"You sure you're okay with this?" Chloe asked as she and Tootie made their way to the steps leading into the school.
"Yeah, I'll be fine without magic for one school day." Tootie reassured her friend. "My new ideas can wait until after school, right Poof? It'll just be a few."
Poof, in the form of a purple butterfly with a bulbous lavender-skinned head, laughed slightly nervously. While Chloe had been off doing her take-home science project the other day, Tootie had Poof and Foop to herself, where she had come up with "just a few" wishes as well. Poof was still a little exhausted from granting them.
"Well, if you insist." Chloe smiled. She turned back to her godbrother. "So Foop's busy today, huh?"
"Poof poof." Poof nodded. While he and Foop were allowed time off from Spellementary School to do their job, they needed to make it up somehow, and today was Foop's day to do makeup work at his home while Poof covered both bases. "Poof poof poof." He explained.
Tootie and Chloe smiled and nodded politely, not having a clue what the baby was saying. With that, Poof waved his rattle and turned into a purple backpack on Chloe's back. The two girls waved goodbye to each other and went their separate ways. Chloe made her way to Mr. Crocker's classroom and sat in her seat. Soon enough, everyone was seated and class began.
"Alright, children." Crocker announced. "It's our classes' turn to take care of the thing with the second darkest heart in the classroom (after yours truly). It's time for us to suffer...the school pet!"
The entire classroom, with the exceptions of Chloe and Timmy, let out panicked screams of fright. The latter shuddered. He remembered that for the last ten years or so of his Secret Wish, his school had gotten a new pet, an animal that had quickly proven to be more trouble than it was worth.
"School pet? I didn't know we had one of those." Chloe said to herself.
"Well there's one good thing about being a teacher: I get to pick one of you dummies to handle the beast! Haha! Time to consult the Hat of Horror!" Crocker pulled out a black top hat with multiple slips of paper inside. He reached into the hat and shuffled his hand around.
Chloe looked around to see that many of her classmates were looking nervous and crossing their fingers in desperation. Crocker pulled out a slip of paper and read the name on it. "Elmer! You're up!"
Elmer gulped. "Can I at least have a minute to make out my will?"
"No! Now get that thing in here!"
Elmer slowly walked out the door, sweating and whimpering all the way, and walked back into the room wheeling a cart containing a cube-shaped object covered by a black tarp with a skull and crossbones on it. Elmer then walked up to the object, clenched his eyes shut, and took the tarp off the cage, revealing a small white rabbit with a round head and big purple eyes.
"AAHH!" Several kids screamed.
"...Aawww!" Chloe cooed. "What's everyone so afraid of? It's just a cute widdle bunny with a lil' pink nose and a cotton ball tail! Oooh, he's so cute! I just. Wanna. SQUEEZE HIM!"
"Stand down, Chloe!" Timmy warned. "That's Mr. Cuddles, A.K.A. the Fluffy Demon! He bites everybody! That's why you've never seen him before now: no one classroom can handle having him around for very long! There's even a rumor that he was responsible for the sudden disappearance of the Shickadance family!"
"The Shickadances just moved, Timmy." Chloe said with half-lidded eyes.
"I know, but Mr. Cuddles is so bad, that when the rumor started going around, everyone believed it!"
"Don't look him in the eyes, he can see into your soooouuuul." Sanjay warned from Chloe's other side.
"Go ahead, Elmer!" Crocker continued. "Feed it!"
"Do I have to?" Elmer desperately asked, his knees shaking.
"Yes!" Crocker held out a carrot. Elmer gulped and walked over to take the vegetable.
"Mr. Crocker, I'd like to volunteer to feed Mr. Cuddles!" Chloe raised her hand determinedly. The class gasped in shock.
Chloe was briefly jostled out of her noble mindset by Elmer furiously shaking her hand. "Oh thankyouthankyouthankyou! You're a lifesaver! We-I mean I really owe you for this one." Elmer rubbed his boil self-consciously before heading back to his seat.
