"I'm tewling you, I do not need to be in diapers!"
The poor tiny blond flailed his arms at Bowser, a pair already in his giant hands. If he weren't a toddler, he would already try to cream him or call it a tie if they weren't in the middle of a match. They were currently in the midst of Bowsers dorm. The place wasn't too hot like others expected it to be, the lava was almost holographic. It still burnt like crap when doing so. Not even a week passed and he's still in this tiny body. As if he and Ness weren't small to begin with.
Lucas was taken by the koopa king to be bathed inside his own corridor since he told Red he had teach him how to be a father figure. Lucas was reluctant to let himself be taken by the large ally, thinking he might just get eaten and served for dinner to his kids! Luckily Bowser kept him in a light grip really careful not to drop the boy. "Wait right there squirt, or else!" He wagged a finger to his face.
He didn't take the threat to heart, but once Bowser was out of sight, he stuck out his tongue. His face scrunched, twitching his nose. 'Ugh, this place gives me the cweeps.' he thought wandering eyes landing on everything that said 'TERROR'. The chains. The sleeping chain chomps. The almost too real lava. He felt like shivering and the room was hot, and he just took a bath! That big lug wasn't too bad. If he was able to clean Lucas up, then he must've done the same with the koopalings. Under that hard shell hides the mushiest heart known to the smash reign.
Wrapped in his yellow towel, he looked down his left to see he was on a huge pink comforter. With Peach's crown in the middle. He couldn't believe Bowser could go that far with a crush. He hoped Red could come along soon and start his so called 'lesson' with being a father over with. Being shorter now only means more energy to be wasted, and possibly more strict rules from the adults. He hoped none too bad especially from Ganondorf.
He heard the black curtains ruffle behind the bed, as the wind cools off Lucas' skin from the bath. He took a deep breath, loving the smell of outside. Maybe he could convince Red to get him out for catch or whatever.
"HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" The large girly sound echoed from a statue of Bowser's glory in one of the corners. That made Lucas' skin crawl, jumping in place almost falling if his hands didn't have a firm grip on the blanket. Out from behind the statue came Wendy, in the shape of a rectangle, and came beckoning to the small child. "Gosh, for a toddler now you're even cuter! Lucky for you this id daddy's room or I would've played dress up!" She said cheeks being rosy as she carried a green shell. She gave a small bye, opened the door, and Red gave thanks to Wendy for letting him in. He shuffled inside, glanced at Lucas and his heart melted. Like a Charizard tail lighting his inspiration for pokemon battles.
Lucas chirped, wiggling his arms wanting to be picked up. Red shifted Lucas' seat and put the blond on his lap. "All clean huh?" Lucas nodded his head with glee.
"Finally, your butt decided to make its way down hear." The burly turtle stomped his way carrying one of Bowser Jr.'s shirts. Lucas felt a bit annoyed from the sight of just A shirt. "Well I had to be sure you weren't going to eat him now." Red proclaimed poking his fingers to Lucas' small belly. He went into a fit of giggles and was placed on the bed once more.
"Don't worry Lucas, I brought spare shorts that might just fit you!" Bowser placed the periwinkle shirt, with bold green letters that said 'Daddy's little monster!'. Red laughed to himself on the inside, maybe Lucas was a monster at this age too? Then again what toddler wouldn't be. Since he's two, there would be the phase of terrific vs terrible two's. He felt begrudgingly towards the thought of having to scold Lucas the way he is now. He prays it might just be the terrific or neither and they could get this whole mess cleaned up immediately.
"Get Bowser out! I don't want him seeing me!" Lucas demanded hastily wanting to shoo Bowser out of the room. Sheesh, even at 2 he was a body conscious boy. Growling at being given an order, he complied turning his shell to the children. Red isn't even a child he looks like a fifteen year old for koopa's sake, that can't be normal!
The blond squealed and giggled at putting on clothing since Red would never tease him about his body, not now for the matter. No diaper on, he HAD to make sure he told an adult to get him to a bathroom as soon as possible. For now, Lucas might as well enjoy the attention coming from Red and the smash ladies.
"All done!" Red picked up the toddler, more than happy to be picked up. Squirtle is just about the same size, he may have competition.
"Alright shrimps! Listen up! As the only experienced father in this household, I am going to take you under my wings and teach how it's going to be like as a father!" He stomped his foot with tremendous force it shook the place, making crumbs from the ceiling fall off. Red took the pep talk, nodding his head quickly hoping Bowser won't smash him in if he did something wrong.
"Well, since chibi chan over here isn't in his early stages of a baby, one of the grueling times are over, at least you don't get to experience. First lesson in Fatherhood: Never Leave Your Kid Alone For A Second."
He crushed his fist in front of the elder boy's face to get the picture across to him. A little bit uncomfortable, Red could feel the blue lines of shame appear on his head, clutching Lucas to his chest.
"First thing of having the child is their position in the house. Can't have them in one place and not in the other without your knowledge." From there he started his rant from pacing back and forth about the importance of keeping children here and there. Like Red didn't know that, all children are bound to walk into trouble or so the second adult eyes are off their person. At one point, he remembers when he went to a concert involving milotics and rhyhorns, the curiosity got to him hoping the second he got on either they could befriend him and come home and be his pokemon.
