Pretty Pink Flower

The Meeting

The meeting room was abuzz with different klowns. This time, Petals was able to join. Swirly had offered to watch over the babies while Petals attended the meeting, her reason being that she needed to check over the kubs to make sure none of the others were sick as well.

Petals sat near the end of the long table, sandwiched between two larger klowns; Chubby, and his uncle Mojo.

"I heard a fight happened at the last meeting. Is it gonna happen again?" Petals asks, turning to Chubby.

"Oh, don't worry! Jumbo has everything taken care of. He threatened to take Spikey to Jojo, he'll behave this time" Chubby says, nodding towards the other side of the table.

There sat Spikey, holding an ice pack to his still bruised eye, grumbling to himself. His small pink hand puppet Judy sat on his shoulder, talking to him.

"I told you not to make fun of Fatso like that. You know him and Jumbo have something going on" She scolded, earning a low growl from Spikey.

"He knew better than to mess with my nephew, that's for sure" Mojo says with a smirk, holding his hand out and admiring his nails.

Petals scanned the room for any sign of Slim, but he wasn't there. Odd.

Suddenly, Petals felt something cold touch the back of her head. She whipped around, seeing...a shadow?

"Oh! You're one of Slims shadows. Where is he?"

The magical shadow puppet holds out its hand, revealing a small heart-shaped candy.

Petals gasps, taking the candy. "for me? So sweet, thanks a bunch~" She leans forward, pressing her lips against the puppets' cheek in a soft kiss.

The shadow cackles before fading into the darkness of the room. Petals turns back around, seeing that Slim is now in Chubbys seat.

"Did you like my little trick, sugar?" Slim purrs, tilting his head.

Petals giggles, popping the candy into her mouth. She hums in delight at its sweet, cherry flavor. Slim watches her in amusement, resting his head in his hands.

She looks around, seeing that Chubby has moved to the other side of the table. He smiles, giving her a thumbs up.

"That was a really cute trick, Slim~ thank you for the candy, you're a real sweetheart!" Petals gushes, looking up at Slim with adoration.

Slim hums, brushing a bang of hair out of Petals eye. "Anything for you, gorgeous~"

The doors to the meeting room suddenly opened, Jumbo and Fatso giggling together as they walked in. They quickly compose themselves, the two sitting next to each other at the table.

"Alright, is everyone here?" Jumbo says, pulling out a data pad as he looked over it.

"Hm. Seems like it. Alright, let's get started. As we all know, a few weeks ago, we welcomed in some new recruits. Unfortunately, the recruit assigned to the training room has been eaten by Jojo"

The room is full of murmurs and worried glances as Jumbo clears his throat. "It appears he didn't take Jojos' threat about tampering with the food supply seriously...so, I am now assigning a new klown as the crews combat trainer"

Jumbo stands up, walking over to the other side of the table, stopping once he reaches a noticeably burly klownette in gothic attire. "Blackberry, can I trust you as the ships' new trainer?"

Blackberry nods, standing up and shaking Jumbo's hand with a painful grip. "You bet your sweet ass I can, sir! I've been seeing some real shrimps on this ship lately"

Jumbo chuckles and winces a bit, patting Blackberrys back. "See? This is the kind of trainer an invasion force needs! You can sit down now, Blackberry"

The klownette sits down with a smug smirk, crossing her large arms. Some of the klowns in the room looked with fear, while others looked with lust.

The meeting continued without a hitch, and before Petals knew It the meeting was adjourned. All of the klowns hurried out, some following Blackberry to bombard her with compliments and questions and the others heading back to their stations.

Petals planned to walk out With Slim- only to find him gone. Again. Petals sighs and shrugs, making her way past Jumbo and Fatso, who stand in the doorway giggling with each other.

"Y'know, I bet you would make a good trainer too. You gave Spikey a nasty shiner yesterday, and I gotta say, it was the greatest thing I ever saw~" Jumbo chuckled, looking down at the slightly shorter klown with admiration.

"Aw, I like my job as the food manager. But if you're suggesting some sort of promotion, maybe we can work something out over dinner~?" Fatso purrs, placing his hand on Jumbo's chest.

Petals quickly walks away, not wanting to hear the rest of what was surely meant to be a private conversation. She reaches into her pocket, pulling out the note. With a deep breath, she makes her way to the storage room, ready to see what Slim wanted.