Chapter 33 – Battle at Bodega Bay

While they may be unaware of what was happening outside of the pantry they were hiding in, that didn't stop them from hearing every noise that had occurred during G's fight with Hazel, after all the walls could only insulate so much volume. Needless to say, the silence that had followed made things all the worse for them, especially Nyx who had been pacing non-stop across the pantry ever since she and the others were closed in here. It was only after the silence continued on for several minutes that Spud and Mossy attempted to leave in order to help, only to be blocked in their path by Lug and Edward.

"It just doesn't feel right Lug!" Spud claimed.

"Aye," Mossy added. "We should be out there with them!"

This argument continued on between the three Irish fairies for quite some time at this point, of course they were going to protest staying in the pantry, they may have been small but they also had their principles, however it would seem that Lug was the only one out of the three of them that seemed to be more than happy to stay inside. It may have seemed selfish on his part but in all honesty he was mostly thinking about keeping the others safe, especially Nyx and his Fellow fairies, despite hearing all the commotion, he was still sure that G and the others could handle it, believing that everyone else would simply get in the way.

"And do what, lads!?" Lug snapped back at his fellow fairies. "You've seen how dangerous the situation is out there, we don't stand a chance."

Mossy and Spud scowled at that.

"So we're just going to let G and the others risk their lives while we hide away in a pantry!?" Spud argued.

"Well I didn't see you arguing when we came in here!" Lug retorted, causing Spud's scowl to worsen.

"That's beside the point!" he snapped back.

Suddenly another voice joined the argument.

"ALL OF YOU, STOP IT!" Laura screamed, finally lifting her head up to scowl at the three fairies.

Needless to say, the fact that Lug, Mossy and Spud were causing an argument amongst all the other chaos happened outside was only making everyone tense up even more, especially for Laura, who had been sitting with her head tucked into her knees, crying her eyes out with terror for several minutes. Even Edward was beginning to get annoyed, with every word the three fairies spoke, he would take his bladed fingers and make deep scratches in the wall, it may have looked brutal but for Edward it was like squeezing a stress ball. Though of course he finally took a moment to stop after Laura screamed her last statement, which was yet another rare occurrence for the usually shy Keidran.

"Look," she said, wiping a tear from her cheek. "I know we're all scared but we can't just loose our heads, G wouldn't want us to do that."

Lug couldn't help but scoff at that.

"Say the lass who's still crying her eyes out ever since this whole thing started," he commented, something which earned him a smack across the head from Mossy.

"Don't change the subject Lug!" he snapped.

This certainly didn't look good, with every minute that passed by the situation seemed to be growing worse than worse, if there was anything that may have been worse than whatever actual fight was going on it was the fact that nobody inside the pantry had the slightest clue as to what the turnout was. At this point, Laura felt like pulling her hair out due to stress alone, and lord knows how Nyx was feeling right now, but now that she thought out it…

"Hey… where's Nyx?" the Keidran asked, finally noticing the Alicorn's absence.

Now that Laura had brought it up, everyone soon realised that her observation was accurate since Nyx was now nowhere to be seen, needless to say this caused an even worse panic than before, after all there are only so many places one could be inside a pantry.

"Where is she!?" Edward asked fearfully, desperately looking through the shelves in case she flew up and landed on one of them.

Suddenly Mossy's voice brought back everyone's attention.

"Hey lads!" he cried, crouching down under one of the lowest shelves. "Look at this!"

Following Mossy's instruction, everyone then knelt down and peered under the shelf to look at what he was pointing to, and to their horror they saw the reason WHY Nyx was no longer with them. As it turned out, G's observation of the Pantry had failed to pick up a small vent just below the bottom shelf, one that had been clearly blocked off by construction crews ages ago until Nyx used her magic to undo the screws. Seeing this, everyone couldn't help but groan.

"Augh! Someone has got to put a bell on this child!" Lug commented, giving himself a smack on the forehead.

