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Choco Cup: Alright everyone! That's a wrap! You all did amazing today!
Ice Juggler: ... (Could've let me practice a bit longer...)
Banana: I loved all our new performers! Especially the twins!
Grapefruit: Yeah! The trapeze artists! Chess Choco cookie!
Cinnamon: They're very talented, yes, but the other performers should get love too!
Popcorn: Yeah, we know! They're all sleeping downstairs.
Popcorn: Speaking of which, where's Funnel Cake cookie?
Ice Juggler: Probably still on the carnival grounds. (..I have no clue why she never sleeps in the beds..)
......
Licorice: Here? Chess Choco cookie escaped to here?!
Pomegranate: Yes. It really is disgraceful how they abandoned our master. Let us find them at once.
Licorice: Alright-- hey! Poison Mushroom!
Poison Mushroom cookie was far behind, looking at the food stands, drooling.
Poison Mushroom: Purple;., cotton .candy,,
Licorice: Come on, we have to get a move on!!
Pomegranate: We shall get you something to eat back when we come back.
You won't be able to get any here because we're here after hours.
Licorice: Yeah, we're trying to not get detected here!
Poison Mushroom: Alright....
The villains continue to make their way through, Poison Mushroom getting lost yet again, and wandering off.
Licorice and Pomegranate blindly mistook the dark figure trailing behind them as Poison Mushroom,
until Licorice caught a glimpse of a clown's face in Pomegranate's mirror.
Licorice jumped back in shock, stumbling and freaked out.
Licorice: WHA--!? Who are you!?
Funnel Cake: Me? Oh, I'm the best clown in town, you should know!
Licorice: That doesn't answer my question....!!
Pomegranate: We came here looking for a cookie. Chess Choco?
Funnel Cake: Really? Huh.. But why wouldn't you look for them during the day? It's after hours.
...Unless, you're the ones those two warned me about, working for that Dark Enchantress lady.
Pomegranate: Oh. So you know~
Funnel Cake: So you wanted to come take them back? But why? This carnival is so fun, performers and customers alike!
Licorice got pissed, pointing his scythe at Funnel Cake's neck.
Licorice: HEY! Dark Enchantress is FAR more important than some meaningless circus!
Funnel Cake just glared at him with dead eyes.
They didn't seem to notice Elephant Ear, Funnel Cake's pet creeping up behind Licorice.
In a second, Elephant Ear blared a trumpeting noise from their trunk, scaring Licorice and making him drop his scythe.
Seizing the moment, Funnel Cake and Elephant Ear dashed off to the entrance,
Licorice grabbed his scythe and joined in on Pomegranate pursuing her.
But by the time the two make it to the entrance, the door is shut and locked tight.
Licorice: T-they locked us in..!
Pomegranate: Look! Up there-
Hopping from one circus tent to another, Funnel Cake was bounding over them, heading away towards a corner and jumping down to the ground.
Licorice: After them!
Pomegranate: ...
Pomegranate stayed behind at a distance.
Licorice ran ahead, turning the corner only to scream and run the other direction as Funnel Cake charges towards him on a speeding bumper car.
Pomegranate: That idiot.. he has no sense of imminent danger.
Pomegranate follows after them, seeing Funnel Cake gone and Licorice still running.
Pomegranate: Licorice! They've vanished. You can quit being a scaredy-cat now.
Licorice: I-I am NOT a scaredy-cat, Pomegranate!
Pomegranate: Looks like we ended up at the game area.
They looked around, eyeing the games.
Rubber duck pond, rope climb, basketball, ball toss, average stuff.
When Pomegranate cookie's eyes met the water shoot game, she saw the guns shift,
slowly turning away from the plastic clown heads and towards the two cookies.
Pomegranate: Licorice, MOVE!
Licorice: Wha--
Before he had time to react, Licorice was blasted in the face with strong water jets.
Pomegranate dodged, only getting a light sprinkle.
Pomegranate: We have to get out. That clown is toying with us!
Licorice: I'm all soggy.. Help me walk, Pomegranate.
Pomegranate: Oh now you ask for my help. ...fine.
Carrying a limping Licorice, his arm around her shoulder, they were looking for someplace to hide.
Circus tents. Small, yet too dark to see into. Any one of those could hide the clown.
But they had no other choice, walking cautiously past each darkened doorway.
Going past one of them, a large dart shot out, pinning Licorice and his cloak to the wall next to him.
Licorice: AAH! I'm scared, Pomegranate!!
Instead of assisting Licorice, Pomegranate went into the tent, slightly yelping as she falls through a trapdoor, sliding down a multicolored slide.
She struggles, but manages to stop herself, climbing back up the slide.
Funnel Cake cookie was waiting at the bottom of the slide, a mallet in her hand.
Funnel Cake: I must dispose of them.. I will NOT let darkness come to this circus, I'll do ANYTHING it takes to protect this carnival!
Pomegranate cookie came back up from the top of the slide, un-pinning Licorice from the wall.
Licorice: Would Dark Enchantress use them? They're very scary, great quality for the legion of darkness.
Pomegranate: I'd rather not. They don't seem to like Dark Enchantress, and we should just focus on a way to escape.
As they said that, Banana cookie's hula hoop dropped down on the two, trapping them together.
Funnel Cake: Hahah! Yes! I'm getting better at ring toss!!
Licorice: I-I want to go home...
Funnel Cake: Already?? That's sad, we're having so much fun though!
But if you insist on leaving, I'll let you go in a blast!
Walking the two trapped cookies back to the main path, the entrance is just ahead, open wide.
Funnel Cake rolled a circus cannon up, giggling.
Funnel Cake: Ladies and Gentleman, it's time for the grand finale!
All the lights turned on, the carnival music was playing, looking as lively as ever.
She stuffed the two villains inside the cannon, removing the hula hoop.
Funnel Cake: Now don't you squirm you two~! Let's go off with a bang!
Licorice braced for impact, hugging Pomegranate tightly for comfort.
Pomegranate just looks annoyed.
Lighting the canon's fuse, Funnel Cake cookie stepped back, smiling.
The canon blew- shooting the two cookies far out of the entrance, landing on the hard ground.
The Carnival doors shut behind them, the lights and music being cut as well.
Looking back, Pomegranate saw a light.
A candle upon a table. on the table there were also gifts for them, and a note.
"I will never allow darkness to envelop this special place.
Keep the villainy at low around these parts and you'll be welcome
to enjoy the carnival normally to its full extent."
Next to the paper was a Pomegranate lemonade on one side, A sprinkled doughnut with black licorice wrapped around its center on the other.
...
Sighing at finally dealing with those two, she heard something flop to the ground.
Running over to the source of the noise, she saw Poison Mushroom cookie, passed out in the cold wind.
Funnel Cake knew Pomegranate and Licorice forget them, so she carefully picked them up.
Poison Mushroom is fast asleep. She decides to take them over to the rooms her Boss had got set up for all the performers.
Seeing Chess Choco's bed, she remembers them telling her of the cookies that worked for Dark Enchantress.
One of which is a purple shroom cookie, they said.
Funnel Cake grabs a pillow, and props Poison Mushroom up on the opposite side of the bed Chess Choco are on.
She enjoys the warm comfort of these rooms, deciding to go upstairs.
With how friendly Banana and Funnel Cake were, she decides to cuddle up with her in bed.
She knows damn well if she took a nap with Ice Juggler, she'd wake up biting her.
Funnel Cake closes her eyes, and awaits the next morning...