Note: The Nut Job belongs to Global Entertainment and all characters belongs to their respective creators. Todd Lloyd belongs to me and Dusk19.
Today was the day for the heist to begins. The Bruisers were hiding behind the wall, watching Lucky, who was grabbing some equipment from the back of the shop, heading back inside of the shop. Jamie looked back to see him leave as she gestured her brothers that the coast was clear as they immediately headed over to the side of the shop. Mole was behind them as they crossed underneath the metal gates, but he didn't noticed it as he was hit in the face by it, causing him to fall down in pain.
"Why aren't we doing this at night?" Mole complained as he was pulled away by Johnny and Jimmy as Andie comes down by climbing down the metal gate. She looks around, wondering where Surly and Todd would be.
"Alright! Let's get to work!" Jimmy exclaimed, stretching his back a bit.
"Stand back!" Johnny smirked as he and his brother began scratching their claws through the hard ground.
"Umm...guys?" Andie called, gaining their attention. "The nut shop is over...there!" Andie pointed towards it, much to the brother's surprise.
"Allow me." Mole volunteered, getting back up as he walked over to the shop with a smug look. The others looked at him with a weird look as he walked over to the circuit box and attempted to open it, but he was having some trouble.
"No, it's like this!" A voice shouted as a familiar white paw appeared out of nowhere and slammed open the circuit box, and while Mole was holding on the door handle, he was slammed into the wall, sliding off slowly from it.
"What the?!" Andie exclaimed as a piece of the brick wall came off, revealing it to be nothing more than a camouflage, and the animal hiding beneath it was none other than Kokichi.
"Hey guys! You missed me?" Kokichi laughed.
"Kokichi?!" Jamie gasped. "What are you doing here?!"
"What does it look like? I'm here to help." Kokichi smiled. "Who do you expect to join ya? Tom Cruise coming here to help you on this mission? This isn't Mission: Impossible you know!"
"Who?" Johnny asked.
"Never mind that." Andie said, not wanting to go through any of Kokichi's randomness. "What exactly are you doing here? Raccoon assigned US for the job."
"Really? Well that's too bad! Nobody tells this guy what to do!" Kokichi exclaimed. "Besides, that guy can kiss my tail! I'm in charge in this!"
"No! I am!" Mole complained, causing Kokichi to give him an unimpressed look.
"Well that's a bummer." Kokichi said. "Wasn't expecting Racky of all people to give the job to you. How disappointing."
"S-shut up!" Mole exclaimed angrily.
"Whatever, just leave us alone. We got important work to do." Jamie said, walking over to the circuit box and examining it.
"Why yes! Proceed Miss Jamie! I won't stop you!" Kokichi said, wiggling his brows at her, which she ignored.
"So what do you think? Green wire?" Jimmy asked his brother, who replied "Huh...read my mind."
"Wait! We don't even know what-" Andie tried to warn her, but Mole cut her off.
"No! Andie! I am in charge! Remember?" Mole reminded her.
"Yeah! Besides, everyone knows whatever I say is more important than whatever you say! So shut up!" Kokichi added.
"Since when did anyone says that?" Johnny asked his brother, who only shrugged. Andie grumbled and face-pawed herself, unable to convince them to listen to her. Jamie decided to touch the wires, but once she touched one of them, she was immediately electrocuted, causing her to let go of the wire while everyone flinches and becomes shocked to see her laying on the ground, not moving an inch.
"AAHHHHH!" Jimmy screamed as they rushed towards their sister, including Kokichi.
"No! My beloved Miss Jamie! Don't go to the light! Please!" Kokichi begged.
"Come on! Jamie! Wake up!" Johnny pleaded.
"Wake up sis! Wake up!" Jimmy slapped her lightly on the face, attempting to wake her up. Suddenly, Mole pushed them aside and said "Disperse! I have been trained on mouth-to-mouth resuscitative measures."
As Mole was about to give Jamie some CPR, Kokichi pushed him aside and said "Move over! Allow this guy to handle it!"
Kokichi looked over the unconscious Jamie, making a romantic look on his face and said "Oh...how have I waited for this!" Kokichi bent down and prepared to give her CPR, but in return, he was met with a punch in the jaw by none other than Jamie, who immediately woken up from the shock, only to find Kokichi about to kiss her. Without hesitation, she immediately punched his jaw real hard, causing him to get dizzy as he muttered "She's fine..."
With that, he was knocked out like a light with Johnny, Jimmy, and Mole looking at his unconscious self with shocked expressions. Suddenly, they heard a whistle as they looked up and saw a figure jumping down and landing onto a ladder before sliding down through it.
The others gasped as Andie looked at the figure, wondering who could it be.
"Grayson?" Andie thought. "No, it can't be! He sacrificed himself in order to save my life from that rat with some help from Kokichi. So...is it..."
Suddenly, the figure jumps down onto the garbage dumpster, and to the groups' surprise, two familiar figures appeared on top of the garbage dumpster, revealing to be both Todd and Buddy as they waved at them.
