Pinky:
Gee, Brain, what do ya wanna do tonight?
Sparkle(me):
I know what we're doing tonight!
The Brain:
That's right sparkle! Same thing we do every night, Pinky, try to take over the world!
They're Pinky and the Brain,
Yes, Pinky and the Brain,
One is a genius, the other's insane.
They met a little girl,
Who changed their whole world,
They're pinky,
Sparkle and the Brain, Brain, Brain, Brain,
Brain, Brain, Brain, Brain,
Brain.
Before each night is done,
Their plan will be unfurled,
By the dawning of the sun,
They'll take over the world!
They're Pinky and the Brain,
Yes, Pinky and the Brain,
Their twilight campaign
Is easy to explain:
To prove their mousey worth,
They'll overthrow the earth.
They're pinky,
Sparkle and the Brain, Brain, Brain, Brain,
Brain, Brain, Brain, Brain...
Pinky: NARF!
Sparkle (me): *giggles*
"Oh Come on Carl! Aren't you being a little overdramatic?" Cindy asks on a discord call with Carl, Jimmy, Sheen and Libby.
"No! You told me that llamas should die in hell! Therefore, YOU should die in hell!" Carl screeches in annoyance.
Carl and his friends were in the middle of a discord call together as they all needed time to catch up. How they got on this topic? Carl has no idea, but, llamas were very special creatures, if anybody says they're not worth anything, Carl will get extremely mad causing his inner wrath to escape.
Sparkle was on the other end of the room looking at outfit ideas for the wedding for the lab mice as the final words of that sentence that Carl had just screeched reached her ears. She spat her juice all over the magazine she was reading, turning around and instantly buckling into laughter. "God Carl! I think the whole world heard your declaration towards Cindy, could you scream any louder?"
Carl spun around in his chair. "Sissy I love you, but when it comes to llamas, and the fact that people want to kill them. I can scream as loud as I want, okay?"
Sparkle Nodded. "Okay, whatever, I'll go into the living room then. That way I won't end up spilling juice everywhere again." Sparkle said, wheeling out of the room and closing the door behind her.
Cindy snorted. "Your sister is weird." She teased.
"What does that have to do with anything? We're all weird Cin." Jimmy sighed.
"I thought you were supposed to be back by now Neutron, what's the hold up? "Cindy asked impatiently.
Libby sighed too, speaking for Jimmy. "One of his family members died, Cindy. One of them died while he and his family were visiting them."
Silence hung in the room for awhile. Carl sent Jimmy some virtual hugs, which the genius boy very much appreciated, returning both hug GIFs with some different ones as to show Jimmy returning Carl's hugs.
Cindy frowned, sending a virtual hug GIF as well. "I'm sorry, Jimmy, I didn't know." She said quietly.
Jimmy smiled. "Thanks, Cindy, means a lot, especially coming from you." Jimmy joked.
The whole Group snorted, Sheen spamming laughing emojis in the discord chat.
"Sheen! Stop spamming the discord chat! "Jimmy groaned, "I really don't wanna have to permanently ban you!"
Sheen laughs awkwardly. "Sorry, Jimmy." He apologised.
Carl giggled. "Oh i've missed you guys a bunch! I'm so glad you helped me get discord Jimmy, now I can chat with you guys all the time! Thanks again Jimmy!" Carl thanked.
The conversation continued on, Cindy jokingly teasing everyone, Sheen getting them off topic half the time, and Libby being the therapist friend for Cindy's insults. Carl hadn't laughed this much in awhile, it felt good to talk to some old friends again. Then the question came up, the question as to why Carl moved. Like all the other times he tried to answer it, he genuinely couldn't, not because he didn't want to, but because he didn't know how exactly he ended up in the situation in the first place. He wasn't sure whether his father got a better job in Burbank and that's what happened, or it was something else.
"So..." Cindy started, and Carl could tell, that it wasn't her usual teasing and joking tone. "Your Mom disowned you?"
Carl removed his WebCam and muted himself, typing 'I don't want to talk about it' in the discord chat.
Cindy hissed uncomfortably, knowing that she treaded in an uncomfortable area for her friend. "I'm sorry, Carl... I didn't know it was a touchy subject, I'm sorry.."
Well, at least Cindy matured since the last time they were in person.
'I'm gonna go' Carl typed.
Cindy winced knowing that this was her fault. "Sure, Llama Nerd, see ya soon."
"Bye Carl!" Sheen hollered. Spamming waving emojis.
"Bye Carl, see you later, thanks for chatting!" Libby said sweetly.
"See ya buddy, DM me if you need to, okay?" Jimmy said.
They couldn't see it, but Carl smiled, very appreciative for his friends. Then he left the call.
Pinky walked in climbing on the table Carl was using, Carl gently and carefully picked him up and the mouse gently nuzzled into him. Pinky clambered up kissing his cheek as the human boy obsessed with croissants and llamas broke down.
In the living room, sparkle, Rob, Jess, Tress, Maurice, Billie, Leela, the Warner trio, Cassie and Francesca were helping Sparkle decide on things for pinky and Brain's wedding. They had magazines, webpages, and various other phone numbers scattered around the living room table while their other friends were in a discord call with them.
