I didn't like the original one I made, so I made a new one that's more organized. I'm still looking through the blog to see what needs to be added, but I got a majority of the blog added to it.
You now have links to the fanfics (both on here and AO3) as well as many of the asks and other things on here as well.
So here’s a mini extra story set during this drabble. I wanted to add it to the main story, but I figured focusing on Eric being a dad to Bassie was more important than a small scene between Delilah and Sara (aka mother and daughter)
Big thanks to my beta reader gigilefache!
Enjoy!
“So, Bassie got sick?” Delilah asked. The Keen-Covetman family was having dinner, and Sara told her mother everything that had happened today.
“Yep.” Sara replied as she put spaghetti on her plate and added some sauce on top. “So, until Bassie is better, we have to run the Easter event.”
“I don’t get it.” Dandy spoke up as he made his plate of spaghetti. “I thought Bassie said she was doing better. Why did she replace showing she can be independent?”
Sara and Dandy sat down at the table as Sara continued talking. “Well, trauma doesn’t go away easily, Mom.” Sara answered as she glared at her mom.
Delilah stopped halfway through eating her spaghetti and looked up at her daughter. “Sweetie, I was one of the founders of Gardenview. I made that decision and can still act on it.”
Sara smirked. “Well, I own the toons now, so should it be me making the decision?” She asked.
Delilah gave her daughter he signature smile, “sweetie, your Uncle Arthur and I gave you and your friends the rights to the toons.” She explained as she took a bite of her spaghetti. Once she swallowed it, she continued, “but as for decisions. I still have the final say.”
Sara knew her mother was going to say that, so it was time to unleash her uno reverse card. “What if I told you I have a compromise?” She revealed.
“I’m listening.”
“Okay, you want Cocoa to be a main. Right?” Sara asked.
“Right?” Delilah confirmed, wondering where her daughter was going with this.
“And I want Bassie to keep her main status. So, we make Cocoa a main, but Bassie keeps her main status. Two Easter mains, baby! HA!” Sara exclaimed, slamming her hand and pointing at her mom. She then smirked and crossed her arms, knowing she had the best idea in the world.
Delilah didn’t react and just ate her spaghetti as her daughter explained her idea. “Sweetie, only one main per seasonal event. Not two.” She replied.
Sara chuckled, knowing that didn’t work. “Alright, then let’s make-”
“I’m not making Bassie part of the main cast with Dandy and the others.” Delilah said, cutting her daughter off and giving her a smirk.
Sara groaned, seeing her mom uno reversed her uno reverse card. “But mom!” She whined.
“Remember, Sara, I still have the rights.” Delilah reminded her.
Sara gave a pout before slamming her head on the table and letting out a groan.
Dandy didn’t say anything and just enjoyed his dinner show.
Here’s another drabble for this AU I’ve been enjoying! I don’t know if WTDW will ever come back via the game, but let me write this AU as much as I can before the hyperfixation runs out.
So I got this AU idea from the recent Easter Event, and after reading Tthe Bassie’s Gossip, I got an idea for this fanfic after reading her gossip with Pebble.
Big thanks to my beta reader @gigilefache
Enjoy!
It was nighttime, and the founders, Dandy, Bassie, and Cocoa, brought in Easter decorations for the spring season. It was the first year they were ever doing this, and Bassie and Cocoa were excited. “Alright! We got everything!” Cocoa beamed.
“I’m so excited about doing an Easter Event this year!” Dandy cheered.
“Same!” Bassie cheered. “And I’ll be the one to put up the decorations this year!”
Oliver yawned. “Well, we can set them up tomorrow. Right now, I’m tired.”
“Me too.” Lewis replied, yawning as well.
“That’s alright. I can stay behind and set up the decorations.” Bassie said, grabbing the banner from the box.
Everyone looked at each other. They knew Bassie was learning to be more independent and self-confident, but the group noticed the basket toon started to take her independence too far. “You sure, darling?” Lewis asked. “I mean, we can all work together tomorrow to get everything up.”
Bassie shook her head. “Don’t worry, Lewis, I’ll just get a head start on it and then head home for the night.” She reassured them before letting out a cough. The basket toon started to have a cough a few days ago, and it sounded like it was getting worse.
“That cough you got Bass, is starting to sound worse.” Dandy pointed out.
“It’s just spring allergies, Dandy.” Bassie reminded him, though the cough didn’t sound like it came from allergies. “I’ll be okay.”
“Well, okay.” Dandy replied, still unsure of his friend’s condition.
“Just call us if you need anything.” Cocoa added.
Bassie nodded. “I will, don’t worry.”
The group looked at one another and left the basket toon alone while they grabbed their stuff and left the facility, each saying good night to Bassie. The last two to leave were Sara and Dandy, but before they left, Sara left her key on the table. “In case you want to call it a night, my key is right on the table. Lock up when you’re done.” She reminded Bassie, who was now putting up the banner.
“Got it!” Bassie replied, not looking up at the girl.
Sara and Dandy looked at each other, hoping Bassie was going to be alright. “Well, night Bass.” Dandy said as he closed the door and left with Sara.
Bassie waved goodbye and watched as Sara’s car left the parking lot. Once she was alone, Bassie sighed as she got determined. “Alright! Time to show everyone I’m not dependent. I can do this myself.” She said to herself. Bassie gathered the decorations and started to put them up in places she deemed fit. At times, she felt sleepy and wanted to call it quits to get some sleep, but she shook it off and continued working until sunrise.
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By morning, Eric, Ridley, Cocoa, and Carly came to the Dreamworld Facility. Lewis sent Eric a message about Bassie staying after hours to work on Easter decorations. Eric texted Bassie about needing to come home, but she didn’t reply. The following morning, Cocoa tried to call Bassie, but she didn’t reply, and it worried everyone.
“I hope Bassie is alright.” Cocoa said, gripping her Glazed Fondant Bag.
“I’m sure she is. She’s a hard worker.” Ridley reassured his bunny friend.
“Still,” Carly spoke up as the two toons turned to her. “Bassie would’ve called, letting us know if she was okay.”
Eric went to open the door and was surprised to see it was unlocked. “Uh, she didn’t lock up?” He asked. Eric walked in and looked around to see the Easter decorations up, but some of the decorations looked sloppy due to the tiredness Bassie was going through.
“Wow!” everyone exclaimed, looking at the decorations.
“Bassie really outdid herself.” Cocoa commented.
“Yeah, but some decorations could see better days.” Carly added, looking at one of the banners about to fall.
Eric didn’t see the basket toon and started to worry the worst. “Bassie!” He called out. The basket toon didn’t answer. “Bassie! Where are you?!”
A groan was heard, and coming out from the hallway was Bassie. The basket toon looked weak and groggy, her eyes were bloodshot with bags underneath them, and her face had a tint of red. “Morning, guys, what’s up?” Bassie asked, her voice sounding raspy.
The group looked shocked at Bassie’s condition. “Bassie!” Eric yelled, running to her. He then placed his hand on her shoulder. “Are you okay?”
Bassie nodded. “I’m fine.” She replied before coughing. She tried to take one step, but Bassie passed out. Before she fell, Eric caught her.
“BASSIE!” Carly, Cocoa, and Ridley yelled as they ran to her.
Eric felt her forehead and saw that Bassie was burning up with a fever. Eric wondered if this was due to Bassie overworking herself or if it was a sign of the cough she got a few days back. “Carly, call Lewis and the others and let them know Bassie is sick!” Eric commanded his daughter.
Carly nodded and grabbed her phone from the bag as she called Lewis.
“What do you want us to do?” Cocoa asked.
“One of you go get a wet towel to put over Bassie’s head.” Eric said.
“On it!” Ridley yelled as he dashed off to the bathrooms to get a wet towel.
Cocoa decided to stay with Eric and Bassie; she frowned seeing her best friend sick. “Bassie, please get better.” She whispered.
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Bassie woke up and gasped that she had fallen asleep in the middle of decorating for the Easter event. She looked around and saw she fell asleep inside the closet. Quickly getting up, she tried to leave, but the door was locked.
“Oh no.” Bassie whimpered. She couldn’t be locked in, she couldn’t be! Bassie tried knocking on the door, but no one could hear her as the sounds of kids laughing and having fun drowned out her voice. Bassie started punching the door, in hopes someone, anyone, could let her out. “Let me out! Please, someone let me out!”
The basket toon cried as she felt her body grow, especially her right arm, turning black due to ichor and longer.
“Sara!” Bassie cried. “Ridley! Oliver! Lewis! COCOA!” Her voice got raspier as Bassie turned into her twisted form.
“LET ME OUT!”
Bassie gasped as she awoke. She saw she wasn’t locked up and turning twisted, but in her room, and Eric, Cocoa, and Carly were watching her. Bassie was now out of her usual outfit and was wearing a pink two-piece pajama with the shirt having a white tulip blooming from the grass, and the pants being covered in the same tulips.
Cocoa smiled as she leaned in closer to her friend. “Bassie! You're awake!” She exclaimed.
Eric put his hand over Cocoa to prevent her from getting closer. “Careful, Cocoa, I don’t want Bassie to be overwhelmed and you to be sick.”
Bassie let out a cough, “w-what happened?” She asked, groaning.
“You overworked yourself and passed out.” Carly explained. “Which is why you’re sick with a 103-degree fever, so we brought you home.”
Bassie slowly got up, but felt lightheaded due to her illness. “B-But what about-” She was about to ask about the Easter event, but Eric cut her off.
“Don’t worry about it. Everyone got it under control.” Eric reassured her.
“W-What?” Bassie was confused.
“We’re gonna help run the Easter event until you’re feeling better, Bassie!” Cocoa exclaimed.
Bassie felt her stomach drop as her anxiety peaked. She couldn’t be sick at this time, not when the Easter event was near. The basket toon was breathing heavily, coughing in between, as she felt like throwing up.
Eric took notice of Bassie’s panic attack and put his hand on top of hers. Bassie slowly calmed down as she turned to the man. “Um…guys, let me talk with Bassie for a bit, you wait downstairs until I come down.”
Cocoa and Carly looked at one another and back at Eric. “Okay dad.” Carly said. The two left Bassie’s room, leaving the man and the basket toon alone.
Eric turned to Bassie, seeing her taking deep breaths, which then turned into coughs. “Bassie, breathe nicely and slowly. Okay.” He said, slowly rubbing her hand.
Bassie nodded and did what Eric told her to do. Soon, Bassie started to relax; the anxiety lingered, but it wasn’t bad. She took a few more deep breaths before calming down. Eric gave her a small smile and handed her a cup of water that was sitting by her bedside desk.
“Here, drink some water.” Eric offered.
Bassie grabbed the water from Eric and slowly drank it. She finished the glass and let out a sigh. “Thank you, Eric.” She replied.
Eric gave a small smile. “Anytime.” He said. “Now get some rest, and I’ll get you some soup.”
Bassie sighed and gave a nod as she lay back down. Eric rubbed her head and walked out of Bassie’s room and closed the door, but not all the way. Once Eric was gone, Bassie sighed as she pulled the blanket over her and tried to get some rest.
Downstairs, Carly and Cocoa waited on the couch for Eric to come down and bring up Bassie’s condition. Once they heard footsteps, they looked up and waited for Eric to speak up about Bassie. “So how is she?” Carly asked, being the first one to speak up.
“Sick, though she’s not taking it well since it's time for the Easter event.” Eric explained.
“Well,” Cocoa spoke up. “I know Delilah made me the backup toon to run Easter if anything happened to Bassie, but I’d rather help you take care of Bassie until she’s better.”
Eric smiled, seeing Cocoa wanting to help care for Bassie, then run the Easter event. Despite their past, Cocoa chose loyalty over being a face at a holiday event. He gave a light chuckle and petted the bunny’s head between her ears. “You’re such a loyal rabbit, Cocoa.” He said.
Cocoa giggled in reply. “I just love helping others.”
“That’s good. Later, I’m gonna make some soup for Bassie. You're welcome to help me.” Eric offered.
“Sure!” Cocoa exclaimed, jumping on the couch.
Eric chuckled, and soon his phone started to ring. He took it out of his pocket and saw that it was Lewis calling to check on him. “Hey Lewis!” He said, answering the call. He heard Lewis speak on the other line as Eric listened. “Bassie is alright, just resting, but I think today we’ll be home to watch her.” Eric paused as Lewis continued to talk. “Cocoa, no, she wants to stay and help care for Bassie.”
Cocoa looked up at Eric once she heard her name, and once he said she wanted to help care for her friend, she nodded quickly as her tail wagged.
“Thanks for understanding, Lewis. I’ll check up on you guys tomorrow. Bye.” Eric said as he hung up the phone.
“What did Lewis want?” Carly asked.
“Just checking on Bassie and how she’s doing.” Eric answered. “He wanted to know if you were coming into Dreamworld to help with the decorating, but I told him you want to help care for Bassie.”
Cocoa nodded quickly in reply. “Yep. I can help out anytime before the event ends.”
Eric smiled. “Lewis and his friends might swing by to check on Bassie.” He mentioned.
“Okay!” Cocoa replied.
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Bassie woke up and groaned. She hoped that rest would make her feel better quicker, but she felt dizzy. The basket toon didn’t want to sleep anymore and decided to lie down and turn the TV on. She flipped through channels until she stopped on the cooking channel and put it at the lowest volume. She watched the show for a bit before she heard a soft knock on the door. “Come in.” Bassie said, weakly. The door opened and it was Cocoa, causing Bassie’s eyes to widen as she glared at the rabbit toon. “What are you doing here?”
“Helping Eric bring you soup.” Cocoa replied. She opened the door wider, revealing Eric holding a bowl of chicken noodle soup. Seeing Eric made Bassie relax, but now she felt bad glaring at Cocoa.
Bassie strengthened herself so she could eat her soup. Eric and Cocoa walked over to her as the man handed the basket toon her soup. “Thank you.” She said as she slowly ate her soup. It tasted good, it tasted homemade, then from a can like Delilah made for the toons when they were sick.
“How was it?” Cocoa asked. “I helped Eric make it!”
Bassie stopped eating and stared at the bowl. Her intrusive thoughts wanted her to be disgusted and throw the bowl at Cocoa, but with Eric being here, she had to hold it in. The last time Cocoa helped someone to take care of her, it didn’t end well.
“Don’t worry.” Eric spoke up. “I watched and helped her.”
Bassie felt her intrusive thoughts disappear and relax a bit before continuing to eat her soup. “Do you need anything else?” Cocoa asked.
“I’m fine for now, Cocoa.” Bassie answered.
Cocoa’s tail twitched. “Okay, just let me know if you need anything!” She beamed before leaving the room and headed back downstairs. Once she was gone, Bassie sighed, finally getting some peace and quiet from her fellow toon.
“You shouldn’t worry about Cocoa too much.” Eric spoke up. “She just wants to help you.”
Bassie sighed and continued eating her soup in silence. Once she finished her soup, she put it on the counter and sat there silently.
“Bassie, what’s wrong?” Eric asked.
“Everything.” Bassie whispered. “I thought I could do an entire Easter event by myself, with no help, and I ended up sick!” She raised her voice before letting out a cough. Eric frowned, hearing the toon vent out of her frustrations. “I’ve always tried everything to show I’m not just dependent, that I’m worthy of being a main, but all I do is make Delilah see that I’m not worthy of being a main and I should be replaced!” Tears started to fall on the basket toon’s eyes as she let out a sob.
Eric knew from Sara about Bassie’s predicament back when Gardenview was open. He was furious that Delilah would make that kind of decision and was even more shocked at how many other decisions Delilah made for the toons to where therapy was needed. Though Delilah had remorse for some of her decisions, she believed they were made for the good.
“Maybe Delilah was right, I’m not worthy of being a main.” Bassie whispered as an ichor tear fell from her eyes.
“That’s not true Bassie.” Eric spoke up. “You have the right to be a main character. That’s what you were created for!”
“I know that!” Bassie snapped. “I thought everything was okay, I thought I didn’t have to worry about losing my main status, but why does it hurt?” She coughed.
Eric sighed and put his hand behind Bassie’s back and rubbed it. “Trauma doesn’t just go away quickly. I wish that were the case, but it’s not.” He explained. “Bass, it’s not a crime you're dependent, but you’ve been getting better and better at being independent than you were back then.”
“Yeah, and this year I ended up getting sick. IT’s always when I’m trying to be independent that shit goes wrong.” Bassie cried.
Eric frowned and had to think of something to cheer Bassie up. “You know I was in your place at one time.” He started. Bassie stopped crying and wiped the tears from her eyes. “With my memory loss condition, I was always seen as a burden to my classmates and even to some family members. No one wanted me around except my mom.”
Bassie sniffled. “Well, you're lucky you got friends and even work at Dreamworld.” She sobbed.
Eric nodded. “True. But there were things I wanted to do, but with my condition, no one could trust me.” He explained, looking down. Bassie frowned too. Even though she and Eric were both dubbed dependent, it was for two different reasons. “However, despite my condition. I made friends, became a teacher, and now I’m working with my students to help their dreams come true.”
Bassie gave a small smile, hearing that. “I guess that’s true.” She said as she let out a cough.
Eric pulled Bassie close to her. “You’re strong and special, Bassie. Even if you're dependent, you're not weak, my little tulip.” He said.
Bassie felt her eyes tear up as she let out a sniffle. She told herself she wasn’t going to cry, but the tears threatened to fall out, and she let out a sob. She then went into Eric’s arms and cried. “Thank you, Dad!”
Eric’s eyes widened, but he wasn’t surprised since he was told by Lewis’ mom that he was everyone’s dad. Though he always saw Bassie as another child to him, the same with Cocoa and Ridley.
“Anytime, my little tulip.” Eric said, hugging Bassie back.
Outside of Bassie’s door, Carly and Cocoa watched the scene unfold and smiled seeing Eric help Bassie out. “Carly.” Cocoa whispered.
“Yeah.” Carly whispered back.
“Does that make Bassie part of your family?” Cocoa asked.
Carly nodded. “To be honest, both of you have been family to us.” She confirmed, hugging the rabbit toon tight. Cocoa smiled widely as her tail wagged. She was happy to be part of a family.
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Today was Easter, and by then Bassie felt a lot better and was able to help with the Easter event over the past couple of days. To celebrate today, Sara bought an outfit for the basket toon to wear today. The outfit was a blue overall dress with a pocket in the middle, worn over a yellow shirt with green and pink stripes. Her stockings also matched her shirt.
“Wow! You look great Bassie!” Ridley exclaimed, seeing his best friend/sister in her Easter outfit.
Ridley, too, wore an Easter outfit, which was a pair of yellow overalls with splatters of red, blue, and green paint, over a long-sleeved white shirt. His signature top hat was yellow with a sunflower on the side, as well as more splatters of paint.
Bassie giggled. “Thanks, Ridley.”
A knock was heard, and the two toons turned to it. “Come in!” They both said. The door opened, and Eric came in holding something behind his back.
“Hey, you two.” Eric said. He paused to see Bassie and Ridley in their spring outfits. “Wow, you two look great!”
“Thanks!” Ridley and Bassie exclaimed in reply. “I don’t know how Sara got my size, but this outfit is so cute!”
“It’s actually Sara’s old clothes. She got a lot from Arthur when she was a kid, and because they don’t fit her anymore, if they fit us, we can keep it.” Bassie explained.
Ridley looked at his outfit and smiled. “Hey, if it fits. I like it.” He replied.
“Speaking of outfits.” Eric spoke up. “Bassie, I got you a gift for the Easter event.” He revealed the item behind his back, which was a pink and purple spotted box.
Bassie’s eyes widened. She was about to grab the box, but got nervous. She remembered the last time she got her trinket as a gift during Easter, and it ended up causing her many problems and distress.
“You okay, Bassie?” Ridley asked, tilting his head.
“Not really.” Bassie replied, holding on to the basket handles on her head. “Last time I got a gift for Easter, it gave me…problems.”
Eric frowned a bit before giving a small smile. “Well, maybe this gift will change that.” He said, handing the gift box to her.
Bassie looked at the box again and grabbed it from Eric. She scanned the box and didn’t see anything suspicious about it. Though she said the same thing when Cocoa gave her that flower. Slowly, Bassie opened it, and her eyes widened in amazement.
Curious, Ridley wanted to see inside the box, and his eyes too beamed in amazement.
Inside the box was a blue and brown backpack with a B stitched on the top.
Bassie felt like she was ready to cry at this point. Her backpack looked handmade rather than from the store. She grabbed it from the box and put it on her. A smile appeared on her face, seeing it fit right.
“Sara showed me the outfit she gave you, and I decided to add a cute backpack with it.” Eric explained. “I know you like egg hunting and carrying your pressed flower book, so this could help-“ Eric paused, seeing Bassie tear up and run over to hug him.
“Thank you! Thank you so much, Dad!” Bassie cried.
Eric smiled. That was the second time Bassie called him dad. “Anytime, my little Tulip. Anytime.” He said, hugging Bassie back.
Ridley sobbed, which grabbed the attention of the two. The lemur toon used his tail to wipe his eyes, but the tears kept falling.
Eric and Bassie looked at one another and held their arms out for Ridley to join in on the hug. The lemur toon looked surprised.
“Really?” Ridley asked.
Bassie nodded, and not a moment too soon, Ridley hugged the two tightly. Eric and Bassie chuckled, hugging the lemur toon back.
To Bassie, she considered this Easter Event one of the best ones, as it was the first one she had ever felt truly loved.
Here’s the next chapter! I had a lot of fun writing this one. Also, slight warning, while it's not outright said, there is suggestive stuff mentioned. It’s very light as I don’t like going into detail, but hinting at it is fine, though to be safe, then sorry.
Thank you to my beta reader @gigilefache
Enjoy!
The drive to Dreamworld was only about an hour from Nicholson's place, but for Wiatt it felt like eternity.
Throughout the drive, Wiatt sat there looking through photos of him and Lewis as his father, Owen, drove him to the facility.
Owen was worried for his son. He tried to open his mouth to start a conversation, but quickly closed it, knowing Wiatt wouldn’t respond. He didn’t like the silence and wanted to speak to his son as a way to distract him, but what could he say?
“Dad.” Wiatt spoke up.
Owen felt relieved hearing his son speak first.
“Do you think I’m crazy going over there?” Wiatt asked.
Owen shook his head. “Not at all. You worry about Lewis, and that’s sweet of you, Wiatt.” He replied. Wiatt gave a small smile, knowing he didn’t feel crazy for making his dad drive out there. “I know you two aren’t dating anymore, but glad you guys kept up with each other after all those years.”
“It’s only been 3 years, Dad.” Wiatt pointed out. “But yeah, it does feel like forever.”
Then something came to Owen’s mind. “You know,” He spoke up, “it would be nice to see Delilah again.” Wiatt’s eyes widened as he looked disgusted.
“Dad, no.” Wiatt groaned.
Owen rolled his eyes and chuckled. “Come on, Wiatt. It’s just going to be us catching up.” He reassured his son.
“Yeah, and then you’ll be dating her again.” Wiatt replied.
Before Sara and Wiatt were born, Delilah and Owen met at the arcade the Nicholson family owned. They started as friends and dated before they broke it off.
Owen chuckled. “Son, I promise you. It’s just us catching up. No dating required.”
Wiatt crossed his arms as he groaned. “It better be.”
Owen ruffled his son’s hair, making him groan even more.
The rest of the ride was uneventful. Wiatt just listened to his music while he and his dad chatted from time to time. Soon enough, they finally arrived at the Dreamworld facility. Wiatt stepped out of the car, and his eyes widened in surprise at the outside of Dreamworld.
The outside of the building had a colorful sign that said DreamWorld. The building was also painted with every color in the rainbow.
“Wow, Lewis and the others really decorated the place.” Wiatt commented.
Owen got out of the car and looked at the building himself. “If it’s colorful out here, then imagine what it looks like inside?” He asked.
“A death trap maybe.” Wiatt answered.
Owen gave Wiatt a playful shove. “Don’t be mean, Wiatt. Lewis and his friends did an excellent job with the place.”
“Yeah, and Sara is one of his friends, and I don’t trust her.”
Owen chuckled. “Wiatt, I know you see Sara as a friend.”
Wiatt’s eyes widened. “She’s not my friend.”
“You spent time with her, though.” Owen pointed out.
“Yeah, because of Lewis.”
“But to me she’s still your friend, plus you have a lot in common.”
“How so?” Wiatt asked, raising an eyebrow.
Owen thought for a second. “Well, you both care for Lewis.”
Wiatt rolled his eyes and groaned. “That’s obvious, Dad.”
“Okay…” Owen paused, trying to think of what else Sara and his son had in common. “Well…both of you like the Dandy’s World cartoon.”
“Dad!” Wiatt groaned. “Many kids loved that show, and Sara’s mom was the founder of that place.”
Owen tried to think of something else, but nothing came to mind. Wiatt sighed, knowing his dad was wrong and he was right. He didn’t want to say it out loud.
Just then, the door opened, and the toons came out excitedly.
“So does anyone want to order something other than cheese and pepperoni?” Sprout asked, on his phone, writing down a list.
Bassie was about to speak up, but Finn shouted. “Anchovies, please and thank you!” He beamed.
Sprout wrote it down. “Bessie, I saw you open your mouth. What did you want?” He asked.
Bassie smiled and was about to speak, but froze seeing Wiatt. “Uh…Vegitarian, but you may wanna ask the person behind you.”
“What do you mean?” Sprout asked, raising an eyebrow.
“Turn around Sprout.” Cosmo said, sharing Bassie’s expression.
Sprout turned and stared in shock, almost dropping his phone. “Uhh…”
Wiatt gave a small smile and waved at the toons. They haven’t changed a bit since he last saw them.
“Darlings, what’s wrong?”
Wiatt looked up, and his eyes widened at Lewis. His boyfriend changed a little bit in his hairstyle and glasses. Fuck he missed him having big glasses. Lewis was unharmed, and that made Wiatt happy. “Lewis.” He said.
“Wiatt!” Lewis, Oliver, and Sara exclaimed in shock.
“WIATT!” The toons exclaimed, excited to see Wiatt. Some of them ran over and tackled the young man to the ground.
“We missed you so much, Wiatt!” Goob exclaimed, hugging Wiatt tight to where his face was turning purple.
Wiatt started to choke, “G-great! I missed you too!”
Scraps sighed and put a hand on her brother’s shoulder. “Goob. Let Wiatt go.” She said. Goob sighed and unraveled his arms, letting Wiatt go, giving the latter a chance to breathe. The second Wiatt’s face turned back to normal, Scraps quickly hugged him. “We missed you so much.”
Wiatt chuckled, rubbing Scraps between her ears. “I’m surprised you guys missed me.” He said. “I figured you guys were close to Sara; you wouldn’t miss me this much.”
“Hey, any friend of Sara is a friend of ours!” Dandy exclaimed.
Sara and Wiatt groaned and rolled their eyes at the same time. “He’s/She’s not my friend!” They yelled at the same time. Their eyes widened as they said the same thing. “Stop copying me!”
Dandy chuckled, seeing the two copy each other. They quickly turned and glared at the flower toon, causing Dandy to gulp and go quiet.
“Wiatt, what are you doing here?” Lewis asked.
“Well, during our call. I got worried when I heard Starlight on the other line, so I begged my dad to drive me here.” Wiatt explained.
Owen waved at Lewis and his friends with a smile. “Hey guys!” He exclaimed.
“Hey, Mr. Nicholson.” Lewis and his friends said at the same time, nervously.
“So, during our call,” Wiatt started, “There was something about Starlight being created.”
Lewis and Oliver started to get nervous, while Sara started to get angry, but tried to keep a smile. She gripped Lewis’ shoulder and hissed into his ear. “Lewis, you’d better tell me you didn’t tell him everything.”
“I-I didn’t darling.” Lewis whispered back.
“Then how-” Sara was cut off when Starlight and Ridley went over to Wiatt.
“So, your Wiatt?!” Ridley exclaimed.
Wiatt looked shocked at the two new toons in front of him. He looked up at Lewis and his friends, glaring at Sara. “What did you do?” He asked.
Sara rolled her eyes in disgust. “Why do you always blame me for everything?” She asked.
“I get bad vibes from you, so…you’re the easiest to blame.” Wiatt replied.
“Uh oh...” Boxten whispered.
“Mewheee. This is gonna be good.” Gigi laughed.
Sara felt her face turn red from anger, ready to punch Wiatt into next week. She laughed and slowly walked over to Wiatt, her hands turning into a fist. “Well, you’re the easiest to have your ass kicked by a girl!” She growled.
Wiatt chuckled. “Oh, I don’t mind kicking your ass bitch!” He yelled.
“Alright!” Owen shouted, pushing the two away from each other. “Knock it off, you two!” Wiatt and Sara growled at one another, knowing that if Owen wasn’t holding them, they would be fighting.
Gigi pouted, wanting to see a fight happen. “Darn, thanks for running it, Mr. Nicholson.”
Owen sighed. “Sorry, but I’m making sure these two won’t kill each other.” He replied.
“But he/she!” Sara and Wiatt yelled, pointing at one another, but were cut off by the glare Owen gave them. The two sighed. “Fine.” Owen smiled and ruffled both their heads, making them groan.
“Now, I’m sure it’s been a long day for all of us. Why don’t we head back home and get some rest?” Owen suggested.
Then Starlight had an idea, “Wait! Wiatt, why don’t you work with us?” Starlight asked.
“What?” Wiatt asked, confused.
“WHAT?!” The founders and the toons yelled, confused or excited as well. They all stared at the star toon, hoping he’d explain more of his idea.
“I mean, do we have any other workers for Dreamworld?” Starlight asked.
The toons realize they were so busy helping Sara and her friends with Dreamworld that they didn’t have any extra help. “Well, you guys, but I was wondering when we’ll have human workers.” Oliver explained.
Owen and Wiatt looked at one another. “Well, I know you helped me out with the arcade, but you said you wanted to take a gap year from college to earn some money.” Owen explained.
“And you can spend time with your boyfriend.” Ridley added, nudging Lewis, causing him to blush.
“Just a friend, darling.” Lewis corrected the lemur toon. “We’re just friends now.”
Wiatt felt hurt from that statement, but didn’t show it. “Y-Yeah.” He replied, looking down. “Look, it’s nice you want to give me a job, but I’m okay with working at the arcade.”
“Aww.” Some of the toons groaned.
“Oh, please, Wiatt!” Goob begged, putting his hands together and pleading with the boy by giving him another big hug.
Wiatt’s face turned blue as he started to choke again. “G-Goob. I can’t breathe.”
“Goob, is it?” Owen spoke up. Goob nodded quickly in reply. “Think you can let my son go, again?”
Goob loosened his grip, but still held onto Wiatt. “Sorry, but you should stay with us, Wiatt. Please.”
Wiatt wanted to deny working at Dreamworld, but he saw a few of the toons pouting. He looked at Lewis and his friends and sighed, “I guess I’ll accept the job.” He said.
The toon’s eyes widened and smiled, “YAY!” The toons cheered loudly.
“Well, looks like we got a new worker.” Oliver said.
“Y-Yeah.” Lewis replied, slightly blushing. Showing his emotions towards Wiatt hadn’t changed.
“Yeah…” Sara added, though she didn’t seem pleased having Wiatt as part of the team.
“This is gonna be great, Wiatt!” Goob cheered. “I need to show you the inside!” The fluffy toon was ready to show Wiatt around when suddenly…
Grumble.
The group’s eyes widened when they heard it and turned towards Wiatt. The latter chuckled, knowing that sound was coming from him. “Guess I was in a rush over here. I forgot to eat.” He said.
Lewis chuckled as well. “Good news, darling, we were just heading over to Eric’s house for some pizza.” He replied. “Want to join us?”
Wiatt smiled. “Sure, I’m down for some pizza!” He exclaimed. He then saw some of the toons giving a huge smile that Wiatt was joining them. “Uh…why are you guys smiling at me like that?”
“No reason.” The toons replied together.
“Okay…”
“If any of the toons want a ride. I can help with that.” Owen said, offering his car.
Hearing the offer, Goob quickly ran to the back seat of Owen’s car. “Come on, sis! Hop in!” Goob exclaimed.
Scraps chuckled. “Okay! I’m coming, Goob.” She then walked over to the car and climbed in.
“Anyone else?” Owen asked. “I got room for two more.”
The toons looked at one another, wondering who would like to go first. Vee sighed and spoke up. “Alright, I volunteer.”
“Doll,” Glisten spoke up. “Do you want me to join you?”
Vee looked over at the mirror and slightly blushed. “S-Sure, why not?” She replied nervously.
Glisten smiled, took Vee’s hand, and went to Owen’s car. As they were getting in, Dandy decided to tease his friend. “You lovebirds have fun now!”
Vee blushed so hard from embarrassment that her screen glitched into an exclamation point. Once her screen came back, she turned to Dandy in anger. The flower toon laughed hard until he felt Vee’s microphone tail smack him on the face. The TV toon smirked as she went inside the car.
Dandy, who now had a red microphone print on his face, glared at his friend. He then heard Sara snicker, and he turned to glare at her, his eyes having a red tint. “S-Sorry. You deserved it.” Sara chuckled.
Dandy groaned as Sara led him to her car, still chuckling.
The group made it to Eric’s house, and the former teacher miscalculated the size of his house and the amount of toons inside. He was already exhausted from handing out pizzas to the toons, and had to get help from his former classmates and his daughter.
“Dad.” Carly spoke up after handing pizza to Toodles and Gourdy. “Next time we invite the toons over, we do it at the facility or Lewis’ house.”
“Of course, my ladybug.” Eric replied.
The toons were enjoying their pizza and soda while they talked with each other.
As Sara got her second slice of pizza, she turned to see Dandy and Vee sitting together, watching the backyard. Earlier the two were bickering and now they're both sitting next to each other without violence. Curious, Sara walked over to the two, but as she got closer, she realized what the two were watching outside.
Outside, Lewis and Wiatt were catching up on things, laughing, drinking soda, and eating pizza as they went. Even though the two did call every month, it felt like forever since they last met face to face.
“Are you two spying on Lewis and Wiatt?” Sara asked.
“Yep!” Dandy and Vee replied at the same time.
“And this is the only time you two aren’t trying to kill one another?”
“Yep!” They replied again.
Sara rolled her eyes and decided to join the two toons and watch Lewis and Wiatt catch up on things. Due to the glass door, no one could hear what Lewis and Wiatt were talking about. “What do you two think they’re talking about?” Sara asked.
Vee shrugged. “Not a clue, but seeing Lewis and Wiatt’s expressions, they’re catching up on things.” She explained.
Sara thought for a second and remembered the phone calls Lewis and Wiatt had every week when he left to help with Dreamworld. They talked about everything that happened during the week, what was there to talk about now that the two were face-to-face again. “Probably so.” Sara replied. “Even though they had lengthy phone calls.”
“Are you guys watching Lewis and Wiatt?” Sprout asked as he and Cosmo brought over their plate of pizza.
“Yep. Nothing interesting like your dates with Cosmo.” Vee replied.
“Hey!” Sprout and Cosmo snapped back. Vee and Sara giggled as the fruit and cake rolled toon sat next to their friends. “So, what have we missed?”
“Not much.” Dandy replied.
“They’re just talking.” Vee added.
The group continued to watch as Wiatt explained something that happened, and Lewis started to laugh hard. Dandy leaned in, putting him close to the window in hopes he could hear the conversation.
“Hear anything?” Sara asked.
Dandy removed his face from the window. “Only muffles, but I can’t make out what they're saying.” He answered.
“Maybe I can help with that.” The ghost toon, Connie said, appeared behind the flower. Dandy jumped, falling off the couch as the ghost toon chuckled.
“Connie! Could you please not do that?” Dandy asked.
Connie crossed her arms and gave a smug smile. “Sorry, but a girl’s gotta do what a girl’s gotta do.” She replied. Quickly, the ghost toon went back to the topic at hand, “but I can go and see what Lewis and Wiatt are talking about.” Connie turned invisible and flew right through the screen door to listen in on the conversation.
Everyone waited patiently for Connie to come back with the news. However, they saw Lewis shiver before Wiatt came by and put his arms around him to warm him up. Lewis blushed, “uh..thank you darling.” He said.
