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Rather recently, the Fun Gang had dropped off the Shadow Crystal’s previous owners in Castle Town. The three of them had formed somewhat of a friend group together (due to the fact that they were all similar and had no friends) and had been getting on quite well.
“HELLO PUPPET BOY! YOUR FAVORITE JESTER IS HERE, HERE!”
“O >H [[shut your pie hole]] [Clown]!!1!”
They had recently decided that in order to make new (and old) connections they were to start walking around Castle Town, much to a certain puppet's dismay. But, he figured as long he had friends to do it with, why stop and be a coward now?
“Don’t forget Pink, mew!”
Kris and their friends had been kind enough to bless him with his own friends, something he’d never really had outside of.. Tenna. Speaking of which, Pink and Jevil have been PESTERING him about Tenna. Partly the reason why they are going outside now.
“How are you two doing today, mew?”
“WHY I AM QUITE JOYOUS, JOYOUS!”
“IM DO. ING PReTTY [alrighty!]”
The three of them were gathered outside of the room Ralsei had given them. They all decided to have a shared room that separated into smaller personal rooms inside. At first they (Spamton) didn’t even want to stay in the Castle, but they didn’t really have any other options. So they stayed together.
Pink had just finished getting ready, as a girl does, so now they were ready to go out. For some reason Spamton was more nervous than he would like just to go on a simple walk, fearing the worst things happening.
But, he wasn’t in the Cyber City streets anymore, he had some lingering powers from NEO, and he had friends (who were WAY stronger than him) that could help him if he ever needed.
“Well, I’m doing great, mew! It’ll be so interesting to see different Darkners, after all you guys are some of the only ones I’ve seen other than the ones in Flower Castle.”
Spamton honestly forgot how new Pink (or at least Maddie’s half) was to the whole dark world thing. It was interesting to think about how different their lives were from each other, yet how similar they both were. A Darkner who wanted the body of a Lightner, and a Lightner who wanted the body of a Darkner…
“WELL, THE KIDS HAVE RECRUITED ALMOST EVERYONE, SO THAT MAKES FOR A WIDE SELECTION OF FACES TO FIND, FIND!” Jevil turned to Spamton, a mischievous grin forming on his face, “YET ONE DARKNER’S EASIER TO FIND THAN OTHERS…”
“SHUT [up, up and away!] OR ILL TAK,E [[you two]] SEAM.”
“JEEZ, JEEZ, I WAS JUST JOKING AROUND!”
“DON ,,T [just joking around!!] WHEN YOU>re ALS O [[All alone on a Friday night?]]”
Spamton smacked Jevil on the back of the head, causing Jevil to let out a laugh opposed to the noise of discomfort that anyone else would have made.
“Alright you two, STOP BICKERING and LET’S GET GOING!!!!” Pink grabbed both Jevil and Spamton’s hand and dragged them along like a parent dealing with toddlers on a leash.
Instinctively Spamton started thrashing around in her grasp, mostly because he was nervous about the possibility of Tenna being right down the hall, but quickly came back to his senses and realized he could just walk himself. Jevil continued being dragged.
Jevil had picked up on Spamton’s nervous habits pretty quickly in the pocket, when he was nervous he would play with his fingers, he would do some other things too, but playing with his fingers is what the puppet was doing at the moment.
“PUPPET, YOU SEEM NERVOUS? WHY THE POUT, POUT?”
Spamton looked away, almost offended, before responding to the question, which is something he had slowly been learning to do instead of staying silent about his issues.
“I JUST.. IM. NERVOUS ABOUT. [sea]ING [[Cathode]] AGAIN. IM NE RVOUS. THAT. IF I SEE. HIM AGAIN… IF I SEE HIM AGAIN…” Spamton went silent for a second, trying to stop himself from getting too upset. “YOU HEARD. WHAT HE. SAID. AB OUT ME. SO IM JUST. WORRIED THAT. HE DIDN T JUST SAY. IT CAUSE. HE WAS MAD.” Spamton couldn’t actually frown, but it was very apparent that he would’ve been based on how he spoke.
“Awh, Spam.. we could avoid him for now if you want to, I don’t want to force you to do anything that will upset you, mew!”
“BUT, DO CONSIDER WHAT YOU’RE SAYING SPAMTON! DO YOU REALLY THINK SOMEONE AS DESPERATE, DESPERATE AND LONELY, LONELY AS THE LORD OF THE SCREENS COULD ACTUALLY HATE YOU?”
Spamton paused to think, sure he startled Tenna the first time they saw each other again in TV World, but Tenna was already at a low point then. Maybe now, like Jevil was suggesting, would be different? Sure it wouldn’t be the same right away but…
“I [Guess Who!] WE C OULD [[Go, go, go!]] THAT WA Y…”
“Okay! Just tell us if you want to take a different route, mew! But.. in my opinion I wanna fact check your description of his looks…hehe!”
“[oki doki] D ONT BE [[Weird Route]] [abt]] IT NO,,W???”
“What, what, what?! You’re the one who kept talking about how BIG his-”
“OKA Y THAT[s] ENOUGH [now.]!!!!” Spamton started sprinting away with frantic embarrassment as Pink followed behind giggling, still dragging Jevil across the floor, who was also laughing.
Now having friends, Spamton began to hate the fact that while being a puppet, he still had the
ability to blush, which Pink and Jevil liked to abuse.
“STuPID [[Cutecore Anime Action Figures]]!1!! STUP 1D [History of Court Jesters]]!!11!” Spamton grumbled rather loudly under his breath.
“We can hear what you’re saying Spamton!!!!” Pink called from across the hall.