"Um, a little help?" Zippy said from the bakery ceiling.

Everyone looked at her standing on the ceiling, her long hair like a curtain hanging upside down.

"How are you doing that?" Puffy asked.

"Ask the genius." Zippy responded, nodding to Sniffles, who was nervously trying to fix a ray gun thing.

"Sniffles, what did you do to her?" Puffy asked impatiently.

"I reversed her personal gravity field. I can fix it though." Sniffles said, gritting his teeth as he tinkered with the controls.

"Wow! I wanna be on the ceiling!" Nikki said, grabbing the ray gun and aiming it at herself. She pulled the trigger, and she was on the ceiling with the gun.

"Can you get me down, Nikki?" Zippy asked the girl.

"Sure thing!" She pulled the trigger, and Zippy landed on the table below.

"Wait, where's my doll? OH NO, IT'S DOWN THERE!" Nikki panicked, pointing to the doll on the floor.

The doll was a little dark purple puppy thing, with big red eyes and a red mouth that had stitches running over it. It had a mop of black hair and held a yellow rose.

Nikki pulled the trigger again, and landed on her feet on the floor, nearly crushing Puffy.

Sniffles looked at the girl, who smiled and handed him the gravity gun. "Thanks! That was fun!"

"Uh, who is that?" He asked Zippy, who was brushing bits of napkin off her fur.

"That's Nikki, she's our new roommate." Zippy grinned

"A little young to be a roommate, isn't she?" Sniffles asked.

"No. No, she's not." Zippy shook her head.

Nikki was drawing on the tables, and humming a happy little tune to herself.

"AH! SHE'S DRAWING ALL OVER MUFFIN'S TABLES!" Sniffles yelled, running over to stop her.

Nikki turned around and looked at Sniffles with wide innocent eyes. "Huh? What'd I do wrong?" "I hope he doesn't yell, or I'll have to hit him." She thought.

Sniffles looked at her with a slowly fading annoyance, which ended with him awing at her cute face.

"Wow. Wonder how Muffin's gonna react." Zippy muttered to Puffy.

"React to what? IS THAT GIRL DRAWING ON MY TABLES? I TRUSTED YOU TO KEEP THIS PLACE CLEAN WHILE I WAS OUT." Muffin spazzed out a little, gaining Nikki's attention.

Muffin ran to pull her away, and Nikki turned and grabbed her paw in midair. She squeezed it and Muffin's paw went numb.

"Wh-what?! How the?" Muffin stuttered, flopping her limp wrist around in horror.

Nikki turned and started to color on the table again, ignoring the fact that everyone was staring at her.

"She got what was coming to her, didn't she, Lacé?"

"Oh yes, Nikki, She deserved that punishment. But you should fix her before she freaks out."

"Hmm, fine." Nikki thought, walking over and pushing Muffin's dislocated wrist back into place.

"I'm sorry for harming you, miss. I was being defensive."

"I-it's fine... Just don't draw on my tables, please." Muffin nervously walked away.

Suddenly, there was a figure at the window, looking in. It looked like Zippy, but Zippy was standing in the same room with them.

"NO!" Sniffles yelled, diving under a tablecloth.

Everyone looked at the creature. It was an ant that looked exactly like Zippy, except for the antennae and teal eyes. It was as tall as Zippy, and it was clawing at the glass with identical throat claws.

The ant family stood upon it's head, chuckling evilly.

Zippy dove under the tablecloth too. "Sniffles, how'd you piss them off this time?"

"I accidentally stepped on their pet dogbeetle." Sniffles mumbled nervously, looking at his hands.

"Well, I gotta go fight that thing. Go hide in the closet, get the others in there." Zippy said.

Sniffles got Puffy, Nikki, and Muffin to hide behind the counter instead, so they could watch the fight.

Zippy let the creature in, and it growled and lunged at her.

Zippy sidestepped the attack, and grabbed the thing by the throat, tossing it back against the plexiglass window.

"What are you?" Zippy asked the creature.

"I am Zippysect. The ants made me." Zippysect slurred, her tongue hanging out of her mouth. She pulled her tongue back into her mouth. "And now, you're gonna die." She laughed and chattered as she gripped Zippy by the throat.

"W-wait!" Zippy choked out. "You're me, you know what will happen if you kill me. We'll all die because Puffy will kill you, and everyone else, then commit suicide. Her sorrow curse will kill everyone in this room. And you know that."

Zippysect thought, then whispered "Pretend to choke, I'll put you down and leave."

Zippy let out a really convincing croaking noise, and went limp.

Zippysect laid her down, and ran out the door, the ants running after her.

As soon as they were gone, Zippy sat up and shook her hair out. "WHOO, that was a close one." She panted.

Puffy glomped her. "Oh thank goodness you're alive! I don't know what I would have done with you dead."

Zippy looked at her. "You would've murdered everyone here and committed suicide."

"Oh yeah." Her sister responded.

"...Can I have a cookie?" Nikki asked, nudging Muffin's arm.

NEW CHARACTERS.

THIS IS THE SECOND APPEARANCE OF ZIPPYSECT, AND THE FIRST OF NIKKI.

I HAVE TO TELL YOU THAT FIFI AND PONCHO HAVE BEEN REMOVED BY REQUEST OF MY FRIEND.

Nikki: Reviews are welcome!