Cliff
After Andy got home, he met the boy who lived across the street from him. The boy's name was Zento; he is Japanese-American and Andy's age. The two boys went to their respective houses to get their toys and then met in Andy's front yard, ready to play. Zento with a western doll and ninja toys, Andy with Buzz, Jessie, Woody, Rex, Slinky and Bullseye. What Zento did not know was that one of his toys fell out on the sidewalk on the way there, the lone toy gets up and starts to make its way towards the front yard, following the sound of laughter as the two boys play with the ninja's. Standing by a bush next to the yard he waits for his time to strike, carefully eyeing his prey.
"Andy! Time for lunch!" Mrs. Davis calls out, motioning to the two boys to come inside. They drop their toys and come running, the sliding door clicking shut after them. Seeing its safe the toys come back alive.
"So how long do you think we have?" Woody asks, looking to Buzz for an answer
"I don't know, but ample time to go explore," Buzz replied with a smile "And to get to know these new toys."
Upon saying so Buzz went to go talk to the ninja's, Jessie trailing behind because of her interest in these strange toys herself. Everyone else went to a large bush to get out of the sun, relaxing in the peaceful shade. From the shadows of a nearby bush, the mysterious toy focuses his eyes on Woody, a smile coming to his face as he gets an idea. Sneaking around to the other end of the bush he picks up a good sized rock and hurls it towards the house, making a loud cracking sound against the wood. Hearing this the small group looked up, turning to the house.
"What was that?" Rex asked, a slight amount of nervousness in his voice as he looked towards the house. Woody looks to him, thinking.
"I don't know," He replies "I'll go check it out, you guys stay here."
Agreeing with Woody the rest send him off with words of luck, glad that they don't have the job of seeing what that mysterious sound was. Arriving at the house he stops and looks around, not seeing anything, perplexed. Taking a step forward he winces as his boot comes in contact with something hard, looking down and sees that it's a rock, guesses this is what made the odd noise. Looking around for where it came from, he didn't turn towards the bushes, where a mysterious character was sneaking up behind him. He knew nothing about what was going to happen, until he was pushed against the wall, something heavy pinning him against it. Looking up to his attacker, he sees that the heavy object was the arm that had come across his neck, successfully pinning him against the wood. Following the arm up his eyes come to stop on the face, surprised to find himself facing another cowboy doll, dressed like him but blue eyed and more rugged, the figure grinning victoriously.
"I've waited a long time for this, Woody." he replies in a deathly low voice, an ominous ring to his words.
Across the yard Buzz and Jessie were talking to the ninja's or trying to anyway considering, the ninja's only spoke Japanese, and the two toys couldn't understand them. After getting the concept that they had to do something the ninja's moved off, suprisingly fast and silent into the bushes.
"Well, that was.an experience" Buzz said, turning to look at Jessie.
"Tell me about it," she replied back "I couldn't understand a word they said. Anyway we should get back to the others before Andy comes back."
With that she moved off towards the other side of the house, leaving a speechless Buzz behind. Clearing her throat, she tried to push the other reason for leaving from her mind. Being around Buzz made her feel.odd, more so then in all the time she's known him. She felt unable to control anything when she was around him, even this experience left her a bit.lightheaded, so she had to get out of there. She turned the corner of the house, checking out of the corner of her eye to make sure that Buzz was coming, which indeed he was but she couldn't help seeing that he was looking at her. Blushing slightly she turned back around, making a beeline to the toys over by the tree. Behind her Buzz was having similar thoughts, but he had an idea of what was going on. Although he didn't think that he could admit it he realized that he was starting to like Jessie, more then a friend, and had no idea how to take this, this being a new idea to him as well. He simply followed her as she headed towards the gang, thinking.
"Hey guys, what's going on?" she asks, a puzzled look in her eyes as she sees them staring at something, but only Slinky spoke up.
"Woody went over there to check out a sound, but he hasn't come back yet," he replies "its been over..5 minutes?"
"Its not too far to that wall of the house, but Woody isn't the kind of person to stay away too long, I think we need to check It out." Buzz interrupts, looking to where Woody disappeared to, then looks back over to the group. Hiding a chuckle he could automatically see that none of them wanted to come, no matter how strong their exterior emotions were, then a voice spoke up and he raised his head in mute surprise.
