- Three hours later -
It was now getting close to eleven at night. Dusty, Snappy and Fluttershy had spent about ten minutes of that time getting to know one another, as well as hearing about Snappy and Fluttershy's exploits against the cogs and the Smog Smashers. Dusty had groaned in frustration when he heard the Smog Smashers were back in town, but raised an eyebrow when he heard Fluttershy had managed to kill a Big Cheese with a pie, despite having no formal training in the use of throw gags. Dusty knew as well as the next Toon that it took at least a week of training before one could properly handle a cream pie in a Cog battle.
This made Dusty happy. It told him that Fluttershy had some sort of natural skill when it came to gag handling, which would make it easy for him to instruct her on proper gag handling, which would make it easier for her to defend herself against the cogs.
Fluttershy had spent most of the past three hours reading a very special book Dusty had suggested she look at, "The Toontown Survival Handbook". It was a complete encyclopedia written by Dusty himself, which contained information about Toontown and everything in it, including the cogs and expert strategies for dealing with them.
Thanks to this little book, and some questions answered by Dusty, Fluttershy was able to learn more about the world she was currently in. True enough, it was a world where everyone survived purely on happiness and silliness. And that it was under attack by the vile cogs: robotic, soulless, heartless, business-loving monsters that existed for the sole purpose of taking over Toontown and turning it into a desolate, business-friendly wasteland.
Although there were rumors of "The Chairman" flying around town, who supposedly was the boss of all the cogs, some time ago, the vile Mystery appeared and, despite the fact he was a Toon, he appeared to be a very powerful authority figure over them. Even the four major Cog bosses, whom were located inside the four headquarters outside of Toontown, seemed to take orders from him, leading many to believe that he was the Chairman himself. However, this had been proven false many times. To this day, nobody knows who Mystery really is, or where he came from. Or how he got into the position he's in within the cogs ranks. It was widely assumed he is either a robot, or he just went crazy and turned to evil.
The Toons had developed a way to fight back against the cogs: They couldn't take a joke. Hench, they used gags to destroy them in battle. The war between the Toons and the cogs had been going on for many years, with neither side showing any sign of calling it quits in all that time.
But despite the danger, some Toons in town found the act of destroying cogs very entertaining, often times finding themselves in the streets smashing cogs more often than they did planting flowers or throwing parties, or playing minigolf.
The book also contained explanations for all of the items Fluttershy had pulled out of the bag Melody had given her. The small, round, grey object that turned yellow upon picking it up was a Laff meter ( Fluttershy giggled at the pun ), which measured a Toons remaining physical health, called "Laff" points. All Toons started at fifthteen, and in order to get more, they'd have to accomplish specific goals around Toontown to increase their maximum Laff. This included doing certain "Toontasks" at the Toon Headquarters located on every street and in every playground. Anytime that a Toon lost all their Laff points, they would pass out and reawaken in the nearest playground, with all the gags they had in their gag pouch gone. Of course, this is assuming they were within the Toontown city limits, as if they're outside the city limits when their Laff meter hits zero, something else is known to happen, although nobody knew exactly what this was; No Toon had ever lost all their Laff outside Toontown before.
The little pink pouch that she could strap to the back of her dress was a gag pouch. It was how Toons carried the gags they used against the cogs, using special shrinking technology that had been developed over at Loony Labs to allow for easy carrying and access.
There was also the portable hole, which allowed for easy and quick access of all the playgrounds and the Toons houses. Fluttershy could see Pinkie Pie using something like this back home in Ponyville, and it made her giggle again. Many things in this world reminded her of Pinkie Pie and how insane she could be. She just knew Pinkie would love it here.
Then there was the Shticker Book, a very special book that all Toons carried on their person. It was able to keep track of many aspects of their personal progress, including how their gag training is coming along, how many kinds of fish they'd caught, how many racing trophies they'd won, and loads of other cool features that Fluttershy almost felt overwhelmed by. It even kept track of Cog invasions, pointing out areas of Toontown that were currently being invaded. She wondered for a good, long while how they managed to create something like this. It seemed pretty handy.
And of course, there was the jellybean jar, which featured the same shrinking technology as the gag pouch. It was used to carry around jellybeans that the Toons would use to buy various services across the town, including buying gags in the gag shops. Fluttershy giggled at the thought of using candy as currency, but then again, she had seen crazier things in her short time here.
The rest of the guide contained a brief history of how Toontown came to be and how the various neighborhoods were founded, as well as some terminology that was commonly used in this place. With any luck, this would help her figure out her way around this place, at the very least.
She set the book down on the bedside table next to her. It had been a good read, and had helped her learn more about the world she was in. For some reason, she didn't feel so lost anymore.
She got up off the bed and walked into the main room, where she saw Dusty and Snappy at the large table, looking over a couple of documents. Daffy was in the corner, attempting to dance the worm... and failing miserably. He kept missing a step and falling flat on his face.
She walked up to Dusty and Snappy, who both turned to look at her with warm smiles on their faces.
"Ah, hello, Fluttershy. Did that book help in any way?" Snappy asked her, holding something that closely resembled blueprints in his hand.
Fluttershy smiled and nodded at him.
"Yes, it did. Thanks for letting me have a look at it." She said to the two brothers, which made Dusty smile again. "How did you learn how to deal with those cogs so well?"
Dusty looked over at Snappy, before setting down the document he was holding. It looked to be a small log of computer messages.
"I've been smashing those cogs into scrap metal for over a decade, Fluttershy. You tend to develop some expert strategies for destroying them, when you've racked up as many years of experience as I have." Dusty explained, before letting out a chuckle.
Snappy then let out a yawn and looked over at the clock. It was just turning eleven.
"I think it's time to hit the sack, Dusty. We need our energy for tomorrow." Snappy said, getting up from the table and stretching out.
Dusty got up and yawned as well, along with Fluttershy. They were both feeling drained after the day's events.
"You got a point there, Snap. It's been a rough day for all of us." Dusty claimed, plucking his hat off of his head and wiping it down, before slipping it back on.
"Rough and tumble broke the marshmallow!" Daffy exclaimed, body slamming the floor for no reason, before laughing out loud. This extracted chuckles from Dusty and Snappy, while Fluttershy just gave him an "Are-You-Crazy?" expression.
"Daffy, you're a laugh and a half. I hope you know that." Snappy said, wiping a lone tear from his eye, as Dusty took a deep breath to calm himself.
