The sun began to raise up over Oakton City, and many people began doing their normal everyday business. Well, not everyone...or every squirrel. Meanwhile back in the Nut Shop, Surly, Todd, and Buddy were seen sleeping on the beams of the ceiling. Surly let out a yawn and started stretching his back, letting out a fart in the process.
"Ugh...Buddy, kid, I ate too much cheese..." Surly muttered, sleep-talking as he get letting out some gas in the process. "I think I'm gonna have a cheese baby..."
Todd soon began waking up while groaning in exhaustion, stretching his back a little. "Ugh...what time is it?" Todd wondered before noticing Surly slowly drifting off and falling off the beam and landing on the floor.
"Ah!" Todd gasped before turning to Buddy and began shaking him, waking him up. Buddy shook his head before turning to Todd as he exclaimed "Buddy! Hurry! Surly's in trouble!"
Buddy widens his eyes and looked over to the floor, seeing Surly peacefully sleeping on the ground. Before anyone could do something, they heard a door knocking as they saw Lucky headed over to the door and looks through the blinds as he let out a gasp and mutters "Well I'll be."
He soon opened the door, letting out a blonde woman in. Todd raised a brow, wondering who she was and saw King and Knuckles walking out of the basement. Knuckles noticed her and tried to pull out a gun from his jacket until King stopped him, having a shocked expression upon seeing her.
"Son of a gun..." King muttered, slowly smiling at him. "Lana..."
"Gee, Lana, you look swell." Lucky said with a soft smile.
"Lana, crazy dame." King chuckled, holding Lana's hands. "Hey, ain't you got a nickel to call first?"
"No need. Your ma told me where to find you, King." The blonde hair known as Lana replied, happy to see King. Todd titled his head, seeing them like this.
"I guess they know each other. If I had to guess, I say this guy is in love with that Lana girl." Todd thought before noticing that Surly was nowhere to be found on the floor. "Huh? Where did Surly go?"
"Look at that! It's Lana!" Fingers exclaimed in joy as Precious came over and looked at her curiously before letting out a bark.
"Aww, and who are you, you slobbery little monster." Lana chuckled, playing around with Precious.
"This is Precious, our vicious guard dog." Fingers answered before adding "But she's not very good at her job."
Lana let go of Precious and began sniffing around the place, before coming over to a shelf filled with nut-crackers. While sniffing through them, she didn't noticed that Surly pretending to be a nut-cracker, which both Todd and Buddy noticed.
"Woo, at least he's alright..." Todd sighed in relief, letting out a smile. Suddenly, Precious realized something was off as she turned back and find the place where Surly was hiding was gone. She then heard a whistle and looked over at the peanut dispenser, seeing Surly inside of the contraption as he gave her a taunting air kiss before taking one of the nuts and sniffed at it. Precious just tilted her head at him while both Buddy and Todd snickered upon what Surly was doing.
"Ha ha! Nice one Surly!" Todd chuckled. Soon, Precious began growling towards the purple squirrel and started barking at him, annoying some of the humans.
"Oh, not again!" Fingers whined before taking out his dog whistle and blew into it, causing not only Precious, but Knuckles to wince in pain upon hearing it. Surly looked through the glass and smiled, seeing how much pain Precious is in.
"Huh, this is so great! Ha! Take that you dimwitted dog! Hmm...maybe I could that dog whistle to my advantage. If only I can get it off that human's hands..." Surly thought with a smirk on his face. Apparently, lady luck was on his side as Knuckles, who couldn't take the noise anymore, grabbed Fingers by the shirt collar and swiped the dog whistle from his mouth before taking it outside and throwing it away as far as he could.
"Hey! My whistle!" Fingers yelled in shocked. "I wanna be reimbursed for that!"
With the whistle gone, Precious realizes that she can know go and finish off Surly as she jumped onto the nut dispenser, causing to it break and to bounce off with Surly inside.
Todd and Buddy gasped as the former exclaimed "Quick Buddy! We need to save him!"
Buddy nodded and gestured him to follow him. They both ran through the beams until they noticed King as Buddy prepared to jump.
"Wait, are you sure you know what you're doing, Buddy?" Todd asked in concern, but Buddy replied with a thumbs up. Todd smiled and said "Alright! I trust you Buddy! Let's go!"
They both jumped down from the beams into King's shirt, causing him to shriek in fear.
"AHHH! RATS! THERE ARE RATS IN MY PANTS!" King screamed as he fell on his butt and began shaking his legs, hoping to get both Buddy and Todd out. "GET THEM OFF OF ME!"
Todd and Buddy immediately ran out of King's pants and headed inside, which were Precious and the nut dispenser with Surly inside where as Precious immediately bounced off of it before the nut dispenser crashed right in a telephone pole, breaking the glass. Surly shook his head as Buddy and Todd ran towards him.
