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Vee was in her room, she opened an compartment where her stomach would be, so she could replace the ichor she used as lubricant, until she heard an knock on the door.
Vee-"The door is unlocked!"
Shelly opened the door and stood there.
Shelly-"Hey Vee! I was wondering if you could go with us in a run!"
Vee-"Sure thing, just wait a bit."
Shelly-"Okay!... Why do you use ichor instead of lubricant?"
Vee-"it's because it works just as good as lubricant, and Dyle has an hard time finding lubricant, and it's better to save the lubricant for other machinery," She noticed that maybe she was talking in a mean way thanks to Shelly expressions, so she decided to change her tone into a more calm and friendly one "like the elevator. And before you ask "Why don't we use ichor on the machinery", it's because the ichor only works as lubricant on me, since i'm a toon" While she was talking, she had replaced an closed the compartment.
Shelly-"Okay then!"
Vee-“Alright, lets go.” Vee followed Shelly as she began to walk to where their team should be.
Vee-“Shelly, who’s on the run?” Vee caught Shelly by suprise, she forgot she didn’t tell Vee the team.
Shelly-“Well, there’s Looey, Pebble, Glisten, Sprout, Cosmo and Astro!”
Vee-“Good to know.” After a bit of walking, they reached their team, Astro was sleeping on the bench because he always tries to sleep when he has nothing else to do, Looey and Pebble were running in circles to practice their distraction a bit, Cosmo and Sprout were talking to see if they should try to create an new and crazy recipe or stick to the classic, and Glisten was posing to himself.
Shelly-“Hi guys! I got Vee!”
Looey-“Sweet! Let’s go then? Sprout and Cosmo noticed that Vee and Shelly came, they said “Hi!” to both of them and then tried to wake Astro up, but he wasnt waking up, shaking him wasnt working, slapping didn't work, they flashed him with an flash light, they opened his eye and flashed it with the flash light but nothing would happen, Pebble even tried to help them but Astro was in a very deep sleep, Looey noticed that and thinked for a bit if he should do it.
Looey-“I hope you’ll forgive me for this.”
Looey knew Astro was scared of cameras, so he grabed an camera he always had in his pocket, activated the flash and took a picture of Astro, making him slowy wake up from his slumber.
Astro-“Wah?... Oh... Looey...” Astro looked at him with an annoyed face, not because he was annoyed, but because he already had an annoyed face when he was sleeping, thanks to the failed attempts at waking him up from Sprout, Cosmo and Pebble.
Looey-“Sorry Astro!” Looey thought he made Astro mad, and Astro noticed that.
Astro-“Don’t worry, it’s fine...” He assured Looey, not wanting to make Looey feel even worse than he already feels.
Cosmo-“Well, let’s go?” Astro-“Alright...” He said in a very sleepy tone, he had just woken up after all. Everyone enters the elevator, and wait a bit until it starts to go down.
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Looey got in the ele while it closed, he almost died, and he didn’t even have time to breath before Sprout grabed him and started to scold him.
Sprout-“LOOEY! DO YOU WANT TO DIE? WHY DIDN’T YOU COME WHEN WE SAID THAT EVERYONE WAS HERE?” He said in a agressive tone while shaking him.
Looey-“I’m sorry! I’m sorry! I just didn’t hear it!” Sprout released Looey, with an annoyed look on his face.
Astro-“Try to listen better next time Looey, please, we don’t want you to die.” Astro said, knowing Looey would probably not listen to Sprout since Looey was filled with too much fear to actually listen to Sprout, and because Looey always listens to him.
Looey-“O-okay then! Ha ha...” Looey cheeks became reddish.
Cosmo-“And then he still says that they aren’t even in love.”
Looey-“W-WE AREN’T DATING!” The red started to spread to the rest of his face.
Cosmo-“I said in love, not dating, but i seems like your mind is too focused in you two dating.”
Looey-“I isn’t!... You’re just... Making things up! I don’t even like the idea of me dating!” Looey’s face became as red as Sprout face.
Cosmo-“Am i? Besides, me and Sprout are dating! There’s no problem in anyone dating, specially after Garden view shut down!” He said in a relaxed way, while also fiding this situation a bit funny.
Looey-“J-just shut up! Where’s Dandy anyways?” He said in a very nervous way, trying to stop whatever was happening.
Astro was fiding this funny, but all that indicated it was a slight smile on his face, he knew Looey didn’t even think that Astro saw even one of Looey’s dreams where him and Looey were dating.
Vee-“Dandy probably forgot to lubricate his shop again, it just shows how it’s stupid to put him as the star of the show. Even more when you consider that i’m better than him in everything!” After a bit, Dandy finally showed up in his shop.