"Nice for you guys to join in on the party." Todd smiled before noticing Andie, causing him to glare at her. She glanced away from him, realizing that he was still angry at her for what happened yesterday. Soon, Surly appeared behind them, looking down at his team and said "I've been showcasing this place for a day. Every hole, vent, window, and door has been mapped in my head. You guys wanna break into this place? Survive for the winter?...Well you talk to me."
"Hm...nice intro." Kokichi said, getting back on his feet while it surprised everyone to see him still alive.
"Huh? I thought sis knocked you out?!" Johnny exclaimed.
"Ha ha, I was always get punched in the face and such by Miss Jamie all the time. So of course I'm used to it." Kokichi chuckled with a sly grin before noticing Todd. "Oh hey Toddy! How's it going with old Surly?"
"Fine, he's been doing great." Todd replied, raising a brow at him. "Now what is he up to?" Todd thought. "Surly and I been having a good time yesterday while planning the heist."
"I see, just asking." Kokichi smiled while he noticed the animals were being angered.
"What?! How can you take this?!" Jamie exclaimed angrily. "Todd is joining with Surly! He chose him over the park, how can you be so causal with this?!"
"Miss Jamie...please be quiet, will ya?" Kokichi asked, giving her a serious expression.
"W-what?" Jamie asked in surprise, never seeing this side of Kokichi.
"I may like you a lot and hopefully one day that we can bear our children togeter, but it's very rude to be speaking like that while hurting Todd's feelings. He doesn't trust us, so its best not to interfere with him and Surly getting along. So please be quiet." Kokichi said with a smirk.
The others looked at him with shocked expressions, even Todd, Buddy, and Surly were surprised. Surly narrowed his eyes, looking straight at Kokichi.
"Just what is he planning? I've never seen him say that in front of Jamie at all. Hmm...I better keep my eye on him for good and hope that he doesn't play any tricks like he always does." Surly thought, planning on keeping his eye on the albino trickster for good. "Anyway..." Surly cleared his throat and said "Let's get started, shall we?"
"Yippee! I've been waiting for something like this to begin!" Kokichi said, getting giddy.
"Why are you getting all excited about?!" Mole questioned, looking at the albino squirrel in confusion.
"Because things are about to get..." Kokichi took out some small dark sunglasses and put on his face with a serious expression. "...Nuts."
Everyone looked at him with blank expressions, not impressed with that pun of his. He noticed it and says "Did you guys get it? Nuts? Because we're...you know what? Just forget it."
"Best idea I've heard all day." Jamie sighed, making Kokichi smirk at her.
"Ahh, thanks Miss Jamie! They do call me a genius for a reason!" Kokichi chuckled, causing Jamie to glare at him angrily.
"Anyway...Surly, Todd, Buddy, you guys said that you had a plan, right? Mind explaining to us?" Andie asked politely.
"I see why not." Surly smirked. "I am awesome for a reason."
He, Buddy, and Todd jumped down from the ground and walked over to the wall where everyone rounded up and waited for what the purple squirrel says. Soon, Surly and Todd began drawing some stuff on the wall, showing a scribble image of the robbers from the shop, Precious, and the nuts in the store and also scribbles of Surly and Todd on there. Soon, Todd heads back with the group, standing between Buddy and Kokichi while also glancing at Andie before turning back at Surly, listening to his plans.
"Now, we dig here, from the alley into the basement." Surly explained.
"Why don't we just use the door thingy?" Johnny asked, pointing towards the metal door next to Surly.
"Too unpredictable. They locked it from the inside." Surly answered.
"Yeah, and we don't a repeat on someone getting stuck in there, right?" Todd asked while looking at Andie, who sighed and looked away. "So Surly, what do you think on how do we get in? Like do we dig a hole in there? You did propose something like that yesterday."
"Excellent kiddo!" Surly smirked, giving Todd a noogie, causing him to chuckle while everyone looked at them with either angered or shocked looks. Kokichi simply smirked at him as Surly continued his explanation. "Now then, Todd raises a good plan. We're gonna need the Bruisers to dig a hole down through the basement. Think you muscle-heads can handle it?"
"Of course we can!" Johnny boasted.
"Do you know who you're talking to?" Jimmy scoffed with a smirk.
"We can do this!" Jamie smiled. "After all, we're expert diggers!"
"Well it makes sense since they are groundhogs." Todd shrugged before making a smile. "I wish you guys good luck."
"Thanks Todd!" The Bruisers nodded in unison with smiles on their faces. Even though they were on different sides, they have to be nice with each other...for now.
"Wait? What about Chubby Mcgrubby?" Kokichi asked curiously.
"Chubby Mcgrubby?" Todd asked, looking at him with a weird look.
"And by that, I think he means me." Mole said, glaring at him. Kokichi smiled and said "Yep-a-doodles! What about you? Aren't a mole, Mole? Shouldn't you be able to dig?"
"Yeah, I mean you can dig, right?" Todd asked curiously.
