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"Please, I'm begging you!"
On the next day, Alexa headed to the Oakton City's police station as she was unable to find her son and grew extremely worried. He searched all over the place, even the hotel room that they were staying in, but no luck.
"Ma'am, please calm down! Just tell us what's going on." The police officer said, trying to calm Alexa.
"R-right...excuse my outburst." Alexa sighed before clearing her throat. "Anyway, I'm trying to look for my son. His name is Todd Lloyd, and he's thirteen years old, still in middle school."
"I see...do you have a photo of your son?"
"Y-yes, here!" She took out a photo of Todd and showed it to the officer as he took the photo and inspected it.
"Hmm...well don't worry ma'am, we promise that we'll do everything in our power to find him." The officer said, cheering Alexa a little bit.
"T-thank you so much! Just please find him! I'm begging you!" Alexa exclaimed in worried.
"Y-yes ma'am! Just stay here in the station and we'll bring you news in case we found any leads in order to search for him." The officer assured before he took his leave before handing the photo back to Alexa. Alexa clutch on the photo of Todd and let out a tear.
"Oh Todd...how did this happen?" She asked herself. "W-what...went wrong?"
Later
Back at Liberty Park, while the kids are enjoying playing around the place, they didn't noticed a red bird flying towards the big tree, where Raccoon and all the other park animals were storing their food for the winter. Unfortunately, they were throwing away dirty and food found from the garbage.
"Come along! Please keep that food coming, everyone! All finds are valuable." Raccoon said as he took the food from the animals and threw them into the grand Oak Tree, a really big oak tree that sits in the center of Liberty Park. While in the process, Raccoon dunk his head through the tree, seeing Mole sorting out the food.
"Mole, what is our food level now?" Raccoon asked curiously.
"Pickings are slim this year." Mole replied dryly, much to Raccoon's surprise. Raccoon began chuckling nervously as he turned to his fellow park animals with a sheepish smile.
"I-I'm sure we could rephrase..." Raccoon said, looking at the sad and grim looks on everyone's faces.
"We're at starvation levels!" Mole exclaimed, shocking everyone.
"We're all gonna die!" A mice shouted in fear, surprising everyone.
"Now, now, now..." Raccoon assured. "Have optimism, brethren. Stiff upper lip, everyone." Soon, his little bird assistant, Cardinal, came back with something in its mouth. "Ah! Here we are, food!" He picked the something out of Cardinal's mouth, much to everyone's joy, but unfortunately, it was nothing more than a nut bolt.
"I'm afraid this is the wrong kind of nut." Raccoon said before looking around to make sure no one was looking. "Hmm...shiny." Raccoon quickly hid the nut bolt into his fur as Cardinal started chirping about...something. "What's that?" Raccoon listened to what his bird friend spoke about and slightly widened his eyes. "A Nut cart?"
"A Nut cart?!" The mice from earlier repeated, brightened everyone's smiles.
"A Nut cart?" Mole asked, coming out of the hole until he was immediately blinded by the sunlight, causing him to fall back into the tree. "MY EYES!"
Ignoring him, Raccoon continued "This could be our salvation for winter..."
Everyone immediately agreed with their leader as he turned to Andie, who was helping some little chipmunk.
"Andie!" Raccoon called, gaining her attention. She overheard the conversation as she let out a confident smile and said "I'm on my way! You won't regret this!"
"Uh-uh-uh..." Raccoon stopped her, much to her confusion as he smiled and said "Grayson is going with you!"
Andie sighed and rolled her eyes and replied "With all due respect, sir, I can do this on my own. I don't..."
"Grayson!" Raccoon called for him, completely ignoring Andie. Grayson then appeared, standing in a heroic pose.
"Ole!" Grayson declared as all the females sighed happily and fainted at the sight of him. Grayson was known as Liberty Park's hero for a very long time, and everyone has always believed in him.
Grayson soon turned to Andie with a smirk and said "Chicks dig the tail!" He clicked his tongue as Andie let out a sigh and rolled her eyes, not happy to be partnered up with Grayson. Grayson had always had the hots for her since day one, and she tried multiple times to tell him to back off, but no matter how many times he was rejected by her, Grayson stubbornly tries to get Andie to like him back.
"Help Andie retrieve as many nuts as possible." Raccoon explained for raising his fist into the air and shouted "For the park!"
"For the park!" All the park animals, including Andie chanted.
"Oh...what she said." Grayson said, chuckling nervously as they were about to take off until Raccoon stopped him.
"Before you go...May I ask one question?" Raccoon asked.
"Sure sir, what is it?" Andie asked curiously.
"Have you two seen Todd anywhere? He was supposed to meet here for the food gathering." Raccoon said, completely realizing that Todd was nowhere to be seen.
"Actually, now that you mention it...No, we haven't seen him this morning." Andie replied.
"Don't worry, I'm sure the kid is a-okay!" Grayson assured with a grin.
