SQUIDDOS ROADTRIP EXTRAVAGANZA

by ashswagcarduo

Summary:

The world breaks out into a zombie apocalypse- Expect the zombies are mostly
ghosts.

Squiddo, a ghost hunter, happens to be one of the last survivors.

They find the way to the cure, and somehow a van.

Chapter 1: prologue

04/05/20XX

Everything is peaceful. The flowers are blooming, kids are playing on playgrounds, and everything is peaceful.

 

Too peaceful.

 

That day, and on that very day- Something happens.

 

In zombie movies; the main characters find the cure, and then rebuild the world.

This is not a zombie movie.

 

The day it all started feels like yesterday.

'It' being the end of the world.

 

They weren't 'zombies', so to say- more like ghosts, squealing like a banshee, being able to disappear for short periods of time (However they can't be invisible when attacking), so on. The biting part was the same however, One bite and you quickly get infected.

12/01/20XX

One of the final survivors- A ghost hunter (Quite convenient for the circumstance), Squiddo.

 

The day it happened, they were in the woods, recording a video, when someone ran by saying that there was an apocalypse, she thought nothing until they saw own herself.

 

Ever since then, theyve been wandering- Even adopting a dog who they named 'Skipper'.

 

Recently, She had to hide in a abandoned lab. Looking around, she found the location of a cure. The paper was bloodied, and multiple people had signed it/written nearby letters saying they were going to find it.

 

None returned.

 

The reason why is because the cure is across the world. This means you'd have to dodge hundreds- if not thousands of spirits. (The infected, which squiddo named spirits, or ghosts, or banshees.) No matter how many people you had with you, it was a death wish.

 

Squiddo didn't have much to lose, really. Skipper could survivor on his own. So, they signed the paper, saying they were gonna go get the cure. With a (bloodied) camping van they found outside, they set off, with skipper in the back.

 

They didn't expect to return.

Chapter 2: ROADWORK AHEAD

Summary:

Squiddo starts driving.

Squiddo looked around, and when the cost was clear she put skipper in the van started it, driving off. Before this, they recorded a lot of ghost hunting videos on youtube and stuff. It was fun. They found skipper after running away from a Banshee, and skipper followed her. It just kinda happened, and before long, it was her best (and only) friend.

 

They didn’t find a lot of survivors anymore. At the start, they did- She found a lot. Now most of them are violent, and rude. Squiddo no matter what remained optimistic. Before the apocalypse, if you asked someone they knew about what she was like, they’d say ‘Happy’ or ‘Optimistic’ or ‘Cheerful’ or something.

 

There wasnt really anyone to say that now.

 

They started driving. It was actually quite nice, it almost felt like it was before everything happened, before the apocalypse. It felt like a break. Maybe this roadtrip wouldn’t be so bad. Squiddo was confident that they would be able to get the cure, even though hundreds had tried before them. I mean, thats how things work. Someone does something, and its like ‘man that persons really the main character’, when in reality theyre just some person that got lucky.

 

Squiddo wonders if they’ll find someone on the trip, like a friend (that wasnt a dog.) One can hope, but what are the chances of finding someone non-violent on the trip?

 

Probably about the same as them actually finding the cure, to be fair.

 

The drive was calming. Like, they could sleep in peace for once in their life. (Not while driving. Probably.) The van had a lot of stuff, anyways. There was a dog bowl, some left over dog food, a few (almost, but not expired) food items, and some water.

 

Squiddo wondered what the kids at her old college were doing. The kids at her old college weren’t their friends, but not bullys- more of just ‘Okay. You exist. Can I get my coffee?’

 

They use to work at a coffee shop, actually. It was near their college- It advertised itself as ‘the best coffee in town’, but really it didn’t matter because the students would buy it even if it was shitty. Coffee was coffee, and college was college.

 

Man, they could really go for some coffee. Not that anyone really sold it anymore. I mean, it was hard t-

 

Squiddo saw a banshee in the road, rushing towards her. They closed their eyes, and kept driving until they drove into it. She stopped the car, getting out to see.. Nothing there. It wasn’t invisible, it couldn’t have been- it just attacked them, it just couldn’t have been invisible.

 

Maybe it died- Although they never found a way to kill the banshees other then just waiting- (If you trap them for long enough they start to rot. They figured that out the hard way, that kills it. In a way.) so maybe it didn’t die after all.

 

All the sudden, there was a loud screech, which caused squiddo to cover their ears, before they saw like, a hundred banshees all approaching her. Fast. Really. Really. Really. Really. Fast. Then, all of the sudden they were gone.

 

She didn’t really have time to think, before they ran into their van. They drove off as fast as she could. Thankfully speeding wasn’t a crime anymore. Nothing was a crime anymore. Welcome to the end of the world! No crimes!

 

They drove as fast as they could, until they were like 30 miles away and the old area was entirely out of sight. The van may be safe, but rule number one: Never let your guard down. Or else.

In the far, far, far off distance, they saw a old broken-down bus at a bus stop. It wasn’t often you see these, and usually they have some old stuff in it that was good, either it be food or water or whatever.

 

They drove a bit slower, trying to not attract attention. Like she said before- Everyone was violent now. There was no peace. The quieter, the better. She remembered that there COULD be someone there.

Eh, whatever. They’re already going on a journey to cure an apocalypse. Surely they can take on some random guy, right?

 

Probably not but hey, you know, its good to be optimistic! She got closer and closer, but skipper started barking, so they invited him to the front seat to calm him down. Dogs really were mans best friend. Even in an apocalypse.

 

She finally drove up to the bus stop, staying a bit farther away and hiding the van so nobody would steal it, and checked if anyone was there. Just to check if anyone was there.

 

Nobody was there, expect some shady guy dressed in purple.

Notes:

AYAYAYYAY FIRST CHAPTER !!!! Next chapter we start getting actual dialogue this was jsut mostly like getting to know squiddo and stuff LOLLLL

Whos that purple guy i ponder.... i ponder.... GLTIUCDGH DYUIO 😭😭😭

Chapter 3: under the shade (of a bus stop)

Summary:

Squiddo meets their first friend!

Ashswag meets his first friend.

The guy had black and purple hair, a weird rotting looking eye, and fancy ass clothing. This was either some super hero, or some homeless dude. They were ready to fight, but the man looked like he couldn’t do much. She would try to befriend him, but whatever happens, happens.

 

They slowly approached the man. They tried to appear friendly, but nobody looks friendly in an apocalypse. After approaching, the man lunged at her.

 

“waiWAITWAITWAITWAI-” Before squiddo could say another word, the man was holding a knife to their neck.

 

Squiddo held their hands up, appearing to be friendly.

“List-en! I don’t wanna hu-rt you!” Squiddo barely managed to say; the knife was pressed against their neck so hard it started to bleed a bit.

 

The guy seemed to think for a minute, before moving the knife away from squiddos neck, but not putting it away.

 

“You seem to have a van; correct?” The shady guy said as squiddo held her neck, trying to figure out how to stop bleeding while talking to the guy.

 

“er- yeah.. Why? How- how'd you know?” Squiddo replied curiously, wondering how he knew. She was still holding her neck.

 

“..You weren’t very quiet. My point is: take. me. with. you. You're going to the cure, right?” The guy asked, and squiddo was a bit scared- How did this guy know? “Lots of people come here for the exact same reason. I can’t take staying here any longer. Take me with you.”

 

Ah, that explains it then...

 

“Are.. You sure? Its like, a death wish..” Squiddo tried to remember why they were going anyways.

 

“You're going.” The guy replied.

 

“Fair. C’mon!” Squiddo enthusiastically replied.

 

“Oh, and here. My bad.” The guy threw squiddo some bandages.

 

Squiddo bandaged her neck, before going to her van, signaling the guy to follow them. The guy followed, and then squiddo was giving him a tour of the van. “Theres some food ther-” Skipper ran up to squiddo. “hi buddy!! This is Skipper, my dog!”

 

“Damn. How’d that thing managed to survive out here?” The guy asked. Squiddo herself didnt really know. It was kinda impressive.

 

“Good question! Dunno. He just like.. Appeared one day? And he started following me! He’s my best friend though!” They were petting skipper.

 

The duo finished the tour, and squiddo started driving.

 

“Y’know, I just realized- I dunno your name! Im squiddo!”

 

“Ash. Im ash. Nice to meet you.” Ash replied. Squiddo had just made her first friend! (That wasn’t a dog, for context.)

 

“Nice to meet you too!”

..

...

....

“So you said a lot of people go to get the cure?” Squiddo asked. They wondered how long he had been there. How had he not gotten infected? Probably hid in the bus. Or something.

 

“Yeah. I saw lots.”

...

....

....

“None returned to pick me up.” Ash replied to Squiddos question. That was honestly pretty sad. Maybe even if they got the cure, they didn’t come back for him.

 

Wait, who’s to say someone hasn’t already gotten the cure and just hasn’t used it?

 

“Oh.” There was a moment of silence. It was awkward. Squiddo felt bad. (and hadn’t interacted with people in ages.) Ash hadn’t interacted with anyone in ages. (and felt a bit bad.)

 

In that quick moment, squiddo realized how mildly depressed this world was. Not mildly, actaully. Just really really depressed. Maybe on their way to get the cure they could make the world a bit less depressed.

 

In that quick moment, squiddo vowed this entire trip they’d remain optimistic.

 

“Maybe this time it’ll be different! I mean, it would only take one person to change the world.” Squiddo said after what was probably 30 seconds, but felt like 10 minutes.

 

Ash knew that getting the cure was unlikely. He knew that she’d probably die out here. However, squiddo managed to make him feel like maybe there was a chance.

 

“..Yeah, maybe.”

 

They kept driving.

 

“So- How long were you there?” Squiddo asked. You know- Squiddo wondered how long he’d gone without human interaction exactly, but that was a bit too rude to ask.

 

“..I dunno bro. Maybe like..”

 

“Since the start of the apocalypse?” Ash responded

 

(so like... starting in 20XX-)

“YOU’VE BEEN THERE FOR XX YEARS??” Squiddo yelled while looking at ash, attracting the attention of a lot of banshees.

 

“SHH! EYES ON THE ROAD, EYES ON THE ROAD-” Ash yelled back, while squiddo struggled to drive.

 

Squiddo drove past thousands of banshees, before parking in some bushes and hiding.

“Er.”

 

“Squiddo.”

 

“Yeah..?”

 

“Bro.” Ash said. “WHY WOULD YOU-”

 

“BE QUIET!” Squiddo yelled back at him.

 

“YOU WEREN’T QUIET!”

 

..This was a very childish ‘argument.’ Not even an argument, to be fair.

 

“Whatever; keep driving.” Ash said, and got up looking for food.

 

...

 

“Yo squiddo, wheres the food?”

 

“In the cabinet, as it should be, right?” Squiddo said, keeping her eyes on the road this time.

 

“Its not there. Like, its just not there at all. Theres none.”

 

“Hm??” Squiddo put the van in park and went to go check it out. Like ash said, there was no food. It was gone. “I swear- It was just there during the tour..?”

 

Squiddo looked at skipper.

 

“Oh.”

 

There were wrappers on the ground. And crumbs. At least there wasn’t anything that could kill Skipper.

 

“...Guess we need to find a supermarket.”

Notes:

glitch duo,,, save me glitch duo

IVE BEEN WAITINF TO UPLOAD THIS THIS ONES ONE OF MY FAVS !!!!! This has my favorite line for the fic so far !! its the squiddo felt a bit bad / ash hadnt interacted with people in years grah i can yap about them so much. It parrells because its kinda like they have the exact same experiences but handled it in entirely different ways i love glitch duo in this fic.

I almost broke my thumb writing this because i was watching a ashswag stream and i freaked out a little too much because of glitch duoto the point i bent my finger a little too much and it wouldnt stop hurting for like a week lmao

Chapter 4: TIHS IS REALLY A SUPER MARKET

Summary:

Squiddo goes to shop for some awesome food items.

“Suppose so.” Ash replied. They were both staring at the wrappers and skipper. Squiddo started driving, while ash sat on the couch.

 

“Really? Sleeping while I work?” Squiddo joked. They couldn’t care less, they were only really sad about how she didn’t have anyone to talk to now.

 

“Yes.” Ash replied. Man, he really didn’t care.

 

Honestly, don’t get her wrong, shes happy to have met a person- to have met ash, but MAN this guy is shady. It felt like he knew something. He said he’s seen hundreds, if not thousands, pass by, trying to look for the cure. Why’d he decide to go with her?

 

They were driving for a while. It was probably a few hours. Its hard to keep track of time in an apocalypse, theres only really night and day.

 

You know, they use to hate going to grocery stores. Too many people, too loud, etc etc.

 

Now they could only hope theres a grocery store nearby.

They drove for hours, and then squiddo saw something in the distance.

 

Yes! Just what they were looking for! A grocery store. It looked intact, too. The hid the van and parked, and they were gonna alert ash, but he was asleep on the floor, so they decided not to. She did throw a blanket at him, though. (Hopefully it didn’t wake him up.)

 

They grabbed a bag and some other supplies, and started to head over. They thought they left skipper in the van, but they looked to their side, and skipper was right there. She wasn’t complaining, though. She smiled.

 

They entered the store.

 

It didn’t seem infested with banshees or anything. Like.. It didn’t seem like there was any. It was still worth it to be quiet, but they could look around without having to be ready to run.