"About that...I'm afraid it's hard but I do not dig." Mole said bluntly.
Todd raises a brow at Mole and said "What? That's weird. Aren't Moles supposed to dig around in burrows and such?"
"Well..." Mole rubbed his cheek in embarrassment, wondering if he should tell him or not.
"Easy, because he's blind as a bat." Johnny said, glaring at him.
"What? Who said that?! Where you are?" Mole asked, looking around while Jamie sighs.
"Yeah...Just forget I asked." Kokichi said, sweat-dropping a little.
"Agreed." Todd nodded in agreement.
"Same here." Surly nodded before clearing his throat. "Now then, as soon as the Bruisers are done digging through the hole, we'll be ready to steal as many nuts as possible without the humans nor the dog noticing."
"Dog?!" Everyone, except Kokichi, gasped.
"Relax you all, we'll be fine." Todd assured before rubbing his paws together and let out a smirk. "We got ourselves a secret weapon in case we encounter her."
"Yep!" Surly showed them the dog whistle he was keeping wrapped around his back, much to the groups' amazement. "With this baby, we'll be a-okay!"
"Phew, that's a relief." Jimmy wiped away a sweat from his brow.
"Tell me about it." Johnny agreed.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah, whatever." Kokichi rolled his eyes before turning to Surly with a sneaky grin. "So how many nuts we talking here?"
"We're talking almonds, pistachios, walnuts, Brazils...and enough cashews to buy yourselves a racetrack." Surly explained, poking Buddy on the stomach, making the blue rat smile. Everyone looked at him with surprised looks.
"Oh my goodness!" Mole gasped.
"Well, I checked in it and saw how many nuts they are. So they aren't lying." Andie stated.
"Shut. Up." Kokichi said, shocked to hear this many nuts. "That's amazing."
"And did we mention the peanut brittle?" Todd asked, furthering surprising everyone.
Johnny put his paw on his brother's chest and looked at him with a surprised look and asked "That a candy or a nut?"
Surly started laughing before answering "Both."
Everyone jaw-dropped upon hearing this, realizing what a peanut brittle is. Mole recovered from the shock as he nudged Jamie on the arm, chuckling a bit.
"Huh...guess they never heard a peanut brittle before." Todd wondered.
"Nah, I'm more of a Reese's guy. Those things taste amazing!" Kokichi smirked.
"Riiiight..." Todd gave him another weird look, unable to comprehend the weirdness from this guy.
"So, what do you guys say? You in or not want the park to survive the winter?" Surly smirked. "Because if so, then I totally understand."
"No! We're in!" Andie said in a determined and serious expression. "I don't care what happens to me, I'll get these nuts back to the park no matter what."
Todd rolled his eyes, wondering if Andie is saying this from the 'bottom of her heart'.
"Anyway..." Jimmy spoke up. "It's going to be a problem down because it might take long on finding the right hole, so we're gonna need a volunteer to help us out."
"A volunteer?" Todd asked while the others were frightened by this.
"Well..um..." Andie looked away, sweat-dropping a little.
"Don't look at me! I ain't doing it!" Surly exclaimed while Buddy immediately shook his head in fear. Todd looked around the group, wondering what's wrong with them.
"Guys, guys, let's all calm down for a moment. I have a very simple way on how we can solve this." Kokichi offered as he held a bunch of straws in his paws. "We'll draw straws! Whoever has the shortest one has to go and help out the Bruisers."
"That seems fair enough, right?" Andie smiled weakly while Todd sighed and decided to go first.
"Yeah, I guess so." Todd shrugged before picking a straw, and it seemed to be a medium size. Soon, Surly, Andie, Buddy, and Mole picked their straws, all having large straws while Kokichi was left alone with a small straw.
"What?!" Kokichi gasped.
"Huh...guess you were unlucky on that Koki." Todd smirked. "Seems ironic for someone who came with this idea to end up as the one helping out."
"Yeah...I guess so." Kokichi chuckled.
"What?! Okay, please tell me this is a joke!" Jamie exclaimed in anger and shock.
"Sorry sis, guess we'll work with him." Johnny shrugged while Jimmy smirked at his sister and said "And besides, your boyfriend may be insane, but he's very helpful."
"S-shut up!" Jamie exclaimed, blushing a bit while her brothers started laughing at her.
"W-what? You don't want my help Miss Jamie? But I thought we were friends." Kokichi asked with a sad look, tears coming down as he began dramatically crying. "WAAAAHAAAAHAAA! YOU'RE SO MEAN!"
"Alright alright, fine!" Jamie sighed. "You can help us. Don't come crying to me whenever my brothers does something stupid down there."
Kokichi soon dropped the tears and snot away as he let out a smile and says "Okay."
"...How does he do that?" Todd wondered, causing Surly to look at him in confusion.
"What do you mean Todd?" Surly asked.
"Well I mean, how does he exactly wiped away those tears and his snot that fast?"
"Yeah...I always asked that, but forget to ask. Plus, I don't really pay attention with him that much." Surly said in a deadpan expression.