"Well, has anyone here seen him? He's a fox squirrel, so you can't miss him." Raccoon asked the crowd, but everyone shook their heads, implying that they either not seen him or met this fox squirrel. Raccoon rubbed his chin in thought and began wondering where Todd could be.
"Where could that little squirrel have gone to?" Raccoon wondered aloud before making a stern look on his face. "I just hoped he isn't with...him."
"Raccoon?" Andie called for him, gaining his attention.
"O-oh right. Please go and scavenge the nuts from the nut cart and find Todd." Raccoon commanded, which both Grayson and Andie nodded.
"You got it, Raccoon." Andie nodded. "We won't let you down."
"And above all..." Raccoon spoke up again, gaining everyone's attention. "Keep a weary watchful eye out for...you-know-who..." Raccoon whispered, causing everyone to gasp in shock upon hearing who Raccoon is mentioning.
"NO! NOT HIM!" The mouse shrieked in fear.
"Yes...him." Raccoon said with a stern expression, knowing who 'him' is.
Meanwhile
Somewhere on the west side of the park, a familiar fox squirrel is seen running on all fours, searching for Surly Squirrel and Buddy.
"Now where could they be?" Todd wondered.
"Where who could be, Toddy?" Todd turned around in surprise until he noticed who it is.
"Oh, it's you. What do you want Kokichi?"Todd asked, not in the mood to talk to him. Kokichi let out a sly grin and replied "Oh nothing, just wanted to see my 'best friend', and hang out with him? So what you doing, you silly nugget?"
"That's none of your business." Todd said, glaring at the albino squirrel, still mad at him for hiding the fortune away from him.
"Come on old Toddy, you can totally trust me! I'm a fun squirrel!" Kokichi said, laughing. Todd, however, continued to glare at him.
"Whatever...Now get out of here. I was just heading to...uh..." Todd began thinking on how to avoid Kokichi and his weirdness as he says "Go and do some...stuff."
With that, Todd ran past Kokichi as he made a sigh and frowned with a deadpan expression.
"Jeez, for a human kid, he doesn't know how to make good lies, and that's coming from me." Kokichi sighed before following after the fox squirrel.
As Todd began searching everywhere in search of Surly and Buddy, he soon caught gaze at a familiar purple squirrel and blue rat hanging out on a nearby tree near the wall outside of the park. Todd smiled happily, feeling excited that he's going to be meet his hero. He slowly came to the tree and rubbed his paws together.
"Alright Todd, you can do this..." Todd jumped onto the bark of the tree and began climbing it. It was quite easier, if you're a squirrel, that is. He began climbing up until he finally made it to the top and found the purple squirrel slowly letting the rope go as Todd noticed that Buddy was inside of a pail bucket being lowered down towards the nut cart.
"Umm...hi?" Todd waved at him, accidentally scaring the purple squirrel. Surly accidentally let go of the rope in his paws as Buddy was immediately dropped down into the nut cart. Luckily, he was still in the pail bucket as Buddy let out a sigh of relief.
"Whoops." Todd muttered, sweat-dropping. Surly turned to Todd, glaring at him angrily. Surly narrowed his eyes at him, recognizing the human-turned-fox squirrel.
"You again? What do you want, kid?" Surly asked sternly. "If you want nuts, you've come to the wrong squirrel."
Todd rubbed his head bashfully with a sheepish smile and replied "Hey, um...do you need any help? I'd be happy to lend a hand at what you two are doing."
"Take a hike, kid." Surly said. "I don't have time with you."
Surly then turns around and continues to do his heist while Todd became surprised and confused by this squirrel.
"Strange...he seems really determined in this heist it seems. But...why? Why does he sound like my dad? That's really strange. I haven't hear his voice is so..." Todd thought before making a determined expression. "Oh well, it doesn't matter. What matters is that I should help him in this heist! He's the park hero, after all."
Todd cleared his throat before smiling towards Surly and said "Um, are you sure? I'm not here to stop you or anything. I'm Todd Lloyd. I'm new here to the park."
"I'm Surly Squirrel, and that down there's Buddy." Surly introduced himself and his partner-in-crime. "Now if you excuse me, I have nuts to steal."
"Oh, that sounds cool." Todd grinned. "Maybe I could-"
"What are you both doing?!" This time, both Surly and Todd got startled by a voice speaking up. Todd quickly turned around to see Andie, who was given a stern look at Todd.
"Todd, there you are!" Andie exclaimed.
"Oh, Andie! What are you doing here?!" Todd asked.
"I could ask you the same thing." Andie replied. "You should be back at the food-storing tree with everyone else. And besides, I thought I had told you yesterday not to meet Surly and Buddy."
Todd grew hesitant about that, remembering what Andie told him yesterday. He rubbed his head bashfully and said "W-well...about that, uhh..."
"In fact, never mind. I'll deal with you later." Andie said sternly before turning to Surly. "For now, let me handle Surly."
