Undercover Family
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Chapter 44.
It is actually several days before momma is able to come home and we have some upset agents, Aaron and JJ were not able to see their boys, although they did change to their regular child ages after returning back to grandpas house. This pleased Spencer and Emily who did not like the fact that Grandma put them in diapers along with Aaron and grandpa created a nursery for the littlest ones with two cribs and a toddler bed. The boys' room has the triple bunk, which holds Sean, David and Derek. The girls' room had a bunk bed for Penelope and JJ. When they got up in the morning and noticed they were back to their regular child ages, Grandpa changed the beds again to accommodate his aging grandchildren.
The first day she came home, all of her children came running up to her and hugged her and begged to be lifted up and held. She was thrilled to see her children, although there a lot of pleas to make us older or I want to be an adult again. She laughed at these pleas. Grandpa was also interested in talking with her about changing her agents. She instead asks him about the moving truck and did it arrive at the new house that he bought her in D. C. He answers, "Yes."
"Good, I need to go see and have everything put together right."
"Later."
"No, I am not into later. I am having them drive me over there now. Besides even if you want me to change my children, I have to go there any way."
"Why do why have to go there?"
"Because that is where the computer and the machine are." She smiles at the man and he growls back. He got together a group of laborers and agents ready to take her to her new home. It is in the northwest area of the city near the back door of the National Zoo. There are three stories and a basement. On the first floor, you open the door into a foyer where there is a large stairway going up, heading left, there is a parlor room with large bay windows and a fireplace, going right there is a dining room which leads into the big country style kitchen and breakfast nook. At the end of the kitchen is a door to the backyard, there is a door heading left from kitchen into a sun porch and then moving into an office. Continuing back to the front of the house, you leave the office and go back into the foyer, there is a door to the right heading to the basement.
Going to the stairway, you head up to the second floor, the first door on the left opens into a bedroom with a small additional room attached to it. Continuing forward in the hall is a second door to a rectangle bedroom, next to that room is a full size bathroom, heading right you go down the hall and there is another door to the left to another bedroom which has a small balcony in the front, You continue going right down the hall and reach another full size bathroom to the left and going straight you reach another bedroom with a small balcony in the front. You turn right and head up the stairway.
Arriving on the third floor, there is a small bedroom to the left and continuing down the hall there is another door to the left to another small bedroom, going right down the hall there is another door to another small bedroom and going right there is a full size bathroom and going straight there is a last small bedroom.
If you go the basement, there several small rooms where people can play and have private time and there is also a laundry area. She loves her new house and once arriving there she puts the laborers to work setting up the furniture and places boxes in different rooms. She placed her bed in the bedroom on the second floor next to the stairway going up to the third floor. She put both the cribs in the room across from her and put a double size bed in each of the rooms on the third floor and two twin size beds in the other bedroom next to the bathroom on the second floor. The other bedroom she left empty for that is where she plans on having the computer set up.
The director says, "Okay, where's the machine?"
"I don't know, in one of these boxes." He looks at her suspiciously and she just smiles at him. She begins to unpack the dishes in the dining room. "If you want to find it, you'll have to help unpack."
"I'll send some people, do you want to see your 'children'."
"As if I would ever not want to see them."
"I'll send them over too."
"Thank you, father." He leaves the house and his 'daughter'.
Of course, our momma does know exactly what box the machine is in, but how else does she get help to unpack all these hundreds of boxes? She is still the boss and in control of the situation. An hour later, there are several SUV's that park in the back and the front of the house. Ten adults and eight children get out and come into the house on the corner. Momma immediately puts the adults to work unpacking the kitchen, dining room and living room boxes. The children go running around to see the different rooms on the first floor and if they can climb, they go up to the second floor and then the third floor.
When momma gets the machine out, she notices some lights going on that worry her. She starts it up and it seems to go haywire by smoking and then freezes up. She calls Ross and asks if he getting some information and what it says on his instruments. He opens his companion piece to her machine and says, "Oh my god, it's frozen, I have no control, there's nothing. I am not able to change anything and not getting any response to anything. What about you, momma?"
"If I was getting anything, I would not have called you. Can you fix it?"
"I don't know it might take a while. What were the last settings for your agents?"
"Their ages as children."
"That's doesn't sound good momma, let me check things out and I will get back to you."
"Ross, there is a possibility that they can change, isn't there? I was planning on returning them their real ages."
"I don't know if we can change them back right now momma. But I will continue my diagnostic."
"You know if there is a problem, they might stay their current age permanently. Keep doing your diagnostic and I will continue on my end. Get back to me and I will get back to you if something happens."
She continues to check out the machine and begins to take it apart so that she can see the mechanics underneath. What she finds does not please her. There seems to be fused wirings and burnt out circuitry all around the device. It will take time to find the problem and correct it, in the meantime what does she tell the director and her children who want to return to their lives.
Later that day, the director comes over and sees the progress the laborers are making on emptying the boxes. The agent children are doing their thing by emptying boxes themselves. Interestingly they have all decided on a bedroom for themselves even though they know they will not be living with momma much longer. Penelope chose the bedroom on the third floor that is the last to get to, while JJ and Emily each chose one of the other bedrooms on the floor. The fourth bedroom on that floor was snatched by David; it is the one closest to the stairway heading down. He will use the bathroom on the second floor while the third floor bathroom will be strictly a girls' bathroom.
On the second floor there are two bedrooms left for the other four boys. Spencer and Derek took the bedroom with the twin size beds and Sean had them put a twin size bed in the room with the cribs for him and Aaron to share. The boys' bathroom will be the bathroom between them, the other bathroom is mommas and all the 'children' will be allowed to use it.
Momma has fixed some dinner for her family and the laborers before she sends the laborers home for the night. They will come back the next day to finish the job. After dinner, the family cleans up and then the 'children' look at her expectantly. Grandma and Grandpa also are there and are expecting something from her.
She goes to the living room and sits in her rocking chair, the 'family' follows. Grandpa impatiently says, "Well, have you found the device?"
She answers softly, "Yes."
"Then you can change my agents to their adult selves and we complete this mission."
"No, I can't."
"Rebecca, you cannot keep them this way forever, I understand that you love these people as children but they are not children. They need to return to their own lives. That was the deal in the first place; they've got skills and talents that they need to be utilizing."
"I know and I want to return to their real lives. But I can't"
"Rebecca…."
"Director, listen to me. The machine has been damaged and until it is repaired I cannot change them. I am sorry to you agents for this. It appears that a wire broke loose, melted and fried some of the circuitry and components inside the machine. Some of them are very fragile and touchy. Until I can get further into the machine and see how much damage there really is, I won't know if the data is still there."
Penelope asks, "What do mean by the data still being there?"
"The device has your original coding in it and that is why it could change you back and forth so readily. If that data is corrupted, it cannot change you to your original selves under the illusion umbrella that you exist under right now. I cannot remove the device on your wrist without knowing the data is available to stabilize your existence. If I do, the illusion could become your reality and there will no longer be any ability to change back to your former selves. You would remain a child for the remainder of your life and you would not age physically. You would remain exactly as you are right now. I need to make sure the data is there before we take off the device on your wrist. If we find the right components we can transfer the data to another machine which Ross has. I had created several machines, but each is separate from each other in regards to the data storage. There was not a centralized system created to combine the data, I didn't expect that to be necessary. But that's what trials and this experience helps us to learn."
Aaron says, "But, we are the guinea pigs and it is our lives which are being destroyed, not yours."
"Yes, I am sorry to say. Until I can repair the machine and discover the fate of the data, you cannot return to your old lives. I am so sorry."