 

They wandered around.

 

They picked up a lot of things, like some waffles, some golden carrots, a box of chocolate hearts, and some old easter chocolate bunnies. Those were always better than the normal chocolate, anyway. She picked up other stuff too- Just not as notable.

 

The supermarket was cold, but cold in the way of the normal supermarket cold. Like going to a stop and shop without a jacket.

 

It almost felt normal. Squiddo had an urge to turn on the lights, to mimic a normal supermarket.

 

They wanted to feel normal. Thats all.

 

She approached the lights, just looking at them.

 

If they turned on the lights, on one hand, they’d feel some sense of familiarity, it’d feel normal. On the other hand, it would attract banshees, and then they’d die.

 

She reached over to the lights, about to turn them on-

 

“Squiddo?”

Squiddo looked behind them, only to see ash. She’d almost entirely forgot him.

 

“..Sorry, I was just looking for you. I wanted to make sure you were alright.” Ash said. He still looked tired, and honestly squiddo couldn’t blame him. “Sorry if that's weird or something.”

 

That reminded Squiddo that she was his only friend. And to be fair, he was their only friend, so.

 

“I was just looking for some food! I also saw the lights still worked, so I wanted to see if the wires were still intact.” Squiddo replied.

 

“Oh, really? Thats kinda sick.”

 

“Yeah!” Squiddo said.

 

There was a moment of awkward silence.

 

Ash knew what squiddo was doing. Squiddo prayed to herobrine that he didn’t.

 

“Right. Well now that I know you’re good, I’m gonna head back to the v-”

 

Squiddo promptly cut Ash off.

 

“No,-”

 

...

 

“It’s better to stay together.”

 

...

Honestly, if squiddo was being honest, they were just bored and lonely at this point. They were almost done, so it’s not like anyone would be able to steal the van in that time.

 

“I have a lot of stuff-” Squiddo pointed to their shopping cart. “-you can see what's in there and if you want anything else we can look for it!”

 

“Er, yeah, alright.” Ash said, and began looking through the cart. “I think I’m good.”

 

“Alrighty! Back to the van th-”

 

Ash covered Squiddos mouth, and pointed to a banshee nearby. The banshee hadn’t noticed them yet, thankfully.

 

“Let's get out of here. Quietly.” Ash whispered to Squiddo, and they slowly and quietly exited the store. They made their way back to the van, putting the groceries away.

 

“Phew..” Squiddo laid down on one of the couches.

 

“You wanna rest for a bit? I can drive, if you’d like.” Ash said, leaning on the wall, before realizing he was still hungry, and grabbing a bag of pretzels.

 

“Nah, I’ll drive!” Squiddo smiled at ash.

 

Ash couldn’t help but wonder how they stay so optimistic despite the situation the world is in.

 

Squiddo, after eating, started driving. Ash sat next to her in the passenger seat.

 

They’re both quiet, but glad they met each other.

 

“..You wanna play eye spy?” Squiddo said after like 20 minutes, finally breaking the silence.

 

“Wha- Bro what.” Ash looked at squiddo like they were crazy, before thinking. “Yeah, why not.”

 

They started playing eye spy for a few hours, while squiddo was driving. (Which wasn’t a good idea. They almost crashed.)

 

“Alright I spy-” Squiddo said, before promptly cutting themself off. “..a clown and someone with blue hair..?”

Notes:

Theres something i planned in this chpater that i wanna see if anyone finds...
ANYWAYS YIPPEE ANOTHER CHAPTER!!!! I love tihs one a lot (does anyone get the name its like a 'SUPER' market ahhahahaha its funny i know)
Guess who.....
If you look back at the chapter where we met ash you can speculate on how it might turn out. Ill explain this further in tomorrows chapter :333

Chapter 5: that wasnt a very good carnival act

Summary:

Squiddo and Ash encounter... a clown and blue haired girl?

Kaboodle and Clown attempt (and fail) to steal a van.

“You wh- BRO PULL OVER.” Ash tried to whisper (while also yelling), but to an extent failed. Squiddo parked behind a few trees. (They learnt from ash to try quiet and park farther away.) After that, ash grabbed squiddos hand and ducked behind the drivers area.

 

“we should befriend them!” Squiddo said, while whispering.

 

“okay, well last time you tried to befriend someone, they held a knife to your neck.” Ash replied, still whispering.

 

“that was you! and either way, that same guy and me are now living in a van together!”

 

They continued bickering for a while.

 

“well thats because i didn’t want to hurt you in the first place!” Ash said.

 

“how do we know they dont wanna hurt us??” Squiddo replied.

 

Meanwhile..

 

“You sure theres anything non-expired left here now, clown? I’m pretty sure we need to relocate, I think everythings gone-” Kaboodle said.

 

Clown and Kaboodle were siblings who were working at a carnival job with a friend when it started. Ever since, they’ve lived in the carnival, eating whatever they find. Recently, they havent been able to find any food.

 

However, before either could say anything else, Kab pulled clown away from the entrance they were standing by, and peeked out behind a wall.

 

From what kab was able to make out, it seemed like two people in a van, trying (and failing) to hide.

 

“You see that? They probably have a lotta stuff... You think we could take them?” Kab pointed at the van, and looked back at clown.

 

“This wasn’t my day job because I couldn’t work night shifts.” Clown responded, and Kab couldn’t help but giggle. Why’d this guy always speak in riddles? She knew that meant yes, though.

 

“Alright, c’mon!”

--------

“bro, they’re gonna kill us or take the van” Ash said. By now they’d been arguing for like 5 minutes.

 

“nuh uh” Squiddo replied. At this point, because of how long the fight had been going on, they’d resorted to just using silly remarks.

 

“dude-”

 

Ash was cut off by two people breaking into the van.

 

“OH SHIT!” Ash yelled.

 

“DOUBLE OH SHIT!!” Squiddo yelled.

 

“HANDS UP!” One of them yelled.

 

The people who broke in were the two from the circus, the blue haired girl and clown guy (?).

 

“Listen, you two are gonna get out of the van, and not come back in unless you’re told.” The clown said. He seemed to have a knife.

 

“..Can we bring my dog out, too?” Squiddo said, and motioned towards skipper. The clown looked at the dog, and everyone managed to make out that under the mask he was wearing, he was very confused.

 

“..How did a dog survive out here- N-” The clown was cut off by the blue haired girl kicking his leg. “Fine. Kab, you make sure they don’t pull anything.”

 

Ash and squiddo looked at each other. Kab motioned for the two to follow her. Squiddo called skipper over. Squiddo and ash were sitting by the wall, Squiddo petting skipper and Ash looked like he was plotting something. Kab watched over them.

 

“What were you guys even doing with a van?? Where were you going???” Kab asked them.

 

“Oh! We were gonna try to get a cure!!” Squiddo replied. Ash facepalmed.

 

“theres a cure????” Kab looked at them.

 

“Yeah!”

 

Squiddo and Kab began chatting, and Ash took the opportunity to grab his knife from his pocket, and put a knife to her neck.

 

“Sorry not sorry. A zombie apocalypse is a zombie apocalypse.” Ash said. “We’re gonna use her to get the van back, Squiddo.”

 

“C’mon! I could’ve killed you two by now and I get thi-” Kab said, but was cut off by ash.

 

“Womp womp bro.” Ash said. Squiddo just apologized to kab. “C’mon.”

 

Ash and Squiddo brought Kab to the van, Ash still holding a knife to her neck. The clown was putting food in a bag. The van very much looked like it was robbed, stuff was all over the place. It looked like the clown had even taken some blankets and pillows.

 

“Yo clown boy.” Ash said loud enough for the clown to hear across the van. “Give us our van back and put all our shit back, or blue haired bitch gets it.” The clown looked back at them.

 

“Fine.” The clown replied. He dropped the bag full of stuff, and put his hands up.

 

“Your weapon, too.” Ash said. He couldn’t help but wonder why the clown let the one without a weapon guard them. The clown dropped his weapon. “Get in the corner while we decide if we kill you or not.”

 

The blue haired girl and the clown sat in a corner together. The blue haired girl looked miserable while the clown looked... scary, to an extent.

 

“I don’t wanna kill them! They look nice- they probably just want food! And other stuff!” Squiddo said after ash asked if they should kill them.

 

“Bro, I don’t know what I was expecting coming from you- they literally almost robbed us, we should at least throw them back to the circus-” Ash facepalmed. “They literally threatened to kill us.”

 

“You shouldn’t kill us! In my opinion!” Kab said.

 

“I agree- you should bring us with you, if anything. We could be good assets- Kaboodle said you were looking for the cure, right? We can help.” The clown said, trying to convince them. Ash picked up that he was lying, but he knew now Squiddo wouldn’t back down.

 

Ash sighed.

 

“Fine. You two can stay. Go get whatever you wanna take from your circus or whatever.”

 

“Thank you !!” Kaboodle said, and hugged Squiddo and Ash.

 

Clown and Kaboodle went to go get the little stuff they had, and then got on the van.

Notes:

I wouldve described kab as a girl with bunny ears BUT BBBUUUTTT. she doesnt have them YET

anyways i was actually really tempted to have clown leave kab like straight up tell them to kill her but then at one point for one reason or another he has to get on the van but then killerbunnies got revived. Heh.

also "a zombie apocalypse is a zombie apocalypse">...? where ahave i heard something liek that from ash before.... HMmmm....

Chapter 6: is this a diner? im so hungry- how hungry....

Summary:

Everyone stops at an old diner.

Kab and squiddo make.... Something (?? We're not quite sure if its a cake or an alive creature)

No horses get eaten this chapter.

 

It was a day after Squiddo and Ash picked up Clown and Kab.

 

It turned out their names were Clown (quite a creative name, seeing how he dresses) and Kaboodle. It also turned out that they were siblings.

 

“So- Kab, what was it like working at a circus? I kinda wanted to work at one before- y'know, this all happened.” Squiddo said. Squiddo was driving, and talking to kab. Further in the back of the van, Clown was simply reading a book and ash was giving him a death stare.

 

“Honestly.. I got thrown up on like, a bajillion times- But it was really fun! They’d let us ride some of the rides if it was a slow day.” Kab replied. Somehow, despite only knowing each other for less then a day, squiddo and kab had already become close.

 

Kab and squiddo kept chatting, for what felt like forever.

 

With clown and ash however, clown couldn’t help but laugh at the fact ash kept giving him a death stare. Clown couldn’t blame him of course, but still.

 

“YO!” Squiddo yelled to Ash and Clown. “YOU GUYS WANNA STOP AT A DINER???” Squiddo was grinning ear to ear.

 

Did they know that no diners are functional..? Or serving food?

 

Either way, Kaboodle and Squiddo were up to some devious shit. Despite how much ash hated clown, they both looked at each other in a “They’re gonna pull shit if we say yes, but we cannot say no.”

 

They both sighed and agreed. Kaboodle and Squiddo attempted to hide the fact that they high-fived each other.

 

About like 10 or so minutes later, there was a loud “OH SHIT” before the van parked. Ash could only assume this was Squiddo almost crashing the van. (Did they get a drivers license before this all started?)

 

“Alright boys.... We’re here! :D” Squiddo said.

 

“Waow... How’d you do that with your mouth” Kaboodle said.

 

They all went inside. Both ash and clown had a bad feeling about this. (ash knew his best friend, and clown knew his sister.) Squiddo made them sit down. Somehow squiddo slipped on a banana peel that had been there for who knows how many years, too.

 

“Alright we’ll be right back!” Squiddo said to Ash and Clown as Kaboodle ominously giggled in the background. They then ran in the back.

 

“..Are they going to cook?” Ash looked at Clown. For some reason, Ash thought that maybe squiddo could be a good cook, but this made him think the exact opposite. Clown knew that kab could be a good cook.... Every other month.

 

“Should we go get them?” Clown said- And he barely managed to tell that Clown had a slightly concerned look on his face. Why’d he wear that damn mask all the time, anyway?

 

Meanwhile, in the back...

 

“Was that sugar or salt we added just now?” Squiddo said, while holding two identical bottles, that did not in fact taste identical. One had a silver cap, the other a gold.

 

“I think i added the bottle with the silver cap??” Kab said, looking away from the mess they had made cake they were making. “.. Add a tablespoon of the gold one to even it out!” Kaboodle mischievously smiled. They both knew this would probably not work.

 

“ ‘Kay! What else do we need?” Squiddo said as they added a tablespoon of the gold cap.

 

“Milk.. Thats probably expired. What was it that we could replace it with again? Was it olive oil???” Kab stopped mixing to question.

 

“I dunno. Let’s try it!”

 

After about 30 minutes, Kaboodle and Squiddo came back giggling their asses off, holding something that could only be described as if you threw a half raw cake at a wall. Clown and ash had two looks of misery on their faces, no matter how hard they tried to hide it.

 

Squiddo placed it on the table.

 

“Does-” Kaboodle cut herself off laughing. “Does it look good?? :,D”

 

The cake looked half raw.

 

“Errrr....” Ash looked at it with disgust, but sighed. “It looks.. Like something.”

 

“You guys should try it!!” Squiddo said, while also laughing.

 

“Im good.” Ash looked at squiddo, and then the cake, and then kaboodle.

 

“Me too.” Clown replied.