"Surly! Are you okay?!" Todd asked in worried.
"Yeah, don't worry kiddo, I'm fine." Surly assured with a grin before noticing Precious was running towards them. "Uh oh! Let's get out of here!"
With that, Surly, Todd, and Buddy climbed up the telephone pole as Precious came and barked at them. They immediately ran through the telephone wire before looking back to see the pug running back inside with King closing the doors.
"Alright, next chance we get, we go back in there and stash away those nuts." Surly said, looking over the nut shop.
"Yeah, but it has some tight security." Todd pointed out, which Buddy nodded in agreement.
"You're right kid, and we can't go back to the park though..." Surly wondered aloud before scoffing "Ah, forget it. Let's go get that shiny thing!"
"What? You mean that dog whistle from before?" Todd asked, which Surly nodded. "But why would...Ooooh! I see where you're going! You got it Surly!"
"That's what I'm talking about Todd! Now here we go!" Surly jumped over the fox squirrel and Buddy, who they followed after him. They immediately headed over to the alleyway, where Surly last seen the dog whistle being thrown away at. As they rummaged through the garbage, Surly noticed a shiny object wedged between some boxes.
"Ah ha!" Surly quickly grabbed it, revealing to be the dog whistle. "Yes! The thingamabooby is mine!" Surly raised it into the air with a big grin on his face.
"Awesome Surly! Now that we got it, we can finally use to control that dog and raid the Nut Shop!" Todd smiled happily. Before any of them could respond, the wooden box Surly was standing on, dropped down and caused him to fall off, dropping the dog whistle in the process.
The dog whistle dropped and rolled on the ground, landing on the feets of a familiar red squirrel and an albino squirrel.
"Surly!" Andie called.
"Andie?!" Surly looked out of the box with a shocked expression.
"What the?! Kokichi too?! What are you doing here?!" Todd exclaimed in shock.
"What? Never expected it to be me? That hurts Toddy." Kokichi said, letting some tears out before he began acting dramatic as tears ran swelling his eyes and exclaimed "WAAAAAAH! How could you not care about me?!"
"Well I hardly care for you since you act like a jerk." Todd said in a blank expression. "And you can stop that fake crying."
"Oh wow, that's a very good eyesight you got there, Toddy." Kokichi stopped all his crying as he smirked at him. "Nee-hee-hee, yep! You're all grown up."
"Shut up Kokichi." Todd said, annoyed with him.
"What are you doing here? I'm looking for food! No! I'm looking for food!" They both exclaimed in unison.
"Oh for the love of! Just make out already!" Kokichi complained, tired of them saying the exact same thing.
"Shut up Kokichi!" Todd yelled at him, who sweat-dropped at them.
"Whatever..." Kokichi rolled his eyes while crossing his arms.
"Wait! Todd, what in the world are doing here?!" Andie asked in surprise before sternly glaring at him.
"Ooh, hey Andie..." Todd turned back to her with a sweat-drop and a nervous grin. "W-well, never expected to see you here."
"What? You expect to be someone else?" Kokichi raised a brow at him while Todd just gave him a deadpan glare.
"Hey..." Andie turned back to Surly with a suspicious look. "Just what do you think you're up, Surly?"
"And why do you think that, Andie?" Surly asked, raising a brow at her.
"You better not be putting Todd in any danger at all." Andie said sternly.
"No, of course not! I mean, me. Putting this kid in danger. That's seems too far, Andie." Surly replied before noticing the dog whistle in her palms. "But say, can I have that back please?"
Surly tried to grabbed the dog whistle back, only for Andie dodged and held the dog whistle tight in her palms. "Why? What is this thing?"
"Andie! You need to give it back! We need it!" Todd pleaded, trying to get the dog whistle back, but Andie held it back.
"Yeah! We need it because it's our...musical instrument!" Surly exclaimed, much to everyone's confusion. "You know, for playing the blues."
"Really? That's the best lie you can come up with?" Kokichi raised a brow, ignoring the glare from Todd. Todd turned back to Andie with a smile and followed up on Surly's lie.
"Y-yeah! He's right! It's a musical instrument that we happened to found a while back!" Todd chuckled nervously before turning to Surly. "Go on Surly! Show her your music skills!"
"Y-yeah! With pleasure kiddo." Surly nodded before quickly grabbing the dog whistle while Andie still held onto it as he began playing through it. "I got no friends, no food. This whistle got nothing to do with food. Oooh, I got the no food...bluuuuueees!"
"Ooh, catchy song. Wonder if the creators should've made a song about that..." Kokichi thought with a big smirk on his face. "But ha ha ha ha! Really? You expect us to believe that dog whistle is a flute. Any moron can figure it out."
"Like you?" Todd smirked at him, causing Kokichi to flinch.
"Uhh...no?" Todd shook at his head, unable to comprehend how much insanity this albino squirrel has in that head of his.
