babies. "See, Kin's new machine accidentally turned your sister and the band's bassist into infants and we need someone to watch them until we can change them back. Think you're up for the job?"

Tracy looked down at the babies and sniffed.

"Ew! You must be crazy loco if you think I'm going to take care of those…things just to make you happy! I hate babies. And I hate you even more. SO SCRAM YOU NOISY NERDS!"

"Okay, then maybe Macy could watch em for you. She's good at that stuff, right?"

Tracy gasped and got in Corey's face.

"Nice try, but nobody gives Macy orders…" she turned around. "MACY! PEDAL FASTER!"

Macy nodded and she began to sweat.

"C'mon!" Corey begged. "It's just for a few hours! It would really help us out a lot!"

Tracy gave her fakest smile.

"Oh it would, would it?"

The boys nodded.

"Well I'm willing to help by giving you three little words…"

The trio moved closer and listened.

"…I…don't…CAAAAARRREEE!" Tracy screamed so loud that Grojband went flying into the side wall. "Later Garbojband!" she laughed evilly before slamming the door.

Kon rubbed his head. "Man, Jackie must have some strong ears to put up with her everyday. And bones…"

"What do we do now?" Kin asked Corey.

"No problem guys! There's plenty of people in town who'd be willing to babysit!"

The band went across the street to Jack Matterson's place to see if he and the Newmans would watch the girls.

"Me? Take care of two smelly, drooly babies?" Jack scoffed. "You must be joking!"

"Aw c'mon!" Corey whined. "We'd pay you!"

Kim was practicing on her keytar when she heard their conversation.

"Waste two hours of my life babysitting my worst rival and her rotten bassist? Ha! Not even for a million dollars! What do I look like, a mommy?"

"You could have Kim help you." Kin told him.

Kim gasped and imagined herself and Jack as loving parents. She squealed and zipped up to the front of the garage. She opened her mouth to say 'yes' but Jack covered her mouth.

"Don't worry Kim. I'll say it for you. Kim doesn't want any part of your 'offer' and she definitely doesn't want to be known as 'a mother'. And me? Well, you'll never see me fathering any children in the future."

Kim frowned and her eyes filled with tears.

"Understand? Now beat it losers!" Jack went back into the garage. Pools of tears came out of Kim's eyes as she followed her manager back inside his house.

Next, the gang went to town hall to speak with Mayor Swellow. He was laid back in his desk.

"Babysit?" the mayor repeated. "Ha! You kids and your crazy jokes! I wasn't elected mayor just so I could hang around my office and look after a couple of tots!"

"So why were you elected?" Corey asked.

"So I could hang around my office and look after myself! What were you thinking?"

Corey and the twins sighed. They continued looking for someone to take Jackie and Laney for a while but nobody would do it. Billy was too busy running his dozens of businesses around town. Kelsey and Alyssa almost took the job but ran away screaming after they smelled the babies' diapers. Not even Rick Salary was willing to help.

"Rick says sorry, but Rick doesn't do babies. They'd ruin his cool factor." he walked off. "Rick thanks you for thinking of him though."

Corey, Kin, and Kon shared a long groan as they took the two crying babies back to the garage.

"We've gone to every citizen in Tranquil Town!" Kin recalled checking his watch. "And it's only been thirty minutes."

The boys groaned again.

"Okay, looks like we're just gonna have to take care of Lanes and Jacks ourselves." Corey decided.

"Do you really think we can do it?" Kin asked.

"Sure we can!" Corey set down baby Laney. "It's like I said at the beginning! Babies are a breeze!"

"Yeah I guess. And hey, maybe this way Jackie will see how affectionate I am towards her and when she's 14 again, she'll show some love back!" Kin held Jackie cooing. "And you know why? Because I love you! Yep! I really, really do! Who's the most beautiful little baby? Huh? Who is it? That's right! You are! Yes you are! I love you so much!"

Jackie just stared up at Kin with a blank look on her face. She leaned her hand toward Kin making him gasp with excitement.

"Yes! It's working! It's working!"