 

“We’ll eat some too-” Kaboodle said, but cut herself off mumbling something and then running to gets forks and plates. Squiddo ran to help them.

 

“They won’t back down.” Clown looked at ash. “..We’re gonna have to eat that; aren’t we?”

 

“Yeah..”

 

Squiddo and kab came back with forks and plates, and the all ate the cake. It didn’t taste that bad. Sort of. Not really, but it was ‘Made with friendship’ according to Kab and Squiddo.

“Was it good?” Squiddo looked at ash, who looked like he was about to throw up- and clown, who was very clearly pretending to eat the cake. Ash barely managed to give squiddo a thumbs up, and clown just looked at squiddo and kab.

 

A while after messing around (they found a board game in the back- squiddo won with some odd luck, which they called “squiddos law”), everyone went back to the van. Clown was driving while talking to kab, and squiddo was asleep. Ash was trying to fix something.

 

A while later, Ash nudged squiddo to wake them up.

 

“Squiddo.”

 

“hm?” It took like five minutes, but squiddo finally woke up. “yeah?” Squiddo looked at ash.

 

“Fixed your glasses.” Ash said, handing squiddo their glasses. The glasses use to be broken rose glasses, but now were fixed- they had a sort of orange fade to them. “I added some orange glass cause you said it was your favorite color a while ago.”

 

Squiddo looked at ash, and then hugged him.

 

“Thank you thank you thank you!!!!” Squiddo put them on. “..Can I go back to sleep now?”

 

“Yeah.”

Notes:

get the joke istn it funy
idont have any notes for this one :PPP Ignore that its technically the 7th (in my timezome) buttt,,,,, yah

Chapter 7: she art on my craft

Summary:

Kaboodle makes paper bunny ears to seem less threatening.

The group decides to go off route a little to pick someone up.

Kab was laying on a couch. Squiddo had been driving while talking to ash, and clown was asleep. She was bored out of her mind.

 

Kab began looking through the cabinets, trying to find ANYTHING to do. Like anything. While she was looking for something, she had an idea. A lot of people used real animal ears to seem threatening- So what if she did the opposite?

 

Kaboodle often manipulated people who passed by the circus before to get some items- and they’d seem less threatening if they had animal ears made out of paper! (Plus, they’d totally look awesome.)

 

...There was no paper though. And plus, they weren’t sure what animal to pick. She gave up.

 

For a while, they were just looking outside until they saw something- a rabbit! Although the van passed by way too fast to see if it was alive or dead, but rabbits were the least threatening animals!

 

They were going to make paper bunny ears!

 

...Still no paper, right.

 

“No because the silliest bug is a-” Squiddo was saying, but kab cut them off.

 

“Are there any arts n craft stores nearby??? Im booorrrreeedddd....”

 

“Probably- Its gonna take like 20 minutes to get there, but we can stop at one for a bit if you wanna!” Squiddo replied, looking at kab before ash told squiddo to keep her eyes on the road. (As much as she loved squiddo, kab couldnt help but wonder who let them drive.)

 

“That’d be awesome!!!!! Thank you!!” Kab said, before going back to the couch, eating a bag of (expired) gummy bears. (They were surprisingly good for expired gummy bears.)

 

After what felt like ten hours (10 minutes), they finally reached the store.

 

Kaboodle went into the store. The store was full of stuff, like it had just been restocked- however it was full of banshees. She was pretty used to this stuff, though. The circus was like a party full of them- probably because of the lights that never seemed to dim.

 

They snuck around- Having a close call or two, but she managed to get all of her stuff. She went to the paper isle, the glue isle- she even stopped at a few other isles. After all that, she slowly made her way out, but by the time they got to the door, a glass was knocked over. Banshees started rushing towards her.

 

At this rate, a few more seconds of staying there without doing anything would kill her. Its okay- Clown trained her for situations like this a while ago! They needed anything to distract them. Anything.

 

The door was right behind her, but banshees were close near the entrance, they wouldn’t make it in time. Theres a split second where she wonders what would happen, but then she realizes- glue bottles are strong kind of strong. They took one of the glue bottles and threw it at a far off window- which gave them enough time to run back to the van.

 

She made it back to the van, out of breath.

 

“Er- Hey squiddo? You might wanna start driving-” Kab said and pointed outside, to the banshees that have started chasing them.

 

“Oh! Okay okay yeah-” Squiddo started driving.

 

“How’d that even happen bro.” Ash looked at kab. “It was like 10 minutes. How’d you even startle that many.”

 

“I dunno.... guhh...” Kab sat on the couch. At least she could make her paper bunny ears now, at least.

 

Out of all colors, she picked white and blue because it matched their outfit the best. It took a lot of trial and error (5 hours), but after a while it was finally done! (If you asked them, it looked awesome.)

 

...Now what?

 

A while later, clown was driving while talking to kab. It was something to do at least!

 

“So, what do you think of the bunny ears I made??? ^_^” Kab pointed to her paper bunny ears.

 

Her and clown TECHNICALLY weren’t siblings, but were raised together. They were both made to be super-humans or something along the lines of that, but both turned out WAY different. Yet, they still managed to form a sibling bond.

 

Looking out the window, she realized they were close to her and clowns hometown. It still is mildly shocking how far they had to travel to get to the circus.

 

“They’re cool.” Clown said.

 

“..You ever wonder how branzys doing???” Kab questioned, while looking out the window. “The day this started didn’t he go home early?”

 

Clown sighed. Him and branzy were close- like really really close. A lot of people thought they were dating at first. They weren’t though, just good friends. (Probably.)

 

“He’s probably doing alright, knowing him.” Clown said, not taking his eyes off the road.

 

Kab gasped, like she had an idea. (Which probably wasn’t a good thing.)

 

“Wait, what if we ask squiddo if we could try to pick him up??” Kab sounded VERY excited.

 

“..Thats not a bad idea.”

Notes:

SORRY FOR FORGETTING TO POST.... CHAP 8 A LITTLE LATER STILL PROOF READING AND FIXING MISTAKES FOR CHAP 8 LOLLL

Bit shorter and rushed but. Yah trust we're getting to the good part

Cause we're getting branzy a lot of other characters (not main cast, mainly side characters) and then final 2 cast members :333

Chapter 8: is car insurance available- oh hey guys whats up

Summary:

Everyone has fun.

The van breaks down.

“Squiddo!!” Kab ran up to squiddo. Squiddo was just doodling on the couch.

 

“Yeah???” Squiddo stop doodling and looked at kab.

 

“So there was this guy that we worked with at the circus that was really nice and clown and him were really really close and we were good friends and we were wondering if we could pick him up???”

 

“Eh-” It took a minute for squiddo to process all that, because kab said that quite fast- but after a minute, finally replied. “Yeah, sure!!!”

 

“THANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOU!!!” Kab hugged squiddo.

 

“So where is he exactly??” Squiddo had a feeling that kab had NO clue.

 

“errrmmm about that... We dont exactly know!” Kab replied. “Last time we saw him, he was heading to his house- so our best guess is somewhere around XX XXXX XXXXX!”

 

“Thats not too far- thats like an hour or two away, right??”

 

“Yeah!!”

 

“Cool! Im gonna let clown know- Thank you again!!!” Kab started running back to the passenger seat. (Is it even safe to do that while a car is moving? More importantly: How has everyone in this van not broken a limb by doing something like that?

 

“No problem!!!!” Squiddo waved to kab and went back to drawing.

 

“clownclownclown!!! She said we can go!!!!!”

 

“Cool.” Clown said it like he didn’t care, but she knew he was almost, if not more, excited to see branzy. Man, clown and branzy were great friends.

 

The van was oddly loud today. Like the sound of a bus breaking down. Its old though, so it’d probably be FFFIIINNNEEE.

 

Ash woke up. It was really late. They were already on the road.

 

He went up to squiddo.

 

“Yo.”

 

“Good morning ash!! :D by the way, we’re taking a detour to pick up one of clown and kabs friends!” Squiddo stopped doodling and looked at ash.

 

“Why do we keep picking people up? Everyone you’ve picked up has threatened you.” Ash sounded annoyed, but he couldn’t care less. As long as everyone was safe.

 

“I mean we’re all friends now, so!” Squiddo smiled. Ash couldn’t help but think that this was stupid and useless, knowing what he knew. But he couldn’t help but also smile.

 

“Fair. At least we haven’t died, somehow.” Ash had a point. It is a surprise that nobody has died on this trip so far. Like. Really surprising. Really really surprising.

 

Ash and squiddo just sat on the couch for a while, squiddo continuing to draw, and ash just watching them. It was really nice actually, like they’d known each other for years.\

 

“You know, you should let me drive!!” Kab said, like she had been driving for years and had tons of experience.

 

“You once tried to drive a car and landed in the hospital. No thanks.” Clown replied, looking at kab, but managing to not crash. He looked at the road again though.

 

“And its been years since then!”

 

“Still never got a drivers license.”

 

“guh.... fine, you win.....” Kab admitted defeat. (Surprisingly.) The van had gotten MUCH louder now. This was not looking very good. “Should we stop to see whats going on with the engine or whatever?” Kab said, sounding very concerned.

 

“Probably. But do we need to?” Clown said. He himself had tuned it out.

 

“Well we don’t NEED to. But we should.” The engine sounded very concerning. “Like- Really REALLY should.”

 

“We’ll be fine.” Clown looked at kab. (How did he do that? Everyone else almost crashes when they do that.)

 

“Famous last words..” Kab looked bored. “How much longer???”

 

“Like half an hour.. You need to wait girl.” Clown rolled his eyes. (Kaboodle thinks he did that at least.)

 

“Ash, you ever wonder how this happened? Like- Who decided to just unleash these things?” Squiddo asked, breaking the silence.

 

Ash thought for a moment. There were lots of possibilities. Maybe someone hated the human race so much. Maybe it was an accident. Maybe it just happened.

 

“I dunno. Probably someone stupid.” Ashswag was stupid. “Why?”

 

“Just curious.” Squiddo continued doodling. “...Is it just me or is the van being like super loud today?”

 

“Is it?” Ash listened for a minute. “Oh yeah. Is that normal?”

 

“Probably not... It’ll be fine though, right?”

 

“Probably not.” Ash prayed that squiddo wouldn’t just play it off like its nothing.

 

“It’s nothing!” Squiddo said.

 

Yup, there it is.

 

“Eh, whatever you say.”

 

Ash got a snack, squiddo fed skipper, clown and kab were talking, it was peaceful.

 

(..3, 2, 1, and..) Nothing bad happened! New record.

 

....And the car is slowing down. Slowing down a lot. Okay the car has stopped. This is fine.

 

“Uh. Guys???” Squiddo went up to clown and kab. “Did you stop the van...?”

 

“No.. I think we just broke down.” Kab said, sounding nervous.

 

“No shit.” Ash somehow sounded barely concerned at all.

 

“Does anyone know how to fix a car?” Clown looked around. “I think we’re like, 5 minutes away. We could try walking and asking for help.”

 

“We could! Thats not a bad idea!!” Kab got out of the passenger seat, and stood near the table. Clown got out of the driver seat, standing near her.

 

“Are you sure we can trust your ‘friend’? So far half the people that we’ve met on this trip tried to kill us. And its late, they’re probably asleep.” Ash chipped in. “And its freezing out.”

 

“We can help!” Someone said from outside the van, causing everyone (squiddo and kab) to jump. Clown and ash turned towards the door.

 

There was a group of 5 out there, but out of the crowd clown managed to spot branzy.

 

“Branzy??”

 

“Clown??”

Notes:

wsait guys who is this group of people!!!!

branzy is here... I can put clownzy in the tags now yahoo IM SOTIRED

Chapter 9: are we sure these guys are just friends?

Summary:

Clown and branzy catch up.

KITC fix the van.

Ash, squiddo, and kab play a very fair game of uno.

“I thought you would’ve died by now.” Clown said, with a blank stare behind his mask. Everyone could tell he missed branzy, though. (..? Nobody was sure? The group though they may have been flirting?)

 

“Missed you too!” Branzy hugged clown. “I guess I should introduce you guys- This is a group i ended up staying with! They call their group kids in the corner.”

 

“Cool. Awesome. Do you have a place to stay.” Ash said, after a minute or two of silence. It was like freezing out, clown and ash were the only one wearing clothes that were actually decent warm, so kab and squiddo stood further away from the entrance, and were both covered in blankets.

 

“Oh, yeah!” One of the people from the ‘kims in the soupstore’ group or whatever they were called, one with brown hair and blue hair tips. “My names 4cvit! Or 4c!”

 

“Who names their child that.” Ash said. He didn’t mean to judge, but also he definitely meant to judge. Actually remove that part of not judging, he was judging.

 

“Er- its a nickname- or like a code name..” 4c nervously laughed. “We have a few extra tents at our camp! The spares can fit like 2 to 3 people each. If you’re willing, we should get going!!”

 

Everyone agreed. (Minus ash. He thinks everyone trusting them immediately is stupid.)

 

Everyone slept.

 

For the group in the van, it was surprisingly comfortable to not be sleeping on a couch or floor.

 

For kids in the corner, it was another night.

 

Squiddo was asleep. Clown was asleep. Kab was asleep. Everyone was sleeping. Not ash, though. He heard chewing noises coming from outside his tent- and it didn’t sound like anyone from kids in the corner.

