A/N: I should mention that King-Dorado is the one who came up with Koala joining in on the chapter (he also came up with the part a few chapter ago that Star should rainbow fist punch Sterry) I was the one who came up with the reason why she did and how she's good at baby sitting. Enjoy!
Chapter 32: Starsitting
Star, Luffy, Marco and Koala were playing a magical version of Chutes and Ladders while Koala explained just why she as hanging out with them that day.
"So the captain wanted to settle the dispute with a drinking contest between first mates." Said Koala.
"Why not captains?" asked Marco.
Koala looked at Luffy and Star. Before telling them.
"The other captain has done something like that before years ago… against a the infamous Red Haired Shanks." Said Koala.
Both Star and Luffy burst out laughing.
"Wow what an idiot!" laughed Luffy.
"I can totally see Shanks trouncing him!" laughed Star.
"Yeah Sabo told me you'd get a kick out of that." Laughed Koala.
"That doesn't explain why you're here." Said Marco.
"I don't like Drunk Molly." Sighed Koala.
"Why?" asked Luffy.
"Uh…" said Koala.
(Flashback)
The crew decided to let loose to celebrate their newest member Keith. Even though he was now the youngest member of the crew (not even 17)… even Molly let loose and she rarely ever drank.
"Oh Koala!" slurred the drunken Molly while hugging said revolutionary/pirate, "You sho cuddly! And sho huggable! Not like Darla… she so stuck in the mud all the time…"
The crew laughed at their second newest crewmember's predicament. While most laughed, Darla looked at the two with slight smirk, happy that their drunken first mate had someone else to hug while drunk.
(End of Flashback)
"She's a cuddly drunk." Sighed Koala.
"Oh!" said Star understanding the satiations.
Marco and Luffy were confused on the other hand.
"Anyways who's turn was it again?" asked Star.
"Mine!" called out a mini-Marco from the board. There were mini versions of the four players.
IT was a magical board game after all.
Marco rolled the dice and the mini Marco got to a spot with stairs so he could go up.
"My turn!" cheered Star.
She rolled the dice and it was a 6. The mini Star hoped along the path but then she saw that five steps ended in the slide.
"Star, you're supposed to go six." Said Mini Marco.
"Well I want to go five." Said Mini Star.
"The rules say you have to six." Said Mini Marco.
'You're not harping on Luffy." Said Mini Star.
Everyone looked at the Mini Luffy who had stopped playing the game all together and started doing his own thing. By riding the slides.
"I think we can all agree that Luffy won't follow his own rules expect for the ones he set." Said Mini Marco.
"Look what if the rules get in the way of the fun what's the point?" said Mini Star.
"Star…" said Mini Koala, "Are you sure you want to break the rules? Because you're going to lose otherwise."
"She's right… this like the opposite of cheating." Said Mini Marco.
"Huh…" said Marco realizing something, "I am… conflicted."
However that was when a portal opened up and out of the portal arrived Buff Frog.
"Buff Frog?" asked Star and Marco.
Luffy looked like he was going to get ready to fight while Koala wasn't' sure what to do. However he then pulled out a stroller filled with the adorable little tadpoles that Ludo gave him.
"Buff babies!" cheered Star.
She closed the game much to the horror of the miniature versions of themselves.
"Star Butterfly! I am needing your help…" said Buff Frog who suddenly start crying and whiny, "My babies! Please be baby-sitting them!"
"Babies!" cheered Star.
"I don't know anyone else to ask." Said Buff Frog.
"I got this! I'm like the crown princess of Babysitionia! Isn't that right guys." Said Star.
That was when Buff Frog's mirror rang and it put it on phone mode.
"Excuse me." He said as he answered the phone.
"You never babysat before, have you?" asked Marco.
"No but I've been a baby once." Said Star.
"Don't worry, I'll help." Said Koala, "I once had a months long mission posing as a orphanage caretaker."
"Why?" asked Marco having learned what the Revolutionary Army does.
"Let's just say that orphanage was a front for something…" said Koala with a darkened expression and seemed to be angry.