"So what outfits do you think pinky would like?" Tress asked, flipping through a magazine.
"He LOVES dresses, and I think the purple and white one looks perfect for him!" Dot squeals in delight. "I'll call the doll maker I found and see if they can make this exact outfit for him! "She squealed, sparkle giggled, marking a tick next to 'outfits'.
"Now what do we need?" Jess asked. Rob laughed. "We need to work on the playlist for the wedding, music we're going to sing and stuff!" Rob said.
Meanwhile.
Brain Romy Pinky and Carl were in their bedroom, a documentary about llamas playing in the background on the TV. After Carl had cried, he didn't speak at all. He went silent, Roman tried to communicate with him but sadly to no avail. It was like he was frozen, he wanted to talk but couldn't. "Would you like to talk to anyone? "Pinky asked again. Carl shook his head, instead, he looked at the llamas on TV. Nothing they tried worked.
"What triggered him, Pop? Somethin's gotta of triggered the little guy into mutism."
Brain Pondered, trying to think as to why his eldest human little one went mute all of a sudden. Then he remembered, on Boxing Day, the day after Christmas, Carl didn't speak, he didn't speak for a solid week after that. Eventually he figured out that someone mentioned his mother, and the boy was so traumatised that he couldn't speak for about a week.
That's most likely what was happening here, someone must've mentioned his mother and it must've brought back some painful memories for him.
"I Believe I have an answer." Brain said. "Pinky, do you remember the day after Boxing Day when this happened? Someone mentioned his mother, I think it was Sparkle by accident. Sparkle mentioned her and Carl went mute for a week."
Pinky nodded. "Yes Poit! I remember that, it took us days to get the poor guy to eat anything... Even Scratchansniff having sessions with him didn't work."
"So, what did you guys do? "Roman asked.
"We didn't," Pinky continued. "He just snapped out of it on his own."
Roman nodded.
They all heard him crying and it made them feel super sorry. Brain climbed up to him nuzzling him, whispering and murmuring it was okay. Carl cried loud and painfully. Pinky curled up next to him, trying to help the best to comfort him. Carl kept sobbing, and it was heartbreaking. Sparkle came in moments later, no questions, she just wrapped her Big brother in a hug. "It's okay Big brother... it's okay... We love you." She comforted.
Sparkle turned to her older brother and parental figures and gave them a knowing look. "Did someone mention the M word again? I mean, last I was in here, he was on a discord call with his friends from Retroville. Maybe one of them brought it up by accident? I can get in contact with Jimmy to ask him, give me a sec."
Sparkle left the room, grabbing her phone and calling Jimmy on discord. "Hey Jimmy, sorry to bother you and everything, but Carl is having what we're presuming is PTSD, did any of you guys mention his Mom by accident?"
Jimmy winced. "Yeah... Cindy mentioned her by accident, Carl did explain to her that he didn't wanna talk about it at the time, and we didn't. But that's all I know, i'm sorry that wasn't much info."
Sparkle giggles. "Nope, that's just the info we need. Thanks Jimmy! Oh, that reminds me, you might want to be on standby just in case Carl wants to talk to you."
Jimmy laughed. "I always am, but see you later sparkle! Bye!" Sparkle then hung up the phone.
Sparkle came back in the room, she was carrying a cookie mix box in her hand. She wheeled over to her bed that her brother was occupying, giving him the cookie mix box. "Would you like to make these big brother? "Sparkle asks, knowing that baking helps her older brother calm down. But her brother shook his head, giving the box back to her. Sparkle frowned, going back into the kitchen and putting the box back. She then reached for the cookie jar, wheeling back into the bedroom and holding out the cookie jar. "You can take one big brother..." sparkle says softly. Carl gently takes a cookie, feeling the softness of it in his fingers, he then proceeded to nibble it, a small happy smile returning. Carl smiled again, taking a bigger bite from the cookie.
Sparkle smiled, very much relieved that her brother was going to be okay. She turned to Brain, Who proceeded to hop onto her chair and nuzzle her cheek. "How'd wedding planning go today?" Brain asked softly.
Sparkle smiled. "It was great today, we already picked out your outfits! You're gonna love them! "She squealed. The megalomaniac giggled. "I can't wait to see what you guys come up with, I'm sure it'll be wonderful. "He says, sparkle giggles again. "Yeah, you'll love them!"
Yeah. Things may not be good today, but they still manage to have a good day. Things would be better soon. Until then, sparkle and her family would just enjoy each other's company talking and laughing about all times together.
A/N:
Helloooo everyone! It's been awhile since I've posted anything I know, but recently I've caught Covid. I am absolutely bummed about it and I still feel pretty yucky. I couldn't go to my prom cause virtually everyone ended up catching Covid, I feel disgusting, I feel mankey and just downright awful.
Hopefully I'll feel better soon.
I'll be working on a story for JBlaser fairly soon, right now I have another idea that I want to publish before then, so I hope JBlaser doesn't mind waiting! ^^