 

There was something outside the tent.

 

He checked his pocket. He had the supplies to deal with a banshee, or intruder at least. It took a few hours, but after a while he went to sleep.

 

In the morning, everyone ate breakfast and chatted. It felt like a normal day before the apocalypse.

 

“Yeah! We can fix your car- in a few days! Until then you can stay here!” Mid said.

 

For context, the one wearing purple was mid, the rubix cube haired looking guy was cube, the detective was jaron, the blue slime obsessed guy was 4c, and branzy was branzy.

 

They offered to fix the van for the group.

 

Ash couldn’t get his mind off of what happened last night. He didn’t ask, though. He was still suspicious of the group. He couldn’t shake the feeling that something was off.

 

Them being nearby the area the van broke down in wasn’t surprising, seeing as how loud the van was, but there was something with the way they looked. Like, something in their eyes.

 

“So, how have things been with you clown?” Branzy asked. It was about 12 pm. He had been chatting with clown for quite a while. The two had missed each other.

 

“Not much. Me and kab were stuck at the circus for a while, and then squiddo picked us up. Night job helped out a lot at least,” Clown laughed, and so did branzy. “Its pretty convenient in this situation. What about you?”

 

“Yeah, I'd imagine. Not much with me, really. Ran into kids in the corner right after it started, and then we set up camp, figured stuff out pretty much.” There was a pause. Branzy was about to speak, but mid opened the door to then tent.

 

“Hey, can you help fix their van? I fear without your help we might blow it up.” Mid said. It wasn’t because the others were bad at this stuff, they’d just get a little too silly or something.

 

“Oh yeah, sure.” Branzy stood up.

 

“May I come?” Clown asked, and branzy kicked clown’s leg.

 

“Yeah!” He helped clown up.

 

“No! The rules on the box say that we can stack if we choose!” Kab said.

 

Squiddo, ash, and kab were a bit bored, so they asked kids in the corner if they had any board games. After ten minutes of waiting, they came back with a uno deck, so now they were playing uno.

 

“We weren’t stacking before bro.” Ash said. He had four cards, squiddo placed down a plus two, and kab put another plus two, telling ash to take four. This then started an argument.

 

“Well yeah, because I didn’t have any plus twos or anything!” Kab put down her cards. She had five.

 

“So you admit. You just don’t wanna go back to seven cards.”

 

“No!”

 

They kept arguing with each other for like 5 minutes. Squiddo had one card. Same color as it was now, and it was a plus two, so even if it wasn’t they’d be able to place it, but ash needed to place down one.

 

“What if you each take one??” Squiddo suggested. They had this idea the entire time, they just though ash and kab arguing was kinda funny.

 

“guhh... fine...” Kab said after a while, admitting defeat. Ash laughed at her.

 

They each took a card. It didn’t really matter, because squiddo had one, but-

 

...ash placed down another plus two.

 

“..Can we stack?” Squiddo said.

 

“No!” Kab and ash yelled back at squiddo.

 

Around an hour later, the uno game finished. Kab won, but ash could’ve sworn he saw her put two cards down at the same time at one point.

 

“Where is everybody???” Kab said. They left the tent, and nobody was there.

 

“Probably fixing the truck. Like they said they were going to do.” Ash said.

 

“We should check on them!” Squiddo suggested, coming out of the tent last. They cleaned up the uno cards.

 

“Yeah!” Kab said.

 

“Do we have to?” Ash asked.

 

Squiddo and kab already ran off towards the van. Ash followed.

 

Clown and branzy were checking the engine together.

 

“Are there even any spare engines left in the shops nearby??” Branzy questioned.

 

“Who knows.”

 

You know, now that kab was thinking about it, clown and branzy were really, really close. Like really really really close.

 

Wait, were they-

Notes:

posting 2 chap per day till i catch up so its not a lot at once but after today because EVERYTHNING HURTS

GUHHHH AFTER MY CONCERT I PASSED OUT ON MY COUCH AND EVER SINCE MY BACK HAS BEEN HURTING LIKE HELL ANMD I DONT KNOW WHY HEL;P MEEE

Chapter 10: something off, but it could be the apocalypse

Summary:

Clown and branzy help fix the van.

Ash and kab notice somethings off.

Ash was asleep. Clown was asleep. Squiddo was asleep. Branzy was asleep. Kids in the corner were all asleep.

 

Kab couldn’t sleep tonight. They couldn’t tell if they were just not tired or didn’t feel like it. Either way, she could’ve sworn that she heard something outside the tent. Like someone (or more likely something) chewing.

 

It wasn’t close by, but it wasn’t far away. It sounded like if you were to chew on raw meat.

 

She didn’t have anything to defend herself with. They just stared at the ceiling until they fell asleep.

 

In the morning, it was peaceful. Everyone was chatting. Kab didn’t want to mention what happened last night.

 

Later, it was like the day before, expect the weren’t playing uno, and instead sitting around.

 

“Were any of you awake last night?” Kab asked. She felt like it was a good time to mention what she heard.

 

“No, why??” Squiddo looked at kab.

 

“I heard like.. Chewing or something outside. Kinda like chewing on meat.” Kab said, after like a minute.

 

“Oh yeah. I heard that on the first night here.” Ash replied. “It sounded similar to how you described it, at least.”

 

“..” Kab looked at him. “AND YOU DIDN’T THINK TO, I DONT KNOW, TELL US???”

 

“Yeah, shop should be just down the road! We need an engine, I think.” 4c said.

 

Clown and branzy agreed to get a spare engine together for the van.

 

“Alright.” Clown said.

 

“We’ll be on our way then!” Branzy said. After waving to the group, then clown and branzy made their way to the shop.

 

“Kind of reminds me of walking to work, you know?” Branzy said. “It was always much further, though.”

 

“Yeah. Why’d we even decide to work there?”

 

The two met at the circus. Without working there, they wouldn’t have met at all.

 

“You never know. Maybe it was the universe’s way of making us meet.” Branzy said.

 

“Yeah.” Clown replied. “..You live near here, right? How much longer?”

 

“Well, ‘lived’ i guess would be better.” They were closer to branzy’s house by now. “But uhh, I’d say about 5 minutes or so.”

 

They spent the entire time catching up.

 

“Didn’t think it’d be important.” Ash shrugged.

 

Kaboodle couldn’t help but wonder how stupid this guy could get.

 

“Maybe it was a fox or something?” Squiddo said. Ash and kab looked at them like they were crazy.

 

“Squiddo... As much as I love you, there is no way that’d it was a wild fox.” Kab said. Ash agreed. “Wait- We both heard meat chewing, right ash?”

 

“Yeah, no shit.”

 

“...There isn’t any meat here in the food storage.”

 

“..Still looks like its in good condition.” Clown looked at the shop. It looked untouched.

 

“Yeah- Guess not many people are driving vans around.” Branzy teased.

 

They went in the shop. It was much less untouched than it looked on the outside, but still decently neat.

 

“This is kinda like that one time kab crashed your parents car so we had to go to a shop to get it fixed.” Branzy said, and both of them laughed.

 

“Yeah. I don’t think she should be allowed to drive the van.”

 

“Probably not.” Branzy said, still laughing. “..Where do these places even keep the engines?”

 

They kept looking. It was taking a while. “..Aha! Found it.” Branzy said, pointing towards an engine. “And now for the walk back...”

 

It took a while, a bit longer because of the engine- but eventually, they made it.

 

“Heres the engine!” Branzy and clown placed down the engine, both tired.

 

“What are you implying?” Ash looked at kab.

 

“Well i mean.. There could be a chanc-”

 

Ash cut kab off.

 

“Ew, bro thats gross.”

 

“I mean, they seem nice! They probably wouldn’t do that! : D” Squiddo chimed in.

 

“..Whatever you say!” Kab said.

 

There was another moment of just pondering between the trio, just talking and wondering about what was going on.

 

“Hmmm.... What if we all stayed up tonight, and see whats going on?” Kab said, after 10 minutes of discussing.

 

“For once, you actually had a good idea.” Ash looked at kab.

 

“Hey!!! Whats that supposed to mean??”

 

“Should we tell clown?” Squiddo said. “I mean, him and branzy seem to be happy together, but if what you guys are saying is true, then how do we know branzy isn’t in on it?”

 

“I trust branzy! I don’t think he’d do anything like this.” Kab said.

 

“Can’t believe you guys have a campfire!” Squiddo said.

 

It was about 10 pm now (nobody was quite sure, but it looked like it was, so it probably was), and everyone was roasting smores while talking. Ash and kab looked on edge. They couldn’t help but wonder how squiddo was still so happy despite knowing that kids in the corner might be eating banshee flesh.

 

“Yeah.” Clown said, taking a bite out of a smore. He didn’t know what was going on still.

 

“Well to be fair, campfires aren’t that hard to make.” Jaron laughed.

 

Kab looked at clown, and then ash. They agreed to not tell clown until after they knew what was happening, but kab and clown had made a promise a while back to not keep secrets. They didn’t really want to keep this secret.

 

“Hey clown,” Kab said, and ash looked at her in a ‘don’t do it’ way. “can i talk to you real quick?”

 

“Sure.”

 

“So pretty much... meandashheardchewingoutsideatnightandsincetheresnomeatinthefridgeherewethinkthattheymightbeeatinginfectedmeat” Kab said, but it sounded like complete gibberish.

 

“girl what” Clown looked at her like she was crazy.

 

“KIDS IN THE CORNER MIGHT BE EATING INFECTED MEAT.” she yelled, but not loud enough for kids in the corner to hear.

 

“EXCUSE ME WHAT??” Clown yelled, at about the same tone.

 

“YYYYUUUUPPPP.” They kept yelled, for some reason. Not loud enough for anyone to hear, but loud enough to be yelling.

 

Clown calmed down.

 

“Can you explain further?”

 

“Me and ash both heard meat chewing noises at night- like, two entirely different nights. There’s no meat in the storage. It couldn’t be a fox or anything.” Kaboodle said while looking at clown. “Ash also said that we shouldn’t tell you, but-”

 

“you just weren’t gonna tell me. Okay woooow.” Clown remarked. He sounded sassy- like he sounded like a 13 year old girl.

 

“Shut up- We're gonna find out what’s making the noise tonight, if you wanna join! :D”

 

“I’m good. I’ll ask branzy tonight, though.”

 

“Branzy, can I ask you about something?” Clown looked at branzy.

 

It was around 11pm, everyone was getting ready to go to sleep.

 

“Yeah, sure!” Branzy said.

 

“..Do you and the other kids in the corner eat infected flesh?”

Notes:

theres such a small detail that nobdoy will probablty notice... ill include it in the final notes probably....

ANYWAYS SORRY FOR NOT UPLOADING MB. I AM SO SORRY SCHOOL LIKE SHOT ME IN THE BACK A BAJILLION TIMES I HAD SO MANY TESTS LAST WEEK

ILL UPLOAD A LOT OF CHGAPTERS IN THE NEXT FEW DAYS BECAISE I JAVE A CHRISTMAS CHAPTER (SORRY TO THOSE WHO CELEBRATE OTHER THIGNS.. ITS SPECIFICALLY A CHRISTMAS CHAPTER BECAUSE OF A STUPID IDEA I HAD)

Chapter 11: are they cannibals or freaks (..or both?)

Summary:

Ash and Kab figure out what the chewing noise is.

“Alright, so you have your knife if anything goes wrong, right ash?” Kab said. They were getting ready to check- Kab wanted to be ready for anything, ash wanted this to be over with, and squiddo didn’t want to do it.

 

“Yeah.” Ash pulled his knife out of his pocket.

 

“Are we SURE we want to do this? I mean, they seem nice-”

 

“Bro.” Ash looked at squiddo. “You can’t trust them. We’ve known them for a few days.”

 

“Well i mean- Clown and kab have known branzy for a while, so if he’s here its probably nothing!” Squiddo said, and ash and kab just sighed. For some reason squiddo kept refusing that kids in the corner even had a chance of being bad people.

 

“...” Branzy looked at clown, clearly uncomfortable. This was something branzy had tried his hardest to hide. “Yeah. Well, I mean- I've been avoiding it, but they have.”

 

Clown looked at branzy, his face a mix of disgust and confusion. “Why?”

 

“Good question, actually... I don’t think any of us know. It just... Happened. I can’t quite remember. I’ve always avoided it. The others... just eat it, I guess. I think one time cube said it was helpful because it could make your body more resistant to bites or something, but even then, he sounded doubtful.” Branzy looked at the corner of the tent.

 

“So kab was right.” Clown grabbed his mask. “Kab, squiddo and ash are going to try to find out if what you just said is really happening. Since the van is fixed, I wouldn’t be suprised if they asked me to run- or i suppose drive away.”

 

“..And?” Branzy looked at clown, confused.

 

“Would you like to come with us?”

 

It was time for the plan to finally start.

 

Squiddo decided to sleep instead, and ash and kab were ready at the tent door to catch whatever- or whoever was chewing, and what they were chewing on.

 

The chewing noise started, and ash and kab nodded at each other. They each left the tent as quietly as possible, ash with his knife ready, and kaboodle ready to... run? She didn’t have much on her as of now.

 

They both held their breath, and moved closer and closer to the noise slowly. To kaboodle, it felt like they were in an ultra-super-cool spy movie, while to ash it felt like another.. Whatever today was.

