Playtime with Percy; Before Playtime

Saturday; Amusement with Pals

June 1, 1:03, 2002

" Estas segura de que esto funcionara?" Marie asked. She didn't like the tighter area she and her friends were in.

" You sure this will work?" Devon translated. A much darker blue-eyed deactivated endo leaned against his shoulder.

" Of course," Percy answered. He looked in the hallway. It was the hallway that led to Quinn's room. There were no endos and it was cleaner than the other hallway where Charlie and Percy played tag in. There were barely any objects or junk, just small clusters of them. Large boxes and equipment surrounded Percy, Charlie, Marie, Devon, Tot, Tat, and five deactivated Endos at the start of the hallway. There was a passthrough between a few boxes and a tall metal pole that could fit two Endos.

Percy nudged the Endo closest to him towards one of the boxes in the corner to make more space. Charlie looked nervous. He kept looking back at Quinn's room and his friends.

" Will this work? I don't want to get in trouble, especially with John." Charlie whispered to Percy. He rolled his eyes and replied, " Of course. Is it because you're scared of Tat's teeth too?"

" Wha-What? No, I mean, I don't want the ringmaster or John to be mad at us."

" Actually, I found out the ringmaster is asleep." Devon interrupted their conversation. Percy raised his eyebrow.

" How do you know?" Percy questioned.

" I snuck up to his room half an hour ago and heard him snoring. He also was muttering something about this, AIC person. He also sounded like he was quietly screaming, or maybe that was just my imagination."

Quietly screaming... Percy thought. For the past two hours, Percy and his friends helped Maire with lining up the Endos by their Endo numbers. Percy held back the urge to shout out his idea the entire time while working. Eventually, when they were done, Percy told Maire and Devon about his idea, as well as Charlie and the playful poodles. Ralph was there, but he said he needed to be alone with his costumes in his room. Percy then told Mother Moose about his idea, and she didn't approve of it. After an immense time of begging, Marylin finally said he could do it, but she said to not blame her if he got punished.

" Fine, you can do the spoof, but if you get punished for scolding, don't even mention by name for the blame."

Marylin's sentence stuck in Percy's head like glue. He didn't care if he got punished or yelled at, he thought that it was worth seeing Quinn's reaction to his spoof. It was very simple, it shouldn't make someone scared at all. But back from an hour ago, he remembered that one time about a year ago when Percy was in the circus with the playful poodles on the bleachers. He remembered that Quinn walked up to them and said a few hurtful things about Percy not actually being their " Father" ( Percy couldn't remember what the exact words were ), and Tim blew a raspberry at Quinn, but came out as a large blow. Tat smiled, exposing his large, sharp teeth, and made Quinn scream out of fear. He immediately covered his mouth and stood there out of embarrassment. Percy held back a laugh by covering his mouth too, but Tot just looked at Percy disappointingly, like how Marylin would give out a look of disappointment.

It always made Percy wonder how Marylin's and Tot's personalities are so similar.

Continuing the story with Quinn and the Tat, Quinn cursed at Percy and the poodles and ran off backstage. So, when Quinn said that Charlie would never know how the ringmaster really felt, Percy thought that Quinn deserved a little of something he had before.

Charlie wasn't on board with the idea at first, but Percy convinced him by saying he could be the one who made the noise. Percy didn't tell Felix because he knew that Felix would side with Marylin. The only reason Marie joined was a few of her Endo friends wanted to see Quinn's reaction. Devon went along with Marie.