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"Hey...you okay? Wake up!"

Todd slowly opened his eyes, seeing a pair of purple eyes looking straight at him. "GAH!"

"Good morning sleepyhead!" The squirrel chuckled. It looked like a white squirrel, but there was something unusual about this squirrel as he was wearing a black and white scarf that shapes like a checkerboard. He had a little bit of spiky hair on his head, and had purple eyes. "Well, it's about time you woke up."

"W-what the?! What are you?! How can a squirrel talk?" Todd exclaimed in fear. "I must be dreaming...this has to be a dream, right?"

"Really? A dream? You know, humans that sees the most unusual things like seeing a talking squirrel or such assumes that they're either going crazy or in a dream." The squirrel said with a smirk on his face. "Oh yeah? How silly of me to not introduce myself, names Kokichi The Squirrel by the way. Get it? My middle name is 'The', and my last name is 'Squirrel', it's a quite similar name like that one character...Sonic!"

"W-what are you even talking about?" Todd asked in confusion before noticing his surrounding. "And why is almost everything around here bigger and taller than me?"

"You really haven't notice?" Kokichi chuckled. "Seeing me talking and the area more bigger than usual? It's quite obvious, you know."

"Not to me!" Todd exclaimed before feeling his torso. He slowly widened his eyes and looked down, only to see a brown-yellowish body. "W-what the? Where's a mirror?!"

"There's one nearby over by that trash can." Kokichi pointed towards the nearby trash can. Todd immediately ran straight and saw a broken shard of a mirror as he gazes on what it was. His body was covered in brown-yellowish fur on his upper body, and on his underside of his body, was brownish-orange fur. He also hard sharp claws, and brown-yellowish tail, and still had his yellow neon headphones, except their a lot smaller to his average size.

"W-w-w-what the heccccckk!?" Todd exclaimed in shock. "W-what happened to me?!"

"You still don't get it?" Kokichi asked with a smirk. "You've been transformed into a squirrel. Well, more like a fox squirrel."

"I know that genius, but I want to know is how did I get turned into a squirrel!" Todd exclaimed angrily.

"Well, you can thank that fortune cookie for working that spell on you." Kokichi chuckled, which Todd confused.

"Fortune cookie? What fortune...Wait, you mean THAT fortune cookie?!" Todd exclaimed. "But wait, that can't be right. That's just a fortune! It can't be a spell! That's...ridiculous!"

"Oh no, see, the fortune you read the other day was a spell. Don't you remember that Chinese manager that gave you that fortune? Apparently, she gave you and your mother different fortunes. One was a normal one, which your mother received, but the other, which you had, was a magic spell that anyone who reads it, transforms them into a squirrel." Kokichi explained. "And you just happened to be its lucky winner, Todd Lloyd."

"T-this is all too crazy..." Todd said, putting his ha..I mean, paw on his head and shook his head before widening his eyes and looked at Kokichi. "Wait a minute, how do you know that? And...how do you know my name?"

"Oh, forget about that right now. Look, the point is this, you were transformed into a squirrel thanks to the fortune, end of story." Kokichi said, getting a little annoyed.

"No...this is all a dream. I just need to pinch myself, that's all." Todd said before pinching his cheeks. "OW!"

"Hey, weren't you listening to me?!" Kokichi exclaimed before sighing "Oh well, doesn't matter. You still won't face reality, no wonder why the spell worked. You're too ignorant and heartbroken that you won't accept anyone as your friend nor face the truth."

"Just shut up! I don't wanna believe any of this! I need to wake up!" Todd exclaimed before banging his head on the mirror, which caused him to bleed a little. "Okay...bad idea."

"Jeez, no wonder why humans are so stupid and ignorant these days..." Kokichi smirked while shaking his head, ignoring the glare coming from Todd. "But anyway, look you idiot, you're stuck in that form for the rest of your life."

Todd widened his eyes in realization as he began to think about his mother. "No...mom. How am I supposed to go back to my mother?" Tears began to form in his eyes and started to whimper.

"Hey, there's no need to cry." Kokichi assured with a chuckle. "There IS a way to get you back to normal."

Todd stopped crying as he wiped away his tears and looked at Kokichi in shock. "R-really? How?!"

"Easy, all you gotta do is read that fortune again, and by the next day or so, you'll be back to normal." Kokichi smirked as it brightens Todd's hopes.

"Yes! That means I can go back home and go back to my normal life! I just need to read my fortune and..." Todd looked over his body, but couldn't find the little piece of paper. "Wait, where is it? Where the heck is it? Where is it?!"

"Oh, you mean this?" Kokichi asked, showing him his fortune. Todd widened his eyes upon seeing it.

"What the heck?! How did you get that?!"

"I don't know." Kokichi shrugged.

"Well doesn't matter, hand it over!" Todd demanded. Kokichi chuckled and said "Oh, you mean this?"