 

They reached where it was closest, near the woods. Of course it was THERE. Why wouldn’t it be there? It just had to be like all of those horror movies.

 

They looked, and it turned out..

 

“You really think they’re gonna find out and drag us out?” Branzy looked at clown. They were putting whatever stuff they had in backpacks.

 

“Yeah. Probably, and if not we should probably drag them outta here anyways.” Clown laughed. Branzy was glad that he was able to see and talk to clown again. Clown felt the same.

 

“What time even is it by now? I think we’ve been packing for a while.” Branzy finished packing, and sat down. “It’s almost surprising how long it took, seeing how little stuff both of us have.” Branzy and clown giggled.

 

“Yeah. It feels like it’s been an hour or two by now.” Clown said. He noted rustling outside of the tent. “Shh. I think I hear Ash and Kab.” He whispered while looking at branzy. They both started to listen, and grabbed their backpacks.

 

....As surprising as it was, somehow it wasn’t surprising.

 

When they looked out from behind the tree they had hid behind, they had saw 4cvit, mid, and jaron eating infected flesh. Ash and kab felt like they were going to throw up. It was.. A sight. It was like watching humans shoot and kill a deer, and then just eat it.

 

Ash and Kab almost looked like deer in headlights.

 

They walked (although it was more like running) as quietly as they could back to the tent.

 

“Ash! What about our stuff?? And clown and branzy??” Kab whispered to ash. They made it to the tent. They were sitting near the door, both out of breath. “Do we wake squiddo now or should we wait?? Do we wait until morning??”

 

Kaboodle was hyperventilating. She was very much panicking. They didn’t really plan for after they caught kids in the corner. Ash rolled his eyes, and sighed.

 

“I packed most stuff.” Ash pointed at a few bags. “I think it might be worth it to stay until morning, actually.”

 

“That’s surprising, coming from you.” Kab giggled, calming herself down a little, ash just rolled his eyes.

 

“As I was saying, the van is already pretty much done. We can sleep, and then tomorrow leave. We’ll get food, and be able to drive all day. We won’t be suspicious or anything, either.”

 

“Alright.” Kab calmed herself down fully. “I’m gonna head to sleep then! Night!” Kaboodle wasn’t quite whispering, but they were quiet enough. They waved to ash, and went to go lay down.

 

“Night.” Ash went to his bed, and went to lay down.

 

Clown grabbed branzys head and went back to the tent.

 

“Guess we have tonight to rest.” Clown said.

 

Clown thought it was going to be a good idea eavesdrop on them to know if they should leave. Branzy decided to tag along.

 

“Surprising, you were wrong for once.” Branzy laughed. Clown rolled his eyes and laughed.

 

Clown took off his mask and threw his backpack to the side. “So, are you ready to leave tomorrow? Anything else you’d like to pack?” Clown sat by his bed.

 

“I’ll be fine. What about you? Are you ready?” Branzy placed his backpack near his bed, and sat near clown.

 

“Most of my stuffs already in the van.” Clown said. “I guess we should get some rest now.”

 

“I guess.” Branzy stood up and went to his bed. “Night!”

 

Clown stood up.

 

“Night.”

 

Unbeknownst to everyone, squiddo herself hadn’t slept. They couldn’t sleep without knowing if kids in the corner really did eat banshee meat or not. They didn’t want to believe that they were bad people. To be fair, she didn’t really wanna believe that there were bad people still.

 

Ash, kab and clown had given her faith that maybe, just maybe, there were more good people in this world. People who had stayed kind and optimistic even with the situation. They decided that they were going to stay awake and listen in on ash and kab to find out an answer.

 

And so, after finding out that the kids in the corner did in fact eat banshee meat, she wasn’t quite sure how to feel. Squiddo didn’t sleep for a while, they just kept looking at the wall. She continued to do that until they passed out.

Notes:

IM SOSOSOSOOSOSSOSO SORRY FOR NOT BEING UP TO DATE IM WORKING ON AS MANY CHAPTERS AS I CNA...... AUTHORS CURSE HIT ME 😭😭😭 MY COMPUTER COMBUSTED AND MY NEW COMPUTERS P KEY KEEPS FALLIGN OFF

Fun fact that NOBODY CANONICALLY KNOWS: kitc are completely right. eating the infected flesh does make you more immune but NOBODY ACTUALLY KNOWS EVERYONE JUST THINKS THEYRE CRAZY

Chapter 12: on the road

Summary:

The gangᵀᴹ get back on the road.

Ash had barely gotten sleep last night. To be fair, he had just found out the people he was staying with were freaks who ate what was pretty much rotting flesh. It felt really, REALLY awkward sitting with them to eat breakfast by a campfire.

 

Ash and kab hadn’t even told squiddo or clown what they saw. And they were gonna leave today. Which Squiddo or clown also hadn’t known about. This was a lot to drop on them at once.

 

“I hope you like the pancakes : D” 4c said, looking proud. “They’re not the best because we have limited stuff, but I tried!”

 

“They taste awesome!!” Squiddo said. They had already finished their plate.

 

It could’ve been a peaceful morning. Could’ve. If you know, kids in the corner didnt eat infected flesh like freaks.

 

“Hey, so like how fixed is the van?” Kab asked. She didn’t want to eat today. Ash couldn’t blame her.

 

“Its pretty much entirely fixed!” Jaron smiled. “Just gotta fix a tire and refill the gas!”

 

Ash and kab looked at each other. They didn’t know how long that would take. Neither of them knew that much about cars. Ash was in a race with his friend once, but just he just helped decide what material to use to make it fast and designed it.

 

After breakfast, as usual ash kaboodle and squiddo just sitting around in the tent. It felt tense. Squiddo didn’t know why, but ash and kab did.

 

“Sssoooo... Squiddo...” Kab looked at the ground nervously. “You know how me and ash stayed up to find out what the chewing noise was?”

 

“Yeah?” Squiddo looked at them confused.

 

“It turns out our suspicions were correct.. They do eat infected meat! So we’re gonna leave today!” Kaboodle rubbed the back of her head.

 

“Oh.” Squiddo tried to look a bit disappointed. “Alright then!”

 

Kab looked at them, a bit confused. Why were they so okay with this? Yesterday they refused to believe kids in the corner were bad people. Ash looked at squiddo suspiciously.

 

“All our stuff is packed. We just need to wait for the van to be fully fixed and to tell clown.” Ash showed squiddo the bags he packed last night.

 

“YOU KNEW?!” Kab yelled at clown, dumbfounded.

 

“Quiet down. Yes I knew. Me and branzy may or may not have been eavesdropping while you were talking to ash last night. And plus, last night i may or may not have asked branzy about it.” Clown replied.

 

Kaboodle went to tell clown about how kids in the corner ate infected flesh, so clown told her about how he already knew, leading to this. It was kind of goofy.

 

“and you just. didn’t tell us. ok.” Kab crossed her arms and pouted.

 

“Oh please, as if you wouldn’t have eavesdropped too.” Clown rolled his eyes and laughed. “I’m gonna go check on the van. Branzys over there too, if you wanna come.” He grabbed his mask.

 

“FFFiinnnee.”

 

“You don’t have to go.”

 

“Shut up im going!”

 

They started walking over, kab still acting annoyed. Clown could tell she wasn’t really annoyed, but it’d be amusing to see how long they were going to keep this up.

 

“Oh, hey guys!!” Mid waved to them. As much as kab wanted to yell at mid for eating infected flesh; they were to busy acting annoyed.

 

“Hows the van going?” Clown look at the pretty much finished van.

 

“All done! We were just about to get you, squiddo, ash and kab!” Mid smiled. “Actually, do you mind getting them?”

 

“Yeah, the vans done. We can go now.” Clown said. Squiddo and ash grabbed whatever bags they had and started walking over with kab and clown.

 

“Are you good kab??” Squiddo laughed.

 

“Clown knew that kids in the corner ate infected flesh!!” Kab told them. Ash rolled his eyes.

 

“And he didn’t tell us??? D:” Squiddo said.

 

“Nope!!” Kab continued acting annoyed. Squiddo giggled a little. They had reached the van where kids in the corner were, so they all stopped talking about the subject.

 

“Alright, so the van is ready to go, whenever you guys are ready to leave!” 4c said.

 

“Cool. Bye.” Ash waved and went into the van. He could’ve sworn he heard someone in the back of the van, but he didn’t really care.

 

“Oh- okay- anyways, thanks for letting us stay!!!” Squiddo waved, and went towards the van. “Bye!”

 

Kab just went to the van, and clown waved.

 

“So like, they knew right?” Mid suggested, as the van drove away.

 

“No yeah, they knew.” Cube responded.

 

“Wait, wheres branzy?” 4c looked around.

 

“Wait, clown, neither of us got to say bye to branzy-” Kab said, only for branzy to appear near the back of the van. “Oh. Alright then!”

 

“Dude, squiddo. You know clown brought branzy, right?” Ash looked at squiddo.

 

“..wasn’t that the entire reason of coming here?” Squiddo did NOT look at ash. For once, they actually kept their eyes on the road. Ash was surprised about that.

 

“Oh yeah.” Ash sat there. “You know, you were surprisingly calm when me and kab told you about the kids in the corner thing.”

 

“Ohh.. Yeah, I guess I was just expecting it.” Squiddo hoped he wouldn’t find out. For some reason neither of them knew, they were good at reading each other.

 

“..Bro. You were awake, weren’t you.”

 

“Well,- I mean.. Maybe?” Squiddo said, and ash just sighed.

 

“Whatever bro.” Ash couldn’t really care. “You could’ve just stayed awake sitting around and we wouldn’t have minded.”

 

Just as squiddo was about to speak, someone interrupted.

 

“SNOW!!??” Kab yelled. Sure enough, looking outside it had started snowing.

 

“..Can we drive through that?”

Notes:

hlep me my p key is broken what do i do this is a new computer

Anyways i finished my game of solitaire that lasted 10 hours on easy mode which reminds me of the one time i almost bought a solitaire subscription on call or the time instead of building a card house like i was supposed to in class i started playing solitaire instead

I wnated to name this chapter escape from the city as a sonic reference... but i had to stop myself

Chapter 13: holy shit did they just kill them

Summary:

A snowball fight commences.

“Knowing you bro, we cannot.” Ash said in response to squiddos question.

 

“..Guess we’ll stop! : D” Squiddo said, now trying to find a good place to hide the van.

 

“Don’t put the van in plain sight this time.” Ash said, knowing squiddos history of leaving the van in plain sight.

 

Squiddo ended up parking the van behind some trees and bushes deep-ish in a forest, and even though you could still see it a little bit, if there was a lot of snow they’d be fine, and if there wasn’t they’d be on the road soon enough.

 

Squiddo and ash went over to the main part of the van, where clown and kab were.

 

“SSSSSooo....... now what?” Squiddo sat down. They couldn’t drive, and it’d probably be at least an hour or so until they’d know if they could keep driving.

 

“I smuggled the uno deck from kids in the corner!” Branzy said, and squiddo, ash, and kab shuddered.

 

“I dunno about that...!” Squiddo nervously laughed off. Not another uno game. Never again. Not with ash, kab, and squiddo would never play uno as a group again. Not after... The incident.

 

“We could play.. Charades!” Kab suggested, and everyone agreed.

 

“I’ll go first.” Ash said. They didn’t have cards, so they were just going to pick random (but not so hard to guess). Ash went over to a drawer and grabbed a knife. He also drew something on a napkin, and then pretended the napkin was a mask.

 

“..is it clown?” Kaboodle said while giggling her ass off.

 

“Yeah.” Ash said, and everyone started laughing. Clown rolled his eyes, but he was also laughing (probably).

 

Everyone took turns for 2 hours (probably, its hard to keep track of time in an apocalypse). Of course some of the more notable prompts were ash and squiddo acting all lovey dovey (the prompt was ‘branzy and clown’), kab flipping everyone off (her prompt was ash), and branzy and clown getting married. (The prompt was happy.)

 

Eventually, squiddo looked outside. There were about 5 inches of snow, and all the sudden they had an idea.

 

“What if we had a snowball fight? : D” Squiddo suggested.

 

Clown and Kab looked at each other, both smiling. They were both made to be superhumans. Branzy once tried to have a snowball fight with them, and he froze.

 

“Bet!” Clown and kab said in unison, and ash just shrugged. Branzy shuddered.

 

“Okay! Uhhh... pick your teams?”

 

Clown, Kab and branzy all teamed up, leaving squiddo and ash to team up. They all put on their warmest clothes and went out. They agreed that both teams would get a few minutes to discuss a plan and get a set up ready.

 

“We’re fucked.” Ash said.

 

“its so joever” Squiddo replied.

 

“Clown, remember the machine gun plan?” Kab said, and branzy looked in horror.

 

“The what??” Branzy was glad he wasn’t against them.

 

“Clown has really good aim, so I made snowballs really fast and then give them to him! We also make something gun looking to distract them.” Kab replied, and branzy remembered when they used that plan on him. He shuddered.

 

“We’re so gonna win.” Clown said.

 

“So... we just make a bunch of snowballs and throw then throw them at them!” Squiddo said. For some reason, ash knew that they would be SCREWED. “Loosen up! Yeah kab’s really smart, and clowns maybe a little violent, and branzys a bit of a mix, but surely it won’t be that bad.”

