Twins Missing In Dual Worlds chapter 20: The rise of Waddles Jr.
Deja Vu from time traveler pig.
I was going to do a story of Sasha first adventure but found it dull so this is chapter 20
PS this has a AO3 version if you perfer the archive.
Beta by Omega Ultra
The Plantars family household:
"Mabel, Mabel, Mabel get up." Sprig shook Mabel awake.
"G'ahh! An earthquake!" Mabel jumped up and fell to the floor. "Ow!"
"Do you know what day it is?!" Sprig joined her on the floor.
"Uhh, Saturday?" She pushed herself up.
"No, well yes, but it's Grubhog's day!" He shook her. "We're gonna have the best food and great rides!
Mabel's eyes widened.
"What with that look?"
"That sounds like a carnival! We had those back home." She instantly jumped to her feet. "When do we go?!"
"In a bit!" He answered. "And I didn't even tell you the best part!"
"And what's that?" Mabel asked.
"The Grubhog!" he jumped on her bed. "If its spotted it means a longer winter!"
"Ooo it's like groundhog's day!" Mabel went.
"What's a groundhog?" Sprig tilted his head.
"Doesn't matter." She stood up straight. "I'm totes ready! I even know how to win the games!"
"Really?"
"Yeah! The trick to it is, aim for the carney's head and take all the stuff while he's unconscious." Mabel laughed.
Sprig laughed along. "I'd usually distract them while Polly took their stuff.
"You can play the games all you want, I'm there for just one thing: the vomit-inducing, death-defying, unforgettable rides!"
"We'll have to try them!" Before they grabbed Polly and rushed out of the home… only for Hop Pop to pop out of a bush to stop them.
"Not so fast you two!"
"Uhh… why were you hiding in the bushes, Hop Pop?" Polly rubbed her head
"Uh, I'm not quite sure myself, Polly." He rubbed his chin before waving her off. "But never mind that that. Great news! Ralphie Underrook has the plague!"
"Does that mean something different in this world?" Mabel tilted her head in confusion.
"No that is bad in our world too." Sprig rubbed the back of his head. "But uhh… why are you happy about it?"
"Oh, he'll be fine. But for now, someone has to take care of the grubhog, and I volunteered you, Sprig." Hop Pop grabbed his shoulders..
"What?!"
"This is a big deal. The last Plantar to do it botched the job so badly that he got shunned for life!"
"But Hop Pop, Sprig was super excited for the rides." Mabel spoke up.
"Now, now Mabel let's hear him out." Sprig spoke in a pained tone.
"Isn't it exciting? I know you'll have to miss the fair, but it's for a good cause! Come on, boy. Do it for the family what do you say?" Hope filled his voice
Polly whispered to Mabel, "Sprig's gonna fold like a wet piece of paper."
Sprig stifled his groan, "Well...I, uh...Of course I will! If it means saving the family name then it the most important thing. Rides are for dum-dums anyways." He gave a fake laugh.
"That my Sprig! Your actions will be remembered for years to come! The Plantar name will be one of pride!"
Later...
As they reached the carnival, Mabel spotted an oversized bug. Her eyes widened as she ran over to grab it. "Oooo this is so adorable!" Its head was brown with a little pig-like nose and twin antennas on its forehead. Its eyes were cyan with orange, horizontal pupils. Its body was a random mix of white and yellow, with random dots of dark brown scattered along, and it had eight grey stumps for legs.
"I'm gonna make it a sweater!"
"Careful it spits acid." Hop pop warned, only for it to do just that on a pile of garbage.
"I accept you and your flaws! I'm gonna name you: Waddles Jr!" The pig-bug oinked before licking her face. "See! He loves me!"
"Take care of him, he needs to be there at the ceremony." Hop Pop explained.
"I'm keeping him!" Mabel declared, nuzzling him.
Polly dragged him along before the old frog continued. "We need to make sure we don't lose him."
"Oh I am NEVER losing this little cutie."
"That going to be hard later." Sprig awkwardly rubbed the back of his head.
"Why?" Mabel tilted her head at him.
"We are going to cut him open at the ceremony."
"YOU'RE GONNA WHAT?!" A wave of fear blasted out from the girl.