"Yeah...you make a good point." Todd nodded while looking at Kokichi with a questionable look. "Just...what's even wrong with this squirrel? Is he acting out like this on purpose or something?" Todd thought.
"Alright everyone, break time's over! Time to get to work!" Surly exclaimed, which everyone nodded as they began to work on their heist.
One Hour Later
The Bruisers and Kokichi were digging through several holes, only that leads them to several dead ends. They were digging their seventh hole that might be a possibility that can lead them down to the basement. Andie, Mole, and Todd looked down through the hole where the Bruisers and Kokichi were digging, wondering what's taking so long down there.
"Fire in the hole!" Jimmy yelled as a loud fart was heard through the hole and some coughs coming from Jamie and Kokichi while the brothers laughed. Todd waved it off with a disgust look and let out a shiver.
"I'm gonna kill you!" Jamie exclaimed, coming out of the hole with an angered look.
"I'm actually glad that I'm not down there with those guys..." Todd muttered.
"Hey! I heard that!" Kokichi complained, coming out of the hole with a laundry clip on his nose, using it to avoid the smells down the cave. "At least you're not down here with those stinky losers, but at least Miss Jamie smells nice as a tree."
"Well it's your own fault for joining with them because you wanted to impress your 'supposed girlfriend'." Todd rolled his eyes, causing Kokichi to realize that.
"Right...dang it." Kokichi muttered.
"What's even going on down...WHOA!" Mole breathed in the smell as he immediately collapsed, unable to handle it. Todd widened his eyes and realized how lucky it was to not be down there. Well except for Kokichi because Todd thought that this white squirrel was enjoying his time with being this close to Jamie.
Surly rolled his eyes, annoyed with the Bruiser's tactics as Jamie yelled down through the hole and said "It's the same thing every time! We keep running into this hard brick-colored substance!"
"Do you mean...brick?" Andie asked with a raised brow. Johnny came out of the hole and said "We can't speculate on what is or isn't brick, but suffice to say, this material has a high number of brick-like properties."
"But it is brick, but you're right about that." Todd shrugged with a confused look. Suddenly, they heard another fart down through the hole, much to Johnny's anger.
"Okay! Cut it out! Who is that?!" Johnny demanded, going back into the hole. Todd covered his nose, not wanting to breath into the air.
"I-I guess there's no other choice." Andie sighed, which Todd nodded in agreement.
"Hey, hey, wait a minute!" Jimmy spoke up.
"We're not falling for it again!" Jamie exclaimed, not wanting her brother to pull off another prank...again.
"Yeah, I'm starting to grow dizzy right now from all those farts." Kokichi coughed.
"No no, I'm serious this time! There's a loose brick down here!" Andie and Todd looked at each other in surprise, along with Mole, who managed to pull himself together after breathing through the Bruiser's farts. While Andie and Mole were distracted, Todd noticed Surly walking over to see what's happening. Suddenly, they both heard the door cling open and became surprise to see Precious was the one opening it.
Surly and Todd looked at each other and nodded before backing away quietly, not wanting to draw any attention from them as they met up with Precious.
"Hey." Precious greeted them as Surly looks down with a serious expression. "Wait...was this thing opened the entire time?!" Surly asked in shock.
"I don't know! I just got here." Precious replied.
"Wait, but I thought you said the door was locked?" Todd asked, looking at Surly with a confused look. Surly rubbed his head bashfully, sweat-dropping a little as he replied "Well...I assumed it was lock because I thought the humans might've noticed it unlocked and so locked it back up."
"Well I don't blame ya, though I'm confused on what are they doing with that giant hole on the wall..." Todd wondered.
"Doesn't matter, what matters is getting those nuts." Surly said with a cocky smirk.
"Hey wait, what about those face-licks you guys promised yesterday?" Precious asked.
"Lick yourself, let's go." Surly said, grabbing ahold of Precious's collar as soon as Buddy came over to help out as well. Surly look at Todd and said "So you coming Todd or do you want them out?"
Todd was about to answer until he remembered what Andie did to Surly yesterday, nearly threatening his own life. Todd looked back at Andie with a glare before looking back at Surly with a smirk and replied "Absolutely!"
"Good answer! Now let's move it!" Surly exclaimed as he and Todd, along with Precious, entered through the door as it made a loud clanking sound. Andie heard it and looked over at the metal gate, noticing Buddy. Buddy looks back and makes a sheepish smile, trying not to give it away that Surly and Todd were already inside the basement before them...not that he could say anything.
Meanwhile, Surly and Todd were gathering nuts as he and Surly were stuffing them inside a bag until they started to hear voices coming from the walls. They looked over to see a brick wall being slowly pushed out, meaning that the Bruisers and Kokichi were nearly done making it through the hole.
Surly and Todd smirked at them as the former said "Yeah, keep on going you guys. You're doing great. Yeah, that's what I call the power of...what's that word again?"
"Teamwork?" Todd corrected him.
