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Not a Very Baby-Proofed Facility

Requested by:  YourLocalGenderqueer 

BioSundance carried a stack of boxed files down the facility's hallways when he was startled by one of his colleagues. "BioSundance? You need to come with me!" BioRedolent tugged at BioSundance's arm as papers spilled out of the now open boxes on the ground. "Redo, calm down! You've knocked over all my files. Stop acting like the younger civilians." Despite BioSundance's scolding, BioRedolent continued to pull him through the facility. "I'm really sorry, but this is very important!" As they turned the corner, the pair calm to a sudden halt as BioSundance tried to regain his balance and composure.

BioCache stood in front of them, and behind him sat thirteen small children. "Finally, you've arrived. As you can tell, we have a problem." As BioCache said that, the child who was meant to be Sorrowful began to burst out in tears and took off his mask. BioSundance stared mindlessly at the shrunken operatives and leader in wonder and confusion as BioRedolent picked up Sorrowful in an attempt to calm the child. "I don't get it..." BioSundance mumbled, "How could this even happen?" BioCache turned to face him. "I don't get it either. I assume it was the work of the Night Coalition, but we can't be so sure." As the two began to discuss the possibilities, the small operatives began to re-orient themselves.

Suddenly, a loud bang echoed throughout the storage room as the small, blue-themed operative began to scream. Unstable screeched and held his head while tears rolled down his cheeks. BioSundance began to panic and rushed over to the small child. "What happened? Unstable? Are you alright?" Emotionless came up behind the pair. "He kept kicking the big box, so a smaller box on the top fell down and hit him in the head." He pointed to the different boxes as he spoke, so the facility workers knew which boxes he was referring to. 

As BioCache picked up the small green-themed operative, a child wearing a pink hat and holding a horse stuffed animal came up behind Unstable before giving him the horse. "Hold Horsey, he can help!" Unstable clutched the brown blob for a few minutes before Benevolent wanted it back. "Can I have Horsey back?" Benevolent stared at Unstable with puppy-dog eyes, but was rejected anyway. "No! Horsey mine!" Unstable yelled. Anger filled Benevolent's face before he pushed Unstable down onto the cold, metal-paneled floor.

BioSundance quickly noted that Malevolent as a child was a violent and ungrateful brat as he separated the two children and tried to calm everyone down in an attempt to establish some form of schedule or plan. Once the screaming had ceased and there was some peace, BioSundance created three groups of operatives with one facility worker to control each group. BioCache was going to watch Placid, Dreadful, Scary, and Unstable. BioRedolent was assigned to watch Practical, Radiant, Macabre, and Benevolent. Finally, BioSundance was going to keep track of Unpredictable, Dynamic, Sorrowful, Emotionless, and Great. Once everything was organized, the facility workers put their plan into motion and led the tiny operatives away.

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BioCache ran as he tried to catch Scary, who wasn't running in any consistent pattern. As the little operative ran, he knocked box, after crate, after jar onto the ground, some of the items breaking or shattering. Finally, once he was contained, Unstable ran over to the fallen objects and began to play with the broken shards of yellowed glass and large pieces splintered wood. In a panic, BioCache grabbed Unstable in his arms, too, and tried to juggle the two chaotic operatives. The only one he wasn't concerned as much about was Placid, but BioCache looked around anyway, trying to locate the masked child. He found him sitting beside a small black guitar while plucking the out-of-tune strings. After each note sounded from the instrument, Placid grew excited and clapped his hands together in a vibrant happiness.

BioCache sighed in relief, he was glad that he didn't have to worry about at least one of them. But his eyes widened once he realized, 'where is Dreadful?'  BioCache placed Scary on his shoulders and ran around the facility. He ran in circles during his search for Dreadful, but as he stopped for breath, he heard slight movement from a cardboard box off to his far right. Walking over to it, BioCache ripped open the box to see Dreadful, who stirred at the sudden movements,  napping at the bottom of the box. 

