Peppinoise: A Pizza Tower Fanfic

CHAPTER II (2)

Peppino woke up that morning, feeling tired like always. Ugh, I need to get-a more sleep. He got ready for work, the temperature outside was nice and warm. "HEY PEPPINER!" someone shouted in his ear.

"AHH!" Peppino screamed. That woke him up a lot. He looked up to see Noise standing on his trash can so he could be the same height as Peppino. Peppino got up and stared at Noise. "What are-a you doing here?"

"GOOD MORNING!" Noise shouted, making Peppino jump again.

"Noise! Stop-a screaming! And why are you saying good morning? Don't-a you hate me?" Peppino asked.

"Not that much anymore? What? I can't say good mornin'?" Noise snickered.

"What! No! Er—it's-a just strange. You're-a never this...nice?" Peppino said. He looked at The Noise, up and down. "Are-a you feeling okay?"

Noise snickered again. "I'm fine, fatty. I just need someone to talk to after Noisette broke up with me," Noise said.

"I mean, you do have a whole show where you could talk to your fans," Peppino said while he started to walk to work. Noise jumped off of the trash can and caught up to Peppino.

"The show isn't on when it's Saturday," said The Noise.

"Noise, what is wrong with you? You're-a not being rude to me or attempting to bite my arm off!" Peppino thought of all the times they fought and got into a battle. "Is there something I don't-a know?"

Noise hesitated. Peppino could see that Noise was hiding something and he refused to look at Peppino. "Er..." he muttered. "I'm bored, okay?"

Peppino didn't believe what Noise said, whenever Noise hesitates he knows that he's trying to make something up. "If you were-a bored, you'd be beating me up right-a now," pointed out Peppino. Noise smacked his face and sighed quietly.

"I don't know why I want to talk to you, I don't know why I'm acting like this!" Noise groaned. "It's weird! I feel like I've gone through it before, I can't really think what it is, but not with my rival!"

"Guilt?" asked Peppino.

"No, not that," said Noise. "Worryness? I don't f***!ng know!" The Noise seemed a bit stressed.

"It's-a okay, Theo," said Peppino.

"It's The Noise!" Noise said. Peppino smiled and laughed.

"You're-a so funny when you're-a mad," he laughed again. He opened the door to his pizzeria and Gustavo and Fake greeted him while Brick chewed on his hat again. "Hey guys, how-a are you—BRICK! STOP!"

Gustavo laughed and pulled the giant rat back. "Sorry about that. Hey, what's Noise doing here again?" Gustavo asked.

Peppino looked back at Noise, he had his hands in his pockets and he was looking slightly at the floor. "Ah, I don't-a know, he just kind of followed me here," said Peppino, shrugging. "I don't-a mind though." The whole day, Noise just stayed at the pizzeria. Peppino couldn't help but realize how strange Noise was acting. Guilt? Worryness? Was he lacking attention? Or did he just want to become friends with Peppino?

Gustavo has also been catching on, and Peppino was pretty sure Fake Peppino was too. "Noise, what's wrong with you?" Gustavo asked, just like Peppino. The Noise shrugged and put his hand on his cheek. Peppino did actually feel bad for Noise. Is-a he lonely since Noisette left him? Peppino thought.

"What's wrong, Theo?" Peppino asked after he was done serving another person their pizza. Noise looked at Peppino, and this time he didn't yell at him for saying his nickname.

"I don't know," Noise said, again.

"Is it because Noisette left-a you? Do you just-a want attention or something?"

"What! I've got plenty of attention! I run a show!" said Noise. "I'm not sure what I want but I just want to spend time with my rival, I guess...?"

Peppino smiled and laughed. "So you wanna be friends instead of rivals, I'm-a guessing," he said. Noise sighed quietly and rubbed his eyes.

