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‘After wasting a week trying to get back to the TBD, we are finally back.’ Said Croissant Cookie. ‘Timekeeper Cookie is not going to like that we disappear for a week and half a day.’ Said String Gummy Cookie. ‘You are indeed right,’ said Timekeeper cookie, ‘both of you disappeared for a FULL WEEK, left ME ALONE WITH NO FUN.’ She yelled. ‘Director, we are sorry.’ Said Croissant Cookie. ‘What matters is that we’re here now.’ Said String Gummy Cookie while he rolled his eyes. ‘Both of you, mind explaining why you disappeared for A FULL WEEK?’ said Timekeeper Cookie. ‘Well, uhm, we kind of got lost on the way back?’ said Croissant Cookie.
What actually happened:
‘So, is it this way? I don’t feel like we’ve been here before…’ said String Gummy Cookie. ‘Don’t worry, I know where to go…eh? The portal back to the TBD should be here, unless…dang it. Wrong direction.’ Said Croissant Cookie. ‘Uh oh, Croissant Cookie WATCH OUT! Said String Gummy Cookie as both of them got sucked into a random portal.
Meanwhile in a Time Pocket:
‘Should we help them?’ ‘Nope, just leave them be, after all, you don’t want to be seen by HIM, right?’ ‘you’re……correct.’ ‘How about we help them without them knowing that there’s someone helping them?’ ‘That could work, you are pretty smart when you want to be.’ ‘Are you insulting my intelligence?’ ‘Yesn’t.’ ‘ I seriously want to question you ‘is that even a word?’ ‘Yesn’t.’ ‘Okay, can you stop with the ‘Yesn’t’ now?’ ‘Yesn’t.’ ‘Why am I even asking…’
‘Ugh… my head hurts…’ said String Gummy Cookie. ‘ Mine too.’ Said Croissant Cookie. ‘Where…are we at?’ said String Gummy Cookie. ‘You ask me I ask who? Air?’ said Croissant Cookie. ‘Ha ha, very funny Croissant Cookie.’ said String Gummy Cookie. ‘We seriously need to get back before the director drops a bombshell on us.’ said Croissant Cookie.And so, they started walking into the unknown(also known as the forest, I just used the unknown to be fancy).
Both of them have been walking for a few hours or minutes?But still, they felt like it was eternity. ‘Wait a minute, where did your timecraft go?’ asked String Gummy Cookie. ‘I forgot that existed.’ she answered. ‘But, I’m certain that it wasn't there when we crashed or something.’ she said. ‘Ugh, can this day get any worse?We have a lost timecraft and we’re in a wrong dang dimension.’ he said. ‘Let’s just walk until we spot a house (or a city,which is highly unlikely) and ask them for help.’ she said.
‘Croissant Cookie, by any chance, do you know which dimension we’re in?’ he asked. ‘I don’t know.But, judging from how we look,we’re probably in…dang it.’ she said. ‘Croissant Cookie, spit it out now before I st-’ ‘You wouldn’t.’ she interrupted. ‘I seriously hate it when you keep interrupting before I even finish what I’m saying,’ he said. ‘Love you too, Fufu. (Fufu is String Gummy Cookie’s nickname that she gave)’ she said. ‘Shut up Crossy. (Crossy is her nickname, called by many of her good friends)’ he said.
Back in the Time Pocket:
‘Um, are both of them goofing around, trash talking each other?’ ‘Probably, they finally did a bit of drama.’ ‘My god, you’re still not over with the ‘fun’ and ‘boredom’?’ ‘Why yes of course!’ ‘ I seriously question why did I even promised to be by your side no matter how far we’re apart, our personality and goals are far from connecting.’ ‘A promise is a promise, future director.’ ‘Says you, who abandoned her duties as a director and left me with a pile of your burden to remove.’ ‘Now now, Let’s continue observing THEM first, we don’t want to keep the audience waiting, do we?’ ‘Fine.’
They probably don’t even know how long they have been walking or how many miles they have walked. ‘Huff… let’s take a break, my legs are sore and I’m thirsty.’ she told String Gummy Cookie. ‘It’s almost sunset, we have to find shelter. We don’t know what is lurking within the woods.’ he said. ‘Worse of all, we don’t have a flashlight or even a lighter.’ she told him. ‘There! I saw a light! No, multiple! I think we stumbled across a small town or a camp, let’s ask them for help!’ she exclaimed.
Both of them started walking towards the light and found a small town.They were debating back and forth to ask which person for help.Eventually, they chose an old lady. ‘Um, excuse me lady, I didn’t mean to bother you but can you tell us which town we're in?’ she asked. ‘Your in … town.’ the old lady replied. ‘This might be a big favor, but can you let us stay in your house for the night?’ he asked. ‘Sure, travelers.’ the old lady replied. ‘Sweet!’ she exclaimed.