Dandy-“Sorry for the wait, one of my tapes had fallen into one of the gears, and since i didn’t want anything bad to happen, i had to remove it before opening the shop! But i’m here now, so can any of yall spare a flower some-“ Dandy says with his signature smile, but he’s cut off by Vee.
Vee-“Of course, little Dandy can’t live one day without being an idiot. Besides, you are selling trash, are you allergic to tapes or what?” She says with her voice snarkier (i don’t even know if that’s a word) than ever, starting another one of their little verbal fights.
Dandy-“Listen here, i’m not letting the trash from the dump talk bad about me!” Dandy says in an even snarkier (i still don’t know if that’s a word) tone.
Looey sees that they’ve started another fight, but when he looks at Astro, he notices that Astro is... Happy about them fighting? Strange... He looks at the other toons to see what they’re doing, Pebble is to Vees left, watching them pester each other, Sprout and Cosmo are talking, and Glisten is congratulating Shelly for getting Goob as her boyfriend, Looey was happy for her for a bit, but then he remembered that Blot betted with him that, if Shelly dated someone, it would be Goob, and he now owns Blot 50 tapes, great, at least Shelly was happy.
Dandy-“Well, it was great saying just how bad you’re in your face, goodbye!” Dandy says as him and his shop leave.
Vee-“Ha, he really thinks he won!” Vee walks towards the ele door as it opens. “Alright, floor 48, it’s my floor, just what i deserve after winning agaisnt Dandy, let’s see what we got” Vee uses her ability. “we got t. Pebble and t. Vee, again, great, you two already know what to do.” She says as she looks at Looey and Pebble, who were already running to get the twisteds.
Cosmo-“At least it’s just two hard twisteds!”
Looey already had 2 twisteds on him and was trying to find the rest, while Pebble was distracting T. Pebble. Shelly and Glisten were talking, and that made Shelly very happy, someone who once called her "Shelby" was actually talking to her? Amazing! It was a bit sad that the conversation only had started because she was dating Goob That was until one of the tvs bugged, it made an loud sound, which caught the attention of the two, it was the same tv who played the video about Vee V2, but something was off, it displayed an different video.
Glisten-“Huh? What’s this?”
Shelly-“Is that an different video?”
Glisten-“I think it is.”
The video shows Vee and Astro in her room, it seems like they just had an conversation.
Astro-“So... Your bf is coming over?”
Vee-“Yeah, i’m sure you’ll be suprised when you discover who it is!”
Astro-“Good to know, you have been telling me you’re dating without telling me who it is.” Vee had an boyfriend? The two of them were pleasently shocked by this.
Shelly-“Vee has an bf? I didn’t know that!” Shelly looks at Glisten, wondering why she didn’t say anything, must be really recent.
Glisten-“Shelly, Look at the date!” Glisten says in his usual tone but a bit more serious. Shelly followed Glisten request and looked at the... Oh, this video dates back to 3/5/1988, this was before the side characthers were made, Vee has had an bf for so long, and no one discovered?
Shelly-“Well, i can’t wait to see who it is!” She said excited and happy for her friend.
Glisten-“Me neither!” He said also excited and happy. It has been a while, and Vees bf hasn’t appeared yet.
Astro-“Soooo... When will he get he-“ Astro was cut off by Dandy opening the door.
Dandy-“Vee.” He said with an tone that screamed “i hate you”.
Vee-“Dandy.” She said with the same tone but stronger.
Glisten-“Ooohhh! Looks like Dandy is her bf!” He said with an sarcastic tone, making Shelly giggle a bit
Shelly-“It would be funny if you were right.” Dandy entered Vees room and closed the door, the two of them were staring at each other for a bit too much, and that gave Astro a bit fear but mostly an strange feeling, he managed to say “Ummm, is everything okay?” before Dandy ran and jumped into Vee.
Shelly-“Are they going to have an physical fight?” She said with an concerned voice.
Glisten-“By the looks, yes, this is the first and last time Vee and Dan-“ Glisten was cut off by Vee and Dandy... Kissing!? “... What?”
Vee-“Hi, my bloom” Vee said with love.
Dandy-“Hi, my Daisy” Dandy replied with the same amount love that Vee used.
Shelly-“Ok, i was wrong, this isn’t funny, not bad either, just... Unexpected...”
Glisten-“... Me and my back mouth...”
Astro-“W-wait, you two are dating!?”
Vee-“Yeah. And before you ask “weren’t you two made to hate each other?”, the two of us were also suprised by this, we also expected for us to hate each other, we were written to be rivals after all, but we only ever trully hated each other was in the show...”
Astro-“... I mean, good for you two! I just didn’t expect this!”
Shelly-“Neither did we...” She said, talking to the tv.