"Chloe, what are you doing?!" Timmy asked.
"I'm gonna prove that Mr. Cuddles is as sweet as he looks!" Chloe announced as she walked up and took the carrot from Mr. Crocker's hand. Without a second thought, she opened the cage door. The rabbit backed away, growling a bit.
"Aww, you're just a hungry boy, aren't you?" Chloe cooed as she set the carrot in the cage. She then closed the door again. "See everyone? That wasn't so hard." She addressed the rest of the class. Then she did the unthinkable and placed her finger through the bars of the cage. "Hey Mr. Cuddle-Wuddle…" Mr. Cuddles bared his teeth. Knowing what was about to happen, Timmy bolted up from his seat and tackled Chloe out of the way just as Mr. Cuddles snapped and bit the bar her finger had just been above with enough force to bend the bar.
"Did I say you could get up, Turner?!" Crocker snapped. Timmy and Chloe got themselves disentangled from the pile they made on the floor. "Gimme a break, Mr. Crocker." Timmy said, rolling his eyes.
"F! You get an...an…" Crocker blinked and stood still for a moment, then shook his head. "Um, nevermind. Just don't let it happen again! Now back to your seats, both of you!"
Timmy looked at his teacher confused. Was Crocker actually trying to be halfway decent to him? Why? Shaking his head, he and Chloe returned to their desks, the latter looking back sympathetically at the rabbit, who was angrily munching on his carrot.
A few hours later, the bell rang.
"That's lunch, everyone! Now please exit the room in an orderly-"
"RUN AWAY BEFORE THE RABBIT EATS OUR SOULS!" Sanjay screamed. Crocker subsequently found himself stampeded by panicked fifth-graders.
"I hate kids…" Crocker mumbled before pulling himself up, dusting off his clothes, and making his way toward the lunchroom.
As Timmy and Chloe walked out, the boy noticed the girl looking at the cage again. "Do you see what I was saying now?" he asked.
Chloe rubbed the finger that had almost been bit. "Okay, so Mr. Cuddles is a little cranky. But wouldn't you be if you were locked up in a cage?" She returned.
Timmy resisted the urge to groan. Man, this girl was persistent! "Forget it, Chloe. It's not worth it."
"That's what everyone said about Kevin!" Chloe protested.
"Kevin at least had some humanity in him. You know, 'cuz he was human. Evil bunnies, on the other hand…"
"But-"
"Just leave it, Chloe. There's nothing you can do anyway. Now unless you brought lunch, I'd suggest you get down to the cafeteria before they run out of meals that haven't been pre-chewed. Yes, I'm serious." With that, Timmy walked away from Chloe and headed down to his locker where he fetched his own lunch that had been packed from home. He smiled and pulled out the lunchbox decorated with stars and featuring a picture of himself dressed like an astronaut holding a video game controller under a headline that read 'TIMMY!' (and there was also a doodle of a round thing trying to eat a blobby thing in the background for some reason). Timmy chuckled to himself. Anti-Wanda may have been as dim as a burned-out lightbulb, but she could be a somewhat creative designer when she wanted to be. And although Timmy could have protested he was too old to have chicken nuggets packed in his lunch, he had to admit his godmother made some good ones. Plus the enchantment that kept them hot throughout the day was a fun bonus. He could do without the antivenom in his thermos, though. At least it had a sweet taste.
Timmy was jostled out of his reverie by a scream that suddenly ripped through the air.
"IT'S LOOSE! IT'S THE END OF DAAAYYYS!" With that, the hallway was suddenly filled with panicked grade schoolers that nearly flattened Timmy. When the mob subsided, Timmy was left spinning and trying to shake the stars out of his head. "Wha-"
"TIMMY! HOLD ME!" An all too familiar presence latched onto Timmy's body, and this time it took a little more force than usual to force it off. "Tootie, what's going on? Why's everyone so scared?"
