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“Why are we here again?” Its been a year since Rusty and Puppet showed up, and Moon still has a bad feeling about Rusty.
”Well Rusty, we’re here because we think that these people can help us with our Titan situation.” They just showed up to the midnight show studio, there was a show going on currently and they were planning to just walk in and take a seat and wait for the show to end.
“Moon, are you sure we can trust these people, we don’t even know if they’re astrals or not.”
”Well I’ve heard that these three are animatronics.” Everyone stopped walking except Moon.
”Animatronics? In astral city, what the heck are they doing here?” Puppet seemed really confused. So did the other two.
”Well I also heard apparently they’ve all had horrible experiences by Titan and they are more of half animatronic and something, that I’m not sure…”
”Moon, are you a hundred percent confident we can trust these people?!” Moon nodded, Solar gave a sigh and continued walking, Rusty and Puppet followed. The four reached the door to the stage, they heard laughing from behind it. Moon opened the door and the group saw a full room of astrals.
”I don’t think we’ll be able to find seats..” Solar whispered to Moon.
”Shut up Solar.”
“NOW, who wants a story.” The group turned their attention to the stage, they hear the room erupt with yes’. Theirs a figure on stage, the person has a blue suit, white cape, and a night cap. Their back was turned to the audience.
”Wait that voice..” Moon almost immediately recognized the voice, that British accent was too recognizable. The figure turned to reveal it was indeed Ruin, but what Moon didn’t notice before was the halo atop his head.
”Now you guys all know Rusty right?” The entire crowd booed.
“Thought so, well you heard in puppeteers story about how he lied to someone and they almost killed me,” the cape extended to reveal they were wings, one pair of pure white and a pair of grey wings, smaller then the top layer. “,well why don’t we talk about that in detail-“ Before Ruin could finish a metal pipe hit his face, making his wings fold and making him step back.
”Rusty, what the hell!” Puppet quietly yelled at Rusty, he was the one who threw the pipe. Before they could all be mad at Rusty they saw Ruins face, the right side of his face had fallen off and reveled a pure white light underneath. The crack from the pipe was spreading.
”Shit.. SHIT” Ruin ran off stage holding his face. In a fast instant a blur of white came on the stage and changed into a figure. A tall, four armed, red rayed guy. Behind him was a shorter, purple and yellow haired ballerina.
“Uhhhh..” The red rayed figure uttered out. He turned to the audience to revel his face was all black except his mouth and eye outlines, it looked like a mask.
“GO TO COMMERCIAL BREAK!” The red rayed figure yelled, the he teleported off stage. His voice was familiar.
”Everyone if you could please exit the stage room in an orderly fashion while we sort this out.” The purple haired girl said, she seemed familiar too..
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Shit shit shit shit Eclipse was teleporting sporadically around the studio trying to find where Ruin went. Ruin had said if he was damaged too badly he might turn back into his monster form. Now that it’s happening, there’s no plan or anything because it was such a rare thing to happen.
“Have you found him yet?” Ballora ran up to Eclipse before he could teleport away.
”I’ve looked everywhere in the studio except down in storage and on the roof.”
”You look roof, I’ll do storage.” Eclipse nodded and teleported to the roof.
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Ballora started running to storage when she ran into someone.
”Hey! Watch where you’re going!”
“I’m so sorry, sir. Just looking for a.. friend..” Rusty was the one she ran into.
”Okay Rusty you have no permission to be rude right now.” Puppet walked up to Rusty and Ballora.
“Puppet?” Ballora slowly got up.
”I knew you looked familiar, nice to see you again Ballora.”
“It’s great to see you too, wish we could chat but I’m currently looking for my friend.”
”Oh, Ruin right?” Moon walked up to the three.
”Yea how did you?”
”We were in there when it happened, also it was Rusty who did it.” Solar walked up to the group.
“He did what.” Ballora snapped her neck toward Rusty.
”He was speaking bad about me.”
”Because you are bad!” Ballora sighed. “You know if you four want to help me, I was heading to the storage room to look for Ruin.”
”Yes count us in.” Puppet chipped up, grabbing Rusty by the arm. Ballora and the group headed for the storage room.
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Eclipse teleported to the roof. It was night but it was also raining.
