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Shrimpo had been rage-baiting Eggson all day, and he was fed up. Eggson folded his newspaper and whacked Shrimpo's face with it, hitting him with all the strength that he had left, since he was quite old...
Shrimpo was stunned for a second before turning his attention back to Eggson. "You're gonna pay for that, you old egg."
"EGG?! No. YOU'RE gonna pay for this! You've been tormenting me all day!!" Eggson waved his cane in the air, scowling.
Shrimpo ran forward and punched Eggson in the face, which made him crumble and fall to the ground like a domino. He took around 10 seconds to get up and plan his next attack move. "HYAAH!" The egg roared as he used his cane to hit Shrimpo in the stomach. The shrimp yelped, but ran back up and kicked Eggson's right arm, making him drop his cane. "YOU... YOU BASTARD!" Eggson screeched. "SO RUDE OF YOU! THIS IS WHY EVERYBODY HATES YOU!!" He continued to scream insults at Shrimpo as he managed to get up, shakily, without his cane. He went forward as fast as he could go, which... wasn't that fast, and hit Shrimpo in the arm. Eggson hit pretty hard, considering his grand age.
"AT LEAST I DON'T WALK AT THE SAME PACE OF A TURTLE!!" Shrimpo yelled as he pulled a karate move on Eggson, causing him to--yet again--stumble to the floor. This time, however, Eggson screeched. He injured his wrist as he fell.
"GODDAMN IT YOU LITTLE PIECE OF SHIT!! I'LL GET YOU BACK FOR THIS! IMAGINE HOW THE REST OF THE TOONS WILL FEEL WHEN THEY FIND OUT THAT YOU'VE ATTACKED A POOR OLD MAN FOR NO REASON!"
"I'M SURE THEY WON'T BE SURPRISED! I DON'T CARE WHAT THE OTHER TOONS THINK OF ME!!" Shrimpo went forward and, taking advantage of Eggson's injured state, punched him in the face yet again.
"AAAHH!! MY FACE! EUGH!" Eggson cried out as he held his chin in his hand. It felt weird. Desperate for revenge, he grabbed his cane off the floor, crawled up, spun around, and hit Shrimpo in the neck as hard as he possibly could. "HYAAH! THERE!" Eggson screamed as he pulled the attack move.
"OH, WHY YOU LITTLE...!! AT LEAST I DON'T HAVE DIABETES, YOU OLD MOTHERFUCKER!!!" Shrimpo cursed (again) under his breath after the diabetes insult as he prepared for the next attack.
The two continued to quarrel, hit, punch, kick, etc etc. They were doing anything that could cause harm to the other at this point--sometimes even biting as hard as they could if they got close enough. Shrimpo was covered in ichor and various cuts and wounds. He was so infuriated that he could break a tree.
...At least, that's what he thinks he can do.
Anyway, Eggson was also covered in injuries--bruises, fractured bones, and ichor. Shrimpo was winning pretty well, despite bleeding all over the place. Maybe Shrimpo was just angry and on his period (joke btw).
But now, Shrimpo was pulling up his sleeves more than one would think was possible, and rapidly approached Eggson's location (which was... 3 feet in front of him). Instead of hitting the old man, Shrimpo grabbed Eggson by his shirt collar and threw him as far away as Shrimpo's body could physically do. Eggson, this time, didn't get up. He remained on the ground, wincing and groaning as he tried over and over again to get up.
"MY FUCKASS HIP!! IT HURTS SO DAMN BAD!! I'VE FALLEN AND I CAN'T GET UP!!" Eggson screeched as loudly as he could, hoping that some other toon would notice his pure agony. Eggson didn't know it yet, but the throw from Shrimpo had broken his hip...
"Nobody's around to help you, buddy." Shrimpo snarled as he approached Eggson like a predator stalking its prey. Unfortunately for him, a group of toons from the Gardenview Police Department arrived. "...Oh shit."
~
Eggson had been carried to the Gardenview Hospital for treatment, and Shrimpo was currently being questioned by the Gardenview Police Department team--which consisted of Rodger, Brightney, Flutter... and, strangely enough, Toodles, Connie, and Goob as well. Shrimpo was very confused as to why a literal child was on the GPD team, but he didn't dare ask. Rodger was the main one doing all of the questioning, which bored the living soul out of Shrimpo. He tapped his foot absentmindedly as he gave a short and dry 'Yes', 'No', or 'Eh' to all of the questions. Shrimpo has certainly played these games before.
Finally, after about 30 minutes of acting like a grey rock to the questions, Shrimpo was let free.
Well, 'free' as in let out of the room. To go to another room.
The courtroom.
~
Shrimpo stood before the judge--Dandy, of course. Shrimpo had no lawyer, because nobody wanted to defend him, so he had to defend his cruel actions himself.
"Shrimpo. Why did you attack Eggson? What led to the fight?" Dandy asked in a very serious voice compared to his usual happy-cheery one. He looked down, his expression making him look as if he were about to pop from anger but trying to keep it under control, onto Shrimpo.
