Author's Note: I do apologize for the late release of the start of this story. School has been hectic, so, to make up for this, I'll be releasing 2 chapters slash episodes in 1 day! So let's get started!
The Offspring
Summary: The adventures of the Rugrats children during toddlerhood and young childhood. Will their adventures be anything like that of their parents? Read and find out!
Disclaimer: I do not own the Rugrats characters, they're the property of their original creaters. I only own any OC's you don't recognize, while Peter is owned by TCKing12, and Jesse is owned by Jesse J. Barrow.
Editional Notes: If you did not read The Destruction of Spongebob Squarepants, this story is based off the Nicktoon that Jesse would be releasing on Nickelodeon in 2041 to celebrate The Rugrats 50 year anniversary. Each chapter will be a new episode of the series. This is season 1, and at this time, I plan to release 10 episodes between now and March of 2015.
Episode 1, Piolot, Little Brother Keenan
Run Time: 22 minutes
Story Release Date: September 11, 2014
Nicktoon Release Date: August 11, 2041, with a repeat in the Snickel-O-Zone the following Saturday evening at 8:00 p.m. Eastern, 7:00 p.m. Central, as according to Siri on my iPhone, August 11, 2041, will be falling on a Sunday.
Location: Pittsfield, Massachusetts, July 27, 2039
It was evening in the Pickles household. Silvia had just finished reading a bedtime story to Darin, when she felt the baby inside her tummy, kicking her again.
"That's your little brother Keenan in there. He's kicking!" Said Silvia, smiling at Darin, who's eyes widened with curiosity.
"Want to feel?" Asked Silvia, as she took Darin's little hand, and put it on top of her tummy, and let him feel his brother kick. Darin jumped and laughed when he felt it. Just then, Tommy walked into the room.
"Sounds like we're having fun in here!" Said Tommy, as he picked up his son, and put him on his shoulders.
"Yes we are. Darin just felt his brother kick for the very first time! Oh sweetie! I'm so excited! The baby will be here, any day now!" Said Silvia excitedly.
"Yep, he sure will, but right now, it's time to get this little guy off to bed! Let's go Darin." Said Tommy, as he carried Darin to his room and lay him down in his red racecar bed. The room already had everything ready for the new baby, who would be sleeping in Darin's old crib.
Before Tommy shut the door, he sang a lullaby to Darin.
"Darin please, rest your head. Now it is, time for bed. You're my son, like no other. Soon you'll be, an older brother. Twinkle twinkle, how time flies. Slowly, in the starry sky. Darin please, close your eyes. You're as sweet as apple pie. As you grow, and laugh and play, in my heart, you'll always stay. So sleep, and dream, the night away."
The next day, Darin awoke to a hacking sound. He got up from his racecar bed, the little blond headed 2-year-old in his blue pajamas, headed down to the bathroom, where he saw his mommy Silvia, hunched over the toilet, throwing up. A worried look spread across Darin's face, then, his expression changed! Suddenly, it hit him what his mommy was trying to do. He couldn't wait to get to daycare, where he could tell his friends what he had recently found out! Everybody was anticipating the birth of his little brother, but it wasn't until now, that he figured out where babies came from.
Later that morning, Silvia and Tommy pushed Darin up the sidewalk of the Saltwater Daycare Center to the door, where they were met by two brewnet girls in blue dresses.
"I see Darin is here today." Said Amanda, as she took Darin from his stroller.
"So Silvia, how far along are we?" Cortney asked, as she took the diaper bag from Tommy.
"I could be due any day now." Replied Silvia, as she wheeled the stroller away from the door.
"Have a nice day son." Said Tommy with a smile, as the two of them left the daycare center.
Amanda carried Darin over to the play area, where she sat him down with his friends, Melenda, Abbie, and Casey, who were all playing on the floor.
"Now you play here, and soon, Taffy will be here for our morning sing along." Said Amanda, as she put Darin down on the floor.
