"Ah! Someone make it be quiet!" Pidge yelled as an alien baby's cry filled the control room in the palace.
"Allura, I know you want to protect all beings, but why did you have to bring a baby back with you?" Lance complained, his temper running high from his lack of sleep and the ringing in his ears.
"I had to bring back the little roseling. She was all alone in her garden and would not have been able to survive on her own." Allura explained in her defense and she bounced the little pink roseling in her arms.
"Allura's right everyone." Shiro chimed in. "It's just in a new surrounding and will need some adjusting and everyone complaining is not helping the situation."
"But it's been crying since we found it." Pidge said with tired irritation in her voice. "How much longer does it need to adjust to everything?"
"Roselings are experts on picking up on people's emotions. So maybe handing her over to someone who is the calmest right now maybe she will calm down?" Coran suggested. "Here I'll go first!" Coran took the little alien wrapped in leaves from Allura's arms and held her out in front of him. The infant was quiet as she stared at Coran. "See! Quiet as a space mouse."
The little roseling started to tear up and began to cry out again.
Pidge screamed in frustration as she covered her ears. "I swear, I gonna make that thing a muzzle!"
"Oh well, guess that didn't work." Coran said as he lowered the infant. "Who's next," he asked excitingly.
Each paladin tried one after another. Lance tried his best to calm the roseling the way he did with his younger siblings. She tried to push him away and almost fell. Hunk tried to tell her a story about space whales flying through the galaxies. She puked acid on his shoulder. Pidge was next and quickly gave her to Shiro when she saw tears swelling in the roseling's eyes. The roseling was quiet for a bit when Shiro held her, but soon decided that she didn't like him as well.
"Ok Keith, your turn." Shiro said as he held out the crying alien.
"Should we even hand her over to Keith? If she's connecting with our emotions, then she's only going to keep crying with him holding her." Lance said as he tried to rub away his growing headache.
"Can't believe I'm saying this, but I agree with Lance." Keith said as he held his hand up to reject to the tiny roseling. "If she couldn't stay calm with you, there's no way she'll calm down for me."
"Just do it. We all tried and now you should too." Shiro said as he tried to push the roseling on him.
"Fine, but nothing is going to change," Keith said as he took the roseling from Shiro.
The control room instantly went silent.
Everyone looked at Keith in surprise. "Wait, just give her a minute. She did the same thing to Shiro," Keith said nervously.
A few more ticks and the roseling was now smiling and trying to reach for Keith, wanting to held closer. "Well, looks like she chose you Keith." Coran said with a smile of relief. "Now all you have to do is keep holding her or stay near her till she fully blooms."
"Wait, no! This is a mistake!" Keith shouted in a panic. "I can't take care of a baby for who knows how long!"
"Looks like Keith's a mommy now!" Pidge laughed out.
"No I'm not!"
"Mama Keith does have a nice ring to it." Lance said, adding on to the teasing.
"Shut up! You almost dropped her!"