Shattered Mirror

Chapter 11: The alliance part 2

[One hour ago...]

{Rodger pov}

Dandy came down to floor 12 covered in ichor and bullet holes, Shelly followed suit with the same condition. My eyebrow raised as he stormed over to me. "You, Brightney, Vee, and Astro. Floor 14: Now." "What-" "DID I FUCKING STUTTER RODGER?! I SAID NOW." I threw my hands up and scurried to the elevator, the others were inside with me. The elevator closed and we went up. As usual, we were at floor 14 before the toons so we had time to position ourselves. Brightney walked around while looking at the dusty spines of books, I went into my capsule form and blended in with a normal capsule next to me, Vee and Astro did their own little thing and we waited....a few hours later, my capsule shattered, releasing me to kill the unfortunate toon that had mistaken me for a research capsule. To my surprise, Boxten appeared in my vision, his eyes were squeezed shut like he didn't want to see his own death.

Before Glisten went into this 'depression phase', he would yap on about what it was like in Garden view. Apparently, original Pebble was a cute little dog and most of the toons were nice (Except Shrimpo but he isn't barbaric as the twisted version is). He would especially yap on about Boxten, a shy, slightly adorable musicbox toon that had that look of a harmless puppy, sometimes Glisten would stare off into dreamland while describing him. And he wasn't wrong, Boxten really did have that kind of puppy dog look. A bit pathetic but really adorable. He cracked open his eyes a little bit to look at me in confusion, "Y-you're not going to k-kill me?" He slowly sat up, the confusion and slowness debuff wore off. My eye narrowed as he ran away, dodging Brightney's swipe while doing so. Brightney ran up to me and scoffed, "What were you doing?? You're supposed to kill him 'wise guy'." "I-I don't know.....it doesn't feel right anymore..." "Well you better stop growing soft and start killing." Brightney stormed off, as soon as she was out of sight however, I stepped out of my fake capsule and ran towards a machine. From my observation, the toons spin the red wheel and do a skill check. So I did just that, it was hard I must admit, my hands were coated in ichor which made it hard to get a good grip on the wheel. Soon though, I got the hang of doing the machines and finished it! My hands felt sore from gripping the wheel too hard but I felt mainly ok.

I saw Shrimpo sitting near the elevator door, his face looked flushed and weak, must've been infected...I started towards him before I felt a cold piece of metal press against my glass, it was a shotgun...Dandy held the gun in his hand, his finger itching the trigger, "You step the hell away from the shrimp or you're having a nice hole in your head, got it?" I stuttered out, even if he couldn't understand me. "L-look, I want to form an alliance with you! Ok?" To my surprise, Shrimpo rasped out, "H-he wants to form an alliance with you." "You understand me?" "Yeah, I do. I guess I was infected enough to hear you twisteds speak English." Dandy looked at Shrimpo like he belonged in a loony bin, "You understand twisteds now???" "YES OK?!" Shrimpo let out a cough and spat out ichor. "Ugh...my insides feel like lead..." Dandy sighed, "Ok Twisted Rodger..." My eye twitched in annoyance, "...I'll believe what Shrimpo said about you wanting an alliance, but if you dare such as hurt anyone in the elevator, I'll make sure you'll have a taste of my bullet. Got it?" I nodded quickly and scurried into the elevator when the others were inside. Everyone was standing in a corner away from me like I was the plague, which I don't blame them, it's not everyday where you would see a twisted riding with you in the elevator. I just hope Glisten is doing ok."

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{Glisten's pov}

I felt so hungry, usually Toodles would sneak me a snack here and there but that had slowed to a stop. Everything hurts, my eye started to feel heavy, the world turning blurry. So this is it...Glisten the mirror, became a twisted and died of starvation...I rest my head on the cold floor before the door clicked open and light poured into the closet, I let out a confused grunt as a familiar voice called to me.

"Glisten?"

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Chapter 12 coming soon everyone! Also I'm working on The Mental Project chapter 3 so hold on!