"Right! Teamwork!" Surly laughed as they continued to pick up some nuts. While they collected some nuts, the Bruisers kept pushing the brick out of the way as it made contact with a nearby shovel on the wall, causing it to spark and ignite a TNT dynamite, which Todd and Surly didn't noticed.
"So Surly...what are we gonna do now after finishing collecting these nuts?" Todd asked curiously.
"Easy, we hide these nuts somewhere where those park suckers won't be able to find. Then as soon as they got enough nuts to feed the entire park, we'll come back tonight and steal as many nuts as possible before them." Surly explained.
"Hmm...okay." Todd nodded as they finally finished collecting some of the nuts of the basement the moment Buddy arrived. Buddy then noticed something that caught his eye, the lit-up dynamite, much to his shock. Buddy immediately rushed over to Surly and Todd and started shaking them.
"Buddy, what is it?" Todd asked in concern as he pointed to the dynamite, which they finally noticed lit-up dynamite.
"AAAAAHH!" Todd and Surly screamed as Todd turned to Surly and exclaimed "Quick Surly! Do something!"
"Don't worry! I got this!" Surly immediately picked it up and threw it away, much to their relief. Surly and Buddy smiled and shook their hands while Surly ruffled the fox squirrel's hair a bit, causing him to giggle. Suddenly, they saw the dynamite right in front of their eyes as they slowly turned around to find out that Precious was the one holding it in her teeth.
"Hey guys, look at what I found!" Precious exclaimed happily as Todd face-pawed himself, Surly widened his eyes in shock, and Buddy falling unconscious.
"What are you doing?! That's a TNT stick you got!" Todd exclaimed.
"Todd's right! Now let go of that!" Surly demanded, grabbing ahold of the stick, only for Precious to pull it away from him.
"I can't!" Precious replied, much to Surly's annoyance.
"Let go of that stick!"
"Yeah or else we'll all get blown away! Literally!" Todd added as he also helped Surly get the stick of TNT out of his mouth. "Now please let it go!"
"I can't!"
"LET. GO. OF. THIS. STICK!" Surly yelled as he and Todd managed to get it out of her mouth. Precious felt irritated that they took it away from her as she said "Oh alright. Fine, you didn't have to be rude about it."
"Yeah but, like I said, we'll get blown to bits!" Todd exclaimed. "Now throw it away Surly before it's too late!"
"With pleasure!" Surly nodded as he was about to throw it away until they saw a brick falling out of the wall, revealing Jimmy and Kokichi.
"Hey Surly! Todd!" Jimmy smiled at them as Kokichi waved and said "Hey! What we miss? How exactly did you guys...get...down...here?"
Kokichi soon noticed the stick of TNT, much to his shock. "OH, YOU'VE GOT TO BE KIDDING-"
BOOM!
"AAAAHHHHHHHH!" Jimmy, Johnny, and Kokichi were launched out of the hole while Jamie exited out of the hole right before the explosion. They landed onto the top of the van as the others looked up in shock and surprise.
"Ow..." Kokichi groaned. Johnny turned his brother, who was still shocked by what happened as he asked "What you had for breakfast?"
"I don't wanna know..." Kokichi muttered. Suddenly, Andie's ears' perked up as she turned around to the small hole the Bruisers and Kokichi were blown out of as a bag of nuts popped right out of there, along with an exhausted Surly, Buddy, and Todd.
"Ah! You brought nuts!" Andie said with a happy grin. The others became excited to hear this as they looked at Surly, Buddy, and Todd with grins and smiles.
"Woo-hoo!" Mole cheered.
"Way to go Surly!" Jamie added.
Surly, Buddy, and Todd looked at each other, surprised that they're praising him.
"Well...at least they're thanking you for once." Todd smiled.
"Yeah, seems so." Surly shrugged as they were suddenly pushed out of the hole by none other than Precious, who seemed to be panicking.
"I'm dead!" Precious exclaimed, much to the group's shock as they immediately ran away and hid behind the car, except Mole because as he tried to escape, he instead ran into the van's wheel, knocking him out. "They're gonna send me back to the pound! You gotta do something! Please! I'll do whatever you say! I'll do anything!"
Surly and Todd looked at each other before they looked back at the other's, who were still hiding behind the van in fear.
"Why do I have the feeling that this might be helpful?" Todd asked with a smirk.
"Because it might be something we can use for the heist." Surly smirked back as they have an advantage that they could use for the heist.
After the explosion occurred, the robbers either came downstairs or out of the hole to find out what happened.
"What happened here?! I want some answers now!" King demanded, grabbing Finger's shirt collar. Soon, he noticed something behind them as he said "Whoa, say fellas. Look!"
Fingers pointed towards Precious, who was holding the seemingly dead Surly and Todd in her mouth. Before they came downstairs, Surly and Todd agreed to help Precious with her problems by pretending to be dead and caught by her.
"Those squirrels were trying to blow up the nut store, and Precious stopped him!" Fingers exclaimed happily as he went over and petted Precious on the head. "Can you believe it? Good pup! Good pup!"