Wiatt smiled. “Anytime.”
The group inside continued to watch as Wiatt and Lewis talk. Connie then came back inside and turned visible again.
“Well, what are they talking about?” Dandy asked.
“Just Wiatt telling stories about what happened in college recently and Lewis sharing stories about Dreamworld.” Connie explained. “Nothing too important.”
“Oooh, are we spying on them?!” Ridley exclaimed. The group turned to the lemur toon, who seemed excited to join in on spying on Wiatt and Lewis. “Can I join?”
Dandy and the toons looked at one another before the flower toon smiled. “Of course, you're welcome to join in on our chaos!”
Ridley’s eyes widened in happiness. He got up on the chair, between Vee and Dandy, to watch Lewis and Wiatt talk. He listened in and smiled. “Looks like Lewis and Wiatt missed each other.” He mentioned before listening to some more of the conversation. The group’s eyes widened towards the lemur toon. “Wiatt is asking Lewis once more if they can date again.”
“Ooooh!” Scraps and Goob exclaimed, joining the group. “Let’s watch lil’ bro!” Scraps exclaimed.
Goob nodded and went up on the couch to watch Lewis and Wiatt.
“How do you know what they're saying?” Sara asked.
Ridley’s ears twitched. “I have great hearing. So, I can hear anything from miles away.” He explained.
Connie chuckled, hearing about the lemur’s ability. “Awesome! You can join Yatta and me when we sneak around the facility.” She explained, smirking.
Hearing her name, Yatta appeared behind Connie. “I heard my name and sneaking around.” She said, squeaking.
Oliver looked at the ghost toon with a deadpan expression. “Connie and Yatta, do you two know a thing about boundaries?” He asked.
“No, we don’t.” Yatta and Connie replied at the same time with a smile.
Oliver looked shocked and turned to Sara. “Sara, how have you not lost your sanity yet?” He asked.
“When you grow up with them. This stuff is normal.” Sara replied. Oliver sighed and rolled his eyes, as to him, this was eavesdropping.
Ridley listened more to the conversation and smiled. “Oooh, it’s gotten interesting.” He sang.
“Oooh spill.” Yatta said, getting excited.
Ridley continued to listen to the conversation, before he heard words he had never heard before. He slowly removed his ears from the glass door with a shocked expression. The ones who were watching looked at the lemur toon, confused. “Uh…Sara, Oliver, could you explain something to me?” He asked.
“Sure, what is it?” Sara asked.
Ridley wanted to open his mouth to say what he wanted to say, but some mysterious force was keeping him from saying it loud and proud. He then whispered to Sara and Oliver what he heard, and they looked horrified at what Ridley just told them. The toons looked confused and turned to the two.
“So, what did he say?” Dandy asked.
Ridley turned to the toons and was ready to open his mouth to say it, but quickly Sara slapped her hand over his mouth. “Dandicus, you do NOT need to know what he told us!” Sara yelled, warning the toons.
Eric, hearing the commotion, came over to the group along with his daughter Carly. “What’s going on?” He asked.
“Ridley told us something very disturbing.” Sara replied.
Carly and Eric looked at one another. “How disturbing is it?” Carly asked.
Oliver decided to whisper to his former teacher what Ridley just told him, and he looked just as shocked as his former students. Oliver nodded to let him know that Ridley did, in fact, say that.
“Okay! Now I’m curious what he said?!” Dandy yelled.
“Same here.” Carly added.
“NO ONE HERE NEEDS TO KNOW!” Eric, Oliver, and Sara yelled. This caused everyone to go to the three adults, asking them what Ridley asked, which made them stressed out.
Outside, Wiatt and Lewis heard the commotion and smirked. Turns out this was all just a prank to stop them from listening in on their conversation. “I think that’s the last time they’ll listen in on us darling.” Lewis said.
“You said it, darling.” Wiatt replied, smirking before kissing his boyfriend on the cheek. Lewis chuckled as the two continued to eat their pizza, while the chaos was going on inside Eric’s home.
Here is the next chapter! I’m so excited for this chapter! I’m excited for every chapter I plan, but this one I’m sure you guys are going to like! This took me a long time to work on as other fanfictions and a bit of writer's block prevented me from ever finishing this chapter.
Also, I got news for you all regarding the recent Pokémon and WTDW news.
Starting with Pokémon: Yes, Gen 10; Pokémon Winds and Waves is coming soon and incase you were wondering how I’ll add Gen 10 to the mix, it won’t be until after the group finds Faraway Island, but I do have a chapter coming soon that will introduce one of the Gen 10 starters. Sadly, I had to cut a member of the Dream Quartet’s Pokémon team for it, but I believe it’s worth it. Once we get more Winds and Waves news, I’ll mention it in Author Notes before the chapter.
As for WTDW news, we did get the finale of the series, but that doesn’t mean I’m quick to end writing for WTDW. I’m gonna write as much as I can until it drains me, but I’ll also be writing for other fandoms, too. I got one for one game that I’m sure you're gonna love.
Thanks to my beta reader @gigilefache
Enjoy!!
DING
Eric’s computer rang an email message, causing him to look up from the information he was reading, and he went to his email. He clicked on the message, read it, and smiled. Eric got up from his seat and went over to the observatory where Wiatt and his friends were training.
At the observatory, Wiatt and Oddity were doing battle training with Sara and Piplup, while Lewis, Oliver, and their Pokémon looked on. “Oddity, Shadow Ball!” Wiatt commanded.
Oddity launched a purple orb from his mouth, and it headed straight towards Piplup.
“Dodge it, and use Bubblebeam!” Sara commanded.
Piplup jumped, missing the attack before launching bubbles from his mouth. Oddity tried to miss the bubbles, but some landed right in front of him, which pushed him back.
“Oddity!” Wiatt yelled.
The Eevee landed on the ground and slowly got up. “Vee.” Oddity growled.
“Are you alright, Oddity?” Wiatt asked.
“Eevee. Vee.” Oddity replied, nodding.
Wiatt smiled, seeing his friend was okay. “Alright Oddity, let’s use Buzzy Buzz!”
Oddity’s chest fluff started to spark as he jumped and let out his signature electric attack.
“Dodge it!” Sara yelled. Piplup jumped as the electric attack landed where he was standing. “Now, use Peck!”
Piplup’s beak turned white as he went towards Oddity and started to peck all over him. Oddity tried to miss the attacks, but couldn’t.
RING!
Piplup and Oddity stopped battling as they turned to Oliver, who was timing their battle. “Alright, that concludes the practice run.” He said.
Oddity and Piplup sighed before going back to their trainers. Sara picked up Piplup and looked him in the eyes. “Piplup, that was amazing! You're getting faster by the minute.”
“Piplup.” Piplup replied, smiling proudly.
“Oddity your getting better at your dodging skills.” Wiatt said. Oddity wagged his tail proudly with a smile. “We need to work on how to get your Buzzy Buzz attack powerful and launch it quickly.”
“Eevee!” Oddity exclaimed.
Lewis and Oliver chuckled, and both glanced at each other. “Are you ready to train, darling?” Lewis asked.
“Meow!” Sprigaitito exclaimed, ready to battle.
“I am so ready!” Oliver exclaimed.
“Scorbun!” Scorbunny added, ready to battle as well.
However, before the two could battle, Eric came running in. “Guys! I got a response from my colleague about Faraway Island!”
The Dream Quartet turned to the professor and started to run towards him. “What did you hear?” Wiatt asked.
“They found the piece of the map and want you to come and pick it up.” Eric explained in reply.
The Dream Quartet looked at each other with a smile. “So where do we head to?” Lewis asked.
“It’s a school in Johto called Maigold Academy.” Eric answered.
Oliver gasped and smiled, “I know where that is! My siblings attend that school!” He exclaimed.
“I didn’t know you had siblings.” Wiatt said.
“I do, their names are Ben and Liz, and their twins.” Oliver replied.
“Scorbun?” Scorbunny asked, tilting his head. He never heard his trainer talk about his siblings before.
Oliver gave a smile and ruffled Scorbunny’s head. “You’ll love them, Scorbunny, don’t worry.”
Scorbunny smiled and nodded, excited to meet his trainer’s siblings. “Scorbunny!” He beamed.
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The group was now in Johto and was making their way to Marigold Academy. During their walk, Oliver talked about his siblings.
“So your brother and sister are twins?” Wiatt asked.
“Yep, Liz is the oldest, and Ben is the youngest,” Oliver replied. “They can be mischievous at times, but trust me, they’re good kids.”
Sara hummed and looked down at Scorbunny. “Sounds like a certain fire-type we know.” She commented. Skiddo bleated in reply.
Scorbunny’s eyes widened as he turned to Sara and the Mount Pokémon, chuckling nervously and rubbing the back of his head.
The Dream Quartet saw the school up ahead, and saw that the school was a huge building with marigold flowers in the front with some grass and bug-type Pokémon helping the flowers grow. Oddity went to one of the flowers and sniffed it, and sighed at how good the flowers smell.
“Smells good, huh?” Wiatt asked, petting his Eevee.
“Vee.” Oddity replied with a nod.
“Oliver!”
The Dream Quartet turned to see a pair of twins, a boy and a girl with blonde hair and blue eyes with the girl having her hair up into a ponytail with a pink ribbon.
The girl's twin wore a purple sweater over a blue shirt. Her sweater was buttoned up, showing a bit of her blue shirt. She wore purple shorts, long white socks with two blue stripes at the top, and blue and white sneakers.
The boy twin wore the same purple sweater and shorts. His sweater was open, showing his pink shirt. His socks were folded, and he wore pink and white sneakers.
“Ben! Liz!” Oliver yelled. He ran over to the two kids as the three hugged each other tightly.
“We missed you so much!” Liz proclaimed.
“I missed you two as well.” Oliver replied. He let go of his siblings and walked behind them to introduce them to his friends. “Ben, Liz, these are my friends. Lewis, Sara, and Wiatt meet my twin siblings, Ben and Liz.”
Ben walked over to the three and looked at them. “Hmmm, so your Oliver’s friends. It’s nice meeting you all.” He beamed, holding his hand out.
“Nice meeting you too.” Wiatt replied, shaking Ben’s hand.
“Eevee!” Oddity added.
Ben’s eyes widened as he kneeled to Oddity’s level. “Is this your Eevee?”
Wiatt nodded. “Yep, I named him Oddity.”
Ben petted the Evolution Pokémon, causing Oddity to hum in enjoyment. Ben gave a light chuckle and looked up at Wiatt. “So what do you plan on evolving Oddity into?”
“Not sure yet. I’m making it Oddity’s choice of when and what he wants to evolve into.” Wiatt answered.
Ben seemed confused about the older boy’s logic, but shrugged it off. “Well, if you need suggestions, Oddity would be cool as an Espeon or a Jolteon.”
“Eevee.” Oddity giggled at the compliment.
“So, Oliver,” Liz spoke up. “Did you catch any new Pokémon?”
Oliver nodded, “I have.” He took out a PokéBall and opened it, sending out his Rotom. Seconds later, Scorbunny ran over to stand next to his friend, looking proud.
“Aww. You got a Scorbunny!” Liz exclaimed, her eyes turning into stars.
Scorbunny jumped in surprise and let out a chuckle. He then tried to be cool, but ended up tripping and falling. The Rabbit Pokémon laughed it off.
“You are adorable!” Liz exclaimed as she picked up Scorbunny and hugged him tight. Scorbunny grumbled, but somehow Liz’s hugs felt nice to him.
Rotom glared, seeing Liz giving Scorbunny some love, and floated over to her to get her attention. The young girl looked up and petted Rotom, who chattered happily in reply.
“That is so cool, you caught a Rotom!” Ben beamed, walking over to the Plasma Pokémon.
“Ro! Rotom!” Rotom beamed.
“We got our own Pokémon too!” Liz exclaimed as she put Scorbunny down gently.
“Really?” Oliver asked.
Liz nodded. “Lolli! Poppy!” She called out.
In the flowers, a Plusle and Minun popped up. “Pla! Pla!” Plusle beamed.
“Mi mi!” Minun exclaimed. The two electric-type Pokémon ran to Liz and Ben.
“Oh my gosh! They’re so cute!” Sara beamed. She and Oliver pulled out their Rotom Phones to scan Plusle and Minun into the Pokedex.
Plusle, the Cheering Pokémon. An Electric-Type. Plusle cheers on its friends with pompoms made of sparks. When its teammates win, it shoots out bursts of sparks to show its joy.
Minun, the Cheering Pokémon. An Electric-Type. When its friends are losing, Minun shoots out even more sparks to cheer them on. It's known to care for others rather than itself.
Plusle climbed onto Liz’s shoulder, making her laugh. “This is Lolli, my Plusle.”
“And this is Pop, my Minun.” Ben introduced them.
“Mi! Mi!” Poppy growled, hated being called that.
Ben sighed. “Okay, Poppy.” He corrected, making Poppy smile. “Sorry, I named her Pop until I found out she was a girl.”
Oliver chuckled. “It’s nice to meet both of you. I hope Ben and Liz are taking good care of you.”
Lolli and Poppy chattered in reply with a smile. They turned to Scorbunny, who was confused as to why the Cheering Pokémon were looking at him. Lolli was the first one to go up to Scorbunny and hug him.
“Scorbun?” Scorbunny asked, confused, seeing the Plusle hug him.
Poppy reached for Scorbunny’s ear, which Scorbunny kept away from her. Poppy giggled and hugged Scorbunny, who sighed in defeat.
Oliver chuckled, seeing Scorbunny getting along with his siblings’ Pokémon. “It looks like Lolli and Poppy like you, Scorbunny.” He pointed out.
Scorbunny groaned, unimpressed that he was being cuddled by two electric-type Pokémon.
“So you're Eric’s researchers.” A young woman spoke up as she walked outside. The woman had long strawberry blonde hair, hazel eyes, wearing a long purple dress with flowers printed on it and wore purple Mary Jane’s.
“I heard a lot about you from Eric. You're on a mission to find Mew, correct?” Miss. Parker asked.
Wiatt nodded, “right.”
“Well, you guys follow me. I’ll take you to the room where I found a piece of the map.” Miss. Parker said.
The Dream Quartet, Ben, Liz, and their Pokémon, followed the teacher inside the school. Once inside, Liz explained everything that goes on at school. “Liz, what do you and your brother learn here?” Sara asked.
“We learn the basics of Pokémon battling as well as learning how to take care of Pokémon.” Liz answered.
“We take care of baby Pokémon and train them to make them stronger.” Ben added.
Oliver smiled. “Sounds like you two have been learning a lot.”
“We have!” Ben and Liz replied at the same time.
“Plua! Plusle!” Lolli beamed.
“Min Minu!” Poppy beamed as well.
Oliver turned to Miss. Parker. “I hope my siblings aren’t causing too much trouble.”
Miss. Parker shook her head. “No, your siblings are great students.” She reassured Oliver. Then her eyes narrowed at Ben. “However, Ben does like getting into Pokémon battles with the other students.”
Ben’s eyes widened, hearing his teacher talk about him, as he let out a nervous chuckle. “Well, how am I going to be the best trainer if I don’t get my battling skills in?”
Oliver sighed, putting his hand on Ben’s head. “Ben, you’ll have plenty of time to be a good trainer and not jump into battle.” He reminded him.
“Yes, bro.” Ben sighed.
The Dream Quartet stopped in their tracks, hearing the sounds of Azurill, Teddiursa, and Pichu chattering away as they walked through the hallways.
“Aww.” Sara gushed seeing all the baby Pokémon.
“Are these the baby Pokémon you're talking about, darling?” Lewis asked.
Liz nodded. “Yep.”
“At the school, we raise Pokémon Eggs, and students can take care of training the baby Pokémon.” Miss. Parker. “Sometimes, the baby Pokémon here become their first Pokémon.”
Oliver then realized something. “So, my siblings, Plusle and Minun?” He asked.
Miss. Parker nodded. “Yep, those two were hatched from eggs and bonded with your siblings so well, they became their first Pokémon.”
“Aww!” Sara gushed. “Think we can stay and play with the baby Pokémon?”
The boys looked at their friend in shock. “But darling, we need to head back to Eric’s lab.” Lewis was cut off by Sara, who turned to face him and held his hand.
“Lewis, it wouldn’t hurt to play with them for a little bit.” Sara reassured him. She then turned to Miss. Parker “Please, could we?”
Miss. Parker nodded. “Of course, I don’t mind at all.” She replied. Sara smiled and cheered, excited to play with the baby Pokémon. “First, we need to find you that missing map piece, and then you guys can play with the baby Pokémon.”
“Great!” Sara cheered.
Oddity’s ear twitched as he heard something coming from behind. “Vee?” Oddity asked, turning around. He saw no one from behind him, but he was sure there was someone behind him. “Eevee?”
“Oddity! Come here!” Wiatt called out.
“Eevee!” Oddity replied, letting his trainer know he was coming. Oddity took one more look behind him before heading to the room where his trainer and his friends were waiting.
Outside of the school, Team Rocket looked through the window, seeing the Dream Quartet and the baby Pokémon. A smirk appeared on their faces as they had the same idea. “Look at all the baby Pokémon!” Jessie spoke up, blushing over the cute Pokémon. “They are so adorable!”
“I looked up about this school on my Rotom Phone,” James started, grabbing the Team Rocket Rotom Phone with a webpage open about the school.”It says the school raises Pokémon from eggs and the students train them to be strong Pokémon.”
“Well, if a bunch of kids can train them, then so can we!” Meowth exclaimed. He then fantasized about some of the baby Pokémon in their evolved forms with evil glares as a giant R was behind them. “We’ll capture the baby Pokémon and train them to be Team Rocket Pokémon!”
“Wobbufett!” Wobbuffet exclaimed.
“Excuse me!” Meowth snapped back to reality as he and Team Rocket froze. They turned around and saw one of the teachers at the school with her arms around her hips, glaring at Team Rocket. The evil team shivered in fear, seeing that they were caught, and it was too early for them to blast off.
“Uh…hello.” James said.
The teacher then smiled. “You three must be the volunteers to help out today!” She exclaimed.
Team Rocket sighed in relief. “Yes, of course!” Jessie exclaimed, going along with it.
“We were just checking out the school as we waited!” James added, going along as well.
The teacher smiled, “Well, come on then. You need to get your uniforms before you start helping out.” She reminded them.
Team Rocket stood up and followed the teacher. “Yes, of course, ma’am.” Jessie replied.
“Thank you for your lovely service.” Meowth added.
“Wobbuffet!” Wobbuffet explained.
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Back inside, the Dream Quartet, Ben, and Liz were seated in the classroom as Miss. Parker looked around for the missing piece of the map. “Where is it? I know it was here.” She said, searching for the map piece inside boxes and in folders. It took a while, but she smiled once she found it. “Here it is!” She pulled out a piece of paper and went over to Wiatt.
Wiatt took the paper from the teacher and studied it. He then went to his backpack and grabbed the other piece they got from Lewis’ mother and put them together. The map piece showed a bit more of Faraway Island, but the lower half of it.
“We got the lower half of the map!” Wiatt beamed.
“Eevee!” Oddity cheered.
Lewis looked at the two pieces and saw that only two more pieces were left. “Just two more and it’s complete!” He exclaimed.
Ben and Liz looked at the map and then at their brother. “So what’s special about this map?” Liz asked.
“Wiatt wants to search for Mew, and Eric told us that Faraway Island is Mew’s home.” Oliver explained. “We’re looking for the map pieces on how to get there.”
Ben turned to Wiatt, “Really? You pick finding Mew as your first research adventure?” He asked.
“Mew is a Pokémon full of mystery. Plus, it’s one of the first Pokémon we saw as a group.” Wiatt answered.
“Uh huh.” Ben replied, crossing his arms. “I can sense you're hiding something.”
“I’m not!” Wiatt exclaimed, denying it.
Ben chuckled, “I can read people.” He said. “I know you want to find Mew because you’ve always wanted to capture Mew as your Pokémon!”
Wiatt groaned, wondering if this kid was being serious. Though he secretly thought Mew being on his team would be cool. “Sadly, no, that’s not the reason.” He said.
“Well then, what is the reason, darling?” Lewis asked.
Wiatt looked at everyone, now staring at him. “Well…”
Before Wiatt could explain, Oddity sensed something and turned towards the corner of the room. It was that same feeling he felt earlier.
In the corner, a figure was watching them. The second Oddity took in his scent, the figure stepped back only to bump into a wall and let out a small yelp.
“What was that?” Oliver asked.
Everyone continued to look around the room, wondering where that sound came from. Oddity sniffed the ground, picking up the scent of a Pokémon. Then the Evolution Pokémon heard someone whimpering not far from them.
Oddity went to where he heard the whimpering and saw a Ralts peeking out from the corner of the room. “Eevee?” Oddity asked as he went over to the psychic-type Pokémon.
“Ral.” Ralts whimpered. He scooted back deeper into the corner as Oddity got close to them.
Wiatt turned to Oddity, and his eyes widened at the sight of Ralts. “Is that a Ralts?” He asked.
“It is.” Liz replied. “He just hatched a week ago, and he is timid and scared of everyone.”
Interested, Waitt took out his Rotom Phone and scanned Ralts in the Pokedex.
Ralts, the Feeling Pokémon. A Psychic/Fairy type.
Ralts uses the horns on its head to sense people’s emotions. It rarely appears to humans, but it appears if it senses positive emotions. However, it tends to hide when sensing hostility.
Oddity got close to Ralts, causing him to whimper some more. The Evolution Pokémon sense this and took a step back. The Feeling Pokémon looked up, seeing Oddity had stepped away from him.
“Vee. Eevee.” Oddity whispered, reassuring Ralts.
“Ral?” Ralts asked.
Oddity nodded, “Vee.” He wanted to reassure the psychic type that he meant no harm.
Ralts was unsure, but slowly stepped out from the corner and walked closer towards Oddity. The latter smiled seeing Ralts coming close to him.
“Aww!” Sara spoke up, seeing Ralts. “Cutie!”
“Ralts!” Ralts cried in fear as he used Teleport to get away from the girl.
Sara gasped, realizing Ralts got away from her. “Way to go screaming at him, Sara!” Wiatt scolded.
“It’s not my fault!” Sara snapped back.
“It’s no one’s fault!” Liz yelled. Wiatt and Sara turned towards the young girl. Liz sighed and spoke more about the psychic Pokémon. “Ralts is shy of everyone. Once he’s scared, he’ll teleport somewhere safe.”
“Like where?” Lewis asked.
“Cabinets, closets, even outside of the school.” Liz listed down.
Wiatt frowned, feeling bad for the Ralts. Oddity was also feeling the same way.
Liz saw Wiatt feeling bad about Ralts and put her hand in his. “Don’t worry Wiatt.” Liz spoke up again. “I know Ralts is gonna open up to people one day. It just takes time.”
Wiatt sighed. “I hope so.” He said. Then, Wiatt felt something touch his leg. He looked down to see it was an Igglybuff.
“Igglybuff!” The Balloon Pokémon beamed. Soon, it was followed by a Swinub and an Azurill. The two Pokémon called out happily.
Wiatt chuckled as he kneeled and petted the baby Pokémon. “Why, hi there.” Soon, a few other baby Pokémon like Pichu, Smoochum, Nidoran, Teddiura, and Oddish came in and started to go to Wiatt and his friends.
Lewis was surprised when another Azurill jumped onto his shoulder, causing Sprigatito to hiss at the Polka Dot Pokémon. “Hello there darling.” Lewis said, chuckling.
“Azurill. Zu.” Azurill replied.
Liz giggled. “Looks like the baby Pokémon wants to play with you all.”
“And I got a good place where you can go and have fun.” Miss. Parker added.
The three led The Dream Quartet upstairs to a classroom. Miss. Parker opened the door, and the Dream Quartet’s eyes widened. Sara, on the other hand, adored the inside of the classroom.
It wasn’t a classroom, but a playroom for the baby Pokémon to have fun. A few of the students were inside watching the Pokémon.
“This is the Playroom!” Liz exclaimed.
“All of the baby Pokémon play here, and we watch them have fun!” Ben added.
“It’s also where kids can study Pokémon.” Miss. Parker added. “This is to understand Pokémon stats like speed or interactions with other Pokémon.”
“That is so cool!” Sara exclaimed.
“You guys can stay for a bit and play before you go.” Liz encouraged them.
The Dream Quartet looked at each other, wondering if they were thinking the same thing. “Well, we do have the map piece, but I don’t mind playing with the baby Pokémon before we leave.” Wiatt spoke up.
“Same here!” Sara exclaimed.
The Dream Quartet’s Pokémon smiled and went over to play with the baby Pokémon.
Throughout the day, the Dream Quartet was playing with the baby Pokémon in the playroom. They played with toys as well as having their Pokémon out to play with them. Everyone was having fun, especially Oddity.
“Oddity seems pretty popular with Pokémon.” Ben pointed out.
Wiatt chuckled. “Yeah. Oddity likes acting like a big brother towards Pokémon.” He explained.
“Do you have any other Pokémon, Wiatt?” Liz asked.
“Plapla!” Plusle exclaimed, wondering too.
Wiatt rubbed the back of his head. “No, Oddity is my only Pokémon.” He answered.
Ben and Liz looked surprised as they looked at Wiatt and Oddity. Eevee
“Eevee! Eevee!” Oddity barked at Wiatt’s backpack.
Wiatt went over to his Eevee and was confused as to why Oddity was barking at his backpack. “What’s wrong with my backpack?” He asked.
“Vee!” Eevee!” Oddity exclaimed.
Wiatt kneeled down and unzipped his backpack to see Ralts shivering in fear. “Ralts?”
“Ral!” Ralts cried and braced himself in fear of seeing Wiatt and Oddity. The Feeling Pokémon was ready to teleport before Wiatt and Oddity stopped him.
“H-Hey! Don’t be scared! I won’t hurt you!” Wiatt reassured Ralts.
Ralts slowly looked up at Wiatt, but was still unwary of him.
“Ral.” Ralts whimpered.
“Eevee. Vee.” Oddity replied in a low voice, so as not to scare Ralts. He reassured the psychic type that they were not going to hurt him.
“Ralts?” Ralts asked, worriedly. Slowly, he left Wiatt’s backpack and went over to the boy.
Wiatt smiled. He let his hand out, and Ralts stared at it before walking closer and putting his small hands on top of Wiatt’s. Then, for the first time since they arrived, Ralts gave a smile. “Ralts.”
Wiatt’s smile grew wider as he used his other hand to hold Ralts, who felt comfortable around him. “There, you don’t have to worry about anything. I’m here to protect you.” He whispered.
Ralts looked up at Wiatt, and while hidden, his eyes sparkled a glimmer of hope.
Suddenly, a knock on the door caught everyone’s attention. “Who is it?” Ben asked.
The door quickly opened, and out came Team Rocket in disguise. “Why hello, everyone!”
The group turned around to see Team Rocket, disguised as nurses, coming into the room with a giant cart. All three wore lab coats and large, round glasses. Jessie had her hair tied into pigtails while Meowth wore a brown, medium-length wig. Despite their disguises, no one knew who they were.
“Who are you?” Sara asked.
“We’re the nurses to help take care of the baby Pokémon.” Jessie answered.
“But aren’t you guys supposed to check on Pokémon tomorrow?” Liz asked, confused, seeing the “doctors.”
Meowth stepped in front of Team Rocket and into the young girl’s face. “We have an important business trip tomorrow, so we need to do the work now.”
Liz gulped. “Oh, okay.”
Team Rocket gave a smile as they picked up the baby Pokémon one by one and put them inside the cart. Ralts sensed something was up with these doctors, and felt frightened seeing them pick up his friends and put them inside the cart.
Meowth took notice of Ralts, who flinched and hid behind Wiatt’s leg. Meowth took notice of the Ralts and went over to him, which scared Ralts even more.
“Ralts, it’s okay. You're just going for a check-up.” Wiatt reassured the Feeling Pokémon.
Ralts shook his head. He sensed he couldn’t trust these “doctors” and didn’t want to go with them.
“Yeah, listen to the twer-er your buddy over here!” Meowth exclaimed, trying to grab Ralts.
Ralts shivered and used Confusion on Meowth, which caused him to be illuminated with a blue glow and lifted in the air.
“Hey! What’s going on! Put me down!” Meowth screamed as he was slammed into the ceiling and fell to the ground. “Ow that smarts!” Meowth rubbed his head as his disguise fell off.
Jessie and James froze in fear as the Dream Quartet looked in shock.
Meowth slowly got up and looked confused as to why everyone looked surprised.
“Vee.” Oddity growled in Meowth’s face.
Meowth flinched and looked down to see that his disguise came off. He let out a nervous chuckle before grabbing Ralts and putting him in the crate. “Quick, let's book it!” Meowth exclaimed.
“Yeah!” Jessie and James exclaimed.
The three ran off as fast as they could with the Dream Quartet, Oliver’s siblings, and Miss Parker following behind. “Come back, Team Rocket!” Wiatt yelled.
“Eevee! Vee!” Oddity yelled.
Team Rocket ran as fast as they could until they ran outside and jumped into their hot air balloon as they started to fly away.
“Stop! Team Rocket!” Wiatt yelled.
The group made it outside and saw Team Rocket starting to fly away. “Who are they?” Miss Parker asked.
“Who are we?” Jessie asked. “Well then, you're in big trouble.”
“Don’t worry, we will introduce ourselves on the double!” James added.
“To protect the world from devastation."
“To unite all peoples within our nation.”
“To denounce the evils of truth and love.”
“To extend our reach to the stars above.”
“Jessie.”
“And James.”
“Team Rocket, blasting off at the speed of light!” Jessie finished.
“Surrender now and prepare for a fight.” James finished.
“Meowth, that’s right!” Meowth added, cutting into the motto.
“Wobbuffet!” Wobbuffet shouted.
“Team Rocket!” The Dream Quartet shouted.
“Wait!” Ben exclaimed. “Are these the three idiots you told us about in our phone calls?”
Team Rocket froze hearing that.
“Yep! They are.” Oliver replied.
“Hey!” Team Rocket yelled, hearing Oliver talk badly about them.
“How dare you call us idiots!” Jessie shouted.
“Yeah! We are the baddest team in history!” James added.
Meowth then stepped in between his two partners in crime. “Besides, we stole all the baby Pokémon and escaped to our balloon without a scratch!” He proudly claimed.
Wiatt realized Ralts was taken along with the other baby Pokémon. “Oh no, Ralts!” He yelled.
“Ral! Ralts!” Ralts sang, showing he used Teleport to escape.
The group looked surprised, seeing that Ralts was safe and not with Team Rocket. Wiatt sighed, “Glad you're okay, Ralts.”
“Ralts.” Ralts replied, giving a small smile to Wiatt.
Team Rocket screamed in surprise. “We got a teleporter on the loose!” Meowth yelled.
Jessie growled. “Well, we just have to knock it out and take it by force!” She exclaimed, taking out her Poké Ball. “Gourgeist, let’s go!”
“Go Carnivine!” James yelled, throwing a Poké Ball as well. Once Carnivine came out of the Poké Ball, he quickly trailed back to James and bit on his head gleefully. “Give me love later and grab the Ralts!”
The two Pokémon loomed over Ralts, causing him to cry in fear and use Teleport again. The two Team Rocket Pokémon scanned the area looking for the Psychic-Type Pokémon.
Ralts reappeared behind them, and the two grass types turned and glaring at the Feeling Pokémon, “Quick Carnivine! Vine Whip!” James commanded.
“Carnivine!” Carnivine yelled, launching vines from his claws. Quickly, Ralts used Teleport to dodge the attack, and Carnivine’s Vine Whip grabbed Jessie’s Gourgeist by mistake.
James whimpered in fear, seeing that he had grabbed the wrong Pokémon and Jessie growled, grabbing James by the collar of his shirt. “Wrong Pokémon, you dummy!” Jessie yelled.
“Sorry! Sorry!” James apologized. “Carnivine, let go of Gourgeist and grab Ralts!”
Carnivine’s eyes widened, and it dropped Gourgeist. He used Vine Whip again; this time, his vines were inches from Ralts.
Quick thinking, Wiatt decided to join the battle with Oddity. “Quick Oddity, use Quick Attack!” Wiatt commanded.
“Eevee! Vee!” Oddity growled running at full speed before slamming into Carnivine. The Bug Catcher Pokémon slammed into Gourgeist, and they fell to the ground.
Ralts looked surprised. He was almost caught before Oddity came by to check up on him. “Eevee?” Oddity asked, hoping the Feeling Pokémon was okay.
“Ral.” Ralts replied with a nod. The two Pokémon saw Team Rocket’s Pokémon get up. The two looked at each other and nodded, ready to battle the evil Pokémon.
“Gourgeist, use Power Whip!” Jessie commanded.
“And Carnivine, use Energy Ball!” James commanded.
The tuft on Gourgeist’s head started to glow green and grow longer, grabbing Ralts. Oddity took notice and tried to help his friend, only to be hit with an Energy Ball, but the Eevee held his ground.
“You okay, Oddity?” Wiatt asked.
“Eevee.” Oddity replied, nodding. The Evolution Pokémon saw Ralts needed help, and growled seeing his friend in danger. Gourgeist was ready to slam Ralts to the ground when suddenly…
“Lolli!” Liz started.
“Poppy!” Ben started.
“Use Quick Attack!” The twins shouted at the same time.
Lolli and Poppy ran as fast as they could, ramming into Carnivine with all their strength. The Bug Catcher Pokémon then rammed into Gourgiest again, causing the Pumpkin Pokémon to drop Ralts, who was then caught by Oddity.
“G-Gourgiest!” Jessie yelled, worried about her Pokémon.
“Carnivine!” James yelled. He turned to Ben, Liz, and their Pokémon. He let out a growl, “I’m not letting some mini twerps beat us! Carnivine, grab those tiny twerps with Vine Whip!”
Carnivine quickly got up and launched vines from his leafy hands. “Carnivine!” He yelled.
“Lolli, dodge it and use Thundershock!” Liz commanded.
“Plua! Plusle!” Lolli cheered as she jumped up to miss the Vine Whip, and then let out a bolt of yellow electricity at the grass-type. Carnivine was shocked by the attack and collapsed on the ground.
“Gourgiest, use Dark Pulse!” Jessie commanded.
Gourgeist launched a dark purple orb from its mouth, it morphed into a beam of rings and headed towards Lolli and Poppy.
“Dodge it!” Liz and Ben shouted at the same time.
Lolli and Poppy both jumped out of the way.
“Wow, your siblings are pros at battling, darling!” Lewis exclaimed to Oliver.
Oliver smiled, seeing that they learned a lot from the school. He then felt a tug on his pants and saw Scorbunny wanted to join in the battle. Oliver looked over at Wiatt and his siblings and realized they were okay.
“Let’s leave it to them. Okay, buddy?” Oliver suggested.
Scorbunny pouted but sighed and watched the battle.
“Lolli,” Liz started.
“Poppy,” Ben added.
“Use Swift!” They both finished.
“Plua! Plu!” Lolli cheered.
“Min! Mi!” Poppy cheered.
The two Pokémon somersaulted in the air as yellow stars appeared, hitting the two Pokémon. Carnivine and Gourgeist fell back into the hot air balloon, which caused Team Rocket to scream. The swift attack also popped the balloon, causing it to float down on the ground. This made the cage holding the baby Pokémon safe to free them and let them out.
“Alright! Oddity uses Shadow Ball to break the lock!” Wiatt commanded.
“Eevee! Vee!” Oddity yelled as he launched his attack on the lock, causing it to break. The lock fell on the ground, and the cage opened as the baby Pokémon came out and ran towards the group.
Team Rock groaned and slowly got up. “Meowth, please tell me you have a plan B?” Jessie groaned.
“I did, but the balloon is done for.” Meowth added.
“Wobbuffet!” Wobbuffet exclaimed.
Seeing Team Rocket defeated, Wiatt knew what he needed to do next. “Oddity, let’s use Buzzy Buzz!” He commanded.
“Lolli,” Liz started.
“Poppy,” Ben added.
“Use Thundershock!” The twins commanded at the same time.
The three Pokémon unleashed their electric attack towards Team Rocket. They were shocked and their balloon blew up as they were launched into the air.
