Timmy looked over just in time to see the heavy stand tilt in NT's direction. He ran to his dark half.
"NEGA-TIM!"
"NEGA-TIM!" He shouted bringing attention to himself. He threw himself on the startled boy and felt a few games fall upon his back making him wince as he awaited the pain he knew he was going to feel from the stand.
When he didn't feel it, he opened his eyes and looked over his shoulder to see the stand a few inches away and surrounded by a blue aura. Anti-Binky had acted in time and stopped the two from being crushed.
"Are you okay, My Night?" Timmy asked. NT placed his hands on Timmy's cheeks.
"I'm fine, but are YOU okay? You still got hit." Timmy smiled reassuringly and placed a soft kiss upon his lips. He parted and laid his forehead on the other's.
"Timothy! Nega-Timothy! Are you both alright?!" A frantic AC zoomed over. Anti-Binky moved the stand to rest besides the boys. Timmy carefully got up to avoid the others from figuring out he had an injury. He helped Nega-Timmy up and answered.
"Yea, we're okay." Anti-Binky frowned deeper.
"I don't think so," Smack! Anti-Binky mildly slapped the boy's back.
"OW! What'd you do that for?! That freakin' hurt!" Timmy stiffened up at the hit to his back with tears in his eyes.
"You're not okay, cadet. I know some of those games hit you pretty hard on the back because of the locks put on them." Anti-Binky snorted. AR rushed over and lifted Timmy's shirt. There were several bruises beginning to color his back, either from the edges of the casings or the round lock itself.
"The bruising don't seem to be too bad, but I still want these to be wrapped up." Anti-Dr. Rip Studwell said as he lightly probed around the bruising. Anti-Wanda carefully wrapped her arms around Timmy when AR put his shirt down.
"Mah po' babeh! Ah ya sure ya alright? Do ya wanna go home?" She asked as she brushed his hair out of his face.
"No, I'm okay! I wanna keep going!" Timmy insisted. Edward placed his hand on the brunet's head.
"You don't have to play tough, Timmy. If it hurts too much, we can stay home for the day and Mama Cosma and Schnozmo will come to meet us instead." He tried to reason. Timmy blew out an exasperated breath and crossed his arms.
"I'm telling you, I'm fine. If all I need is bandages, then that's fine. I can do with a little pain and it won't be the last time I do, either." Timmy rebuked.
"I'll go grab some things from home and I'll wrap his wounds." AR announced before he anti-poofed out of the store.
"When I get my hands on the manager, I'm going to wring his neck! How could such nitwits be so careless about their maintenance. You!" He pointed to a cowering employee, "Get your manager out here right now!" The frightened employee rapidly nodded and zoomed to get his manager.
"You might want to take a look at this, Boss." Anti-Binky called over to AC. AC floated over to the muscled anti-fairy to see what he meant. When he made it to his side, he looked at the support beam of the stand.
"It looks like it has been cut before it fell over." Commented Happy as he leaned in closer to see as well.
"It looks fresh as well. Someone was intentionally trying to hurt the kids. We can all rule out the Anti-Fairies because they would not try to blow this chance for us. So who would– I can feel it." Anti-Cosmo said as he found something. The rest looked to him.
"Wha' can ya feel, Cozzie?" AW asked.
"There is a fairy signature. It's subtle but I can feel trace amounts of it." AC grit his teeth in anger. The other anti-fairies wore angry frowns. They knew the Fairies never wanted the Antis to ever successfully keep a godchild, but they didn't expect them to go as far as to harming them!
"I can't quite tell who it is, but it definitely feels familiar," AC said. AR had just came back with some ointment and bandages. He had Timmy sit down as he did his work. Remy watched attentively as to what Anti-Dr. Rip Studwell instructed him to do. Nega-Timmy held Timmy's hand and talked to him with still a worried look on his face.
The manager had appeared and fluttered nervously as he twisted his hands.
"Wh-what can I-I help you w-with, My Lord?" AC faced him and talked to him about how one of his own was almost crushed by the stand but let him off since he knew that it wasn't the lack of maintaining the store. The manager bowed relentlessly and thanked him. He instructed for a few co-workers to get the area fixed up. He also suggested that AC could get whatever he wanted out of the store as compensation for the accident. The boys and Anti-Wanda cheered and immediately went to get what they wanted.
When everyone was done, they all filed out of the store. AC gave the money for all the games to the manager though said man was trying to deny it as it was even more than all the games cost. He relented soon after as he knew the leader of the Anti-Fairies would not give up in this. He wished the group a happily dreadful trip.
The trip continued and they made it to the Anti-Fairy Train Station. It's runs in every part of Anti-Fairy World and was created for those who didn't feel like flying or just wanted to see the scenery of their dark world. It even touched a bit of Anti-Pixie World though not many go that far when traveling.
Timmy, Remy and Nega-Timmy all took one side of a booth with AW, AC, and AR taking up seat across from them. HP, Happy, Edward and Thomas all took the booth next to them. As the train moved, the boys saw that the fields were even different than what they thought. The grass was a calm purple and the trees were a dark gray, almost black. The group all had conversations ranging from miscellaneous things to jokes here and there. As they got closer to their destination, a feeling at the back of Timmy's mind started to tingle. He blinked a filed away the feeling to be looked into at a later time.
It took them about 40 minutes to arrive at their destination. They all got off and Anti-Cosmo led them down the long rows of lavish houses.
"This, boys, is one of the most high-class areas in Anti-Fairy World. Mother always loved the quietness yet exuberance that is here. There aren't many people living because of the preference to have large acres of space to themselves, but everyone knows each other. There are parties that are held here nearly once a month in someone's home. Despite what most may think, there is a lot of trust between us Anti-Fairies." The green-eyed man explained as they maneuvered through the small, friendly crowds. Any blue-skinned fairies waved to the group or shouted hellos to the more familiar of them. All of them were dressed in fairly comfortable, if not expensive clothing. Even the ones who looked more casually clothed seemed to wear the best of material.
They finally made it to a big house (read: mansion) that was a faded red, nearly pink. There was only two stories, but it still looked homey especially with the huge garden in the front pathway. The majority of the flowered were dark color though here and there were bright ones. The bushes looked well taken care of and a few even looked like animals.
The group walked up to the door and Anti-Cosmo did the honors of ringing the doorbell.
Almost as soon as he did, the door opened and a blue blur nearly tackled the startled man out of the air.
"Havoc~!" The feminine voice practically squealed. They all saw a woman who resembled much of Fairy World's Mama Cosma with the exception of the blue skin.