"What's wrong with you?!" Lucky slapped him on the back of the head, much to Finger's anger.
King soon noticed the metal gate was unlocked and opened up as he turned back to his subordinates and exclaimed "Get that wall cemented up! I want that door closed shut for good!"
He then looked down at Precious and said "And get that mutt a treat."
Precious formed a big smile while Surly and Todd opened their eyes and winked at her before falling back, pretending to be dead.
Later
As the animals were hiding on top of the van, Lucky and Fingers sealed the recently made holes the Bruisers and Kokichi made.
"You know, that dog is one smart dog." Fingers commented.
"She's smarter than you!" Lucky argued.
"She's smarter than you!" Fingers retorted.
"No one's smarter than me."
"No one's smarter than you."
They paused upon seeing Knuckles outside, holding both Surly and Todd by the tail.
"That's right!" Lucky nodded as Fingers said "Right! I'm glad we're in agreement, for once."
"Of course!" Lucky said before they both headed back into the nut shop. Knuckles walked over to dispose both Surly and Todd into the trashcan but felt like he was being watched (Which were the animals), so he turned around and saw nothing, so he decided to put that thought away and threw both Surly and Todd into the trash and walked away. As the animals watched him leave, both Todd and Surly managed to push the trashcan out of the way, and got out.
"Phew, that was a doozy." Todd said, wiping a sweat off his brow. "I'm glad we got Precious off the hook and her approval."
"Same here Todd." Surly nodded as he picked up the chalk and began writing something on the wall. The others came down from the van and walked over to them, wondering what they're up too now.
"Surly? Todd?" Andie called for them.
"This trashcan has a hole in it." Surly spoke up, pointing to the hole in the trashcan. Andie inspected it, curious to know where this was going. "We'll use it as a cover to dig a new hole into the human hole. No brick."
"That's not a bad idea." Todd thought aloud with a smile. "That's great! With that, those humans will never know what hit them!"
"Ah ha! Yeah! Now that's groundhog thinking right there!" Jimmy said, nudging his brother a bit.
"Okay, so how long will it take?" Andie asked curiously.
"Day or two depending any rocks or pipes we come across." Jimmy proposed, much to his brother's irritation.
"It'll be three days." Johnny said, angering Jimmy as he put his paw on his brother's chest.
"No, it'll be two days!"
"Three!"
"You wanna take this someplace else?" Jimmy pounced at his brother and began fighting each other, much to everyone's annoyance.
"Does this always happen?" Todd asked Jamie, who sighed and replied "Every time...but you get used to it."
"Just like you and me, Miss Jamie." Kokichi said with a smirk on his face, causing Jamie to glare at him.
"Shut up Kokichi." Jamie demanded, which Kokichi nodded.
"Well it'll never work!" Mole exclaimed, much to Todd's confusion.
"And why's that?" Todd asked. "I mean, with an idea like that, I think we might have a chance."
"Well...you n-need Raccoon's approval!" Mole explained.
"Raccoon's approval?!" Todd exclaimed in disbelief. He needs an approval from THAT guy!? "You kidding me?! There's no way he'll accept this idea!"
Jamie pushed Mole aside and smiles in joy as she says "You kidding me? Raccoon is totally gonna love this idea!"
Todd sighed before noticing Surly feeling sad and anger.
"Surly?" Todd called for him, but Surly didn't hear him out as he said "Raccoon...guy's not even here and he's still able to ruin my life as always."
Surly then began climbing up the pipe gutter as Todd began following after him. Andie looks up with worried and sadness, wondering if she should confront him or not.
"You should go." Kokichi offered, much to Andie's surprise. "I mean, you need to tell them what Raccoon's going to do after the heist."
"...Okay." Andie sighed as she began climbing up the gutter. Meanwhile, as Todd climbed up to the rooftop, he saw Surly walking back and forth with Buddy watching him with worried and concern. Todd walked over and asked Buddy "Hey, what's wrong with Surly?"
Buddy rubbed his arm nervously as Surly exclaimed "What's wrong, you ask? I'll tell what's wrong! It's Raccoon!"
"Huh? Raccoon?" Todd asked in surprise. "Well, I know you two don't like each other."
"It's not that I don't like or hate him! He always hated me since before I ever became a thief." Surly said. "I mean, those idiots down there! The nerve of those bums! 'Oh Raccoon would approve of this!' Oh really? Raccoon! That guy, he's a bigger thief than I am!"
"Wait, what?" Todd asked in shock. "So...Raccoon is a thief?!"
"Exactly! That fool may have fooled everyone, but he can't fool me!" Surly exclaimed. "Why? Because I'm the one with the brains in this operation! I'm the...brains of this group! Did I say that already?"
"Yeah, you did." Todd nodded.
"Whatever! I can see through his lies! Raccoon is nothing more than a lying sack of fur! Why can't anyone see that?!" Surly demanded, looking at both Todd and Buddy with anger.
"Surly, calm down. I understand how you feel." Todd soothed. "Look, even I don't like Raccoon when he gave me that punishment the other day. I knew there was something off with him, but I never knew that he was a thief."