Andie walked past Todd and walked towards Surly, who let out a sigh of annoyance and said "Oh great, so you're after this nut cart too, huh?"
"Of course I am!" Andie exclaimed. "The park needs it!"
"Well, too late, sister." Surly smirked as he began packing and taking some things out of a backpack made out of a card box. "Amscray...Buddy and I got here first, and I ain't sharing."
"Oh yes, you are." Andie said, glaring at the purple squirrel. "Fall's half over and the park's having the worst shortage in years. That nut cart...can feed everyone."
Surly gave her a deadpan expression as Andie continued "Hey, we'll work together. We can work out a deal."
"Uh...pass me that metal thingy, will you?" Surly asked, ignoring everything what Andie said. Andie realized this as she sighed sadly and did what Surly said as she handed him the metal pin that he asked.
"I-I just...I don't get it." Andie groaned. "You have all the drive and ability to help the park, but you never do. You know, this is a chance to prove Raccoon is wrong about you."
Surly stopped and formed a sadden look, remembering the bad and bullied childhood he had since living here in Liberty Park in his whole life. He then made an annoyed look at Andie and replied "I don't care what Raccoon thinks."
"Well then, do it for the park! Stop thinking about yourself all the time!" Andie exclaimed, trying her best to make Surly changed, but failed.
"Look...I'm independent, and that means...looking out for number#1." Surly said as he put the card box backpack behind him with a smirk on his face. "Got that?"
Andie formed a sad expression and sighed. "I feel sorry for you, Surly."
It seemed to got to Surly as he made a sad smile, and began having doubts about all this. Todd, meanwhile, smiled softly at them, knowing that Andie does indeed care about Surly and believes in him just like he does.
"Well well well...what do we have here?" Everyone widened their eyes in surprise as they looked around until they spotted a familiar albino squirrel up on a tree branch. He was sitting with his legs crossed and a smirk on his face as he said "Three little squirrels sitting on a tree. I understand what's going on, but you must know that two is a party, but three's a crowd."
"H-hey! What are you doing here?!" Todd exclaimed in shock.
Kokichi jumped down with a smirk on his face and replied "If you must know, Toddy, I followed you here. You can't outsmart a liar like myself. Besides...you're a terrible liar."
Todd blushed and glanced away, embarrassed not to admit it. "W-whatever...just get out of here!"
"Sorry, no sirree bob." Kokichi grinned.
"Great, not only I have to deal with Andie, but this crazy guy." Surly said in a deadpan expression. To make things even worse, they heard a 'Ole!' as Grayson landed between Surly, Andie, Todd, and Kokichi.
"Ah ha! Found him Andie!" Grayson exclaimed. "In...a...tree, no less!"
He leaned towards Surly and said "Very crafty Surly." Grayson chuckled before noticing Todd behind.
"AH! Todd Lloyd, there you are! Where have you been, mister? And what are you doing here with our unworthy opponent?!" Grayson asked before he gasped, making a guess before turning and glaring at Surly and said "Don't tell me...I bet Surly must have kidnapped you, and he's forcing you to help with his dirty work!"
This made everyone all stare at the grey squirrel with deadpanned expressions.
"Wow...seriously?" Surly asked, raising a brow.
"No, Grayson. He didn't kidnap me. I just...came over to him by myself. That's all." Todd explained.
"Yes, he did...which he shouldn't." Andie said as she gives Todd a stern look with her arms crossed, making him rub his head bashfully with a sweat-drop.
"Oh...well, never mind then." Grayson twiddled his fingers, feeling embarrassed.
"Wow...still as stupid as ever, eh Gayson?" Kokichi said blankly, slightly offending Grayson.
"Hey!" Grayson exclaimed angrily, which he didn't noticed Todd chuckling at that nickname Kokichi gave him. "A-anyway! You!" He pointed at Surly with a serious expression. "I shall now arrest with the park's nut cart caper!"
"I-it's okay, Grayson. I got him." Andie assured.
"Nah, Grayson. She doesn't." Surly said with a sly smirk on his face. "You better help her.:
"Why you! I'm gonna!..." Andie felt offended by that as she was about to pounce at the purple squirrel until Grayson held her back.
"H-hey! Sugar Ray, take the gloves off!" Grayson said with a smile on his face.
"I'm just gonna rip your tail off!" Andie said, gritting her teeth. Todd blinked in confusion at this, wondering why Andie felt offended by that joke Surly made.
"Ha, that's what she said." Kokchi said, crossing his arms with a smirk on his face.
"Listen, I'd love to keep chatting..." Everyone turned to Surly as he was strapped with rope on his card box backpack. "But I got a take with destiny."
"Destiny? Do I know her?" Grayson asked curiously, resulting Kokichi to face-pawed himself.
"How did your parents teach you these things?" Kokichi muttered to himself.
"Buena suerte, chumps!" Surly said before jumping off the branch and lowered himself down towards the nut cart. Everyone watched with him go as Grayson said "That was thrilling!"
