Insert joke about how being in charge of the Legion is like being a babysitter.

[rokketmann]

Who| Rokk Krinn and anyone
What| Time Ripple shenanigans
Where| Anywhere that isn't locked.
When| If relevant, like if you want to note it's after an event.
Warnings/Notes| I'm awful.

[ When the time ripple hits, Cosmic Boy gets utterly blasted by it. Maybe it's the time travel he's done in the past or the other universes he's been through, where time didn't quite meet up with this one. Whatever it is, the effect remains the same. One moment, Rokk is making his way down the hall towards the monitor room by memory, as his eyes are glued to his omnicom, and the next moment finds him greatly diminished and falling, tripped up on nothing but his own surprise.

Rokk sits up and blinks a few times with the shock of suddenly finding himself on the floor, before bursting into tears. The crying stops short, however, when the omnicom flashes with something brightly colored. He picks it up, batting at the screen with his hand to make it happen again. Triumphant, he gets to his feet with a little wobble, as the device is rather cumbersome for a two-year-old, and charges down the hall to find Mom and show her his new toy. ]

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[goddamngrenades]

[ Jason had mentioned something about eight year olds earlier but this? This takes the case. A man made toddler in midstride- he probably could've caught him before he hit the ground but-

Okay look. Man one second, itty bitty child the next. It's weird to see and hard to wrap his head around and god why does this shit keep happening around him. But. Toddler. Okay. He can handle a toddler, right? Right. What do you call children that are wandering around aside from 'trouble waiting to happen'? ]

Hey sport! [ Oh god he sounds like a geriatric house dad that wears sweater vests. Not cool. ] Uh-. I mean. Kid. Hey kid.

[thebiotickid]

[Jane is not exactly pleased about suddenly finding herself on an unfamiliar space station, but one thing she's never done is shy from a challenge. It's a little weird that her biometrics seem to be letting her through everywhere, but she's not going to look a gift software glitch in the mixed metaphor, and takes advantage of her unprecedented (for her preteen self) access to investigate the mystery on her own. Just when she's working around to admitting it might be time to hunt down an adult rather than wandering with no particular goal in mind, she finds someone even more out of place than she is, and the last of her nebulous spy vid fantasies disappear in a puff of responsibility. Jane crouches in front of the toddler, instinctively reducing herself as a threat.]

Hey, buddy. Are you lost?

[bachido]

The time ripples are beginning to affect Kubo's mind more than they were before. Now, when he snaps back to age 12, he doesn't remember his Legion adventures. He just has moments of sudden disorientation as he finds himself wandering the halls of the Legion remembering only a second ago being in some other point in his childhood, wondering why his robes don't fit him anymore.

And then, just as frequently, the opposite happens. He'll suddenly snap into being much older, and his memories take on a smoky, inconsistent quality. Are they true, or just likely? Are they just good stories his mind is filling in the blanks with?

Well, a toddler's not likely to be able to tell him. The appearance of a very small child snapped Kubo out of his pondering. He narrowed his eye, trying to determine if he knew this child or not, then crouched down to give the kid a friendly smile.

"Hello. Are you looking for someone?"