Jackie then took Kin's glasses and put them on her head. She giggled happily. Kin was surprised but then he smiled.

"Aw, you never change do you? You're still cute even as a baby."

Jackie put one of the glasses' lenses in her mouth and started sucking on it.

"Um, okay. That's enough of that. I need my glasses back now."

Jackie laughed and threw the glasses toward the floor where they broke in half. Corey and Kon gasped and gave each other uneasy looks.

"Oh great. Now what'd you do with em? Hey guys, think you could hand me my glasses? I would get em myself but I can hardly see."

Corey picked up the two halves of Kin's glasses.

"Uh, here you go dude." Corey chuckled nervously.

Kon took Jackie out of Kin's arms while Kin took back his glasses. Unfortunately, he didn't need to see to figure out that he was holding two different parts of them.

"Oh no…" he mumbled.

"Okay, let's not panic." Corey said. "There's two babies so we only need two sets of eyes to watch em, right? It's not like we'll regret this little mistake later on!"

"What do we have to regret?" Kin asked. "Jackie's the one who broke my glasses. Uh, not that I'm mad about that or anything."

"Really? Cause you were furious the last time I broke them." Kon replied.

"That's because you weren't a baby. You were just being stupid."

"Okay enough chitchat!" Corey interrupted. "We're already 2,000 words in and we have to focus on taking care of these babies!"

He picked up baby Laney and gagged.

"First things first, let's change their diapers. They're getting a little ripe."

"Okay fine." Kin said. "Hand Jackie to me."

"Uh, no offense Kin, but I don't think we can trust you to handle the babies without your glasses."

"Oh c'mon Corey! I'm not that blind if I don't have em on!" Kin tried to walk over to Kon to retrieve the baby Jackie but he went past him and tripped over the couch. "Ow…"

"Yeah, not happening." Corey decided. "Jackie's staying with Kon."

"What?!" Kin stood up. "No fair! Now she's gonna like him more than me!"

"You should have thought of that before you gave her your glasses."

"Coochie, coochie, coo!" Kon tickled Jackie's chin making her giggle.

"All right guys! Time to 'change' things up!" Corey announced.

They brought the girls over to the coffee table and laid them on their backs. Corey removed their dirty diapers and threw them in the trash with a disgusted face.

"Well, at least that part's done. Now we just have to put the new diapers on em."

There was an awkward pause. Corey picked up a fresh diaper.

"…So, uh, does anyone actually know how to put these things on?"

"Ooh! Ooh!" Kon raised his hand. "I do! I can do it!"

"Really?" Kin was skeptical. "When have you ever changed a diaper?"

"Well I've never actually done it. But I've seen people do it before on TV!" Kon took the diaper from Corey. "Here! I'll show you! See, you just fold this part here…and then you take this end and tie it around here…and…done!"

Kon looked down and saw that neither one of the girls had diapers on. That's when he realized he had put the diaper on his head.

"Heh…whoopsie…"

Corey sighed. "On second thought, maybe I should do it."

"Hey guys!" Kin came in carrying a white bag. "I found some baby powder we can use! Bring the girls over here!"

"Kin! No!" Corey warned the keyboardist. "That's not baby powder it's-"

Kin opened the bag and a giant white cloud covered the boys. When it cleared, their faces and clothes were all white.

"…flour." Corey coughed.

Jackie and Laney laughed at their appearances.

"Sorry." Kin apologized. "I won't try to get things by myself anymore."

"Ugh…" Corey groaned. "Cue the narration!"

NARRATION CUE TRANSITION!

Corey and the twins spent the next hour taking care of their infantized bandmates. Or at least tried to for they were beginning to understand that babysitting is not the picnic in the park they thought it was. After they changed the girls' diapers, they tried feeding them some baby food or at least what came close to it: a puree of carrots, bananas, and peas. The girls spat out every spoonful they were given, making a huge mess in the kitchen as well as leaving the boys covered in mashed health food. Next they decided to give the babies a bubble bath but that didn't work out either. Jackie and Laney splashed water all over the floor and Kon got soap in his eyes during the process. Things got even worse when the babies wouldn't stop crying. Corey, Kin, and Kon tried giving them a bunch of baby toys but it didn't work. Eventually the trio started arguing over whose toy worked the best and used them to hit each other over the head. After a while they formed a truce, but the crying never stopped. Corey had put together a makeshift crib and he and the twins were currently attempting to rock the babies to sleep. But Jackie and Laney were still bawling and screaming.

