"The new normal" (Kaiju Paradise story)

Chapter Five: Exploration

Owen and Ocean walked on, going into the smaller garden room after a minute, and to the surprise of Owen, Buzzer was there just sitting against the big tree in the middle of the room. Buzzers one good ear flicked up as he heard them enter immediately, and turned around to see the two.
"Oh, Owen. Heya, buddy."
Buzzer says casually, dropping his guard a bit as he began talking to him. Buzzer looks down at Ocean and then back to Owen.
"Looks like you found yourself your own buddy now, huh?"
Buzzer says with a small grin, starting to get up from his spot.
"By the way bud, I have something for ya, thought you may enjoy it."
Before Owen could even process the statement, Buzzer puts a scarf on Owens neck, surprising him momentarily before Owen looked at the scarf.
"What is it? And why is it...so comfortably soft?"
Owen asks, never taking his eyes off the scarf and feeling around it with his paw, like he was entranced by it. Buzzer chuckled a bit at Owens reaction.
"The humans call it a 'scarf,' they only seem to wear em when it gets cold though, I dunno why."
Owen, meanwhile, still couldn't get his focus to part with the scarf.
"I am never taking this thing off. Ever."
He says sternly to himself, getting another chuckle from Buzzer which makes him look back at him.
"Knew you'd like it bud."
Ocean suddenly butts into the conversation. "Ooo! Do I get anything!?"
Ocean says eagerly before sighing sadly and pouting as Buzzer shakes his head.
"Hey, I didn't know ya existed until 2 minutes ago, give me a break!"
Buzzer says with a joking defensiveness, waving his arms around dramatically. Buzzer looks back at Owen suddenly and leans in to whisper to him.
"I can already tell that you're tryna make friends round here, trust me buddy, it's probably best not to get too attached..."
Owen is a bit surprised by the sudden warning from Buzzer, flinching backwards a bit as he processes the sentence.
"Huh? What do you mean by that?"
Owen whispers back, raising an eyebrow suspiciously and eyeing Buzzer.
"Just a bit of...advice, is all, bud."
Buzzer says, eventually leaving the room and leaving the two alone now.
"Why were you two whispering?"
Ocean says suddenly after a small, awkward silence from Owen, who jumps slightly at the sudden sound breaking the silence.
"Eh, nothing much."
Owen says, looking off in the direction Buzzer went, still thinking deeply on his words. He sighs to himself as he makes a decision to try and stick with Buzzers advice.
"Hey, Ocean, how bout ya go back to the garden, I'm gonna explore a bit more."
Owen says, leaving before Ocean could respond. Owen thought he could hear the steps of Ocean trying to follow after him, but they quickly faded and Owen focused his attention back to what may be in front of him.
He approached the area next to the humans safe zone, and looked at the path he could take across, and to the flooded area, which had some shorks swimming around at the moment. Seeing as the flooded area seemed to be off limits by the shorks, he decided to try and cross the front of the humans' safe zone. He takes a moment to see if there's any humans nearby or inside the zone when he crosses, making it to the other side with no humans seeing him. He walked through a room, into a different storage room that had a fork in the road. He had already been on the balcony area, so he looked to the path that led to a cave and the other path, which he couldn't see what was in at the moment. He decides to see what might be behind theiddle door, and goes through that path, met by a small, probable, break room from when the lab still functioned, a bathroom, and a cafeteria. There were many gootraxians that he hadn't seen before in this area, he looked in the break room to see a few wolflike gootraxians all wearing fedoras on their heads, talking to eachother about something. Despite the room litteraly having a glass wall, it was pretty sound proof. There were a few soapy gootraxians walking in and out the bathroom, some looking similar to a squirrel, and others like dinosaurs. And then in the cafeteria there were a few catlike gootraxians, quite litteraly dripping ice cream, though they seemed unbothered, and a few...dragon esque gootraxians with a coffee-ish color for the most part of their bodies. Some of them had a bit of purple on them, and the cat ones had many varieties, some being chocolate, some being strawberry, some being mixes of flavours. He stepped up to the stand at the entrance and was immediately noticed by one of the cat gootraxians.
