Before I go into the actual disclaimer, here is a review that was left on my Shantae fanfiction I've made within the last month of 2021 and into 2022.
It's by a person who is very toxic and has been known to harrass and abuse anyone he wants and thinks that NO ONE can make him stop. I'm going to make sure that someone, I don't care who, but that someone important can see what he is doing and realize that he's doing this not just to me, but everyone.
Reviews for Ricky the Male Genie S82161 chapter 7 . Jan 23
I used the name of the OC of this story behind your back. I used it in a story of mine called The Victorian Thief. Why did I still Ricky Harlem you may ask? Because I felt like it. OC's are in the public domain. You don't have the right to own the character of Ricky Harlem. I own him now and there's nothing you can do about it. I'd like to see you try and report what I did to the admins. They won't care. They wouldn't give a shit about your report.
This fanfic is based on the game Bugsnax. And I don't expect much traction behind it, considering that it doesn't have a section dedicated to it on this site, but I'm still gonna make it!
The main OC is Felicia Bundoga.
With this out of the way, let's begin.
"What kind of crazy scheme are you cooking up this time, Bundoga?" asked my boss, it being Clumby Clumbernut, the head of the newspaper in New Grump City with me being the only human reporter in the place.
"Just watch the tape and be amazed," I smirked as I then placed the video tape in the VCR and the tape began to play, it being in black and white as it showed my hero, Elizabert Megafig. She had went to the island of Snaktooth, which was an island that no one had ever returned from. And while there, she'd discovered a shocking new species of creature called Bugsnax, which were partly bug and partly snack. And they were supposedly the most delicious thing since they invented cheese on pancakes!
And the video even showed a Bugsnak that looked like a ketchup pack with french fry legs. And once the video was done, I then took the tape out and looked at Clumby with a wide smile.
"Well, what do you think, boss?" I smiled at her.
"Honestly? I think you're insane!" she shouted, me being shocked. "I already had to recall half a million papers AND give a public apology, all because that Grumpfoot monster you talked about turned out to be a lost football mascot!" she said angrily as she then slammed her fuzzy hands on the table, me frowning afterwards.
"Tss... yep... right in the pancreas... but hey, at least I managed to find him, right? He'd been lost for a whole month, right?" I said, her frowning at that.
"Even so, you can forget about going to that island for any reason!" she frowned.
"Oh, come on, boss! Why can't I? It can't be that bad, right?" I asked with a smile.
"DO YOU RESEARCH?!" Clumby shouted angrily, surprising me. "Ships go missing there all the time! No one has ever returned. It's like me before I have my morning coffee: deadly! And Elizabert Megafig isn't the best person to trust, you know?" she frowned.
"Sheesh, what do you have against Elizabert anyways? She's my idol and inspiration!" I said with dedication.
"She got a bit of success after her discovery of a lost Grumpus civilization and she's been riding off that success ever since. Every discover she's made after that has been an abject failure," she frowned at me.
"Please, please, PLEASE let me go, though? Tell me, has any HUMAN ever been to Snaktooth? Hmm? I researched that and found that only Grumpuses have been there. I'd be the first human there and I promise to bring back the story of the century," I said with a wide smile.
"This is absurd... but let's say you do find this island, you do find Lizbert, and you happen to make it back in one piece. Get some interviews, maybe even bring back some of these 'Bugsnax'? Maybe then I'd be inclined to give you a substantial pay rise AND promotion... however, if you blow this and none of it turns out true, your job is officially terminated, got it, skinny?" she asked, me frowning at how she called me the slur for humans. It was bad enough that humans were less common than Grumpuses, but we also had to jump through hoops to do anything without segregation... but a promotion and a pay rise? That'd be the break I'd been hoping for!
"Thanks, I'll get prepared to set sail right away!... Oh, but before that, I want my own apology for that name you just called me," I frowned at her.
"Hmph, fine, sorry. You know I have issues with anger," she frowned, me smirking as I then got my equipment in the form of the map Lizbert gave of where Snaktooth was, and left the office with a sense of accomplishment. It was gonna be a slam dunk!
Snaktooth Expedition: Day 1
It took roughly a week to get together all of my supplies that I wished to bring to Snaktooth Island that I felt would be necessary. And luckily, Elizabert also sent me a map of the island as well as a special scanning grumpad that could scan anything and deduce what species anything was. I tried it on some normal animals and got both their names as well as random trivia!
