Kaoru was running around the stage, laughing at what seemed like nothing in particular. She was carrying a bucket of bright blue paint and tossing it all over the studio, which was covered in white paper. Nothing was left uncovered. "Kaoru, I know I'm going to regret asking you this, but what are you doing?" the director asked over the speakers.
"Playing with my toy, Mr. Director. Don't you know what it is?"
"I'm afraid I didn't get that memo this week, Kaoru."
"Oh, I'm loads full of sorry, Mr. Director. Well it's."
"No, the show has started. I'll just find out with the rest of the world."
"Oh," Kaoru stopped running around the studio and set down the bucket of paint. "Um, hello everyone." Kaoru was breathing hard, trying to catch her breath properly. "And um, can I get some water, Cream?"
Cream ran onstage and handed Kaoru a glass full of water. She took a sip and sat down in a chair at the covered table.
"OW!" Came a noise from the chair. Kaoru jumped up quickly and gestured for Cream to bring her the bucket of paint. When she did, Kaoru tilted the paint over the chair and instead of falling straight to the floor, the paint caught on to something and seemed to hover in mid-air.
"I spy you, Espio," Kaoru laughed. The chameleon appeared and Kaoru picked up a towel to wipe off her hands. She looked down at herself and shook her head. "Can't stay on TV looking like this. You take over Cream, I'll be back." Kaoru walked out of the room.
"KAORU! YOU PROMISED YOU WOULDN'T DO THIS! Ah...Cream, please continue, I have to go get Kaoru."
Cream's eyes widened as she heard the speakers click off and she looked at the camera. "Um...I don't know what we're supposed to be selling."
A stage hand ran onto the stage and handed Cream a bunch of papers. "It should all be in there," he mumbled and ran off the stage.
Cream looked down at the rumpled papers in her hands. "Of course it is..." She shuffled through the unorganized papers and pulled a page to the front. "Hello everyone," she said as she smiled to the camera. "This week we have stocked a new toy on the shelves of Kaoru's Toyland called," she glanced down at the paper, "Espio: I Spy!"
She shuffled through the papers nervously again. "All you have to do to play with this toy is...spy Espio?" Cream turned her head and saw the paint covered Espio walking around the stage flashing invisible every couple of seconds. "Um..." she finally found the paper she was looking for and pulled it to the front of the pile. Relief filled her eyes and she pressed a button that activated the headset she had on. "Can someone take this toy off the stage and bring on a new one?" She mumbled into the microphone by her mouth.
Almost immediately, two stage hands came on-stage. One caught the paint-covered toy by its arms and pulled it off-stage, and the other carried a box over to Cream. "Thank-you," she nodded politely. The stage hand mumbled a 'you're welcome' as he pulled the new toy out of the box. He set the toy Espio, which was in meditating position, on the floor in front of Cream and ran off stage.
Cream glanced at the paper in her hand and looked into the camera to continue speaking, "Well, to turn this toy on, you press its thumbs." Cream stepped in front of the toy and turned it on. The toy quickly stood up, did a back flip, and then bowed to Cream. It opened its eyes and stared at her. Cream looked back down at the papers in her hands. "When you start to play, the toy will become invisible and you will have to find it. The easiest way to do so is by making the toy speak or running into it. Since running into the toy is nearly impossible, I suggest you make it speak. The only thing the toy can say is 'ow.' I find the easiest way to find it is by tossing paint everywhere and hoping it hits the toy, or throwing rocks until you hear the toy say 'ow.' Um...this says Kaoru wanted to have a bucket of rocks handy so she can demonstrate?"
Kaoru ran through the door, fully cleaned, and ran on-stage. "Hello Cream, thank-you for filling in. You can go now, and take the papers with you. I don't need them." She pushed Cream off-screen and then said, "Where were you?"
"About to demonstrate with the rocks..."
"Excellent! ROCKS PLEASE!" Two buckets full of rocks dropped from the ceiling and landed at Kaoru's sides. "To start playing you have to say an activation sentence." Kaoru winked at the Camera and turned to face the toy which was still staring at the spot Cream had been standing in. "Oh Espio!" she yelled in a high, fangirl-like voice, "I want to spy you~" Kaoru winked at the camera as the toy Espio's face filled with fear and he immediately went invisible. "That's not the only way to start the game. You can just yell 'start game,' but it's so much more fun to act like a fangirl and terrify him," she laughed loudly. "Now, that the game has started you will hurl rocks all around the room until you hear him talk."
A clicking noise came over the speakers and Mr. Director breathlessly spoke, "We...don't...have time...for that. Just...finish the show."
"Party pooper," Kaoru mumbled before she smiled widely and began to sing. "EVERY PARTY NEEDS A POOPER AND THAT'S WHY WE INVITED YOU! PARTY POOPER! PARTY POOPER!" She stopped singing and picked up a rock. "Luckily, I'm an expert at this game." Kaoru tossed a rock over her shoulder and immediately an 'OW!' was heard. Kaoru laughed loudly, picked up a bunch of rocks, and turned around. "The only way to end the game and to make him turn visible again is to say..." she started throwing rocks that seemed to bounce backwards off of nothing. "...I spy you, Espio!" she giggled.
"Unfortunately, this toy was only completed yesterday and put on shelves today, so we have no videos of happy customers. I hope that you see how much fun this toy can be and will buy my product without the videos." The now fully visible toy Espio walked to where Kaoru stood and stopped nervously. It was covered in many scraps and bruises. Kaoru pulled out some bandages and began to tend to the toy. "This toy is damaged easily but will make a full recovery anytime. Warning: We are not responsible for paint-damage houses. Also, using paint to find this toy may cause it to blink in and out of visibility for a few weeks."
She finished wrapping up the toy Espio and patted its back. "Good game," she said to it. The toy Espio sat down, closed its eyes, and went back into meditating position. "And that is how you turn it back off. Leave it off for two days so it can recover. Well, I guess that's all we have time for today. OH! WAIT! I almost forgot, this toy does have one tiny problem, if you take longer than 5 hours to find it, it will either retaliate or disappear forever, so don't fall asleep or anything. A price has not been set yet, so come on down to Kaoru's Toyland today and see if you can bully our cashiers into selling you this toy for pratically nothing! Good-bye everybody."
a/n
I'd like to thank AWriterThatCan'tSpell and Dyslexic-Carmie for this idea. Mostly because, I don't remember which one gave it to me. But there you go. It doesn't matter. We were all in the same room.
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