It's time for the 3rd chapter. How will everyone react to the news?

This chapter also marks the proper beginning of the subplot featuring Rammy and two familiar faces for those who had watched the PaRappa Anime...speaking of, Pinto is PaRappa's sister for those who never watched the anime. I was debating on whether or not to include her and eventually decided to throw her in for the hell of it.

"Now I remember...didn't think it would backfire on us..." PaRappa finishes remembering that night while Sunny holds his hand (or paw whatever you wanna call it).

"Yea and then about a few days ago I began to get what I thought was a case of the stomach flu, but when it wouldn't stop, well, I figured...it was the best to check and..." she looks at that same test she had taken proving she was pregnant. She squeezes her boyfriend's hand/paw/whatever.

"I just want you to know...I'm not blaming you or myself, at least not entirely...it was our damn hormones...we lost control in the heat of the moment..."

"Well...yea that was pretty obvious...But...well..." PaRappa thinks for a moment "You know...this might not be the worst thing in the world." he smiles at Sunny, who actually does give a smile back.

"You do have a point..." she blushes in response. "I mean, alcohol and substances are one thing but this...this brings new life into to world as opposed to destroying it or taking it all away...still, I didn't think I wanted kids, I mean at least not this soon..."

"So...what do we do? We WILL have to tell everyone won't we..." PaRappa began to sweat, fearing what would happen when they did. "Oh god, your dad is gonna murder me!" he could already imagine General Potter running him down in a huge army jeep or shooting him in broad daylight...or worse yet, launching him into space or maiming him, the list just went on...

"No way, I won't let my dad harm a single hair on your head; I'm pretty much the last person he wants to anger or upset...he won't be home for about a week anyway and so...I was hoping I'd stay at Katy's house until he returns, but I'd figure I'd wait until tomorrow...in the meantime..." she gets close to PaRappa "Could you just...stay with me for the night?"

"Well, my dad and sister might wonder where I am..." he thinks for a moment "Oh wait, I'll just tell them you went to Katy's tonight and I stayed here to keep a eye on the house; I think dad would buy that..."

So PaRappa agreed to stay and keep Sunny company. With that, she was able to put her mind at ease and get some sleep...PaRappa set himself up on the couch and was able to do likewise and fell asleep as well...at least momentarily until he was awoken by the sounds of a vomiting Sunny in the next room a few hours later...

Downtown, someone else was still awake as well. It was Rammy, inside of a large rundown building, which used to be a music store in the middle of town. It was originally condemned but Rammy had taken refuge in the large area and very few were able to get her to leave (those foolish enough to try...well, they were singing high notes for quite some time). She had renovated the building like a home, adding a TV, stove, fridge, washer/dryer, and a bureau all in one central area as if one big room.

The guitarist held out her instrument and began to strum a few notes as she began to sing the lyrics on her music sheet.

Dragula (originally by Rob Zombie)

Dead I am the one, exterminating son

Slipping through the trees, strangling the breeze

Dead I am the sky, watching angels cry

While they slowly turn, conquering the worm...

Dig through the ditches

And burn through the witches

I slam in the back of my

Dragula!

As Rammy was playing and singing, someone was listening to her outside. Two someones actually; one was a purple rabbit wearing a dirty looking suit, the other was a strange cat like creature standing next to him, with the former watching the black and white lamb girl carefully, without her noticing.

"There she is Gruber" the rabbit spoke. "That's the girl I was telling you about, isn't she magnificent?"

"I dunno Gaster, she's a bit loud isn't she? Not to mention a little..."As they speak, Rammy apparently misses a note and gets mad and begins to curse excessively."...Aggressive..."

"No...that's not aggression...that, right there is passion..." Gaster smirks "Deep down there is a tortured soul in that body...and I think she is the one for me..."

"But isn't she a little...young?" Gruber stands there whispering more. "I mean you're old enough to be...wait, how old are we?"

"Don't know, don't care..." Gaster answered as he remained fixated on Rammy, who messes up again and begins to grow angry again.

