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"Seriously? Your fighting with Shrimp of all people? Shrimp!?"

Dan- er- Fail crossed his arms disapprovingly

"It was her fault, Father!  We swear!"

" Well actually we shot her out of a cannon and she may have gotten peeved "

"Sellout!" "No you idiot!" "grr!" "your next to be fired!" 

A large jumble of voices were heard yelling at one, the many faces on the... Face? Screen? Fascreen? Whatever their head was, were all angrily looking or sighing at one face.

"Sigh we're gonna have to rearrange rooms, can I trust you won't murder Shrimp?" 

Fail lashed his tail and his ears drooped (how does that even work? Ain't it a suit? Eh.) as a cocophony of voices started speaking over each other, saying things like

"Yes!" "No" "Maybe?" "We will eat Shrimp" "what?" "am I still in trouble?" "Father, we require pasta"

"Why did I even ask. Big Bill is in the current party so I guess I'll have to watch over y'all"

Fail was met with the misty creature slamming into their torso is what was meant to be a hug, but the mix of misty-yet-electronic-yet-organic tendrils and appendages made it feel more like he was being attacked. 

"Yay! Bonding time with father!" 

Fail, though very annoyed with Chat, hugged back and smiled. How could he stay mad at that... Horrific entity that may or may not be his son! 

Shrimp hated being mad, especially with someone else. It was her least favorite emotion. Both because she didn't want to be like those bullies and because she just disliked it.

Without Big Bill there she just felt lonely. Her big brother was gone, and the only other maybe child there was fighting with them.

She cleaned her room, she tried out some new clothes, she played outside, and with nothing left to distract herself she was just lying in bed. 

Knock knock

"Bill? Finally!" 

"Come in!" 

She yelled, excited to finally see Big Bill after how long? 3 minutes? 

"Hey, Shrimp. How're you doing?"

Shrimp sighed, it was just Fail, but at least it was someone. The usually energetic cat was looking rather... Sleepy. 

"I'm doing ok, it's boring." 

Fail piped up a bit

"Well, I've brought someone who might fix that! For better or for worse-"

He said the last part with a sigh as he sort of dragged in a grouchy Chat

She frowned, but waved anyway. She was mad but that's no reason to be rude. Chat looked away, but some faint greetings could be heard from some of the thousands that make him up. 

"I heard about what happened, so I decided that y'all would stay together until you- specifically Chat- forgive each other"

Chat grumbled and one of the faces looked around awkwardly

Shrimp piped up. Sure she was angry with Chat but at least she'd finally have someone to hang out with until Bill came back.

Chat, now moving around on their own accord, was now sitting in front of Shrimp. They were growling at each other, Chat definitely sounded and looked terrifying as different pitched growls resonated and vibrated the particles and form of it's body.

Shrimp just looked downright horrifying. Fail definitely never wanted to see Shrimp that mad ever again, even some of the faces on Chat seemed to cower at the young sharkoid.

"Uhh, I have a few outing tickets-"

Fail held up a couple of outing tickets that he took from... Wherever he keeps his stuff... 

He managed to distract the two, and they looked away from each other with a huff. 

"Fine. But just because we get to spend time with father."

Chat said, crossing his arms. 

Shrimp rolled her eyes, though it was difficult to tell seeing as her eyes were pretty much completely black. 

"I guess its better than nothing..."

She said as politely as possible. She slid off the bed with a thump, mostly because of her large tail hitting the floor. Standing normally, she was just slightly shorter than Chat, but Chat was slouching so they were at the same height. 

"Okay, where to first?"

Fail asked, grabbing hold of the duos hands like a tired mother. 

"I know a place we could go!"

Shrimp said, looking slightly mischievous. She chuckled as she looked at Chat. She was allowed to be a little mean, just this once, she thought as they walked out. 

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“Isn’t the beach relaxing?” Shrimp said to Chat, wet from playing in the water

”AAAAAAAAAA” Chat screamed. They hated the feeling of the water, it was like he was being shocked by one of those prank-gum things

Fail Looked at the scene in both amusement and disappointment. Chat frantically moving their arms and legs, splashing water everywhere— while Shrimp just giggled as she sat and stared.

”Chat… its waist deep, just stand up” Fail finally said, tired of watching… whatever this is

Chat stopped waving their arms, looked down, and stood up.

”Oh” Chat said, looking at Shrimp—who had fallen with laughter, though they were muffled by the water.

Chat began to speak, but choked as they coughed out… and entire fish? How the fuck did they swallow a fish!? Why was a huge ass fish so close to the shore!? Fail sighed and pushed it off as just more random Chat shenanigans.

Shrimp finally sits up, coughing up a bit of water that went in her throat while laughing. She saw the fish and smiled, grabbing it and swallowing it whole. Chat watched in awe as she gulped the huge ass fish down. Fail also looked a little surprised but shrugged it off as Shrimp being Shrimp.

”Oh it’s so nice to be back at the beach, my memories here used to always be sad.” Shrimp sighed as she sat back in the water. She looked up at Chat still staring at her and splashed them with her tail.

”What are you staring at me for?” Shrimp giggled as Chat spluttered and wiped the water off of their face. It was honestly kind of interesting how the strange misty goop still stuck to them while in the water, maybe it was what protected their wires?

”How did you do that?” Chat inquired, stepping a little closer. Shrimp cocked her head “Do what? Eat the fish?”

”Yeah. We want to know how you unhinged your jaw like that.”

Shrimp blinked before chuckling “I’m a sharkoid! It’s in my anatomy so I can eat large amounts of fish. Why do you ask?”

”We could finally defeat our enemies with that ability!”

”What enemy?”

”MP candies!”

Shrimp laughed once again before splashing them again, except this time Chat splashed her back. Shrimp guarded her face and smacked them with her tail and they toppled over. Chat immediately got up and tackled Shrimp, forcing both of them underwater. Fail got up and began to panic, he couldn’t pay that many medical bills!

Then he realized neither of them need air to breath and chilled out, opting to watch the two creatures playfully fight.

’Maybe this won’t be as hard as I thought it would be’

Shrimp then released a deep growl as Chat grabbed their tail and threw a punch that Chat fell victim to. They were knocked unconscious and went down into the water. Shrimp took a second to realize what she’d done and covered her mouth in shock before going to shake them awake.

’nevermind’

Fail sighed and went to go pick up Chat, tail lashing slightly.