Back in the Time Pocket:
‘Dang, they got lucky.’ ‘ If they ask anyone else they might get insulted.’ ‘Yeah… Lucky…’ ‘Welp, shall we ruin their day or the day after or the day after after……’’ ‘Don’t play with them, they can seriously get hurt by your type of ‘play’.Besides, I thought your past self gave you enough ‘Playmates’?’ ‘Do you have amnesia? Mental problems? Stupid? Or you forgot? I get bored easily and I need something(or someone, that could also work) to satisfy my boredom.’ ‘Dang, that hurted my non-existent heart (technically, her world pretty much got Thanos snapped, also known as disappeared into thin air.After all, no future can exist without the past…).’ ‘Do I look like I care.?’ ‘Yesn’t.’ ‘Nevermind…’ ‘Let’s “continue observing them” okay?’ ‘Yeah yeah.’
Both of them followed the old lady back to her home and spend the night there,but…when they were walking,Croissant Cookie saw a lady in her twenties,dressed in a blue dress,with a long white silverish hair, as for her eyes, she has heterochromia, causing one of her eyes to be lighter (or darker, that also work),with cat like pupils(and also a basket, don’t ask me why she has it at evening) , it struck her with familiarity, like she’s seen her before (Deja vu case 1?).’ ‘Um, if you don’t mind, can you tell us which continent we are at?’ she asked. ‘You are in the land of beast-yeast.’ the old lady replied. ……that proved her deja vu right.On the way to the old lady's home, she saw another person,but she knows her “name” this time,Apple Faerie Cookie.Croissant Cookie knew that that wasn’t her real name,but she also doesn’t know her real name,so she could only put her suspicions aside and continue following the old lady back to her home (which is quite a journey, since lives at the very very very very very very back.).
Back in the Time Pocket (for the fourth time, I think):
‘This is getting boooring.’ ‘Agreed,but this YOUR idea to mess up their routes.’ ‘Ugh, you’re boring.SO BORING.’ ‘Is that my problem?Seems like it is a YOU problem.’ ‘Let’s not fight now, future director.’ ‘Fine.’
The next day……
String Gummy Cookie looks like he haven’t slept for days while Croissant Cookie was staying up late fixing her timecraft (that she found-wait no, it should be ‘magically appeared’ in a forest nearby and took it back to the old lady house basement to fix it, don’t ask me how she even fit an entire timecraft into the basement) and ended up drinking two cups of double shot espresso and a latte ( please don’t ask me why her heart hasn’t explode) she was actually going for another double shot espresso but String Gummy Cookie stopped her and threaten her if she drink another cup he would destroy her timecraft into pieces of metal scraps (he’s fine getting stuck in another dimension, don’t ask me why for the third time).
Probably around 9-10 A.M. I seriously can’t tell,neither of our protagonists knows what time it is.
After she somehow manage to smuggle her timecraft out and forced String Gummy Cookie to use his gun to shrink it down to pocket size (what do you expect? You can’t tell her to drag her timecraft out into the public with a few reasons. 1.She and him will literally have the entire townspeople's attention.2. With both of their strength combined, they can’t even pull it out by an inch because how the hell do you expect them to drag a timecraft more than 7 million pounds? 3.The timecraft can be easily damaged if dragged IMPROPERLY.Ok ok, I won’t be rude anymore,let’s just continue the story…:)and she put it in her trusty mini bag,according to String Gummy Cookie, inside her bag is like a expandable junkyard (yes she stuff all her mechanics items and a few-no a lot of random junk in it).Now you are probably wondering, ‘if she put her timecraft into the mini bag, wouldn’t she be crushed by the pressure of the weight?’Her mini bag works differently, on the outside it might look like that bag isn’t that heavy,but if you grab it by yourself you would instantly be crushed by the pressure of the weight because that bag is made SPECIFICALLY for her so it isn’t that heavy for her.Alright let’s continue on the story.
So yeah they bid farewell to the old lady and continue on their journey.Now you might be asking, they already had the timecraft fixed,so why don’t they use it to travel back?Simple, they had to find an open space big enough for the timecraft and it had to be away from society.So yeah they started walking in the path the old lady had told them last night that leads into a kingdom,which they forgot to ask which kingdom is it.During their journey, they encountered a few cake hounds,that String Gummy Cookie just shot at one of it (which unfortunately and tragically ended that cake hound life) and the rest ran away in fear,a few brave ones still attacked them but Croissant Cookie just whipped out a torch and light them on fire,which send them running into the nearest river,which both of them find it funny.Eventually they both came into an abrupt halt because if they want to get across,they would need to rebuild the bridge,which collapsed ages,no millenniums again.Then all of a sudden……
Back in the Time Pocket (I don’t know,for the 5th time???):
‘I swear to earthbread,if you make ONE MORE JOKE ABOUT MY INTELLIGENCE.I will throw you across the Time Pocket.’ she said,shooting a glare to her face. ‘You wouldn’t have the guts to throw me over,am I right?No?’ she said. ‘Oh please, we’re the same person,just, not from the right future.’she said. ‘Excuse you, you’re the one who got hired to be one of the employees in the TBD thanks to me, the director!’ she said enthusiastically. ‘WAS the director.You left me alone to deal with all of your problems while I search for you whenever I can,your irresponsible.Director.’ she said that with a stern look on her face. ‘Ouch.’
