a fixed hope

Chapter 1: calming dipsy

Once tinky and walten had themselves situated and the mysterious blue furred tubby sitting on the base of the slide the two took in how banged up he was. He had a black eye around his right eye, bandages completely covered both his arms along with the lower portion of his legs; his clothes were in a similar state with his shirt being that badly torn walten had to give the guy one of his spares to cover him up and to give him to well needed warmth that cloths provided along with their fur. Looking at each other for a moment walten nodded to tinky who rushed off to the small kitchen to make some food that wasn't infected custard since they didn't want an infected tubby running around inside the house trying to kill them, back with walten and the blue tubby things were pretty calm; walten had re-wrapped all the bandages putting them on more securely and once that was done walten handed him his water bottle because from how they first met, chances were that this tubby was exhausted and dehydrated.

"So now that you've taken a moment to catch your breath, care to explain who you are and why you was running?" questioned walten
"Well i'll start from the beginning, from one year ago when the infection outbreak first started. Oh and sorry for not introducing myself earlier, the names ron" answered the blue tubby, now known as ron
"Alright ron, so what happened then?"
"Right. As i was saying last year when i was working in the satellite station during the start of the outbreak, i wasn't aware of what was going off until i came across this green furred teletubby with no head killing everyone of my colleges with this rusted chainsaw we had in the store room"
"Green fur and headless? I wonder if that's..."
"After it killed the last one it turned to face me as if it knew i was there and started to run towards me, that's when i slammed the metal door shut and locked it, barricade myself in the store room which luckily had enough food and drink to last me over a year"
"That's good for you i guess"
"Yeah it was, anyway after that and the year past; things were quiet so i left the store room to explore only to trip over the green tubby which was just laying on the floor, after i got up so did and proceeded to chase me and i knew this was the only suitable place near the station"

"Wow that... must have been hard"

"Yeah it was, though when i was running here and had some ground between me and it tripped over something on the floor and put it in my bag"

After mentioning the bag and item ron handed his bag over to walten just as tinky was coming back over with a bottle of water along with some food that wasn't infected; while tinky gave ron the food and spoke with him some walten had placed the bag on the tablet and proceeded to open it and take out the cloth covered item that seemed the same size as welten's head which concerned him. Setting it down on the table he then proceeded to remove the cover from the item which started to uncover green fur along with a dipstick antenna, this alone started to worry walten as he continued to lift the cloth and when he fully removed the cloth he let out a yell of shock at the dark tanned face, green furred head of dipsy,his ears with cocked to the side and his eyes were looking up at him showing that they were black with green irises similer to how tinky's eyes used to be. When ron and tinky noticed that walten had gone still they looked at each other in confusement before tinky started to approach before jumping in shock seeing the head of his brother sitting there on the table, tinky could only stare on in shock while dipsy looked at the two looking down at him, unaware of the fact his head was separated from his body. Just as dipsy opened his mouth to say something tinky had rushed outside quickly along with a long length of rope for what the others couldn't guess, however their question was soon answered when tinky came back in carrying the green furred headless tubby over his shoulder with them tied up while he held them along with his other hand holding the chainsaw the headless tubby was previously holding.

Seeing the headless tubby inside ron let out a girlish scream before hiding behind walten who quickly adapted an annoyed look on his face, both seemed to forget the head that was behind them for a moment before said head let out a startled yell at seeing the headless body; looking down at dipsy's head walten could see the pure shock and fear on his face but he couldn't blame dipsy for having that kind of reaction, anyone would at seeing their own decapitated body. Looking back at tinky the white tubby nodded at him which was followed by tinky setting the green furred headless tubby down on a chair before promptly getting tied to said chair, going to his bag walten retrieved a needle, thread and a roll of bandages; once he had the items walten returned to the trio while threading the needle and sterilizing it as to not cause infection. Once he was back he looked at tinky who quickly got the jist of what walten wanted before proceeding to pick up his brother's head and hold it on his neck where it was severed, with the head being held in place walten then proceeded to stitch dipsy's head back onto his body so that the poor tubby didn't lose his head if he ever put it on without the stitches; by the time walten was done dipsy now had his head reattached and had bandages wrapped around the neck to hide the area along with the stitches to hopefully aid in whatever healing dipsy may have, stepping back everyone was on edge at what dipsy would do now that his head was reattached yet no one was expecting this!

Without warning dipsy rushed at walten before wrapping his arms around him in a strong hug as the green furred tubby, while infected, was taller and muscular than the "non infected" tubbies in the room and if you were to listen closely you could even hear dipsy purring as he hugged the white tubby; both ron and tinky could only look on in shock at what happened after everyone had backed up, seems dipsy somehow broke the rope tying him to the chair before he was able to hug walten in what the others believed to be a thanks. While dipsy was occupied hugging walten he didn't see tinky digging through walten's bag before removing his hand while holding a syringe filled with the cure to the virus that was in the custard supply, walking as quietly as the purple tubby could he snuck up behind his green furred brother before shoving the syringe into his back and injecting the cure into him; the action from receiving the cure caused dipsy to yell in shock and drop walten from the pain of getting the injection. After getting dropped and backing up to tinky walten could only watch as dipsy started to get shorter as well as lose a little of his extra muscle, his fur colour lightened except on the lower portion of his arms and legs, his skin also lighten a little but was still a deep tan compared to his brother and finally when he opened his eyes his corneas were back to being white and his irises were once again a vibrant blue.

"Dipsy? Are you.... Are you ok now?" questioned tinky as he came around to the front of his brother

"Yeah i'm fine tinky, why wouldn't i be?" asked dipsy
"Well.... You had died by my hands after we all got infected from something that's in the custard and you lost your head here and you..."
"All i can remember is seeing my own decapitated body being held over your shoulder, before that i was always in some kind of cloth"

"Oh, well anyway you left the mainland leaving your head here and attacked the workers inside the satellite station where you then chased ron, that blue tubby there; here to the mainland"
"I.... i killed other tubbies?"

"Well yeah when you weren't yourself to be exact"

"If i was infected and headless how am i back to myself now?"

"You can thank walten, who was our guardian he created a cure for the virus"
"We had a guardian?"
"Yeah, from what he told me all guardian's are created with white fur and put in charge of a group of tubbies like walten was with us"
"Huh"

When things had eventually quieted down between the two brothers who they looked over to see walten trying to restrain ron who had reopened his wounds from his momentary freak out at seeing dipsy walking and talking again as he hadn't expected the cure to truly work; shaking their heads at ron and walten currently struggling for control that they didn't see dipsy going to the kitchen to make some food that wasn't custard, walten however did see tinky walking over with bandages and was able to get ron back under control while also restraining him so that tinky could get to work on re-wrapping his bandages. By the time walten and tinky were done restraining and re-wrapping ron's bandages they finally noticed that dipsy was missing from the main area of the house, letting ron up the other two proceeded to search for dipsy but couldn't find him anywhere, not even the kitchen.