"Damn it all!" Rammy raises her guitar into the air and immediately smashes it to bits. "Screw this!" she pouts in the corner and pulls out a guitar from her closet, which had about 50 similar guitars inside of it and Rammy begins to slowly tune the new guitar she pulled out.

"I'll show Lammy and her lame band who's who. All I need is a record label..." she notices the window and swears she sees someone outside but Gaster and Gruber had gotten away before she spotted them, so Rammy just shrugs and continues to talk to herself. "But all these record labels, wanting to 'censor' me...screw that, I am a artiste! I demand my own terms...my way...if only there was someone around here willing to do that...

Outside, Gaster whispers to his second banana. "Gruber...we have some work to do..."

A few days later, everyone was heading over to PaRappa's house for a little get together...at least that's what they were told. Papa PaRappa looked around the living room and noticed all of PaRappa's friends there. Matt and Paula taking the chairs, PJ sleeping on the floor in a sitting position, Milkcan standing around chatting, and PaRappa's younger sister Pinto trying to join in, albeit with some difficulty.

"So, can I get anyone anything? Drink? Snacks? Any sort of entertainment? I can juggle." he speaks to the group with a eager smile and holds out juggling balls, which gets a confused look from the teens in the room. "Sorry, I was unprepared for this is all." and with that Papa Rapper goes to get some refreshments.

"Yea, why exactly did PaRappa invite us over?" Paula asked confused wondering where the pup was. "It's been a few days since we've seen him..."

"I'm not sure exactly though Sunny's been a bit distant when she was over my house the other day..." Katy thinks to herself. "Oh no...you don't think...they're breaking up do you?"

"Mmmm, I doubt it, I think we would have learned about it a lot sooner if they were." Matt replies looking at his cellphone possibly to send a text to someone."But I guess we'll have to wait until Sunny and General Potter get here first; PaRappa said he wanted everyone to be here. Must be quite the news if that's the case."

Meanwhile, outside heading towards PaRappa's house was something one wouldn't quite expect to see on a ordinary day; a large military off road vehicle.

"Y'know dad, not that I'm trying to knock you or anything but...when are you actually going to get a real car?" Sunny sits in the passenger side of the vehicle "As in, something that people would actually drive like normal people as opposed to...this thing?" Her question merely received a laugh from her father.

"Are you kidding, this darling is one of the finest in combat! Besides, you never know when we might encounter a assault from another food based enemy."

Sunny rolls her eyes at this. "Dad, please, when would that ever happen except for that one time with the noodle syndicate...and OK, that one weekend when those gingerdread men from another dimension invaded the town but beyond that!" the vehicle stops when they reach the house.

"Now try to be nice, I'm sure whatever PaRappa wants to say, he..." she bites her lower lip "Well, I think support would be the best..." she knows this might not end well.

"You're acting as if it's the end of the world! I'm sure PaRappa's announcement will be nothing but good..." Potter spoke "Oh! Maybe he wants to join the military! Now THAT would be something!"

Shaking her head, Sunny opens the door and goes inside "We're here!" she puts on her familiar smile, looking around for PaRappa. Instead, she was met with a big squishy hug from Pinto "Sunny-Chan! Sunny-Chan is here!" she giggles and is met with a hug back from the flower.

"Yes...it's good to see you too Pinto...where's your brother?" she asked.

"Isn't that the $64,000 question" Paula spoke with a sarcastic scoff."As soon as Matt and I showed up, he went upstairs and hasn't come back down."

#Didn't even greet us, the big stars we are!# Ma-San crossed her arms with a pout and met with a roll of the eyes from Katy "It's probably not that big of a deal, he said he wanted to wait for everyone to get here...maybe you can go get him Sunny."

"Right, let me see what's keeping him..." Sunny goes upstairs and knocks on PaRappa's bedroom door and walks inside."Well, are you coming down now? Because there's no way I'm telling them by myself..." She informed PaRappa, who was pacing and wringing his hands a bit

"I dunno, maybe we could wait for another oh...8 months or so...I mean I'm sure they'd figure it out by then" PaRappa puts on a nervous smile, trying to hide his denial, but the "really" look he got from Sunny did no favors.

"Ah your right, come on, time to face the music..." PaRappa slowly walks to the door"Has your dad questioned anything yet? Any sort of sickness around him?"