Now that he knew the whereabouts of all of his tiny operative-children, the exhausted facility worker relaxed and looked at the playpen he had created by arranging several large crates. Placid, Dreadful, Scary, and Unstable all peacefully played with crayons, papers, old dolls, and a guitar. Now, after several restless hours of watching over the young, energetic operatives, BioCache finally leaned back in his chair and drifted into sleep.

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BioRedolent was glad to have been assigned a rather calm group and he looked out over the four small operatives from his spot on top of a stack of boxes. Radiant had several old documents which he had folded into airplanes and were thrown around the room. Macabre snapped up at the flying papers like a shark trying to catch its prey. Benevolent was stuck in a fit of giggles as he watched Macabre and his failed attempts to catch the paper airplanes. So, that left Practical. Practical sat right next to BioRedolent on his look out and was slumped down onto himself. For a moment, BioRedolent looked at the child before realizing he was asleep.

All was well until a loud scream echoed throughout the room. Practical woke up and slightly lifted his mask to rub his eyes before climbing down. BioRedolent scanned the room to find the source of the sound when he saw Macabre laying on the ground and clutching his elbow. Radiant began to gather his paper airplanes and put them in a pile before walking over to Macabre. However, Benevolent beat both BioRedolent and Radiant to the injured child. He hugged Macabre and placed a small pink band-aid onto the cut, who's sobs slowly turned to sniffles. 

Before anything else could happen, BioRedolent snatched all of the operatives and hugged them close to him, but after they squirmed and wriggled under his grasp, he let them go. BioRedolent made sure none of the children left his sight. Before long, all of them sat in a small circle, tossing around a crumpled airplane and playing a game that BioRedolent had seen some of the civilian children playing called 'hot potato'.  

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Unpredictable and Dynamic ran around the facility and looked at the various creatures in their cells. "Look at that one!" "No, look at that one!" They went from one section to another, eager to feed their curiosity. The two operatives had completely strayed from their group, but neither of them really noticed nor cared.  

Back in the main part of the group, BioSundance searched around in a panic. He held a crying Sorrowful in his left arm, had Great on his shoulders, and was dragging Emotionless around in his right hand. Once he had realized that Dynamic and Unpredictable were missing, he began to hyperventilate, knowing that BioCache would kill him. Literally.  Emotionless kept trying to free himself from BioSundance's grasp and Sorrowful was wailing, convinced that he would never see his friends ever again. Needless to say, neither operative was helping the situation.

Stacks of crates and boxes were knocked onto the ground and their contents spilled out onto the floor, and papers and other objects had been scattered across the floor. The facility worked turned corners and ran in circles around the facility before thinking his efforts were hopeless. He set the children onto the ground before sliding to the ground with his back leaning against the cold metal wall. Sorrowful had curled up beside him and they both began the cry for several minutes before BioSundance felt something nudging against his arm. He slightly looked up to see Emotionless pointing to Great, who held up a black hat with a pair of steampunk goggles attached to it. 

Sighing, BioSundance raised Sorrowful off the ground and the group began their mission again. However, this would be the last corner they would have to turn. Once the group made their way around the wall, they spotted two operatives, one dressed in orange and the other in purple. Unpredictable and Dynamic sat in front of a darkness creature's cell and giggled as they took turns tapping on the glass wall separating them from the monster. Feeling exhausted, BioSundance lead all five children back to their original spot and attached them to ropes than were tied around his wrist. Finally feeling confident with his plan, BioSundance took a nap.

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Great stood up and brushed off his coat, 'why was I on the floor?' Actually why are any of my operatives on the ground?'  BioSundance was shaken awake and he slowly opened his eyes to see his Supreme Leader standing over him. "O-Oh! Supreme Leader! Is everything back to normal?" Great gave him a confused glance. "I don't know what you are talking about. However, my memory is blanking so you'll have to explain to me what's happened over the past day." He began to walk away before turning back around. "Meet me in my office in 20 minutes." The Supreme Leader limped away before he disappeared in the maze of the facility's hallways.