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Cupcakes and sacks
"I hope nothing bad happens today!" I muttered to myself. I was walking down the good ol' road of Daisy's Garden. If it weren't for the beauty of all the flowers and the buildings, I probably would be sitting on my couch made out of wheat playing video games. I've been doing that for way, way too long.
Anyways, nothing completely absurd happened yet, but I'm not letting my guard down. If a random portal opens up, I'm running. If Cogs takes over again, I'm running. If an arrow comes out of nowhere, I'm still going to run.
The rest of my walk didn't contain anything out of the ordinary. The nice scent of grass and the soft dirt pretty much made my day. As I headed home, I noticed something a little; I guess you can say, off about my house. It feels like it moved a couple inches to my right. Is my OCD acting up? Oh well, I guess I can go inside.
I stepped into my house. A couple of things fell, but that's just about it. Maybe it's because of the movement of my house? I shrugged and walked to my couch where my laptop is at. I sat down and opened the computer up. I typed in my password and got on to Toonbook.
Toonbook, in a nutshell, is a social network. That's the best way to describe it.
"Like this post if you hate Cogs."
"I finally got the cupcake!"
"What's two plus two?"
I never said the community was great.
I scrolled down through a number of pointless posts. When I was ready to fall asleep, something caught my eye.
Team sack is back
There was this unsettling feeling in my stomach. Team Sack…Team Sack… oh! Team Sack!
Team Sack was/is an organization full of criminal Toons who are called Moons because, as what Flippy says, they're butts. Basically, they're outlaws of Toontown.
I wasn't living at the time Team Sack became famous, but Mike's mom (who is currently on another planet) told us about Team Sack and their oncoming return. She wasn't a supporter, but she was worried. I mean, who wouldn't be worried about their return?
Speaking of, Team Sack fell right after I was born. It was strange. From what I heard, they fell because of Corrupt Flippy corrupted the leader. They didn't want to be led by someone too cruel, so they agreed to break up.
Speaking of, Corrupt Flippy was a fake clone of Flippy who was locked inside of a closet during his absence. He was making Toontown worse by cutting off our main way of getting jellybeans, our currency, and threw us off into a depression while he had all the beans he could get.
Oh dear, this explanation is getting lengthy. I'll tell you guys the rest of Toontown's history at the end of the book.
Well, it can't be confirmed. It's not on the news or anything. I swear, the chain of events is extremely clichéd;
I turned on my TV and tuned to the news.
They report that Team Sack really is back.
I hear explosions.
I hear screaming.
Gosh darn it.
I ran out of my house and went to Toontown Central, Times Square of Toontown.
Some Toons are already there, and I hear a lot of murmuring. I guess they heard about the return, too.
I looked up into the sky. The sun is going down. The sky looks blood red right about now. There's a light breeze blowing against me, making me feel as if it's a warning. Ah, a perfect day for another Gloom Apocalypse.
"Hee hee hee." There was this high pitched, unnatural voice that appeared in the air. Oh no. "Ha ha…" The air was completely still. Everyone was standing still as if time stopped.
"…hng!" Because of an impulse inside me felt too great, I turned around and found myself blocking a swing of a stick. The unknown Toon quickly ran off. Whoa, he's pretty fast.
Thonk! I felt a jellybean hit my head. I looked up and saw a blur at the corner of my left eye, and something hit my legs. I fell onto my back and quickly reacted to another swing. This time, I was able to see the attacker. He was a blue mouse with a sinister, black, tiki-like grinning mask on. In this second of confusion, the masked mouse hit me with his stick from behind. Luckily I didn't get a concussion from that. I kicked the air forcefully, allowing me to gain some air and accidentally stepped on the second swing of the stick. I grabbed the stick and pulled it towards me with my foot in the air. I successfully kicked the mouse in the face.
I reached and grabbed the masked mouse by the top of its mask.
"Who are you?" I asked. Maybe if I pull off the mask…
But nope. Instead, I felt a blow to my back, making me fly forward and lose the grip of the mouse. After landing, I looked back and saw a masked green dog with the same design as the mouse's mask. This can't be- can it?
"You must be… Team Sack." I muttered.
"You've got that right!" Said the mouse. His or her voice… it's just not natural. It's soothing to my ears, put there's a tone to it that spooks me out. It's high pitched and low pitched at the same time. "We are Team Sack and we're going to hack you to hell!"
The sky was becoming a darker shade of red. More masked figures began to appear behind the mouse and dog. There were cats, ducks, monkeys, and all the other species. I bit my lip.
Can I take all of them on? I asked myself. These maniacs have no heart.