Chaotic Hangouts

We Aren't Comfortable Around Red Hatters

Chaotic Hangouts

Chapter 35: We Aren't Comfortable Around Red Hatters

Date: November 28th, 2024

So.. Uhh.. Today happened.. First it was, watching nearly everyone I love and care for die, be brought back to life, and coordinate with millions of pissed off civilians to drive Nacirema off of Yappa Yappa's home planet Bakatoa. Ever since Yappa Yappa was reformed, a lot of visits to his home planet have been made and it's people still recall the horrors of the SDL's tyranny committed on it as well as later tyrannical occupations by Pmurt Nedib, Don Thousand, and some others for brief times. There is no trusting a state anymore in many worlds. Once a state legitimizes a tyrant, it's all over for it. Bakatoa's planetary government almost did that but luckily, the would be tyrant whose name will die in obsurity was assassinated before that could happen. That has led to a messy division that ended when Nacirema took over the planet and its people rose up in rebellion. Even with our help, many of them lost everything and died. Some BRAINS members will remain on the planet to help with its recovery and the establishment of many outside of state networks and systems that will fully replace the planetary government in full. This is all largely painfully standard stuff, I once thought I was becoming numb to all of the death and destruction. No, I was just suppressing my feelings about it or taking care of coping so quickly that it felt like I was getting numb, the latter happening more so later rather than sooner. Im okay now but it still isnt easy, dealing with all of this death and destruction. Its easy to be numb to it until you see it happen in person before your eyes in graphic detail.

But just as my friends and I were getting to recovering from the latest bloodbath by talking to one another as we have been doing more and more often since the chaos that got Ninjago effectively destroyed completely, something strange happened. We were talking in the newly upgraded underground base most of us call home in Miitopia but thats not whats most important to what ended up happening. No. Carlos teases me: "Hey Swift! I heard youre finally getting a accurate depiction of yourself in that 'undead zombie body' of yours over in your world!" By the point he said this, we all had effectively worked through our feelings and I guess the humor just bounced right back just like that until we next confront tyranny. I sweat drop: "Yeah.. I wish I had my memories of this life in my other body. Otherwise, I wouldnt have ended up in the whole chaos of 'I dont even know what I truly look like in my zombie body.. I NEED A REF SHEET!'. *chuckles nervously* This is what mistake pain feels like, isnt it?! And Im not the only one who has made thousands of mistakes! We all have our fair share of literally catastrophic or just plain bothersome errors. One of these days, we have to tell embarrassment to go put a sock in it like we have been doing to despair. Embarrassment isnt helping our missions in the least. But seriously.. I HAVE SO MANY THINGS TO WANT TO SAY BUT I DONT HAVE THE WORDS TO SAY THEM THROUGH, WHAT A WOOOOOORRRRRRRRLLLLLLDDDDDD!!" As we continued our exchange, we were all teleported somewhere through a mass teleportation incident. The next thing we knew, my friends and I were standing in the world of Charlie Brown.

I blink several times: "Forget cliches. This is real life. Something brought us here but why? Here we are. The hometown of Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and friends. We are out of place here but who really gives a damn about being out of place? The only times that matter are when it ends up causing violence or something like that.." We hear the blabbering of the off screen Charlie Brown adults from various locations. And then, it only gets stranger. A advertisement plays right in our face. I look at it while Dominic quickly works to get rid of it: "WHY IS THERE A DAMN PESKY AD OUT THERE, SHUT THE HELL UP, YOU DAMN AD! I hate advertisements so much! It doesnt matter if theyre in English, Danish, German, or whatever. I hate them. So annoying." Dominic gets rid of the ad and then, Charlie Brown and co encounter us while on the way to something. Linus speaks: "Uhh, who are they? *cuddles security blanket*" For once, Lucy is speechless: "Are they cosplayers or.. *notes my and Herbsalvin's armor clad selves* cartoon characters- No! That's ridiculous!" Charlie Brown replies: "Im just not sure how to feel about them." My friends and I look at each other and then look back at the famous group of friends with very distinct quirks and personalities. This is so very awkward. Fluffy Afro and The Wacky Clowns suddenly appear with some jungle monster chasing after them. Fluffy shouts: "WHY ARE WE STILL RUNNING FROM THEM?!" Pickle Rick Not An Alien replies: "Because its funny and we're wacky! And we have c h a i n s a w s. *pulls out chainsaw* We're going to cut this monster up real nice.. They have fallen for our trap." Sometimes, Im scared of the Wacky Clowns. Sometimes. Pirate Blaster yells: "*shoots the monster with one of his spare weapons: a flintlock gun* Arr! Are we going to have actual discussion or is this just going to keep getting more awkward?!"