Author's Note: After seeing a very disturbing youtube video about the theory behind Rugrats earlier in the week, and during dinner last night, watching The Lion King 1 and ½, I was inspired to write what may end up being, my longest story to hit Fan Fiction, and one that might take a while! So I hope you enjoy! Not to mention, with my nephew's first birthday coming up on October 10, and watching him develop over this last year, and being there to see his mom, AKA my sister-in-law through being pregnant with him, I'd like to dedicate, the following story, in honor of this. So, let our story, begin.

Prerugrats

Summary: The story of the Rugrats lives prior to the first episode of Rugrats, Tommy's First Birthday. This story features everything, from the birth of each original rugrat, to infantile development, and much more! Plus a bonus section at the end, called Brotherly Preparedness!

Disclaimer: I do not own the Rugrats characters, they're the property of their original creaters. I own Zack and any OC's you don't recognize, while Peter is owned by TCKing12, and Jesse is owned by Jesse J. Barrow. It should be noted that this story is very much, told by different character POV's, and the characters telling this story, well, Dil is 1, Tommy is 2, Chuckie is 3, and Angelica is 4-years-old in this story.

Chapter 1, Prologue

Location: Yucaipa, California, October 2, 2014

The gang, consisting of Peter, Zack, Jesse, Angelica, Tommy, Chuckie, Phil, Lil, Kimi and Dil, were all sitting around the TV at Tommy and Dil's home, watching a home movie that was made at Tommy's first birthday. They appear as shadows against the pictures on the television screen, which is the only light illuminating the room.

"Wow Tommy, you really thought eating dogfood would turn you into a dog?" Zack asked.

Tommy nodded.

"Wow, that's crazy!" Replied Jesse.

"Give me a break, I was only one-years-old." Replied Tommy.

"What's a year anyway?" Dil asked.

"You babies are so dumb. Well it's, um, uh, well, I know when a new year starts, we stay up really late, and eat lots of cookies and Reptar bars, and watch a huge ball drop on the TV." Replied Angelica.

"So did you guys all meet at Tommy's firstest Birthday?" Jesse asked.

"No, we knew each other before that." Replied Tommy.

"Uh, Tommy, that's what you think, but most of the world doesn't know that." Said Angelica.

"What are you talking about?" Zack asked.

"Oh nothing. I just recently played with my daddy's compooper and made a Youtube video that tolded the world that I made all of you babies up. That my mommy died and that Charlotte Pickles or whatever her name is, isn't my real mommy. I also tolded everybody that Tommy was a stillborn, Chuckie died with his mom, and Phil and Lil never existed cuz their mommy had an abortion." Explained Angelica.

The babies gasp.

"Angelica, how could you do this?" Chuckie asked.

"I thought you weren't suppose to play with your daddy's compooper." Said Jesse.

"Hey, am I sitting in time out right now cuz I played with daddy's compooper?" Angelica asked.

"No, but Angelica, you know that stuff you tolded everybody about us is not true." Added Tommy.

"And why didn't you include me?" Jesse asked, hopping up and down, and stomping on Angelica's foot.

"Ow! My foot!" Yelled Angelica.

"Hey, I can't help it. My mommy says I have ADHD." Replied Jesse.

"I didn't include Jesse, or Zack, or Peter because there were no pictures of them on my daddy's compooper. And I didn't include Dil cuz he's always calling me yucky and drooling and pulling on my hair. And… Susie is too much of a goody goody to be in my video. And… And… Kimi… Well… Um…" Angelica continued to stutter, before Tommy cut her off.

"That's it Angelica. You went and did this, so peoples would think bad stuff about us." Said Tommy.

"Uh, Tommy, I did have something to do with this." Peter interrupted.

"Huh?" Tommy asked in confusion.

"I logged Angelica on to her daddy's computer when I was babysitting her last night because Taffy couldn't come to watch her, and then, she asked me to go get her some cookies, and it was after I came back with the cookies a little while later, that Angelica had reeked havoc on this video website called Youtube, and posted all of those lies about you." Explained Peter.

"So what if I did. Are you and baldy going to stop big mean old Angelica?" Angelica asked in a snappy tone.

"Um, Angelica. I've gots hairs now." Said Tommy.

"Bad yucky, bad!" Added Dil, who stuck his tongue out at Angelica.

"Now pipe down drooly." Snapped Angelica.

"Dil's right. This is the worstest thing you could have ever done. Cuz you didn't just trick us this time, you've tricked the entire world!" Explained Zack.

"Yeah, this is the worstest thing you've done, since you tricked that coocoo lady in Paris to marry Chuckie's daddy." Added Tommy.

"And we don't have a giant Reptar robot to stop you this time." Said Chuckie.

"And now that it's out on the Internet Angelica, you can't take it back." Added Peter.

Angelica started to cry.

"Don't cry Angelica. I'm sure there's a way to fix it." Said Kimi with enthusiasm.

"But how?" Angelica asked.

"Maybe we can rewind the video tape of Tommy's birthday, and go back to the beginning of the story." Said Kimi, taking the clicker off of the coffee table, and hitting the rewind button.

"But Kimi, the only thing that's before the video are previews for Runaway Reptar, telling everybody that he eats whole buildings in one bite, and always has room for dessert, and to get Reptar, before he gets you." Said Chuckie.

"Yeah and those previews that play to the tune of that Happy Days song." Added Lil.

"And peanuts videos." Added Phil.

"And Good Burger and Harriet the Spy." Added Zack.

But Kimi wasn't giving up. She continued to hold down the rewind button, as the pictures appeared backwards in front of them on the TV, rewinding the video tape.

"You guys want the truth?" Angelica asked in her bossy tone.

"Yes Angelica, you need to tell us the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. You know that you, and all of us, were bornded just like Dilly and everybody else." Demanded Tommy.

"Oh yeah? And who do you think you are now Pickles, Judge Booty?" Angelica asked.

"Uh, that's Judge Judy." Said Peter, correcting Angelica.

"Whatever." Said Angelica, crossing her arms across her chest, uninterested in having to tell this story.

"Think about it Angelica. If your cousin and his friends weren't alive, they couldn't really be here, helping you right now." Said Peter.

"Alright alright, we'll tell the story, but when we get to a part when one of the rest of you dumb babies has been, or is about to be bornded, you'll be telling your own story, got it?" Angelica protested.

Everybody nodded in agreement with this.

"So does this mean we're going back to the beginning of the video now?" Tommy asked.

"Oh no Tommy, we're going way back, to before the beginning." Said Angelica, as the rewinding of the video tape on the TV had finished rewinding to the beginning of the previews, now showing a black screen. Just then, Dil pointed his bottle of milk at the TV screen, squirted it, and as soon as the milk splashed up against the TV, the black blank screen turned yellow, and on top, appeared the infamous purple Rugrats logo with Rugrats written across it in big black letters, and a giant black P, a giant black r, and a giant black e were all thrown at the TV screen, landing on the yellow background, to the left of the Rugrats logo, spelling out the title of our story, which is Prerugrats.

And this, ends the prologue. We shall continue this, in the following chapter.

Author's Note: So, that's our prologue. And yes, the previews that the rugrats mentioned, were typical previews seen on the store bought Rugrats videos. And when advertising Runaway Reptar's video release of the episode, those lines that Chuckie mentioned, were in the previews. I'll be back with the next chapter, very shortly!