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Even if the house is a mess and their grandma telling them to clean a little bit when she's gone for a while.

Yohoo was still focus on the game, why you may ask? Since they are playing the game named 'Dandy's world'.

A popular game in roblox, where you can go to higher floors with that they are now they are doing a long run in order to break their record.

Usually long runs would end on floor 20-25 but now they are on floor 54. The atmosphere was thick, everyone in the voice call were really lock in.

"I need stam! I need stam!" Yelled the pebble main on voice call, repeating the same phrase over and over again.

Yohoo immediately move their character, Astro to the distractor who's kiting Vee and Astro.

"Do I pop the mach?"Asked the Shelly player on the call.

"Pop it! Pop it!" Said the distractor on the discord vc.

After the last machine was finished. The memorable countdown can be heard, everyone panicked all the Shellys immediately going to the elevator.

A Vee barely made it with their stam almost hitting zero.

Sprout player standing by the elevator waiting.

And lastly Yohoo was also by the elevator waiting for the two liters to go to the elevator. 

"EAE! EAE! EAE!" Shouted the Sprout on the call, the two Pebbles immediately running to the elevator.

Yohoo on standby immediately gave stamina to one of the distractors on low stamina.

But then suddenly Yohoo witnessed Pebble accidentally taking their twisted version away from the other distractor by accident.

And with that mistake they took hit, "PEBBLE IS ON ONE! SPROUT THEY NEED HEALS!" 

The Sprout player said with anxiety on their voice. "I'm on cool down I just healed Vee!" 

The Sprout player decided to take some of the twisteds away from the distractor on one heart.

The other pebble main used their ability bark to bring the twisteds away from Sprout. "Go to ele!" The Sprout player immediately rushed to the elevator, Yohoo was already at the elevator.

Afterall their ability was on cool down and they can't help like the Sprout player due to their stealth. 

And luckily both pebbles were in the elevator and all of the players decided to used this opportunity to rest for a while.

The call was silent, they all used their voice shouting when they were getting chased, crying for Sprout user for heals and shouting at Astro that they need stamina.

But Yohoo decided to speak up, after all they were the most chatty player on the voice call. Not the funny one but at least they were motivating. "Man I am going to need some tea after this..."

One of the distractor that doesn't have their microphone on due to technical issues typed. 'You British mate?'

Yohoo let out a chuckle, not really knowing how to respond to that. 

Before the elevator open, they heard a loud stomping sound everyone in the collectively said or said in the roblox chat. "It's fucking Asstroke!"

After the grumble of the players, a loud ding can be heard, indicating a new floor.

The Pebble who's in one heart decided to get out of the elevator immediately and then suddenly they got pulled by Goob.

A loud satisfying yet despairing sound can be heard indicating that they died. "I was gonna heal them!" Shouted the Sprout player on call. 

All of them immediately decided to go in the elevator since they don't want to get pulled like their distractor who died right in front of them.

Out of all the map... It's the cramped up map with Goob and Astro! What worse that could happen next?

And then suddenly an ad popped up, and a loud dinosaur roar and a dog bark can be heard.

Everyone in the elevator watched as the distractor passed by elevator getting chased. "WHO HAS VEE CURSE?" Yohoo shouted in attempt to lighten up the situation.

"Y'all know I have Peb curse! Who has Vee curse cause she has spawned five fucking times!" Yohoo added.

"Guys do we restart?" One of the shelly then asked.

"We ain't restarting we are too fucking tired! We are just gonna die and rest for the entire day!" Yohoo said while doing the machine in a spot where it's good to distract Pebble.

"Guys..! GUYS! GUYS! RUN!" Yelled the distractor, the Shelly player who was previously doing machine run passed Yohoo. 

It was then followed by Pebble running passed Astro too.

Getting chased by all the mains, Yohoo was about to give stamina till the icon that indicates the distractor on low stamina was gone.

Which means that the distractor have bottle of pop in their inventory. "I can't kite pebs there's machine and players every where!" Said the distressed distractor on the call.

"Why... WHY IS THERE FOUR MAINS?!" Yelled the Sprout player, Wait a minute four mains?! FOUR?

This is the dead end, so with a heavy heart Yohoo then said this in the call. "Let's die... Our backup just got grabbed, we spawn on a cramped map, and for fuck sake there's four mains..."

Yohoo paused for dramatic effect. "FOUR goodness gracious we are just meant to die..."

And then suddenly two loud crunch sound can be heard. "Goob grabbed me..." Said the distractor on the call.

Vee decided to typed that they got chased by their own twisted counterpart. 

Yohoo still tried to extract machine, not knowing the Shellys died. "Guys where are y'all?!" Yohoo asked on the call, they sighed and opened the chat seeing their teammates mocking Yohoo jokingly.

"EVERYONE IS DEAD?!" Yohoo then got seen by Twisted Vee. "Remove me from this damnation..!"

With that the entire run finally has ended. Yohoo then left the call and decided to go back to lobby.

Since they want to practice distracting so Yohoo can backup distract just in case. 

One click of the button, their vision blacked out.

In their dark reality the radiating light dance like the oil pollution in the ocean. It was sickening and nauseating even with their mind drifting back or lacking.

Worms eating out the known reality, it dances to the beat of the white and brown noise. While their breathing soon stopped as the beating of their dear heart.

For the feeling of countless of planets that was soon destroyed and the one who is still alive and spinning they can feel. Even if there is nothing but a shell.

Yohoo immediately scrambled back up by feeling the unfamiliar floor.

Their eyes not opened yet, they need to catch their breathe...

They just felt like they were dying. They slowly opened their eyes, seeing a rainbow carpet, a stair with only three step.

Walking forward would lead them to a huge tree in the middle.

They squint at the sign by the tree and began to read it out loud. "Gardenview..." After an entire second of processing they began to read it again.

"Gardenview...?" Until the dawn of realization hit them like a truck from those isekai anime.

"GARDENVIEW!?" They began to look back and saw the gate closed shut.

They began to look at their hands, wanting to believe they didn't just get isekaid into dandy's world.

Did they got isekai as a toon in the game or as an oc toon? They began to rush at any bathrooms they could find.

Till they saw one with a sign: 'STAFF'S BATHROOM! Please do not enter.'

They tried opening it, but the door didn't budge. Which means they need a key, luckily they have one on their ID.

Inside the bathroom they looked at one of the mirrors letting out a loud gasp. 

Who the fuck is in the mirror? That's not what you look like!

Overall Yohoo look's like a man with a huge chest and hips that doesn't look like a man.

They also have a long hair that reminds them of the time they were in grade 7 they also have Rapunzel-like hair the teacher begged for it to be cut. 

So what is it called again if they have both reproductive system?

Yohoo then checked again and wow... It's not huge, well that kinda hurts their pride to say at least.

It was average but it hurts to know that it's not huge or even big... They began to fix themselves and go back to the lobby. 

While they are looking at the shut tight gate, thinking how to get out of the Gardenview when all of the sudden they felt something hit their head.

They looked back and saw Sprout and bunch of toons looking them.

Sprout then gripped another slippers about to throw it at their direction once more.

"Guys! Wait! I'm not dangerous see! Got no weapons!" Yohoo said wanting to gain trust. But instead of trust they saw the toons immediately going back a few steps wary of them.

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Yohoo noticed the toons moving away when they move a little bit. Since Yohoo was much more attentive to the lore than most of their friend in their group.

So they immediately connected their new found appearance to the toon handlers. The one who would take care of the characters that came from a cartoon. So with this idea in mind... "I'm your new toon handler-..! Haha..."

Sprout

Sprout lower his slipper considering the idea again. "Sprout..." A soft voice whispered on their side, calling his name. "Maybe Poppy is right that they're a toon handler..." Whispered by the moon toon.

"That couldn't be, afterall their uniform isn't based on one of the main toons! The toon handlers uniform are based on our color palette!" The berry toon whispered back, gritting their teeth still aiming the slipper at the perpetrator.

The crescent toon decided to step back and look away. Sprout knows that the crescent moon probably wants to go away from the chaos about to boil. "Sprout I know you're going to ask that I should go if I don't want to participate..." The moon toon said reading him like a book. "And I refuse, that's my answer."

Little did he know, one of the toon decided to rush towards the human. Using the opportunity to run away when Sprout was busy whispering to the crescent toon. "POPPY!!! NOOO!!!"  Sprout should have expected Poppy to rush towards the giant.

Even though it's against his will to go near the human, in order to ensure Poppy is safe. Even though he was practically vulnerable after getting jumped by twisteds last run.

Yohoo

Even though Sprout is faster than Poppy by comparison of their in game stats. Poppy was still faster than Sprout, which was really weird since Sprout's run speed should make him quicker than Poppy.

Even if Poppy is running towards them, Sprout should have been on the lead. Wait a damn minute-! They were both running towards them?! 

"MX. TOON HANDLER! WAIT!"  Poppy yelled tripping on the stairs, Poppy immediately stoop back up running towards them again.

"I just have a question..!" Poppy grabbed their hands after getting close to the Yohoo. They took this opportunity to be at least a little close to the toon. They don't care which toon, as long at least a single toon trust them. Man they sound like a kidnapper! "Sure! Uhh... Ask away!"

Poppy immediately asked them her question. "We-well! Toon handlers are meant to take care the main characters! So... Which main toons are you taking care off?"

Holy shit-! They haven't think of that! Fuck! Think of a good sentence Yohoo! Come on you can do it! A good sentence alright! Come on.

"I'm here to take care of you all!"

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DID THAT JUST CAME OUT FROM THEIR MOUTH?! 

They are literally having a hard time taking care of themselves since they kept forgetting things that are not their hobbies! And they decided to choose that?

They aren't ready to pay for their necessities! They could have said Astro or Shelly! But noooooo they decided to say that they can take care every single toon in this building! AS IF THEY CAN DO THAT! 

But seeing Poppy's eyes widen and sparkling at least remove the slight feeling of regret. Wait what the fuck happened to Sprout?! Yohoo looked at Sprout's direction just to be surprised see him limping and using the wall to lean.

Is Sprout injured? How? Plus where is the ichor and their wound? Maybe he has a broken bone? Do they even have bones to begin with! The more they think of it the more questions remain a mystery. How about let's help him!

 They forgot that Sprout doesn't even trust them a bit. Helping them would just make Sprout more hostile towards to them. "POPPY! DON'T TRUST THEM!" Sprout yelled at Poppy, his leaves disheveled due to the stress. 

"Sprout, it's better to let them to stay here! We can't make them leave Gardenview! The gate is tightly shut! How about we tell this to Dandy!" Poppy yelled back to Sprout, her voice isn't as loud as Sprout but it still delivers their message. 

"Fine! EVERYONE cease fire! DON'T throw ANY slippers at THEM!" Sprout commanded, which cause different reactions from the toons. Some are happy that the drama is done while some shows their hesitation to bring the slipper down. But all of them carry the distrust to the human that randomly popped up in the lobby.

Everyone decided to split away mostly doing their own thing while glaring at them. Yohoo can't blame them, after all they would do the same thing to others if they were in their position. 

"Aye aye! Captain Seedly!" Yelled by one of the toon who has the audacity to use their microphone. Sprout was furious at the name... Yohoo expected this to happen, but Yohoo was expecting quite low. Probably Sprout would throw down a tantrum, punch the TV Toon or punch the toon's screen... 

But Yohoo was never EVER expecting for Sprout's head to turn 360° like an owl! They didn't even knew that was possible! This shit did not exist in the game! 

Yohoo was horrified, afterall Sprout kinda resembles like a human. So, seeing his head move like an owl was freaky... "That looks painful..." Yohoo whispered to Poppy. The bubble toon jumped up and down, gesturing for the new toon handler to bend down so they can whisper in their ear. "It's not! Every toon can do that..!" Poppy whispered in their right ear.

"Are we just going to watch those two fight?" They asked Poppy. "Yeah! They would usually fight so it's not a big deal!" She said while fixing her bow. It was still a little tilted, Poppy sighed and decided to ignore her tilted bow.

Yohoo decided to help her, after seeing her saddened face. Poppy whispered 'thank you' but it was over shadowed by Sprout yelling to the TV toon. "Nice try Vee! If you are so wise! How about YOU meet DANDY instead and ask HIM to come HERE!" Vee grimace at Sprout's order. "Fine! I will do it Seedly boy!" Vee said while stomping away.

So they were right, they just needed confirmation that it was Vee. Afterall, the only person who is smart and has strong guts to say that to Sprout is Vee. Although there are some toons that has those qualities. But it was most likely Vee of all the toons on the list. 

Yohoo knew that Vee hates Dandy AND doesn't trust him at all. The rivalry was funny to see. They could remember that in the game on easter event. Dandy decided to put Vee's egg on the trash can while the other main characters egg's are sorted neatly on his shelf. There was even an animation about the two.

"Hey Mx!" Poppy said tugging their uniform. "How about we sit on one of the benches here?" Poppy then points at one of the green benches. 

"Sure why not?" Yohoo said as both of them sit on the green bench. Yohoo can see the beautiful sky, a flock of birds soaring the sky, different shapes of clouds. "Wow the view of the tree here is majestic!" Yohoo compliments.

"You should see how beautiful it is to look in the night under the tree while looking the sky! Astro would sometimes tell us the " Poppy rambled while looking up the sky.

"It looks so beautiful during the day too..." Yohoo admitted, the tree wasn't dying due to lack of sunlight of this facility. The roof above the tree was made out off glass. 

After a long time that Gardenview has been abandoned. The glass roof has accumulated dirt and dust. And probably bird poop, but after playing Dandy's world for a long time... They didn't pay attention to the architecture of the lobby. They didn't knew how beautiful and confusing it is. They were more focus on getting into higher floors... 

"I remember the time when me and Glisten decided to create a glass dress..." Poppy whispered thoughtfully. "It didn't worked out though!" Poppy said laughing at the memory.  "Did it look good?" Yohoo asked Poppy. "It's not even near 'functionbly' beautiful!" Poppy admitted. 

"What does that even mean!" Yohoo asked Poppy who decided to smirk. "You would understand what I mean when I find that dress again. I think there is an episode about that too!" An episode? There was no poster in the game that indicates that there's an episode about a glass dress. 

"Howdy friends!" An unfamiliar voice came, both Yohoo and Poppy looked at the direction of the voice. Oh fuck! It's the rainbow dash petals wanna be flower! "HI DANDY!!!" Poppy greeted energetically at the flower. Why did their life turn into this..!

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"A human that's surprising! I never expect a human to pop around here!" Dandy exclaimed while examining at Yohoo. "How about let's talk this inside the staff room?" Dandy asked.

"Yeah it would be better so no one can hear us..." Yohoo replied acknowledging that it would be stupid to talk about things like this in public view.

"Can I come too?" Poppy asked Dandy. "Of course you can my friend!" Said Dandy. Yohoo raised an eyebrow at the temu version of Flowey.

This is a private business so why would he want a toon to join in? Unless they are simply part of the contract, there are no other reason to let them join the discussion.

Dandy immediately led the way, Dandy knew that Yohoo doesn't trust them a bit. Yohoo share the same knowledge, afterall what did they expect from a toon that was described as 'the one who started the ichor operation'.

The walk wasn't that relatively long, but with the tension in the air every step feels heavy. "Look! We are here!" Dandy exclaimed sitting on one of the chairs.

Yohoo knew this room, this is the roleplay room in Dandy's world. They all enter that one door that cannot be entered by any players in the game. It was like one of those doors that was there for props. They didn't knew it has an actual purpose.

They sat on one of the chairs, it was kind off awkward since the chairs were too small for a human. At least both of the toons can sit comfortably. "How about we introduce ourselves first!" Dandy cajoled to the toon handler.

"My name Dandicus Dancifier, but I would prefer if you call me Dandy." Dandy introduced. "What's your name my friend?" The flower toon questioned.

 "Name is Yorik Hook, just call me Yohoo!" Yohoo lied on the spot, their name Yohoo was not their actual name NOR did it come from their real name. It was just a random ass word that they decided to use as a pseudo.

They also thought it would be funny to see themselves getting confused if someone is greeting them or calling them. So they decided to settle for the random word that they pull out from their ass.

"Yohoo, I have a suggestion since I can see that you're wearing the toon handler uniform yet you don't have any toon licenses yet. I'm glad to inform you I can give you one." Yohoo nodded, wait what does he mean licenses?! "Why is it plural?" Yohoo probed.

"What do you mean plural?" Dandy asked back. "You said 'Licenses'! Why is it plural!" They stressed, they wish they could bang the table but remembering that it would be highly impulsive and they might get labeled as someone who's hostile, which they wouldn't want to be known as.

"Wow! You caught on that my buddy!" Dandy exclaimed. "You will have these paper that states that you can take care of the toons." Dandy said pulling out an envelope. Dandy pulls out the paper inside the envelope.

"I can give you one of this." Dandy said grinning. "This documents are contracts, if you sign one of this you can have a toon license. Which means you can legally take care a toon." The flower toon carefully elaborated.

"There's a rule though! It states tons of conditions when signing this." Dandy warned the about-to-be-toon handler. "First, you can never take the toon home. Second, when the toon dies you agree to report this. And lastly, you agree to stay and live inside Gardenview-!" Dandy paused remembering something.

"Right, so just ignore the second condition of the file." Dandy immediately interjected. "Why?" Yohoo asked.

"Since... We die all the time, plus it's better that we investigate the after death so we can research a phenomenon." Dandy explained, although his explanation just creates more question than giving an answer.

Yohoo knows that Dandy is a stubborn being, he can't stop him. If they ask more question he would just retaliate more. If they probe further he might get angry. And they know what happens if they're angry.

"Also I added something new to the contract." Dandy smiled gleefully as if the atmosphere is cheery. "Usually if you want more than one toon license you would need to pay one million Robux for it. Unless if you are tasked to take care of more than one." Dandy testified.

"But since I am kind, I would give you toon license for an ichor." Dandy proposed. "But! Of course consent plays part!" Dandy exclaimed. "If the toons trust you to care of them. Then I can update your toon license."

Atleast Dandy respects the other toons, that was enough to calm them back again. "I agree, where is the contract?" Yohoo immediately questioned, Dandy quickly gave you the contract and a pen in order to sign the documents.

Yohoo read the contract before signing it. So far, it looks the same as what Dandy said.

The part of the contract that states the condition two was stained with dry ink. It was obviously done on purpose, although it was quite suspicious that Dandy wants them to not follow condition two. Shouldn't it be their responsibility if one of the toons are dead?

Other than that, they decided to sign the contract.
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"Dandy, give me another pen this one doesn't have any ink." Yohoo asked, Dandy then promptly gave them another pen.
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"Dandy, the ink is dry!" Yohoo exclaimed angrily at the flower toon. "Gosh! My friend you know that we don't use pens anymore!" Dandy countered. "Just give me a working pen!" Yohoo demanded, Dandy grabbed a random pen he saw and put it on the soon-to-be-toon-handlers hand.

"Finally I signed it!" Yohoo celebrated, then they asked. "So, where is the toon license?" They side eye poppy who was taking a nap. It was mostly boring, so they don't blame Poppy.

"Who's your first toon pal then?" Dandy asked, raising his brows. Not believing that they already have a toon in mind.

"Uh... Poppy! I choose you!" They yelled loudly, which almost gave the poor flower a heart attack. (he deserves it cause he keeps selling shit when they're on one) Because of the loud voice, Poppy woke up.

"Yeah? Why are you all calling me?" Poppy asked, fidgeting the pen that Yohoo use for signing the contract.

"Do you want me to be your first ever toon handler?" Yohoo inquired, watching Poppy's eyes twinkle with excitement.

"You're telling me I can finally have a toon handler?" Poppy asked again, she wants to be sure that she's not mishearing it.

"Yes! Do you want me to be your toon handler?" Yohoo repeated, in a flash Poppy stood up and hugged the toon handler. "YAAAAY! I FINALLY HAVE A TOON HANDLER LIKE THE MAIN TOONS!!!" Poppy cheered. 

Now Yohoo understood why Dandy decided to let Poppy to join. Dandy knew that she greeted you with open arms. Plus she's more welcoming than the other toons when Yohoo suddenly appear in the lobby. 

Unlike the other toons who would throw hundreds of slippers at a stranger. Forgetting that the stranger is also alive and has feelings.

Although it hurts seeing some of their favorite toons have distrust on them. Yohoo needs to remind themselves that this is a normal reaction, especially when a random person suddenly appears. 

But why did Poppy immediately greet them with open arms instead of feeling distrust at a random stranger? Especially when that random person appears at the only place that you would call a home.

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"Since Poppy agreed.." Dandy said, pulling out a license out of nowhere. No like seriously!

Sprout has slippers for some reason and now Dandy pulling out a goddamn license out of his ass.

What's next? Pulling out a gun and shooting the fucking twisteds?!

"Where the fuck did you get that?!" Yohoo exclaimed, itching to know the reason how the hell can they summon an item?!

"You can say a bad word?!" Poppy gasped perplexed.

"Why're y'all looking at me like that!" Yohoo questioned, everyone can curse here! They have freedom to do so!

Or maybe they're surprised because Gardenview are meant for children and saying a curse word is bad.

"Let me try!" Poppy proudly announced. "###########" Poppy tested, it was a bewildering news for Yohoo that they can get censored here like in Roblox.

What did they even expect? Dandy's world is made inside Roblox! Of course this world will still function like Roblox.

"Aww! It also censored the you in my sentence!" Poppy pouted in frustration.