The other three looked at each other as she clamed down.
"Don't worry I know how to handle babies and toddlers." Said Koala, "But I can handle babies better."
"We got so lucky." Said Marco breathing a sigh of relief.
They heard that Buff Frog was doing some dirty dealings, involing weapons and torture items.
"I wonder what he's doing?" asked Luffy.
"Not important." Said Star with a shrug.
Buff Frog finished his call
"Here is binder." Said Buff Frog handing Star a binder, "It contains all of babies schedule."
Then he picked up one of the tadpoles who was smaller and had bigger eyes than the others.
"Oh Katrina, my delicate little glassy pearl." Said Buff Frog, "Please be extra careful with her."
"Don't worry it will be fine." Said Koala.
"Totally handled." Agreed Marco.
"Take good care of them…" said Buff Frog then glared at them, "Or else."
Marco nodded profusely. While the other three were okay with it.
He began to leave through a portal.
"Okay daddy has to go to work and he'll be home at 6 o'clock sharp and listen to baby sitters." He said as he left.
Not too long later they brought the little tadpoles to the living room.
"Aw so young! So full of dreams!" said Star, "What bright new adventures do we take you on?"
"A nap." Said Marco.
"Seriously!" yelled Star.
"Naps aren't so bad." Said Luffy.
"We follow Buff Frog's schedule." Said Marco, he handed Star the binder.
She read off how each baby slept as they all had preferred positions, with Marco and Koala putting them in positions.
The last was Katrina who had to be held as she fell asleep. So she was given to Star.
"Okay so what now?" asked Star.
"They sleep." Said Marco.
"And then?" asked Star.
"We feed them." Said Marco.
"And then?" asked Star.
"That's it, they just sleep." Said Marco.
"Oh come on!" said Star, "Where's the fun in that."
"It's not just fun Star." Said Marco.
"But babies need fun!" said Star.
"No they need sleep… lots and lots of sleep." Said Koala, "Trust me you don't want 12 fussy babies crying because they didn't get enough sleep."
"That's better than any argument that I can come up with." Said Marco he pointed to Luffy and Star, "All right you two watch them and we'll make the food."
"Seriously?" asked Star.
"You want to make 12 lunches?" asked Marco.
"Nope!" said Star.
Luffy was about to say something.
"Do you want a repeat of the cupcake incident?" asked Star.
"No." sighed Luffy.
"Okay then." Said Marco.
The two of them looked at the recipe for the babies' food, which was gross and disgusting.
But they managed to get their minds off it by talking.
Meanwhile Luffy and Star were watching them sleep…
"They're so cute!" cooed Star, "Do you think it would be wrong to boop them?"
"I think it would be fine." Laughed Luffy.
"I know… their placidly begging for a boop." Said Star.
She looked down at Katrina who was still sleeping in her arms.
"Boop!" she squeed.
However this woke up Katrina who started croak.
Which led the other babies to croak as well.
"Uh-oh." said Star.
In the kitchen they finished the lunch while Marco finished his story.
"So that's how I finally got my red belt." Said Marco.
"No offense but your sensei sounds like an idiot." Said Koala.
"Yeah… I kind of figured that a long time ago." Sighed Marco.
That was when they heard the croaking. They looked at each other and ran to the living room where Star and Luffy were trying to cheer up the babies and stop them from croaking.
"What happened?" asked Marco.
"I booped." Said Star, "I booped so hard."
"Come on stop crying or ribbiting." Said Luffy trying to cheer them up.
"Don't worry I got Buff Frog's binder." Said Marco he cleared his throat and imitated his accent "To stop croaking feed babies"
"That's easy enough." Said Koala.
"My babies got to eat." Said Star dumping the tadpoles on Marco.
"I'll help." Said Luffy.
However three of the tadpoles started croaking louder when he tried to leave.
The ones that croaked louder calmed down when placed in Luffy's hands.
"They like you." Said Marco.
As the three tadpoles clamed down in Luffy's arms.
"He's going to be such terrible role model." Giggled Koala.