Andie glared at him before elbowing him on the gut, much to his surprise. "OW!...That was painful..." Grayson groaned as Andie looked down and sighed.
"This is going to end up bad..." Andie sighed before saying "Look Todd, I think it's best if you head back to Raccoon and the others."
As Andie turned around, she noticed that he was gone, along with Kokichi. "Wait...where did they go?" Both Andie and Grayson looked around in worried before looking down and noticed that both the fox squirrel and the albino squirrel sliding down on the rope Surly was using and were heading towards them.
"You have got to be kidding me..." Andie sighed in frustration.
Meanwhile, with Todd and Kokichi as the two were sliding down and jumped on the ground and found Surly coming out of the nut cart, with a bag of nuts tied behind his back.
"Umm...Surly?" Todd called for him, catching him by surprise.
"What the?" Surly turned around before making a deadpan expression to see both Kokichi and Todd. "Oh...it's you two. Now what do you want? I told you to leave me alone and mind your own business, kid. Especially you, Kokichi."
"Ahh, thanks for the nice compliment Surly." Kokichi chuckled.
"That wasn't even a compliment!" Surly exclaimed before taking a deep breath and glaring at them. "Look, stay out of my way!"
"Look Surly, I know you and Buddy might think you two don't need help, but I can help!" Todd said with a smile.
Surly became annoyed with him and replied "Oh please. Why, you of all rodents in the park even want to help me?"
"And why didn't you include me in this conversation? I'm supposed to be a main character in this." Kokichi complained.
"Because one, you're annoying Kokichi and I don't know what you're talking about, you weirdo." Todd replied, glaring at the albino squirrel, who was sulking at that answer.
"Jeez...some friend you are." Kokichi muttered, crossing his arms.
"And two..." Todd turned back to Surly with a smile on his face. "Because I really admire adventurous thieves like you!"
"Oh really?" Surly asked in disbelief.
"Yeah...to be honest, you sound like someone I had before and looked up to yet lost..." Todd sighed sadly, remembering his father's death.
"Oh...is that so?" Surly asked, raising a brow and making a little smirk on his face. Unbeknownst to them, Buddy was overhearing their conversation and began secretly sympathizing with Todd, feeling sorry for the poor fox squirrel.
"B-but anyway..." Todd cleared his throat and softly smiled at the purple squirrel. "Okay, you and Buddy may be...rivals with Andie and Grayson, but we can all work this out, can we? After all, Andie really cares about you despite...how she reacted to your joke earlier."
"Tell that to her..." Kokichi rolled her eyes. Todd ignored her as he continued "She believes in you too, just like I do. That has to mean something to you, right?"
Surly glanced away, began having doubts in his heart. However, he pushed those doubts away and made an angry and stern look. "Look kid, I don't need your help and I want you to stay out my business and...d-d-d-d-d..."
"What? What's wrong?" Todd asked, raising a brow. Unbeknownst to them, a pug was behind them, snarling at the sight of the three squirrels.
"D-d-d-d...dog..." Surly muttered with widened eyes.
"Dog? What dog? Oh wait, are you talking about the song 'Who Let The Dogs Out'? I love that song!" Kokichi exclaimed.
Suddenly, they heard the snarling as Todd and Kokichi widened their eyes and slowly turned around, seeing the dog right in front of them.
"Oh...no." Todd muttered as the dog pounced at them. Luckily, Todd dodged that as he, Surly, and Kokichi immediately ran away and went underneath the nut cart. As they tried to sneak out of it, the dog got in the way of their only exit as she continued to bark at them.
Surly, with an annoyed expression, grabbed a wire and made the dog eat it.
"Bon apptit!" Surly shouted as the dog took a bite of it, causing some helium to be sucked by Precious as she backed away a little from it. That's when she noticed Buddy on top of the nut cart, who was giving her a raspberry, much to the dog's annoyance. The pug jumped and tried to attack Buddy, but he dodged it, and instead, the dog hit the lever that made the nut cart stay in its position. Soon, the nut cart started moving on its own and began sliding through the sidewalk.
While Buddy was holding onto something from all the shaking, Surly, Todd, and Kokichi came back up to the nut cart with confused and surprised expressions.
"Uh oh..." Surly muttered in shock.
"Oh...crap-baskets." Kokichi muttered.
Soon, Andie noticed the runaway nut cart as she brightened her smile and exclaimed "Nuts!"
She immediately jumped off the tree branch while Grayson looked at her in amazement and shouted "What a woman!"
Andie ran on the wall and began running on it, trying to catch up to the nut cart. She finally jumped onto the nut cart, noticing both Todd and Kokichi with feared expression.
"Todd! Kokichi!" Andie called for them.
"Andie! Quick, stop this crazy thing!" Todd exclaimed. Andie nodded before she and the others noticed that Surly was putting many nuts inside of his mouth, much to Andie's annoyance and Todd's confusion. Andie then noticed the pail bucket and quickly grabbed it and threw it on a nearby pedestal and caused the nut cart to make a quick U-turn.
