Splendid scratched his chin. He was looking at pictures of one of his enemies: Splendont.
The pictures were Splendont at random points around town. One was him in the shop, another in the cafe and even some of him just staring in the window of the music store.
For a while Splendid didn't know what his Red Double was up to until he got his most recent picture. The connection was obvious after that. In every picture there was always one person: Flippy.
Flippy hasn't 'flipped out' in nearly 5 weeks. Everyone thought it was strange but they weren't going to question a good thing. After all Flippy was the most dangerous person in all of Happy Tree.
Splendid only found out about Flippy about a week ago. When, locals were getting more confident about talking about him. Splendid nearly smacked himself when he found out that he didn't know about the killing bear.
Now Splendid was doing all he could with his team to find out why Flippy wasn't 'flipping out' and more importantly why Splendont was stalking him.
...
"So when we were spoke the first time you got out of my head through the mirror?"
Flippy asked trying to get his head around everything. Evil chuckled from the mirror.
"Yes"
Flippy was sitting on the edge of the bath tub giving Evil a strange look.
"So why can't you come out now?" The good bear asked sadly.
Evil gave him a look that had a mixture of sadness and guilt.
"When you're scared or sad like you were then I was able to take advantage of that and pull myself out. Flippy I want you to trust me and if I let myself out there will always be doubts in your mind. So I want to earn all your trust before then"
Flippy stared at Evil.
"Evil I do trust you! You're my Boyfriend!
Evil suddenly shook his head and stared at Flippy
"What did you say?"
Flippy stood looking away while pouting trying to hide the blush.
"Well I better go. I'm late for something and I don't want to miss it cause it's important and you can't miss something that important because-"
Flippy quit his babbling when he noticed Evil smiling at him. And it wasn't an excited smile or an evil smile it was a really happy smile.
"Flippy? You're the cutest thing I've ever seen or will see, you know that?"
Flippy smiled and continued to blush.
"Now come and give your boyfriend a kiss!" there was no mocking or sarcasm in Evils voice as he leaned and pressed his nose to the mirror.
Flippy, who was blushing madly kissed Evil and quickly walked out the door like a shy school girl.
Evil kept his hands pressed against the mirror and sighed happily.
...
Flippy walked down the street still blushing. He was meant to meet up with some of his new friends.
"Hey guys" Flippy said to Flaky, Cuddles and Toothy. "Where are the others?"
"Giggles and Petunia are shopping as usual!" Cuddles grumbled jealously.
Cuddles had a BIG crush on Giggles and since she was shopping most of the time Cuddles rarely saw her.
"Don't mind him he's just cranky cause we saw them and they didn't say 'Hi'" Toothy chuckled as Flippy sat down next to Flaky.
"Shut Up! It was your fault making me wait in that nerdy line to get that stupid comic!" Cuddles snapped.
Toothy looked offended.
"How dare you! This is a Super Hero Comic on an actual Super Hero who lives right here!"
Flippy frowned.
"Who's that?"
Toothy froze and turned his head slowly to Flippy. Flippy thought that it looked like something out of the Exorcist.
"You don't know who HE is?!"
"No..."
Cuddles and Flaky were laughing at Toothy's face.
"Splendid! You know the Blue Squirrel!"
"Haven't heard of him, sorry Toothy"
Flaky and Cuddles stopped to breath.
"Come on Flippy you of all people should know who he is!" Cuddles said.
Flippy gave a pleading look trying to make his new friends to understand.
"No! I seriously don't!"
Everything went quiet.
"You seriously don't know who Splendid is?" Flaky asked.
Flippy suddenly felt like a student who didn't know the answer to a question because the looks he was getting sure reminded him of his teacher.
Even though Flippy did fight in the war he was very young. And since his condition he was forced out of the battle early and kept as a last resort due to being a targeted by the general.
He was the same age as everyone here but age never mattered it was mostly maturity and since Flippy was so young starting the war and isolated himself for so long he was very naive and immature at times.
"No..."
"Well you're about to find out" said a voice that made Flippy jump.
Turning he saw a spider with bows in her hair, a Fox in a pink outfit, a jellyfish in a jar, a robot in a weird old fashioned hat and at the very front was a Blue Squirrel in a red mask.
...
Splendid and his Super Squad flew around town looking for Flippy.
"Splendid! Might I suggest we turn back and find out what this Flippy looks like?" Rob asked.
"No we'll find him" He answered not looking he stopped and turned suddenly when he knew that his team were rolling their eyes at him. "We will!"
Splendid's ears twitched as he heard his name but it wasn't a cry for help it was just a conversation. He shrugged about to continue his search when he heard the next words.
"You seriously don't know who Splendid is?"
Splendid gasped. How could someone not know who he is?! Grumbling, He and his team flew off in the direction of the conversation.
When he got there Splendid looked in to see a group of people.
The bunny was Cuddles, the beaver was Toothy, the hedgehog was Flaky but he didn't know who the Green bear was.
Splendid found himself staring at the bear. The bear was wearing a green army jacket and a green burette. He had big green eyes and was slightly smaller than most males in the town.
As the Green Bear shrunk under the gaze of his friends Splendid couldn't stop himself from thinking 'cute'.