‘AHHHHHFUISHFUWEQUHGFUIREBVGI9PEBHC!’ Croissant Cookie shouted as she leaped onto String Gummy Cookie’s arms. ‘You have 10 seconds to get off of me and 5 seconds to explain why you suddenly screamed,jumped onto my arms,almost giving me a heart attack and PTSD again.’ he said,glaring into her eyes.She quickly jumped off from his arms and started apologizing for jumping into his arms.Epic plot twist right?No? Too bad we’re still continuing.
For a second, his past life with the director flashed within his eyes,the time where he nearly fell into the Time Pocket,just in the nick of time,director showed up and saved him,but it was a little too late,his past memories of his life has been wiped out,he’d been wiped out from all existing timelines,he couldn’t remember his mother,father,friends they all got taken away from him.His director, the one he’d been serving for years as her right hand, also got taken away,the last sentence… ‘No future can exist without a past.I know you’ll be happy with Timekeeper and my past self… I just know it…Goodbye String Gummy Cookie, thank you for all your years in serving me.’with tears in her eyes,she faded from reality,never to be seen again.
‘Hello?Helloooo?Earth to String Gummy!’ she yelled,which jumpscared him out of his frozen trance. ‘Um,you were saying?’ he asked,clearly zoned out. ‘Thank goodness, You’re alive,you zoned out for a really long time, whatcha’ thinking?’ she asked. ‘Nothing, just, a bit of a flashback.’ he lied.Clearly it’s because of his PTSD but Croissant Cookie decided to play along. ‘Alrighty then, Sparky.Let’s get going,’she said.String Gummy was glad that she didn’t notice he was lying,at the same time, he also had his suspicions raised,thinking she was just ‘pretending’ and she knew he was lying. ‘I’m sorry Croissant Cookie, I can’t tell you yet.’ he muttered to himself. ‘What did you say?’ ‘Nothing.’
‘I still don’t get it how you’re so calm even when you see someone make someone go die die?’ ‘Heh, just don’t mind them and don’t scream,if ya scream they will instantly know you’re there and chase ya.’ she said casually but her eyes screamed ‘this has happened to me before so I’m nonchalant about it.’ ‘Eh.I can tell that it happened to you,am I right?’ he asked. ‘Um, yeah?I think…’
TIME SKIP…
This is already the fifth day and they still haven’t found the last three materials they needed. ‘To be honest,I don’t think we can find any time screws since it’s a TBD prized possession.’ he said. ‘Hey!Don’t ruin the mood!We might get lucky and find a few since…erm,Timekeeper likes throwing TBD junks in any alternates.I think?’ she said and also smiled sheepishly. ‘She WHAT?’ He raised his voice,but Croissant Cookie could feel it amplifying in her ears,which sent shivers down her spine.She was in big trouble.Wasn’t she?To be honest, why the hell did she even say that in the first place?I don’t know either! ‘I…probably…shouldn’t had said that.Hehe?Want to go get pizza?’she said while still keeping up the sheepishly smile on her face,clearly she was trying to get out of explaining to String Gummy Cookie everything that happened before he arrived,which isn’t a good start though.Let me just tell you the summarized version.He arrived at the present TBD and started breaking the time manipulators she had created,which led them off with a pretty bad start,but after he told her about the future and blah blah blah,they shut down the central clock,which at that time Timekeeper Cookie modified it so that only Croissant Cookie can open the controls to the Central Clock in the Clock Square.After that with only a few minutes left to spare,she generously gave out her timecraft to String Gummy Cookie to let him return to his future.But,no future can exist without a past,which means that the future that was supposed to happen got Thanos snapped,and he became emo (no offense though).Alright,end of summary let’s continue the drama.
‘Look! Over there!’ she exclaimed. ‘What’s so nice about a heap of garbage?’ he said. ‘No?!You seriously need to go to the Facility Management Department more,that is one of the garbage that came from the TBD!Oh boy, lady luck(Tyche,the goddess of luck)is on our side!’ ‘So,we’re going to search that heap of garbage?’he asked,trying to contain the disappointment he had for the director and the Facility Management Department. ‘Yep,get searchin’ Sparky.’ ‘Sigh… just how much I hate this job.’ he said while showing out the disappointment in his face.
Back in the Time Pocket… (this is literal repetition,if this happens in chess we would get a draw)
‘Who’s gonna tell them this was your idea?’ ‘How thoughtful,no one of course!’ ‘Why did I even bother asking…’ ‘By the way,how many time screws did you threw in there?’ ‘Hmm, I think…around a few dozen?’ ‘...wow.’
TIME SKIP…
‘Alrighty,we are all set to go back!’ Croissant Cookie said enthusiastically. ‘Then let’s go back now,before Timekeeper Cookie goes nuts.’ ‘1,2,3,time travel WOOT!’ In the end,after a week of running around,they managed to get back.