*The Theme plays and The Booth comes into focus. *

"Okay, so... I had to make one of these..." regenegel3 said, hijacking the Show before it began again. Of course, after reviewing the material for the day, Doc and Chi couldn't help but agree that her interruption was warranted.

"Alright viewers, we've got a doozy for you this time. It's a Caboose Special folks!" Chi declared.

{Show 7: A Different Caboose}

"Can I get some aspirin in here?" Doc asked. He was ignored.

"Also, this is an AU of Margret Caboose, beginning just after Margret said it must have been hard on Caboose, getting talked down to all the time. Enjoy!" regenegel3 said before vanishing.

/*/

Caboose shook his head at his sister. "Not as hard as you might think, Cap," he said, sounding far more serious than his team had heard him before. "It's actually kinda nice, being at the bottom again. No-one expecting anything from me, no-one worrying about making me mad by speaking their mind... It's been kinda relaxing." Tucker was fairly sure his mind was just blown.

/*/

In The Booth, Doc and Chi weren't much better. "Wait... I know the title was 'A Different Caboose' but... is this an alternate reality where Caboose is just pretending to have severe brain damage?" Doc queried, notebook already in hand.

"Yeah... turns out... I had a really hard time writing a stupid Caboose with a smart sister... and I didn't want to dumb down the sister... so..." regenengel3 confessed, kicking at the floor in the corner where she had reappeared.

"Eh, this is good too," Doc said, barely even paying attention to the uncomfortable author.

"I did manage to re-write this scenario to where he's still damaged but... I still wanted to play around with this one. Enjoy everybody!" regenengel3 told the camera before she vanished again. Chi could have sworn he heard her muttering something about avoiding the flaming rotten tomatoes. What was that about?

/*/

"Does not compute. Does not compute. Reboot. Reboot. Reboot," Church repeated, sounding rather robotic.

/*/

"Still really feel for you, Big Bro," Chi said while Doc snickered.

/*/

Tucker smacked the back of his friend's head, knocking him out of his shock. "Thanks."

"No problem," Tucker said, rather distracted by the smiling Captain and suddenly revealed Second Lieutenant.

"Hey... have they ever seen you without your helmet?" Margret suddenly asked, jerking her head toward the other two Blues. Caboose chuckled and took off his helmet to smirk at his sister.

"Nope. Too many questions," he said, lips tugging a small scar taunt against pale skin. Tucker had always imagined Caboose to be blond with bright blue eyes, but he got a bit of a surprise. The not-a-rookie had short cropped, chestnut brown hair, blue-green hazel eyes, and a rather impressive collection of facial scars.

"How many times did your visor get broken?" Tucker found himself asking. Caboose chuckled, rubbing the back of his head sheepishly.

"A lot?" he offered, eyes almost pleading his teammate's to believe him. Margret laughed heartily.

"So many times he actually got told off by the armor master for it," she said. "Sometimes it felt like he broke a helmet every mission!"

"I wasn't that bad!" Caboose contested. Margret gave him a 'really bro?' look that spoke volumes to the other Blues. "It was every five missions," Caboose said, looking away, a faint blush on his cheeks.

"Right~!" Margret trilled, giving him that special, teasing smile only a big sister could pull off. "That's not often at all!"

/*/

Chi chuckled. "Okay, I like this Caboose. The Sarcasm is strong with this one!" Doc groaned.

"Oh great... now there's two of them," he said.

/*/

Church decided it would be best if they moved to the living room, which was hidden below the main bulk of the base. Margret and Caboose were chatting happily when Kai walked in and froze. "Hey... who's the new girl? And why does she look like Caboose?" she asked.

"This is my sister, Margret," Caboose said, gesturing to the woman beside him. Kai blinked, then contacted her brother.

"Dex~! We've got another Caboose here~!" she sang, clearly unsettled.

"I'll bring the grenade launcher," Dex replied.

"Ah! No! She seems more like you than Caboose."

"She...? OH! One of Caboose's sisters showed up?"

"You knew he had sisters?! And you never told me?!" Kai exclaimed.

"Calm down Kai. I'm still coming... but I'm bringing the missile launcher instead of the grenades," Dex said soothingly. Kai groaned.

"He's bringing the big guns, isn't he?" Tucker asked, giving her a sympathetic look. How he managed to be sympathetic to that, no-one had a clue, but he managed.

"Eyup," Kai said with a sigh.

"Um..." Margret began, raising a hand.

"Um?" Kai answered, turning to the older woman with a quirked eyebrow.

"Who's Dex, why is he bringing the big guns, and why is he," Margret pointed to Tucker, who was curled over and holding his head while moaning, "acting like a scared child?"

"My brother, Caboose is practically a walking disaster, and Tucker is scared out of his wits by Dex for some reason," Kai replied, shrugging off the incredulous looks she received with a practiced ease.

"Yeah, because he threatened to turn him into Swiss cheese before beating him into the ground if he so much as looked at you wrong!" Church exclaimed. Caboose chuckled.

"You're exaggerating, Church," he said smoothly, though not without a good dose of dark glee. "Dex told us no-one would ever find our bodies if something happened to his sister," he finished with an all too cheerful grin. Church gave him what would have been a baleful glare.

"I hate you. So much," he growled.

/*/

"Huh. Seems that no matter what reality you go to, Church is always a bit of a jerk," Doc remarked. Chi turned to him.

"I'm not a jerk," he remarked.

"Alright. But Alpha and Leonard were both jerks. Not to mention Sigma and O'Malley and Gary..." Doc said, ticking off the various Churches that were jerks.

"Okay okay, point taken," Chi said, waving the medic down.

/*/

Caboose just continued to grin at him. "Love you too, Best Friend who Nearly Gave me Brain Damage," he snarked, leaning back and putting an arm around his sister.

Tucker passed out.

Kai gaped.

Church offlined.

Caboose laughed. "Ah~! Payback~! It's a wonderful thing~!" he sang gleefully.

"Wait... what?" Dex asked from where he stood in the doorway, missile launcher in his hands.

"Oh... uh... hi?" Caboose offered, waving at the Red.

"You must be Kai's brother," Margeret remarked, extracting herself from the couch and her brother.

"I only heard there was one Caboose on my level here, not two! And since when were you actually smart?!" Dex balked, pointing to Micheal Caboose. The man was a bit sheepish, a hint of a blush on his cheeks.

"The whole time?" he offered. Dex sighed and shook his head, setting down the missile launcher.

"Can't believe I'm saying this, but I think I'm going to follow Tucker's example. Good night," he said before falling unceremoniously to the floor like a marionette with its strings cut.

/*/

"Well, that's all for now folks!"

"Really, Doc?"

"You really want to keep watching this?" Doc asked, motioning to the unconscious soldiers and the gossiping Cabooses.

"Ah. Good point. Leave a review on your way out!"

"Good night everybody!"