If the bear was new then he should introduce himself. Splendid made sure all his team were behind him before walking in.
"No..." the bear said in a cute small voice.
"Well you're about to find out"
The green bear jumped and turned to look at Splendid.
"SPLENDID!" Toothy screamed like a fan girl.
Splendid gave a smile and walked towards Flippy.
"My name is Splendid" He announced as if Toothy said nothing." And this is Webby, Madam Fox, Brian and Rob."
Flippy blinked at him.
"And" the Blue Squirrel continued. "Who are you?" he asked looking at Flippy.
Flippy looked at Splendid with a weird look before Cuddles asked first.
"You don't know him?"
Splendid gave Cuddles an annoyed look.
"Of course I don't! How could I know the name of a new resident?"
"He's not new!"
Splendid gave Cuddles a glare.
"Then why doesn't he know about me?"
"I know right!" Toothy exclaimed "Who couldn't know you!"
"Apparently the Green Bear" Splendid answered.
"Well I'm Sorry Splendid" Flippy apologise.
"Don't worry my dear" Splendid said while he rubbed Flippy's paw.
Flippy felt a light blush on his cheeks, that didn't go unnoticed by Splendid.
"O-okay" Flippy looked away.
"Would you like me to show you around town? Since I haven't seen you, you must not know your way around. I know this really good restaurant"
Flippy stopped blushing and looked at Splendid sadly.
"I'm sorry I have a boyfriend"
Flaky gasped "Really? Who is it?"
Flippy chuckled nervously.
Splendid tightened his grip on the green bears paw. No. he couldn't have a boyfriend!
"Well It's...Private and I really should be getting back to him. I'll see you guys later!" Flippy said getting up and turning to Webby, Madam Fox, Brian and Rob. "It was nice meeting you all"
They waved happily.
Then Flippy turned to Splendid and shook his paw "I hope I'll see you soon!" Flippy smiled.
"Now I almost missed your name" Splendid smiled leaning close to Flippy.
"My name is Flippy"
Flippy watched as Splendid's expression changed and his grip loosen.
"Flippy?"
"Y-yes that's my name" The green bear said nervously.
Flippy blinked and suddenly Splendid shot forward and wrapped his arms around Flippy from behind, trapping his arms.
"What the hell are you doing?!" Flippy Screamed.
Splendid dragged Flippy towards the door. Flippy continued to scream and struggle.
Cuddles ran up and stood in front of the door.
"Stop! What are you? Doing put him down!"
"Move out of the way. I must bring Flippy back for questioning" Splendid demanded.
"WHAT!? I didn't do anything wrong!" Flippy screamed.
Splendid tightened his grip and walked towards the door.
From what Flippy could see, the entire Super Squad was backing Splendid up. Cuddles didn't have a chance.
"I said MOVE" Splendid growled.
Flaky and Toothy joined Cuddles and wouldn't budge.
Madam Fox stepped forward
"You all have 1 last chance"
Cuddles, Flaky and Toothy held their ground.
"Fine"
Web suddenly flew out and hit the three Happy Tree friends.
Groaning, they tried to get up but the web was too strong.
Flippy was scared. Closing his eyes he tried to see if he could wake up and this would all be a dream but when he felt himself being pulled towards the door he knew it wasn't.
Flippy heard a kind of crash and looked to see an exact version of Splendid staring at him except his one has red with a blue mask.
"Splendont!" Splendid was shocked. Why was he here?
"Let go of that Bear, Splendid"
Splendid threw Flippy on the ground and he and his Squad attacked Splendont.
Flippy got up and ran to his friends who managed to pull themselves out of the web.
"Let's get out of here!" Cuddles said grabbing Flaky's hand and running out the door.
Toothy grabbed his comic and ran after.
Flippy tried to get to the door when a hand grabbed his shoulder.
Splendont pulled Flippy to him and was wrapping his arm around his waist when he heard a grunt from behind.
Expecting it was Splendid, he turned but was met by a replica of the green bear in his arms except this one had sharp yellow teeth and menacing yellow eyes that were glaring at him.
Splendont had to look at the bear in his arms and the one glaring at him. In fact everyone in the cafe and the crowd were doing the same.
"Evil!" Flippy yelled.
Evil lunged at Splendont tackling him and making him drop Flippy.
Evil kicked Splendont away from Flippy and stood protectively in front of the scared little bear.
Splendont stood but didn't fight. He just took one last look at Flippy and then at Evil with an emotionless expression and flew out.
Flippy stood when Evil turned to him.
"Flippy run!" Flaky screamed.
Flippy just looked at Evil in shock.
"You're out"
"Yeah.." he replied, rubbing the back of his head "I just felt your fear and I needed to get here"
Flippy smiled happily "I'm so glad you came"
"Like I'd leave you all by yourself when you're scared" Evil scoffed, his eyes lighting with playfulness and joy. The two just staring at each other lovingly.
"Excuse me" A voice called the bears out of their dream"
Evil hugged Flippy protectively as he glared at Splendid, causing the entire cafe, including the super heros, to become confused.
"Well" The Brian spoke "This is awkward"