"Yeah! How can you say a bad word my pal!" Dandy added in, Yohoo knows that Dandy is trying to avoid the question. Unless he forgot the question due to how shock he is.

"You still haven't answered the question." Yohoo retorted back to Dandy.

"Oopsie! I truly don't know how I can do that! Call it toon magic! Now can you answer my question?" Dandy asked smugly.

"Oh! I also don't know Dandy! I call it a 'fuck you' magic!" Yohoo said grabbing the toon license.

"Let's go Poppy!" Yohoo said enthusiastically, happy that they're finally finished.

Both Yohoo and Poppy walk away from the room they were both in before.

Dandy was already gone, they didn't knew how he did that but it's quite useless to question it.

While they walking back to the lobby, they were both receiving stares. Yohoo can't blame them but it was still pretty annoying.

They don't care if most of the toons don't trust them since it was to be expected. They were more worried about how the fuck are they gonna survive a horror game?

Plus, when they were playing the game. They have encountered some insane combos. An example of that is: Twisted Pebble, Twisted Vee and Twisted Goob in a blackout!

If that happens to them right now, where the characters are now real, where they can't risk their very own life since they or the others might die.

Plus! They don't even comprehend the toons here!

They haven't experienced a run in this life, where the toons are very much real!

"Mx. Yohoo?" Alarmed Poppy. "You seem to be thinking daydreaming or thinking something deep." She said, smiling awkwardly.

"To be honest, Mx. Yohoo you look... Uhh... Creepy..." Poppy pointed out, she stuttered since she was having a hard time to tell Yohoo the truth.

"Just call me Yohoo..." They muttered, it was too formal for them. They usually don't like being treated like they were in a upper class.

Even though they were not, plus they were technically babysitting... It would be awkward to call your caretaker with formality.

"Okie dokie!" Beamed Poppy. "I almost forgot to tell you!" Poppy said, pointing at the bench they once sat.

"Let's sit there!" Poppy chirped. "Since it's not night yet, let's chat! Afterall I wanna know more about my toon handler!" Poppy exclaimed.

"So, what your favorite color?" Poppy said attempting to start a small talk. "Purple." Yohoo replied simply.

"Not bad! That's my third favorite color!" Poppy added.

"So what's your style?" Poppy queried. "Clothing style?" Yohoo asked Poppy, who replied with a nod.

"Any clothes I find comfortable or the first thing I can find that's clean." Yohoo replied offhandedly.

"Casual then! I'm gonna tell Glisten about this!" Poppy reminded herself. "Is there even clothes my size?" Yohoo bantered.

"I'm pretty sure there's clothes for you! Afterall, there were toon handlers here before you!" Poppy defended.

"Really then where are they?" Yohoo half-lied, they knew that there were toon handlers before them.

But at the same they were thirsty for knowledge. Location of the toon handlers and what happened to them was a popular question to the Dandy's world community.

The first appearance of the toon handlers were in one of the greenhouse map. The second and probably wouldn't be the last is in Vee's room.

It was a footage of Vee and Veronica talking about the version two of Vee.

It was pretty angsty, and at least they can finally throw it at the face of players thinking Vee is just a narcissistic bitch.

But unfortunately, they got tossed in the game now. Yohoo can see where they are coming from, but Vee kinda reminds them of two toons.

"You're doing that face again..." Poppy said, punching their arms lightly. "Geez! Sorry! Are there any questions?" Yohoo asked again.

"I was gonna ask the same!" Poppy exclaimed.

"Do you have any question about me or the others? Because I know this is kinda confusing!" Poppy quizzed.

"Why the fuck is Sprout angry? It was not just directed at me but to every toon too!" Yohoo asked, they noticed Poppy's shock expression. She was not used to hears someone curse.

"I heard him mumbling about getting chased by twisted Pebbles?" Poppy recalled.

"And then he whispered that he was then surprised by a twisted Shrimpo cornering him and because of that he got hit."

Yohoo gave Poppy a confused look, although they understand why Sprout was in a bad mood.

But they need to pretend they don't comprehend every single word she just said. They're not supposed to know what twisteds are since they haven't gone down to the floors.

"So the twisteds are like monsters! Some are really powerful and fast! Some are slow and harmless!" Poppy elaborated.

"But to summarized why he was furious, I hear from Finn that one of the toon stole all the heals.

And Sprout was absolutely furious since she didn't tell that there were heals on some of the floor." Poppy summarized.

What an understandable reason to get absolutely furious.

The fuck you mean someone stole all the heals?! The worse part is that Sprout can fucking heal them!

Plus Sprout can't fucking heal himself!

"What does Sprout do?" Yohoo asked Poppy (even though Yohoo knows what his ability is and what is does.)

"He's a healer! He throws cupcakes and if you're lucky you're cupcake can have some toppings in it." Poppy giggled.

"So that means there are other toons that also can heal?" They asked Poppy who nodded in return.

"Why didn't they heal Sprout?" Yohoo asked Poppy.

"There was only a single healer, which was Sprout last run..." Poppy muttered.

Now that's just plain evil, the same shit happens in public runs too.

They also observed before they got isekaid here, there's a low chance of your own teammates stealing heals if there's only a Cosmo or a Ginger.

And for some unholy reason people has a really high chance to take heals if there's only a Sprout on the team instead of Cosmo or Ginger.

Although not all the time, just more chances than Ginger or Cosmo. 

It was clear as day that the reason for that is, Cosmo and Ginger gives their own heart to heal.

Meanwhile Sprout players only needs a hundred tape to heal.

But people need to see that Sprout can't fucking buy a heal in Dandy's shop because they prioritize heals for his teammates rather than themselves.

Plus players have high expectations for Sprout players than Cosmo or Ginger users since Sprout is a main fucking toon.

Which means that they are experienced or a pro player.

Yohoo was a former Sprout main, and they could understand why most of the Sprout players type in caps, getting tagged left and staring at any player who decided to take tapes.

Sprout was an all rounder! His a good toon for many players willing to succumb to support/healer insanity.

"EARTH TO YOHOO!" Poppy yelled at them. "I think you're waaay too tired! You're making that face like what Astro's toon handler makes..."

Poppy sighed. "Let me show you the room!"

"Don't worry! It's clean! Always clean!" Poppy exclaimed.

"Tish always clean the room after their disappearance..." Poppy whispered under her breath. 

Poppy grabbed her toon handler's hand. "Come on let me show you the direction of your new and definitely clean room!"

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The first thing that Yohoo did when they were inside the room was to look around. The room was simple. The first thing they saw was the bunk beds then the single old drawer in the room... 

There's no room for a table or a chair for comfort. The new-toon-handler looked at the old drawer. 

They want to break it... For some reason... Did they do that? 

Yes! Of course being a lore enthusiast Yohoo wants to know if there are any information about the toon handlers. 

It was filled with documents about the main toons, nothing interesting. The only interesting is that this documents are from the original toon handlers themselves. 

Yohoo sighed in disappointment, but whatever at least it was interesting. They have nothing else to do... All they need was sleep, so might as well do that... 

They immediately fell asleep at the bottom of the bed bunk. They really don't care about if they're on the top of the bunk bed or at the bottom. As long as they can sleep on a clean bed that's good enough for them. 

A curious being was created by the Earth; they were just like the others.

The planet gave them every thing: Food, water, place to live, their own place to spread their wild ideas. 

But the planet has plans for everything that exploits her gifts. It was a destiny that those everything will be turn into nothing but soil.

And soon their soil will be used by the greens.

For that the curious being didn't care. And soon they didn't knew they were next. 

The Earth looked at the wooden box that the empty shell of the curious being was trapped in. 

 A beautiful way to present their offering to the one who sustain the everything. But the Earth has no mouth to eat. 

So instead they wait and wait till everything turns into soil. Smaller beings helping the Earth to feast.

Hugging their empty shells reminder that she created everything in her domain. 

Whether the destiny make them suffered or silver spooned at such a young age. 

This creatures were still her creation; they were all nothing but her offspring. 

As bittersweet this world sounds, the same offsprings would damaged her. 

But she can't utter a word since it's the way of the world. It's their destiny to hurt their creator and they must be consumed by their own mother. 

The step of rot follows this steps:

At first the discovery, that is the most crucial step of insanity. They would search for any meanings and hope before they cease to exist. 

The second is insanity, hoping that there would be a way to find peace after death, or to simply not die painfully. Has become their obsession, ruthless as boar, but in the end they're just an animal. 

The third is the mind betrayal, their mind will soon rot. Not remembering every thing but as soon their life is ending they will recollect every details that has occurred to them.

The fourth is when their own body betrays them, put them in a place where the Earth's small beings can't reach doesn't mean they can't rot. Their own body will eat themselves till their nothing. 

Fifth is a place to live, their body is now dissolved into soil and they're nothing but a waste to the Earth. But their rotting corpse will grow greens. 

Soon the ignorant being who was nothing but a hypocrite was next, they will follow the steps of rotting. 

The Earth hugged the shell, who clawed her warm embrace. 

Many offsprings, with yellows or with rags; with a frown or with a joy; as smart as an owl or as simple minded as a child. 

They all have spoke and danced the same way. 

This shell was greedy, they decided to cheat the order of nature. 

Just like the others, but why hasn't it fallen?

Why is it still clawing the way out of her brace? 

Why didn't they close their eyes and rest after their soul depleted. 

After they're only purpose is to be consumed and help the greens born anew? 

She asked the greedy body the same questions. 

For once they understood the curious offsprings she accidentally created.

But there was no one inside that cracked shell. No one and nothing but maggots. 

"Gte!" Yelled Mewoo a Shelly main, one of the sane person on the group.

"I NEED STAM!?! ASTRO! ASTRO!! ASTRO!!!" The distractor panicked seeing their stamina on 30. The literally needs a good stam to be able to distract Twisted Pebble on panic. 

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The Sprout typed in the Roblox chat to give the stamina to the one kiting Twisted Pebbles.

"Astro is on cd after giving Shelly a stam while they were finding a mach." Mewoo muttered, while the Sprout player is getting ready to heal the main distractor. 

Knowing that the kiter was on a dire state.

The backup couldn't help either since they were distracting Goob and other twisteds. 

The panic timer starts when the last machine was done. "RUN TO THE ELE!!!" The main kiter making the people panic and rush to the elevator (except the Astro player).

"Man! Why did we even recruit a public server Astro!" The only healer asked.

"We could've waited for Yohoo. Maybe their account got hacked?" The healer dropped the possibility. 

"Yeah, but there's no way to contact them. They said that their other accounts got hacked and their account was spamming weird threatening metaphors." The pebble player said while voting for the well-paced card. 

 The call was silent after that, while there was some static noises due to bad mic quality.

It was still deafening without the chaotic rant about the twisteds on the floor or some random-ass jokes. 

"Guys!" Yelled by someone on the call. "I saw Yohoo's mom post about Yohoo..." They muttered in a low tone. 

"What does it say?" The kiter typed in the chat, confusing the public Astro who isn't in the call. 

"No..." The Shelly player whispered, the tone was heavy enough to scare the others. Including Mewoo. 

'Say it! We can't keep on waiting!' The Sprout player typed in the chat. 

"They're dead..." The Shelly player with bad quality mic announced. The call was filled with despairful gasp. One of the Shellys left the game, while the other were in silence. 

Those who stayed in the game, spun around the circle while inside the elevator.

That five second countdown was way too long when you're still taking in the death of your friend. 

 'THEN WHY WOULD SOMEONE USE THEIR ACCOUNT?!' The Sprout player typed in the chat. 

'AT LEAST RESPECT THEM! THEY'RE USING AN ACCOUNT OF AN ACTUAL DEAD PERSON!' The entire lobby felt the rage of every word that the Sprout player typed in the chat.

Everyone left the game, the tension choking them like their emotion. They need to process this information. 

"How did they die?" The main distractor asked, although the information of their dead friend they can't process the urge of knowing things even though they can't carry would take over more. 

"I don't know..." The person with bad mic said, leaving the call with only static noises once more. 

"Somebody needs to tell the others..." One of them said. "Later, we will tell..."

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Instead of sleeping, Yohoo stared at the ceiling. Even though they keep telling themselves to sleep. Might as well explore, or go to the cafeteria and raid it. They hope that there's at least a food in there.

They slowly get up from their bed, from their memory the cafeteria is on the role play area.

Well it wasn't the roleplay area anymore. But at least there was some resemblance? The big double door still exist here just like in the game.

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Weird the door is already open wide, did the toons forgot to unlock it? Well at least they can sneakily go inside without accidentally making the door creak a sound.

Yohoo tiptoed to the cafeteria, until lo and behold the refrigerator.

Time to raid it!

They opened it and they saw it filled with chocolates and pops.

Oh no, they would definitely have diarrhea after this.

This are the only food they have around here?!

I mean it's understandable since in the game there's only chocolates, candies and carbonated drinks.

There wasn't even a cupcake or cookie on the counter!

They grab one of the chocolate and opened it's packet and they immediately popped it in their mouth.

It's not sweet but instead it was bitter, at least it was a dark chocolate or else their teeth might fall out if they need to eat this everyday.

Plus they were a big fan of dark chocolates, that Yohoo might eat four or five more chocolates?

Yohoo decided to open a can of Pop, in contrast with the chocolate.

It was so fucking sweet, they need to drink water.

Their throat was begging for it, they look around for a water dispenser not realizing it was right beside them.

Instead they noticed a figure also tiptoeing, despite their effort to stay quiet they still made a squeaky sound.

So with a swift decision, they hold their can and a-! BONK can be heard same with the sound of a grunt sound coming from the stranger that they can't see.

The stranger stood up, while Yohoo was getting ready to attack them once again.

Yohoo squint their eyes, noticing that their head looks egg-shaped-? No the balloon shaped they mean!

The balloon shaped toon raised their hands up, surrendering. "Hey! Hey!! Look i'm just raiding this cafeteria just like you!"

The toon slowly stood up and accidentally stepped on their own tail causing them to slip once more.

They try to stood up once more and this time they were thankfully successful.

Yohoo is guessing that this toon must be Looey.

No way someone would create a loud squeaky balloon sound while walking or even tip toeing.

"How about we do not-!" Looey was caught off by the sudden light coming from another toon.

Yohoo didn't noticed that Looey also produce light although not as bright as the toon coming down.

"Is everybody alright..? Why is there loud banging..?" The stranger let out a yawn.

"...." The stranger stared at Looey and Yohoo, why does he look so... Mad? No not mad! They meant unapproachable.

"Looey and Poppy's toon handler why aren't you both asleep?" The crescent toon asked, slowly walking towards them.

"I can't sleep..." Both Yohoo and Looey said at the same time.

Looey let out a laugh, trying to de-escalate the situation. "Soooo... Why are you awake Astro?"

Astro was silent at first, looking at the chocolate wrappers all over the floor. "I heard a loud bang... I thought someone was injured..."

Another toon slowly entered the cafeteria, the toon wasn't even trying to hide they were awake.

"Eep!" The toon's lever started to move frantically creating a music.

"Looey? Astro?! POPPY'S TOON HANDLER?!!" The music box toon covers their mouth in shock.

"He-hey Boxten!" Looey stuttered, not expecting another toon to join the chaos.

"What's going on?! Why are you all awake?!" Boxten asked, he probably didn't meant to raise his voice.

"Both of us can't sleep and Astro woke up because of the noise." Yohoo rolled their eyes. "What's next! Another toon would walk in the cafeteria?!"

And then suddenly they saw a crouching figure, thanks to Astro's light they can slightly see that they wear long sweaters.

The stranger came from the direction where the new-toon-handler came from.

And after some consideration and analyzation the strangers height suggest that they must be a toon.

Afterall the place where Yohoo was sleeping was inside the door in the merch store. And the merch store is near the lobby.

So why the hell would they need to go to the any place near the lobby?! Or why would someone need to go to lobby in this ungodly hour?! 

Plus the toon's room is literally right next to the cafeteria! They didn't need to go to the lobby in the first place!?

"Gigi... What did you stole again..?' Astro asked, going near Gigi who was crouching.

"Hahaha-!" Gigi slowly stood up, her posture bunching over. "Me?! Oh-! I would never steal a dime!"

Gigi looked down the floor whistling. Looking down is going to be her biggest mistake when she suddenly activated a button.

"Gigi!" Astro yelled at Gigi who didn't noticed what was happening. "What did I do...-?!"

"You stole something from Dandy..." Astro whispered, who was then denied by Gigi. "Me-?! Why would I steal?!"

Astro paused, looking at Gigi's head. "Your head is glowing..."

Gigi looked back at Astro. "What..?"

"Gigi you stole the Christmas lights didn't you..." Astro asked, crossing his another set of two arms under his blanket.

"Haha-! Why would I need a Christmas lig-!" Gigi was stopped by the Christmas music coming from her head.

It sounds like one of those lights that would play random Christmas music during New Year.

Gigi looked around the room and then she points at Boxten. "Boxten stop playing Christmas music!'

Boxten jolted not expecting to be part of the chaos. "Gigi, you know I can't play any Christmas music... Right?"

"Hahaha-!" Gigi laughed awkwardly, knowing no other excuses can help her to worm out of this situation.

"Gigi... You better give it back to Dandy and please give me my pillow back..." Astro muttered tiredly, he was in a brink away to fall asleep while standing.

Gigi rolled her eyes clearly not wanting to give it. "And what do I get in return?"

"I will give you an Astro limited mug... Like the cup you saw in Bassie's store." Astro offered which suddenly made the gambler happy. "Fine! I agree! Just because I want to have that mug!"

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When the morning sets, everyone was already by the cafeteria. And they were looking at the mess that Yohoo has created.... 

Almost everyone was confused except for one toon... They were tightly gripping their feather duster in anger. "Who the hell decided to create this mess..?"

Nobody dared to speak, and Yohoo started praying to any God. They completely forgot to throw the chocolate wrappers before they leave. 

Cosmo tapped Tisha's shoulder, passing "Tisha please take a break. Don't worry I will clean it."

Tisha gave a huff. "Cosmo, I will clean this mess-!" 

"Tisha conserve your energy later, use it when we're on a run." Sprout said to Tisha while passing by. 

Tisha chased after the berry toon to prove her point but was then cut off by Sprout looking at her. "Please take a break Tisha! We don't want to see you tired."

Tisha decided to let it pass. If it wasn't for the healers saving their ass they would never see the light of day again. 

Poppy looked at their toon handler with concern written on her face. "Yohoo did you sleep well?" 

Yohoo slowly looked back, their face screaming that they were distressed. "Of course! Hahaha... Why are you worried?"

"Because we're going on a run..." Yohoo looked at Poppy on confusion. Yes, they know what 'runs' are but...

How would runs work in this world? Do they also go in front of the lobby and yell: "ABC FOR MAIN HUNT!!!"

"Oh! A run is for researching uh... Monsters! And collecting food! You can sign up for a run in the Dandy's show plus you can host a run!" Poppy explained. 

"So... Do I need to come? I'm not a toon afterall..." Yohoo asked while opening a chocolate.

"I think so..? After all you need to monitor me, you don't need to report my death... But it would be better if you're there..." Poppy replied. 

Yohoo was truly curious about how runs would work. They could get hurt if they try but it's a one time opportunity! "Yeah sure, I want to know how this "run" works..."

Poppy immediately gobbled TWO bottle of pops right in front of them.

They were horrified about Poppy's well-being even though they understand that they don't have the same anatomy. 

She grabbed Yohoo's arm to drag them to Dandy's shop. "You want to pick a run you're going to join?" Dandy asked. "YEP!!" Dandy nodded and quickly gave her all the list of the runs being hosted. 

Yohoo tapped Dandy's counter, and whispered. "Hey... Is it necessary for me to go there?" 

Dandy nodded. "Yes, you're a toon handler and your job is to protect your assigned toon." Yohoo looked at Poppy's direction who was still continuing to look at the list. 

"No... That's a main only runs..." Poppy continued to skimmed the list. "That one is nightmare run... Yikes... I can't even move a bit if I joined that run..." 

"What happens if they decided to not participate in a run?" Yohoo asked. "Then they don't get ichors...!" Dandy replied while fiddling with one of the letter cubes. 

"What are the ichors used for?" Yohoo questioned. "It's used for electricity, although a machine being done are able to power up the lights and elevators..." Dandy began to think. 

Dandy is calculating how much ichor was getting used. "Which is tons of ichor burning in the process... We noticed due to the ichor machines instability..." Dandy looked at Poppy who was still reading the list. 

"Tons of ichors were leaking out of the machine, since us toons can carry tons of simple matters except gasses." Is it just them or is Dandy's voice getting raspier?

"We decided to collect the ichors leaking and bring it to me so I can use it for the generator that powers up some electrical devices." Dandy elaborated as he pulled out a bottle of water out of nowhere and began to drink it like someone who has been living in a desert for a week. 

Why the fuck would they use their own version of blood as a way to keep the electric running.

It has been a question in the fandom about why the hell would the toons extract their own blood. But it's useless to question when it can't be answered. 

She continues to examine the paper. "Finally! Normal run!" Poppy pointed at the paper, Yohoo scooted over to read it. "Normal run... The host is... TISHA?!" That's it, they wouldn't die to the twisteds but instead to a tissue box wearing a maid dress. 

"Yohoo why do you look scared?" Poppy asked her toons handler who was praying to not die in their mind. "Haha-! It's nothing Poppy..." 

"If it helps you calm down the other people who will join the run is Cosmo, Sprout, Looey, Gigi, Rodger and Brightney..." Poppy listed out, not expecting a head pat from her toon handler. 

