Chapter 2, A World Without Dil
Dil awakens to find himself out on his front lawn, staring into the eyes of another baby who looks identical to him, only he doesn't recognize it. The baby is wearing a pair of white footsy pajamas, and on his back, he has a pair of blue and green striped wings.
"Hi." Said this flying baby who stood before him.
Dil just looks at the baby in confusion.
"I'm your guardian angel. I was sent here to make sure you don't do anything dumb, but since I'm just a baby baby, I don't always do the bestest job at this task." Explained Gardian Angel Dil.
"Angie! Angie!" Cried Dil.
"Yeah, that's me, and sorry to say, but the world is going backwards, which sadly means, you no longer exist." Explained the guardian angel.
Dil starts to cry.
"Awe, don't cry little guy, wanna see what the world is like without you in it?" The guardian angel asks.
Dil stops crying and nods.
"Ok, here we go." Said the guardian angel, as a puff of smoke fills the air, and now, the angel and Dil are transported to the inside of Tommy's house, on the same day that in his original timeline, he went off into the forrest.
The babies are eyeing the Reptar wagon for the very first time, all of them, looking really excited, except for Tommy, who looks sad.
"Reptar!" Exclaimed Lil.
"On wheels!" Added Phil.
"What do you think it's for?" Chuckie asks.
"I think it's here to take us to the baby store." Replies Lil.
"Yeah! We can take it to the hopcickle, and get Tommy a new baby sister, since sadly, his firstest baby didn't make it." Suggested Phil.
Tommy just takes a deep breath and sighs.
"I don't know you guys." Said Tommy reluctantly.
Dil turns to his guardian angel, a look of confusion on his face.
"So, you're probably wondering, how did this happen? Come on, I'll show you." Said the guardian angel, as another puff of smoke fills the air and he and Dil, are transported to the delivery room, where Didi is about to give birth to Dil.
"You can do it, push now." Said Lucy, as Didi pushes really hard to get Dil out.
But while in the original timeline, Dil is born, healthy and crying, this Dil is born, dead and unresponsive. Lucy takes the stillborn child from Didi's arms.
"I'm very sorry Misses Pickles, but it appears your son didn't make it." Said Lucy disappointingly, as she notices the embillical chord is wrapped tightly around Dil's neck.
Didi breaks down in tears. A little while later, Tommy is brought into the room to his crying mother. He's placed into her arms.
"Oh Tommy sweetheart, mommy's very sorry she couldn't bring you a new baby brother or sister to play with. She's very sorry." Said Didi in between her sobs, as she continues to cry, and Tommy, also upset by this, starts to cry right along with her, as he buries his face into his mother's shoulder.
Dil, saddened by his tragic coming into this world, turns to the guardian angel, tears in his eyes.
"And I'm sad to say, that it only gets worser." Explains the guardian angel, as another puff of smoke appears in the air, as Dil and the guardian angel are teleported to the future, to later on that day when the babies are in the forrest.
They catch up to the babies, who have found the circus monkeys.
"Hey Tommy, how about a baby monkey for your little brother or sister." Suggested Lil, as she puts a baby monkey into a diaper, and puts a blanket on top of the monkey, who's now lying down in the Reptar wagon.
Tommy marches up to Lil, an angry expression on his face.
"No! I want a real bhaby brother or sister, not a monkey one." Demanded Tommy.
"But there's no extra babies here." Said Phil.
Then, Tommy gets an idea.
"I've gots an idea. I'll make a wish on the magic lizard to bring me a baby brother or sister." Suggested Tommy.
"The lizard's only gonna give us one wish." Said Phil.
"Yeah and if you use it up on your baby brother wish, how are we ever gonna get home?" Chuckie asks.
"I've gots to have a baby brother. Someone I can play with when you guys aren't around. I mean, it gets, lonely with no one to play with." Says Tommy, as he starts to cry.
Realizing how lonely Tommy is, the other babies start to cry right along with him, just as Dil scoots over to the group of crying toddlers in the forrest, trying to comfort Tommy and the other babies, only he goes right through them.
"Tobby! Tobby!" Dil cries, but the other babies continue to cry like they heard absolutely nothing out of the ordinary.
"I'm sorry Dil, but in this world, you don't exist. This means, they can't see you, feel you, or even hear you." Yelled the guardian angel.
Dil now scoots back over to the guardian angel on his belly, picks up a rock, and throws it at his head.
"Ow! What was that for?" The guardian angel asks.
"Tobby! Tobby!" Dil cries.
"Are you saying, you want Tommy back?" The guardian angel asks.
Dil turns to look at his crying brother, then back to the guardian angel, and nods his head.
"Well Dil, if that's what you want, then that's what you'll get. I'll now return you back to your home." Said Dil's guardian angel, as another puff of smoke fills the air, and Dil wakes up suddenly, as Stu pulls the car into the driveway, Dil, now in his car seat, realizing that it was only a dream.
Meanwhile, back in the other babies dream, poor Peter is the only one to survive at this point, as he sits on the floor of the living room, now a one-year-old baby, with an inch of dark brown hair on his head, wearing nothing but a diaper and a short sleeve t-shirt that's the same color gray as his old gray Confederate uniform. Angelica and the other babies by this point have all disappeared, because they've now all gone back to the time before they were all born. Realizing this fact, Peter doesn't have much time left, before he too, disappears and he along with the other rugrats, cease to exist.
He then looks out the window, to see that all of the moms are now little girls. Didi, her strawberry red hair pulled back into a yellow ponytail, wearing a pink sun dress, is jumping rope, while Betty, who's dark brown hair is now in two pigtails, and she's wearing a purple dress, kicking a soccer ball across the yard, while Kira is wearing a komoto, and playing with a blue hulahoop. Then, he noticed Charlotte, who now looked very similarly to Angelica as a young child, only her hair is pulled back in one ponytail, and she's still wearing lipstick. She's sitting at a desk along with a bunch of dollies, as she pretends to play office, giving the dolls orders, in a little girl's voice, which sounds very similar to Angelica's. This then sends Peter into a panic, as the baby toddler realizes just how serious this has all become, as soon, the moms will become babies, and it will only be a matter of time, before they no longer exist.
He then crawls over to the robot, and reaches out to touch it, when he notices something very peculiar.
"This robot isn't going backwards, only his head is." Peter thought to himself, as he reaches up to the head of the toy robot, and turns it around.
And this, ends chapter 2. So, will turning the head around on the robot, fix the damage that's been done, bringing everybody back to life? We'll find out, in the last and final chapter of this story, so please, do stay tuned!
Author's Note: So, you may be thinking, Dil never crawled or scooted on his belly at all in the original series. Wrong. Watch the episode, 'Thumbs Up,' from season 6, which obviously takes place prior to this episode I'm altering here from season 8. He is actually seen crawling, as that's how he manages to pull the page about thumb sucking out of the Lipschitz book that was carelessly left in the grass while the babies were playing Follow the Leader. Figured I'd state that, in the event that anybody was confused by Dil's moving towards the babies in the forrest in his dream where he doesn't exist in the chapter.