A/N: Chapter 2 of Shirley Pines: Shirley is 12 in this chapter and Ford is in his late 20s early 30s at this point. It's a sudden jump forward but I typed this at 2 AM as a joke and thought it was funny. This contains 2 OCs, and the other belongs to hntrgurl13. We both have tumbles made for our characters so if you want to see some fan art and posts about them then go and check that out for fun.

Almost ten years had passed since Stanley had been kicked out of the house, and while Stanford had moved out and on, he still found that he was not yet free of his life as a brother. Since his twin had left when Shirley was still a baby, the little girl had grown up only knowing one brother/ best babysitter. For the longest time, Stanford had felt a little guilty for all but taking Stanley's place in the little girl's life, but he now felt as though his debt had been paid the day he learned that he would have to watch his kid sister for an entire summer.

"It's just until the end of the summer... And then at least one of them will be out of my quickly graying hair..." Ford sighed, idly holding his mug of coffee as he glanced out of his kitchen window to the two women out front.

One was his baby sister, Shirley Pines, whom had dropped in unannounced for a summer long visit, and the other was his assistant, whom he had affectionately called 'Addi' and whom Shirley simply referred to as 'Miss Marks'. She had taken up work at his Shack as an assistant sometime after he had taken on Fiddleford, and Ford found that this 'Mystery Trio did in fact work better as a team. A three piece harmony had been discovered to kill zombies, and a three keys shut down button for that 'project' they had going were all things that just seemed like good ideas to Ford... Not that he would ever tell Shirley about any of those.

"Shes just a baby, after all... Kinda..." From what he could see from the window, the girls were idly wasting what was left of their morning hours on the steps, discussing lord knows what while out of ears reach of the boss of the house.

'Hi, Ford!' Shirley mouthed suddenly, turning and waving to the kitchen window.

"Heh..." With a gentle huff, Ford was to his feet and was about to go interupt, when a loud, and rather annoying beeping sound cut him off.

"Stanford!" Within an instance, the door leading into the lab was thrown open, and out stepped Fiddleford, and in his hands he held a tracking device of sorts.

"Fidds!? What is it, man?" Ford asked, quickly going to the smaller man, his heart racing.

"I don't quite know what it is yet, but this device here is picking up on high levels of extraterrestrial activity nearby!" The man exclaimed, taking a quick two seconds to adjust his glasses before looking up at his boss.

"What!? This is big! Go get Addi a-" Before Ford could even finish his sentence, the front door flew open and the girls rushed inside. "Ah, just the woman- and young lady, I wanted to see!"

Without letting the man continue further, Shirley twirled quickly to him and all but threw herself into her older brother's arms in a rather forced bear-hug while Addi followed behind her. However, the lighter haired woman didn't make contact with the man, as she held something in her hands instead. Upon a quick investigation, Ford soon found that the object was a baby - bundle shape fashioned out of one of Shirley's hip scarves.

"Do I even have to ask?" Looking down at the two women, Ford soon found the device's beeps fading into the background, and the feeling of soon finding out what was causing them slowly creeping up on him in the form of a headache.

"Brother, dear." Shirley began with her opening that was almost always used whenever she wanted something.

"Sister, whose a pain in my ass?" Ford retorted, gently prying the girl away from him and folding his hands over his chest. "And assistant who I butt heads with at times?"

Both girls had a sweetly innocent look on their faces, but even Ford was smart enough not to trust those looks. Knowing Addi, whatever it was they were hiding couldn't have been anything to dangerous, but the 6 fingered man was not going to take his chances.

"So, we were out in the yard and-" Addi began, holding out the hip scarf for Ford to take. "And we found the cutest little thing."

Frowning, Ford took the make-shift bundle and began to unwrap it. Upon seeing what it had been covering, he nearly screamed. Lying within the purple wrapping, there lay a little thing that looked like the horrible love child of a red-panda, kitten, and maybe a bit of a toad in there. It had huge ears and eyes but no tail and webbed feet with lots of orange fur.

"Can we keep him!? Please! We'll take good care of him a-" Shirley was quickly cut off.

"No. No way. Absolutely not!" Ford gasped, holding the creature out at a distance. "Take this thing back outside so that we can contain it safely."

"But Ford! He's so sweet." Shirley pouted, backing up so that she was standing next to Addi. "Tell him, Miss. Mark."

"Ford, he really is a sweety." Addi added, reaching out and petting the newly discovered creature.

"I don't care if sound science says that he will bring world peace. I already let you keep the shape-shifter, and even he is one pet to many."

"Then at least let us keep him as a friend." Shirley pouted, folding her arms over her chest and frowning deeper.

"Shirls, I am not going to change my mind just because you told me to." Ford replied firmly, handing the creature off to one of his assistance before continuing his stare down with his little sister. "No little sister of mine is keeping this thing as a pet. Its simply to dangerous."

"That may be true, but we have an ace up our sleeves." Addi smirked suddenly, causing Ford to shift in a bit of an uncomfortable way.

Fiddleford sensed his friend's discomfort, and made quick work of escaping back down to the lab with the creature just as Shirley reached into her pocket and withdrew what looked to be a playing card. Against his better judgement, Ford let out a loud and sudden laugh at the sight.

"Shirley, I don't believe in your 'magic tarot cards'." He began as he walked over to the girl's once more. "And neither should you, Addi."

"Oh, but this isn't a tarot card." Addi began with a smirk playing on her lips once more.

"Its ma's number. She told me to call her if there's any trouble." Shirley smirked, folding her arms over her chest. "I'm sure she'd just love to talk to you-"

"So, what are we naming that little guy?" Ford said suddenly, backing away towards his lab, the thought of his mother catching wind of this causing his blood to run cold. "M-maybe Frank or-"

"Yeah, we thought so."