Hades and Carissa went to go check on how Pain and Panic were doing with their plan to kill Hercules with a fire breathing bull was going. Carissa knew they failed but Hades was still hopeful. "So boys, how goes operation bull? Good?" Hades asked the imps.

"Uh the same as operation dragon, operation lion.." Pain listed.

"And don't forget operation rabid chickens." Panic added.

"I told you that one wouldn't work."

"OK! Here's one." Hades growled as he flames up making Carissa back away from him. "Operation last chance, I want Hercules down for the count by sunset!" He then grabbed the cowering imps by the wings. "Or guess what, it's date night down under. Just you and one of my old FLAMES!" Hades disappeared into his fire along with Carissa leaving the poor imps burned to a crisp.

"Dad, don't you think you should give them a break?" Carissa asked when they went back to the underworld.

Hades gave her a look making her shut up. "No, now go to school!" Snapping his fingers Carissa was hidden from the school and quickly changed into Kareena before heading to home greconomics class. The teacher really creeps her out, she could be Helen of Troy's mother.

"Ok class, do you all have your eggs?" The cheery teacher squealed. Carissa rolled her eyes, the assignment was to take care of an egg as if it's your child.

"You bet ya, you can call me proud papa." Icarus shouted happily hugging his egg. "I even named mine, Bud. I even made him some wax wings too, oh this chicken is going to fly!" Icarus threw the egg making it fly all over the class room.

The teacher gave him a look of disapproval. "No no no Icarus, putting your egg at risk is not the kind of responsible handling I want to see." She turned. "Now Adonis, where's your egg?''

"Not just an egg." Adonis snapped his fingers making a servant come over with a pillow which he set down an egg wearing a crown. "The royal egg."

The teacher sighed dreamly. "Ah, how nice, and Kareena where is your egg?"

"I gave it up for egg-option." Carissa told her.

"What? But why?" The teacher gasped along with other.

"I have my reasons, one if my dad or anyone sees me carrying an egg they'd think I'm nuts, my house isn't safe for a kid, I ain't mother material, and four I'm a kid myself no way can I take care of one."

"Don't you want a shot at responsibility?" The teacher asked her.

"I'm an only child, I'm spoiled, and I work for my dad so no."

To everyones surprise the teacher smiled. "Bravo Kareena, knowing you're not ready to be a parent because you know you're too young is the result I want, you get an A. Now Hercules.." She looked around to see he's not in the class room. "Where's Hercules."

"Here I am!" Hercules shouted as he ran in and as Carissa predicted tripped on his own feet. "Oops!" His egg went flying into the air causing Hercules to quickly get up and break everything in his path to get it. "All in one piece."

The teacher put her hands on her hips as she looked around her ruined classroom. "So I see." She decided to keep the class going. "Cassandra how's your..." She gasped when she saw Cassandra was cracking her egg into a frying pan. Everyone except Carissa screamed in terror as they watched Cassandra turn her so called 'kid' into an omelet.

"What?" Cassandra asked.

Carissa couldn't help but laugh "Only you Cassandra."

"Sweet Zeus!" Icarus screamed as he covered his eyes and put his hand in front of his egg. "Don't look Bud."

After school the four of them when to the malt shop and Icarus still had his egg and teaching it how to fly. "Ok that's it, flap and rest, flap and rest, that's it and remember never fly too close to the sun son."

"Or too close to Cassandra when she's hungry." Hercules said making Carissa laugh.

"The egg was delicious." Cassandra told them before looking at Icarus's egg. "ooh, egg salad."

Icarus held his egg close. "AH! Don't listen Bud."

"You weren't suppose to eat your egg, you were suppose to learn how to be a responsible and caring person. Hasn't class taught you anything?" Hercules demanded.

"Sure, it taught me how to make the perfect omelet." Cassandra replied making Carissa laugh harder.

"I'm with you, that project was just stupid." Carissa said.

"Yeah," Cassandra agreed "I mean I can be caring, for someone I care about."

Icarus then cuddled up to her. "Like me?"

"You'd be an omelet." Cassandra said as she shoved him away.

"Hey I've been fried before." Icarus joked.

Carissa just kept on laughing. "Oh man, you guys are on a roll."

"Here you go." Carissa stopped laughing when she heard that voice and looked up to see a waitress pour Hercules drink. "Free refills." Carissa knew that wasn't a waitress, it was Pain she knows those eyes anywhere.

"Oh thanks." Hercules smiled at her before he went back to talking.