 

“Squiddo, bro you don’t understand..” Ash sighed. “Maybe it’ll work. Let’s see, I guess.”

 

“THREE, TWO... ONE!” Squiddo yelled, which probably wasn’t the best idea seeing as they were in the middle of an apocalypse, but that didn’t matter. They were deep-ish into the forest, and everyone was having fun.

 

Everyone had gotten ready their snowballs and set ups.

 

“..Wait, do they have a g-” Squiddo said before getting hit in the face with a snowball. “Ow...”

 

Ash went to check on squiddo, hiding behind the small wall they made for protection.

 

“Get up, we can do this.” Ash said, handing them a snowball. Squiddo wiped the snow off of their face, and threw more snowballs. Clown, Kab and branzy were throwing them quick. Ash and squiddo barely managed to dodge them.

 

Ash threw a few snowballs, but one hit his eye. He ducked behind the wall, and squiddo went to check on him

 

“Ow.”

 

“Oh no!! Your.. Purple burn mark! Whatever shall we do??” Squiddo said, and ash looked at her for a moment, a mix of shock and confusion. Squiddo shouldn’t be able to see that.

 

“Ahaha.. Oh no!”

 

They kept throwing snowballs, and kept getting hit. It was first to surrender loses, and ash was getting close. Squiddo was hopeful (for some reason), so he wouldn’t yet.

 

“This isn’t working! We need to sneak up on them, or something!” Squiddo said, ducking behind the wall of snow. They grabbed ashs hand. Their sweater was damp and cold, yet their hand was warm.

 

“Theres no way that’ll-” A snowball break down a bit of the wall. “-work.. Alright. Let’s do this.”

 

Ash grabbed a bunch of snowballs. Squiddo did too. They slowly snuck around the van, without the other team noticing. As they slowly made their way around the van, to where the others were, squiddo peeked around the corner of the van. Ash followed.

 

Before either of them could throw a snowball, squiddo was hit down with a snowball.

 

“NOOOOO.............. SQUIDDO....” Ash said, as squiddo dramatically pretended to die. Ash went along with the bit, pretending to mourn her. Ash held squiddo as they pretending to die. “We surrender...” Ash put his hand that wasn’t holding squiddo up. Kaboodle then hit him with a snowball, so he pretended to die.

 

Everyone started laughing. Squiddo and ash wiped snow off of their clothes.

 

“Can we go in now? I’m freezing...” Kab said, and they all (mainly squiddo, who had just put on a cardigan and called it a day) agreed.

 

“Ash.. We need to hold hands for warmth...” Squiddo said, attempting to sound serious but then started giggling. Ash giggled too. They were sitting in one of the seats in the back.

 

Squiddo rested their head on ashs shoulder, closing her eyes.

 

“Im glad I met you, ash!”

 

“Im glad too.”

 

They both slowly fell asleep.

 

“DO EITHER OF YOU KNOW HOW TO PLAY UNO.” Kab threw her cards at clown.

 

“DO YOU KNOW?!” Branzy threw his cards at the table.

 

“I SEE WHY ASH AND SQUIDDO DIDN’T WANNA PLAY UNO WITH YOU!” Clown held his head in his hands.

 

The uno game had gone wrong. They had started arguing over if a card was a 9 or a 6, and if they could change the color.

 

“GOOD NIGHT.” Kab ran off to a seat in the back.

 

The next morning, when squiddo went to check on how much snow there was, she saw it all melted.

 

“Is that normal?” Squiddo looked at kab.

 

“I dunno. Probably!”

Notes:

bonus:

Squiddo thought of something, and then giggled. "Ash, c'mere I need help with this prompt! :D"

Squiddo whispered the prompt to ash, and he laughed.

They pretended to be all lovey dovey, and using napkins ash made a veil and they pretending to get married.

"?? Love ???" Branzy said, sounding confused.

"Uuuuhhh.... branzy and clown?" Kab suggested.

"Yup!!"

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aNYWAS ONTO ACTUAL NOTES

glitch duo focsued.... glitch duo......... glitch duo...... GLitch duo.....
happy new year!!!! :D and haypy holidays!!!! and everything else!!!

no more daily chapters (i think we knew that already) ill post them when i feel like it (not like every a bajillion months but yahhh) itook a break cause

HOLY SHIT I GAD SO MUCH SCHOOL WORK NOT FUNNY.
unrelated im going to my aunts house today for family christmas and the few things on my crhistmas list were squiddo merch and lifesteal merch so we pray

Chapter 14: darkness conceals the secrets of the day

Summary:

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Branzy convinces Squiddo to pick up a 6th member.

Squiddo stood up. The lab was now in sight, and they walked over to it. It was clean, and almost looked like a hospital. It looked a little odd. They went inside.

 

“C’mon!” She waved to the others. There were two extras, too. The others stayed behind, but Ash followed. Squiddo spoke to Ash, but no words came out of either of their mouths. The use for words was no longer important.

 

Everything was an inch off, but at least they had a friend with them. Ash and Squiddo walked down a forever extending corridor. The corridor ended after what felt like years, (5 seconds maybe) but there wasn’t anything other than a lab coat at the end. A oversized large nametag said Ash$swAgg on it. A bloody knife was in the pocket.

 

The house was calm and comfortable. The two sat at the table.

 

“I didn’t know you had such a nice house.” Said Ash, Squiddo took a sip of. Ashswag was in a lab coat.

 

“I didn’t either!” Squiddo smiled. The phone rang. Squiddo went and picked it up.

 

They were talking with ash at the table, the phone ringing.

 

“I created the whole apocalypse. I killed everyone in the lab so there was no witnesses. I did the same to you.” Ash looked towards a wall, so squiddo did too. A different, fake, squiddo was sitting there lifeless. “I created banshees because of people like you.”

 

“That’s okay! The one thing I ask of you,” As squiddo was about to continue, The phone started ringing louder. They picked it up. The ringing didn’t stop.

 

‘Is your telephone running?’ Said the unknown voice, the phone turned blue as Squiddo held it. They put it down just in case, they didn’t want to choke it.

 

“Well, yes! I’m calling you!” Squiddo responded, the glass that wasn’t in her hand broke. They needed to stop dropping things.

 

‘Well you better catch it!’ The voice said, and then hung up. There goes the fridge. Right out the oddly refrigerator shaped door. Wait, what?

 

Ash looked at squiddo. Now he was holding the phone! Squiddo giggled.

 

“I have to go now, Squid. I’ll sleep for a bit longer, but you need to wake up.” Ash said. The house was gone, the comforting presence of the house no longer there, but instead replaced by a cold white void.

 

“Squiddo? SSSqqquuuiiiddddddooo???” Kaboodle said, and Squiddo finally woke up. Ash was no longer by their side.

 

“Oh- yeah?” Squiddo said in a drowsy state.

 

“The snow melted??” Kaboodle pointed outside, the snow missing entirely. Ash was sitting on the couch, trying to replicate one of Squiddo’s doodles. Branzy was trying to make some food, and clown was helping him.

 

“..Is that normal??” Squiddo stood up, going to the door with Kab.

 

“I dunno. Probably!” Kab responded, smiling. “At least we can continue driving! When Clown and Branzy are done cooking, though!”

 

“Awesome sauce....” Squiddo said, starting to giggle.

 

~~

 

“Clown, do you remember Rek?” Branzy asks. “Can you grab me an apple real quick?

 

“Yeah.” Clown gave branzy an apple. “I think. Why?”

 

“I was thinking of asking Squiddo if we can pick him up. Do you think the van can hold any more people?” Branzy looked up at Clown while making a make-shift apple pie.

 

“No,” Clown laughed “Well, I mean we have space for maybe two more. Honestly, I’d just ask Squiddo.”

 

“Here, let me help you with that.” Clown said, and started trying to help branzy with the pie.

 

“I hate gay people.” Kaboodle says, after seeing them.

 

~~

 

Ash attempted to replicate one of Squiddos doodles over and over, yet they never looked right. He was doing it on a different sheet of paper, he didn’t dare draw on the same one and ruin it.

 

Another failed copy made an entire failed page. He crumpled up the paper and threw it to the side.

 

He woke up an hour or two ago, with Squiddo next to him. He didn’t want to wake them, so he just stood up and went to the couch as carefully and quietly as possible.

 

Squiddo noticed Ash genuinely looking a bit angry that he couldn’t replicate her doodle of him with a dollar bill.

 

“Are you good..??” Squiddo giggled. Ash looked like he was gonna kill them for a second, before sighing and mumbling. Squiddo felt a bit bad for laughing.

 

“Here, lemme help you!” Squiddo smiled and sat down next to ash, starting to explain how to draw like she did.

 

~~

A while later, while it was dark, Branzy came up to Squiddo.

 

“Yo squiddo,” Branzy took a breath, pausing for a moment. “I know thr van is pretty full, but I was wondering if we could bring an old friend of mine on the trip?”

 

“Yeah, sure! :D” Squiddo responded , a contrast to the answer branzy thought he would get. “You just gotta drive! Preferably, at least.”

 

“Oh, cool! So.. we start heading over tomorrow?” Branzy asked. He wondered how the van managed to hold this many people.

 

“Yeah!” Squiddo replied. “I mean, as long as everyone is ready to!”

 

Branzy nodded, and went down to where clown was to talk. Squiddo went over to ash, who was just on the couch.

 

“Hi Ash!” Squiddo waved to him, sitting next to him. “Whatca doin’?”

 

“Nothing.” Ash replied. He really wasn’t doing much. Just sitting there, being bored.

 

“Wanna play some board games?”

 

~~

 

Kab looked out the window. When was SHE gonna get a friend? Well, she was friends with everyone in the van, but they all had someone they hung out with a lot. (A lot a lot.) Branzy and clown had each other, and Squiddo and Ash had each other. Kab had herself. Hey, it was nice at least. (She enjoyed making fun of them.)

 

Maybe soon. Branzy mentioned how he was gonna ask to pick up Rek, so maybe they could be buds! Or if they picked up someone else, which seemed more likely every time someone asked to pick someone else up.

 

For now, it was lights out for her. (They hadn’t done much, but she was still tired.)

 

~~

 

“...How do we have room for picking up more people?” Clown questioned, and Branzy agreed. It really was a miracle, or something along the lines of that. Maybe a blessing in disguse, or a curse.

 

“Good question. I don’t know about you, but I don’t have the time to dwell on it.” Branzy said, resting his head on Clowns shoulder. Clown rested his head on branzys.

 

“Good night, then.” Clown said, taking off his mask. He made sure the area was a little curtained before that, at least.

 

“Night.”

Notes:

Hey so liek. To whoever trnaslates the thing in the summary. im so sorry for the skibidi part. i cant control myself... when it comes to skibidi....

ill give you a hint. theres more then 1 cipher used.... oooo cryptic...

Anyways YAYAYAYAY NEW CHAPTER!!!! BIT OF A COMEDY!! HOPEFULLY AFTER WE PICK UP REK WE'LL GET MORE FREQUENT CHAPTERS BECAUSE WE'LL HAVE ANOTHER CHARACTER TO INTERACT WITH YIPPEE!!!!

The dream sequence is supposed to be a little bit funky and like messed up, past that any errors are my bad. :,D i wrote a lot of this on my way to school today lol, also experimented a bit in this chapter, so lemme know if its rizzful chap or skibidi chapter.

im really anxious to upload tihs and idk why but ive read every glitch duo ppossible as of now so i gotta start making the content i need.

im a little shy 🥺🥺🥺🥺

calc (short for calculator if you jsut joined) was used

Chapter 15: holiday speed run any%

Summary:

The gang speedruns holidays.

“You know guys..” Kab put down the stack of uno cards they were using to play ‘multiplayer solitaire’ with, looking at Ash and Squiddo. “We won’t be able to spend any holidays with each other!”

 

“..And?” Ash looked at Kab, annoyed.

 

“Are you suggesting..” Squiddo looked at Kab.

 

“...Holiday speedrun.....” Kab and Squiddo said in unison.

 

Ash sighed, knowing that he would get dragged along with this. It was more of a question of who would tell clown and branzy so they could join in.

 

HOLIDAY 1: VALENTINES DAY

 

“Ash, go in the back and tell Clown and Branzy! Me and Kab need to... Discuss...” Squiddo said, with Ash sighing and going to the back. “Valentine's day is first, right?”

 

“Technically, it’d be New Year's Day, but we can do that at the end, so I guess Valentine's Day first!” Kab replied. Squiddo signaled Kab to follow them. When Kab followed, Squiddo revealed a cabinet full of chocolate and valentines day candy.

 

The duo smirked at each other.

 

~~~~~~

“Well, we already both have valentines.” Clown said, pointing at branzy. “What about you, Ash? What, are you just gonna be alone?

 

Ash rolled his eyes, “Of course not. I’ll ask Squiddo, probably. And even so, this will probably last an hour at most.

 

Clown and Branzy exchanged a look.

 

“Kab’ll be alone, but I don’t think she’ll mind.” Clown said, Branzy nodding in agreement.

 

“Yeah.” Branzy said. “So, after this, we’ll be doing Halloween?”

 

“I think.” Ash replied. “I don’t know, you never know with them.”

 

~~~~~~

 

“Hey Ash!” Squiddo waved at him, telling him to sit with her at the couch. “I have something to ask you!”

 

“Oh,” Ash replied. “I was just coming to ask you something too.”

