Note: The Nut Job belongs to Global Road Entertainment and all characters belong to their respective creators, but Todd Lloyd belongs to me and Dusk19.
Andie was pacing back and forth, getting extremely worried about Todd. He still hasn't come back and who knows what Kokichi was up to. After that evil creepy smile he made, she knew that he's planning something dangerous.
"Oh...Why didn't I just listen to Surly? I was trying to make sure that he was right by asking the others. I wasn't doubting him, I was unsure. Todd...please hurry." Andie thought, feeling more worried for the fox squirrel than ever.
"What do you think Kokichi meant by all that? His plan concerning about both Todd and Surly?" Johnny questioned.
"Beats me, all we know is that whatever that squirrel is planning is bad news." Jamie said with a serious expression. "Though again, I can't believe I'm saying this, but I'm just wondering what's taking Surly and Todd."
"What? Are you actually feeling concern for that thief? The kid I understand, but Surly?!" Jimmy asked incredulous.
"I know he's bad, but after hearing all about Todd wanting to be with Surly and seeing him like his father, I...I can't help but feel concern. I mean, earlier during the heist, Surly even started recognizing the kid and included him in his talks." Jamie explained, which made the brothers realize that.
"Well...you make a good point." Jimmy rubbed his head bashfully.
"Yeah..." Johnny glanced away, blushing a bit. Andie overheard their conversation and smiled softly at Jamie, happy to hear that at least one of them is concern for both Surly and Todd instead of one of them.
Suddenly, she hears a whistle as she and the others turned around to find Buddy climbing back up to the rooftop and has a milk carton in his paws.
"Buddy? What's wrong?" Andie asked with a raised brow as Buddy gestured them to let them see what he got.
"An empty milk carton?" Johnny asked in confusion. Buddy shook his head and pointed to the side of the milk carton as the gang saw a picture of a familiar brown haired child with headphones, which caused them to gasp.
"T-those eyes...that face...those headphones..." Jamie gasped.
"I-It' could be right?" Jimmy asked, wanting to be wrong.
"...Todd." Andie said, widening her eyes upon seeing it. "So he and Kokichi were right...and we didn't believe him. Now I feel like a terrible friend. Sure we might've made up, but instead I still made him distrust me because of putting Surly in peril..."
"I don't believe it! That's Todd?! You mean to tell us that's Todd?!" Johnny exclaimed in shock. "That can't be!"
"It has to be, Johnny." Andie said, turning to him with a serious and stern look. "Todd was telling the truth the whole time. He really was human."
"You're not seriously believing into this, right Andie?" Johnny asked incredulous.
"Todd told me and Grayson before when we first met him when he was attacked by the city rats, and we doubted him with that. Now seeing what Buddy has, he was right." Andie looked at the milk carton with a sad look, seeing the picture of Todd with the word 'Missing' on the bottom middle. "His mother must be worried about him...just like how I am..."
The Bruisers looked at each other in concern for their red squirrel friend as they came over and patted her on the back.
"Alright...if you believe in Todd, we'll believe in him too." Jamie said with a soft smile.
"Same here!" Johnny added.
"I'm still confuse by all this, but what the heck? We'll believe in that." Jimmy agreed. Andie smiled at her friends before turning to Buddy with a curious expression and asked "Buddy, do you know where Todd went?"
After a few hand gestures made by the blue rat, Andie realized that Todd went inside of the Nut Shop because that's where Surly went in since he went to go and collect his profit.
"So he's in the Nut Shop...well it's taking a good while. Come on guys, let's go." Andie said as she began climbing down the gutter.
"Wait, where?" Jamie asked.
"We're going back inside to the nut shop to find our friends." Andie said with a smile on her face while it confused the Bruisers and Buddy before starting to realize that she was including Surly as well. "Well, what are we waiting for? Let's go!"
Without hesitating, the Bruisers and Buddy followed her to the Nut Shop as they not only planned to collect their profit, but to find Surly and Todd as well. But unbeknonwst to them, a familiar little red Cardinal was seen on the perch of a wire as it let out a chirp and began flying back to the park as he was gonna inform his leader about what he learned.
Later
Meanwhile with our two heroes, they were trapped. Trapped inside of a metal cage as one of the robbers captured them and put them down on the table as the robbers were talking about the fates of the two rodents. Surly and Todd were still scared and in fear of their lives. Surly glanced away, wondering what to do while Todd began feeling scared of his life about to end and never got the chance to see his mother again.
Todd turned to the purple squirrel and asked "So what now Surly? I-Is there a way to get out of here? Please at least tell me that we can survive this, right?"
Surly looked at the kid with a sad look and replied "No...I don't."
Todd became shocked to hear that Surly didn't have a plan at all. He was feeling more scared than ever.
"Ugh! How can I be this stupid?! I'm supposed to be the brains of this operation and I didn't see that they wouldn't believe me?! Thanks to my arrogance, I lost Buddy! Great, life really likes to kick you in the alps!" Surly exclaimed angrily before noticing how frightened and scared Todd was becoming.
"Um…kid? You okay there?"
"It can't…end like this…It can't!" Todd exclaimed, grabbing onto the metal bars and immediately tried shaking them.
"Whoa, kid! Calm down!" Surly yelled, grabbing him and calming him a down a bit. "What's wrong with you kid?!"
"I-I'm so sorry…" Todd apologized with a sad sigh. Surly sighed and thought that maybe they could take their minds off with their current situation by talking.
"Hey kid…" Surly called, gaining his attention. "Tell me why? Why did you ever wanted to meet with me?"
Todd looked at him with a surprised look before he replaced it with a sad look as he sighed, and decided to talk about it.
"Because…you reminded me a lot like my dad." Todd said honestly.
"What?" Surly asked incredulous.