"Yes..." Todd raised a brow, wondering what this white squirrel is planning.

"Well, I'll be happy to give it to ya..." Kokichi smirked devilishly. "But I'm afraid I can't."

"W-what?" Todd asked in confusion. Kokichi clapped his paws together, pressing the fortune in his grasps, rubbed his paws together, and showed them, with no fortune in either paw. "What the?! What did you do?!"

"Oh don't worry, I hid the fortune somewhere that you'll never find, and that only I know where! Besides, I am here as your little guide to help you on your journey of self-discovery. It's like that one RPG Game that everyone likes. I wonder what it was? Final Fantasy or something? Seriously, Square Enix makes too many games for that series!"

Todd raised a brow at the white squirrel for being...insane. "Just what's wrong with this squirrel?" Todd muttered with a raised brow. Suddenly, they heard a can dropping and rolling on the ground.

"What the?" Kokichi asked before he and Todd turned around to see a bunch of rats walking out of the shadows of the alleyway with hunger in their eyes. "Well...that's not good."

"Umm...hello there?" Todd smiled sheepishly at them as the street rats licked their lips at them.

"Well well well, looks what the town dragged in." The first rat said with a vicious smirk on his face.

"Didn't mommy teach you not to wonder off in the city, pipsqueaks?" The second rat chuckled evilly.

"Hey! I'm way older than this sucker!" Kokichi exclaimed, causing Todd to deadpan at him.

"Jeez, that's way more helpful." Todd said before smiling nervously at the street rats. "But listen, we don't mean any harm, so we'll happily take our leave and-"

"Oh, don't worry you two, we'll delightfully help you out of this alleyway..." The third rat said before licking his lips at both Todd and Kokichi. "But first, why not join us for some dinner?"

"Yeah, I hear Squirrel Stew was on the menu." The second rat agreed.

"Squirrel Stew? That sounds like a stupid name." Kokichi said bluntly, but Todd realized what the rats meant as he started to back away from them.

"Hey...I think we should get out of here." Todd said as the rats began closing in on them.

"Yeah, you guys should probably run...or else we'll eat ya!" The first rat said as he smiling evilly.

"Oh crap-baskets..." Kokichi muttered.

"Q-quick! Do something!" Todd exclaimed.

"What?! Why me?!" Kokichi yelled.

"You said that you were my guide, so help me at least!" Todd retorted back. Kokichi sighed and said "Fine, leave this to me!"

The rats began were even closer to them as Kokichi glared at them as he thought of one thing.

"Look! A supermodel!" Kokichi upwards to the sky, which the rats didn't fall for. "Look! A Meteor! Look! A cloud! Look! Taylor Swift!"

Todd gave me an unimpressed look at him and face-pawed himself.

"Did you really think that would work? We're not that stupid." The second rat rolled his eyes.

"Are you suggesting that you're really are stupid?" Kokichi smirked.

"W-what?! That's not what I meant!"

"That sounds like a confession." Kokichi shrugged, angering the rats.

"Oh really? Then tell us how you and the little brat are going to escape from our grasps? We can pretty catch you the moment you flee." The third rat said.

"Oh well, I got one last trick up my sleeve, and it's...uh..." Kokichi looked around until he noticed a pebble on the ground. "Rock to the face!" He immediately threw it at the third rat, causing him to fall over. "AHH! Quick! Run for your lives while you still can, Toddy!"

"First of all, don't call me 'Toddy'! Second...RUUUUN!" Todd immediately took off, along with Kokichi as they immediately crossed the street. Luckily, there weren't any cars or many people around as they looked back to see the three rats running towards them on all fours. The rat that was hit by the rock Kokichi had a black eye as he snarled angrily towards the white squirrel.

"Keep running! My life is on the line!" Kokichi exclaimed.

"Oh yeah?! So is mine!" Todd exclaimed angrily as they ran through the streets. Soon later, they saw an entrance that leads to Liberty Park, the biggest national park of Oakton City.

"Look, there's our ticket in there! We're gonna live!" Kokichi said, smiling happily. Todd felt relieved at what Kokichi said as he smiled in relief as they continued to headed for the entrance until they both fell down and trip.

"What the?!" Todd exclaimed before he noticed that he and Kokichi's legs' were trapped underneath some gum. "G-gum?!"

"Oh come on! I just washed my feet an hour ago!" Kokichi exclaimed angrily until both he and Todd noticed the street rats walking toward their directions as they began chuckling with evil smirks on their faces. "Oh no...don't do this! Don't eat us! I taste horrible!"

"Sorry, but I'm afraid we don't accept mercy." The first rat said.

"No...I don't wanna die...WAHHHHHH!" Kokichi began dramatically crying as tears began to water all over. Todd sweat-dropped a little before turning back to the rats in fear.

"Y-you can't do this!" Todd exclaimed with a feared expression.