"Ask...her!" Tootie pointed to Chloe, just standing in the middle of the hall.
"Chloe? What did you do?"
"Well, I felt bad for Mr. Cuddles all cooped up in his cage, so I snuck back in the classroom and...let him out of his cage." Chloe explained, masking a certain detail about how exactly the cage was opened.
Timmy's face paled. Mr. Cuddles was the most vicious rabbit he had ever seen, and if even half the stories he had heard were true…
"What have you done, Chloe Carmichael?!" Timmy demanded, rushing up to stare his fellow ten-year-old in the face.
"Given an unfairly slandered little bunny its rightful freedom!" Chloe indignantly defended. She then turned to see the bunny in question standing a few feet away. She smiled and walked towards him. "Here, Mr. Cuddle-Wuddles. I'm gonna give you a big hug!"
Mr. Cuddles sneered and let out a cry that was more ferocious than it had any right to be, coming from a rabbit's mouth. Chloe then found herself running for her life alongside Timmy and Tootie. "What have I done, Chloe Carmichael?!"
The three came to rest against a corner of the hall. Timmy looked around and didn't see anyone. He turned back towards the other two. "Okay, everyone else probably left school already, so we're all alone here. We need a plan." While Timmy turned back around to think, Chloe turned to face Tootie and decided to quietly apologize for wishing Mr. Cuddles out of his cage despite multiple warnings from her as well as Timmy. Before she could, however, Poof, in the form of a backpack, finally caught a proper glimpse of Timmy. Overcome with joy at seeing his big brother again and briefly forgetting about the rules, he poofed back into his normal form with a laugh and held out his hands in greeting. Chloe quickly turned back around, saw Poof as his normal self, looked back and forth between him and Timmy for a second, and quickly grabbed Poof and hid him behind her back just as Timmy turned around after hearing the noise. Chloe and Tootie just beamed at him until he turned around again.
Chloe turned around too and held Poof against a locker where Timmy couldn't see him. "What are you doing?!" She hissed. "We can't let anyone see you, remember?"
"Poof! Poof poof poof poof-" The fairy baby tried to explain.
"I-I can't understand you! Just hide again, quickly!"
Poof groaned, but did as he was told and raised his rattle, turning back into a backpack. Adjusting the straps a bit, Chloe faced Timmy again.
"If only I could just poof Mr. Cuddles back into his cage…" The boy muttered. Realizing what he said, his eyes opened wide and he looked back at the two girls. "Not that that's possible, of course! Just magically poofing something away, heh heh."
"Right! No such thing as poofing away! And certainly no such thing as magic!" Chloe laughed nervously too. Then Tootie joined in and all three kids awkwardly laughed for a moment.
From his spot on Chloe's back, Poof sprouted an arm and smacked his forehead.
"Okay," Timmy said, getting back on track, "I for one don't wanna get bit by a crazed rabbit today, so our best bet is probably to get out of the school through the front door."
"It's right over there!" Tootie pointed down the hall. A growl brought their attention back to Mr. Cuddles who was standing on the opposite side of them.
"RUN!" Timmy shouted. He, Tootie, and Chloe bolted for the door. They had almost made it when a white blur rushed over their heads. Before they knew it, Mr. Cuddles was blocking the door and the three screeched to a halt. The rabbit bit down hard and hopped toward them, causing them to run in the other direction.
"Now what?!" Tootie yelled.
"I'm thinking, I'm thinking!" Timmy barked back. "We gotta go somewhere he won't think to look, but that stupid rabbit's been all over the school, where doesn't he know-" Timmy's eyes widened. "Follow me!" He led Tootie and Chloe to a door at the end of one of the halls. He pushed it open to show a room filled with mops, buckets, and a phone booth.
"A janitor's closet?! Timmy, no, we'll be trapped!" Chloe protested.