"You're always cocky and smart, just like him." Todd added. "I lost my dad when he had pancreatic disease. I was so…heartbroken and lonely because I always looked up to him. But when I first came to Liberty Park and saw you…You were so awesome and cool looking…I thought of you as a hero."
Surly looked at him with a surprised look when he heard Todd's reasons of why take a liking to him while feeling terrible for the kid losing his own dad.
"…Kid, I'm no hero. I'm just a squirrel out looking for a nut." Surly said, glancing away while blushing in embarrassment.
"Well still, you're so cool. I always admired thieving characters." Todd chuckled, surprising Surly even more. "It's the truth. Though the animals back at the park keep telling me that you were no good and always like to be arrogant and a lone wolf and such, I didn't believe in all that crap. I knew there was good in your heart."
"Wow…really?" Surly asked, looking at him as he realized that Todd was dead serious. After all, he stood up for him and refused to vote against him, and not only that, he helped him out during the heist today.
"Yeah, though I never relied on anyone in my life…well except for one." Todd sighed, intriguing Surly on that last part he said.
"Really? Who was it?" Surly asked curiously.
Todd let out a sad sigh before looking down on the ground and said "Listen, I know I haven't been the nicest kid. Again, I lost my father to pancreatic cancer. He was someone I had always looked up to, and he was the greatest with dad jokes. I just…miss him…" Todd lowered his ears in sadness. "But I wasn't like this just because of the loss of my father. It was also because of my best friend."
"Oh, so you do have a friend eh?" Surly asked, making a small smile at him.
"Yeah, he was somewhat nerdy though, but we were awesome and we promised we'd always be that way until the end. I grew up with him and we always hung out. He was pretty much the only close friend I had and the only one who understood me. He relates to me too because he lost his mother to lung cancer ever since he was 5." Todd explained, smiling upon reminiscing about his old childhood friend.
"Oh, wow…I guess you two were meant to be together, huh?" Surly smiled before frowning. "Just like me and Buddy…."
"Yeah…" Todd frowned as he said "Anyways though, we were BFFs and we always had each other. All until he and hsi dad had to move out-of-state ever since I was 10. Now, I have no friends whatsoever, no one to look up to, I have a bully who wouldn't let me catch a break, and now...look at me."
Todd began letting out tears as he began letting out whimpers. Surly looked at him, having this feeling in his heart like he never felt before.
"What is this? I don't know why...but I feel kinda bad for the squirt. Am I learning...guilt?" Surly thought, feeling terrible for the boy. Then, the unexpected happen. He hugged Todd, catching him by surprise.
"Hey kid. You don't have to cry. Just relax. I'm here for ya." Surly assured, causing Todd to smile at him.
"Yeah...you're right." Todd nodded. "Thanks."
"D-don't mention it..." Surly blushed before mentioning "But you know...you seemed to really admire me as a thief, huh?
"Well...to tell you the truth, about the whole 'I admire thieves' thing, I really don't admire them for what they do or what crime they cause. I admire them because I thought they were usually the only ones with easygoing or adventurous personality. That's usually what I like characters and why I look up to them, especially adult ones."
Surly looked at him with a smirk and asked "Huh. Is that so?"
"Yeah...I like other characters too though like Sonic, Spyro, Crash Bandicoot and so on. You probably never heard of them, but I'm just saying that I'm not all about thieves."
"Huh...neat." Surly chuckled before frowning a bit. "Hey listen kid...there's something I have to confess."
"Yeah, what's up?" Todd asked curiously.
Surly clenched his fist a bit before taking a deep breath in and out and said "Truth be told...back when I was a kit, I always done dangerous heists and tricks, hoping that it'll catch people's attention."
"Y-you really did that?" Todd asked in shocked.
"Yeah, more crazier than Kokichi's pranks and tricks." Surly blushed a bit. "See...I felt lonely all the time and nobody even knows that I exist. I thought that if I gained a reputation here, then many people would recognize me and I won't feel so lonely anymore. Though, there was a few set-backs and instead of being liked, I was being hated for all the trouble stuff I did. Nobody understood my loneliness, not even Raccoon. That old geezer always put me in strict punishments, hearing his stern lectures, and such. I was sick of it...I was sick of my life." Surly glanced away from Todd, looking at the front of the cage with a sad smile. "I had no friends, no family, I was all alone. That's why I became a thief because I learned that people didn't really care all about friendship or others. Just themselves. So I thought, if that's what the world wants, that's what the world would get. I always think about myself and trying to survive the outside world, but then I met Buddy and Andie, and they understood my loneliness, but I would treat them badly and push them away. I shouldn't have said all those mean things back there to them...I should've just listened and understood them..."
"Surly..." Todd hugged him back as he stated "Andie still cares about you, and I told Buddy that you didn't mean all that stuff you said back there. Andie still believes in you and wishes to bring back the Surly she once you. She wants to see your real smile again."
"S-she does?" Surly asked in surprise. Todd looked at the purple squirrel with a smile and nodded. "Huh...even after all these years, she's more stubborn than me."
"Tell me about it." Todd muttered.
"...But you know kid. I know you may have thought I'd be a good thief and squirrel too, and that's why you met and came along with me despite my wrong-doings from the park. I'm sorry if I disappointed you big time. I'm sorry...for not being the hero you thought I'd be." Surly apologized, looking at the fox squirrel with a sad look.
Todd understood and nodded in response. "It's okay, I guess..."
"And if we both don't get out of this alive, just know that it's my fault. If I was a good guy, then none of this would have happened. What's worse was that I stupidly put you in danger many times; first with those street rats, then with that dog, then I got you shot by those robbers, and now this. If anything did happen to you too, then the park would have really hated me and Andie would never want to talk or probably even see me again." Surly admitted.
Todd nodded in response as he understood again, and Surly smiled at the fox squirrel as he made a promise.