"Actually...we can and will." The third rat said as he licked his lips at them and began to walked towards them and ready to have their dinners until...

"Stop right there, you nasty city fiends! Leave those poor innocent little squirrel alone!"

"Huh?" The street rats asked in unison.

"Says who?" The second rat asked in confusion.

"Says the legendary park hero, Grayson! Ole!" Suddenly, someone tackled one of the rats and began fighting them. It was a gray squirrel with a charming look as he punched the first rat right in the kisser. He then kicks the second rat in the groins, and the third rat was headbutted by Grayson.

"Well...didn't see that coming." Kokichi said as all his tears were gone, which surprised Todd.

"H-how?" Todd muttered in shock. Just what's up with this squirrel?!

Soon after, the street rats hissed at Grayson before retreating back into the city, which was a relief to the gray squirrel himself. Grayson wiped a sweat from his forehead as he turned to both Kokichi and Todd and asked "Are you two lovely citizens doing alright?"

"Yeah, thanks." Todd smiled. "Could you help us out of this gum?"

"No problem!" Grayson grabbed both of their paws and pulled them out. Grayson then noticed Kokichi and said "Oh hey Kokichi, didn't expect you to come back so early. I thought you went to take a couple days off from the park?"

"Well, that was a lie I told. I said that to avoid your stupid annoyance. I'm a little surprised that you fought them off despite your little..stupidity." Kokichi said bluntly, which shocked Grayson.

"Why I never!" Grayson exclaimed angrily before crossing his arms in a huff.

"Anyway..." Todd glared at Kokichi before turning to Grayson with a smile on his face. "Thanks so much for saving us! You really saved our butts right there!"

Grayson laughed loudly at the fox squirrel and replied "Why thank you little squirrel! At least there's someone around here who appreciates my work."

"Yeah, sure they do..." Kokichi sighed, shaking his head. Suddenly...

"Grayson, there you are! You can't just run off like that!" The three turned around to see a female red squirrel running towards them with a stern look on her face. "Seriously, please don't run away like that! You almost had me worried!"

"Heh heh..." Grayson chuckled sheepishly as he rubbed his head. "Sorry, it's just that I heard Kokichi and his little friend cries for help and I had to do something to defend from those dirty rats! As a hero, I mustn't let the innocence get hurt!"

"Sure, whatever you say Gayson..." Kokichi snickered, ignoring the growl coming from Grayson. "So anyway, wasn't expecting you show up Andie."

"Oh...hey Kokichi." Andie sighed, not expecting to see him again. Todd looked between Kokichi and Andie and asked "Wait, do you guys know each other?"

"Yes, he's been living in this park for a long time since he was a kit, and he has quite a troublesome record that even Raccoon nor I could count." Andie explained, glaring at Kokichi.

"What? I done no such thing." Kokichi smirked. "Nee-hee-hee, seriously Andie, stop being naggy! Who do you think you are? My mom?"

"Didn't you ask her that before you left yesterday?" Grayson said in confusion.

"Oh...I guess it slipped through my head." Kokichi said bluntly.

"Anyway, who is this kid you're with?" Andie asked, pointing at Todd.

"Oh him, that's Todd Lloyd, my new 'best friend'." Kokichi chuckled, surprising Todd.

"Friends?! Since when?!" Todd exclaimed.

"I see...so you were dragged in more from Kokichi's craziness." Andie sighed before saying "But don't worry, you get used to it."

"Gee, I don't know about that..." Todd muttered while rolling his eyes.

"But you know, I never seen a squirrel wearing those things on your head before." Andie gestured about the headphones. "Say, what's a little child like you doing here all alone? Don't you have a place to live?"

Todd began to realize that now he's a fox squirrel, he's stuck in this as Kokichi hid away his fortune. Todd becomes sad and answered "No, I can't remember where my mother lives. This city is way too huge for me to even know where I live." Todd sighed sadly.

"It's okay, I'm sure you can stay in Liberty Park till we find your mother, we promise." Andie said before Grayson said "That's right! No way an innocent child like yourself should be alone! We'll protect you no matter what!"

Todd couldn't help but smile at them while Kokichi sighed.

"Wow, thanks, I guess." Todd rubbed his head bashfully.

"Whatever..." Kokichi shrugged.

"By the way, how did you end up here alone, and got separated from your mother?" Andie questioned.

Todd chuckled nervously, rubbed his cheek in embarrassment and replied "Well, funny story. See, I'm actually a human, and that I was transformed into a squirrel by a magic fortune cookie. I was acting all dizzy a while ago and I woke up as a squirrel, and was greeted by this...weirdo, and he told me everything what happened and somehow knew my name, and knew why I was transformed into a squirrel, and took away my only way back home, and we were chased by a bunch of street rats before Grayson came over and saved our lives."

"Which made him pretty useful this time." Kokichi said bluntly. "I knew that my fake crying would grab this idiot's attention."