"Sorry guys, I gotta go." Carissa got up and followed the so called waitress to the back of a trash can. "What are you guys doing?" She asked when she saw her dad's minions.

"Watched and be amazed princess." Panic smiled at her as he pointed to Hercules.

Carissa turned to see Adonis grab Hercules drink and gulped it down.

"Alright Adonis, this has got to stop!" Herc shouted but Adonis was gone. "Hey, where'd he go?"

"Well he probably ran off." Icarus said sounding brave. "Afraid I might come after him next, yeah, nothing but a big baby."

"Not as big as you might think." Cassandra pointed to a very tan skinned and blond hair infant holding Hercules's cup.

Hercules chuckled and picked him up. "You think this cute little fella is Adonis? No way."

Little Adonis shouted. "Jerky! Jerky!" And harshly pulled his nose.

"AH!" Hercules held him away. "It's Adonis."

Carissa turned to her nannies. "What did you guys do?"

"Well you know how your father said we only have till sunset to kill Hercules?" Panic asked.

"Yeah."

"Well the fates told us where we can get this magic water that turns grown ups into babies."

"Why would you wanna do that?" Carissa asked.

"He'd be easier to kill." Pain finished.

"You guys couldn't even kill him the last time." Carissa pointed out.

"Well we're prepared now." Pain assured.

"Well your magic water got the wrong guy, now what are you going to do?" Carissa asked.

"Oh there's plenty more where that came from." Pain said as he and Panic showed her a huge super soaker full of the water.

Carissa widened her eyes and backed away from it and turned into her normal self. "Keep that away from me, I only have a couple years left till I'm a full Goddess, I don't want to wait another 18 years."

"Something weird is going on." Hercules said to Icarus and Cassandra.

"Oh come on." Icarus waved it off as he grabbed Adonis. "So Adonis has somehow turned into a baby, stranger things happen." Cassandra and Hercules both gave him a narrow eyed look. "Well OK! No they don't! Are you happy? Oh he's wet."

"Just shoot the thing." Carissa whispered to the imps.

Pain and Panic waited till they had a clear shot of Hercules. "Ready, aim, water!" They let out a long stream of water, however Pegasus saw them and pushed Hercules out of the way making him get hit instead.

"Come on Pegasus, we have a... PEGASUS!" Hercules shouted as he saw his horse was now a small pony. "Oh no."

Cassandra gasped. "Adonis!"

Little Adonis was in a run away chariot that was out of control. "I'll save him!" Hercules gave Cassandra his horse. "Watch Pegasus!" With that he ran off to get him.

"This time wait for a clear shot." Pain said, but they never got it cause the chariot ran right into them making the water spray all over Icarus.

"This is all very confusing." Cassandra said as she petted the horse then heard cooing noises behind her. "That's not funny Icarus." She turned to see Icarus is now a baby too. "Icarus! Well at least you're finally acting your age." She then gagged as Icarus shoved a bug into his mouth.

Carissa looked over and Pain and Panic were missing but she heard them stuck inside the trashcan they were hiding behind. "Hang on guys." Carissa yanked it open and pulls them out along with the water gun. When Hercules came back with Adonis the three of them quickly hid in a bush.

"More problems?" Hercules sighed as he saw his best friend was now a baby as well.

"Now boys." Carissa whispered to the minions who now had a clear shot which they took and got Hercules right in the back.

Cassandra was now stuck with 3 baby boys and a flying baby horse. "This is not happening, this is all a bad dream, I'm not ready to be a mother. I am so not ready." She put the boys down and tried to think but it was cut short. "Adonis put that down." Adonis splashed a cherry smoothie all over Icarus who had the lid in his mouth. "Icarus! Put that down." She sat down and pulled it out of his mouth only for Hercules to pick up the bench she was using. "HERCULES! PUT ME DOWN!"

"We did it!" Pain and Panic cheered.

"Guys, kill first, gloat later." Carissa reminded them but Hercules got to Panic first and started to squeeze him.

Pain couldn't help but laugh. "He thinks you're a toy." But he stopped laughing when he saw Icarus and Adonis fighting over the super soaker and ran over to them. "Um kids, please put that down. That's not a toy!"

"Boys." Cassandra called for them making Pain let go of it and try to hide. "What is that?" Cassandra asked when she saw the water gun. The boys found the trigger and the water splashed all over Pain.

"Oh my gosh!" PAIN! PANIC!" Carissa ran over to help her nannies. One was now a baby and the other was getting beaten up by one.

"Hades little helpers, I should have known." Cassandra said coming over.