Daffy then pulled his shovel from out of nowhere and stood up, posing like a superhero.
"Shovelman rides again!" He screamed, before charging out the door, into the grounds of the estate, and back to his house, whacking every tree in sight with the shovel as he went. Fluttershy noticed that the trees all made cartoonish sounds, such as vehicle horns of various types, when they were struck, which made her laugh a little.
"Oh boy, that kid." Dusty said, heading toward the door along with Snappy. "You just never know what he's going to do next."
Snappy nodded in approval, still chuckling from Daffy's craziness, before turning back to Fluttershy, who was currently standing by the table looking out the window at the night sky.
"You can sleep in the infirmary if you want. The beds are open, and I know you need somewhere to sleep for the night." Snappy told her, with a warm smile on his face once again.
Fluttershy looked back at him and nodded, still smiling.
"Thanks, Snappy." She told him happily.
Snappy then paused, let out a sigh, and looked down sadly.
"She's such a kind and sweet thing... she doesn't deserve what she's going through. This is cruelty of the highest degree, and I know Dusty knows it as well as I do." Snappy thought bitterly to himself, clearly in protest over Fluttershy's current state and situation.
Fluttershy noticed he looked slightly distressed and slowly approached, looking concerned.
"Um, Snappy? Is something wrong?" She asked, which pulled him from his thoughts. He looked up at her and sighed again, before handwaving the entire ordeal away.
"Oh no, it's nothing. Just lost in thought again." He told her with a smile, before turning around and heading toward the door, yawning again. "I really need to get some rest. And you should, too. We have to go see Melody tomorrow morning, right?"
"Mhm." Fluttershy replied, smiling once again, though she couldn't help but feel slightly worried for his well-being.
"Well, see you tomorrow. Sweet dreams." Snappy called, before closing the door behind him as he left the building.
With Snappy out of earshot, Fluttershy let out an audible sigh, a long frown on her face. She could tell that Snappy was worried and concerned for her, given her current situation, but considering Snappy's own situation that he was currently faced with, she wished a solution to both their problems would come up out of nowhere and relieve them of the pain both of them were facing.
It was hard enough that she was trapped in a world so different from her own with no easy way to get home, heck, she wasn't even sure if there WAS a way back home yet; Melody hadn't given her a straight answer.
But Snappy's entire ordeal almost broke her heart when she first heard about it. She was still having trouble trying to take in the entire thing, and she could somehow tell it would be a long time before she ever could.
The fact that he had been so nice to her, even protecting her from both evil cogs and nasty Toons alike, only served to make her feel even worse about the pain he was more than likely feeling. It probably wasn't easy being in the position he was in.
But it also made her smile in a way, since it told her that he was willing to put aside his own personal issues to help the less fortunate. She once again just assumed that it came with the job of behind a sidekick to a famous superhero.
She then let out a low yawn. After everything that had happened that day, she wasn't surprised that she was about ready to pass out. She silently turned around and went back to the infirmary.
She put the Laff meter, gag pouch, Shticker book, jellybean jar and portable hole onto the bedside table, set the pink bag under the table, and climbed up into the bed itself. It seems she didn't fully understand just how tired she was, for she fell asleep only seconds after lying down.
- Later that night -
Mystery, the Vice President, the Chief Financial Officer, the Chief Justice, and the Chief Executive Officer, along with several thousand of the highest level cogs from each of the four Cog Headquarters were assembled in the Executive Office Tower. Lady Mildew Grumblecrash was there as well, holding her trademark clipboard, along with a light blue mouse who only went by the name of "Number Four", whom had a neutral expression on his face and a green long-sleeve shirt and shorts. The four Cog bosses seemed eager to get this meeting underway, and for good reason.
Mystery, his robotic eye now fully operational again, looked from one Cog boss to the next, then to the giant crowd assembled in the room. The silence in the room was deathly and cast a vile atmosphere that would spark instant dread into the hearts of even the toughest of Toons.
"Bring them forward." Mystery commanded. On his orders, a small group of Big Cheeses brought the Smog Smashers forward, their arms restrained behind their backs. The four Toons looked at Mystery in pure fear. What was he going to do with them?
"So, is it true? You encountered the Pony girl in Toontown Central?" Mystery questioned, giving the four a hard stare that made them tremble on the spot.
"Y-Yes, sir... we did..." The cat answered after a brief pause. This caused Mystery to slam his fist into the desk, startling all four of them.
"If memory serves, you were supposed to be providing reinforcements to our invasion in The Brrrgh. What in the blazes were you doing in Toontown Central!?" The brown cat demanded, glaring at the four Smog Smashers with deep contempt in his eyes.
None of them could answer that question, and instead looked down at the ground, not wanting to face their boss.
The brown cat snapped his fingers, and the cogs restraining them grabbed fistfuls of their hair and forced their heads upwards to face their boss.
"If you four were in Toontown Central, why didn't you attempt to capture the Pony girl and bring her before us?" Mystery asked, looking very close to ordering the four to death. The Smog Smashers decided they had better not test his patience any further.
"We didn't know she was the one, sir. Our attention was on that golden scarf she was wearing." The bear whimpered, earning sneers from the other cogs in the room. "And to top it off, she's charmed. She's under the protection of the Bumblejinks Bros.. We witnessed Snappy leading her out of Toontown Central. Even now, she's resting at their estate, along with Dusty..."
Mystery groaned in frustration. Not exactly what he wanted to hear.
"First you fail to reinforce our assault on The Brrrgh, and then you let the Pony girl get away..." The brown cat grumbled under his breath, eyes closed, before glaring at the Smog Smashers once again. "I should have the four of you put to death right now. But you know what? I really hate Toontown Central, I really hate the Toons in it, and I absolutely love it when chaos breaks out and brings that neighborhood's daily activities to a screeching halt! For once, you four made a mistake, and something good came out of it!"
The Smog Smashers looked up at their boss a little more hopeful then before. Maybe this wouldn't be their last day after all.
"So... you're not going to execute us?" The mouse asked, to which Mystery simply hand-waved.
"You four may live... for now." The brown cat replied, and the Smog Smashers let out sighs of relief. Perhaps there WAS a bit of mercy in their boss. Up until now, they were under the assumption that he had no mercy to give.
"But... what about the attack on The Brrrgh?" The rabbit asked, getting the attention of his fellow companions, before the attention of all four was brought back to their boss, who had just slammed his fist into the table again.
