The Lost Elevator ch.4

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Chapter 4. (Shelly) It was weird being transported to another world,let alone a copy of yours (or so Shelly thought.). When the doors opened Shelly saw almost nothing but debris, reminding her of her own Gardenview. “Sorry about the mess. It was like this when we got here.” Lostro said while stepping out of the ele and turning towards the other toons. “We’re accustomed to moving bases often, so we don’t normally clean any messes caused by the gardenviews.” Added lostro. As the toons began walking down a hallway Shelly vaguely recognized the wall pattern layout of a rainbow room she visited often “wait. If our Gardenview had a separate room for the elevator,why doesn’t this one have a new room?” Shelly asked lostro. Raising his eyebrow lostro responded “that’s a good question. I thought Rodger would have asked first. It’s a bit complicated but from what we understand, the golden elevator chooses the safest spot to put the elevator. Since your Gardenview ,well, collapsed.. I think it made some sort of filler room.” Everyone was staring at either Shelly or the wall. Dispite being noticed,Shelly didn’t like being realized that she had more than just dinosaurs and smiles in her. She never really said what she truly thought around toons. Shelly, who was very uncomfortable at the moment, saw Rodger write something down. What could it be about, she couldn’t decide. Lost in her thoughts she barely realized they arrived at there destination. Shelly stopped walking and looked around. There were toons she recognized carrying boxes and sitting just like her Gardenview,but something was unusual. These toons were mostly the same as there counterparts,but of them where in completely different outfits. The outfits (they were more of a factory uniform than kid appealing) were mostly black and white with smudges and rips. Shelly wished she could understand what caused such damage but lostro began to speak “can I have everyone’s attention, please?” The room became Silent. “ here are the alternate Gardenview toons that have offered their help. I ask you to please make good impressions and be respectful.” He whispered something to Dandy and walked out out of the room. Shelly felt eyes fall on her again so she,along with the others, went to introduce herself. Looking around, she saw Tisha and instinctively walk towards her. Turning around Tisha saw Shelly and greeted her “hello Shelly.” Tisha said calmly “It is Shelly,right?” Tisha added with a bit of reluctance. “Uhm,yeah..” Shelly said disappointingly. Tisha smiled softly and replied “most toons names are the same in other Gardenviews, but sometimes you stumble upon toons with different names.” Shelly smiled gratefully. “Do you need any help doing something?” Shelly offered while looking around for something to pick up. Tisha thought for a moment before saying “Hmm. I’ve already swept the place twice but Shelly might need help sewing if you still know how to-?” “Oh yes! Absolutely! Where do I go?” Shelly inquired. Tisha chuckled to herself and lead the way to the destination “what’s your Shelly like-?” Shelly pleaded. “Oh,Shelly? Well..” Tisha’s tone shifted “she’s.. not doing the best. I think right now she needs to be with her friends more and stop avoiding me-“ Tisha stopped mid sentence and apologized “sorry, that wasn’t was I was trying to say-“ “its ok, really..” Shelly interrupted softly “I’m sure Shelly is struggling though something and your doing great trying to help her. What matters is that you keep being her friend.”. Tisha stared at her for a moment than smiled “I miss that Shelly.” And proceeded to knock on a door. … “What do you want, Tisha?” Hearing her own voice startled Shelly. “*sigh* I brought you a Shelly from another garden view to help you sew.” Tisha said plainly. … “And?” “Ugh, she’s here to help you and she needs you to open the door.” Tisha nearly shouted. There was a long pause before Shelly heard a click from the door. Shelly turned to see a pleading face on Tisha. Shelly wasn’t great at solving conflicts so she approached the door carefully. Inside the room was a pile of clothes and cloth with a table in the center. In the middle was the other Shelly, on her face was a sullen expression. The Shelly was dressed in a black and white version of herself’s dress and had white puff sleeves with black shoes. The Shelly barely glanced up at her,checking to make sure she wasn’t Tisha then continued working on her overalls, from what Shelly could tell. “Uhm,what ar-“ Shelly started before the other Shelly interrupted “here’s a dress to fix” and threw a torn dress carelessly at Shelly. “U-uhm, ok,thank you…Shelly?” Shelly mumbled. The other Shelly heaved a sigh and retorted “just call me shells.”. “Oh, ok, t-thank you shells..” Shelly barely managed to cough out. The two worked for a while in silence before something occurred to Shelly “where’s Ribecca? Doesn’t she sew too?” Shells’ eyes became dimmer and she whispered “we don’t have a Ribecca.”