"I've been able to hide it well, I think only once did I throw up when he was around, and he just assumed it was the stomach flu going around."

"Well then, time to go..." but suddenly PaRappa notices Sunny was not following him, instead she was sitting down where he previously was.

"Good luck" she smiles before he takes her hand and prepares to drag her along. "Alright Alright you're right, we should bot do this...

"Yeah...I know, I gotta...well, you get the idea..." he scratches the back of his head and leads the way down.

"So you don't even know what the boy wants to say?" General Potter spoke to PaRappa's dad.

"Well, all he said was that it was a surprise..." Papa Rapper replied "I never can keep tabs on him 24/7 but it didn't sound that bad, maybe he just wants to talk about releasing his new album..."

"Yea, remember the last time he released a album?" Katy giggled "He even put up big curtains around his room like it was a stage, then proclaimed that he was "victorious" over and over?

"Uhm, Katy I think that was you when we released our "Milkcan: Extra Thick" album..." Lammy reminded her "Remember, you even proclaimed you had 'the blood of a sabertooth flowing through your veins?"

No one seemed to notice PaRappa and Sunny return downstairs. The former of the duo clears his throat and gets everyone's attention. "OK so...now that everyone I invited is here..."

#Also Ma-San!#

"I now must tell you why you are all here...You see..." he pauses when Pinto raises her hand "Yes Pinto?"

"Why are you wearing pillow armor?" she asked, as PaRappa was indeed armed with 'armor' made of pillows; one on his head, one across his chest, two smaller ones on his legs, etc.

"That's not necessarily important...but I think you should leave the room Pinto...you're a bit too young for this I think..." he shoos Pinto upstairs so she didn't have to hear, despite her protests. "You see...I have some news to share..." he looks towards Sunny "Actually, WE have some news to share..." he motions to her, trying to grab her arm. "Matt, Paula,why don't you let my dad and General Potter sit in the chairs, you guys can stand right?"

"Oh, but I hate standing..." Paula groans but complies and stands but General Potter shrugs it off "I smell tension...I do enjoy that smell, but something seems off..."

"Now now there's nothing off here..." Sunny stands near her dad and suddenly hugs his arm, to his confusion "Let's just remember...that I love you so so so so so soooooooooooooooooooo much!" she gives him a cheery expression and bats her eyelashes lovingly like whenever she would when she thought she would get in trouble when she was younger; it didn't seem to work as her father merely smirks for some strange reason.

"No no, I'm sure there's more that you're not telling us...let's see here...PaRappa has his pillow armor on...didn't wear that since the gingerdread weekend...and you" he looks at Sunny "are giving me that same 'i love you so so sooooo much' speech you gave me when you accidentally dyed all of my troops' camouflage pink..."

'What is he getting at...' PaRappa thinks to himself as he does this "Uhm sir...?"

"Wait wait..." the General cuts PaRappa off "I figured it out now! You must be pregnant!' and suddenly bursts out laughing along with everyone else in the room.

Well, everyone except for PaRappa, who merely stood there looking terrified. Sunny caught on for a moment and began to laugh somewhat weakly. However, it was no use and the look on PaRappa's face made everyone slow down and stop.

"PaRappa...PaRappa..." PaRappa's dad waves his hands in the pup's face...

"THAT WAS A JOKE BOY!" Potter steps in, a bit concerned now.

"Oh he knows that dad!" Sunny suddenly steps in trying to save face. "He knows how funny you can be, he was joking with you too! We just wanted to see how you'd react...right PaRappa?" she nudges him...but it was no use.

"I can't do it! It's...it's true! She is pregnant! She and I...well, you can probably guess how..." PaRappa scratches the back of his head and suddenly jumps underneath the nearby table.

"Now...dad, before you react...just know that...it was my fault!" Sunny immediately speaks again "I was a temptress! I manipulated him, he fell for my girlish charm!" she replied trying to prevent whatever her dad had planned, if anything. But all he did was stand there with a blank expression.