"Trust me!" Timmy said, darting into the room and letting the door swing closed. Tootie and Chloe exchanged glances; the former then shrugged and ran in after Timmy. Chloe looked back, noticed a small shadow on the far wall hopping and getting bigger, and ran in as well.
She saw Timmy in the phone booth. "In here, quick!"
For the first time since the misadventure began, Tootie smiled. "No argument here!" She went into the phone booth and pressed against Timmy. "You know, there's something about hiding from a killer rabbit that just makes everything...romantic." Tootie said, batting her eyelashes.
"Not the time, Tootie, seriously!" Timmy groaned.
"Oh, I hope you know what you're doing." Chloe said, pushing herself into the phone booth as well and closing the door.
"Mmph...okay, it's a little crowded...Chloe, leave your backpack." Timmy instructed.
"No!" Chloe yelped, causing Timmy to look at her in surprise.
"There's um, important stuff in here. Extra credit homework, and...extra-extra credit homework." Chloe explained.
Timmy rolled his eyes. "Whatever. Here we go."
"Go? Go where?" Chloe asked. Before Timmy could answer, there was a pounding on the door. The girls both yelped and crowded Timmy even more than they already were.
Timmy picked up the phone and spoke three words.
"Fairy."
Pound!
"God."
Pound!
"Parents."
"I knew this was a bad idea! We're trapped! We're EEEEK!" Chloe's shriek was due to the fact that barely a moment after Timmy said the third word, the phone booth dropped straight through the floor and down, down deep underground.
"Timmy, hold me! Again!" Tootie yelled, wrapping her arms around the boy.
"Calm down, we're just about...there."
The phone booth slowed down and touched the ground just like an elevator. The door opened and the three kids tumbled out. They got to their feet and watched the phone booth rise back up again. Chloe could just make out a barely visible lift attached to the sides of the booth that made it possible.
"Ladies, welcome to the Crocker Cave...or at least what used to be the Crocker Cave." Timmy introduced as Tootie and Chloe looked around the vast underground cavern.
"This used to be Crocker's top secret fairy hunting headquarters. Before he moved everything to his mother's basement, he had all his equipment here, under the school." Timmy explained.
"Fairy hunting? Timmy, how do you know about this place?" Tootie asked in astonishment.
"I accidentally found the entrance when Vicky dragged me here on a Saturday just because she had to do some makeup homework while she was babysitting me." It wasn't a lie, Timmy had discovered the cave when it was still under construction. He just didn't mention the fact that he had been trying to avoid the wrath of three anti-fairies at the time, or the fact that Vicky had unintentionally summoned them in the first place with magical powers she had unknowingly gained by stealing and ruining his fairy godparents' copy of their all-important rulebook.
Details, details…
"Oh yeah, I remember that. The high school was all booked, so she had to take her extra class here." Tootie recalled.
"Wow, this place is big." Chloe observed as the three walked a bit further into the dirt-brown cave that had been stripped of all technology. "We should be safe here, at least for a while."
Several small lights then turned on at once, stopping the three newcomers in their tracks.
"Or not." Timmy said, shielding his eyes.
"At ease, men." A voice said. "They are on our side."
Timmy's eyes opened again. He recognized that voice. "Wait...Chester?!"
The blonde, braces-wearing boy walked out of the darkness. He still had his jacket and pants, albeit ripped, but he was both shirtless and barefoot.
The lights turned off and several other kids from various grades came into view as well. The lights had come from a combination of flashlights and smartphones in the kids' hands.
"Dude, what are you doing?" Timmy asked.
"I formed this rebellion, Timmy. Too bad A.J. and the others didn't make it." Chester sighed and put a hand over his heart.
"Uh, I'm pretty sure they just escaped the school, like we should've by now." Said one of his "followers".
"Cowards!" Chester snapped, whirling around at the speaker and making a fist with the hand that had just been over his heart. He turned back around. "No critter's gonna get the better of a McBadbat! I'm not gonna stand here and let myself get Shickadance'd!"