I'd stocked up on water bottles, spare snacks (in case it WAS bogus), recorder tapes (voice only), cameras, and even differently-shaped, see-through containers that could hold the Bugsnax I brought back to the mainland as proof of my quest completed! I had to hope that Eggabelle was right when she said that they were better tasting than anything ever. I smiled as I noted that it was roughly 5 in the morning when I FINALLY got to the island via a flying ship powered by balloon and propellers in the back. But as I was trying to find a place to land... I heard a very loud sound come from due west.
"MOTH...ZA!" a very deep-sounding voice shouted as I then saw the silhouette of a giant... moth? But before I had time to snap a picture, I gasped as it slammed RIGHT into my ship and I lost balance and fell off of it and onto some rocky crags!
"Ack! Ow... dammit," I groaned as I then noted that my supplies were all intact in my big backpack and I then saw the giant moth flying off towards the north and that my ship started to slowly descend with the balloon beginning to deflate! I then managed to grab my Snak Scanner (the grumpad that was sent to me) and snapped a photo of the giant moth as it flew away... and I gawked at how it labeled it as... Mothza Supreme? And that it was a giant flying moth made of pizza?!
"Oh my gosh... that was a Bugsnak! The theory is proven! Bugsnax are real! HAHA! Take that, Clumbernugget!" I smiled widely at myself as I then looked around and saw that there weren't any other Bugsnax around... and that I was on a large rock and that it was starting to get rainy.
"Okay, time to get going. Need to find Lizbert and Snaxburg to conduct some interviews," I smirked as I then proceeded to walk across the nearby plank bridge... and then immediately ran for it when I heard the planks start to fall out from behind me as I walked across them! And then, when I hit the rocky face again, the bridge completely gave way!
"Oof... danger. I like it!" I smirked as I then went forward again and saw... something shocking. It was... a skeleton of a Grumpus? And it was in a cave? And the same cave had writing on the wall that was in an ancient language... one that I knew by heart and managed to decipher... it said... "Do not show weakness. Do not become one"... which made me confused.
"Something creepy's going on here.." I frowned as I then walked forward again, finding a ladder in the process... and then that damn pizza moth flew above me to show dominance.
"Moth-ZA! Moth-ZA!" it shouted... but then, I gasped, as the ground suddenly started to shake! I tried to climb down the ladder quickly, but I gasped as I lost my balance and my face... collided with hard rock. I got conked out the moment that happened.
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"Strange girl?... You okay?" asked a voice from nearby... I groaned awake as I tried to regain my vision, but it was kind of blurry.
"Who... who's there?... Lizbert?" I asked as I looked around and, after wiping the dust from my eyes, I looked in front of me... but nothing.
"Look down," the voice said... I then did just that and was surprised. There was a tiny little strawberry with googly eyes, standing upside-down and walking on its stem and leaves! "You are odd... you not like the others. No fur, small mouth, fingers... what are you?" the strawberry asked as I looked at it in utter confusion... was this a Bugsnak? And... how come I could understand it?
"Um... I'm a human... and uh... my time for a question... how come I can understand you?" I asked, the Strabby then gasping at me and running away.
"How can she hear me?! Must run, run away!" the Strabby shouted in fear as I then got up and scratched my head in confusion... only to hiss in pain as I felt a very bad scratch right on the top of my head. I must've landed right on the top of my brain when the ground shook and I fell off the cliff... but I also felt some kind of weird stuff coming from out of the top... I then felt some kind of liquid stuff... thinking it was blood, I immediately put my fingers in front of my face... only to gasp at how my hand actually had... jelly? I had jelly coming out of my head?
"Did I... land on a Bugsnak? Made of jelly?" I asked in confusion. I shook that thought aside, however, and simply got my backpack and walked down the path. I still had to find Lizbert... only, after walking down the path slightly, I gasped at how there was a Grumpus on the ground... and he didn't look to be doing too good. He was coated in blue fur, had a big red nose, and he was around my height. The big red nose alone is what made me recognize him from the list of Grumps going to Snaktooth Island.
"Filbo?" I asked as I then rushed to him and he looked at me wearily.
"Whuh... Lizbert?... Is that you?... Thank grump you're alive... too bad I'm dyin' tho.. ehehe..." he groaned as I then heard his stomach growling.
"How would you confuse me, a human, with Lizbert, a Grumpus?" I asked, that making him gasp.
"Oh!... You're the reporter, right? Sorry, I'm just very tired and hungry... I was out trying to find Lizbert... then the earthquake hit and I lost almost all my supplies... and now I'm starving... but I think there's a Bugsnak nearby... could ya see what it is?" Filbo asked as I then looked around and saw that, the Bugsnak in question was the strawberry. I then scanned it and saw it was called Strabby.
"It's a Strabby..." I said, not even wanting to try and tell him that I could somehow understand the Bugsnak.