Taffy was getting ready to perform with her band, The Huligans, at Tanglewood on Parade, which would be happening in another week. So she came up to Pittsfield for the summer, and stayed with her daughters, who owned the daycare center, and to kill time, she would come in every morning, and do a sing along with the kids.
Darin, Melenda, Abbie and Casey all sat in a circle, rolling a giant blue ball to one another.
"Hey everyone guess what?" Darin asked.
"What!" Said Melenda, Abbie, and Casey simultaneously.
"I figured out yesterday night where my little brother is." Said Darin.
"Where is he?" Abbie asked.
"He's in my mommy's tummy! I felt him kick! It was funny!" Said Darin with a giggle.
"But if he's in your mommy's tummy, how will he come out?" Melenda asked.
"And how did he get there in the firstest place?" Casey asked.
"Well, I saw my mommy trying to throw him up this morning, but, he must be too big to fit through her mouth cuz he didn't come out." Replied Darin.
"Oh wow." Whispered Melenda.
"But how did your brother get there in the firstest place?" Casey asked again.
Just then, Rosemary walked into the toddler play area from where she was coloring with the older four and five-year-olds, and overheard the conversation.
"Once again, you stupid babies don't know anything. Haven't you heard about the birds and the bees?" Rosemary asked.
The offspring nodded their heads.
"Well, bees lay eggs, and not all of the eggs turn into bees. Some of them, turn into babies. So the bees give the leftover eggs that don't turn into baby bees to any nearby birds, who then carry them to mommy and daddy's mailbox, leave them there, and then, mommy eats them for breakfast, and, well, it grows in mommy's tummy and becomes a baby! Get it?" Said Rosemary.
"Well, my mommy does like to eat eggs for breakfast, so, one of them must have been my baby brother!" Said Darin with a smile.
"Exactly." Rosemary replied.
"But if that's so, how will Darin's baby brother come out?" Melenda asked.
"Oh do I have to tell you everything?" Rosemary snapped, crossing her arms across her gray confederate uniform.
She sighed before going on to explain this part.
"Your mommy will poop out the baby." Rosemary continued.
"You mean, you can poop out babies?" Abbie asked.
"Correction, grown ups can poop out babies, you just make poop." Replied Rosemary.
"So my brother is gonna go in the potty!" Yelled Darin with concern.
"Oh no no no no. Your mommy will have the baby in the shower." Replied Rosemary.
"Hmmm, I heard my mommy talk about having a baby shower, but I didn't know what it was! But now I do! Mommy is going to take a shower, and it will be during that shower, that my baby brother will be pooped out and born! Thanks for explaining it Rosemary." Said Darin with a smile, really excited for his mommy to take that shower and make his new little brother appear.
"No problem." Rosemary said with a shrug, as she skipped back off to the other side of the room where the older kids were.
Just then, Taffy showed up, along with a tall black woman with her black hair pulled back in a ponytail.
"Kids, our mom Taffy is here for our sing along, and today, she brought a special guest! The chorus director from the Pleasant Valley high school, Susie Carmichael!" Said Amanda.
"Hi kids. I'm Susie, and I can't wait to sing a song with you today." She said with a smile, as Taffy sat down in a chair, and got her guitar all set up.
"So what are we going to sing with the mini's this week?" Taffy asked.
"Well, since one of the kids, Darin Pickles, will be expecting a little brother any day now, why don't we sing the song I sang at Darin's grandma Didi's baby shower, many years ago." Said Susie with a smile.
"And this time, Angelica won't be here to cut me off." Susie thought to herself, as Taffy strummed a few chords on the guitar, to get warmed up and started.
"Ok Susie, you lead us off." Said Taffy.
Susie took a deep breath, and began.
"A baby is really neat, a baby is a special treat." Susie sang, as Taffy started accompanying her, as Taffy had never heard the song before, seeing she met Susie several months after Dil was born, way past that baby shower.