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What Nyx may have lacked in size, she certainly made up in loyalty to her friends, and while she may have been terrified at this point, she still had a point to keep in her claim that friends didn't abandon each other, after all what was the point in having a Cutie Mark that represented protection is she wasn't given the opportunity to protect those she cared about.

"Don't worry guys," she whispered to herself as she flew up the vents, using her magic to silence the flutter of her wings. "I'm coming."

As she flew through the ventilation system, Nyx silently thanked Celestia for the fact that she was so small, otherwise she would have never have made her escape from the pantry, granted she didn't like the fact that she left the others in there but she also knew that it was the safest place for them at this point. She may have been putting HERSELF in danger, but she didn't care as long as she could at the very least make sure her friends were safe, in her own opinion she figured that there must be a tiny part of her old roguish self, hidden deep down somewhere. Suddenly Nyx's ears perked up as she heard a loud scream, one of which she easily recognised since it belonged to a certain Gizmonk she knew.

"Goggles!" She screamed fearfully, dreading what was happening to her friend as she followed the screams up the vents.

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"YAAAHHHHHHH!" Goggles screamed as he continued to run away from Torch's flames. "Get away from me!"

But the bullet-toothed puppet merely chuckled with delight as he continued to follow Goggles back down the vent, setting of a stream of fire every now and them just to toy with him. After several minutes of running along with many lengths of metal to run down, the Gizmonk's natural speed eventually managed to provide him some distance between the fire-brandishing puppet, however even as Torch disappeared into the darkness, the Gizmonk's troubles were far from over, especially once he came up to a sharp turn in the vents and bumped into something. After turning up the light in his tail, Goggles draw dropped as he saw just what he bumped into.

"Oh Scrap!" he whimpered, as a certain, six-armed, cowboy puppet lowered his bandanna to reveal his wooden cocky smile.

Quickly getting up, Goggles attempted to make his way back up the way he came before Six Shooter had the chance to go for his guns. However that idea was quickly short-lived as Torch came around the corner, his red eyes glowing more violently than ever. With Six shooter ready to fire in front of him, and Torch ready to set him aflame just behind him, Goggles feared that this would inevitably be the end for him, he may be the same size as these two but with the weapons, these guys were carrying Goggles didn't stand a chance. As Torch lit a small flame from his blowtorch and Six Shooter ready all six of his guns, Goggles then gulped and did the only thing he could do at this point… he ducked. As it turned out, Goggles' timing was impeccable as he let his whole body hit the metal floor of the vent, mere milliseconds upon doing so Goggles watched in awe as Six Shooter's bullets all missed him and went straight for Torch, all the while Torch's flames went directly for the cowboy puppet, setting him alight in an instant. If Six Shooter had the ability to scream then it would have echoed throughout the entire ventilation system, with his wooden body going up as quickly as paper, all the poor puppet could do now was drop his guns and frantically ran away in a fit of panic… before coming to a sudden vertical drop. Blind from the flames, Six Shooter then fell, the glow of the flames eventually fading into the darkness as he burnt to lifeless ash. Upon taking a moment to absorb had had just occurred, Goggles couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief before looking up towards Torch, who seemed to be having no more luck than Six Shooter, while he may have been still able to move the puppet was non the less immobilised, with four of the six shots fired all hitting him in vital parts. While two bullets managed to blow off his left leg, causing him to collapse, the other two hit his flamethrower arm, which in turn made Torch unable to move it at all, in other words… the puppet was now helpless.

"Wait a minute," Goggles stated, a small grin spreading across his face as he edged his way towards the downed puppet. "You ain't nothing but a pile of metal and wood aren't you?"

It was then that his tail glowed even brighter as an idea popped into his head and he lowered his goggles over his eyes, after which he reached into his vest and pulled out a miniature version of an Impact Drill. Whatever crazy idea the Gizmonk had going on in his red, he seemed to really be enjoying it as he edged even closer towards torch, his grin spreading even wider as he let a few inane chuckles out.

"Well then, how about we play a little game of… surgeon?" he asked, pulling the trigger on the drill, causing it to whir as he let out a maniacal laugh.

