Babies, Birds, and Delgado Family Disputes, Part Two

Disclaimer: Same as before…

The Pit, Delgado Residence
Todd Tolansky, Quinn, Daria and Brittany Delgado
19 February 2002, 1345

"Come on." Quinn said, taking Todd's hand and leading him upstairs to a their room.

This has got to be the strangest room I've ever seen.Todd thought as he walked in. It looks like someone took parts of Dexter's Laboratory, painted them pink and shoved them into a little room crammed with stuffed toys.

"This is our room where we sleep and play," Quinn began.

"And do our experiments," Brittany grinned.

"That's nice," Todd said with a sigh, looking around the room.

His eyes fell upon a picture on one of three desks. It was of a blue skinned woman with jet black hair.

"Is that your mom?" Todd asked.

"Yup," Quinn said, "Before she went away."

"She didn't die!" Brittany chided, "Stop making it sound so dramatic!"

Daria explained to Todd, "Our mom ran off with some guy from Atlantis."

"You mean Atlanta?" Todd said, brow furrowed, "Like down south?"

"No, Atlantis, as in under the sea." Daria explained.

"O-kay…" Todd replied, "So what do you like to…OW!"

Todd yelped as electrical shock flowed through him, "What did you do that for?"

He rubbed his bottom shortly after the shock, as Brittany held a taser in her hand, she advanced on him and said, "I wanted to see how well you conduct electricity."

"Hey! I'm telling!" Daria shouted, "Daddy told us not to use that on guests!"

"Yeah!" Todd replied, only to find himself dodging a jet of flame.

"Of course he didn't say anything about fire…" Daria said, with a smile.

"You girls are seriously whacko!" Todd replied.

"His reflexes are good," Daria noted, "Take note of that Quinn."

"Sisters I believe we must do further experimentation." Quinn said.

"I'm not letting you do anything!" Todd said, and hopped out of the way.

"Maybe he wants to play with our dolly." Brittany said, picking something off one of the three beds.

Oh. My. God. Todd thought as he saw in a frilly pink dress with bows in his hair. There was some makeup splattered on his face.

"What are you doing to that kid, yo!" Todd shouted, grabbing hold of Claudius, "You trying to scar him for life!?"

"Give me back my dolly!" Brittany pouted.

"No way!" Todd shouted, "Come on Little C, I gotta get you outta here."

The door opened as Todd hopped towards it and he found himself face to face with Kate who promptly threw herself on the floor to avoid yet another collision with Todd Tolansky.

"Come back here with our dolly!" the Triplets shouted as they chased Todd, running towards Shipwreck who had only just managed to get Polly off the ceiling.

"What's going on!?" Shipwreck demanded.

Todd held up the baby and Shipwreck gulped, "Yeesh! Run kid run!"

He and Todd raced away from the Triplets as fast as their legs could carry them, and towards Claudius' bedroom. As soon as they got inside Shipwreck locked the door behind him.

"I can't leave them alone for one minute." Shipwreck groaned.

"Don't worry about it Shipwreck," Todd said, as he wiped away the makeup, "I'll fix it."

"There are some outfits over there," Shipwreck said, pointing as he barred the door. Todd nodded and went to change Claudius' outfit.

With a sigh he added, "Ever since their mother...took off they've been impossible."

"Okay. Now that's better!" Todd replied, as he surveyed his handiwork, "Check it out! Now Little C is stylin'."

Claudius now wore a yellow shirt with mini jeans that were a bit too large for him together with a baseball cap turned backwards, sunglasses and some gold jewelry.

"My son the future rap star…" Shipwreck said, eyes rolling.

Claudius giggled as Shipwreck went over to fix his clothing, "Come here Claudie."

"How did he get the name Claudius anyway?" Todd asked.

"Claudius was the name of a great Roman emperor," Shipwreck began, "It was also the name of my great uncle who was the navigator on the RMS Titanic. Let's just say nautical disasters run in the family."