"I'll go with you," Jessie replies, giving him a friendly smile, not showing how afraid she is by this situation as well. "I'm worried about him too."
Buzz could only look at her, feeling admiration and returns her smile, happy that he gets to spend some more time with her.
"Thank you." He replies, looking into her eyes for a moment before looking away, not wanting to do something stupid like lose himself in them.
Heading off in the direction that the other toys told them our two companions start out, both unconsciously moving slightly more near each other, reassuring themselves silently that it was more for support then anything. Finally reaching the house they move around the corner, following the sound of soft voices, Buzz freezing to a stop, the stop too quick for Jessie to stop and she accidentally bumps into him, before looking over his shoulder as well. Buzz moved first, seeing his friend being pinned to the wall by something, unable to see its face and intent on freeing his best friend. Jessie stays where she is, her eyes on this new figure, knowing he looks familiar but wonders how.
Back at the scene of Woody and the stranger, the stranger raises his fist, ready to slam it into Woody. He tried to throw the punch but found his hand unable to move, he had only enough time to see a hand on his own before he was forcefully dragged off, stumbling enough to fall sitting to the ground. Looking up his eyes encounter what looks like a toy in a space suit, for once slight intimidation moving through him as she sees how strong this new toy is.
"Woody, are you all right?" Buzz asks, giving him a hand up as Woody rubs his neck
"Yea, do you know this person?" he replies back, meeting an equally confused look with his own."
"Don't you? I mean he's dressed like you"
"Of course he knows me, that is if he remembers," the stranger says in a deep accented western voice, brushing himself off and stands up, giving this new toy a glare that would melt glass. "And now after all these years he will finally gets what he deserves for what he did to me!"
With that Buzz looks back at Woody, now staring at this new person in an effort to remember him. Turning back to the stranger he finds that the spot is empty, following the path of trod grass to find him now standing a few feet away from Jessie.
"You, I'm sure remember me," he replies in a more gentle voice, yet something untouched deep in his accent. Looking upon the woman in front of him he smiles wider, seeing the wide-eyed expression on her face.
Jessie meanwhile has watched the exchange in silently, something about this guy tugging at her, a slap from the past colliding with her as she finally sees his face. Watching the stranger turn and start towards her she tries to get away, cold fear moving through her but finds herself unable to move. She knows, she recognizes his face, and where she knows him from but the familiarity ends there, she doesn't know why she's so afraid.
"You know," he says, crossing his arms with a satisfied smile "So why don't you tell them all, considering you were supposed to be mine."
"..." is all that Jessie could manage, finding herself speechless and turns wide eyes behind him, almost pleadingly looking towards Woody and Buzz, watching them start to approach as well.
"Jessie.you know this guy?" Woody asks
"... "
"Jessie say something please" Buzz asks, feeling a pang of protectiveness towards her as he can see how scared she is, having only seen this reaction when thoughts and talk of dark places come up, having heard her story.
"Guess she's so happy to see me that she's speechless eh?" the stranger replies, talking to everyone but keeping his eyes on Jessie. "You remember, there were not actually four people in the Round up gang, there were five. They made me to be Woody's deputy for the show, I only lasted a week, one- week! And then the directors scrapped me, saying that I didn't add anything to the show."
By this time he had turn his gaze on Woody, his voice going low. "You are the one that they liked more, you're the one who stole the spotlight from me, you and all the rest of the group. I still have one saving grace through all this, Jessie was meant to be mine, and I will have her. Remember the name Cliff." He reaches out, an evilly smile coming over his face as he touches the indolent girls cheek, moving his finger down it in a suprisingly gently action. At that time two things happened, the touch finally jolting Jessie out of shock long enough for her to jolt back, shaking as she backs up against the wall, the other action being Buzz moving in front of her, glaring at this stranger as he protects Jessie. Before anyone could say anything they can hear the two boys coming back out. As the others turn to look Cliff moves back, disappearing back through the bushes, while the others move back to the original group, freezing as the boys sit down to play once more.