"AM I NOT MYSTERY!? I will discipline my henchmen the way I see fit!" The brown cat shouted, before waving them away from himself. "Get them out of here!"
The cogs started to drag the Smog Smashers away, but the mouse's eyes widened when he realized he had forgotten something.
"Wait! What about the attack on the Bumblejinks estate? I thought we were going to be there!" He called out to Mystery, who simply huffed in annoyance.
"No. I'm not leaving such an important job to the likes of your four. Not after your double blunder. I'm leaving that to Mildew here." He said, pointing a thumb to Mildew, who simply smiled and waved to the Smog Smashers as they were escorted out of the room.
Mystery watched them go, and then turned his chair around to face Mildew.
"Is everything ready, Mildew?" He asked her, to which she grinned happily.
"We're half an hour ahead of schedule, sir. We're ready to go at you're command." Mildew reported, earning an evil sneer from her boss.
"A whole half hour, why... whatever would I do without you?" He said, nodding in approval at Mildew. He then frowned and spun his chair around to the table in front of him, where laid a report he had gotten from Big Cheese second-in-command 119-1. There was also a second document, which contained blueprints and plans for something Mystery dubbed "Day of Judgement".
"It would not be wise for Bumblejinks to learn of our plans just yet." The brown cat instructed, snapping his fingers to call 119-1 to his side. The cog in question came running over as Mystery rolled up the blueprints and plans like a scroll. "If they discover what I'm planning to build, we're finished."
"I'll take them to Bossbot Headquarters. The top-secret security vault was just installed. They'll be much safer there." Number Four said, taking the plans from Mystery and tucking them away into the pocket of his red jacket.
Mystery nodded to him as he and 119-1 turned and walked out of the room, and turned back to the rest of the cogs in the room.
"Everyone, organize two attack teams. Take three thousands of our strongest cogs in each. With the first one, launch a full-scale invasion on Toontown Central. With any luck, this activity will draw Dusty away from his estate, leaving Snappy and the Pony girl easy pickings for the townspeople." He began to explain, earning nods of approval from the four Cog bosses and the rest of the cogs in the room.
"Under Mildew's direction, lead the second attack team directly to the Bumblejinks estate. Once the Toons have tired themselves out fighting amongst themselves, move in and mop up the survivors, eliminate Snappy, and bring back the Pony girl. I have much in store for her." The brown cat ordered, before standing up off his chair and shouting to the entire room: "Go! We attack TONIGHT! This meeting is adjourned!"
- Some time later -
Fluttershy couldn't tell where she was when she next woke, but to her, it felt as if she had been asleep for a whole decade. She quickly stood up and looked around, unable to see where she was or what was going on. Everything past her nose was just a blur.
Then the picture began to come clear. She could see Princess Celestia, in her Pony form, though for some reason she looked about a thousand years younger than she remembered her being. And she was battling it out with Nightmare Moon, who was also in her Pony form.
Fluttershy just looked confused by the entire ordeal. Why was she seeing this?
And then it became clear what she was seeing: She was seeing the very moment Princess Celestia sealed her sister in the moon. But, that was supposed to have been over a thousand years ago! Why was she seeing it here, in present day?
Fluttershy gasped and clutched both hands together, as the scene blurred out to white.
When the scene returned, it showed Princess Celestia standing in front of three coffins. All three had been sealed, though whose names were on top, she couldn't tell; they were nothing but blurry messes of letters.
"My friends, please, calm yourselves!" Celestia was saying to a giant gathering of various kinds of Ponies, who all appeared to be trying to get closer to her. Fluttershy then noticed they were all wearing furious looks on their faces, and many of them were screaming and shouting at Celestia. The Princess herself had a half worried, half terrified expression on her face.
Her royal guards were doing their best to hold back the crowd, but the crowd out numbered them a hundred to one, and she could tell they couldn't hold them back much longer.
And then Fluttershy noticed something else: Her friends were all there lined up in front of the Princess, and they were also pleading with the crowd. They all had panicked looks on their faces.
"It's not her fault!" Rainbow Dash cried out.
"She didn't do anything!" Pinkie Pie exclaimed.
"Please, calm down!" Rarity pleaded.
"Can't y'all just simmer down?" Applejack shouted furiously.
"Please, just listen to us! It's not her fault they died!" Twilight Sparkle spoke, tears in her eyes.
Fluttershy noticed that she herself was mysteriously missing from the scene, but then she looked over at the three coffins once again, and let out a gasp of horror, raising both hands to her mouth.
Though the coffins names were illegible, she could clearly see the cutie marks carved into the top. And therefor, she could easily tell whose coffins they were.
Applebloom.
Shining Armor.
And Fluttershy felt her heart break when she saw the three butterflies carved into the last one.
Herself.
She heard a commotion and looked over. The crowd had finally broken through the royal guards, whose spears snapped in half from the sheer force of the crowds advance, and the guards themselves were trampled as the Ponies all charged the stage.
Fluttershy couldn't take it any longer.
"No! Stop!" Fluttershy tried to cry out, only to find her voice was muffled, as if someone had put a filter over it. She felt on the verge of collapse.
She watched, with tears in her eyes and her heart shattered in two, as the Pony hoard charged forward, knocking her friends over like dominos. She could see Rarity and Pinkie Pie being violently thrown aside and heard a terrifying shriek of agony from Twilight Sparkle, one that caused Fluttershy to fall to her knees and cover her ears.
"No! Please! Stop! I can't watch this anymore!" Fluttershy cried out, forgetting that her voice was still muffled, unable to continue watching this heartbreaking scene.
She then looked up and saw the crowd reach Princess Celestia, who had her horn pointed at them in a threatening manner. But they weren't having any of that, and quickly proceeded to dogpile her. Strong as Celestia was, the mobs sheer size was ultimately too much for her to handle.
Twilight Sparkle looked up weakly from where she was lying, saw the Princess collapse under the mobs weight, and slowly raised a weak and trembling hoof in her direction, before her eyes slowly slid closed and she collapsed limply on the ground.
Fluttershy shut her eyes as tightly as she could, still covering her ears with both hands.
"No! Stop! Stop this!" She screamed in her muffled voice, trying, but failing, to block out the sound of the Pony hoard hurting Princess Celestia and her friends weakened, feeble cries of disbelief.
