Inside Out Q&A's: The Sequel Chapter 21: ROUND 20, an inside out fanfic

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Anxiety's dare: Train45

"Anxiety," Joy read. "Would you consider yourself a generous emotion?"

"I would say I am!" Anxiety nodded. "We want Riley to be polite to others. I don't want us to lose any friends!"

"Luckily, she is polite!" Joy smiled.

"We should stop giving gum to our classmates though," Anger growled. "They start to become like seagulls! They crowd around us for food!"

"Oh! Anger!" Joy beamed at the red emotion. She handed him a CD of We Will Rock You by Queen. "This was for doing that dare! The book one!"

"Ha ha! That's the stuff!" Anger grinned, checking out his reward with approval.

"Fear, why is hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia such a long term if it means a fear of long words?" Anxiety asked.

"Don't ask me!" Fear put his hands up with innocence. "I don't know why it's called that! It is weird though."

Envy smirked. "We would sound so ridiculous trying to pronounce that!"

"Who even has a fear of long words anyway?" Ennui raised an eyebrow.

"There are weird phobias out there," Anxiety added. "There are people that are afraid of eating."

"Embarrassment, do you enjoy celebrating Halloween?" Fear asked.

"I like it," the pink emotion smiled. "Dressing up is fun and so is trick or treating."

"Except when we were forced to dress up as a clown when we were like 7," Disgust said. "That was terrible, especially since it was so hot, and Minnesota's not normally hot."

"Yeah, I don't know what Mom was thinking there," Joy agreed.

"Joy," Embarrassment said. "Have you ever thought about making a game room full of arcade machines, a table tennis set, darts and other things for you and the other emotions?"

"I actually never have!" Joy beamed at this idea. "Well, I can't exactly make one. I can for sure have some Mind Workers come and do that. But that would be pretty cool actually!"

"I would kick some butt in table tennis!" Anger smirked with excitement. "Add a bowling alley while we're at it!"

"Envy, why did we choose to make February only have 28 days while so many other months have 31? Couldn't we have simply added some of the 31st days from other months to February?" Joy read.

"Don't ask me, I didn't come up with all that," Envy explained. "And those poor babies that are born on a leap year! How do they celebrate their birthdays?"

"They wouldn't get as many birthdays as everyone else..." Sadness sighed.

"Disgust, if you will be looking at a map of the inside of a planet, what would it be?" Envy asked.

"I was always interested in what the gas giants looked like," Disgust said. "Like Jupiter or Saturn. I don't even know if a map is possible for those planets. It's only made of gas and you only survive on them for less than a second."

"That's scary!" Fear yelped.

"Luckily we're not gonna be an astronaut," Anxiety said.

"Ennui, you see a Blue Shell from Mario Kart about to hit you. What do you do?" Disgust asked.

"What is there to do?" Ennui wondered. "Nothing else but to just accept defeat."

"Blue shells are so unfair!" Anger shouted. "There should be a way to dodge or deflect them!"

"Sadness, what is your deepest, darkest secret that no one else knows about?" Ennui asked.

"Hmm..." Sadness thought for a moment. "I actually really like the song Happy by Pharrell Williams."

"Oh, do you?" Joy raised her eyebrows. "That's great!"

"Yeah, it's one of my guilty pleasures...I sometimes dance to it," the blue emotion admitted.

"That's what I'm talking about!" Joy giggled.

"Anxiety, you have a dare," Sadness said.

"I-Is it bad?" Anxiety asked nervously.

"No, you have to sing one of Maya Hawke's songs," Sadness read.

"Oh! Ok then. I was waiting for a dare like this to pop up," the orange emotion giggled. "What song do I have to sing?"

"You choose but maybe a song like Missing Out," Sadness said.

"I'll do that one, but I hope I don't sound terrible..." Anxiety started to get worried.

"Just sing it normally! You two do have identical voices!" Joy pointed out.