"But...if we do get get outta this, I promise I will be a changed squirrel, especially for you, Buddy, and Andie. And besides, you may have unfortunately lost your old man but it doesn't mean you can't have another." Surly smirked, causing Todd to smile back at him.
"Alright. Thanks, Surly."
"No problem, kid." Surly winked.
Just then, the robbers came back and glared at the two rodents, as they hugged each other tight with fear in their looks.
"What we're gonna do with them boss?" Fingers asked. King slammed a knife onto the table, adding more fear to the rodents as King said "Shut it!...And get me that blowtorch."
Todd and Surly widened their eyes upon hearing that. They're going to burn them alive?!
Precious began barking at King, not wanting him to burn the two rodents. That's when a little miracle happened that prevented Surly and Todd from getting scorched to death as King widened his eyes and let out a gasp as he turned around and saw his now ex-girlfriend...
"Lana..." King looked at her with shocked, not expecting her to show up at all. One look at her eyes, and you can see how hurt and betrayed she feels, seeing her own man betray and lied to her like that...and she believed in him. Fingers and Lucky realized how awkward this was as the latter said "Listen...we're gonna go back and do uh...tunnel stuff, yeah!"
After the two robbers left, Lana walked down the steps as she approached King with a hurtful look on her face. Todd couldn't help but feel sad for her. He overheard what was happening back earlier yesterday morning and saw how excited she was, but to find out that King was planning a bank heist really made her feel like she should've saw this coming.
"...So now you know." King said, turning away from him.
"When were you gonna tell me Percy?" Lana asked, at the verge of tears.
"I told you once...you can't change from who you are." King replied as Todd glared at the man.
"How could he?! She believed in her and yet you betray her words. At least Surly is now trying to change, unlike you." Todd thought, growling at the crime boss. Soon, they heard voices coming out of the tunnel as King said "Well...looks like its time."
"...Well then, fine. Go. Rob your bank already. I won't stop ya." Lana said, turning away from him. King grabbed a shovel and looked down on it and said "This really is...my last heist."
With that, King walked away back to the man-made tunnel to work on breaking into the Oakton City's first national bank. Lana soon began untying the leash around Precious's collar as it was tied up around the brown table. After she managed to untangle it, she grabbed the leash and decided to take Precious with her until she felt a halt, seeing the pug looking at the cage with a concern look. Lana looked at the two rodents, seeing how scared they felt. Lana walked over and opened it up, seeing the two squirrels slowly walking out as she turned around and began walking away.
"Thank you..." Todd muttered with a soft smile. Surly looks back down at Precious and says "But...I don't have the whistle."
"I know." Precious replied with a grin before walking off back to her new owner.
Surly widened his eyes, not understanding what Precious meant.
"Why?...Why do this for us?" Surly asked himself.
"It's because she sees you as a friend." Surly looked at Todd with a confused look as the fox squirrel continued "Even after you controlled her with the dog whistle...she still sees you as a friend like I do."
Surly smiled at him, fully knowing why Precious went out to save her. Even after all that, she cared about Surly. Just like with Andie and Buddy...
They soon got out of the Nut Shop with Surly opening the metal gate for Todd while he came out last and holding the bag of nuts in his paws.
"You know...maybe Surly still wants to be left alone. It's for the best to let him calm down after what we've been through just now." Todd thought sadly before turning to Surly and said "Well, we made it out alive. But...if you still want to be left alone, then okay. I'll be with the others if hopefully I can find my way back to them. I guess I'll see you later."
Todd starts to leave, but Surly stops him.
"Todd, wait!" Surly shouted, causing Todd to turn around widened eyes, surprised to hear him say his name again.
"It's too dangerous to go out there alone." Surly said before softly smiling at the fox squirrel. "You should stay with me, kiddo. We'll stick together."
Todd smiled at him, happy and relieved to hear that Surly cares about him as he walks over and ruffles his head, causing him to giggle.
"Thanks, Surly. In fact, I was right before. We really do make a pretty good team." Todd chuckled.
"Of troublemakers, I assume?" Surly and Todd's ears' perked up upon hearing that voice. They knew who it was. Before any of them could react, they were attacked and pinned against the wall by a load of street rats while Surly dropped the bag of nuts in the process of getting pinned by them.
"Hold them tight! Hold them tight!" One of the rats snickered. Todd and Surly looked over to see a familiar raccoon walking out of the shadows with a sneaky grin on his face.
"Well, well, well. What do we have here?" Raccoon wondered as he turned to Surly and asked "A hero or a thief?"
He then turned to Todd, still having the same smirk on his face. "And a squirrel...or a fox? I can't tell the difference."
"You think you can starve the park just so you can stay control!?" Surly demanded.
"Yeah! You won't get away with this! We know everything with your plan! Mole told us everything!" Todd added with a low growl. Raccoon raises a brow at them, not showing any care about it as Mole appeared out of nowhere as he exclaimed "W-what?! What are they talking about?! I think they're loopy, you know! Cuckoo!"
"Says you!" Todd scoffed, which Mole winced.
"Is this another one of your swindles? Some half-baked revenge against me?" Raccoon questioned Surly, walking back and forth with a nearly blank expression before forming a smirk. "It's something else, isn't it? You're trying to impress...Grayson? Or perhaps...Andie?"
Surly widened his eyes in shock, hearing Raccoon mentioning her. "Ahh...yes. I see now."
Surly glared at him and exclaimed "You touch a hair on her, and you're gonna be sorry!"
"Whatever...it doesn't matter. Soon, my little revenge plan on you will be over." Raccoon chuckled while Todd became confused on what he meant.
"Revenge? For what?" Todd asked before turning to Surly and asked "What did you do?"
"Well...let's just say that we've never been on good terms." Surly replied.