"Alright, that's enough!" Andie took the dog whistle out of Surly's paws and held it against the storm drain. "You found food, and put Todd in danger, didn't you?! And this thing has something to do with it, huh?"
"Andie! What are you doing?!" Todd exclaimed in shock, seeing Andie do something like this, even to Surly. "Give it back!" Todd tried to, but was held back by Surly, who didn't want the fox squirrel to start up a fight with her.
Todd couldn't believe it as he stared at her. He always thought of Andie as Surly's voice of reason and that she cared about him. He just couldn't believe that she would do such a thing like that to the purple squirrel despite her telling him that she does care for him.
"Whoa whoa! Wait!" Surly pleaded, surprising Andie a bit as she raised a brow at him. "Okay Andie, let's not get too 'nutty' around here. Part of the expression."
"Of what expression?" Kokichi asked with a raised brow, adding more fury of Andie's annoyance.
"Shut up Kokichi! I don't wanna hear it from you anymore!" Andie exclaimed before turning back to Surly. "Surly, I'm having one heck of a day! The park lost all its food, Grayson has lost his mind, I've lost Grayson, and I was put up with all the annoyance and stupid puns and gags Kokichi had to keep making up throughout the night! Now you better listen up straight because..."
While Andie kept yammering about her day, Surly and Todd noticed King leaving the door bare opened, meaning that they could sneak in.
"The door!" Both Todd and Surly said in unison while Buddy got up with a curious expression.
"What? What door?" Andie asked.
"I-I mean...my door is always opens to you, Andie!" Surly lied before he, Buddy, and Todd quickly ran through the streets, avoiding the traffic. "Bye Andie!"
"Hey! Get back here!" Andie demanded.
"And keep that thing for me, will ya?" Surly asked, much to Andie's confusion. Todd looked back at Andie with a sad look, unsure to believe in anything she would say. Andie looks back at the dog whistle and looks back at where Surly, Todd, and Buddy were heading.
"Just where do they think they're going?" Andie wondered.
"Hmm...I say that big store that says 'Maury Nut Shops'." Kokichi shrugged, pointing to the store's sign.
"Wait, nut shop?!" Andie gasped. "So that's where they going!"
"What's the big deal? It's not like they're going to raid the nut shop." Kokichi said, ignoring the deadpan glare Andie gave him.
"...Remind me again why you're here." Andie sighed.
Meanwhile
Surly, Todd, and Buddy were able to get inside of the nut shop, only to find the pug blocking the basement's door. Surly growled in anger and slammed his fist onto some contraption.
Buddy noticed a switch, which both Todd and Surly noticed. "Why not use this? It might distract that dog." Todd suggested.
"Well...that's the only I can think of. Let's try it." Surly nodded as he flipped the switch, turning the contraption on as it started moving. It was a plain old pony's ride which kids use to ride on it to enjoy themselves. Soon, Precious noticed it and walked over it with a curious expression, wondering what started it until she heard a whistle and looked back to see Surly, Buddy, and Todd standing at the basement's door, the one place she was guarding.
Surly let out a taunting chuckle while Todd gave her a raspberry as they both shut the door closed, much to Precious's shock as she twitched her left eye in annoyance. Unfortunately, she noticed King passing by with a shovel in his hands, and with a hard and cold glare he sent at her, she pouted and whimpered in fear.
Meanwhile, both Surly and Todd chuckled and hi-fived each other until they accidentally bumped into Buddy and began falling down the stairs.
"OW! TAIL! OW! HEAD! OW! TAIL! OW! HEAD! OW! TAIL! OW! HEAD!" Surly exclaimed in pain as they all fell into a bags of sands. Todd came out and shook his head, getting the sand off his head. Buddy got back up and looked at something with a big smile on his face. Surly got back up and grabbed the blue rat's neck, and was about to punch him.
"Surly, stop! Look!" Todd pointed at where Buddy was looking at. Surly raised a brow at them and slowly turned around, only to gasp in shock upon seeing what it was. It was a room filled with nuts, and lots of different kinds of nuts! Probably a million inside in this basement. Surly jumped off from the bag as he slowly walks towards it with a jaw-dropped before it formed into a big smile.
"Yes...yes...YEEEES!" Surly yelled as he dropped to his knees and exclaimed "Buddy! Kid! We found it! The lost city of Nut-Lantis!"
Surly then fell down and started rolling around the ground, with some nuts left on the ground. Todd chuckle with a smile, knowing how funny and admirable the purple squirrel can be.
"Wow, I never seen him this...excited before." Todd said with a smile on his face, which Buddy nodded in agreement before they started to hear voices, and it was coming from the huge cavern on the wall. "Uh oh..."
