WARNING - POTENTIAL MATURE CONTENT
content warnings: Mr. Enter/TheMysteriousMrEnter, cursing
potential trigger warnings for mature content (simply mentioned)
this is a FANfic, not a bash fic, so if you hate him, it would be in your best interest to back away.
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Chapter 1 - Bonds and Connections
"Come on, John! At least try and catch up!"
A young woman was running across the sidewalk and waving two tickets in the air, laughing all the while. Her long brunette hair was flowing in the gentle wind. A bearded man was right behind her, grabbing at the tickets, but never quite reaching them. The lady suddenly dashed to the right, catching him off guard a bit. He finally caught up to her as she reached a ticket booth.
"Tickets, please."
The woman dropped the two tickets into the calloused hand of a man, before pressing a button. The gate in front of them slowly opened up to reveal a large, futuristic town. A huge green and black banner loomed over the entire area. It said, "Welcome to Connectown" In big bold letters, and then in smaller letters below, "Where the dots of this community are connected."*
"Whoa..." John gasped, blown away as electronic maps were handed to them. "Sarah**, how did you afford - hey, wait, come back here!"
Once again, Sarah had him chasing her around the theme park.
In his pursuit of Sarah, he was led into the food court. There was a long line there and all of the seats were taken. The strangest thing was that the place was devoid of all trash or stains, from the ground to the tables. Even footsteps weren't visible, including their own.
John took his place behind Sarah and waited for what seemed like the whole day. Just as Sarah was ready to place their orders, a scrawny kid with glasses that looked more like a miniature adult walked past them, cutting them in line.
"Uh, excuse me, but we were here first," Sarah told the kid politely.
"What is this trash doing here? I thought I made it clear that all trash was to be decomposed." The kid clapped a few times, gesturing towards the two. "I, Allen Gregory, refuse to eat in a place filled with garbage."
John tightened a fist, but decided not to throttle him...yet. "Well, I guess you can't eat anywhere, then."
"At least I don't have an ugly bitch for a girlfriend like you!" Allen retorted.
"I'm his sister!" Sarah shrieked, all patience and kindness flying out the window.
"Oh, really? Glad to know even your brother has standards," Allen responded to her.
John and Sarah both got ready to pound his ugly, smug face into the ground, when their path was blocked by a cane.
"You leave my boyfriend alone!" yelled a deep, raspy voice that sounded a lot like a female chain smoker.
The last thing that John and Sarah were expecting to see when they looked at the direction where they heard the voice, was an fat elderly woman that looked to be in her eighties. Her expression seemed to be stuck in a perpetual state of being love stuck. John and Sarah covered their noses to block the smell of stale bread emanating from her body from entering, but their disgust did not end there.
"Oh, dearest Judith!" Allen said to her, as the two embraced each other.
John wished he had looked away at that very moment, and actually felt like barfing. "Please cancel my order until I find my appetite." Cries of disgust rang across the food court, but were soon drowned out by disgusting slurping noises threatening to assault the ears of everyone. "Actually, I think it's lost forever."
Sarah, who had been lucky enough to keep her eyes away the moment Judith stepped in, led John out of the food court, where they would never have to see the...odd couple again. But the image of them making out in front of everyone would forever be engraved in their minds.
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"Found your appetite yet?"
"No."
"Me neither."
John and Sarah were walking across the techno roads, trying to decide on a ride.
"How about 'On Cloud Nine'?" Sarah suggested.
Above them, a roller coaster soared above the thick clouds. John shuddered, already not liking it. "You can go ahead. I'll find another one." he answered.
"Sure thing." Sarah dotted a few lines on her map. "Let's meet at the farms within an hour."
John nodded, and then walked a different path than Sarah. John spent the first ten minutes trying to find a ride that wasn't too tall, then the next twenty waiting in the long line, under a dark, damp tunnel.
The person in charge of the ride was a purple kid. No one seemed to question why, or even care. John was seated in the middle of two female redheads. Everyone was automatically strapped in their seats as the tunnel brightened up a bit to reveal fake spiders and snakes under them, as well as the view of a dark city with odd-looking cars racing against each other.
In a voice too deep for the purple boy, he yelled: "Enjoy your trip out of this world!" He then gave what sounded like a maniacal laugh to John.
John held on tightly as the coaster took the shape of a car, plummeted downhill, and zoomed through the roads, barely avoiding the speeding vehicles. The scenery took the place of various locations, including outer space.
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"Come on, you know you want it! Just get the guy of your dreams to eat a piece, and when he sees you, he'll fall right in love! That'll be five dollars for a loaf, and if you order now, you'll get two for the price of one! Permanent ones are fifteen plus tax. Here, have a sample, and just stare at us, and you'll see it really works!"
Two short, green bobble heads with beaks had cornered Sarah, who was looking towards the increasingly lengthening line of the ride she really wanted to go to.
"We'll try it out first, and then you can. Here's a test!" the creatures said in unison, breaking a pink loaf in half, and then swallowing it whole (insert closeup shot of a live action mouth chewing with mouth open). They rubbed their eyes, and when they were finished, their pupils were replaced with hearts.
"Sarah..." The shorter one fawned, grasping her hands lovingly.
"Wait, how do you know my name?!" Sarah exclaimed, yanking her arms away.
"Nice going! She wasn't supposed to know we know her already! Now she'll never dance under the moon with me while I pull her in for a kiss, and Leader - "
The tall...whatever it was....was slapped by his partner.
"Don't say that name! She'll never buy our Love Loaf if she knows we're in allegiance with - !"
