"You weren't kidding when you said you needed help with the natural cycles of these two!" Mila said after she looked at the blood samples through a microscope.

Boba and Omega were still popping their wings up at random moments, and Boba's legs randomly became a tail every ten minutes or so. That made it difficult for either of them to do their homework.

Roya came along too. She was originally scheduled to be there simply to visit her boyfriend anyway, but she also worried about him. She and Boba kissed the moment they got close... until Boba fell back as his legs became a tail again.

"Oh come on!" Boba groaned.

"And here I thought a kiss was supposed to make you human permanently," joked Omega, remembering a story Qui-Gon told the kids.

"Very funny."

"You okay?" Roya asked.

"I could be better."

Luckily, Roya had a bottle of water with her. With how much Boba kept randomly transforming, his tail was bound to get dehydrated, which was not good for his human half either. Mer-people in their half-fish form needed to be near water or their tails would get too dry, and it would affect their human form too.

So, Roya got a little water onto her boyfriend's tail before he transformed back intentionally.

"Thanks, I needed that." Boba said.

"Any idea what caused the sudden transformations at school?" Roya asked.

"All we really know is that since Omega and I weren't born with magic, the gold blood cells we got after earning our powers are developing faster than our bodies can balance with right now, and the Heartwoods, Tech, and Mila are doing some research to see if we can speed up the process so they go to the average level and growing speed of the cycle of a thirteen-year-old Enchanted."

"That all sounds complicated."

"Oh, it is." Tech said. "There is no joke about that."

Tech had his arms around Mila's waist as they made observations together.

"Given that both of you were born without magic," said Mila, leaning into Tech's shoulder. "I hypothesize that it would be best to start researching how to treat hormonal imbalance without magic, as well as that of a human Enchanted."

"Are you guys doing research or just looking for excuses to make out?" Teatra asked. She looked at Roya. "Ever since Tech got engaged, he and Mila can't seem to focus on anything besides each other any time they work on anything together."

"I think it's romantic." Roya said. "Just think, that could be us someday when we grow up."

Boba's cheeks turned very red at that moment, making the girls laugh.

"Are you two planning on having kids?" Mariposa asked the clone and his fiance.

"I cannot say I am an expert where parenthood is concerned. But I have looked after the twins and their siblings before." Tech said, slowly parting from Mila to pick up his tablet and do more research.

"Well, one thing to know is that parenthood is not the same thing as babysitting. You would be taking care of your children everyday, depending on what you decide to do with whatever careers you have. Have you thought those things through? You're both so young."

"I wouldn't have accepted his proposal if we hadn't both thought it through." Mila said. "And we are taking things slow where wedding planning is concerned. There are still a few other things to consider, like where exactly we'll live."

"Doesn't your whole family live together?" Boba pointed out.

"Well, yes... but Tech comes from a completely different world than I do, and I rather like it here. Still, I think we should allow our children to be able to see both sides of their heritage. I always knew I'd want children someday. The only struggle was finding the right man to be their father and my husband."

"And how did Tech become the lucky guy?"

Mila had an exceptional mind similar to Tech but neither of them alone, nor the to of them combined could find a scientific explanation for love or how it managed to bring even the most unlikely matches together. But she didn't need science to tell her that she'd found the one for her. And she never grew tired of recalling the qualities that made her fall in love with Tech. Not only was he very smart, but although he processed thoughts and emotions a little differently, he made it clear that he cared for his squad and his family. He could seem a little antisocial sometimes, but when it came to Mila, he felt like he could open up a little more around her. And unlike other guys, he was smart enough not to comment on how it was possible that she was hyper-intelligent and beautiful at the same time, and to know that no one had to choose between having brains or beauty, especially with Mila as living proof that someone could have both.

While both of them had exceptional minds, they also had pretty much opposite personalities. Tech used a lot of technology, as his name implied, but Mila liked to read books and use hands-on experience to invent things. Mila was very loose when it came to expressing her feelings and dancing, whereas Tech tended to retrain himself a little more and rely mainly on facts he knew. And as the saying goes, and is shown through the science of magnets "opposites attract."

"I guess you could say that we both learned to rely more on our hearts than our minds in the case of finding love when we least expected it." Mila said, kissing her fiance.

"Any other girl, I would simply see as another face in the crowd." Tech said. "And yet, somehow, when it came to Mila, it was though I was put under a magic spell of some sort."

"Love tends to have that effect on people," chuckled Mariposa. "Especially when you fall in love for the first time. How you choose to process it though, is never an easy path, especially when and if you decide to have children."

"That I can understand. But it is something that would make my wife happy. If she wants children, we shall have children."

"But do you want children?" Teatra said. "Have you thought about that?"

"That... I am uncertain of. However, I do imagine that if the thought of it makes Mila happy, it would not be a bad idea to experience parenthood with her. While I know it will not be easy, I have consulted multiple parenting sites that may prove helpful in raising future offspring."