The scene then went white once again, and it switched to the Tooniverse. Fluttershy could see that she was in a large grassy field in the middle of the night, just outside of Toontown. But something was wrong about this scene. The usual black night sky was filled with dark clouds of various shades of red, some bright red, some crimson red, all of which were circling the town in the skies overhead like the world's biggest tornado. A massive wind was blowing through the area, whipping the trees this way and that, though Fluttershy couldn't feel it.
She gasped in fright and rose to a standing position, but then she found herself wishing she hadn't. Upon turning around, she was met with a sight that made her scream.
Cogs. Hundreds, no, thousands of dark-suited, wicked-faced cogs, were marching towards and past her, clearly headed for the town. For some reason, they were passing right by her. Some of them walked right THROUGH her, as if she weren't really there. Was she some sort of ghost? Was this some kind of out of body experience she was having? She couldn't tell.
She could hear multiple screams of agony all around her, both of innocent Toons and those of her friends and Princess Celestia. No doubt these cogs were the cause of it. She covered her ears again and dropped to her knees.
"Not this! I don't want this either! Please, stop it!" She cried out, unable to hear herself over the sound of the wind and the marching Cog army. She couldn't take anymore. It was all too much for her.
But just when she thought it couldn't get any worse, she heard somebody calling her name in the distance.
"Fluttershy, fluttershy! Wake up! You're dreaming! Snap out of it!"
She recognized that voice.
It was Snappy!
"Fluttershy, wake up!" Snappy called, shaking Fluttershy's shoulder in an attempt to wake her from her nightmare. He had heard her screaming in her sleep.
Fluttershy suddenly sat up with a gasp. She took several deep breaths to calm herself down, before looking over at Snappy. She realized she was in the infirmary of this little building on the Bumblejinks estate.
"Oh, thank Celestia... it was only a dream..." Fluttershy thought to herself, still rattled over the disturbing dream she had just had. It had been a LONG time since she had a nightmare like that! Especially one that involved her friends and Princess Celestia!
"Were you having some kind of nightmare? You were making quite a ruckus in here." Snappy asked, his face filled with concern, worry and downright terror.
Fluttershy rubbed her eyes and looked over at the clock. Half past midnight.
"Yes, I was, but I'm alright. What's going on?" She asked. Why did he come out here and wake her up in the middle of the night? She was grateful for his timing, pulling her from that terrifying dream, but she still wanted to know.
"We're in trouble! The estates getting raided!" Snappy suddenly exclaimed, getting Fluttershy's full attention. She gasped and looked at him with wide eyes.
"What do you mean?" She asked, sliding off of the bed.
"There's an angry mob at the front gate! They must be after me! My brother's waiting for us outside!" Snappy explained, before running toward the door with his cream pie cannon in one hand. "Come on! He needs our help!"
Fluttershy was unsure what to make of the situation. First she had a terrifying dream that Nightmare Moon wished she could have given her, now the estate was getting raided by yet another angry mob.
She started to head out of the building, but then stopped when she remembered the items on the table. Somehow, she had a feeling she was going to need them.
"Just in case." She told herself, running back over to the table.
She quickly picked up the gag pouch and strapped it around her waist, in a way that she could easily reach it with her right hand, then picked up the Laff meter and clipped it on next to the gag pouch. She quickly picked up the portable hole, Shticker book and jellybean jar and put them into her pockets, then took off out of the building after Snappy.
"Dusty!" Snappy called out, as he and Fluttershy ran up to him. He had a troubled look on his face and was looking at a page in his Shticker book. Despite the fact it was night, there was still some light so they could see.
"What's happening?" Fluttershy asked. Though she still felt tired, she was wide awake at that moment. Sleeping could wait until later.
Dusty pointed over toward the gate to the estate. A crowd of Toons were there attempting to force it open, pitchforks and torches in the air. That gate must have been made of some strong material!
"Well, for starters, there's an angry mob trying to force their way into the estate. More than likely, they've come for Snappy." Dusty explained, before looking at his Shticker book again. "And on top of that, there's a hoard of cogs invading Toontown Central."
"Anything else?" Snappy questioned, almost dreading the answer.
"Yep. There's a second hoard of cogs en route to here, to attack us directly. I spotted them coming from my rooftop. We've got a triple threat on our hands here." Dusty finished, closing his Shticker book and looking back at Snappy and Fluttershy.
Snappy's eyes widened when he heard a group of cogs were coming to attack them at their own home. He guessed Mystery took his latest defeat harder then he thought.
"Well, how do you suggest we go about stopping them? We can't be in two places at once!" Snappy pointed out, watching the crowd of Toons at the gate carefully. He hoped that gate would be strong enough to hold them for a while.
"Well, the Toon Resistance caught wind of the invasion and they're on their way to deal with the attack on Toontown Central. The police are over by the gate trying to stop the crowd, but it's not looking good." Dusty explained, looking first toward the gate to the estate, and then out toward the horizon. He could see the giant hoard of cogs approaching in the far distance. "Looks like we're on our own. We'll have to stay here and defend the home front."
Fluttershy gulped in fright once. She clearly didn't like the idea of taking on thousands of foes with their limited numbers. Neither did Snappy.
"Are you sure we can take all those cogs by ourselves?" Snappy asked his older brother, getting out a telescope and looking out over the horizon at the approaching Cog mass with it. The group looked like it consisted of mainly level seven and higher cogs. It wouldn't be an easy fight, even for him and his brother.
Dusty just smiled, crossing both arms.
"Ah, we've got this in the bag. We just have to use tactics and strategy, which just happens to be my specialty." Dusty said, pointing a thumb over to a nearby tree that was currently growing whole cream pies. "Besides, we got them for backup."
Snappy and Fluttershy looked over. They could see a pair of ToonFest blue cats, both slightly shorter then Dusty, yet slightly taller than Snappy and Fluttershy, and both wearing similar purple dresses, picking some pies off of the tree. Snappy knew who they were right away.
"Isn't that Penny and Penelope Hucklebee? I saw them in Donald's Dock earlier today. They were acting like they were avoiding me." Snappy told Dusty, who simply chuckled at his little brother.
"Oh no, they weren't avoiding you. They were probably just goofing around. They tend to do that a lot, you know." Dusty told his little brother. He then motioned for him and Fluttershy to go over to the gag trees themselves. "Why don't you two go over and grab a few gags? You're going to need them!"
Snappy and Fluttershy looked at each other with worried expressions, before running over to the gag trees. Penny and Penelope waved happily to the two as they passed.
