When kids are born, parents would be excited for their first words.

Most of the time, they would call for one of their parents. Sometimes, it would be something completely different. That ended up being the case for some, but it didn't alleviate the joy they felt hearing it.

Emerald and Peridot were good examples of their first words being something other than mama or papa. In fact, they were the first ones to say something other than a word related to their parents.

Chiro held Emerald high up. Her little tail wagged as her little arms reached out. Nova and Otto were there with him. They were watching the decuplets while the others went out. Most of them were taking their naps, but a few woke up early. Soma, Peridot, and Emerald were the ones currently awake. While Chiro had Emerald, Otto and Nova had Peridot and Soma respectively.

Em opened her mouth a few times, but no words came out right away. When one was starting to form, Chiro looked intently at her.

"Da- Da-"

"Guys, she's saying her first word!" Chiro alerted with joy.

Otto and Nova looked at Emerald as well. Otto's tail wagged immensely while Nova's swayed from side to side. Emerald was still reaching her arms out. She squinted open her little blue eyes.

「 ドッティ!」

Chiro, Otto, and Nova looked at each other confused.

"'Dottie'?" They repeated in unison.

Peridot reached for Emerald and her own tail wagged. Her eyes sparkled like little stars.

"Emmie!" She called for.

Everyone's eyebrows went up. They looked at Emerald again and realized she was reaching for Peridot. They were calling for each other. Chiro handed Otto Emerald. She immediately held onto Peridot and vice versa. They cuddled with each other. All three of them had huge smiles on their faces.

Soma simply buried his face into Nova's chest as this happened.


Magma was the third and last kid to say his first words that were unrelated to the parents.

As usual, he got pissed at something miniscule and he was throwing a tantrum. Gibson tried to calm him down with no success. He couldn't even get close to him without Magma throwing something or Gibson getting burned by him. He had to call in Antauri. They went to get close to him to see if he could pick him up or if he needed to use their telekinesis.

That was when Magma said it.

"Fuck you!" He yelled as his body almost burst into flames.

Antauri and Gibson looked mortified. Gibson gasped as he clutched the fur on his chest. They immediately leered at Nova and Sprx. It wasn't like either of them were free from swearing, so their first thought was those two.

Nova waved her hand. "Don't look at me. I haven't sworn in front of them. Maybe when they were asleep, yeah, but that's about it."

"I'd love to claim the credit here, but I didn't do anything this time." Sprx had his arms behind his head.

Antauri and Gibson looked at each other. Otto couldn't have cursed in front of them, he'd have to put money in the swear jar. He was forbidden to swear in their eyes, he was too sweet for it. There was no way Jinmay could've, she was in the same boat as Antauri and would never swear. Slingshot swore a few times, but they knew he would never do it in front of the kids.

They were trying to figure out how he could've learned the word "fuck" and it was driving them crazy.

Unbeknownst to everyone, Chiro was outside the room. He believed he knew the cause and he backed away from the room quietly. Sweat formed on his face as his lips pressed together. It was possible that he might have cursed in front of Magma one time by accident. Chiro hoped he didn't pick it up from him, but it seemed like he did. His best chances were to slowly back away and hope that they didn't figure out Magma just copied from him.

Chiro went to the kitchen and grabbed some food. If anyone asked, he was there the whole time.


Everyone else was relatively normal.

Before Emerald and Peridot spoke, Marino was the first to speak. Magma was throwing a tantrum and nobody noticed at first. The others were either unaffected or they were too frozen to do anything. Marino couldn't do anything by himself yet, so he went for the best next thing.

Call for somebody.

"Mama! Papa!" He yelled at the top of his lungs.

The others ran into the room so quickly that Marino didn't need to repeat the words. Antauri lifted Magma and called him down before anything was burned. Nova picked Marino up and her tail wagged. She had a huge smile on her face.

"Aren't you a smart little cookie!" Nova praised. "You called for Mama when he was throwing a fit!"

His little tail started wagging. He had a big smile on his face to compliment Nova's.

Gibson's expression fell flat and he looked at Nova. "Love, Marino said 'Papa' as well."

"Well, he said 'Mama' first, so that counts as his first word!" She stuck her tongue out.

Gibson simply huffed in response while Sprx snickered. Chiro simply shook his head with a smile on his face.


After Marino, Emerald, and Peridot, Diamond was the next one.

Almost everyone was monitoring the city, excluding Antauri who was in his room and Gibson who was out. They had the kids in the same room as them to make sure they were okay. Otto played with them to keep them entertained, but he occasionally looked over to the screen. Chiro, Nova, and Sprx had their eyes on the screen while occasionally looking back and smiling at Otto and their kids.

Diamond looked at the screen and noticed something the others didn't right away. She pointed at the part she looked at.

「お父さんが帰家した。 」 Diamond said.

Otto nearly dropped Jasper. The others just stared at her with open eyes. Sprx quickly looked all over the screen to confirm what Diamond said and surely enough, Gibson was back. Nova and Chiro looked at each other.

"Isn't that advanced for her age?"

"Yeah, I'm pretty sure." Chiro glanced at Dia. "I- I mean, it's not perfect Japanese of course, but she's still pretty young. She even used the right word for 'father' too."

"Even Marino used 'mama' and 'papa', nothing like that." Otto said.

Everyone simply looked at her again, who didn't seem fazed by their reactions. She simply went back to playing. It was like she believed those were simple words to say.

Gibson came onto the room. "I'm back-"

He noticed how everyone was looking at Diamond. He looked at them with a raised eyebrow.