"Don't worry about me! Although I'm still new you don't need to stress out and guide me." Yohoo said. "I should be the one guiding you!" 

Poppy shook her head. "No! You're still new to Gardenview! I should help you understand how it works!"

"And I am telling you to not stress about it. I am capable." Yohoo leaned over the wall while opening another bar of chocolates. "So what time are you all going to meet up?"

"Quite early actually, 8:30 AM!!!" Poppy exclaimed while putting herself on the the list. "So you only have 30 minutes to get ready?!" Yohoo exclaimed. 

"Yes? I don't need to get ready I already have my trinkets ready!" Poppy then point at the coin purse and feather duster on her hand. 

Yohoo grimace at the trinket set Poppy is using. "Why are you using that...?" Poppy smiled awkwardly at them. "Since coin purse gives 50 tapes at the start and feather duster so I have stamina every time I pick up an item..."

The toon handler crossed their arm and asked. "Poppy what's your ability?" Poppy looked down at the floor. "It makes me fast temporarily after getting hit..." 

"I would recommend cardboard armor and blushy bat if you want to get away from the twisteds faster. But if you want to maximize your survival, I would recommend your bow and speedy shoes. You could even use ribbon spool and clown horn." Yohoo listed out, forgetting that they must act clueless in this situation. 

"How did you know about the trinkets..?" Poppy asked. "Gigi told me but she didn't tell me how trinkets can be multiplied...!" Yohoo immediately responded. 

"Oh! It can be multiplied by using our ichor! For example with my ichor I can create multiple copies of pink bow! Tisha's ichor can create multiple copies of feather duster!" Poppy gave an answer that Yohoo didn't want to hear. That answer was terrifying and they didn't need to know that they use their own blood...

"So how did you and Gigi meet?!" Poppy asked, which was promptly ignored by Yohoo. "I mean she wouldn't trust anyone that easily!" 

"I was the one who ate the chocolates and left a mess." They revealed to avoid the question.

"So that's why you were horrified after knowing Tisha was hosting the run..." Poppy let out a sigh as she pointed at the bench. "I guess we should wait for them, let's sit for awhile."

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"Poppy you should stop drinking too much pops for today-!' Yohoo was caught off by Poppy giving them a can of the carbonated drink. Yohoo shook their head. "No thank you!"

They refuse to drink pop since it was too sweet, sweeter than Coca-Cola. Plus they don't want to get any cavities after drinking that sugary drink.

"Whatever you say!" Poppy was about to open a can of pop till Yohoo grabbed the can of pop from Popp's hand.

In retaliation she tries to grab their arms closer so she can have it back. "Hey!!! I thought you said you don't want it!!"

"Yeah, but at least save some for the others." Yohoo muttered, they were right since usually a can of pop can save someone in a run based on their experience as a Gigi and Yatta.

Even though their real intention was to stop Poppy from drinking her pop since it's bad for her health.

"Fine!" Poppy sit still while crossing her arms, her toes rhythmically stomping the floor. Waiting for the others to come.

"What time is it Yohoo?" Poppy asked impatiently. Yohoo sighed instinctively looking at their pockets for their phone. "Fuck I forgot I have no phone."

"Why don't you check the time by using a clock or a watch?" Poppy asked, her hands slowly going to Yohoo's hand that was holding their can of pop.

They immediately noticed and raised their hands, taking advantage that Poppy is shorter than them. "Oh really? Then where's the clock?" Poppy looked around to find a clock. Yohoo took this opportunity to hide the can of pop in their beanie.

The bubble toon looked back at Yohoo, they were smirking, she can hear Yohoo silently laughing while covering their mouth to conceal it.

She grabbed her toon handler's raised hand, Poppy try to pry open their clenched fist. Till Yohoo slowly opens their hand to reaveal that her can of pop was not there.

"Where did it go?!" Poppy asked, her head looking down to check under the bench. "It's gone now! Magic!" Yohoo said, creating a dramatic hand sign to emphasize it.

"But humans can't store items! That's why they use backpacks!" Poppy let out a barrage of complains, mumbling about her can of pop.

Yohoo soon stop laughing when they saw the exact group that was part of the run according to Poppy. The toon handler adjust their beanie, and stood up from the bench. "Where are you going?" The bubbly toon asked, jumping out of the bench.

Yohoo pointed at the group's direction, seems like they're looking for someone. They can definitely ponder who they're looking for.

So without thinking for a second they decided to let out a deafening yell. "POPPY IS RIGHT HERE LADIES AND GENTLEMEN AAAAND OTHER PEEPS!!!"

In order to get their attention, they waved their hands in the air. "Yohoo, you're embarrassing me... Plus... You're way too loud..." Poppy whispered, tugging at their jacket.

"Okay, anyways..." Yohoo then create a snapping sound by popping the bones in their knuckles in order to get their attention.

"That doesn't look good..." Poppy commented. "What do you mean? It's perfectly fine! Plus I don't know how to snap my fingers so I'll just pop them up!" Yohoo promptly rebuttal, earning worried glances from the bubble toon.

"It isn't painful-! Don't worry! I could also do it with my toes but it's not as loud-!" Poppy tugged their jacket harder. "Don't tell me about that... I don't need to know-!" Poppy let out a sigh. "They're coming here... Please don't embarrass me..."

The two of you awkwardly stand on the middle, waiting for them. And they're moving really slowly, the group are fast and has high endurance so Yohoo thought they're fast...

They are, but the group would pause every time they move... And it's because of how slow the detective toon is... 

"Poppy I think Rodger is giving birth..." Yohoo randomly described his hunched pose and his expression that looks like they've been holding it for so long...

Poppy looked at them in confusion and disbelief. "What the hell do you mean by that?!" Yohoo scratched their arms thinking a way to explain it. "He looks like he has been holding his shit... And he is now probably giving birth to a literal shit...."

Poppy gave a side eye at them, still waiting for the group. They can hear Sprout and Cosmo cheering for Rodger. Gigi was getting bored while Looey and Brightney are waiting patiently.

"No seriously, is he constipated..." Yohoo jest, this exact scene reminds them of the Dandy's world trend. It was fun on the lobby but it was REALLY annoying when they do that IN the run.

"He can't even eat, the least he can do is absorbed nutrients from the food..." Poppy facepalmed at the slow group.

"Why is he so slow? Does he need a massage or something for his back pain?" Yohoo questioned feeling drowsy from waiting. They might as well fall asleep while standing.
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"They're here..!" Poppy exclaimed in order to wake them up. "Finally...!" Yohoo muttered, rubbing their eyes.

As soon as their vision has finally cleared up, they can feel glares coming from the group. Some recognized them, some are weirded out, one of them have strong emotions.

"Mx. Yohoo, are you the reason why the kitchen is dirty?" The tissue box toon queried, before they could open their mouth to answer, Poppy quickly confessed. "It's their fault, they told me." Poppy grinned at her success to rat Yohoo out.

Tisha rolled her eyes and released a sigh. "I am not angry, what you did was wrong but others have done worse... Right Sprout?"

Tisha soon glared at Sprout who swallowed their own saliva at the unexpected call out. "Yes..." He released an awkward laugh, looking away embarrassed.

"Since we are late I suggest we immediately go to one of the lifts." Tisha roughly grabbed Rodger's arms. "And I have decided to drag him since he trots like a turtle."

"Everyone I suggest that we hop in let's go!" Tisha dragged Rodger to the elevator, she was then followed by the other members including Yohoo.

They all stood still inside the elevator while Tisha is clicking buttons. It isn't a normal elevator for them to know the buttons and it's function.

Finally they all hear the machine, gears moving, hoist rope still strong afterall this years, despite being called an elevator the parts of it are mostly named about cars. But that's another topic...

As they descend deeper in order to land on their first floor, the elevator suddenly became dark that Yohoo thought their eyes was closed.

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The old machinery can be heard creaking, rumble from the motors and the feeling of descending to the first floor. As they draw near to their destination, the stench of rotten corpse can be smelt. As the odor became stronger as they reach their first floor. Yohoo's face slowly shift into grimacing due to their disgust. 

"Is it just me or does it smell like someone died in here?" Yohoo asked while pinching their nose to block out the smell that's akin to a corpse rotting. As soon as they heard their question, they avoided it like a plague. Ignorance can be seen settling on their body language. 

Some would look down on the floor as if there's a scripture, some would look at the other toons as if they have an answer, some would look up to find the unreachable hope to reply, some would look in their hands thinking if they have an ability to say the brutal truth. 

Yohoo looked at their expression, if they can't handle to deliver the truth. How would they themselves take it when someone who lives here longer than they do have a hard time swallowing the pill of truth? How would they accept it if someone who has time adjusting to their environment can't explain it to an outsider? 

The eerie chime echoed inside the elevator, as soon as the door open the blocked the miasma of decomposing being. Before rushing off the elevator to extract machines, Tisha decided to use her ability. "Watch your step, the floor's wet!" 

Is it just them or the reason why they're fast is because of the forced adrenaline in their veins? "Yohoo! Follow me! I will teach you how!" Poppy exclaimed dragging them around the map just to find a machine. 

"Yohoo! This is a machine... You turn it till you feel it's difficult to move! After that just time it!" Poppy said demonstrating it, turning the rusty wheel. After finishing a skill check, she removed her hands from the machine. "How about you try it?"

Yohoo put their hands on the machine, it was rough and too rusty. Their was lumps on the wheel and an ichor was splattered on the machine including the wheels used to turn. The reason why it corrodes is probably due to the ichor. 

They slowly tried to do the machine, feeling something warm and wet, it was painful. That's not how they should feel. They looks at the wheel where their hands was located. It was coated with blood, they removed their hands off the machine and looked at the wounds decorating their palms. 

Their wounds was now sprinkled with iron oxide and some remains of ichor from an unknown host. Even with blood flowing out of the said wound, the rust powder still remains. Their mind in a dazed of confusion blocked out the jingle of three machines being finished. 

In their mind that was muddled with confusion, they can see Poppy's eyes widening, horrified by the blood dripping out of their hands. Poppy without thinking decided to rotate the wheel. Her hands not cutting nor bleeding ichor despite the sharp lumps of the machine. 

A chime and the timer reverberate in the room, a countdown was set to 30 seconds. Both of them ran back to the elevator. Poppy ate a chocolate making her slightly faster than Yohoo, even though the toon handler know where the elevator since they have played this game before. It creates an illusion that they're following Poppy to the elevator. 

Although they can't see their stamina bar draining, like in the game. Since the isekai anime's and manhwa lied to them that it would look like a game. Instead they were hit with something realistic. Being tired after running due to the timer that could kill you. 

As they would expect there's twisteds right in front of the elevator. Not going inside the lift due to the bright lights blinding its eyes. Poppy grouped them as she rushed to the elevator, completely forgetting about Yohoo. A pure survival instinct rushed through her instead of an impulsive one. Yohoo understood, but it was all modden by their fear. 

The reason of the rotting stench was right in front of them, in game they would react fast. Since the hitbox exist, they have a reason to blame and to trust. But this is a world that the game they used to play is now their real life. The balloon twisted with its long arms and being right in front of them... They would be unquestionably get hit. 

The reason for their ignorance is as clear as a bell. Their neck nonexistent, if you would call their strings that looks like a skeletal structure a neck. Then so be it, there was another twisted waiting by elevator. 

A box twisted, its hands sagging, swinging based on its direction. The hands on its head seems to have more frame than its real hands. As the ichor on the ichor covered hands drip, it reveals the phalanges and the metacarpals. 

As both of the twisteds walks towards them, walking back would be a waste of seconds. They might die due to the timer. So after pondering, they decided to walk straight hoping they could fake out their attacks. 

Instead of any worse case scenario, the twisteds walk past them, even though the twisteds breath has ceased to exist. The air coming from them is rotting, if that's how they would describe it. Thanks to this odd scenario they successfully ran through the elevator before the timer hits zero. 

Yohoo breath heavily, the adrenaline finally getting released. But that doesn't stop their bleeding wound, it drips all over the floor of the elevator.

"Show me your hands!" Sprout demanded grabbing their arms gently to reveal it. Yohoo unclenched their hands, in between their fingers was a wave of blood. The wound was deep, it wasn't just a scratch. No one understood how did Yohoo sustain this injuries except for Poppy. 

But even she has questions, like how did Yohoo continue to force themselves to turn the wheel despite of the wounds? Why didn't they stop forcing to turn the wheel before it gets this worse? Why did she forget that just because they're another alive being that doesn't mean they're the same species? Why didn't stop them? 

Tisha was by far horrified, toons and twisteds have really simple anatomy unlike other animals. Seeing Poppy's toon handler's wound was by far the most sickening. Despite the red blood trickling down and creating quite a mess. She didn't let her pride through, she pulled out one of her tissues on her head and wrapped it around their bleeding hands. 

"I know that animals with blood can die due to blood loss..." Tisha muttered pulling out another tissue to wrap it around Yohoo's bleeding hands.

"Guys let's go up, healing them is our priority here. Afterall they're not a toon and we might not know how they will die if we let them be..." Sprout muttered immediately pressing a button.

Yohoo laughed despite it all, afterall they deem their wound as a scratch. It's funny to see them panicking, not knowing that the wound they sustained was bad. 

The elevator closed as, hearing the rumbling of the old machinery and the darkness that shield their eyes was more comforting than going down like earlier. 

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The elevator was erupting with different noises, some are louder than the others. Amidst of their disoriented mind, Sprout can be heard loudly speaking to Cosmo and Tisha. "Tisha apply pressure! Although the wounds aren't deep... It's dirty..." 

Tisha looked at the two healers in confusion. "What do you mean dirty?!" Tisha decided to inspect the wounds once more. She saw a dry ichor inside of one of the cuts. "Ichor... There's a dry ichor inside their wound?!" 

Sprout looked at Tisha with concern plastered on his face. "What do you mean dry ichor? I thought it was only rust inside their wound due to the wheel?!" Cosmo put's pressure on the wounds while Sprout did the same on the other hands. 

"Are you guys saying I might get tetanus?" Yohoo whispered, which confused the two healers. "Okay Poppy's toon handler... Tell me what tetanus is!' Sprout asked while applying more pressure to the wound that's still bleeding. 

"No don't answer that question save your energy. Tetanus is uhmm..-! It's an infection disease caused by a bacteria known as Clostridium tetani..." Cosmo answered, while slowly realizing that the wound is still bleeding which was unusual. 

"Sprout I think they need some stitch-!" Yohoo immediately pulled their hands away from the two healers holding them. Letting the dirty blood drip all over their jacket. "Stitches?! Do you guys even have anesthesia to numb the pain?!" 

Sprout grumbled slowly grabbing their injured once again to apply pressure. "No and you are not allowed to sleep either." Yohoo let out squeak at the straightforward answer. "You guys mean to tell me. You are all gonna stitch me without anesthesia or letting me sleep?!" 

Cosmo grasped their hands, it's not something personal. He is simply doing the healers duty. But still in the thick of chaos and the scent of red blood he decided to answer the reason why they won't let Yohoo sleep.

"Since we are not used to healing humans it's better to see you awake to know that you are still alive...  It's better to know that you're in deep pain... Than seeing you not suffering at all..." 

Yohoo looked at Cosmo straight in the eye. "What do you mean you would rather see me suffer?" Cosmo avoided their stare by closing his eyes. "We might make mistakes, so feeling pain is for the better." 

A chime echoes through the lobby, all the toon watched the group standing. The healers hands were coated with red liquid that smells like iron. Poppy's toon handler standing, letting the healers put pressure on the wound on their hands. 

"I'll call Dandy-!" The television toon said, promptly running away from the bloodied scene. Yohoo found it weird that she chose to call Dandy immediately than to order someone to call him. Afterall Vee despises the flower toon, no wonder it came as a shock.

The other toons inside the elevator immediately rushed away from the scene. Poppy decided to take a second glance at them before going away, their mind filled with guilt. 

"Okay let's go to a round down..!" Sprout elbowed Cosmo. "Okay-! So the wound is over one-half inch long and there's a dry ichor plus a powdered rust on their wound." 

Cosmo paused thinking of other infections that might come with it. "According to Yohoo they might have tetanus, it seems like they have been bleeding somewhere at the start of the run. So they have been bleeding for more than seven minutes."

"Calm down guys it's just a scratch plus not all rust can bring tetanus!" Yohoo said, trying to lighten up the mood. "That's also a possibility... We don't know what an ichor can do to a human when it enters their system... That's why we're worried..." 

"Basically he is telling you, that you might die." Sprout let out a painful grunt when Cosmo kicked his legs. "What?! I'm just saying since it's better to tell them the possibilities!" 

"But having better with communication the patient is better... You know that Sprout-!" Cosmo yelled, his hands slightly shaking. The last thing he wanted was to look at the wounds. It has been awhile since both him and Sprout has taken care of cuts and bruises. 

Thankfully, they hear loud thumps vibrating through the floor. Tracking the direction of the sound, they can see a toon with rainbow petals rushing towards them carrying a pail of water, a cup, and some fancy instruments used for a wound...

Thank goodness it isn't a a fucking needle they don't want to experience their wound sutured. But why the fuck is Dandy bringing a cup?!

"Hello pals! I bought a mug since I can't bring the hose since its not long enough as expected..." Dandy set down the bucket full of water. "Also bought a skin stapler and skin stapler remover! Luckily it's still new, it was recently given to me by your buddy Sam through delivery by the train!!!" 

"Heh.." Sprout chuckled. "Wonder where they are... They were gone for an entire week.." Dandy patted Sprout's back. "Don't worry they're probably just having a vacation after all of... This... But we should focus more on the human right in front of us!" 

"I was your second priority?! What in the actual fuck?!" Poppy's toon handler complained, Sprout rolled his eyes, holding out his hand to Dandy. "Give me a mug full of water. I need to clean this bloody mess." 

The cleaning process was manageable at best, except for Dandy needing to go to the bathroom to puke. Understandable, seeing an ichor and blood pouring out is disgusting. If it wasn't them recognizing it their own blood and the pain coursing  through them. 

The stapling was a weird one? They need to wait to see if it's needed to use a staple. After some ten seconds of thinking they thankfully did. Apparently a wound being one-half inches long is debatable enough whether to use a stapler or not. 

Unfortunately the wound was deep since their dumbass decided to extract the machine even though they're bleeding due to the sharp lumps of the wheel. Why didn't they stop from extracting? Late pain reaction definitely bit their ass... 

"Sprout... The other wound... Sprout it's still bleeding-! Sprout I can still see it gaping!" Cosmo yelled at Sprout's ear if he even has one. 

"Sorry I didn't meant for that to happen!" Sprout apologies while mumbling that he was stupid for making a mistake. 

After that agonizing pain, they passed out of course. Once they woke up they would have an entire beef with Sprout after making a fucking mistake and letting the wound be for who knows how long. (Not knowing that despite it all, it's useless after all they're still alive after everything.)

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Imagine Yohoo's surprised when they woke up in their bunk bed. They have many questions when they woke up. But the most prominent one is...

How the fuck are they sleeping on their bunk bed? How the hell can they drag an entire human?!

For now they should get out the bed and go outside. Thankfully it's a good day today, and if there's a clock or a phone right now they would have probably guess the time.

But unfortunately whoever dragged them into this world is a huge bitch for not giving them anything.

Just spawned in a game, using some random person's body like a puppet. To whoever originally owns this body, forgive them for scarring the body all because of their own stupidity.

Why didn't they noticed that their hands was literally bleeding and wounded?! They're so stupid!

But they wouldn't do anything productive nor something interesting if they continue to stay inside the staff room. Who knows? It might be a good day outside this vintage room.

And all they received were stares from all of the toons who saw them coming out of their room. "Poppy your toon handler just came out of the room..." The music box toon said his friend.

"Yohoo's awake?!' Boxten nodded, pointing at the only human on the establishment...Yet... 

Poppy rushed towards Yohoo hugging them. "I'm so sorry for letting you extract from the machine!'

They pat Poppy's head to calm her down. "Chill-! I was the one who continued to extract from the machine even though my hands are filled with wounds..!"

"Chill?! You were asleep for 2 days!" Poppy yelled at her toon handler. "2 days?! I mean I expect it... I was bleeding for more than 10 minutes. Is there a run?" Poppy pulled away from the embrace.

"I am not participating in a run for awhile.." Poppy muttered, Yohoo although curious about why she wouldn't want to participate the run.

Afterall she was ecstatic about different runs. It was weird but they decided to not prod her about it.

"Well I wanna join a run..." Yohoo walked forward to the Dandy shop. "See ya later Pop!" Poppy waved goodbye.

"So all I need to do is negotiate with the Rainbow dash and Flowey's secret love child..." Yohoo rolled their eyes after seeing the joyful flower humming to a song.

"Dandy I want to join a run." The flower toon looked at them as if he heard somebody saying that a human male could get pregnant. In short, Dandy was surprised.

"Wow-! You're going to join? Well, you need to have your toon help you first..." Dandy slide the list to them.

"There's only a main hunt on the list. Sprout, Rodger, Scraps, Blot, Yatta and Looey are the one who signed up."

"Why are you telling me about who will join the run?" Yohoo asked, leaning forward. "Oh! You can pick any toons that you would temporarily handle! No contract needed!" Dandy answered.

And remembering that they wanted to get revenge on a certain toon, they grinned menacingly. "Sprout." Yohoo immediately said.

"That's quite fast-! Are you sure?" Dandy asked, unsure if that's their final answer since they answered it too fast.

"Yes, I'm sure of it." Yohoo promptly replied at Dandy. "Okay then! I think they will come by shortly!"

