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Don put his black Fedora on the shade covering his body from his room his black floppy ears ruining the fear factor that Mafioso had, this made him frustrated. Since teleported into this realm he could never find a mate, no one was a bunny like him and on top of that they all were insufferable. It made him devastated going on his 30s and having no mate, he was a handsome mafia boss for fucks sakes! He walked to his mirror touching his own floppy black ears that he hated oh so much because his curse of being born a hybird. Mafioso thought about how he shouldn't think about it and he had a job to do anyways. "Mrffh.." He huffed out in frustration but nonetheless he walked out. "Alright boys, we've gotten a job to do." The hares picked their heads up the boys nodding grabbing their weapons. "It's the same every round. We go out and beat some brokes and go home and.. Lets say pizza?" He crossed his arms with a smug smile as his team nodding profusely, Soldier specially loved pizza. Mafioso's grin widened into a smile walking into his room grabbing his sword sheathing it his non-visible eyes narrowing. Don got a kick out of knocking out teeth.
Meanwhile the survivors were dealing with their own problems. Chance was pulling out one of the kitchen tables to the living room and Dusekkar was grabbing rope that they found in Jane Does downstairs. ".. Who's gonna touch it?" Veeronica said unsure as everyone looked around at each other. Noob took a step back and 007n7 sipped on his coffee from his mug nodding no, he knew no one would make him do it anyways. Builderman and Shedletsky took a good look at each other before Shedletsky raised his talon. "I'll do it! But Builderman and Dusekkar, if anything goes wrong mind standing by to help me." That was a very fair deal to both of the already nodding men. Everyone took a step back as Shedletsky, Duse, and Builderman walked forwards toward the unconscious body. It was some kind of balloon guy, but he looked sentient. He was proportionate like a Robloxian the only difference being he was just clearly a different species. Shedletsky nervously whined looking down at his sharp talons then the fragile balloon. "Actually.. I think this guy's to fragile for my talons!" Everyone realized this creating another wave of nervousness and panic along the room. "I got this." Guest spoke stepping forward towards the admins. He didn't waste any time, picking up the light balloon and setting him down on the chair holding him as he was tied by Dusekkar. "Always a hero!" Shedletsky exclaimed as everyone started creeping forwards towards the new thing. "Do you think this was purposeful? Like the Spectre meant to bring them here?" 007n7 asked firstly examining them from the side and the makeup the balloon had, some kind of circus makeup. "I don't know. It seems really out of our reality, but after Guest 666 I suppose anything is possible." Jane Doe reasoned also examining them from the front. "All I know is this thing surely isn't a Robloxian like we are!" Chance said unnerved further back behind 07. "How do we even know if it's alive in the first place being a balloon and all." 007n7 spoke into his mug bringing out another good point. Jane Doe scratched her chin raising an eyebrow as she came to a quicker conclusion. "If they are anything like to a Robloxian, their eyes would be open if dead, and they seemingly are just asleep." 007n7 nodded taking this answer, it made sense to him. "Point taken." Dusekkar spoke to heed a warning. "Tho a balloon, it may not be a fool. We should watch out from what it could take from you." His rhyming made language a little harder to understand but Shedletsky easily translated it, he had a weird talent to know what Duse is getting at. "He means we need to be careful, he may be dangerous and cost our lives even if he looks harmless." Dusekkar nodded gripping his staff with both his paws. "Precisely, you always put it very nicely." Chance got the courage to slowly poke the balloon trying to wake them up, no one stopped them just curiously watched all withdrawn at least three feet away now. They heard a grunt. 007n7 just about choked on his coffee. Guests fists went up and so did Jane's since she didn't have her hatchet, Dusekkar's staff started emanating magic, Shedletsky pulled out his sword, Chance rummaged for their gun that was in their pocket, Veeronica raised her skateboard, and Builderman pulled out his wrench. As the balloon opened their eyes it showed a very.. Weirdly cute and innocent look, it had a deep contrast to all the bloody and abused survivors with their weapons drawn. Due to the wise Dusekkars warning, no one lowered their guard or weapons.