 

The two looked at each other, connecting the dots.

 

“Oh- Were you gonna-” Squiddo said, but was cut off by Ash.

 

“Yeah. Were you also gonna, or?” Ash asked in reply.

 

“Yeah. Sooo... Valentines?”

 

“Sure.”

 

~~~~~~

 

“Stupid couples...” Kab said, eating expired valentine heart candys.

 

HOLIDAY 2: EASTER

 

Kab and Squiddo lead the rest of the van outside.

 

“The next holiday is easter, not Halloween, or something?” Clown asked.

 

“Yes!” Kab answered. “Specifically, so we could do this!”

 

Squiddo and Kab started throwing eggs at Clown, Branzy, and Ash. Clown dodged, Branzy got hit a few times, and Ash got a few eggs thrown in his face.

 

“That isn’t how easter works...?” Branzy said, as Squiddo and Kab laughed. Clown laughed, too. Ash did not.

 

HOLIDAY 3: HALLOWEEN

 

“We don’t have costumes.” Clown said.

 

“Actually, I know where to get some.” Ash said. “Clown, stay here. The rest of you, follow me.”

 

Everyone followed Ash out of the van, Ash grabbing napkins and markers on the way out. Outside, Ash started to pass around napkins to everyone.

 

“Alright, so you start off by...” Ash said, showing everyone how to draw Clowns mask on a napkin. “Pass around the marker when you finish drawing.”

 

Everyone drew Clowns mask and went back inside.

 

“We are the clownlings. Please feed us.” Everyone said in unison.

 

“What the actual fuck?” Clown replied.

 

HOLIDAY 4: Christmas

 

“No secret santa or anything!” Squiddo said, as they stopped at a store. “If you just see something you think someone would like at the store, get it for them!”

 

Kab was the first to enter the store. She wanted to find a gift for everyone. She looked around for any banshees or whatever they were called, finding none, so they got looking. They stopped by the art isle for squiddo, got ¼th of an apple for clown (as a joke, he was allergic- he got a new mask), some goggles for branzy, and a new tie for ash.

 

Squiddo got everyone matching friendship bracelets.

 

Ash got Squiddo some art stuff and a squid stuffed animal, and got everyone else just stuffed animals.

 

Clown got a ring pop and some engineering stuff for branzy, arts and crafts for Kab, and legos for squiddo and ash.

 

Branzy got everyone some suspicious ‘awesome sauce’ and beer.

 

Everyone opened their gifts and giggled. They all drank their beers together and messed around with their gifts.

 

HOLIDAY 5: NEW YEARS (EVE)

 

“What do we even do for new year's?” Kab questioned.

 

“I dunno! I mean, the other stuff did take all day, so it’s almost like actual new years. Like, it’ll probably be midnight and all that.” Squiddo replied. “But that is a good question, what do we even do?”

 

“We could skip it!” Kab said. “I mean, if I’ve been keeping track of time correctly, I think that we might be able to spend new year's all together!”

 

“I guess!! Holiday speedrun complete, world record timing!”

 

FINAL TIME: 8 HOURS, 34 MINUTES, 5 SECONDS (WORLD RECORD!!!!)

 

~~~~~~

 

“So, branzy.” Ash said, as Branzy pointed towards what turn Ash needed to take. “Is this friend of yours, friendly? We’ve had our fair share of non-friendly people, and I think I’d rather avoid any more conflicts for like, ever.”

 

“Well, last time we interacted, he was pretty chill.” Branzy said. “Err, right here, I think.”

 

Ash took a right turn. “Yeah, well, a lotta people have changed.”

 

There was a long moment of silence as Ash waited for Branzy to give him another direction.

 

“Left, and then just keep going straight for a while.” Branzy said, after a few minutes.

 

“..Are those guys them?” Ash said, looking a bit farther away to see two hitchhikers, one holding their thumb up with a smile, the other just standing there.

 

One of them had a yellow and blue sweater, and the other had a pink sweater and pink goggles.

 

“Yeah, probably.” Branzy replied.

Notes:

I THOUGHT THE PARIL FOOLS JOKE WAS FUNNY. JUST ME? OK. FINE.

ANYWAYS NEW CHATPER YAYAYAY MORE SILLYNESS

Things that have happened since i last uploaded a chapter: Minecraft movie, deltarune tomorrow, swagsquid canon, lifesteal yuri marriage (i think), i broke up a couple accidentally, i got into a 5th situationship, i got rejected from a bajillion mc smps, silksong, squiddo blockwars x2, missy cooper turned out to be a twitch streamer, etc etc

ALSO NEW CAST MEMBERS... REKRAP IS KNOWN TO BE ONE BUT THE OTHER WILL ONLY BE REVEALED ONCE THE NEXT CHAP COMES OT.... no more cast after this

Chapter 16: the dead, the alive, and all the in between

Summary:

The gang gets its final members.

Jumper and Rek meet some odd people, and reunite with old friends. (or, enemies.)

“Branzy, since you know Rek, you should do the talking, just to make sure none of us get attacked. Again.” Ash suggested as he parked the van, he was frankly tired of getting attacked.

 

“Alright!” Branzy said, leaving the van. “See you soon, I guess!”

 

Branzy stepped onto the ground, and Rek immediately recognized him. He ran up to Branzy.

 

“Yo, Branzy! No way! I thought you died!” Rek said, as the girl in pink behind him looked at Branzy. “Since when did you have a van?”

 

“Hey Rek! I thought I died too! It’s not my van- It's a friends!” Branzy smiled. “Actually, I stopped by to see if you wanted to hop on. Your friend can come, too!”

 

“I’m down! Hold up, lemme ask Jumper!” Rek turned to the girl in pink, presumably Jumper.

 

“Yeah, sure!” Jumper shrugged, smiling.

 

“Alright then! If you guys want, you can get whatever stuff you have, and I’ll tell everyone to come out and introduce themselves!”

 

~~~~~~

 

New people.

 

It had been a while since Jumper had seen anyone but Rek- Ro too, but he... Y’know.

 

Either way, a part of her was excited to get some new human interaction. Rek was nice, but hanging around the same person for months on end... Can get boring. Very fast. But, if Rek trusted that Branzy guy, she would too!

 

She picked up her sewing machine, some food, and a few sticks. She didn’t really have much. She wondered if she would need her sleeping bag. Jumper looked back at the van, and decided that it’d be best if she took it. Just in case.

 

~~~~~~

 

As Jumper brought her stuff out, she saw Rek and Branzy already waiting there, with four other people.

 

“So, that’s Squiddo, the owner of the van, that’s Ash, Kab,” Branzy pointed at everyone. “And that’s Clown!”

 

Jumper tensed up, looking at Clown. She remembered him. From-

 

“And these guys, are Jumper!” Branzy pointed at jumper, who waved, smiling. Branzy proceeded to point at Rek, who also waved. “And thats Rek!”

 

“How.. Will that van hold 7 people?” Rek questioned.

 

“Nobody really knows, but it’s worked out so far!” Squiddo replied.

 

~~~~~~

 

So, this was weird.

 

Not only was Jumper on a van to get the supposed ‘cure’ to a zombie apocalypse, but also, the clown who tried to-

 

“Hi Jumper!” Squiddo, the owner of the van waved.

 

“Oh- Hi squiddo!” Jumper said as Squiddo sat next to them.

 

“So....! I saw you brought some sewing stuff? Do you sew a lot?” Squiddo asked. Jumper assumed that they either just wanted someone to talk to, or just wanted to get to know her more.

 

“I do, a little! Not much, though, just like- small things, like fixing holes in shirts. And, my bunny ears!” Jumper pointed at her sewn together bunny ears.

 

“Probably pretty useful in an apocalypse, I’d assume.” Squiddo said.

 

“Yeah.” Jumper laughed.

 

“Cool! Maybe you could teach me sometime?”

 

“Sure!”

~~~~~~

 

It was funny; almost. On a van with a bunch of crazy people (and branzy) who wanted to get a cure to this virus. Who did they even think they were? And what might be the cherry on top: that one kid he tried to-

 

“So, clown!” Branzy started. “How do you feel about Jumper and Rek?”

 

“Reks alright, I guess. That Jumper kid however-” Clown said but was cut off by the van coming to an abrupt stop. “What happened now?”

 

“I either hit something, or theres a flat tire.” Ash stepped out of the car, followed by a curious Jumper, Squiddo, and Clown. Looking at each tire, they eventually find a flat tire. “Well shit. I don’t think we have a spare, do we Squiddo?”

 

“I don’t think so.. I’ve never seen any, at least.” Squiddo replied.

 

“So what do we do then?” Clown pondered. “We can’t continue on foot. We’ll die.”

 

“I could try stitching it back together?” Jumper suggested.

 

Squiddo shrugged, and then smiled. “Sure, why not!”

 

Jumper got her sewing stuff, and attempted to stitch the tire back together, while putting as much air as possible in it. After testing out, it seemed to work just fine. They continued driving, but agreed to stop at the next auto repair shop to get some spare tires and avoid another mess like this.

 

~~~~~~

 

“Hi jumper!” A blue haired girl waved.

 

“Hi! Uh, Kab, right?” Jumper questioned.

 

“Yeah!!” Kab smiled. “You stitched the tire, right?”

 

“Mhm!”

 

“Thank you!! I was busy sleeping, but we would’ve been stuck forever if it weren’t for you!” Kab smiled.

 

“..No problem? Thank you? You’re welcome?” Jumper said, not quite sure how to respond to that.

 

“Nice sewing machine, by the way!” Kab said, looking at the machine. “Might have to steal it sometime!”

 

“Or, you could... Ask?” Jumper nervously laughed, Kab laughing along with her.

 

~~~~~~

 

So, today was definitely weird. Like, super-duper weird.

 

Jumper was now on a bus with 6 other people, including Rek. Without Ro, theres still a bit of emptiness, like it should be 7 other people, including Rek and Ro, but she’s sure Ro is in a better place now. Instead of sleeping in a tent with a sleeping bag, she was now sleeping on a bus seat.

 

She made the bus seat a bed-ish area with the small space she had, putting the sleeping bag where your legs would normally go on a bus, so she could sit more comfortably. It wasn’t much, but the bus was warm, and it was the most homelike structure she had slept in for like, X years.

 

And as she tried to sleep on her bus seat, one thought ran through her mind. Possibly the even funnier part of this whole thing, isn’t the fact shes sleeping on a bus, not the fact shes here with 5 crazy people who want to get the cure to this virus, but:

 

The clown who was hired to assassinate her all those years ago was here too.

Notes:

GUESS WHOS BACK!

Anyways it was my birthday on april 12th. Say happy birthday or you get exploded!

WE GOT JUMPER AND REK!!! (Ft: sewing machine, also known as filler machine) (just kidding hahaha theres like 1 or 2 chapters with sewing as a main filler pplot) This chapter is more jumper focused but ill make up for it i just really wanted to write jumper and clown constantly getting cut off from thinking lol

Chapter 17: girl time!

Summary:

Squiddo, Kab, and Jumper sew.

“Squiddo!” Kab yelled, running over to Squiddo, almost tripping several times, but managed to eventually get to Squiddo, with only a bit of injury. “Do you wanna see if Jumper can teach us to sew shit?”

“Sure! I think I asked her yesterday anyways!” Squiddo replied, standing up. “Lets ask!”

“Jumper!!!” Kab yelled across the van. “Can you teach me and Squiddo to sew???”

Jumper thought for a moment, she had never taught anyone, anything, really. However, Kab and Squiddo seemed (somewhat) smart, despite being on this trip, so it couldn’t be THAT hard.

“Yeah! When, though?” Jumper yelled back. “Also, just come over here to talk!”

“I second that. You guys are annoying.” Ash yelled from the back of the van.

“Sorry Ash!” Squiddo laughed, and Squiddo and Kab went over to Jumper.

“Well, theres an apocalypse outside, and we’ll be driving for a while... So, I guess whenever you’re willing to teach us!” Kab said excitedly.

“Now then?” Jumper asked.

“Sure!” Squiddo said.

“Okay! I think I left my sewing machine on the table near the couch, right??” Jumper questioned, standing up.

“Yup!!” Kab said, dragging the Jumper and Squiddo to the couch.

“Okay, so-”

————

Clown laughed to himself a little.

That one girl he was hired to kill in what was it, XX? Was now on the van. Pretty funny, if you ask him. He just hoped it wouldn’t cause any unnecessary drama. He’d rather not clean blood out of his clothes.

Kab seemed to like her, and Branzy seemed to like her friend, so for now he wouldn’t try anything. (Probably.)

Maybe he could see if he could sew a gift for Kab. Maybe some better bunny ears. (He thought the current ones looked a little stupid. Sorry, not sorry.) He looked over at Kab, Squiddo, and Jumper, who were all sewing. Maybe he’ll ask Kab instead of Jumper.

————

“So, what were you up to before the apocalypse? Feels like I barely saw you.” Rek said, causing Branzy and him to laugh.

“Not much. Hanging out with Kab and Clown. I hung out with some other guys but after the apocalypse they went crazy.” Branzy said, looking out the window.

“Really? How crazy?” Rek said, keeping his eyes on the road (unlike some people.)

“Uhh, ate the infected. They said they were only doing it because it made them immune, but I’m pretty sure deep down nobody believed it. I don’t even know what started it. I think it was a joke at first.” Branzy laughed a little.