He looked behind the menacing human. "Oh! Look they're walking to the elevator!' Yohoo turned around and saw the group passing by and they decided to join in.

Sprout who saw them creeping up behind. "Why are you stalking us?" Yohoo stared at Sprout, as if they were gonna chop him up and put them in the blender to make some strawberry juice. "I am your temporary toon handler, emo boy."

Blot then turn around at the mention of 'emo'. "Not you Blot. If I am guessing by the name you're Blot. But anyways I am talking about Sammy from ebay!"  Blot tilt his head. "?ymmaS s'ohW"

Yohoo knelt down either to mock their height or to hear them properly. Although Yohoo can't understand Blot, his expression shows everything they need to answer his question. "A character from the flamingo channel."

"Who even allowed you to babysit me?!" Sprout questioned, walking towards the human. "Dandy." Yohoo smiled casually while Sprout's teeth are grinding due to annoyance.

Looey not wanting to for the drama to escalate much further decided to speak out. "Let's go to the elevator! We probably would stop once we encounter a main. Just incase of injuries, it's for the best we immediately go to the lobby."

"I can heal you anyways, so don't worry." Sprout said, while punching the balloon toon lightly.

Blot who understand the reason why it's better to immediately go to the lobby after seeing a main decided to speak out for Looey. ".delaeh ylpmis eb t'nac egamad tahT... seid su fo eno fi neppah dluow tahw wonk uoy, ti ksir ton ot retteb s'tI"

Looey smiled at their friend. "Exactly what Blot said." Sprout furrowed his eyebrows in confusion. "What did he say?"

Looey grinned, ready to translate. "To summarize, things cannot be changed when someone is dead. Plus we can't risk to make things difficult."

"I understand the dead part but... Why the fuck does it smell like something is rotting in there? Plus, some toons that are twisteds down there seem to be fine up here? What's up with that?" Yohoo asked, taking the opportunity to ask their question by sliding in their conversation.

"No one? ABSOLUTELY NO ONE has TOLD YOU YET?!!!" Asked the piñata toon. "No? Everyone just avoided looking at me instead of telling me why."

And just like the elevator scene, their question was met with silence. But Sprout decided to breath in and tell the toon handler the reason. "Those monsters you see roaming around the room is... Our rotting corpse..."

Now they know the disturbing reason about why the toons are so quiet about the reason why there are twisteds. "LET'S JUST GO TO THE FREAKING ELEVATOR! I know that THOSE CANDIES can't wait for ME!!!" The toon who's obsessed with candy yelled rhapsodically.

If it wasn't for Yatta they would probably have a hard time going inside the elevator due to the thick tension. Inside the elevator was still the same, the smell of vintageness was delightful.

The purr of the elevator although not akin to the animal was still comforting. Even though it's not what a modern elevator would make.

A chime echoes outside of the elevator indicating that the elevator is going to open. Learning from their lesson, Yohoo decided to stay away from the machines unless they want to get their ass bitten with free tetanus.

The entire floor has gone by normally, till floor six it was nothing but peace and quiet despite the smell of someone decomposing.

But on floor seven, oh boy... It was soon set that toons will get hit one by one when they heard a bark when Yatta decided to get out of the elevator.

Due to her stamina she got her entire head bitten, which made her bleed out ichor with some white glass..? And also a box of chocolates.

So they decided to hit and run, thankfully in this context they wouldn't get charged for felony or misdemeanor.

That scared the living shit out of Yohoo, how the fuck is that jaundice piñata alive?! Twisted Pebbles entire mouth bit her fucking head. Was there a bleeding on their head?

No! So that's why they were having a hard time healing a bleeding human! This toons can't bleed! They really need to know their anatomy...

Sprout decided to heal Yatta after that, not surprised that he accurately throwed the cupcake right on her mouth. "Don't you miss the cupcakes?" Yohoo asked the strawberry boy.

"No? I only accidentally heal someone-!" The toon lectured as if the question was THAT offensive.

"I'll keep that in mind!" They said after chuckling at Sprout's outburst.

A certain minimum wage worker who works at the pizza place, that's now on purgatory named Elliot would be jealous.

Just like how Sprout would be angry that they don't need to collect items and tapes or sacrifice a heart to heal. At least that purgatory can stun the killer-!

Wait a damn fucking minute... Why can't they just stun the twisteds?! Now they have to think someone who might have a weapon...

Let's see! Sprout? No, definitely not...
Scraps? As if she wants to talk to them...

How about Blot! Yeah no...

Yatta might look like she has weapons in store but... She probably only has candies not weapons...

Looey never has a gut to carry one, he will be too afraid handling one.

Rodger is a detective right? So Rodger is a law enforcement officer? Or at least based of them. That means he is the only one that can carry a weapon!

When Yohoo decided to run away from the berry boy. Who in return was confused at Yohoo galloping away from him.

If they were a Rodgerling they would target machines. Based on their experience as a Rodger main. And after running around like a lion hunting a herd of zebras. They found the research addict!

"Yohoo to the detective!" Yohoo exclaimed leaning in the wall, raising their eyebrows up and down. "Are you calling us both or greeting me?" Rodger asked, removing his hands from the wheel of the machine.  "The latter one..!"

"So what do you want?" Rodger quizzed the toon handler. "Can I have your gun?" Yohoo straightforwardly asked. "How did you even know I have a gun?" Rodger questioned again, squinting at them due to how suspicious they were.

"You are a detective or based on one. So aren't detectives part of the law enforcement? According to law they should have one! Unless you're a private detective..." Yohoo rambled while not paying attention to Rodger pulling out a flintlock pistol out of nowhere. Pouring the gunpowder, putting the bullet and ramming it with the ramrod, successfully loading the flintlock.

It took an entire minute for Yohoo to notice the gun on his hands. "Where the fuck-? You know what nevermind. But why flintlock pistol?!"

Rodger took a deep breath from their nose..? Mouth? "So I wouldn't accidentally shoot up a kid, since it takes long to load it."

"Ah! I see! So the gunpowder? How much did you put in it?" Yohoo asked, grabbing the gun and inspecting it.

"I forgot..." Rodger awkwardly said, which completely scared the living shit of them. If the gun decided to explode in their eyes... But they need to find out...

So they decided to secretly sneak to a Pebble who was chasing a Yatta again... They aimed at the monstrous dog and...

KABOOM! It hit the dog with rabies and probably superpowers for some miraculous reason. And then...

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..

... 

The dog is still chasing Yatta who was hiding on a crate, slowly counting down to three. And after simply counting the first three digits. Pebble didn't get stunned as expected.

("Why didn't you tell them they can't stun the twisteds since those monsters can't feel pain?!" Looey asked Rodger. "You know they won't learn their lesson if they don't experience it for themselves.")

The dog decided to head their way...! Wait-! The dog is walking not running towards them...

Almost every toon was surprised by the gunshot. So they decided to check it out, in case of someone being injured. And instead they saw the giant dog ignoring the paralyzed human.

Yohoo was expecting all toons to be shock, confused or scared. But some of them are concerned instead. Concerned for the twisteds or concerned since Yohoo might use this as an advantage?

Suddenly the clock started to tick which bought them back to the reality. All of the toons including Yohoo ran to the elevator, adrenaline made them ran longer. Thankfully the dog wasn't right in front of the elevator.

"WOW!! I got TONS of CANDIES!!!" Yatta exclaimed, laughing maniacally. "You almost died." Sprout reminded so Yatta can know the gravity of their situation. "I know! BUT let's focus on REALLY EXCITING THINGS!!!"

Yatta and Sprout continued to have an illogical debate while the others are waiting for the elevator doors to open.

When the elevator chimed and the elevator doors are left open. They all expected this to be a normal day. They do a run and rest after, instead they all heard a loud bang.

Everyone hide and peeked at the entrance, and they saw another human. A woman with blonde hair and a teal colored toon handler uniform.

Yohoo grinned, remembering they are carrying a gun on their hand. "Sprout take this and aim it at that blonde!" Yohoo throws the gun at Sprout who catches it with his shaking hands.

They decided to make way to the shaking woman, scanning the room around. "Hello lady, can you tell me your name?" Yohoo asked politely. The woman when she saw them screamed in horror.

"I have no money! I've got nothing on me! Spare me!" Yohoo was obviously offended. "Do I look like I want to mug you?! What the fuck?!!"

Vee in the corner let out surprised static sound. "Oh they didn't knew-! Who's going to tell them." Every toon who heard Vee told her to shut up in their own way.

Yohoo squint at her name tag. "Mewoo... Wait Mewoo?!" Yohoo let out a gasped. "Mewoo! It's me! Yohoo!"

The woman squint at their name tag. "How do I know it's actually you?!"

Yohoo sighed, they would have face palmed if they are not afraid to get injured again. "Our old hf is 54, our current one is 55. You're a Genshin fan, some of our classmates plays it. And you decided to draw a character in a maid dress."

"Yohoo..?" Mewoo finally believed them, Yohoo slowly went up to Sprout and took the gun away from his hand.

"You can go explore the lobby it's safe." Yohoo pointed the gun at their stapled hand, and pulled the trigger. Nothing happened, afterall they can't use it without powder or a bullet.

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"Yohoo..." The woman repeated, which worried the person they are calling out. "Yeah..?" They called back, but the blonde woman continues to chant their name.

"Mewoo..?" The intersex toon handler asked the woman who's going insane in the distance.

The woman let out an insane laugh that echoes in the distance. "How are you alive..? You're DEAD!"

Yohoo should have expected this, getting isekai basically means you're dead in the other world or in coma if your lucky.

But shouting that they're dead... Shoot-! How the fuck would they play this out.

Good narrative, with huge evidence, like they can just look at Yohoo and think they're not lying. 

"Did the police said that to y'all?!" Good job Yohoo you just made yourself seem like a fugitive. Although their looks can back it up, this is bad for their reputation... 

"What..?" Mewoo gasped, her eyes wide open.

"Let's go inside the staff room, then we will talk about it." Yohoo slowly went to Mewoo, guiding her to the staff room.

They will try to flesh out their testimony later, but for now they at least need to explain to Mewoo.

Out of everyone in the friend group, Yohoo is the only one who has tons of knowledge about isekai or anything similar.

And knowing Mewoo's interest, they can pinpoint it's anything but isekai or anything similar to the genre. Which is bad in this situation...

She needs to be familiar with it unless if they want to get their cover blown.

Mewoo
This person that's guiding her claimed that they are Yohoo.

But the person right in front of them doesn't even look the real one. She has seen Yohoo in real life, and this person looks nothing like them.

This person who claimed to be Yohoo looks like they would beg for money in a nearby supermarket.

But... How did they know about what Yohoo has experienced or remembered that only someone in their friend group would know?

How is this even happening?!

Yohoo died and their discord account is spamming threats.

Plus, why is Sprout pointing the gun at them? It shouldn't be possible to get transported in a game...

And then the stranger decided to close the door behind, cutting off her mind to continue to wander throughout her pessimistic thoughts.

Is she going to die..?

She saw them carrying a gun, there's a chance that they have loaded it without her knowledge.

"Holy shit-! Calm down! I'm not a serial killer of sorts..." The 'Yohoo' sat down on one of the beds, patting it, signaling her to sit down with them.

"I get the gist that you don't trust me. Afterall I'm in a new body!"

'Yohoo' gently clasped both of her hands together. "You can judge me if I am 'Yohoo' or not but you need to follow me."

Mewoo forcefully removed her hands. "Why should I follow you?"

"Because I am more knowledgeable about what is happening right now than you."The intersex toon handler looked at them dead in the eyes. "So to make it short, your soul got transported into a different world."

"Like reincarnation, except instead of being born in the same world, we got transmigrated in a video game. Plus we are possessing a body that is not ours. Combining this information together, we got isekaid."

"This isn't my body..?" Mewoo asked touching her face.

"You didn't noticed? Right... Getting pointed by a gun and seeing your friend in a different body is much bigger problem than knowing your physical appearance has change."

"Can I see... Myself?" Mewoo whispered at 'Yohoo', the impostor shot them a contemplated look. "Are you sure? Afterall some things are better left hidden. Maybe you wouldn't take the information well since you're not ready."

"But I want to..." She insists, the impostor let out a sigh.

"Fine, but don't ever tell them that they're a video game character. Don't tell them we are from another world."

Yohoo opened the door. "You see that staff door? The last one? Yeah that's the bathroom..."

She stepped outside the staff bedroom, anxiety washed her entire body. Toons lively and talking with each other, stopped just to look at her.

She wasn't used to discouraging or encouraging glares. Unlike her friend Yohoo who was used to getting stared at due to their academic performance.

The environment that she was familiar to since she has been playing Dandy's world for more than a month.

But when that digital environment became her reality. It was unnerving, unfamiliar despite seeing this lobby for more than thirty times.

The staff bathroom was closed she just needs to unlock it. It would be weird if the staff bathroom isn't locked.

The creak of the door sent chills from her spine, it was a familiar sound from an unfamiliar environment.

She slowly went to look herself from the wide mirror. Just like the 'Yohoo' said, this wasn't her body.

Blonde hair, black eyes, an outfit she doesn't remember having in her closet. 

She pinched her skin, wanting to believe that this was all a fever dream.

But no, this is real, the fact she needs to live here for how many months just to escape.

Her family must be worried, her sister...

If they also got transported here or vice versa. Would they still recognized her? Their sister, their daughter, their cousin?

Would they still call her the same?

But her 'friend' is alive in this fever dream that was revealed to be her new reality.

Which reality does she even want?

Where her friend is alive but her family grieving for the lost of their child or the other reality where she was the one grieving for the lost of one of her closest friend.

Yohoo
"What happened to your friend?" Sprout asked looking at the tree. "She decided to go to the bathroom."

"To do what?" Sprout quizzed, his eyebrows raising in suspicion.

"To pee..? Don't be surprised! When I got here you probably saw me immediately going to  bathroom."

"How did you know that-!" The living strawberry asked, while Yohoo pat him lightly on the back.

"You know which vent Yatta crawled with no evidence to know where she is."

"Now that I answered your questions... How about mine?" Yohoo grinned.

"Fine I'll answer your questions." Muttered Sprout.

"Why did you lock yourselves inside Gardenview?" Yohoo put their hands under their chin.

"The door is pretty easy to open. I just didn't bother to escape since there's a reason why I am here." That's a half-lie, there's a reason why they're here. Yohoo just doesn't know what's their purpose.

"If we decided to get out in this building and die on public... Our corpses will hurt others and people might see us as a threat."

Sprout fidgets with his scarf. "Although the corpses will rot slowly and dissolve due to ichor... It's still risky."

"I see... And you can respawn on any parts of the lobby after death. Since you don't fear death based on that information..." Yohoo smiled eerily.

"If you die, how do you desire to rot?"

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"Is that a threat?" Sprout asked them. "No, I am simply asking, since if you die you will rot. In your case, rotting seems to be quite alive." Yohoo grabbed the can of pop that was inside their beanie. 

"Where did this came from?" The berry toon inspected the can. Unsure if there's an illegal substance inside the can of soda. "I stole it from Poppy, I simply just change the location of the can of pop so she wouldn't noticed where I hid it." 

"Anyways, you're correct that by definition that's how we rot." Yohoo nodded even though they don't have a grasp of the reason yet.

"According to Brightney and Rodger that the twisteds absorbs air. That's the reason why they rot and also roam." Sprout elaborated. 

"I see the vision..." They commented opening the can of pop, nudging at Sprout to grab it. "But you still haven't answered my question." 

"There's a different way to rot?" Sprout grabbed the opened can of pop. "Yeah... But I would classify as something that would happen to your corpse after death."

"For example, the corpses of humans have different way to rot. For a long time getting turned into ashes or cinders. It exist before dinosaurs were even alive." 

Yohoo paused creating an eerie silence. "Another way, the most commonly heard is when you're own bodily functions eat you body. Including all the things that has kept you alive." 

"I'll include bacteria as bodily functions, because we have many inside our own body. That bacteria will soon eat your corpse. The oxygen you breathe will be the reason why you will rot faster. Rotting is when your body is betraying you."

Sprout fiddles with his scarf, uncomfortable about the topic.

"I see that you're uncomfortable, let's move the topic, ey?" Yohoo asked grinning, as if they didn't discussed about rotting. 

"All the toons that I see here in the lobby are the only toons that exist right?" They asked, fully knowing about the event toons.

"No, there are toons that are not allowed to go out unless it's their time." Sprout straightforwardly replied. 

"Can't they just go?" Yohoo tilted their head in an act of confusion.

"No, because they're not allowed." The berry boy immediately countered, which created confusion and questions from the first human inside the Gardenview. 

"Dandy said that the toon handlers are gone. Plus, why is he the one in charge of contracts and the toon licenses not the trusted co-founders or something. By that information where is the founders? If they're not here, why can't they just leave?" Yohoo contemplated. 

Sprout began space out, thinking about the newfound information. "Sprout I think you know what to do... Right?"

The toon looked at them. "What do you mean by that?!" He asked wanting to find the real goal of this conversation. 

"A dog was raised in the streets, there was foods in the street but the dog needs to fight for it. There was water but the dog needs to assert dominance."

Yohoo frowned which made Sprout concerned about the toon handler. Suddenly telling a story to deliver their point means what they want is serious.

"The dog has everything if they assert dominance at an age of 6 months. Whether the food is rotten and a home for round worms they will still chew it. If the water is filled with mosquitoes hatchling they would drink it to hydrate themselves. They're living for 6 months, there is nothing better than living like this."

"They would usually fight till they see a girl giving them food everyday. They bark and bark since it's a rule to fight for basic necessities in the streets. It's a common knowledge afterall that dominance is the key."

"Instead of cowering in fear as the dog normally see the others do. The human look at them that was unfamiliar to the dog. Which caused the dog to fear the human."

"It was until the dog decided to follow them home and the girl allowed them to stay in her comfy home. Turns out, another way of living doesn't include dominance. They simply need someone to open up a new possibility to them."

"But their body who thrived of adrenaline soon succumbed to the round worms that would agitate their guts and intestine. Due to the lack of adrenaline in the environment, they promptly died after they soon learned how to be loved." 

That was a concerning story for Sprout which made him more anxious for the even toons. Yohoo understood and decided to explain.

"In short, those toons that are stuck in their 'streets' needs to be set free. They would continue to suffer if they continue to follow their routine." 

"But what if they die like the dog?" He asked Yohoo.

"It's between suffering while alive or dying happy knowing that you have achieved all that you desire. Plus they can respawn, so that means they can experience it for s long time unlike the dog."

"So teach them about it and cherish it happily. So you must let them out of the streets they are living in." Yohoo stood up and walked away while waving their hands.

"Goodbye berry boy, I need to go to the bedroom unless if I am willing to forget to sleep again." 

"Wait!" Sprout grabbed their shirt, tugging it to make them stop walking away. "What do I do if they disagree?" Sprout asked. 

"If you were the dog, how would you act? When will you continue to put up an intimidating exterior? And why are you gonna continue that facade? Think like the dog." Sprout's hand slowly drift away from their clothes fabric.

Sprout

The talk left something heavy on him, after Poppy's toon handler left the conversation without missing a beat.

They're obviously impatient and wanted to worm out of the conversation while leaving what message they wanted to convey. 

But they were obviously wrong! Delilah and Arthur would not make them suffer. Despite the suspicious things that has happened to her.

Even if he carries suspicion to any superior. Most of them usually hides something. 

But following Yohoo would not damage him in any way except psychologically, if his nightmares becomes reality. 

He could see the location of everyone except Dandy. That includes all the event toons, he never bothered to reach out to them since they would come out unscathed. 

Despite Delilah's suspicious defiance at the thought of letting them see the setting sun on January.

He simply can't let his suspicion bled through. The reason why he let himself express his suspicion at Yohoo is simply because they're a stranger. 

Running on the indicated marks of where the toons are makes them guilty. A people pleaser like him choosing between knowing if his fellow toons are suffering or make his creator mad, is a difficult thing to choose from.

Even if they decided to abandon all the toons inside this Gardenview because of the toons uncontrollable death. But that doesn't mean he would stop letting the event toon out.

When he just realized getting stuck in a cramped up room that can cause suffering is not a reason to follow their unruly orders. 

Knocking on the door as if they can open it for Sprout. So he decided to twist the knob and hope it would open. 

It did open thankfully, the light pierce through the darkness inside the dark basement. The room was filled with surprised groans. Some realizing that the light has soon embraced their eyes cheered in happiness. 

If a sunlight inside a room already makes them happy. How agonizing is it being inside that basement?

Afterall they never bothered giving electricity in that room for a long time. It was disturbing to him at most. 

"Is it Easter or Christmas?" Asked the energetic voice of the basement below. "No... All of you can go outside now." Sprout replied straightforwardly as always. 

"Sprout is that you outside?' The soft voice desperately yelled. "Yes Ginger, it's me Sprout. You all can go outside now..."

Instead of excited stomps that vibrates and creates squeaky noises. His ears was embraced by an uncomfortable silence. 

"It's comfortable down here..." Another soft voice whispered. That sentence along hangs in his head, what is he going to do next?

Unlike Yohoo who's suspiciously observant and pushy. He doesn't know what to do despite being the most empathetic toon in the room. 

How is he going to dive deeper in this uncomfortable deep topic? Is he going to stop here when their friends might be suffering in that dusty basement down below?

Is it better to quit just because he is uncomfortable? 

But he isn't that kind of person, it's obvious that they're suffering much more than he is. He would be selfish to just leave them to rot mentally in that basement. 