"It takes more than parenting books or websites to be a parent, though." Mariposa said. "The most important thing you can give your children is what you share with Mila. Love. As long as they know you love them unconditionally, and that you support them, they will grow into wonderful people."

Later, the kids' parents finally arrived home, but they looked terrible. Qui-Gon had orange paint still in his hair, Anakin's robes were ripped up, Padme's clothes were stained with what looked like cake frosting, and something really stunk as Carmine walked in, him, Caroline, and Susy all covered in some smelly stuff that smelled like alcohol

"Eww! Carmine, what happened to you?" Padme asked, holding her nose when she caught a whiff of her brother-in-law.

"One minute I was helping Caroline move some shopping backs into the trunk of our speeder," said Carmine. "the next our speeder suddenly breaks down, and a skunk comes from out of nowhere and sprays me!"

"The whole store was falling apart as we were in there too." Caroline said. According to her, shelves were randomly falling apart, people kept bumping into each other, and cashiers at the registers kept getting their clothes caught in the register, had the drawer pop out and hit their heads, or accidentally bopped heads with a customer.

"But it wasn't all bad. I found a gold coin on the street."

"But then some clumsy someone spilled a bunch of drinks all over us." Caroline said. "Now we all smell like we've been in a bar for skunks."

"Sounds like everyone's having bad luck today." said Susy. "Come, Carmine. Let's start a bath for you."

"I'll go see how much tomato juice we got in the kitchen." Harmony said, going to the kitchen to do so.

"I'll go get some of the extra bubble bath," said Padme.

"I guess we're not the only ones having a bad day today." Omega said.

"What happened to you two today?" Anakin asked. "Mom called and said you got sent home early from school."

That was when Omega's wings popped up and Boba's legs became a tail again.

"That happened a bunch of times today." Boba said.

"Fortunately, no one was hurt," said Shmi.

"And on that matter," said Mariposa. "Anakin, with your permission, we'd like to take a blood sample from you to aid in our research to helping your eldest twins."

Mariposa explained everything she, her husband, Tech, and Mila knew so far, and how they needed a blood sample from anyone whose experience was similar enough to what Boba and Omega were experiencing in order to concoct a treatment for them.

So, while the grownups were taking care of whatever issues they were facing, the kids went on to doing their homework before dinner.

Things seemed like they might turn out better because spaghetti and meatballs were being served tonight. Except, their lucky didn't change at dinner either.

Anakin took one bite of a meatball and found it to be really spicy, and inconveniently, they were out of milk, so he just grabbed the pitcher of ice water and started guzzling it down, only to spill a ton of it on his clothes in the process.

"Oops!" Gabby exclaimed as she spilled some spaghetti on her dress. "Oh no! Not my new dress!"

"Be more careful with your food, kid and maybe-agh!" Hunter stopped as a little bowl of spaghetti landed on his head, Leia giggling and clapping her little hands.

"Leia!" Padme scolded, only for Luke to throw more spaghetti onto her clothes. "Luke, that isn't funny!"

And then, the salt shaker popped open when Crosshair tried to add some more salt to his food.

"Poodoo!" he cursed.

Then, Tech's tablet slipped from his fingers and landed on his foot!

"Ouch!" Tech held his foot in pain. "Okay, that hurt!"

"Oh, Tech. Pobrecito." Mila said, giving her boyfriend a kiss, only for him to gag. "What's wrong now?"

"Garlic breath." Tech gagged.

"Excuse me?!" But then Mila exhaled into her hand and took a whiff and gagged herself. "Guácala! Your reaction was actually appropriate."

Omega started to help her mom clean the twins up, but Leia threw another bit of spaghetti and splattered it on Tech's glasses.

"I am so sorry, Tech!" Padme said.

"Not to worry, Princess Padme." Tech said, removing his goggles to clean them off, only for them to slip out from his hand and fall on the floor. "Oops!"

And when he went under the table to get them, he bumped his head on the table, and then Wrecker's bowl fell on the floor.

"Aw no!" Wrecker groaned.

"Don't even think about eating that off the floor, Wrecker." Padme said. "Remember last week with the food poisoning you got?"

"But I'm starving!"

"We'll get you another bowl, Wrecker." Qui-Gon said. And he called a droid to get the mess cleaned up.

"Me too. Mine's too salty." Crosshair said.

"And apparently mine has no meatballs," said Kara, poking through her bowl with her fork.

"My eye!" Garrett cried out as a bit of sauce splattered into his eye.

"Oops!" Goldie yelped when she spilled parmesan onto the table and her mother's dress. "Sorry, Mommy!"

"It's alright, Goldie." Mariposa said calmly. "It was an accident."

