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radiance1 · 4 months ago

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Caught? Caught.

“You and your stupid, dumb, idiot face.” Shrimpo grumbled as he pushed his hands against stupidly squishy cheeks, then pulled them back and squeezed his fingers as he pinched them, stretching the skin out in what he wanted to be a painful gesture. The freak they belonged to, however, didn’t react, face still pulled in that disgustingly happy smile. “Stop smiling like that, dummy.”

Dandy did nothing of the sort, in fact smiling wider and he rested his head down on Shrimpo’s stomach. His two gigantic paws on either side of the toon on his back, effectively trapping him beneath the large twisted.

“Get off of me.” Shrimpo demanded, pulling Dandy’s (who, graciously, allowed his face to be toyed with) cheeks downwards to better look him in the eyes. Well, glare to be more precise. “I don’t want to be crushed under your weight.” He said seriously, even as he kneaded and pawed at the softness that was Dandy’s face.

Dandy made no attempt to move. He slowly blinked one eye, and then the other.

“GET OFF OF ME FATTY!” Shrimpo shouted, pushing Dandy away and -impressively- managed to lift Dandy’s face off of him for as far as his arms could stretch which… Honestly, it wasn't much. He paused as he registered a soft, low rumble that played beneath the tune that constantly accompanied Dandy, vibrations sent from Dandy’s face all the way down Shrimpo’s arms. Shrimpo slowly, ever so slowly, lowered his arms back down as Dandy’s eyes slipped shut.

“You’re lucky you’re so goddamn cute.” Shrimpo grumbled beneath his breath. He resigned himself to his fate, simply letting it be that as of now he was -apparently- a cushion for a twisted that could kill him in one hit if he wanted to. He couldn’t help but smirk. He really was better than everyone else, who else could say that the most dangerous twisted wasn’t going to try and kill them?

“What a bunch of losers!” He barked out a laugh, fully mocking and making no attempt to hide it. Dandy nuzzled his chin further into Shrimpo’s stomach and Shrimpo… Paused. Slowly moving his hands back to Dandy’s face before he started to squish and knead, his reward being deeper purrs.

He really was lucky he was cute, and soft. Or else Shrimpo would have punched his lights out by now (not that it would have done anything, stupid flower was annoyingly durable. But it was the thought that counts).

Seconds ticked by slowly, turning into minutes that droned on and on as Shrimpo lost himself to the mindless task of petting Dandy’s face. He was… Less annoyed than he thought he would have been regarding just how slow the other toons were moving. Of course they were useless without him!

“Come here!” He heard Goob’s voice before he saw him, and felt hands latch onto his shoulders. He barely had a second to protest before he felt himself being pulled right from under the twisted and flying through the air before his back hit Goob’s chest, arms wrapped around the shrimp.

“WHAT THE HELL.” Shrimpo started, a heavy, angry frown settling down on his lips as he pulled a hand out of the unprompted and frankly unnecessary hug from this goddamn idiot of a toon and pushed it harshly against his chin. “DO YOU THINK YOU’RE DOING?!”

“Giving you a hug, silly!” Goob said, with only a minor grunt from the shove against his head, still with that stupid smile on his face (that looked nowhere near as tolerating as Dandy’s, so Shrimpo didn’t even try to tolerate it!) “Plus, you looked stuck!”

“I DON’T WANT A HUG AND I DIDN’T NEED YOUR HELP! I HATE HUGS!” Shrimpo kicked his legs back and forth as he struggled within Goob’s rather constricting (he hated how tightly he was held, how he had to struggle so hard to even move, how useless he felt knowing that he couldn’t even-) grip. “LET GO OF ME ALREADY!”

Dandy got up.

“Okay! Okay!” Goob pouted, letting Shrimpo rest his feet against the floor as he unwrapped his arms from the toon’s torso. “Sorry.” He said, letting his hands flop back down onto the floor.

Dandy slowly lowered his front down towards the ground, raising his lower half into the air as he shifted his hooves.

“YOU BETTER BE! DON’T DO IT AGAIN!” Shrimpo shouted, harsh and cruel as he always was as he glared at the toon, dusting off his shirt and trying to brush that goddamn touch (that weakness- ) from his clothing. He let out an angry huff, turning his head away from Goob-

Dandy lunged, powerful legs launching him through the air faster than he would have been able to walk the distance as he brought a paw up, eyes trained solely on one, specific, toon.

-just in time to watch Dandy fly through the air like a goddamn dart. “HOLY SHIT-” The curse slipped out most from surprise, because he’s never seen a twisted jump before. He turned on his heels, flinging his hands out into Goob’s chest and knocking him to the floor as he quickly crouched.

Dandy sailed overhead, drops of Ichor falling from his hooves as he did so, before he landed with a loud thud. His neck craned back to turn his head, followed by his body, and the look on his face told he was out for bloody murder as he quickly took multiple steps forwards.

“THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT!” He pointed down at Goob, just to make sure he got the point across because if that idiot didn’t try to help him then he wouldn’t have nearly been reduced to a puddle of Ichor. He stepped over the dummy of a toon, standing stock still with his hands on his hips and narrowed eyes as Dandy slowly approached.

“Um, Shrimpo.” Behind him, Goob got up. A hand coming down to rest and tug gently on Shrimpo’s arm. “Maybe we should, y’know, go?”