"Are you sure that you're comfortable? Or are you just familiar?" Sprout's question bounce back to the basement wall creating an echo.

"Still we feel better to stay here..! Going outside is much worse!" The soft voice yelled with anger laced between the words. 

"But you're suffering down there!" Sprout yelled back trying to prove his point.

"Mr. Arthur and Ms. Delilah told us to not go! We are not risking it just because we want it Sprout!" Said the sharp voice. 

"They're gone! They left us! You are all free!" Sprout yelled trying to convince them.

"They're still alive, they can still see us." Whispered the faintly dying energetic voice. 

"And if I said they're dead." Sprout asked the toons who are drowning down below.

"They still have eyes." The unknown fought back defensively, even if they need the freedom. 

"Then I'll make them close their eyes." Sprout pushed further. 

"Just like the young toon said, we must go outside. We can't survive like this for eternity." Answered the wise voice to the others. "But what if his lying?!" One of the voices exclaimed at the wise voice. 

"You think that young man would lie to us? He is one of the toons that wouldn't lie! He is the most straightforward of all the toons in the Gardenview." The vintage voice defended. 

"We will go outside, but if you're lying to us that they're gone. We will tell Dandy and our creators about this." Said the voice tainted with anxiety. Which caused Sprout to smile happily. "It's a deal then." 

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Yohoo

Despite telling Sprout that they would go to the bedroom and rest. They never did, the banging in their head just gets louder.

It hurts that their vibrating skull. So they continue walking around the lobby, not caring if they bought fear to the other toons.

Afterall a being walking around in the middle of the devil hour will bring fear to those who believe in superstition or simply just naive.

After hours of wandering, they didn't noticed that the sun is slowly setting up and so is the flower toon. Dandy was setting up his store when Yohoo finally understood that they forgot to sleep.

"Dandy-! You have ibuprofen? My head hurts-!" Yohoo asked rushing to his shop.

"My friend-! You surprised me! Are you sure you're sleeping well..?" Dandy asked, his pointing hands shaking.

"Me? Of course I'm doing well!" Yohoo proclaimed while looking straight at the rainbow petalled toon who's sweating tons at the sight of them.

"Don't take this as an insult.. But-! You look like a zombie!" He muttered darting their eyes between the decorations on his shop and at the toon handler right in front of him.

"I don't take it as an insult don't worry! Totally understandable since I can't sleep." Yohoo smiled, chuckling at the comment.

"You got any ibuprofen?"

Dandy nodded, grabbing a case filled with random trinkets. His eyes looking carefully till he saw a sheet of pills. "Found it!" He exclaimed.

"But this has been resting here for quite a while. I think it's already expired."

"Not bad! I'll take it! How much? I can't pay ichor." Yohoo asked, which Dandy replied by shaking his head.

"You don't need to pay! It has been sitting here for so long! We toons don't need this anyways."

"But it might cause health problems!" The flower toon exclaimed, tightly clenching his rainbow petals in distress.

"I'm pretty sure it doesn't cause any health problems..." Yohoo muttered, having a vague memory of them searching it on the internet due to their anxiety.

A loud mechanical thump can be heard right behind them. A toon that shows their pride walked in, the antenna on the the top on their tv head moved back and forth.

Dandy rolled his eyes, once his eyes settled back, he stared at the prideful toon intensely.

The toons screen that shows their eyes looks at the flower toon. "Dandy? Still standing at the box to look like tall?" Yohoo can practically see smoke coming from Dandy.

"You should have listen to what your toon handler told you! Drink some milk to grow tall at least!"

"How about I throw that milk to your screen?" Dandy retaliated. That was certainly one way to greet each other in the morning. Like how one of their friends greet everyone in the discord.

"You're Poppy's toon handler, right?" The television toon asked. Yohoo nodded in affirmation, their mind trying to create a reason to know the toons name.

After remembering the first time they got were thrown inside the video game. They muster up the courage to speak.

"And you're Vee? I heard your name from Sprout." Vee's screen that reflects her facial expression was suddenly switched to the word 'BINGO!!!' with italics on.

"I'm surprised that someone that looks like you have more IQ than Dandy." Vee winked as if she didn't threw a backhanded compliment at Yohoo.

"I don't look that bad!" Yohoo said, trying to defend their physical appearance.

"Have you seen yourself in the mirror?" Vee asked, her screen showing that her artificial eyebrow are raising.

"Yeah? And I don't look that bad!" Yohoo repeated which earned a loud snicker from the television toon and pitied look from Dandy.

"You look like a homeless person sleeping next to the entrance of the mall."

Vee looks at her hand, flaunting it as if to show her confidence. "If only there was no restrictions I would describe it with more details..!"

Dandy pat their shoulders trying to comfort them. "Beauty isn't measured by their appearance, it's measured by what they are inside!"

"Are you agreeing with her that I look like a homeless person?!" Yohoo exclaimed, which made Dandy scratched the back of his neck.

"Look I will not be angry just say yes or no."

Dandy looked down trying to avoid Yohoo's stare. "You look like someone who's on something..."

Yohoo rolled their eyes. "I told you to answer yes or no, not give me details about how I look like..."

"Anyways, since Vee have Google inplanted inside her head. I have a question that I would like to be answered." Vee looked up at the faint pained expression on their face.

"What happens if I drink expired ibuprofen?" Yohoo asked the small tv toon.

"The medicine would simply loose it's potency." Vee replied.

"See Dandy! Don't worry about it..!" The toon handler snickered, while Dandy immediately gave them a cup of water out of nowhere.

"Where did you get this-?" Yohoo asked lifting the cup of water.

"I stored it!" Dandy immediately butted in. They looked inside the cup to check if the water had signs of mosquitoes unruly spawn wiggling in the water.

"Where did you store it?" Yohoo asked, skeptical at the cup of liquid that came out of nowhere.

Vee's mouth was about to open and answer that question till Dandy shot a glare at her. "Zip it, Vee."

Yohoo raised their eyebrow still indicating that their suspicion was still high. But they were not that kind of person that would throw away a gift or a kind deed.

So despite their suspicion they use the water to help them swallow the pill. Their face scrunched up, wanting to puke out the water they just drank.

Hoping that the water was safe since they seem to not be able to puke out the possibly contaminated water.

"Thanks..." Disregarding their reaction to a simple water. "Did y'all see a blonde woman walking to the staff bedroom?" Yohoo asked.

"Not all of us have a bad sleeping schedule, you hobo." Vee answered which made Yohoo sigh, trying to control their crawling fear.

"You can say that word without getting tagged?" Yohoo asked trying to change their mood. But seems like it failed since their mind still ponders about their friend. 

"I'll check the bathroom, hoping she isn't taking a long shit in one of the stalls... I don't want to smell it."

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Yohoo knocked on the door exactly three times, expecting for someone to respond. Instead their becks and calls were met with an unsatisfying silence and series of broken sobs.

Since their expectations were not met, they decided to open the door slightly.

It was a spotlessly clean bathroom, the stench of bleach was something new.

Usually the facility would smell like rotten corpse or an old building.

Until they noticed was a woman with blonde hair, sitting on the floor while her tears fall down on the bleached tiles.

If it was any other person that they didn't knew, they would've leave them alone since who are they to play a hero if the person is a stranger? It's better to give them space than intrude.

But this person right in front of them isn't a stranger.

The woman that's in a deep emotional pain is their friend. It's their instinct to immediately help her, despite being unfamiliar what her struggles might be.

So Yohoo decided to say beside her, Mewoo decided to scoot away from them.

While Yohoo decided to stay on their place, sighing in sadness.

"Of course you still don't trust me." Yohoo decided not to talk but stare at Mewoo.

Which she found creepy but Yohoo thought it was for the better to stay professional like what a therapist would do.

Yohoo chose to stay like that, staring at Mewoo as if it wasn't creepy.

Although it can be comforting, their looks simply makes them look like a bastard instead of what they intended to be.

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By now it would be obvious to Yohoo that it's not working decided to pull out something from their pocket.

Which made Mewoo flinched and stood up, about to wail help till they slid it to her.

"Take the gun, I don't need it." Yohoo paused.

"You can ask Rodger to give you a gunpowder. The bullets can be anything here as long as it's metal or it can fit inside."

"Wh-why are you saying that to me?!" Mewoo exclaimed, her hands shaking at the thought of holding it.

"Simple." Yohoo said, as if it was easy to decipher.

The blonde girl wanted to yell at them till they spit out the answer. But her own social restrictions bind her from ever doing so.

"Twisteds are mindless zombies, those beings cannot feel pain. Their bodies will repair for some reason. I also don't know how, since I never bothered to ask."

That explanation didn't make any sense in Mewoo's point of view. If they didn't mean the twisteds, then why did they gift her a gun?

Then a realization has struck in her mind, completely horrified than the fact that Yohoo gave her a gun.

"You want me..." Mewoo clenched her hands into fists. Yohoo simply smiled and nod.

"I want you to shoot me if you feel that I will bring harm to you in the future." Yohoo smiled carelessly, as if their mind is somewhere else from the present despite how they dropped a threatening suggestion to her.

"Why..?" Mewoo asked under her breath.

"I understand you still don't believe I'm Yohoo. Even though I really am." Yohoo continued to smile.

"So I can understand if you did, also don't hesitate. I am doing this for my own selfishness so don't bother to shoot me." Yohoo whispered which didn't helped the situation at all.

"I DON'T CARE-!" Mewoo yelled in a panic. "I DON'T CARE IF YOU'RE A BAD PERSON!" She took a breath as if an oxygen flowing through her lungs would help out a bit.

"I REFUSE... I refuse to shoot someone..."

"I can see the reason why..." Yohoo muttered, spilling their own thoughts.

"But it's for the better fear turns into anger. The more the fear the higher the anger."

"And anger breeds an animal with no sense of morality, for my own selfish reason I would prefer a chance of not dying." Yohoo's explanation didn't stop the questions from coming. Instead the results were the opposite of what they expect.

"You can always give the gun to Rodger if you don't want it." Yohoo said, slowly standing up after sitting for an entire thirty minutes on the bathroom floor.

Due to their bad sitting position, they winced due to how painful it was.

They really never bothered to pay attention on how they sit. Which in the end, made standing painful.

Mewoo glared at them, confused, since their motive is still unknown to her.

If only Yohoo is in the mood to explain. They would have explained it with more depth.

In the end, Yohoo left the bathroom.

Didn't bother to tell her to get out and go to the lobby. Instead they left Mewoo alone to process everything. Knowing their comfort will be utterly useless.

If they look a little bit like what they used to look like in the past. Would she trust them? But that question will be useless since the real question here is...

Will she pick up the gun? All she did was stare at it resting on the cool tiled floor.

Not giving up the gun means she accept the fact that she could shoot someone.

Not giving it to Rodger means she is trusting the impostor to not kill her. Despite the suspicion they have gathered in Mewoo's mind.

Trusting your instinct is a good option, after all the head may err but not the blood. If that's how she remembered the old quote.

Her mind made her make a move, the only action that doesn't dictate her choice.

The choice whether to give the weapon up or keep it in her inventory.

The reason why this is such a heavy choice to her. Is due to agreeing that she will choose to shoot her friend in the daze of paranoia and belief.

Even though there is still lingering thought that the person wasn't her friend. The desperation of someone she knew being alive has been implanted in her mind.

She absolutely despises the action of picking up the gun, she hates how the cold metal and the smooth wood compliments her hand.

She hates the reminder that she can hurt someone when the hypnosis of paranoia has swallowed her mind.

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Yohoo

Leaving the bathroom shouldn't be this relieving, unless it's a public bathroom. Giving a paranoid person with a gun might be a mistake on their part. They could at least hope that she would perceive them as an ally.

But there's no use crying over a spilled milk, they could just remove that memory from their head. Who could've guessed that being forgetful can be a blessing in some specific situations?

For now, the better quick strategy to remove that memory faster is to walk and whistle away while your legs take you to the cafeteria.

Instead of thinking about the time when they gave their friend a gun. They would instead think about eating chocolates and drinking that water that's probably filled with unknown bacterias.

Instead of thinking about their friend, they must think about Poppy hanging out with a box toon! Look! The bubble toon is waving at them!

So of course they waved back, nothing happened afterall! Poppy seems to be worried if they take a guess it's probably due to their tired appearance.

Poppy decided to walk towards them and decided to ask: "Where is the other toon handler?"

They looked away from the eyes of the toon. Is it a coincidence that Poppy decided to ask that?

Either way, they chose to tell the toon the semi-truth. "Mewoo doesn't have any toon to handle... So-! We're trying to find any toons that wants to be her toon handler!"

"Mewoo can handle Boxten!" Poppy pulled his arms which made let out a loud 'EEP'.

Boxten immediately waved both of his shaky hands. "No! I don't want a toon handler!"

Poppy put both of her hands on her waist. "Why not?!"

Boxten pointed his finger at Yohoo. "I don't want any toon handlers that's similar to YOUR toon handler!"

Poppy furrowed her eyebrows in dismay. "You can't judge Mewoo-! Plus she doesn't even look dangerous!"

"Exactly! She doesn't look bad! But she's blonde!" Boxten explained which earned a chuckle from Yohoo. "Hey! She's your friend! Why are you laughing?!" Poppy exclaimed at Yohoo.

"Hey can't I laugh at something?" They asked the bubble toon, they decided to lean close at Boxten who's still shaking in fear. "What? You think she's a mean girl like one of those shows?!"

The box toon didn't answer the question. Which confirms that he actually thought that Mewoo was anything like those characters. 

But they can see the reason for that misconception. Blonde hair, thick ass makeup and an expensive bag that might or not be fake. 

"She's nowhere close to that stereotype-! Mewoo wouldn't bully someone! She's one of the kindest person I have ever seen!" Boxten sighed, some of his worries got removed temporarily.

"How about you meet her?" They asked, using Boxten as a way to make Mewoo get out of the bathroom since they're way too much of a coward to do something related to the latest drama.

Yohoo started walking to the staff's bathroom, Boxten jumped in surprise when Poppy dragged him to follow her toon handler. Boxten tried to struggle away from the Poppy's grip but unfortunately he failed.

"Here we are!" Yohoo exclaimed. "The staff's bathroom..?"Poppy puffed in disappointment.

"Don't tell me we are going in... I don't want to see your friend's butt..."

"Trust me I went inside there just earlier and I can confirm it's safe!" Yohoo said which made Poppy raised her eyebrows. When they finally catch on why Poppy's eyebrows was raised, they immediately tried to explain themselves.

"I swear I am not a pervert! I went in there because she still refused to sleep and she decided to lock themselves up in the bathroom!"

"Understandable... I would freak out if I saw my be dead friend alive." Poppy paused looking at Yohoo. "Well your not actually dead just presumed to be one..."

Yohoo shuffled through the keys that's attached on their ID dangling on their neck.

"Why did you get arrested anyways?" Poppy asked which made Yohoo paused, silence was the only one that consumed them whole.

From outsiders point of view, the reason why Yohoo is silent is because they are avoiding the question. But the REAL reason why they're quiet wasn't due to the fact that it's personal it was because they don't know how to answer it.

Being arrested for a crime was a lie they spew out last second. They're simply hoping that Poppy wouldn't poke more about-!

"Why Yohoo?" Poppy asked, fucking shithead they were about to wish for her not to poke her head about that information.

"Poppy I think it's best not to bother them if they don't want to answer it..." Boxten whispered to Poppy, the bubble toon immediately closed her mouth and watch Yohoo turn the knob open.

Their shoulders that was tensed was suddenly drooped down. They're relieved that Poppy decided to zip her mouth.

"Mewoo..?" Yohoo called while slowly opening the door. They looked out of the little creak of the door, they saw no figure slumped over the wall, weeping of distrust and grief.

They simply hope that Mewoo doesn't point a gun at them as the door open to reveal...

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That there's no one in the bathroom, the gun they slid off was gone just like Mewoo. They probably gave the gun to Rodger. That's the best case scenario for them.

Yohoo looked at the two toons trailing behind them, both of them covering their eyes.

"No one is naked... Now that I think of it, why would someone be butt naked OUTSIDE of the STALLS?!" Yohoo yelled, trying to stir the conversation away from Mewoo once again.

"Because it's a bathroom..?" Boxten whispered, trying to defend their ideas.

"If you want to take a pee you go inside on any of the stalls. If you want to take a shit you go inside any of the stalls. If you WANT to change your clothes you go inside any the stalls. ANY OF THE STALLS INSIDE THE BATHROOM."

Yohoo held their head tightly, why didn't they thought of that..? Their explanation earlier, before they opened the staff's bathroom didn't justify ANYTHING.

"You can open your eyes..." Yohoo whispered to the two of them. But, Poppy and Boxten shook their head in defiance.

"How do we know that either you or Mewoo aren't naked?"

"Poppy like I said, I am not inside of the stalls. We are literally standing by the door, why would I be naked? Plus, Mewoo isn't here..."

Poppy rolled her eyes underneath the hands covering their face, she groaned impatiently, using one of her hand to tug Yohoo's jacket since she really wants to meet Mewoo.

"Poppy that's my bandana-!" Boxten exclaimed.

"I'm so sorry! I didn't knew!" Poppy said to the box toon. "Yohoo can we go meet Mewoo! I want to see her!"

"The first step is to open your eyes first so you can see." Yohoo muttered, closing the staff's bathroom and walking out of the doorway.

Not noticing that the two other toons are not moving from their place. Their hands are still covering their eyes. 

"Guys the bathroom is already closed-! No one is naked!"

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"So... Where do you think Mewoo would go?" Poppy asked her toon handler. "Probably with Rodger..." They answered with a thoughtful face.

"I know where Rodger usually hangs around!" Poppy exclaimed, pointing at the cafeteria excitedly. "He would usually drink coffee in there during the morning!"

"We just came from the cafeteria-! Why didn't we saw Rodger earlier?" Yohoo asked making Poppy crossed her arms.

"Yeah... Sometimes he doesn't come to runs since he prefers to study the ichor he collected in previous runs..."

"So, where do you think he is other than the cafeteria..?" They asked the bubbly toon who suddenly became quiet, thinking where the magnifying glass would be.

"I know where he is..!" Yelled the skittish voice. "Boxten stop covering your eyes-! No one's naked!" Yohoo repeated, they pinch their nose, annoyed that they need to tell him to remove the hands covering his eyes.

"Just-! You know-!? Tell us where Rodger is?" Yohoo stuttered out loud due to strong negative emotion called annoyance still lingers their mind.

"In the computer area-..?" Boxten pointed at the area, it was filled with computers. Yohoo remembered that place, it was the merch area. No one really entered that place in the game.

It wasn't game changing nor it was needed, so barely anyone knows that area. As much as Yohoo want to correct Boxten and tell him that it was the merch area. Since it feels more right to say than calling that place a computer area.

"I forgot what it's used to be called before..." Boxten whispered. "I used to remember that a child called it a computer area..." He added, that explains why it feels informal to call that place the 'computer area'.

"Wonder why he is in there, it ain't a lab afterall. I don't know how he could handle any liquid inside there." Yohoo asked themselves.

"Can't judge him, using a computer to record stuff is much convenient than having to use a paper that can be easily stained by the ichor." Yohoo answered themselves. 

"Plus it's really convenient that the 'computer area' is right next to us." Yohoo pointed to their left.

"Whatcha waiting for? Let's go!" Poppy exclaimed, immediately running to the 'computer area'.

"Poppy wait for us!" Boxten exclaimed. "Oh gee... Poppy has way too much energy for me to even catch up..." He whispered to himself. "How do you even catch up with Poppy?" The box toon asked the toon handler right next to him.

"In our friend group, I'm one of the yappers. The only one who would talk in the call like it's my job." Yohoo paused, inserting their hands on the pockets, seeking comfort.

"There are some that could equal my talkative nature but their microphone is broken."

"What are we doing? Let's follow Poppy. You know how impatient she is." Yohoo bumped Boxten forward. He looked back at Yohoo who continued to walk forward, they were fast at walking due to their long legs compared to most toons. Afterall they're a human of course they have longer legs than the toons.

Boxten sighed, he immediately run to follow the hobo-looking toon handler. Who could've thought that he needs to run in the end? Even if he decided to follow Poppy or let Yohoo lead the way, in the end he will always lose stamina from running.

"I think that guy that's-... That's wrapped around the blanket is Rodger..." Yohoo said, looking at someone wrapped around a fabric.

"Now that I take a closer look... Isn't that a bath towel-?"

"Someone stole his alpha blanket..." Boxten answered.

"An alpha blanket?! What the fuck-?" The toon handler that looks like they've been begging in the streets questioned back.

"Sound something straight from those cringe omegaverse tiktok videos..." They whispered under their breath, their face squinching due to the fact that the blanket is called an 'alpha".

"So how do we wake him up?" Poppy asked which earned a raised eyebrow from her toon handler.

"Shout, pour a cold water, slap him, punch him, scare him-!"

"But we did all of those before!" Poppy exclaimed. "And in the end we decided to leave him be since we can't make him move his butt!"

"Fine let me wake him up." Yohoo muttered, lazily crouching down at the wrapped figure.

"WAKE UP THE LOBBY IS ON FIRE!!! COSMO AND SPROUT ACCIDENTALLY PUT A FOIL INSIDE THE OVEN AND THEY DIDN'T PAYED ATTENTION TO THE SOUP!"

"How is your voice that high..?" Poppy asked their laid back toon handler. "I was born this way, might as well use it, afterall it's for my advantage."

The magnifying glass with eye bag under his one eye then asked a question: "Why did you wake me up?" The toon inhaled all of the oxygen that his lungs could take (do toons have lungs?). "I thought I made clear that I am not going to any runs."

