Lone Survivor

10

The elevator doors open and Dandy and Astro slowly walked out. Dandy pulled out the spy glass to look around. I first heard couldn't find any twisted but the he noticed the capsule.

Rodger.

But he couldn't find anyone else..... that was weird usually there would be at least two twisted at a time.....why only one?

"Looks like Rodger is the only one on this floor. Just don't touch the capsule and we will be fine." The flower said.

(Rodger's fake capsule is the only capsule in this story. So Rodger thinks he's being sneaky and smart but really he's just being dumbass)

The floor the two friends were on was the gift shop floor. So Astro had to get used to see all of these small toys of himself. The gift shop was a very creepy place because Astro swore head heard faint screams of people, but when he look to Dandy the flower just kept walking because he didn't hear it.

They past by some shelves with stuff plushies of the main toons. Astro saw himself, Dandy, the tv whose name he remembers being Vee, a strawberry, a rock pup, and the shell he remembers being named Shelly.

(Note: twisteds forget things easily. So bake in early chapters Astro has seen them as cardboard cutouts but as time went on he forgot about it. The reason why he remembers Vee and Shelly's names is because of the flash back he had a chapter ago. Each memory he remembers will stay in his head but if he didn't have a memory flash back about it, he will forgot it. All twisteds are like this.)

(That was a long note sorry)

"Hey how come Shelly has so many plushies of herself? Was she the most popular?" The moon asked. Dandy turned around to the shelf.

"Actually she wasn't..... the reason why there are so many plushies here is because people didn't want to buy them..... a lot of people didn't know her character sadly."

"Well that's not fair."

"I know.....life isn't fair sometimes."

The two of them looked at the plushies for a moment longer before hearing something fall over. Both quickly turned around and Astro gave a low growl.

They slowly went to where they heard the noise. Dandy told Astro that if they run into a twisted they should try to stun them for a minute while also not hurting them too much. While he said he would respect Dandy's wish he wasn't too happy with the idea of the flower getting hurt.

More things in the distance fell over whoever this was they weren't being sneaky about it. As soon as they got to the area things were thrown at them. Various merch came towards them whether it was plushies, headbands, shoes, and more the two quickly moved out of the way.

And the person throwing things at them....

It was a mirror....

All of them just stared at each other. The mirror was hesitant to get closer and was more trying to protect himself rather than trying to kill them. Astro's mind told him that the mirror was not going to hurt them so he mostly calmed down. Dandy on the other hand was silent just for a moment......before yelling something and running into the mirror's arms.

"Glisten you're alive!!!!!!!!!"

Astro let out a worried chirped as Dandy just hug tackle into the mirror.

Glisten blinked for a moment looked at the Dandy face full of confusion. He clearly didn't expect it.

"Dandy? Is that you?"

"Yes! It's me! You remember me!"

"And is that Astro there?"

Astro gave a small wave. He didn't know how this guy knew his name, maybe they knew each other?

Dandy was still hugging him not noticing the mirror's appearance. Glisten's face was cracking with one side almost gone and just like Astro before his body was cracking with ichor dripping out.

"Okay you can let go now. You've got a stronger grip now I see."

Dandy let go, "oh heh sorry I'm just really happy to see you! And.... Oh my god what happened to you?!"

"Well you know stuff happened and now I'm like this.... I really don't want to talk about it. But my, my,  Astro you got.... Taller...."

Astro didn't say anything.

"Hey Dandy is Astro okay?"

"Oh um well....as you can see he's kind of..."

"Twisted?"

"Yeah... that.... And he can't really remember much of anything... so he probably doesn't know who you are."

Glisten gave a sad frown. Most twisteds were like this. He was lucky that he didn't lose his memory. Well if he was going to start over with Astro he might as well, he wasn't the nicest in the past mostly being self centered and only caring about himself and his looks. But after..... everything he feels like he should have done better as a person. He was still surprised by Dandy still seeing him as a friend and Dandy still remembers the past.

He held out his hand to the moon. "Well then hello there my name is Glisten I'm a mirror you see."

Astro shook it, "I'm Astro.... I'm a moon.... I think?"

Dandy was happy he had two friends back! Oh wait he should ask Glisten a question. "Hey Glisten do you know how this all happened because we don't really know."

Glisten froze, looking nervously before saying, "sorry I don't know ether."

"Oh that's too bad.... I was hoping you knew..."

"Sorry....."

"But anyway we are about done on this floor and you can come with us! The more the better. And it's probably more safer up in the lobby than down here."

"That sounds nice.... Wasn't really sure how much longer I would last down here."

"Astro you ok with this. I know you don't really know him but I'm going to need you to trust me on this!"

Astro gave a thumbs up with all four of his hands. The flower let out a happy cheer as he grabbed both of his friend's hands to lead them both back to the elevator.

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Glisten was sitting beside the tree in the main lobby. Dandy had put bandages on his cracks on his body and face and the mirror was already feeling better than before. He wasn't sure how long he was going to last if he was still down there alone. He felt like if he stayed down there a little longer he'd would have twisted and lose himself.

He looked over at one of the posters of Dandy that was hung up......

Should he tell him?

No, it would break him.

He would hate himself.

He couldn't tell him....

That Dandy himself was the reason that everyone was like this.

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What a twist!

Also joyride has joined just to third wheel them.