Toons.
We all know them.
We all love them.
From Dandy the memorable and lovable flower,
To Shrimpo, the well-known and disliked bully.
Everyone here has a purpose.
It is safe up in the lobby.
It is safe here in the toon rooms.
It is safe almost everywhere.
The deeper you go, the more dangerous it gets.
They don't go down there often, but Dandy's "need" for tapes and ichor drives him mad, and he sends them on expedition after expedition to get it for him.
They all wish life was back to normal, having nothing to worry about except if Shrimpo was around the corner.
But it has to be like this. All of the toon handlers are gone.
They all suspect they've either died to the ichor, escaped the place, or have just been missing deep, deep down in the center.
They never go looking for them. It's useless.
An alarm clock blared, and a lazy arm slapped it off, turned over, groaned, and forced themselves out of bed.
"Another day, another expedition, I assume." Gigi yawned, stretched, and went to go put on her usual oversized blue sweater.
Gigi walked out of her room and yawned, heading towards the kitchen, hoping Sprout and Cosmo didn't ruin breakfast.
However, luck today didn't seem to be on her side, and as she entered the kitchen, everyone had already eaten, and there was no breakfast left.
One of the Sprouts, a Salted Caramel one, turned to Gigi and realized she was late, "Gigi! We're so sorry there's nothing for you, everyone seemed to be extra hungry this morning..."
Gigi sighed, "It's alright, I could get something from the fridge..." She walked over to the fridge as the Salted Caramel Sprout, and the Caramel Drizzle Cosmo walked over to one of the empty tables and began to pick up the plates that were left behind by the other toons. She opened the door, and was unfortunately met with a mostly empty fridge, "Jesus, Sprout wasn't lying..."
"GIGI!" Suddenly, a regular Poppy ran over to the hungry capsule, "I saved you a waffle, since I noticed you were late this morning." She pulled out a small plate with a waffle that was surprisingly still warm.
"Oh, awesome! Thanks, Poppy, I'm starving." Gigi grabbed the plate and started to eat the waffle, not caring that the syrup was getting all over her hands.
"Yeah, no problem girl. By the way, we're going on an expedition today, I heard from one of the Finns we're going with that we're going all the way to floor 25!"
Gigi nearly choked on her waffle, "25?! Is Dandy trying to kill us??"
"Woah, calm down! I thought you'd actually be excited to go down that far!" Poppy crossed her arms, "I mean, think about it! Do you know anyone here who has been down that deep?"
"I've heard rumors that Cosmic Signal Vee has been to floor 37..." Gigi rolled her eyes.
"Oh come on! Those are just rumors, have you even TALKED to Cosmic?"
Gigi crossed her arms and glanced away awkwardly.
Poppy took Gigi's hand, "Come on, we're gonna be leaving here in a moment! If we're not down there quick enough, then they're gonna get 2 other toons to go with them."
"Whatever... let's go." Gigi got dragged by Poppy over to the elevator and up to the lobby. There, they met with an Alpha Sleeper Rodger, a Starry Night Astro, a Prismatic Pal Finn, a regular Finn, a Vintage Shelly, and a regular Sprout.
"Hey! Glad to know you guys made it." Sprout smiled.
"We were about to go grab two of the Star-Times to come with us, so you're lucky." Rodger said.
Gigi smirked, "Really? Last I checked the Star-Time Toons went on expeditions with space-themed Toons only."
Shelly giggled, and Rodger looked away in embarrassment. Finn ran into the elevator, "Well, no time to waste! Let's go!"
Everyone else entered the elevator, and as soon as everyone was ready, the doors shut and they were on their way down into the facilities.
The hum of the elevator was all the toons heard. That was until Poppy started talking, "So, did you guys hear about what happened to Partygoer Goob?"
"No, what happened?" Prismatic asked, curious.
"I heard from Cloudy Dream Boxten that he apparently Twisted while on an Expedition." Poppy responded.
"Aww, that must suck for Pastel Paper Scraps..." Vintage Shelly said sympathetically.
"Another Toon lost to the Ichor I see... I'm sure a new one will be made in his place soon." Rodger lowered his head a bit in respect.
"I wonder what he'll even be like..." Finn wondered.
Suddenly, the elevator came to a stop, and the doors opened. Gigi and Poppy walked out into the Center and looked around, spotting things on the floor, and something caught Gigi's attention...
"Ooh, what's this?" Gigi picked up a blank piece of paper, flipping it she found a drawing of a kid and Partygoer Goob.
Poppy looked over at what Gigi found, "Awh, that kid would've been so sad knowing Partygoer's gone..."
Gigi nodded sadly, "Mhm..."
They continued on their way, finding two machines right next to each other. They ran over to them, and started extracting from them. Rather quickly, the other machines were done, and the elevator door opened again, and everyone ran back to get down to the next floor.
The process repeats, and repeats, and repeats, until the Toons reach Floor 12. Gigi picks up a research Capsule and looks at the tapes around them. The sight of multiple frames of Cosmo on the tapes told Gigi that Twisted Cosmo was on this floor.
The Toons walk around, looking for the machines, and extracting from them, when suddenly...
Gigi is ambushed.
She was cornered by both Cosmo and Teagan, and killed.
When Poppy heard this, she was devastated.
She'd never see her friend again.
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Retained Information | Dandys World AU
FanficToon skins count as seperate souls. Each skin has their own life, their own personality. But they're still the same toon. Everytime a toon falls to the Ichor, a new one is made in their place, but the blueprints for each one doesn't have every detai...