“Team Rocket is blasting off again!” They yelled.
“Alright!” Wiatt cheered.
Liz and Ben cheered as well. “Oh yeah! Twin power!” They both cheered, giving each other a high five.
Ralts looked over at Oddity and Wiatt and smiled, seeing how cool they were.
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“Thank you guys so much for saving the baby Pokémon.” Miss. Parker said.
“No problem, stopping Team Rocket is part of our job.” Wiatt replied.
“As a thank you, you guys are welcome to come to the school anytime to play with the baby Pokémon.” Miss. Parker offered.
The Dream Quartet, Ben, and Liz smiled at the offer. “That means Oliver can come and see us anytime he wants!” Liz exclaimed.
“And Lolli and Poppy can play with their new brother as well.” Ben added, looking over at his Minun.
Lolli and Poppy looked at each other with a smile and gave that same look to Scorbunny, who chuckled nervously.
Ralts was sad to see Wiatt go. He was already opening up to him and Oddity. Wiatt looked over at Ralts and frowned, too. “Hey, don’t worry, Ralts. We’ll see each other again.” He reassured the Psychic/Fairy Pokémon.
“Eevee. Vee.” Oddity added.
Ralts whimpered as he hugged Oddity. Oddity nuzzled the Feeling Pokémon to comfort him. The two let go, and Oddity and his friends were ready to leave. “Bye Ralts! See you soon!” Wiatt yelled, waving back at the Pokémon while he and his friends headed back to the lab.
“Bye, guys!” Miss Parker yelled.
“Bye, Oliver! See you soon!” Ben and Liz yelled at the same time.
Oliver turned around and waved back to his younger siblings. “Bye, you two! Don’t get into trouble!” He reminded them that he and his friends were far away from the school.
Ralts stood there sad, but was determined to see Wiatt again. Determined, Ralts used Teleport, surprising the twins.
“Oh no! Ralts Teleported again!” Liz complained.
Miss Parker, however, smiled. “Don’t worry about it, you two.” She reassured the twins. The twins looked up at their teacher, surprised. “I think Ralts found himself a trainer.”
Ben and Liz looked at one another and smiled.
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Wiatt and his friends were almost back at the lab, but they suddenly stopped seeing a glow appear right in front of them. The glow was revealed to be Ralts, teleporting over to them. The Feeling Pokémon looked up and smile,d seeing that he had teleported to Wiatt.
“Ral!” Ralts exclaimed.
“Ralts, what are you doing here?” Wiatt asked, blinking in surprise.
Ralts walked over to Wiatt and started to nuzzle his leg. The young boy came to the realization that the Psychic/Fairy type likes him and wants to travel with him. “Ralts, do you want to come along with me?” He asked.
The Feeling Pokémon let go of Wiatt and nodded. “Ral. Ralts!” He replied.
Wiatt and Oddity smiled proudly, happy they got themselves a new friend. Wiatt went into his pocket and pulled out a Poké Ball. “Alright, go Pokeball!” Wiatt yelled as he threw the Poké Ball at Ralts.
The Poke Ball hit Ralts and opened, putting Ralts inside. The Poke Ball shook three times before clicking.
Wiatt picked up the Poke Ball and smiled. “Welcome to the team, Ralts.”
“Eevee!” Oddity exclaimed.
Wiatt then let Ralts out of the Poké Ball. “Ralts!” Ralts exclaimed. He was surprised when Wiatt picked him up.
“Ralts, you and I are going to have amazing adventures together.” Wiatt said, looking at his new Pokémon.
“Ralts!” Ralts cheered and soon teleported. Wiatt and his friends were surprised until Ralts reappeared in Wiatt’s backpack, feeling comfortable sitting inside.
Lewis chuckled. “Guess, Ralts loves your backpack, huh, darling.”
Wiatt chuckled back, “I guess he does.”
Ralts sighed as he got himself comfortable inside Wiatt’s backpack. Wiatt glanced at his newly caught Pokémon before looking at Oddity and smiled, glad to have a new friend on their team.
Here he is! Wiatt Nicholson, he’s finally here! I know I write my fanfics in advance, but this one took me a while as I suffered from writer's block throughout the holidays.
BIG thanks to my beta reader @gigilefache.
Enjoy!!
In a mansion about half an hour away from Dreamworld, a young man named Wiatt Nicholson stood in front of a corkboard filled with photos and newspaper clippings about Gardenview. He scanned through each of them and looked through his notes in his notebook. Using his pen, he read through a particular news article.
Three Kids Attacked by a Monster in the Woods, One Died.
Wiatt looked at the date and saw that this incident had happened a month before Gardenview’s shutdown. “Hmm.” He thought as he turned the page in his notebook. In his notes, words like Gardenview and Sara were highlighted. Soon, Wiatt was interrupted by his phone ringing. He grabbed it and smiled, seeing it was Lewis. Wiatt answered the phone and put it against his ear. “Hey, Lewis.”
“Hello, darling.” Lewis replied. “How is everything at home?”
“Great, just…” Wiatt trailed off, trying to think of an excuse for what he was doing. “Reading a book.”
Lewis narrowed his eyes. “You're not investigating Gardenview, again, are you?” He asked.
Wiatt chuckled nervously, closing his notebook and placing it on the table. “No! No! I’m not!” He denied.
“Darling…”
Wiatt sighed. “Alright, you caught me.” He admitted.
Lewis gave a light chuckle as he leaned back on his chair. “So, how is your investigation on Gardenview going?” He asked.
“Same as it was our last phone call. I’m still stuck on Gardenview closing. There’s still no reason why it closed.” Wiatt explained, waving his left arm around.
“Darling, I know you love exploring abandoned buildings and trying to figure out the mysteries behind them.” Lewis explained.
“Or discovering the paranormal.” Wiatt added.
Lewis rolled his eyes. “That too, but Sara told us why Gardenview shut down. It wasn’t doing business as it did back in the day, so they had to shut down.”
“Still, you’d think a place that has living toons would have something secretive.”
Lewis felt like he was sweating bullets. Wiatt knew nothing of the ichor operation, and if his boyfriend found out he agreed to help Sara with it, Wiatt would go ballistic.
“Y-You know Sara hates it when you bug her about Gardenview.” Lewis mentioned.
“She does hate me.” Wiatt replied.
“She doesn't hate you, darling.” Lewis reassured him.
If Wiatt and Lewis were face-to-face, he’d be glaring at his boyfriend by now.
“Darling, I know you're glaring on the other end.”
Wiatt groaned. “How did you know?”
“I can sense it, darling.”
Wiatt chuckled and rolled his eyes. “Well, I still stand that Sara hates me and she’s hiding something.”
Lewis sighed, knowing there was nothing to stop Wiatt. Before he could continue talking, a voice interrupted him. “Hey Lewis! Who are you talking to?” Starlight asked.
Wiatt’s eyes widened, hearing the star toon on the other end. “Lewis, who was that?” He asked.
“N-No one, darling!” Lewis lied. He then covered the speaker, “Starlight, I’m on the phone. Could you leave me alone for one minute?”
“Are you talking with Wiatt?” Starlight asked.
Lewis’ eyes widened as he dropped his cellphone. “Lewis? Lewis, what’s going on?” Wiatt asked on the other end.
Lewis didn’t respond and just stared in horror at Starlight. “H-How do you know about Wiatt?” He asked.
Starlight’s eyes widened as he let out a gasp and went to pick up the phone. Lewis tried to grab the phone from the star toon, but he was fast. “Hi, Wiatt! I’m Starlight! Lewis and Sara brought me to life using ic-” Before Starlight could finish what he could say, Lewis finally grabbed the phone and hung up on Wiatt.
Wiatt was frozen in shock as he looked at his phone. He was shocked to hear Lewis and Sara brought a toon to life, and with something that he didn’t quite catch due to the call cutting out. “Dad! I need to go!” He yelled, getting up and packing stuff to see Lewis.
“Lewis! What was that for?!” Starlight yelled, his eyes turning a bit red.
“For two reasons: One, Wiatt doesn’t know about the ichor operation, and two, how do you know about Wiatt?!” Lewis asked, yelling back.
“To answer your second question.” Starlight started, calming down. “I saw photos of him in your office and asked Dandy and the others about him. They said he’s your boyfriend.” He smirked at the man.
Lewis chuckled. “Y-Yeah. I’ve known him since middle school, around the same time I met Sara and Oliver.” He explained.
“Wow!” Starlight marveled in amazement over how long Lewis had known his friends.
Lewis nodded and gave a light chuckle. He grabbed his phone and went to his pictures before handing the phone to Starlight. “Yeah, we have a lot of history together.”
Starlight grabbed the phone and looked at all the photos of Lewis and Wiatt together. Some featured Oliver, Sara, and a few of the toons together, too. “Wow, so Wiatt knows about the toons too huh?” Starlight pointed out.
“Everyone knows about them.” Lewis mentioned.
“Do they know about me, darling?” Starlight asked.
“Not yet. Once Dreamworld opens, they’ll know about you and Ridley.”
Starlight smiled and looked at the photo of Wiatt hugging and lifting Lewis. The two were laughing and having the time of their life. “When will I get to meet Wiatt?” Starlight asked.
Lewis’ eyes widened. Starlight wasn’t around when he and Wiatt broke up. “Y-You won’t.” He answered.
Starlight’s smile dropped. “W-Why?” He asked.
Lewis took a deep breath. “I broke up with Wiatt.”
“What?!” Starlight asked, horrified.
“YOU WHAT?!” The toons yelled at the same time, overhearing Lewis’ conversation about breaking up with Wiatt.
“Oh boy.” Lewis sighed, pinching the bridge of his nose. “How much did you guys hear?”
“Everything.” The toons replied. Lewis groaned, moving his fingers to his forehead, rubbing his temples.
Sara quickly ran by and skidded to a halt. She saw the toons surrounding Lewis’ office and was curious at first until they heard them all scream. Knowing it was something bad, she had to run and stop them. “I’m too late aren’t I?” She asked.
“You are darling.” Lewis groaned.
Ridley was confused and looked at the toons. “Uh, who is Wiatt?” He asked.
“Wiatt is a sweet guy!” Shelly exclaimed. “He’s Lewis’ boyfriend,” The ammonite toon turned to Lewis with a frown and crossed her arms, “or well ex-boyfriend.”
Lewis felt uncomfortable with the look Shelly was giving him.
“The only thing was that Wiatt and Sara butted heads from time to time, but she considers him a friend.” Dandy added, smirking at Sara.
Sara let out a laugh, “he’s not my friend. Just someone in the way.” She replied, denying that she and Wiatt were friends.
“So, why did you invite him to your birthday parties and hangouts?” Dandy asked, crossing his arms.
“Because he’s Lewis’ boyfriend and Lewis asks me to invite him.” Sara answered, still denying it.
“But darling, I never asked you to invite him.” Lewis brought up.
Sara’s eyes widened as she got caught. Dandy started laughing hard, and Sara turned to glare at the flower toon, causing him to stop laughing and give a nervous smile. “Sorry.” Dandy apologized.
Lewis gave a light chuckle and rolled his eyes. He then felt a hand tap his leg and turned to see it was the tissue box toon, Tisha getting his attention.
“So, why did you break up with him?” Tisha asked.
Lewis sighed. “Well, I figured I’d be helping with Dreamworld, that dating would be in the way.” He explained.
“In the way!” Scraps growled. Lewis and a few toons flinched, hearing the paper craft toon yell at him like that.
Goob went over to his sister and put his hands on her shoulders. “Sis, calm down.” He whispered. Scraps gave a low growl, warning her little brother that she was upset. Goob squeaked and stepped back from his sister.
“But you love Wiatt! You said you two would be forever, how is love in the way of all this!?” Scraps yelled. Lewis tried to respond to Scraps, but he was cut off when Scraps continued on her rant. “I made these wedding invitations for you and Wiatt!” Scraps showed Lewis the custom wedding invitations she made featuring Lewis and Wiatt’s wedding outfits.
Lewis looked horrified and looked at Sara to explain this. The latter shrugged, not knowing what to tell him, as it was in the toons’ nature to act like this.
Dandy snickered, seeing his friend’s drawings, until he felt Sara lightly kick him to stop snickering. He turned and glared at his human friend, who gave a look that she didn’t do anything.
“Uh…Scraps, that’s a bit creepy.” Vee pointed out.
Scraps gave a smug smile. “It’s not creepy. Besides, I made a bunch of them, like one with you and your crush, and for Sara and Oliver when they get into relationships again.” She explained.
Vee’s screen glitched as she blushed, hearing Scraps make art of her and her crush.
Even Oliver felt disturbed, and he hasn’t had a crush in forever. He turned to Sara, hoping she could end this conversation before Scraps shared something else that was considered weird.
“Well, I have good news!” Sara announced, breaking the awkwardness. “After we finish up, Eric is inviting us to his house for pizza tonight.” The toons looked at each other and let out a cheer that they’ll be having a pizza party tonight. “Only, after we finish-” Sara was cut off as the toons ran off to do their work. “Tonight.” Sara sighed, but gave a small smile seeing her friends excited, and was glad to give Lewis a break.
Speaking of Lewis, he felt relieved not to be bombarded with questions about Wiatt. “Sara, remember when Mr. Sawyer told you that Dandy and the toons would drive someone to drink?” Lewis asked.
“Yeah?” Sara replied, raising an eyebrow.
Lewis sighed. “Well, I’m about to be that someone.”
Sara rolled her eyes and gave her best friend a light shove. Lewis smirked and lightly shoved his friend back. Sara shoved Lewis back hard, causing him to lose his balance and fall to the ground. The young girl flinched, realizing she had shoved her best friend too hard.
“You ok?” Sara asked.
“I’ll be fine, darling.” Lewis replied with a groan.
Feeling bad, Sara helped Lewis up and straightened his glasses as they followed the toons out of the office and continued with their work.
Everyone was working hard, helping Sara and her friends with the preparations with Dreamworld. At times, Sara and her friends helped the toons with whatever they needed, from painting the walls to putting up furniture. Things were going smoothly, with the only crazy thing being the Circus Troupe using each other as a ladder to put things up in high places, leaving Oliver worried for the three.
An hour later, Sara went to her office to finish decorating it. She was putting up photos in her office to give it life. She was looking for one more photo to complete her office, as she looked up at the ones she had placed in her office.
The first photo was her and her friends that she took at the beginning of the year, with her putting her arms around them.
The second photo was of her and her mom when Sara was in her senior year of high school.
The third photo was when Sara was 7-years old, wearing flowers on her head, with her Dandy.
The last photo was of Sara, who was 11-years old, with Dandy and Pebble.
There was one last spot in the middle, and Sara didn’t know what photo to add. She then spotted Lewis, Oliver, and Dandy walking by.
“Hey guys!” Sara called out.
The boys stopped and turned towards Sara. “What’s up, darling?” Lewis asked.
“I’m looking for a photo to put up on my wall. I just need one more.” Sara explained, continuing to look through the boxes of photos.
The boys looked at each other and went inside Sara’s office and looked through the photos. Dandy dug through all the photos and smiled, seeing the one he grabbed.
“What about this one?” Dandy asked, showing the trio the photo.
The three looked at it, and Lewis and Oliver smiled, knowing this would be a perfect photo to add to the wall. Sara, on the other hand, was almost in tears seeing the photo. She took it from Dandy and looked at it.
The photo in question was Sara celebrating her 9th birthday, and it was her, her mom, Arthur, the Toon Handlers, and all the toons together.
Sara remembered that day as she begged her mom to gather all the toons, including the holiday toons, for a big special photo. It was the last group photo before Gardenview shut down.
“Its perfect.” Sara said with a smile. She quickly put the photo on the wall right in the middle. “There, my office is now complete!”
Dandy nodded, putting his hands to his hips. “Yep, except for your computer.” He pointed to the box in the corner of the room. Sara’s eyes widened as she realized she had forgotten to set up her computer.
Sara chuckled. “Okay, I’ll put that up…tomorrow, then I’ll be done!” She exclaimed. Dandy groaned as Sara ruffled his petals and looked at her friends. “So, what’s been completed?”
“Well, we got the entrance, Staract, and Racetrack completed.” Oliver replied.
Sara nodded. “Good, what else?” She asked.
“Well, that’s about it, darling.” Lewis said. “The good news is, most of the attractions are near completion, if we’re working at this rate, we should be done a day or two before opening.”
Sara sighed, she was glad things were“It’s a start, plus we still need the toons for the other attractions.”
Oliver then put his hand on Sara’s shoulder. “Sara, remember. Don’t force yourself to bring toons to life.” He reminded her.
“Plus, we promised we will help you.” Lewis added.
Sara gave a small smile. “I know.” She replied.
A knock was heard at the door, causing the Founder Trio and Dandy to turn and see it was the circus troupe. “Um…Sara, Eric called and said he’ll be ordering the pizzas soon.” Looey stated.
“So…can we go now and have pizza?” Yatta asked with a big smile on her face.
The Founder Trio looked at each other, at Dandy, and then each other again with a smirk. “That’s weird because Eric calls us asking what kind of pizzas we want.” Oliver pointed out.
Yatta and Looey looked nervous, but Blot’s expression knew this would happen. “.tuo dnif d’eh uoy dlot I” Blot whispered to them.
“But…” Oliver continued. “If you three are getting hungry, I guess we can head over there now.”
The circus trio looked excited and cheered as they were getting pizza tonight. “I call shotgun!” Yatta exclaimed.
“No fair! You shouted “shotgun" this morning!” Looey called out.
Everyone laughed as they left Sara’s office and went to the lobby. Once they made it to the lobby, they saw a couple of the toons relaxing and waiting for them.
“Alright, I heard we did a lot of work today!” Sara announced. “So, who’s ready for some pizza!?”
“We’re ready!” The toons shouted as each of them ran to the door. Sara chuckled as she and her friends followed them outside. To her surprise, she saw the toons stand frozen in fear.
“Darlings, what’s wrong?” Lewis asked.
“Lewis.”
Lewis and his friends froze, and they looked up to see Wiatt standing in front of them with two pieces of luggage and a backpack.
T/W Before Reading; Goob gets harmed and we finally get death in this Au because I never brought up death in this crossover Au!
Here’s one of my drabble ideas I had for this Au! I was working on this Drabble from time to time, but once I heard about the last three optimizations I quickly had to work on this as Goob is one of the characters.
Big thanks too @gigilefache for being my beta reader.
Enjoy!
It was the morning of the start of Spring Break, and Dandy was in the kitchen decorating pancakes with whipped cream, chocolate chips, and cherries to make a funny face. He just got done adding the last cherry nose on the pancake and smiled, “Perfect!” Dandy beamed, clapping his hands together. The toon grabbed the plates and went over to the table where Sara, Oliver, Ben, and Liz were sitting, as well as Pebble on the ground staring at an empty bowl. “Okay! I got some silly face pancakes, ready to go!”
Dandy put the plates in front of the group. Ben and Liz’s eyes widened at how good the pancakes were, and they started to dig in. Pebble barked happily as Dandy put his pancake in his food bowl, and the pet rock quickly gobbled it up. Sara and Oliver got their pancakes and smiled at the sight of them.
“Wow, thanks, Dandy.” Oliver said.
Dandy smiled as he turned to Sara, staring into her pancakes. The flower toon swayed back and forth on his tippy toes, waiting for his best friend to answer. Sara turned to Dandy, who spoke up, “Aren’t you going to thank your bestest friend Dandy for this wonderful, delicious breakfast?” He asked.
Sara gave a light chuckle, “Thank you, Dandy, for this lovely breakfast.”
“Teehee.” Dandy giggled with a big smile. He then sat down next to Sara and went to eat his pancake.
Sara grabbed her fork and started eating. The pancakes were sweet and delicious. While everyone was eating, they heard Delilah’s phone ring, which she quickly picked up. “Hello,” Delilah said. “Oh, hi Eric.”
Sara and Oliver’s eyes widened as they turned to see Delilah talking with their teacher.
“Uh huh.” Delilah nodded as Eric was explaining to the other side of the line. “Hold on. I’ll ask them.” Delilah put her phone on hold and faced her kids at the table. “Kids, Eric is wondering if you guys would like to go camping in a cabin for a couple of days?”
Ben’s eyes lit up. “Camping in a cabin in the woods?” He asked. Delilah nodded in reply. “Yeah! I’m in!”
Delilah smiled. She was about to respond to Eric, but Dandy spoke up. “What about toons? Can we go?” He asked.
Delilah rolled her eyes and continued to talk to Eric. “Yes, they’re interested and can Dandy and any of the toons come?” She asked. Delilah nodded as Eric gave her the answer. “Great! I’ll let them know! Bye, Eric.” Delilah hung up the phone and turned to the kids. “Three toons can join!”
“Yes!” Dandy cheered, jumping from his seat. “I’m going to call Astro and let him know! He’s been wanting to go camping and stargazing.” The flower toon dashed off from the kitchen to call his best friend.
Sara sighed, pushing out her chair. “I guess I’ll be calling the other toons to see who’d like to go.” She said, heading to her room.
“Well, I can do the dishes and then start packing.” Oliver spoke up.
“Can we at least eat Sara and Dandy’s pancakes first?” Ben asked.
Just then, Dandy dashed right back into the kitchen and grabbed his and Sara’s pancakes before dashing back into his room.
Ben pouted as his twin sister, Liz, giggled. “Looks like you lost your chance.”
Ben groaned in reply.
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In her room, Sara smiled as she was on the phone with one of the toons. “Great! You’re gonna love it, Bassie! I promise you!” Sara exclaimed. “Alright, see you there!” Sara hung up the phone, went to her closet to grab her backpack, and started to pack the things she needed. Her pajamas, some clothes, her phone charger, and her lucky pocketknife.
Sara’s pocketknife was a gift she got from her mother on her 13th birthday. After the bullying Sara endured in elementary school, Delilah thought it would be best for Sara to protect herself and got her a pink pocketknife.
Sara had thoughts of bringing it to school to protect herself from any new or former bullies, but never did and would leave it at home. However, in the back of her mind, she was told to bring it.
Just in case.
Dandy then came into the room, spooking Sara, causing her to almost drop her pocketknife. “Alright! Astro Novalite is joining us!” Sara gave a small glare at the announcement and quickly put the pocketknife in her bag before Dandy noticed. “So…who did you invite?”
“Bassie and Goob.” Sara answered.
“Sweet!” Dandy exclaimed, but paused, realizing something. “Wait, what about Scraps?”
“I tried to invite her, but Goob wanted to go without her. He wanted to go by himself.” Sara explained.
Dandy was surprised. Usually, Goob liked having his sister around, no matter where they went. “That’s brave of him.” He said.
Sara nodded in reply. “Hey, we’re just spending a few nights in a cabin and going hiking. It’s not like we’re going to be in danger.” She explained.
“And if we do, I can-” Dandy was going to proudly add something, but stopped seeing Sara glare at him. Dandy frowned as his petals dropped. “Right, I know.”
“Sorry, Dandy. It’s not time yet to reveal your twisted forms to the others.” Sara replied, putting a hand to his back.
“Alright.” Dandy sighed.
Sara spun his petals, which made Dandy grumble, but still smile. “Come on, let’s pack.” She said, getting off her bed and walking to Dandy’s room.
Dandy nodded. “Okay!” He exclaimed. The two left Sara’s room and went to Dandy’s room to help him pack.
After an hour and a half of packing, everyone was ready to go, and we were just waiting on Eric to come and pick them up.
“Oliver.” Ben spoke up.
“Yes?” Oliver asked.
“If it’s okay, could I read horror stories?”
“No.”
Ben’s jaw dropped. “Why!” He whined.
“Uh, remember the last time you told us scary stories?” Sara asked. “You gave Toodles and Carly nightmares for a week!”
Ben cleared his throat and smiled proudly. “And it shows that I’m the best at horror stories.”
Oliver and Sara groaned, knowing Ben hadn’t learned his lesson.
A knock was heard, and Sara ran to the door, opening it. Outside, were Astro, Goob, and Bassie with their bags ready to go. Astro and Goob had smiles on their faces, while Bassie looked nervous.
“Morning, Sara! I’m ready for camping!” Goob exclaimed, giving a salute.
Sara chuckled and held her arms out for Goob to hug her. The fluffy craft toon smiled and stretched out his arms to hug Sara tight. She hugged the toon back, snuggling into his fluff. The two let go as Sara looked at the other toons. “Are you three excited?” Sara asked.
Astro nodded. “You bet.” He replied. The moon toon looked over at Bassie, who looked away and rubbed her arm.
“Still uncomfortable being around mom?” Sara asked, giving a small smile. Sara knew how her mother reconsidered Bassie being a main, and how it hurt Bassie’s feelings. While Sara made sure Bassie was included for Easter events, the shutdown of Gardenview prevented Bassie from having another chance of being a main. While Bassie is happy to keep her main status, she still feels uncomfortable being around Delilah.
“Y-Yeah.” Bassie replied in a whisper.
“Hey.” Sara chuckled, playing with the flowers in Bassie’s head. “It’s just my friends, myself, the toons, Mr. Gale, and his daughter. You’ll have fun!”
“Okay.” Bassie replied.
“There are my friends!” Dandy exclaimed as he hugged the three of them tightly. Goob helped with the hug. “This is going to be fun! My friends and I are all going camping!”
“It will be nice to catch up on my reading, and,” Astro paused, taking one of his hands and putting it on top of Dandy's shoulder, “we can stargaze.”
A light blush appeared on Dandy’s face, causing him to chuckle.
“Aww, you guys gonna have a date?” Goob asked, getting in between them.
Astro and Dandy blushed and backed away from one another. “Whoa! Goob! No!” Astro exclaimed. “Just two friends watching the stars.”
“Y-Yeah!” Dandy exclaimed, denying that it was a date.
“Which sounds like a date.” Oliver whispered to Bassie, making her giggle.
The door knocked again, and Sara opened the door to see Lewis, Eric, and Carly. “Hi, darlings!” Lewis exclaimed, waving.
“Lewis!” Sara and Oliver exclaimed. The three high-five each other, excited for their camping trip. However, Oliver noticed that one person was missing.
“Where’s Wiatt?” Oliver asked. Sara frowned, hearing about her best friend’s boyfriend.
“Well, I did ask Wiatt if he wants to join us, but he’s busy helping his dad at the arcade.” Lewis explained.
Sara sighed, knowing it was just her and her friends on this camping trip. No Wiatt means no Lewis, and no them being a cute couple on the trip. “Oh, that sucks. It would’ve been nice to have him.” Sara said, sarcastically.
“Don’t worry. I’ll let him know next time when we hang out, he’s invited.” Lewis replied.
Sara’s eyes widened as she forced a smile on her face. “G-Great.”
Eric took notice of the toons that would be joining them on the trip. “So, you must be the other toons Sara told me about.”
“Yep! I’m Astro Novalite, Dandy’s best friend.” Astro introduced himself. “This is Goob and Bassie, she’s the Easter main.”
Goob waved, giving a goofy smile to his friend’s teacher, while Bassie looked nervous until she laid eyes on Carly.
“Oh yeah, you two haven’t met yet.” Sara spoke up. She cleared her throat and grabbed Bassie’s shoulders, gently pushing her in front of Carly and Eric. “Bassie Bloomington, meet Carly Gale.”
Carly peeked from behind her father and was in awe at how pretty Bassie was. The basket toon looked at the young girl and gulped. Carly walked closer and smiled. “She’s so pretty.” She commented.
Bassie’s eyes widened as she blushed, pulling her handles close to her face to hide her blush. “T-Thank you.” Bassie stuttered.
Carly giggled, thinking that was cute. Sara, her friends, and the toons were surprised to see Carly liking one of the toons. When the young girl first met them, she was terrified and kept her distance from the toons. She’s used to some of them by now, but if they sneak up behind her to say hi, she’ll jump and run off.
As for Bassie, it was rare for kids to like her. When Dandy’s World was still airing
“Well, looks like Bassie’s got a fan.” Dandy chuckled.
“First one in a long time.” Astro added, before he and Dandy chuckled.
“Well, we'd better get going!” Eric exclaimed.
“Alright!” Sara went to her mom and gave her a big hug. “Bye, mom!”
“Bye, sweetie.” Delilah said, hugging her daughter.
Sara let go and went outside. Next to hug Delilah were Oliver and his siblings. “Bye, Miss. Delilah!” Liz exclaimed.
“You guys have fun!” Delilah replied.
Finally were the toons who stood and stared at Delilah. Dandy and Goob held their arms out waiting for their hug. She rolled her eyes with a sigh and held her arms out for them to hug. They give her a big hug before letting go and heading out the door.
“Keep Sara safe.” Delilah mentioned.
“We will.” Astro promised.
“Bye, Delilah!” Dandy exclaimed, before closing the door.
The door quickly opened again. “I’ll make sure they’re safe. Don’t worry.” Eric added, before closing the door.
Delilah sighed, finally able to relax now that her kids are gone. The second she sat on the couch, she heard someone knocking at the door. “Did Oliver forget something again?” She asked herself. Delilah opened the door and was surprised to see Danica, Lewis’s mother. “Danica? What are you doing here?”
“Since our kids are gone for a few days. I figured we can have a few days for us!” Danica explained.
Delilah stood there speechless. She wasn’t the one for hanging out, but since Sara became friends with Lewis, Danica has been wanting to hang out with Delilah, much to the latter’s chagrin. Delilah didn’t hate Danica, but Delilah was an introvert, and Danica was an extrovert.
“Oh, that’s okay, but I just wanted to relax and do my own thing.” Delilah said.
“Come on, Delilah, pack up and let’s have a great time! You need it!” Dancia exclaimed, walking in.
Delilah sighed and closed the door, knowing Danica would come in anyways.
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The car ride was nice with everyone talking about the trip and wondering what else they’ll be doing other than what was planned. It was a fun car ride, and soon enough, the group made it to where the cabins are located.
“Well, here we are!” Eric announced as he parked the car.
Dandy was the first one to get out of the car and breathe in the fresh air. “Ah, the fresh forest air!” He beamed, stretching.
Next was Bassie, who was admired by nature. “It feels so nice!” She sighed, stretching as well. Her eyes then spotted a common blue violet on the ground, and she quickly went over to it. “Wow! A blue violet. Been wanting to pick one for my flower press collection.”
“Well, be careful picking flowers Bassie.” Eric warned the basket toon. “Some are protected and can’t be picked.”
“I know that,” Bassie replied, “I believe the common blue violets are safe.” She picked one of them and put it on top of her head for safekeeping.
Everyone was finally out of the car and taking in fresh air or stretching after being in the car for over an hour. Astro took notice of Sara, staring into the forest, looking nervous. He and everyone knew why, but they never brought it up, as it had been years since the incident.
Sara had an incident with three of her former bullies where they chased her into the forest, like this one. She barely remembered the incident, though one toon knew the truth, but they thought of being in the forest alone scared Sara to this day.
Astro sent his magic to reassure Sara, who took notice of them. “Are you alright, Sara?” The moon toon asked.
“Yeah, I’ll be okay. Don’t worry.” Sara replied with a smile.
Astro gave a small smile, but knew for a fact that Sara was trying to be strong. “Okay, just talk with us if you need to.”
Sara nodded. “I will.”
“Well, let’s head to the cabin.” Eric said, closing the trunk of his car.
Everyone nodded and followed Eric to the cabin. When heading up the stairs to their cabin, a foot appeared from the corner, and Sara tripped on it, landing on her face. “Sara!” Everyone yelled.
“Are you okay, darling?” Lewis asked, holding his hand out to Sara.
Sara groaned as she slowly got up. “I’m fine. I just tripped.” She said, taking Lewis’ hand and getting up.
“Hey! It’s your fault that you didn’t watch where you’re going!”
Sara, Lewis, and Oliver glared and turned to see a girl their age appear in the corner. She had fair skin, dark brown eyes that almost looked black, and pink dyed hair tied into a ponytail with a black scrunchie. She wore a black jacket over a pink shirt with a silver skull in the middle, jeans that had rips and holes on them, and Converse shoes that have sharpie marks on them.
“Jenna.” Sara and her friends growled.
Jenna Trapp had been Sara and her friends’ since middle school. She was once Oliver’s best friend, but he eventually cut her out of his life to befriend Sara and her friends. This angered Jenna, and she did everything she could to make Sara miserable.
“What are you doing here?” Oliver asked.
“I’m on vacation with my boyfriend.” Jenna replied. “It’s nice to be away from my parents, and I was hoping to be away from you losers.”
Sara and her friends deepen their glare. “I thought you would be spending break in juvie.” Dandy commented. Astro, Goob, and Bassie giggled at the lead toon’s comment.
Jenna glared. “I see you brought the weirdos along for the trip.”
“Hey!” Sara snapped, getting up in her bully’s face. “Don’t you dare insult them!”
Eric came between the two girls and kept them back before they could fight. “Alright, girls, stop it!” Hey yelled.
Sara and Jenna glared at each other before the latter smirked and walked off. “Whatever, I’m not fighting someone who is a complete and utter loser, who lives with wakko toons and a crazy mom, who stole my best friend.”
This set Sara off; she was ready to tackle Jenna to the ground, but everyone except Bassie, Carly, Ben, and Liz held her back. “Sara! Darling! Calm down!” Lewis yelled.
“That’s all she wants, to get a reaction from you!” Oliver added.
“What she needs is for me to kick her in the ass!” Sara yelled, struggling out of everyone’s grip, but everyone held her back tightly.
“Yeah, Sara! Kick her butt!” Ben yelled.
“NOT HELPING!” Everyone yelled.
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After 15 minutes, Sara calmed down, and the group was able to enter the cabin. “Here it is, guys!” Eric announced, opening the door.
“Whoa!” Everyone exclaimed, looking at the cabin.
The cabin looked warm and cozy with two big beds and a couch. There was a fireplace, and right by the beds was the bathroom, which had a hot tub inside.
“I call dibs on the hot tub!” Dandy announced, raising his hand.
“Same here!” Ben and Liz shouted at the same time.
The group laughed as they walked in. The first thing Sara and her friends did was collapse on the bed. They sighed in relief as the bed was soft and warm. “We call this bed.” They said at the same time.
Soon they felt the toons and Oliver’s twin siblings climb up on the bed too. Though Sara and her friends felt uncomfortable with how many people were on the bed with them. “Yep! We fit!” Goob exclaimed.
Lewis sighed. “Darlings, we can’t all fit here!” He complained, trying to make room for him and his friends.
“Sure, we can!” Dandy argued as he and the toons tried to make room.
“Or here’s a better solution.” Eric spoke up as he went to the couch. He removed the cushions and a bed came out. “Tada! Now the toons have a place to sleep!”
The toons took notice and got off Sara and her friends’ bed and into the couch bed. Sara, her friends, and Oliver’s siblings sighed as they finally had room to sleep in.
“Dad! Think we can go hiking after we unpack?” Carly asked.
Eric thought about it. With the long drive and Sara’s encounter with her bully, it felt like it was too late to go on a hike. “Tomorrow, ladybug. Why don’t we rest and relax today?” Eric suggested.
Carly sighed. “Alright.”
Bassie opened her mouth, wanting to say something, but quickly closed it. Eric took notice and went to the basket toon. “Were you going to say something, Bassie?” He asked.
The basket toon squeaked, seeing she was caught, and got nervous. “Uh…yeah, but it’s stupid.” She replied, turning away.
“Well, share with everyone. It can’t be stupid.” Eric encouraged her.
Bassie was nervous about speaking what she wanted to say, but seeing how Eric encouraged her to speak, she gave a small smile to share her idea. “Well, I just thought if we can’t go hiking, then flower picking.”
Eric thought about it and saw there were flowers not far from the campsite that led into the forest. “Well, if you want to go flower picking, then that’s okay.” He said.
Bassie’s eyes lit up with joy, and she quickly ran to hug the teacher. “Oh, thank you! Thank you! Thank you!” She beamed repeatedly.
Eric gave a light chuckle and hugged the toon back. “Anytime. Just don’t go far into the-” He was cut off when he heard the door close, and the toons ran out. “Forest.” Eric sighed and looked at Sara. “How do you not lose your mind over them?”
Sara shrugged. “I grew up with them. I’m used to it.” She replied, causing everyone to laugh.
