An Encounter in the Ball Room

With Cody's transformation back into infanthood only occuring just a short twenty-five minutes ago -- pandemonium had begun to spread across the daycare as a spree of transformations occurred in several of the rooms inside the daycare. The spread of the pink magical forces amongst the children in the daycare had turned rampant as various children inside the building found themselves regressed and returned back into more infantile versions of themselves. Not that they seemed to mind.

Toys, chairs and tables were all strewn and thrown about the place as many of the rooms at Sunnyside looked as if bomb had went off inside. The markings of crayon were soon etched across various walls and surfaces as regressed tykes began playing with no concept of rules or staff to stop them. Several drawers with spare sets of clothing such as t-shirts, pants and shorts were mysteriously replaced with a seemingly-endless supply of diapers, onsies and bottles all pre-filled with a range of liquids inside.

No connection. No cellular data. No WI-FI. Nothing.

Rosie continually refreshed, restarted and closed the apps on her smartphone before gritting her teeth in frustration -- nothing was working as it should be. "What's going on?" She grunted, "My phone isn't working. No connection whatsoever! It was working, like, an hour ago!"

Emily returned a curious glance at her co-worker. She dipped a hand into her own pocket and pulled out her smartphone to check. It seemed hers wasn't working either. "Maybe they're doing work on the--"

"Oh," Rosie huffed, "I pay forty-three dollars a month for this phone and it can't even keep a good reception!"

Emily once returned her focus back onto Amilia. She crouched on the edge of the ball pit and resumed watching Amilia have the time of her life. "I'm sure it'll be fixed soon. These types of things happen."

"Oh well," Rosie threw her phone back into her pocket, defeated. "No use crying about it like a baby, I guess. I'm heading back to the staff room in a couple of minutes. Need a coffee or something to keep you going?"

"I'm good." Emily responded, smiling. "Just a few more minutes with Amilia and then I'll be taking her back to the--"

The doors to the ball pit room suddenly swung wide open. Opening so far wide the doors swung completely and hit the walls behind with a hardened slam, Rosie and Emily soon jolted upright at the sudden swinging motions before getting a good look at Cody entering the room, and yet -- something was off. Something was seriously off.

The former daycare staff assistant slowly toddled through the doorways and into the ballpit room with the dopiest grin on his face. His response from the two adults in the room suddenly turned into several rotations of sudden abject shock and horror as the former nineteen year old entered wearing nothing but a fully used diaper around his waist.

"I foun' yuu!" He cackled and giggled at the sight of the two adults before him.

"What the hell?!" Rosie exclaimed, she took several steps back toward Emily. "C-Cody?! What are you doing in a diap-- What are YOU doing without clothes! There's kids in the building for the love of--"

"Cody!" Emily took charge. She took several steps forward closer to Cody and shielded Rosie with her arm, "What's the matter with you?! Are you 'on' something? Did you take ****? Answer me! There's going to be serious reprecussions for this recklessness!"

The words didn't seem to register with Cody. He continued to stare longingly at the two adults -- arms raised, he poorly gestured to his chest in need of something. "I foun' yuu! Hide an' seek! Hide an' seek! Canna' haff' a cuddle now?"

The longer Emily and Rosie assessed the condition Cody was in -- his expressions, tone of voice and body language all seemed to be genuine. He was acting as if he were an actual toddler. Their noses wrinkled at the stench of his dirty diaper for all to see. The most mystifying thing was the pink-ish glow coming from his eyes.

"--And what happened to your eyes?! What kind of substance does that to you?" Rosie added, she took equal footing next to Emily.

The questions seemed to confuse the transformed daycare assistant. "Hide an' seek?" His eyes pleaded genuine, his footwork closer to the staff left much to be desired -- taking unequal and careless baby steps closer, and closer.

"I'm warning you!" Rosie snapped, "You better keep your distance or you're going to be in so much trouble!"