Demoted

Chapter 2
Bearings

Minako and Hotaru came in around then. "Luna and Artemis want to talk to all of us." Hotaru said.

"Oh? Why is that?" Ami asked, looking back at the two while hanging from the side of the tub.

"They say they want to go over how we should go over how we are going search for a solution and how things may go on around here.

"Oh, alright. Coming Haruka?" she asked, getting down and toddling behind the two others.

"Sure, whatever" she said boredly, following as well

They all gathered in the nursery area. "We managed to get up a type of search computer." said Luna hopefully we find an answer before you are regressed mentally as well."

Usagi then gasped. "I just remembered! Mamoru gets his power from the Earth, what if has affected him too?"

"Well, we don’t exactly know the full extent of the effect, or even if it is the higher powers doing this. For all we know, it may be a dark force" Artemis replied, looking over to Luna.

"We’ll go check on him shortly." Luna said reassuringly. "From what the computer readouts have told us you all will lose the ability to walk or stand very soon so you will have to crawl. I wouldn’t be surprised if you lose control of your body functions or be unable to speak in anything other than baby talk."

"Approximately how soon should we lose some of those functions?" Ami asked, now worried, as she had trouble even forming that first word.

"Our best guess is that walking will go first." said Artemis. "And you’ll all lose that within the hour. You would unable use complex words by tomorrow morning and then bowel and balder control soon after that."

"Alright... And how long before... total regression?" Makoto asked, gulping.

"We still don’t know." said Luna. "About a month, but you will steadily regress mentally until then. On the upside even then it might still be reversible, we hope."

"Alright... But can you search for Chibiusa on that computer?" Usagi asked, looking at Luna hopefully.

"We’re doing that now." said Luna. "We’ll let you know the moment we find anything."

"In the meantime Luna and I have been thinking about what to do for money and we thought that the best thing to do right now is to reopen this place and take care of other children for a couple of hours a day, that is if you all don’t mind being around real babies in your state."

"Alright..." they all agreed, though a bit reluctantly. "You think that other people might be affected, and maybe it could have nothing to do with Pluto?" Ami asked Luna, as the others left to investigate.

"That is possible, for right now it’s starting to get late. We’ll start to get a meal ready for you. Until then you all should try to take it easy, you’ve had a rough day.

"Yeah..." she walked away, yawning, as she went to find a library to read in, since by tomorrow, she probably won’t be able to anymore...

Haruka and Michiru had toddled over to Hotaru who was looking at a cute lamp near a changing table. "You don’t seem that upset over what happened." Haruka said.

"Well this happened to me before." Hotaru said. "Last time this happened all at once but looking back it sort of felt like a vacation, since I have to take another one I figure I might as well enjoy it."

"Yes, but in the other one, you progressed back quickly. For this one, we might grow back slower or even never" Michiru said, afraid at her own words.

"Yeah that does worry me. Still if we do change back this will become another good memory."

"Hotaru... Do you like being like this?" Haruka asked, raising an eyebrow.

"Well if I had a choice, I would have rather have not been turned into a baby again. But if since I have been I might as well enjoy it, and this time I hope maybe all of you can enjoy it with me."

"Hmpf... I rather just destroy whoever did this to us" Haruka said, plopping down onto her bottom, which made Michiru giggle. But one evil eye from the blonde girl made her instantly go quiet.

Minako was looking over herself and the changes made in her uniform. "You know guys I’ve been thinking; the way our uniforms changed I think we wore them like this before."

"When?" asked Rei.

"Back in the Silver Millennium, from the way Setsuna’s attack only tickled Usagi at this age our powers are only really good as playthings so we could get better at using them before we could actually fight."

"Hm... so all of our attacks could not really harm us" Rei replied, getting up and toddling over.

"Yeah, maybe we should all try it out." said Makoto. "But we may want to have Luna here in case you’re wrong."

"Alright. Usagi, could you go get her?" Rei asked, looking at the meatball headed girl.

"Why do I have to get her?" She snapped back.

"Because you are the most useless out of all of us!" Rei yelled, sticking her tounge out.

"Just for that I’m going to test my powers on you first!" as toddled to the kitchen area she fell on her bottom three times, so she started crawling just so she wouldn’t fall down again. When she got there she couldn’t find Artemis. "Luna where’s Artemis?" "Oh, we went over to get Mamoru, whether or not he’s affected we could use him over here." Usagi cringed at the tought of her boyfriend seeing her this way. "Well we could use you right now, we were going to try out our powers to see if they all have weakend." "That’s a good idea, I’ll just get a first aid kit and then we can start."

The minute Usagi walked back into the room, the yell of "Mars Fire Ignite!" was heard form the other side of the room, as Mars launched her attack.

Usagi started giggling as soon as the attack hit her, only feeling slightly warm as well as being tickled. "Ok you asked for it! Moon Tiara Action!"

Rei started giggling as well, falling on her back and kicking her legs as the thing bumped her. "Hm... Interesting..." Makoto said, looking at the two.

After a short while it turned out all of thier powers had been affected the same way and Luna was looking at nine baby girls giggling on the floor. "Well now that you have enojyed your new ’toys’ it’s just about time you had dinner you must all be hungry by now." "Well you better make room for more." said Artemis as he carried in a infantized Mamoru and four other boys came in.

"The Shitennou?!" gasped Luna.

"Who hasn’t been affected by this?!?" Rei yelled out, getting up.

Mamoru started to speak. "Don’t worry about them, these are the real Shitennou. I found these four stones yesterday and it turned out that they were trapped in them by Beryl. I was going to tell you today but as you can see..."

"Well at any rate we can discuss this over dinner." said Luna. "You can choose what you want tonight, just keep in mind it will still be baby food."

They all agreed and walked into the kitchen, where they were helped into feeding chairs by the adults. "I think the standard meal will be fine" Ami said, looking aorund at the rest.

"I remember them." said Setsuna. "They were Endymion’s bodyguards that and..." she was looking at the inner senshi. "What?" asked Minako seeing the boys were blushing. "Nothing, at least nothing to tell you right now." Setsuna said as Artemis tied a bib around her neck.

The inner girls looked at her for a moment, before being distracted as plates were set in front of them. One by one, they started eating. All together, it seemed that everything was alright, with only a few mistakes here and there.

"I guess we also have to drink from a bottle." Zoicite said. Haruka then shrugged. "Well it’s better than being thirsty."

"Well, it will definatley be a new experiance for you all" Luna said as she filled bottles and handed them to Artemis to pass out.

It took a short while for them to figure it out after that they sucked the bottles contents and were looking sleepy. "Guess we better put them to bed." said Artemis.

"Yes... How bout I round up the girls and put them in their own nursery why you take the boys" Luna said, already starting to lift Usagi, who was full out asleep by now.

"You know." Artemis said. we may have to change them in the morning. They may have control of thier bodies, but that may only be while they are awake.

"Yes, I know that all too well" she said, gesturing to Usagi, where a wet spot was already forming on the diaper. "Let us put them to bed and check the computer before going to sleep ourselves" she said, picking up a few more.

"Well by morning they may all need a change. While we’re at it we better use the computer to set up our ’business’."

She nodded. A few minutes later, she them all in cribs and was at the computer, wiating for Artemis as she brought up the program to search for people.