Todd and Buddy widened their eyes as they jumped down and tried to get Surly's attention, but he was acting too crazy with all the nuts around as they tried to stop him, but failed. Buddy sighed and grabbed Surly by the legs and started dragging him to a nearby barrel, with Todd carrying the right leg of Surly while Buddy carried the left. As soon as they made it to a hiding spot behind the barrel, avoiding the humans in the process, Surly began chanting some nonsense as his mouth was filled with nuts.
With no choice, Buddy slapped Surly in the face, snapping him back from his sanity. Surly shook his head from the pain, putting back his serious face as he said "Thanks Bud, kiddo."
Todd helped him get back up from the ground as Surly sighed "Sorry about that. Went a little nuts. I didn't say anything too stupid, did I?"
"Umm...no, not at all." Todd chuckled nervously while Buddy sighed in annoyance. Soon, they noticed the two human crooks taking a bunch of sacks into a makeshift elevator, and once they turned it on, it was starting to move towards the metal door that Surly, Todd, and Buddy tried to go through.
"Huh...storing food for winter, eh?" Surly wondered, seeing the huge cavern behind them.
"Umm, I don't think so Surly." Todd shook his head. "It looks like they're digging a hole for...something."
"Whatever kiddo, I don't care what those humans are doing." Surly rolled his eyes, not bothered to see what they're up to. "Alright, remember guys. We're gonna dig our own hole, a tunnel from here to the alley, loot the whole place, get fat for winter. Got it?"
Buddy nodded while Todd smiled and replied "Got it Surly! Come on team, let's go!"
With that, the humans went upstairs while Surly, Todd, and Surly were busy collecting some nuts and go through the metal gate where they can plan their heist. While they were busy collecting nuts, Todd heard a growl as he turned around and saw Precious glaring at them.
"Umm guys, we got a problem." Todd said with widened eyes.
"What? Small or big?" Surly asked.
"Big." Todd pointed towards the problem, which both Surly and Buddy looked over and saw Precious glaring at them, much to their shock.
"You've got to be kidding me right now..." Surly sighed as Precious chased after them. They immediately dodged her pouncing and jumped onto the small elevator and headed through the metal gate. Todd and Buddy successfully made it out, but Surly accidentally tripped and got himself wedged between the metal gate, much to their shock.
"Surly!" Todd exclaimed as he and Buddy tried to help him until Andie and Kokichi came. Andie pushed both of them back while Kokichi stood out of the way to make himself uninvolved of this scene.
"Okay Surly, you are going to tell me what's going on down there!" Andie demanded as Todd tried to get past her.
"Yes! Yes! Just give me that thing!" Surly exclaimed in fear.
"Andie! What do you think you're doing?! Let go of me!" Todd demanded as Surly looked back down through the metal gate, hearing the dog's barking.
"There's food down there, and you're going to share it with us, right?" Andie asked with a sly smirk.
"Never!" Surly exclaimed.
"Surly! You better tell me or else!"
"Okay! I'll share! I'll share!"
"Fifty-fifty!"
"Fifty-fifty?" Surly said, feeling offended of that. "I never gotten fifty-fifty in my entire life before!"
Suddenly, he was yank back through the metal gate, much to Todd's shock. He then growled and yelled "Of for god's sake, Andie!"
He immediately snatches the dog whistle out of her palms and tosses it to the purple squirrel. Once Surly got his hands by it, he was yanked by Precious, who was pulling his tail as they both fell down back on the ground with Surly holding the whistle in front of Precious.
"Ah ha!" Surly smirked at the pug, who gasped upon seeing it. "I got four words for ya!"
"Okay?!" Precious asked in fear.
"Thing-a-ma-booby." Surly smirked at her, causing her to whimper. "How do you like that, huh?"
"Okay! Okay! You win, you win!" Precious said, backing away a little.
"Huh? Oh. So you can talk." Surly chuckled as the others looked through the metal gate. Andie widened her eyes in surprise, seeing the whole room filled with nuts. As for Kokichi...
"Meh, I've seen better." Kokichi rolled his eyes.
"Alright, it's safe to come down." Surly called over as Kokichi and Buddy jumped down to come and check it out, but for Andie, she was held back by Todd as he glared at her angrily as he tells Surly "Hang on Surly. Me and Andie need a little talk."
He yanks her back and slams the metal door as he glared at her.
"T-Todd! What are you doing?!" Andie asked in shock.
"I can't believe you, Andie! I thought you were better than this! What was all that about?!" Todd asked angrily.
"I'm sorry on what happened, Todd! But I had to force him to make the deal! I had no choice!" Andie retorted.
"You could have tried negotiating again or done things the easy way! Those were some other options you had, and you could have given him another chance!" Todd argued.
"Todd, you don't know Surly than I do! I have to be forceful because Surly is known as the most stubborn and arrogant squirrel of all of Liberty Park! I had to be forceful towards him!"
"And so you threatened to get rid of the whistle and you nearly get him eaten by a dog?! I believed in you! I trusted you! I thought you were Surly's voice of reason! I thought you were the rodent who shows kindness to him!" Todd exclaimed in fury.