"Hiya! Welcome to 'Sprinkle's Cafe'! I am Sprinkle, how can I help you?"
The cat gootraxian asks enthusiastically, having sparkles in their eyes, or it could just be sprinkles...he couldn't tell.
"Uh..hi, Sprinkle...um, what are you?"
The cat blinked once, a mix of confusion and offense in their expression, before it clicked in their head.
"Oh, you're new here, I take it?"
She asks, tilting her head slightly. Owen nods awkwardly with an uncertain smile and the cat smiles brightly again.
"Heh, almost thought you were insulting me for moment there! Hazzies aren't typically too nice to everyone else. But, anyways, I'm a Sprinklekit, those dragon looking guys are mocha's, and the soap fanatics in the bathroom are Feizao's, and Glubbies."
Sprinkle said, pointing at each Gootraxian as she named them.
"Oh, and the ones in that break room back there are Feds." She adds a moment afterwards.
"The Feds don't typically gather in groups, let alone here, but they have little...meetings, i guess you could call them."
Sprinkle says, making quotations on the word "meetings" and giggling a bit to herself.
"Honestly though, I bet they're a buncha softies and this meeting is just an excuse to get together for a little bit heheh..."
She waves away her thoughts and looks back at Owen.
"Anyways...would you like anything, orrr are you just kinda...exploring, getting to know the place."
She asks curiously, leaning a bit closer to him.
"Eh, exploring."
Owen says nonchalantly with a shrug, walking out of the cafe and going back to the fork he was at before. He looks at the way to the cave and it intrigues him, so he then walks into the cave after a moment and looks around, admiring the nice glow of the crystals and the calmness of the cave.
There weren't too many people or even gootraxians around for the most part, he only ever saw an occasional Ghost fox enjoying the silence, or a few dinosaur like gootraxians that he came to learn to know as Kaijus.
The feeling of Deja Vu came again and again as he explored, whether he was looking at objects and locations, or looking at Gootraxians and even a few humans, he started to wonder what he was like before for a moment before shaking the thoughts out of his head and continuing on.
"Not like anything can change now..."
He thought to himself as he went back into the actual facility.
He went back to the balcony area again, as he found it to be arguably more calm than the cave when those toxic bunnies weren't around, only to hear a few shouts from the door behind him that would lead to the main area of the place. Some of the shouts were aggressive and some were a bit more frightened, before he could walk up and open the door to see what was going on, it opened and a yellow colored cat gootraxian with a orange bucket on their head crashes into him while looking the other direction, the bucket falling off the cat's head and clattering to the ground, conveniently landing perfectly on the ground, it would have been rather impressive...if both of them weren't too focused in what was going on at the moment.
They both rubbed their heads as they both fell onto the ground, taking a moment to recover before they looked at eachother. Owen was a bit confused to see that the gootraxians eyes were different colors, 1 was orange, and the other seemed to be closer to green.
Before either could say anything to the other, a couple of humans emerged from the doorway as well, holding weapons maliciously as they looked down at the two.
"Crap..."
The cat gootraxian said with a nervous look forming on their face, Owen however, stared down the two humans carefully, getting up quickly and looking between the two.
"Coupla free kills my friend."
Says one of the humans with a devious smirk, holding up a scythe.
"Indeed they are!"
Says the other human with a similar grin, holding up a sword with a single yellow stripe down the blade of it.
Owen makes a soft sigh and takes out the handle of the Batsaber, which the two humans snicker at the sight of.
"What're you gonna do with that huh? Smack us over the head?"
"Or you gonna throw it at us and expect it to-"
The sudden light and sound from the Batsaber activating quickly silences the two humans with a look of shock.