"This uhm...might not be my place..." suddenly another voice spoke; this belonging to Katy "Nor does it seem like a appropriate time to do this but..." she drags Sunny to where Lammy and Ma-San were and all three of them begin to squeal for joy for Sunny.

PaRappa tries to look up, but merely cowers in fear again. "It's fine PaRappa, come out..." the General's voice speaks, and PaRappa cautiously steps out worried about what might happen...sure enough, he ends up getting met with a pistol to the face.

"Dad no! You can't kill him!" Sunny shouts.

"No Sunny...I...have to face the music...go on sir, give me your worst...just know that no matter what you do..."

"No I meant he literally can't kill you...that gun he has only shoots bubbles..." Sunny finishes in a deadpan tone. Sure enough, he tried to fire it and indeed, only bubbles shoots out.

"Oh damn it...I was hoping the startling action would be enough to scare him..." Potter responded... "Well either way...it's time for us to go now Sunny...forever..." his eye twitches a bit.

"W-w-w-wait a minute here!" PaRappa tries to stop him. "Don't we get a say in this?"

"Ohohohoho, that's a good one, but it's obvious what happened here, you basically screwed things up, so the obvious solution...well besides death and making it look like a accident, is to-"

"Whoa whoa, back up there for a second" Papa Rapper interrupted "WHO screwed up here? If I recall, your daughter just confessed to being a temptress and manipulating my boy here."

"Tch, that's just her being noble and trying to cover up...your son is the true guilty one here"

"ENOUGH! BOTH OF YOU!" someone shouts. It was Sunny. "Now look, we admit it, we lost it, and we're both to blame...but the fact is you can't change the past and well, I'm the one who's pregnant now and you can't change that either..."

"Oh? Well I can think of one way that we could change it..."

"No, I will not do that! I refuse!" she immediately

"Fine, then at least come home now so we can discuss this without..."

"Wait a second here, don't we get a say in this?" PaRappa commanded, only for Potter to ignore him.

"Uhm...you guys wanna go get a pretzel at the mall?" Lammy sheepishly asked, a bit worried about staying for this conversation, and everyone seemed to agree.

"At this point I'll go clothes shopping with you girls!" Matt exclaims as they all leave...except PJ who's still asleep surprisingly.

"Actually, we've discussed this in private..." PaRappa responds "And well, we're still working out the kinks but I was planning on...raising the baby with Sunny"

This news, stuns forbid you! Sunny would not accept that! If she did she must be incredibly stupid to accept!"

As he says this, Sunny's eyes go wide and her face goes into a scowl. "How...how could you say that!" and immediately storms out, with her father following her shortly thereafter.

"Dad...what do we do?" PaRappa asked reluctantly asked.

"...Why don't we talk in the next room..." was the reply as they step into his dad's 'secret' area to chat.

After all of what had happened, PJ, who somehow had been sleeping through all of what just transpired, suddenly wakes up and notices everyone gone.

"Huh? Where-where did everyone go? Did I miss something?"

Meanwhile, back at Rammy's 'house', she continues to try and perfect her guitar skills when suddenly a paper airplane flies in the open window and hits her in the eye.

"Ow! Son of a-Whoever threw this is dead meat!" she looks outside and notices no one around. Looking at the airplane, she opens it up and finds something written on it.

"What the? G Squared Inc." she looks at the flier, or rather the poor attempt at a flier, and notices directions on the back of it. "Tch...some sort of prank? Oh what the hell, I'll play along I guess..." Rammy picked up her guitar and activated some sort of defense mechanism on her building and went to wherever these directions would take her.

Turns out, she ended up at a junkyard. There was garbage everywhere. Nearby was a rundown shack with a square sign poorly nailed to it that read "G Squared Inc-Record Label"

"Oh brother are you serious?" Rammy scowled but decided to knock anyway, to see what this was all about. "Just one moment..." a 'feminine' voice spoke to her and told her she can come in.

Inside was a large desk and behind the desk was a swivel chair... "Ah, you must be Rammy...please sit down..." a voice behind the chair told the guitarist to sit in a small nearby stool, which she decided to ignore and remain standing.