That didn't go so well, when one Milotic splashed water onto the Rhyhorn's territory with its giant drums and an all out war occurred. Red was lucky his mother was there, or he'd become squashed under all of the mayhem.
Red's mom even told him a story about how she ended up lost in a forest, one pretty foreign to Viridian. She was known as a tomboy at the time, knowing nothing would scare her too easily, especially if it was a forest full of bugs and birds. Ghost pokemon weren't a thing to her just yet, but she learned from her experience. She only went in, 7 years old to look for a special ingredient her mother wanted for a soup that went well with it. It was an exquisite green mushroom, found in said lost forest so she had to take the chance.
Being keen on plants didn't budge in her mind just yet, not even the poisonous properties put her mood down.
Through that tomboy attitude, it was only a matter of two hours that her emotions started getting the best of her, and she was frozen in place, crying and crushing the mushroom in hand. She heard some mumbling next to her and it was a big purple spiky beast! A lighter shade of magenta skin, but it sat next to her. She didn't cry from then on, it showed her the way and the two became best friends from then on.
Bouncing Lucas on his knee, he knew Bowsers point for the day and walked towards the giant turtle, putting his hand to... the hidden shoulder part of the shell.
On his last word, the elder felt his jaw drop and peeped down to his left seeing the boy's sincere eyes that he won't lose sight of Lucas. After all he's been through, he can take care of himself but his powers are a bit unstable when young. Red would have to make everyone steer clear if his PSI ends up blasting everyone within sight or if it causes pain in any part of his body, and side effects were a big WATCH OUT.
Looking up at turtle man, Lucas used tiny jazz hands and made a boom motion in opposite directions cheeks puffed out. "I'll take that as a compliment." His room was the prime place of rooms for things to go boom. Somehow to let him know it was time to check the bob-ombs and bullet bills so they do not explode for no particular reason.
"I leave everything to you for the week. Next time we meet alone, It's lesson 2! Knowing what they want when they cry. Now... Go feed him a pixie stick or something." he says shooing them both away so that he could check on his inventory.
"Hah! Yoshi Yo!" (Look at you! You're growing big and strong little man! What's your name?) The poor naive dinosaur asked bouncing up and down in the blond's vision. Man Yoshi may have been annoying when he's regularly bouncing annoying most until they left the room, but to small children he was their baby program hero live in person! It probably wouldn't be the same for Birdo.
Despite Red knowing he had a lesson in being a father, he decided to use a toddler safety leash on Lucas just in case he ends up wandering off on his own or kidnapped.
Ariados was the design, the arms mainly to hold said child, and the spider web in Red's hand. He didn't know how long the rope would stretch if things become drastic, but he prayed that it wouldn't be too short. Besides, spiders can make a ton of silk in one inning from making their web.
"Ah! Ah! I wanna ride Yoshi!" He scattered his phrase to the other.
Red would never get irritated from Lucas for anything, but the tugging on his shorts said otherwise. Not listening to his elder guardian, Lucas hopped onto the dinosaurs padded seat and they started a small trek from the main room from the said mansion. Now that everyone looked at it closely, it isn't like they disliked their home or hated each others presence, though to some degrees they can be tolerated, it sometimes felt a bit cramped. Sure they had a ton of space, and the mess hall was really big, they were more accustomed to homely designs.
Neighbors were probably the key thing missing. Having roommates RIGHT next to said rooms were handy and coincidental if they needed to borrow something or even room sit while they were gone. Besides decorating, they somehow needed room to stretch.
Red had this on his mind for months now, and maybe besides bunking with a now baby Lucas, he had to be sure if he ever cried no one would holler at him to quiet the child down. He prayed Palutena nor Samus would actually do such a thing or else he'd never be a prime father figure to have children. He looked into his little notebook about plans regarding this incident with the toddler and how things were supposed to go.
He was thankful Bowser didn't burn his face with fire to get his point across. He already felt the sass from Charizard when he tells him to keep his tail off the rugs in their room.
Too caught up in his thoughts, the rope stretched out into a pretty far mile. It down a long hallway, down some stairs, left, right and left again from some pillars, moving up to another floor of the place, going in zig zags of some flowers, roundabout onto a giant plush couch (thankfully no crying was heard so Lucas wasn't hurt) and somehow Yoshi sat there in the cafeteria getting fed fruit, by a woman in black hair.
"I say you are a fine specimen in this place. I hope I don't have to finish you off!" She said feeling Yoshi's spikes. She already had the intro of him saying Yoshi so there was no need for a giant hi. "And you little one. My, my you must be... Lucas I presume? I thought you;d be a tad bit older." she said placing her hand to his head.
"There was an accident! I don't know how to tuwn back ma'am!" he said eagerly admiring her friendliness. "Well we can't be having that now can we! Maybe some magic could come in handy," She caressed the boys cheek, and Lucas blushed like a burning popcorn bag.
"You can all me Bayonetta small one. Thanks for welcoming me to the place." she said getting up and walking away. She reuttered, "I'll be sure to give your guardian a stern talking to to leaving such a handsome child like you." She winked walking away, opening a lollipop wrapper.