Yumyulack's New Interest
(This takes place after season 2 and the Christmas Special of the Solar Opposites AU where the Solar Opposites get a nanny after season 1, since I own some of the characters and the Alternate Universe here. But I do not own Solar Opposites and their characters, they belong to Justin Roiland and Mike McMahan for Hulu. I would like to give a shout-out to ribbonetta for proofreading this work.)
The town of Geenadavisville is full of wacky hijinks, and there is never a moment of peace thanks to its new inhabitants the Solar Opposites. The family of Shlorpians and their pupa crash-landed on Earth by accident after their home world got hit by an asteroid, forcing a hundred ships of adults and their replicants to spread out and find a planet to terraform. But enough about that, the Solar Opposites were getting ready for Taco Tuesday night (even though it was a trick Korvo uses to make the family listen to him read ship repair manuals). Their nanny, Phoebe, was helping Korvo prepare everything needed for Taco Tuesday while Terry, being the lazy piece of shit that he is, just sit on the couch playing on his Switch. Jesse was up in her room with the Pupa, having finished her homework and was now texting her best friend Monica on the phone. Yumyulack, on the other hand, was about to head out. But he was stopped by Korvo, who had finished making the taco meat.
"Where do you think you're going?" demands Korvo. "You know that tonight's Taco Tuesday."
"I'm just going to Darryl's house for Dungeons and Dragons. His dorky cousin is staying over for the week and he is showing us how to play it," Yumyulack explained to his clone father, who looked at him like he was speaking a foreign language.
"What the fuck is Dungeons and Dragons?" the team leader asked nonplussed. "Is this some kind of kinky sex thing you teenagers do with dragons?"
Yumyulack rolled his eyes at Korvo's lack of knowledge to Dungeons and Dragons, then pulled out his phone and typed something on it.
"It's a role-playing game where you can play any hero and go on an adventure," explained the young bounty hunter, showing Korvo a video of people playing Dungeons and Dragons on his device. This still didn't convince Korvo to let him go play at Darryl's place, and instead he went on a rant about how stupid it sounds.
"Dungeons and Dragons makes no sense, it's just people sitting at a table rolling dice for some made up adventure! Why don't they go out and slay real things? Everything is gross on this planet and should be slayed!" the team leader ranted. At the same time, Phoebe came in the living room to see what riled Korvo up this time.
"What are you yammering about this time?" the nanny simply asked.
"Korvo is all wazzed off because Yumyulack wanted to go to Darryl's place for Dungeons and Dragons night instead of being tricked into listening to Korvo read ship repair manuals," Terry explained nonchalantly to Phoebe, not taking his eyes off his Switch.
"I have every right to be wazzed off! I did not allow this on an important night like this!" Korvo stated with authority.
"Phoebe and Terry said I can go," Yumyulack states.
"What?!" the stubborn Shlorpian exclaimed in shock.
"It's true, we allowed him to go on the condition that he improves his behavior by not getting into any form of trouble in and outside of school and helping around the house a little more. And Yumyulack held his end of the deal," Phoebe stated matter-of-factly before she turned to Terry with a stern look. "I thought you were going to tell Korvo, since I was out running errands at the time."
"Sorry about that, Phoebs. I totally forgot," the green alien said nonchalantly, still not taking his eyes off his Switch. The southern nanny just sighed in exhaustion because she knew well how easily distracted Terry is. She wondered why she even bothered trying to make Terry a little more responsible. Korvo, however, was just getting irritated by now.
"Whatever, I still won't allow this!" the blue alien rudely stated, then began starts his petty tirade. "I'm team leader, my words are law! If you don't like it, then I'll use the Earth-Eraser to destroy us all!" He was about to pull the device from his hiding spot behind the couch, but it wasn't there.
"What the fuck?" Korvo said with wide eyes as he began to frantically search for it. "Phoebe, where is the Earth-Eraser?"
"I hid it, because I am sick and tired of you using the damn thing to win arguments," Phoebe answered bluntly, then turned her attention to Yumyulack. "You can go to your friend's house, sweetie. Don't forget to be back by 8:30."
"Thanks, Phoebe! You're the best!" Yumyulack called out before heading out and closing the door behind him. Korvo glared at Phoebe with content.
"Do you have any fucking idea what you have done!?" the team leader demanded.
"She's got a point, you do use that Earth-Eraser too much in an argument," Terry pointed out in a devil-may-care attitude.
"Shut the fuck up, Terry! You don't even know what's going on, just go back on your stupid game!" Korvo told his teammate/husband in an irritated tone, which the pupa specialist didn't mind and let Korvo and Phoebe work things out.
"You're being a drama queen, Korvo," Phoebe pointed out. "Yumyulack is just having fun with his friends and he seems to really like Dungeons and Dragons."
"That's the problem, you are encouraging Yumyulack to distance himself from the mission and the family," Korvo argued dramatically. The nanny just rolled her eyes at this, because Korvo acts this way over changes or being excluded in things.
"He is not, Korvo. Like I said, he really likes playing Dungeons and Dragons and maybe you would too if you give it a try," she said in a matter-of-fact tone.
"Never going to happen, not if I…" Korvo didn't get the chance to finish his sentence, as Phoebe cut him off.
"Don't you even think about outlawing Dungeons and Dragons, like you did with dinner parties." The southern woman remembered vaguely of the last time he overreacted to something he didn't like, with the Napadoodles and having to show them who is the alpha. Then having to apologize to the people that got turned into wine back to normal. That was not a pleasant experience.