Outside, Bassie and Dandy were looking for rare flowers with Astro and Goob watching them. “Ahah!” Bassie exclaimed. “A Rue Anémonne! It looks so beautiful in person!”
Dandy looked closer at it. “This one is pink. The one in my flower book is white.” He pointed out.
“These flowers can come in pink or white, Dandy.” Bassie pointed out. “You’re the flower toon, I thought you shared my knowledge?”
Dandy chuckled. “Hey, you’re the flower expert main. Not me.”
Goob then saw a Spring Azure Butterfly and went after it when the other three toons were distracted. The butterfly landed on his head, and he giggled. “Aww, hi, little one.” Goob said, carefully petting the butterfly. The bug got off his head and fluttered around, making the craft toon giggle. The butterfly flew off to the forest, and Goob chased after it. “Hey! Wait, little buddy!” Goob laughed, going deeper into the forest to chase after a butterfly.
In the distance, Jenna saw him go into the forest, and with a smirk, she followed him.
As the main trio was picking flowers while laughing at Dandy’s flower pun, Astro noticed that Goob sounded quiet. “Goob, are you okay? You seem…” He paused when he saw the fluffy craft toon wasn’t around. “Goob! Where did you go?!” The moon toon looked around a bit more before turning to his two friends. “Hey, you two, do you know where Goob is?”
Bassie and Dandy looked at the moon toon in shock before looking around to see that Goob was gone. “Goob’s gone?!” They both shouted.
“W-Where did he go?!” Bassie asked.
“I-I don’t know!” Astro answered. “We have to find him before he gets hurt!” Dandy and Bassie nodded, ready to head into the forest.
“Who got hurt?” Sara asked, coming outside to check on the toons.
The main trio froze in fear, hearing their human friend speak up. They weren’t sure how to tell Sara that Goob was missing, knowing well that, being Delilah’s daughter, she does get everything from her.
“Uh…Bassie.” Dandy spoke up, lightly pushing her towards Sara. “You can tell her, right?”
The basket toon got nervous and went to Dandy, slightly pushing him towards Sara. “You two are best friends, why don’t you tell her?”
Dandy sweated nervously and pushed Astro closer to Sara. “Astro, buddy, you might want to tell her.”
Astro’s eyes widened and he shook his head, not wanting to tell her. “Tell me what?” Sara asked.
“Um…Goob is gone.” Astro uttered with unease.
Sara’s eyes widened in horror. “HE’S WHAT?!” She screamed. The toons flinched, knowing they expected this from Delilah’s daughter. Sara’s yell was so loud that Sara’s friends, her teacher, and his daughter came outside. “W-Where did he go?!”
“Darling, what’s wrong?” Lewis asked.
“Goob went off somewhere!”
“WHAT?!” Everyone yelled.
“W-Where did he go?” Eric asked.
“W-We don’t know!” Astro yelled. “We were just looking at flowers, and poof, he was gone!”
Everyone looked around the area, hoping Goob didn’t go too far. Sara was scared, since her bully was staying at one of these cabins; she knew Jenna had something to do with it. “I’ll go find him!” Sara suggested grabbing her backpack.
Not wanting to see his student go missing, too, Eric put his hand on Sara’s shoulder. “Sara, it’s too dangerous. Let us help you.” He said.
Despite wanting to find Goob by herself and deal with Jenna, she knew Eric wouldn’t take no for an answer. “Alright,” Sara replied, “Oliver, you, Ben, Liz, and Carly stay behind in case Goob comes back.”
“Yes, ma’am!” Ben and Liz exclaimed, giving a salute.
“Mr. Gale, you go with Dandy and Bassie, while Lewis and Astro will be another group.” Sara commanded.
“What about you, darling?” Lewis asked.
“I’ll be fine by myself, no worries.” Sara reassured him.
Lewis, Eric, and Oliver looked at one another, wondering if it was a smart idea for Sara to go by herself. Sensing their worry, Dandy decided to speak up. “You sure? I can go with you.”
Sara gave a smile. “I’ll be fine, don’t worry.”
“Alright.” Dandy replied. “We meet back at the cabins in an hour. If we can’t find him, Eric, Astro, Bassie, and I will find them.”
“Got it.” Everyone replied.
“Alright, darlings, let’s go!” Lewis commanded. Everyone nodded, and the two search parties left the cabin and went into the woods to find Goob. Sara split off from the group, and once she was alone, she took off her backpack and pulled out her pocket knife, revealing it. Her expression glared, reflecting on the blade.
Meanwhile, Goob was laughing, still chasing the butterfly. He stopped realizing he had traveled too far into the forest, and was lost. “Uh…guess the butterfly brought me all the way here.” He said to himself, laughing. The fluffy toon looked around the forest, wondering how to get back to the campsite. “Okay, where do I go from here?”
The forest looked all the same, and with it starting to get dark, it felt like a maze. Goob didn’t know where to go from here, and he didn’t pay attention to any landmarks like Scraps told him to do. “Hmm…maybe if I go North, then that should lead me to camp!” He exclaimed.
A laugh was heard, sending a chill through Goob’s spine. He turned to see Jenna step out from behind the tree. “Man, how dumb can you be?” Jenna asked. Goob gulped as the bully girl walked closer to him. “If you want, I can take you back.”
Goob whimpered and stepped back away from the bully. He tried to run, but due to his long arms, Jenna stepped on his hand, causing Goob to scream in pain and fall to the ground. Jenna hovered over him, and Goob quickly backed up until he hit a tree. “P-Please don’t hurt me.” He whimpered.
Jenna chuckled, and soon she kicked Goob in the stomach, making him yelp. Ichor trickled through his mouth, surprising the bully. “Huh. Black blood?” She whispered. Goob gasped, knowing his ichor was dripping through his mouth. He tried to wipe it off, but Jenna grabbed his hand and squeezed it tightly to prevent him from doing so. “Why is your blood black?”
Goob didn’t answer. He just whimpered as the evil girl gripped his hand tighter. “Let me go! Let me go!” He cried.
“Then tell me, why is your blood black!?” Jenna snapped.
“N-No! HELP ME!” Goob yelled.
SMACK
Jenna slapped Goob hard across the face, causing him to freeze in shock and horror.
“Shut it, you piece of shit.” Jenna growled. “If you’re not gonna tell me. Then I’ll find out myself.” Jenna turned her hands into a fist and was gonna punch Goob as many times as he spilled.
The fluffy toon sniffled, tears falling into his face. He wished Scraps were here, he wished someone, anyone, was here to save him. He closed his eyes, forcing the tears to fall, bracing for the hit.
SRNG!
Jenna stopped what she was doing as she looked down to see that she was stabbed in her lower abdomen. She saw blood leaking through her clothes and put her hand over it to stop the bleeding, but the blood started to stain her hand.
She looked up to see who stabbed her and saw it was Sara holding her pocket knife, staring at Jenna with a blank stare.
“You…” Jenna paused before slapping Sara hard on the face and screamed. “YOU BITCH!”
Sara didn’t flinch and slowly faced Jenna with a blank expression on her face. Her eyes have a pink tint to them.
“Y-YOU FUCKING STABBED ME!” Jenna continued to scream. “ARE YOU REALLY THAT INSANE?!”
Sara didn’t respond, just deepened her glare.
“YOU KNOW ONCE WE…” Jenna paused to cough up some blood. “We…get back from break. I’ll let everyone know you’re nothing but a freak! You’ll be in jail, you’ll lose your friends, and I’ll be around to ‘take care of’ your stupid toons! And you won’t stop-HURK!”
Sara slashed Jenna’s throat in one swipe.
Goob gasped in shock.
Jenna toppled back and forth before falling to the ground, blood spilling into the dirt.
Sara wiped some of the blood from her face before twirling her pocketknife around, closing it, and putting it in her pocket. She sighed and walked over to Goob, holding her hand out. “Goob, are you okay?” She asked, smiling as if nothing happened.
Goob blinked and looked at Jenna’s body before looking up at his human friend. Goob sniffled and wrapped his arms around her and cried. Sara wrapped her arms around the fluffy toon and soothed his back.
“It’s okay. It’s okay your safe. She won’t hurt you anymore.” Sara whispered. The two sat there as Sara comforted the toon. Once Goob relaxed, Sara turned around and lifted Goob on her back, then went over to Jenna’s corpse and picked it up. She walked towards a river, threw Jenna’s body there, and headed back to the cabin.
✿ . ˚ . ˚ ✿.
Sara and Goob walked back into the cabin and saw Oliver, his siblings, and Carly were sleeping. “Good, they're asleep.” Sara whispered, sighing in relief. She slowly closed the door to the cabin and took Goob to the bathroom to clean up.
The first thing Sara did was remove her bloody clothes and put on her pajamas. Then she went to the sink to clean the blood off her pocketknife.
“S-Sara?” Goob asked.
“Yeah, Goob.” Sara replied, turning to the fluffy toon.
“D-Do we tell them what happened?”
Sara was silent for a bit and thought. Sure, everyone hated Jenna and wished she were gone, but the second she tells them she killed her, it could leave conflicting thoughts. “No, if anything, just tell them Jenna hurt you, but she left when I found you.”
Goob wasn’t sure; he hated lying, but he didn’t want to see his friend get in trouble. “W-Well…” He started, but before he could answer, a groan was heard.
Sara quickly turned the water off and carefully cleaned the pocket knife. She peeked from the bathroom and saw Ben waking up. The young boy rubbed his eyes before laying them on Goob.
“GOOB!” Ben yelled. A big smile appeared on his face as he got up from bed, waking everyone else up and hugging the fluffy craft toon. “You’re okay! You’re okay!”
Goob gave a light chuckle and hugged the young boy back. “Yeah, I’m okay, lil’ buddy.” He replied.
“Goob!” Liz exclaimed, hugging Goob as well. The toon laughed and hugged the young girl, making him feel better.
Oliver smiled, seeing that Goob was alright, and turned to Sara. “How is he?” He asked.
“A bit bruised up, but he’ll be fine.” Sara replied. She grabbed another towel and turned the sink on again to get the towel wet. Once it was, Sara wrung out the excess water and went to clean the dirt off of Goob’s fluffy fur.
Moments later, Eric, Lewis, Dandy, and the toons came back and saw that Goob was safe. They were relieved Sara found him first, but the question remained…what happened?
“Darling, what happened? Are you ok?” Lewis asked, walking towards the toon.
“I’m fine.” Goob replied. “Sara saved me.”
Everyone turned to Sara in surprise. The latter nodded, “I found him in the first hurt, but he’s okay.” She explained. Though she kept her eye on Goob, hoping he didn’t tell the truth about what happened.
Astro took notice and turned to Goob. “What happened, Goob?” He asked.
Before Goob could speak, he looked at Sara, who turned away from him. Even though he saw what happened, he had to keep his promise. “Well, I chased a butterfly into the forest.” Goob started. “Then Jenna scared me, and I fell.” It hurt for Goob to lie, but he couldn’t just outright say what happened.
Oliver’s eyes widened. “W-Wait!” He interrupted. “Jenna was in the forest?!”
Goob nodded. “She didn’t…” He paused, as the recent memory of her hurting him haunted his mind. “Hurt me. Just scared me, and I fell.”
“I’m guessing Sara found you and brought you here?” Eric guessed.
Goob nodded again. “Yep!” He replied.
“I couldn’t find Jenna. She must have run off after scaring Goob.” Sara explained, keeping up with the lie.
During Sara’s explanation, Astro took notice of the pocket knife on the bathroom counter. He had to squint, and his eyes widened sawing a bit of blood on the knife. Astro couldn’t react otherwise, it would cause even more questions than answers. He didn’t want to believe it, but despite Jenna being a horrible person, she didn’t have to die.
“Well,” Dandy spoke up, his eyes gaining a red glint. “If we see her again, she’s going to regret it.”
“Oh..y-yeah.” Sara replied nervously.
“The second I see her I’m gonna-”
“Dandy, stop!” Eric cut the flower toon off. He then let out a sigh. All Eric wanted was a fun trip with his daughter, students, and their friends, but this ended up happening. “I know Jenna has been a problem to you guys all these years, but we shouldn’t be angry at her.”
Everyone looked down, knowing the teacher was right. Sara was the most guilty because she ended Jenna’s life short. “Well, she did bully me a lot.” Sara whispered. “Its hard to be angry with her.” Dandy and Bassie frowned and went over to the girl, giving her comfort.
“She was mean to all of us.” Oliver pointed out. “But, I agree with Eric. We’re just stooping to her level if we harm her.”
The guilt started to eat Sara alive, but she pushed it back, knowing Goob was hurt. “You’re right,” she said.
Astro frowned, knowing what Sara did. “Sara…” He whispered.
Here is the next chapter! We’re bringing Ridley into the spotlight! Also DOUBLE UPLOAD!!!
Big thanks to my beta reader @gigilefache
Enjoy!
Sara was inside her office, and opened up another Ichor capsule, and got the procedure ready. On her desk was a drawing of a green lemur toon with four arms with the name Ridley written on the top. She sighed and looked back at her door before looking at the picture of the toon. “For Dreamworld,” Sara whispered. She then started the ichor process to bring the next toon to life.
After bringing Starlight to life, Sara felt more confident in bringing the rest of the toons to life. The process was easy, and she didn’t feel nervous. Just as she was about to do the next step, using a bit of her blood to mix into the ichor, Sara heard the door open and saw Dandy’s petals sticking out.
“Sara?” Dandy asked, opening the door slowly.
Sara looked up and saw Dandy looking worried. “Dandy, what are you doing here?” She asked.
“Lewis was worried about you and asked me to check up on you.” Dandy explained.
Sara sighed. “If you’re trying to stop me from bringing toons to life, then you’re wrong.” She replied.
“I’m not.” Dandy replied, coming inside the office and closing the door gently. “I never stopped your mom, so why would I stop you?”
“True.” Sara realized. She wasn’t born when Delilah was using ichor to bring the toons to life, but she heard the stories from her Uncle Arthur and the other toons about Delilah’s journey using ichor. “Still, what brings you here?”
“I’m just making sure you’re okay. I don’t want you passing out, and no one is there to help you.” Dandy explained.
Sara smiled. “Well, I’m glad you worry about me, Dandy, but I’ve got a toon to create.”
Dandy rolled his eyes and sat up on Sara’s desk. “You sound like your mother.”
“I am her daughter.” Sara replied. The two laughed as Sara continued the process to bring the next toon to life. Dandy watched as Sara did the process, and remembered the early days of Gardenview, where Delilah would bring his friends to life. It felt nostalgic to think about where he got lost in his thoughts while Sara worked on the final process of the experiment.
“Ugh.” A voice groaned. “W-Where am…I” the toon opened his eyes and looked around the room before his eyes landed on Sara and Dandy.
“He’s awake!” Dandy exclaimed with a smile.
Sara sighed in relief, seeing the toon alive. From her appearance, a few strands of hair were sticking from her bun, and ichor stained her fingers. “Hello there, Ridley.” She said, with a smile.
Ridley blinked and looked at his hands, seeing that he was alive. “I-I’m alive?” He asked himself.
“You are.” Sara confirmed.
Ridley was a neon green lemur toon with rainbow colored eyes and four arms. He wore a small green top hat, a ruffled collar, a green outfit with baggy pants splattered with paint, and a multicolored tail.
Ridley looked at himself before laughing. “I’m alive!” He cheered. “I’m alive!” Ridley started jumping around, which surprised Sara and Dandy as they never imagined the toon to be as hyperactive as Yatta. Ridley stopped jumping around and stopped in his place, “Wait, who are you two?”
“I’m Sara. I brought you to life.” Sara answered.
“And I’m Dandicus Dancifer, or Dandy as I’m usually called.” Dandy answered, trying to look cool and presentable for the new toon.
“Sara? Dandy?” Ridley asked, the names sounding familiar. He gasped as his eyes sparkled like stars. “As in, Lewis’ friend Sara?”
Sara’s eyes widened. “How does he know that?” She asked herself. “Y-Yeah, how do you-”
Ridley cut her off. “Know!?” He finished. “Sara, I know a lot of things!” He laughed.
Sara and Dandy gulped, looking at Ridley in fear. “Oh god he’s just as unhinged as Yatta.” They thought at the same time.
Ridley then gasped and went over to Dandy. “So you're Dandy! Wow!” He beamed, putting his hands to his face. “You're…short.”
Dandy grumbled, his eyes having a tint of red. “I…know that.” He said in a low growl.
Sara chuckled, hearing Dandy getting teased for being short. “He is short.”
Dandy growled and turned to Sara. “I may be short, but I’m older than you!” He yelled.
“Are you sure about that, darling?” Starlight asked.
Sandy growled at his new best friend.
Sara started to laugh, but groaned when she felt a headache coming on due to the ichor process. “Ugh.”
“Sara?” Dandy asked, calming down due to worry for his friend.
Ridley paused and turned to Sara, seeing her holding on to her head in pain. “Uh, you okay?” He asked.
“I’m fine,” Sara replied weakly. She felt her knees shake. “Why now? Why now!?” She thought to herself.
Ridley walked over to Sara. “You don’t look okay. Do you want me to get help?” He asked.
Sara tried to answer him, but the second she opened her mouth, she blacked out.
“SARA!”
Sara groaned as she slowly opened her eyes. Her vision was blurry, only seeing splotches of rainbow, blue, and green. “Is she okay?” A voice asked.
“Look! She’s slowly opening her eyes!” Another voice exclaimed, pointing out that Sara was waking up.
Sara closed her eyes once more and opened them to see her vision clear, and she saw Starlight, Dandy, and Ridley hovering over her. Dandy gasped and hugged Sara tightly, seeing she was okay. “Sara! You’re okay!” He exclaimed.
“W-What happened?” Sara asked, trying to remember what happened.
“You brought Ridley to life and passed out for over 3 hours.” Sara turned to see it was Oliver who spoke. He stood by the doorway with his arms crossed, looking disappointed. Sara was about to ask, but Oliver spoke up and slowly walked over to her. “What were you thinking, Sara?”
“I just wanted another toon.” Sara admitted. “The deadline is drawing near, and-” Sara explained, slowly getting up and holding Dandy in her arms, before being cut off by Oliver.
“And what?!” Oliver yelled, causing Sara to step back, letting out a squeak. “Trying to get yourself killed!”
Sara didn’t know how to respond to her best friend and looked down in shame. Dandy frowned and patted his friend’s arm. “Oliver,” he said, turning to the tall boy. “Don’t go hard on her.”
“Dandy, I have to! You always say you consider Sara as family, and I’m part of that family!” Oliver replied.
Dandy sighed. He knew Oliver wasn’t wrong. When Oliver’s parents abandoned him and his siblings, Delilah made the choice to take them in. It surprised Dandy that Delilah was kind enough to do that, even though she didn’t sound like that kind of person.
“I understand, Oliver,” Sara said in a low voice.
Oliver sighed, “I’m not angry, I just worry as any family member would.” He explained. “However, this whole ichor thing sounds dangerous. I don’t know how Delilah dealt with this, but if it was anything like what Sara is going through, then…then…” Oliver paused, not daring to say it.
“Oliver,” Sara spoke up. The taller boy looked over at his friend. “I understand why you’re worried about me, but I know what I’m doing.”
“You say that, but how do I know nothing bad would happen to you?” Oliver asked.
“My mom has done this a bunch of times,” Sara answered.
Dandy nodded, confirming Sara’s story. “She’s done this about a hundred times, and all she got was headaches, illness, and passing out on her desk.” He explained.
Sara frowned at the flower toon while Oliver, Starlight, and Ridley looked horrified. She pulled on Dandy’s yellow petal tight and growled, “Not helping Dandy.”
“Ow! Ow!” Dandy exclaimed. “Sara, the petals! The petals!” He tried to pull Sara’s hand away from his petals. However, Sara had a strong yet careful grip on his petals.
Oliver frowned, knowing he’s getting nowhere to stop Sara. “Did she have help?” He asked.
Sara and Dandy stopped their mini fight and looked at one another. “Uhhh…” They both said at the same time, knowing well Delilah didn’t.
“Not that I know of.” Dandy answered.
Oliver sighed. “Then, let me help you.”
Sara and Dandy looked at the taller boy in shock. “What?” They both asked.
“If you’re set on doing this. Then I want to help.” Oliver stated.
Sara smiled. “Thanks, Oliver.”
Oliver smiled back in reply. A sniffle was heard, and the three turned to Ridley, crying and using a tissue to wipe his eyes. “So beautiful.” He cried as he blew his nose hard; a honk was heard.
Starlight glanced at the two founders and Dandy, before Ridley pulled Starlight into a huge hug. “Gah!” Starlight gasped. “D-Darling! C-Can’t breathe!”
Oliver, Sara, and Dandy chuckled seeing Ridley being a hugger. “I know Goob is gonna love him.” Dandy mentioned.
Ridley, still hugging Starlight, looked at Dandy. “Wait, there are more new friends?!” He asked. Starlight’s face turned purple from how tightly Ridley was hugging him.
Dandy nodded as he got out of Sara’s grasp. “Oh yeah, there’s a ton of us!” He exclaimed.
Ridley gasped, putting his four hands to his face, laughing in joy as he dropped Starlight in the process. The star toon was finally able to breathe.
“Finally!” Starlight gasped.
“You must let me meet them!” Ridley begged, grabbing Dandy’s hands.
Dandy nodded. “Of course, just follow-ME!” Dandy screamed as Ridley dragged Dandy out of the room before he could finish what he said.
Lewis was walking into the room and stepped back, shocked seeing Ridley drag Dandy out of the room. He looked at Sara, Oliver, and Starlight in shock. “Uh…was that…” He trailed off.
Sara and Oliver nodded at the same time.
Lewis looked back at where the two toons went off to and back at his friends. “Did you bring them to life, darling?” He asked.
“Yep.” Sara replied, popping the p.
Lewis sighed. “Next time ask me to help you.”
“Don’t worry about that, darling.” Starlight replied. “Oliver said he’ll be helping too.”
Lewis’ eyes widened and turned to Oliver, who nodded in reply. Lewis sighed, “Well, I suppose then I should help too.”
Sara looked at Lewis, shocked. “Why are you shocked, darling?” Starlight asked, looking up at Sara. “You should know that you and Lewis brought me to life.”
“True.” Sara groaned. She then took a deep breath and looked determined. “Alright, next toon we bring to life it will be the three of us! I promise!”
Lewis smiled while Oliver looked a bit nervous. “Not right now, right?” Oliver asked.
Sara chuckled as she shook her head. “Nah, I’ll give it a few more days.”
CRASH!
BANG!
“Wait, Astro, let me see your four arms!” Ridley yelled.
“No! Dandy, help!” Astro yelled.
The founder trio stared at what they heard and slowly looked at one another. “Want to give it a week?” Sara asked
“Yep!” Lewis and Oliver replied.
“Should we help Astro?” Starlight asked.
“Yep!” The Founder Trio replied.
The founder trio and Starlight left the office and went to Ridley and Astro before the toons made a mess of things.
I had to hold off writing this as the August Update was on its way and wanted to see what was to offer.
Big thanks to @gigilefache for being my beta reader!
Enjoy!
The following morning, Sara, Lewis, and Oliver made it back to Dreamworld to work on more development of the facility. Before they started, Sara had some news she wanted to share with the Gardenview toons.
The toons were waiting in the conference room for Sara and her friends to share the news. They were filled with anxiety and excitement over what was going to be shared.
Dandy was seated at the front, excited for Sara to share the news. One of the toons, a TV toon wearing a lime green bowtie, Vee, was curious about the flower toon’s excited behavior. “Why are you excited?” She asked.
“Because I know what the big news is, and you don’t.” Dandy proudly said, pointing at himself before pointing at Vee, strumming her antenna in the process.
Vee growled. She and Dandy were “friends,” but she never saw him as her best friend. More of a nuisance. “Fling my antenna again, and I’ll pluck a petal from your stupid little head.”
Dandy chuckled. “You're welcome to try.” He teased, flinging Vee’s antenna again.
Vee stood up from her chair, ready to pluck Dandy’s petals, before she felt a hand grab her and made her sit down. The TV toon saw it was her friend, a beige ammonite toon wearing a brown brace skirt over a light brown sleeves shirt, Shelly, who stopped her.
“Vee, relax. You know Dandy loves messing with you.” Shelly reminded her friend.
Vee glared and crossed her arms. Shelly sighed in relief, glad she prevented another fight between Dandy and Vee.
Shelly felt someone tap her shoulder and turned to see a strawberry toon wearing a pink and white scarf named Sprout. “Shells, do you know why Sara called us in for?” He asked.
“Not sure,” Shelly answered, giving a shrug.
Outside the conference room, Starlight overheard all the Gardenview toons talking and waiting for his debut. The star toon was so nervous that he needed to think of a way to make his introduction.
“Alright, I’ll just burst through the door and shout Hello, my Gardenview darlings!” He exclaimed, but stopped, realizing that it sounded bad. “No, too much. Hm…” Starlight started to think of a different introduction. “Oh, wait, maybe I can be shy and nervous about it like…” Starlight paused as he pretended to look shy and nervous. “Um…hi, I’m Starlight, nice to meet everyone.”
“What are you doing, darling?” Lewis asked, interrupting Starlight.
Starlight jumped to see Lewis, Oliver, and Sara. “Oh! Hi Lewis.” He gasped, seeing he was caught. “I was just practicing on how I should introduce myself to the toons. Should I be shy and nervous or be full of energy?”
Lewis and his friends chuckled. “You like following tropes, huh?” Lewis asked. Starlight shook his head excitedly. “Well, how do you feel right now?”
“Nervous, but excited.” Starlight answered. “I mean, I’m meeting other toons for crying out loud!”
“Don’t worry, Star.” Sara started. “I’ve grown up with these toons, they’ll like you the second they see you.” She smiled, pointing at herself.
“UGH! I HATE WAITING!” A voice yelled inside. Sara’s expression changed from happy to deadpan in a second.
Starlight flinched at whoever yelled inside. “Uh…who was that?” He asked, nervously.
“Shrimpo.” Lewis and his friends answered in a monotone voice.
Sara sighed, seeing that the toons were getting anxious over her announcement. “Alright, I guess I’ll tell them now.” She said. Starlight smiled, and Sara walked inside the room. The toons took notice and went quiet as they smiled at the woman. “Hey guys, sorry for the wait.”
“Hey, Sara!” The toons exclaimed, saying hi to their human friend.
Vee used her microphone tail and tapped the mic to see if it was working. Once it was, the TV toon spoke through the mic. “Well, I heard from a certain someone,” Vee paused to glare at Dandy, who gave an innocent smile. “You have some news for us.”
Sara nodded. “I sure have.” She replied. “So, I know it’s been years since mom brought a toon to life, but that’s changing as I, with the help of Lewis, brought a toon to life!”
Many of the toons looked surprised, while some weren’t, as Sara was Delilah’s daughter.
“Wait.” A toon spoke up, as everyone turned to him. The toon was a craft toon with a square head and long flexible arms, with one hand being blue and one being red. “A new toon is coming?”
“Yes, Goob. He’s outside the door, and he’s excited to meet you!” Sara exclaimed.
The group turned to the door as it slowly opened. Starlight peered through the door and saw the toons smile upon seeing him. Starlight gulped and looked up at Lewis. “It’s okay, Starlight. I’m right behind you.” Lewis reassured the toon.
Starlight gave a small smile and walked inside. He walked towards Sara and stood by her side. “Everyone, meet Starlight.” Sara introduced the toons.
Starlight lightly chuckled, “Hello there, darlings.” He said, giving a small wave.
“Hey, Astro.” Sprout spoke up, budding the moon toon. “Looks like you finally got a star buddy.”
Astro chuckled nervously, not sure how to feel about it.
“So, your Astro.” Starlight spoke up, pointing at the moon toon.
“Mhm.” Astro replied with a nod. He stood up from his seat and walked over to Starlight. “Hi there, I’m Astro Novalite.” Right in front of Starlight was a sparkling blue star. It amazed the star toon as he looked over at the moon toon. “It’s my way of shaking hands.”
Starlight nodded and held the star in his hand. It glowed brightly before fading away. The two toons looked at each other and chuckled.
Dandy jumped out of his seat and went over to put his arm around Astro, surprising the latter. “You and Star are gonna get along just fine.” He beamed.
“I think we already are darling,” Starlight replied.
Sara smiled, seeing she was right. Lewis and Oliver went to stand next to her before Sara shared the next bit of news. “Alright, for today, while you all are introducing yourselves to the new toon, you also get to help us set up for Dreamworld!”
The toons cheered in celebration. “Finally!” A piñata toon, Yatta, exclaimed. “The Circus Troupe and I were thinking of adding some circus flair to the facility.”
The Founder Trio chuckled, seeing that everyone was ready to help out with Dreamworld.
There wasn't much on the agenda, just getting the speakers and the furniture all sorted out. While many of the toons were setting up, a few of the toons stood with Starlight to ask him questions. One or two of the toons, conjoined twins named Razzle and Dazzle, were the most excited to meet Starlight, well, Razzle more than Dazzle.
“So, is it true you like theater?” Razzle asked.
“Indeed, I do, darling!” Starlight answered.
Razzle was ecstatic. “Hear that, Dazzle, we got ourselves an acting buddy!” He beamed.
“Or a rival,” Dazzle mumbled.
Starlight heard what Dazzle said, and put his hand on Razzle, or Dazzle’s shoulder. “Nah, I don’t see acting as competition.” He reassured the toon. Dazzle gave a small smile in reply.
Soon, Starlight felt someone put his arms around him and turned to see it was the mirror toon, Glisten. “So darling,” he spoke up. “Since you're into show biz, I’m sure you heard of the perfect me!”
“Uh…do I know you?” Starlight asked, confused.
“Gliss,” Vee spoke up, pulling Glisten away. “Starlight has only been alive for a few days. He doesn’t know anyone yet.”
“I know.” Glisten replied. “But if he hasn’t met me yet, he has now.”
Vee rolled her eyes over her friend’s behavior.
Sara and Lewis paused with their work and smiled at the toons in the distance. “They seem to be getting along quite nicely, darling,” Lewis said.
“They sure are.” Sara added.
The two then heard Goob grunting as he dragged one of the speakers to hang it up. “Goob! Need help there, darling!” Lewis called out.
“No thanks! I got it!” Goob called out, continuing to drag the speaker.
Sara looked around to see which toon could help the fluffy craft toon and spotted Astro helping Shelly put chairs in the party room.
“Astro!” Sara called out.
The moon toon jumped a bit, hearing his name called out. He looked around and saw it was Sara, pointing over to Goob, ready to carry the speaker and hang it up on the corner ceiling. Astro nodded and used his magic to help Goob carry the speaker and hook it up.
“Alright, I got the speakers up!” Goob exclaimed, giving Oliver and Lewis a thumbs-up.
Astro smiled and stopped his magic before going back to what he was doing.
“Well then, let’s test them out,” Oliver said. He took out his phone and went to play the music he created for the facility playlist.
My Little Soda Pop
You’re all I can think of
Every drop I drink up
You're my soda pop
My little soda-
Oliver’s eyes widened, hearing what was being played, and he quickly paused it. He gave a nervous chuckle as he turned to his friends, who smirked and chuckled. “T-That was Liz’s playlist. Don’t know how it got there.” He lied. “Ah, here's the playlist.” Oliver clicked play on the correct playlist as it started to play dance party music.
Goob started to bop his head to the music. “This is nice!” He exclaimed.
“Thanks, a friend of mine helped us with the music.” Oliver replied. “Although I’m willing to play some of my music if needed.”
“Like your Internet meme playlist!” Dandy exclaimed.
“Hey, that’s private!” Oliver snapped, causing everyone to laugh. Suddenly, a knock was heard at the door, pausing everyone’s laughter.
Sara turned to the door and saw a deliveryman. She smiled, knowing what that was, and ran to the door, opening it.
“Hi, are you one of the founders of Dreamworld?” The delivery man asked.
Sara nodded. “Yes, I’m Sara Covetman-Keen.”
“Sign here.” The delivery man said, handing Sara a signature board. She quickly signed her name and handed it back to the deliveryman. The man then went to the truck and brought out a bunch of packages on a cart, which made Sara’s smile widen. The delivery man made two more trips, bringing in package after package, before leaving.
“Yes! It’s here!” Sara cheered.
The toons peered through the room and went over to Sara, curious at what she ordered. “What did you order, Sara?” Scraps asked.
“The uniforms for the facility.” Sara answered as she cut it open with a pocketknife. She opened the box, and the toons’ eyes sparkled at the colorful uniforms.
The magnifying glass, toon, Rodger looked at the uniforms closely before turning to the human. “Why is each uniform a different color?” He asked.
“Well, since the facility has a different attraction. Lewis, Oliver, and I figured it's best to have a different uniform to tell which attraction they work for.” Sara explained.
“Oh, like how Gardenview was.” Astro pointed out.
“Exactly!”
The toons looked at the uniforms, but saw they were human-sized. Curiously, Goob asked Sara a question. “Sara, you said we can help out at Dreamworld, right?” He asked. Sara nodded. “So where are our uniforms?”
The toons started to ask Sara about that too, and she gave a sigh. “Sorry, guys, they couldn’t make uniforms in your size.”
“Aww.” The toons sighed.
Sara then smiled and grabbed another box, opening it to reveal the uniforms for the toons. “Just kidding, I got them right here!” She revealed.
The toons smiled widely as Sara put the box down on the ground, and the toons looked at the uniforms for Dreamworld. There were seven different colored uniforms, each representing a different area of the facility.
“Look at all the uniforms!” A cake roll toon, Cosmo exclaimed.
“Sara, do you know which area of the facility were working in?” Shelly asked, looking up at the human.
“Well, I figured since I’ve told you what Dreamworld has to offer, I’m letting you guys pick where you want to work.” Sara replied.
The second she said that, the toons gave a wide smile and started to dig through the box for their uniforms. A fishbow toon, Finn, pulled out a blue uniform. “Is this the Seaventure uniform?” He asked.
Sara nodded. “Sure is.”
“Yes!” Finn cheered. “I’ve been Whale-ing for this forever.”
Sara chuckled at the pun as Finn went off to put on his uniform. Glisten groaned at the pun as he looked through the box for his uniform. He looked through the box until he found a turquoise uniform with an orange collar and a yellow star in the front. “Uh…is this the Staract uniform?” He asked.
“Yep.” Sara replied. “And before you ask, no I’m not customising it to your perfection.”
Glisten glared and walked off with the uniform over his shoulder. Sara gave a light chuckle until she felt a uniform get thrown into her face. She removed the uniform and saw Shrimpo digging through the uniform box to find one that suited him.
“UGH! Nothing here fits my personality!” Shrimpo yelled.
Sara sighed and rolled her eyes. “What kind of uniform are you looking for, Shrimpo?” She asked.
“Something that I won’t hate.” Shrimpo replied.
“Which is almost everything,” Sara grumbled as she went through the box. She took her time looking through the box of uniforms, which made Shrimpo impatient. “Aha! Here’s one!” Sara pulled the uniform from the box and threw it at Shrimpo’s face.
Shrimpo growled as he removed the uniform from his face and looked at it. The Racetrack uniform was yellow with orange zigzag and sun patterns. “Hmm…I guess I’ll take it.” He said.
“Aww.” Finn spoke up, coming in and wearing the Seaventure uniform. He went over to Shrimpo and put his arm around him. “I thought you would work with me, guppy.” He gave a pout as Shrimpo growled, seeing his friend putting his arm around him.
“Why would I work in a pool area where kids would treat me like a beach ball?” Shrimpo asked, growling.
Finn thought for a while, and Shrimpo was displeased knowing he would be taking a while to think. “Hmm…because you would have a whale of a time?” Finn guessed.
Sara, Lewis, Oliver, and a few toons chuckled over Finn’s pun, while Glisten and a few other toons groaned. Shrimpo sighed before removing Finn’s arm around him and walking off.
“Shrimpo! Wait up, my beta friend!” Finn called out, chasing after his friend.
Sara rolled her eyes, but was glad it ended with less Shrimpo screaming “I hate this” or “I hate that”. She turned to the other toons who had already picked out their uniforms.