After Andy got home, he met the boy who lived across the street from him. The boy's name was Zento; he is Japanese-American and Andy's age. The two boys went to their respective houses to get their toys and then met in Andy's front yard, ready to play. Zento with a western doll and ninja toys, Andy with Buzz, Jessie, Woody, Rex, Slinky and Bullseye. What Zento did not know was that one of his toys fell out on the sidewalk on the way there, the lone toy gets up and starts to make its way towards the front yard, following the sound of laughter as the two boys play with the ninja's. Standing by a bush next to the yard he waits for his time to strike, carefully eyeing his prey.
"Andy! Time for lunch!" Mrs. Davis calls out, motioning to the two boys to come inside. They drop their toys and come running, the sliding door clicking shut after them. Seeing its safe the toys come back alive.
"So how long do you think we have?" Woody asks, looking to Buzz for an answer
"I don't know, but ample time to go explore," Buzz replied with a smile "And to get to know these new toys."
Upon saying so Buzz went to go talk to the ninja's, Jessie trailing behind because of her interest in these strange toys herself. Everyone else went to a large bush to get out of the sun, relaxing in the peaceful shade. From the shadows of a nearby bush, the mysterious toy focuses his eyes on Woody, a smile coming to his face as he gets an idea. Sneaking around to the other end of the bush he picks up a good sized rock and hurls it towards the house, making a loud cracking sound against the wood. Hearing this the small group looked up, turning to the house.
"What was that?" Rex asked, a slight amount of nervousness in his voice as he looked towards the house. Woody looks to him, thinking.
"I don't know," He replies "I'll go check it out, you guys stay here."
Agreeing with Woody the rest send him off with words of luck, glad that they don't have the job of seeing what that mysterious sound was. Arriving at the house he stops and looks around, not seeing anything, perplexed. Taking a step forward he winces as his boot comes in contact with something hard, looking down and sees that it's a rock, guesses this is what made the odd noise. Looking around for where it came from, he didn't turn towards the bushes, where a mysterious character was sneaking up behind him. He knew nothing about what was going to happen, until he was pushed against the wall, something heavy pinning him against it. Looking up to his attacker, he sees that the heavy object was the arm that had come across his neck, successfully pinning him against the wood. Following the arm up his eyes come to stop on the face, surprised to find himself facing another cowboy doll, dressed like him but blue eyed and more rugged, the figure grinning victoriously.
"I've waited a long time for this, Woody." he replies in a deathly low voice, an ominous ring to his words.
Across the yard Buzz and Jessie were talking to the ninja's or trying to anyway considering, the ninja's only spoke Japanese, and the two toys couldn't understand them. After getting the concept that they had to do something the ninja's moved off, suprisingly fast and silent into the bushes.
"Well, that was.an experience" Buzz said, turning to look at Jessie.
"Tell me about it," she replied back "I couldn't understand a word they said. Anyway we should get back to the others before Andy comes back."
With that she moved off towards the other side of the house, leaving a speechless Buzz behind. Clearing her throat, she tried to push the other reason for leaving from her mind. Being around Buzz made her feel.odd, more so then in all the time she's known him. She felt unable to control anything when she was around him, even this experience left her a bit.lightheaded, so she had to get out of there. She turned the corner of the house, checking out of the corner of her eye to make sure that Buzz was coming, which indeed he was but she couldn't help seeing that he was looking at her. Blushing slightly she turned back around, making a beeline to the toys over by the tree. Behind her Buzz was having similar thoughts, but he had an idea of what was going on. Although he didn't think that he could admit it he realized that he was starting to like Jessie, more then a friend, and had no idea how to take this, this being a new idea to him as well. He simply followed her as she headed towards the gang, thinking.
"Hey guys, what's going on?" she asks, a puzzled look in her eyes as she sees them staring at something, but only Slinky spoke up.
"Woody went over there to check out a sound, but he hasn't come back yet," he replies "its been over..5 minutes?"
"Its not too far to that wall of the house, but Woody isn't the kind of person to stay away too long, I think we need to check It out." Buzz interrupts, looking to where Woody disappeared to, then looks back over to the group. Hiding a chuckle he could automatically see that none of them wanted to come, no matter how strong their exterior emotions were, then a voice spoke up and he raised his head in mute surprise.