"True...ok..." She took a deep breath before beginning,

"Lucy wants to write the next great American novel

And she can't even read the bottle

She says I might be a genius

Well, she could be a model

Didn't think I'd get in, so I didn't apply

Now I'm a drunk hanger-on

Hittin' on the younger guy

I buy booze for the Ivy League with my television salary

They think they look up to me, ha

Well, I was left like coals in leaves

And I sparked up in winter's breeze

And now I know it's me who's missin' out

Missin' out, missin' out, missin' out

Now I know it's me who's missin' out

But I was born with my foot in the door

And my mind in the gutter and my guts on the floor

Holdin' the party line

Embarrassed all the time

I remember my potential

Before I skipped the fundamentals

Before I ran from safety

Hopin' someone would chase me

Well, I was left like coals in leaves

And I sparked up in winter's breeze

And now I know it's me who's missin' out

Missin' out, missin' out, missin' out

Now I know it's me who's missin' out

Missin' out, missin' out

Missin' out, missin' out, missin' out

Now I know it's me who's missin' out

I've been someone to talk about

I wanna be someone to talk to

I've bitten off way more than I can spit out

Missin' out, missin' out, missin' out

Now I know it's me who's missin' out

Missin' out, missin' out

Missin' out, missin' out, missin' out

Now I know it's me who's missin' out

I'm missin' out, out

I'm missin' out, out"

The emotions started to applaud Anxiety.

"Good job Anxiety!" Joy cheered.

"You weren't as panicky as you usually would be!" Envy added. "Not that that's bad! That's great actually!"

"It was almost like I was listening to the original song," Fear said.

"Probably because it technically was, if you know what I mean," Disgust told Fear.

"Let's get back to the questions," Anxiety sighed with relief as she got the next card. "Fear, would you rather play "Crash Bandicoot" or "The Ocean Hunter"?"

"I like Crash Bandicoot better," Fear said. "Envy, do you like macaroni and cheese?"

"I love 'em!" Envy beamed. "In fact, you're making me crave Mac and cheese right now!"

"Let's ask Dad to make us some for dinner!" Joy suggested.

"Perfect! Ok..." Envy rummaged through the box. "Joy, you have a date with someone in this room tomorrow. Who would be the most unfit candidate?"

"Ohh boy..." Joy said. "I mean, if gender didn't count as a reason, I would obviously say Ennui. I mean..." She glanced at the bored emotion, who, even though the conversation was about her, didn't even glance back in interest.

"No explanation needed," Anxiety giggled.

"And I do not care," Ennui rolled her eyes.

"Disgust, would you rather participate in a pie-eating contest or in a dunk tank?" Joy asked.

"I like pie but I would never be able to eat the whole thing in a short amount of time," Disgust said. "I pick the dunk tank."

"And I'll be the one to throw the ball," Anger teased.

"I hate you," Disgust glared at the red emotion. "Sadness, do you like pineapple on your pizza?"

"Not really..." Sadness said. "We don't put pineapples on there. The only topping we'll eat is pepperoni. Nothing else."

"And pepperoni is the only way it should be eaten," Disgust spoke truthfully.

"Ennui, between Superman and Goku, who do you think would win?" Sadness asked.

"Hm..." Ennui pondered. "They're both powerful. But Superman can only be defeated from kryptonite. Superman wins."

"Oh come on! Goku is so much more powerful!" Anger argued.

"It's called an opinion," Ennui scoffed. "Embarrassment, what are the things you would like to change if you became God for a day?"

"Everything is peaceful," the pink emotion said. "We all get along and no one judged one another."

"If only," Joy sighed.

"Anger, what musical instrument has the most annoying sound to you?" Embarrassment read.

"An accordion, thanks to Joy," Anger growled. "Do they have to be so loud and obnoxious?"

"Aw, come on!" Joy smiled. "They're fun!" Joy ran off and a second later, came back with her trusty accordion.

"Oh Joy, don't you dare," Disgust groaned, covering her ears.

Joy began playing loudly and slightly out of tune.

"To be continued, I guess," Anxiety said, with her...ears? covered as well.