"Nobody asked you..." Todd growled before noticing the confusion and disbelief from Grayson and Andie's faces. "What? Is there something wrong with what I said?"

"...Actually, forget that I asked. Never mind." Andie hold her paws in gesture, surprising Todd.

"What?! You don't believe in me?!" Todd exclaimed in shock. "B-but...it's the truth!"

"I'm just confused about all this! I mean, what you said isn't real, right?" Grayson asked in worried. "There's no way I'll believe in anything like that!"

"That's new, even for you, Grayson. Ooh, that rhyme..." Kokichi chuckled.

"No! It's the truth, and I'll prove it!" Todd quickly turned to Kokichi with a worried look. "Come on Kokichi, tell them the truth! Tell them that I'm not making this all up!"

"Kokichi...is he telling the truth?" Andie asked, raising a brow.

Kokichi looked at him, blinking in surprise before letting out a smirk and putting his paws behind his head and replied "I have no idea what you're saying. I mean, that's gotta be the stupidest lie I ever heard of."

"What?!" Todd exclaimed in shock.

"Kokichi, you sure?" Andie asked.

"Course Andie, would I lie to you?" Kokichi chuckled with a smirk. "Besides, who knows? Because I'm just a liar."

"So...are you telling the truth or telling us a lie? I cannot tell with you anymore." Grayson exclaimed, putting his paws on his head.

"Well either way, looks like poor old Todd will be staying here till he finds his poor mother. How exciting." Kokichi said with a wink. Todd gritted his teeth and growled at him, irritated that Kokichi not only took away and hid his fortune, but to lie and not back him up.

"Anyway..." Andie cleared her throat before softly smiling. "It's best if we brought you towards our leader, he can help out and get you a nice place to live at, Todd."

"...Alright." Todd sighed as Andie and Grayson led both Kokichi and Todd towards the entrance of Liberty Park, seeing the greenery, and the tall trees around here. While walking, Todd turned to Kokichi with an angry look and whispered "Dude, what the heck?! Why couldn't you tell them and back me up?!"

"I couldn't, even if I wanted to or not." Kokichi whispered while shrugging. "Besides, do you want the animals here to think of you as a psychotic creep?"

"...Touche." Todd sighed as they continued their way through Liberty Park. While they walked, they noticed some chipmunks, brown squirrels, mice, and groundhogs walking around, playing, chatting, and such.

"Whoa..." Todd muttered, seeing this many park animals all together. Soon after, they then noticed three peculiar groundhogs fighting each other. One was a male groundhog with a Mohawk, the second was the same as the first except he had no Mohawk, and the third was a female groundhog, who was smaller than the last two.

"Oh my!" Kokichi eyes started to sparkle upon seeing the female groundhog. "It's so nice to see Miss Jamie enjoying her time with her brothers."

"Miss Jamie?" Todd asked, raising a brow at the albino squirrel.

"He means Jamie, and a member of the Bruisers, and it looks like they're fighting each other again..." Andie replied to Todd's question as she shook her head as she called them. "Johnny! Jimmy! Jamie!"

"Eh?" The three stopped fighting each other and noticed Andie and the others. "Oh hey Andie! Grayson! Good to see ya guys again!" Johnny greeted them.

"Ah, how are my biggest fans doing?" Grayson grinned as Jimmy patted on his back hard and replied "We're doing awesome! I was just in a disagreement with my brother whether if we should find food or stay and dig a hole to store our food in."

Jimmy glared at his twin brother, Johnny, as he exclaimed "Oh come on! I rather dig our hole than finding food! We barely find any in this park!"

"Look, you morons!" Jamie exclaimed angrily, glaring at both of her brothers. "I understand that we're trying to find a way on how to solve this, but we need to think of this rationally!"

"We are thinking rationally!" Johnny and Jimmy exclaimed angrily.

"Ahh, another bright idea from the great Miss Jamie." Kokichi sighed happily. "I'm proud of you of that! An excellent idea Miss Jamie!"

"Oh...hey Kokichi. Didn't see you there...not that I wanted to." Jamie face-pawed herself upon seeing Kokichi. Kokichi walked towards her with a goofy smile and wiggling his eyebrows, which made her uncomfortable.

"You know, I love a girl who is stronger and smarter than her two dimwitted brothers." Kokichi chuckled happily, which disgust Jamie and angered Johnny and Jimmy.

"Hey!" They both exclaimed angrily.

"Kokichi, what did I say last time?" Jamie warned him. "Don't come five feet from me!"

"Sorry, I don't remember that." Kokichi chuckled before smiling. "Any who, I believe I deserve a kiss of seeing you again." Kokichi came close to Jamie's face and was about to kiss her until Jamie knocked him into the ground with Todd with a 'Ooh! That's gotta hurt' expression.

"I told you to stay away from me you creep!" Jamie exclaimed angrily.

"Well...didn't see that coming." Todd said, blinking in surprise as Kokichi tried to get his head out of the ground.