Buddy nearly fell over, but luckily, Todd saved and helped him up.
"You okay?" Todd asked in concern. Buddy smiled at the fox squirrel and nodded happily.
"PFFT! PFFT! PFT PFFFT!" They turned to Surly, whose face was covered in nuts, making them unable to hear what he was saying. Surly, realizing that they didn't understand, spit out all the nuts in his mouth and said "That just cost you ten percent!"
"Uh...hate to be the breaker of bad news, which I'm totally fine with that, but..." Kokichi pointed his finger at a nearby cliff, much to everyone's shock. The nut cart immediately made a stop, causing it not to go over the cliff. As everyone let out a sigh of relief, a familiar hero came by.
"Ole!" Grayson landed on the middle of the nut cart with a grin on his face and said "Did I save the day?"
"No...you just caused us to our doom, you stupid idiot." Kokichi said blankly before the nut cart came crashing down to the ground. Luckily, the cliff wasn't that steep, but it caused great damage to the nut cart as smoke began to pour out of it.
Andie, Grayson, and Todd regain consciousness while Kokichi got up, feeling dizzy from the crash.
"Grayson? Todd? Kokichi, are you three alright?" Andie asked, getting back up.
"That depends...do we look okay to you?" Kokichi asked, his eyes swirling until he put two of his paws on his head, causing the dizziness to stop, much to his relief. "Ahh...much better."
"Okay guys, grab as many nuts as you can." Andie said, grabbing a few nuts until she started sniffing something in the air. "Hey...what's that smell?"
"That's my cologne!" Grayson exclaimed with pure confidence. "Made from tree sap and falcon tears."
"Really? No wonder why you smell like a yak using the bathroom." Kokichi said bluntly with a sly grin, ignoring Grayson's shocked and angered look.
"Anyway..." Todd glared at the albino squirrel before smelling something burning. "Yeah, it smells like..smoke."
"Back, I say!" Everyone immediately turned around to find Surly holding a torch in his paws.
"Hey, hey, hey! Watch the tail!" Grayson backed away, hiding behind Andie's back. "It's flammable here."
"Well...that's new." Kokichi said, looking at Grayson with a slightly shock expression before turning back to Surly and said "So what? You're going to burn us alive or something?"
"I said back away! These nuts...are ours!" Surly exclaimed, accidentally knocking Buddy out. "Huh?" He looked back, seeing his unconscious friend before rephrasing "These nuts are mine!"
Todd looked between Andie, Grayson, Kokichi, and back at Surly. He became hesitant upon which side he should choose. Surly, or Andie? He began thinking that they're rivals, wanting to take credit on feeding the park. So...he finally made his decision.
Todd quickly ran towards Surly and stood next to him with a confident smirk on his face and said "Um...yeeeeeah. They're...his nuts! I mean, our nuts! Team Surly for the win!"
Andie and Grayson became shocked by the fox squirrel's decision.
"Well...I feel betray." Kokichi said with half-opened eyes.
"W-what?! Todd! What do you think you're doing?!" Andie exclaimed in anger and shock.
"I'm making the right choice, Andie!" Todd exclaimed. "I mean, I'm helping Surly deliver these nuts to the park! I mean, you guys have the same objective despite being rivals, right?"
"Wow...you seriously don't know?" Kokichi asked, much to Todd's confusion. Before anyone could respond, Surly cleared his throat and said "Whoa whoa whoa, what do you mean having the same objective, kid? Who said I was helping the park?"
"W-what? What are you talking about?" Todd asked, feeling confused about this.
"Look! We'll discuss this later!" Andie said before turning to Surly with a pleading look on her face. "Look Surly, we can negotiate!"
"Yeah, that sounds fair! How about...one hundred me? Zero for you!" Surly replied, accidentally lighting up a loose wire, the same one that the dog from earlier bite upon.
"Well...we're all going to die..." Kokichi muttered, much to everyone's confusion. That's when they started to hear a sound as they turned and looked behind Surly to see the propane tank shaking violently until...
BOOM!
They were blasted away in the nut cart as they tried hanging on tight from the velocity the nut cart was giving.
"This is terrifying yet amazing!" Todd exclaimed in joy.
"You think this ride is awesome?" Kokichi questioned with a smirk on his face before turning off-screen with tickets in his hands. "Then you should try the rides at Six Flags Great Adventure! Their rides are more terrifying and awesome than ever! HA HA HA HA!"
"Quick, we need to find a way to stop this thing!" Andie yelled, ignoring Kokichi's craziness.
Grayson put on a determined look and said "Follow I!"
He quickly got to the propane tank and attempted to switch it off by turning the handle. However, he had a hard time trying to turn it.
"Surly! Come help man!" Grayson demanded. Surly looked at him with a surprised expression before looking back at the bag of nuts. Surly became hesitant on which to choose while Todd looked at him with a soft smile, hoping that he might make the right choice. Unfortunately, his hopes was shattered as Surly chose the bag of nuts over helping Grayson.