"A baby is, a little Dickins the baby is a cuddly chicken." Susie continued.
Just then, Rosemary came over to join the rest of the group, with an evil grin on her face.
"A baby is lots of joy." Sang Susie.
"A baby will, get all of the toys!" Chimed in Rosemary.
"Rosemary, what are you doing?" Susie asked.
"Aren't we suppose to be singing along?" Rosemary asked.
"Fine, we'll continue." Said Susie with a shrug.
"Like a birdy singing in a tree." Sang Susie.
"More like Reptar screaming in your ear." Sang Rosemary.
"A baby is a gift, a gift from a bob. A baby is a gift from a bob, bob, bob." Sang Susie and Rosemary together.
"A baby is really special!" Sang Susie.
"A baby is, is, not!" Yelled Rosemary.
Just then, Cortney walked over to Susie and Rosemary.
"Ok, that's enough. Let's sing something we all know." Said Cortney, as she picked up her accordion, and Amanda came over with an accustic guitar. The group continued to sing nursery rhymes, Darin, Abbie and Casey, who couldn't talk to grown ups yet, just danced to the music, while 3-year-old Melenda sang along with the other kids. Later, after the sing along was over, Susie pulled Rosemary over to the side.
"You know, you remind me of Angelica when she was your age." Said Susie.
"You knew Angelica when she was five?" Rosemary asked.
Susie nodded.
"Yep, she may be too busy to hang out with us now, but you are so much like her at that age, and, believe it or not, she sang those exact same lines of A Baby is a Gift at Darin's grandma Didi's baby shower when she was about to have Dil." Replied Susie.
"Wow." Whispered Rosemary with a smile.
"I've heard of people singing in the shower, I didn't realize you and Angelica got to do that too." Said Rosemary.
"Oh, no silly. That's not the type of shower I'm talking about. A baby shower is just a big party they have, and everyone brings gifts and stuff for the new baby. It has nothing to do with the kind in the bathroom." Replied Susie, as she helped Taffy pack up so they could leave.
"Oh." Said Rosemary disappointingly, realizing she gave some wrong information to the toddlers, but she decided to not say anything, only because she figured they were so stupid, they wouldn't understand.
A couple of days later, it was the weekend, and everybody was hanging out at Tommy and Silvia's. Peter and Violet, Zack and Kimi, Chuckie and Nicole, and Silvia and Tommy were all seated around the kitchen table, having a conversation and drinking coffee.
"Did you hear about what my daughter did the other day with Susie at sing along at daycare? They sang that same song that Susie and Angelica sang at your mom's baby shower when she was about to have your little brother." Said Peter, as he took a sip of his coffee.
"Oh wow! How neat!" Said Tommy excitedly.
"Yep, and I hear my daughter Rosemary sang Angelica's part perfectly!" Said Violet.
"Has anybody heard from Angelica lately?" Zack asked.
"Nope, but we don't have to worry about her having kids. I hear she had her tubes tied a while back." Replied Nicole.
"Good thing too. I can just see it now, Angelica walking down the mall, chasing after her children, screaming, you dumb babies." Said Chuckie.
The rest of the grown ups laughed, nearly choking on their coffee. Just then, Silvia started to feel funny. She stood up from the table, and just as she stood up, water exploded from beneath her, going all over the kitchen floor. Silvia panicked.
"Honey… it's time… My water just broke…" Silvia said with a panic, gripping on to the table.
"Relax sweetie, I'll help you, oh, but gfirst, I'd better go let Darin and the others know what's going on." Said Tommy, getting up from the table and walking into the other room.
Darin, Melenda, Abbie and Casey all saw what was going on. They saw the water hit the floor, and watched, as Darin's mommy was breathing heavily. Just then, Tommy walked into the room and picked up Darin, Peter following close behind.
"Darin, your mommy and I need to go to the hopcickle to have your little brother, but we'll be back soon." Said Tommy, as he gave Darin a hug, and a kiss on the cheek, and set him back down on the floor.
