(ACT 1) Part 2: Bring Your Umbrella

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Catbug was sleeping, but half of the time he felt awake. He wasn't dreaming, was he? I only had a vision last night. I can't possibly have another one. He thought. He started to fear why he felt awake. But then, he finally realized his surroundings. The diamond room in the Museum of Amino, at night...
The City of Amino had a museum of all the great artifacts they had uncovered. This diamond was one of the most important ones. How big was the diamond? Well, definitely bigger than most diamonds. You can't fit it on a ring of you tried.

Catbug suddenly saw a figure sneaking in. He couldn't make out who it was because it was so dark... When the figure finally got to the diamond, their shape was more clear. Catbug gasped.
"The guy at the coffee shop!" He exclaimed.
The figure looked at Catbug and-
... Oh, I'm awake now? He thought. Is the man going to try to take the diamond?

Hours passed at work, and nobody came, once again. Catbug had to tell someone about his visions.. He decided it would be a good idea to tell Stabby.
Catbug quickly walked to the coffee shop he was at yesterday. He opened the door, to find Vanilla was there as well.
"Oh, hey Vanilla." He said hesitantly. He didn't want Vanilla to think he was skipping his work.
"Hey Catbug! You can come sit over here with me and Stabby if you want." She said. She seemed to be fine with it. Catbug did so.

"So I need to tell you guys something I haven't been able to get off of my mind..." Catbug started.
"What is it?" Stabby asked him.
"Well... I've been having visions." Catbug said.
"You always have visions though, right?" Vanilla asked.
"Yeah, but, these are bigger ones, I can understand them more." Catbug said.

Stabby looked unimpressed. He didn't believe Catbug when he talked about his 'visions'. He thought it was nonsense. He didn't interrupt though. He was polite and listened to Catbug anyway.
"Stabby, you remember that guy in the black coat from yesterday, right?" Catbug asked him. Stabby nodded. "Well, I saw him in a vision last night. He was in the diamond room in the Museum of Amino. He was going up to the diamond, and I think he was going to take it, but I said something, and it looked like he saw me! It was just too real!" Catbug said
Vanilla looked surprised. "You think that guy is going to take the diamond?" Vanilla asked.
"Yeah! But I don't know why..." Catbug said. Vanilla looked at Stabby.

"What do you think?" She asked him.
Stabby was silent for a second and looked at both of them. "Uh... Why do you think this is important?" Stabby asked them both. "Catbug just had a dream. Not a big deal." He said. Vanilla made a confused look at him.
Suddenly they heard a clock's chime. It was noon.
Stabby got up from his chair. "You're a detective, Catbug, Not a superhero..." He said.

He turned the lights off and left the coffee shop. He left the door unlocked for Catbug and Vanilla.
"Chin up Catbug... Even though you.. literally might be the only detective in the world, you still have people who are rooting for you." Vanilla said as she got up, and left the coffee shop.
Catbug sat there for a while, in defeat.

It was raining heavily outside, and Stabby didn't bring an umbrella, so he was running on the sidewalk to try and get home. He suddenly crashed into someone, and Stabby fell down. The person he crashed into stumbled for a second, then they stabled themselves with their baseball bat.
"Watch where you're going!" They yelled.
"I-I'm sorry! It's- I just.. Oh, hey Pine." Stabby greeted Pine.
"Hey. Remember an umbrella next time will you?" Pine said intimidatingly.
"Well then why didn't you bring one either?" Stabby asked. Pine shrugged. "And... why do you have a baseball bat?" Stabby asked them again.
"...Meh, baseball bats are cool.. Now go on before you get as soaked as I am!" Pine said.
Stabby nodded and ran home as quick as possible.

He closed the door as quick as possible when he got home. He was so glad to be out of the rain at last. But then he noticed, there was something in the corner of the room. He walked over to it. What is that? He thought. It looked indescribable... It was grey, and it looked like it was growing. It looked like a little blob that could've been sticky, and it had... fur? Wh... WHAT IS THAT? Stabby thought. Maybe it would stop growing eventually..? Stabby took a fork, picked it up and quickly put it in a small box. It squirmed around... It was definitely alive... This is... odd... I don't trust it. Maybe I'll show it to some scientist or something... He thought. He closed the small box and put it in the freezer to hopefully get it to stop squirming around in there.
Stabby shivered in disgust, and went to bed.
(To Be Continued...)

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