Had the puppet been an actually living person then this story would have taken a much darker tone upon this point, however since Goggles only saw nothing more than a soulless contraption hell-bent on killing him and his friends, and added to the fact that he had gone through a LOT of crap this past week alone, then he saw no problem whatsoever as he proceeded to bore the long metal drill bit into Torch's head, had the puppet had the ability then he would also be screaming as the sparks literally began to fly.

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Meanwhile, on the second floor, yet another puppet was in the middle of another fight. He may have been lacking his blowfish again but Uncle seemed to holding his own against Jester as he continued to swing his mace at him, using whatever Martial Arts he knew along with his dried-up Lizard, the old Chi Wizard was at the very least keeping himself from getting hurt, though in all honesty his offensive didn't seem to be doing much to the puppet's wooden hide.

"You want a piece of Uncle!?" he screamed, now seriously beginning to get peeved of with how long this was taking.

Of course the fight would have been going a lot easier had the Dazzlings bothered to lend some assistance, but instead all three of them seemed to be cowering behind a nearby sofa while uncle did all the work, however there was at least ONE of the three who felt some form of courage.

"Girls, we have to do something!" Aria stated, not liking the fact that they were acting like cowards for a single second.

"What can WE do!?" Sonata squealed fearfully, perfectly content on staying where she was.

Aria simple rolled her eyes at that.

"We have new powers, don't we?" she asked bluntly "Why don't we just USE them!?"

However as always Adagio had some form of answer, albeit not a very convincing one that Aria could absorb.

"We haven't fully been able to awaken them yet Aria!" she snapped, not really wanting to get her hands dirty in this fight. "All we've been able to do thus far is put a few bad guys to sleep! And I seriously doubt that same trick will work on a guy with a pair of wooden ears"

Adagio may have brought up an excellent point upon saying that, after all G only gave them these new powers literally only a couple of days ago, and they WERE different than to what they were used to before. However while Aria may usually be the mopey one out of the three in most circumstances, in this case she felt a little differently, she could really understand it completely as of yet but ever since she joined up with G's group, she felt somewhat stronger than she had been in recent weeks. It was then that she began to remember something specific about the Dazzlings' new abilities, G said that they now fed off POSITIVE emotions now, which meant that every source of happy or comforting emotions would have made them stronger, hearing Laura sing the previous night, the atmosphere in the room after G offered to help Ruby and the others, even the little song Lug and his two friends performed back at the Prancing Pony, every moment like that could be fuelling the Dazzlings' power and they never would have realised it. If this was true then there was only one true way to find out.

"Fine, you two give up then!" she finally snapped confidently. "I'm helping out!"

"ARIA!" Adagio retorted, trying to pull her sister back into hiding.

But it was too late, the middle sister of the Dazzlings had already stepped out from behind the sofa and proceeded to slowly walk towards Uncle and Jester, both of whom merely ignore her presence.

"Please let this work," Aria mumbled to herself, before speaking up and addressing the enlarged puppet. "Hey, Jester!"

Hearing this Jester then swatted Uncle away as he attempted to kick him in the chin, however even as the old chi wizard crashed into the wall, Aria kept her gaze of Jester, his face once again spinning into three different segments before changing his glare into a sinister grin. Watching their sister in horror from their hiding spot, Adagio and Sonata couldn't help but feel completely helpless.

"What is she doing!?" Adagio muttered, having the right mind to go over to her sister and giver her a smack for doing something so foolish.

It was then that Aria made her move, one that would both shock and amaze those who were able to bear witness, within a matter of seconds a cocky smirk found its' mark upon her face.

"You ever heard of the wall of sound, jingle-bells?" she asked mockingly. "Well, you're about to run into it!"

