Take-Over: A BFB/TPOT AU

Chapter 24: Assumptions

Pencil & Flower

They want to find out what happened with Match and Snowball.

Pencil looked at the door. She was sitting at a table in the kitchen, wondering on Match's and Snowball's progress. Flower was currently in her room, thinking about new fashion designs. They had been gone for 4 hours, which was longer than she thought it would take. Pencil started getting worried, but she brushed the thought away. Maybe they're doing some hunting too? She hoped that was true and looked at Flower's door. Almost as soon as they left, Flower requested Pencil to take her there, and she did as say. However, now she wished she didn't. She could have a pleasant conversation right now, as Flower wasn't actually that bad, just a little egotistical in her opinion. She didn't want to go into her room though because, why? She realized she didn't really have a reason not to go. Maybe before because of Match? She shook away the thought and went up to her room.

"Hey."

"Oh, hi Pencil! Do you need something?"

"Not really, just wondering what you're doing."

"Well thank you for asking! I'm currently creating new fashion designs for my brand, which you should check out by the way."

"Maybe after this challenge, since I have heard good things about it."

"Of course, you have! After all, I have a high fashion sense."

Flower was patting her petals and smiling proudly. She looked back at Pencil in the doorway. She was holding her arms and looking down at the floor. She could sense that something wasn't right but felt weird to ask about it. She probably will just deny it anyways. She was about to go back to her drawings when Pencil said,

"I'm worried about them."

Flower turned around in surprise. Pencil was frowning now and looking at her directly in the eye. She had to mean Snowball and Match, right? I mean, who else? Flower didn't say anything, but it got her thinking. How long has it been? She looked at the clock, 4 hours! She started getting worried too. There's no way catching David takes that long. Flower looked back at Pencil. Once she did, her gaze was met with realization. Flower had no hope and believed that they were in trouble. Pencil tried to convince herself that she was wrong, and they were fine, in fact, they might be coming back right now! Flower's calm gaze though, told her that they had to be less hopeful about this. Sighing, Pencil knew it was futile to believe that they were perfectly fine. However, she had a confident look not long after. Flower was confused, but knew what was happening after Pencil said,

"We need to go find out what happened, let's go!"

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Team: Free Food

Eraser came back with news.

Stapy was sitting in a chair, playing with a spare arrow, when Eraser suddenly burst into the room. He looked around frantically, while Stapy jumped towards him. However, when he approached Eraser, he ran the other direction. Confused, Stapy continued to follow him, and saw that he went to Puffball. Seeing as that it's not really his business, he decided to leave. Huh, I wonder where Foldy is... Now that Stapy thought about it, didn't Foldy and Eraser leave to hunt together? He should ask what happened, and decided to go back, and then he heard Puffball yell,

"What?! How?!"

Puffball was shocked. Eraser had run to her and told her that Foldy had died. And she died from Fries. Impossible! I saw him die with my own eyes! Puffball started shaking her head, Eraser was lying to her, there's no way Fries would kill Foldy. However, Eraser wasn't usually one to lie about something like this. She looked at him with a serious look. She doubted that Eraser would lie, but Fries would never murder Foldy, would he? She started to think about it more, and Eraser's words didn't make sense.

"Are you trying to scare me?"

"Wuh- why would I lie about this? Do you SEE Foldy with me?!"

"What's this about Foldy?"

Both of them turned around. Stapy had just appeared and was curious on what was going on. They looked at each other and got nervous. It wouldn't look so good if Stapy found out that Foldy was dead. Eraser had an idea though,

"Just that she was really determined to get some food, and Puffball was really worried about her!"

"Yeah! Eraser is right."

"Oh, I see."

He started heading out, and the other two let out a breath of relief. The last thing they needed right now was a teammate to be in a depressive mood. Soon after though, Puffball's feeling of doubt returned once she remembered Eraser's telling's of what happened. She looked at him with a questionable look and he returned it with one of confusion. 

"Are you sure it was FRIES that killed her? Maybe it was a different contestant-"

"Uh, who else is a red, paper container holding rotten fries?"

She let out a sigh of annoyance and left the room. Eraser just stood there, baffled at what was so hard to believe. His story made SOME sense, right? I mean, what's hard to believe that Fries went insane and killed Foldy- He stopped his train of thought. Then slapped his hand to his forehead. Puffball saw him die, and he was their teammate. (Plus, he was pretty sure they had dated) That still didn't explain why he killed her though. Come to think about it, Fries looked a little different. Maybe something changed to him while they left him behind.

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