Emma's Short Stories

Once Upon a Cog

*Note: This specific pairing is from the legendary online world of Toontown. A wonderful game to play of you are interested. It had been going on for years (since 2003) and was shut down by Disney in 2013, but a group of fans built it back up and made, Toontown Rewritten. Look it up, it's amazing! If you get confused about some of the things mentioned in this story, I suggest this link: http://toontown.wikia.com/wiki/Sellbots It will help you with everything you need to know.*

Mr. Hollywood POV

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Toontown was always a place we hated. My ancestors have hated it for as long as I can remember... Or at least that's what the VP told me when I was created. The life of a Mr. Hollywood is a prideful life. We are top cogs in the sellbot world. One of our kind is even second in command.

One day, I was walking down Lullaby Lane in Donald's Dreamland, ugh, what kind of name is that? These toons are so disgusting. But what I saw that night on the street made the lane shine brighter that it ever had before.

She was beautiful. Lavender colored hair trimmed neatly around her face. A gorgeous wide smile. One of her eyes was gone, but that didn't make any difference for the other was lovely. She looked straight ahead with a seductive stare being created that way. I smiled bigger after experiencing such a wonder. No enemies were on the street so I walked back around and followed her. She turned around herself and looked my way. It was love at first sight. I walked right up to her and stiffly reached out my hand to slowly grab hers. She looked at me with that pretty smile and mechanically gripped my hand as well as she could.

From that day on, we spent every day together. Fortunately, we never ran into any toons and were always on the safest streets.

One day, that boss man called me in,

"We're at war son," he said gruffly, "The toons have crossed the line! One pig got into my office! My OFFICE!"

"What are we going to do sir?"

"What do you mean, 'What are we gonna do?' We're gonna FIGHT!!" He said crossly.

"Of course sir." I said in a firm tone.

He continued, "And I need you in the front line with other faithful cogs."

"But sir!" I exclaimed, thinking about my love. Getting a stern glance from my superior in return, I sighed and said, "Yes sir, of course," then walked solemnly out of his office.

I told my love the bad news. She requested to be one of the chosen cogs to fight. I refused, but she held fast. out of my weakness for her, I consented, but only if she would stay in the back. She agreed. I went forth to find and choose other brave and faithful comrades.

We had an army. We were off to war.

We were to storm on Silly Street for it was the closest street to our Headquarters whilst still being in Tonntown Central. It must have been a pretty day by toon standards but didn't look that way to me. I was used to gray skies and I liked it that way.

Just like I said, I positioned my love as far back as I could. I obviously didn't want her getting killed. I charged, along with my army, down the street. The toons didn't expect us and we ended up stealing a lot of gags and sending many sad toons back to the playground. Until they came back...Prepared. They were low toons, but must have word gotten around Toontown and they sent reinforcements in from stronger areas. We were soon overpowered.

A large laughed cat snagged a battle against my love. A situation I had hoped would remain uncovered. I watched in heated anxiety, while trying to concentrate on my own battle. I saw her life light go from green to red. I needed to help her, but could do nothing. I just watched her while the toon in front of me, smacked me with another pie. The tension was unbearable. My love's battle had come to a pause, but I saw the look of determination in her violet eyes. She thought she could win. Her naive strength made me long for her. I wanted to save her and would give anything to have this fulfilled. But all my craving was in vain and nothing I could do would help.

Another pie to the face, but I was still alive. When I opened my eyes again, my love was spinning and squeezing. With one last longing look towards me, she was gone in an explosion of gears.

Gone...

We hadn't a lot of time together. Didn't get to pour out our love to one another. But we were machines and didn't have much love to give in the first place. Though, we did love each other however impossible it might have seemed. With a look of horror on the inside of me, I didn't realize my own spinning and compressing. I looked around me, shut my eyes, and let the heat of my exploding body take over and drag me in darkness.