"You really wanna know, eh Todd?" Raccoon asked, smirking at the fox squirrel, who glared back at him. "Every time he makes a heist, it always resulting on trying to prove how troublesome he is and how hard he's trying just to gain attention to let others know he exists. Every time he does so, it always ruins my plans. But then again..." Raccoon formed a smirk on his face and said "Although most of his heists results in collateral damage, it does help me gain more control of the park."
"Why you little!" Surly growled at the park leader as Todd looked at him with a confused look as he asked "Wait...always ruins your plan? Does that mean...!"
"Ahh...how smart you are, Todd. See, I was originally planning on burning the Grand Oak Tree myself without no witnesses. But if there was one...well, I can always leave it to the city rats to take care of them." Raccon said, not showing a hint of remorse or care about what would happen if anyone saw that he tried to see that he was planning on blowing up the Grand Oak Tree.
Todd gasped to hear this as he growled "How could you?! You would sacrifice someone just so you can continue to control the park?!"
"Yes." Raccoon answered bluntly. "Sometimes, you need to make great sacrifices in order to achieve succession. That's how the real world works Todd."
"Ah!" Todd glared at him as he was pinned hard against the wall.
"Though...I never expected Surly to pull the strings on blowing the Grand Oak Tree for good. Very good job by the way." Raccoon complimented, causing Surly to glare at him angrily, not happy for the park leader to bring that up. "It was finally my chance to get rid of you after all these years if it wasn't for that pathetic red squirrel I call a daughter."
"Hey! Don't talk to Andie like that! At least she cares about Surly and the park than you!" Todd exclaimed.
"Who cares?" Raccoon scoffed. "She's just an ignorant, rebellious, brat that I should have never taken with me. I was planning on making her my successor and make her join me in conquering Liberty Park, but instead...she chosed to help you!" Raccoon pointed at Surly, who happened to smirk at him as he said "Well, guess she got the likes for me."
"GRRR!" Raccoon growled angrily at him before regaining his composure. "I don't care. I thought it would be my chance to finally get rid you once and for all, Surly. If it wasn't for this child you call a friend!"
Raccoon pointed at Todd, who blew a raspberry at him, which he ignored.
"Though...I'm surprised that someone like him would befriend a thief like you, even though he barely even knows you besides the rumors he heard and what we told him at your trial." Raccoon said with a smirk. "How weird for a mere human."
"Human?" Surly questioned before turning to Todd, who widened his eyes upon hearing Raccoon mentioning that. "What's he talking about?"
"W-well..."
"You see, Todd Lloyd is actually a human. Don't know how he became a fox squirrel to be exact." Raccoon scoffed, shocking Surly before he turned to the fox squirrel, who let his ears dropped down in sadness
"Is this true?" Surly asked
"Yeah...sorry for not telling you that." Todd sighed while Surly looked at him with shocked all over his face.
"Todd...is a human?!" Surly thought, shocked upon learning that.
"Shocking, isn't it?" Raccoon chuckled. "Now are you regretting for ever teaming up with a bratty child like him?"
Surly thought about it before darkening his face and smiled. "Hmm...you really like using these kind of things to your advantage, huh Raccoon?"
"It's what I do best." Raccoon smirked. However, he wasn't expecting him to look at him with a big grin on his face.
"But even so, he's the first squirrel to ever open up to me. He believed in me, he never was against me, he never voted me off, and kept following me because he looked up to me as a hero. Even if I wasn't the hero he ever imagined, I would still protect him from your paws." Surly said, shocking Raccoon and Todd. Todd looked at him before slowly forming a grin on his face, happy and relieved to hear that Surly cared about him.
"Surly...thank you." Todd thought. Soon, Raccoon regained his composure and simply scoffed.
"Hmph! Oh well, it doesn't matter. What matters is taking out the trash." Raccoon said, confusing both Todd and Surly.
"What do you mean?" Todd questioned.
"Oh you'll see once my accomplices will take care of them soon enough." Raccoon stated as the city rats grinned nastily and darkly chuckled. Surly and Todd widened their eyes upon realizing where he was going with this.
"N-no! You can't!" Todd begged.
"They don't follow me! They hate me! They hate me!" Surly exclaimed, pleading Raccoon for letting them have mercy.
"Maybe, but I can't leave any evidence, Surly." Raccoon stated as Cardinal swooped down and landed on Raccoon's arm as he added "Every good thief knows that."
Todd glared and growled angrily at him, not even believing a single word out of this animal.
"You sick twisted bastard! You're no thief! You're a coward!" Todd exclaimed before spitting at Raccoon's face, much to his irritation. Todd made a cocky grin at him as Raccoon gave him a menacing and frustrated look before he exclaimed "Why you meddlesome boy!"
He unsheathed his claws and before you know it, he scratched his left arm, leaving a big gash on it.
"AHH!" Todd screamed as he fell down on the floor, clutching on his left arm in pain as blood began dripping down.
"TODD!" Surly screamed in shock as he glared at Raccoon and exclaimed "You bastard! What more do you want?! Do you even care what you done?! He's a kid!"
"Oh please, like I would care about him." Raccoon scoffed with a light chuckle. "If only he would be loyal and be a good little fox squirrel, then maybe I would've gone easy on him, but it looks like he had to make things difficult, didn't he?"
"Aah...it hurts. Kinda a suckish move." Todd muttered, wincing in pain of his scratched arm.
"You'll pay for this Raccoon!" Surly exclaimed angrily.
"Heh heh, I like to see you try." Raccoon laughed before picking up the bag of nuts Surly dropped and threw it to one of the city rats as he said "You'll get the rest once you dispose of Andie and her party. Meanwhile, I'll finish off Mr. Hero and his little boy here myself."
Raccoon snarled at Surly as the purple squirrel glared back at him and said "The park'll get rid of you. They'll vote in new leaders."
Raccoon gave him a blank look before saying "How many leaders do you think this park can have? Hm?"
"H-hey listen Raccoon..." Mole called, gaining the park leader's attention. "This is all getting all quite a little troublesome, but...don't you think we're going too far?"