"What are you?" Guest said sternly using the tone of voice that he used as a commander. As someone in the army he thought it was fitting for him of all people to do the questioning. Everyone stood back letting Guest take the floor. "Wh.. What?" They spoke. Their voice wasn't exactly squeaky, but it wasn't deep at all either. It gave a cartoon character that wasn't supposed to be taken all that seriously kind of vibe. "Where am I.." The balloon hazy took looks around their ears pinned back. "Where are my friends?" The Robloxians seeing this seemed equally as confused. Builderman lowered his wrench taking a deep exhale, even as a admin so high he had never seen anything alike to this. Builder took a glance at Guest and they shared eye contact, this seemed to be the cue to loosen up a little. "Your in a realm of.." Guest started trying to find the right word his fists retracting so he could tug at his collar. "Your in a realm of hell." Elliot spoke with a frown his voice a little shaky. He was always a cheery and kind person, but the younger man felt like he should be the brave one to say it. "A.. Am I dead?! For good?!" The balloon raised their voice in panic causing another wave of panic around the room Noob taking another unsure step back, Chance flinched at the yelling also. "No need to fret, it is not yet." Dusekkar tried to assure as Shedletsky raised his hands in a surrendering manner trying to seem less threatening. "What my friend means is we aren't dead, including you we think, we are in a limbo. We have no clue how you got here or why we or you are here." Shedletsky pointed to the ground beside Veeronica which was a few feet away from the chicken. "We found you unconscious just about right there." Chance put a finger to their lip letting out a hum until they raised their eyebrows realizing something. "Wait wait wait a tick, what did you mean when you said were you dead.. For good?" The critter let out an audible gulping sound as they tried to explain. "Well, my name is Looey. Im from a kids show, Dandys World, but it got shut down and versions of my friends became evil monsters. It sounds insane I know but-" "It doesn't sound insane at all." 007n7 spoke raising his hand to vouch for the new member Looey. "C00lkid, my son, used to watch your show when he was just an infant, the cartoon one and all? I had no clue there were.. Real versions of you." Looey nodded quickly a smile growing on his face now that they had an alibi. "Exactly! We are called Toons. But if these evil versions of us, we call them twisteds, kills us.. Well a real nice Toon named Sprout along with his friend Cosmo help patch them up and send them back to Gardenview which is our home." Jane Doe had to take a deep breath to take this all in and Guest just stood there astounded. "So it was a mistake by the Spectre." Guest said under his breath squinting at the Toon to make sure that he was real. "Well. I suppose we can trust you then." Shedletsky stated and as nobody objected, not even Dusekkar, the admin walked behind Looey and used his talon to cut the ropes. "Welcome to the team.. Eh.. Looey?" The balloon nodded to confirm his name was Looey standing up and stretching his arms, he was a lot shorter then everyone else. They all waved or said hello trying to be polite even tho they all were bamboozled by this turn of events. "I wonder if Looey will come into the round with us, shouldn't we explain that just in case?" Veeronica skateboard now lowered against her side questioned. The admins and others seemed to agree. Builderman decided he was the one fit to do this trying to explain the best he could. "Every day we are teleported into a new map and have to fight against these killers, that well try to kill us. We have defenses. Jane Doe has a hatchet, Shedletsky has a sword as you saw, Chance and their gun and me and my sentries and so on. We work together to survive, and if you join the rounds I suppose your apart of that." Looey nodded giving a thumbs up looking already determined, they were always that kind of person even in Gardenview. "Right. Got it! I've been in a team for years this should work out nicely." Everyone seemed to respect his determination specially Chance who smirked thinking how glad they were to have someone else with their head in the game! They all tried to get Looey acquainted in meanwhile before the match started. Shedletsky shown them around, Elliot shown them the food that he made for the others, Veeronica shown him the outside along with Two Time and so on. To the survivors it was a bit refreshing to have someone so optimistic on the team. But that all went for worse when suddenly their vision turned dim to black.
