The second chapter of my baby-verse fic. Also, see if you can find the reference in this chapter.
Okay, finding someone to babysit a baby bad luck charm is not an easy task.
I left the apartment, Skyfire and Cynder flying by me like little puppies. First person, Sonic. He was closest, plus he's bound to have taken care of a kid before. When I got to his house, I knocked. What I didn't expect was a little kid who was about the same age as Skyfire and Cynder were now (two years old) with his five quills sticking out like a star, each quill having a white stripe down each.
"Who are you?" the hedgehog asked. I was about to answer when Sonic came to the door.
"Hey Miranda. Nice to see you've met Nick. So, what brings you here?" he asked. I was about to answer when I saw Sonic's chao, Zombie. The moment I saw him, I decided against letting Sonic take care of Cynder.
"Just came to tell you Skyfire and Cynder got turned into toddlers," I said, turning and walking away before Zombie saw Cynder. Well, count Sonic out.
Next closest person was Shadow. Oh how I wasn't looking forward to this. We were on...good terms, but that doesn't mean I like him. I was soon at the house he and Omega shared. I knocked, and in about three seconds, Omega was at the door.
"Identify yourself," he said monotonously. I rolled my eyes. I should have guessed Shadow was at work.
"Miranda Simmons," I stated, rolling my eyes as he recited all my personal information. I looked down to see a toddler who looked like Shadow Android, and Shadow's dark chao Maria.
"Omega, is okay, Miwanda friend," toddler Shadow Android said, thankfully ending the tin man's rambling. I then asked if they'd take care of Cynder for a week. Let's say that Andy wasn't too keen to answer on Shadow's behalf. And Omega started rambling on about what could happen to the house with Cynder living in it. I sighed, gave Andy and Maria a ghost of a smile before I left. I would ask someone else, but Silver's still in jail, Knuckles is out on Angel Island, Rouge wouldn't take care of Cynder if I paid her in jewels, and Amy...well I don't feel like asking Amy.
I was about to head home, dreading looking after two babies, when I saw Cream's house. Cream had a mother, and Cream herself knew how to take care of a kid. I all but sprinted to her door, Skyfire and Cynder still flying behind me like little chao, and knocked, hoping upon hope Cream was there. I muttered a quick thanks when the little rabbit and her chao answered.
"Oh, hello Miss Miranda. Who is that you have behind you?" she asked, seeing my toddler friends.
"Eggman turned Skyfire and Cynder into toddlers. I kinda need someone to babysit Cynder for a week," I said.
"Why of course we'd babysit Cynder. Good luck taking care of Skyfire," Cream said as Cynder flew to the rabbit's side as she closed the door. I turned and was immediately met by big, sad sky blue eyes.
"Where Cyner?" Skyfire asked, his eyes tearing up. I then realised the big mistake in separating them. They were almost inseparable, and now, two year old Skyfire was missing his friend as if she was a million miles away. I was about to reply, when all heck broke loose.
Have you ever dealt with an upset baby who has dragon wings and control over fire, lightning, but particularly earth, water and air? Let me tell you, it's basically chaos redefined. I was glad we weren't near the ocean, otherwise there'd be a few new swimming pools. Basically, Skyfire's sobs caused deafening booms while a strong wind blew through all of Station Square. Before I could say anything to calm him down, a flyer was blown into my face, and guess who was on it.
Yep, seems Honest Sam can't leave me alone. Considering tearing the flyer into a million pieces, I paused for a moment. When he was seventeen, Skyfire seemed to particularly like setting Eggman's robots on fire, and this sparked an idea.
"Skyfire, you want to burn something?" I asked, amazed at the result. Skyfire immediately stopped crying and looked at me with interest. It seems that particular like was increased a lot since he aged backwards.
"If you stop crying and burn this flyer, we'll get something to eat," I said, trying and hoping I didn't creep Skyfire out with my tone of voice. It seemed to get him excited, cause he already had a flame in his hand and his light grey stripe was glowing again. I let the flyer fall to the ground, and in seconds it was up in a puff of smoke. It was then that I remembered something. Skyfire and Cynder ate big meals in order to have energy to fly. In other words, it was going to be torture to me just to cook Skyfire lunch. The big reason is because I'm a vegetarian. Thankfully, there was a diner nearby, and I had some money in my pocket, so I counted my blessings and took Skyfire to the diner.
After a lunch of sausages, eggs, bacon and waffles for Skyfire and a salad for me, I decided to do what most people seemed to be doing with their toddlers. Take them to a chao garden and get them a chao. My main reason was so that Skyfire would have something else to do other than bother me to play with him.
So, after I signed us in, I watched Skyfire wonder around, trying to find his ideal chao. I saw him wonder over to a group of five chao. One of them had white eyes, a bright green head and a red body. Another was a deep tan colour with emerald green eyes and purple bird wings. Another was dark brown with red eyes and a light blue head. Another was all green with bird wings, a lion's mane, a seal's tail and mole paws. The first four mentioned were hero chao. The last one was a black dark chao with a purple/blue head, dark blue eyes and raven wings. This was the chao Skyfire picked up and liked almost instantly.
"Dis chao is bwu-ti-ful. I callies you Wafen!" he said. As much as I can't understand baby talk, I could guess he wanted to call the chao Raven. He sure seemed happy with his choice, and I kinda liked the chao, and the chao was cooing happily, so I guess it's official. We walked over to the main desk, paid the money and signed the appropriate paperwork. So now it's just me, Skyfire and Raven.