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JAX AND HOODY ARE MAKING OUT!!!
Nah im js playing lmao 😂😂😂
DISCLAIMER PLEASE READ BEFORE PROCEEDING. JAX IS NOT A GOOD PERSON. I DO NOT AGREE WITH HIS ACTIONS. I, slxtt_guts, am not bigoted in any way nor do i support abuse. I am simply depicting Jax in that way because thats what i see in his character. He sucks tho. DO NOT TRY TO CLAIM THAT I HOLD HIS VIEWS. THANK YOU.
Hoody sits in his room and thinks about his day. He was sort of just going through the motions and observing everything, but it’s just starting to set in how weird the situation is.
“Dude i dont even have arms wtf”. Hoody thinks.
He feels sort of alone here. He kind of got along with Kinger and Pomni, but he doesn’t know them like that. He wants to see his friends and family again. But there seemingly isnt much he can do about it, at least for now. He wasnt as phased by this as much as Pomni was. He does want to escape though, but he can tolerate it for now.
Suddenly Hoody feels hes being jolted out of his room and he gets transported to where Caine is. Caine has summoned him.
“I realize i havent given you a tour! I was too busy worrying about Pomni to show my little sports ball friend around!” Caine says to Hoody.
“I’m a basketball.” Hoody corrects Caine.
“I see!”
“By the way, why am i a basketball?”
“Because you like basketball!”
“I mean i do but how do you know that?”
“I checked your mind files!”
“WHAT?! What do you mean mind files?”
“Well when you enter the circus, your mind is digitized”
“How do you digitize my mind?” Hoody looks uncomfortable.
“No more questions! Let’s show you around!”
Caine grabs Hoody by the arm and teleports them out.
“Now this here is the tent! Im sure you’ve seen the living quarters and everything here so let’s just skip!”
“I guess cuddy“
Caine doesn’t wait for Hoody to finish and transports them to overlook the entire map.
“And here we have THE GROUNDS!! You can do everything here! You can swim in the digital lake or engage in ridery at the digital ride.. place!! Night, Day, its all ok! Anything you want is possible in the digital circus!”
“Is that it?” Hoody asks.
“Nope!”
Caine transports them to a huge white space.
“This is The Void!”
“Nice.”
“We don’t venture here much. I don’t even know what’s in here…”
“Seems pretty existential.”
Caine teleports out of the void. He means to bring Hoody with him, but forgets. Hoody sits there for a moment while a huge vacuum like force pushes on his body. His body is basically immovable because of the huge force as he’s pushed through this vacuum. He starts to panic as he feels as though he can’t escape this. His body starts to feel stiff, like that tingling you get when your foot falls asleep, only his whole body. Hoody was in sleep paralysis, only no demons, just… nothing.
Caine comes back to fetch Hoody.
“Oop! Must’ve forgotten you there, buddy!”
“What the actual hell.” Hoody says as he looks at Caine, absolutely traumatized.
They both teleport back into the circus and Caine drops him back off in his room.
“And thats why we dont go in The Void!”
Hoody stares off into space, his eyes turning into scribbles like Pomni’s. He starts breathing heavily while he sits down on the floor and hugs his legs.
“yea no i need to get the fuck outta here.” Hoody thinks, terrified. Hoody opens the door to his room. He walks through the hallway to the balcony overlooking the circus.
“Maybe if i jump off this ledge, I’ll respawn into my real body.”
He steps onto the rainbow ledge on the balcony, does the sign of the cross and swan dives off. Hoody falls for a few seconds then collides with a yellow cube randomly placed right where he fell. I wonder if this will be relevant later wink wink. God im so fucking corny i should just kill myself. I said kill myself ao3 not telling other ppl to do that pls dont suspend me again ao3!
“this is actual bullshit why tf cant i respawn??”
