Ch.2 Bed and Breakfast Time
"Sooo…how do we get these things to sleep?" Chiro asked, all the male robot monkeys remaining awake. Nova was still lying in Chiro's right arm, sucking her thumb and hugging the blanket.
"Well, first we will make a crib out of pillows on the sofa…" Said Gibson, already starting to create the bed. Chiro joined, the job being done in 7 minutes flat. Then Chiro laid Nova in it and wrapped her in the blanket that she was holding.
"Now, to get these three to sleep." Chiro glanced at Gibson, who had gotten Sprx to sleep and laid him down, and was now working on getting Otto to sleep. Then came a knock at the door. Chiro walked over, checking a security monitor.
"Oh, good it's Jinmay." Chiro said, letting her in.
"Hello." Jinmay said. "I need to talk to Nova about something we discussed earlie-" Jinmay was cut off by Chiro.
"There's something that you should know…." Chiro led Jinmay into the room with all the baby monkeys.
"Omigosh!" Jinmay whispered. "They're babies! Look how cute Antauri and Nova are sleeping! How did this happen?"
"Long story." Chiro placed a hand on Jinmay's shoulder. "How about you help us get them to sleep, then we'll enjoy some hot chocolate." Jinmay agreed to that, and soon all monkeys were asleep exect Antauri, they gave up on him, and Gibson was close. Chiro and Jinmay went to the kitchen for warm refreshments, while Gibson wandered to his sleeping chamber.
"Ok, so Gibson was experimenting in his lab and asked us all to come in there. We did, but something went wrong and when he poured some stuff into more stuff in exploded and turned Nova, Otto, Antauri, and Sprx into babies." Chiro explained.
"That wasn't long….." Jinmay giggled when she said this. "And you have baby drool on your shoulder…" Chiro glanced at where Nova had been, seeing her drool all over him.
"Great. I'll go change, you stay here. I'll be back in a minute." When Chiro made it back Jinmay had fallen asleep with her head on the table.
"Yeah, it's late." Chiro thought to himself. "Better get to bed." He woke Jinmay up and offered to let her stay for the night. She said no, then Chiro watched her as she walked away.
"Bed…" The next morning Chiro woke to the sound of crying infants.
"Augh…" He mumbled, slowly getting out of bed and walking into the room with the babies. "Alright." He said, turning on the light. "Who's upset?" He then saw that Nova and Sprx had been fighting over something. Sprx, having the advantage of being able to stand up, won, and knocked Nova over and made her start to cry. "Come here…" He whispered, lifting Nova and rocking her so maybe he could get some more rest. Soon, she calmed down, then fell asleep. Chiro then got Sprx, who promptly fell asleep.
"Chiro," Gibson had entered the room. "Today we need to go to the store and buy baby supplies, like diapers, bottles, formula, pacifiers, and towels, but we can't have them with us. We will have to hire a babysitter. I'll stay here with them while you hang these flyers." Chiro took the flyers and looked at them. They read:
IN NEED OF TEMPORARY BABYSITTER FOR FOUR INFANT CYBERNETIC SYMIANS. PLEASE REPORT TO THIS ADRESS TO GET THE JOB, BEING FIRST INTERVEIWED. (Then it had the address)
"Ooohkay…" Chiro took the flyers then exited to hang them. Gibson looked over at the babies, noticing that Antauri wasn't asleep. He was just staring at the ceiling and pointing.
"Come to think of it, you never went to sleep at all." Gibson said to Antauri. "I guess that's your problem, no sleep. More of a problem to us than it is to you, but." Gibson glanced at the other babies, and noticed that Nova was stirring. 'What's wrong now?' Gibson thought to himself. Nova coughed, and then spit up.
"You've done that quite often." Gibson said to Nova who was now awake and about to spit up again. "You must have acid reflux. Let's get you cleaned up." He waited until Nova spit up again to take her into the bathroom and clean her mouth with a wet washcloth. It was not a bright move for him to leave the others alone. He rushed out of the bathroom, Nova in his arms not cleaned up, when he heard someone crying. He wandered in to see Otto crying at the top off his lungs.
"Eek. When will it end?" Gibson, keeping Nova in one arm still covered in her own vomit, picked up Otto, and took him to see what was the matter. That is when Otto said his (second) first words.
"Chiwo!" He cried, trying to say Chiro's name.
"Ah. Separation anxiety. I see…..how about…." Gibson thought a moment then pulled a small carton of yogurt and shook it in front of Otto's face.
"Ga!" Otto babbled, reaching for the carton. Gibson, forgetting about the messy Nova in his other arm, grabbed a small spoon and started to feed Otto the yogurt. Then Nova started to babble, reminding Gibson about cleaning her up. He set Otto down on the floor and hurried to the sink to wash up Nova's messy face. After finished, he decided that the baby monkeys need something to eat for breakfast, and so did he. That would be a challenge.