"Are they sleepy yet?" Kon sighed.

"Does it sound like it Kon?" Kin answered sarcastically. "At this rate, we're never gonna get some peace and quiet."

"Never?!" Corey's eye twitched and he laughed. "Are you saying that all we're gonna hear for the next twenty minutes is crying?!"

"Yep." Kin nodded. "Better get used to it!"

Corey clenched his teeth and his body started twitching. Finally, he let out an insane laugh.

"I can't take this anymore!" He got into the babies' faces. "Stop crying! Is that all you ever do? We've been working our butts off all day just to make you happy! Now you owe us! So do us all a favor and just GO TO SLEEP!" the guitarist panted.

Jackie and Laney glanced at each other and they went right to sleep. The guys sighed with relief.

"Huh, what do you know?" Corey chuckled. "Brute force worked! Great job Grojband! Now all we have to do is wait fifteen more minutes and then we can turn Jacks and Lanes back to normal!"

"Thank goodness!" Kin wiped some sweat from his forehead. "No more responsibilities! From now on, everything's gonna go our way!"

"Yep!" Kon agreed. "The house is cleaned up, there's no more crying and the babies are gone!"

"Yeah…" Corey paused for a moment. "Wait, what?"

Quickly, the blue-haired kid turned around and screamed when he saw an empty crib.

"THE BABIES ARE GONE!"

Kin and Kon screamed with him and immediately started helping Corey search. Kon checked under the couch, Corey looked behind the TV, and Kin tried to look on the stage but he kept falling over from his poor eyesight. Then Corey spotted a trail of milk drops leading out of the garage.

"Guys! Over there!" Corey pointed to the door. "They left behind a trail of spilled milk! If we follow it, it'll lead us right to em! C'mon!"

Corey and Kon ran inside the house. Kin bumped into the wall before following his friends.

Meanwhile, baby Jackie and baby Laney peeked out from behind Kon's drum set. They were pleased to find out that their little diversion worked and that they were free to do whatever they wanted. The two of them looked over at the band's instruments and got naughty thoughts in their heads.

The boys in the band started frantically searching throughout the house. Corey checked under the couch cushions in the living room.

"Jacks?! Lanes?! C'mon guys! This isn't funny! Come out now!"

"Corey!" Kin called out. "I think I found them!"

"Really?" Corey brightened but then frowned again. "Where did you find them?"

"Outside by the bushes."

Corey didn't even have to turn around to see what Kin was holding.

"Kin…those aren't the babies…they're garden gnomes!" he facepalmed.

"I thought their heads felt a little pointy…"

Suddenly, the two heard a crash. Kon was inside the fireplace covered with chimney soot.

"They're not in the chimney either." he coughed up some of the black dust.

"Did you check the roof?" Corey asked him.

"You mean I had to look there too?!"

Then they all heard another crash coming from the garage.

"Hey…" Corey began. "That sounded like…"

The three of them gasped.

"OUR INSTRUMENTS!"

They all ran back into the garage (Kin bumped into Kon on the way) and were shocked to find the babies playing with their gear. Jackie was playing random notes on Kin's keyboard while Laney was jumping up and down on one of the drums in Kon's drum set, causing it to break open.

"My drums!" Kon cried.

Then Jackie picked up Corey's guitar and started chewing on the strings, causing them to break.

"No! That's my guitar!" Corey shouted.

Then Jackie managed to lift the guitar over her head and smash Kin's keyboard with it.

"I still can't see, but that definitely sounded like my keyboard breaking in half!"

The girls laughed and continued to smash the band's instruments. The boys did nothing but stand still with tears forming in their eyes. And then…

"WAAAAAAHHHHH!" they all sobbed.