"I'll go with you," Jessie replies, giving him a friendly smile, not showing how afraid she is by this situation as well. "I'm worried about him too."
Buzz could only look at her, feeling admiration and returns her smile, happy that he gets to spend some more time with her.
"Thank you." He replies, looking into her eyes for a moment before looking away, not wanting to do something stupid like lose himself in them.
Heading off in the direction that the other toys told them our two companions start out, both unconsciously moving slightly more near each other, reassuring themselves silently that it was more for support then anything. Finally reaching the house they move around the corner, following the sound of soft voices, Buzz freezing to a stop, the stop too quick for Jessie to stop and she accidentally bumps into him, before looking over his shoulder as well. Buzz moved first, seeing his friend being pinned to the wall by something, unable to see its face and intent on freeing his best friend. Jessie stays where she is, her eyes on this new figure, knowing he looks familiar but wonders how.
Back at the scene of Woody and the stranger, the stranger raises his fist, ready to slam it into Woody. He tried to throw the punch but found his hand unable to move, he had only enough time to see a hand on his own before he was forcefully dragged off, stumbling enough to fall sitting to the ground. Looking up his eyes encounter what looks like a toy in a space suit, for once slight intimidation moving through him as she sees how strong this new toy is.
"Woody, are you all right?" Buzz asks, giving him a hand up as Woody rubs his neck
"Yea, do you know this person?" he replies back, meeting an equally confused look with his own."
"Don't you? I mean he's dressed like you"
"Of course he knows me, that is if he remembers," the stranger says in a deep accented western voice, brushing himself off and stands up, giving this new toy a glare that would melt glass. "And now after all these years he will finally gets what he deserves for what he did to me!"
With that Buzz looks back at Woody, now staring at this new person in an effort to remember him. Turning back to the stranger he finds that the spot is empty, following the path of trod grass to find him now standing a few feet away from Jessie.
"You, I'm sure remember me," he replies in a more gentle voice, yet something untouched deep in his accent. Looking upon the woman in front of him he smiles wider, seeing the wide-eyed expression on her face.
Jessie meanwhile has watched the exchange in silently, something about this guy tugging at her, a slap from the past colliding with her as she finally sees his face. Watching the stranger turn and start towards her she tries to get away, cold fear moving through her but finds herself unable to move. She knows, she recognizes his face, and where she knows him from but the familiarity ends there, she doesn't know why she's so afraid.
"You know," he says, crossing his arms with a satisfied smile "So why don't you tell them all, considering you were supposed to be mine."
"..." is all that Jessie could manage, finding herself speechless and turns wide eyes behind him, almost pleadingly looking towards Woody and Buzz, watching them start to approach as well.
"Jessie.you know this guy?" Woody asks
"... "
"Jessie say something please" Buzz asks, feeling a pang of protectiveness towards her as he can see how scared she is, having only seen this reaction when thoughts and talk of dark places come up, having heard her story.
"Guess she's so happy to see me that she's speechless eh?" the stranger replies, talking to everyone but keeping his eyes on Jessie. "You remember, there were not actually four people in the Round up gang, there were five. They made me to be Woody's deputy for the show, I only lasted a week, one- week! And then the directors scrapped me, saying that I didn't add anything to the show."
By this time he had turn his gaze on Woody, his voice going low. "You are the one that they liked more, you're the one who stole the spotlight from me, you and all the rest of the group. I still have one saving grace through all this, Jessie was meant to be mine, and I will have her. Remember the name Cliff." He reaches out, an evilly smile coming over his face as he touches the indolent girls cheek, moving his finger down it in a suprisingly gently action. At that time two things happened, the touch finally jolting Jessie out of shock long enough for her to jolt back, shaking as she backs up against the wall, the other action being Buzz moving in front of her, glaring at this stranger as he protects Jessie. Before anyone could say anything they can hear the two boys coming back out. As the others turn to look Cliff moves back, disappearing back through the bushes, while the others move back to the original group, freezing as the boys sit down to play once more.