Dandy-“Yeah, we expected you to say something like that... I remember the first time i saw her, it was love at the first sight, i couldn’t bring even one single atom in my body to hate her, and i coulnd’t stop one atom to stop loving her, i wanted to hate her, i was supposed to hate her, “why can’t i hate her?” i thougt. The very next day, Vee came to me and said that she couldn’t hate me, that she liked me, maybe even more than an bff would, and for me to not tell Delilah about that, the smile that appeared on her face when i told her that i was in the same boat, that smile was the most contagious smile that has ever existed, and it’s funny that it came from a tv.” Dandy sounded... Calmer, and happier, with an smile that seemed to try to mimic the smile Vee made that day.
Vee-“We only pester each other because we don’t want anyone to know about our secret, and we will keep this facade forever. And because we like to do it, it's our way of saying "I love you"!.”
Astro-“Forever? Even in the case of...” Astro took a moment to think about an good situation he could use. “... Garden view shutting down? Forever?”
Vee-“Astro, the only case we would ever drop this facade is if, somehow, everyone in Garden view discorvered this secret!” After a bit of silence, the video ended, Glisten and Shelly looked at each other, not knowing what to do, they knew they couldn’t tell anyone about that, they waited for a bit, and, instead of the video they just watched, the usual Vee V2 video appeared.
Shelly-“This is probably the main reason Dandy didn’t want to date Tisha...”
Glisten-“What?” He said with an suprised tone.
Shelly-“Tisha always had an crush on Dandy, and it always looked like Dandy also had one in Tisha, but he always refused her when she asked him to date her, which was 3 times in total.”
Glisten-“I didn’t know that!...”
Shelly-“... Let’s not tell anyone about this.” Shelly said with an tone that shaked a bit, thanks to the suprised she had.
Glisten-“I agree.” He said with an calmer tone, but filled with as much suprised that Shelly had.
Shelly looked behind them, and saw something really bad.
Shelly-“Oh no...” She gasped, this was really bad news.
Glisten-“What?” He asked, Shelly didn’t answer him, so he decided to look at what she was looking and... Oh, T. Vee was with them, she had an mixture of anger and embarrassment in her face, she looked at the two, and said with her screen “DON’T DARE TO TELL ANYONE!” and walked away... Well, that was something, at least she didn't attack them. Shelly and Glisten separated and started to look for machs, 5 had already been done.
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It's floor 50, Looey just got in ele, Dandy and his shop popped out of the ele floor, the usual, ignoring that Glisten and Shelly knew about their secret, Vee and Dandy pestering look more loving. Shelly and Glisten went to Vee and Dandy tell them that they know their secret.
Dandy-“Is that really your best? Are you randomly choosing words to try to pester me? Oh hi Shelly and Glisten! Interested in anything?”
Vee-“Ha! Yes, they’re interested in your three pops, but only because they are wondering how can anyone can think that this is an good selection.”
Shelly-“We know your secret.” Shelly whispers.
Vee-“... What secret?”
Glisten-“”Hi, my bloom.”, “Hi, my Daisy”, are these tips good enough?” He whipered with an annoyed face. All he recieved was an suprised look from Dandy and Vee. Dandy-“... H-how do you know that?”
Vee-“Astro’s dead.” She said with an tone filled with anger, and looked at Astro after saying that.
Shelly-“The tv that shows the Vee V2 video bugged and showed the video of Astro discovering who Vee’s dating.” She said with an tone that said that everything is fine, even tho she knew that it wasn't.
Vee-“ok... You two, don’t dare to tell anyone about this secret, ok?” She was quickly replied with an “Ok!” from Shelly and an "That was the plan!" from Glisten.
Looey-“Wait, weren’t we supposed to go back up now?”
Sprout-“Oh yeah! Thanks for remiding us Looey!” He said with an thankfull tone, as he went to Dandy to tell him the run was ending now.
Looey-“No problem!”
Astro-“Thanks Looey!” He calmly said.
Looey-“N-no problem!” He stuttered, Astro knew Non-binary. Looey had an big fat lesbian gay crush on Fem. Sprout him, and always liked to see Looey try to not make it anymore obvious.
Sprout-“Hey Dandy, the run's ending.”
Dandy-“Okay then!” Dandy said with an tone way too calm for someone that just had discovered that their biggest secret was revealed to two toons, but it’s Dandy who we’re talking about so it’s expected. He pushed an lever, making the ele go back up. Vee decided to tell Astro that Shelly and Glisten now know about her releationship with Dandy, thanks to an tv showing the video where he discoreved about that same releationship, which made Astro really suprised. And, after a bit, they reached the top, everyone decided to go to their respective rooms, except Sprout and Cosmo, they were going to go on a date bake something nice.