"What the?! Curse you Surly!" Grayson exclaimed angrily. Surly let out a laughter before jumping off the nut cart and jumping safely on a nearby bridge. Andie looked back and glared at him angrily, shouting "Surly, you coward!"
This confused and surprised Todd even more. Why would Surly choose the bag of nuts over helping them out? Does he even care about their safety or taking the credit for himself? Suddenly, his thoughts were cut-off as he was knocked off by a pigeon, knocking him off the nut cart.
"Todd!" Andie exclaimed in shock.
"Squirrel overboard!" Grayson added.
"Oh for the love of...guess I got no choice. Sayonara suckers." Kokichi jumped off the nut cart and rolled on the floor, shaking his head to get rid of the dizziness before making his way towards Todd. Todd was laying on the ground, nearly unconscious from the hit. "Hey...you alright?"
Todd soon opened his eyes and saw Kokichi with a big smile on his face. "Huh? What the?!"
"You got knocked out by one of those pigeons. But the important thing is that you're okay. Trust me, I know what its like to get hit in the face with a pigeon." Kokichi grinned and chuckled.
"...I'm not going to begin to ask how did that happen..." Todd said with widened eyes before looking around, seeing that he's on the ground and not on the nut cart. "But what happened? Where's Surly, Andie, Buddy, and Grayson?"
"Oh...right, about that-"
BOOOM!
Immediately, both Todd and Kokichi turned around to see the Grand Oak Tree blowing up. The only tree that was being stored of food for winter.
"Oh...crap-baskets..." Kokichi muttered in shock.
"This can't be good..." Todd agreed with widened eyes.
Kokichi began panicking as he exclaimed "This is bad! This is extremely bad! We need to get out of here before the animals here might assume that we might've been involved in all of this!"
"But we have been involved in all this." Todd said in a deadpan expression.
"Whatever! We need to get out of here, you idiot!" Kokichi exclaimed. "Because I swear, if you get me in trouble as well...then I'm moving to Mexico!"
"Mexico?!" Todd exclaimed in shock. "Hold on, what about you being my guide for self-discovery and all that?"
"...Oh..." Kokichi muttered, remembering that. "I totally forgotten about that..."
Todd face-pawed himself, getting a headache from talking to this guy. This squirrel is too crazy and just loves spouting nonsense. Soon, two shadows loomed over Todd and Kokichi, which made them looked up and saw it was Jimmy and Johnny, who were glaring down at them, and what's worse was that they held Surly by the arms.
"Umm...hey there..." Todd sheepishly smiled and waved at them nervously before whispering "Kokichi, do something!"
That's when he noticed Kokichi wasn't near him as he was smooth-talking with Jamie, who was also glaring at both the fox and albino squirrel.
"Hey Miss Jamie. I'm sure this was all a misunderstanding! See, Toddy here was messing with that purple thief and I was trying to stop them. I'm sure we can forget all this with a date tonight? What do you say, Miss Jamie?" Kokichi wiggled his brows. Unfortunately, his attempts to smooth-talked Jamie became futile as he was punched in the gut by her, causing Kokichi to fall on the ground while clutching onto his stomach.
"Okay...maybe I deserve that." Kokichi muttered before being held by the tail by Johnny.
"Some friend you are..." Todd muttered before looking back at the Bruisers with a nervous smile. "Heh heh heh...can we talk about this?"
Unfortunately, Jimmy grabbed him by the tail and carried them towards what was called the Grand Oak Tree.
Meanwhile
Everyone looked upon at the destroyed Grand Oak Tree, and what's worse was that all their food that they stored up was all gone. All that hard work...for nothing.
"Grayson?...Grayson!" Mole called as he and Raccoon stepped in front of the crowd in shock and sadness. "Where are you?!" Mole shouted, trying to find him.
"...What happened here?" Raccoon asked, forming an angered expression. A little chipmunk showed him a burned nut, which made him ticked off as he crushed it with his paws and looked a the crowd with an angered expression, shouting "Who's responsible for this?!"
"Hey! Let me go, you clowns!" Everyone turned around and became shocked to see Surly being held against his will by the Bruisers as Johnny and Jimmy glared at him while holding him by both of his arms. "You're making a big mistake! I have an alibi! I got witnesses!"
The Bruisers threw him into the air, landing on the hard ground.
"Found him hiding in one of our holes, just like a snake!" Jimmy said, glaring at him. Everyone glared at Surly as he immediately got up and said "I-I was looking for bury nuts! Yeah, that's what I was-"
He stopped as he started to smell smoke. "Hey, do you guys smell that? It's like burned nuts or something, is that me? What's going on..." Surly turned and widened his eyes upon seeing the burned up tree, and he began laughing. "Ha ha ha ha! Look at that! You guys are messed up for winter, man!"