Buddy nodded as he let out a smile and handed him his dog whistle, which Surly snatched it from as he walked over and put his head on the ledge of the ground with an upset look. Buddy and Todd looked at him with worried, causing him to turn his head around. Buddy walked over to the otherside and softly smiled at him, causing Surly to feel...relaxed. Todd walked over and hugged him, catching Surly by surprise.
"Listen Surly, I know how it feels to not have anyone by your side. Truth be told, I never had anyone except my mom on my side." Todd explained, feeling sadden on remembering the times back when he was still human. Surly and Buddy looked at him in surprise as Todd continued "I always believed that I need to stand and fight alone without anyone's help, but going through this heist with you, I learned that I'm not alone because..." Todd looked at Surly with a smile and said "I have you guys."
Surly smiled at him while Buddy looked at Todd sympathetically, feeling sorry for the boy. Who knew that the fox squirrel felt so alone just like Surly. Surly hugged Todd back, catching the fox squirrel by surprise, but soon recovered as he hugged him back, making Buddy feel happy that Surly is hugging him, finally acknowledging him at least.
"Surly? Todd? You guys got a minute?" They looked behind them to see Andie looking at them with a surprised and concern expression on her face.
"H-huh? Oh...uh..." Surly looked over at Todd, feeling embarrassed that Andie is seeing him like this.
"Riiiight...Sorry." Todd chuckled nervously as they backed away from each other as Surly regained his cool before putting the dog whistle around his back and looked at Andie with a serious look.
"What are you doing here? Shouldn't you be helping the others with that tunnel?" Surly asked.
"Well more like it's the Bruisers and Kokichi since they are groundhogs and Kokichi lost the draw straws contest, so...she isn't doing much." Todd shrugged.
"Yeah...anyway, there's something I have to tell you." Andie said as Surly turned around and looked back with Todd seeing his serious look.
"Uh-huh..." Surly replied, not interested to hear her out.
Andie took a deep breath and said "Raccoon is planning to double cross you guys."
Todd widened his eyes in shock, hearing that Raccoon would do something like that. Surly glanced at her with a betrayed look before walking off.
"We were all in on it! I'm sorry! I-It's just that-"
"Look." Surly looked at her with a hard look on his face. "Raccoon has always been out for me since I was a kit. He never cared nor like me ever since. Besides...who says I'm helping?"
"But you are helping...right?" Andie asked in worried as both Todd and Buddy looked at each other in concern for these two.
"I'm helping...myself." Surly smirked at her, shocking Andie. She soon made a serious look and replied "Fine...have it your way."
Surly became surprised as she began walking away in anger. Before she took her leave, she looked back and said "But just remember that this nut store can help everyone survive the winter."
"Just leave Andie." Todd said, not wanting to see anymore. "Look, Surly says that he's helping himself and that's it. Now go and stop nagging us."
Andie became surprised to hear Todd say that before remembering what she did yesterday to lose his trust. Andie sighed and nodded before she began to take her leave. While climbing down the gutter, she formed a sad look.
"Todd...you've changed. It's not because of what I did yesterday, it's because you don't trust any of us except Surly and Buddy. So...why them?" Andie thought as she climbed down through the gutter. Todd looked down to see her on the ground and began taking her leave with Jamie and Mole while Johnny and Jimmy were busy on fixing the hole on the ground. Todd sighed and looked back at Surly, who decided to go and think for himself.
Todd sighed and wanted to go talk to Surly when suddenly...
"Ooh, poor Andie. So sad that you two aren't besties anymore." Todd widened his eyes before looking around to see someone hiding behind the shadows. The figure walked out of the shadows, revealing it to be Kokichi with a big smirk on his face.
"Koki...what do you want?" Todd demanded, not eager to talk with him.
"Koki? That's a nice nickname you gave to me." Kokichi chuckled. "Ooh, that's just show that you do like me as a friend."
"Yeah...no." Todd shook his head. "I-I was just thinking of something to call you, that's all."
'Yeah, sure you did." Kokichi rolled his eyes in full sarcasm before asking "But I gotta say, I feel bad for Andie. For you to tell her to leave, I feel sorry for her. After all, she just wanted to tell you guys the truth in hopes of making up with you."
"Make up with us? Yeah, that's a laugh." Todd rolled his eyes, not believing a single word of that.
"No, it's the truth. She just wanted to help, that's all." Kokichi said with a serious expression before darkening his face. "Which is ironic since...nobody helped her in the past."
"What?" Todd asked in confusion.
Kokichi looked at him sadly, feeling a little pale as he said "Back then, poor old Andie was an orphan, she lost her parents from an accident in the past. Raccoon took her in and raised her as his little protege. Since then, she became the mother-hen of the park, helping others out, but nobody ever helped her at anything."
"But didn't Raccoon take her in? I'm sure he helped her out since then." Todd suggested, but Kokichi shook his head.