"…Why are you staring at her?"

"She said her first words." Otto answered.

"'Father is back home', to be exact." Chiro added.

"In Japanese," Nova emphasized.

Gibson looked at her in shock. He set down the bags and went over to her. He picked her up; a smile formed on his face and his tail started wagging fast.

"That's my girl! I knew she would have my brains!" Gibson's voice had excitement and pride in it.

It was contagious enough to affect Otto. His tail wagged as well and he set Jasper down in his lap to flap his hands against his legs. Nova simply smiled and crossed her arms.

After Marino, she decided to let Gibson have this.


After Magma, Jasper was next.

She was playing around with Dactyle when she tripped over herself and fell onto the floor face first. Hermo heard her fall and walked back to Jasper. Jasper lifted her face up with it being a deeper color and tears welling up in her eyes. Her lips quivered as she put a hand up to her nose.

"Mama!" Jasper cried out.

Nova immediately ran over to her and picked her up. She saw how badly her nose was hurt. Her eyebrows drooped.

"Aww, are you okay, sweetie?" Jasper lightly shook her head. "Let mama kiss it better."

She gently kissed her nose plenty of times. The first one made Jasper stop crying, the ones afterwards slowly made her start giggling. Her tail wagged around. Nova was gonna stop after the first few, but she kept going to see her laugh more.

"Mama! Mama!" She laughed and reached for her helmet's antennae.

Nova just sighed happily in between kisses. She loved seeing any of her kids be happy. Then she decided to blow her a raspberry, causing her to laugh more.

Then Dactyle had his turn.

Sprx and Gibson were arguing about who Dactyle liked more, Sprx or Gibson. Hermodactyloides simply stared at the two as they argued. Antauri then stood between them and pushed them away from each other.

"Cut it out. There's no need to feel this way with our kids."

"Oh, like you never wanted any of yours to like you more!"

Antauri blankly stared at Sprx. "…No."

Gibson huffed and crossed his arms. "Maybe we should let Hermodactyloides decide."

"Maybe we should." Sprx looked at Dactyle. "Hey, Hermo, who do ya like more?"

He bent down and had his arms wide open. He motioned him to come closer. Hermo stared at them still before he got up and walked over to them. Sprx's tail wagged and his smile grew while Gibson had a smug smirk on his face. The looks on their faces were quickly wiped off as Dactyle never went to either of them in particular. He went in the middle and touched their arms. He had a big smile on his face.

"Papas!"

That turned Gibson's and Sprx's expressions into surprise. Antauri patted their shoulders.

"With that, I'll take my leave. If you two need something, Nova and I will be cooking."

They left the two with Dactyle.


Next was Soma while the decuplets were watching the holo-TV.

The kids were preoccupied with a show the others put on for them. Soma looked to his side. He saw Otto and Chiro talking. Otto handed out some cookies to Chiro, who tried to keep them out of the kids' sight. Soma reached for Otto.

"Papa Otto," Soma made a grabby motion.

Chiro went to Soma and picked him up. He walked back to Otto with Soma in his arms. Otto and Chiro moved away so they were completely out of sight. Soma reached for Otto once more, so they traded Soma and cookies.

"Aww, did you just want your Papa-"

"Papa Otto! Cookie!"

Chiro looked at Soma then Otto. He looked like every bit of energy drained from him within seconds.

"Otto, this is why I said you can't just have snacks out and about. The kids are gonna want them."

Otto took one out and gave it to Soma. "Aww, but I don't see why that's a bad thing! They can have one."

"Yeah, if you want them to cry for all your snacks and you're left with only one." Chiro replied.

"It can't be that bad!" Otto wagged his tail.

Soma happily ate his cookie, his own tail wagging. He smiled at them innocently, like he didn't know what he just started.

Everybody ended up wanting snacks, and the only person they could blame was Otto.


Aero and Astral's first word happened at the same time.

They were playing around, nothing abnormal for a couple of babies. Before they knew it, Aero bumped into the kitchen doorway. He started crying his eyes out. Astral panicked and pulled him away.

"Mama!" They ended up calling in unison.

Everyone ran as soon as they heard that. Gibson noticed the bump on Aero's forehead and picked him up. Nova picked up Astral.

"How do you two end up running off so fast?" She asked, eyebrows tilted down. "We look at your siblings for one second and you're running around! Are you okay at least?"

Astral nodded, but he looked at Aero. Even with Gibson's best efforts, he still cried. He did what he could to make the bump at least a little better.

It felt like whenever one of their first words were to include mama, it was when someone got hurt or was about to get hurt.


Chiro had Kaminari in his arms when he went up to the Super Robot's shoulders.

He sat down by its neck and leaned on it. The sun was coming up, coloring the skies with its red and yellow with dark blue ringing around them. He smiled as he took in the fresh air. It never got old coming up here, whether it was the view or how it felt to have the breeze hit him from up high. Chiro thought he'd come up here with Kaminari before the decuplets woke up.

It would give her some fresh air too if she didn't end up getting any later that day.

He looked down at her. Her little blue and white eyes looked off into the distance, seeing the trees from the outskirts. She reached for them.

"Papa, twees!" She excitedly said.

Chiro snorted when she said that, her excitement was adorable. He put his hand on her cheek and kissed her forehead. Her tiny tail wagged.

"Yeah, those are trees there. We can go out to the park later if you want."

"Yay!"

Now Chiro knew where she fell under when it came to when she'd say her first words.

Ten months, sometime between Marino, and Emerald and Peridot.