"Tonight's just not our night, is it?" said Lamenta, biting into a piece of garlic bread, only to find it was too hard to bite into. "Ugh! This garlic bread is as hard as a rock!"

"Talk about a rough night." Boba said, amid the juice he spilled on his shirt.

Even the horses were having it rough at dinner.

"Bleh! Why is my salad full of carrots? I hate carrots!" Diamond whined.

"Wanna trade?" Banjo asked. "Mine's got no carrots at all."

"Here." Diamond switched salads with Banjo.

Carousella decided to get a second helping of salad, only to trip on her cousin's tail and make both of them fall down, Remix getting a face full of hay, salad, and dressing, and Carousella getting her horn caught in the wall after tumbling on the floor.

"Okay, that's it!" Carousella said, pulling herself free. "I'm going to bed early. Goodnight."

"You know, I'm gonna hit the hay early too." Pinto said, getting up from his meal.

"Me too." Gabby said. "I'm pretty tired anyway."

Echo yawned. "I stayed up a little late last night anyway."

"I think perhaps it's a perfect idea for all of us to head to bed early tonight." Qui-Gon said. "Tomorrow will hopefully be a better day. After what we've experienced, I believe we all could do with a good night's rest."

"I should probably be getting home too." Mila said. "Rosella and Pedro can't sleep until I read them their story."

So, everyone did just that. Except, they ran into a few more problems as they got ready for bed. Hunter's hairbrush got stuck as he was brushing his hair, Caroline puked on the floor and just when she'd thought she'd finally gotten over the nausea part of her pregnancy too, Anakin accidentally squirted toothpaste all over the sink when he was getting ready to brush his teeth, Boba ripped his pajamas as he was putting them on, and Gabby tripped on one of her stuffed animals as she was looking for her favorite fuzzy unicorn socks to sleep with tonight.

And then, Carmine fell out of bed, Qui-Gon and Shmi felt a faulty spring in their mattress which led them to sleeping on the couch that night, and the babies woke Anakin and Padme up more than usual tonight just when they were finally sleeping longer.

The next morning, at the Jedi Temple, Mace Windu was the first to wake up to see his beautiful fiance Brenda fast asleep. After their engagement, they'd moved on to the step of moving in together. And, working to prove he was a good husband and a changed man, he decided to let his wife sleep while he got up to make breakfast. Myra and Kade were both fast asleep and so was Strawberry.

Yesterday had quite a few mishaps, but as Mace cooked up some banana blueberry pancakes, nothing seemed to go wrong. And nothing appeared wrong when his family got up either. Brenda's hair even looked really nice as she got out of bed.

"Morning, everyone." Mace smiled.

"Do I smell pancakes?" Myra asked.

"Banana blueberry. Your favorite, right?"

"Yes!"

"Yummy!" Kade looked pretty happy too and wanted to grab some for himself.

"Watch it, Kade. They're still hot." Mace tried to flip another pancake, only to find it got stuck. "Shoot! It's stuck."

Mace dug under the flapjack a little harder, but when it finally got unstuck, it flew through the air and hit Brenda in the face!

"Brenda! Are you alright?"

Brenda took the pancake off her face and said she was fine. "These pancakes could do with a little more cinnamon next time, though."

"You probably didn't put enough oil or butter on the pan, Dad." Myra shrugged. "That's probably why it got stuck."

Suddenly, there was a huge commotion of clattering and clanging coming from one of the other apartments in the Temple.

"Sugar!" Comedia's voice came from down the hall.

Mace left his family to check on Master Mundi and Comedia. He knocked on the door.

"Master Mundi? Is everything okay in there?"

Comedia opened the door with her magic, and inside found a huge mess of pots and pans. Ki-Adi was cooking oatmeal for breakfast that morning, but then a bunch of stuff fell over somehow, and now Comedia had a bowl of sticky honey-filled oatmeal on her head, and there were kitchen utensils everywhere.

"Another bad day has started!" Comedia cried. "I knew it was bad luck!"

"Comedia, there is no such thing as luck." Ki-Adi said. "It is superstitions you are seeing."

"Then how do you explain a bowl on the table just falling on my head as I'm bending down to pick up a spoon I dropped? Or all the kitchen equipment just falling?"

"That, I cannot explain at the moment."

Just then, Mace heard Myra screaming.

"MY GUITAR!" Myra cried.

Mace rushed over to check on Myra, and she looked very upset. The handle of her guitar had snapped right off the body, the strings all broken. It was ruined!

"What happened?" Mace asked.

"I picked up my guitar, and then it just broke right in my hands! It's my favorite guitar too!"

"Calm down, Myra. Carmine and Caroline are both experienced in fixing instruments. We can go see them after breakfast."

But the bad luck didn't stop on Naboo either.

Today, Obi-Wan and his wife came to visit with their little baby Olivia to have a play date with Luke and Leia.

Except, on the way into the palace, Peppermint's tail got caught under R2's rollers and they both ended up falling down.