"Shut up you! I didn't ask for your opinions!" Raccoon snarled, frightening Mole. "Now where's that shiny thing he's supposed to have?"
Suddenly, two rocks were thrown and knocked out the rats that were pinning Surly, releasing him from their grasp.
"Oh, you mean this Racky?" Everyone turned to see a familiar albino squirrel holding the dog whistle in his paws with a smirk on his face.
"Kokichi!" Surly, Raccoon, and Todd yelled in shocked.
"The one and only." Kokichi laughed. "Though...I never anticipated this. This clearly wasn't a part of my master plan, but whatever."
"You useless white squirrel! What do you think you're doing?!" Raccoon demanded.
"What does it looks like? I'm here to save the day!" Kokichi replied, which made Raccoon laughed.
"Are you serious? Why would a troublemaker like yourself bother to help these two imbeciles?" Raccoon questioned.
"Well I have my reasons. You, on the other hand, sorry to say that I'm afraid that you won't get away with this." Kokichi chuckled. "Never reveal your plans out loud. Trust me, you learn this from experience."
"I don't take orders from a fool like you! You take orders from me!" Raccoon exclaimed as he was about to charge at Kokichi until the metal gate blown up and knocked everyone off course. Surly managed to get up quickly while Raccoon and the city rats were still dazed from the explosion as he raced towards Todd with an extremely worried look and asked "Are you okay Todd?!"
"I-I think so...but I can't get up right now. He really did a number on my arm." Todd winced.
"Need a paw?" Surly turned around to see Kokichi holding a rag in his paws, which he accepted. Although, he wondered how Kokichi managed to dodge that explosion, but right now, he was concern for Todd. He wrapped the rag around Todd's arm as he helped him get up, but Todd kept wincing in pain.
"It's no use...I'm too hurt to even run on all fours." Todd said.
"Ha...'it's no use'. Classic meme." Kokichi chuckled, ignoring the deadpan expression on Surly's face before turning to Todd and asked "Don't worry Todd, we'll find a way."
"Yeah! Hop on Surly's back and ride him like a cowboy!" Kokichi exclaimed. Surly and Todd looked at each other and shrugged, since they're kinda running out of ideas. With that, Kokichi helped Todd up and put him on Surly's back as they immediately made their escape back into the Nut Shop.
"GO! GO! GO!" Kokichi exclaimed as they kept running away from them.
"Hey wait, Kokichi?" Todd called, looking at him curiously while being carried by Surly on his back. "How did you get that dog whistle and where to find us?"
"I came when you called!" Kokichi answered. "Also, I-I don't know. It's hard to explain how to explain it. Not even the author can come up with a lousy reason like that. So let's just say I found it while you suckers weren't looking back at the rooftop."
"Okay...how?!" Todd demanded.
"No time to talk Todd! Let's get the heck out of here!" Surly exclaimed, eager to get out of here as they saw the city rats chasing after them. Kokichi played a little trick on them as he made them chased after him as he draw them through the mouse traps, only making two of the three city rats to fall for it. The third one pounced at Kokichi, but he saw this coming and used the dog whistle as a bat and knocked him into a box filled with mouse traps.
"Ooh...that guy is not gonna wake up after that." Kokichi stated. "...Ever."
"Can we move on please?" Surly demanded, not wanting to hear another word from Kokichi. "But Kokichi...thanks."
"Anytime." Kokichi winked.
"Guys! Watch out!" Todd pointed out, seeing King leaving out of the tunnel. Surly widened his eyes while Kokichi blankly stared at him and commented "So this is the big bad boss guy? Looks like a rip-off of some mobster I know."
Surly grabbed him by the tail and dragged him to the fallen escalator as they watched him put down sacks of cash on the ground, which made Todd gasped in shock.
"So that's what they're doing! They're robbing the bank!" Todd thought in shock until he and the others noticed a cart rolling back out of the tunnel, which was noticed by King.
"What the?" King asked himself before seeing his two lackeys coming out of the cave with furious expressions. "I thought I told ya morons to stuff the bags of nuts into the vault!"
"Yeah, so why did you took the cart away while we were doing it?!" Fingers demanded.
King raised a brow at him and asked "What kinda game you playing at?"
"What kind of game you playing at?!"
"Settle down, we probably accidentally pushed it off when we were packing them up." Lucky suggested, not wanting to pick a fight with their boss.
King noticed a little something under the cart, having suspicions about this cart already as he said "Or maybe…"
As he pushed the cart off, it revealed Andie and the other park animals, shocking the robbers as they immediately scattered the place once they've been found out.
"Quick! Shoot those rodents!" King demanded as the animals quickly ran to hide or escape back from the tunnel they came out of. King then noticed Andie climbing up the table as he quickly grabbed his gun and tried to shoot her. Unfortunately, due to how frightened he was, he wasn't able to shoot her and missed. Todd let out a sigh of relief, glad to see Andie still alright.
"Phew…a swing and a miss." Kokichi laughed before noticing something…or someone on King's back. "Oh god, no."
"What?" Todd asked before he and Surly looked up and saw what they were looking at and became shocked on who it was hiding behind King's back.
"Grayson?!" They gasped.
"AH!" Grayson yelled in fear before jumping off and hiding behind their hiding spot as he began shivering in fear.
"Grayson, you moron!" Surly exclaimed in exasperation.
"You have to got to be kidding me." Kokichi sighed in annoyance. "Why are you even here in this heist? No…the entire fanfic?!"
"Shut up Kokichi!" Todd yelled.
"Guys! I need your help! I need a disguise!" Grayson pleaded, much to their confusion.
"What?!" Surly asked before shaking his head and demanded "Look! I got no time with ya! We need you to go and get everyone out of here by going out from the tunnel! I'll try to distract them while Kokichi carries Todd out of here!"