Hoody just walks back to his room, honestly embarrassed that shi did not work. He starts to feel existential as it sets in that he truly can’t leave. As he sits in his room, waiting for it to be day, he hears Pomni have night terrors and start screaming from her room. He decides not to tell her to stop bc he kinda feels bad and also he just doesn’t want to get involved with a screaming chick. Hoody just covers his imaginary ears with a pillow and hopes for the best. He then hears her fall on the floor and he considers going to help but then he thinks “nah im good tbh.” wanting to mind his own business. Hoody sits in his room and over hears Ragatha people pleasing to Pomni.
“Hey, Pomni. How'd you sleep?” Ragatha says outside of Pomni’s door to no response. “Are you still sleeping? I'll let you get back to it, if you are.”
Pomni opens her door and peeks out.
“There she is! Hope you're doin' all right. I know yesterday was a bit of a doozy.” said Ragatha, all cheery.
"A doozy"... Pomni says, unenthusiastically repeating her.
“Oh, and don't worry about the whole "abandoning me for the exit" thing. It's perfectly understandable what you were going through at the time, and there's no hard feelings.” Ragatha laughs. “Yer all good.”
“...Huh?” Pomni says, having no fucking idea whats going on. She acts like she took too much benny.
“...Uh, well, let's forget about all that.” Ragatha says, unsure on what to say since Pomni isn’t responding and acting faded asf.
Pomni then exits her room. “Caine's got a new adventure today, and judging by what he's been teasing, it seems like it's gonna be a fun one!” Ragatha says, like shes talking to a child. Pomni walks out the door. Right after this, Hoody opens his door and walks out to the hallway.
“Oh hey Hoody! How are you holding up?” Ragatha greets Hoody.
“Im good but im ngl Caine is pretty weird. He like brought me on a tour and accidentally left me in the void.”
“Oh yeah. Caine definitely has problems in his programming but he never does anything to hurt us on purpose! He probably just did that by accident.” Ragatha says, then realizes she might be excusing Caine too much and invalidating Hoody. “So sorry that happened though. The Void is a very scary place!”
“I second that.” Said Pomni.
“It literally felt like i was dying bro. I couldn’t move my body at all.” Hoody said.
“Yeah. Yesterday when i was running away from Kaufmo, i found this exit door. Like a big red door and it said exit, almost looking like an exit you’d see in case of a fire. I opened it, thinking it was an actual exit, but all it led to was some office place.” Pomni tells Hoody.
“I think Caine calls it the Macroverse. He’s trying to replicate places in real life.” Ragatha says.
“And then I kept opening more and more doors until i fell into the void. I felt this like huge wind gust pushing me through the void” Pomni explains even more as they’re walking down from the living quarters to the stage.
“Like a vacuum?” Hoody asks
“Yeah.”
“Yoo me too.” Hoody relates to Pomni.
“I remember when i first got here, there wasnt much but a few locations and the void. There’s so much more stuff now.” Ragatha says, trying to join the conversation.
“What was the circus like when you got here, Ragatha?” Pomni asks.
“Well it was very scary and strange being in this new body. I remember that i was given a headset by my sister for my birthday. She says she found it in a trash can. She was very young then, maybe like 6 or 7, and she meant well. Her and my brother watched me put it on and before i knew it, i was here.” Ragatha tells Pomni and Hoody. “I didn’t know what was going on at all. I even fell off the stage. But Kinger was there to catch me and asked if i was ok. He’s been sort of like a father to me for a while, even if his mind is a little messy now.”
“Kinger did that? I honestly just thought he was some crazy unc. That’s real cool of him though. I like that guy.” says Hoody.
“Yea Kinger’s the man!” Ragatha says enthusiastically.
“He’s pretty funny.” Pomni smiles, but still looks a little sad.
“Diiid someone say Candy Carrier Chaos?!” Caine exclaims and gets in the trio’s faces.
“What alliteration!” adds Bubble.
“No. No one said that. I think you might be schizo gang.” Hoody says.
“Gang? What is ‘gang’? Speaking of gang, hi Gangle!”
“…hi… Caine…” Gangle says shyly.