At that moment, Aria dug deep into her very soul and reached out towards whatever new energy that had been building up inside her, she may have used this move before but never with THESE new abilities, was it now time to put it to the test. With one large inhale, Aria then opened her mouth wide and let out a loud melodic scream, a sound that was not only beautiful but loud enough to shatter the eardrums of any poor sap unlucky enough to be in its path, only then did Jester realise too late just what had happened as he was sent flying with a massive shockwave, smashing him through at least three walls before the collapsed into a pile of rubble. Upon seeing this, everyone's jaws dropped, even Aria couldn't believe what she had just accomplished, granted she wanted some kind of result with that attack but she never would have imagined that her Siren's Scream would be THIS powerful, that fact alone was so moving that she felt like she was going to cry with delight. However that moment was soon ruined when bother her sister joined her side and Uncle took the liberty of giving her one of his two-fingered strikes.

"OW!" Aria yelped, rubbing the area where Uncle had struck her.

"You trying to make Uncle go deaf!?" the old chi wizard yelled, clearly uncaring of the fact that Aria had just rescued him from a losing battle.

Needless to say, Aria detested being unappreciated in this situation.

"How about a thank you for saving you're winkled hide, old man!" she snapped back, more than ready to thrash Uncle for his ungrateful attitude.

Adagio couldn't help but roll her eyes at that as a small chuckle escaped her lips, she would never admit this openly but she definitely liked the way her sister handled herself, and that Siren's Scream was definitely something to admire. In fact now that she thought about it, perhaps the new powers G had given them weren't so bad after all, maybe she should give the Scream a try herself at some point to see how powerful SHE was. Suddenly her train of thought was interrupted by her youngest sister pointing towards the rubble Aria had just created.

"Uh, guys..." she whimpered. "He's getting up."

Turning their heads towards Jester's landing spot, the other could then see that Sonata was indeed correct as the puppet in question was pulling himself out of the rubble, battered and scratched but more or less intact, and judging from the scowl he now had upon his wooden face, it was clear that he wasn't happy.

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On the fourth floor, yet another group was in the heat of battle with one of the enlarged puppets. In this case it was Chef and Franky vs the massive form of Pinhead, standing at least two feet taller than either of the muscular men, Pinhead's pointed top practically scratched the ceiling as he basically turned the entire fourth floor into his personal wrestling arena, easily swatting Chef and Franky away as though they were merely flies going up against a swatter. However despite this, the two weren't willing to give up just yet, in fact the fight made Franky feel more alive than he had in weeks.

"Give him the chair, dude!" the cyborg cried as he attempted to put Pinhead in a headlock, only to find it impossible with both the puppet's gigantic hands and miniscule head.

As instructed, Chef then picked up a nearby dining table chair and attempted to smash Pinhead with it, only to it to be reduced to splinters mere seconds after impacting against the puppet's face, leaving little movement in response. Before long, Chef and Franky were beginning to feel more and more exhausted, especially due to the fact that they had only spend little more than a few seconds after reaching the top of the stairs, before Pinhead ambushed them.

"Damn it!" Chef declared, the burns on his chest pulsating with pain after Pinhead delivered a few punches to his ribs, more than likely splintering them in the process. "This guy is one tough son of a bitch!"

Franky couldn't help but growl at that, while the statement may have been true, there was no way in hell that he was willing to loose after regaining his identity again, if there was one thing he refused to give up again it was the opportunity to wear his manly speedo in place of actual pants.

"Well then, I guess I better take things up a notch," He stated, a small grin etching it's way across his face as he pulled out a bottle from his shirt pocket. "Good thing G gave me some extra cola."

At this point, Franky could only consider himself lucky that the bottle he was now placing into his chest was intact, since he knew he would more than likely run out of power if he came up against one of these puppets, G was more than happy to give Franky some extra power in case he needed it. After regaining a fair bit of power from the fizzy substance now pulsating in his stomach, Franky's grin grew even wider as he pulled off what at first appeared to be his own skin upon his right hand, only to reveal a fist entirely out of iron beneath it. It was then that Chef stared in awe as Franky then ran towards Pinhead, who narrowly missed Franky with his fist as the Cyborg jumped into the air and raised his iron fist.

"STRONG HAMMER!" he cried, bringing his fist down onto the top of Pinhead's head.

