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I can't believe I haven't updated in nearly a year! Wow, time sure flies when you're busy, huh?

Thanks for your patience, everyone. Here's the next chapter!

"...Bunnies?" Buddy raised his eyebrows, confused at the scene in front of him. There were bunnies everywhere! On the countertops, on the tables, in the corners, and a few being chased out by DJ Candy with a broom.

"Yes, bunnies! THEY'RE RUINING MY BUSINESS!" Gino cried.

"Aren't those Beebee's bunnies?" Buddy asked.

"Good thinking, Buddy!" DJ Candy said, trying to shake a bunny off that had clung to her broom. "Go and find her!"

"Right." Buddy turned to run out of the restaurant, but the sudden loading screen leaving through the door, making him trip and almost landing on some bunnies! "Whoops! Sorry, bunnies!"

"AH! MY BUNNY PEOPLE!"

"Uh...found her!" Buddy called back through the door.

Beebee swooped up some of the bunnies. "You're not hurt, are you, my subjects?" She held the wriggling creatures close to her chest. "Oh, thank goodness you're all right!"

"Erm, Beebee," Buddy began, getting up and brushing himself off. "Do you think that maybe you could take the bunnies back to your...erm...'castle'?"

"Oh, Buddy of Town Hotel, I simply couldn't!"

"Why not?" Buddy asked.

"My subjects have eaten through my entire garden, and still they starve!"

"Well, I hope you're willing to PAY for the ingredients your little friends have destroyed!" Gino yelled, throwing a half-chewed tomato in her general direction.

"Unfortunately, we have fallen upon hard times...all I have to offer is the last of the carrots my garden has grown."

In her hand was a carrot so small it couldn't even feed a baby bunny! Beebee's offer was met with a hostile glare from Gino.

"I know! How about we plant a new, bigger garden?" Buddy suggested. "It'll take lots of watering and care, but you can grow enough food for your, uh, subjects, and replace all the vegetables that your bunnies ate!"

"Most excellent!" Beebee clapped her hands. "Let's find some seeds and get started right away!"

"You better..." Gino waved a spatula at her menacingly, "...or else I'll have a special for RABBIT PIZZA added to the menu!"

Beebee gasped, horrified. "You wouldn't!"

"He doesn't really mean that, Beebee!" Buddy exclaimed, trying to keep her calm. Or, at least, I sure hope he doesn't...he thought.

Buddy and Beebee worked together to swoop up some seeds from the recent vegetable carnage, and they ran off in the direction of the forest to go and plant their new garden.

"...Hey! Wait!" Gino called. "You still didn't get rid of the bunnies!"

"No, bunnies!" DJ Candy cried as bunnies decided to pile up on her. "No! No! NO!" she wailed as she was lost in the sea of fluffiness.*

"There!" Buddy said as he planted the last bell pepper into the ground. "Now, we wait."

"Hi, Buddy! Hi, Beebee!" Poppy skipped up to the two, watering can in hand. "I heard you guys are starting a garden. Can I help?"

"Certainly!" Beebee exclaimed. "The more the merrier."

"Hey, how's Violet doing?" Buddy asked, his voice tinged with guilt.

"She's okay. She's going to sleep in a cute little sleeping bag I usually keep under my bed in case I have a sleepover. She's still pretty mad about the house, though..."

"Well, not to worry, I'll get right on it...after she calms down a little, heheh."

"Hooray! The plants are done!" Beebee cried.

The little grassy area was filled up with thick, healthy vegetables, just ready to be harvested.

Buddy noticed a small pump Poppy was keeping in her other hand. "What's that?"

"It's a fertilizer pump. It'll help the veggies grow and multiply even faster, but-"

"Great! We'll need that!" Buddy grabbed the pump from her.

"Buddy, wait!" Poppy protested.

But it was too late, already Buddy was spraying the gray mist over the garden. It was only a second or two before carrots, tomatoes, heads of lettuce and everything else they've planted began to roll on the ground. Eager to fix the issue, Buddy kept going until he noticed the vines and leaves began to turn brown and shrivel.

"Wait...why...why are they dying?" he asked.

"BECAUSE-" Poppy forcibly grabbed the fertilizer pump from Buddy, her face a mix of shock, horror, and anger, "-if you fertilize the plants too much, they'll get sick and die!"

"...Oh. I'm...I'm sorry, I didn't mean to..." Buddy tapped his hands together nervously, the weight of his mistake beginning to sink in. "...but, um...you can fix it, right?"

"I can try," Poppy began to sprinkle water on the plants, "but I-" she sniffled, "I-I don't know how far they're already...gone," she whimpered, wiping tears from her face.

"Perhaps it is best to allow our fair town's plant expert to tend to the crops. Go forth, Buddy of MyTown Hotel," Beebee handed him the basket of half the vegetables that fell. "Deliver the produce to Chef Gino, and save my kingdom!"

"Will do, Beebee!" Buddy saluted her, and ran off in the direction towards the main sector of MyTown, stopping only when he tripped and had to pick up what fell to the ground.

Buddy was walking in the main square on the way over to Gino's restaurant, but when passing by the museum, he heard a deep cry from the inside:

"CURSES!"

"Huh?"

Angered a dark figure with white-streaked gray hair stormed out of the museum door: Sir Vincent Skullfinder, a famous archeologist and the owner of the museum. "CURSED BE THE ONE who took my skulls!" He must have meant the creepy skull collection he keeps in his desk.

"Erm, Mr. Skullfinder...sir..." Buddy began to sweat when the older man's eyes glared into his own. "...You're sure someone took them?"

"I never lose any skull within my museum," Vincent folded his arms confidently.

Buddy thought for a moment, but then, a chilling realization hit him, when he grabbed his own head in a brief fit of paranoia when a flashback flooded his mind:

"GIVE ME YOUR SKULL!"

"Erm...Mr. Skullfinder," he began, lowering his hand. "I...I think I know where...one of them might be..."

"Is that so? Lead me to it, then. Immediately!"

Buddy looked over in the direction of Gino's pizzeria across the way, and then back at Vincent. "...Now?" he asked.

"Now." Buddy could have sworn he briefly saw his eyes turn red.

Well, there was definitely no arguing with someone like Vincent. Dropping the basket, Buddy ran off in the direction he had in mind, Vincent following close behind.

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*I have no idea what I'm doing here XD.