Fluttershy looked up at the trees and reached up, picking a cream pie off of one. She looked more closely at it. It seemed to be a real pie. She looked over at Snappy, who had just grabbed a birthday cake off another tree and put it into his gag pouch. Fluttershy watched as the cake shrunk upon entering the pouch, and didn't make a mess of anything. Snappy then reached up and grabbed another.
Fluttershy mimicked his movements, moving the pie down to her gag pouch and watching, in amazement, as it shrank upon entering the pouch. She reached inside and took it out again, and it grew back to its regular size in her hand. How the heck did it do that?
"Guys, hurry up!" Dusty warned, still looking out over the night sky. The hoard of cogs was getting closer!
Fluttershy gasped and quickly put the pie away, before walking over and grabbing a few more off the trees. The trees were loaded with them, thankfully.
"Ready?" Snappy asked, pulling out his cream pie cannon and loading it with a couple of fresh cream pies from the trees.
Fluttershy picked another pie off the tree, her thirtieth one, and put it into the gag pouch. She looked over at him and nodded.
"Ready." She said, though there was a small hint of fear in her tone. Snappy noticed this and walked over, putting a hand on her shoulder.
"Don't worry, my brothers the best cog smasher in town. Just follow his lead and we'll get out of this in one piece." Snappy reassured her, making her smile slightly, before running back over to Dusty, cannon in hand.
Fluttershy took another look at the front gate to the estate and saw the Hucklebee twins heading toward it. After one final slow exhale to collect herself, she ran over to Dusty, who had just pulled out a push button and a giant blue magnet.
"This is going to be tough. Snappy, you and Fluttershy go over to that side and handle the cogs there. I'll take this side." Dusty said, pointing over to a small dirt clearing on the other side of a small river that ran across the entire estate. A small stone bridge provided easy access to the other side.
Snappy raised an eyebrow at his older brother.
"You sure about that, bro? One wrong move and one of us is going down in flames faster than you can shake a fire hose at it!" Snappy said, watching as the horde of cogs landed about a hundred yards out from the fence to the estate. There was no more time.
"No time left! Battle stations, everyone!" Dusty shouted, running off toward the fence.
Snappy and Fluttershy looked at each other once again, and hurried off toward the other side of the estate. Daffy was over there pretending to be a chicken... at least, he thought he was.
"Cluck, cluck, cluck! I'm a giraffe! Cluck, cluck, cluck!" Daffy said, waddling away like a penguin toward another area of the estate, knocking over a potted plant as he went.
Snappy and Fluttershy ignored him, however, and ran toward the fence. She quickly took cover behind the fence as Snappy jumped on top of it, aiming the cannon out at the approaching cogs.
Fluttershy was nervous about being on the frontlines of a huge battle like this. Sure, she had fought enemies before, but it was usually with her friends and/or the Elements of Harmony, not to mention her abilities as a Pony. Now, all she had for teammates was Dusty and Snappy Bumblejinks, and all she had for abilities was a pouch full of pies, which were supposed to be extremely deadly against the cogs.
But luckily, Dusty Bumblejinks was an old veteran when it came to Cog smashing. And it looked like she was about to find out why.
Both she and Snappy looked over and saw Dusty throwing a pair of cream pies at a couple of cogs, causing them to explode, before jumping up on top of the fence and front-flipping off of it, throwing out more pies as he went, which all went on to hit and destroy more cogs.
Snappy cracked a smile at his older brother, before turning his attention to the approaching cogs. He quickly took aim with the cream pie cannon and fired a barrage of pies at the oncoming attackers. Each one shot exploded or was staggered severely, as if hit by a wrecking ball.
"Throw a pie at the ones I don't destroy!" Snappy shouted to Fluttershy, continuing to fire pie after pie.
Fluttershy quickly pulled out a pie and let out a low breath, trying to push away her fear. She wasn't going to lie; that freaky nightmare was still fresh in her memory, and minus the wind and red clouds circling in the sky, this looked almost exactly like it. And it made her extremely nervous. Even more so then usual.
"Come on, Fluttershy, you have to focus here! It was just a stupid nightmare! This is real, and you're life is on the line! You've got to fight, or you're never going to see your friends again! What would they do if they were in your situation?" She thought to herself, and with her left hand clenched into a fist, hurled the pie directly into the nearest Cog, causing him to fall down like an old oak tree and explode.
"Nice shot!" Snappy shouted, although Fluttershy couldn't hear him very well over the sound of Dusty blowing up a large group of cogs with a bundle of TNT.
Fluttershy smiled, and alongside Snappy, continued to fight off the Cog horde. She stayed behind the fence and threw pies at whatever cogs Snappy didn't destroy, a strategy that worked into their favor, since she was able to use the fence as cover whenever a Cog threw an attack at her. Before long, multiple daggers fired from the cogs eyes, hardballs, giant eyeballs, and tin cans were littering the ground in front of the fence, though Fluttershy was unhurt.
She had to admit, though she was scared at first with her nightmare still in her mind, it was kind of fun destroying these robotic monsters, now that she had the means to deal with them properly. Now she knew why some Toons often found themselves destroying cogs more often than doing other activities around town.
"Hang in there, Snappy!" Dusty shouted, as he quickly threw out another bundle of TNT, followed by a couple of trap doors and yet more pies. Cogs were exploding on his end by the dozens, leaving many of them to break away from his side of the field and go toward Snappy's side.
Not that they were any better off on Snappy's end. Snappy's flying with his jetpack and Fluttershy's utilizing the fence for cover against their attacks was making it difficult for the Cog armada to get a read on the two.
But before long, Fluttershy was running low on pies, and she began to get worried. Would there be time for her to run and get more? She was already panting heavily from the fight as it was. Luckily, another solution quickly presented itself.
"Need some help?" A young female voice asked at Fluttershy's ear, as a large birthday cake flew over her head and hit a cog dead in the face, causing him to explode.
Fluttershy looked over to see yet another Dog toon standing at her side, who had clearly thrown the birthday cake. She was bright pink in color and had magenta-colored hair that reached down to her lower back. She had on a dark red dress and matching shoes, and had on a red and yellow polka-dot hair bow. She had just lowered a large basket full of cream pies picked from the trees onto the ground next to Fluttershy. She looked to be about the same height as Penny and Penelope.
"Who are you?" Fluttershy asked, as she stood up and threw another pie over the fence at an approaching Cog. Snappy landed next to them on top of the fence, fired a couple of more pies, and quickly took to the air once again, narrowly dodging a few daggers that were headed straight towards him.