“...Damn. Did you, like-” Rek started, but was cut off by Branzy.

“Nope. I didn’t. I just like threw it up whenever I could. I think a few of them did the same.. What about you?”

“Well, nothing as intense as that.” Rek laughed. “I met Jumper and another guy, Ro, soon into the apocalypse.” Branzy looked at Rek, attempting to put two and two together. “We made a team. Called it “Sticklers.” We were good for a few months. Just got a bit reckless.”

Rek sighed, “Then one day... Ro just got too reckless. He got infected. Told us to kill him. Neither Jumper or I wanted to, so...” Rek stopped, just looking at the road. “He did it himself. We kinda took things more seriously after that.”

“Shit, man. Thats a lot. I’m sorry.” Branzy said, trying to reassure him.

“It's fine. Happened a while ago.” Rek said, laughing, not sounding very fine. “It’s just a sore subject.”

————

“Look! It’s me!” Squiddo smirked, holding up a plushie that looked like her. “I call it... the Squiddo Youtooz.”

“I would buy that.” Kab said, holding up her plushie of herself.

Jumper laughed, holding her own plushie.

“Thanks for teaching us Jumper!” Kab said. Squiddo gave a thumbs up, agreeing with Kab.

“Anytime!” Jumper smiled.

“You know, Jumper, what were you doing before the whole apocalypse thing?” Squiddo asked.

“I jumped around a few jobs, I dabbled in being a detective, double agent as a supposed government agent while working with a bunch of criminals. I think I sold plushies like these for a while.” Jumper said.

“Government agent?? Criminals??” Squiddo asked, baffled.

“It was more kinda like vigilante work to take down a corrupt government. I can tell you about it, if you guys want!” Jumper said.

“Hell yeah!” Squiddo and Kab responded in unison.

“Alright, so...”

————

How, can this van carry 7 people. Literally how. It’s almost impressive.

Ash sighed, reading the random book he found (for the one hundredth time.) It wasn’t even that good of a book. It just had a bunch of random facts about things he didn’t care about. It was something that was clearly owned after the apocalypse started. It most likely belonged to someone who was now dead.

Maybe he’ll see if there were any libraries nearby. From what he remembered, and it’s been a few years, there was a few miles from here. Maybe ten. There are no traffic laws, so if they go fast enough it’ll be like a few minutes to get there.

He put his book away, not really bothering to put a bookmark in, he could remember where to open it back up to at this point. He got up, going over to the where Rek and Branzy were. They were being really quiet. Who cares.

“Theres a library in like, 10 or so miles. Can we stop there?” Ash asked, tapping his foot impatiently.

“Sure!” Rek said. “It’ll be probably like around 10 minutes.”

“Cool. It’ll be pretty clear when we get there.” Ash said, walking back to his seat. Squiddo waved to him as he passed by, with him waving back.

Sitting back down, he really, really, hoped nobody would get hurt. Maybe it was just him not wanting to deal with it, or maybe it was to avoid stressing out everyone else so he didn’t have to deal with them. Probably one of those two. Yup.

Notes:

so sorry if the formatting is weird! my word is tweaking :-(

You'll get the next chapter tomorrow. I am so sorry for the next chapter. Be warbed. (As a hint, something that is related to the next 2 chapters HAS been hinted towards before. Chapters 10-14... :-) have fun)

Anywho, HI AGAIN! SO SO SORRY, DELTARUNE CAME OUT AND THEN ALL THE SUDDEN I HAD 100+ HOURS ON IT... THEN I JOINED A MINECRAFT SMP. TWICE. THEN SCHOOL STARTED. also! theres one line thats a hamilton ref

I KNOW IVE SAID THIS FOR THE PAST MILLION CHAPTERS, BUT HOPEFULLY MORE FREQUENT UPDATES!!!!!!! (YAY)

BUY SQUIDDO YOUTOOZ!!! THERE ISNT LONG LEFT TO GET IT!!!! THERES LIKE 2-3 DAYS LEFT WHEN IM UPDATING THIS!!! QUICKLY!!

ok im going back to my minecraft smps

Chapter 18: the place where it rained

“Yo! We’re at a library, if anyone wants to come. Just be careful of any infected!” Rek said, getting out of the van.

 

Squiddo, Jumper, Kab, Ash, and Rek left, leaving Clown and Branzy alone.

 

It was getting dark out, the sun starting to set.

 

Jumper started wandering around, being careful, keeping an eye out for infected. There weren’t that many good books here. Most were either destroyed, or just boring. She thought about how many memories were made here. How many people found love, how many people found loss.

 

She threw whatever books seemed good into a box, mystery, fantasy, non-fiction, psychology, whatever. She noted a book about what happens after you die.

 

————

 

Kab wondered around, trying to be on the quieter side (she had already seen a banshee, warning the others.) She took a few books about human psychology, mystery novels, a book about foxes, and a few other books.

 

The place was really, really dusty. It looked like nobody, even before the whole apocalypse junk, like it was that dusty.

 

She wondered what Clown and Branzy were doing. Before the apocalypse, sometimes they would run off to play games and Kab would yell at them to get back to work, even though she did the same exact thing probably more often then them.

 

————

 

“Ash! C’mon!” Squiddo grabbed Ash’s hand, dragging him somewhere.

 

“Where are we going?” Ash questioned, despite knowing this library like the back of his hand. He knew exactly where they were going.

 

“It’s a surprise!” Squiddo winked at him.

 

After going up a few flights of stairs (including a very sketchy staircase,) they made it to the roof of the library. There wasn’t much, expect the door to the staircase.

 

“You took me to look at the sunset?” Ash said, despite knowing where they were going, he was surprised.

 

“Thought it’d be nice.” Squiddo smiled at him.

 

The duo sat at the edge of the roof, looking out at the sunset and banshees miles away. For a moment, it was peaceful. Everytime they were together, things felt like they’d be okay. As the sun set, Squiddo looked up as the first stars started to appear. Ash was ignoring that he wasn’t getting books, even though it was the entire reason he came.

 

“So?” Squiddo looked at Ash.

 

“So what?” Ash looked up at the few stars in the sky.

 

“Is it nice?”

 

“Yeah. It is.”

 

————

 

“So, are we all done?” Kab asked, holding a few books she had found.

 

“Yup!” Jumper said, holding her box of books.

 

Squiddo gave a thumbs up, while Ash just shrugged.

 

They say when you die, or you have a near death experience, you relive 7 minutes of your happiest memories. Proceed with caution.

 

“Cool.” Kab said, starting to head over to the van.

 

“Can someone please help me carry these..?” Jumper said, struggling to hold the books.

 

“I’ll help!” Kab said, putting down her books to help. Jumper laid down on the floor.

 

“I can help, if you guys want.” Squiddo walked over, seeing if they needed any help, while Ash went to look at more books.

 

“Nah, it’s fine!” Kab struggled to say, holding most of the books by herself, already half way to the van. Coming back, Kab picked up her own books, putting them in the van, before coming out, tired. “All... done.”

 

“Thanks... Kab?” Squiddo didn’t quite look at Kab, but more so past her. “KAB!”

 

Squiddo ran over to Kab, pushing her.

————

 

Squiddo sat against the building, tired of running from the banshees.

 

“Oh.. My herobrine.” Squiddo said, pulling a (warm) bottle of water from their backpack and drinking it. Something came up to them, rubbing against their arm. Squiddo jumped up, seeing it was only a dog. “Aww... Hi buddy!”

 

The dog didn’t have a collar, and after trying a few popular names, Squiddo had the smart idea of naming it.

 

“Umm... How about... Skipper?” Squiddo said, and the dog barked excitedly.

 

————

 

Ash was holding a knife to their neck. Squiddo held their hands up, appearing to be friendly.

 

“Listen...! I don’t- wann...a hurt you!” Squiddo barely managed to say; the knife making their neck bleed a bit. Ash started to think for a minute, before moving the knife away from Squiddos neck, but not putting it away.

 

“You seem to have a van; correct?” Ash said as squiddo held her neck, trying to figure out how to stop bleeding while talking to Ash.

 

“Yeah? Why? How- how'd you know?” Squiddo replied, holding her neck.

 

“..You weren’t very quiet. My point is: take. me. with. you. You're going to the cure, right?” Ash asked. “I can’t take staying here any longer. Take me with you.”

 

“Are.. You sure? Its like, a death wish..” Squiddo remembered why they were going.

 

“You're going.” Ash replied.

 

“Fair. C’mon!” Squiddo enthusiastically replied.

 

————

 

“Your weapon, too.” Ash said. Clown dropped his weapon. “Get in the corner while we decide if we kill you or not.”

 

Kab and Clown sat in a corner together. Kab looked miserable while Clown looked scary, like usual.

 

“I don’t wanna kill them! They look nice- they probably just want food! And other stuff!” Squiddo said.

 

“Bro, I don’t know what I was expecting coming from you- they literally almost robbed us, we should at least throw them back to the circus-” Ash facepalmed. “They literally threatened to kill us.”

 

“You shouldn’t kill us! In my opinion!” Kab said.

 

“I agree- you should bring us with you, if anything. We could be good assets- Kaboodle said you were looking for the cure, right? We can help.” Clown said, trying to convince them. Squiddo refused to back down.

 

Ash sighed.

 

“Fine. You two can stay. Go get whatever you wanna take from your circus or whatever.”

 

————

 

After about 30 minutes, Kaboodle and Squiddo came back giggling their asses off, holding something 'beautiful.’ Clown and ash had two looks of misery on their faces, no matter how hard they tried to hide it. Squiddo placed it on the table.

 

“Does-” Kaboodle cut herself off laughing. “Does it look good?? :,D”

 

The cake looked half raw.

 

“Errrr....” Ash looked at it with disgust. “It looks.. Like something.”

 

“You guys should try it!!” Squiddo said, while also laughing.

 

“Im good.” Ash looked at squiddo, and then the cake, and then kaboodle. Clown agreed.

 

————

“This isn’t working! We need to sneak up on them, or something!” Squiddo said, ducking behind the wall of snow. They grabbed Ashs hand.

 

“Theres no way that’ll-” A snowball broke down a bit of the wall. “-work.. Alright. Let’s do this.”

 

Squiddo grabbed a bunch of snowballs. Ash did too. They slowly snuck around the van, without the other team noticing. As they slowly made their way around the van, to where the others were, Squiddo peeked around the corner of the van.

 

Before either of them could throw a snowball, Squiddo was hit down with a snowball.

 

“NOOOOO.............. SQUIDDO....” Ash said, as Squiddo dramatically pretended to die. Ash went along with the bit, pretending to mourn her. Ash held squiddo as they pretended to die. “We surrender...” Ash put his hand that wasn’t holding squiddo up. Kaboodle then hit him with a snowball, so he pretended to die.

 

Everyone started laughing. Squiddo and ash wiped snow off of their clothes.

————

 

As Jumper brought her stuff out, she saw Rek and Branzy already waiting there, with four other people.

 

“So, that’s Squiddo, the owner of the van, that’s Ash, Kab,” Branzy pointed at everyone. “And that’s Clown!”

 

Jumper tensed up, looking at Clown. She remembered him. From-

 

“And these guys, are Jumper!” Branzy pointed at jumper, who waved, smiling. Branzy proceeded to point at Rek, who also waved. “And thats Rek!”

 

“How.. Will that van hold 7 people?” Rek questioned.

 

“Nobody really knows, but it’s worked out so far!” Squiddo replied.

 

————

 

Okay. Okay, this is fine.

 

...No. No, it ISN’T fine. Squiddo was about to die, and she knew it. Squiddo was going to die from that bite. Squiddo would get infected (if not put down or mauled by the infected.)

 

At least she saved Kab. That was good. They did something.

 

They were in a memory, greyed out, expect for the warm glow of the van. She tried to go to the van, but they were blocked by an invisible wall. She turned around, maybe expecting to be greeted by the library, but they were back at the bus stop.

 

She went inside the bus, hoping to see Ash, but they were instead greeted by a past version of herself- one from the start of the trip.

 

“You aren’t Ash.” Squiddo said, looking at themselves. It almost seemed like a mirror, but not.

 

“Yeah. I’m not.” The past Squiddo laughed, “Don’t even know who that is. Are you dead?”

 

“I hope not. I can’t die yet.”

Notes:

My bad bro

sorry this took forever. (and sorry for any mistakes) i got invested in wenclair yuri. i havent stopped looking at wenclair on twitter. also deltarune ref in title :D

anyways massive plot point that relates to this chapter (that will be revealed next chapter) that was hinted towards in past chaps. whoever gets it gets a sticker and a lollipop! (WITH THE CORRECT REASONING)

also! the last part is a memory if it wasnt clear, like that one part from that one squiddo stream!! (My base was destroyed. or sum)

guhh okay ill go back to the wenclair trenches

Notes:

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO FIRST CHAPTER/PROLOGE!!!!! :)

chapters will be hopefully daily until the end of december (31st is just the notes/hc/behind the scens because.... I forgot to do 31 chapters cause i got this idea on a plane lmao)

Theres about like 7 characters including squiddo that will end up being the main cast, tags will be added as it goes on! Chapters are gonan be at least 1k (this ones just a small prologue lol)

anyways hope you enjoyed the read, and ill see you tomorrow! :]