Violet overheard this from the other room.
"Hopcickle eh? It sounds like you've been spending way too much time with that offspring of yours." Said Violet.
"Give me a break, he is, my first born son after all." Said Tommy.
"Do you need me to go with you?" Peter asked.
"Oh no, we'll be fine. We'll give you a call as soon as the baby is born, and you can bring the kids to come meet him." Said Tommy, as he got his wife, and they headed out the front door.
The kids watched out the window, as Silvia and Tommy disappeared down the street in the car.
"Why does your mommy have to go to the hopcickle Darin?" Melenda asked.
"I don't know. She did say something about her water breaking, and a bunch of water went on to the floor." Said Darin.
"Nah, I think your mommy just forgotted she was potty trained." Said Abbie.
"We're not even potty trained and we've never had a accident that big." Said Casey.
"Hmmm, I hope my mommy will be ok." Said Darin worriedly.
"No worries Darin, your mommy will be just fine." Said Peter, who after all of these years, could still understand the babies, even in the second generation.
"Well what are we gonna do until Darin's brother is born?" Melenda asked.
"I know, why don't we play The Fun Way Game!" Said Peter.
"What's that?" Melenda asked.
"Oh, it's just a game I played with your daddy and your aunt Kimi when your grandma Kira and grandpa Chaz were opening up their coffee shop. Do you remember Chuckie?" Said Peter, as the rest of the grown ups walked into the room.
"Uh, hello Peter, I was only two-years-old when my dad opened the Java Lava." Said Chuckie.
"Yeah, and I left the time machine at the confederacy castle, so we can't even go back in time for me to show you." Said Peter.
"And besides, the last time we went back in time with the kids, they tried to bring Dil as a baby back to the future with us, remember?" Said Chuckie.
"Oh yeah, I almost forgot about that." Said Peter.
"So how do we play?" Nicole asked, taking a seat on the couch in the family room.
"If I recall correctly, we're suppose to hide all of Darin's toys, and let the kids, try to find them." Said Peter, as he scooped up Darin's toys, most of which, were electronic, and he went all over the house, hiding them.
"This sounds like fun, but I'd rather go to the hopcickle and see my little brother be born." Said Darin.
"Well, they say time flies when you're having fun, so, I bet ya by the time we finish this game, it will be time to go and meet your little brother." Said Peter.
"Ok, I suppose I can do this then." Darin replied with a sigh.
"That's the spirit, now, let's hide those toys!" Said Peter, as he handed some toys to Zack, Kimi, Chuckie, Nicole, and Violet, who all went around and hid them all over the house. Unfortunately, they kept hitting buttons on the toys, which the kids overheard the noises from Darin's toy remote, radio, computer, and MyPhone. Not even five minutes later, they had found all of the toys, and brought them back into the family room.
"Ooops, I forgot. The majority of today's toys make noise. Guess I should have turned them off before hiding them." Said Peter, looking at the stack of electronic toys that was before him on the floor.
"Yeah, they don't make toys like they use to." Said Kimi with a sigh.
"Whatever happened to the days when kids used their imaginations to play with toys." Said Zack.
"Beats me." Replied Violet.
Just then, the telephone rang. Peter went and picked it up.
"Hello? Pickles Residents, this is King Peter Albany of the Confederacy speaking." Said Peter into the phone.
"Hey Peter, it's Jesse. Listen, my brother-in-law Dil recently got a text from Tommy saying he and Silvia were off to the hospital to have the baby. Heard anything?" Jesse asked.
"Nope, nothing yet, but we'll be sure to keep you posted when we do." Said Peter.
"Ok, thanks." Replied Jesse, before hanging up the phone.
"Who was that?" Violet asked when Peter came back into the room.
"Oh, it was Jesse, wondering if the baby was here yet, as Tommy had sent Dil a text that he and Silvia were off to the hospital." Said Peter.
