Shattered Mirror

Chapter 9: Flower with a shotgun gun

[Warning: Contains gun violence, a broken leg, and Shrimpo x Goob]

Shrimpo was known to always take things for granted, like not wanting a cookie from Cosmo, or that one time where he trashed Vee's game show stage because he got an answer wrong, or maybe it was when he thought he could out run and distract a demonic flower twisted while Goob gets his stamina back. Oh wait, that's the situation he was in right now.

"HOW DO YOU-*wheeze* DO THIS FOR FIVE MINUTES STRAIGHT GOOB?" Shrimpo wheezed out as his stamina bar dropped to the negatives. "ARGH JUST HURRY UP WITH RESTING!! MY STAMINA IS DROPPING TO THE NEGATIVES!! I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW IF THAT WAS POSSIBLE!" Goob sighed and stopped extracting from the machines, "Ok ok Shrimpy, I'll start distracting." Shrimpo stopped running to catch his breath. "FINALL-" Shrimpo felt a something shove towards him fast, and everything goes black....

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Shrimpo felt soft fur on his cheek as he came too, the blurry outline of red and blue furry claws made him recognize the person who was carrying him to be Goob. "Oh! Thank glue you're ok Shrimpo! Dandy kinda ran you over and knocked you out so now we're being chased by him! The others are finishing up on the machines." Shrimpo mumbled a 'thank you' before trying to get down from Goobs grip. A searing hot pain erupted from Shrimpo's leg and he let out a yowl.

"OW OW OW!!! MY LEG!!!!" Shrimpo looked down at his leg to see a bandage wrapped around his ankle. Goob clicked his tongue as he turned a corner with Dandy and Shelly hot on his trail, "Yeah you broke your leg during...that but I patched it up for you." Goob sprinted around some boxes and picked up a soda before chugging it to get more stamina.

Shrimpo blinked tiredly, he tuned out Goob's heavy breathing and listened to his heartbeat. In a way, it soothed him, made him ignore the pain in his leg. "Can we stop chasing them? I'm soooo tired!" Shrimpo blinked out of his dazed state and looked behind Goob's shoulder, did they, the twisteds who gurgle and make weird sounds just speak English?

Dandy muttered back at Shelly, "Not yet, Just a few more feet and Pebble will jump at them, just a few more feet to keep them running right into our trap." {Only Shrimpo can hear the conversation}. Shrimpo's eyes widened, he can actually understand them! But how? "GOOB STOP! STOP RUNNING!" Goob looked down at him and raised an eyebrow, "Wha-" Pebble jumped at them and everything goes blurry for a second.

Shrimpo felt himself skid across the floor and his back hit the wall. Goob went flying and hit his head on a pipe before he slid down the wall into a sitting position, Shrimpo gritted his teeth and let out a shaky exhale from the pain in his leg. "Y-YOU OK GOOB?" Goob groaned and rubbed the bump on his head, "Hunky dory Shrimpy, hunky dory...." Shrimpo looked up to face Dandy, Shelly, and Pebble. All of them with a sadistic smirk on their face.

"Well, well, well. The shrimp and fluffy craft ready to die. Any last words?" Goob looked at the shaking shrimp and pulled him into a hug. "Before we die, I want to do this one time." Before Shrimpo can react, Goob's lips connected with Shrimpo's. For a moment, Shrimpo's mind goes blank. When they both pulled away for a breath, he stared at Goob in awe. "Aww, they kissed! That's so sweet! Can we keep them?" Shelly asked Dandy while trying to give him puppy eyes. "Wha-No! We're supposed to kill them-You know what? Pebble, sick 'em."

Pebble let out a growl and positioned himself to pounce. Goob hugged Shrimpo tightly and closed his eyes, Shrimpo buried his face into Goob's chest fur and hugged him tightly as well. BANG! BANG! Shrimpo opened his eyes to see Pebble writhing in pain with two gun shots to his head. Original Dandy was in front of them, wielding a shot gun with small flower patterns dancing around it.

"Get the hell away from my Garden View crew." Dandy commanded the twisteds as he reloaded the gun with bullets. His body was slightly splattered with Pebble's Ichor blood. Pebble whined and scurried away, droplets of ichor trialed behind him. "Goob, the final machine is close to the elevator. Finish it and get the others to the elevator. Near my shop is a lever, it keeps the door open. If I don't come back in five minutes, close the door." "B-but what about—" "I'll hold them off, GO!"

Goob grabbed Shrimpo again and ran off to the last machine, gun shots and loud roars echoed through the halls. Shrimpo could've sworn he heard the sounds of 'Dandy' yelling at Shelly to fall back. Shrimpo closed his eyes for a second before the alarm for the elevator started to blare, Rodger, Boxten, Cosmo, Sprout, and Vee were all inside the elevator as Goob ran in towards a lever. He waited a minute, two minutes, four minutes...thankfully, Dandy ran inside, splatters of ichor stained parts of his body and shotgun. "Everyone here?" Everyone murmured in conformation.

"Alright, meds are on the house for Shrimpo and Goob." He jumped over the counter and grabbed a bandage before putting it on Goob's bruise. "Goob give Shrimpo to me ok?" Goob pecked Shrimpo on the forehead, earning an 'ooooooooo~ They're in love~' from Vee, He handed Shrimpo to Dandy and he began to look over his injury. "Oh god....." Dandy went pale as he wrapped up the leg. "WHAT? WHAT'S WRONG?!" "Shrimpo....you're leg injury made you infected with ichor.....you're partially infected."

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Chapter 10 comes soon, I also started 'Piggy's world' au Chapter 1, it's in the drafts right now but soon it will be finished! Also we are nearing 1,000 reads on this story! Thank you for all the support and love!

Edit: CHOOSE YOUR CHARACTER is out! Please vote on who will be the main character in Piggy's world au, Rodger or Glisten? If you can't find the book just go to my profile, the cover is Alpha sleeper Rodger