"Todd, I swear! I-I didn't know there was a dog down there at all! Look, I wasn't myself today due to how annoying Kokichi was last night and this morning, along with what happened last night when-"
"You know what? First you get offended by his joke, then you call him a coward, and now all of this! You want to play bad cop like that out of nowhere like that?! Then fine! You, Andie, are no better than Raccoon! We're no longer friends!"
Andie became shocked to hear that as Todd turns away from her to the door and opens it to rejoin with Surly and the others. Before he goes in though, he glanced back at Andie with a glare and says "I just don't trust you anymore, Andie. Just stay away from me, and don't ever talk to me again."
He then walks through the metal gate where Surly and the others were before slamming the door behind him. Andie widened her eyes, seeing how angry and furious Todd was.
"Todd...What have I done?" Andie thought as she felt hurt and sad that she lost Todd's trust and now he hates her now. She sighs sadly and muttered "Things cannot get any worse than this..."
She then remembered what Todd's last words were to her. You were no better than Raccoon...
"That's not true...is it? Have I...really been that forceful towards Surly? If only if I been nice instead of rude and forceful, then..." Andie let out a tear before wiping it away and entering the nut shop, trying to forget about what happened just now.
She came down the little elevator and walks around the room in awe. Surly was busy interrogating Precious, who turned out to be friendly and was just following orders from her masters, the crooks from before. She then tries to be friends with Surly, much to his disappointment. Kokichi looked around before taking a few nuts and eating them.
"Yep, they're peanuts alright." Kokichi chuckled.
"Wow..." Andie muttered. "Look at this place. There's enough food to feed the park for years."
"Well more like in a year if any of the viewers out there know what I'm saying." Kokichi winked off-screen, much to Surly, Buddy, and Todd's confusion, who looked at each other and shrugged on what Kokichi was even saying.
"Even so, this could be our way to save the park from starvation!" Andie said before jumping onto a barrel filled with nuts and taking a few bits from one.
"Whoa whoa whoa, hey! What do you're doing?" Surly asked. Todd leans in toward Surly and says "Pretending to be a hero, that's what."
Andie overhears this and rolls her eyes in annoyance without any of them noticing. After she was finished, she grabbed her card box backpack and says "Well, I'm off!"
"What? Where?" Surly asked.
"We made a deal, remember?" Andie reminded him.
"More like a blackmail to me..." Todd rolled his eyes in annoyance, which Andie overheard and sighed.
"Oh! I can attack her if ya want?" Precious offered, which annoyed Surly.
"I said shut it, mutt." Surly demanded, which Precious did. "Look, I get my share, you get ours, that's all."
"There's no way I can take all of these nuts back at the park." Andie said, realizing this problem before jumping down in front of Surly and Todd as she proposes "We need a fool proof plan."
"Or we can stay here for the rest of our lives and eat all these nuts through winter while everyone starves to death and probably resumes that we're dead for good while we're consuming these nuts!" Kokichi proposed, causing everyone to glare at him. "What? Just saying."
"Nobody bothered to ask you, Kokichi." Todd said, glaring at the albino squirrel. Todd was also angry with him for not even helping Surly at all, as well as for stealing the magic fortune cookie that could possibly get him back of being a human.
"Anyway..." Surly cleared his throat before turning back at Andie with half-lid eyes and a cocky grin and said "Well good luck out there, Andie. Buddy, the kid and I are digging a tunnel."
"What? No, that's crazy." Andie chuckled before widening her eyes in realization. "No, that's brilliant!"
"Wait what?" Surly and Todd asked in unison.
Andie climbed up the elevator and headed through the metal gate before saying "Oh, Raccoon and the animals will flip when they hear about this!"
"Oh man, so we won't go with my plan?" Kokichi asked sadly. "That's really harsh, you guys."
Everyone ignored him as Andie continued "We'll be back, first thing tomorrow, to get started on a tunnel!"
"That's not part of the deal!" Surly complained.
"Should I attack her now?" Precious asked, ready to bite Andie.
"What? No! You stay!" Surly ordered, which Precious did before he turned back to Andie and exclaimed "Look! I never said that I'd work with the park!"
"Well, you're welcome to come back with me, if you want." Andie smiled, much to Todd's annoyance. "Who knows, you might just end up being a hero."
Surly looked at her like she was crazy while Todd crossed his arms and rolled his eyes.
"I'll be back with the team!" Andie said, opening up the metal gate. "Well done Surly!" With that, she took one glance at Todd, still feeling bad for breaking his trust before taking her leave.
"Well, I guess I'm out. Later suckers." Kokichi took something out of his scarf and threw it in the ground, smoke pouring around his body, before it started to clear off and showed that Kokichi was gone.
"...Okay, how does he do that?" Todd wondered.