“And Kinger and Zooble and Jax!”
“All of you people are gay and probably mongoloids.” Jax says, annoyed.
“Shut up, Jax.” Zooble says nonchalantly.
“Today's adventure is... CANDY CARRIER CHAOS! That's right! The Candy Canyon Kingdom's been robbed of their most valuable resource: Maple syrup! It's up to you to bring the rotten bandits who stole it to sweet, buttery justice!” Caine announces to the cast.
“Uh question?” Hoody raises his hand.
“Mmmmyep?” Caine goes to him.
“can you get cavities? If so is it like a pimple, or a tumor for you?” Hoody asks genuinely.
“Uhhhhhh” says Caine.
“An entire kingdom of candy? Sounds sticky.” Bubble interrupts.
“Very sticky, indeed.” Caine says
“Sounds-“ A long "BLEEEEEEP" is heard, but no "words are heard. Bubble said the most freakiest stuff imaginable.
“...Bubble, you can't say that.” Caine says, digusted.
“Mmmmmmmmmmm, nope.” Says Zooble as they walk off.
“Zooble, wait! I-I'm testing out a new Al in this one! It should be 57 times more immersive!”Caine desperately tries to get Zooble to participate.
“Ooh, a new Al. You don't want to mess with the new AI, Zooble?” Jax says, elbowing Zooble, trying to annoy them.
“No, Jax. I don’t. Can you go bother someone else or just be normal for once?”
“But that’s booooooringggg, Zooble. You’re BOORRRINGGGG and a d***.”
“FUCK OFF JAX. GO FAP IN YOUR WEIRD ASS ROOM.” Zooble yells at Jax. Jax smiles, pleased with successfully ragebaiting her.
“And the closet is fucking glass just so yk.” Zooble adds another insult. Jax’s smile fades.
Zooble walks off like g. Top g some people may say. For the gay people and girls reading, this means Jax was gagged.
“🎵All girls are the saame. Theyre rotting my brainnnn🎵” Jax sings to himself. “This circus is pretty cancer, right, Hoody?” Jax asks.
“I mean i guess but kill yourself.” Hoody responds.
Jax walks over to Gangle and takes it out on her by pushing her, breaking her comedy mask. Senpai didnt notice him i guess. Or he did he just doesn’t fw him and wants him to die.
“WAAAHHEHEH!!” Gangle cries.
“Well this adventure sounds fun! What do you think Pomni?” Ragatha said, trying to move past whatever that was.
“Sooo our entire existence is just… larping?”
“Im not a larper. Im a TRUECEL.” said Jax.
“WHY ARE YOU ALL STANDING THERE?! THE C-C-CANDY KINGDOM NEEDS YOU NOW!” Caine shouts and pushes them through the portal.
As they are transported into Candy Kingdom, they are placed in a candy carriage with a gummy worm horse pulling it.
“Is the horse made out of cum?” Hoody thinks, since it looks like a sperm kind of.
They’re pulled through the streets of the Candy Kingdom, with many bots/people who watch live streams cheering them on.
“I wonder if there was an assassination here.” Hoody says.
“Oh i remember it like it was yesterday. You know, i wasnt much older than you when JFK rode in that convertible in texas and was shot that day. Honestly a tragic day for America.” Kinger says.
“Im like 23 how old are you?”
“48 years young!”
Hoody does the math.
“You weren’t even alive, cuddy.”
“Oh right! I wasn’t!”
Hoody snorts. Lel. They get out of the carriage once it stops at the castle. Jax walks in front of everyone else while Kinger, Ragatha, Gangle, Pomni and Hoody are behind him.
“Wow, Kinger, check out this castle. It's amazing!” Ragatha says excitedly.
A little candy butterfly flies past Kinger and Ragatha.
“They've even got little candy bugs here. It's so beautiful.”
“Yeah, this place is great!” Says Gangle. Why would Gangle be saying this if her comedy mask is broken? WHOOO KNOWSSS.
The princess emerges outside.
