Need a hug? (Hatefulhugs fanfic)

23: Bubblecraft contribution

~!! CONTAINS (MILD?) GORE AND (MILD?) VIOLENCE !!~

Scraps' POV:

Will people stop bugging me nonstop?? I have NOTHING to do with Goob loving Shrimpo, it just happened! And now that their romance is in the wild, people are thinking of more romance stuff... meaning me and Poppy. I-I mean, we're not like... y'know... like like? Are we? As soon as I get up out of bed, I realize the room is empty. And finally complete. Poppy and I did most of the work, but Goob and Shrimpo did a lot too. It looks amazing! 

"So, what do you want to do now?" Poppy asks. I nearly fell back on the bed again. Since when was she there? "Oh, I just came by to visit." She replies. Oh- I said that out loud?

"Uh- yeah, but you could've knocked first." I say. She shrugs. 

"Of course, but there's an exciting adventure for us!" 

"There is?"

"Did you NOT SEE?!"

"See... what?"

"A few days ago, Dandy put up some posters for an everyone run!" I blink. Really? Everyone- but that's more than eight people...? "Well, Dandy will let this slide this time." Oh my gosh, I got to keep my mouth shut. Maybe I'm too tired. 

"Hold on, I'm gonna go splash some water on my face real quick." I say, and dash to the bathroom. 

"But you're a cat and made of paper... nevermind." I hear her say before I close the door. I splash some water on my face, stare at the mirror to determine whether I like her or not, then go back to Poppy. 

"Ready!" I chirp. She grins, and pulls me to the elevator. 

"Let's go!!" She exclaims. Soon enough, all of us got in the elevator, as the seconds ticked down.

Goob's POV:

"I'll help you." I whisper to Shrimpo as the elevator crowds with toons. 

"Thanks." He whispers back. We got to pick our trinkets, and I was surprised when Shrimpo picked brick... well... not really surprised, since this is his trinket. We got in, and decided Pebble was distracting, with Flutter, Tisha, and I being backups. Cosmo and Sprout were the healers, and the rest of us were just extractors. With most of the mains having Veemote, we got to floor 10 pretty quickly. But that's when things went wrong. From across the map, all of us heard Pebble yelp with the unmistakable sound of him getting hit.

"Oh no..." Brightney whispers next to me. She accidentally fails a skillcheck because of this, and Twisted Connie gets her. 

"Brightney! You okay-" I begin to help her when we heard yet again another toon getting hit. This was going horrible. We heard another toon getting hit, and that's when I knew it was Shrimpo. I ran to where the noises were coming from, and saw Shrimpo trying to outrun the twisteds. I ran towards him, picked him up, and hid us. I examine him. "Are you alright..?" Shrimpo rolls his eyes.

"I'm fine. It's just me at one heart, it'll be fine." He sighs. I look at his injuries. 

"More like not fine. You have ichor all over you!" I yelp. Shrimpo stands up. 

"I'm gonna be fine, and- WATCH OUT!" I dodge the twisted attack that was coming for me. As soon as I dodged, Shrimpo threw the brick at the twisted. I watch, horrified. It screeched and growled for a while, and then its motions slowed down... and finally it was dead. Or... what seemed dead, for twisteds. I drew a shaky breath. "Sorry." Shrimpo apologizes.

"Nono... it's fine... you did that to protect me." I tell myself those words to convince myself. Not working as well as I'd hoped, though. I stare at the mutilated corpse in front of Shrimpo and I. "Did you really have to do that though?"

"Uh- I wasn't going to watch you lose one of your hearts." He huffs. I grin. 

"Well, I've always got a heart for you~" I coon. Shrimpo punches me in the arm. 

"Stop that!! Let's just get back to the elevator." I nod, and piggyback ride him. 

Poppy's POV:

Ooh boy, this was the farthest floor I've ever gotten to! Floor 20, wow!!! And with Scraps! I've got to admit that I kinda do like her... I guess this is what all of these "shippers" wanted. Did I use it right? Ehh I probably did. And I found this weird name... I guess all of these "ships" have names too? Like uhh... Goob and Shrimpo have multiple. Also if you ship some people you put an "x" in between their names. Take Goob X Shrimpo. Shrimpo X Goob. Hatefulhugs. Angryhugs. Fluffyshrimp. Funny how the internet comes up with these things. 

"Poppy c'mere!!" Goob yells to me as he hugs me in. I thank him as Dandy's shop appears. 

"You can't be holding onto those tapes forever now... Come on, look at my selection!" Dandy says. I look at his items, and immediately look away. There's no WAY I'm spending my 348 tapes on Pop, Protein Bar, and Stealth Candy when I already have a med!! Besides, those are kinda trash items. No one buys, though. He departs with a "Was it something I said?" as his shop closes. 

"Poppy, can I talk to you for a sec?" Scraps asks as soon as floor 14 appears. 

"Totally!" I reply. We walk to the broken elevator and hide in a corner. 

"So..." she begins. I can't help but think how FREAKING CLOSE SHE IS TO ME. She takes a deep breath. "I've been thinking about... stuff..."

"What kind of stuff?" I ask. I wonder if I sound too innocent. "You can tell me anything."

"I don't know how to word this Poppy." She sighs. I notice that she's blushing. Oh! "I- I like you... like like you..."

"R-really?" I stammer. Oh gosh doing this actually is much more painful than reading manga. I fumble around with words and just settle on the classic. "Me- Me too? I kinda figured this out recently though-"

"Me too!" Scraps giggles. She gets closer to me OH MY GOSH. I lean in and kiss her. We stay there for a minute and pull back. 

"Sh-Should we get back? Nine out of fourteen machines are completed." I suggest. She nods.

"Good idea. Uh- love you?" 

"Love you too!" I respond. I hug her as we walk back to the elevator.

(YAY BUBBLECRAFT IS FINALLY HEREEE AND I HAVE WINTER BREAKKK)

(I will freaking kill anyone who brags to me about Shelly. I have 99 research on her. I AM SO CLOSE TO MY DREAM TOON WAHHHHHHH Shelly deserves more love <3)

(Yesterday was the best day ever I got my new highest floor, floor 20 (I'm a noob ik) and I got 7% Sprout research, 7% Pebble research, and 8% Shelly research YIPPEE)