"No...as Park Leader, he was too busy to help raise her, so she did things herself and took care of herself. It's so sad to even think of that, she was always willing to help out anyone, but in return, nobody ever helped her. I can even tell that when she kept refusing help from Grayson. Not because he's an idiot and gets annoyed with him every time she's around with him, but because she thinks she can do anything with no one's help. She was even forced to helped out everyone in this heist by Raccoon and watched over you and Surly in case you guys did something that might affect her."
"W-what do you mean?" Todd asked in worried.
"In other words, if you and Surly did something to ruin this heist..." Kokichi pulled off a dark and creepy grin at Todd, which frightened him as he exclaimed "Then Andie shall be punished! A punishment that's far worse than Surly getting banished!"
Todd widened his eyes, realizing that Andie is being blackmailed by this. Just what is Raccoon planning?
"So anyway, I'm just wasting your precious time. I gotta go, and I hope you heed my words." Kokichi grinned.
"Wait...why are you telling me this?" Todd asked curiously.
"Eh? Oh that...just a heads-up." Kokichi said before taking his leave.
Todd raised a brow, wondering why Kokichi would help out. From what he was told, Kokichi doesn't care about what he does nor the consequences of his actions, so why help him?
"Kokichi...what are you hiding?" Todd wondered.
Meanwhile
Back at Liberty Park, Andie and Jamie were handing some nuts to the fellow park animals. They were joyed to finally get something to eat for once. Unbeknownst to any of them, Raccoon was looking at them through the mill, as he was angered to see Andie handing them the nuts.
"I didn't authorize any hands out, now did I?" Raccoon asked himself.
"Oh, you know Andie. Always so ignorant." Mole said as he was looking over the draw to find his special dark sunglasses.
"Looking for these?" Raccoon asked, taking out the sunglasses out of his fur. Mole smiled brightly as he took it from Raccoon's paw. "I know Andie. She lacks obedience. Can't follow orders."
"But she follows Surly." Mole pointed out, which peeked Raccoon's interest. "You know, he even tamed that guard dog? He could actually pull this off."
Raccoon snapped his fingers, signaling Cardinal to steal Mole's sunglasses, much to his shock. Cardinal flew over and held the sunglasses in his beak.
"The day Surly saves this park is the day nuts will rain from the skies!" Raccoon exclaimed angrily, frightening Mole a bit. "Hmm..." Raccoon thought for a minute before making a smirk on his face. "There could be an accident."
Cardinal spat out the glasses to a draw filled with many shiny objects, presumably Raccoon's collections. Mole tried to grab the sunglasses, but Cardinal used his talons to slide the draw closed while crushing Mole's claws in the process.
"AHHHHH!" Mole screamed in pain.
"Have you thought of sabotage?" Raccoon proposed, unfazed by Mole's screaming.
"W-what's your problem?!" Mole demanded angrily. "It's only Surly! A two-bit trashcan thief!"
"It's not about thievery! It's about that food getting into that park!" Raccoon explained before letting out a sigh and looked at Mole with a serious expression. "Have you forgotten about my motto?"
Mole shook his head as he and Raccoon said it in unison: "Animals are controlled by the amount of food they have. It is our duty to keep it from them."
"Good." Raccoon smiled darkly as he asked "Now where were we? Ah yes. Sabotage."
"Yeah, sabotage." Mole chuckled before realizing something. "Um...what is that, french or something?"
"Just shut up and get to ruining that heist." Raccoon demanded before remembering Todd was with them and Kokichi was nowhere to be seen, presumably minding his own business or...keeping an eye out on him. "Oh, and keep an eye out for Todd. I have a feeling that troublesome fox squirrel might be on to me, along with that white squirrel."
"What? Kokichi?" Mole questioned. "He's nothing more than an insane psychotic trickster."
"True, but I have a feeling that he's been keeping a suspicious eye out for me." Raccoon said. "Besides, from what I can tell, he knows how to hide his feelings from all those crazy things he's been doing over the years and very good at figuring out people's lies. So please keep an eye out for him and Todd, and if they tried to stop us from the heist..." Raccoon formed a dark smile at him and says "Take them out of the picture."
Soon, Raccoon began laughing evilly with Mole laughing alongside him before asking "Why are we laughing?"
Unbeknownst to them, Kokichi was watching them from up on the broken rooftop of the Mill with a smirk on his face.
"Heh heh...Oh Raccoon, you seriously are gonna try to get rid of me when I have a plan of my own to go through. Jeez, this guy is just insanely bad. Wonder why Liam Neeson ever voiced him?...Oh right, because he's Liam Neeson and he can practically do anything." Kokichi rolled his eyes. "But I better keep my eye on him and Mole for now. This could work on my advantage to get them closer than ever and get rid of this insane bozo. I still can't believe nobody ever suspected him before. I mean, he's a Raccoon. I mean, don't they count as thieves or something? God I'll never understand logic these days."
With that, Kokichi takes his leave back to the nut shop as they are about learn about the darkness of the heart of Liberty Park.
To Be Continued