“LOOK!!! It's the princess!!” Ragatha exclaims.
“Ah, you must be the brave knights sent to us by God to help us with our recent catastrophe.” The princess said, pointing to the stained glass of Caine on the castle. The npcs seem to see Caine as their god.
“That's us, ma'am. Your kingdom's awesome, by the way. Love the vibe.”
“i like you already.” The princess giggles.
“Look, Pomni. We're already friends with the princess!”
“I'm not a child. You don't have to hype me up.” Pomni says, deadpan.
“I assume you've been informed of your mission. The bandits that robbed us used a modded syrup tanker, so we figured the best way to go head-to-head with them is to give you a war rig of your own.” Explains the princess.
Just then, a huge war rig tanker pulls up and runs some npc over.
“Oooh, violence!” Jax says.
This was so corny Jax ragebaited Hoody without even trying.
“shut the FUCK up, Jax. Every time you speak I genuinely want to run you over with a Nissan Rogue.”
“Wow i wasnt trying to make anyone mad. Thanks for the new record, sweet cheeks.”
“What…” hoody was flabbergasted at how gay this statement was. Happy pride month to everyone reading this btw bc i know a majority of you guys probably aren’t straight.
“What time period is this supposed to be, again?” Pomni asks to no answer.
“Here's the key back into the kingdom for when you've secured the goods.” The princess says as she hands Ragatha the key. I trust you not to let it fall into the wrong hands?”
“You can count on me, your Highness!” Ragatha says with a can-do attitude.
“Oh please, call me Loo.” The princess says.
“Will do, Loo!” Ragatha chuckles.
“Awww shes so nice.” Thinks Hoody.
“Im gonna Loo your ass if you dont hurry tf up holy shit.” Jax says under his breath. “I CALL SHOTGUN!” Jax shouts as he runs to the drivers seat. He then presses the horn and it makes a really fugly sound.
“Oh god, thats the horn? That sucks. Gangle you drive.”
He puts Gangle in the drivers seat as he scoots to the passenger’s seat. Kinger, Ragatha, Pomni, and Hoody cram in the back.
“Farewell, good knights! I have every faith in you!”
“Blah blah blah keep talkin, ya stupid cripe.” Jax rolls his eyes.
They all sit in silence for a few moments til Jax comes up with a plan.
“Alright Gangle, when we catch up to ‘em, I’ll jump over, crawl inside and shoot ‘em repeatedly til they’re unrecognizable.”
“Who tf do you think you are? You’re not Dexter bro.” Hoody says.
“Shut up, basketball person.” Jax claps back.
“I dont feel comfortable doing that. I think that violates the Genova Convention.”
“You’re violating and raping my ears with your whining. Just do it WHORE.”
Gangle tears up.
“O-oh-ok…” Gangle says sadly.
“DO IT OR IM TELLING THEM THE FIGURINE THING!” Jax yells at her.
“I SAID OK!!”
OOOO ISNT SHE LOOOOOOVEEEELYYYYY ISNT SHE WOOOOONDEEEERRRFULLLL!!!! ISNT SHEEE PREEEEECIOUSSSSS LESS THAN ONE MINNNNNNUTEEEE OLD!
“is gangle a fapper?” Hoody looks at Pomni, Kinger and Ragatha. (Tadc canonically takes place in 2017, thats why they’re talking like this.)
“idk i just got here.” Pomni says.
Gangle hears this and starts speeding up, crying even more.
“Hey, Pomni, i’m sure theres some way you can help out here.” Ragatha tries getting Pomni engaged.
“Uhhhh i dont really know how to fix that.”
“Well i guess i didnt really expect you to be a miracle worker, but you can help out and distract them so this doesn’t get worse. Like maybe when we catch up to the other tanker, you-“ Ragatha gets cut off by Jax.
“-be assertive. Like this.”
Jax says and grabs Pomni by the neck amd throws her out the roof window of the moving truck.
“WHAT THE FUCK?!” Hoody shouts at Jax.