"Oh, good... that one's easy to catch... unless you're me... just take this Snaktrap... place it where the snak's walking, and push the button... it'll get caught after," Filbo said, me then noting that the Strabby was still talking to itself as I sneaked along behind it before deploying the trap. I listened in from afar while also waiting out of sight from the little strawberry.
"How can anyone understand me? Is she like queen snak? Is she part snak, too?" Strabby asked itself before then walking underneath the trap and I hit the button, rushing in and picking up the trap and seeing that the Strabby was now stuck inside of the jar set atop of it. I then removed the jar and smirked at how it was able to hold the snak with ease and that the Strabby was shivering at me.
"Sorry buddy, but my friend is hungry," I said as I then went back to Filbo and got him off the ground. He then saw the Strabby and smirked.
"Okay, thanks, buddy. This is gonna taste awesome," Filbo smiled as I then held the bottle over Filbo's mouth and smacked the Strabby into it.. and color me surprised by three things that happened afterwards. One, Filbo swallowed the Strabby whole... and alive! Two, it didn't put up any resistance to getting eaten... and three, HIS HAND TURNED INTO A SET OF THREE STRAWBERRIES! "Ah... that was delicious!" he smirked as I simply stood with my mouth agape in awe and fear at what had happened to his hand.
"What the fuck happened to your hand?!" I asked in shock.
"Oh, this? It's a side effect of eating Bugsnax. Pretty neat, huh?" Filbo asked with a smile... which was even more concerning!
"No, no, it's not. That's just... how are you not freaking out right now?" I asked with a dumbfounded expression.
"Yeah, that's how everyone else was like before they had their first Bugsnak. Trust me, when you eat one yourself, you'll see how delicious they are," Filbo said with a smile. Was it really that worth it, though?... I was about to write him off as crazy... but then I gasped as something flew down to us, let out a very long tongue, and tried to swipe my backpack right off of my back with it!
"Hey! Let go, ya little bastard!" I shouted at the Bugsnak as I yanked the bag back with force, which caused the Bugsnak to come closer as I then pulled at its tongue until it was finally face-to-face with me.
"Um, can you let go, weirdo? Snax gotta eat, too," the Bugsnak said... again, HOW COULD I UNDERSTAND THEM?!
"No, I will not let go and you are going in my stomach," I said as I then grabbed the Snak itself and then stuck it into my mouth, which immediately made it retreat its tongue and for me to gawk at... how delicious it tasted. I'd tasted yummy foods before... but this thing in my mouth? It was amazing!... But then came a bit of advice from Filbo.
"Don't chew on it, or it'll turn to mush. You have to swallow it whole," he said, my eyes going wide at that... but I suppose it wouldn't hurt to try. I then proceeded to try and gulp it down on my own... but after I tried to have the snak fill my throat... I immediately found it more difficult than I imagined. After all, human throats were much narrower than a Grumpus's. I had to resort to getting some of my bottled water and chugging it down in order for me to finally get the Bugsnak to start sliding down my throat, which Filbo looked concerned at as he actually saw it make a bulge the whole way down to my thin stomach... but then, something weird happened.
"Um... Felicia? Why aren't your limbs changing?" Filbo asked as I looked at my hands and feet and saw that... they still weren't transformed (thank grump). But other than that? I could feel the Bugsnak moving around inside of my now-distended stomach. It felt very weird, especially when it started to grumble and the Bugsnak started to struggle.
"Um... I'm more confused at how the Bugsnak feels inside of my tummy... oof... he's thrashing around a lot..." I said, finding something oddly euphoric at the sensation, but I had to remain vigilent.
"Well, anyways, now that you had your fill, howsabout we get going back to camp, to see if Lizbert came back?" Filbo asked as I then looked at him in confusion.
"What do you mean by that? Is Lizbert in danger?" I asked.
"Well, Liz and Egg went out to try and search for more Bugsnax, but they didn't come back... then, a big fight happened in Snaxburg and everyone left... I went out to try and find Lizbert, but I got hungry, then the earthquake hit, and then you showed up," he said, me frowning at that.
"Well... that means that this trip is going to take longer than I thought it would... okay, so could you lead me back to town, then? Maybe give me some pointers on how to hunt other Bugsnax? Because, if I'm going to find Lizbert, I'll need to get help from the other Grumpuses. And I bet you anything that they're just as hungry as you were," I smirked.
"That's a solid plan, buddy! Let's get going! Feel free to catch any Snax you find on the way. I am still feeling a little hungry, after all," Filbo smirked as we then walked off through the rain... and I decided that it was only now going to be a very long expedition.