Panic got away from Hercules and glared at Cassandra. "Careful, don't mess with us, we got special underworld powers, we can turn into anything."

"Um Panic." Carissa pointed down to little Pain making Panic look down and stare at his partner is shock.

Carissa started freaking out. "Do something!"

Panic grabbed the water gun. "Don't worry princess, it's easy to turn them back. One squirt they're a baby, two squirts they're back to normal. No problemo."

Carissa sighed relieve. "Thank flame, do Pain first."

Panic aimed the water gun over to his partner only no water came out. "Ok small problemo, it appears we're a bit... dry."

"So get more!" Cassandra demanded.

Panic started to shake with fear. "I don't wanna go back there, it's too far and creepy AH!!!" Hercules cut him off by sinking his teeth into Panic's tail. "And they're kinda cute as babies don't you think?" Hercules then grabbed Panic by his middle again squeezing as hard as he could making Panic lose oxygen. "Ok! Ok! I'll.... Take you." He choked out.

"Let go of him!" Carissa demanded as she grabbed Panic out of his grasp. "Are you ok Panic?" Panic caught his breath and nodded before both of them covered their noses. "Ew, Cassandra take care of that."

"Why me? There's four of them!" Cassandra demanded.

"Cause I've never even held a baby before, let along change one." Carissa replied.

"Yeah, and she's the princess, she doesn't have to if she doesn't want to." Panic added.

"Thank you Panic, so you help her." Carissa told him.

"What?! Why?"

"Well you did help dad raise me didn't you? You probably know more about kids than Cassandra does."

Panic pouted. "Darn your logic."

"I'll go find something we can carry the brats and Pain in." Carissa offered leaving Cassandra and Panic.

Carissa found a cart that could fit them all in but no horse so he and Cassandra would have to pull it.

Carissa looked back at the drooling, babbling, mess makers and gagged. "How do mortals find these things cute?"

"We're almost there." Panic assured her. "There it is! The swamp!"

"Good." Cassandra sighed. "Cause if I have to say 'Don't put that in your mouth one more time I'm going to scream." Cassandra turned towards them only to get a mud pie in the face. "On second thought I'm going to scream anyway."

While Cassandra was getting the mud off her face Panic was leading Hercules to a behave.

"Ball! Ball! Ball!" Hercules cheered reaching for it.

"That's it, get the friendly ball." Panic encouraged him till Cassandra grabbed him by the tail. Panic gulped from her glare. "It's a joke, it's only a joke, a bad silly joke."

"Ball! Ball!" Hercules giggled reaching for the beehive.

Cassandra dropped Panic and stepped on him as she ran to save Hercules. "That's not a ball, it's a beehive." Hercules and the other babies just kept saying "Ball" Making her sigh. "Fine, it's a ball, a bad ball, don't touch."

Carissa helped Panic get up. "So where is this magic spring?"

"Oh though there, on the other side, can't miss it. Have a nice trip come on princess, let go home." Panic tried to walk away with Carissa but Carissa pulled him back.

"Sorry Panic, I don't know about you but I don't want Pain to stay like this, so we're not going home until he's back to normal."

"Do I have a choice?" Panic pouted as Pain pulled on his tail. "Hey, stop that!"

When Pain let go Panic flew off the cart and into a pond making Carissa roll her eyes. "Oy Vey."

"Hercules! Put down the wagon." Cassandra demanded as Hercules was once again showing off.

"Maybe we can get him to move this big log." Panic pointed to something that was blocking their path but then the 'log' started to move. "Oh never mind it's moving itself, can logs do that?"

"What do you think?" Cassandra crossed her arms as the three of the looked up to see the 'log' was really a giant snake.

Cassandra quickly ran to the wagon and saw someone missing. "Hercules! Where's Hercules?"

Carissa looked around and saw him. "Riding on his pony."

Cassandra looked to see Hercules was riding on Pegasus and still saying. "Ball! Ball!"

Carissa got an idea. "Panic, go hide."

Panic smiled and looked at Cassandra. "You see how much she cares about me? Nobody's ever cared about me before her, well except Hades and that's more of a tough love."

"Can we talk about this later?" Cassandra asked as she helped him over the wagon into the trees.

Carissa grabbed a big branch and called over to Hercules. "Hey Herc! Throw the ball!"

Hercules grabbed the beehive and threw it at her, Carissa used the branch as a bat and smacked the beehive right into the snakes mouth. Carissa laughed as the bees made the snakes body fly around, get tangled in knots and get hit in the head.

"Ball gone." Hercules whined.