Chloe facepalmed. "The Shickadances moved house! Literally! They moved their entire house to make settling into Florida easier! Which also made it easier for my family, because we were able to move our house right where theirs was! We still keep in touch; they sent us a postcard from Tallahassee! They. Just. Moved!"
"Doesn't matter!" Chester waved off. "My pop woulda eaten that bunny for breakfast, so that's what I'm gonna do! Or lunch, in this case."
"You're gonna...eat him?" Tootie asked, feeling a little sick.
"Yeah, we do it all the time at the zoo."
"Wait, what?!" Chloe exclaimed, eyebrows furrowing.
"Anyway, I'll be right back!" Chester pulled out a knife and fork and licked his lips. He pressed a lone button in the rocky walls and a large hydraulic tube lowered from the ceiling. "I'm havin' rabbit tonight! Yahoo!" Chester was sucked up through the tube.
"I think my mom's going to have some choice words with his dad." Chloe said, frowning up at where the boy had gone.
Timmy sighed. "Come on, let's make sure he doesn't get hurt."
"Chester or Mr. Cuddles?" Tootie asked.
"Both." Timmy pressed the button and he along with Tootie and Chloe were sucked back up to the surface. As soon as they emerged from Mr. Crocker's locker, they heard fighting in the next hall over. They ran around the corner to see Chester lying in a mangled heap on the ground and Mr. Cuddles triumphantly standing on top of him.
"Chester McBadbat...concedes this fight...to you...my fluffy foe." Chester wheezed.
"Mr. Cuddles is a monster!" Chloe whispered, horrified.
The rabbit heard that and turned back toward the trio with a fierce growl. They yelped and bolted as the bunny chased them again.
"Now what?! We can't lead him back to all those kids, so where else can we go?!" Chloe exclaimed.
"Um, uh…" Timmy groaned, trying to rack his brain and move his body at the same time. He spotted a door up ahead. "The principal's office, quick!" The three ran in and slammed the door.
"Quick! Barricade the door!" Timmy instructed as the three started pushing furniture, blocking the door.
"I dunno, Timmy. This never works against Vicky." Tootie said. "And Mr. Cuddles isn't nearly as bad."
"Well, we gotta try something!" Timmy defended. A clanging interrupted them. The three turned to see a ventilation grate clatter the ground near them, and Mr. Cuddles drop out of the hole. The bunny bared its suddenly sharp-looking teeth and hopped towards them. They all shuffled to the back of the room near the principal's desk, but there was nowhere left to run.
Chloe knit her eyebrows and pushed her way forward. "This whole nightmare is my fault. I let Mr. Cuddles out of his cage, so it's only right I keep him busy while you two escape."
"Chloe, no!" Timmy ran forward and tugged at the blonde girl's arm. "There's gotta be another way!"
Chloe bit her lip and her eyes briefly darted to her backpack. There was another way, but she couldn't use it as long as Timmy was still there.
"There is none, Timmy. Take Tootie and go!"
"No way!"
Tootie watched as the other two argued, all the while the killer rabbit was getting ever closer. Tootie also knew she couldn't make a wish, so her eyes desperately darted around the room for anything she could use. She stopped in surprise when she saw something on the floor under the desk.
Timmy and Chloe had stopped bickering when they noticed that Mr. Cuddles was right next to them and they embraced each other, waiting for the inevitable.
"HOLD IT!"
All three turned and were surprised to see Tootie spinning a medieval flail in her hand. "Get away from my man and my friend, you...you...fluffy little freak!"
However, despite the fact that Tootie had been trying to use the flail the same way she had seen her sister do from time to time, the truth of the matter was that Tootie was completely inexperienced in using such a weapon, and no sooner had the words left her mouth than the flail clumsily flew out of her hand.
And hit Mr. Cuddles squarely on the head. The rabbit crumpled to the ground. Timmy and Chloe looked at the downed animal before slowly looking back at Tootie.
"...Nice shot." Timmy finally said.