Oh-kay. Todd thought.

"There we are," Shipwreck said, as he finished straightening up Claudius' clothing.

"Oh, before I forget, do you know your kids have a flamethrower?" Todd replied.

"Oh no!" Shipwreck groaned, handing Claudius to Todd and opening the door, "I thought I got rid of that thing. Girls! Okay, line up, I want to….ACK!"

The Pit, Delgado Residence
Conrad and Kate
19 February 2002, 1352

"Girls! Okay, line up, I want to….ACK!" Shipwreck's voice echoed up the stairs where Conrad had helped Kate to her feet.

The shout had been accompanied by the sound of hissing air. Conrad and Kate looked down the stairs, and then at each other before running down the stairs just in time to see Shipwreck covered in whipped cream.

With a glare at the three giggling girls he headed into the kitchen with a whip cream spray can of his own.

"That's it! You are in for it now! Take that!" He shouted and sprayed the girl's with whipped cream.

"EEEEEE!" The girls screamed and retaliated right as Kate and Conrad ran down the stairs.

"Conrad! Look out!" Kate shouted as Quinn sprayed whipped cream. Kate jumped between Conrad and Quinn and promptly caught a spray of whipped cream in the face.

"Now, petite filles, you leave me only one choice." Conrad began, calmly as he strode into the kitchen, returning with two cans of whipped cream.

With his thumbs he popped the lids off of each can, brandishing them like an Old West pistolero and spraying whipped cream towards the Triplets.

"Kate! Catch!" Conrad said, tossing one can to Kate who promptly caught it.

Oh dear God this family is insane! Kate thought as she ducked behind the sofa, before Brittany could nail her with a jet of whipped cream.

Daria sprayed Todd with some whipped cream only for Conrad to spray her. Then Brittany sprayed Conrad with her own can.

Despite herself Kate couldn't help but laugh, and shot a spray of whipped cream at Brittany only to have Daria and Quinn converge on her. Then Shipwreck and Conrad turned their own cans on Daria and Quinn.

Claudius giggled with glee in Todd's arms as everyone in the house ran all around the place, spraying each other with whipped cream.

"AKKK!" Todd shouted, "Stop it with the whipped cream already! AGH! OK! I warned you!"

Todd spit a small quantity of slime at Quinn.

"DADDY! TODD SLIMED ME!" Quinn shouted.

"Impeccable marksmanship." Conrad quipped.

"Don't encourage him!" Kate glared as she wiped a bit of whipped cream off of her face.

Meanwhile Shipwreck snapped back to Quinn, "Well, you shouldn't have squirted him with whipped cream, then."

"Go get 'em kid!" Shipwreck shouted.

"Nice parenting!" Kate snapped only to narrowly dodge a squirt of whipped cream.

Todd smirked and spat slime onto the three girls. "That's for the flamethrower!"

He set Claudius down, grabbing another can of whipped cream, "And this is for the electric shocks!"

Claudius squealed with delight, getting whipped cream everywhere.

"What's going on here now?" Althea shouted as she opened the front door, and observing the chaos added, "Oh no, Dad, what did you do this time?"

"They started it!" Shipwreck pointed at the Triplets.

"I see you guys are settling disputes in the traditional Delgado manner," Althea groaned.

Reverting to a stern parental figure, Shipwreck admonished, "I want you girls to apologize for how you treated Todd! He's a guest in our house! You should be ashamed of the way you treated him!"

"We're sorry." The girls apologized.

"Now first I want you girls to clean up this mess. And I want the flamethrower and any little weapon you've built right now. After you clean up this mess we'll discuss your punishment. Understand?" Shipwreck replied.

"Yes sir," they said.

"Althea why don't you help Todd get cleaned up and hang out with him for a bit?" Shipwreck said.

"Come on, Todd." Althea said, leading him towards the bathroom.

To Be Continued…