“JAX!” Ragatha yells.
“heheheheheh” Jax giggles.
Pomni’s arms stretch out like elastic as her holds herself between two trucks, creating a makeshift tight rope.
“Ahhh thats perfect! Just hold that pose, im coming over.”
“JAX YOU ASSHOLE.” Pomni says hoarsely, still with hate in every breath.
Jax is happy about this. Hoody thinks he gets off to this.
“POMNI TAKE THIS!”
Kinger tries to help out by throwing a life float even though she wasnt underwater. It bounces off her head.
“Nice try Kinger.” Hoody says, still thinking hes the goat.
“Here it is. Alright Pomni, you just stay like that and ill cross over.” Jax says as he comes out with a bazooka.
“Are you kidding me?!” Pomni yells, rightfully angered by Jax taking advantage of her. Pomni then lets go of their tank and falls onto the bandit tank.
“Nice going, Pomni. Now i have no bridge.” Jax says.
A purple bandit hops out the top window of their tanker.
“Aha! Gotcha.” The bandit says then gets hit with… something idk wtf that was lmao.
The bandit falls off but has a rope holding on. The bandits raise their wheel really high, like those tacky trucks you see at gas stations in New Jersey.
“Oooo now we’re cookin!” Jax says. “Ribbons, up and adam.”
“I dont think we-“ gangle starts.
“Aren’t you supposed to be submissive and agreeable? MOVE IT.”
“god hes such a dick” Hoody says to Ragatha and she just nods, knowingly.
They then hit rocky roads and the ride gets bumpier.
“Ah these fellas just dont wanna quite, ay?” The yellow and green bandit says then sees the purple bandit that was trailing on the back of the truck. “Oh christ. hey quit muckin around over there mate!”
“Oh right!” He tries to get back on the truck.
Somehow Hoody, Kinger and Ragatha got hit with a ton of knives.
“Is everyone ok?” Ragatha asks, when they’re obviously not.
“No…” Hoody says.
“Sorry i couldn’t hear you over the sound of KNIVES.” Kinger says.
“Hey Gangle, you should ram into them.” Jax suggests.
“What?” Gangle says confused and concerned.
“You should NOT ram into them. Pomni’s still on board!” Ragatha says angrily.
Jax pushes her.
Hoody actually uses everything in his power not to choke Jax out.
“Goood. It’ll be epic.”
“Oh MY FUCKING GOOOOOOOODDDDD. ‘Look at me im sooo edgy, cringe and violent!’ I’ll fuckin show you violent cuddy...”(This part is so CRINGE BUT IDK WHAT TO REPLACE IT WITH. FUCK ME WITH A SPEAR THIS SUCKS. KILL ME KILL ME KILL ME KILL ME KILL ME) Hoody says as he jumps on Jax and starts beating his ass. They roll around on the floor for a few seconds, Jax holds Hoody in a chokehold for a couple seconds but Hoody kicks him off and keeps punching.
“Yo someone say world star” Hoody says.
Ragatha laughs and says “WOOOORLLDD STAAARRRR.” Zooble would like this if she fucking came.
Gangle is crying even harder and takes her hands off the wheel to dry her eyes. This causes them to ram into the bandit truck anyways, despite her reservations.
“Are you guys trying to fucking kill me!??” Pomni screams.
The yellow and green bandit says “wow these guys are wack jobs. Lets give em some of this.” He pulls a lever and big spikes come out of the truck.
“Guysssss??” Pomni says.
Jax and Kinger stand at the top window.
“Pomni! Take this!” Kinger throws an anchor attached to rope to her.
“Kinger? Is that rope attached to anything?” Jax asks.
“Uhh i dont know. Lemme check.”
The anchor wraps the trucks closer to each other. Jax nearly falls off but holds onto the outside of the top window.
“Its almost like the two trucks are holding hands.” Gangle comments.
A spike slices Ragatha in the chest, and some of her stuffing comes out. She looks unfazed for some reason.