"I did..." Andie sighed, shaking her head at him. The Bruisers soon noticed Todd and became confused on who he was.

"Say Andie, Grayson, who's the kid?" Johnny asked.

"Oh, this is Todd. He's new around here and will be staying with us for a while until we can find him his home." Andie explained with a smile on her face.

"Umm...hi there?" Todd waved at them as the Bruisers came to him with smiles on their faces.

"Nice to meet ya Todd, names Jimmy!" Jimmy introduced himself. "This is my bro, Johnny, and my sis, Jamie."

"Hey!"

"How are you doing?"

"Well it's nice to meet you three." Todd said with a smile on his face. "So anyway, I overheard Andie saying that you're the Bruisers? What's that?"

"Oh we're a group of strong animals that can help out any animal here in Liberty Park!" Johnny answered, puffing his chest in proud.

Todd became impressed to hear that and said "Wow, that sounds awesome!"

"Yeah, but we mostly just do pranks and other junk." Jamie shrugged.

"Oh well, I still think that's pretty awesome." Todd shrugged with a smile on his face. He was immediately grabbed by Jimmy and hugged by him.

"Thanks kid! Maybe one day when you're big and strong like us, we can make you a member of our group, what do you say?" Jimmy asked as he didn't noticed that he was squeezing Todd too hard.

"T-thanks...now can you please let me go?..." Todd asked as his face began to turn blue.

"Hey! Let go of him! You're choking him!" Andie exclaimed, noticing Todd's face changing color. Jimmy immediately realized what he was doing and let go of Todd and chuckled nervously.

"Sorry about that Todd." Jimmy rubbed his head. Todd regain his breath and dust himself off and replied "It's okay, but thanks for the offer, I guess."

"Anytime." Jimmy nodded before Jamie asking "Say, what are those things on your head?"

"Oh? These?" Todd said, taking off his small headphones. "These are called headphones. They allowed you to listen to music."

"Listen to music? This thing?" Johnny asked in confusion.

"I somehow doubt that a device like that could do that." Grayson said, unsure about Todd's headphones. Kokichi immediately got his head out of the ground and turned to them with a small smile on his face.

"Well of course idiots like you all wouldn't know, well except Miss Jamie since she's more brilliant than any of you combined." Kokichi chuckled, oblivious to the glares everyone was giving him. "It's one of those human technology that they created."

"Ahh." They all nodded as Todd put his headphones back on and said "Well anyway, I guess it was nice meeting you guys."

"Alright, see ya." Johnny said as he and his siblings waved goodbye to their new friend as Todd and the others continued their way to meet up with the Park Leader. "Now where were we?"

"Last I remembered was punching you in the nose." Jimmy reminded him.

"Oh right." Johnny snapped his claws before going back on a fight with his brother with Jamie face-pawing herself.

"This day cannot get any worse." Jamie sighed as Kokichi came back and said "Hey Miss Jamie! I forgot to tell you that you're quite magnificent, and that your punches are so brilliant like your fur color. It really suits you."

Jamie growled at him and exclaimed "Get out of here or you'll end up like my brothers!"

"Ha ha ha...Okay!" Kokichi waved goodbye with a cheerful yet perverted smile before taking his leave.

Soon after, they stopped in front of a giant abandoned mill, which Todd stared in awe.

"Wow, so this is where your leader lives?" Todd asked in surprise.

"Well, most of the time." Andie replied. "But yeah, he uses it for meetings and such. Follow us."

"And trust us, you're gonna love him! He's the world's wisest animal in the world!" Grayson exclaimed.

"Yeah, sure he is..." Kokichi muttered while rolling his eyes. Todd looked at Kokichi and realized that he was being sarcastic, causing him to raise a brow. Wonder why Kokichi would say something mean like that to the Park Leader? They soon entered the mill and discovered two figures standing around at the end of the mill.

It was a raccoon, and he seemed pretty old in his age. He was pretty taller than any of the animals around the park, and he had a red cardinal on his left arm. The other was a Mole whose fur color with a pink nose.

"Raccoon, sir." Andie gained his attention as he turned around with a soft smile on his face.

"Ah, Andie, Grayson, I trust things are well?" Raccoon asked before noticing both Todd and Kokichi. "Oh, Kokichi. I wasn't expecting to see you here, and who's your friend?"

"Ahh, it's nice to see you too Raccoon." Kokichi chuckled before noticing the serious expression from Raccoon. "Oh right. Anyway, this is my new friend, Todd Lloyd. Say hi Toddy."

"Umm...Hi?" Todd waved at him with a nervous expression.

"It is nice to meet you young squirrel." Raccoon smiled. "My name is Raccoon, and I lead this park, some may even call me the Park Leader."

"Park Leader?" Todd questioned.

"In other terms, he's in charge." The mole answered. "By the way, the names Mole. I'm Raccoon's right-paw animal."