"Rosie. Their middle sister." The pink dog answered, nodding toward Dusty, who had just thrown five pies at once into five different cogs, destroying them all at once, and Snappy, who had just pumped four more pies into four advancing cogs. Fluttershy quickly threw another pie at the one who didn't immediately fall over.
"So you're a cog fighter, too?" Fluttershy asked, grabbing one of the pies out of the basket and throwing it, for her gag pouch had just run out.
"Sort of. I mostly just stay here and tend to the estate, so I'm not nearly as experienced as my brothers." Rosie replied, picking up a pie and tossing it straight into another cogs face.
"Any help we can get is welcome in my book!" Snappy shouted, pulling a birthday cake from his gag pouch and throwing it into another Cog, before firing a few more pies.
Fluttershy wasn't about to argue. Rosie's timing couldn't have been better. She grabbed another pie and threw it into the crowd of cogs, along with Rosie.
Something else then happened that made Fluttershy smile and sigh with relief: Penny and Penelope Hucklebee had come over to help with the battle. Penny herself had run over to help Snappy, Fluttershy and Rosie, while Penelope went to give Dusty some backup. Understandably, the angry mob of Toons quickly turned tail and ran away when the battle started up. They weren't about to get on Mystery's bad side.
The pies were flying by the dozens, and the cogs were dropping and exploding even faster. But the cogs weren't letting up. In fact, the battle only seemed to be heating up! Just when it looked like the battle might come to a head...
"HALT!" Someone shouted into the night, and the cogs all came to a grinding halt. The voice sounded feminine, and it sounded like it came from somewhere behind the cogs.
Everyone quickly ceased fire on both sides. Fluttershy was able to take a second to check her Laff meter. Both eyes still read fifthteen. She then picked up another pie and held it ready, as did Penny and Rosie. Snappy landed on top of the fence and held his cream pie cannon ready. Dusty and Penelope had gone back behind the fence and were also poised to strike.
The cogs parted ways in the middle of the field, allowing someone to come forward. Dusty and Snappy knew who it was on first sight. It was Lady Mildew Grumblecrash, in all her crimson redness, dressed in her usual attire: Smart orange dress with full length sleeves with a red sleeveless overcoat worn over it. Surprisingly, she wasn't carrying her usual clipboard. Instead, she was holding her trademark TNT cannon. Fluttershy's eyes widened at the sight of it, and the giant "TNT" label on the side of it. Was she going to blow them up with it?
Dusty and Snappy tensed up when they saw the cannon in her hand.
"What do you want, Mildew?" Dusty demanded, clutching both hands into fists and glaring at Mildew something fierce. Snappy held his cannon with both hands, ready to begin firing again at a moment's notice.
The bear just laughed at the two brothers.
"Is that any way to greet a guest? My, my, you ARE a charmer." Mildew joked, snickering at her own words.
Dusty and Snappy just narrowed their eyes at her.
"Did you come here and drag all these cogs with you just to make small talk?" Dusty questioned, still tensed and ready for a fight. Snappy knew that tone he was using all too well. It was the same tone he used whenever he was telling a Toon off for causing trouble in the town.
"Really, why are you so quick to bash me? Especially given your brothers current situation." Mildew replied, pointing at Snappy and sneering. Clearly, she thought his entire ordeal was quite amusing, even if nobody shared her sense of humor. But there was someone else's situation that she was more interested in.
After taking a second to clear her throat, she suddenly acquired a serious and deadly tone, one that made Penny and Penelope take a step back in fright. Dusty and Snappy, however, stood their ground.
"Now then, to business. I heard my bosses wormhole machine had sent someone into our world, and that you two arrived on the scene and collected her." Mildew said, looking between Dusty and then Snappy, and then back again, eyes narrowed dangerously. "Please, where is she? My boss would love to have a word with her over at Bossbot Headquarters."
Dusty and Snappy figured it was only a matter of time before Mystery came after Fluttershy. Snappy shot a quick look at Fluttershy, who had gasped at Mildew's words, as if warning her to stay out of sight. Fluttershy quickly crouched behind the basket of pies and hid from sight.
"Wouldn't you like to know?" Dusty snarled, still poised to attack. "There's no way we're letting her go with you."
Mildew sighed tragically at Dusty, as if he had just written his own death sentence.
"Now, now, Bumblejinks, you really have no choice in this regard. I have the numbers here." Mildew pointed out, waving to the massive horde of cogs behind her, which was still quite massive even after all the fighting. "Please, just hand her over and spare us all this violence, won't you?"
Snappy just glared daggers at Mildew.
"Over our dead bodies, Mildew!" He shouted, getting her attention. Penny and Penelope took another step back as Mildew glared at him, snarling in fury. Fluttershy stayed put behind the basket.
"Oh well. I tried." Mildew said in a fake "Miss-Goodie-Two-Shoes" tone, before turning to the cogs behind her and shouting at the top of her lungs: "DESTROY THEM ALL!"
It was pandemonium. The cogs, even stronger than before, all marched toward the estate as fast as they could, throwing out attacks at any Toon they could see. Fluttershy, Rosie and Penny did their best to fend them off, but it wasn't long before Penny and Rosie let out screams of agony and fell to the ground next to Fluttershy. She gasped in fright when she saw they were both unconscious. Their laff meters had suddenly turned a sickly green color, and the eyes had been replaced with "X" shapes.
Snappy turned, spotted the two girls unconscious on the ground, and gasped. He quickly turned to Dusty, who was trying his best to keep the cogs away from Penelope, who had just collapsed herself.
"Dusty, we need a plan here!" Snappy shouted, pulling out a TNT bundle from his gag pouch and tossing it into the crowd, destroying even more of the attacking cogs.
Dusty glared in fury at the cogs, before pulling out what appeared to be a megaphone from his gag pouch.
"Time for the Bumblejinks Blitz, Snap!" Dusty shouted, running down the fence line towards Snappy, who quickly flew over and landed next to his brother, pulling out a megaphone of his own. The two Bumblejinks smirked at the cogs and took aim with their gags, causing the entire Cog armada to freeze in place.
"One..." Dusty said.
"Two..." Snappy followed.
And after a short pause...
"THREE!" The two brothers shouted in union, as large orange foghorns suddenly appeared inside their megaphones.
