Devils and Toasters

Here we are

Storm was woken up by a hungry Coonie. He tried to get up but Protato was still hugging him. While he could easily break free ftom the hug in less than a second he carefully freed himself from the hug while avoiding to wake Protato up and walked to the kitchen and gave Coonie her food. After that he made some breakfast for the Protogen and himself and got back to his office and began to work on the maschines until he held a katana with a black scabbard in his hand. "Bury the light.  Seems quite powerful." He grabbed it with his tail and hid it underneath his lab coat.

When he returned to the kitchen he found Protato cleaning the dishes and humming a familiar tune to himself.  "Morning Protato. Did you sleep well?"  The Protogen nooded.  "Ready for your first day at the lab?"  "I sure am." "I'll be in my office.  Come to me when you want to go to the lab." He walked out of the kitchen and returned to his office where a few crystal like orbs were laying on the desk. His hair turned white as soon as he got close to them. However,  he ignored that and began to put the orbs in different devices. After ten minutes  the door opened and Protato walked in. But something was wrong with him. His visor was glowing red and glitched out from time to time. He leaped at Storm and pinned him to the ground and almost ripped off a skull shaped necklace, which resultet in Storm glaring at the Protogen. "You're so weak. It's almost cu-" He got cut of by Storm kicking him in the stomach and sending him flying. Storm unsheated the katana and the blade emitted a faint blue light and swung it at Protato. However,  instead of harming him it knocked a glitchy version of himself out of his body, which immediately got stabbed by Storm causing it to turn into dust. Protato got up and was quite confused. "What happened? My screen glitched out and now I'm in the office?" Storm walked a bit closer without letting his guard down. "It seemed like something or someone controlled you. A glitchy version of yourself." The protogens eyes widened in shock. "They found me. But how? Where are they now?"  "The glitchy one? Gone. Turned into dust. Reduced to atoms." Protato ran over to Storm, hugged him and carefully pressed his visor against his face. Much to Storms confusion.  "Protato,  what exactly are you doing?"  "Giving you a kiss. Obviously."  He let go of him and took a step back, leaving Storm in a somewhat flusteted state. "That's not how you kiss someone. In this realm that is." Protato tilted his head to the side and smirked. "Well, mister kissing expert. Care to show me how you do it correctly?"  "Maybe later." He noticed that Storm's face was a bit red. "So you admit that you don't know how to kiss someone?" Storm became a bit annoyed but began to blush more and more at the same time."I never said that."  "You did. By saying that you can't demonstrate it."   "Protato, I don't have time for this."  "Well, I have all the time in the world."  The dream Origin let out a sigh. "Will you stop if I say that I don't know how it works?" The protogen shook his head and Storm pulled them closer and kissed Protato. His visor was completely pink and his eyes were heart shaped for a few seconds.  "You were better at this in the past."   "Seriously? You annoy me into doing something abd then complain about it?  You never change, do you?"  "Nope."  Storm walked to the door and turned around before opening it. "If you wanted a kiss, you could've just asked."  "Annoying you is funnier." The two stepped into the elevator since nobody would take a staircase to get from the top of the building to the ground floor. Storm had a neutral expression and looked through a few notes on a clipboard while Protato hummed a familiar melody.  "Hey, Storm. Did you know it's impossible to smile while looking at the ceiling?" "I'm not falling for that trick." He gave his Protogen friend a cheerful smile. A few seconds later, a light blinked above the door and the elevator almost fell downwards. Protato began to panic while Storm continued to read a few notes.

(It would be a good moment to play the music from above.)