The yellow and green bandit turns their truck around 360 and Jax, Gangle, Kinger etc’s truck falls off the road into a huge chocolate lake.
“I blame you for this” Jax says to Gangle.
“This is like 90% YOUR fault, Jax.” Hoody says.
“Yea and if you weren’t jumping me, she wouldn’t have taken her hand off the wheel so its also your fault.”
“YOU WANTED HER TO RAM INTO THEM.”
“Guys please calm down.”
“Ragatha, i fw you heavy but WE ARE FALLING 50FT INTO A GIANT LAKE BRO.” Hoody says.
They crash into the lake very loudly and a lit of chocolate fills up the truck. Surprisingly it doesn’t fully sink and it weirdly buoyant.
“is everyone alright?” Ragatha asks, siting on the top of the truck.
“Nooo.” Gangle says, laid out on the storage part of the truck/tanker/whatever i dont have the war thunder type autism yet. Maybe soon tho.
“Poor Pomni. I hope she’s ok.” Ragatha says.
“‘Poor Pomni?’ What about poor us? We’re one tanker away from being Augustus glooped!”
“honestly valid point. You’re actually right for once Jax.” Hoody says.
“Shut up.” Jax says back.
A huge chocolate monster emerges from the lake. It has candy eyes and candy corn teeth.
“Ohohoho. Do my eyes deceive me? A gift from within the kingdom gates?”
“Woah woah woah! We’re not food buddy! We’re not candy! We’re none of that! You dont wanna eat us! Im soooorry.
“My? Youre not candy? How am i expected to eat something thats not candy.”
“Im allergic to fat people go away.” Hoody says.
“Fuck i was gonna say that.” Jax said.
“HAHAH BITCH!” Hoody shouts.
Jax throws a knife at Hoody but he dodges.
Kinger comes to the top of the truck.
“Wow i just took a fat dookie! It was a great one. I have awesome cholesterol for my age!”
“Thank you Kinger.” Hoody says in gratitude of this information.
“It was a big one tho. My bum still hurts!”
“it’ll hopefully get better, Kinger!” Ragatha says.
“Too bad Pomni has to miss the big poopy monster.” Kinger says.
“Who are you anyways?” Jax asks the poopy monster.
“I am the Fudge. I used to live in the kingdom walls, but i was banished by that rotten princess after i ate too many delicious people.”
“Yk that’s valid.” Hoody says.
“Ooooohhh they were so delicious! Sometimes i can hear them… calling to me…”
“Oh gosh! That just sounds like murder!” Ragatha comments.
“Is it really murder if it’s delicious?” The Fudge says.
“I mean is it murder if theyre not sentient?” Hoody questions.
“Yeah fair point.” Jax says. “Right, Hoody?” Jax holds his hand out to dab him up or something.
”i’m not getting your sperm on my hand cuddy.” Hoody says.
“Guys!” Ragatha says.
“Whatever, Rags, go bootlick monarchy.” Jax says. “Leave this to me. Well Mr. Fudge, you seem like an upstanding guy with normal goals.”
“Oohh im not. If you knew what i did in my free time, you’d be sickened!” Said the Fudge.
“Oh havent we all fapped to some disgusting things before!” Jax said.
“Tf? No????? Are we french fym we???” Hoody says.
Gangle just looks guilty.
“As i was saying, i may know a way into the kingdom walls, if youre willing to help us.” Jax twirls the keys with his fingers that he stole from Ragatha.
“Hey when did you-“ ragatha starts.
“Shut up licorice hair!”
“Here hide it with this.” Kinger says and puts a bucket on her head.
“You must be a master of unlocking things, coming to free me from my outdoor prison.” The Fudge says.
“Thats me!” Jax leans in. “All we’re asking you to do is help bring some dirty bandits to justice.”
Suddenly, the bandit truck also crashes in the lake.
“ i saw the reaper wink at me.” Says purple bandit.”
“Welp, seems like we already got em.” Kinger says.
