Gabby felt really worried, and Boba started to feel traumatic flashbacks come to him from when he was ten.
"We're lost!" Boba panicked. "What do we do? What do we do?"
"Calm down, Big Brother." Gabby said. "Mommy and Daddy say if we're lost, we should stay where we are so they can find us."
Boba and Gabby looked around. They didn't see their uncle or their father anywhere. Nor could they spot anyone who worked at the store or a security guard who could help them.
"I hope Lamenta's okay." Gabby said.
Lamenta was still crying as she stayed where she was. She wanted her father and her mother right now and wondered if her uncle was looking for her now.
Meanwhile, Anakin and Carmine were both at different ends of the store, looking for each other's kids.
"Gabby! Boba! Where are you?" Carmine called.
"Lamenta!" Anakin called, tired of waiting for a worker to help.
Anakin was so worried about his niece. Lamenta must have been terrified by now, he thought. But then he thought. Lamenta had a phone! So, he tried calling her on his.
Lamenta's phone began to ring, and the little girl immediately answered it.
"Uncle Anakin?" Lamenta said, still crying a bit.
"Lamenta! Where are you?"
"I don't know." Lamenta looked around. "I'm in a part of the store filled with balls and sticks of all kinds."
Anakin thought and immediately knew where he had to go.
"Stay where you are, Sweetie. I'm coming for you." Anakin told his niece, and he began rushing toward the sports section, when he bumped into someone. "Hey, watch where you're-Agh! I can't see!"
And that was because the one he bumped into was Carmine.
"My glasses!" Carmine exclaimed, looking for the glasses. "I can't see without them."
"Funny, I can't see with your glasses." Anakin said, taking the glasses off his face and giving them back to his brother.
"Where's my little girl?" Carmine said once his vision became clear.
Anakin was about to answer, when he noticed Carmine was alone.
"Where's my little girl? And my son?" said Anakin.
"Uh... they're... around."
"YOU LOST MY KIDS?!" Anakin shouted angrily, scaring people nearby frozen.
Carmine covered his ears from how loud Anakin shouted.
"You know I have sensitive ears!" Carmine said.
"Not an hour ago, you scolded me for losing one kid, and now you've lost both of mine!" Anakin said angrily. "At least I know where one of them is. Find my kids."
Anakin ran off before Carmine could ask where Lamenta was. Carmine had to find his niece and nephew now. But he wasn't sure where to look.
"Oh! Their phones!" Carmine reached into his pocket to get his phone, but found it had a pink case with a white unicorn on it. "I don't remember getting this case."
But then he realized he must've grabbed Gabby's phone by accident earlier. So, he decided he'd try calling his own phone. Unfortunately, Gabby's phone needed a passcode.
"What would a four-year-old use for her passcode?" Carmine tried to think.
He tried entering Gabby's birthday into it, but it was incorrect. Then he tried entering 123456 and then backwards. Then he realized the girl was too smart to use something so lazy as a passcode and decided he had to try another way. But then he remembered a spell his grandmother taught him to use if he ever got lost in the middle of nowhere and couldn't find a way back.
Carmine cast a spell he'd seen Gabby use when growing flowers and held them in his hands.
"Find Boba and Gabriella Skywalker." said Carmine before he blew the petals.
Like magic, the petals flew in the air and went about in the store.
Boba paced around while Gabby sat and leaned back against a giant teddy bear that sat in the aisle they were in.
"Boba, calm down. Uncle Carmine will find us." Gabby said.
"Were you not with him today?" Boba said, looking at his sister like she was crazy. "The man was too busy worrying about our cousin to notice where we were!"
"He's worried about her." Gabby said. "Mommy was as worried as he was when you got lost. I was there."
"But did Mom lose you?" Boba asked.
"Well, no. She held me the whole time. But still. Uncle Carmine only just met us, but he wouldn't abandon us. He loves us too."
Suddenly that was when a bunch of flower petals came and flew around the two kids.
"Hey, what are these?" Boba asked, swatting the petals.
"I think these petals were enchanted by-" Gabby began.
"Gabby! Boba!" a familiar voice exclaimed.
And the kids were so happy when they saw...
"Uncle Carmine!" they exclaimed together.
And the two kids ran and gave their uncle a big hug. Carmine gave them each a kiss and hugged them tightly once more.
"I was so worried about you two."
"Where's Lamenta?" Gabby asked.
"And Dad?" Boba asked.
"Your father's looking for her now." Carmine took the kids hands and said, "This time, we're all gonna hold hands."
Meanwhile...
Anakin managed to find his way to the sports section, where he spotted Lamenta clutching her sheep by a basket of soccer balls.
"Lamenta!" Anakin exclaimed.
"Uncle Anakin!" Lamenta exclaimed.
She ran right into her uncle's arms, and he picked her up in a hug and gave her a kiss, so relieved to see she was okay.
"I'm so sorry I lost you, little one." Anakin said. "Let's get home."
Lamenta hugged her uncle the whole time, and he wasn't going to put her down until they were out of the store... or until they ran into Carmine.
"You found her/them!" The twins exclaimed, when they saw they had each other's kids.
Anakin put Lamenta down and she ran to her father, and Gabby and Boba got teddy bear hugged by their father.
"Are you okay, kids?" Anakin said, caressing his kids' faces.
"We're fine, Daddy." Gabby said.
"Let's get out of here before anyone else gets lost."