The elevator stopped shortly after and the doors opened to reveal a grey laboratory and fluffy wolf like creatures with glasses, a lab coat and a half skull necklace, which was the other half of Storm's necklace.  "Sis, you almost gave Protato a heart attack."  "We have a more serious problem than that. Crystal.... she and the two nightmares melted togheter. The same happened with the others and they ran across the lab in panic. We have to find them and help them. Cyborg, stay close to your boyfriend. They might attack you. Not because they're evil. Just, ....   confused..." She looked at the floor for a few seconds before walking into a corridor covered in mist.  Protato clinged onto Storm's arm while holding his fluffy tail in front of him. Storm partially covered the scared Proto with his lab coat to give them a feeling of safety.  They walked through several hospital like rooms. They were illuminated by calming yet bright lights. Then he felt like he stepped into something sticky and a smell of feathers was in the air. He looked at the floor and noticed that he stepped into some sort of pale azur goo. Something about it was unsettling causing him to hold onti Storm's arm with both of his hands and ge began to shake in fear.  "Crystal? Are you there? It's me, Storm. I'm here to help you!"  A distorted gighle or laugh filled the room and some sort of white goo dripped out of the nearby sink and formed a tall, thin bird like creature. It slowly approached the two while it's head twitched from time to time.  Their voice filled the room witz an eerie echo. They spoke slow yet it was hard to understsnd them and they sounded like they were in extreme pain. "Həłp.... įþ..... hųřþş..... šø.....mųçh." The creature dropped to the ground and had trouble standing up even when Storm helped them and helped them to lay down on a bed and injected a green substance with a syringe, which calmed the creature down. "Ťhæňķ.... ýøu." Then something slammed against the door as if it wanted to break it down but gave up after a few minutes and walked away with loud steps and Protato and Storm left the room to investigate but something grabbed Protato and disappeared in the mist which began to form in the corridor and a big dog like creature appeared behind Storm and growled.  "Not now.  I have to save him." The creature  barked in a confused manner and tilted it's head which had a hole where the face was supposed to be. "Yes, you can help. He is basicly a fluffy bipedal toaster. Give me a sign if you find him and protect him if necessary. I have the feeling something or someone hostile is here." The fog like creature nooded and ran into one of the corridors and the fog seemed to follow it.  Storm followed them for a while until the fog stopped moving.  He activated a nearby computer and activated the cameras and looked through them until he noticed a tall creature with pitch black fur and a skull with glowing eyes stare right at the camera for a few seconds before grabbing it. Then the screen faded to signal lost screen.  "Which camera was that.... Cam 15!?  That's the corridor to the left.  Endogeny, be carefull!" A faint wimpering could be heard and Storm immediately ran towards the noice and barely dodged a sledgehammer ehich was wielded by the creature from the camera.  "I suppose you haven't seen a sentient toaster. About this tall, black fur and a spiked tail?"  The creature just growled at him and circled around him for a while before attacking. Storm blocked the hanmer with the katana's scabbard and quickly slashed at his opponent but they dodged.  "Listen, I have to find someone important and help a few others. Can't we fight later?"  The creature attacked again and just glared at him before answer in a deep voice. "I don't argue with humans."  They quickly knocked the katana out of Storm's hand but he managed to catch it with his tail. The skull creature seemed a bit confused uppon seeing Storm's tail and didn't notice a tall black figure right behind them which was about to attack but got attacked by the big dog like creature, Endogeny. Endogeny threw the tall creature against a wall and held them down with one of it's paws and waited for Storm to finish it off. The skull creature looked a bit confused. "You have a tail?  You're not human?"  "Yep. I'm just a more or less physical manifestation of a dream. Now have you seen a handsome black Protogen?"  "It was dragged away by one of these tall black creatures. And it smelled a bit like feathers." "Endogeny, bring this skully dude to my sister and tell her she shouldbring him to a safe room. There is more danger down here than I thought."  Storm ran through several corridors which had a feather like smell until he found a second computer with access to the security cameras. After a few seconds he found Protato trapped in a room with the same creatures that broke into the building.  They were about to attack but got frozen by several ice attacks, including the camera. Storm immediately ran to the room and found Crystal trying to calm down Protato.  "Don't..... be.... afraid... You're .....s-safe."  She noticed Storm and turned around and waved.  "Do.... you.... know..... this.....cutie?"
Protato ran to Storm abd hid behind him. "Protato, is that how you thank someone who saved your live?"  Protato looked at the creature which wasn't actually that scary.  A bird like being that was half his size with a split beak and a snowflake emblem covering most parts of it's face. "T-thank y-you."  Crystal gave Protato a smile and looked at Storm. "The Nightmares want to ask you for a favor."  Two dark purble orbs emerged from Crystals wings and she desperately tried to cover them with her melting wings. "They..... want to ... be separated.  Please, ..... convince..... them to..... reconsider. The process..... would .....kill.... them."  Two additional beaks formed on the orbs and they began to soeak in a deeper voice. "For god's sake, just separate us. We are supposed to be death for several weeks. We don't want to hurt Crystal but our existence causes her constant pain. Nightmares don't mix well with dreams. It's our dying wish."   Crystal nooded and uncovered to orbs. Storm careful removed the two  orbs with the katana which caused them to shatter and turn to dust. A faint "thank you" could be heard.