Tommy Pickles: The Terrible Twos (Series; Pt 1)

Flu Season Pt 7

Another one done thanks again to Celrock! Hope you all enjoy this chapter!

As Dil drifted off to take his nap, he started to have a dream. He awoke and stared over at Tommy's bed, noticing something looked way different from before. There was a lump beneath the blanket, only now, it was much smaller. Curious, Dil let himself out of his crib and quietly crawled over to the bed. He nervously pulled back the blanket, this time, to spot something he didn't recognize. In place of Tommy, was a green creature, about the size of a baby doll, with fangs sticking out of its mouth and red eyes, glaring angrily at Dil.

"You're next." The creature said, pointing a syringe at Dil. It looked exactly like the syringe the doctor used to give Tommy his shot a few days ago, right before he got sick.

"No! Give me back my brother!" Dil cried, picking up his shovel from the floor and placing his bucket on his head, as he attempted to hit the alien, knocking the syringe out of his tentacle.

"I'm your brother now Dilly, He he he." The alien cackled, as he inched closer to Dil, baring his fangs in his arm.

"Tommy! Help! Come back, and help!" Dil cried out for his brother's return.

Swirls of rainbow light came around him before Dil then suddenly awoke from the dream, now back in his crib, still calling out Tommy's name.

"Tommy! Tommy!" Dil cried, now in tears.

"Dil, are you okay?" Tommy asked, also getting woken up by Dil's cries as he made his way over to Dil's crib.

Suddenly, Dil calmed down and stopped crying, as he stared through the bars of his crib to see Tommy standing on the other side.

"Tommy, is it really you?" Dil asked in between his sobs.

"Yeah Dilly, it's beens me the whole time. I just didn't feels good, that's all. Go back to sleep Dilly, and I promise, when I'm all better, we'll play in the sandbox and make the biggest sand castle ever." Tommy said, returning to his bed.

"What makes you thinks I wanted to play in the sandbox?" Dil asked, snuggling up with his blanket.

"Why else would you come at me with a bucket on your head and a shovel in your hand?" Tommy asked, curling back up beneath his blanket in his bed as he let out a small yawn.

The two boys finished up their nap and saw to having dinner later that evening. By this point, Tommy was feeling much better than he had been over the past few days. Over the next couple of days, Tommy started to feel more like himself and by the end of the week, Tommy was the first one out of bed, and ran eagerly downstairs to breakfast. Once everybody was seated and situated at the table for breakfast, Stu turned to his oldest son.

"What would you like for breakfast, Champ?" Stu asked.

"Reptar Reptar!" Tommy cried, pointing to the box of Reptar cereal on the pantry shelf.

"I'll get it for you, Champ." Stu chuckled, pouring Tommy a bowl of cereal.

Dil watched his brother eat as he ate his own breakfast, which was some oatmeal, pleased to see him eating his cereal, and not throwing it on the floor.

"I see you're feeling much better this morning." Didi said, kissing the top of Tommy's head, as he went on eating his Reptar cereal.

After breakfast, Tommy and Dil got to go out into the backyard where they could see to finally making their giant sandcastle in the sandbox together. A little while later, about mid-morning, Savannah and Samayah were dropped off so they could come over to play.

"Hi Dil, hi Tommy, you look a lot better today." Savannah greeted, making herself comfortable at one end of the sandbox, while Ebony set Samayah down in a prop up pillow a little ways away in the grass.

"That's cuz I'm not sick no more. I'm all better!" Tommy replied, shoveling some more sand into his bucket.

"And he's not a alieum either." Dil added.

"So, how did you gets Tommy to come back?" Savannah asked, picking up a shovel and starting to dig in the sand.

"I didn't need to! The other day, I had a horrible nightscare while taking my nap. Tommy was replaced by a tiny alieum, who tried to take over me, but then I waked up and Tommy comforted me after my dream. At least this time, he thought I only wanted to play in the sandbox, and promised to help me build a sandcastle when he started feeling better, and now, we're building it together, me, and my bestest big brother ever!" Dil said happily, picking up some sand with his hands and watching it fall through his fingers, giggling happily.

Samayah saw this and started giggling at the sight of Dil playing with the sand. Savannah glanced over at her sister, then turned back to Tommy and Dil in the sandbox, looking disappointed.

"What's wrong, Savannah?" Tommy asked.

"What about Maya? She's too little to play in the sandbox." Savannah asked.

"Well, as her big sister, she can watches you play in the sandbox, so when she gets to be a big baby like you and Dilly, she'll be able to play with the sand like us!" Tommy said.

Savannah got up from the sandbox and went over to her sister in the grass to talk to her for a minute.

"Okay Mayah, know what that is?" Savannah asked Samayah, pointing to the sandbox.

"And! And!" Samayah cried.

"That's right Samayah, it's sand! And I knows you're too little to play with it now, but one day, you'll be a big baby like me, and you'll get to do all sorts of big baby things, like playing in the sandbox!" Savannah explained, picking up a blade of grass and handing it to her sister, who happily sucked on it, while her big sister went back to playing in the sandbox with her friends.

The kids continued to have fun playing outside, until Didi came outside to get Dil. Today was the day Dil finally had his own doctor's checkup and Didi didn't want to be late.

"Come on Dil, time to head to the doctors." Didi said, carrying the diaper bag on one arm, as she came out to the yard to get Dil.

By this time, he was kicking the infamous green and blue ball with the orange star on it through the grass, when it suddenly hit him, a horrified look crossing his face at that moment his mommy mentioned the doctor. He was now going back to that doctor for his shot.

What will happen next? Find out next time!