"I'm Shrimpo. I do Shrimpo things. That's why. I was ragebaiting him like I usually do, and HE hit me first!" He scoffed. "By the way, why so serious?"
"This is literally a COURTROOM, Shrimpo. Maybe you just haven't noticed it yet. But your reasons aren't very strong. You still severely injured him. You were the one who provoked him."
"It's not my fault that he's so easily ragebaited!" Shrimpo hissed. He was rather confident, considering the fact that he was currently in handcuffs and about to go to jail.
"..." Dandy sighed, knowing that he'd never knock any sense into him. "Throw him into jail. In the meantime, I will decide whether he stays in jail or whether he gets something more brutal."
"MORE brutal? What could possibly be worse than being forced into a blank grey cell for a couple months or years?"
"You'll see."
Shrimpo gulped. He had a bad feeling in the pit of his stomach that Dandy was right. That it'd be worse than just being forced into jail, like all the previous times.
It might be his doom.
~
Shrimpo stared at the wall absentmindedly. He, obviously, had the most jail time out of any other toons, so this wasn't anything new. This time, he was all alone. Which was weird, considering the fact that there was usually at least 1-2 other toons in the cells nearby.
He sighed and took out a piece of chalk and added another tally-mark to the wall. He had two sections of tally-marks: One was for the amount of times he was in jail, and the second was the amount of days he was in jail. He scribbled a single tally-mark in both sections. Shrimpo had been put in this same exact cell for all of his jail-time, and he was getting pretty bored of it. But he was glad that he didn't have to restart his tally-marks every time.
Shrimpo slumped, put the chalk in his pocket, and went to his "bed", which was really just a long wooden board hung to the wall with a thin sheet and pillow and chains, that was as uncomfortable as it looked.
~
"Shrimpo! Cmon. Dandy's got some news for ya, but first, you gotta have your breakfast slop." Sprout called out. He was one of the security guards, and he thoroughly enjoyed teasing the in-mates by swinging the keys he carried in circles. Sprout would swing the keys just far away enough that it would be out of their reach. It was his favorite hobby.
Shrimpo grunted and got out of his lame excuse of a bed, lazily walking to the door and waiting for Sprout to open it. "Thanks." He murmured once Sprout had finished teasing him with the keys for the third time during his stay at the prison. Sprout smirked as he allowed Shrimpo to exit the room.
"Enjoying your stay?~" Sprout asked sarcastically.
"Oh, yeah. Definitely." Shrimpo responded with the same level of sarcasm. He learned to just put up the same level of a fight instead of going into a raging fit.
Sprout walked Shrimpo to the courtroom. Shrimpo felt a lump in his throat and stomach and a sense of dread as he walked into the giant courtroom. He prayed for the best but expected the worst.
"Ahh.. I've never seen a face in this room more than yours, Shrimpo. Not the greatest achievement, I must say. But, welcome back." Dandy greeted Shrimpo. But he said it with a tone that was... off.
"Yup. I know, I know. Being in jail multiple times ain't the best thing. But you don't have to be all sappy. I know damn well you don't like me."
Dandy pursed his lips together. "Uh... Anyways, today, Shrimpo shall be getting his final punishment!" Dandy announced to the crowd of toons in the courtroom. Shrimpo felt as if everybody knew something he didn't, because a lot of them were clapping and sure looked happy. Shrimpo bit his lip as he walked forward, closer towards Dandy.
"What is my 'final punishment' this time, Dandicus Dancifer?"
"Wow.. hah! Shrimpo is sure feeling snippy today, huh?" Dandy gave Shrimpo a glare as he nervously chuckled. "Well, for your information, your punishment is... After School Lesson!"
"...What? What the hell is that? Are you gonna force me to become a kindergartener or something?"
Dandy chuckled. It was more devious than his previous ones. "Ah, no, silly. Just wait and see."
Shrimpo confusedly looked at Dandy, but didn't have time to say something in response as he was taken by two security guards and out of the room.
Shrimpo was led into this long hallway, and eventually dragged to the third door on the left. He was really confused by now. Where the hell was he being taken?
And then he saw it. Once the doors opened, he saw a chair and this crushing machine at the end of it. His eyes widened in fear. "What the FUCK is this? Can't you just make me donate to charity instead, or something?" Shrimpo pleaded.
"Sorry, buddy. But we have to carry out Dandy's orders. Plus, he was sort of fed up with your shit, so he decided to just get you over with." One of the guards murmured as they proceeded to tie Shrimpo down to the chair, then left.
Now Shrimpo was all alone and stuck. He gulped. Shrimpo didn't even bother fighting back, he just accepted his fate. He knew he wouldn't make it out this time. Shrimpo looked around him as the conveyer belt that the chair was on started to roll agonizingly slow, and he realized that there was a... spectator area? He recognized a few faces through the glass. He realized that pretty much ALL of Gardenview was gonna watch him get Dangan Ronpa-executed.
The conveyer belt continued until it finally reached the end, and...
POP.
Shrimpo got crushed. He would never see the light of day nor the darkness of the night ever again.
The toons in the spectator area cheered. And then they had beers and cake to celebrate because they all hated Shrimpo so much.