Noob teleported next to Looey on C00lkids Carnival the younger man having to double take seeing the Toon there. They both were teleported right beside the big attraction, the Farris Wheel. Noob saw a generator and pointed towards it, which Taph was already fiddling with wires on one side of it. "That's a generator. We have to connect the wires together to complete it so we can get out of here faster." Looey followed Noob to it as the balloon took their hand at it, different from the machines at Gardenview but it kept the same element. He suddenly heard Guest yell their ears pinning back from already a stress paying less attention to the wires and more to the surroundings around them. Once the generator was done, Looey snuck away from any other survivor to try to get alone to take a few deep breaths. They found a small little building going behind the wall of it. They didn't even know what they all were up against. Suddenly, Looey heard loud music like a chase and it was drawing near. Maybe like a twisted if they hid and didn't move the killer wouldn't see them? That didn't work at all. Suddenly a large tall Robloxian in a trench coat stepped inside through the side that had some wood that was able to be used as a slope to get up on. The mafia boss cracked his knuckles a cigar in his mouth and a dark chuckle escaping him to up the fear factor as he stepped down into the room. That is until they made eye contact. The scary mans big hands and scars, his shaded eyes hid from his fedora, and clearly strong arms even under layers enticed the Toon. But the thing that made Looey the most interested was the black droopy bunny ears that he carried. Looey felt it was love at first sight! The scary and mysterious allure faded as it was replaced with confusion. "Eh? You aren't a survivor?!" The bunny took his cigar out with his two fingers not even knowing what to do but stand still in confusion. Could he even hurt the thing? It wasn't in debt. "What are you." The man asked suprised Looey wasn't absolutely horrified, usually that was warranted by just seeing Mafioso. "I.. Uh.. I'm Looey! I kinda.. Accidentally took a bad turn and y'know heh.." His hand sheepishly went behind his neck. "Got trapped here." Mafioso slouched feeling like this was some kind of mockery. Now the Spectre had him chasing a balloon? "This place is a joke." He muttered to himself picking himself up to stand tall again. "Er.. Ya got a debt?" Mafioso raised an eyebrow as Looey looked at him confused. "Whats a debt?" Mafioso huffed in annoyance. "Ah, forget about it! Start running." Mafioso ran towards him as Looey yelped darting towards the other side of the wall, the Robloxian just barely didn't catch them. They ran out the bunny trailing behind him quickly catching closer. "You think you can run from me, balloon boy?! I've caught mice the smaller then you!" Looey didn't know where anything was so they opted to go into the red building. Running up the stairs, Mafioso jumped at Looey catching them in a tackle. The bunny pinned the other Mafiosos hot breath against the fabric of Looeys clothing catching his breath.
"I'll pop you, little sucker." Mafioso growled grabbing Looey by the neck getting inches close to his face. "What are you." Looey whimpered squinting unable to push the mafia man away from him. "I.. I work in a circus for a kids show called Gardenview! I'm like a bunny!" Mafioso pulled his face back showing confusion. "But you have a long tail." Looey shrugged their shoulders. "I was created to look a bit like a lot of animals, I am from a kids show after all, but the intention beforehand was a bunny so I prefer to stick with that species." The Robloxian hummed looking behind himself before freely touching the clown makeup that the Toon had on themselves. Mafioso could immediately tell this was a specific brand of makeup, and that brand was not cheap. "Whats your name, bunny." The Toon shuddered as they quietly answered. "Looey. My name is Looey." Mafioso grunted, this amused him, he always liked toying around when it pleased him. Not paying attention to the time he continued. "Looey the bunny, eh?" He repeated out for conformation lazily taking a puff of his cigar before blowing it into the Toons face. "What's a little bunny like you doing running around Foresaken? The Spectre likes things done in a specific way, that's why it keeps me here boy." Looey coughed blowing the smoke away with his paw taking a few deep breaths before he answered swallowing. "I don't know. I came here by taking a wrong turn, and that's the truth." Mafioso raised an eyebrow. The Spectre sure made its games quite finicky then. "Really.." Mafioso match a tch sound his cigar going back into his mouth to take another huff, this time he blew it away from his face. "My names Mafioso. I'm here to collect the debts of these brokers, specially Chance." Looey frowned letting out a whine at this trying to defend. "Don't you feel bad for killing innocent people?!" Mafioso looked at him unamused rethinking how he didn't blow the smoke into his face again. "No." He said without question casually threatening. Mafioso stood up his boot kicking