"I want to ask about Mewoo... You know the blonde woman?" Yohoo asked.

"The one with a thick make up on? The one that  came barelling to me?" Rodger asked the toon handler.

"Yeah that's her! Can you tell me where she is?" Yohoo asked, hoping a clear and concise answer. Instead the magnifying glass toon decided to snuggle further to the blanket.

"Earth to Rodger?"

"Yohoo to the detective toon? I meant that as a greeting I am not saying my name."

"Hello?"

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"Yahoo."

"Yahoo."

"Yahoo."

"Yahoo."

"Yahoo."

"Yahoo."

"Yahoo."

"Yahoo."

"Yahoo."

"Yahoo."

"Stop repeating the same word over and over again!" Rodger muttered hopelessly but despite it all he is still keeping the information to himself.

"Well if I can't repeat the same thing then..." The toon handler smirked.

"Yihee."

"Yuhee."

"Yahee."

"Yehee."

"Yuhoo."

"Yehii."

"Yohoo please stop-!" Boxten exclaimed, hoping for the toon handler to stop.

"Yahuu."

"Yohuu."

"Yehaa."

"Yohaa."

"Fine I'll tell you where she is just stop-!" Rodger exclaimed angrily, not wanting for the hobo-looking toon handler to hinder his sleeping.

"Finally! So... Where is she?" Yohoo asked while doing a small clap of celebration.

"This definitely reminds me of an average 1950's kitchen." Yohoo glanced around the green wallpaper of the kitchen. What are the chances that it isn't radioactive? Depends since Gradenview was created 1990-2001 right?

Nonetheless they expect to not get radiation from the walls.

They looked around the kitchen, and saw a blonde woman chopping up some vegetables. "Mewoo?" The hobo-looking toon handler called out. The blonde flinched in surprise and looked at Yohoo's direction.

"Don't worry we're gonna talk about being a toon a handler and which toon that agreed-! Well kind of agreed to be your toon."

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"Do I really have to have a toon in order to live here?" Mewoo asked.

"What kind of toon handler doesn't have toon?" Yohoo asked back. "Fine, but did Boxten want me to be his toon handler?"

"Sort of..?"

"What do you mean by that?"

"Sort of."

"Where are we going?" Mewoo asked yet again. "To meet Dandy in his shop." Yohoo answered which made Mewoo's blood run cold. "I knew you were trying to kill me!" She yelled.

"For fuck sake-! What did I even do that might get YOU killed?!" Yohoo retorted back, their glare symbolizing the bubbling irritation that's about to overflow.

"You said we're going to MEET DANDY-?!" She emphasized, making Yohoo chuckle out of instinct. "Don't tell me you think Dandy is evil..."

"He literally started the ichor operation! It was literally in his twisteds description in the game! If you're a really Yohoo... You would have known about this!" Mewoo argrued.

"Since I am Yohoo, I know that the creator, Qwel said that Dandy is morally grey!" Yohoo retorted back at her argument. "I know that because I keep waiting for the lore to come out."

"Especially when Bassie came out I became more interested to the lore." Yohoo simply answered wanting to press more about Mewoo not believing they're Yohoo.

"Does that clear things a bit about me being the REAL Yohoo?" They crossed their arms.

"Anyways we should visit him so Boxten can have you as his toon handler."

"Dandy-! You know her... She's the new toon handler that spawn..." Yohoo paused, thinking about when was Mewoo transported in this game. "Uh... Yesterday..? Right..?" Yohoo asked themselves.

"I forgot that our new buddy here doesn't have any toons to handle." Dandy cheered gleefully, wrapping his arm around Mewoo. "Don't worry you will get your very own toon to babysit-! If they agree to it."

While Dandy is talking with Mewoo, the homeless-looking toon handler bend down and whispered something in Boxten's organ that he uses to hear. "If you agree, she will help you join Vee's runs or... Any runs she decided to join in and-!"

Before Yohoo can finish their sentence, they got cut off by Boxten squealing like a pig. Don't worry he isn't getting slaughtered, the reason for that noise was because they were excited.

If it wasn't obvious, Boxten immediately changed his mind, he immediately rush towards Mewoo. Clinging to her like a child, he looked at Dandy with big dolled eyes, begging for him to let Mewoo be Boxten's toon handler.

"Well-! That was fast!" Exclaimed by Yohoo under their breath. Not noticing that Mewoo was looking at them with suspicious glare. Knowing that they were the cause of the sudden change of attitude.

"Well my friend-! That settles who will be your toon!" Dandy smiled gleefully, grabbing her arms as if trying to lead her to another room. "How about let's talk about the agreement in a private room my pal! Don't forget to bring your new buddy Boxten!"

Dandy then looked at the 'hobo-looking fuckass' standing in the corner of the room, smiling smugly. He gestured the 'hobo-looking fuckass' to follow. Which confused the gender neutral toon handler.

"My buddy! How about you follow us?" He asked which made the toon handler that looks like a homeless person internally scream. They were trying to avoid Mewoo.

She doesn't even believe that Yohoo is the real Yohoo! For fuck sake they don't know if she decided to keep the gun or not. What the fuck happened to them when they suddenly disappeared and transported to Dandy's world?!

Why the fuck is Mewoo so skeptical? Did someone take their identity or something? (Well someone DID hacked their Discord account and spam ads while they were gone.)

Mewoo's POV:

"I didn't knew that this room could be opened..." Mewoo muttered, looking around the room mindlessly. It was an eerie office room, she can also see 'Yohoo' standing stiff. The only body part that seem to moving is the fingers fidgeting together.

She looked at her left and saw Boxten drawing an... Apple..? It has a hole with a worm with glasses peeping.

She has more questions than anything than any explaination that would explain the reason why she's here nor if that person is Yohoo. The real question about this room would be. 'How can they have electricity enough in an abandoned building like this?'

She knows that no one pays for an abandoned building nor the reality that the toons can pay their bills. Those toons refuse to go outside, how will they earn a real bill then?

"Let's make this quick my friend! I need to hurry since I need to sell the products that I have gathered to my buddies collecting ichor-!" Dandy slipped the contract to Mewoo.

"Ignore the second condition-! It's practically useless in our situation." Dandy whispered back as she grabbed the contract.

First, you can never take the toon home. The second is covered with ink. Making it really hard to read. And lastly, you agree to stay and live inside Gardenview.

"I am not gonna sign this." Mewoo declared which made everyone in the jaw drop. "I want to know the second condition first." She slide the contract away from her.

"Reportthedeath of-! Uh... Ofthetoons." Yohoo said rapidly. Which caused Dandy to for an in frustration but for Mewoo it was disbelief and nostalgia, that speed was something to be fond off.

Yohoo was known to speak quickly. Usually leaving the person they were talking with scratching their head.

Even after years, Mewoo still couldn't keep up with their friend that would sometimes forget their rapid speed in simply speaking. But also thanks to their weird quirk they can deliver information to the gameplay much faster.

Especially in an asymmetrical horror game, you need to be really quick at delivering information. Telling the distractor that there's a loose twisted, ordering the supports about what they need, and giving the location of the machine to the extractors or a high stealth toon.

"This is howInormally speak!" Yohoo complained to Dandy. "Is this how they normally speak..?" He asked a question to Mewoo which made her jolt a little since she didn't expected to be asked.

Mewoo in return she made a thumbs up, Dandy having this information nodded his head and accepting their weird quirk. "Okay... My friend can you speak slowly?"

Yohoo tilt their head in confusion. "I don't think I can speak as fast like before?" Mewoo shook her head, hiding the fact that at least they could believe

"Just say it like how you usually speak!" He tried to say as calmly as possible. Yohoo nodded and decided to repeat what they have said before.

"Reeeeeeepoooooooort theeeeeee-!" Yohoo slowly said which annoyed Dandy so he decided to cut them off with a loud cough.

"###########################" The tags suddenly came out of the flower toons mouth. In return Yohoo laughed out loud. "I bet you're calling me a fucking bitch."

Dandy rolled his eyes at the statement. "No I did not call you that word. Sometimes the speech moderation is bad." Yohoo smirked, their eyebrows going up similar to The Rock meme. "Really?"

Dandy's frown became to sunk much further. "Ugh-! Well what happened to your speech it became normal? Seems like you can control it!"

The homeless bitchass pulled out a thumbs up. "I can't exactly control my rapid speech but I can try to speak normally. I didn't even knew I still can't control how fast I am speaking."

"So you're telling me you don't know if you're speaking fast..? But you can control your speed in speech?" Dandy asked. "Weird..." He decided to add which made Yohoo side eye him.

"You're a talking flower and you don't see me complaining about it." Dandy sighed, waving his hand off signalling to drop off the topic. "The second condition is about reporting the toons death. But don't even bother reporting about it-!"

"Why?" Mewoo asked immediately, not even letting Dandy finished his speech. "Because of the situation, Mewoo." Yohoo answered after her single worded question. "You know the situation of DW. Don't you?" They added, their pose signalling they're expecting a positive answer.

Now that Mewoo decided to think deeply about it. Everything here is similar to the game right? So that means it still follows the video game mechanic's. The toons will die and be respawned in the lobby. Well, she hopes it was still the same to the game since that would be the only explaination to ignore the second condition.

She remembers the time Yohoo has spoken about the isekai to her before. When they were explaining the plot of... The Greatest Real Estate Developer..? That's the name right?

She remembers that according to them, a guy suddenly died and then getting transported into a novel. It still follows the event that was written until the protagonist change it.

But of course there's the novel's protagonist and the real protagonist. She doesn't know how both of them interacted since Yohoo didnt told her the relation between the two.

She knows that Yohoo did it to gatekeep the information to avoid spoilers. Anyways, following the protagonist genre!

Dandy must be the game's protagonist then. Afterall the game is literally called Dandy's world, don't tell her that Finn is the protagonist when the flower's name is in the game's title.

Why is she even following that rule? Both of them aren't in the novel or any form of literature?! Fan work or not! This is real life!

Well at least she hopes that Yohoo isn't the impostor. That's impossible since the person right here can speak fast as fuck without even realizing it. And with how casual they were, it was impossible for it to be staged.

But that's not the main priority right now, she needs to answer their question!

"Yes." Mewoo muttered, immediately snatching the paper making it wrinkled. She grab the ballpen on the table and sign the paper. "Done, I accept to be a toon handler."

"Alright then! Boxten will be the toon in your care right?" Dandy asked which Mewoo answered it with a nod.

"Here!" Out of nowhere there was a toon license in his hand. Mewoo hesitantly took it from him, her mind filled with confusion.

"Where did you even got this from?" Mewoo asked. "It's toon magic!" Dandy replied with a huge smile which made Mewoo more confuse. "What's a toon magic?"

Yohoo scoffed and decided to butt in. "That fuckass wouldn't give you an answer. Let's get out of here, this place is waaaaay too cold for me."

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"What do we do now?" Mewoo asked their hobo friend standing awkwardly after walking to the lobby. "We are already too late to do any runs." Yohoo answered which made Mewoo slowly look at them in fear. 

"Don't tell me we need to go on a run?" She asked once more, hoping that her friend would exclaim that it's a joke or say 'SIKE!!!'. But instead they were staring into her soul as if they were going to gouge out her eyes. 

"We need to go on a run." Yohoo simply answered, smiling as if they aren't going to die if they decided to participate on it.

"You're dead serious?" She asked again. "I am already rotting from the start." Yohoo answered humorously. "What the fuck does that mean?" Mewoo commented at the weird joke. 

"Well you said if I am DEAD serious. So I decided to say ROTTING to indicate I am serious from the very beginning." The vagabond explained as if it makes any sense to use such phrase instead of saying yes or no. 

"Why are you nonchalant about this?! Aren't you scared?!" Mewoo exclaimed, grabbing Yohoo's shoulder to shake them.

"Although I was injured in my first run, it wasn't that bad. Just don't do any machines." They responded sluggishly due to being shake. 

"Why?" She questioned AGAIN which made Yohoo's blood boil.

"How many questions do I need to answer?" The rover remarked, annoyed at the endless stream of questions. "Because it's rusty and it has dull bumps that can cut through your skin and possibly tetanus. That's why." Yohoo answered anyways so Mewoo wouldn't get injured in the future. 

"But I guess we are gonna rest for now since we are way too late to go to any runs." Yohoo added, thinking about things they should do for free time. "How about we cook or bake--?" Mewoo suggested. 

"Good idea! And--! I forgot where's the kitchen..." They suddenly whispered. "I forgot where's the kitchen too..." Mewoo also whispered, which made Yohoo face palmed. 

After rigorous search for the place, they finally found where the kitchen is. Not knowing it was close to the cafeteria. Which meant they have looked over the kitchen while circling the ENTIRE lobby. 

But that's not the biggest problem right now. The biggest problem is:

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"WHY IS THERE A RAT IN HERE?!" Yohoo yelled instinctively, which almost caused Mewoo's ears to bleed.

"Let me see if it's alive..." The hobo whispered under their breath. Possibly due to their throat hurting? Quite rare, Mewoo knows that they would usually keep yelling. Unless if they are focused on doing something. 

Seems like her guess was correct, they were focused at poking at the rat counless of times. And they only stopped when the rat suddenly moved erratically.

"Here you go, stand up and ran away I don't wanna see you lying on the floor." Yohoo muttered trying to flip the rat over to its legs. The rat even if all of their limbs are touching the floor, refused to use its energy to stand up. 

"Yohoo I think the rat is dying--!" Mewoo whispered back at the focused vagabond." What are you suggesting the rat got poisoned or something?" They asked while poking the rat once again to move.

"Yes, I think they're dying due to the poison."

"Let'skillit." Yohoo rapidly whispered to Mewoo. "Let's skill it?" The blonde woman asked them again.

"No! Let's kill it!" The hobo looking idiot repeated again in a normal speed instead of their previous fast paced of speech. 

It wasn't so much of a surprise that they slammed the stick to the ground. Missing the rat countless of times despite it not moving an inch. "GET HIIT!" They yelled, throwing the long stick to the rat instead. Ultimately the rat got hit by the thrown stick, the damage wasn't much so the rat didn't die. 

"Mewoo here!" The hobo gave her their shoes. "Throw it at ratatouille!" They encouraged further. "Yohoo, I don't want to use your shoes to kill the rat!" Mewoo sighed, using two of her fingers to give it to Yohoo, her face scrunched up in disgust. 

Yohoo then gave their shoes again to Mewoo. "Squish the French rat instead then!" The woman with thick make up is close to slapping Yohoo. "I told you that I refuse to use your shoes to kill the rat. I don't care if I need to throw your shoes or to squish the rat! I refuse."

"Why--? It isn't like you're shoes is gonna get dirty in the process since you are gonna use MY shoes." Yohoo asked the woman with blonde hair.

"Yeah because I don't want for your shoes to get dirty! I know that you will procrastinate cleaning your shoes."

"I have extra shoes at--" Yohoo was caught off by Mewoo's cough. "Let's use other objects alright?"

Mewoo looked around the room and found a bottle in the corner. She grabbed the bottle by its neck and smashed it at the weak and dying rat. Yohoo who was about to search for an object jolted instinctively at the loud noise. 

"You immediately found something to smash it with?" Yohoo asked with the tone of surprised frosted on their face. "Nice! Atleast we don't need to search for a weapon for an entire duration." Yohoo complimented, ignoring the scene of the rat's body covered with glass shards, the sharp point digging through the rat's fur and skin. 

It also digged the layers of the skin, the epidermis of the rat was split opened by the glass. Some of the rat's fur that cling to it's epidermis was forced out of the hair follicle. If looked closely, the disgusting yellow, oily liquid was dripping from the accidentally removed fur. 

Some of the shards cut through the dermis, the blood vessel splitting open, spewing out the blood that can be seen surrounding the floor where the rat was resting.

The worse part was the bashed head of the rat, the brain has been squished. Still a wonder how Mewoo can make the rat's brain free from the skull with one hit from the bottle.

Nonetheless, the brain was mushy, it can be seen evidently spreading quite quickly when one of the glass shards dropped on the scattered brain. It was easily spread like a cheap clay with disgusting rusty smell. 

"You hit the rat quite hard, did you get injured due to the shard?" Yohoo asked immediately inspecting Mewoo from far away to ensure that there were no wounds coming from her. Luckily, the blood was anything but hers. 

"I guess we're cook next time!" Yohoo exclaimed, and finally taking notice to the bloody scene. "I don't think we can clean that... Guess we're gonna secretly run away from this shit then..?"

Mewoo nodded, dissapointed that she is going to run away from responsibilities like a coward. But she refuse to clean such scene, walking towards her friend she felt the brain that was under her outer soles. It was mushy, like the feeling of spreading a wet and smooth mashed potato. 

Yeah no, she isn't gonna clean the mess that she made. Poor Tisha, she's definitely gonna clean this... 

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"WHY WAS THERE A SQUISHED DEAD RODENT IN THE KITCHEN?! DO ANY OF YOU KNOW HOW LOOOOONG I NEED TO CLEAN UP?!" Yelled by a certain tissue box toon, her eyes show a glint of utter disgust. As if she was really close of bolting out of the bathroom to puke.

"INSTEAD OF SEEING ROTTEN FOOD OR SPOILED MILK...!" Tisha paused, breathing roughly. "I saw... I SAW A BLOODIED MESS!!!"

"I DID NOT WANT ANOTHER THING ON MY BACK AFTER GETTING CHASED BY TWISTEDS." Tisha continued to yell loudly which made Mewoo's blood turn cold as well as her color getting snatched from her body till she's pale white.

"I feel bad..." Mewoo whispered to Yohoo who was drinking the cola casually. "Eh... It's useless to cry over a spilled milk." The hobo nudged a dark chocolate to her. "You want some?" They asked the blonde woman. "No thank you..." She replied.

"Must be Easter if Bassie is here." Yohoo pointed at the basket toon. "Look Bobette is right over!" They pointed yet again at the ornament toon that was cheerfully talking with other Christmas toons.

Seems like they haven't realized that something aint right with that statement...

"I missed eating other foods except dark chocolate-! Wait Bassie and Bobette..?" They paused, they finally realized that's something IS wrong. "Why is Bassie and Bobette here?! I know that there's no Easter in December! How the fuck?!"

"Why are you surprised that they're in the lobby...? Isn't that normal?" Mewoo asked since she knows almost nothing about the lore.

"Well... The event toons are locked up till a certain time of month to celebrate an event. Like Bobette being let out if it's Christmas or Bassie having freedom when Easter comes." They explained, as they used their pants to remove the condensed water coming from the cold can of cola.

"That's disturbing..." Mewoo commented, her opinion turning into whisper as she imagined the scenario.

"But why are all of them are here..?' She asked, realizing the dilemma that her friend was sutck in earlier.

"I remember talking with Sprout about freedom or freeing someone..?" Yohoo muttered, unsure if the memory that was ontop on their head was actually a real memory.

It's hard to remember if they DID talk with Sprout before. They really never had a faintest of emotion for their brain to care about it so much.

"Let's move on, that topic ain't leading us anywhere." They brushed off instead of using all the time to think if the memory that popped up was even a real to begin with.

"You should eat some dark chocolate, there's no food around here except for things with sweets in it."

"And dark chocolate is the only exception, it's bitter instead of sweet." Yohoo was about to spiral into talking nonsensically but Mewoo luckily distracted them by cutting them off. "No, I don't feel like eating."

"It's better to eat since we will go into a run." Yohoo adviced, storing a dark chocolate in their pocket hoodie.

"Wait I thought a run was supposed to be yesterday and today is going to be the day when toons will rest?" Mewoo gritted her teeth, not because of anger but due to anxiety.

"We are, but that depends on the toons we are asked to handle. If they're gonna go, we must follow them." Yohoo replied, opening the packaging of the dark chocolate.

"You sure you aren't gonna eat?" They asked, their eyebrows raised unsure whether to eat the chocolate for themselves or to force Mewoo to eat it.

"No..." Mewoo answered, her face scrunched up in disgust. It's definitely not the chocolate on their hands. Maybe due to something that happened before? Right, the time when she killed a rat. Yohoo isn't the best in calming down a person that's disturbed.

So, they decided to simply stare at Mewoo.

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"What the hell are you doing?" The blonde woman with thick makeup asked.

"I'm trying to calm you down by staring. Since I know you are still disgusted by the time you killed a rat." Yohoo replied, as if it was a reasonable response.

"No!" Mewoo exclaimed, totally bothered by the reason behind the soulless stare of her friend. Well at least she hopes that this 'Yohoo' is her real friend in the world they originally came from. "You look like a creep! Staring doesn't help anyone to calm dow-!"

"Killing the rat isn't your fault." Yohoo answered, cutting off Mewoo from continuing her sentence. "It's my fault, since it's my idea from the very beginning to kill Mickey Mouse."

"But I still chose to kill the rat! It's my fault-!" Mewoo was interrupted yet again by her friend.

"I will continue to prove my point. Similar to how Nikola Tesla fought for his desired title till 1943."

Now the Yohoo began to think of it, maybe she's thinking about the morals of her action? Maybe she's thinking how immoral it is to kill a rat in the kitchen. That's just a speculation, never the answer. But it's better to try to calm her down from the moral dilemma.

"Plus what we did isn't that bad now that I think about it." They sputtered out, coming off as an insensitive asshole finding a reason to not blame themselves. "I know I look like a narcissistic asshole but--! Look from the point of view of the rat."

