I added Sid to the festival for added drama, you're welcome!
Bo Peep: You know, kids lose their toys every day.
A young woman in a blue jumpsuit and a darker blue cape, was huffy as she kept pacing across the bridge of her own rocket. A shorter woman rolled her eyes before adjusting her sunglasses as they passed a nearby star.
"Girl! Are you still down about that?" Referring to the last time the gang 'Played' together.
"Of course I am Giggles! They all just stood by and let me be 'kidnapped' by Jessie!" She raised her arms up in exasperation, using airquotes on 'kidnapped' . "If this wasn't all pretend who knows what could have happened to me!"
The taller woman ended up raising her arm to shield her from the light of the sun, momentarily taking on a look of nostalgia.
"Yo Betty-! Betty?" Giggles looked back to see her companion in a trance again. Sighing, Giggles faced the window again as she stared fondly at her incredibly old He-Man action figure on her dash.
Giggles was worried for her friend. Ever since the accident with her now ex-fiancé, she's been different. Betty didn't even recognize her own name! But when Woody called her 'Bo', she responded as if it WAS her name.
Zurg really messed with their heads…
Bo Peep: Sometimes they get left in the yard, or put in the wrong box.
A while back, they were at this festival that coincided with Woody's promotion. They were in disguise wanting to surprise him.
There was this little girl that bumped into them, she was holding a large box and was running from a young man in black.
"Please! I just want to talk! Where did you get that lamp?" He panted as he tried chasing her.
Bo had that look in her eyes that said she recognized them. The duo made chase and followed her behind an alley next to some boxes.
The girl was in a short yellow dress, pale skin with freckles and red hair in two high ponytails.
The boy had dark hair, pants and shoes with a black shirt with a white human skull on it. "I'm sorry for scaring you, honest! Please…"
He knelt down trying to calm her. She was crying as she fell to the floor against the wall.
Betty calmly walked over to the little girl, set her staff against the wall and pulled back her hood. The boy did a double take as if recognizing her. "Bo Peep? Weren't you Molly's" Bo slapped a hand over his mouth and gestured back towards a very confused Giggles.
Letting go, Betty looked back to the child. The girl gasped before clutching the box. It was long and looked like she was trying to open it.
"May I?" Betty calmly tried to take the box and the little girl complied hesitantly.
Eventually Betty opened the box all the way to reveal a lamp.
"I knew it!" The boy declared "I'm not crazy!" The boy nearly wept with relief.
Betty's eyes widened before looking at the girl in shock. "Where did…"
The little girl patted her throat and shook her head.
Standing behind Betty I barely made out "...voicebox?"
Whatever that meant, the little girl looked full of hope. "Gabby." As soon as Betty said that, the girl leapt into her arms and silently cried in her arms.
"Is she like you?" He pointed to the box with a raised brow. Betty nodded. "Oh. Anything I can do to help?"
"I can handle it. Thank you, Sid."
He nodded awkwardly, before just as awkwardly walking away.
Giggles was still really lost. Who was that guy?!
Betty confirmed the girl had no parents and insisted on carrying 'Gabby' back to the ship with them.
They passed by Al's Toy Barn to see a strange sight, Woody standing there holding a cowboy doll next to THE Buzz Lightyear! Giggles squealed and snapped a photo before posting it online.
Then she ran to catch up to them before showing Betty the photo.
The two stared in shock, but Giggles noticed something off about them staring at the photo. Betty slowly reached out to my camera wanting to get a better look.
"Andy?"
When we went back to the stand they were already gone. This Andy on break and nowhere to be found. At least she managed to get that He-Man Action figure!
That whole day was weird!
She can't help feeling like she's missing something…
Anyway, they more or less adopted little silent Gabby. Or 'GabbyGabby' as Betty calls her. It's adorable how clingy she is to Betty.
As we turned a spare room on our ship into Gabby's room, I found the box with the lamp.
Something about the way Betty looked at it stuck with me.
I pulled it out and it was a small desk lamp. The kind small enough to sit on a bed desk or something. It had holes in the top and the base looked like porcelain grass or something. There was a three-headed sheep and a female figurine in a pink dress and a blue staff.
She looked kinda like Betty. Weird…
And why did that boy ask if Gabby was the same?
I put the lamp on the small table next to the bed and turned it on.
Woody: And that box gets taken away.