"That still sounds stupid to me." Kokichi said blankly, much to Mole's anger.

"Well get to used it already! Besides, nobody asked for you, Kokichi!" Mole exclaimed. Todd raised a brow at the albino squirrel, wondering what kind of troubling reputation Kokichi has. Todd then noticed the red bird that's on Raccoon's arm looked at him with its big black eyes, which creep him out.

"Hello there?" Todd waved as it just continued to glare at him. Fortunately, Raccoon let out a chuckle and replied "I'm terribly sorry but Cardinal doesn't quite talk much. He's my little assistant that helps out around the park."

"I...see." Todd nodded, still feeling creep out by the red bird staring at him.

"So anyway, how did your patrol went?" Raccoon asked.

"It went fine a minute go, until we had a run with some street rats who were chasing Todd and Kokichi." Andie gestured both Todd and Kokichi.

"Yep, I saved those two lives from the dangerous threat of those pesky city rats!" Grayson exclaimed, puffing his chest with a proud look on his face.

"I see, well I'm glad to see that these two are safe and sound." Raccoon nodded before turning to both Todd and Kokichi. "I can understand Kokichi since he lives here, but does cause some trouble around here, but if I may ask Todd, where are you from?"

"Oh...um..." Todd didn't know how to answer that. He already tried telling the truth to both Andie and Grayson, but neither of them believes him. So how should he tell him?

"I found poor old Todd alone in the alleyway." Kokichi quickly answered with a smirk on his face, surprising Todd.

"Huh?" Todd asked as Kokichi continued "See, I was off minding my own business around the city until I found him alone in the alleyway, but he was knocked out, so I woke him up. I started to ask him some questions, and apparently, he's lost and can't seem to find his parents. So, I decided to bring him back to the park and ask you guys to help go look for his parents, but we got ambushed by a bunch of city rats, and lucky for us, I tried to fight back as hard as I can, but fail, and quickly ran away with Todd in tow. At first, when we saw Liberty Park up ahead, we gotten ourselves stuck in some gum, and when we were about to be eating, a familiar park hero came and save us, along with his red squirrel sidekick."

"Hey! Who are you calling a 'sidekick'?!" Andie exclaimed angrily.

"Yeah, I prefer for her to be called my girlfriend!" Grayson added, upsetting Andie even more.

"Not helping Grayson!" Andie yelled, causing Grayson to sheepishly smile.

"I...see, and are you sure you're telling us the truth?" Raccoon questioned. "Because you told plenty of lies to us from the past."

"Oh come on Raccoon! Would I lie to you guys?" Kokichi asked with a smile on his face. "I mean, look! Did you see these eyes?"

"Yes?" Raccoon answered, raising a brow.

"Do you know what they're filled with?"

"Umm...insanity?" Mole guessed, causing Kokichi to laugh.

"No, you silly nugget, Mole. They're filled with truth, and I would never lie to you guys. I take back all my lies and I promise I'll change! I'll change!" Kokichi began crying dramatically, causing everyone to sweat-dropped and felt disturbed by it.

"Alright, I'll accept your word." Raccoon sighed, causing Kokichi to somehow lose all his tears as he pulled out a big grin on his face.

"Ahh, thanks Raccoon! You're the best! Nee-hee-hee..." Kokichi replied.

"Somehow, I highly doubt everything you just said to us..." Mole said, blinking in surprise.

"Well anyway..." Andie cleared her throat, going back to the main topic on paw. "We came to you in hoping that maybe Todd could stay here while we try and go help him find his family."

"...Very well, Todd can stay." Raccoon replied with a soft smile. "After all, he is our guest."

Todd smiled happily and said "Gee, thanks Raccoon. You're a very nice...um...Raccoon?"

"Anytime, Todd, my boy." Raccoon chuckled happily. Andie and Grayson smiled happily at Todd, relieved that he'll be staying here for a while. Unbeknownst to everyone, Todd began to form a frown, wondering how his mother is taking with his disappearance. He hoped that maybe she would have noticed by now that he was gone.

Later

Back at the Oakton's Jewelry Store, Alexa finally came out of the store with a long sigh.

"Sorry I took so long Todd." Alexa apologized. "Apparently, they didn't have anything that I was interested, so how about we go and get some ice cream instead?" She asked, but received no response.

"Todd?" She looked around and noticed that he wasn't around. "Todd? Where did you go?!" Alexa said as she began to panic and began calling for his name over and over while running through the streets, in hopes that her son didn't wander off too far.

Meanwhile

Todd and Kokichi were walking through up a hill as the sun began setting.

"Man, this park is pretty big, even as a squirrel..." Todd said, gazing at the trees, the grass, the bridges, and such.

"Yeah, it's quite beautiful once you get used to it." Kokichi shrugged before sighing. "Course, maybe for you, but it's quite boring for me."

