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How long has it been since Shrimpo passed away?
A week? Year? Oh yeah, exactly a year...
Shrimpo was not a particularly nice of toons, stubborn, rude, an idiot, and basically just a bully.
He quarreled with a lot of people and showed his stubbornness, a small exception was Toodles,sometimes Shrimpo just scare her and that’s all.
Oh, and also, he was the one who hated everyone and everything around him, and he considered himself the best and lone wolf.
Not a pleasant person, of course, however..... Without him, you felt somehow lonely, of course, you and Shrimpo were also not particularly friends, especially since instead of hiding in a corner as the same Astro did, you gave him retaliatory strike, either figuratively or literally. But to be honest, you still really missed him.
His death was frightening, before reaching the elevator for about a second he was attacked by a twisted, and then when the elevator doors closed, his screams of pain were heard, and so they were heard until the elevator itself began to descend lower and lower to the next floor.
Remembering all this, you were shivering violently.However, you were distracted by your friends, saying that it was time to get out of the elevator and fill up the machine, so you did just that. Stepping out of the elevator while the door had already closed behind you.
***
The second machine was filled with you, and you began to walk in a different direction, looking for another machine while collecting tapes, food items, and of course ichors from the floor. You were deep in thought until you heard someone running after you furiously. Turning around, you saw the twisted Teagan and immediately began to run from her, you grabbed the first wound from her, however, after a couple of minutes, you were able to dodge and hide from her.
Breathing heavily, you look at your wound, which was on your shoulder. It's good that you had a first aid kit with you. Having taken it out, you took bandages with iodine from there and began to treat your wound.
You have treated your own and other toons wounds quite a few times, so you quickly bandaged everything and took out a chocolate bar from your pockets and began to eat.
This time you had to fill as many as 10 machines in the same place where you usually came at the beginning, now there were as many as 5 twisteds, from which you have to hide with others, twisted Teagan as an example.
While you were thinking about everything, suddenly you heard someone's slow steps in your direction. Having looked who it was, you immediately froze in place. In front of you was a twisted Shrimpo, who, with his red eyes, looked straight at you.His colors were faded and his jaw hands were filled with ink. You couldn't move at all due to the sudden shock and only hoped that this twisted Shrimpo wouldn't kill you completely, but would only cause damage so you could immediately run away.
Twisted Shrimpo was very close to you and you were already preparing for damage, but instead Shrimpo simply knelt down and pressed himself close to you, hugging you tightly around your waist.
To say that you were perplexed would be an understatement.
And hearing how this Twisted Shrimpo began to make crying sounds made you even more bewildered.
—..... Y..... Y/N........
The shrimp whined pitifully.
Is this.....Really a real Shrimpo? You couldn’t understand anything and tried to somehow get out of his grip, but Shrimpo grabbed onto your clothes even more and pressed himself against you.
— Don't leeeeaaave..... Don't leeeaaave.....I don't want to be alone.....
Barely Shrimpo said, due to the fact that his jaw was covered in this black substance, and perhaps even somehow damaged.
You hesitantly pulled him close to you, lightly stroking his head while he continued to cry pitifully in your arms. You didn't understand whether this twisted one was the same Shrimpo you knew about, or just the same copy of it, similar to other copies of other toons.
However, you noticed that on Shrimpo's back, there was a deep scar with torn tissue that had already turned black.
You carefully touched this scar until Shrimpo jerked away in pain and almost screamed from it.
—HURT—!!!
Shrimpo wanted to scream until you covered his mouth and then gestured with your finger to keep him quiet.
Shrimpo just pressed himself against you again and sniffed, closing his eyes, not wanting to somehow let you go.
—This is... Are you really Shrimpo?
You asked, looking at him as he nodded his head in response.
Suddenly, you felt some kind of joy in your soul, knowing that this was really the real Shrimpo, and not some kind of copy of it.
You yourself didn’t notice how you smiled and began to cry with happiness, after which you hugged him tighter to you and laid your head on his shoulder.
—God, how glad I am that you are not completely dead! I missed you so much! I just couldn’t imagine that you were no longer with us!
You spoke without believing your words.
Shrimpo at this time looked at you in surprise, and then again, in tears, he lowered his guilty gaze to the floor and again barely uttered his words:
—I..... I am very sorry about my actions and behavior..... I am very sorry that I bullied and fought with others..... I.... I..... Please forgive me .....
You looked at Shrimpo silently and then carefully stood up with him.
—Everything is okay... I'm just glad now that you... At least you're not lying dead on the floor somewhere. I will heal all your wounds, don’t worry. We'll come up with something together.
Shrimpo looked at you in surprise, but to say that he was really happy would be an understatement. He began to hold your hands tighter and pressed himself closer to you to be closer to you.
—T-thank you...—Said the shrimp, looking at you with his grateful eyes.—I promise I won’t act like the asshole I was in the past, honestly!
—Hehe, okay, I’ll keep an eye on this, but for now, let me help you get to the elevator. There you will just wait for everyone and go in together.
After these words, you began to lead him to the elevator, still being careful not to be attacked by other twisteds, but I think with your new friend and at the same time old enemy, you and the others will not be so in danger.