This caused Korvo to have a mini conniption before running upstairs, yelling "Nobody gets me!", like a teenager who is mad at the world. He bumped into Jesse halfway up the stairs (who was holding the Pupa), but she was able to compose herself.
"What's his problem? Is he on his zeriod or something?" Jesse asked as she got down to the bottom of the stairs, setting the Pupa down on the ground. The Pupa slithered over to the family nanny, tugging on her pant leg to signal her to pick him up.
"It's nothing, honey. Korvo is being a little drama queen over the fact that Yumyulack is playing Dungeons and Dragons with his friends," Phoebe causally explained to the young alien girl as she picked up the adorable creature.
"Yeah, he can be melodramatic about everything," said Jesse as she is used to her father figure's behavior. "It's kinda like in his nature."
"We can't change who he is, since we will be stooping to his level," Phoebe agreed, because of the whole Lake House Device incident.
"Phoebe, is dinner ready? I'm getting hungry," asked Terry as he set down his Switch on the coffee table.
"Actually, I got it done before Korvo started his little rant," the human woman answered, heading towards the kitchen. "Let's eat before it get cold and Terry don't eat too much, you know what Mexican food does to you."
"Got it!" the lazy alien happily confirmed, then headed to the dining room with his daughter. "At least we can enjoy Taco Tuesday for once, without Korvo tricking us into work."
"I hope Korvo isn't too mad by the whole ordeal," Jesse commented, not knowing that Korvo wass upset by the whole ordeal. He locked himself in the ship, pacing back and forth, angrily mumbling about how unfair everything is and who does Phoebe think she is. This caught the attention of the ship's computer, AISHA.
"Korvo, what the hell are you doing up here, pacing back and forth, mumbling to yourself like a fucking lunatic?" asked an annoyed AISHA. "Shouldn't you be tricking them into listening to you read repair manuals?"
Korvo stopped in his tracks, taking angry look at the floating orbs.
"Yumyulack would rather role-play Dungeons and Dragons than listen to me read manuals," the moody alien stated in dismay. "Phoebe wouldn't let me do anything about it, because she is trying to make Yumyulack cut ties with his family!"
"Korvo, that's the stupidest shit I have ever heard and I expected that from Terry," the ship's computer pointed out. "If you are concerned about Yumyulack not spending time at home, why not start playing the game yourself?"
"You sound a lot like Phoebe," Korvo rudely commented, since AISHA finds Phoebe's company enjoyable.
"Just give the damn game a chance, man! I can give you every Dungeons and Dragons guideline and rule book ever made. I'll throw in the whole history of DnD to top it off, since I know you love busy work," AISHA stated as she made a lot of books appear out of thin air, knowing that this will make him busy, instead of doing something like use the time vest to prevent the Dungeons and Dragons from being invented.
"Well, I do like busy work," the blue alien agreed. Thus, began his study of Dungeons and Dragons.
Jesse came by the ship's entrance with Korvo's dinner, but knew that the ship was locked. She knocked on the hatch a few times, but there was no answer.
"Hey, Korvo. I'm here to bring you your dinner, just the way you like it," said the team chronicler, as she set the dinner on the step when she didn't hear a response from her adult. Jesse knew Korvo well and she was just going to leave him alone. "Okay, I'll leave it here in case you get hungry. Oh, and Phoebe said don't do anything stupid."
Making sure Jesse and no one else was there, Korvo grabbed the plate of food and went head back into the ship, locking the hatch door again. He spent the whole night studying through the history of Dungeons and Dragons, looking through the rules and guidelines, and even listening to all of the podcasts.
By morning, Phoebe finished making breakfast. She called down the family as she started to eat the food that she prepared this morning: pancakes, bacon, and scrambleeg eggs. Everybody was present, all but one.
"Have any of you seen Korvo?" Phoebe asked her family as she cut up her bacon and eggs.
"Nope."
"Not really."
"He never came to bed last night," Terry said before he stuffed more pancakes in his mouth.
"I'll go check on him," the nanny sighed in exhaustion. She turned to Yumyulack and Terry with a stern look. "Don't eat Korvo's or my breakfast while I'm gone."
Both the pupa specialist and the team security moaned in disappointment, because of how serious and scary Phoebe is. The southern woman made her way to the hatch of the ship, and knocked on the hatch a few times. There was no answer.
"Korvo, are you in there?" Phoebe called out, still getting no answer. "Your breakfast is getting cold and I am not going to remake it!"
This usually got Korvo's attention, but no response still. This got Phoebe worried. She tried out the handle on the hatch and to her luck it was unlocked. She opened the hatch door and entered the ship. When she got in her eyes were like dinner plates when she saw a sleep-deprived Korvo sitting on the floor, surrounded by papers and books, with a coffee maker sitting on the floor. When Phoebe got a closer look at those books, she saw they were Dungeons and Dragons books. The team leader finally noticed the nanny with a deranged smile and bloodshot eyes. The demented alien crawled to her, knocking over the coffee maker, spilling its contents. He grabbed her pant legs and kept repeating "I know how to win back Yumyulack!"
All Phoebe could do was sigh in exhaustion, that once again, Korvo didn't listen to her.
"I don't get paid enough for this," sighed the nanny.
(I would like to thank trickster3696 for helping me with the story and with Korvo's rant about Dungeons and Dragons.)