“Sara! What is the uniform for Rollerink?” Yatta asked.
Sara looked for the uniform and saw it on the ground. The Rollerink uniform was pink with neon green and yellow lightning bolts. “Here you go!” She yelled, throwing the uniform to the piñata toon who caught it.
Yatta smiled, seeing the uniform, and hugged it tight.
“You know I’m surprised you and the Circus Trope want to do something different.” Oliver spoke up as he walked towards them. “But you three would love Trampoland! Why the change?”
“Well, Trampoland sounds fun, but…” Looey turned to Blot to complete the sentence.
“.tnereffid gnihtemos yrt ot tnaw eW” Blot finished.
Yatta nodded, “since Carly has been teaching me and Gigi rollerskating, I want to show off my tricks and skills to the kids!” She exclaimed.
Oliver smiled and patted Yatta on the head. “What areas were you two thinking of working at?”
Looey and Blot looked at one another before looking at the box. The balloon toon then noticed a red uniform at the bottom of the box.
It was a strawberry red uniform with green and pink stripes and circles.
“What is this attraction for?” Looey asked.
“Well, I have a secret I’ve been keeping from you toons,” Sara said. The toons turned to Sara, hearing she had news. Sara then faced the main toons, who were gathered with Starlight. “Astro, Sprout, and Shelly. This involves you three.”
The three toons looked at one another before looking at the woman. “What’s the surprise?” Shelly asked.
“Remember your old areas back in Gardenview?”
The toons nodded. “How could I forget my area?” Sprout spoke up, reminiscing about his floor. “You loved my picnic area!”
Sara chuckled, remembering having picnics with her mom, Arthur, and the toons in Sprout’s picnic area. “Well, I plan on bringing back your areas, but with a Dreamworld twist.”
The three toons gasped in excitement. “What kind of twists?” Sprout asked.
Sara turned to Astro, “Astro, your area would be called Moonground, an indoor playground.” Sara revealed.
Astro gave a small smile, hearing that his area is a playground. As if Dreamworld wasn’t a big enough playground already. “Cool, but how does a playground fit with me?” He asked.
“Well, if the younger kids don’t want to be overwhelmed with the bigger attractions, they can play there.” Oliver explained.
“Not only that, but we also added a small rest area as well.” Lewis added.
Astro's smile widened. “Perfect.”
Sara then turned to Shelly. “Shelly,” Sara started as the ammonite toon looked up. “Your area is called the Sandsite, a big sandbox where kids can dig up fake dinosaur bones and treasures."
Shelly gasped as her eyes sparkled like stars. “Do they get to keep them like back in Gardenview?” She asked.
Sara nodded. “Yep, or they can trade it for something else.”
“Sweet!” Shelly cheered, giggling in excitement.
Sara chuckled and turned to Sprout. “And Sprout.” She started as the strawberry toon turned to face her. “Your area would be called Sweet Shack, a place where kids can bake treats and a built-in bakery.”
“Does that mean I’ll be using an oven again?” Sprout asked.
Sara nodded. “With extra help!” She added.
“Awesome!” Sprout cheered.
Looey, still holding the uniform, smiled, deciding he would help out with Sprout at Sweet Shack.
Hearing about Sprout having his own area, Cosmo dropped the Madhouse uniform and went to pick up a Sweet Shack uniform.
Vee smiled, hearing her friends got their own attractions, and turned to Sara and her friends. “So, what about me?” Vee asked.
Sara and her friends looked at each other before looking at the TV toon. “How do we tell her?” Oliver asked.
Vee frowned. “I don’t have my own area here, do I?” She asked.
“You do!” Sara exclaimed, reassuring her. “It’s just…”
“Since you were a game show host, having another theater would be a bit much, so you and Starlight are sharing Staract.” Lewis explained.
Vee’s expression dropped to absolute shock as Starlight’s eyes widened, sparkling with joy. Dandy snickered, seeing his frenemy getting a roommate or showmate. Vee heard the flower toon snicker as she slowly turned to him with a glare. Starlight then went over to Vee and gave her a huge hug.
“Oh, darling!” Starlight exclaimed. “This is going to be fun!”
“Yeah…” Vee trailed off. “Fun.”
Lewis kneeled and put his hand on Vee’s shoulder. “Don’t worry, we have a schedule planned to keep it even.” He reassured her.
“And to top it off,” Glisten spoke, putting his hand on Vee’s other shoulder, while showing the Staract uniform in front of her face. “I’ll work alongside you.”
“Great.” Vee said sarcastically.
Seconds later, the door to the facility opened, and everyone turned, smiling to see who it was. It was an older man in his 30s with his daughter in her early teens. “Seems like everyone is having fun today!” He exclaimed.
“Morning, Eric!” Lewis beamed.
“Morning, guys! How are you all today?” Eric asked.
“Doing good, just getting the toons their uniforms for the facility.” Sara replied. She then turned to her teacher’s daughter, “Carly, how are you doing this morning?”
Carly shrugged. “Fine” she replied, “listen, are Yatta and Toodles available? I was going to take them to the skate park to practice their skating skills.”
Starlight was confused seeing the two other people and hearing about a skate park, got excited. “Oooh! Can I join, darling?” He asked.
Carly let out a scream and hid behind her dad’s back, shivering. Slowly, she peeked from her dad to see Starlight. “Sara, is this another room?” She asked.
Sara chuckled. “Yep, meet Starlight.” She introduced the star toon to Carly.
“Nice to meet ya, darling!” Starlight exclaimed, holding his hand out. Carly kept her distance, making Starlight worried. “Hey, don’t worry. I don’t bite.”
“It’s not your fault Starlight,” Eric said, “Carly isn’t into things coming to life. Give her time, and she’ll get used to ya.”
Starlight nodded, understanding. Still, he felt bad scaring her. “I apologize for scaring you, Carly.”
“It’s fine,” Carly replied. “So, Yatta, Toodles, ready to go?”
The two toons looked at one another and smiled before looking at Sara. “Miss Sara, could we please go?” Toodles asked.
Sara thought about it for a second and smiled. “Alright, you two can take a break to have fun.”
“Yay!” Toodles cheered.
Yatta smiled and grabbed Toodles’ hand. “Vamonos Toodles!” She exclaimed. The piñata toon grabbed Carly’s hand, and they were out the door. “Later!”
The adults chuckled, seeing the three go off to have fun. “So, other than the toon’s uniforms, what else has been going on?” Eric asked, calming down.
“We got the speakers up so music can be played.” Goob answered.
“And we got the Staract stage curtain up and ready to go!” Razzle added.
“That’s about it.” Dazzle mumbled.
Eric nodded. “Well, that’s good.” He said. “How about an hour of work and then a break?”
Everyone smiled. “Sounds good to me!” Lewis exclaimed.
Sara nodded. In her mind, she knew that with the facility almost done, only one new toon was created. She was hoping today she could bring the next toon to life, but needed an excuse to slip back into her office and get to work.
Lewis saw his best friend lost in her thoughts and snapped her fingers right in front of her, causing Sara to jump. “W-What Lewis?!” Sara yelped.
Lewis jumped back a bit. “Sorry, but you were spacing out.” He said.
“Oh, sorry.” Sara replied.
“You okay?”
Sara nodded. “Yeah. I forgot I had some paperwork in my office that I needed to work on. You, Eric, and Oliver, stay with the toons while I do my thing.”
“Oh, okay then.” Lewis said. He knew Sara was making excuses to go out and do something stupid. “I’ll call you in an hour for lunch.”
“Okay. Thanks, Lewis.” Sara said, walking to her office. She turned around once more with a smile and continued to walk.
Once Sara was gone, Lewis turned to Dandy. “Dandy, darling,” Lewis said.
Dandy turned to the young man. “Yeah.” He replied.
“Keep an eye on Sara. I know she’s doing something stupid, and I need someone to keep an eye on her.”
HAPPY POKEMON DAY WTDW FANS!!! We got some news about Gen 10 aka Pokemon Winds and Waves and I promised some updates so here we go!!
So, Gen 10 doesn't come out until 2027, BUT we do have starters. I'm still gonna have Gen 10 in this AU BUT it won't be until Gen 10 is fully released or if we get more information between now and release date.
However, this means I can reveal season 2/arc 2 of Dreamers of Myths and Legends after the Faraway Island arc, which will be called Beyond the Path. This arc features The Dream Quartet actually exploring the world and going on missions.
Lastly, Wiatt is finally getting a starter Pokemon as I promised I'd give him one when Gen 10 starters drop, soo...
Dreamers of Myths & Legends Chap. 12-The Ghost Eye Detective
The next chapter is here and we’re getting another Dreamworld character into the AU! The Ghost Eyes Detective himself, Damien. So even though my fanfics are written ahead of time while I wait on my beta reader to beta read them, working on this chapter was a bit of a challenge as I didn’t have a full blown plot for this.
I took some time thinking about this fanfic and somehow a spark of inspiration came back with the July Pokémon Presents.
Thanks to @gigilefache for being my beta reader.
Enjoy!!
One night in Saffron City, a man walked into his apartment with his Umbreon by his side. Once inside, he closed the door and threw the folders on his desk. The man in question was Damien Klein.
Damian had brown hair and heterochromia with one eye being grey and the other being purple. He wore a brown coat over a black Hawaiian shirt with crescent moon patterns all over it, grey pants, and black sneakers.
Damien sat down and opened the folders, reading through his discoveries for an important investigation he was working on.
“Hmm…” The man said as he looked through the files.
“Umbre?” Umbreon asked, looking up at his trainer.
“Just going through the files again,” Damien replied. “Hoping we could find any information about who we are looking for.”
Umbreon looked at the files on the table and pulled one of them out. “Umbreon! Um!” Umbreon barked.
Damien turned to the Moonlight Pokémon, who shoved the file over to him. The detective took the file and opened it; his eyes widened as he read through the file. He looked up at his Umbreon and back at the file. “It’s not enough for our investigation, but it's a start,” Damien said. He got up, ready to leave. “Let’s go, Umbreon.”
“Umbreon,” Umbreon replied, following his trainer. The two left their apartment as they went to look for their person, Wiatt Nicholson.
The next afternoon, it was another relaxing day at the facility, and the group was having lunch. The Dream Quartet and the Gales were having curry, while their Pokémon ate Pokémon Food with a side of curry.
Wiatt was the first one to finish and leaned back on his chair, feeling satisfied. “Man, that was good.” He sighed. “Thanks for the lunch, Eric.”
“No problem,” Eric replied.
Oddity finished eating his lunch and still felt hungry for more. He brought his bowl over to Wiatt. “Vee! Vee!” He exclaimed.
“You want more, Oddity?” Wiatt asked.
Oddity nodded in reply. “Vee!”
Wiatt chuckled, getting up from his chair. “Alright, alright.” He said. Wiatt took Oddity’s bowl and filled it up with more Pokémon food and curry. Oddity’s tail wagged excitedly to eat a second serving of food. Wiatt walked back to where everyone was sitting and put Oddity’s bowl back down on the ground. The Eevee ran over to his bowl and started to take big bites of his second serving of lunch.
The group chuckled, seeing someone had an appetite this afternoon. Eric then stopped laughing when he realized he had some news for the group. “Oh, I got some good news for you all.” He said.
The Dream Quartet stopped laughing and turned to the Professor. “I’ve been trying to get in contact with some colleagues who may know about Faraway Island, and currently someone in Johto might have some information.
“Really?” Wiatt asked, eyes widened.
Eric nodded. “Once I hear from them. I’ll let you know so you can make your way over there.”
Wiatt smiled as he took a bite of his lunch. Every piece of good news about Faraway Island meant getting closer to catching up to Mew. We’re so close now. Wiatt thought to himself.
“Eevee! Vee!” Oddity exclaimed.
Wiatt snapped out of his thoughts and turned to Oddity, who was already done with his second serving of lunch. By the look on his expression, he wanted to do some training.
“I see you want to do some training!” Wiatt exclaimed.
“Vee!” Oddity beamed, in reply.
Wiatt chuckled. “Alright, we’ll finish up with lunch, and we’ll start, okay?”
Oddity nodded, then something caught his eye. “Vee?” He questioned. Outside the window, he saw a shadow walk by and disappear into view.
The Eevee was curious and, while everyone was focused on eating, decided to follow the shadow around the lab. He went into the lab area, but couldn’t find the shadow. He looked around until the shadow ran into view.
“Eevee?” Oddity asked, seeing Umbreon outside the lab. Oddity’s eyes widened and sparkled as he ran outside to meet with the Umbreon. “Eevee!”
Umbreon didn’t say much as he looked down at its pre-evolution. Oddity, on the other hand, was wagging his tail and jumping up and down to get the attention of the Moonlight Pokémon. The latter sighed and nuzzled Oddity, causing him to laugh.
Meanwhile, Sprigatito and Scorbunny came into the room, looking for Oddity so he could play with them, but they didn’t see the normal type around. The two looked around and called out to their friend until Sprigatito saw Oddity outside with the Umbreon.
“Meow! Meow!” Sprigatito called out to Scorbunny. The fire-type walked over to his friend as she pointed at the scene going down.
“Umbre.” Umbreon said.
“Vee?” Oddity asked, tilting his head.
“Umbre. Umbreon!” Umbreon exclaimed, telling Oddity to follow him. Oddity nodded and followed its evolution.
Scorbunny and Sprigatito’s eyes widened as they freaked out, and went downstairs, and called for their trainers.
Back in the kitchen, everyone was doing dishes until they heard the two Pokémon calling for help as they came running down and tried to explain the situation they just witnessed. However, the two Pokémon were talking over one another, which confused the group.
“Darlings, darlings, slow down,” Lewis said, calming down the two Pokémon. Sprigatito and Scorbunny paused as they looked up at the boy. “Now tell me what’s going on?”
“Scor! Scorbun bun!” Scorbunny shouted, waving his hands. He paused to nudge Sprigatito to go along with his story, and she nodded in reply. Scorbunny tried to imitate Oddity, while Sprigatito imitated Umbreon. The two re-enacted the scene they saw earlier, which confused the rest of the group.
However, Sara was able to understand them. “Wait, are you saying Oddity followed a Pokémon?” She asked.
Scorbunny and Sprigatito nodded.
Sara’s friends turned towards the girl. “How did you know?” Carly asked.
“I’ve just learned how to understand Pokémon. You can thank my caretaker for that.” Sara explained.
Skiddo bleated and nodded, confirming that what her trainer said was true.
“Wait, Oddity followed some strange Pokémon?!” Wiatt asked, fearful for his Pokémon.
Skiddo, Scorbunny, and Sprigatito nodded and confirmed with Oddity’s trainer. The group looked horrified as they ran outside and started to call for Oddity.
“Oddity!” Wiatt yelled. However, he didn’t hear his Pokémon respond. “Oddity!” Wiatt yelled louder, causing an echo. Wiatt frowned, scared of what happened to his partner. He then felt a hand on his shoulder, and turned to see it was Lewis.
“Don’t worry, darling. We’ll find him.” Lewis reassured his best friend.
Wiatt smiled, blushing slightly. He nodded, trusting his friend.
Skiddo and Sprigatito sniffed the ground and started to call out to their trainers as they caught Oddity and Umbreon’s footprints.
“Look!” Lewis exclaimed.”Footprints.”
“Meow! Meow!” Sprigatito exclaimed.
Wiatt kneeled and took a closer look. He recognized Oddity’s footprints, but he didn’t recognize the other footprints. “Those are Oddity’s footprints, but I don’t know who made the other prints.”
“Well, we’d better go find them.” Oliver spoke up. The Dream Quartet nodded and followed the footprints. From there, they followed the footprints to the city, where the trail ended.
It was busy today in the city, and the Dream Quartet sighed, realizing finding Oddity and the mystery Pokémon was going to be harder than expected. “Great! How are we going to find them now?!” Sara yelled.
Seconds later, Oliver’s Poké Ball opened, releasing his Rotom. “Ro! Rotom!” They beamed.
“Rotom?!” Everyone shouted.
“How do you know how to get out of your Poké Ball?” Oliver asked.
“Rotom! Ro! Ro!” Rotom beamed zipping back and forth, ignoring Oliver’s question.
Oliver groaned seeing Rotom wasn’t answering him. “Rotom, could you at least help us find Oddity?” He asked again.
Rotom stopped zipping around and nodded with a smile. “Ro.” They replied, agreeing to help his trainer and his friends.
“Meow!” Sprigatito exclaimed, wanting to help too.
“Piplup!” Piplup added.
“Scorbun!” Socbunny cheered, agreeing to the same thing.
The Dream Quartet smiled seeing their Pokémon wanted to help out as well. “Alright, let’s find Oddity.” Wiatt stated.
“Right.” Everyone agreed.
The group went around town looking and calling out for Oddity. Some went to the people asking them if they saw an Eevee around, but no luck. “Sorry, I didn’t see an Eevee pass by here.” One person said.
“No, sorry.” Another person said, shaking his head.
Wiatt sighed. “Thank you.” He replied as he left the store. Once back outside, he looked around for Oddity, but nothing. “Where are you, Oddity?”
Meanwhile, Sprigatito, Piplup, and Scorbunny were going around town calling out for Oddity. However, in between looking for their friend they had to stop Scorbunny from getting distracted over everything.
“Scorbun!” Scorbunny beamed as he ran towards a donut shop. He looked out the window as his mouth drooled over the donuts going into the display case.
“Pip…LUP!” Piplup shouted as he smacked Scorbunny upside the head and started to scold the rabbit Pokémon. “Piplup. Pip pip Piplup!”
“Meow! Meow!”Sprigatito scolded as well.
Scorbunny apologized as he chuckled and rubbed the back of his head. Suddenly, the rabbit Pokémon saw something in the corner of his eye. He tilted his head and gasped seeing Oddity go through an alleyway with Umbreon. Scorbunny ran over to the two, ignoring the oncoming traffic. Sprigatito and Piplup freaked out over their friend crossing the street and chased after him.
“Scorbun!” Scorbunny yelled, calling out to Oddity. The Rabbit Pokémon was interrupted by the sound of a truck horn. He turned and froze in fear, seeing the truck coming towards him. Sprigatito and Piplup came by and tried to drag their friend out of the street, but upon seeing the truck, they too froze in place.
The three Pokémon shivered and opened their eyes slowly, thinking the truck hit them and they were sent to the great big Poké Ball in the sky. However, they were floating and were led to the alleyway where Oddity was last seen.
“Eevee!” Oddity called out.
Scorbunny, Piplup, and Sprigatito looked down to see Oddity, safe and sound, as Umbreon used Psychic to bring the three Pokémon safely towards them. The Moonlight Pokémon put the trio down as Oddity ran over to his friends.
“Vee Eevee?” Oddity asked, hoping his friends were okay.
“Piplup! Pip.” Piplup replied, letting the Eevee know they were fine. However, Piplup glared at Scorbunny and smacked him upside the head for putting them in danger.
Scorbunny chuckled and apologized for what happened. Piplup and Sprigatito growled and glared at their friend.
“Umbre?” Umbreon asked.
“Eevee. Vee.” Oddity replied, telling Umbreon not to ask about his chaotic friends.
“Oddity!” Wiatt yelled.
Oddity’s ears picked up, and he looked to see Wiatt at the entrance of the alleyway. “Eevee!” Oddity exclaimed as he ran towards his trainer. Once the two were close to each other, Oddity leaped up as Wiatt caught him and held his starter Pokémon in his arms.
“Oddity, are you okay?” Wiatt asked.
“Eevee! Vee!” Oddity replied.
Wiatt smiled, glad his buddy was okay. “Don’t run away like that, okay?”
“Eevee!”
Wiatt put Oddity down, and soon Sprigatito, Piplup, and Scorbunny ran by to greet Wiatt. “Thanks you guys.”
The three Pokémon replied, giving a nod.
“Umbreon.” Umbreon spoke up, causing everyone to turn to the dark-type Pokémon.
“An Umbreon?” Wiatt questioned. Curious, he grabbed his Rotom phone and scanned Umbreon in the Pokedex.
Umbreon, the Moonlight Pokémon. A Dark type and an evolved form of Eevee. The rings on its body glow and the Pokémon gains a mysterious power due to being exposed by the moon’s aura. Those same rings can strike fear into anyone’s heart.
“Umbre.” Umbreon replied, after the Pokedex explained his information.
“So, is this who you’ve been following, Oddity?” Wiatt asked.
“Eevee!” Oddity answered.
“Hello, Wiatt Nicholson.”
Wiatt gasped and turned to see Damien appear from behind. The young boy stepped back, worried the man had evil intentions.
“Relax, I’m not here to hurt you,” Damien reassured him. “I just want to talk to you.”
“W-Who are you?” Wiatt asked, worriedly.
“My name is Damian Klein, and you're the person I’m looking for.” Damian introduced.
Wiatt stared at the older man in disbelief and shock.
“Oddity! Where are you, darling?!” Lewis called out. However, he heard no response from the Eevee.
Sara and Oliver ran towards Lewis, the two looking more worried than ever. “Any luck finding Oddity?” Oliver asked.
Lewis shook his head. “No luck. What about you guys?” He asked.
Sara and Oliver shook their heads, too. “What’s worse, Wiatt and our Pokémon are gone too!” Sara exclaimed.
“What?!” Lewis yelled before groaning. “Great.”
“Don’t worry, Lewis. I’m sure we’ll find them.” Oliver reassured his best friend.
Skiddo’s ear then twitched as she turned towards the alleyway. She bleated in confusion before walking towards it. Lewis and his friends took notice of the Mount Pokémon walking away.
“Now what’s wrong, Skiddo?” Sara asked.
Skiddo bleated to her trainer, telling her she sensed something.
“You sense something nearby?”
Skiddo nodded and continued walking. Sara and her friends looked at one another and nodded, following the grass-type Pokémon. There, Skiddo stopped and looked back at her trainer and her friends. Using her vines, she signaled them to be quiet. The trio was confused until they hid in the corner, watching Wiatt talk with Damien.
“Who is that guy?” Oliver asked.
“I don’t know,” Sara replied. She wanted to get a closer look at him, as he looked familiar to her.
Wiatt and Oddity stared at Damien in shock. Why was he looking for him in the first place? “H-How do you know me?” Wiatt asked.
“You might have the answers I need for my investigation.” Damien answered.
“Investigation?”
“Vee?” Oddity questioned.
Damien nodded. “Your name has shown up a few times.”
“Umbre.” Umbreon replied, correcting his trainer by tapping his knee with his paw.
“Well, your last name.” Damien corrected.
Wiatt and Oddity were unsure about the detective, but he didn’t seem like a threat. Still, he had to be cautious. “Why did your Umbreon take Oddity away?”
“It was Umbreon’s idea. He thought it would be a better way to lead you here so we can talk.” Damien explained, petting his Pokémon.
Wiatt sighed. “You could’ve just knocked on the door of the facility and asked me there.” He stated.
“I know, but I wanted to talk to you privately.”
“Privately?”
“Eevee?” Oddity questioned.
Damien nodded. “Your last name kept popping up in my investigation I’m working on. I’d assume you would know what I’m talking about.”
Wiatt was getting frustrated. “I know you are, but I don’t know what you're talking about!” He yelled.
Damien was surprised. He then pulled a folder out from his jacket and held it in front of Wiatt. The latter looked surprised seeing his last name on the edge of the folder.
Wiatt took the folder from Damien’s hands and looked at it. He put Oddity down as he opened the file, and his eyes widened. Inside the files were information about his grandfather and father. Just as he was about read through, Damien glared and commanded his Umbreon to attack.
“Umbreon, use Psychic.” Damien commanded calmly.
Umbreon’s eyes glowed blue, and Lewis, Oliver, Sara, Skiddo, and Rotom were floating in the air. The group yelled in surprise as they struggled to get down.
“Lewis?!” Wiatt yelled.
Damien’s eyes widened. “Wait, you know these three?” He asked.
“Yeah,” Wiatt replied with a nod, “they’re my best friends at the facility.”
Damien looked over at his Pokémon, which the latter took as stop, he was doing and let Lewis and his friends go. Umbreon’s eyes faded, and Lewis and his friends fell on the ground with a thud. The trio groaned, knowing the Moonlight Pokémon could’ve put them down gently.
“You three okay?” Damien asked, walking over to them.
Oliver rubbed his head and looked up at Damien, causing him to blush. “Y-Yeah, we're fine.” He replied, quickly getting up. He then helped Lewis and Sara get up, with the female of the group brushing herself off.
“I’m terribly sorry.” Damien apologized. “I thought you were here to harm Wiatt.”
Lewis’ eyes widened as he let out a scoff. “Why would you think we would harm him?” He asked.
Damien couldn’t answer. He was hoping Wiatt would be alone and had no one with him.
“Meow!” Sprigatito beamed, seeing her training and running over to him.
“Sprigatito!” Lewis exclaimed, holding his arms out as the Grass Cat Pokémon ran into his arms. The latter purred as she nuzzled into her trainer’s arms. “Are you alright, darling?”
“Meow. Meow.” Sprigatito replied, reassuring her trainer that she was okay.
Piplup and Scorbunny ran over to their trainers and quickly jumped into their arms. Oliver, on the other hand, looked disappointed at Scorbunny. “Scorbunny, did you lead Sprigatito and Piplup away from us?” He asked.
“Scor. Scorbun.” Scorbunny replied. He rubbed the back of his head, chuckling.
Oliver sighed. “Scorbunny, please don’t run off like that.” He begged.
“Scor. Scorbunny.” Scorbunny apologized.
Oliver gave a small smile and hugged his partner.
Sara hugged her Piplup tight and turned to the other man. “Um…who are you?” She asked.
“My name is Damien. I’m a detective working for the International Police." Damien replied.
“The International Police!” The Dream Quartet exclaimed in shock.
Damien nodded. “My Umbreon and I have been looking for Wiatt.”
Lewis, Oliver, and Sara looked shocked as they turned to their friend. Wiatt was even more confused as Damien never mentioned that he was a detective. “You know you could’ve brought it up before!” Wiatt yelled.
Damien chuckled, “I apologize.” He replied.
Once everything settled down, Damien took Wiatt and his friends to his apartment. He turned on the lights as the Dream Quartet and their Pokémon walked inside. There they sat down on the couch as Damien closed and locked the door before sitting down with the rest of the group.
“Alright, we can talk where no one can hear us,” Damien stated. “So, where did you want to start?
“If I may ask,” Lewis said, “why are you looking for Wiatt?”
Damien sighed. “I only meant to talk about this privately with him, but seeing as you’re all friends, I guess I can let you in on my investigation.” Damien took a moment to pause before explaining everything to the group. “Apparently, Wiatt’s family has connections to a man named Litho.”
“Litho?” Sara questioned.
“Who is he?” Oliver asked.
“Litho is a dangerous scientist. From my investigations, he’s known to cause experiments on Pokémon.” Damien explained.
Oddity shivered in fear, hearing about Litho. Wiatt held his Pokémon close, as he glared, hearing about him. “That’s awful.” Wiatt hissed.
“It is,” Damien replied.
“What kind of experiments are they?” Lewis asked.
“From my notes, these experiments are forcing Pokémon to get stronger to their own desire,” Damien answered. The Dream Quartet looked horrified and angry, hearing that this Litho man was doing something like this. “He thinks these experiments would help him find the Golden Shadow.”
The Dream Quartet looked up at the detective in shock. “What is the Golden Shadow?” Lewis asked.
“It’s a nickname they call a mysterious Pokémon.” Damien explained. “No one knows what kind of Pokémon it is, but Litho is looking for it.”
The Dream Quartet looked at each other, shocked that there is a mysterious Pokémon out there that no one has seen other than its nickname.
“If he’s looking for it, then it must be a Pokémon we haven’t seen before.” Wiatt speculated.
“Eevee!” Oddity exclaimed.
“Okay,” Sara spoke up. “But how does this all go back to Wiatt?”
Umbreon came by with a file with Wiatt’s last name and handed it to his trainer. “Thank you, Umbreon.” Damien said, petting the Moonlight Pokémon.
“Umbre.” Umbreon replied.
Damien put the folder he had shown Wiatt earlier on the table as everyone looked at it. Damien opened the folder and inside revealed photos of a mysterious man, only shown by the back, but if one looked closely, he’d look like an older Wiatt.
“Apparently, there’s a man by the name of Carlos Nicholson, who's been working with him,” Damien explained. “Sound familiar?" He looked over at Wiatt.
Wiatt looked shocked, hearing the name. “My grandfather.” He grumbled.
Lewis and his friends looked shocked, hearing their friend was related to someone working for an evil man. “D-Darling, did you know about this?” Lewis asked.
Wiatt shook his head. “N-No. I know nothing about this. Really.” He replied, denying he had any knowledge of this.
“So you didn’t know about this?” Damien asked.
Wiatt shook his head again.
Damien sighed, hoping he’d get an answer from him, but nothing. “Great, another dead end.” He thought.
Oddity looked up at his trainer, his ears dropping in sadness, seeing him in shock over this. Suddenly, Oddity glanced over at Sara and saw her narrowing her eyes at his trainer.
“Eevee?” Oddity questioned, tilting his head towards Sara.
“I do have a question, darling.” Lewis spoke up, Damien turning to him. “Does Litho have any questions for Team Rocket?”
“Team Rocket?” Damien asked. “I haven’t heard that name in ages.”
“It just came to me, they’ve been in our hair for a while.” Lewis explained, petting Sprigatito, who purred in reply.
“Well, Litho works for no group. He seems to go alone and has people work for him.” Damien answered.
Lewis sighed. “I see.” He replied. “Just thought we would get somewhere with that.”
“I do apologize for dragging you here. I just thought you’d have the answers.” Damien spoke up.
“It’s alright.” Wiatt replied.
Damien closed the file and put it on his lap. “If you four are okay with it, I can keep in contact with you guys if any new information comes out.”
“That would be fine.” Oliver replied. Wiatt, Lewis, and Sara turned to their friend, who later blushed in embarrassment.
Damien gave a small smile and pulled out his purple and grey Rotom Phone. “Here, just type in your number.” He said, handing the phone to Oliver. The latter typed his phone number as well as his friends’ numbers before handing the phone back to him. “Thank you, I’ll be sure to contact you as soon as I can.”
“You’re welcome.” Wiatt said.
The Dream Quartet stood up and left, leaving Damien and Umbreon alone in their apartment. The detective sighed as he leaned back in his chair.
“Umbre. Umbreon.” Umbreon said.
Damien sighed. “I know I left stuff out, but I wanted Wiatt to admit it if he knew.” He told his Pokémon.
After all that, the group decided to walk back to Eric’s lab and rest the remainder of the day. The walk was quiet, but Sara took glances at Wiatt and glared at him.
Lewis took notice of these glares and stopped in his tracks. “Are you okay darling?” He asked. Sara stopped and turned to see her friend. “You look like you’ve been spacing out.”
Sara sighed. “Yeah, I’m just thinking about today.” She answered as she turned back and continued to watch Wiatt, glaring at him. Just who are you, Wiatt Nicholson?
WTDWxDandy's World-Dandy's Dreamworld Chap. 2-Stars and Flowers
Here is the next chapter! I’m glad your enjoying the first chapter. This AU idea has been rent free in my head since I started playing the game to the point I have a bunch of stories planned around this AU. You might think I’m crazy at this point, but it’s just my creativity going beserk.
Thanks to my beta reader @gigilefache
Enjoy!
Sara groaned as she slowly woke up. Her head was pounding like she had been in the head with something hard. She rubbed her eyes and saw she wasn’t in the facility, but in her room. “I’m home?” She asked herself. She even saw she was no longer in her regular outfit, but her black nightgown with blue stars.
Sara tried to remember everything, and slowly it started to come back to her. The ichor process, Starlight coming to life, and then feeling dizzy with Lewis before passing out. Realizing Lewis also passed out, she wanted to know if he was okay. Sara got out of bed, but felt dizzy the second she stood up and went to lie back down.
Sara heard snoring and turned to her right to see Dandy asleep and wearing her old pink pajamas with a flower pattern on them. She smiled and petted the toon, which made him hum and smile in his sleep. Sara then heard the door open and saw her mom peeking in, holding a tray with a cup of hot chocolate.
“Hey, Sara. How are you feeling?” Delilah asked, whispering.
Sara slowly sat up. “I’m doing fine. Just dizzy.”
Delilah gave a light chuckle, closing the door gently. “Yeah, that’s what the Ichor process does to you.” She answered, walking over to her daughter and sitting down by her bed. She then placed the hot chocolate on top of her dresser. “Usually I drink coffee after this, but I know you love hot chocolate.”
Sara smiled as she sat up, grabbed the cup, and slowly drank. “Ah,” She sighed, after drinking the warm, sweet drink.
“Better?” Delilah asked.
“Yeah,” Sara answered. “What happened when I passed out?”
“Well,” Delilah started. “I took you and Lewis home. Lewis is asleep in the guest room. Oliver followed me home. He was worried about you two and wanted to make sure you were okay.”
Sara sighed, drinking more of her hot chocolate. “That’s nice of him.”
Delilah smiled and nodded before turning to Dandy. “As for Dandy, he was worried about you and never left your side.”
“Like always.” Sara sighed. Delilah gave a light chuckle as she pushed a stray hair from her daughter's face. Once Sara finished her hot chocolate, she handed the cup back to her mother. “Thank you.”
“You’re welcome,” Delilah replied. Sara smiled. She still felt tired and wanted to sleep a bit more. Delilah frowned as she tried to ask her daughter a serious question before she fell asleep. “Sara, I need to ask, why didn’t you tell them the truth?”
Sara sighed as she slowly got up. She knew what her mother was asking about. Guess her rest would be put on hold until later. “I plan to tell them, just not yet.” She answered.
“Let me guess.” Delilah started, giving her signature smile. “You want them to see it for themselves?”
“Well, that, plus it’s hard to explain to them. Oliver is going to panic, and Lewis would complain that bringing toons to life was a bad idea.” Sara explained. “If I tell them when it happens, then it would save them the shock.”
Then it clicked in Delilah’s mind about her daughter’s behavior over the past couple of weeks. “Is that why you were locked up in your offices for weeks?”
“Yeah,” Sara replied with a nod. “I was hoping there was something in your notes that won’t make any of the toons go twisted, but nothing.”
Delilah sighed. “I tried finding a cure, too.” She admitted. “However, any tests I did on the toons only hurt them or made them twisted, horrifyingly.”
Sara frowned, remembering the test her mother put the toons through in hopes to block the twisted process. The twisteds were an evil form of the toons that happens when the toons feel negative emotions or get hurt to the point ichor starts bleeding out of them. Sara was never scared seeing the toons as twisteds, but in Dandy’s case, he was scared he’d hurt Sara in that form, despite her telling him he won’t hurt her.
Dandy groaned and rubbed his eyes as he sat up and looked around. He rubbed his eyes and saw Sara awake. He smiled as he crawled over to her and collapsed on her lap.
Sara gave a light chuckle as she petted the flower toon. Dandy slowly looked up and gave a small smile. “How are you feeling?” He asked, tiredly.
“Feeling better,” Sara answered. Dandy gave a small sigh and continued to rest on his friend’s lap. Sara chuckled and sighed. “Come on, we need to check up on Lewis and Starlight.”
“Let me sleep longer.” Dandy groaned.
Sara sighed and got up, causing Dandy to fall on the floor. He glared at his friend and growled. “Come on, we’ll rest up once we check on Lewis.” She said.
Dandy groaned. “Fine.” He got up and followed Sara to the guest room.
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In the guest room, Lewis was still asleep as Starlight watched over him. He couldn’t sleep at all, worried for his creator. Starlight sighed, “I hope you’ll wake up soon, darling.” Starlight heard the door open and turned to see a pet rock toon with clover marking on his cheeks, pushing the door open. The pet rock toon tilted his head in confusion, seeing the new toon. Starlight was nervous, wondering how this toon would react to seeing him. “Uh…hello there, darling.”
The pet rock toon let out a bark before running to the star toon and sniffling him. Starlight was nervous before the rock toon was done, let out a happy bark, and leaped onto Starlight, causing him to scream and fall to the ground. The rock-dog toon started to lick Starlight’s face, causing him to laugh.
“S-Stop, that tickles.” Starlight laughed.
