~Experimental~ /~A TPOT AU~\

~Part 5~ Unexpected

Lately for the past three days, others had been discussing and gossiping about Tennis Ball's less than cheery demeanor, the first objects to notice is both Pen and Pillow. In which, Pillow had been taking note of, stalking him for a hour.

Tennis Ball is now dragging the now unconscious Donut, Pillow couldn't help but follow him down in the factory, still being sneaky. She spots him still dragging Donut into the medical room before shutting the door, that he accidentally left ajar.

Pillow opened it slightly, to see what was going on. Ended up seeing TB preparing to harvest Donut's core, which left her surprised yet amused. Wanting to be apart of this, she opened the door, to the shock and dismay of TB.

"P-PILLOW?! Uh-! Th-this isn't what it l-looks like..!" TB stammered, pausing cutting Donut's pastry flesh. "Don't worry" Pillow spoke softly. "I just want to see what you're doing, it... Took an interest on me.. and I want to help you somehow."

"O-oh! Uh. Yeah! T-totally! You could.. I don't know.. Keep a watch out? Just incase something happens.." TB requested. "Of course!" Pillow then exited the factory, writing down in her notepad, looking nonchalant.

"Now... Where was I. . .?" TB muttered before continuing to cut into Donut's flesh. Not bothering to move his organs away, he just tossed Donut's organs into a trash bag. Taking his raspberry-colored core. 'Can i make this into jelly?' TB thought before setting the core on a petri dish.

Instead of throwing Donut's dead body away, he just compressed him into a refrigerated bag, thinking of eating it soon. 'He's a pastry object... It's not that bad...' TB thought. 'Wait, why am I worried about it? I harvest cores out of objects...'

He set Donut's core to the small pile of other cores before heading outside. "Thanks for guarding, Pillow." TB spoke tiredly. "No problem! If you need a new cadaver,  just call me!" Pillow said before walking away back to her team, with a soft smile. 'This..is gonna be fun...' TB thought as he headed back into his team's apartment, only met with Pen's side glare as he scrolled on his phone.

Not even caring anymore, TB headed into his room to sleep, it's quite a hassle to knock Donut out. He looked at his clock, 6:12. 'Whatever... I need this...' He sighed, flopping on his bed, slowly falling asleep.

He then woke back up in the.. Evil Forest. "What the...?" TB questioned before spotting something shiny, he inspected it, it's a clean scalpel. "Why's this around here??" He questioned again. He felt a strange presence behind him, worried that it might be Evil Leafy, he swiftly turned around to see.. Himself? Standing in the far distance with a sinister glare. TB slowly backed up, but it only caused the other TB to walk closer and closer and closer. 

With fear, TB ran further into the forest, reaching the broken canyon, no where to run. The clone  got closer to TB until he was face to face with him, the clone having Donut's cherry jelly and Egg's yolk on his dirty, yellow-green fuzz, along with slight broken glasses.

"You... You have no idea on what your leading down..." The clone spoke in a sinister tone. "I urge you... I urge you to continue.."

"Wh-. . .What...?" TB questioned before seeing his clone disappear. He turned around, seeing Golf Ball's corpse standing, her body slouching. She lifted her head slightly to make eye contact with TB, then suddenly running towards him, her body defying gravity as she ran over the gap of the canyon.

Then TB woke up in a cold sweat, letting out a sharp gasp. He sighed. "Just a nightmare..." Before laying back down on his bed, staring at the ceiling, hoping to fall asleep again.

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