But when they got back to the Temple...
"I still can't believe you lost my kids!" Anakin said angrily.
"I worried about my daughter, who you lost!" Carmine retorted.
"We got harassed by cameras! Flashing cameras that blinded me and scared Lamenta away."
"You could've grabbed her!"
"Well, excuse me for not having as much experience with the paparazzi."
"What are you talking about? You're always on the news, so-called Hero With No Fear."
The twins just kept arguing about who was in the wrong more with losing the kids in the store earlier that day. It got so loud anyone who walked by the same room as them slowly backed away.
But Gabby, Lamenta, and Boba couldn't believe this was happening between their dads. They'd finally gotten reunited and now they were fighting with each other. Their days switching dads had started out so great. All it took was one thing going wrong to make them both fall apart.
"This wasn't how it was supposed to go." Gabby said, shaking her head.
"They're fighting even worse than the time my mommy and daddy were arguing over whether they should have a nanny watch me." Lamenta said.
"YOW!" Carmine screamed from the other room, as Anakin just hit him in the butt with a cactus. "That's how you wanna play it?"
"Uh oh!" Lamenta got scared and covered her ears. "Cover your ears!"
And that was when Carmine hit Anakin with a Sonar Wave, which threw Anakin against the wall.
"Okay, that's it!" Gabby said.
And Gabby's eyes changed blue as she activated her water magic, and dumped a bunch of water over her father and uncle. Both of them were soaked, but at least they stopped fighting.
"Enough!" Gabby said. "Stop acting like kids!"
"This doesn't concern you, Gabriella." Anakin said.
Gabby froze at that.
"Lamenta, we're going." Carmine said, taking Lamenta's hand and leaving the room, much to the child's reluctance.
"Daddy..." Gabby began.
"Both of you, to your rooms." Anakin said, and then he left the room without another word.
This didn't look good.
"Maybe they'll have calmed down by tomorrow." Boba said.
But, the twins hadn't calmed down the next day.
At breakfast that morning, Carmine and Anakin wouldn't talk to each other. Lamenta tried to go to her uncle to say good morning, but Carmine called her over to the table on the other side of the room before she could.
Lamenta looked sadly at her cousins as she walked away to sit with her father.
"It is only the morning." Gabby said. "Maybe they'll talk once they've had breakfast."
But, they didn't.
Gabby tried to go to her uncle to talk to him, but...
"Gabriella!" Anakin said. "You're gonna be late for lessons."
"But I don't have lessons today, Daddy." Gabby said as Anakin pulled her away.
"You do now."
"Since when?"
"Since now! I just said that. Boba, you too."
"But I'm not a Jedi." Boba pointed out.
"Just come."
Boba couldn't believe how his father was acting. Now their fathers weren't letting them spend time with their cousins? This was not getting any better.
Anakin and Carmine were at each other's throats all day. Any time they happened to pass by each other, one of them "accidentally" hit the other twin with his shoulder, stepped on their foot, or yanked at their hair. At one point... actually right now.. Anakin swiped Carmine's glasses right off his face and threw them across the hall.
"Hey!" Carmine said. "It's gonna take me forever to find my glasses."
"Maybe yours were dirty yesterday and that's why you lost my kids."
"For someone who's gotten flashed by cameras almost as much as I have, you don't exactly have the best skills to watch just one." Carmine said, looking for his glasses. "Lamenta! Help Daddy find his glasses."
"Found them! They're not broken." Lamenta said once she picked up her father's glasses.
Later, Carmine contacted his wife to talk about something serious.
"Carmine, we are not going to move out just because you're in a fight with your brother." Caroline said. "We've fought many times, and yet we are still married."
"Well, those arguments turned out to be over something ridiculous." Carmine said. "This one was about Anakin losing our daughter."
"Did you forget you lost his kids too?" Caroline pointed out.
"Hey, whose side are you on?"
"You and Anakin need to talk to each other and sort this out. We're not moving out. And if you haven't apologized to each other by the time you come back to the apartment, Padme and I will have you both sleeping on the couch."
Carmine sighed.
Anakin had the same idea as his twin.
"Ani, you only just got your brother back." Padme said. "Is fighting with him really worth it?"
"He lost both of our kids!" Anakin said.
"You lost his only daughter." Padme pointed out. "And we both know he wouldn't lose them on purpose, just like with Lamenta."
"Well... he yelled at me first."
"Still, you two need to communicate with each other. We've fought over worse things. And unless you want to sleep on the couch when you come home, grow up."
Unfortunately, neither twin seemed to want to back down. But, their kids had ideas of their own.
That night, the kids snuck away from their fathers and decided they had to come up with a plan to get their fathers to make up.
"This has gone far enough!" Gabby whispered. "Our daddies can't make us stay away from each other just because they're upset with each other."
"But what can we do?" Lamenta asked. "We're just kids. They're not gonna listen to us."
"Well, when Boba and I couldn't stop fighting once before we met you, Mommy and Daddy got us to work out our issues on our own."
"She means they locked us in a room and wouldn't let us out until we talked it out and hugged." Boba said.
"I'm not sure that's gonna work on grownups." said Lamenta. "We need to think bigger."
Lamenta thought for a bit, and then she remembered one of the fun places she'd gone to with her parents on one of their trips.
"We're gonna be up all night for this." Lamenta said. "But if it's gonna get our daddies to get along again, it'll be worth it."