Looey down when he tried to get up quickly. "Your a weird thing, Looey. But I don't have any mercy to spare for someone new." Then his boot pressed onto the bunnies head pressing down until he stomped in and there was a pop. A black sticky substance splattered everywhere and all over Mafioso as he groaned in confusion stepping back immediately. "Ah, what the hell?" Mafioso stared at the dead body a little unnerved by what wasn't blood. The bunny just walked away a little shaken up by the loud pop. Looey woke up on the floor of the cabin he was just in slowly looking up at a person in headphones a fedora and shades. "First death? By Mafioso to that must of been harsh, little dude." The guy said bringing their attention to the Toon. "The names Chance." They said helping him up. Looey groaned rubbing their head looking up towards the other survivor. "Expect to teleport back to the cabin after you die, that's just where we reset a okay." They all seemed to be trapped in this loop for a long time, so long that the ropes were very casual to them. Looey stared at Chance before looking away at the floor. ".. Who is Mafioso anyway?" He asked hoping it wasn't to much of a loaded question, the Mafioso himself mentioning Chance when describing the survivors. "He's a debt collector." Chance started off as Looey raised an eyebrow. "What's debt? No one will tell me." Chance seemed confused that they didn't know what a debt was, the person Looey was talking to was full of it. "Oh. Like when you start owing a really large sum of money to someone they get a debt collector, Mafioso in this instance, to collect it from you. Tho he also is a Mafia boss so take that how you will." Looey thought about it letting it marinate in his head. The bunny was a mafia boss? Mafioso was quite handsome tho, and technically in his species tho not a balloon nor Toon. What would Gardenview think if he had a crush on a Robloxian? What would this new cast of characters think? Mafioso didn't like him back for sure, he was a clown for freaks sakes! Looey had to remind himself to get ahold of themselves. "And I owe him a lot of debt and that tied him into this realm with me, so that made him really mad at me." Chance then explained to fix up any confusion on why Mafioso was against the particular survivor. Looey nodded at this realizing how much sense that made to them. "Anyway. I gotta go strike a conversation with Dusekkar to get on his sweet side so maybe he can cast a spell on me to get better luck these next matches, lady luck is gonna love the pair up!" And with this they walked away leaving Looey to think.
Mafioso had won the match barely, it was a shame that he left Noob for last man standing since he was very intelligent and conserving with her items, but he couldn't get away from the boss. Teleporting back into the cabin he saw the downstairs in which he resided in. For the survivors cabin they had an upstairs but it was the complete opposite for the killers. Mafioso walked downstairs meeting his goons down there with a smile. "Well done, boys." He clapped his hands together, Mafioso knew they couldn't do much in this realm only being a mere ability but he tried to congratulate them on the things they could do, he was their boss and all. "So you know what that means? Pizza!" They all cheered as he smiled letting out a low chuckle. His boys were his family and treated as such. Mafioso was about to retreat into his room before he heard a voice "Oi, boss?" One of the boys asked as he turned back around to face them. "Who was that new guy, he didn't look anything like a Robloxian." Contractee added onto this. "Plus you seemed to be talking to him, very closely." They all murmured in agreement. Mafioso didn't want to admit that he got so close due to the excitement of maybe having another bunny for a mate. "Giving them the old scare." Mafioso answered lighting up a cigar that he got from his pocket. "Doesn't seem to be from this game that Looey guy. I was just intimidating him merely." Caprogime raised an eyebrow questioning. "Then why did you kill him?" Mafioso answering truthfully answered more quickly then he did last time. "Didn't wanna make The Spectre mad if they were supposed to be in the game. Remember boys, if we don't play by the rules we get a penalty to." They all nodded realizing it was just safer for their boss to kill the thing rather then risking a penalty and letting him go. Mafioso walked back into his room wiping the sweat off his forehead from being questioned. He took off his coat, then deciding he wanted to take off most the other layers he took off his hat setting it on his nightstand and then he took off his other top layers leaving him in a tank-top. Mafioso looked back into the mirror that he did also that morning, he felt less angry he supposed, but that was probably because he burnt all his steam off chasing the survivors. That damn bunny didn't leave his mind, a cutey is what he was, but he wouldn't admit that giving he didn't even exactly understand what Looey was! He assumed he was just more happy about the idea of another bunny in this hell. Emotionally, he shouldn't get his hopes up.