***
The truck is washed up on a beach next to the lake. Gangle and Jax are both on the top of the truck. Gangle has binoculars looking out.
“Gotta say, this is a lot more anti climatic than i hoped.” Jax says.
“What were you hoping for?” Gangle says.
“Yk some big finale battle, bloodshed, death, chaos.”
“Bro this isnt a comic or a video game.” Hoody says.
“It quite literally is, dumbass. Does this look like real life to you?”
“No.”
“EXACTLY. Idk this just got lame.”
Ragatha and kinger sit on top of the back of the truck as Ragatha questions the bandits, who are tied up.
“Are you sure they just disappeared?” Ragatha asks.
“I cant say for sure but yes definitely.” A yellow bandit with a hat and blue scarf on.
“Its not like the boss to abandon the mission with a clown. Very unusual.” Says the purple bandit that fell off the truck before.
“Well that’s concerning.” Ragatha says.
“Well if worst comes to worst, we can always ask for caine to find her.” Kinger says with a bucket on his head.
“Im just worried about her having another horrible experience. She still seems really upset about yesterday. Im scared she doesnt like me very much.” Ragatha says.
“I mean you were talking to her this morning werent you?” Kinger asks.
“Yeah but later on she just seemed annoyed at me.”
“ i remember how you were when you got here and how long it took for you to adjust.”
“Oh yeah. Im surprised you remembered that.” Ragatha says, confused that Kinger is acting level headed now. Kinger slightly takes the bucket off.
“Remember what?”
A huge sound is heard. Jax takes the binoculars from Gangle.
“You always have to take the credit.”
Says Hoody.
“Im tryna fuckin look.” Jax said.
He sees a truck flying thru the air.
“You guys dont have a truck that flies, do you?” Jax asks the bandits.
“Yea! Wait no we dont.”
The truck lands on the poopy monster. Pomni and the yellow and green bandit/the boss of the bandits hop out. Pomni throws up.
“Couldn’t keep it in huh?” The boss teases pomni then throws up too.
“Whats all this stuff?” Pomni says.
“POMNI! are you ok?! We were worried about you!” Ragatha runs to her.
“Well i didnt really care.” Jax says.
Hoody booms him on the head. CLAMS.
“Yea im fine. I made a new friend!” Pomni says and looks at the boss walking away.
“Boss! Where ya been? We got fudged!”
“You dont wanna know. Good to see ya lads.” He hugs his bandit crew.
Kinger turns on the faucet of the new “flying” truck the boss and pomni came in.
“This has syrup too!”
“Suppose it does.” The boss says. “You dont suppose my mates could take this one back to the village too?”
“I guess since theres two of them.” Ragatha says.
“Im so unbelievably disappointed.” Jax says, on the shore now looking at the chocolate water.
“SHUT THE FUCK UP NOBODY CARES.” Hoody says.
“Welll maybe there will be blood death and violence in the next adventure.” Ragatha says trying to cheer Jax up.
“Hahahahah how wholesome 100 extra reddit upvotes right here for this kind stranger!!” Jax says sarcastically.
Pomni goes up to Ragatha, Hoody and Jax.
“This is gummygoo! He’s gonna come back to the circus with us.” Pomni says.
“Uh is that allowed?” Ragatha says, concerned.
“His reality was kind of shattered. I feel like its the least i could do, opposed to leaving him behind.”
“Aw thats so sweet of you pomni.” Ragatha admires pomnis kindness.
“ughhh lets take this DUMB truck to the dumb kingdom i guess.” Jax says.
They enter the kingdom to cheering npcs.
“Thanks to you brave knights, our kingdom will once thrive again! Im sure it was no easy task.” Princess Loo says.
“You have no idea.” Jax says.
The portal opens.
“Farewell brave knights! Have fun executing that dirty bandit.” Princess Loo says.
“Yea that is what we’re doing.” Pomni lies.
Theres a huge thud, probably the poopy monster.
