Babysitting UnOrganized
While I've been doing some more serious Kingdom Hearts stories recently, I wanted to bring back and revise one of my older straightforward comedic fluff stories, Raising Roxas, but have it retooled that it goes a bit in line with some new lore from the series to add some potential story bits. So if you don't remember, Raising Roxas was about a potion accident involving Roxas in Vexen's lab that turns the Organization's Keybearer, and eventually his friend Xion as well, into tiny infants with the other members (and a couple other characters) taking care of him until a proper antidote could be created. Well, this new version is just going to start similarly to the original, but with both Roxas and Xion being affected at the start. Sorry for the lengthy introduction, and I hope that you enjoy this story.
Disclaimer: I don't own Kingdom Hearts or any of it's characters and settings. They belong to Square Enix and Disney.
Chapter 1
It was just your typical day in the World That Never Was. Dreary, raining, Nobodies floating about coming and going as they please. Among those Nobodies of course were the infamous Organization XIII. Most of them were currently on missions in the various different worlds that dotted the cosmos, save for two of the youngest members.
These two members were Roxas and Xion, the Nobodies chosen by the Keyblade to aid their Superior in unlocking Kingdom Hearts. According to the head of the Organization, Xemnas, the duo's best friend- No. VIII Axel- would be away the entire day on an important mission in the world called Hollow Bastion and so they both sat in Roxas's bedroom, staring out the window. Although it was known to both of them that Nobodies were incapable of feeling real emotion, they could easily tell that if they could feel anything right now, it would be pure, unadulterated boredom.
"Do you think it ever would've occurred to Xemnas to build the castle somewhere less dank and depressing? Like maybe by a tropical beach or snow-capped mountains?" Xion muttered out loud as she laid on Roxas's bed with a loud groan of frustration.
"Well, I don't think he's ever had that kind of whimsy to do something like that. Anyhow, as much I hate to say this, guess we'll have to ask Long, Pale and Sulky if there's anything to do for our day off," Roxas suggested, as the two of them went off to visit Saix's chambers. As they approached the door to his room, they proceeded to knock on the cold hollow metal of the hatch until Saix grumpily cracked the door open.
"XIII, XIV, what is it the two of you want?" Saix asked. "I was in the middle of meditation exercises."
"Didn't know you meditot-medutat- did something like that," Xion mentioned, not quite grasping the concept.
"It's relatively new, if you must know. The Superior believes that I need to lower my stress levels in order to become more approachable to the other members," he sighed. "But that still doesn't answer my question. Why are you intentionally wasting your day off by pestering me?"
"We were just wondering if there was anything fun the two of us could do," Roxas asked.
"If you want my opinion, literally anything other than you two ingrates bothering me would be immensely more enjoyable. Going on a mission, or even cleaning Vexen's lab as a personal favor for me would be preferable."
"Cleaning Vexen's lab... got it! Thanks again for the tip!" the two remarked as they set out for No. Iv's laboratory. Saix was just about to resume his session when he stopped and gulped in shock, realizing what he just suggested to the two children.
"Oh, by the name of Kingdom Hearts itself, what have I just done?" Saix quietly lamented.
True to Saix's word, the duo found Vexen's lab completely disheveled, with beakers, test tubes and assorted paraphernalia lying about.
"Just look at this place!" Xion told her friend as the two of them began to pick up test tubes to set back at his shelves, until they noticed one particular tube bottled up with a cork stopper with text scrawled in pen on a lamenated label reading "Experiment 02-04, Codename: Reverse Rebirth". "What do you think that is for?" Xion asked as she opened the tube up and noticed two small shot-glass sized cups perfect for drinking out of.
"Kind of smells like lavender and honey," Roxas remarked, taking in the smell and pouring a eighth of the concoction into the glass as Xion did the same with the other.
"Something doesn't feel right about this," Xion told her friend, hesitant to try the liquid. "What if it's fatal to Nobodies?"
"We'll never know unless we try, and besides, Vexen would be happy somebody is testing this thing out for him, right?" Roxas answered, trying to put Xion's worries at ease.
"Yeah, I guess so," Xion said back as she and Roxas both toasted their drink and gulped it down.
"Well, nothing seems to be different," Roxas observed. After shrugging the matter off, the two resumed cleaning until the room was left clear of any work hazards for the elder scientist. Just as the two were about to leave, their heads began to pound with a splitting headache, which made both of them ready to want to retch. Thinking quickly, they opened a portal back to Roxas's room and then passed out on his bed, unaware the two Keyblade wielders were starting to shrink...
Hours later, Axel had finally returned, exhausted from the long mission and ready to hit the hay. As he made his way back to his chambers, he stopped to hear a soft whimpering coming from Roxas's room. Wordlessly, he approached the door and saw it was slightly ajar, and what was out of perhaps the protective instinct a older sibling has for their younger charge, burst it open to find the discarded robes of his two friends.
"Huh, I swore I heard something crying in here. Ah, well, it must've been my imagination or maybe those Heartless really got to me after all." As Axel turned around to leave, the crying started again, only it was louder, so Axel pushed through the robes to find two infants left naked in the pile of clothing, which somehow smelled like stale urine at this point. One of them had baby blue eyes and fuzzy blonde hair with the faint shape of spikes protruding from his upper scalp, and the other had dark blue eyes with short black hair. Looking deeper into their eyes, Axel stopped and realized just exactly these two babies were.
"R-Roxas? Xion?"
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