"Hold on, what?" Kokichi asked before Surly handed the fox squirrel onto Kokichi's arms.
"I need…something…flamboyant!" Grayson said, ignoring everything Surly said. Kokichi stared at him blankly and said "Good lord, how did you ever become the park hero, I'll never understand. I'm surprised that no one in the park knows about your cowardice. Which then again…animals are a bunch of curious and naive losers."
Todd looked at him with a questionable look, wondering about that last part Kokichi mentioned.
"Hey!" Grayson shouted, offended by what Kokichi said. Soon, Surly grew irritated by the gray squirrel constant stupidity as he grabbed him by the cheeks and yelled "You don't need a cape! You're the park hero for crying out loud! They're always believing in ya! Like just last summer, who discovered a broken sprinkler over at the west side of the park and helped everyone from dehydration?!"
"I…did?" Grayson answered.
"Exactly! I may not be a hero! But you are! Now get out there and march out there because it's hero time!"
"It's hero time!" Grayson said with a determined look before bluntly asking "Why am I screaming again?"
"Oh for god's sake and sanity!" Kokichi muttered in annoyance before yelling "RATS!"
Grayson widened his eyes in shock upon hearing that word as he screamed "RAAAAATS!"
With that, Grayson immediately got out of Surly's grasp and headed out of the tunnel, which the others noticed.
"Oh! It's Grayson!" Jamie said in amazement.
"He's here to save us!" Johnny guessed.
"Quick! Now's our chance!" Andie said, which the others agreed without hesitation as they followed after Grayson. Surly let out a sigh of relief to see them get out of there before noticing King setting their sights of them. Surly gasped before pulling off a determined look as he turned to both Kokichi and Todd and said "Now listen Kokichi, you gotta get Todd out of here and find a safe place to let him recover and I mean it!"
"Alright, alright. Jeez, if ya want to help the kid, do it yourself." Kokichi rolled his eyes.
"Wait Surly, what are you gonna do?" Todd asked curiously.
"I'm going to be a hero." Surly replied before running towards King and climbing on top of him, which made King frightened upon feeling something crawling around him, making him unable to take the shot while the others escaped out of there. Todd smiled happily to see Surly not doing for himself, but for the others as well.
"He's really doing it. I knew Surly had some good in his heart." Todd thought with a smile. Soon, Kokichi carried Todd out of the nut shop by taking the little tunnel the Bruisers made. Once they were out, they looked to see the two vans' engines starting up.
"Huh…looks like those bastards are about to make like a tree and leave. Well doesn't matter. Come on Toddy, let's get out of here!" Kokichi exclaimed as he began climbing up the gutter with Todd on his back as they were arrived to the rooftop where Kokichi settled the fox squirrel down on his back.
"Wait…why do you bring me back here?" Todd questioned.
"What? You're fine. You can enjoy watching the stars and hear the traffic sounds at the same time to relax." Kokichi replied bluntly.
"That doesn't answer my question." Todd said in a deadpanned expression.
"Alright fine. We can't leave."
"Why?"
"Because I see Raccoon tricking the others into going inside one of the vehicles that's stashed with nuts before he locked them inside." Kokichi answered bluntly, shocking Todd as he immediately got up and exclaimed "What?!"
"No, I'm serious. See!" Kokichi pointed over at the ledge as Todd walked over and saw Raccoon trapping the others into the van as it began leaving.
"Dang it!" Todd cursed. "Where are you Surly?"
"I'm here!" They turned around to see Surly climbing back up to the rooftop, much to Todd's joy as he ran over and hugged Surly tight.
"You're here! I'm so glad you're alright!"
Surly smiled and hugged him back and said "Hey, I told ya I'll be fine. So what's up?"
"Well the park gang are locked inside of the van, so that's a start." Kokichi shrugged.
"What?!" Surly looked down to see the van getting away. "Great…Alright, we need to figure out how to get there!"
"Hmm…" Todd thought, wondering a good plan to get over to the van until they felt like someone next to them as they turned to their right and saw Grayson looking down blankly before he noticed them and screamed in terror, surprising the others.
"Would you stop doing that?!" Surly demanded.
"Yeah, it's starting to get annoying." Kokichi muttered.
"Grayson, how did you get here?" Todd asked.
"Uhh…I have no idea." Grayson said bluntly.
"Look! Doesn't matter." Surly said in a serious tone. "We need to get over there and try to save our friends!"
"Surly's right! We can't let Raccoon get away with this!" Todd added.
"So are you guys in or not?" Surly asked.
Grayson made a determined expression and said "Let's do it!"
"Meh, got no choice anyway. Besides, I wrote a contract with the author and he said that I have to be in this rescue scene of this fanfic." Kokichi shrugged, causing the three to look at him weirdly.
"…What are you even talking about?" Todd questioned.
"Don't worry, I won't spoil anything more Toddy. Well I mean I read the script of each chapter, but not the end. You know, I don't like spoilers." Kokichi replied with a grin, confusing the fox squirrel even more.
"Okay, this squirrel really is messed-up in his own way." Todd thought, sweat-dropping a little.
"Anyway…" Surly cleared his throat, wanting to change the subject as he pointed over to the pigeons and said "I think I found our way towards the van."
Todd, Grayson, and Kokichi looked over at the pigeons as the fox squirrel grinned and said "Oh yeah!"
"WOOOO-HOOOO! Yeah!" Todd screamed as they were riding on the pigeons as rides and flew down towards the van.
"OLE! God! I love this!" Grayson cheered.
"Just shut up Grayson! I'm having my moment here! I'm coming Miss Jamie!" Kokichi yelled as they fly down and landed on the vehicle. They flew down and landed on top of the van, ready to save their friends.
"Alright you guys, we need to figure a way inside of this van." Surly said.