"Er...Kinda?" Noise muttered. He took his hands off of his eyes and looked at Peppino. "I just don't know, Peppino. It feels weird to talk like this, especially to my rival, or...somethin'... I think what I'm trying to say is that I kind of—uh—feel like I—"

Just then, Pepperman came busting in, thinking he looked all glorious. Peppino groaned, and so did Noise. "Hello everyone! I am back with my glorious painting skills!" Pepperman said. He walked up to Peppino and said, "Hello, Peppino! And good afternoon, small yellow man!"

"IT'S THE NOISE FATTY!"

"I would like a non-6MO, fat-free, gluten-free, lactose-free, freshly baked, 1200 calories, no oil, no cheese, no meat, PIZZA my great chef! Hold the peppers," said Pepperman.

"Yes sir," groaned Peppino. Pepperman thanked Peppino and walked up to a seat at the front of the pizzeria and sat down. Peppino smiled and turned to Fake Peppino. "Hey, Fake. Your-a turn to make-a the pizza, you got everything, right?"

"Sey!" Fake said. (Yes!)

"Good, and make-a sure to add peppers, okay? I've had enough of this guy," Peppino said. Fake laughed backward and entered the kitchen. Peppino turned to Noise and smirked. "What? It's fun to do this to Pepperman. He is the one coming into my pizzeria every Saturday. Noise smiled and laughed.

THE NEXT DAY

It was now Sunday. On Sundays, the pizzeria was closed, so that meant Peppino could stay home and relax. Noise's show was going to go back on in a couple of minutes, and Peppino never really watched his show, so he thought he could give it a try.

"HELLO EVERYONE!" The Noise shouted. "Welcome back to NTV where we fight random people or do dumb things that could end up killing me! My name is The Noise, you better call me that, and I'm the main star of the show!" As the orange curtain closed, Peppino could hear Noise scream: "WOAG!"

Peppino laughed and smiled. "What the heck?"

"TODAY we are goin' to take the Wheel of MISCHIEF and see what I might end up DYING to! Not like I would anyway," Noise said, behind the curtains. An orange wheel came up to the screen with different signs on them. "Again! Every sign is different each show!" The wheel started to spin: "COOK AN EXPLODING PIZZA! Now I never cook pizzas but I'm sure I know someone who does!" Noise said as the curtains opened back up. There was a stove in the back, dough, tomato sauce, cheese, and some topping in front of Noise. "I mean, I am Italian! I think—anyways! I only have 4:00 minutes to cook 'dis exploding pizza, FUN!"

The timer came down from the top of the screen and started at 4:00 minutes. "And, WOAG!" The timer began to race down, also showing the mili-seconds. Noise grabbed the dough— "This thing has dynamite in it, FUN!" —and started to bat it down into a wonky on the table.

"HOW DO ITALIAN PEOPLE EVEN DO THIS?" Noise shouted, grabbing the pot of sauce and boiling it up on the stove. The time was now at 3:45. Peppino laughed, you couldn't cook a pizza with that much time. After 10 seconds Noise splatted the tomato sauce onto the dough and started to spread it with a wooden spoon. He yeeted the cheese onto the dough and started to add random toppings like mushrooms, peppers, and pepperoni. "Hm. I wonder if Peppino Spaghetti was named after a pepperoni—" Noise places the pizza into the oven and sets the time to the exact time he had: 2:00. While Noise waited, he took out his tiny yellow top hat and put it on his other hat while sipping tea out of a tiny tea cup. After 2 minutes, the timer was done and the pizza came flying out as if there was a spring that launched it. Noise caught the pizza with a wooden board and sniffed it.

"Ahh...Dynamite..." he said. "It's gonna explode in 10 seconds! FUN!" Noise ripped a piece out of the pizza and shuffled it into his mouth. "YUCK! Should've cooked it longer—maybe it's because there's dynamite in it." He spat it out and ran off-screen as the pizza exploded. The orange curtains came back. "AND that was the 'EW! I ATE DYNAMITE PIZZA AND I FEEL LIKE I'M GONNA EXPLODE!' challenge!"

Peppino smiled, the show was pretty funny. "Well, now I found-a something to keep me happy on Sundays," Peppino laughed. "I wonder when I'll see him again."

END OF CHAPTER 2

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