Meanwhile at Toad tower...
"Here you go a custom Sasha face t-shirt." Sasha smiled as she handed Percy one.
"WHAT?!" A voiced echoed through the air.
"What was that?" She looked around in confusion.
Back with the Plantars…
"Ow, I think I'm deaf now." He covered his ears in pain.
"You want to murder this poor innocent baby?" Tears welled up in Mabel's eyes
"You don't do that in your world?"
"Of course not! We watch and if the groundhog gets scared by his shadow it means a longer winter!"
"Shadow? How do you check the spots on a shadow?"
"What spots?" Mabel asked.
"The spots on its liver." He explained.
"That's just stupid!" Mabel cried out.
"It works, besides what's the alternative?" Sprig tilted his head.
"The shadow works fine!" Mabel countered
"How would that work?" He scratched his forehead.
"Oh don't you give me that look!"
"Come on you saw how much this meant to Hop Pop, this could be my chance to prove to him that I'm not a screw up!" Sprig leaned in and begged.
"But you are one!"
"Mabel!" Anger filled his voice. "You don't know what this mean for me."
"He's a poor defenseless animal!"
"Ugh, come on Mabel." He went "This will mean a lot for the Plantars!"
"Never!" She ran off with the pig-bug… thing, quickly taking refuge in a small shed.
"Pss Real Mabel."
"Who is that?" She quickly looked around.
"Your shoulder devil." The. Voice replied, causing a tiny version of her wearing a devil costume to appear.
"Is this normal?"
"Real Mabel, we once defeated a god with a robot titan."
"True…"
A second Mabel appears in white robes and heavenly wings. "Greetings real Mabel."
"Another one?"
"We are the representation of good and evil of course." The angel Mabel answered.
"I guess that makes sense."
The angel spoke, "We wouldn't have been summoned unless you were under great distress, so Mabel what is wrong?"
"Nothing. Nothing at all," She insisted, hugging her new pig.
Devil rolled her eyes, "Mabel, we're literally in your head."
"I just want to protect Waddles!" She answered.
"At the expense of Sprig, you saw how much it meant to him when Hop Pop was proud." The angel pointed out.
"I… I know…"
The devil spoke, "But if Sprig gets what he wants, Waddles Jr. is gonna die."
"He will…" Her voice trailed off.
The angel spoke, "What do you expect her to do? Have the pig go missing until the festival is over."
"That's a great idea Angel!" Mabel went.
"It is?" She raised an eyebrow.
Devil smirked at this.
"Now where to hide him?"
"You misunderstand, it needs to look like you lost him or they will go looking for him. Sprig needs to see you do it or he'll know your hiding him."
"Oh right." Mabel took a breath
Angel told devil, "This won't work."
"Oh it totally will." Mabel smiled, before the angel and devil poofed away and she got up.
"Mabel, you in there?" Sprig called out.
"If I say no, will you go away?" She answered
"Mabel, please this is important to me." He begged.
"And waddles is important to me!" She hugged the bug.
"Maybe we can spend the day together think about it."
Mabel felt her idea coming into fruition. "Ya... just one day..."
Sprig shivered at the idea. "Weird way to put it… is that a human thing?"
"Yes That's all!" Mabel said.
"I believe it."
"Oh you know what we should do, take him on a ride!"
"That sounds like fun, but what if Hop Pop sees us?"
"He's old Sprig, he won't see us." She waved him off.
"This is the most brilliant plan ever." Sprig cheered. "That way I can enjoy the fair too!"
"That's the spirit!" She went, before Sprig bolted away, prompting Mabel to skip after him.
A moment later Sprig climbed onto a giant earthworm tied to a pole to simulate a merry-go-round. Mabel soon followed, placing Waddles Jr. on her lap. "This is the perfect plan."
Then as the ride spun up, she gently let it fall… only for it bounce back to her lap. "Oink, oink." Mabel tried again. It started to bounce back every time it fell off. He played like it was a game, again and again. And a few moments later, the ride was over and she still had Waddles Jr.
"He likes you." He said as the pig cuddled in her arms.
"And I like him a lot too." Mabel smiled, but grimaced at him still being present.
