Search For The Ideal Sitter.

 Corey and Oats in..

Search For The Ideal Sitter.

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When it comes to helping others the microbes know just what to do, especially Corey and Oats, they always had an arrangement with Zara and that arrangement enabled Corey to have a purpose, and that was to look after the others and take care of some of Zara’s friends but sometimes Zara altered that arrangement and twisted words around to make it seem like she acted like she didn’t want to do this, and the whole other issue was Zara’s mother, this woman very much was only okay with some things but held such a tight grip on Zara that she controlled her and made her obey every little thing she said, like she was a puppet on a string and a parrot who only repeated what she was told.

This was concerning to Corey and Oats especially because they wanted her to be independent too like the helpers but she was stuck under the tyrannical clutches of her mother. One afternoon Corey and Oats ran over to her mom. ‘Something is very wrong here, you tell us that your mother doesn’t let you babysit my friends yet we didn’t get a confirmation from this. Is she trying to alter the agreement?’ ‘Well uh…my mom says that.’ ‘Do you have to do everything that woman says?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘But she is cruel, dictator-ian and controlling, she loves you, yes but she wants to make sure you and Mel are as far as away from each-other as possible.’

“But she is my mom and I must obey her.”

‘Oh you use that as your excuse for everything, remember when you threw that horse at me?’ Corey added. ‘Does your mother tell you to act whiny or are you just always grouchy because you need medication?’ ‘I am not grumpy, it’s just Mel never listens.’ ‘And why should Mel listen to you just because you think she should listen to what you think your mom said to you?’

“Because…”

‘You cannot think of a good response? I am sorry but admit it, you are a parrot that repeats everything your mother says, it’s cute when you try to mimic what I say but it’s sad when your parrot is your mother like that.’ ‘Huh?’ Just as Corey said that, Zara started growing feathers all over her body as she grew a pair of feathery wings of different colors as her feet shifted to become bird-like talons.

“What is happening?”

“Welcome to our world, Zara. Whenever you act a certain way your form will change to teach you a lesson.”

‘So i’m turning into a bird?’ ‘Yes…a parrot to be precise.’ Zara squirmed a little bit as her facial features fused and hardened, roughening and turning into a beak like that of a bird, she could still talk though and didn’t lose her teeth and tongue. ‘Because you parrot what your mother tells you.’

“What? No, i’m just doing as she says.”

‘Like a good parrot, that’s what you are.’ Corey didn’t like having to tell off and tease anyone, true…he was a microbe leader who had his own set of rules. He looked over at Zara as a huge sign that said ‘Momma’s Girl’ popped up behind her, followed by taunt and jeers, she finally decided on not listening to her mother anymore. ‘You know what? You’re right, I am sorry for acting like this, can you accept my apology?’

‘Fine…we accept your apology, but we need to find another alternative to having someone look after our friends in the house since you claim your mother won’t let them sleepover in that bedroom of yours.’ ‘Well I don’t know, it’s my mom.’

“I can help with that…”

Corey picked up Zara’s phone and disguised his voice, he called up Zara’s mother and asked her to change the arrangement back to what it was before. ‘Now did you actually say that she couldn’t have my friends in her room or that she couldn’t babysit them in general?’ ‘Well I said the lounge or the table but not her bedroom.’ ‘So she lied to us?’ ‘Yes, she did.’ ‘And you didn’t pick up on the fact she was lying?’ ‘Well I am sorry, it’s just I am not good at picking up when she is lying and when she is not.’

He turned the phone off and sighed…’So what do we do?’ ‘We can’t just leave our friends unprotected at the house,what if someone tries to rob the house?’ ‘But we cannot leave them with Zara anymore, we can’t trust her, she is too aggressive and volatile.’ ‘Well what do we do? We need a new babysitter.’

“Like what? Do you know where on earth we could find new babysitters?”

“Maybe..Mel, would you mind helping?”

‘Of course not..’ Mel showed Corey and Oats to the bedroom where she showed them a magical portal which took them to a special application room. In the application room the duo and Mel sat down and auditioned several people and creatures for babysitter material.

The first babysitter they auditioned was a demon horse, but she terrified Oats. ‘I don’t like this one, she’s scary.’ The second babysitter was a koala which Mel liked, but she worried that she wouldn’t be able to do tasks. The third babysitter was a robot babysitter programmed to love unconditionally, which went well until she saw a mess on the floor and short circuited.

They went through several baby-sitters until they found they liked…she was just as loving as the others, and she was even able to be all sorts of creatures. ‘Let’s hire this one.’ ‘Good idea.’ So they hired the shapeshifter babysitter.

The next step was finding a place to drop their friends off, they couldn’t pick Zara’s room anymore so they had to find other places, the first place they tried was a futuristic playroom, but the sounds of the Daleks rolling down the hallway yelling their trademark yells of ‘EXTERMINATE’ scared the unicorns. The second place they tried to drop them off in a forest playhouse, which they liked…up until it got dark, then Prince Whinius whinnied in fear when he saw the eyes that were seemingly following him.

The third place they tried was an underwater cave, but the unicorns Prince Whinnius and Fantasmo didn’t find it comfortable because they couldn’t breathe underwater. ‘What are we going to do? None of these places are the right place to drop off our friends.’ ‘I know, let’s get back to the bedroom, then we’ll think of something.’

“That’s a good idea.”

The duo and Mel along with the unicorns headed back through the portal and arrived back at Nile Road, once there they arrived at the bedroom and began to formulate a plan. ‘Hmmm..where can we drop our equine friends off?’ ‘I don’t know…we cannot leave them on their own.’ ‘Hmmm…I know, maybe there’s a place we can go.’

That’s when Corey got an idea…’The staff room, the bedroom there is perfect and they can have their own bedtime adventures while in there, and it’s not like the toybox isn’t an option either.’ ‘Yeah, the lounge is totally not off-limits so Zara won’t have to be involved until we work around a solution for this problem.’

“That’s a smart idea.”

Corey and Oats raced off to the staff-room, taking Fantasmo, Melby the koala, Prince Whinnius, and Trump Cat with them and dropping them off in the staff-room. ‘Alright guys, I know this isn’t ideal for you and I know Zara is your favorite babysitter but we cannot get her to do it anymore so you will have to live here while we are gone, be on your best behavior now.’ ‘We will, thank you.’

“That was a rather smart solution to the problem.”

‘Yeah, we didn’t have to resort to punishing Zara’s mother or anything. I mean we could have told her to stop controlling her daughter and to stop badgering her, but you know she probably just heard that from where she was and probably is..well you know.’ Which was true…Zara’s mother was still on the phone trying to contact Corey back to make an apology for her demanding behavior when she started turning into a humanoid badger.

“Don’t worry, you both can turn back to normal.”

A couple of seconds later Zara and her mother turned back to normal form, and they both apologized. Zara had fully realized that she didn’t need to always do what her mom said, and Zara’s mother realized that she didn’t need to order around her daughter so much. And thus with that the duo smiled as they went back to their own bedroom before setting things up.

It was Friday after all and their owner ‘Jill’ was going to pick them up after dinner and they all rallied up all the microbes and their friends from their home and got them to hop in the green bag as they had a good time.

They made amends with Zara and finally decided to re-hire her as their babysitter, as they dropped off their friends and Trump-cat in Zara’s room. And thus on that note, their little search had come to an end.

Even though this adventure has ended, there are more to come, stay tuned for ‘Corey and Oats’s Galactic Journey’ ‘Cinnamon: Princess of the Flowery Forest’ several new specials, and ‘Return to Weta Workshop’.