“Ohhh heeyy (voice crack) maybe i didn’t leave the gate open for nothing after all.” Jax says, smiling.
“I thought he was dead?! You still did that?!” Ragatha says.
“You did what now?” Princess loo says.
“Well love to help ya but byeeeeee” Jax says as everyone walks thru the portal.
“Welcome back my lil hard shelled hamburgers!” Caine greets them.
“So this is the circus. I could get used to this.” Says gummygoo.
“Oop! Looks like one of these guys snuck through.” Caine notices gummygoo and poofs him, creating confetti in his absence.
Pomni is stunned with grief.
“No… He’s gone…”
Jax looks slightly sympathetic, possibly wanting to talk to her but doesn’t.
“But why?…”
“I know you guys love your npcs, but if i let them into the circus, i might get confused on whos real and whos not and who knows… what could happen…” caine says ominously.
Pomni laughs in grief and frustration, slightly loosing her mind. Caine feels awkward and just says hes gonna drink water and teleports away.
“I’m really sorry about that pomni.” Ragatha walks over to comfort her.
“At least you tried man.” Hoody says.
“He might be back in a future adventure. Caine reuses a lot of npcs.”
Zooble walks over to them and puts their hand on Ragathas shoulder.”
“We got everything ready”.
They both look very sad, knowing what they’re about to do.
“You and Hoody at least wanna join us for Kaufmo’s funeral?”
Pomni looks up.
“We like to have a lil funeral for those who abstract.”
Jax looks upset for a moment but quickly changes his face to a face of annoyance, almost to hide something.
“It got pushed around with your guy’s arrival and all.”
“Its the least we can do to honor their memory.” Kinger says.
They walk over to the funeral service. A little altar with a picture of kaufmo sitting on it is right behind ragatha as she walks up.
“Oh man. I always think im prepared for these things but then you set up the picture and well im already breaking” ragatha tears up and wipes a tear away from her eye.
Every character that knew kaufmo went up to share a eulogy for kaufmo, each very heartfelt and sad. Gangle shows a picture she drew for kaufmo and kinger, zooble and ragatha share stories about kaufmo Pomni is filled with even more sorrow then she already was. Pomni thinks about abstracting, but then thinks about being saved by these people from that. In a weird way, the service showed how much they cared for one another, and pomni gained trust for her peers. Hoody didnt know the guy, so he doesn’t know exactly how to feel, but he knows that they cared for him and that makes him respect them even more. Except for Jax, who didnt fricking show up.
***
Pomni, Ragatha and Hoody sit together on a couch. Its quiet for a while.
“Im just really sorry about Kaufmo, Ragatha. Im sorry if me arriving took away from that.”
“Aw Pomni its not your fault.” Ragatha says.
“Its just you never how much someone means until theyre gone.” Pomni tears up. Ragatha puts her hand on Pomnis back to soothe her.
“Aw Bungle.” Hoody said.
“Kaufmo was honest just the most calm, seemingly put together guy ive seen in this circus. It all happened so sudden. I dont know why i didnt see more signs. I knew he was going on about that exit but i never expected him to abstract because of that. But i guess that’s what happens sometimes. Sometimes you dont always see the signs.”
“Sometimes people can just go poof, gone like that.” Pomni adds.
“But both Gummygoo and Kaufmo lived good lives, even though they were short.”
Hoody has something he wanted to add, but was scared it would seem like he’s shoehorning in his own problems, so instead he just says “and we’ll always remember them and we also make our time with other people count cause yk, you never know if you’ll ever see them again.”
“Yea.” Ragatha and Pomni say, teary eyed. They all hug each other as they cry. Even though she doesn’t fully feel like she fits in, Pomni is starting to feel cared about by the people around her.
“Man you guys are gay. I need to get some guy friends.”
Jax says as he pulls out a miniature bong and places cut inside it. Then he takes out a lighter and just inhales it.
“JAX YOU MESSED UP THE WHOLE SCENE WE COULDVE WON AN AWARD.” Pomni shouts.