Long wait? Sorry about that.

I'm stressing out over a lot of things and am currently clearing up from this like, Mental Breakdown I had earlier today.

It's 1:30AM and don't mind my really shitty grammar mistakes.

Seriously. They're horrible at times, and I'm pretty sure they're in here somewhere.

Disney obviously owns all the rights to Toontown,

Though while Nights and Vicky belong to Me, and Purplewhip/Kalinka belongs to Thalath of Tumblr and deviantART.

There's a certain character here that belongs to my friend Qynat - Tabby!

Enjoy~

"Come on, Vicky; Quit being such a party pooper and buy a Doodle already!"

It had been a rainy day during the week – and several different Toons had stayed inside or went to play in the mud puddles that formed around the Docks; That was something different about this playground out of all the others: the Docks would almost never flood throughout the rain, but that was probably because all the buildings were wedged up by bridges and other wooden wharves that were available for Donald to constantly drive back and fourth throughout the Playground itself. That day though, Vicky and Purplewhip had gone to the Doodle Shop on their own – Purplewhip carrying Vicki while Lemonpop was shaking off the water that had only made it's way to the umbrella. They were supposed to bring Vicki and Zero up for a check up that day, but Zero refused to come out of the house for quite a long time. They couldn't blame him, though; Who would want to go to some clinic or doodle Shop in weather like this?

"I want to buy the perfect Doodle for Nights; Something that'll make her happy for this upcoming birthday," Vicky slung the umbrella over her shoulder – still staring at the selection of Doodles, "She's earned it with her own time and patience, and it would be a terrible idea if I got her something that wasn't from the heart!"

There were two other Toons – a horse and a goat, to be exact – sitting at the counters awaiting for the two to go their separate ways that day and do what they needed to do whenever they were ready; not that the ways were extremely separate – given they were right next to each other, but one already had a first aid kit out on the table, while the other was still placing more of the doodles in comfy cages so they can peacefully fall asleep despite all the rain. With a nod of Vicky's head, Purplewhip immediately went to the other counter, the counter hosted by the horse, and locked her gaze at the way Vicky had acted towards the other toon: Cool and content. It was much more opposite of Zero – whom, if held, would constantly try to bite, kick, or growl at another toon before "yipping" at the person who has constraint them. She was quite aware of Zero's habits, immediately letting out a low chuckle at the thought of the doodle biting Lady Lollipop on the hand when she first met him. Then biting Vicki on the back which caused Vicky to have a gigantic outburst at this fact. It was only a day after the two of them got along and started chasing each other around whenever the two visited each other.

"Reminds me, do you know if Lolo's workin' today, Purple?" Vicky averted her gaze to look in Kalinka's direction, tilting her head, "She was supposed to be checking on Zero, wasn't she? Obviously we don't have Zero with us, but.. you know."

"Oh, are you some of Lollie's friends?" The goat had bleated, pointing to the back door before turning around and walking towards it, "I'll get her up here from the storage; She was checking how much doodle food we had left just in case we need to call for restocks."

"Oh, wow. Okay." Purplewhip walked up to Vicky, and also looked at the cages with widened eyes, "Wow, no wonder you're having trouble deciding. Are you trying to find someone that fits Nights' taste?"

"Yeah!" Vicky laughed, scratching the back of her head, "All of them are so adorable, but I don't know if Nights would take care of the Doodle if I got her the wrong one. I want something that both fits her personality and builds her character!"

"Kali! Vicky! I wasn't expecting you guys here in the first place!"

….

That was a memory good ol' Lady Lollipop – or really, Lollie –, would forever cherish within the back of her mind. She couldn't help it when it came to the Doodle Shop that she resided by in the docks, and it was one of the more pleasant memories she would have as recent news had came and went into the Toon World. Flippy kidnapped? Lil' Oldman missing? Even the Toon HQ Members, who were slowly but surely disappearing from the headquarters themselves? It bothered her to no end at this point in time, and what was even worse was the fact that she would dwell on her and the others in being secretive HQ members. They became apart of the resistance as children because of the Cogs that were slowly but surely constructing themselves on their own, and not to mention – Purplewhip and later, Vicky were already by her side and ready to sign up for the shindig as well! At some point, they had all went on hiatus – or at least in hiding so they could get to work on their own personal lives but still be able to protect the places the Toons could consider sanctuaries.

And to Lady Lollipop, Doodles were sanctuary.