"The rat is dying, which I think the reason why I think it's much more preferable if the rat is dead." Yohoo can see Mewoo looking at them, confused at their statement. Which was the reason why they decided to continue. "It would be better to remove its suffering than letting them die slowly."

"The rat is rotting alive by letting it live more. The rat got poisoned and you don't know what the rat is going through by letting the poison kill it." Yohoo paused, trying to formulate a word from there descent of philosophical theory that they improvise just now.

"You don't know that the rat might be dying due to organ failure and-!" They turned their head to look at the blonde woman who was clearly disturbed by the possibility. "My point is that the rat is rotting alive, with the only difference is that the poison is the one disintegrating the body not the worms nor the flies."

"Afterall there's a reason why a being must die before rotting." Yohoo frowned a bit. "There's a reason for the order of death mostly reenact the same pattern of dying and rotting."

"Even I wouldn't want to disturb that order! I don't want to rot alive." They exclaimed, shaking their head realizing they had gone too far. The topic switching from trying to calm their friend down to tackling the topic of death.

"How about we look for Poppy and Boxten? I've heard they're trying to look at the list of runs. I'll explain the list-! Don't worry... I'll try not to make the topic serious. Alright?"

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"Heya!" Greeted by the blue, bubble toon. Right beside her is Boxten. A music box toon, he was fidgeting nervously. The handle from his music box continues to circulate, creating an eerie tune.

"Seems like we don't need to search for them. Wowie!" The toon handler wearing an old dusty jacket said with a condescending tone laced in it. It sounded fake, but the eyes tells the opposite. They can follow their instincts but the eyes are the window of one's soul--! Or whatever the saying was... 

"I've already hosted a run!" Poppy exclaimed cheerfully, Mewoo who's eyes shows disgust before, dimmed further. Knowing the dangers of going on a run. Death was immeasurable, and it needs to be accepted. (To her dismay.)

Poppy opened her mouth once more, and what the bubbly toon said with confident almost made Mewoo passed out in fear.

"There's only two of us!"

Yohoo patted Mewoo's back, knowing that she's deeply scared of the possibility of going in a run. "Haha! So-! You and... Who's the other one going on the duo run?" The toon handler wearing an old jacket asked their toon.

"Boxten!" She answered immediately, pulling Boxten closer, that unexpected action caused an offkey note coming from Boxten.

"So, when are we going..?" They asked the bubble toon, who simply answered: "Right now!"

Poppy grabbed Yohoo's hand which in return they dragged their friend who's still gobsmaked and paralyzed due to fear.

The elevator was still the same, Yohoo can't remember if this is the exact elevator where they bled due to a rusty machine. They don't remember much about what happened when they suddenly bled. They mostly tuned out everything when they were busy with the machine.

Truly wonderous about how the elevator was still clean, the floor doesn't have any noticeable stains, the wooden walls is still strong. For an abandoned building, the architecture is still strong.

It doesn't scream 'horror' game, just like how childish Dandy's world is. Before they got isekaid, Yohoo didn't feel fear when encountering mains, when they were still a new gen in the game, they were excited!

But, as the time goes on it was annoying encountering them. Except for few exceptions which was Pebbles and Bobette in the future since unfortunately they joined after the Christmas event. 

But, after being forced inside the game. They felt the reason why Dandy's world was called a 'horror game'. The scent of something rotting wasn't exactly... Pleasant.

And after knowing that the toon will continue to respawn over and over again, their corpses unable to rest due to their physiology... It's safe to say that both of them were deeply perturbed... 

"Is it normal for it to smell... Bad?" The blonde woman asked, frowning further, making the makeup crack. Yohoo nodded, although they've only been here a few times. Suspiciously, all of his experience of going bad rotting smell.

When the elevator opened wide, everyone carefully moved away from the elevator. The toons, although experienced, they were still anxious. Even if they can still live another life if something unfortunate happened to them while they're still on these floors. 

While the toon handlers, we're obviously cautious since they can't be bought back once they die. One mistake and they will be nothing but a corpse, and forever will be.

Yohoo:

The atmosphere was tense despite the cheery design of the floor and how the toon seemed excited to go to the floors despite the life or death situation.

Maybe they were misinterpreting the toons, afterall they kept describing the floors as if it was a job. The fact that death has become meaningless problem. Going down to the floors became a life changing experience to an annoying schedule that the toons want to be done already.

Well, for once at least they can relate to the toons! Except for the respawning part...

How about let's stop analyzing the reason why the toons are excited or indifferent about going to these floors that can kill them?

So, they decided to move and look around. Storing cans of soda in their hat, and trying to find the other toon handler. It's not like they can do anything, they're nothing but a useless pawn.

They can store things, that's a plus! And being a Bassie main helped them to know what items they need to give based on what toons they are.

After deeply searching around for more, they found Mewoo who's doing the machine. Steering the rusty wheel, making the machine on the ichor drop to fill it up slooowly.

Well, so far she's doing a fantastic job! She should it up-!

WAIT WHAT?! WHY IS SHE DOING THE MACHINE? DIDN'T THEY TOLD MEWOO THAT SHE SHOULDN'T DO THE MACHINE SINCE IT CAN CAUSE INJURY?

"MEWOO?! WHAT IN THE ACTUAL FUCK ARE YOU DOING?!!" Yohoo, shouted at top of their lungs. "I'm doing the machine-!" The blonde woman answered nonchalantly.

"LOOK AT MY HANDS!" Yohoo shouted, promptly shoving their stitched palms on her face. "This is what happens-! IF YOU CONTINUE DOING THAT MACHINE!"

"I WAS KNOCKED OUT COLD DUE TO BLOOD LOSS!" Mewoo, shooked her head in rebellion. "I'm doing fine! And I think the reason why you got injured was because of the failed skill check."

While Mewoo was trying to justify why she can do the generators whenever she wants. The ichor that she was extracting made a vibration on her hand. Creating a loud, deep rumbling from the machine. Indicating that she failed the skill check.

The steering wheel stops on moving, making a friction from Mewoo's moving hands. Yohoo, instinctively grabbed Mewoo's hands away from the steering wheel. Inspecting it if she has any injuries.

And for some odd reason, she has none. How the fuck is this fair? Why we're they nerfed so badly that if they failed a skill check they would gain an injury while the others can't? Yes, Yohoo is petty over it! Can you blame them?! They were knocked out like a wimp for a... day? Days? Whatever-! 

"Maybe it's not because of the skill check..? I guess..??" Mewoo, shrugged not realising the heavy stomps coming from the corpse of the balloon toon rushing on their way.

"Mewoo move-! There's a twisted heading towards you!" Yohoo shouted, making Mewoo turn back and shriek in horror when she saw twisted Looey rushing towards her with unmatched speed. Akin to a lion chasing their prey.

Mewoo mechanically run towards the nearest crate to loop around the twisted. While Yohoo was following behind her too, trying to help the best that they can.

After an entire minute of looping, Mewoo was exhausted, she doesn't have any stamina to loop around the balloon twisted. Since the annoying twisted keeps going around the box while Mewoo was recovering mentally from getting chased.

So, Yohoo decided to go in front of Mewoo trying to divert the attention away from her. "No! Come at me you fuckass!" They shouted, but alas the twisted goes right behind Yohoo just to chase the blonde woman.

"That child of a bitch-! Why are they targeting her?! WHEN I AM RIGHT IN FRONT OF HER?!" They shouted annoyed at the fact they were ignored by a twisted! An animalistic fucking twisted!

After another minute, Mewoo finally removed the annoying twisted Looey following her tail. How did they know?

Well-!

They watched their friend looped the ever living shit of the twisted. While her friend is suffering, they decided to wait for the twisted to leave Mewoo alone, so they can ambush the walking corpse.

And when the twisted decided to turn away from where Mewoo was hiding, Yohoo harshly grabbed the twisted's head.

They were still annoyed that THIS corpse have some guts to ignore them. It's not due to stealth, since last run they weren't chased by the twisteds, even though they were the only person in that area.

They're an Astro and a Bassie main for fuck sake! They know that stealth makes you almost invulnerable from getting noticed by the twisteds.

They know when to be the light for the distractor.

And they're used to staying away from the extractors when getting chased! Why? So the twisteds won't leeched onto them due to the difference in stealth.

They also know that they're useless once all of their teammates are gone. Yes, they can continue to get into higher floors and to get more ichors in the end game. But, most toons with high stealth are REALLY dependant on their teammates.

So, Yohoo couldn't help but be confused when the twisteds started ignoring them, even though they're the only one in the room. They're also STRONGLY annoyed by this since they can't swoop in and save the toons or their friend.

And due to their strong emotions, they can't help but squeeze twisted Looey's head. Making the twisted squirm, trying to remove the hand from it's head.

"What the fuck-!" Mewoo exclaimed, maybe it was because she was surprised that Yohoo isn't injured yet or maybe because they can simply grab a twisted without it making an aggression.

"You seeing this?" They let go of the twisted balloon's head. "Yeah? They're not attacking you..?" The blonde woman replied.

The homeless-looking-fuckass grabbed the twisted and turned it around. Making it face Mewoo's direction. Knowing that the twisted won't charge at her. "I think it would be for the best to go up after this floor."

"Although, I would like to end this early... I don't think Poppy would like that. Afterall we've only been into floor one." Mewoo muttered, watching the twisted look away from her direction.

Yohoo, in return, grabbed twisted Looey once again and turned the twisted back to where her she's located. "I think she would understand--!" Then the twisted decided to look away yet again.

"LOOEY! LOOK AT HER!"

"Why do you even want them to stare at me?" Mewoo asked. "I'm trying to make a point!" Yohoo exclaimed, pulling the twisted and forcing it to look at Mewoo.

"Yeah-! I can see that you're not getting chased!" Mewoo whispered, not wanting for it to escalate further. She moved an inch, and just like the bug in the game. Through the gap of the crate, she was seen by the twisted. Making the twisted rushed to her once again.

But, Yohoo kicked down it's legs, and for some reason the head got removed and it's head plopped to the ground. Luckily, Yohoo grabbed the string of Looey's head that's acting like it's neck.

The head continues to move forward but failed due to Yohoo's grip on the string. "I think it's head is still trying to kill you."

"You need to put the head back!" Mewoo shouted, gripping the side of the crate. "No, we will wait for this guy to lose sight of you." Yohoo answered, pulling the head back as it tries to chase after her.

After another minute the twisted lose interest, the head stood still. Yohoo grabbed the body and tried to connect it back. Thankfully the body automatically connected the neck back to where it was supposed to be placed.

The twisted after regaining it's control decided to look around and saw Yohoo standing behind. The twisted immediately bolted away from hobo-looking toon handler.

"What the-!" Yohoo turned around at the twisted's direction.

"That--! Wha-?! Twisteds can ran away?!" Yohoo exclaimed, taking a deep breath to chase after the balloon twisted. Leaving Mewoo behind the crate, staring at the wall, confused about the entire shenanigans.

Poppy:

"That's another point for Poppy!" She cheered after finishing a machine, brushing her hand on her dress. Suddenly, she heard loud, banging footsteps outside. And since she was curious, she decided to look outside and...

Why is her toon handler chasing a twisted...? No--! Why is the twisted scared of them?!

She suddenly felt someone tapping her shoulder, she sharply turned around, making the other one jolt in surprise. "Eep--! Uhm.. Sorry to bother but uh... Can we go back to the lobby now..?" The blone woman asked, her sweat dripping as she looked at her 'friend' chased a twisted.

Poppy sighed, she understands Mewoo. Afterall, that's her toon handler. The same toon handler that's chasing twisteds like squirells. It was honestly... Impressive..? Jaw-dropping..? And honestly really embarrassing...

"Boxten!" She shouted, calling him out. "We need to go back to the lobby..."

The entire trip up to the lobby was quiet, if you exclude Poppy trying to make conversation with a plaster wall. When they finally get out of the lift, the two toons immediately decided to go to the computer area...

"You wanna something bake or cook?" Yohoo asked, their eyebrows raised when they questioned. "Since I remember you told me that you want to use the kitchen for awhile."

They swore that they saw Mewoo light up for a second.

After a long hour, Yohoo wasn't actually helping, they were just... Tapping the table rapidly..?

"I've finished making some bread and--! Why are you tapping rapidly anyways?" Mewoo asked, placing the plate where the bread rest on top. "Usually, I would play Phira or Phigros..." Yohoo answered, tapping the table rapidly while humming at the same time.

"What's Phira and Phigros?" Mewoo asked, looking at Yohoo directly. They stopped tapping the table and stared at Mewoo in return. "A rhythm game."

"The one you made me play before?" Mewoo asked yet again. "Yeah, that one." Yohoo answered, tilting their head. A question popped up on their mind. "Why do we keep eating chocolates and drinking soda if we have exact ingredients for a bread?"

"I don't know..." Mewoo muttered, focused at finding some jams to make some PBJ. After opening all the counters, she found a single container of jam, unfortunately there's no peanut butter.

But... The jam would be enough for a delicious treat that isn't just chocolate and soda according to her friend who has been here longer.

"Mewoo..." Yohoo whispered, pointing somewhere behind here. "Can you turn around..? There's someone behind you..."

Chapter Text

Mewoo slowly turned around and saw a brunette figure behind. The figure was simply staring, it wasn't as scary as Yohoo's stare... But it was still unnerving coming from someone unknown. So she decided to:

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!"

"Mewoo calm down-! It's me--! Sniff!" The brown haired woman exclaimed. "Sniff?! What the fuck--! You also got dragged down here?! How the fuck did you even recognized me and Mewoo?!" Yohoo exclaimed in panic.

"You guys don't realized it yet?!" Sniff asked back to Yohoo's questions. "You all look like your roblox avatars!" Sniff answered, pulling out a phone to show screenshots to further prove her statement.

"I didn't realized that..." Yohoo whispered, facepalming at their own stupidity. While Mewoo was comforted at the fact that the hobo beside her is actually her friend. Well, she hopes she was right.

"Wait a damn minute... Is that a phone?!" Yohoo grabbed the phone to examine it. "Yeah? You all don't have one?" Sniff asked, grabbing the phone back.

"No!" Both Mewoo and Yohoo answered collectively.

"How the fuck did you even got a phone?!" Yohoo asked, making Sniff scratch her head. "So, what happened was..."

What happened:

"Where am I..?" Sniff asked herself, looking around the deep dark void.

What a peculiar mortal...

Sniff looked around the room, trying to find where the voice came from. "Who the fuck are you?!"

Think of this as your... Vacation...

"Uh huh... Sure... That doesn't answer my question..." Sniff scoffed, noticing that she's getting shorter and shorter for some reason.

Well! I am your exployer!

"How am I here?"

I took your body and put them in the void! Don't worry your mortal body won't die here...

"You decided to kidnapped me?!" Sniff yelled loudly, her voice echoing through the space. How is it possible to echo in a space? She doesn't even know-!

Anyways..! Since you are going to go to a different world-!

"What..?" Sniff yelled loudly yet again, what do you mean she is going to a different world. What the fuck?! Holy hell she didn't think her life would shift into this mess.

As I was saying... You can ask for anything that your heart desires before getting transported to your new world!

"I want a phone that's indestructible! Make the battery not drain! Also make it at least I have access to social media in my previous world!" Sniff announced loudly, and holy moly why the hell is she getting smaller and smaller?!

We will have to nerf that in some way...

Well, she is fine with it getting nerfed. Having a phone is already a big advantage. Unless the nerf is a big one like... 'You can only use your phone a single time!'

Mortal grab my hands...

"Why?" Sniff asked, also why the fuck is she getting smaller is this part of the voice's plan?!

Look down mortal!

Sniff looked down and saw the floor swallowing her like some quicksand. So that's why she's getting smaller and smaller!

Mortal I suggest if you grab my hand now!

She tries to grab the being's hand just for it to past throhand the being's palm. What did she expect?! The hand is made out of a void!

Oh not again-!

Before the being can grab her out, she fell downwards. That was the last thing she can remember before landing in Dandy's world.

"I think you almost got transported into Phighting..." The homeless-looking-fuckass replied, making Mewoo tilt her head in confusion.

Yohoo took this as a sign to explain why. "A void deity decided to take you just tell that you are there employer or something... And that you are going to get isekaid? Plus, asking for what abilities or item that you would like?"

Yohoo let out a laugh before continuing. "I think that's the start of a Phighting isekai fanfic if you ask me..!" The toon handler fixed their beanie before speaking yet again. "I love reading isekai fanfic! Most of those fanfics are so good!"

"I'll just nod my head as if I understand that explaination." Sniff replied, earning a nod from Mewoo.

"Me too, I'll just smile and pretend I understand the reason..."

"Anyways! Since I have a phone here... I can see updates and stuff but the problem is that... I can't message people, play some games, and call." The brown-haired woman said while opening the phone.

"I can still see the message though..! So I decided to stay attuned to the Dandy's World discord server..! I think you will be interested at looking at this."

Dandy's World Discord server:

✨ GlistensNumberOneFan ⁰⁸ᐟ¹⁹ᐟ²⁰²⁵ ⁵⠃²⁸ ᴾᴹ

I LOVE THIS NEW UPDATE!!!

LIKE NEW LORE AND THE HUMANS TOO!!! 

┌─── ✨ ɢʟɪꜱᴛᴇɴꜱɴᴜᴍʙᴇʀᴏɴᴇꜰᴀɴ  ɪ ʟᴏᴠᴇ                    ᴛʜɪꜱ ɴᴇᴡ ᴜᴘᴅᴀᴛᴇꜝꜝꜝ

🗣️ YAPPERYAPYAPYo ⁰⁸ᐟ¹⁹ᐟ²⁰²⁵ ⁵⠃²⁸ ᴾᴹ

I agree, the new map is quite scary!

Plus they adding music playing in the background is insane. 

❌   IHATEWATER ⁰⁸ᐟ¹⁹ᐟ²⁰²⁵ ⁵⠃³⁰ ᴾᴹ

MEN I WAS TRAUMATIZED 😭

I DIDN'T KNEW THEY HAVE THIS SAFE ROOM SIMILAR TO PERSONA

Plus I like the blonde woman chilling there! 

But why the hell does she needs vintage on Shelly and vintage on Cocoa to be my toon handler. 

┌─── ❌  ᴵᴴᴬᵀᴱᵂᴬᵀᴱᴿ ᴮᵘᵗ ʷʰʸ ᵗʰᵉ ʰᵉˡˡ ᵈᵒᵉˢ ˢʰᵉ ⁿᵉᵉᵈˢ ᵛⁱⁿᵗᵃᵍᵉ ᵒⁿ ˢʰᵉˡˡʸ ᵃⁿᵈ ᵛⁱⁿᵗᵃᵍᵉ ᵒⁿ ᶜᵒᶜᵒᵃ ᵗᵒ ᵇᵉ ᵐʸ ᵗᵒᵒⁿ ʰᵃⁿᵈˡᵉʳ· 

🗣️ YAPPERYAPYAPYo ⁰⁸ᐟ¹⁹ᐟ²⁰²⁵ ⁵⠃³⁰ ᴾᴹ

You mean OUR toon handler? 

But in all seriousness, she has a really good ability as long as she is present on your team! 

❌   IHATEWATER  ⁰⁸ᐟ¹⁹ᐟ²⁰²⁵ ⁵⠃³¹ ᴾᴹ 

What's her ability? 

🗣️ YAPPERYAPYAPYo  ⁰⁸ᐟ¹⁹ᐟ²⁰²⁵ ⁵⠃³¹ ᴾᴹ

 It's all boost ngl... 

If a mach is done it will give speed boost or extraction speed boost.

If a toon isn't on mach it will give speed boost while toons on mach will get extraction instead.

The speed boost will end if you hop on a mach

The extraction speed will immediately end if you are not on a mach.

For example you hop on a mach after running away from Gigi. You will get an extraction boost. If you finished the mach the extraction speed will end and it will be replaced with speed boost.

And if the floor is finished you need to wait for 5 more odd floors.

By the way the ability is only accessible on floor 11.

Her card wouldn't pop up any floors lower than that.

If your teammate have her as a toon handler that is.

┌─── ❌   ᴵᴴᴬᵀᴱᵂᴬᵀᴱᴿ ᴮᵘᵗ ʷʰʸ ᵗʰᵉ ʰᵉˡˡ ᵈᵒᵉˢ ˢʰᵉ ⁿᵉᵉᵈˢ ᵛⁱⁿᵗᵃᵍᵉ ᵒⁿ ˢʰᵉˡˡʸ ᵃⁿᵈ ᵛⁱⁿᵗᵃᵍᵉ ᵒⁿ ᶜᵒᶜᵒᵃ ᵗᵒ ᵇᵉ ᵐʸ ᵗᵒᵒⁿ ʰᵃⁿᵈˡᵉʳ

🌸 BassiesFlower  ⁰⁸ᐟ¹⁹ᐟ²⁰²⁵ ⁵⠃³⁴ ᴾᴹ

just wait till you see the requirements for the toon handler with a beanie hat

ya know the one on the portrait with poppy

cuz that toon handler needs vintage on bassie, cosmo and astro ಥ_ಥ

❌   IHATEWATER ⁰⁸ᐟ¹⁹ᐟ²⁰²⁵ ⁵⠃³⁴ ᴾᴹ

OH HELL NAH

WDYM I NEED 2 MAIN VINTAGE

I DIDN'T EVEN FINISHED THE EASTER EVENT YET

I DON'T HAVE A BASSIE

AND NO WAY I AM GOING TO FINISH HER MASTERY TOO

20 FLOORS AND THE NEW MACHINE?! 

HAHAHAHA

NO

┌─── 🌸 ᴮᵃˢˢⁱᵉˢᶠˡᵒʷᵉʳ ᶜᵘᶻ ᵗʰᵃᵗ ᵗᵒᵒⁿ ʰᵃⁿᵈˡᵉʳ ⁿᵉᵉᵈˢ ᵛⁱⁿᵗᵃᵍᵉ ᵒⁿ ᵇᵃˢˢⁱᵉ, ᶜᵒˢᵐᵒ ᵃⁿᵈ ᵃˢᵗʳᵒ ಥ_ಥ

🗣️ YAPPERYAPYAPYo ⁰⁸ᐟ¹⁹ᐟ²⁰²⁵ ⁵⠃³⁴ ᴾᴹ

Oh, I have that toon handler too. 