“I see you met Pebble,” Dandy spoke up.
Pebble and Starlight looked up, and Pebble barked seeing his owner and ran over to him. Dandy caught Pebble as he jumped into his arms and started licking him, causing the flower toon to laugh.
“I’m guessing Pebble is your pet?” Starlight asked, getting up.
Dandy nodded. “Yep, my pride and joy.” He replied, holding Pebble close.
Sara walked closer to Starlight. “How are you feeling, Starlight?” She asked.
“I’m…okay,” Starlight answered, turning away as he rubbed his arm. He then turned to Lewis, who was still asleep.
Sara and Dandy frowned, seeing Lewis hadn’t woken up yet. “Lewis hasn’t awakened yet, huh?” Dandy asked.
Starlight shook his head in reply. Pebble whimpered, worried for his friend. Sara petted the pet rock to comfort him. “Oh, Pebs, I know. I’m worried for Lewis, too.” She said.
Pebble wiggled out of Dandy’s arms and ran over to the bed. He jumped up on the bed and sniffed Lewis before licking the young man’s cheek. Lewis groaned and turned away, which made Sara, Dandy, and Starlight relieved that Lewis was okay. Pebble barked happily and kept on licking Lewis, which started to wake the young man up.
Lewis groaned as he got up. Pebble barked happily and jumped up and down in joy. “Pebble, darling. What did I say about licking me?” He asked, tiredly.
Pebble barked and nuzzled Lewis’ chest. The latter chuckled and petted Pebble’s head. He then turned to see Sara and the two toons giving a small smile. “Hey, Lewis,” Sara said, walking over to the bed. “How are you feeling?”
Lewis groaned and rubbed his head. He saw everything was blurry thanks to not having his glasses and turned to see it was on top of the bedside drawer. Lewis put on his glasses before answering, “It feels like I just got through a migraine.”
“Do you want coffee or hot chocolate?” Dandy asked. Lewis looked at the flower toon in confusion. “That’s what Delilah and Sara drank after this.”
Lewis didn’t feel like drinking any coffee in the state he was in. Hot chocolate wouldn’t be too bad, but thinking about it made his body hurt even more. “I just need a cup of cold water.”
“Water?” Dandy asked. Lewis nodded. “Alright. I’ll be right back.”
“Do you want me to come with you?” Starlight asked.
“Sure,” Dandy replied with a small smile. Starlight smiled back and followed the flower toon out the door. Pebble barked, wanting to join too, and jumped off the bed and followed the toons out of the room.
Dandy led Starlight to the kitchen, and as they walked, the star toon took notice of the photos in the hallway. Some showed Sara when she was a little girl with her mom, some showed her with the toons, but one photo in particular showed Sara, Dandy, and a bunch of toons inside a building with a large tree in the middle.
“Is that Dreamworld darling?” Starlight asked.
“No, that’s Gardenview. It was a children’s education center and museum run by Delilah and a man named Arthur.” Dandy explained. “It’s the place my friends and I were born.”
“Wow,” Starlight whispered in amazement. “I wish I could’ve seen it.”
“You would’ve loved it!” Dandy replied, before frowning and turning away. As much as he was excited to be in the spotlight again in a brand new facility, the thought of Gardenview’s shutdown still hurt. Sure, Dandy talked about it with Sara and a therapist, but deep down, the loss still stung.
Starlight took notice of Dandy’s behavior and put his hand on his shoulder. “Are you alright, darling?” He asked.
“Y-Yeah.” Dandy replied. “Just reminiscing.” The flower toon heard whimpering and looked down to see Pebble feeling worried for him. Dandy chuckled, quickly putting a smile on his face as he picked up his pet rock and held him close.
Pebble barked and started to lick Dandy’s cheek, causing him to laugh.
Starlight looked concerned, seeing Dandy switch from sad to happy in the blink of an eye. “Um…okay, if you want to talk, let me know, alright?”
Dandy nodded. “And if you have any questions, let me know, okay?” He replied, winking.
Starlight chuckled nervously. “Okay.”
The toons made it to the kitchen, where Dandy grabbed a chair and dragged it to the cupboard to use as a stepping stool. He got up on the chair and opened the cupboard to grab a glass. Dandy closed the cupboard, got off the chair, and dragged it to the sink to pour water into the cup.
Once the cup was filled, Dandy turned off the sink and jumped off the chair. “Alright, let’s head back.” He said.
Starlight nodded while Pebble jumped with a bark as they headed back to Lewis and Sara.
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While Dandy, Pebble, and Starlight went to get water, Sara and Lewis were having a conversation about what happened while he was knocked out. “So, you were knocked out, too, huh?” Lewis asked.
“Yeah, Mom and Oliver brought us here.” Sara said.
Lewis nodded. “I didn’t realize how easily drained your body gets.”
“Mom told me ahead of time about this, but,” Sara paused, holding her head. “Going through it is a bitch.”
Lewis chuckled. “Couldn’t, agree more darling.”
Sara chuckled as well, but felt a ping of pain on her head. “Okay, not laughing for a while.” She groaned.
“Don’t push yourself, Sara. Let’s take it easy, and then tomorrow we’ll head back to work on the facility.”
“Sounds like a plan.” Sara agreed.
The two friends heard the door open and saw Dandy, Starlight, and Pebble come in. “Here’s your water, Lewis.” Dandy said as he handed the cup of water to his human friend.
“Thank you, darling.” Lewis said, taking the cup. He took a sip of the water before letting out a sigh and putting the cup down on top of the drawer.
“Feeling better?” Starlight asked.
Lewis slowly nodded. “A little.” He replied. “How long does it take for the pain to wear off?”
“From what my Uncle Arthur told me, the longest my mom had that kind of migraine was 2 days.” Sara explained.
While Sara wasn’t born during that time, Arthur, the other founder of Gardenview, explained how her mother brought to life four toons in one month with no breaks in between, causing her to be weak for days.
“Dang, I’m glad she didn’t have you around that time.” Lewis pointed out.
Sara chuckled. “Yeah, I’m surprised too.”
Lewis chuckled as well, “So, since working on Dreamworld is out of the question today, think we can chill and watch movies like old times?” He asked. Sara looked surprised, as Lewis was so focused on building Dreamworld these last few months. “I mean, we haven’t hung out since building Dreamworld, and you’re focusing on the ichor operation. I think we need this break.”
Sara smiled. “Sure.”
The rest of the day, Lewis, Sara, Dandy, Pebble, and Starlight were in the living room watching movies. Lewis and Sara smiled, seeing Dandy and Starlight laughing together at the funniest parts of the movie.
Delilah watched the group from a distance and smiled before retreating to her room and taking notes in her notebook.
Later, the group had dinner, which was spaghetti and meatballs. After dinner, Lewis was getting ready to go home and get some rest before working more on Dreamworld tomorrow. “Lewis, ready to go?” Delilah asked, poking her head in the guest room door.
“Yeah,” Lewis replied, as he buttoned up his sweater vest. “Thank you for bringing me here last night and taking me home.”
“Anytime, Lewis. I should be thanking you and Oliver for sticking with my daughter.” Delilah replied.
Lewis smiled and was ready to leave with Delilah, only to feel someone grabbing on to his hand. He turned to see Starlight looking nervous, like he wanted to ask him something.
“Are you alright, darling?” Lewis asked.
“I…uh…” Starlight said nervously. “Is it alright if I go home with you?”
Lewis looked surprised. “Um…sure if Delilah is okay with it.” He replied.
Starlight turned to Delilah, who was surprised as well, but gave a smile. “Of course I’m okay with it.”
Starlight and Lewis smiled as the two walked out the door. “Bye, Sara! See you tomorrow!” Lewis yelled.
Sara and Dandy were in the kitchen cleaning the dishes when they heard Lewis yell bye to them. “Bye, Lewis!” Sara yelled.
Lewis, Delilah, and Starlight left the house and went to the car as Delilah drove the two back to Lewis’ house. The drive back to Lewis’ house was quiet, except for Starlight getting curious at all the different sights they passed by. Starlight then saw Delilah drive through a neighborhood surrounded by a forest.
“Is this where you live, Lewis?” Starlight asked.
Lewis nodded. “Indeed, darling.” He answered. “We’re almost there.” Starlight smiled as Delilah parked the car, then Lewis and Starlight got out. “Thank you for driving us home, Delilah.”
Delilah smiled and drove off as Lewis and Starlight walked over to the house. “Well, here we are.” Lewis started as he used his key to unlock the door. He opened the door and turned on the lights, causing Starlight’s eyes to sparkle at the sight of his house.
The inside of Lewis’ house looked cozy with posters of musicals and pictures of Lewis with his family and friends.
Starlight was curious and started to run around the house, looking at everything Lewis had to offer. The latter smiled, seeing the toon be curious about everything. “Lewis! What’s this?!” Starlight called out.
Lewis walked over to where the toon was, and saw he was in his bedroom. His bedroom consisted of light blue walls with more musical posters, as well as some art of Starlight before he came to life. He had a bed which had a blue checkered blanket with patched pillowcases, and a desk that had his computer, notebooks, and two picture frames. One picture had him and his friends as well as another boy, and one was him and his mother.
Lewis saw Starlight looking at the pictures of him and chuckled. “Those are drawings of you.” Lewis said.
Starlight looked amazed at all the art featuring him. “Did you draw them, darling?” He asked.
“Some I did, some friends and other artists online drew for me.” Lewis answered.
“Wow!” Starlight exclaimed, amazed. Lewis gave a slight chuckle. The star toon then took notice of the photos on Lewis’ desk and grabbed one to look at. “Lewis, who is this with your friends?”
Lewis walked over to Starlight and gave a small smile to the young boy. “That’s Wiatt.” He answered.
Starlight’s eyes widened, almost like he heard that name before. “As in your boyfriend, Wiatt?” He asked.
Lewis looked horrified as Starlight knew Wiatt. The star toon never met him physically, so how did Starlight know him? “Uh, darling, how do you know Wiatt?”
“Well, I’ve heard of the stories you told him about me.” Starlight answered.
Lewis didn’t answer; all he did was stare at Starlight in fear and shock. Just what was this ichor process that Sara and her mother kept quiet about? He thought to himself.
Starlight took notice of the young man’s expression and frowned. “Did I say something wrong?” He asked, worriedly.
This snapped Lewis out of his thoughts. “N-No, you didn’t, darling. I was just shocked. That’s all.” He reassured Starlight.
“Oh. Okay.” Starlight replied, giving a small smile.
Lewis chuckled and rubbed Starlight between his star points, making the star toon smile. Lewis decided to hold off on the whole ichor thing for now, and just sleep it off. He can always ask Sara or her mom next time.
“Come on, let’s get some sleep.” Lewis said, letting out a yawn.
Starlight started to yawn too as he rubbed his eyes. Lewis went to his closet and grabbed his pajamas, which were a grey t-shirt and dark blue sweatpants, before retreating to the bathroom to change.
Once he was changed, Lewis paused to see Starlight in his bed, asleep. Lewis gave a small smile, pulled the blanket closer to Starlight, and shut off the lamp. He decided to sleep in the guest room tonight, so Starlight can sleep better.
“Night, Star.” Lewis whispered before closing the door.
Sara walked out of the bathroom after brushing her teeth and passed by her mom’s room. She stopped and looked inside, giving a small smile to see her mom was asleep at her desk, again. “Oh Mom.” Sara whispered with a chuckle, walking inside Delilah’s room. Sara grabbed the blanket from her mom’s bed and put it over her back before kissing her on the cheek. “Good night mom. I love you.”
Sara then walked out of her mom’s room and continued walking over to her room, but paused again as she passed by Dandy’s room. There she saw the flower toon in bed, looking sad as he pets Pebble, who was asleep.
“Dandy.” Sara spoke up. Dandy’s petals twitched as he looked up at Sara. “You okay, bud?”
“Yeah.” Dandy replied, giving a small smile.
Sara frowned and walked closer to Dandy. She could sense the flower toon was feeling down. “You know,” She spoke up as she climbed up on Dandy’s bed and sat with him. “I can sense when you’re feeling down.”
Dandy sighed, he knew Sara could sense what was wrong with him. The two did grow up together. “I guess I’m just thinking about Gardenview again.” He replied.
Sara started to play with Dandy’s petals. “You still miss that place, huh?” She asked.
“I do.” Dandy answered. “I know it’s been years, but I still miss it.” Dandy’s eyes started to tear up. Sara frowned and pulled Dandy closer to her. “I mean, Dreamworld sounds fun, but what if it doesn’t feel the same. From the kids, to the new toons, to just about everything!” The flower toon started to cry.
Sara frowned and hugged Dandy close as he cried. The flower toon only cried for a few minutes before calming down. Once he was calm, Sara spoke up, “You know, I miss Gardenview too.” She admitted.
Dandy’s eyes widened, “You do?” He sniffled.
Sara nodded. She then turned to the drawer by Dandy’s bed that contained a photo of him, Sara when she was younger, and all the toons together smiling and laughing.
She frowned seeing that photo. Sure, she and Dandy didn’t lose touch with the other toons, and made new memories along the way, all of them missed the memories they had at Gardenview.
“I do love the memories we made, and I’m gonna be happy for the new memories we make at Dreamworld.” Sara explained, smiling, but that smile quickly turned into a frown. “But, I do miss how fun Gardenview was, and I hope Dreamworld would bring back that fun that we had back then.”
Dandy smiled, “I hope so too.” He replied. “From what you’ve told me, it’s gonna feel like Gardenview without the learning, and more focusing on the fun and making friends.”
Sara chuckled and hugged Dandy tight. “Now, get some sleep. You’re going to need it.” She said.
Dandy chuckled, “Okay. Okay.”
Sara got out of Dandy’s bed and tucked him before turning his petals around. Dandy grumbled, which made Sara laugh as she walked over to the light switch. “Good night, Dandy.”
“Night Sara.”
Sara turned off the lights and gently closed the door, and Dandy slowly fell asleep.
Hello everyone! Got another story for NBH AU for you all. I had this planned for a one-shot for NBH AU, but I loved working on this so I added it to the main NBH AU fanfic.
Big thanks to my beta reader @gigilefache
Enjoy!
Lewis walked into Staract with a cart filled with boxes. Inside them were props and costumes for upcoming shows.
Starlight was looking through show ideas to see which one he’d like to perform for the kids. He then saw Lewis come in and put the cart in the corner as he removed the boxes. “Oh, glad you’re here, darling!” Starlight exclaimed. “I have an idea I want to tell you.”
“Alright, what is it?” Lewis replied, leaning his back against the wall.
“Well, you know how we have three writers working here?” Starlight asked.
“Franny, Icy, and Alicia?” Lewis answered.
Starlight’s eyes twinkled in response. “Yes!” He beamed. “So, the idea I had in mind is having those three, or the children, create story scenarios, and I’ll get to act them out with them!”
Lewis thought about it, and while he had plans for an improv or story time show, he and his two friends hadn’t implemented the idea. “I’ll talk to Sara and Oliver when they get back from the storage room.”
“Splendid!” Starlight beamed, twirling around.
Lewis chuckled as he grabbed one of the boxes and put them on the shelf. While he did so, Starlight saw Lewis’s phone was ringing and the name Mom showed up, as well as a photo of an older lady with a younger Lewis.
“Uh, Lewis! Someone named Mom is calling you.” Starlight called out.
Lewis almost dropped one of the boxes, hearing who was calling him. He gently put the box down and quickly picked up his phone. “H-Hello,” Lewis answered, stuttering a bit.
“Sweetie! How are you?” Lewis’s mother, Danica, replied.
“I’m fine, just working,” Lewis replied.
“Great! You know, since you’ve opened the facility, I’ve been hearing from you less and less.”
Lewis sighed. There were reasons why he couldn’t call her, from being busy with work to how his mom reacted to the animatronics talking and how they came to life. “You know how it is, Mom, Sara, Oliver, and I have been busy.” He replied. “I was never expecting that Dreamworld would be this huge.”
“Well, that’s why I called you, because I have some great news!” Danica exclaimed.
“What is it?” Lewis asked.
“I’ll be coming to the facility tomorrow.”
Lewis’s eyes widened hearing those words.
“I want to see how you're doing and check out the place,” Danica explained.
Lewis started to get nervous as he tried to think of an excuse to keep his mom from coming out and visiting them. “Uhh…” Lewis stuttered.
“Now no excuses are stopping me, Lewis Apollo Bright. I already booked a place to stay for the night, and I’m packed and ready to go.” Danica explained.
Lewis sighed. “Fine. It's just a bit chaotic around here. Are you sure you want to visit?” He asked.
“Darling, I’ve raised you and met your friends. I’m okay with any chaos coming my way.” Danica replied.
“Okay.”
“Great! I’ll see you tomorrow at…” Danica paused. “Um…what time do you open?
“10 am.” Lewis answered.
“I’ll be there at 9 am! See you soon, my little wishing star!” Danica exclaimed as she quickly hung up the phone, leaving Lewis blushing and speechless over his mom calling him by his nickname.
Lewis sighed as Starlight went over to him. “What did your mother want from you?” Starlight asked.
Starlight flinched a bit, his scarlet mask going on his face.
Lewis felt guilty snapping at his animatronic. “Sorry. I didn’t mean to snap.” He apologized.
Starlight’s scarlet mask slowly fell off his face, but he still felt sad.
“I need to let the others know.” Lewis left Staract and headed to his office to make the announcement, not knowing Starlight was following him.
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Everyone gathered in the conference room, muttering to themselves as to why Lewis called them out of the blue. “Why are we having a meeting this late in the day?” Pen asked, turning to Hayden.
“Probably someone did something stupid,” Hayden answered. He then turned to Wiatt and Franny, who were confused as to why their co-worker stared at them.
Wiatt and Franny looked at each other before turning back to Hayden. “What makes you think we did something?” Wiatt asked.
“You two are known to do something!” Hayden replied.
“Hayden, I’m sure it’s something that doesn’t involve Wiatt or Franny.” Lisa reassured him.
Hayden rolled his eyes as Pen patted his back.
Soon, the door opened, and the founders and Starlight walked in with Lewis looking nervous. Wiatt took notice as he got up and walked over to his boyfriend. “Lewis, are you okay?” Wiatt asked.
Lewis didn’t respond, which made Wiatt nervous.
“L-Lewis?” Wiatt asked again.
“Darlings!” Lewis spoke up. “I got some news, and it’s a big one.”
Everyone looked at each other worried something was going on within the facility. “Now, it’s nothing bad...” Oliver reassured his co-workers. The co-workers sighed in relief.
“So what’s going on?” Lisa asked.
Sara and Oliver looked at Lewis, who was still nervous about sharing the news. Starlight sighed and decided to speak up. “He’s nervous about his mom coming by to visit.”
“Star!” Lewis yelled.
“Wait, your mom is coming over?” Wiatt asked. “Why is that a bad thing? Your mom is so nice!”
Lewis sighed and turned away from his boyfriend.
“Why are you worried about your mom coming over?” Starlight asked.
“A lot of things, darling,” Lewis replied, “my mom still treats me like a kid. To her, I’m not an adult, just a baby.”
Starlight tilted his head, confused. “I mean, she’s your mother, darling. She has to baby you.”
Lewis sighed. “I know, but I’m 21-years old, and run a business.” He replied. “I don’t need to be treated like a baby anymore.”
“Still, at least your mom is better than Sara, Oliver, and whoever else has a bad mom.” Starlight pointed out.
“Hey!” Sara, Oliver, and the workers who also had mom problems shouted at the same time. They also voiced their opinions over how low that was.
“Sorry.”
Everyone calmed down, and Lewis was able to continue. “With that being said, I want everyone to be on their best behavior.”
Hayden rolled his eyes and looked at Starlight with a glare. The star animatronic took notice of the grumpy co-worker’s look and felt insulted. “Why are you looking at me like that, darling?”
“Because you and the rest of the robots are not normal.” Hayden replied.
“Don’t worry, Hayden. I’m going to make sure the animatronics don’t talk or do anything that raises suspicion that the animatronics are alive.” Lewis reassured his co-worker.
“You better! I don’t want your mother to freak out over the nutjobs here.”
Audrey glared and punched Hayden in the arm.
“Ow! What the fuck Audrey?” Hayden yelled.
“When you say everyone is a nutjob. I know for sure you mean me, Pen, and Andrew.” Audrey replied.
“That’s not true! You three are the normal ones here.”
Mike glared. “Oh, are you saying Alyssa and I are not normal?” He asked.
“N-No.”
“Sounds like it.” Franny sang.
“Shut it!” Hayden yelled.
“Hey, don’t yell at her!” Icy yelled.
Suddenly everyone started arguing with one another, causing Lewis to sigh and slam his head on the table. This and the animatronics being alive were one of the many things that scared him with his mother coming to the facility. “This is going to be a disaster.” Lewis muffled.
Starlight rubbed Lewis’s back as Sara and Oliver tried to calm everyone down.
Once everyone was calm, the rest of the day was normal. Lewis was nervous about his mom coming, but Starlight was there to comfort and check up on him in between shows. After a long day of work, everyone went home to get some rest for tomorrow.
The following morning, everyone was in the lobby, standing up straight as they waited for Lewis’s mother to arrive. The founder was nervous and was making sure everything was perfect. “Alright, darlings, my mom is coming in any minute now.” Lewis reminded them. He looked at everyone and saw everything was in order. Except Hayden, of course. “Uh, Hayden, stand up straight for me, please.”
Hayden sighed. “You can’t be fucking serious right now!” He snapped.
“You know if we are going to be classy…” Franny started. She was about to sing, until Hayden covered her mouth.
“Start singing musicals, and you’ll need to learn how to sleep with your eyes open. Got it!” Hayden threatened.
Franny nodded in reply. Hayden removed his hand from her mouth and crossed his arms.
“Darlings, please.” Lewis begged. “No messing around. Today must be perfect.”
Sara walked over to Lewis and put her hand on his shoulder. “Lewis, take it easy. You’ve been worried since yesterday.”
“I know,” Lewis replied with a sigh. “But, what if my mom finds out about the animatronics and asks questions? How do I tell her? Or what if she doesn’t like Dreamworld or how I run it?”
As Lewis was complaining, Wiatt came in and saw his boyfriend freaking out. He looked over at Sara and Oliver and pointed at Lewis, signalling them if he should comfort his boyfriend.
Sara mouthed, “yes please.”
Wiatt nodded and put his hand on his boyfriend’s shoulder. “Darling.” He said.
Lewis froze and turned to his boyfriend.
“You’ve got to relax. You got me, Oliver, and Sara, and we know your mom.” Wiatt reassured him.
“Yeah, don’t worry about it.” Oliver added.
Lewis took a deep breath and let it out slowly. “I’ll try, darlings.”
The door of the facility opened, and everyone turned to see an older woman walk in. She shared Lewis’s hair and eye color and wore a grey sweater vest over a blue shirt, black pants, and blue shoes.
Lewis’s eyes widened and gulped. “Uh…hi m-mom.” He stuttered.
“Lewis!” Danica beamed as she ran and hugged her son. Lewis’s eyes widened at how tight his mother was hugging him. “Oh, darling, I missed you!”
“So it runs in the family, huh?” Hayden whispered.
“Pretty much.” Audrey replied.
“I-I missed you too, mom.” Lewis gasped, trying to breathe. “C-Could you let go now. I c-can’t breathe.”
Danica’s eyes widened as she let go. “Oh, sorry sweetie,” she replied, with a smile.
“You're fine,” Lewis replied, catching his breath.
“Uh…” Oliver spoke up. “Hi, Ms. Bright.”
Danica gasped as she turned to Sara and Oliver. “Oliver, is that you?” She asked.
Oliver nodded. Danica hugged the taller boy tight.
“You’ve grown into a handsome young man!” Danica beamed as she looked at Oliver. “I bet there’s a special someone waiting for you out there.”
Oliver blushed red when he heard the compliment from his best friend’s mom. “W-Well, I have someone in mind.” He replied, stuttering a bit.
Danica smiled. “Well, I wish you luck, Oliver.” She let go of Oliver and hugged Sara. “Hello, Sara.”
“Hi, Ms. Bright!” Sara replied.
The two let go, and Danica was amazed at how Sara looked. “Why, darling, you’ve matured into a beautiful lady.”
Sara chuckled. “Thank you, Ms. Bright.” She replied.
Wiatt stepped up and gave a nervous chuckle. “Hi, Ms. Bright. It’s been a while.” Wiatt said.
Danica gasped. “Wiatt, is that you?” She asked.
Wiatt nodded. “Yep.”
“D-Did you and Lewis?” Danica paused, slowly walking over to Wiatt.
“Get back together?” Wiatt asked, answering the woman. He gave a nod, “yes we did.”
Danica squealed and hugged Wiatt tight. The boy gave a smile and hugged his boyfriend’s mother back. “I was so heartbroken when you two broke up, but I knew you’d patch things up.” She let go of her son’s boyfriend and turned to the coworkers of Dreamworld.
“Mom, these are some of my co-workers; Alyssa and her boyfriend Mike.” Lewis introduced.
“Hi there, Ms. Bright,” Mike said, giving a small wave.
Danica smiled and waved at the couple.
“This is Pen, Audrey, and Hayden,” Lewis added. Pen and Audrey smiled and waved at the older woman. Hayden gave a small wave, but from his expression, he wasn’t interested in meeting someone’s mom. “Finally, Lisa, Franny, and Andrew.”
“Hiya!” Andrew exclaimed.
“It’s nice to meet all of you. I hope Lewis hasn’t been causing any trouble.” Danica replied.
“Nah, the opposite actually,” Audrey replied, “he fixes our computers and other technical things.”
Danica chuckled. “That’s my little wishing star!” She beamed.
Hayden chuckled. “Wait, wishing star?” He asked.
Lewis sighed. “Yes, that’s my nickname.” He replied.
Hayden snickered some more until he felt Audrey elbowing him in the stomach. “Ow!” He yelled, holding his stomach. “Would you stop doing that?!”
“The more you act like a jerk, the more I’ll keep doing it,” Audrey replied.
Hayden glared at his best friend and grumbled, crossing his arms.
Danica chuckled. “Well, you have interesting coworkers, Lewis.” She commented. “However, it’s pretty small.”
“Oh, we have more workers, some are off today, while others are coming in later today.” Sara explained.
“I can’t wait to meet all of them!”
The door opened again, and Eric and Carly entered the building. Eric’s eyes widened seeing Danica at the facility. “Ms. Bright?! What brings you here?” He asked.
“Mr. Gale, you work here too?” Danica asked.
“Yes,” Eric replied, “Lewis and his friends offered me a job here when they were building it.”
Danica was shocked and turned to her son, who nodded in reply. She looked back at Eric and smiled, seeing that he looked better. “Well, you don’t look tired and exhausted like you did years ago, so I’m glad you’ve been catching up on sleep.”
Eric chuckled. “Yeah. You look great yourself, Ms. Bright.” He replied.
Danica smiled. “Thank you.” She then turned to Carly, who was on her phone texting a friend. Not paying attention to the conversation between her dad and Lewis’s mom. “Is this Carly?”
Carly looked up. “Uh…yes.” She awkwardly replied.
“I’m Lewis’s mother, Danica. I used to babysit for you when you were young.” Danica fondly recalled.
Carly looked at the woman, trying to remember who she was. Her memories were a bit blurry to say the least, but she was able to remember seeing a woman like Danica. “Oh, hi. It’s been a while since I saw you, Ms. Bright.”
“It sure has. You’ve grown up.”
Carly chuckled, rubbing the back of her head. “T-Thank you.”
“Well, since I’m here, I would like to meet the animatronics now,” Danica explained.
Lewis’ eyes widened. “Uh…before we do, why don’t you get to know the workers first, talk with them before we see the animatronics?” He reminded her.
“O-Oh, are you sure?” Danica asked.
Lewis nodded as he put his arm around his boyfriend. “Y-Yeah. B-Besides Wiatt here, is busy fixing them up, right?” He asked, forcing a smile on his face.
Wiatt knew Lewis was still on edge about his mom finding out the truth about the animatronics speaking. He thinks his boyfriend should be honest about it, but this was a touchy subject to tell her. With a sigh, Wiatt decided to go with the lie. “Yes.” He replied.
Danica raised an eyebrow. She knew her son well and knew he was lying to her. She wanted to know what was going on with the animatronics. It couldn’t be that bad? “Well…” Her voice trailed off. “Alright then.”
Lewis sighed in relief that he could hold his mom off a little bit more. He hoped she would forget about seeing the animatronics and just spend time with him in the office or with the co-workers at Dreamworld.
In the corner, Starlight glanced at Danica and smiled. It was odd for the animatronic as he felt like he had known her all his life, despite only being born due to a part of Lewis’s soul. He wondered if that was the case. Starlight let out a sigh. He was disappointed he couldn't meet Danica in person. Sure, he understood why, but from what Lewis described of her, she sounded like an interesting lady.
Danica noticed out of the corner of her eye Starlight, who quickly hid away once he made eye contact with her. She wondered if that was one of the animatronics, and why were they shy around her?
Later, Dreamworld opened for the day, and to Danica’s surprise, it wasn’t as busy as Lewis made it out to be. She watched her son talk with the guest while she, Alyssa, and Mike watched from a distance. “I’m surprised, I heard this place is busy.” She commented.
“It usually is.” Mike replied. “It’s on Wednesday, so it won’t be busy until the kids are out of school.”
“Oh.” Danica replied. She then took notice of Mike’s scars and was concerned for the young man. “I hope I’m not sounding rude, but what happened to you, Mike?”
Mike realized the older lady was talking about the scars on his face. “O-Oh.” He replied, putting his hand on one of the scars. “You can blame my dad for that. I told him I was…transgender and…” he paused, pointing at the scars.
Danica was horrified and glared at the thought of someone hurting their child for who they are. She’s been there before with her ex-husband. “Did your mom say or do anything?”
Mike shook his head. “She only agreed with him; no matter how many times she begged him to be supportive, she just gave up. I don’t live with them anymore. I live with Alyssa now.” He explained, pointing at his girlfriend.
Alyssa smiled back, blushing a bit.
Danica smiled seeing Mike was in a better place at that point, and away from the horrible man. “Well, you can always talk to me if needed. Lewis’s father was the same way.”
This shocked Alyssa and Mike. “Lewis never talked about his home life with us,” Alyssa spoke up.
“Is that so?” Danica questioned, raising an eyebrow. Alyssa and Mike nodded in reply. “Well, Lewis’s dad didn’t accept his own son being gay.”
Alyssa and Mike’s mouths dropped hearing that. They looked at one another before looking at the woman.
“He gave me a choice: either get rid of Lewis, or he leaves.” Danica continued.
“So what did you choose?” Mike asked.
“I made my own choice. Lewis and I left him with as much stuff as we could carry, and moved here in Ohio.” Danica answered.
Alyssa and Mike were impressed. “Wow, bold move, Ms. Bright!” Alyssa beamed. The young girl wished she had a mother just like Lewis’s mom.
“Thank you!”
Starlight went to take another peek at Ms. Bright and smiled hearing her story about how she saved Lewis from his “dad”.
“Hey, whatcha doing, Star?” Ribbondancer asked.
Starlight jumped and turned to see it was only Ribbondancer. “Darling, don’t scare me like that!” He exclaimed.
“Sorry, but I just wanted to know how Ms. Bright is?” Ribbondancer asked. “Did you get a chance to talk to her?”
“No, not yet.” Starlight replied.
“Come on, buddy!” Ribbondancer exclaimed. “Go speak to her!”
Starlight sighed, “I’d like to, but Lewis said we needed to stay in our places until he’s ready.” He reminded his buddy.
“Starlight, you need to loosen up and be like me once in a while!”
Lewis turned and saw Starlight and Ribbondancer talking. He frowned seeing the two were not in their respective attractions, and walked over to them. “What are you two doing here?” Lewis whispered.
“We just wanted to see what your mom looked like.” Ribbondancer answered.
Starlight nodded. “She’s really nice, Lewis.”
“She is.” Lewis replied. He turned to his mom and saw some of his co-workers surrounding her as she started to show photos of Lewis. The workers began to giggle seeing the photos, causing Lewis to blush in embarrassment. “Oh no.”
Lewis went over to the crowd. His face turned a bright red seeing what photos his mom was showing. It was when Lewis was 8-years old, dressed as Poseidon. “And here is Lewis during his Greek Mythology-themed birthday.”
“I didn’t know Lewis was a Greek Mythology nerd!” Andrew exclaimed.
Danica laughed. “Lewis was into a lot of things other than theater. Videogames, cartoons, comics, and mythology.” She listed down. “Before wanting to build this facility, he wanted to be a webcomic artist!”
“An artist?!” Everyone exclaimed, smirking at their boss.
“Oh boy.” Lewis whimpered. He knew this was going to be school all over again.
“I mean, he did design the animatronics.” Wiatt spoke up, putting his arm around Lewis. “But, please don’t ask him for free art.” He narrowed his eyes at his co-workers.
Everyone looked at one another and sighed. “We promise.” They all said.
“Maybe.” Hayden mumbled so quietly that no one could hear him.
Wiatt smiled and nodded. “See. You’re fine Lewis.” He reassured his boyfriend.
Lewis wasn’t fine, and he showed his boyfriend that. Wiatt gave a nervous smile and chuckled as he stepped away from his boyfriend.
“Hey, what’s this photo?” Pen asked, pointing at the picture behind the birthday one.
“Oh, you guys would love this one!” Danica said. She pulled the photo to reveal Lewis in a cute rabbit onesie.
“Mom!” Lewis yelled.
The employees erupted in laughter seeing the photo was of a 5-year old Lewis in a lamb onesie. “Lewis, loved onesies when he was a baby!” Danica beamed. “Every year until he was 10, he got a onesie for Christmas.”
The employees chuckled as they turned to their boss.
Lewis growled, his face turning red. “That’s it!” He shouted. Everyone gasped, hearing one of their bosses raise their voice. “I’m done with everything today! I’ll be in my office, and no one bother me!”
“Lewis, wait!” Wiatt yelled, chasing after his boyfriend.
Danica frowned, seeing she had upset her son. She didn’t mean to.
Alyssa took notice of Danica’s expression and turned to where Lewis and Wiatt went off and glared. “I’ll be right back, Ms. Bright. I’m going to speak with your son.” She said in a low growl. Alyssa started walking, causing everyone to look at her with fear. She stopped, feeling a hand on her shoulder, and turned to see it was Mike.
“Promise you’re not going to take it far? I know how you can be.” Mike begged.
Alyssa glared. “I’m not making promises, Mike.” She replied, before gently pushing her boyfriend’s hand off her shoulder.
Mike gulped, knowing Lewis was going to be in a world of hurt.
Danica put away the photos in her bag. Sara looked over at her best friend’s mother and the direction her best friend and her co-workers went. “Ms. Bright, I’ll go and talk to Lewis too.” She reassured her.
“No, darling.” Danica replied. “I want you to do something for me.”
“What is it?” Sara asked.
“What floor is Starlight on?”
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Lewis roughly opened the door and slammed it shut. Seconds later, Wiatt came in and gently closed the door. “Lewis, you have to calm down!” Wiatt yelled.
“No, I won’t!” Lewis yelled back. “I knew my mother coming here was a mistake!”
Wiatt was taken aback, hearing what his boyfriend was saying. “Lewis, this is your mom. I know she embarrassed you, but you shouldn’t be this angry at her.”
Lewis ignored his boyfriend and continued venting about his mom, pacing back and forth in his office. “I should’ve told her not to come as soon as she brought it up!” He yelled.
“Lewis.” Wiatt sighed. “Are you hearing yourself, right now?”
Lewis was about to continue yelling until he looked into Wiatt’s eyes and stopped. He took a deep breath and let it out slowly. Lewis did this a few times until feeling relaxed.
“Feel better?” Wiatt asked.
“Kind of…” Lewis replied. A knock was heard at the door, causing Lewis and Wiatt to turn. “Come in!”
Alyssa opened the door, and from her expression, she wasn’t happy. “Wiatt, I need to talk to your boyfriend.” She paused to deepen her glare. “Alone.”