Darin, Melenda, Abbie, Casey, and by this point, even Rosemary was bored, as she had finished watching Cynthia P.I. and Miss Stephanie's Happy House on her portable blue ray player.
"Daddy, what can we do now? I'm bored!" Snapped Rosemary.
"Now calm down princess, let's think of something else we can do." Said Peter.
Nicole went and got out a stack of coloring books and crayons, and the kids all had fun, coloring in the book. Of course, Abbie, Casey, and Darin, all had trouble staying in the lines, as Abbie and Casey were only one, and Darin was only two, but everyone had fun coloring anyway. Then, Darin turned to a page of the coloring book, that had a large heart on it, and got his brilliant idea.
"Hey look! A heart! I could color this in, and give it to my new baby brother!" Said Darin, picking up a red crayon off of the floor, and beginning to color. Melenda came over, and helped Darin color inside the lines, as she was quite artistic for a three-year-old.
After Darin finished his picture, they all played with blocks, until Rosemary stomped through the room and knocked them down, raced Darin's toy cars through the living room, and then, Abbie and Casey, who adored playing with makeup, tried to sneak upstairs to Silvia's powder room, but Kimi stopped them when she saw where they were headed, as she was not interested in cleaning up a beauty mess, even though she thought her twin daughters looked beautiful, when done up the right way.
Several hours later, after playing with nearly everything in the house, everybody was hungry. So Peter fixed Reptar macaroni and cheese, which was macaroni pasta shaped to look like Reptar, Dectar, and Robosnails, and fed the kids dinner. Darin, was starting to grow impatient, and was about to lose hope.
"Guys, I don't think my little brother is ever gonna come." Said Darin with a shrug, as he took a bite of his macaroni and cheese.
"Oh sure he will." Said Peter.
"But it's taking practically forever!" Said Melenda.
"Babies can take a while to come out, I know Rosemary did, and so did Darin's uncle Dil." Said Peter.
"You were there when my uncle was born?" Darin asked.
"Yep." Peter replied.
"Dil's daddy's little brother, right?" Darin asked.
Peter nodded.
"So what did my daddy do till Dil was born?" Darin asked.
"Well, your daddy went off looking for him, leading Chuckie, uncle Phil and aunt Lil to the baby nursery, which they thought was a baby store, to look for him." Said Peter.
"Did they find him?" Darin asked.
/"Nope, your great grandpas, Lou and Boris, stopped them, but eventually, your uncle Dil was bornn, and it was quite a first site. Next time you come to my place, if you promise to not bring any of your parents back as babies to our time, I'll get out the time machine, and take you back to see your uncle Dilly be born." Said Peter.
"Peter, it's a deal!" Said Darin, taking the last bite of his macaroni, smearing the cheese all over his face.
Just then, the phone rang. Chuckie answered it.
"Hi Tommy." Said Chuckie.
"Hey Chuckie guess what?" Tommy said.
"Is he here?" Chuckie asked.
"Yep." Tommy replied.
Chuckie didn't say anything else. He hung up the phone, and headed back to the table with a huge grin on his face.
"Everybody, he's here, let's go!" Said Chuckie, as he grabbed his daughter's hand, Peter grabbed up Darin, while Violet got Rosemary, and Zack and Kimi picked up their twins, and everybody, headed off to the hospital.
When they got there, they went to Silvia's room. Upon entering the room, Darin looked over, to see his mommy and daddy sitting next to one another in Silvia's bed, smiling, and holding a little bundle in their arms, wrapped in a blue blanket. It was a baby boy, and he had no hair on his head. Peter sat Darin down on the bed, and Silvia, lay his new baby brother down in front of him.
"Darin, I'd like for you to meet someone very special. I present, your new baby brother, Keenan Izic Pickles!" Said Silvia, as Darin reached out, and touched the top of his little brother's head.
"Izic?" Chuckie asked.
"Yep, Keenan is his first name, which I picked out, mainly because I like the name." Said Silvia.