"On it!" Grayson nodded before the van suddenly stopped, causing him to fall in front of the car as he held onto it in fear.
"And suddenly, Grayson is gone. Why am I not surprise?" Kokichi muttered with a slightly annoyed look.
"Come on! We gotta save him!" Todd said as he tried to go after him until they heard a clonking sound as they slowly turned around to find Cardinal behind them. It let out a chirp, which frightened them.
"Oh boy..." Surly sighed.
"Well this can't be good..." Todd muttered.
"You know, I can never tell if this bird is a boy or a girl. I mean, I don't even think the animators even came up with-AH!" Kokichi was then attacked by Cardinal as it repeatedly kept pecking him over and over again, much to his annoyance. "Somebody! OW! Do! OW! Something! OW! OW! OW!"
Surly and Todd rushed to his side, only to get attacked by Cardinal as well as they backed away from it until they fell down and landed onto the car windows', face front.
"Ah!" Lucky shrieked, seeing the three rodents. "Squirrels! And...a bird?!"
"Oh yeah, a squirrel." Surly rolled his eyes.
"So now they say it. About time suckers." Kokichi added as they slowly slid off the glass and hang onto the car wipers as Cardinal landed on the second one.
"Ha ha! You can't hurt us now!" Todd taunted until Lucky activated the car wipers and allowed to get closer to it. "Oh no...OW!"
Soon, Cardinal began doing this over and over at the three squirrels, acting it like a game of Whack-A-Mole!
"Please...somebody...end...this...I don't feel good..." Kokichi muttered, slowly turning green. Surly let out a frustrated grunt as he grabbed the car wiper Cardinal itself was on and launched him out of their sights and into a cat show, where they heard some hissing and feathers flying out.
"Yeah! Nice shot Surly!" Todd cheered.
"Anytime Todd! We showed that bird who's boss!" Surly chuckled.
"Yep-a-doodles! Now let's get the heck out of here and try to hurry before Racky might do something stupid." Kokichi said, which they nodded in agreement. Soon, they climbed on top of the van and raced to the back, where they encountered Mole.
"Mole?!" Todd exclaimed in shock before growling angrily at him and said "What are you doing here?!"
"O-Oh! H-hey guys." Mole chuckled nervously.
"Answer the question!" Todd demanded. "Why are you here?!"
"Okay, to be fair, I want to say I'm sorry for working and taking on Raccoon's side, but it's just tiring to work someone like him. I mean, I can't even get a read on that guy." Mole explained.
"Yeah! He's like someone I've seen from a certain abridged series." Kokichi thought aloud. "But anywho, you came here to save the others huh? That's pretty bold, even for someone like you."
"Ain't that the truth?" Surly shrugged before turning to Mole with a soft smile. "But I'm glad that you're here to help Mole."
"Thank you?" Mole raised a brow at him, surprised a bit that Surly is not acting like his usual self. Suddenly, they heard screaming underneath the van as they looked down to see Grayson coming towards them, sliding down on the door.
"Grayson?!" They all exclaimed as Grayson was going to crash and die. But, luck came to his side as Surly managed to grabbed him by the ears in time before the door crashed into the streets. Todd and Kokichi helped Surly out and picked back up on the ledge of the car. Once they managed to get him up, Grayson started giving Surly some kisses, much to his annoyance.
"Bleh! Bleh! Stop that!" Surly exclaimed as Todd snickered and said "Well, I guess that's Grayson's way to repay ya."
"I rather something else besides that." Surly replied before turning to both the gray squirrel and Mole and asked "Can you two help us unlock this door?"
"Ole!" Grayson answered.
"Is that a yes or a no? I honestly cannot understand you anymore." Kokichi rolled his eyes until Todd nudged him. Soon, the five animals worked together and managed to grab the doorknob and unlocked it, finding Jamie, Buddy, and Andie inside.
Grayson first stepped in with a big grin on his face, surprising the three rodents.
"Ah! Grayson!" Jamie smiled happily. Soon, Surly, Todd, and Kokichi landed inside of the van, face-flat.
"Surly! Todd! Kokichi?!" Andie exclaimed before racing over and hugging the fox squirrel and purple squirrel with tight hugs. "I'm so glad that you two are alright!"
"Heh heh...same here Andie." Surly replied.
"Yeah! Told ya I'll be okay." Todd assured with a grin.
"Miss Jamie!" Kokichi exclaimed happily, much to Jamie's disappointment.
"Oh god no..." Jamie muttered.
"Hey wait...where those bozos brothers of yours? Weren't they with you guys back at the nut shop?" Kokichi asked.
"Oh yeah, Raccoon asked them to go to the park and round up more animals to help out in the heist." Andie explained before noticing the bandaged rag around Todd's left arm, much to her shock. "Todd! What happened to you?!"
"It was Raccoon! That's what!" Todd answered.
"He's right! He planned this from the very beginning and hope for me destroying the Grand Oak Tree!" Surly added.
"Well...they're right." Kokichi shrugged. "Racky was actually a criminal crime boss who's been manipulating and controlling you guys by starvation. He even planned on destroying the Grand Oak Tree himself without you guys noticing a thing."
"What?!" Andie gasped in shock. "I-I don't believe it...I knew Raccoon was always stern and suspicious...but to think he was going to do that...I can't believe it."
"Andie..." Todd looked at her with a concern look. Soon, she shook her head and said "Well it doesn't matter. I'll take you guys word. If what you said is the truth, then I'll believe it."
"Andie! Thank you!" Todd smiled happily.
"And Buddy?" Surly turned to the blue rat, who glanced away from him as Surly said "Listen...I know I'm not the nicest squirrel in the world. But...I'm sorry for everything..."
Buddy raised a brow at him, which Surly noticed. "And for being an arrogant jerk." Buddy continued to look at him. "And for saying all that stuff back there...And I know, I'm kinda sorry for not treating as a friend. Truth be told...you're one of the first animals to ever noticed or even cared about me, and I thank you bud."