It was a bit depressing for the moment, however; A lot of the Doodles were often shipped over to Donald's Dock – up to three in crates, and not enough jellybeans to go around to nourish them all at times. While their habits slowly decreased into nothing more but a Water-only diet, Lollie had to do her best to create rooms for the beloved "second family" she had called it with what little space she could manage with for the moment. She recalled hearing much more about the passing doodles from the disasters or food disaster, and there were several nights now that she would weep to herself for the poor animals. Caring for these loveable bunches gave her a lot of work every day and night she was around them, so it was quite hard to even cope with her emotions without dealing with tons of stress involving healing any of the Doodles she could every other day. Not to mention, there was always a part of her that felt a little twinge of both guilt and pain rising up in her body.

And throughout these few hours she had been with the pets, she grew to become extremely lonely and extremely reminiscent of her friends. Where were they now, had she wondered? She had yet to leave them a message after calling them on the phone, but she was afraid the lines would have been cut off due to all the Cog fiasco anyway. It wouldn't be a surprise if they had, however, she would just have to find a different way to get in contact with them.

When she finished placing a few more doodles on where they needed to go, Lollie reached for her Toontop and opened up the electronic – watching the screen light up with various flashing lights before making it's way to her log-in screen. Working at a constant pace to make sure everything loaded up properly, she even went to the Desktop that was located near the extremely large fish tank and began to log into that computer, too – knowing for a fact that the shopkeepers wouldn't mind this. They knew how much she loved to check on her friends whenever she had the free time to do so. And although this checkup wasn't exactly for fun, she still found some sort of relief to see all the laff point meters were starting to load up on the Desktop screen.

That was until... She noticed Vicky's becoming dangerously low and blinking.

"W-What?" She screeched, gloved hands immediately slapping themselves on her mouth in both shock and fear. Lollie allowed her flush colored eyes to dilate – shaking her head before she ran back to the Toontop and began to mash buttons at a speed not many of the residents had seen her do anything in before! She noticed her fellow goat employee walk to the screen, an extremely obnoxious bleat coming out in reaction to what was happening with Vicky for the moment.

More cogs had just now began to spurt out of several different parts of the area while others began to fly away. She could've sworn she heard screaming on the camera, but the larger priorities went onto Victoria – who could not even stand up for a few seconds before being pushed down again. It looked like it hurt – seeing as pulling out a few gags here and there cost her some more incoming damage from what the cogs were attempting to do to her! She wished the green feline had not lived very far off, for she could have just dashed out the store with the key and then come back to protect any of the doodles knowing that the cogs would actually stand a chance against the goat friend. All her hands allowed her to do was to pull up Purplewhip's window – noticing that she was descending from the air with a foreign machine that she had never really seen before.

"Ah, Kalinka's already landing into the area – thank goodness!" She muttered, "That'll give me some time to do what I have to do..!"

Within seconds, she closed out the Toontop and grabbed it within one of her hands – bouncing over the counter without the charger and breaking through the doors in such a frenzy, most of the doodles became anxious by her leave; She didn't double take to give the Doodles one final look, she just simply ran out without hesitation and started making her way towards the tunnel that lead to Barnacle Boulevard – knowing for a fact that her house could very well be in danger if all the others are starting to make their way towards Victoria's. The other Toon would take good care of the computer, so she needn't worry about that for the moment.

Like Purplewhip, she too was into the different ways of creating new items and machinery that would help the Toons continue to fight this raging war between them and the cogs, but still manage to make everything comical for the Toons who enjoy creating jokes for their sheer amusement. Though, with the sudden shortage of resources it was hard; Lollie would have to run to and fro from several different Playgrounds and Cog HQs – heading back home becoming a little more difficult every time. There was always some sort of invasion in the streets, and the Purple cat could never make out without being scathed at least once or twice in a row. Her own Doodles at home, however, helped her clear the wounds by doing their own little tricks for treats and attention – which made the female happy when she thought more about it.

Feeling some vibrations in the ground, Lollie's ears perked up as soon as she entered the street – noticing buildings starting to collapse on their own and become extremely large cog buildings once the robots started to walk into each of the doors. It was then that she began to dash through the streets while most were occupied with the business they had been assigned to complete on their own time. Several different Toons cried in horror and anguish, and Lollipop hated to leave them hanging for the most part. However, she couldn't allow them to get anywhere near her house; What if those cogs found all the blueprints that she had acquired throughout the years thanks to Purplewhip's help? They could have taken all the tools she had been working on and turned them right against the community – which wasn't that hard when she thought about the intelligence of all four cog types combined.