"I've been wondering that since day one." Surly shrugged before turning to Buddy and says "Put a tail on her."
Buddy raised a brow of confusion at what his friend meant as Surly clarified "You know what I mean. Just follow her."
Buddy nodded and headed out through the metal gate, following after Andie and Kokichi.
"Hey bosses." Both Todd and Surly turned back to Precious, who smiles and says "I'm gonna lick your faces."
"Yeah, no thanks." Todd shook his head before turning to Surly with a smile. "So, what do you wanna do now that they're gone."
"Well, first we need to come up with a plan..." Surly thought before smirking at him. "Think you can help me out on that?"
"You bet Surly!" Todd smiled happily.
"That's what I wanna hear. Thanks Todd." Surly chuckled, while Todd became surprised. "What?"
"You...said my name. You never said my name before." Todd said, which made Surly blushed a bit.
"W-well, I thought you were getting tired of being called 'kid', that's all." Surly said, glancing away nervously. Todd chuckled at seeing him shift uncomfortably and said "Well even so, I'm glad that you're calling me by that. I guess you're finally trusting me, huh?"
"Well yeah, you seem like a good kid. You even stood up for me back at the trial when everyone voted me off. Well, I gotta say, you're not bad...Todd." Surly chuckled, making Todd chuckled as well. "Now come on, we got a heist to plan."
"Right behind ya, Surly!" Todd nodded as they walked over to the other side of the room to planned out their heist of the Maury's Nut Shop.
"Hey, come on you guys. D-don't be weird out by me." Precious said, as she began following after them.
Later
It was already night time for Liberty Park as everyone gathered around the mill as Andie was explaining everything she went through and found last night through the city. Kokichi was seen leaning against the wall, not bothering to tell everyone what was he doing since nobody bothered to ask him anyway.
After Andie talked about the Nut Shop, everyone beamed upon hearing how many nuts were in there.
"I proposed that we form a team in order take the nuts for the park!" Mole announced, causing everyone to cheer on that idea.
"See? What did I tell ya?" A blue mice asked, feeling joyed of that. "The sun shining days are here again!"
"Really? I don't remember you saying that." Kokichi snickered, ignoring the glare from mouse. "All I remember was you screaming 'AHH! WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!' AH HA HA HA! That was a hilarious expression you made!"
"Shut up!" The mice exclaimed in anger.
"Wait! Wait! Wait!" Andie spoke up, trying to calm down the crowd. "But first, we're gonna have to work with Surly and Todd if we're gonna pull this off."
"That's right! We're working with...ARE YOU NUTS?!" The mouse looked at her with a shocked expression.
"Ah ah ha ha! There it is again! Oh god, that...that face you're making!" Kokichi laughed, falling on the ground while everyone looked at him with annoyance. "I mean, somebody out there! Make this into a meme! For my sake! HA HA HA HA!"
"Anyway..." Andie cleared her throat before turning to the others. "I made a deal with Surly! We split everything! Fifty-fifty! Also, Todd is with him into helping out into this heist."
"Negotiate?" Jimmy asked with a raised brow.
"With Surly?" Johnny scoffed. "Are you kidding?! He's the reason we don't have any nuts to begin with!"
"Besides, why is Todd with him?!" Jamie demanded. "I mean, I know he defended Surly back at his trial since he didn't knew who he was, but him joining him! Is he betraying us?!"
"Maybe...he was actually an accomplice to Surly all along?" Mole thought aloud. "He could be possibly been with co-hoots with him all along and tried to help him in many heists he's done without any of us knowing."
Everyone roared in anger, hearing that Todd would be siding with Surly instead of the park, but they had to agree with Mole's theory, what if Todd really was a traitor?
"No! No!" Andie said, calming the crowd down. "Listen everyone, I know you're upset. Even I am..." Andie sighed, remembering those last words Todd said to her. Her being no better than Raccoon? It was such a hard truth she had to face. Realizing it, she really was no better than her mentor. She then shook hear head with a determined expression and said "But remember! For as long as this old mill has stood, we have always worked together and kept our promises! We are not a pack of wild animals!"
Everyone looked at her with blanked expressions as Kokichi muttered "How ironic..."
Johnny let out a loud burp, much to his sibling's joy. "These two are animals." Jamie pointed out, which made Johnny laughed.
"Winter is coming! If we don't work with both Surly and Todd, then we won't survive!" Andie pointed out.
"Did Grayson see this Nut Store nor saw Todd with Surly?" She turned around to see Raccoon and Cardinal, hiding behind the shadows with a curious and serious expression.
"N-no...we got separated." Andie said sadly, remembering Grayson's sacrifice.
"Let's all wait till Grayson gets back here." Mole suggested, trying to comfort the situation. Unfortunately, Raccoon didn't want that as he said "Grayson's never coming back."
