@bluefingerguns
This. This wasn’t a problem, noooo. This. This was fine. Fine, absolutely fine.
Cuphead hovered around his sleeping brother, trying to think of some way to handle this. He very slowly and carefully reached a hand forward. Slowly now. Slowly. It wouldn’t feel scared if he went about this nice and easy, yeah, he just had to -
“AGH-” He quickly pulled his hand away from his brother’s head and used it to stifle his yelp. The creature that had bitten him growled, gave a soft bark, and then retreated further into Mugman’s head.
Cuphead apprehensively waited for his brother to stir. No way Mugsy was sleepin’ through that racket.
Dang it, now this was gonna be awkward to explain.
And, sure. The situation could have been easily avoided. But ya know. Sometimes you just gotta sneak off to the carnival in the middle of the night and ride the roller coaster. Live that night life and really enjoy yourself! Till that crazy clown chases ya off for bein’ there after hours anyways. Geez. Didn’t that guy have anyplace else to be? Joke was on him though! Cuphead made away with one of his dogs. Still, chances were, no matter how good natured ol’ Elder Kettle was, he likely would not be too happy about Cuphead suddenly bringing home a dog.
But hey, who said he’d have to know about it?! Cuphead would just wake Mugman and introduce their new pet. He was confident that his brother would be all over it and agree to help him hide it.
Wouldn’t ya know it though, the moment Cuphead stepped foot back into the house, the lil’ rascal escaped and zoomed itself off.
And so here they were, with Cuphead trying to find a way to get this sentient balloon animal to quit nesting in his brother’s head without waking him. He could salvage this if he could just manage that.
“Mrrrhrrhrrr.” The dog was making a weird high-pitched whining noise now.
“Ssssh!” The dog growled at Cuphead’s chiding and once more snapped at him as he attempted to grab it. Then it proceeded to bark and whine loudly, getting as far back into Mugman’s head as it could and scratching at it with it’s teeth.
Yeaaaaah there was no way Mugman was gonna stay asleep now.