Except, the Flunkies would probably have a difficult time.

They were the weakest in the Caste, after all.

Nevertheless, she got through most of the sidewalk and street area – feeling her feet tap against the wooden floors that only Roadsters would have a hard time driving on. She tried her best to maneuver throughout the street without getting caught making noise, but was almost immediately stopped when a few Money Bags stood in her way to the next part of the street. With a small gasp escaping her lips, Lollie had only begun to take a few steps back before running into two more from behind – clutching her computer tightly to her chest.

"Stubborn..." The purple cat huffed, shrugging before taking the laptop in one hand and launching it towards the Money Bags up front – then kicking the Money Bags in behind while they were caught off guard. When she was able to stand atop of one of their heads, she leaped over the other few and left the slightly damaged laptop there – taking her time to vanish from the area and pass by a hole in the wall that automatically lead her to the street her house was on. Her ability to climb from place to place deemed her a worthy asset to the Resistance.

It was just the fact that she had to be pushed to start getting to where she was going.

She realized the house was alright once she fell out of the other tiny entrance near it – deciding to take a few glances at the doodle-oriented estate before pulling up the mat that hid the key to her house from all the pesky cogs. Once that was settled, she then unlocked the door and slammed it open in order to complete the task that she assigned herself.

The task to help her friends out.

It was almost as if the burden between those two would suddenly slump onto her shoulders and make her take action before several different consequences went off at once; that got her worked up enough to the point where she would slam her eyes shut from a stressful notion as she would sneak around in the dark corridors of her Estate. She felt around for a switch until some of the furniture in the room flopped over to show different gags and lights flickering on – pulling out her last arsenal of Trap Gags before dashing out the door again.

As soon as she locked the entrance, she heard a few explosions here and there occurring throughout the streets – fixing the gloves she wore over her paws just in case a few of the nasty Robots decided to jump her when they thought the time was right. Right when she was about to start dashing off into another portion of the street – Lady Lollipop had noticed a familiar face hanging off an aircraft in a trapeze-like motion. She noticed the other's hands lower their way down as the machine descending a few inches – starting off to pick up speed against the ground until she was capable of grabbing a certain Periwinkle Cat's hands and ascend back up into the machine itself.

There was Kalinka – setting Lollie into the space that was left inside the vehicle itself before shutting off autopilot and reaching for the steering wheel so she could control the movements instead of giving it the chance to mess up by accident and become dysfunctional when she needed it the most. To the right of Lollie, she noticed Lady Vicky Lemonpop in the flesh – clearly unconscious from all the beatings she was taking by the cogs who had come to nab her away like they had Nights. Kali had signaled the Purple feline to grab the First Aid Kit from under her – taking a swift turn around a building as they did so.

"Long time no see, Lollie!" Kalinka's accent immediately slipped into her words, "How've you been? Sorry for the late appearance," She pulled up her goggles – immediately pointing to the Green female right beside them, "Trouble was afoot, you know?"

"I saw it on my laptop before I ended up fighting the Cogs with it," She muttered, feeling the fur that had been covered in nothing but grass and dirt after the constant colliding of the ground. "I'm surprised the meter hadn't busted for good yet. We should probably Toon her up when we can!"

"I'd use it right now, but we're kind of running low on gags for the moment?" Another twist, another turn. "I mean, if you think of it this way, we barely have any gags to use anymore."

"Well yeah, I know that! I'm just worried about Vicky here!"

"She's unconscious for the moment," Within a few seconds, Kalinka had pulled out a First-Aid Kit from below her feet – tossing it back into Lollie's arms while she took another turn away from a Cog Building that had blocked her view from before, "Take this. Patch her up while I get you guys out of here."

Lollie tilted her head – digging in her box to find a few bandages and some antibiotics so she could clean up the wounds that may or may not have formed in her clear view. "Where exactly are we going, though?"

"We're heading back to my house and setting up that system," She muttered, "You know; that system?"

"Oh... Oh!" Lollie replied, doing what she needed to do as she multitasked her conversation with one of her best friends, "But shouldn't we contact the others? They need to know that we're activating this, too!"

"Oh, trust me, we have our ways..." The Periwinkle cat snickered, allowing the wind to take her where she need be – which wasn't far off once she thought about it.

All it took was a little street travel.