"He is." Laughed Marco.
Star came in with the bottles and lifted them up with magic to fed the babies.
However whatever was in the bottles, it was pink and definitely not what Marco and Koala made for the tadpoles.
The bottles squirted all through out their eggs.
And then they started uh… getting rid of the pink stuff.
"Oh no not again!" yelled Koala.
"What did you feed them?" asked Marco.
"Cake!" said Star.
"You can't feed babies cake!" yelled Marco as the living room was covered in the cake.
"He's right!" said Luffy.
"See~" said Marco.
"You have to feed them meat!" yelled Luffy.
"Wrong answer!" yelled Marco.
Koala thankfully was checking the binder.
"We need to give them a bath." Said Koala.
"Thanks Koala!" said Marco.
"Okay you corral the babies I get the bath ready!" yelled Star.
Star magical up a bath with water while Luffy managed to get the three babies that loved him. however since they were still uh… getting rid of the cake from their system, he tripped and fell into the tub.
Thankfully Star who was in there managed to rescue him.
"That was a close one!" said Star.
"Yeah." Said Luffy.
That was when Star's mirror began to ring.
"It's Buff Frog!" said Star, "What do I do?"
However thankfully the ringing made the babies start to dance.
"They're dancing!" said Star.
'Now's our chance!" said Marco.
They managed to get the remaining babies into the tub.
And soon enough they were all in the tub and soon enough squeaky-clean.
Once they were all dried off, Star realized how cute the scene was.
"This is so cute!" cooed Star then realized something "we have to take a picture for Buff Frog!"
She took a picture, typed out a message, and sent it.
"I'm so glad you're here by the way." Said Star.
"Yeah you've been a real life saver." Agreed Marco.
"You've been puked on by a bunch babies before haven't you?" asked Luffy remembering what she said earlier.
"yeah… but this was worse though." Said Koala.
Yeah… they were puking… it was hard to tell with their eggs though.
However that was when one of the babies grew legs, followed by most of the other babies.
"Legs! Legs! Legs!" yelled Star breaking out.
"Awesome!" said Luffy.
"There's nothing in the binder about legs!" said Marco.
"Marco… their tadpoles, it's part of their natural development." Said Koala.
"Oh… right…" said Marco face palming.
"But that's not the real problem." Said Koala.
"What's the real problem." Said Star.
They began to run around all over the place.
"They've become toddlers…" said Koala.
As they ran around making trouble.
"Okay… I see what you mean…" said Marco.
"Our only hope is that some of them are clingy and would prefer to hold on to us…" said Koala.
However thankfully one of the now toddlers clung onto her leg.
"Well that's one." Said Koala.
Three more jumped onto Luffy.
"Well that's four we don't have corral." Said Marco.
"Five." Said Star, "Lil' Katrina didn't grow legs, she feels left out."
However that was when four of the toddlers kidnapped Marco and dragged him out of the house then ran away to cause more mischief.
Thankfully Koala let him back in.
"We have 7 babies to corral!" yelled Marco taking charge.
"Should we count them as 7? Aren't two of them stuck together?" asked Luffy.
"Yeah Mikhail and Leo." Said Marco.
"Wait I through with Anya and Alexi…" said Star.
They heard a crash.
"Now's not the time." Said Koala putting the toddler that was clinging to her on her shoulder.
Star placed Katrina on the mantle.
They tried to corral the three, but with Star getting distracted as they slide down the stair rail, Luffy not doing a good job (heck the three that loved Luffy were doing a better job at trying to corral their siblings) and Marco somehow getting tricked into
"What time is it?" asked Marco.
"Four minutes to 6!" said Luffy.
"Wait where's Katrina!" yelled Star.
"How did she get away?" asked Koala.
"Must have grown legs." Said Luffy.
"We have to find her." Said Star.
The four of them began to search the house, thanks to being four of them they got it done rather quickly leaving only Star's room left.
"Of course she'd be somewhere in here." Said Koala.
"Even with four of us it would take fever to find." Said Marco.