"We here at G Squared have been watching you and taking notes of your impressive skills and that is why our label would like to offer you a contract..." the person spins around, revealing it to be (big surprise) Gaster. "If you agree to our terms we will take you to the top! No stopping! No where but up up and-"

But Rammy wasn't buying it "You're no big label, you and your secretary over there..." she points to Gruber (who was wearing a fake blonde wig and a dress) "are just a couple of con artists trying to scam me so you can ride on my coat tails and make yourselves famous, which clearly won't work..." she scowls again.

"...Damn, she's pretty good isn't she Gaster" Gruber spoke, still using the feminine voice.

"I'm outta here..." Rammy walks away but Gaster gets up and pulls on her arm.

"Wait a minute, wait a minute! OK OK, so we're not a label...BUT we CAN make you famous!" the rabbit smirked. "All we need is you to follow along with us...and we will see to it that everyone will forget that second rate redhead and her band and forever remember the radical Rammy!"

"Oh please...I highly doubt you two could even tie your own shoes!" she backs away. Gaster however begins to block the doorway and tries more persuasion.

"But but...but you don't understand! We're just like you...outcasts of this world, treated like trash...thrown away like yesterday's garbage...we misfits need to stick together!"

Rammy reaches for the knob but pauses as Gaster speaks "Well...I do hate to admit it but you do bring up a valid point...but still what can I honestly benefit from two losers like yourselves...all you seem to be good for is flocking to me like two sheep..."

This only causes the smirk on Gaster to increase "Well, wouldn't you like it if we could make the entire town flock to you like us?"

Rammy raises a eyebrow "Wait, you have something that can make people worship me like the goddes of rock I am?"

"Er, well...no...but, give us time and Gruber and I just know that you will become the greatest sensation since the toaster! So what do you say...deal?" he extends his hand to her. At first, Rammy looked as though she would decline, but after a moment of thinking she speaks again.

"Personally I think you sound like some sort of phony...but I'll tell you what..." she grabs Gaster's hand and squeezes it so tightly, it practicaly breaks his fingers "If you do what I say and can find ways to spread the word to this pathetic cesspool of a town of the greatness of Rammy, then you have a deal...but cross me and well..." she grabs one of Gaster's ears and whispers into it; whatever she said, the rabbit was spooked beyond all belief. "Got it?"

"Yyyyyy-yes sir-uh, Madam!" Gaster replies standing straight.

"Good, I'll see you morons later then!" Rammy leaves immediately afterward. "What I'd tell ya, some woman, eh Gruber?" the rabbit spoke as soon as he was sure she was gone.

"She seemed like some punk to me" Gruber replied, still using the female voice.

"Shut up you know nothing about the passion we share...and will you get out of that outfit and stop using that voice already!"

Back at Sunny's house, General Potter had gotten worried about his daughter's sudden outburst and retreat home as he hears her in her room and slowly peeks inside. "Sunny, please, let's try to be reasonable here...I just don't think..."

"No, no you didn't think did you..." she replies in a deadpan tone as it's revealed she's packing up a large suitcase."So don't bother me...you made it perfectly clear how you feel about this...and you gave me a choice between you and PaRappa...so I'm choosing PaRappa...and leaving" she finishes.

"What!? No...I won't let you go!" he pronounces trying to be serious. "I will do everything I can to stop you, don't think I won't send my troops after you.

"Go ahead, threaten me all you want, I don't care if you send every last man you have!" she yells, which was unnatural for her. I'm leaving and that's final, my body, my choice...so if you can't respect my decision, then I guess this is farewell...

"Look, I'm telling you there's no way I will let you see him..."

"I made my choice...PaRappa and I are going to raise our baby together...if you don't wanna support our decision, then fine, but if you do...well, I'll be staying somewhere; if he doesn't take me in, the girls said they would be more than happy to do so..." she picks up the bags and heads for the door.

"Don't walk out that door..." it looked as if it was a losing battle for the General.

"I said I made my decision...but I guess I'm just too stupid to make my own choices now aren't I!?" she temporarily turns around and yells with tears in her eyes as she runs out the door slamming it.

"Sunny, get back here...come back..." he tries to go after her but she realized there would be no way she'd listen...and falls to his knees instead. "...please don't leave..."

TBC