"And I picked out Izic, just, because it was a random name I could come up with." Said Tommy.
"Oh, I see." Said Chuckie.
"What was Darin's middle name again?" Nicole asked.
"It's Milton." Replied Tommy.
"Now, I remember Darin was named after Silvia's cousin and God father, who is exactly twelve years older than her, as they were born on the same day, but where did Milton come from?" Nicole asked.
"Oh, Milton was the name of Tommy's first little brother." Said Peter.
"Huh? I thought Tommy's brother was named Dil." Said Nicole.
"Oh, I guess nobody has ever told you the story. You see, Tommy's cousin Angelica told Tommy and his friends when they were little, that babies came from stork eggs. So Tommy went and got an egg out of a bird's nest, and they named it Milton, and he made it his little brother. That is, until it hatched into a bird, and Tommy's mommy let it go." Said Peter.
"Oh, got ya." Replied Nicole.
"Hi, I'm your big brother!" Said Darin, smiling at his brother.
Justt then, Keenan started to cry.
"Oh, don't cry now, we're gonna have lots of fun!" Said Darin excitedly, as he gave his little brother a hug, for the very first time.
"I wouldn't worry Darin, babies cry a lot when they're first born." Said Peter.
"Yep, uncle Dilly cried a lot too. Phil and Lil thought he was broken, but I just told them, he was just a little loud." Said Tommy. Darin, broke out into a smile, happy to be a big brother, as he continued to stare at Keenan, who was now in his daddy's arms.
A few days later, Keenan was home from the hospital, and Silvia was nursing him, when Darin climbed up on the couch, and showed Keenan the picture he had made the day he was born, of the heart. Keenan grabbed it, and started to drool on it.
"I think he might be a little too young for that sweetie." Said Silvia, taking the picture out of Keenan's reach, and putting it on the table where neither one of the boys could reach it, Keenan, returned to nursing on his mommy.
"But I know what we can do." Said Silvia with a smile, and a twinkle in her eye.
That night, when Darin and Keenan were in bed, before Silvia switched off the light, she stapled the picture of the heart on the wall above Keenan's crib.
"There, now, this special picture, is in a special place." Said Silvia, as she lay Keenan down in his crib, and came and gave Darin one last hug, before turning out the lights, but before she turned out the lights, she sang them a lullaby.
"Twinkle, twinkle, how time flies. Darin and Keenan, close your eyes. You're as sweet as apple pie. As you grow, and laugh and play. In my heart, you two will stay. So sleep, and dream, the night away." Sang Silvia, as she blew them a kiss, turned out the lights, and closed the door.
"My Darin." Said Keenan, as he closed his eyes, yawned, and fell asleep.
"My Keenan." Said Darin, as he yawned, curled up with his Reptar doll, and fell asleep.
The End
Author's Note: I hope you all enjoyed that chapter slash episode. As you can see, some songs from The Rugrats Movie made it into that chapter, for a new generation, and, I got the idea for Tommy to slip up and say hospital in Rugrat language when he was announcing to Darin where he and Silvia were off to, after I recall going to lunch a few months ago with my sister-in-law, mom, and nephew. There was a fish tank with fish in it at this restaurant, and my sister-in-law said, "Let's go take a look at the fishies Zach." She said, "Fishies, instead of fish," talking like a rugrat, so I thought it would be cute, if Tommy slipped up, and said "hopcickle," instead of "hospital." And since in Rugrats, they learned that babies were brought by the stork, and later, they learned that a family tree is where babies grew on, I deciddd in the second generation, to give some reference to where they really come from, but keeping it kid friendly, with them coming from mommy's tummies, and something comical, to reference the familiar saying, the birds and the bees. I thought it would be cute for Rosemary to tell them the story of where babies come from, but a different explanation than what was ever explored during the first generation of Rugrats, the one we're all familiar with. And finally, I'll try to have chapter 2, up in a few hours.