"I have an idea!" said Star remember something from earlier.
She began to play Space unicorn from her wand, the four toddlers in there began to dance.
The other Buff Toddlers heard the song and ran to the room as fast they could.
They joined their four siblings in dancing.
"All right! Let's go find your sister!" said Marco.
"Marco you have to make it fun!" said Star.
"She's right! At this point they're easily distracted by fun things." Said Koala.
"Hey babies! You want to learn a new dance?" asked Marco.
She created a dance for the toddlers which ended with "Now find your sister!"
It worked and they did find Katrina upstairs. She was in a pile of stuffed toys, which was perfect. However said pile was surrounded by bear traps.
However the weird part was that she didn't' have her legs yet.
"How did she get up here?" asked Luffy.
"And why are there so many beat traps?" asked Marco.
"You're afraid of telling Jackie your feelings but not bears attacking you in your sleep?" asked Star.
"What…" said Koala.
"I'll get her." Said Luffy.
Thankfully Luffy managed to get the tiny tadpole.
Thankfully they got all of them together for when Buff Frog got there, and even time to take pictures for the binder thanks to the fact he was a bit a late.
"Babies!" said Buff Frog.
However he saw the tadpoles got up on their own and he started to cry.
"Hey you okay?" asked Marco.
"I miss baby tadpoles grow legs. Most important developmental stage of child development." Said Buff Frog.
"Katrina hasn't grown her legs yet." Said Star.
"My little late bloomer." Said Buff Frog.
However that was when Katrina grew her legs which were oddly more buff than her siblings.
"Come to papa!" said Buff Frog, she jumped into her adoptive father's arms and he booped her.
"Bye little Katrina-kins. "said Star.
"Don't forget the binder." Said Marco.
"We added a chapter." Said Luffy.
"Aw… Thank you Star girl, Straw Hat Boy, Karate Boy and Pirate Girl I met once." Said Buff Frog, "I will remember this like something I will never forget."
He left with his children.
"I like that guy." Said Star.
"ME too." Said Marco.
"He's a really nice guy." Laughed Luffy.
"We should clean up a bit." Said Koala.
Sometime later, Koala was cleaning up parts of Star's room from the search.
That was when Star's wall mirror and it was Sabo.
"Hey, Molly just passed out." Said Sabo.
"Might be a while until I come back." Said Koala.
"Did something happen?" asked Sabo.
She moved so Sabo could see the three teens having fallen asleep in a pile.
"Buff Frog asked us to baby sit." Said Koala.
"Orphanage mission?" asked Sabo guessing why she was still awake (having heard about the mission before).
"Orphanage mission." She confirmed.
"I wouldn't through pockets when they're asleep." Said Sabo, "Star knows how to defend herself... and Luffy learned how to eat in his sleep."
"Thanks for warning. " said Koala.
"Come back when you can." Said Sabo.
"I will." Said Koala.
They hung up and Koala looked at the three.
"I should hang out with them more often." She said to herself.
With that they baby sat for Buff Frog, getting closer to the new family, as well as with Koala.
Though next time they would baby-sit them hopefully it wouldn't too stressful.
Next Time: Pony Head takes Star, Luffy, Marco and a friend of hers named Kelly to get goblin dogs... said to be the best Hot Dogs in the multi-verse. Will they be able to stand the long lines? Find out next time!
A/N: Something I have to rant about... There's a problem with the names of the Conjoined Twins! In this episode it's Mikhail and Leo but later in Cornball it's Anya and Alexi! Seriously! The writer's forgot to double check or they ret corned it. Oh and I'm even more annoyed.
See I plan for the tadpole that likes Koala to become good friends with her, but I was unsure which one... after looking at the name "Oh Anya sounds cute" then I checked and found she was one of the retconed twins. Then I looked at the names again huh "I'm a Leo... maybe I'll with him" then I found out he was one of the original twins! Seriously! So which ever one I choose is not the conjoined twin will be the one that becomes friends with her.
The tadpoles and Luffy were unplanned... just a little heads up... I thought it would be adorable!