Fluttershy gasped and covered her ears as the loudest sound she had ever heard in her life suddenly ripped through the night: The sound of two extremely loud foghorns going off at once.
They sounded loud enough to wake up the entire town!
The cogs all yelled and shouted in agony, some attempting to cover their ears, others running for safety as the two sound gags tore through the night like a knife cutting through paper.
A brief second later, cogs began to fall over like flies and explode. It was a solid minute of cog after cog falling down and blowing up, more than likely because of the sheer size and power of the Bumblejinks Bros. sound gags. About a thousand cogs in total were destroyed.
Dusty and Snappy nodded to each other, before pulling out ANOTHER pair of megaphones, which housed similar foghorns inside of them.
"Give it up, Mildew! You'll never outwit a Bumblejinks!" Dusty said tauntingly to Mildew, who had covered her ears when Snappy and Dusty used their foghorns. Now that the noise was over, however, she was glaring at the two with deep hatred in her eyes.
"What have you fools done!? You wrecked my cogs! And they aren't even insured!" Mildew shouted in fury, now pointing her TNT cannon at the Bumblejinks Bros. and snarling nonstop under her voice.
Fluttershy peeked out from behind the fence at Mildew, while doing her best to stay out of sight. She watched with baited breath as Mildew took a step forward and aimed her TNT cannon at the two brothers.
"You want to play hardball with me? Fine! Catch THIS!" She shouted, before firing a bundle of TNT at the two brothers.
Dusty, however, had a counterpunch to that. He quickly pulled out his police baton, leaped up, and swung it at the TNT bundle like a baseball bat. Upon being hit, the bundle flew away from the Toons and straight into the crowd of cogs, taking out even more of them.
Mildew turned around and glared at the two dogs.
"You're a cruel canine, Dusty!" She shouted, further fury appearing in her tone, before raising the TNT cannon once again. But she never got the chance to fire it.
"Try this one on for size!" Snappy shouted, as both Bumblejinks raised their sound gags and unleashed another powerful blast, causing Fluttershy to cover her ears again.
One more powerful blast of two foghorns later, more cogs collapsed and exploded. Fluttershy smiled and cheered from her hiding place. They were winning!
Mildew was getting very impatient with the two Bros., and raised her TNT cannon once again.
"You may have beaten my invasion force, but you won't beat me!" She shouted, shortly before firing the cannon at the two.
Dusty tried to hit it back with his police baton, but he swung too high and it landed on the ground behind the two and exploded, sending Snappy crashing into the fence near Fluttershy. The explosion had also damaged a considerable section of fence.
Snappy was completely out of it following that blast, so he didn't see Mildew approaching him, cannon in hand, getting ready to finish him off.
Dusty was dazed by the explosion, but quickly stood up when he saw Mildew walking over to Snappy, her cannon pointed right at him.
"Snappy, look out!" Dusty shouted, but he was unable to get to his little brother to help; A solid wall of cogs was standing between him and Mildew. He'd never be able to get to her in time!
"So long, little dog! This one's for my boss!" Mildew shouted, taking dead aim at Snappy. There was no way she'd miss at this range.
Fluttershy gasped at Snappy's condition and at the bear getting ready to finish him off. She had to do something to help Snappy!
"But what!? I don't have any special powers!" She thought to herself, looking around for anything she could use against Mildew.
Something then clicked in her mind: Gum up her cannon with a pie! It was their only chance to save Snappy!
Fluttershy quickly grabbed another pie, jumped out from behind the basket, and whistled to Mildew.
The bear gasped and looked up when she heard the whistle.
"What the-!?" She exclaimed, but Fluttershy cut her off mid-sentence.
"Don't you DARE hurt my friend!" Fluttershy screamed, launching the pie directly into Mildew's cannon. The shocked bear accidently pulled the trigger to the cannon, but no TNT bundle came out. Instead, the cannon short-circuited, and a puff of black smoke came out of the end.
"Uh-oh..." Mildew silently exclaimed, knowing what was coming next.
Snappy finally woke up just as the TNT cannon exploded, sending Mildew flying backwards and knocking over cogs like bowling pins, although he was still dazed and confused as to what was going on.
Dusty couldn't help it; He burst out laughing at Mildew when he saw that her entire face and a large portion of her dress were blackened from the explosion. A pair of Downsizers helped her to her feet.
"I've heard of a plan backfiring in your face, but this is ridiculous!" Dusty exclaimed, laughing wildly at Mildew, who simply glared at him.
"Very well. You win this round, Bumblejinks. But rest assured: The next time we meet, you won't be so lucky!" She spat at the crimson canine, before turning around and ordering the surviving cogs to return to their headquarters.
The cogs all brought out their propellers and took to the skies once again, Mildew glaring down at Dusty from the back of a Big Cheese all the way. Dusty watched as the few hundred cogs who survived the battle all flew away and back to Bossbot Headquarters.
The red dog wiped his brow with the back of his hand. They had won!
He then looked over at Fluttershy, who was helping Snappy to his feet. It seemed he'd finally come to his senses.
"Oh my goodness gracious, are you alright!?" Fluttershy asked, clearly worried for Snappy's health, as she helped him up to his feet. He shook his head once looked around.
"Ouch... I took a hit there, but I think I'm alright." He answered, and then raised an eyebrow when he didn't see the cogs anywhere. "Hey, hold on. Where'd the cogs go?"
Dusty walked over and crouched down next to Snappy.
"Fluttershy threw a pie right into Mildew's TNT cannon and destroyed it. She lost her nerve and called off the attack. Talk about a sore loser!" Dusty joked, chuckling out loud.
Snappy couldn't help but chuckle himself, same as Fluttershy.
"Well, she's good at losing, alright!" Snappy exclaimed, before taking a look around and noticing a piece of the fence had been blown away. He sighed sadly.
"Well, that's just lovely." He said with heavy sarcasm in his tone.
Dusty looked over at the broken segment in the fence and shrugged, still smiling at their victory.
"That? Ah, that's nothing. I can fix it in a jiffy!" Dusty said, before standing up, yawning, and stretching out. Understandably, the battle had tired him out.
Snappy and Fluttershy couldn't argue there. They were both worn out after that fight as well. Fluttershy had lost track of how many pies she had thrown, but it had to be close to a hundred. Her arm was sore from the effort.
"Well, how about we gather up Penny, Penelope and Rosie and then go get some shut-eye?" Dusty suggested, and without waiting for an answer, he ran to get Penelope.