I am going to be honest, it deserves the high requirements.

Why?

Since their ability can make a toon invulnerable from any twisteds.

There will be a voting on who will receive the buff though...

Also if all the mach is done and let's just say the chosen one is afk, the toon handler will drag the afk player to the ele.

That's why the card ONLY pops up at floor 19 and if chosen. You need to wait for another 5 odd floors just like the blonde toon handler.

 But the toon handler can still take damage from the twisted

The stealth of the toon handler is really confusing... 

So be warned..?

❌   IHATEWATER ⁰⁸ᐟ¹⁹ᐟ²⁰²⁵ ⁵⠃³⁵ ᴾᴹ

I take it back

That toon handler is the GOAT

But the requirements ain't beginner friendly 

I NEED BASSIE HAHAAHAHAHAH

I SHOULD HAVE GRIND FOR BASSIE INSTEAD OF SLEEPING ALL DAY LONG

🗣️ YAPPERYAPYAPYo ⁰⁸ᐟ¹⁹ᐟ²⁰²⁵ ⁵⠃³⁵ ᴾᴹ

Man don't worry about it-!

All toon handlers are meant for people who isn't a casual player. 

Like me, since I usually partake on long runs.

🪭 ◌⑅⃝●♡⋆♡ SQQ ♡⋆♡●⑅⃝◌  ⁰⁸ᐟ¹⁹ᐟ²⁰²⁵ ⁵⠃³⁶ ᴾᴹ

When I was on a run I saw a picture of Boxten with a blonde woman and the elf eared woman named sniff..?

┌─── 🪭 ◌⑅⃝●♡⋆♡ ˢǫǫ ♡⋆♡●⑅⃝◌  ᵂʰᵉⁿ ᴵ ʷᵃˢ ᵒⁿ ᵗʰᵉ ʳᵘⁿ ᴵ ˢᵃʷ ᵃ ᵖⁱᶜᵗᵘʳᵉ ᵒᶠ ᴮᵒˣᵗᵉⁿ ʷⁱᵗʰ ᵃ ᵇˡᵒⁿᵈᵉ ʷᵒᵐᵃⁿ ᵃⁿᵈ ᵗʰᵉ ᵉˡᶠ ᵉᵃʳᵉᵈ ʷᵒᵐᵃⁿ ⁿᵃᵐᵉᵈ ˢⁿⁱᶠᶠ··?

🗣️ YAPPERYAPYAPYo  ⁰⁸ᐟ¹⁹ᐟ²⁰²⁵ ⁵⠃³⁶ ᴾᴹ

How did you know the name of the elf browned hair woman?

🪭 ◌⑅⃝●♡⋆♡ SQQ ♡⋆♡●⑅⃝◌  ⁰⁸ᐟ¹⁹ᐟ²⁰²⁵ ⁵⠃³⁶ ᴾᴹ

I saw it on the TV. 

There was an animation on the new map.

🗣️ YAPPERYAPYAPYo  ⁰⁸ᐟ¹⁹ᐟ²⁰²⁵ ⁵⠃³⁶ ᴾᴹ

I didn't even noticed that! 

But I have Sniff and not going to lie... 

Sniff's card is good for distractors!

You can immediately access it on floor 5 and after using it you can have it back again after 2 odd floors.

It will lower your stealth AND gives you a speed boost.

Just like the beanie toon handler. Sniff also has a voting system of sorts.

The requirements is that you need to have mastery on Tisha and Pebbles. 

I forgot about the fact you need to get into floor 25...

I mean... At least Sniff doesn't require any event toons mastery...

👊 SHRIMPOPUNCH  ⁰⁸ᐟ¹⁹ᐟ²⁰²⁵ ⁵⠃³⁷ ᴾᴹ

I also noticed that

You know

If you don't pick the toon handler card you equipped

You

Uh... 

Next odd floor you can pick that card again

Plus if there's more than one person who has the same card and they have the toon handler card

Only one of them can click it

The one who clicked first usually

And

You will get the prompt saying:

'A player has chosen this card.'

👑 Qwelver ⁰⁸ᐟ¹⁹ᐟ²⁰²⁵ ⁵⠃³⁷ ᴾᴹ

What map? We never added a map nor a toon handler? 

┌─── 👑 ǫʷᵉˡᵛᵉʳ ᵂʰᵃᵗ ᵐᵃᵖ? ᵂᵉ ⁿᵉᵛᵉʳ ᵃᵈᵈᵉᵈ ᵃ ᵐᵃᵖ ⁿᵒʳ ᵃ ᵗᵒᵒⁿ ʰᵃⁿᵈˡᵉʳ? 

❌   IHATEWATER ⁰⁸ᐟ¹⁹ᐟ²⁰²⁵ ⁵⠃³⁸ ᴾᴹ

WHAT

┌─── 👑 ǫʷᵉˡᵛᵉʳ ᵂʰᵃᵗ ᵐᵃᵖ? ᵂᵉ ⁿᵉᵛᵉʳ ᵃᵈᵈᵉᵈ ᵃ ᵐᵃᵖ ⁿᵒʳ ᵃ ᵗᵒᵒⁿ ʰᵃⁿᵈˡᵉʳ? 

🗣️ YAPPERYAPYAPYo ⁰⁸ᐟ¹⁹ᐟ²⁰²⁵ ⁵⠃³⁸ ᴾᴹ

Huh?! 

┌─── 👑 ǫʷᵉˡᵛᵉʳ ᵂʰᵃᵗ ᵐᵃᵖ? ᵂᵉ ⁿᵉᵛᵉʳ ᵃᵈᵈᵉᵈ ᵃ ᵐᵃᵖ ⁿᵒʳ ᵃ ᵗᵒᵒⁿ ʰᵃⁿᵈˡᵉʳ? 

👊 SHRIMPOPUNCH  ⁰⁸ᐟ¹⁹ᐟ²⁰²⁵ ⁵⠃³⁸ ᴾᴹ

???

┌─── 👑 ǫʷᵉˡᵛᵉʳ ᵂʰᵃᵗ ᵐᵃᵖ? ᵂᵉ ⁿᵉᵛᵉʳ ᵃᵈᵈᵉᵈ ᵃ ᵐᵃᵖ ⁿᵒʳ ᵃ ᵗᵒᵒⁿ ʰᵃⁿᵈˡᵉʳ? 

🪭 ◌⑅⃝●♡⋆♡ SQQ ♡⋆♡●⑅⃝◌  ⁰⁸ᐟ¹⁹ᐟ²⁰²⁵ ⁵⠃³⁸ ᴾᴹ

Eh??? 

┌─── 👑 ǫʷᵉˡᵛᵉʳ ᵂʰᵃᵗ ᵐᵃᵖ? ᵂᵉ ⁿᵉᵛᵉʳ ᵃᵈᵈᵉᵈ ᵃ ᵐᵃᵖ ⁿᵒʳ ᵃ ᵗᵒᵒⁿ ʰᵃⁿᵈˡᵉʳ? 

🌸 BassiesFlower  ⁰⁸ᐟ¹⁹ᐟ²⁰²⁵ ⁵⠃³⁸ ᴾᴹ

ᯣ_ᯣ

Sniff grabbed the phone away from Yohoo. "So what do you think?" Sniff asked, the homeless-looking-fuckass who was staring aimlessly.

"Mewoo is this normal..?" Sniff asked Mewoo who nodded. "They're daydreaming..." Mewoo grab the bread and sliced it evenly.

"OH NO WE MIGHT DIEEE!" Yohoo suddenly shouted. Which made Sniff and Mewoo look at them in confusion. 

"We are in the Dandy's world lore. We are a fucking character... And based on my experience... I usually torture my character..."

"Oh don't tell me..." Mewoo gripped the knife tightly.

"You are telling me that we will get tortured since we are now a character from a video game?!" Sniff asked the toon handler who's hugging their jacket. 

"Yes Sniff, that's what I was trying to say..."

Chapter Text

"How about let's look at the bright side..!" Mewoo laughed out loud. "Maybe..! Maybe we won't get killed or something!" The flaxen haired woman sputtered, trying to convince herself that they could at least survive!"

"Yeah, you're correct Mewoo! We won't get killed! Because we are gonna get tortured instead!" Yohoo exclaimed. 

"How many original characters do you have that had a good childhood?" Yohoo asked the woman with a fully made-up face. 

Mewoo paused, slightly raising her hand to count. "Umm... Lemme see..."

. 

.. 

... 

"I can't find any-..."

Yohoo let out a hum, their pride swelling up even more despite the fact they prove that they might get tortured by the people from their world. Afterall, the people there see them as a character instead of an innate human being. 

"Heya pal!" The chippy voice greeted the two toon handlers. Of course Mewoo and Yohoo couldn't help but look back and let out a synchronized scream when they realized that someone is behind them. 

"Calm down! It's me! Dandy!" The flower toon replied, scratching the back of this head. "I am just here to tell... Mewoo..? Yeah! Mewoo about her real name so I can update it in her toon license!"

"But it seems like we have another new human pal! Wow..!" Dandy grinned wide. "Let's do it on somewhere private! I don't want any nosy toon eavesdropping!" 

"So...! Can I ask your friend with pointy ears what her toon would be?" Dandy asked Sniff who simply shrugged. 

"Dandy she haven't even met any of the toons yet-! Well... Except for you but that's all..." The homeless-looking-fuckass said while fidgeting with a random ballpen that probably doesn't work anymore.

Dandy simply waved his hands. "I will just convinced the chosen toon." Yohoo took this message as something much more shady and couldn't help but exclaim: "You are gonna blackmail someone?!"

"No-! I mean--! I want to reason with her about having a toon handler-!" Dandy sputtered which simply made Yohoo snort. "Yeah, don't worry just fucking around with you. I know you are not that kind of guy. Right?"

Dandy sighed and look at the brunette wanting answers. Sniff simply hummed thinking about what toon would suit her playstyle. Completely forgetting that this isn't a game anymore. But familiar with a certain toon and how they work is simply good... Right? 

"I choose Tisha." Sniff finally answered, afterall she likes playing as Tisha before being send inside the game. She decided to start distracting as her because it was simply fun! She even wonders why people use her less often. She was a good beginner character, even more friendly than Boxten and Poppy combined! 

"Alright then! Before I create your new friend's a toon license. Can I know what Mewoo's real name is first? There's no way her real name is actually Mewoo right?" Dandy chuckles at the possibility. 

And holy fuck that question sends dread to Mewoo and Yohoo. Unlike Yohoo who was crafted a fake full name that makes sense if you look closely at the details. Mewoo has NONE, she didn't plan for any of this fake identity shit. 

It doesn't help that Yohoo is looking at her like every word is going to cause a one-third of their life. So, in pure panic she decided to let her instincts take her. "My full name is Mewoo C. Paws, the middle name is Chaos."

"What in the fucking warrior cats--! Why the fuck would you--! Why that name?!" Yohoo whispered, their beanie is on their lap, while their own hands is gripped around their head, pulling their uneven cut hair. 

"Are you sure..? Your actual name is... Mewoo?" Dandy asked again, blinking slowly. "What kind of parents do you have that would have the guts to make your name like that-!"

Mewoo let out a dramatic snuffle. "My mother was in so much pain that she said Mewoo instead of Meow as my name..!" 

Dandy made a face to show how awkward the situation is. Of course, Dandy wants to avoid talking much further about Mewoo's name... So, it's natural to ask about the pointy ears girl, right? 

With that the flower toon decided to try to cheer himself again once more and decided to ask the browned haired girl some questions. "So! Friend... Can you tell me your name so I can at least fill out a blank on your toon license... Your name..!" 

Sniff let out a mischievous smile that reached from ear to ear. "Do you really want to know what my full name is..?" She asked the flower toon who answered back by nodding. 

"My full name is Sniff Mah Feet, the Mah is my middle name. You can call me by my first name--! Which is you know... Sniff..." Sniff answered which made Yohoo screeched internally, their throat letting out a squeezed squeal. 

While Mewoo looked down to the floor, trying to avoid Dandy's shock gaze. Because if she saw a quick glance of his reaction, she would definitely be laughing till all the air has been extracted from her.

"Are you REALLY sure that is your name?" Dandy asked yet again, not wanting to believe that her name is Sniff. "Stop joking around, I am going to give you last chance. If you decided to give me ANOTHER joke name--! I will write that name instead of your real one."

"But that's my real name." Sniff countered back which made Dandy shook his head in denial. "No way your real name is Sniff M. Feet..."

"It is!"

"No it ain't..."

"Yeah it is?"

"No, that's simply impossible..."

"But... It is!"

"But--! No... Wha--?! Who the hell names their kid Meow and Sniff?" Dandy exclaimed angrily, his cheerful facade withering away due to HOW WEIRD THIS NAMES ARE?!

What do you mean someone almost got named Meow?! 

What do you mean that someone look at the baby and decided to name them Sniff?! 

Plus, how rare is it to have a weird ass first name AND last name? 

How the hell did someone who looks like they have an addiction problems have MUCH sensible name than the two toon handlers who LOOKS sane?!

"Okay..! I am going to give you the toon handlers after I get Tisha's consent and Mewoo here is your toon license." Dandy threw the card at Mewoo which she failed to catch, causing her to search underneath her seat. 

"Now please get out of this room, I need to think about the weird... names..."

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"Mewoo, Sniff... What in the actual fuck are those names-?!' Yohoo exclaimed loudly, facepalming at their stupid fucking name. Who the fuck names their kid Mewoo and Sniff?!

Mewoo's forehead suddenly became sweaty after the release of tension. "May-maybe I don't think it's that... Bad..?" She whispered trying to diffuse Yohoo's frustration.

Yohoo is this close from shouting at top of their lungs. But they decided to inhale and exhale... "You wanna know what my 'real name' is in this hell hole?! My fake full name is Yorik Hook and I made Yohoo my nickname but you both--! AGH!"

"We literally got kicked out because of the stupid fucking 'full names'! Who the hell would name their child like that-!"

"I would..."

"I know, Sniff..."

"I like the name..."

"I know, Sniff..."

Yohoo decided to take a step, using their hands to give them a sign to follow them. "I'm gonna show you our room, I am guessing that it's near the sleeping time of the toons... So-! I think it's for the better to follow their schedule to avoid confusion."

The other two followed the hobo-looking-fuckass, afterall Sniff haven't explored the lobby yet and Mewoo is in this game for like... 1-2 days? Unlike Yohoo who has been here since... 4 or more than days.

"Who the fuck is that..?" Mewoo whispered Yohoo, pointing at the clock toon who seems like... Selling items? Including clothes? "Mewoo, I also don't know who the fuck is that."

Sniff immediately went to the clock shopkeeper. "What's your name?" The clock toon looked back at the elf-eared toon handler. "You must be one of the new toon handlers. My name is Dyle, here to gladly assist you."

Sniff simply nodded, immediately rushing back to Yohoo and Mewoo. She then whispered to the duo: "I don't remember having a clock toon shopkeeper..." The toon handler wearing a beanie hat nodded in agreement.

"Let me see if there's actually an update in the game..." Sniff pulls out her phone, promptly opening the Dandy's world discord to check.

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Sniff let out a surprised yelped. "Oh-! Wooow we actually do have a new update... They added a new toon, new shopkeeper, new skill check, new card and a new lethal!"

"What the fuck?! No fucking way-!" Yohoo exclaimed loudly, not believing that they couldn't experience the new beautiful update because they fucking died right after the blot update. I mean... They can still experience it, for real this time which wasn't on their bucket list.

Yes, Yohoo wanted a new fucking lethal because Dandy is easy as fuck to avoid despite being a lethal. And wanting challenge the community wished for new lethal and new type of machine, and Yohoo was apart of that particular community.

Yohoo is happy IF they didn't got fucking isekaid into DANDY'S WORLD OF ALL SHITTY ROBLOX GAMES. And now they need to face a new lethal in real life since this game IS THEIR WORLD NOW!!!

"That's cool-!" Mewoo pauses for a second, thinking about the words she spew out. "No actually-! That is NOT good at all."

"See WE might actually die in this world!" Yohoo pessimistically verbalized loudly. Mewoo shook her head, denying the statement. "Yohoo, you can literally walk with the twisted without fucking dying."

Yohoo then pointed at their two friends. "But you two might die going down there!" Mewoo shook her head, wanting to stay positive. "I survived a single floor though..."

"Mewoo that's not enough to ensure that you will survive!" The person wearing a beanie expressed loudly. The indication that Yohoo and Mewoo has experienced being in an ACTUAL run surprised her.

The fact that both of them survived while going down the floors is insane. But what's more convulating is when Mewoo confirms that Yohoo can't be attacked by the twisted. What in the overpowered bullshit is this?!

Before the discussion can cease down so they can move on to finally rest. A lamp toon approach the three of them. Waving her hand, greeting them happily. "Hey! Brightney here to assist you!"

"Oh-! Hi I guess...? Wait-! Why are you here?" Yohoo asked, their finger pointing at the red toon. "I thought Dandy has told you all..?" The toon replied, at sea about the fact she needs to explain to the new toon handlers.

"Told us what? He kicked us out..." Yohoo replied, their arms folding in their chest. "Well, he thinks it's for the better to know the stats of you and your friends!" The lamp toon awkwardly answered.

"Also why did you all get kicked out? I know that Dandy wouldn't just... Kick all of you out for no reason."

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"AHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!" Sniff clutched her stomach tightly while Yohoo is looking down at the floor due to pure disappointment and Mewoo let out an ill at ease smile.

"Well do you wanna know our name?" Sniff asked mischievously. The lamp toon stepped back out of anxiety. "Is it related to the reason why all of you got kicked out?"

"Yes." Sniff mischievously rubbed her hands together, creating friction. Like a typical cartoon villain creating their own master plan.

"Well what is it..?" Brightney asked skittishly, looking around to see the toon handler wearing a beanie hat facepalming and the other woman whose face is layered with tons of cosmetics was trying to stiffle her laugh.

"My full name is Sniff Mah Feet." Sniff's fingers pointed to Mewoo, showcasing her manicured nails. "That girl's full name is Mewoo Chaos Paws." The direction of her finger slowly shifted to the hobo-looking-fuckass. "That person's name is Captain Hook but we call 'em Yohoo!"

Yohoo's eyes twitched involuntarily. "My full name is Yorik Hook..." Sniff shrugged, not caring about Yohoo's previous statement. "That's the same thing!"

"It's not the same!" Yohoo exclaimed angrily while Sniff smirked. "Really?" It began to devolve into an aggressive friendly banter between the two toon handlers while the blonde toon handler is trying to stop them both from fighting since it's humiliating to fight right in front of Brightney.

Unbeknownst to them all, Brightney is starting to wish to the Author for strength to handle all three of them. Having those names either means one thing only. Their parents are insane! So... That means there's a chance that the offspring will ALSO insane.

Well... The name Yorik Hook isn't bad... But--! The beholder of the name looks like someone who would spend all their money to someone on a shady alleyway. Author... How dare you place her in a bad spot!

"So, you mean to tell me that humans have different stats than toons?" Yohoo asked, looking at an empty file. "Plus how the fuck do we do the procedure?"

Brightney simply smiled at them, trying their best to do their customer service smile which was vaguely similar to Dandy. Screw it! Maybe all customer service smiles are the same!

"I already analyzed you all!" Brightney exclaimed, making all three of them confused. "I've only been here for a couple of days and I've only done a single run? How did you know-!" Mewoo was then cut off by Brightney's dental clicking.

Brightney continued smiling which was reasonably creepy. "The author got lazy, so, instead of leaving a plot hole they decided to make me acknowledge the absurdity of the situation."

"What?"

"I mean-! Toon magic!" Brightney suddenly replied, trying to brush of her latest statement. "Here!" The lamp toon threw the folder on the table. "Go read it!"

Sniff was the first one to open the folder. "It says high at movement speed, high at skill check, okay stamina, low at extraction speed and an okay stealth..."

Mewoo decided to take a small peek on Sniff's file, expecting it to be similar to stats of the toons in Dandy's world but it's sad to know that it's not the same.

But nonetheless she decided to flip it open. "Okay at movement speed, low at extraction speed, high at skill check, high at stamina and okay at stealth."

Mewoo looked at her side just to see Yohoo's horrified face. Her curiosity got the best of her so she asked. "Yohoo, what are your stats?" The toon handler gripped their beanie tightly. "High on movement speed, high on stealth, okay on stamina but my skill check..."

"What about your skill check?" Sniff asked Yohoo with the intent to satisfy her curiosity as she looks at Yohoo who continued to look back and forth between Brightney and the file. "This is not real!"

"What's not real?" Mewoo questioned again with the same motive.

"WHY DOES THIS PIECE OF PAPER TELLING ME THAT MY SKILL CHECK IS LESS THAN ZERO?!" Yohoo exclaimed, suddenly clutching their dear hair in despair.