"A bit brutal, though." Chloe murmured.
Tootie raced forward and hugged them. "I'm just glad you're both alright!"
Timmy smiled, deciding to let her have this one.
A small noise interrupted the moment and the three looked to see Mr. Cuddles groaning and getting to his feet while rubbing his head.
Suddenly, something sprouted from the tip of the furry skull: a long yellow antennae topped by a crown shape.
Timmy let out a long gasp. "I should've known!"
Mr. Cuddles felt his antenna; his eyes widened and he clenched his teeth in panic as Timmy marched over to him, all fear forgotten.
"That round head, those big eyes, that pure evil underneath all that cuteness! You're not a bunny, you're a Gigglepie!" Timmy snapped, pointing at Mr. Cuddles.
"Gigglepie?" Chloe repeated. "That's even cuter!" She squealed.
"Stay back, Chloe!" Timmy instructed. "The Gigglepies are a race of evil aliens who invade planets by hypnotizing everyone into loving them! All the while they suck the planet dry of resources to make junky merchandise that the brainwashed people buy up! And once they've used up all the planet's resources, they blow it up!"
"Of course they do. Just like how I recently blew up the planet, You're-Full-of-Bologna! First off, aliens do not exist. I'm compiling an extra-extra credit report on it. Second, going to all the trouble of enslaving an entire civilization just to sell merchandise? That's just convoluted!"
Mr. Cuddles sighed. "No, the boy's right." He spoke in a high-pitched voice, startling everyone else. "I'm a Gigglepie from outer space." He stuck one of his stubby paws into his mouth and blew. His limbs grew about twice as big and his nose turned purple and heart-shaped.
Chloe screamed.
"Yeah, I know, you're scared of me now that you know where I come from."
"That wasn't a scared scream, that was an 'aliens are real and that is so so cool' scream!" Chloe smiled wide as she ran up to the alien and clenched her fists. "Tell me everything! What are some of your unique alien traits?"
Timmy grabbed her arm and pulled her back. "Chloe, I said stay back! Didn't you hear what I said about them being evil? Their outsides may be cute and cuddly, but their insides are poop!"
"It's not polite to insult someone like that, Timmy!" Chloe replied indignantly.
"Oh, that wasn't an insult. Their innards are literally made of poop."
"Our doctors could never figure out why." Mr. Cuddles shrugged. "Then again, all our medical equipment can be found at most participating toy stores for $19.99, so…"
"Wait, wait." Tootie interrupted, having been silent since the bunny started talking. "This is real? Mr. Cuddles really is a space alien?!"
"Yup, and I'm not gonna let you brainwash my planet, cute boy!" Timmy sneered.
"Hold on, I can explain!" Mr. Cuddles interrupted, waving his stubby little arms. "Look we, we haven't been properly introduced. He took a deep breath. "My real name is Cuddli, princess of the Gigglepies."
"Whatever-wait, princess? You're a girl?" Timmy interrupted.
Cuddli rubbed the back of her neck. "To be fair, with us it's hard to tell, and I never let anyone get close enough to check. Anyway, I was the princess, until one day my father, Overlord Blee, took most of our forces, including my darling Trillie, to the feared war planet Yugopotamia and never came back!"
"Aw, that's sad." Tootie said sympathetically.
"Not really. They went to Yugopotamia to enslave and destroy it...I assume." Timmy countered.
"Yeah, and not long after that, the last of us tried invading this place, but that didn't work out either." Cuddli turned to Timmy. "I assume that's how you know about us."
"Yup! Those fuzzballs tried to take over our minds, but some of us were able to resist and stop them, me included!" Timmy proudly said, pointing at himself. In actuality, he had stopped them alone, and to be truthful, it wasn't that much work. Once the Gigglepies had shown their faces on Earth, Timmy had just wished them away before they could start enacting their mass marketing ploy.