Wiatt’s eyes widened as he looked at Lewis and his co-worker. “One moment, Alyssa.” Wiatt answered with a nervous smile. He turned to Lewis and gave him a kiss on the cheek. “Good luck, Starboy.” Wiatt dashed out of the office and closed the door as Lewis tried to stop him.
Lewis sighed, seeing it was too late to stop his boyfriend. He saw he was now left alone with his co-worker, who was angry at him. “Uh, what did you need, darling?” He asked, nervously.
“Don’t darling me, Lewis!” Alyssa snapped. “Why are you being so rude to your mom! She’s here to see you, and here you are keeping secrets from her and getting mad at her for no reason!”
“Look, Alyssa, I wasn’t planning on my mom visiting so soon,” Lewis replied. “I love her, but she doesn’t need to know about the animatron-.”
“She does need to know, Lewis!” Alyssa yelled, cutting Lewis off. “Look, your mom did so much for you growing up! She saved you from a horrible father; she gave you a lot of love! Hell, my mom was nothing like that!”
Lewis was taken aback by that statement. He was about to speak up, but Alyssa continued to yell at him.
“Your mom saved you from an asshole dad! My mom was the asshole and never was there for me!”
“Alyssa. I-I didn’t know. I’m sorry.” Lewis replied.
“You shouldn’t be apologizing to me; you should apologize to your mom,” Alyssa stated. “You should be lucky, because if anything, I’d love to have a mother just like her.” Alyssa then turned around and left Lewis’s office, leaving the man guilty over how he reacted.
Lewis sat down in his chair, pulled out his phone, and opened it to his Photos app. He then started to scroll through the photos he took and looked through the ones with him and his mother. Each photo he looked at brought him to tears as the memories of his mom loving and caring for him came to mind.
“Alyssa is right.” Lewis spoke up as tears started to fall from his eyes. “I’ve been acting like a major jerk.” He wiped the tears away and gave a determined look. “I have to apologize to mom.” Lewis got up from his seat and went to look for his mother.
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Danica walked inside Staract and started to walk through the aisles until she made it to the front of the stage. “Hello!” She called out. The lights dimmed as the spotlight came on. Danica looked around as she saw a pair of glowing eyes staring at her through the left hand stage.
Danica smiled and went up on stage. “You’re Starlight, right?”
Starlight nodded as he went closer to the woman. “Indeed, darling, and your Lewis’s mother?”
“I am.” Danica replied with a nod.
Seeing that the woman wasn’t afraid of him, Starlight started to ease up. “It’s nice to meet you, but how do you know me?” He asked.
“Lewis created you when he was young, and he told me all about you.”
Starlight’s cheek blushed orange and blue as he chuckled. “O-Oh. He did.” He replied, impressed that Lewis talked about him a lot.
Danica chuckled, “he sure has, though I’m surprised to see you…alive.” She replied.
“Of course I’m alive! I…” Starlight paused and turned away from the woman. “I can’t say how I’m alive, Lewis said you wouldn’t understand.”
Danica put her hand on Starlight’s cheek, causing him to turn to her. Her eyes widened the more she stared into Starlight’s eyes. “Lewis brought you to life, didn’t he?”
Starlight’s eyes widened as well, as he took a step back from the woman. He didn’t know how to respond, only stuttering on how she knew right away.
“A mother knows best, and when I look into your eyes, I see Lewis’s eyes as well.” Danica explained.
Starlight chuckled… until he realized something. “W-Wait, you know Lewis’s soul is in me?”
Danica nodded. “Now I don’t need to know what stupid things my son and his friends did to make it happen.” She reassured him. “I know Lewis and Sara are known to get into crazy stuff.”
Starlight sighed, glad he didn’t have to bring it up to the older woman. “What do you mean by crazy stuff?” He asked.
Danica chuckled. “Oh, do I have stories to tell you.” She replied.
“Wait! Before you start,” Starlight started. He went to pull a crate for Danica to sit on so she could feel comfortable as she told stories about Lewis and his friends.
Danica was impressed with how much of a gentleman Starlight was. “Oh, thank you, darling.” She thanked the animatronic.
“You're welcome.” Starlight replied.
“Now.” Danica started. “I think my favorite one would have to be when Lewis and his friends started a statewide power outage.”
Starlight chuckled, “w-what?! No way!”
“Way!” Danica laughed. “Lewis and his friends wanted to put Christmas lights in Eric’s neighborhood, and once they put it on, it turned as bright as the lights in Las Vegas!”
“Oooh! I don’t know where Las Vegas is, but it sounds like a fun place to go!” Starlight exclaimed.
“Well, a minute after turning the lights on, the blackout happened, and we had no power for 24 hours.”
Starlight laughed. “Lewis must’ve been freaking out!”
“He was! He was so embarrassed that he was ready to cry.” Danica said. “However, Eric, his friends, and I comforted him and told him it’s okay.”
“Aww.” Starlight thought about it and remembered a story about his first performance. “If it makes you feel better, Lewis had to help me with my first performance, and it all went wrong for the right reasons.”
Danica chuckled. “I love to hear that.”
Meanwhile, Lewis tried to look for his mother. Not wanting to look through every floor, he went to the security cameras to find her. He saw her go into Staract, and he quickly left the security office to get to her. As he took the elevator up to Staract, he was worried about his mom. Hoping she wasn’t mad at him for snapping in front of his co-workers.
The elevator rang as it made it to the top floor, and Lewis ran out of it to find his mom. He heard laughing coming from the theatre, and slowly walked towards it, opening the door. There he saw Starlight and his mother talking and laughing with one another.
Lewis was surprised his mom wasn’t terrified by Starlight, and was instead speaking to him like he was a regular person. “So, that’s what happened?” Danica laughed.
Starlight chuckled, “yep,” He replied. “It was wild, but it was fun in the end.”
“Glad everyone was okay then!”
Lewis gave a small smile and cleared his throat. Starlight and Danica looked up and turned to see Lewis. Starlight and Danica were shocked to see him.
“D-Darling! Uh, hi! I-uh-met your mom!” Starlight, exclaimed nervously.
Lewis nodded. “I know. I’m just here to talk to her.” He replied, his voice sounding shaky.
Danica got up and walked over to her son. “Lewis, are you okay?” She asked.
Lewis shook his head as tears started to come out of his eyes. “I’m sorry!” He cried as he hugged his mother tightly. “I’m so sorry mom!” Lewis cried into his mother’s chest, as Danica slowly wrapped her arms around her son, rubbing his back.
“Oh, darling. I forgive you.” Danica whispered. “I should apologize for embarrassing you.”
Lewis sniffled and looked at his mom. “No, embarrass me as much as possible! Please!” He begged. “You’ve done a lot for me, so I’m allowing you to embarrass me!”
Danica smiled, ruffled Lewis’s hair and chuckled. She then kissed his forehead, which paused Lewis’ crying. “If that’s what you want, my little star, then okay.”
Lewis smiled and hugged his mom tight again. “I love you mom.” He said. “I love you so much.”
“I love you too.” Danica replied. She looked up to see Starlight, who was nervous to join in on the hug. Danica sighed, “Come on, Starlight, you can join the hug too.”
Starlight’s eyes sparkled as he gave a wide smile and hugged Lewis and Danica tight. The two giggled at the affection the animatronic was giving them.
In the distance, Alyssa watched the entire thing unfold and smiled seeing Lewis and his mother making up. “Good job, Lewis.” She whispered before walking away.
After the wholesome reunion, Lewis and Starlight let go of the hug. “Mom, would you like to meet the other animatronics?” Lewis asked.
Danica nodded. “I would love to.” She said.
“May I come along, darling?” Starlight asked.
“Of course, Starlight.” Lewis replied.
Lewis and Starlight took Danica around all the floors at Dreamworld and introduced her to the animatronics. The animatronics were interested in the older woman and asked her questions about Lewis, which she gladly answered. After all of that, Danica decided to leave for the day as guests started to come into Dreamworld. “So, after work, you wanna go out to eat?” Danica asked.
“Sure!” Lewis replied. “Uh, think we can invite Wiatt and my friends along?”
“Of course!” Danica answered. She then turned to Alyssa and Mike. “Oh, you two are welcome to join us as well.”
Mike and Alyssa smiled. “Thank you, Ms. Bright!” Mike exclaimed. “We’d love to go!”
“Great! I’ll see you at 7 then?” Danica asked.
“Yes, and I’ll call you if anything comes up.” Lewis reminded his mom.
Danica nodded. She was about to leave the facility, until she forgot something. “Oh, and Lewis.” She said.
“Yeah?” Lewis asked.
“Take good care of your little brother for me.” Danica finished before leaving the facility.
Lewis was confused at first. Why did she say little brother? He thought.
Then it hit him.
Lewis turned to Starlight, who turned to him as well. Starlight realized what Danica meant and smirked at the founder. Lewis’s mouth dropped as his glasses slid off his face.
“W-Wait mom!” Lewis yelled, trying to stop her, but it was too late. She had already left. Lewis sighed in defeat, seeing he couldn’t stop her.
“Well, darling, looks like we’re family now.” Starlight beamed.
Lewis sighed and looked over at Starlight, who, in return, turned his smile into a frown. “Star,” Lewis started. Starlight braced for what Lewis was about to say about them not being family, but what the founder told him shocked him. “You’ve always been family to me.”
Starlight was surprised and gave a wide smile and a hug to Lewis. Lewis chuckled and hugged the star animatronic back.
Dreamers of Myths & Legends Chap.11-Green with Evolution
Here is the next chapter! I’m excited for this one, as this was another fanfic I thought of during the planning stages of the fanfic.
Big thanks to my beta reader gigilefache!
Enjoy!
It was a breezy morning, and Skiddo was outside the balcony taking in the breeze. She took a deep breath before letting out slowly. The grass-type pokemon looked down to see more grass-type pokémon walking into the forest in glee. She heard Hoppip flying above, following the grass-type. Skiddo bleated in confusion as she ran down stairs, but saw her trainer, her friends, and their Pokemon enjoying breakfast as Eric was sharing news with the group.
“The Spring Sunrise?” The Dream Quartet asked.
Eric nodded. “Yep, it starts tomorrow, and during this time, many grass-type Pokémon evolve.” He explained.
“Woah!” Lewis and Sara said at the same time, turning to one another. The two had grass-type pokémon, and were interested in seeing them evolve.
“How cool would it be for our pokémon to evolve, darling?” Lewis asked.
“It would be amazing!” Sara replied.
The two looked over at their grass-type pokémon, who looked at them in confusion. Sprigatito and Skiddo looked at one another before looking back at their trainers.
“Why do many grass-types evolve at this time?” Oliver asked.
Eric thought for a moment. “My guess is that it has to do with the season. Since springtime, everything is in full bloom.”
“That would make sense,” Wiatt replied. “Like flowers blooming in spring, grass-types can evolve in spring too.”
Sara got up from her seat and went over to Skiddo and kneeled down. “Skiddo, this is your chance.”
Skiddo bleated in reply, tilting her head.
“You can evolve into a Gogoat.”
The Mount pokémon gulped, looking nervous. Skiddo replied with a nervous bleat, showing her “excitement.”
“I knew you’d be excited!” Sara exclaimed.
Oddity took notice of his friend and frowned. He knew well that Skiddo was uncomfortable with evolving.
“So, I’m guessing you four are going to wake up early to check it out?” Eric asked.
“You know it!” Sara replied.
Eric smiled. “Great, you guys should get to bed early tonight so you can wake up and watch the event unfold.”
“Okay!” The group replied, seeing that today would be a free day for them.
Outside of the facility, Team Rocket listened in on the conversation, and an evil smile appeared on their faces. “An event for grass pokémon to evolve, huh?” Jessie asked.
“I know. Imagine if I still had my Cacnea, I could evolve them into a strong and scary Cacturne.” James replied, imagining his Cacnea evolving into a Cacturne.
Meowth growled and used a fan, which came out of nowhere, to smack James above the head. The latter let out a yelp as he rubbed the back of his head.
“Ow! What was that for?” James whined.
“Because you're thinking like a Slowpoke!” Meowth yelled. “We’re going to that event and steal some powerful grass-type pokémon for the boss!”
“Oh,” James replied. “That too.” He gave a nervous chuckle.
“Well, glad your’re in focus mode James, because right now we need to come up with a plan to capture those Grass-type pokémon.” Jessie reminded him.
“Don’t worry Jessie, I’ve bought something from an online store that sells traps!” Meowth exclaimed.
“Wobbuffet!” Wobbuffet shouted, coming out of his Pokéball.
“Cramo!”
Team Rocket screamed in fear until they saw it was a Cramorant, the same one they met back in Sinnoh, staring right at them.
“Cramorant,” Cramorant said, again.
“Don’t scare us like that, you derpy Pidgey!” Jessie yelled, insulting the Gulp pokémon.
“Cramorant!” Cramorant replied, before flying off.
Team Rocket sighed. “What is up with that bird?” Meowth asked.
“Wobbuffet!” Wobbuffet replied.
By nightfall, everyone was asleep except for Sara and Skiddo.
Sara was excited for the Spring Sunrise, as she imagined her Skiddo evolving into a strong Gogoat.
However, Skiddo was nervous about the idea of evolving. It’s been something that’s crossed her mind multiple times, but she was never into it. However, Sara never brought up evolving until now, and seeing how happy it made her trainer got her even more stressed out. The Mount pokémon decided to sleep it off and hoped that her mind would be sent by morning.
“WAKE UP EVERYONE!”
The group shouted in fear. Oliver fell out of his bed. Sprigatito, Scorbunny, Skiddo, and Oddity jumped up, while Lewis and Wiatt looked around, wondering who yelled so loudly. Lewis put on his glasses and turned on the light to see Sara fully dressed and awake.
Wiatt put on his glasses and looked at his Rotom Phone. His eyes widened at the time. “Sara, it’s 5:30 in the morning!” He yelled.
“I know!” Sara replied.
“So why are you waking us up this early?!”
“Because we have to go to the Spring Sunrise, remember? Eric did say we have to wake up bright and early.”
Lewis let out a yawn. “Darling, he didn’t say this early.”
“I know, but we have to get there before we’re late,” Sara replied.
The boys looked at each other and sighed. They got dressed up and left the facility for the event.
During the walk there, the boys and their pokémon were still tired. They yawned loudly as they walked further into the forest. “I’m so tired.” Wiatt groaned.
“Quit whining, Wiatt!” Sara yelled.
Wiatt glared and stuck his tongue out at the girl. His glare clearly went away when he and the others looked up to see some Hoppip and Skiploom flying to where the Spring Sunrise was located. Soon, some Shroomish, Bellsprout, Oddish, and Cherubi were also following the Grass/Flying type pokémon.
“Wow, there’s a lot of Grass-Type pokémon going to the Spring Sunrise.” Oliver pointed out.
“Eric wasn’t kidding when he said a bunch of grass-types would be going,” Lewis replied. He then looked over at his Sprigatito. “What do you think, darling? Are you ready to evolve?”
Sprigatito thought for a bit before shaking her head.
Wiatt smiled, “Well, glad to know you're not ready to evolve yet, Sprigatito.” He said.
Sprigatito smiled and was glad to see Wiatt understood her.
“You sure?” Lewis asked.
The Grass Cat pokémon nodded again.
“Well… alright darling.”
Sprigatito’s smile widened seeing her trainer understood her too. She then glanced over at Skiddo and saw that the Mount pokémon looked uncomfortable. “Meow?” Sprigatito asked. She sprinted closer to Skiddo and spoke to her.
Skiddo turned to her friend and gave her a small smile to reassure her that she was alright. Sprigatito knew something was wrong with her friend and looked over at Oddity and Scorbunny.
“Meow meow,” Sprigatito said, telling the two pokémon that something was wrong with Skiddo.
“Vee. Eevee.” Oddity replied, letting her know he sensed it too.
“Scorbun?” Scorbunny asked. “Scorbun. Scorbunny.” The fire-type didn’t see anything wrong with Skiddo and just told the two to brush it off.
Oddity and Sprigatito looked at each other, knowing they shouldn’t brush it off.
“Skiddo!” Sara spoke up.
Skiddo bleated and turned around to her trainer.
“Go and catch up with the Grass-Type pokémon, we’ll catch up.” Sara encouraged her.
Skiddo turned towards the grass-types heading deeper into the forest, and back at her trainer. Sara nodded and ushered her pokémon to catch up with them. Skiddo gulped and gave a sheepish smile as she caught up with the grass-type pokémon, some welcoming her to the event.
Sara smiled, feeling her eyes swell up with tears, seeing her pokémon go off with the other grass-types to evolve. “There she goes. Off to evolve with the others.” She gushed.
Lewis put his arm around his best friend and patted her on the arm. Sara turned to her friend and wiped the tears from her eyes. “Come on, darling, let’s head to the event,” Lewis said. Sara nodded as the group continued forward.
Behind the Dream Quartet was Team Rocket, disguised as bushes and wearing hats based on grass-type pokémon. James wore a Victreebel hat, Jessie wore a Hoppip hat, and Meowth wore a Sunflora mask. They wanted to see the Spring Sunrise too before they started their plans on capturing the pokémon.
“Looks like the twerps are leading us right to them,” Jessie whispered with a smile.
“They don’t even know we’re following them,” James replied, whispering as well.
“Wobbuffet!” Wobbuffet shouted.
Team Rocket shushed the Patient pokémon and pushed him down to stay hidden.
Oddity and Sprigatito’s ears picked up and turned to where Team Rocket was. The evil trio quickly went back into the bushes and hopped away, making pokémon noises. The two pokémon looked at each other and wondered if that was Team Rocket they heard just now. They decided to shrug it off and follow the group.
Deeper into the forest, many grass types faced four evolved grass type pokémon; Venusaur, Arboliva, Liligant, and Gogoat, who were the organizers of the event. The Dream Quartet made it just in time and decided to hide in the bushes so they wouldn’t disturb the pokémon.
A peek of sunlight started to appear on the horizon, and the four fully evolved pokémon cried out to start the event. The Grass-Type pokémon also called out, and soon, one by one, started to glow, starting their evolution. The first to finish evolving was a Smoliv into a Dolliv. Soon, a Skiploom evolved into a Jumpluff.
The group gazed in awe, seeing the many grass type pokémon evolving. However, Oddity noticed something was wrong with Skiddo.
“Eevee?” Oddity asked, tilting his head.
The Dream Quartet turned to the Eevee. “What’s wrong, Oddity?” Wiatt asked.
Oddity pointed at Skiddo and saw the evolution glow fading in and out as she struggled.
“Skiddo?” Sara asked, worried for her pokémon.
The glow faded as Skiddo tried to catch her breath. The many grass-type pokémon including a couple of Gogoats stared at her. Skiddo gulped and stepped back as she tried to evolve again. The glow faded in and out again, before fading, and Skiddo fell to the ground exhausted.
Many of the grass-type pokémon looked at each other before walking towards Skiddo, disappointed that one of their fellow grass-type pokémon wasn’t evolving.
“What’s going on?” Lewis asked.
“Why isn’t Skiddo evolving?” Sara asked as well.
The grass-type pokémon glared and growled, which made Skiddo nervous. She stepped back away until she felt more grass-type pokémon behind her. Skiddo looked around and saw an opening, and she quickly ran, crying.
“Skiddo!” Sara yelled and ran after her pokémon.
“Sara! Wait!” Wiatt yelled as he and Oddity ran to catch up with their friend. Lewis and Oliver looked at one another and nodded as they followed their friends.
Sara searched through the bushes for her pokémon, but she couldn’t find Skiddo anywhere. “Skiddo!” She called out. “Skiddo, where are you?” The Mount pokémon didn’t respond, leaving Sara worried for her pokémon.
“Darling!” Lewis called out. Sara turned to see Wiatt, Lewis, Oliver, and their pokémon running towards her. “Any luck finding Skiddo?”
Sara shook her head. “I don’t get it. Why couldn’t she evolve?”
“Maybe she doesn’t want to evolve,” Wiatt said.
Sara looked at her friend in disbelief. “W-What?” She chuckled. “T-That’s crazy, Wiatt! Skiddo has been my pokémon for years, she has to evolve at some point.”
“I know, but you saw her out there. She resisted evolution.”
“W-Well, maybe she needs some encouragement.” Sara slightly pushed Wiatt out of the way as she continued to look for her pokémon.
Wiatt sighed. He and Oddity followed Sara, hoping to talk to her.
“Should we follow them?” Oliver asked.
Lewis shook his head. “No, I can trust Wiatt to talk to Sara.” He reassured his best friend.
“You sure?” Oliver asked.
Lewis nodded. “We should find Skiddo and make sure she’s okay.” He said. “Once we find her, we’ll call them on our Rotom phones.”
“Okay! Come on, Scorbunny!”
“Scorbun!” Scorbunny replied.
Sara looked for Skiddo everywhere in the forest, but still no signs of her. “Skiddo! Where are you?” Sara yelled. Skiddo still hadn’t responded, and Sara was starting to get worried. “Come on, Skiddo! Please come out!” Sara then saw hoof prints on the ground, and she recognized those as Skiddo’s.
The young girl followed the hoof prints through some bushes and found Skiddo under a tree with her head down. Sara was relieved to see her Skiddo safe; however, she saw that something was wrong with her pokémon. “Skiddo.” Sara said.
Skiddo’s eyes widened as she looked up at her trainer.
“Are you okay?” She asked.
Skiddo bleated and turned away from her trainer.
Sara frowned and sat next to her pokémon. “Skiddo, can you be honest with me? Do you want to evolve?”
The Mount pokémon didn’t respond and just sank her head down further. She wasn’t sure how to tell her trainer how she felt.
“It’s just, you’ll be strong as a Gogoat, but I also want you to be happy.” Sara felt tears in her eyes as she petted her pokémon. “You’ve done so much for me since we met, and I want to do something to return the favor, but…” Sara paused as she started to cry. “If evolving doesn’t make you happy, I should respect it, but somehow I can’t!” Sara covered her face with her hands as she continued to cry.
Skiddo looked up to see her trainer crying and got up to give her trainer a lick on her cheek. Sara removed her hands from her face, showing tears staining them. Sara hugged Skiddo and cried into her leafy mane.
Wiatt and Oddity, who heard everything, walked over to the two and sat down next to them. “Sara?” Wiatt asked.
Sara and Skiddo looked up at their friend. “Oh Wiatt.” Sara replied, as she wiped away her tears. “Sorry, I-”
“Don’t apologize.” Wiatt cut her off. “I’m sorry if I sounded pushy about Skiddo evolving. I have my reasons.”
Sara sniffled as she wiped away the remaining tears from her eyes. She then looked down at Oddity who was comforting Skiddo. “I’m guessing it’s about Oddity?” She asked.
Wiatt nodded. “A couple of months after I caught Oddity, I thought it would be cool since Eevee has a ton of evolutions so it was hard to choose between all of them.” He paused as he looked over at Oddity. “Then when I tried to evolve him into Jolteon, Oddity just wouldn’t evolve.”
Sara looked surprised. “Like how Skiddo wouldn’t evolve?”
“Right.” Wiatt then petted Oddity, causing him to hum in enjoyment. “It made me realize something, that evolution should be a choice. If the pokémon wants to evolve, then I say go for it! But, if they don’t, then as trainers, we should respect that.”
Sara understood what Wiatt was trying to say, but still there was the positive of evolving too. “But it would be cool if Oddity could evolve into one of his evolutions, or my Skiddo evolving into Gogoat.”
“While it sounds nice, you must think about how they feel. Does Skiddo want to evolve?” Wiatt asked.
Sara’s eyes widened as she turned to Skiddo.
“For Oddity, he doesn’t know what to evolve into, or when he wants to evolve, but when he’s ready he’ll let me know.”
“Eevee!” Oddity exclaimed. Wiatt smiled as he petted Oddity on the head.
Sara looked down at her pokémon as she petted her. “Skiddo, be honest, do you want to evolve?” She asked.
Skiddo shook his head.
“As much as I want to see you evolve, if that’s what you want I’ll respect it.” Sara replied.
Skiddo smiled and went to nuzzle her trainer, causing her to laugh.
“S-Skiddo, stop. It tickles.” Sara laughed.
A rustle was heard, causing Wiatt, Sara, and their pokémon to look up. Out from the bushes were two Oddish, a Shroomish, a trio of Hoppip, a Skiploom, and a Cherubi. They all frowned, looking at Skiddo.
“What are all these grass-type pokémon doing here?” Sara asked.
“Oddish. Odd.” Oddish said.
“Hoppip.” Hoppip added.
Skiddo’s eyes widened in surprise at what she heard. She looked up at her friends and bleated.
Sara was surprised at what her pokémon was telling her. “Are you trying to tell me that these pokémon don’t want to evolve either?” She asked.
Skiddo and the grass-type pokémon nodded and chattered in reply.
Sara smiled seeing Skiddo wasn’t alone in this. “Well, it should be your choice if you want to evolve or not. No one should force you.”
The wild grass-type pokémon looked at one another and smiled. However, Shroomish frowned upon realizing something. “Shroom. Shroomish.” He said, telling the pokémon if that would ruin the event.
Skiddo shook her head. She bleated, translating that it won’t ruin the event at all,
A rumble was then heard in the distance, causing Sara and Wiatt to get up. “What was that?” Wiatt asked.
“Sara! Wiatt!” Lewis yelled as he, Oliver, and their pokémon were running towards them.
“Lewis! What’s going on?” Sara asked.
“While we were looking for you, we saw what looked to be a monster heading towards the Spring Sunrise!” Oliver exclaimed.
Skiddo and the grass-type pokémon gasped in horror, hearing someone attacking the other grass-type pokémon.
“Come on! Let’s go!” Sara yelled.
“Right!” The boys replied as everyone ran to where Lewis and Oliver saw the monster.
A giant lawn mower robot was coming through the forest as the top of the machine launched a net on top of the many Grass-Type pokémon before dragging the net to put inside the machine.
Another net came out and did the same for the other group of grass-type pokémon. Some tried to use their attacks, but they reflected the net as they were dragged inside the machine as Team Rocket laughed.
The Dream Quartet and the pokémon ran to where the commotion was and gasped at what was going on. “Oh no! Not them!” Sara yelled.
Team Rocket laughed as they started their motto. “Prepare for trouble, we’re on a roll.” Jessie started.
“And make it double, where evilness grows!” James added.
“To protect the world from devastation.” Jessie continued.
“To unite all grass-types within our nation.” James continued.
“To denounce the evils of truth and love!”
“To extend our reach to the beanstalks above!”
“Jessie!”
“James!”
“Team Rocket is blasting to the treetops at the speed of light!” Jessie finished.
“Surrender now and prepare for a fight!” James added.
“Meowth, that’s right!” Meowth beamed.
“Wobbuffet!” Wobbuffet added.
“Team Rocket!” The Dream Quartet yelled.
“Eevee!” Oddity growled.
Meowth laughed. “Hi twerps! Here’s a fun fact: spring is a time for new beginnings.” He explained.
“And with that a new Team Rocket!” Jessie exclaimed.
“You release those pokémon now, Team Rocket!” Wiatt yelled.
“No way twerps!” Team Rocket shouted.
“But, we can do this!” Meowth exclaimed, as he pressed a button.
The lawn mower machine launched another net and went on top of Oddity, Sprigatito, and Scorbunny.
“Oddity!” Wiatt yelled.
“Sprigatito!” Lewis yelled.
“Scorbunny!” Oliver yelled as well.
The three pokémon were dragged inside the machine with the other grass-type pokémon. Team Rocket laughed seeing they caught more pokémon. “See, new season means a whole new Team Rocket!” Meowth beamed.
“I love feeling like a winner!” James beamed.
“Now, let’s get out of here and straight to the boss!” Jessie exclaimed.
“Tally HO!” Team Rocket yelled, ready to leave. However, Skiddo went to use Take Down and rammed into Team Rocket’s machine. The evil trio screamed as their machine wobbled back and forth before catching itself.
“What rammed into us?” Jessie asked.
Skiddo bleated in anger. Team Rocket looked down to see the Mount pokémon angry, and ready to fight.
“Oh! You want to fight you, little pipsqueak?!” Jessie asked, angrily. “We’ll see about that!” She then pulled the lever to make the robot run over Skiddo.
“Skiddo, look out!” Sara yelled.
The lawn mower got closer to her until an Ingrain attack stopped the robot on its tracks. “Uh?” Team Rocket asked.
“What’s going on?” Jessie asked.
The Dream Quartet turned and saw it was Oddish using Ingrain to stop the machine. “Wow! That Oddish is using Ingrain!” Wiatt exclaimed.
“That’s awesome!” Sara yelled.
Team Rocket’s lawn mower machine tried to break free from the Ingrain, but soon Hoppip and Shroomish used Leech Seed and tied up the machine more. The effects somehow affected the machine and Team Rocket.
“We’re feeling weak!” Team Rocket yelled, shivering thanks to the effects of the Leech Seed.
Skiddo then bleated for the grass-type pokémon to attack. The grass-type pokémon then started to use Bullet Seed or Razor Leaf to dent the robot.
“Hey, stop that!” Meowth yelled. “That robot is expensive!”
“It’s also a rental!” James yelled.
Team Rocket’s machine fell to the ground as the hatch where the pokémon was being held dented and had an opening. This gave Skiddo a chance to use Take Down and ram into the machine, opening it.
All the grass-type pokémon, Oddity, Sprigatito, and Scorbunny got out of the machine safe and sound.
“Eevee!” Oddity exclaimed as he ran out of the machine.
“Meow Meow!” Sprigatito yelled.
“Scorbunny!” Scorbunny cheered, jumping out and then running to Oliver.
“Oddity!” Wiatt beamed.
“Sprigatito!” Lewis beamed as well.
“Scorbunny!” Oliver beamed.
The three pokémon stopped in front of their trainers with a smile. “Darlings, are you okay?” Lewis asked.
The pokémon replied in glee.
The fully evolved grass-type pokémon faced the sunrise, and soon they started to glow.
Team Rocket’s mecha got up, not wanting to give up yet. “We still have enough nets where that came from!” Meowth yelled.
Not wanting to see anymore pokémon captured. Sara decided to step in. “Skiddo use Bulldoze!” Sara yelled.
Skiddo stomped her hooves as the earth trembled and was able to launch Team Rocket’s mecha up in the air.
“Oddity, use Buzzy Buzz!” Wiatt commanded.
“Vee! Eevee!” Oddity yelled as he launched his electric attack.
At that moment, the grass-type pokémon went and used Solar Beam, and the two moves mixed, hitting Team Rocket’s machine, causing it to explode.
Team Rocket was now flying in the air, looking defeated. “Well, I guess things do change in Spring.” James started.
“But not us,” Jessie added.
“Oh well, we've got until the next chapter!” Meowth exclaimed.
“Wobbuffet!” Wobbuffet added.
“Looks like Team Rocket is blasting off again!” Team Rocket yelled in unison. A star twinkled in the sky the further they flew.
The pokémon cheered seeing that Team Rocket was gone. Skiddo stood proudly, helping to lead the attack to stop Team Rocket.
Gogoat walked over to the Mount pokémon and bleated. Skiddo turned, looking nervous. Gogoat bleated, explaining to her that she should evolve after all her hard work.
Skiddo bleated in surprise and frowned at the fact that she was being forced to evolve.
“Now hold on!” Sara spoke up. Skiddo and Gogoat looked up at the girl. “I know this event is to have many of the grass-type pokémon evolve, but Skiddo doesn’t want to evolve. She, along with the pokémon here, beat Team Rocket with their strength.”
Skiddo’s eyes widened as she felt tears in her eyes.
“Look at some of these grass-types, they don’t want to evolve either!” Sara exclaimed.
Gogoat and the rest of the evolved pokémon looked and saw it wasn’t just the pokémon on The Dream Quartet’s side, but there were a few other grass-types as well that hadn’t evolved too. Those pokémon looked nervous about not evolving for the spring sunrise.
“I know the event is for the pokémon to evolve, but I believe it’s to be respected if pokémon don’t want to evolve.” Wiatt stepped in.
Gogoat turned to Skiddo and walked over to her, unleashing one of his vines. Skiddo was nervous until Gogoat spoke to her. The bigger goat bowed his head down and bleated as one of his vines came out of his leafy mane.
Skiddo smiled and released her vine as well, and shook it. This caused many of the grass-type pokémon to celebrate. The Dream Quartet smiled, seeing that all went well. The four decided to leave the forest and headed back to the facility to have breakfast with Eric and Carly.
“I see, so Skiddo decided not to evolve after all,” Eric said.
Sara nodded. “Yeah, she decided she was strong enough just as is.” She replied, petting Skiddo, who belated happily.
“However, we discovered something interesting.” Wiatt started. “Turns out wild pokémon have a choice if they want to evolve or not.”
Eric chuckled. “That’s interesting!” He exclaimed.
“It was!” Wiatt replied.
“You know,” Carly spoke up, causing everyone to turn to the younger girl. “If Skiddo doesn’t want to evolve, there’s something you should give to Skiddo.” The young girl went over to a shelf, grabbed a small red chest, and handed it to Sara.
Sara took the chest and opened it. Inside was a grey stone, and immediately Sara recognized it. “Is that an Everstone?”
“Yep,” Carly replied.
“That way, Skiddo wouldn’t evolve even if she’s about to,” Eric explained.
Sara removed the stone from the box and had an idea. “Lewis,” she said, looking up at her best friend. “Did you bring your accessory kit?”
“Y-Yeah,” Lewis answered, “why do you need it, darling?”
Sara didn’t answer and just left the lab and went upstairs to her and her friend’s bedroom. She went over to the drawer and found Lewis’s accessory kit. Sara opened it up, went through it, and found a mint green pouch with a dark green drawstring. Sara put the Everstone inside the pouch, grabbed some brown thread, and tied it on the top of the draw string, making it look like a necklace.
“There,” Sara said. She then put the pouch around Skiddo’s neck, and she smiled proudly at her work.
Skiddo went over to the mirror and looked at her pouch and smiled proudly, bleating. She then ran to Sara, knocking her down, and started to lick her cheek.
Sara laughed, “S-Stop it, Skiddo! That tickles!” She begged, continuing to laugh.
Skiddo stopped licking her trainer’s face and started to nuzzle her, making Sara hug her pokémon.
WTDWxDandy's World-Dandy's Dreamworld Chap. 1-A Starlight is Born
Hey! Got a new WTDW AU featuring my newest hyperfixation, Dandy’s World! Since getting into the game I played around with a bunch of different ideas on how this AU would work, and finally stuck with an idea that I like!
This AU does have a prequel I’m working on at the moment. Originally that prequel was going to be the true first chapter, but I decided it be best to make the first chapter during Dreamworld’s development and the prequel will be a separate story because I know for sure I’ll be writing the backstory chapters for a long time before we focus on the main Dreamworld stuff.
Big thanks to my beta reader @gigilefache
Also thank a youtuber called quinnamon who made a video about Dandy’s World that dragged me into this fandom.
Enjoy!!
Ever since she was young, Sara Covetman-Keen always wanted to open a family-friendly facility just like her mother did years ago. The facility was called Gardenview, a museum and educational center created by Arthur Walton and Sara’s mother, Delilah Keen. The facility was well known for its use for living toons, thanks to Delilah using a substance called ichor, though that was never brought up to the public.
Growing up in Gardenview, she knew her dream was to open her own facility with cartoon characters. That day ended up becoming a reality, when she and her two best friends, Lewis Bright and Oliver Acrimony, won a competition that gave them ownership of an old building that they could use for their facility. Now came the hard part, bringing the toons to life.
Sara was in her office reading her mother’s notes on how ichor is used. Her mother made it look easy, but she knew things could go wrong. Sara’s anxiety over this made her separate from her friends for a while so she could review the process and not get all worked up over it. Sara let out a frustrated yell as she slammed her head on the desk after reading the notes once again and getting anxious over them.
A knock was heard on Sara’s door.
“Lewis, go away!” Sara yelled, muffling.
The door slowly opened, revealing a flower-toon with rainbow-colored petals. “It’s not Lewis.” The toon answered, nervously.
Sara looked up and turned. She was surprised to see it was the mascot of Gardenview, Dandicus Dancifer, aka Dandy. “Oh, Dandy hi.” Sara replied.