Buddy looked at him, realizing that Surly really meant it as he smiled happily in tears and hugged the purple squirrel, which Surly hugged back, rekindling their friendship.
"Ahh..." Jamie muttered while Todd smiled at the two, happy to see that they forgive each other.
"Yeah yeah, touchy stuff." Kokichi rolled his eyes. "Now let's get out of here."
"Y-yeah!" Surly nodded, ending his hug with Buddy. "Now let's get out of here before-AH!"
Surly was soon grabbed by the neck as the others gasped and saw Raccoon holding onto him by surprise as he attempted to throw him overboard.
"Raccoon! No!" Andie exclaimed.
"Stop it!" Todd added, glaring at the raccoon. Before he could throw him out of here, Grayson grabbed Surly's tail and pulled him back, preventing Raccoon from trying to throw him out of the van.
"W-what do you think you're doing?! Help me throw him out before he kills us all!" Raccoon snarled.
"How ironic when you're trying to kill us before! You were even going to kill Andie and the others as well in order to make sure 'not to leave any evidence behind'." Todd scoffed. "You never cared about the park no anyone! You only cared about yourself!"
"Hmph! Don't listen to this brat! He works for this criminal! That's why you all need to think this through and so we can rid this villain out of our home!" Raccoon exclaimed.
"No Raccoon..." Andie glared at the park leader, her emotions boiling up. "You're the traitor! I should've taken both Surly and Todd's words back then, but after what we've been through during the heist, I'm going to trust them!"
"W-what?!" Raccoon gasped.
"Yeah! Same here! I want to believe in my friends!" Jamie nodded, crossing her arms.
"Me too!" Grayson added. "Surly and Todd saved my life! They're heroes!...Well actually, co-heroes."
"Umm...thanks?" Todd said with a nervous grin and sweat-dropped a little.
"T-this is treason! You can't do this to me!" Raccoon exclaimed. "Besides, even if I am the traitor, you all have no proof that I am!"
"I wouldn't say so." Kokichi said with a smirk, causing Raccoon to glare at him angrily.
"And why's that?"
"Ladies and gentle-squirrels of the van, I would like to present to you all this!" Kokichi took out a medium sized tape recorder as he said "A tape-recorder!"
"A tape-recorder?" Todd questioned.
"Yeah! Listen to this!" Kokichi chuckled darkly as he hit the button as the tape-recorder began speaking up.
"Ahh...how smart you are, Todd. See, I was originally planning on burning the Grand Oak Tree myself without no witnesses. But if there was one...well, I can always leave it to the city rats to take care of them..."
Everyone became shocked to hear Raccoon's voice coming out of the tape-recorder as the former park leader widened his eyes in pure shock upon hearing his own confession.
"T-that's not true...that's impossible!" Raccoon exclaimed.
"So wait, you recorded Raccoon's confession?!" Todd asked in surprise.
"Yeah. I recorded it while you guys were busy interrogating him." Kokichi replied, causing Todd to look at him like he was crazy as he asked "But wait, if you were there the whole time, why didn't you stop him from before?!"
"I just love making dramatic entrances. That's all you need to know." Kokichi winked, causing Todd to blankly stare at him.
"Really?" Todd asked.
"So it's true..." Andie turned to the former park leader as she exclaimed "I can't believe that you would go this far! We trusted you!"
Raccoon looked at the red squirrel, shocked to see her this angry.
"And that's not all!" Mole added, hanging onto the door. "He's also been starving us to death just to let us suffer from hunger while he enjoyed seeing us suffer."
Everyone glared at Raccoon, all angry and betrayed that Raccoon would do these things. The park leader they all believed in...was now gone.
"Okay everyone! All that wants this monster to leave our home...raise your paws!" Grayson declared, which went unaminous, much to Raccoon's anger.
"Oh? You want me to be the bad guy? Fine, I'm the bad guy!" Raccoon sneered before throwing Surly out of the van before he grabbed a bag of nuts to cushion the fall.
"Surly!" Andie yelled in surprise while Buddy and Todd widened their eyes to see Raccoon throw Surly out of there, possibly killing him.
"Surly!" Todd shouted in shocked before glaring angrily at Raccoon. "Y-you'll pay for this...You'll pay for this Raccoon!"
"Ha ha, I like to see you try." Raccoon chuckled, adding more fury in Todd's anger.
"Alright then, time to take out the trash." Kokichi giggled, stepping forward before winking at Jamie. "Don't worry Miss Jamie, leave this to me!"
"Yeah! Kick his butt Kokichi!" Jamie yelled, which surprised the albino squirrel. He soon began letting out tears of joy and smiled happily.
"Never before in my life that I felt so joyful till I received it!" Kokichi said before smirking at Raccoon. "Now get ready Racky! Your reign of terror ends here! Because it's Koki Time!" As Kokichi was about to pounce at him, the van started making hard turns, causing the others to fall behind and landed into the bags of nuts', with Kokichi accidentally dropping the whistle in the process. Raccoon still kept his balance as he saw Kokichi dropping the dog whistle as he smirked and swiped it.
"Ha! Shiny!" Raccoon snorted before making his escape.
"Hey! Get back here!" Todd exclaimed, climbing up the van to see Raccoon jumping into the other van. With Todd angry and vengeful, the chase began as he went after Raccoon.
"Ugh..." Meanwhile, Kokichi slowly got out of the bags and took a deep breath and said "It's never going to be a thing, is it?"
"You think?" Jamie asked, which made Kokichi surprised to see her stuck next to him, much to his joy.
"And this day keeps getting better." Kokichi muttered until the moment was ruined as the car made another hard turn, causing Mole to launch himself from the door towards Jamie and Kokichi, knocking them further into the bags. "Ahh...nuts."
To Be Continued