"Whatever." Todd shook his head at the albino squirrel's craziness. "Man, I wished I had my PSVita right now, but since I am a squirrel now, I guess it's gone."

"Well once you go back as a human." Kokichi shrugged. Todd then looked at Kokichi with suspicious and asked "How?"

"Hm? What now Toddy?"

"How do you know all this? The fortune cookie? My name? Besides, it's kinda weird that you woken me up at the exact same moment I woke up, you know." Todd questioned. Kokichi went silent for a moment with a blank expression. "Well?"

Kokichi's face soon started to form a sly smile and said "AHAHAHAHAHAHA! Oh my god! That's so frigging hilarious! I mean, really?! You're suspecting me of being suspicious all because about everything that you described?! That's stupid!"

"Don't laugh! I'm just confused, that's all!" Todd exclaimed.

"Whatever, see ya Toddy." Kokichi began walking away, much to Todd's annoyance.

"Hey! Where do you think you're going?" Todd asked.

"None of your business, that's for sure." Kokichi replied. "Besides, I'll be right back. Just gotta take care of some important business." With that, Kokichi took his leave, leaving Todd with more confusion. Just what is this important business he has to do? Why does he know his name? Was all of this some sort of coincidence? Just...who is Kokichi Squirrel?

Todd sighed and shook his head, having a headache of all these questions in his head. "Oh well...looks like I won't be able to answer these questions then." Todd said before getting knocked over by something.

He fell on the ground, and soon got back up, seeing a bunch of nuts around the ground. "What the?" Todd questioned before noticing a blue rat on the ground as he slowly got up and shook his head. At first, Todd was frighten by it because he thought it was another one of those street rats, until he saw the friendly face at the blue rat as he noticed Todd and waved happily at him.

"Umm...hey there." Todd slowly waved his paw at him until he notices the peanuts on the ground. "Oh my, I'm so sorry about that!" Todd exclaimed as he helped picked up some of the peanuts. Buddy softly smiled at Todd helping out and began picking up some nuts as well.

While they were picking up some nuts, Todd decided to talk with Buddy. "So anyway, I'm sure you never seen me before. Names Todd Lloyd, and I'm sorta new here around the park. Well, for a little while till I find my family, I guess." Todd finished picking up the last peanuts and handed them to Buddy, who put the rest of the peanuts into a small white bag. "So...what's your name?"

Buddy frowned and shook his head, much to Todd's confusion. Buddy started making gestures by tapping his throat, which confused Todd even more, but soon figured one thing out.

"You...can't talk, can you?" Todd guessed, which Buddy nodded in agreement. "Well, why's that?" Before Buddy could do anything, a voice shouted out.

"Hey Buddy!" Buddy's ears' perked up upon hearing someone calling his name. Todd raised a brow upon hearing that shout-out as well.

"Buddy? Is that your name?" Todd asked, until he noticed Buddy quickly grabbing the bag and running off towards a nearby tree. Todd watches Buddy leave, and sees him come up to a purple squirrel, who walked out of the shade of a tree.

"Buddy, where you've been? I was waiting for an hour for ya, and been wondering what the heck was taking so long!" The purple squirrel exclaimed. Todd watched over a conversation between Buddy and the purple squirrel. Although, of course he couldn't hear them, but he can see them. He saw Buddy making gestures and pointed towards Todd. The purple squirrel turned around and looked towards Todd as he waved at him with a nervous smile.

The purple squirrel narrowed his eyes at Todd before turning back to Buddy and said "Buddy, head back to the hideout now before anyone sees us."

Buddy nodded and immediately took off as the purple squirrel looked back at Todd and gave him a 'I'm watching you' sign before heading out.

"Huh...wonder who were those two?" Todd wondered out loud.

"Todd?" Todd turned around to see Andie walking towards him with a concern expression. "Is everything alright? Where's Kokichi? I thought he was with you."

Todd sighed in annoyance upon mentioning Kokichi. "Yeah, Weirdo Squirrel was here until he took his leave. Man, that guy is so suspicious yet he acts like he's a child."

"I know Kokichi is extremely...weird. But he's quite good once you get to know him." Andie assured before muttering "Most of the time."

"Oh yeah, by the way, to answer your other question. I encountered a blue rat carrying a bag filled with peanuts and I helped him out." Todd answered before rubbing his chin. "It was quite strange because he couldn't speak at all, and I saw him talking with some purple squirrel."

Andie gasped in shock upon who was Todd mentioning.

"What? Is there something wrong, Andie?" Todd asked in concern.

Andie glanced away with a worried look before turning back to the confused Todd. "Todd...those two you were referring were Surly and his rat partner, Buddy."

"Surly? Buddy?" Todd asked.

"Yeah, you see, Buddy is quite friendly and never spoken a single word ever since he was a kit, but for Surly...let's just say he isn't exactly the nicest rodent in the world." Andie said. "See, they're known as thieves around the park."