“Hey, are you doing okay?” Dandy asked, closing the door as he walked over to the girl.
Sara sighed. “No.”
Dandy frowned as he used her desk to climb up and sat on it. He looked over the notes scattered all over Sara’s desk before looking up at her. “Reading your mom’s notes again?”
“Yeah.” Sara picked up one of the papers to read them again for the umpteenth time. As she read, she put her hand on Dandy’s petals and started to spin them.
Dandy started to look pissed as Sara played with his petals like it was a fidget spinner. “Sara, would you please stop spinning my petals?” He asked.
“Why? I love doing it! It helps me think.” Sara replied with a small smile.
Dandy scoffed and started to poke Sara’s hair bun. “How would you like it if I kept poking at your hair bun then?” He asked, snickering.
“Hey!” Sara laughed, pushing Dandy’s hand away from her hair. Dandy kept on trying to mess with her hair as Sara kept trying to stop him. The flower toon started to laugh as well as the two messed around, causing Sara to fall back on her chair, taking Dandy down with her, which made them laugh more.
The two caught their breaths as they glanced at one another before chuckling. “Feeling better?” Dandy asked.
Sara was still catching her breath, and once she did, she nodded. “Thanks, Dandy.”
“Hey, no need to thank me. It’s my job, keeping you happy.” Dandy answered.
Sara rolled her eyes, but smiled as she and Dandy got up from the floor. Sara picked her chair up and sat back down. She looked at the notes once more before looking down at Dandy, frowning once again. “Dandy, do you think I’m ready to do this?” She asked.
“Of course you're ready!” He beamed. “You’ve known about Ichor and how it works since you were 9.”
“I know that, but what if it goes wrong?” Sara asked. “What if the process is set up correctly and it just fails!”
Dandy climbed back up on the desk and put his hand on top of Sara’s, causing her to look up at him. “Hey, that won’t happen. I’ve seen how the process works. As long as you follow what the notes say, you’ll be fine.” Dandy reassured her.
Sara looked at the notes one more time and looked over at the flower toon. A smile formed on her face once again. “Alright, but to make sure. I might need Mom to come help me with this.” She reminded the flower.
Dandy smiled until the door was open once again. “If you needed help, my lil’gumdrop, you should’ve asked.” A female voice said.
Sara turned and gasped to see her mother, Delilah Keen, outside the door. “Mom!” Sara exclaimed, getting up from the chair and hugging her. Delilah chuckled and hugged her daughter back. “What are you doing here? I thought you went back home?”
“I did, but Lewis called me because he’s worried about you,” Delilah explained. “What’s going on, Sara?”
Sara sighed and explained to her mother about how she’s nervous of doing the whole ichor process for the first time. “I’m scared it could all go wrong.” She said, looking down.
Delilah frowned. She remembered using ichor for the first time, too. She had some failures before Dandy, and the rest of the toons came into existence, but the notes she took should be enough for her daughter to learn the process.
“Hey, it’s going to be okay Sara,” Delilah reassured her daughter. She cupped her daughter’s cheek with her hand. “I know you, you’ve asked me so many questions about ichor, and you’ve been reading my notes, you got this sweetie.”
Sara sighed. “What if it goes wrong?” She asked.
Delilah gave a determined smile. “Then try again. I’ve failed and tried hundreds of times again, and I never gave up. Don’t give up.”
Sara nodded. She took a deep breath. “Okay. Let’s do this!” She beamed as a smile formed on her face.
“Alright!” Dandy cheered.
The three left Sara’s office and walked to where Lewis and Oliver were waiting for them. As they walked, Dandy started to think of all the new toons coming to life for the facility. He hadn’t seen a new toon in forever, and while he had Sara and her friends its nice to see more toons being created once again.
Though Dandy wondered if the new toons would like him and his friends, these were toons designed by Lewis and will soon be brought to life by Sara. They could act differently towards them. He shook off his thoughts and forced a smile, “Nothing like a Dandy smile and introduction to make their meeting a good one!” He thought.
“Dandy,” Delilah spoke up. The toon flower snapped out of his thoughts and turned to his creator. “Are you excited to meet the new toons?”
Dandy chuckled. “You bet!” He exclaimed, swinging his arm and giving a thumbs-up. “It would be nice to see some new toons!”
Delilah smiled, “I’m surprised you’re taking this well.”
“Delilah. I’m not the same Dandy I was when Gardenview was around.” He reminded her. “I grew into a new leaf.”
Sara chuckled. “Yeah, right.” She replied.
Dandy pouted as Delilah and Sara laughed. “I’m serious, you two!” He yelled, causing the mother-daughter duo to laugh more.
In the main lobby, the two other founders of Dreamworld, Lewis and Oliver, waited on Delilah and Dandy. The two sent the duo to check up on Sara as she’d been in her office for weeks and not spending time with them.
“You sure this would work?” Oliver asked.
“I hope so, darling,” Lewis replied. “If not, we’ll just have to delay the opening longer to build animatronics.”
“No need,” Sara spoke up.
Oliver and Lewis turned to see Sara, Delilah, and Dandy. The two smiled, seeing their best friend out of her office, and went over to her. “There you are, darling.” Lewis said, holding Sara’s hands. “Are you doing okay?”
Sara nodded. “I’m doing fine.” She replied. “I was nervous.”
“Nervous about what?” Oliver asked.
“About bringing toons to life. It’s the first time doing this, and I wanted to research mom’s notes before getting it right.” Sara explained.
Lewis sighed and gave a small smile. “Darling, you’ve told us how Dandy and the others were brought to life.” He said.
“Y-Yeah,” Oliver spoke up. “Besides, as long as the process doesn’t come with any side effects. You’ll be fine.”
Sara, Dandy, and Delilah’s eyes widened. The flower toon and the older woman slowly turned to Sara, who gave a sheepish smile. “She didn’t tell them. Did she?” Dandy and Delilah thought to themselves.
“Y-Yeah, no side effects,” Sara replied, chuckling nervously.
Lewis and Oliver narrowed their eyes and looked at each other. “She’s hiding something from us.” The two thought to themselves.
“Sara, are you hiding something from us?” Oliver asked.
“No, there’s nothing that I’m hiding,” Sara replied, rather quickly. She got glances from Dandy, her friends, and her mother over her outburst. Realizing how she said it, Sara sighed. “Sorry, I’m still nervous about all this.”
Oliver sighed. “I’m sorry too, Sara.” He replied. “I think I’m nervous about this, too. We’ve never seen how the process works.”
“Well,” Delilah spoke up, giving a smile. “Glad you called me. You finally get to see how it works.”
The group walked to an unused room to do the procedure. Sara made sure the coast was clear as she closed the door. “Okay, what we do here doesn’t leave this room, got it,” Sara advised.
Oliver and Lewis nodded. “But, what about Eric?” Lewis asked. “Doesn’t he deserve to know?”
Sara sighed; she had forgotten about Eric. He wasn’t present due to having some father-daughter time with Carly, and she didn’t want to bother him. “I promise. I’ll tell him when I’m ready.” She reassured him.
Lewis nodded, hoping Sara would keep her promise. From how she’s been acting recently, it worried him and Oliver. Sara never kept secrets from them before, and now it looks like she’s keeping stuff from them.
Sara went over to the drawer and opened it, revealing a bunch of ichor capsules. She grabbed one and handed it to her mother. She gave a smile as nostalgia rushed over her. “It’s been a while since I did this, and now my little girl is about to follow in my footsteps,” Delilah said. “Ready?”
Sara took a deep breath. “Okay, I’m ready.” She said, determined to start the process. She laid out the drawing of Starlight and grabbed a syringe and needle from the table.
“Alright,” Delilah said, grabbing the capsule of ichor and opening it. The smell of ichor lingered in everyone’s noses. It smelled like ink, but it was stronger. It felt like chloroform being pressed against your nose.
The first step in the process is to mix blood into the ichor. Since ichor is akin to the blood to the toons, human blood needs to be mixed in to make it active. Delilah also discovered tears can be mixed in, but blood has a stronger effect.
Sara was ready to prick her finger on the syringe, but her hand was shaking as she was still nervous about the process going wrong.
“Wait!” Lewis spoke up. Sara and Delilah turned to the young man. “May I use my blood?”
Sara and her mother looked at one another, shocked to see Lewis wanting to step in. “Lewis, are you sure?” Delilah asked.
Lewis nodded in reply. “I’m positive.” He answered.
“Alright.”
Sara walked over to her best friend and looked at him with worry. “I don’t want to hurt you, Lewis.”
“You won’t hurt me, darling.” Lewis reassured her.
Sara gave a small smile. She was surprised to see that Lewis believed in her. “Give me your index finger.”
Lewis nodded and handed his best friend his right index finger. Sara took the needle and slowly pricked Lewis’s finger with it. The boy flinched slightly as Sara removed the needle, and a trickle of blood came from the wound.
Sara took Lewis to her mother and put his finger over the ichor capsule as his blood dripped into it. The ichor bubbled as drop after drop went into the capsule.
“Okay. We’re good.” Delilah said.
Sara nodded as she grabbed a napkin from her pocket and put it over Lewis’s finger to stop the bleeding. “You okay?” She asked.
“I am, darling.” Lewis replied. He walked over to the desk drawer and opened the top to reveal a first aid kit. He grabbed it, took out a bandage, and put it on his finger.
Sara then took the syringe and dipped it in the ichor as it sucked in the substance. She took a deep breath and pressed the bottom of the syringe as ichor splashed through the page before she splashed a bit of it on her finger and drew at what appeared to be a summoning circle around it.
A red glow started to appear as the ichor began to bubble.
“Lewis, I need you for this,” Sara spoke up.
Lewis walked over to Sara. “Okay, what do I do now?” He asked.
“Stand on the opposite side of the table,” Sara stated.
Lewis didn’t question and did what his best friend told him to do. “Okay, now what, darling?” He asked.
Sara put her hand on the table, making the circle glow. “Put your hands on the table. Since I used your blood, you need to help me on this part.”
Lewis nodded and did what his best friend told him to do.
“Now close your eyes and put your heart and soul into Starlight’s creation. How he acts, speaks, something that would make Starlight feel real.”
Lewis and Sara closed their eyes simultaneously as the ichor began to bubble. Dandy held back his excitement and went over to Oliver whispering to him. “This is the best part.”
The ichor bubbled faster as the glow got brighter and brighter until it flashed, pushing Sara and Lewis to the ground. The two caught their breath, exhausted from that power. Delilah, Oliver, and Dandy covered their eyes to protect them from the flash, but once it faded, they slowly opened them.
From the ichor, a star toon appeared. He had a star-shaped face with the right side being blue and the left side being yellow. His right limbs were shades of blue,yellow, and orange. He wore a blue suit with three white stars on the left and a shooting star trail on the bottom right, split colored coattails, and a split colored bowtie at the base of his neck. From his size, he looked to be taller than Dandy by a few inches.
Lewis blinked, seeing his creation come to life. “Is that Starlight?” He asked.
Starlight groaned and slowly opened his eyes. In front of him was Dandy, whose eyes widened in awe, seeing the new toon. “W-What the?” Starlight asked as he rubbed his head.
“It worked! Delilah! Sara! It worked!” Dandy cheered.
Sara was speechless. She created her first toon, and it worked. Like how her mom did many years before. “I did it.” She whispered. A big smile formed on her face as she cheered. “I did it!”
Delilah smiled and hugged her daughter tight. “I knew you could do it!” She cheered. “I’m so proud of you, my lil’ gumdrop!”
Lewis and Oliver were shocked as well, mostly Lewis. His own creation, Starlight, was alive and in the flesh. “Starlight?” Lewis asked.
Starlight looked up at Lewis, and the star toon looked up at him in surprise. “W-Who are you, darling?” He asked.
Sara stopped celebrating as she turned to Starlight, shocked, hearing him speak. Starlight sounded like Lewis when she first met him way back in middle school. “C-Could you say that again?” Sara asked.
“Why?” Starlight asked.
“Y-You sound like…like.”
“Like me,” Lewis stated.
Sara looked at her mom, horrified. “Mom, did I do something wrong?” she trembled.
Delilah chuckled. “Not at all, sweetie, you did everything correctly." She replied. “When a toon is created, the ichor uses the features based on how the creator sees him.”
“So, since Starlight is based on me, he’ll sound like me?” Lewis asked.
“Bingo!” Delilah exclaimed, giving a thumbs up.
Sara sighed, worried that she had messed up. “Sorry about that, Starlight. I’m Sara. I was the one to bring you to life.” She introduced. “This is Lewis, he designed you, Oliver, my mom Delilah, and Dandy, another toon like you.”
Dandy took Starlight’s hand and shook it hard, making the star toon’s body shake as well. “Nice to meet ya Starlight!” He beamed.
“N-Nice to meet you t-too darling!” Starlight stuttered.
Dandy stopped shaking Starlight’s hand and put it by his hips. “I can’t wait for you to meet the others; my good pal Astro would love to meet you!”
“W-Who is Astro?”
“Another toon. He’s moon-based.”
“O-Oh,” Starlight replied. “That sounds cool.”
“Uh, Starlight.” Delilah spoke up. The star toon turned to the older woman. “How are you feeling?”
“I feel okay, so far,” Starlight answered. He then heard a groan and looked to see Sara holding onto the table, trying to catch her balance, while Lewis was ready to pass out. “But I don’t think those two are okay.”
Oliver gasped and ran to his friends, “Lewis! Sara!” He yelled, catching Lewis before he fell on the ground not long after, Sara passed out on the floor, too.
“Sara!” Dandy yelled, running to his human friend.
“W-What’s going on with them?!” Oliver asked, worriedly.
Delilah, who should have no emotion over this, walked to her daughter and picked her up. “They’re gonna be okay, the ichor process drains a lot out of you.” She answered.
Oliver was surprised that Delilah was calm over this. Sure, she did bring Dandy and his friends to life and went through the same thing. He just thought that Delilah would be concerned about her daughter passing out on the floor.
“You sure they’ll be okay?” Starlight asked, looking at the unconscious Lewis.
“They will,” Dandy reassured his new friend. However, he turned to Sara to see her unconscious and a bit of ichor staining her fingers. “I hope.”
Here is the next chapter! Bringing in another character into the AU, and from the title I’m sure you know who it’s going to be by the title. However, this chapter was a pain to go through. While I was working on there were certain scenes and moments that I didn’t like so I had to remove them in the final post.
Big thanks to my beta reader @gigilefache
Enjoy!
At the Madhouse, Ben was going through the haunted maze with ease. He kept on looking back, hoping his twin sister and Carly weren’t behind him, and chuckled when he didn’t see them. “I’m going to make it! I’m going to make it!” He cheered. Ben picked up the pace and made it out of the maze with ease. “Haha! I did it! Made it out without running into any monsters!”
Ben cheered and did his victory dance, not noticing Liz and Carly were there. The latter was holding her phone camera, recording her friend’s embarrassing victory dance.
“Oh, this is so going on the Dreamworld website,” Carly said, as Liz snickered.
Ben stopped dancing and turned to see his sister and her friend recording him as he blushed in embarrassment. He was even shocked to see that Liz and Carly made it to the end of the maze. Ben stuttered, trying to understand how the two made it before him.
“Lolli told me where to go after you got stuck two times,” Liz answered.
“Plus, this maze doesn’t scare me anymore,” Carly added, as she stopped the video and put her phone in her pocket.
Ben sighed. “Alright, deal is a deal. So, what do I need to do for you girls?” He asked.
Liz and Carly looked at each other and smirked. “Well, you get to hang out with Hayden for an entire week,” Liz told him.
Ben turned to Hayden and saw him struggling to put up a party banner with Audrey. The banner then fell on top of him as he cursed loudly.
“Pfft. Easy, we bother him all the time.” Ben replied.
“Oh, did I say we?” Liz asked, crossing her arms and giving her younger twin an evil smile.
Ben’s eyes widened, realizing he’d be by himself with the grumpiest worker of Dreamworld. Being alone with Hayden is basically a death wish.
“Oh,” Carly spoke up. “To add on, we, as in Liz and I, will tell you what you and Hayden want to do.”
Ben’s mouth dropped, horrified over his sister and her best friend’s plot. “You girls are evil!” He exclaimed, causing Liz and Carly to laugh. Ben sighed. “Fine, what do I have to lose?”
“Your life, maybe.” Carly mumbled, making Liz giggle.
Ben groaned and glared in reply.
Liz stopped giggling when she heard a violin playing. “Huh?” She questioned, looking around. “Do you guys hear that?”
Carly and Ben were confused as they only heard kids laughing and screaming. “Not sure what’s wrong with your hearing, but all I hear is everyone having fun,” Ben answered.
Liz shook her head. “No, it sounds like someone is playing the violin, and it’s…beautiful.” She replied, giving a small smile as the melody sounded peaceful, then scary.
Carly squeaked and looked around, freaked out. “L-Liz! You promised me you wouldn’t scare me!?” She yelled.
“I’m not Carly!” Liz replied. Maybe I’m the only one who can hear it.
“Wait!” Ben realized. “Do you know what this means?”
Liz and Carly turned to the boy. “That I’m going crazy?” Liz asked.
“No!” Ben replied. Although that may be the case. “That facility is haunted, and there’s a ghost here.”
Carly felt a shiver go down her spine, “d-did you say haunted?” She asked.
“Yeah,” Ben replied. He gave an evil look, continuing to explain his theory of the place. “This facility was abandoned for many years, and whoever owned it died, and his ghost is haunting this place, ready to haunt us for all eternity.”
“Liz!” Carly cried out. “Stop your brother and his outrageous stories!”
Liz glared and punched her brother in the arm, hard, causing him to fall to the ground.
“Ow!” Ben yelled, holding his arm. He knew his sister had a strong punch, strong enough to knock someone out. Ben glared at his sister, only for her to glare back and be ready to punch him again. Ben nervously chuckled as he got up, “Okay. Okay, I’ll stop.”
“Good,” Liz replied, smiling. She then went over to Carly and rubbed her back.
“Thanks, Liz,” Carly said, hugging her friend.
Liz hugged her friend back. “Anytime, Carly.”
Ben rolled his arm to relieve the pain. He sighed as the pain went away. “Although we can tell Oliver and the others about this,” Ben suggested.
The two girls let go and turned to him. “Do we have to scare them?” Liz asked. “You know how Oliver feels about spooky things?”
“And you prank others,” Carly added.
Ben rolled his eyes and scoffed. “It’s not scaring them.” He corrected them. “We’re just letting him know the facility is haunted.” Ben started walking towards his big brother’s office.
Carly and Liz looked at one another before following Ben behind.
Meanwhile, Lewis, Sara, and Oliver were in the latter’s office planning out what future events they should hold at Dreamworld. The three looked through their list of ideas, but with the number of ideas they had it was hard to pick which one.
“What do you guys think of a Monster Movie Night?” Lewis asked.
“Sounds fun,” Oliver replied. “I’ll just make sure Ben doesn’t scare anyone like last movie night.”
Sara looked up from her list, “You mean when Ben brought in his fake blood and gave it to the animatronics to scare the crowd after the movie?” She asked.
“Yep,” Oliver replied, groaning. He was not happy about that night.
That night had the most parent complaints they ever saw at Dreamworld; however, the older kids thought it was amazing and wished the founders would do it again.
“Well,” Sara replied with a chuckle. “It was pretty funny.”
Oliver glared, “It was not!” He yelled.
Sara laughed until it was interrupted by a knock on the door. “Come in, darling!” Lewis yelled.
The door opened, and Wiatt came in. “Hey, darling.” He sang, smirking at his boyfriend.
Lewis blushed and chuckled as Sara rolled her eyes.
“What’s going on?” Wiatt asked.
“Just planning out future events for Dreamworld,” Sara answered. “Something you are not a part of.”
Wiatt glared. “Hey. As long as I’m dating Lewis, I can help out 25% of the time.”
Sara turned to her best friend with a glare.
“Hey, I’m a founder too, I should have rules myself,” Lewis replied.
“Whatever you say,” Sara said, rolling her eyes.
The boys chuckled, but paused when she heard footsteps running towards the office.
“Guys!” Ben shouted as he kicked the door down, causing the founders to flinch.
“Ben!” Oliver yelled, “What did I say about kicking the door down?!”
“Sorry,” Ben apologized, chuckling nervously. “But I got major news about this place!”
The founder’s eyes widened as they looked at each other in fear. “Is my mother coming over!?” Lewis asked.
“Is an inspector coming over?!” Sara asked.
“Is Damien coming over?!” Oliver asked. Wiatt and Sara turned towards their friend, who blushed in embarrassment. “Uh…I mean Damien, as in someone who applied at Dreamworld.” The taller founder chuckled nervously.
Ben smirked, but he could tease about his big brother’s crush later. “No, but you guys pick the coolest place for a children’s entertainment facility!”
Sara chuckled, “Well, we did win it in a contest.” She replied, looking over the photo of her and her friends in high school winning the competition.
Ben smirked, “Did the judge of the contest mention this place was haunted?”
The trio’s eyes widened as they looked at each other. However, Sara and Oliver were more fear than Lewis. “W-Wait, h-haunted?” Oliver whimpered.
“Yeah, Liz said she heard a violin playing earlier, and we didn’t.”
Carly, still scared, decided to speak up. “N-Now if it’s some background music for the facility we didn’t know about, then good.”
Sara gulped. She was nervous, thinking this was a scheme by Litho to grab them. “I-It’s probably just the background music.” She reassured them.
“But if it was, how come I only heard it?” Liz asked.
No one knew how to respond, other than look at one another. Soon, the violin was heard again, and this time everyone heard it.
“I-Is that what you heard, Liz?” Oliver stuttered.
Liz nodded silently.
The violin kept playing, and Lewis opened the door, thinking it was someone playing a joke on them. However, he was surprised to see no one there. “That’s odd.” He said, closing the door. “I think we should check it out.”
“NO!” Sara and Oliver screamed at the same time. The two looked at one another before clearing their throats.
“N-No. I think it’s just the music at the facility going on the fritz.” Oliver reassured his best friend.
“Y-Yeah. What Oliver said.” Sara added.
Lewis smirked, “You two aren’t scared, are you?” He asked.
Sara chuckled nervously. “No! We’re not scared! W-Why do you think we’re scared?”
Wiatt leaned in, and inhaling, he let out a soft. “Boo.”
“Gah!” Sara and Oliver yelped and held each other in fear, as Wiatt chuckled.
Lewis glared and put his hand on his hips. “Darling, that’s not nice!”
Wiatt stopped his chuckling and gave a smile.
Lewis sighed. “Come on, guys, we should check it out.”
Sara and Oliver looked at each other in fear before, gulping at the same time. Wiatt pushed them both out of the office and followed Lewis. “You three stay here to be safe,” Wiatt said, closing the door.
Liz, Ben, and Carly looked at each other, wondering what they should do now. “What now?” Liz asked.
Ben didn’t answer and walked over to his older brother’s desk. “We’re going on a ghost hunt.” He answered.
Carly’s eyes widened. “I can’t believe you want to do this!” She exclaimed. “We’re going to be in huge trouble!”
“Relax, Carly,” Ben replied, as he opened another drawer from his brother’s desk and found three flashlights. He then handed them to his sister and friend. “Your dad works here, and our brother is one of the founders; we’re allowed to do whatever we want.”
“Just to hang out, not to go on a ghost adventure!” Carly exclaimed.
Ben chuckled at the reference she just made, but Carly was ready to smack him in the back of the head with the flashlight. “Sorry.” He quickly said.
Carly rolled her eyes and turned to Liz. “How do you deal with him?”
“He’s my twin brother, I just have to live with it,” Liz replied. She then turned to glare at her brother. “Even if it is annoying.”
“Hey!” Ben yelled as he pulled out a walkie-talkie for him and his sister for their ghost hunt.
“It’s true.”
Ben rolled his eyes. “Come on, girls! We gotta find that ghost!”
Liz and Carly looked at each other and sighed as they followed the boy.
Meanwhile, the founders and Wiatt were heading to the security room to see footage of what was causing the violin noises at the facility.
Wiatt followed behind Sara, who looked nervous. “Sara?” He spoke up.
“Yeah,” Sara replied, turning to the mechanic.
“You okay? You look nervous.”
Sara sighed. “I am.” She answered. “I don’t know who is making the sound, but I’m even more scared to know who is causing it.”
Wiatt’s eyes widened, remembering what Sara told him a few weeks ago. “Are you scared because Lewis and Oliver would find out about Li-Mmph!“ Wiatt was cut off as Sara covered his mouth with her hands.
Lewis and Oliver turned to Sara and Wiatt, confused about what the mechanic would say.
“Oh, Wiatt, you're such a kidder. There’s no ghost, right?” Sara asked, forcing a smile at Wiatt.
Wiatt looked at his boyfriend and back at the female founder before nodding.
“See, all we’re going to do is find out what Oliver’s little brother and sister, and Carly, heard, and we can relax, right?” Sara asked again.
Wiatt nodded, muffling a bit.
Lewis and Oliver looked at each other for a bit before Lewis shrugged, and the two kept on walking.
Sara sighed, seeing her two best friends buying the excuse. She then turned back to Wiatt. “Keep you know who quiet! I don’t want Lewis and Oliver to know about Litho, got it?!”
Wiatt nodded before he licked Sara’s hand. The female founder pulled her hand away in disgust.
“Gross!” Sara exclaimed.
Wiatt wiped his mouth and smirked as he followed his boyfriend and friend. Sara glared as she wiped her hand on her pants.
The four made it to the security room with a note saying:
At Lunch! Don’t bother me!
-Hayden
Lewis opened the door and went in while his boyfriend and friends followed him. Lewis sat down in the chair and watched the footage from that day. “Alright, let’s see who's been messing with us.” He said, rewinding to earlier today. The four watched and re-wound the footage, seeing if anyone came in with a violin or anything suspicious.
Everything seemed normal throughout the day, but Sara was still on edge, hoping to see Litho or Winnie on screen.
“What?” Lewis asked.
Sara squeaked, fearing what Lewis saw on the camera. She slowly looked at the footage, and her eyes widened at what she and her friends saw.
In the corner of the Madhouse house was a young boy around Ben and Liz’s age, wearing a fancy outfit, and red eyes. He watched the twins and Carly before disappearing and reappearing. He disappeared again before reappearing in another room not far from Madhouse.
The camera glitched for a second before reverting to normal, and the ghost playing the violin.
Oliver stuttered seeing the ghost, before fainting on the ground.
Lewis, Wiatt, and Sara turned to see the taller founder passed out on the ground. “Oh shit, Oliver!” Wiatt yelled, went to him, and picked him up.
Oliver groaned. “What happened?” He asked.
“You passed out, again,” Sara replied.
“For what this time?”
“A ghost,” Wiatt replied.
Oliver’s eyes widened as he passed out again. This time, he didn’t fall on the floor as Wiatt still held on to him.
Lewis kept watching the footage until Ben, Liz, and Carly left. The ghost stayed until the camera glitched again, and the ghost had disappeared. As they continued to watch, the door moved on its own before…
SLAM
The group yelped, with Oliver waking up, as they turned around to see the door shut. Lewis got up and went over to the door. “Bloody hell, it’s stuck!” He yelled, continuing to struggle to open the door.
“Here, let me try,” Wiatt spoke up. Lewis stepped back to let his boyfriend try to open the door, but it still wouldn’t open. “Great, we're locked in.”
“WHAT?!” Sara and Oliver yelled. The two looked at each other before pushing Wiatt and Lewis out of the way, and tried to open the door to no avail.
“Hey! Let us out!” Oliver yelled.
“Let us out!” Sara yelled as well.
Outside the door, a levitating figure was the one who locked the four inside. “I’m sorry, but it’s for your safety.” They said before fading away.
Through the hallways, Ben, Liz, and Carly looked through the halls and many of the rooms to find the ghost. They haven’t heard any more of the violin playing for a while, which relieved Carly, thinking they should stop and play more.
“Okay, Ben. We can stop now.” Carly said. “We haven’t heard anything for an hour.”
“What, are you scared?” Ben asked, smirking.
“Ben! Knock it off!” Liz yelled.
“What? I'm just asking.”
Liz rolled her eyes. She turned to Carly and walked over to her. “You alright?” She asked.
Carly took a deep breath. “I’m trying.” She replied. “But I guess I’m just freaked out over the ghost thing.”
“Hey.” Liz then put her hand on Carly’s shoulder. “Ignore my brother, you know how he is.”
Ben glared at his twin sister and continued looking for the ghost.
“Just stick with me. I’ll make sure Ben doesn’t bug you.”
Carly smiled. “Thanks, Liz.”
Liz smiled. “No problem.”
Soon, the violin was heard again, causing the trio to look around where it was playing. Ben looked up. “It sounds like it’s coming from down the hall!” He exclaimed. The boy ran down the hall with the girls following right behind him.
Ben listened closely to where the music was coming from and then ran in the direction it was coming from. The closer the three kids got, the louder the music was. They froze, hearing the music was right behind this door, and Ben was nervous to open it.
Ben gulped. “S-So who is opening it?” He asked.
“Not me!” Carly exclaimed. “You’ve been obsessing over this ghost and dragging us around! You open it!”
Ben gulped and slowly looked at the door. His hand shook as it got closer to the knob.
“What’s wrong, Ben? Are you scared?” Liz asked, smirking.
Ben glared at his sister and quickly opened the door to prove he wasn’t scared. What he saw made his blood go cold.
It was a ghost of a young boy. He looked to be around Ben and Liz’s age, pure white, and was playing the violin.
Carly’s teeth chattered seeing the ghost. She grabbed Liz tight, who rubbed her back to comfort her. “I-It’s a…It’s a…” Carly shivered.
“A ghost.” The ghost child replied. He then turned to face the three kids. “Why, yes. Yes, I am.”
Carly stuttered and fainted on the spot. However, Liz caught her before she could fall. “B-Ben, please tell me you're not pranking us, again?” She asked, glaring at him.
“Liz. This isn’t what I'm doing this time.” Ben replied.
“I can confirm. You didn’t put me up to this, Mr. Benjamin Acrimony.” The ghost boy confirmed.
Ben’s eyes widened. “How did you know my full name?” He asked.
“I’ve been here for a very long time. So, I’ve been keeping an eye on you and everyone at the facility.” The ghost boy answered.
“Who are you?” Liz asked.
“Oh, pardon me. I’m being rude. My name is Alison.” The ghost boy introduced himself, bowing.
“Uh…” Ben trailed off. “I’m Ben, and this is my twin sister Liz, and her girlfriend Carly.” He introduced and smirked upon saying girlfriend.
Liz blushed and glared at her brother, while Carly’s eyes snapped open, hearing Ben call her his girlfriend. “Hey! Carly just so happens to be my best friend!” Liz exclaimed. Carly and Liz turned to each other, blushing harder. “Who just so happens to be a girl.”
Alison chuckled. “It’s nice to meet you all in person.”
“N-Nice to meet you too,” Carly replied. “Uh…why were you playing music?”
“To get your attention. I have to warn you three about something.” Alison said.
Liz, Ben, and Carly looked at one another before turning to the ghost boy. “Warn us?” Ben asked.
Alison nodded. “Everyone is in danger here at Dreamworld.” He started. “An evil entity named Litho has latched on to someone here.”
“Who is Litho?” Carly asked.
“An evil being who’s been struggling to find immortality for many years. He’s not a demon, but something of a scientific anomaly.” Alison explained. “Long ago, he was attached to my family as well as many others before and after me. Now he’s attached to one of the workers at Dreamworld, someone you trust.”
The kids' eyes widened as they looked at one another. Someone they knew and loved was working with an evil entity. Ben and Liz worried it was their older brother, Oliver, while Carly was worried it was her father, Eric.
“D-Do you know who?” Carly asked.
Alison was about to reply until a loud bang was heard. The kids turned to where the banging was heard. “What was that?” Liz asked.
Alison’s eyes widened. “Oh deer. I forgot I had to lock them in to protect them.”
“Who?” The trio asked.
Back with Wiatt and the founder trio, the four were exhausted from trying to break open the door. Sara was knocking weakly at the door, but no one had heard their cries for help. The group then heard footsteps and listened to.
“H-Hey! Help us!” Sara yelled, banging on the door again.
“Were in here!” Oliver yelled.
Alison led the three kids to the security room, and they were in shock that the ghost locked them out. “You locked our brother and his friends in the security room!?” Liz yelled.
“I had to,” Alison replied. “Litho was lurking.”
Liz and Carly removed the lock on the door, and in a flash, the door swung open.
“FINALLY!” Sara and Oliver yelled.
“We’re free! We’re free!” Oliver cheered. He turned to his younger siblings and hugged them, causing them to struggle to breathe.
“We’re glad.” The twins replied, struggling to breathe.
“Uh, darling,” Lewis said, tapping his best friend on the shoulder. “You’re going to lose your siblings if you keep hugging them that tightly.”
“Oh! Sorry!” Oliver quickly let go of his siblings.
“You’re good, Oliver,” Ben replied, catching his breath. He finally caught his breath and gave a smile to his big brother.
“Now, darlings,” Lewis sighed. “Why did you lock us in the security office?”
“We didn’t lock you guys in,” Carly replied. “Alison did.”
“Alison?!” The adults exclaimed.
Liz nodded. “Yeah, he’s the ghost that’s been playing the violin all day.”
“He locked you guys to protect you from Litho,” Ben added.
Wiatt and Sara’s eyes widened in fear, hearing Ben mention a demon. “A what now?” Oliver asked.
“Yeah, there’s an entity named Litho haunting this facility, and he’s…” Ben paused, seeing Alison was gone. “Uh, Alison? Where did you go, buddy?”
“Hey, ghost boy! Come on out!” Carly yelled.
No response came by.
Carly and Ben looked at one another in fear, seeing that Alison had just left them.
Oliver sighed, crossing his arms. “Look. I know it was just you three pranking us. Just admit it, and we can call it a day.”
“Oliver, this isn’t a prank! We really saw and spoke to a ghost!” Ben exclaimed.
The taller founder looked over at his friends, who were unsure about the kids’ claims. Though Oliver saw Sara looking nervous, but shook it off, thinking it was his best friend scared over his brother’s latest “prank.”
“Darlings, let’s just head back to the main lobby and relax,” Lewis reassured everyone. “It’s been a long day.”
Sara sighed. “Good idea. We all need it.” She replied. “Come on, you three.”
The adults led the kids away from the security room and towards the main lobby to relax. As they left, Alison appeared and frowned at the kids. “I’m sorry, you three. I can’t reveal myself to anyone else yet.” He said, before disappearing once again.
After today’s spooky adventure, Ben, Liz, and Carly sat at the table wondering who Alison was talking about. It scared them to know someone working at the facility was working with a dangerous entity.
“So, you girls have any idea who it can be?” Ben asked.
Liz and Carly turned around and looked at many of the workers. Liz glanced at Hayden, talking to Pen, and glared at him. “My guess, it’s Hayden,” Liz said.
Ben looked at Hayden, who was chatting with his two friends, Audrey and Andrew, and thought about it. “I can see Hayden working with a demon,” Ben replied. “Though he doesn’t seem like the kind of guy that would kill a person.”
Carly then turned her gaze to Wiatt, who was talking with Lewis. “If anything, my bet is on Wiatt.” She said.
“WHAT?!” Liz shouted. “Wiatt is one of the sweetest people here! He’s like Oliver, except not scared of everything.”
“Yeah, but Wiatt originally came here to look for Lewis,” Carly said. “Lewis is fine, and yet Wiatt sticks around. It seems weird to me.”
Ben thought about it for a bit, “You could be right, Car.” He replied. Liz turned to her brother, looking shocked. “However, is there any evidence that Wiatt is a bad person or has weird intentions?”
“Well, Lewis did break up with Wiatt a few years back, and then he came back and got back together,” Carly explained. “Surely Wiatt made a deal with Litho to get Lewis back.”
Ben and Liz looked at one another, but both knew Wiatt didn’t seem to be the kind of guy who would work with an evil entity. “Carly, I don’t see Wiatt doing any of that to get Lewis back.”
“Well, then, who do you see Ben?” Carly asked.
Ben sighed as he looked up and stared at Sara, who was talking with her friends. “Sara. Sara Covetman.”