Carissa rolled her eyes. "Yeah, ball gone, now I want you gone." Hercules flew away on Pegasus giggles before the snake came back and wrapped around Carissa. "Really? You wanna lose again?" She asked the snake unafraid. The snake was about to eat her but Carissa flamed her whole body up making the snake give out a scream and get as far away from her as it could.

"Carissa!" Panic flew over to her giving her a hug. "I'm so happy you're safe."

Carissa hugged him back as she got up. "Ok, we're wasting daylight people, lets go I want my other nanny back." During the long walk all the babies fell asleep thanks to Carissa, Cassandra and Panic's relief.

"Still think they're not cute?" Cassandra asked Carissa.

"Yep." Carissa replied.

"Aw come on Carissa, you were adorable when you were one." Panic smiled fondly at her.

"I'm just grateful I didn't get splashed. Are we there yet?"

"Well there's something I probably should have mentioned a little earlier."

"What Panic?"

"Well you know this is the Stymphalian Swamp, home of the Stymphalian birds. The big big birds with the big big beaks and the big big sharp claws!"

"Yeah, maybe you should have mentioned it." Cassandra glared at him before grabbing a stick and trying to beat the birds with it. "Get away!"

Carissa saw one looking at the wagon. "Hey! The humans and the horse you can eat, but don't you dare touch the magenta one!"

Pain tried to turn into a monster but only managed to turn into a small kitten. Luckily before the bird could eat him Panic scooped him up and dropped him off at a far away rock. "That's ok little partner, I'll handle this." Panic turned into a giant tiger and fought the birds away.

"Now that's a helpful trick." Cassandra said impressed.

"Yep, Pain and Panic might screw up a lot, but they are the best." Carissa smiled proudly.

Two birds went over to the wagon ready to grab the boys but Hercules grabbed them by the beaks and threw them away making the others retreat. Panic flew over to the boys and cheered with them. "Is someone missing... THE PRINCESS!!"

Carissa and Cassandra were now being carried away by the birds. "Can't you teleport or something?" Cassandra asked.

Carissa shook her head no. "Now without my dad's help."

"Great." Cassandra rolled her eyes as the birds took her to a giant nest with an egg in it. "Whoa, big egg. I see, we're suppose to be the chicks first solid food."

"It won't like me, I'm all flame and ashes." Carissa told the birds.

One of the birds tried to sit on the egg but it slid out making it fall into the river below.

"Let me guess, you birds can't swim." Sighing Carissa jumped into the river.

Meanwhile Hercules was carrying the wagon and everyone on it. "Hey! There it is!" Panic cheered. "The Spring of Canathus! Ok, who wants to take a bath first?"

All the boys shook their head no refusing to move. "Oh come on! We have to save the princess, and that other girl. But mostly the princess!" Panic turned into a duck to see if they would follow but when he turned around the giant snake was back now ready for lunch since the girl who set him on fire wasn't there.

Hercules jumped on Pegasus and started beating the snake up making Panic cheer for a moment before he saw the birds coming back. Panic quickly grabbed the other boys until he saw his princess and Cassandra riding on them.

Carissa smiled and waved to him. "Panic!" Using broken egg shells to scoop up the water and dump it all over the boys making them all grow again. The snake in Hercules hand shrunk to the size of a worm and skittered away scared.

"Yes! Wait ago Hercules! You're my hero." Panic sighed.

"Panic, are you feeling like uh normal?" Pain asked flying over to him.

"Hey, why does it taste like I've been eating worms?" Icarus asked.

Adonis looked down to see his clothes were missing and the only thing he had on was a diaper making him scream.

Pain laughed at him pointing till Panic tapped his shoulder making him look down and see the same thing making him scream too.

A huge flame appeared making Carissa groan "Great."

"So, how goes operation last chance? Any results?" Hades asked.

''Daddy this really isn't the best time." Carissa said trying to block his view.

"Why is everybody wearing diapers?" Hades asked grabbing Pain by his wings before turning to his daughter. "Do I want to know?"

Carissa gave her head a small shook. "I don't think so."

How it startedThe First Day Of SchoolArabian NightVisit From ZeusParents WeekendApollo MissionThe GorgonBacchanalPrince Of ThraceThe Tapestry Of FateBig KissPool PartyDrama FestivalThe Long NightmareThe Spring of CanathusThe River StyxUnderworld TakeoverComedy Of ArrowsThe Big GamesAll NighterWorld's First DoctorBonus StoryDisappearing HeroesLiving LegendThe MinotaurDream DateReturn of TyphonSong of CirceBig Sink
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