While at first the fight didn't go so well between the two muscular men, with one slam of his fist, Franky seemed to turn it around entirely as his attack suddenly sent Pinhead crashing through the floor under his own wait and falling towards the floor below, once the just finally settled, Pinhead was buried under a tone of rubble, unable to move at all due to his head being latterly sunk into his body. Seeing Pinhead's seemingly unconscious body from the hole Franky had just created, the said cyborg and Chef couldn't help but sigh with relief.

"Dude, you have got to teach me that one," Chef chuckled, attempting to ignore the pain he was clearly feeling across his entire body, abliet failing miserably as he continued to clutch his chest with agony.

"Sure," Franky chuckled, cracking his knuckles, ready for another round of battle. "If you decide to get yourself a cybernetic upgrade, just let me know."

Chef couldn't help but chuckle at that, he couldn't really explain it but with that one attack the cyborg had earned his deepest respect, so much so that the two gladly shared a fist-bump for their victory. Suddenly the moment was interrupted by the sudden arrival of a certain teenage robot bursting through the hole Franky had created, after couching up some of the dust cloud that had been created, the two looked down and saw the Jenny splayed out on the floor beneath their feet, her optics spinning like tops.

"Hey guys," she said dizzily. "So what's new?"

But before either of them could even give a response, Franky and Chef were then shocked to see yet another figure burst from the hole in the floor, to be more specific, the top of a giant drill. Within a matter of seconds, Jenny then snapped out of her dizzy spell as Tunneler once again began charging at her, before she managed to catch the drill in her palms again.

"A little help here!" she screamed, unable to get enough movement to makeshift another weapon since Tunneler now had her pinned against the wall.

"Better do what the girls asks!" Chef stated, looking towards Franky, who merely grinned.

"Way ahead of ya!" he chuckled.

It was then that Franky turned aside his left hand, opening up his wrist to reveal the cannon that made up his arm, the palm of the hand itself now acting as a targeting device, after whichhe aimed directly at Tunneler.

"WEAPONS LEFT!" he cried, firing his canon.

Before anyone else knew it, the puppet was then blasted away from Jenny, the blast itself narrowly missing her as Tunneler was then blasted out of the window, with the rubble quickly repairing itself as before to keep everyone inside, it would seem that while destroying the inside of the hotel was fair came, the outer walls were still subject to Hazel's magic. After recovering from the shock of what had just occurred, Franky, Chef and Jenny quickly rushed towards the window to see what had become of Tunneler.

"Is he…?" Jenny thought aloud, hoping that the puppet had been reduced to splinters.

However as they all looked down into the road outside, they could see that Tunneler was still intact and twitching, albeit down for the count… and laying on top of Rahzar, who seemed to be knocked out himself.

"Nah he's still moving," Franky said disappointedly. "But one thing's for sure, that wolf guy is certainly gonna be pissed off when he wakes up."

"Good aim though," Chef commented, earning a nod of agreement from the other two.

It may not have been a sure victory, but whatever the case it would seem that at the very least Tunneler was now out of the game since nothing was getting in or out of the hotel… unless of course they used something explosive apparently. Needless to say, Hazel's magic was just as crazy as SHE was.

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Back with Jester, Uncle and the Dazzlings, the fight continued, though this time with a little more involvement from Dazzlings, or at the very least Aria. However even with the added support from Aria's Siren's Scream, Jester seemed to be a little more resilient than the other puppets seemed to be, a fact that was clearly noticible by how many times he was able to stand up after getting blasted through several walls.

"Damn it!" Aria snapped. "Why won't this guy stay down!?"

"UNCLE IS RUNNING OUT OF TRICKS!" Uncle added, his eye twitching with fury at how long this fight was taking.

It was then that Jester swung his mace again, narrowly missing Uncle's head and imbedding itself into the wall, after which he then started kicking at the wall in order to pry it out. Unfortunately Aria saw this as an opportunity to get the jump on him, to her misfortune Jester was stronger than he looked and was able to pry out the mace mere seconds after it went into the wall, allowing him to punch Aria in the face at the face minute, knocking her into Adagio who in turn fell into the nearby table, the lit candle still aflame and falling over into her poofy hair.

"AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!" Adagio screamed. "MY HAIR!"

Thankfully Sonata was nearby to help swat the flames out, however the damage was already done and there was now a smoking bald patch on the right side of Adagio's head, making her hair look like it had a set of flaming teeth take a large bite out of it. Witnessing all of this, Jester's glare once again changed in the form of his spinning face, this time into a large toothy grin as the clear sound of laughter escaped his wooden mouth. Normally someone would have taken the opportunity to attack Jester, however everyone in the room was a little to taken aback by Adagio new appearance, but none were more so than the eldest Dazzling herself. Reaching a hand up to where her new bald patch was, Adagio's eye began to twitch with fury as her teeth ground each other so hard that sparks were beginning to show.

"Um… Adagio?" Sonata said nervously, now beginning to feel a little more scared of her sister than she did Jester at this point.

It was then that Adagio snapped, as Jester continued to laugh at her new appearance she then stomped over towards him and grabbed the puppet by the front of his shirt, surprising both him and everyone else in the room.

"Alright!" she yelled in his face. "I have had it up to here with this hotel! I can handle getting trapped in here, I can even handle getting attacked by Pinocchio rejects, but nobody… messes… WITH THE DO!"

At that moment, everyone else couldn't help but cringe upon witnessing the sheer brutality of the beat down Adagio gave Jester, in fact it was so brutal that I the author can't possibly put it into words that won't offend somebody, let's just say that if Jester had any blood to spill then the walls would have been bathed in it by now. At any point Jester could have fought back but the fact was that even HE was terrified of Adagio's fury, so much so that he tried to crawl away any time the eldest Dazzling stopped to catch her breath, only to be dragged back into the brawl seconds later.

"Say you're sorry clown!" Adagio screamed, now beginning to slam Jester's now misshapen head against the floor. "SAY IT! SAY IT! SAY IT! SAY IT! SAY IT! SAY IT! SAY IT! SAY IT! SAY IT! SAY IT! SAY IT! SAY IT!"

With each time Adagio said the words "say it" the hole in the floor she made with Jester's head grew deeper and deeper. Watching all of this from side-lines, both Uncle and the other two Dazzlings couldn't help but feel a little concerned for adagio's current state of mind.

"Uh… shouldn't we stop her?" Sonata asked concernedly, earning herself a shake of the head from Aria.

"Nuh uh," Aria replied quickly, not looking forward in the slightest to get in between her sister and her fury. "I think it's better if we just let her blow off some steam first."

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Elsewhere in the hotel, yet another form of anger was on the verge of blowing up in someone's face, however in his current state there was nothing G could do about it.

"Aw, look at those chubby wubby little kitty cheekies," Hazel said as she playfully pinched G's furry cheeks like he was a toddler. "And you look so cute in your widdle bow!"

As it turns out, Hazel was certainly making good on her promise to make G her plaything should he lose their little contest. For the past half-hour, thanks to be being trapped in the form of the cat he turned into due to Hazel's binding collar, the Living Genre had to endure endless bouts of childish antics from the witch as she did nothing but dress him up and mercilessly play with him as if he were a stuffed animal, for the moment he was now perched on a velvet pillow on Hazel's lap in a darkened room and was wearing a large red bow three times the size of his own head. Needless to say this was one of the most humiliating moments of G's life, so much so that he was to his shame, beginning to wish Ranamon was here instead of Hazel, at least SHE treated G with some form of dignity… well MORE dignity than this.

"Oh man, someone just kill me right now," G whimpered, a stream of comical tears running down his face.

Suddenly the sound of high-pitched cackling reached G's ears, a sound which instantly snapped G out of his stupor and caused him to aimlessly spin his head to see who it was, at that point the laughter was soon accompanied by another voice.

"You know, sometimes the jokes just write themselves!" it said.

