In the depths of Gardenview, the astronomy museum also known as Astro's room is consumed by darkness of a blackout, is hard to see anything in the naked eye, a distorted music box and heavy steps can be heard in the distance.
A blue glow could be seen in darkness, rushing past the boxes and unfinished areas of the museum to a dusted solar sistem, away from the sound if the music box to gather his stamina.
Astro looked at his surroundings before pulling something out from his blanket with his star magic, a video tape, a light reflection from his glow caught his attention from the tape and looked up, the doorknob of the door with the "staff only" sign, he gave no second thought and rushed to the door praying that it was left unlocked.
And it was
Relief washed over him knowing that it was open but it was quickly taken away when the distorted music came closing on his way, he immediately entered the room and quietly closed the door.
Astro waited a few moments before pressing his back to the door and sliding down to the floor, he forgot to breath for a second from fear of being found by him, but can anything change if he was caught? He glanced down pulling his upper right hand out from his blanket.
The ichor in his hand was already consuming him, he didn't have much time.
He needed to hide that tape!
He looked around at the staff room for a hiding place for the video tape, the place looked more like a break room for the staff to take a break and eat something, anywhere could be easy to find the tape!
Before he could lose hope, he saw something in the corner of his eye in one of the tables, there is a lonely masking tape sitting abandoned at the table, that gave Astro an idea, he grabbed the Masking tape and walked to one of the kitchen drawers, the toon opened a drawer and sticked the video tape on the ceiling, he made sure it was sticked in place and looked at certain angles making sure it was hard to see the tape.
He closed the drawer and stood up from where he was kneeled, a wave of dizziness coming out of nowhere as he stumbled to the left, he managed to caught himself holding himself from a table close by 'oh god, im about to turn into one of them' Astro tough terrified of his fate.
Astro stepped out of the "staff only" room and began to walk aimlessly at the museum 'did i do the right thing? Was that tape really worth the trouble?' he was beginning to doubt himself, he later stopped and looked up, he was infront of the Astro themed elevator, of course it wasn't working, you needed to extract ichor to make it work again, but judging on his situation now there was no going back.
All he could do now is to pray that his remake and other toons remakes would find an end to this madness his former friend did.
Astro was so overwhelmed of guilt and sorrow that he didn't noticed the huge presence behind him.
"You shouldn't have interfered, Astro"
...
Astro woke up startled, he was in his room in bed 'just a dream' he reassured himself, but he couldn't shake the feeling that it was something important.
He was snapped out of his thoughts when something small and HEAVY landed on him making him almost lose all of his air from his lungs, he looked to see pebble sitting on him, waging it's tail, Dandy had asked Astro to look after his pet rock while he was busy.
It wasn't hard to take care of pebble on Dandy's behalf but it can sometimes be a handful, especially when he is trying to take a nap, pebble would bother him until he would agree to play with him or the pet rock just wanting a snack, its easier for Astro to take pebble to Toodles to play, those two would play for hours.
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