Cuddli tilted her head. "Really? I'm still a little confused as to how the aging process works on this planet, but according to my calculations, that invasion happened around fifty years ago."
Timmy paled and verbally backed up. "Right, I meant that my...grandparents resisted and stopped them! Heh heh, they just tell the story so well, it feels like I was really there."
"Well anyway, at first I came here to see if I could find the Gigglepies that had come here, but no such luck. I truly was the last of my kind. There wasn't anything waiting for me back on our home planet; we sucked that dry ages ago. So I decided to live here, and that's it. I don't want to invade anything!" Cuddli promised. "I just disguised myself as a normal rabbit and found a home here."
Timmy narrowed his eyes, not fully convinced. Chloe stepped in. "But if you just want to live in peace, why do you act so angry all the time?"
"I wanted to turn my back on the evil Gigglepie way of using cuteness and sweetness to manipulate people." Cuddli looked away. "Although, looking back on it, I might have gone a bit too far in the other direction."
"You think? Everyone thinks you're a fluffy demon! And what about Chester?" Timmy demanded.
Cuddli raised an eyebrow. "Well, if half-naked kid ran at you with a knife and fork intending to eat you, what would you do?"
"...Okay, good point." Timmy conceded.
"But I still don't get it. Why were you chasing us?" Tootie asked.
Cuddli sheepishly pointed to Chloe. "Because I could smell that she had the kind of food I like."
"What-oh! You must mean this!" Chloe pulled out a plastic bag. "My organic dried papaya bites! A very healthy choice!"
Cuddli rubbed the back of her head again. "I don't suppose I could still ask to have some? It's not just for me."
"Sure, but what do you mean?" Asked Chloe.
Cuddli smiled and turned around. "It's okay, sweeties, you can come out now. Mommy's got food!"
At that, six small shapes hopped out of the shadows. They were little Gigglepies, each of a different color: a gray male wearing glasses, an orange female with freckles and a tall tuft of fur on her head, a yellow male with a much smaller tuft, a light teal female with a thicker head tuft, a purple female with a rounder tuft, and a blue male with freckles. Their antennas hadn't grown in yet, and their limbs hadn't reached full size, so they looked like normal rabbits apart from the eye-catching colors. They quickly gathered around the bag of papaya bites that Cuddli took from Chloe and let them eat out of.
"Baby alien bunnies! I just wanna squeeze 'em!" Chloe exclaimed as she, Tootie, and even Timmy looked on at the adorable sight (though Timmy quickly snapped himself out of it; these were Gigglepies he was dealing with, after all).
After the little ones were finished eating, Cuddli turned back to the kids with a smile. "Even though my dear Trillie is gone now, at least he gave me something before he left, or six somethings in this case. We may be the last of our kind, but I'm gonna give the Gigglepies a new start! No more evildoing for us!"
Timmy shifted his eyes away from the alien, his thoughts going back to the Gigglepies he had wished away from Earth. He thought they had just disappeared at the time, but now Timmy knew that they had been sent into storage the same as many other wishes gone wrong. Heck, Timmy was pretty sure he had even seen a couple during his time on Unwish Island. And even though Cuddli seemed sincere (then again, every Gigglepie did), Timmy chose to withhold the information that she and her kids weren't the last ones, at least until she had proven herself a little more. Besides, with Tootie and Chloe here, he couldn't really tell her anyway.
"Well, thanks for listening, kids, but since our secret's out, I guess we'll be heading off now. The question is where to? Maybe the city dump." Cuddli sighed.
Timmy snapped out of his reverie. "Uh, no no, don't go there, that's, that's a bad idea." He stammered, remembering someone else who lived at the dump, and that if this person learned there were Gigglepies around, he would literally eat them up. Mark had always been a bit sour that he hadn't gotten to try them the first time, after all…
"Timmy's right, let's find you a more suitable rabbit habitat, a 'rabbitat' if you will." Chloe took out her phone and pulled up an Internet picture of Moai statues with rabbit ear headbands on top of them. "How about Easter Island? It's far away, and it's rabbit-themed."