Sprig smiled, before letting out a breath. He was gonna need to kill that thing sooner or later. After this they went to the next ride, a giant swing where a bug threw them around.
"Perfect." Mabel thought as the climbed on and began swinging.
A moment later, she let go, sending it flying straight into a bug cart, where he then bounced, hitting a flag, which bent back and catapulted it into a slide, which sent him flying through a cotton candy machine before landing right into Mabel's loving arms, cotton candy in tow.
"Dangit."
A moment later they were done with the ride and now eating the sweet treats.
"This is amazing." Sprig cheered. "Whoever said you can't have fun babysitting wasn't doing it right!"
"Yeah!" Mabel forced a smile.
"Hey what that on your arm." He noticed a sock stuck to Mabel's sweater.
"I think it's someone's sock. I guess the ride knocked it off," she laughed.
He laughed as well, the pig bug put his head through it. "Aww kinda looks like him."
"Ya know it really does…"
Waddles Jr licked her.
Mabel hugged him tightly. She had to find a way to save him. There was a rollar coaster she could take him on, it'd be her last chance!
Sprig made sure to had the bar close to them. Mabel watched as they got to the highest hill of the ride, and out of nowhere a bird stole Waddles Jr!
"What just happened?" He turn his head not five seconds and somehow the grubhog was taken by a giant bird.
"No! Waddles Jr.!" Mabel cried out.
"I am sorry for your pet, part of me thought we could go to the pet store and get a replacement one."
Her mouth dropped open at the plan, it was actually good. "What?"
"I'm just surprised you cared so much." Mabel smiled at the idea.
"I am not a monster, it clearly meant a lot to you."
In response, she gave him a big hug.
"We've got to do something about this now though. What'll we do?!"
Mabel was trying to think when she noticed the sock still stuck to her sweater. "I promised myself I'd never do this again. But it's an emergency."
"What?" He asked, only for Mabel to run for a stand, with a knife. "Wait! this bad but there no need to perform seppuku."
"No no, this," She held up the sock. "We're going to make a sock puppet of waddles and have that cut open instead, and we'll use more socks for his insides and some of Hop Pops cooking to make it look like innards.
"I can do that, I can get some buttons to help. Just make sure there something green inside for the guts."
"We got this!" Mabel gave a thumb up.
"And it should be easy to cut."
"I'll make sure. Maybe a sausage casing," Mabel suggested.
"Works for me." He replied.
And after a few minutes of work, the duo were on stage.
"Will it work?" Sprig gulped
"Just stay in character," She whispered.
"Can do, oh and remember Remove your arm when the mayor grabs the grubhog."
"Will do." And soon enough they got to work performing for the town.
Their performance was going flawlessly. Mabel couldn't believe it they were actually getting away with it. They even managed to make the townspeople laugh!
Mabel slipped her hand out and watched the mayor cut open her creation. "And it's diamond shaped! Oh no…" His eyes widened as he threw the sock aside. "The end is near! warn everyone. The world is ending."
Mabel gulped and looked at Sprig. "What do we do?"
Sprig sighed. "You know what we have to do."
Mabel nodded and came out of the fake tree stump. "Stop! Everybody wait! It was a puppet!"
"Say what?!" Hop Pop shouted as the town focused upon her.
And in response
"What are we going to do now, all we got is some puppet that everyone seems to love?" Mayor shouted.
"Well..." She grinned.
One long puppet show later…
"They love us." Sprig went, and in turn Mabel offered her half a high-five… to which Sprig replied by hitting her hand with his tongue, leaving a slimy spot.
"And they've been looking up a new practice of reading the weather without the whole cutting thing." Sprig said, getting a boo from Polly, "I liked the cutty-stabby part!"
"Haha, like I said. The shadow works in my world just fine." Mabel chuckled.
"You're crazy, now though… I wonder what happened to the grubhog." Sprig asked.
"Hopefully it's ok wherever it is." Mabel asked, looking behind.
Meanwhile…
Waddles Jr. spoke to his captor: "Thank you my faithful servant, soon we will be ready for the war to end all wars, it is time to gather our allies." The bird cawed in reply, before turning and flying off to distant lands.
To Be Continued…
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