(don't mind me just making the next chapter of shelly's epilogue as my entry) chapter 2 (unofficial) [Dandy] Dandy and Shelly walked back to the base. Dandy kept watch for twisteds. After a moment of silence, he asked, "So... is it just us now?" "I don't know," Shelly answered, "I guess it depends if the holiday toons are alive or not." Dandy nodded. 'Maybe we could find the the Christmas toons,' he thought, 'but... didn't they kidnap Sprout? They might be dangerous. But then again, Sprout k!lled Bobette, so maybe n-' he got cut off from his thoughts as the ground gave way below him. Dandy heard Shelly call out his name in surprise as he fell. 'oh,' he thought, 'stairs.' Shelly rushed down to him. "Are you ok?" she asked. "I'm fine" Dandy muttered, sitting up. "How'd you fall? Did you trip?" Shelly said, more confused this time. "I just, uh, wasn't paying attention," Dandy answered. Shelly and Dandy froze as they heard voices and the elevator opened. "Did you hear that?" a high-pitched, female voice said in the distance. "Yes that's why we're going to look" a male voice said. Shelly saw Cocoa round the corner. "SHELLY!" she exclaimed. Then she froze when she saw Dandy. "I-is he... why are you... get away from him!" she stuttered. "I'm not twisted, you know" Dandy muttered. "O-oh." Cocoa said, "Er, sorry then." Flyte walked in the room. "Did I hear Shelly's name?" he asked. He to, froze when he saw Dandy. "I'm not twisted!" Dandy snapped. He was getting tired of how everyone tensed up when they were around him. There was an uncomfortable moment of silence that followed. "So..." Shelly asked the Easter toons, breaking the silence, "is Bassie really..." Cocoa and Flyte exchanged glances. "Well we haven't seen her..." Flyte said, looking at the ground. Cocoa explained more, tears gathering in her eyes "We just saw a large Ichor stain on the floor when we woke up. I'm guessing Bobette let us live." Flyte finished her sentence. "But knowing what she allegedly did to Bassie, she probably found someone or something." he said. A weight gathered in Dandy's chest. He hadn't seen Astro in a while, too. Dandy doubted that he was alive, but it was nice to just... to just hope. "Well, you could stay with us." Shelly offered to the Easter toons. "Yeah," Dandy said, "now that some room has freed up." Everyone stared at him. When Shelly looked away, he felt a twinge of guilt. "What does he mean?" Cocoa asked Shelly, nervously. Shelly explained what happened. "O-oh.. that sounds... intense." Cocoa said when she had done explaining. "Well," Flyte said, "uh, I guess we'd better go to your base before some twisted finds us." Dandy tried to stand up, but a sharp pain in his left foot made him collapse back into the ground. The other toons turned back "Are you ok?" Shelly asked, trotting over to him. "Yeah, I must've just sprained something when I fell" Dandy replied. Shelly frowned. "That's not 'okay', Dandy. That's 'I'm hurt and I can't get up'." she said. "No, Shelly. I really am ok." Dandy said, trying to use a nearby shelf to stand up. "See?" Dandy said, now struggling to stay upright, "Perfectly fine!" Flyte sighed. "You've always been too proud for your own good," he said. "What do you mean?" Dandy asked. "I mean," Flyte started to explain, "that you never accept help, you never admit when you're wrong, and you're always insisting that you're fine, even if you were literally dy!ng." Cocoa ignored Flyte. "Can you walk?" she asked. "Of course" Dandy answered. Cocoa waited for someone to say something, then spoke. "So, uh, lead the way, Shelly." she said. Shelly hesitated, then started walking toward their base. As the others started following her, dandy watched them for a second, wondering if he could actually walk. He took a step forward, stumbled, then decided that a limp would work just fine. He found Shelly and the others waiting for him at the doorframe of the base. "Where'd the door go?" he heard Cocoa ask. "Dandy- er, knocked it off its hinges" Shelly answered. Cocoa flinched when she saw Dandy approaching. "You'll get used to it" Dandy growled. "Ok, well, um, I'm gonna go find you a med kit" Cocoa said, looking around before trotting away to look in another room. "I don't trust her to be by herself." Flyte muttered, following Cocoa. There was a moment of silence between Dandy and Shelly. "Why are you so sour with those two?" Shelly finally asked. "Because they treat me like a monster to be avoided. Everyone does." Dandy answered. Shelly looked hurt. "I don't," she said. "Well- yes, I know that. I didn't mean you. You're different" Dandy replied 'though you have that same look as everyone when I quote-on-quote "tower over you".' he thought. Another moment of silence. "Look," Dandy said, "I meant- uh, everyone treats me like a monster- except you. The thing is, even if I didn't look like this, I'd probably be treated the same. All because of one horrible mistake."
(nononono I deleted it all in this section by mistake.... alright... uhm.. so here's what I remember..) [continued] "Vee's made plenty of horrible mistakes and yet, every toon would probably come rushing to defend her actions when the only toons that would defend mine would be Astro and you. It's just not fair that even though Vee was just as bad, I still get treated like a monster." Dandy said. "Well, it may be because you kind of got us into this mess in the first place...? And Vee was kind of a bit more popular...?" Shelly said. Dandy huffed. "So every toon rushes to defend Vee's actions because she's more popular? That's VERY fair." he said. There was a moment of silence. Shelly looked up at him- something she had to crane her neck to do. "I'm just making this worse, aren't I," she asked. Dandy's eyes softened. "Of course not!" he exclaimed. "Yes I am!" Shelly snapped, "Why are you so nice to me, anyway?" "Because I love you! couldn't you tell?" Dandy said, his voice rising too. Shelly was stunned into silence. Dandy could tell that she was about to ask "Why?" but Cocoa interrupted them before she could say anything. "We found a USB!" she said, "Follow me!" Shelly walked after and Dandy limped behind. "So," Cocoa explained on the way, "We found a USB and decided to look for a computer." (uhm... I can't remember the rest word-for-word so I'ma just tell you. They did find a computer and saw Vee's mind or something. It was like a computer- it had apps. They tried to access the virtual world but it required a password so they instead looked at the security footage to see if anyone else has survived and one footage started playing automatically. It was the footage of Dandy's first and worst mistake- the one were he gave Pebble ichor, and when it ended, the other looked at him with looks of shock, betrale, distrust, and fear. Dandy knew that they didn't know the exact details and tried to stop them from watching the footage by saying it'd be useless but, as I mentioned, it had auto played. I remember it ended with this:) Dandy started slowly backing away- which is a bit hard when you have a sprained ankle. 'Uh-oh...' CREDITS YAYY Virtual World: @harpschxn (read it its really good!) Code: @harpschxn (I didn't change anything Art: me :) looking back 2 months later the art is Lowkey chopped </3