This got Todd surprised to hear that and somewhat got his hopes up. "R-really? That's quite amazing" He exclaimed in joy, surprising Andie a bit. "I mean, Surly could be a squirrel that steals from the bad and rich and brings them to the young and poor. That's really cool!"

"Well, not exactly..." Andie muttered with a sad smile. "Well, I wish it was. I respect and care about Surly, despite everything he ever done, and unlike everyone in this park, I stand and defend him, trying to convince the park animals to give him another chance."

"Wow, that's even more awesome, Andie!" Todd exclaimed in joy. "I mean, you keep believing in Surly and care for him, despite being a thief. That's great to hear that you like a good person who steals food for the young, that's nice to hear. You could even possibly be a voice of reason for him, right?"

"Well, you see..." Andie looked at him with a sad look. "Surly's really not stealing for the good, though. He's actually the park cri-"

"Andie! Where are you my darling?" A voice called over, much to Todd's confusion and Andie's annoyance. Apparently, that voice came from Grayson as he came over with a smile on his face.

"What is it now, Grayson?" Andie asked.

"Just wanna come over and ask you something very important." Grayson said seriously before blushing a bit with a smile on his face. "I was wondering if you would like to go on a date tomorrow, or maybe the night after that?"

"Sorry Grayson, but I can't." Andie shook her head, not wanting to be put up with him again.

"Oh come on, it'll be just you and me." Grayson said, putting his arm around her. "Maybe you can change your mind tomorrow and reconsider it."

Grayson then walked off, muttering about the date and his love to Andie. Todd just stood there, his eyes widened and sweat-dropped.

"Riiiight..." Todd said before shaking his head, trying to forget that scene before turning to Andie with a grin on his face. "So, what were you saying Andie? That Surly's the park crime fighter or something? That'd be even better."

Andie sighed as she shook her head and said "I'm sorry, but no. What I was going to tell you was that right now, Surly and Buddy are the par-"

"Andie!" Raccoon's voice called over. "I need for something! It's very important!"

Andie let out a sigh of frustration before turning back to Todd and said "I'm sorry Todd, but I have to go. You may want to see Raccoon later so that you can find a place sleep at."

"I see, okay." Todd nodded with a grin.

"Also..." Andie looked at him with concern. "Please, do not go and meet with Surly and Buddy, just to let you know." With that, Andie took her leave, hurrying back to Raccoon.

Todd blinked in surprise before wondering something. "Wonder why Andie doesn't want me to meet with Surly? I mean, I'm sure he's an awesome thief like Sly Cooper and Robin Hood. I mean, almost every thief I've ever seen in video games and TV Shows are heroes but work on the other side of the law, right?"

With that, Todd's first day in Liberty Park came to an end, and while he promised Andie not to meet up with Surly and Buddy, he was secretly planning on meeting them tomorrow morning. He knows that they might still be good rodents while unaware that they're actually the park criminals, which was something Andie was trying to say.

Meanwhile

Kokichi is seen walking on the sidewalk, and seeing no humans around, walks into a phone booth and climbs up to the phone machine. He takes out a quarter out of his fur and puts it into the slot before taking out the phone from the booth. It was quite hard for him to pick it up, but he was able to put it top of the machine with him before pushing a random phone number on the booth and once he was done, he immediately climbed up to the machine and waits for someone to pick up the phone while he was trying to catch his breath.

"Dang it...why couldn't I just went over to the restaurant and talk to Thing#1 and Thing#2 about this?...Oh wait, I'm frigging lazy." Kokichi chuckled until someone finally picked it up.

Kokichi put his head over the phone and said "Hey, it's me!...Yeah, I finally met up with the boy, and let me tell you, he's quite fun to mess and hang out with...Yep, I think everything is going according to plan. I have a sneaking suspicion that he might meet up with you-know-who, and might help him out of his past...Though, I'm surprised that you used that fortune to turn him into a squirrel. It's been quite a long time since you used it on...you know."

Kokichi sighed sadly and waited for a reply until he spoke up. "Yeah, this is my second time meeting with someone who got turned into a squirrel, except for...well, actually, let's not bring that up. Don't wanna spoil the viewers out there to know it...yet."

Kokichi looked off-screen with a wink before waiting for a reply from the phone. "Well anyway, guess I'll take my leave. See ya Wong."

The phone soon turned off as Kokichi sighed and shook his head before letting out a smile. "Alright Toddy and Surly, let's see how you two can get along and work together to break out of your pasts."

Suddenly, the door of the phone booth opened, revealing a working business man as he tried to entered until he noticed Kokichi and let out a scream. Kokichi immediately ran out of the phone booth and ran back to the park.

"Well, didn't see that coming!" Kokichi exclaimed before retreating back to Liberty Park.

To Be Continued

It took a while but I was able to finish in time. Well, stay tune for the next chapter. Bye-onara!