Jackie and Laney stopped wreaking havoc to notice their friends crying.

"I can't take it anymore!" Corey wailed. "I can't do it! I just can't do it! Babies are hard! They're impossible! They're insane!"

Kin and Kon nodded while howling.

"Why did I ever think this job was easy?" Corey went on. "I've made a horrible mistake! I don't ever wanna be a parent!"

"Me too!" Kin and Kon agreed. "Make it stop! Make it stop!"

Jackie and Laney had satisfied looks on their faces because the boys had finally said what they wanted them to say. They crawled over to the broken guitar and drooled over it. Somehow, it managed to glue the strings back together. They brought the guitar over to a crying Corey and gave it to him. Corey wiped his tears away.

"Huh?" he picked up the guitar and strummed a few notes. He was surprised to see that the babies' drool kept the strings stuck together.

"Whoa! That's amazing!"

Jackie and Laney proceeded to do the same thing with the keyboard and drums.

Kon gasped excitedly and he busted out a rhythm on his drums.

"No way…"

Kin tried to get up on stage to play his keyboard but he kept tripping up.

"Ow!" he rubbed his head. "Aw man, it's no use. There's no way I can play without my glasses."

Baby Jackie spotted the broken spectacles on the coffee table and stood on her tiptoes to grab them. She put the two halves together and drooled on the place where they broke. Then she crawled back over to Kin, carrying his glasses in her mouth. Kin reached his arm out and he felt his hand touch one of the lenses. He took the glasses from Jackie and put them on.

"Ahh…that's much better." he said. "Now I can see."

The young scientist walked over to his keyboard and played a melody.

"Wow! Who knew baby drool could be used as an effective super glue?"

Kin felt something tugging on his pant leg. He looked down and saw Jackie lifting her arms. Kin smiled and picked her up.

"Aww…Jackie, you're the best." he hugged her. "Thank you."

Just then, Kin heard his digital watch going off.

"Hey guys! The two hours are finally up! We can change Jackie and Laney back to normal now!"

"Yeah!" Kon cheered. "Woo-hoo!"

"Bout time!" Corey sighed with relief.

Kin placed the babies in front of his machine and this time, they behaved. He entered the correct coordinates, the laser charged up and…

ZAP!

When the smoke cleared, Corey, Kin, and Kon were delighted to see Jackie and Laney back to their original ages.

"Yes! It worked!" Corey was ecstatic.

Laney rubbed her head. "Guys? What happened?"

"What's going on Kin?" Jackie asked. "I had the weirdest dream. Laney and I got turned into babies and you guys had to take care of us. We smashed all of your instruments and used baby drool to fix them. But I think the weirdest part of all was that you kept saying how much you loved me. Isn't that funny? I can't imagine you ever falling in love with an ordinary girl like me. Definitely the kind of stuff that only happens in a dream."

Kin blushed. "Oh yeah…sounds like a dream to me…heh…"

"So what have you boys been up to?" Laney questioned.

"Oh we've been through a lot and well uh…" Corey stammered. "Let's just say we now realize taking care of babies is not that easy."

Jackie smiled. "Ahh…so you admit that we were right the whole time?"

The guys nodded tiredly.

"Uh…yep!"

"Totally!"

"So right."

Jackie stood up. "Well then, now that that whole issue is settled, what do you say we get back to rehearsal?"

Laney followed Jackie to the stage. "I'm game. What about you guys?"

No one answered.

"Guys?"

The girls looked behind them and saw that Corey and the twins were fast asleep.

"Uh…should we wake them up?" Jackie asked Laney.

Laney thought about it then she smiled. "Why don't we just let those big babies sleep for a while?"

"Should we at least wake Corey so he can end the chapter?"

Laney watched Corey turn over in his sleep.

"Hmm…nah…I think he deserves a break. We can do it ourselves."

"Thanks for coming out everyone!" Jackie and Laney shut the garage door.

You have no idea how long it takes for me to write these things. This one took days, maybe weeks to finish. The next few chapters are probably going to be shorter than this one for that reason. I'm just glad I got it done. See you guys next time!