"Are you both alright?" Obi-Wan asked, helping the droid and unicorn.

R2 beeped to say he was fine and sorry for pulling Peppermint's tail.

"It's fine, R2. It was an accident." Peppermint said, relieved her tail wasn't too badly damaged.

But when Obi-Wan and Satine got inside, they were both shocked to see what had become of the family.

Gabby was stuck to Crosshair back-to-back, Hunter and Padme trying to pull them apart.

"How did you even get maple syrup on your backs?" Padme grunted, pulling her daughter.

"Who cares? Just keep pulling." Crosshair said.

Qui-Gon had to bowls of baby food thrown on his head by his youngest grandchildren, Susy was trying to get some sticky syrup off her hands that spilled from breakfast, Anakin was fighting with one of his venus flytraps as it was trying to eat his pajamas that had pictures of gingerbread cookies on them.

"Stop that! They're not real cookies!" Anakin scolded the plant. Luckily, he spotted some blueberries and fed them to one of the smaller munching plants (which looks like a cute baby Audrey II from "Little Shop of Horrors"), one of which belonged to Gabby and she'd named Baby Blue

"What is going on here?" Satine asked.

"A lot of bad luck, apparently." Caroline said, her hair all askew and filled with purple streaks.

"When did you-" Obi-Wan started.

"This happened by accident. Somehow, purple dye spilled onto my comb, and I didn't realize it was there until it was too late."

"We've all been facing bad luck since yesterday." Anakin said, finally getting the plant to leave him alone. "It's like we're cursed!"

"Anakin, there is no such thing as luck."

"There's also supposed to be no such thing as magic, and yet...?"

Obi-Wan froze; his old Padawan had him there.

"Ouch!" Kara groaned from under the table.

"Has anyone seen my goggles anywhere?" Tech called from one of the bedrooms.

"Have you checked your nightstand?" Omega called.

"That was the first place I looked. I think. Can't see well enough to tell at the moment."

"I found them!" Hunter called, spotting Tech's glasses under a table, but when he bent down to grab them, his pants tore, much to his embarrassment.

A little later, Mace brought his daughter to the palace to ask Carmine and/or Caroline if they would help fix Myra's guitar, but the bad luck still hadn't gone down. And the same thing happened all day everywhere else too, and for three days after that!

On Shili, Naboo, Coruscant, and Alderaan, people were facing all kinds of bad luck!

It wasn't just people falling down, making messes of themselves, or hitting their heads. People lost their glasses, ripped their clothes, crashed their vehicles, fell down open manholes, had their grocery bags rip open and spill their groceries, dropped their phones or tablets and cracked the screens, got electrocuted, burnt whatever they were cooking, or had black pepper spill and make them violently sneeze.

Even in the Outer Rim, people to face bad luck.

But that wasn't the only strange thing going on.

At a familiar base on Florrum, a familiar pirate gang was celebrating as they successfully got their hands on some valuable crystals. With Count Dooku in prison and the war over, their old home was once again safe for them to live in. Well, about as safe as you could be in the Outer Rim. And today they were about to get a visit from someone who was just about to change their luck.

Outside their base came a familiar woman in red. A hot red dress with patterns of what looked like little black shamrocks on the skirt, long red hair on her head topped with a red derby hat with a black strand with a sparkly buckle and a raven feather hanging from it, and her lips red hot like fire.

"Just my luck," said the woman, walking towards the base. "Someone is home."

The pirates outside took one look at the woman in red and were immediately attracted to her.

"Hello, boys." she fluttered her lashes and tossed her long hair back. "What's a lady got to do for a little love around here?"

"A lady as pretty as you?" said one pirate already drooling over her. "Just show up."

"Then you won't mind if I show myself inside." said the lady, walking in, strutting in a rather flirtatious manner, which really grabbed the pirates' attention.

Hondo was no exception to being attracted to her.

"Ooh. You could be my new favorite spice." Hondo said.

"You can call me, Ms. Fortune."

"Tell me, then, Ms. Fortune. Do I have you in my future as my new spice?"

"Hmm." Ms. Fortune then took out a coin with a beetle on it. "Why don't we try your luck and find out? Flip a coin and try your luck."

And she flipped the gold coin.

"Heads!" Hondo called.

The coin flashed and it landed on the floor. And that was when bad luck broke out with the pirates tripping, falling on their faces, spilling their drinks, breaking bottles by accident, ripping their clothes after getting them caught on stuff! All kinds of bad luck! And while the pirates were all busy trying to avoid getting hurt or killed, the lady in red went into their vaults and crates of valuables and took everything, including their ship!

"Thanks for the ride, boys!" Ms. Fortune taunted.

Hondo picked up Ms. Fortune's coin and angrily shouted at her that one gold coin was not enough to make up for what she took. But then she was gone.