At that point G's eyes narrowed for he knew exactly who that voice belonged to, mere seconds later a candle was lit and a shimmer of dim light lit up the room to reveal the being who had terrified countless people and trapped Ruby and the others in this hotel, Standing mere feet away from G's face was none other than Slappy himself. But what's more, the Living Dummy wasn't the only thing that was revealed in the candlelight, collapsed on the floor and leaning up against the wall was yet another wooden figure, but it wasn't one of the puppets that had attacked him and his friends, no, this was someone who Ruby had described to have been turned into a dummy a mere day after arriving here, it may not have been using the way he had planned but G had found Luffy. However for the moment G had to keep his focus on the other Dummy, after all if there was one thing Slappy hated it was being ignored.

"Slappy, I presume?" G asked, making somewhat of an introduction.

To G's relief, Slappy gave a chuckle at that.

"You would presume correctly my friend," he replied, walking towards G's cat form and poking a wooden finger at his nose. "Though while I'm glad my reputation proceeds me, I must admit you certainly are fascinating even by MY level of insanity."

By the tone Slappy was using in his words, it was clear that he was mocking G in some form, albeit quite subtly, thankfully G was familiar with this sort of tactic and was able to combat it easily.

"Well it takes a big man to admit it," he joked, once again earning a chuckle from Slappy.

"Ha, that's funny, you're a funny guy," Slappy replied catching on to what G was implying before his face suddenly turned a little more fierce. "But I'm afraid we're not here for jokes, Slappy is not happy my boy, and I'm afraid you're arrival is the cause of all of that."

Now it was clear that Slappy wasn't fooling around, by the way his voice sounded all scratchy like that, G could easily tell that the Living Dummy was in one of his fouler moods.

"You may have to define that," G said in response with a small gulp. "Because as you clearly may have noticed, my situation has made it hard to believe that you don't get the least bit of enjoyment out of all of this."

It was then that Slappy softened his gazed as ounce again chuckled, if there was one thing G could count on it was Slappy's mixed personality, one minute he's aggressive and cruel, the next he's a real prankster, granted there was no overall difference but it was enough to have a way to get onto the Dummy's good side, he was a little like the Joker from the DC universe that way.

"Well I suppose that IS somewhat true," Slappy admitted, giggling at how Hazel was now ruffling up G's cat-like head so much that his hair now looked like a toilet brush. "I must admit, the fact that you had become Hazel's newest plush toy is a complete riot. However you do bring up a good point, after all this IS the first time you are meeting someone like me, right?"

Hearing this G couldn't help but grin, he may have been subtle with his approach but regardless he was able to buy himself a little more time, perhaps enough so that one of the others could find him and maybe alert the others without Slappy realising. Not only that but he'll also be able to get some answers as to how Slappy arrived in this particular realm, because one thing was for sure, he certainly didn't come from HERE. Sensing where this was going herself, Hazel couldn't help but giggle like a schoolgirl.

"Ooh are we gonna have story time?" she asked playfully, squeezing G even more tightly between her breasts.

"Of course my dear," Slappy chuckled in response.

"Ooh goodie!" Hazel squealed with delight, before snapping her fingers.

In a puff of pink smoke, Hazel was now sitting in a large red cushioned armchair, wearing a light pink onesie with purple hearts and holding a big bucket of popcorn in one hand while hold G in the other like a teddy bear, what made things worse was the fact that she also felt the need to give G a wardrobe change too.

"Oh come on!" G screamed, horrified by the fact that he was now wearing a cat-sized, frilly Ballerina tutu. "A stinking DRESS!?"

Needless to say, Slappy found this new predicament simply hilarious as he continued to cackle like a maniac, however after about a minute he was able to calm himself down long enough to take a seat of Luffy's wooden lap as he began his tale.

"Hearer beware," he said darkly. "You're in for a real scare…"

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Author's Notes:

The Character Nyx belongs to Pen Stroke / :iconPenstrokepony:

The Character Laura belongs to :icontwokinds:

The Characters Chi and Mimi belong to :iconbleedman:

The Character Ruby Rose belongs to Rooster Teeth

For the Image of G: art/The-Living-Genre-563434744

For the Image of Witch Hazel: art/Character-Reboot-Witch-Hazel-585406440