Everyone glared angrily at Surly for not even caring that he destroyed the Grand Oak Tree as he continued "I mean, wow! Just look at this bond fire! You all didn't see that one coming, eh?"
Suddenly, they heard some screaming as Grayson landed on top of Surly, much to everyone's shock.
"Never fear! This sweet bod is undamaged!" Grayson exclaimed before falling flat on his face.
"And that's not all sir!" Johnny said as he and his sister, Jamie, held and revealed both Todd and Kokichi in front of everyone by their tails. "We also caught the new guy and Kokichi here trying to work with the troublemaker!"
"Ow! Not by the tail! It kinda hurts!" Todd exclaimed as he felt a bit of pain from the Bruisers holding him by the tail.
Everyone, including Raccoon but except Andie and Grayson, who of course is in a daze from the explosion, is mad and upset with Todd for trying to work with Surly, even Kokichi was in it.
"Hey! Watch it now writer! You better rephrase that or else!" Kokichi threatened, looking off-screen.
"Who are you even talking to?!" Todd asked angrily before noticing Raccoon coming towards them with a stern disappointed look on his face. Todd became hesitant on what to tell Raccoon while Kokichi grinned and said "So now what? We're so boned, aren't we?"
"Kokichi!" Todd glared at him before sighing in defeat and look at Raccoon with a sad look. "I'm sorry Raccoon, I didn't-"
"Save the apologies for after your punishment, Lloyd." Raccoon said sternly, interrupting Todd's apology. Todd sighed and looked down in depression, feeling bad to have cause all this.
"Raccoon, please! Don't take this on Todd and Kokichi!" Andie begged.
"Don't bother trying to defend me, tuts. I always love taking these punishments of his." Kokichi smirked, ignoring the glare Andie and Todd were giving him. Andie sighed before looking back at Raccoon with a pleading look as she continued "Please Raccoon, it's my fault that I didn't tell Todd the truth about Surly! So let me organize the trial, and take the punishment myself!"
"Another trial?!" A pigeon asked, looking at Andie like she was crazy. "He never learns!"
"He needs something more severe!" Johnny said, cracking his knuckles.
"He's a clear and vile danger to this park!" Jamie exclaimed, agreeing with her brother.
"Yolk..." Surly muttered, still unconscious.
"No! No! We do things by the rule of law! Let justice take care of this!" Andie assured. Raccoon walked towards her with a serious expression and said "They want justice Andie, and justice they shall receive."
Andie let her ears dropped, feeling bad that Raccoon won't listen to her.
"Do I even say anything for defense? Man, I was so gonna go Ace Attorney for this trial!" Kokichi exclaimed, before being dropped on the ground, along with Todd.
"Okay...I'm so confused right now!" Todd got up and looked at everyone with a confused expression. "Just why are you all against Surly? And what truth is Andie talking about?"
Surly got back up, regaining his consciousness and looked at Todd with a raised brow, hearing his question. "Nobody told ya, huh new kid?" Surly asked.
"N-no?" Todd answered, hesitantly.
"Well...if you must know, Surly here is known as the park criminal of Liberty Park." Raccoon answered, shocking Todd.
"W-what?! He is?!" Todd asked in shock.
Andie sighed sadly and responded "Yes Todd, Surly really is a criminal. He's been known for his trouble making here in the park for years."
Todd jaw-dropped at this new revelation while the park animals nodded in agreement, and Surly shrugs as if it's true. Kokichi, on the other paw, was ignoring the scene as he was roasting a marshmallow, which everyone won't question how he got it.
"No...this can't be right." Todd said, not wanting to know the truth.
"I am sorry Lloyd if you had to know the truth." Raccoon said with a serious look on his face. "But you don't have to worry anymore, because I have a way to make sure we all live in peace once more."
"W-what?" Todd asked hesitantly.
"Oh no, I'm not liking where this is going." Kokichi shook his head.
Raccoon turned back to the park animals and announced "All in favor of banishment...raise your paws!"
"Banishment?!" Surly exclaimed.
"Banishment?!" Andie widened her eyes in shock.
"Banishment?!" Todd added.
"Bandages?!" Grayson asked, still daze from the explosion as he fell over and said "Yes, please."
"...Okay, can we get an ice pack for poor old Gayson here?" Kokichi asked, not hearing what Raccoon said.
Everyone looked at Raccoon, unsure about this decision. "Why are you hesitating? He's refused to join us, ridiculed our hard work." Raccoon said sternly. "Stolen, cheated, lied, and now destroyed our only food for winter."
Everyone began reminiscing the moments Surly ruined everything, even what he did today. Surly looked around, not amused by the looks of everyone they were giving.
"Let's say all!" Raccoon exclaimed, raising his paws in the air. Everyone did so, already agreeing with the voting.
"And stick them up!" Grayson exclaimed, accidentally raising his paws in the air as he let out a laughter before saying "Why is the ground moving towards my face?"
Grayson fell over, collapsing on the ground face flat...again.