Snappy turned to Fluttershy and smiled warmly at her.
"Thanks for saving my tail again, Fluttershy. I would have been a pile of ashes if you hadn't." He thanked her, walking over and hoisting Rosie up onto his shoulder.
"You're welcome. I'm just glad I was able to help out." Fluttershy replied, walking over and helping Snappy carry Rosie back to her little pink house, which sat on the far end of the estate.
"So, how did it feel being on the frontlines of your first big battle?" Snappy asked her, curious as to how she felt during that whole ordeal. She had to think about it for a moment.
"It was a little scary at first, but it was kind of fun to teach those cogs a lesson." She admitted, smiling and chuckling happily. Snappy just smiled at her as they walked up the stone path to Rosie's house, which had the front door open.
"Well, it's good to see that you're able to fend for yourself when the going gets tough. You might just make something out of yourself in this town, if you keep it up." He told her, giving her a reassuring nod, as he reached up and pushed the door to Rosie's house open. "I don't know, but something tells me that between now and you getting home, there's going to be a lot of Cog smashing. Mystery isn't the type to give up after the first attempt, after all."
As the two lifted Rosie up into her bed and Snappy tucked her in, Fluttershy was curious about something, and before she could stop herself, the question came tumbling out of her mouth.
"Um, Snappy? What is Mystery like?" She asked, now suddenly tense, as if dreading the answer.
Snappy just sighed and looked back to her.
"All I can say is this: I hope you never, EVER have to come face-to-face with that evil Toon. To me and Dusty, he's a cakewalk. But to anybody else, he's their worst nightmare. Even the Toon Resistance is terrified of that guy." He replied, earning a curious look from Fluttershy.
"But why is he so evil? Didn't he used to be one of you?" She questioned, as the two walked out of the house and closed the door behind them. Snappy just sighed again.
"Nobody really knows why Mystery turned to evil. Some say he was driven insane. Some say he did it just because. Nobody knows for sure. I don't even think he knows." Snappy replied, before looking back to where the battle had been taking place just moments ago, and felt his eyes widening. "Uh-oh!"
Fluttershy looked over and gasped. The angry mob was back! There was no denying those pitchforks and torches! And now that there was a huge hole in the fence, they didn't have to use the front gate, so they were moving right past it and heading for the gap in the fence.
The Toontown Police were already there, their police batons held in defensive positions, getting ready to have a standoff with the mob. But the mob had them outnumbered a hundred to five, so Snappy didn't have very high hopes for them.
Snappy could see that Dusty was coming out of the Outpost, after more than likely dropping Penny and Penelope off in the infirmary, and was now running over to where the police were currently struggling to hold back the mob.
Snappy and Fluttershy quickly hid behind a large tree nearby. They weren't about to get involved with this one, given how worn down they were.
"Alright, what in the name of Flippy is going on here!?" Dusty demanded, billy club already drawn and a dark glint in his eyes. Someone in the front of the mob addressed him.
"It's Snappy! We've had it with that wild, out-of-control brother of yours! Blowing up half a street in Donald's Dock, flooding a shop, dropping two innocent Toons into a lake of freezing cold water, AND stirring up chaos in Toontown Central? Ever since that whole "Prisoner" fiasco with that yellow cat, he's been nothing but trouble!" The Toon in lead shouted, as the mob continued to try and buffalo their way past the police, who were doing a good job of holding them back.
Dusty just groaned at them.
"Uh, guys? Did you not see that huge battle we just had with the cogs? For real, that field behind you looks like a battlefield! Can't you give us a break for tonight? We're worn to the bone and we need rest!" Dusty shouted, glaring daggers at the Toon mob.
"Well, that just makes our job a little easier." Another Toon spat, still trying to force the police out of the way. One of the Toons even tried to grab a police cats baton away, to which the cat replied by yanking it out of his reach.
Dusty growled something fierce, and then pulled out a megaphone.
"Attention, everyone!" Dusty said calmly into the megaphone, getting everyone's attention. The mob and the police alike both stopped their struggle to see what Dusty was up to.
A brief pause, and then Dusty filled his lungs and, before anyone could get a word in edgewise, he shouted into the megaphone as loudly as he could, shaking leaves off of the nearby trees.
"SNAPPY'S HAD ENOUGH ALREADY!"
It sounded loud enough to blow the entire mob away! Snappy and Fluttershy had to cover their ears, it was so loud. Half of the mob did the same.
"Now get out of my sight!" Dusty shouted, holding his baton in a threatening manner. After all the cogs that were destroyed here, nobody was about to try their luck against Dusty, who still looked alert and ready for a fight.
Slowly but surely, the mob dispersed and began heading back to Toontown.
One of the police officers, glad the struggle was over, turned to Dusty and gave him an appreciative bow of the head, which Dusty returned in kind, putting the Megaphone away. They all then began to spread out across the field, taking in the sight of the couple thousand or so piles of scrap metal. No doubt they were going to file a report on this attack. After all, cogs never attacked Toons at their own homes!
Dusty then turned to Snappy and Fluttershy, who were still hiding behind the large tree.
"It's alright, you guys. The mob is gone. You can come out now." He called to the two, and they quietly peeked their heads out. No angry mob. Thank goodness.
"My goodness, you're brother has powerful lungs." Fluttershy commented, stepping out from behind the tree and yawning. After that huge battle, she was ready for some sleep.
Snappy just nodded to her in reply, yawning himself. He needed rest, too.
"You sound like you need some sleep. Why don't you head back to the infirmary? There's still one bed empty." Snappy told her, giving her a thumbs up, before heading over to join Dusty, who was currently twirling his billy club in his hand and talking to one of the officers who had witnessed the battle.
Fluttershy wasn't going to lie; she was worn to the bone. With one last look at Dusty and Snappy, she turned and headed back toward the building, closing the door upon entering.
Penny and Penelope were in the two beds across the way from her. They were lying in complete and utter silence. Either they were fast asleep or still passed out. Fluttershy couldn't tell.
Removing the gag pouch and Laff meter, she placed them down on the bedside table, along with the Shticker book, jellybean jar and portable hole and climbed back onto the bed she had been resting in before. If she thought she was tired before, she must have been mistaken, because this time, she was out like a light in only a couple of seconds. With any luck, her dreams wouldn't be as disturbing this time.
Dusty Bumblejinks and all associated characters are owned and copyright by Bulldozer Studios.
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