Ch.3 Bath and Babysit

Gibson needed to find food to keep the infant simians to be quiet. He tore open the cupboards and looked around the entire kitchen Otto was sitting on the table, Nova was crawling on the floor, Sprx was chasing Nova on two feet, and Antauri was sitting calmly on the counter. Gibson threw a banana across the room, it passing in front of Otto's eyes. Otto looked at it, and before it hit the ground while everything was silent, he said, in a shrill squeaky voice,

"Banana…" He and the other infants began to giggle, Nova even toppled over and Sprx plopped onto the floor. Sprx repeated Otto, while Nova tried to, but only managed to babble.

"HUZZAH!" Gibson screeched, having found a can of baby food. (Don't ask where or how.) He jumped down from the counter and picked up Antauri and Nova, then set them on a chair, and did the same with Otto and Sprx. He grabbed a small spoon for each of them and tried to feed them the food. Sprx threw his across the room, Nova refused to eat hers, Otto played in his, and Antauri ate his calmly until he got hit in the face with some. Then he joined in the fight, as did Nova and Otto. Peaches. Were. Everywhere. Even on the ceiling! Gibson was furious. He growled a bit, but quickly calmed himself.

"Alright. All of you need a bath." He picked up all of the infants, and went into the bathroom. He drew the water and placed each monkey into it, keeping a hand on two at a time. Sure, he got soaked with the infants splashing about, but he was happy to actually have them quiet. After they were all cleaned up, he wrapped them all in a towel and sat down with them. They soon fell asleep, leaving Gibson to put them in their make-shift crib. Gibson sat on a chair, and soon fell asleep himself. Then crying woke him. He slowly sat up and looked around. Nova. Nova was crying…AGAIN. Gibson sleepily stood and walked over to Nova, seeing her lying there making the 'Hungry' Symbol with her hands.

"That is what you get when you don't eat, young Nova-Chan." Gibson said, lifting her and taking her to get something to eat. "Chiro can't be long…" Just then, Chiro waltzed in.

"Back…have a babysitter….Name's Bunjy…..right….here…." Chiro then collapsed on a chair. A small robot monkey with a multicolored helmet, greenish fur, and blue eyes with scars on her face walked in behind Chiro.

"Hi, I'm Bunjy. I'm ready to start babysitting! Chiro interviewed me on the way here!"

"Great." Gibson said. "This one here is hungry at the moment and the others are asleep. Each one has an issue. Nova, the one I am handing to you, has acid reflux," Bunjy started at Gibson blankly. "She spits-up every few minutes, Otto, the green one, has separation anxiety, Antauri, the black one, has trouble sleeping, and Sprx, the red one is a trouble maker. Good luck!" Gibson handed Bunjy Nova, and led her into the other room where the babies were. Chiro hopped up and followed, and soon they left Bunjy alone with the infants.

"Ok, this one pukes a lot, so what do I feed her that won't upset her stomach.…." Bunjy looked around, and then saw some yogurt sitting beside the fridge. Before she could get to it, though, Nova had fallen asleep, so she walked to the other room and laid her down. All of the babies were asleep, so Bunjy sat down and started to watch TV, soon falling asleep herself. She awoke an hour later, no babies in sight.

"Huh-oh…" She whispered. Then Bunjy started to search frantically about. When she came to the kitchen, she saw flour, salt, sugar, pepper, and baking powder everywhere. In the middle of it all was little Otto, covered in flour, so innocently. Bunjy about had a panic attack.

"Eh…eh…." She managed to stutter out. Otto simply tilted his head, stared up at her, and stuck his tongue out for a brief second then sticking it back in, making a loud "Pathup." sound. Bunjy looked to her right side to see Nova sitting there with her head stuck in an empty bag of sugar. Bunjy grabbed Nova and Otto into her arms and went to find the others. No use. She couldn't find them. Then she decided to take a break. She cleaned up Nova and Otto, then set Otto in front of the TV and played Airplane with Nova. (Holding Nova above her head while laying down) Then, she saw a brief flash of red run by.

"Do something to tell me that you saw that." Bunjy said to Nova. Nova stopped giggling as a sickening look came on to her face and her cheeks turned a pale shade of green. Very quietly she burped, then looked about to be sick.

"Not that." Bunjy quickly sat up with Nova and grabbed a dishrag from a chair, then laid it on her shoulder and laid Nova on her shoulder as well. Then she patted Nova's back soothingly, trying to burp her as well as she could. Nova spit-up, as Bunjy had wanted her to do on the rag instead of her shoulder.

"Now, to investigate that…Yeah, first I'll clean you up."