"Seriously, is anyone gonna help him or what?" Kokichi asked again, which everyone ignored him.
"We don't vote without a trial, this isn't how we do things!" Andie exclaimed, not wanting to go through this. Mole wanted to say something, but dropped it.
"I have run out of options for that squirrel Andie." Raccoon put his paws on Andie's shoulder with a hard look he was giving to her. "Do what you will, do what is right."
Andie glancd away, feeling terrible about what she was gonna do.
"Come on Andie, don't do this." Todd muttered, not wanting the purple squirrel to be banish out of the park. That's when all his hopes were shattered upon seeing Andie slowly raised her paw into the air, much to Todd, and Surly's shock.
"...Meh." Kokichi waved it off.
"Andie...why?" Todd asked, his expression went pale upon seeing Andie vote for him.
Surly looked around, desperately hoping that no one else voted besides Todd and Kokichi until he noticed Buddy roasting a nut. Though, how did the rat get here after he was left behind back when the Nut Cart was blasted away, nobody knew the answer.
"Ha! U-uh...Buddy, has not voted." Surly said, with a weak grin. "And it has to be unanimous, that's the rules!" Surly looked at his best friend with a worried smile and continued "You wouldn't vote against me? Will you old bud?...Buddy?"
Surly managed to get his best friend's attention, but Buddy didn't hear anything from the entirety conversation as he unintentionally raised his paw in the air while he waved to Surly, who jaw-dropped at what have Buddy done.
"...You were saying?" Raccoon asked with raised brows. Andie looked at Surly, feeling terrible for not trying to stand up for him.
"God, you guys are so stupid." Kokichi said, biting his nails. "Oh come on! He didn't even hear anything, so his vote doesn't even count! God, you animals are so stupid! I mean, I feel like this is some sort of violation to the rules to even vote him out without some trial."
"For once, Kokichi's right." Todd nodded in agreement, surprising and upsetting everyone, except for Andie and Grayson, who was still daze from the explosion.
"What?!" Johnny exclaimed in shock.
"No, not about you guys being stupid, I meant voted him out of this park." Todd said with a determined look on his face. "I refused to even do this on him! I won't vote for this, and Andie's right! We should give Surly another chance and I know that Surly didn't mean to destroy the Grand Oak Tree because it wasn't his intention!"
"Yeah, me neither. Don't involve me in anyway." Kokichi shrugged. "Besides, it sounds so boring..."
Raccoon sighed in annoyance before looking at Todd and Kokichi with a disappointed and stern look. "I don't care what you say Lloyd, and mostly from Kokichi."
"It's true, nobody bothers to listen to me." Kokichi grinned.
"We'll talk about you two later. In the meantime..." Raccoon turned to the Bruisers. "Johnny, Jimmy, Jamie! Bring both Todd and Kokichi back to the mill while we discussed their punishments."
"Wait what?" Kokichi asked before being grabbed by the tail by Johnny. "H-hey! What did I do?!"
"N-no! Dang it!" Todd exclaimed as he was also grabbed by the tail by Jimmy.
"Wait! Raccoon, don't do this!" Andie spoke up with a worried and sad look on her face. "Please, give Todd another chance! He didn't know that Surly was even the park criminal!"
"What about me?!" Kokichi waved his arms over and over, trying to gain their attention, but no luck.
"I don't want to hear it, Andie." Raccoon said sternly, causing Andie to widened her eyes in shock. "Bruisers, take them away!"
"Yes sir!" The Bruisers nodded before taking both Todd and Kokichi away to the mill.
"So is nobody gonna pay attention to me?!" Kokichi exclaimed in anger.
While everyone once again ignored Kokichi, Todd looked towards Surly and shouted "I'm sorry, Surly! I know I'm someone you've just met, but I know you really don't deserve this! You and Buddy have to trust me!"
Surly looked at him with shock, seeing how the fox squirrel cares for him. It makes him grow a but of trust in Todd, knowing that the fox squirrel believes in him even though they've just met.
Meanwhile, back with Todd and Kokichi. As they were being dragged to the mill, Todd began to feel guilty upon meeting Surly.
"Why? Why did this all have to happen? I just wanted to meet Surly because I thought he was a good thief. But...he had to act like a bad one. But I know he's different than what everyone says! I know he's a cool and awesome guy/thief! I just know it!" Todd thought before sighing sadly.
He had to face the facts that no matter how cool Surly seemed or even if his voice sounded like his father's, he can't avoid or silence the truth.
"Why am I even being punished here?!" Kokichi exclaimed. "Seriously, don't you idiots pay attention at all?"
He was immediately silenced by a punch in the gut by Jamie. "Ow...I deserve that as well."
To Be Continued
Phew...man, this chapter was so long to take! But I'm glad to finally finish it! What's going to happen to our fox squirrel friend and our thieving criminal/hero? Find out next time on My Father Figure, Surly Squirrel! Until then, bye-onara!