"Unless of course he's now a ghost that will forever haunt this park." Kokichi snickered, completely scaring everyone.
"What? Grayson's gone?! Oh no!" Jamie gasped. Kokichi got up and comforted her with a sly smile and said "Fear not my beloved Miss Jamie. Maybe that gray dork may be gone, but you still have-OOF!"
Unfortunately, Jamie punched him on the stomach, causing him to wince in pain as he fell down on his knees and slumped down on the ground. "Yeah, not gonna happen buster." Jamie glared at him, along with her brothers.
"Well...worth it." Kokichi muttered.
"And Andie, you're saying that Todd isn't a traitor?" Raccoon questioned before rolling his eyes and scoffed "You said he was seen with Surly, correct? If he's siding with him, he's considered of betraying this park."
"No! He wouldn't! I know what he's thinking of joining with Surly is crazy, but-"
"But nothing, Andie." Raccoon cut her off before saying "First Todd refuses to vote, then runs off from his punishment, leaving the white albino buffoon to do his work, and now he's side with Surly? I should've known that boy would be nothing more than trouble."
"Oh?" Kokichi ears perked up on what Raccoon said as he got up and said "Oh, so you have seen through my lie, eh? I don't remember seeing you around the place. So how did you know that Racky?"
Raccoon narrowed his eyes at him and said "I've send Cardinal to go and check up on him, but instead, he tells me that you were doing his punishment. Care to explain...Kokichi?"
Kokichi simply just smirked and let out a chuckle before saying "I'm not telling you that! Wouldn't want to ruin the surprise."
"What are you talking about, Kokichi?" Andie asked suspiciously.
"Yeah! We want to know!" Mole demanded, making Kokichi look at everyone with a smirk on his face.
"So, you all want the truth, eh? Okie-dokie! Prepare yourselves everyone, prepare for the cold hard truth!" Kokichi announced before saying "See, I told Todd to go and meet up with Surly while I covered his punishment."
"What?!" Everyone gasped upon hearing this confession.
"Why in the world would you do that?! Are you nuts?!" Jimmy exclaimed in shock.
"No, I'm not nuts! I'm bananas!" Kokichi laughed with a big grin.
"It's true, he really is." Mole nodded in agreement.
"Besides, I was just having a little fun, that's all." Kokichi laughed. Raccoon narrowed his eyes at him and said "You're walking on thin ice, Kokichi. If you keep doing these pranks of yours up, then I'll have no choice but to banish you out of the park."
Everyone gasped upon hearing that as Kokichi turned to him with his face darkened before smiling creepily and replied "Oh really? Please old man, I rather for you not too at all. Besides, you may have fooled these idiots, but you can fool me."
Everyone became afraid of that smile, not even hearing what he said except Raccoon, who glares at him before Kokichi says "Well, I guess I should get going. Bye bye."
With that, Kokichi took his leave, leaving everyone in the mill feeling afraid of the albino squirrel.
"Y-yes, anyway..." Raccoon cleared his throat before resuming his speech. "Anywho, I have come with a decision. The Bruisers, Mole, and Andie will dig a tunnel to get the nuts out. Mole will lead."
"A-ha!" Mole laughed before realizing something. "I-I will?"
"And while I don't trust Surly, we shall work with him. For now. When all the nuts are secure, we will take what is ours." Raccoon said before makign a serious expression. "We do not honor deals with Surly. And Andie?"
"Yes Raccoon?" Andie turned to him, who gave a glare towards her and said "If you try to side with both Surly and Todd, you'll have to face...unintended consequences."
"U-unintended consequences?" Andie asked in surprise. "...Yes Raccoon."
"Good, glad to hear." Raccoon smiled before saying "For the park!"
"For the park!" Everyone, except Andie, cheered loudly as they were happy that they were finally gonna be saved for winter. Unbeknownst to them, Buddy was eavesdropping on them as he immediately takes off and goes and warns Surly about this.
Meanwhile
After the meeting ended, Andie was seen sitting on top of the mill with a sad look on her face. She began to remember the argument she had with Todd and how upset he was. He really did cared for Surly, unlike her. She really did care, but tried to be forceful in order to gain Surly's attention and make him listen to her, but after hearing what Todd called her, 'being no better than Raccoon', it made her began to have doubts in her heart that if she really cares for Surly or not.
"I didn't mean it, Todd..." Andie muttered. "I just...wanted to help, that's all."
Andie sighed sadly and looked at the ground until a voice spoke up "Well well well, out here moaning in sadness isn't gonna help ya, Andie."
Andie turned around to see Kokichi, who had a smile on his face. She narrowed her eyes upon seeing him and said "Go away Kokichi."
"What? I was just saying. But that part when Todd says that he never wants to be your friend and that you were no better than old Racky. Wow, that's gotta sting." Kokichi laughed, causing Andie to glare at him.
"And how exactly do you know that?" Andie demanded.