”He’s probably not up here.” Eclipse was about to teleport away when he heard some weeping noise. He started to walk towards the sound. When he reached it he saw a creature that was laying on the roof, the creature looked about twenty feet and had no face just a swirl, the creature also was pure white with a halo and two pairs of wings.
”Ruin?” The creature looked straight at Eclipse then covered itself with its wings and made a gurgling noise. Eclipse walked up to Ruin and placed his hand against his wing.
”Do you want to get out of the rain?” Ruin slowly uncovered himself and nodded. Eclipse slowly teleported them to the storage room, it takes more energy to teleport multiple people but also more energy depending on how big they are. Eclipse stood in front of Ruin for a few seconds. Then he heard something fall. He ran over to the shelf they were behind and saw Ballora, Puppet, Solar, Moon, and Rusty.. Eclipse knew he saw them in the crowd. Eclipse turned to Ruin and flashed some text on his mask that read stay quiet. Then he teleported in front of the group.
”Oh, Did you find him?!” Eclipse nodded. Ballora jumped slightly and clapped her hands.
”Heyyyyyyyyyyyyy” Puppet said finger gunning Eclipse. Ballora started to laugh and Eclipse just gave a stern expression and let out a sigh.
”The.. the fact you could recognize him, even though he’s wearing a mask!” Ballora got out through clusters of laughter. Moon, Solar, and Rusty looked super confused.
”Hey, if I don’t recognize my old co host what kind of a person would I be.”
”Eclipse?!” Moon and Solar yelled in surprise. Eclipse the guy who hates everything is on a performative show?!
”Whats with the mask anyway?” Puppet asked. Eclipse let out a sigh then slowly took his mask off to reveal two scars on his face, they looked like tears.
”Dang what fucked you up?” Rusty asked, Eclipse gave him the bird. Ballora in her laughter laughed even more. It took Ballora a minute to calm down.
”Okay okay, now where is he?” Eclipse pointed behind a shelf.
“Okay okay, do you think nows a good time for that thing you were building?” Eclipse nodded then teleported away. The group then started to walk to the end of the shelf to go behind the shelf but before Rusty could make it Ballora stopped.
”If you think I’m allowing you to see him after what you did you are harshly mistaken.”
“Heh and what are you going to do?” Ballora grabbed behind her skirt and turned her train into a pure white spear and pointed it at Rusty.
”What do you think I’ll do?” Rusty backed up then grunted.
”Fine I’ll stay here.” Rusty leaned against the shelf.
”Good” Ballora gave a smile then put her spear away. She then walked behind the shelf and saw the group looking at something, it was Ruin.
”What.. is that.” Moon said, Ballora walked past them towards Ruin.
”Ballora! That thing could be dangerous!” Puppet yelled.
“That thing, is Ruin.” Ballora turned to Ruin and sat on her knees.
”Don’t worry buddy we have a surprise for you.” Right as Ballora said that Eclipse was back with some type of illusion disc in his hand. Ballora grabbed it and place it on the back of Ruins head.
”Now this thing is called a….”
“Morph disc.”
”Right a morph disc, which will allow you to transform from this form to your animatronic form. It will get rid of your breathing problems. All you have to do is.” Ballora pressed the disc and in an instant Ruin was back to normal.
”Bam back to normal.” Ruin looked down at himself then back at the two. Then he took a deep breath in and held it. He got bored after a few seconds but his breathing issue was gone. Ruin gained a big smile on his face.
”And it was both our ideas.”
“AHEM” Ballora looked at Eclipse when he did that and let out a sigh.
”Okay it was my spear thing that gave him the idea but he did most of the work…”
”Okay before anything continues can we ask you three a question?” All three turned their attention to Moon and nodded.
”Do you think you can help us with our Titan problem.. we haven’t seen him in a year and we want to know what he’s planning..”
”Well….” Everyone turned to Ruin.
”So I might not have been complete with my story, while yes it was Titan who trapped me in the body. He didn’t just leave me for dead.. I might’ve shot him and I think he’s dead..”
“EXCUSE ME?!” Everyone shouted.
”Now I know it sound impossible but-“ before Ruin could finish Moon hugged him.
”Thank you, thank you so much.”
An hour later
“Well we got to head out, maybe we could bring the others to see you guys.”
”We have nothing happening next Saturday that’d be a good day.” Ruin said already marking it in his calendar.
”Sounds good see you then.” The group walked through a portal and disappeared.
“… Hope they don’t bring Rusty..”