"Don't fall for it! They're creeps! That love loaf doesn't work!" a child's voice yelled out, sending the horndogs packing.
"Thanks for getting them away from me," Sarah began, turning to her savior, but seeing only a flying blue and orange streak with the sound of a whip cracking to accompany it. "Okay then?"
She then looked at her watch and gasped. "Oh no! I've gotta meet John in a few minutes! Stupid long line, and stupid bobble heads!" She dashed in the opposite direction of the ride, consulting her map with every turn she took. Along the way, she bumped into a white dog, who barked on instinct.
"Oh, sorry," the dog said, beating Sarah to the apology.
Sarah's jaw dropped yet again the moment that the animal spoke. Did she just hear that? She shook her head a few times and continued running, with the dog trailing behind her.
"You going to the farms too? Awesome!" His tail waged rapidly. "Hey, race ya!"
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Thick, smelly water dripped around everyone as the ride plummeted downhill to a simulation of the sea. The dripping water looked a lot like drool and smelled like sweat. This did not sit well with John, who hyperventilated and convulsed with fear. The entire roller coaster became submerged with the now almost swamp-like sea, before outright stopping in its tracks.
"Hahahaha! My spit collection is being put to good use!"
John recognized that voice. It was the purple kid from earlier. This ride had gotten far too real now! He and the others were struggling to break their bindings, but it was no use.
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Sarah and the dog waited at the entrance of the farms for at least twenty minutes, but there was still no sign of John. None of the construction workers she had asked about him had seen anyone remotely meeting his description.
"I tell ya, this is gonna be the cornerstone of Connectown," one of them said to another.
"Yeah! When they see what we're all about, they're gonna all run over here, and the whole park will be devoted to this area!" the other exclaimed.
They had continued their conversation, but Brian and Sarah had tuned them out, still waiting for John.
Ten minutes.
Still nothing.
"He might be a little late," the dog assured Sarah.
"This isn't like him, though..." Sarah said, worried. "What if he's lost? What if he's hurt, or worse?!"
"Easy there, I'm sure he'll turn up sometime." The dog's eyes wandered all across her body, with a blush overtaking his face. He then regained his composure and cleared his throat. "That construction worker said two of the rides had a malfunction. Which one did he get on?"
"It was 'Out of this World', I think," Sarah answered.
"I don't think I recognize that one. Must be one of the newer - "
But Sarah had already ran off before he could finish his sentence. She was so worried about him that she hadn't even checked her map or taken in her surroundings, and bumped into a tall figure. She got knocked over into a screen of an arcade machine that she didn't even know was there.
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"Buhdeuce! Swaysway!" A loud, booming voice echoed across the room and scared the two bobble head out of their wits. Everyone's attention was on the source of the voice, a ghostly, sinister-looking hooded figure. "You two have failed me for the last time! Your stupid Love Loaf was a bust, you left that girl with suspicion, and you very nearly gave me away! Give me one reason why I shouldn't rip apart your job contracts right this minute!"
"I'm sorry!" Buhdeuce cried, tears dramatically falling from his eyes. "She seduced us, and we just had to have her!"
"Yeah! She was so beautiful, and we were so close, but then Johnny had to ruin it all!" Swaysway chimed in just as hysterically.
"Hey! If I didn't come in when I did, who knows how much more you could have ruined everything!" a flame-haired kid defended, slamming his fists on the table.~
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, you two actually thought you had a chance?" scoffed the white dog sitting to the left of the leader.
"Guys, please stop fighting," a little girl said, but no one listened to her.
Johnny pointed to Buhdeuce and Swaysway.~ "No one's ever gonna fall for your scam! Try something different for once!"
"Can I go back to the arcade now?" a man asked, having kept his stony-faced expression the entire time.
"ENOUGH!" the figure yelled, shutting everyone up. "Wayne Cramp, your spit collecting has paid off more than I ever thought it would, I must say. Now the rest will be left to Mr. Pickles. John doesn't stand a chance."
A grey girl let go of the leash that she was holding and let Mr. Pickles loose. He curled in a ball as the little girl pet him. He then let out a primal roar before jumping out of a window.
"Judith, Allen Gregory. Your PDA served as a nice distraction for Orange to prepare himself. Alfe, not bad. You did make sure to turn on the game before pushing the girl into it, right?"
"Uh-huh," the large brown creature responded.
"Good... the crew will finish her off from here, and she'll go out with a boom." The Leader's sleeves runned against each other. "The rest of you, off to your assigned areas."
"Yes, Leader!" everyone chorused.
The little girl from before sent a quick text as the group made their way out of the room. It said, "I'm sorry, Pixel Pinkie, I should have listened to you. We're in this mess because of me. How are we going to get out of it?"
Johnny tapped her shoulder.~ "You coming, Nina?"
"Of course!" She answered, finally getting up and walking away with him.
The bobble heads were forcibly magnetized in front of Leader's face, floating in the air. "If you botch this one up, you two will be sitting ducks in every sense of the word, and people will be given more reason to call you "Breadlosers". Do I make myself clear?"
"Yes! As clear as my love for -"
"Enough already!" Leader interjected in disgust, ejecting them from the same window that Mr. Pickles flew out of earlier. Leader looked around the room, making sure no one was still around, and then reached inside of the old, large coat, before laying back on the chair and using the table as a footrest.
"It seems I've changed a thousand ways, I wish..."*
*Couldn't think of a better tagline
**Sarah is a OC, not based on a particular family member.
***Guess the (obvious) reference!