“SHUT UP!” Shrimpo snapped harshly, turning his head to glare at Goob until he backed off with a mumbled apology before turning back to Dandy. The twisted, for his part, crawled to a stop before him, tilting his head downwards a bit to stare at the shrimp.

Shrimpo -fearlessly because he had no fear (very pointedly ignored the bead of sweat that ran down his face)- stared Dandy straight in his eyes. Standing perfectly still aside from the rise and fall of his chest, all it would take was one strike from Dandy, and he would be gone, dead, splattered into a puddle of Ichor and pop back into his room to be revived.

If Dandy did kill him, Shrimpo would sock him in the face the next time he saw him with the same strength he used to break his wall. Just because he deserved, and could take it.

The seconds ticked on slowly, the silence going uninterrupted as they stared each other down. Before Dandy’s eyelids lowered, half closed as his stance loosened, going from a stalking, powerful predator to a less stalking, more docile one as he lowered himself onto his stomach. Both paws on either side of Shrimpo once more as the shrimp released a breath he didn’t even realize he was holding before he flopped down onto his butt and held out his hands.

“Come here you idiot.” He said quietly, as Dandy wasted no time in pushing his face back onto Shrimpo’s hands. A low, satisfied rumble once more starting back up in his chest as his eyes slipped shut. “Gods you’re so needy.” He grumbled to himself, feeling himself deflate just the smallest, ever so slightest, bit.

“I didn’t know you knew how to not shout.” Goob’s voice broke him out of his short trance, instantly causing him to hike his shoulders and tense. “Yea? Well now you know.” He spat out, forcing himself to relax again, harder now that he remembered someone else was watching.

From the corner of his eye, he saw Goob walk beside him, turned his back to Dandy’s paw, and sat down. He turned his head, staring at the toon with an incomprehensible look. He knew Goob was stupid, but not this stupid.

“What the hell are you doing?” He asked blankly, finding himself at a loss for not a single spark of anger or even irritation was lit. His mind was too busy trying to come up with a plausible, workable answer for what Goob was doing.

“Sitting down!” Goob answered happily, tapping his hands against his knees in a rhythm that Shrimpo could see but didn’t know . “Like you!”

“Wha- I- You-” Shrimpo clicked his mouth shut, at a loss for words for a moment before he frowned, heavily, as anger once more boiled under his skin. “HE JUST TRIED TO KILL YOU DUMMY! WHY THE HELL ARE- DO YOU THINK THIS IS A GAME?!” He shouted, hoping that Goob would get the hint to just leave already so Shrimpo could keep doing… This. Uninterrupted.

“Yea but he isn’t now!” Goob answered with logic that was so completely, utterly, mind-bogglingly stupid that Shrimpo didn’t even know what to do anymore. “Also, you do care!” He said happily, his usually dumb smile turning disgustingly even more sappy.

“WHA- I DON’T CARE ABOUT YOU!”

“But you said-”

“SHUT UP! STOP IT! STOP TALKING! YOU’RE DONE TALKING!”

Shrimpo swiftly turned his head back to Dandy, slamming it forwards into the flower’s face as he pointedly ignored Goob. Dandy cracked open an eye, looking down at Shrimpo before he puckered his lips and kissed him on the forehead (because his face was right there c’mon now).

“Aww-”

“SHUT UP GOOB! I SAID YOU WERE DONE TALKING!” Shrimpo blushed, tearing his head back as he felt his cheeks heat up. He glared at Dandy, the goddamn betrayer, for doing something like that in front of Goob of all (or any toon really) toons.

“Okay!” Goob said, giggling to himself as he swayed side to side from where he sat.

Shrimpo made it very clear he was ignoring the toon for the rest of the floor.

----

“Vee,” Rodger turned his head to the TV, hands crossed over his chest. “Do you have any idea where Goob and Shrimpo are?” He asked, seeing as Vee had access to the cameras on the floor, he believed it was a valid question to ask.

“No.” Vee shook her head, twirling her mic around before pointing at Sprout. “Ask Berry-boy over there, he can see everyone’s hearts.”

“Don’t call me-” Sprout sighed, pinching between his eyes as he murmured something beneath his breath, then shook his head. “They’re coming, but you know how slow Shrimpo is, dunno why Goob is taking so long, though.”

The toons all, collectively, paused as they heard loud, thumping footsteps long before they saw him. Dandy’s twisted -and wasn’t that a funny thought?- turned the corner, a distorted lullaby accompanying him with his every step and-

“Is that-?” Vee mumbled, shock cracking through her usually stoic demeanor.

-Shrimpo hung from his mouth. The twisted slightly swaying happily with every step as he approached the elevator.

“Hiya guys!” Goob waved at them as he walked alongside Dandy, matching his sway with even similar smiles. “We made a new friend!” He said, as if you could just befriend a twisted. Goob stepped into the elevator as Dandy stopped, stretching out his hands to grab onto Shrimpo’s sides as Dandy gently let go of him. “Thanks Dandy!” Goob said and Dandy stared down at him for a moment before turning away just as the elevator closed.

Silence reigned between the gathered toons for a moment as Shrimpo pushed Goob’s hands off of him. The shrimp walking over to stand by himself with a slightly red dust to his cheeks.

Rodger cleared his throat.

“Shrimpo, do you mind if-”

“NO! SHUT UP! I HATE QUESTIONS!”

“Right, yes. Goob-?”

“I SAID SHUT UP!”

“Hehe~ Sorry, I promised not to say anything!”

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