'Easter Island, huh? That's where the Easter Bunny lives.' Timmy thought to himself, noticing the familiar pink hue of the bunny ears. 'He might appreciate having someone to talk to besides his dog. Who knows, the company might make him a little less grouchy.'
"Sounds good to me!" Timmy said out loud. "I can arrange something to get them there."
"Thank you, Timmy, but I got this." Chloe assured. "My mom's got mad connections in the animal welfare world, she'll hook you up. Of course, I'll leave out the part about you and your babies being aliens, if that'll make you feel better."
"Wow...thanks, kids. I...I don't know how to thank you." Cuddli said after a moment.
"Just keep your promise to not try to destroy the world, and we'll be just fine." Timmy said, causing everyone to laugh, including Poof on Chloe's back, who had gotten a real kick out of the whole thing despite not being able to show himself in front of his big brother.
The next day, Timmy walked into class where everything seemed normal. Chester was a little banged up, but otherwise unperturbed. Timmy looked at the shelf near the window, where a new glass cage sat holding the new school pet: a regular pink-eyed bunny named Mr. McHops. Timmy had personally bought him from the pet store, so he knew this one wasn't an alien, and would be a much better fit for the school besides.
Any feelings for a normal school day were put on hold, however, when Chloe walked up to the front of the classroom. She had decided to change her extra-extra credit report at the last minute, and make it about her beliefs that aliens did in fact exist instead of all the reasons they didn't. She gave an abridged version of the adventure that had transpired yesterday, though she was very clear to not link it back to Mr. Cuddles in any way. After she was done, she turned expectantly to Mr. Crocker. The man just gave her a look, grabbed a stamp, and put a big red F on the paper he had been using to grade her report.
Timmy tried to cheer her up throughout the day afterwards, but Chloe was inconsolable. After the final bell rang, Timmy gave up and just patted her on the back before heading to meet Anti-Wanda and poof home. Afterwards, Tootie made slightly more progress as she and Chloe walked over to the latter's house for the afternoon.
"At least it won't affect your grade." The glasses-wearing girl pointed out. "It was just extra credit, and your grade was already perfect!"
"I know," Chloe sighed, "but I still got an F. My parents are going to be sooo disappointed. I might need to have a session with my talking doctor, Dr. Mousekewitz after this."
"...Okay, but you won't tell him the truth that you met an actual alien too, right?"
"Oh, don't worry. Dr. Mousekewitz takes patient-confidentiality very seriously. He won't judge or tell anyone." Chloe promised. The two girls made it up to Chloe's bedroom and Poof popped back to his normal form. "So, what do you wanna do? Also, Poof, do you know how long until-"
A black poof cloud suddenly appeared and shot out several small bolts of lightning. "Foop is back, baby!" The square blue baby announced as the cloud dissipated around him. "Schoolwork's all caught up! I swear, Miss Powers has it out for me." Foop shook his head and looked upon the other three.
"Foop!" Greeted Chloe. "You won't believe-"
"Yes, I know, yesterday must have been dreadfully boring for you without yours truly to add some spice to your drab little lives." Foop interrupted, patting Chloe on the head. "But it's okay now, I am here once again. Now who wants to do something exciting? I can only imagine how sickenly sweet it was with only Poof here to entertain you. Probably filled your day with sweet little bunny rabbits or something just as trite!"
Chloe, Tootie, and Poof all exchanged glances and burst out laughing. Foop's smug look turned into a confused one.
"Come on, let's get some after-school snacks." Chloe said once she had calmed down. She and Tootie walked down to the kitchen.
"...What was that all about?" Foop asked Poof. The fairy just smiled, rolled his eyes, and floated after the girls with Foop right on his tail.
"What? What'd I miss?!"
Yes, I know the wiki says his name is Overlord Glee, but as shown in the end credits for the episode, it's actually Blee.