"I was watching you from the metal gate and I reacted quickly when Toddy was about to come over to the metal gate." Kokichi replied with a shrug and a smirk.
"Should've figured." Andie sighed.
"Oh, poor old Andie. Sad because he trust with Todd was now ruined. Yep, all according to plan." Kokichi giggled. Andie overheard him as she looked at him with a suspicious look and demanded "What do you mean 'all according to plan'? What are you planning Kokichi?"
"Well...I don't like to brag but...the part where Todd loses his trust on you. Yep, I planned that." Kokichi explained, much to Andie's shock.
"W-what?!" Andie exclaimed. "Then...when you were annoying this morning and last night...you purposely did that to make me go off the edge to put Surly in danger!" Andie then growled and demanded "Why?! Why would you do that?!"
"Nothing much, but let's just say it was a lesson for Toddy to learn about trusts. Sometimes trust can be broken, but they can be regain as you tried to earn their trust back. So don't worry your tail Andie, he'll trust you again...someday." Kokichi smiled in a casual way while putting both his paws behind his back.
Andie became annoyed with him as she exclaimed "What is your problem?! What? Do you think all of this would make you happy?"
"Eh?"
"You think getting yourself in trouble is going to make you famous?! Do you think it might cheer up your sad lonely life when everyone tried to get along with you, but you refused to get comforted by anyone by pranking and getting in trouble with them?!"
"Yes, 100% true." Kokichi nodded bluntly, much to Andie's surprise. Kokichi then glared at her and said "You think you animals understand my problems? Nobody does. Never in my entire life before. People never understand each other, and they never will."
"K-Kokichi...!" Andie looked at him with surprise as she saw something through him in his heart. he felt...sadness and regret from him.
"You think I like to lie to everyone around here? It's the only way to survive in a world like this. Besides, I even trapped myself in a veil of my own lies to survive." Kokichi said with a glare. "Besides, like your one to understand."
"Huh? What do you mean by that?" Andie asked in confusion.
"What? You think I never know?" Kokichi chuckled, bringing back his casual smile before continuing "You think that if you side with both Surly and Raccoon, you might think things will work out between the two and Raccoon might think that Surly really is a good squirrel and understands his problems and might let him back to the park, but I'm quite upset with ya." Kokichi shook his head while noticing Andie widened her eyes and became shocked on how Kokichi knew that.
"You think that's how the world works, but guess what? This is the real world, and the world is unpredictable, and nobody can think what the world wants. I'm upset that someone as you wouldn't know that."
"You don't look that upset." Andie pointed out, seeing how calm he was.
"Some animals such as me and a certain leader of yours would know how to conceal the true emotions we keep inside of us. And...trust me Andie..." Kokichi darkened his face as he made a frown as his purple eyes glowed at her and said "I am very VERY upset with you."
Andie felt speechless upon seeing Kokichi like this until he smiled and said "But I won't stop you. Besides...Toddy will regain your trust towards you during the heist."
"Huh?" Andie looked at him in surprise. "What do you mean? How do you know for sure?"
"Oh trust me, it'll work." Kokichi assured with a grin. "Besides, don't let Toddy's words get to ya. You may be naggy sometimes...most of the times...Okay, all the times." Andie gave him a deadpan expression as he continued "Besides, even if you're annoying, you're not even close to Raccoon."
"What?"
"Well, you see. You always keep believing in people, but go to different sides because you want to make them be friends. Even if that's a stupid idea, I say you might be the key to make both Surly and Toddy come closer." Kokichi smiled.
"Make both Surly and Todd come closer? What are you talking about?" Andie asked.
"...I can't tell ya." Kokichi shook his head. "This is my story, and you're not part of it...Oh wow, I sounded like Aaron back there."
"Huh? I'm not a part of it?" Andie asked.
"Nah, you're just some side character but will play a good role in this..." Kokichi then darkened his face with a creepy eerie smile, scaring Andie. "Trust me Andie, keep on doing what you do best and try to make Surly feel guilty so he can realize the error of his ways."
"...I don't know what you're planning, but...fine." Andie sighed. "I'll do that."
Kokichi reverted back to his smile and said "That's nice to hear. Well, gotta go! Try not to do anything stupid like I would."
With that, Kokichi immediately ran off out of the mill while Andie watches him go off.
"Wow, I never seen Kokichi act like that before." Andie said, blinking in surprise. "Since when did he actually shows kindness? Especially...giving me advice and support? Oh well, it doesn't matter. What matters is that I have to do my best in order to gain Todd's trust back, and make Surly become a part of the park again. I'll do it...for everyone..." Andie thought, before slowly smiling and stares at the moon.
As Kokichi leaves the mill, he looks at the moon with a sad look and said "Oh well, I was just saying, anyway. Besides, I just didn't want her to feel lonely...Like I did..."
To Be Continued