Chapter 1 - Disconnected
Expiry Date (Chikn Nuggit Infection AU Fanfic)
POV : Slushi
(This is a branching AU from Episode 636 which is where Onyn met Fwench Fwy and Iscream, anything that happens after that episode does not take place within this AU)
Read Chapter 2 here
[Image ID: (Note : The original dialogue was coloured so y'know who was speaking, but that's kinda impossible here so I've added a few more sentences here and there, that way, you'll get to know who's talking!)
"The number you dialed have been disconnected or is no longer in service." My phone declared monotonously.
what. what happened.
My instincts kicked in.
Danger. Everything screams wrong.
I was running. I can't think. I feel the air playing with my dress, failing to distract me. Where was Old Pea's mansion. Did he hurt her? I knew something was wrong. Is she safe. What if she's not. What if she-
I didn't even realised how out of breath I was until the golden gates of his mansion blocked my impending path.
Climb. Climb. Climb. I can feel my mouth becoming so dry from the air wheezing out. I feel my dress pulled and tugged.
Suddenly I landed.
What am I doing. Overreacting again. I abandoned everyone at the party for no actual reason. I just trespassed.
A loud ring broke the silence, I felt the pulsation of my phone. It didn't open. The pulsation was to tell me that it was shutting down. I stared at myself.
"Crud." I blurted out of instinct.
I dragged the door open. Furniture torn with scratches, vase shards, the TV plays to nobody.
My fear is real.
Milkshek is in danger.
What if I am too late.
"Milkshek!" I yelled.
A sound.
A shape.
That's not Milkshek.
It's not Old Pea.
I can't move.
What the fuck is that.
It has the shape of a ferret, it looks like a dehydrated stone, its wrinkles, they pulsate and shift under gaps in its skin and and rise out, like multiple convection currents of skin. It tried to scream I can tell, its mouth sealed shut by incoming skin.
My entire body shook by itself.
Its head has burst.
Blood fountained out periodically, black goo flew and stuck against the walls and ceiling like gum. I can see its spine. It's eyes. It saw me and I saw it.
Milkshek.
She shot it.
I think Old Pea was behind her.
The smell, it was sweet. So sweet. The intense rust, decomposing garbage, shit, refrigerator smell, I can't describe.
I felt it all flowing out of my mouth.
I think I went outside, I can't remember.
My heart, it's trying to escape. Air. Air.
Too fast, too deep. My ribs. Cannot focus.
Old Pea was there. He gave me a bag.
"Breathe in.... breathe out." His voice said to me.
"Slushi." Milkshek stood there, her hands were gripping onto a rifle rock solid, trembling. She was crying. Old Pea shifted his attention understandably.
"Ok Slushi. Maybe this was just another one of your silly nightmares of yours. This LITERALLY feels like the beginning of some craaazzyy infection AU fanfic plot. Yeah, all a dream. That's what it is." I feel myself laughing.
Milkshek stared at me.
I squeezed against my paw with my finger. It refuses to pass. I was awake. Wide awake.
"Oh, who am I kidding. This is real, isn't it." I admitted.
I hugged my bff. I felt her shiver, like ripples on a lake. I held her tighter. I felt her tears caressing my fur.
"I was so terrified that something happened to you." I told her, trying to contain myself.
"M-m-me too" Milkshek stuttered in tears.
She cried harder.
Pea held her hand. I felt the tinge of guilt for doubting him.
The party.
My friends.
Sody.
"I'm sorry. I need to go." I blurted.
Milkshek strangled my hand.
Sody was at home, alone. Alone. I left him alone. My friends. Are they safe, were they looking for me? What if they had been looking for me and I was the reason why- What if Sody. No no nono no no no no nono no no no
"Slushi. Please. It's not safe." Milkshek rebutted in desperation.
"But what about my friends?" I replied.
...
"If you have to go then we are going with you." She answered.
Old Pea nodded. He turned his back and trudged away.
"They'll be ok. I promise." she held my hands again.
"Yeah... Y'know, I'm usually the one who reassure others, haha. I guess it feels nice for a change." I replied softly.
Old Pea emerged, in his hands another rifle, one almost twice his size.
"Woah, how many of these do you have?" I exclaimed, genuinely shocked.
Old Pea shrugged.
I stared at the gate between here and the outside. Fear held me, but I let it go with a deep sigh.
"Well then, let's do this!" I convinced myself.
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