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Stoats Rise Up

Summary:

Luke carder has to deal with some new "Roommates" while trying to recover inscryption.

Chapter 1: Unwanted Guests and Peculiar animals

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Luke was looking outside the window, out at the women in front of his door, the woman was, poorly, hiding a gun. Luke was shocked, he didn't know what to do, he held his camera up at the window. "Holy shit." He said to himself. He was terrified. This girl had been coming up the past few weeks to his house, demanding for the floppy, and threatening legal action. This is DEFINITELY not legal action. "Shit. Do I call the cops?" He asked himself. Looking around for his phone. He heard a knock on his door. Shit. He was panicking. So the safest action he could think of doing was hiding.

 

He ran to his bedroom, locking the door as he looked for a weapon. And that's when he heard a scream. "...what?- what the fuck??" He heard gunshots, and unlocked his bedroom door, looking outside, to see the women running away, but from what? Eh, luke shrugged it off. Now was to-

Wait.

He heard something. Something in his kitchen.

He looked towards the kitchen.

Whoo boy, this is gonna be a long night.



He felt his foot hit something.. soft, as he walked in. He looked down at his feet and- HOLY SHIT IS THAT A STOAT?!

"wHAT THE F-"

"OW- Can you be quieter for fucks sake?" The stoat growled out

"How… the. What??" Luke said, in response. Backing up and looking around his kitchen. There were 5. Stoats. Is he hallucinating?? Luke backed up. "I need to call animal control-" Luke leaned against the wall, feeling as if he was going to pass out.

"What- NO?? Look, Luke's your name right?" The stoat said.

"Oh god, now it even knows my name."

"Look. I don't know how to tell you this but uh.. It's me. P03."

"...What."

Chapter 2: How the fuck does that even work?

Notes:

oh yeah woo yeah

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"Okay." Luke huffed, pulling out a seat and sitting. "How did you.. you're a GAME NPC for fucks sake! AI, Even!"

"..Look, I don't know what happened either, all I know is I'M A STOAT."

"Least concerning thing." Luke cupped his face. "Say, who are the others?"

"You know the uberbots? yeah, them." 

"Why were they brought along??" Luke questioned, and P03 simply shrugged.

One of the stoats hopped onto Luke's lap, comfortably, the stoat was mostly white with brown highlights and weirdly bright green eyes. "Uh." Luke gently patted the stoat.

"Who's this one?"

"That's G0LLY." P03 scoffed.

"Huh." Luke was gently patting G0lly until he heard a CRASH nearby, looking up he saw two other stoats throwing glasses and plates EVERYWHERE.

"Hey- STOP THAT-"

The two stoats looked up at Luke and then continued.

P03 was about to join them, but then Luke picked it up by the fur.

"Oh no you dont." He says. You better tell them to knock it off or else. "

"Or else what?"

"I'll get the spray bottle out."

"What'll that do?" P03 laughed.

Luke got up and walked out of the kitchen.

only to return with a water bottle, he began spraying all the stoats, except for golly, she did nothing wrong.

"hey- EW-" P03 hid under the table to avoid being sprayed again, it felt disgusting. 

"Now, explain to me HOW YOU ARE REAL NOW???" Luke blurted out.

P03 began crawling out from under the table. 

"Beats me. I kinda hate this. ESPECIALLY being a stoat. ANYWAYS-" P03 was probably about to say some bullshit, so luke cut them off. " IF anyone of you are staying here, there are going to be some rules. First off, no mass destruction, second off don't bother me while im-" One of the stoats bites luke on the arm. He sighed. "Thanks."

Luke said.

"Now I need a rabies shot."

Luke was so pissed off, He didn't realize he was bleeding, he just yanked the stoat off and threw it onto a nearby seat. Two other stoats (Spefifcally G0LLY and what seemed to be The Archivist.) were trying to go through Luke's fridge.

"I am going to die here, Aren't i?"

Chapter 3: Problems

Notes:

Sorry for this chapter being short! I'm not good at writing LMAO

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P03 had waited for Luke to go to his day job, and as soon as he did, P03 ran to his computer. It was extremely curious about why Luke has kept going to his computer. For the past.. week. P03 was frankly concerned, And P03 didn't even know why. They felt something bad had happened.

P03 struggled to climb up onto the chair, but when he did, he saw there was the inscryption floppy on the desk, slightly dented. Hm, weird. It struggled to put the floppy disk into the computer. But when it did.. nothing came up. P03 was confused, was the disk reader struggling or what? And then. He had a terrible idea of what could have happened. It felt something cold go down its cheeks. They shrugged it off. Trying to figure out what happened.

 

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Luke unlocked the door, trying to be cautious of the stoats, glad to not see any OUTER damage. And that's when he saw P03, staring simply at the computer.

"Luke." P03 spoke up.

"Why isnt inscryption showing up? What happened?" It said, demandingly.

"Well.. about that." Luke said.

P03 raised a brow.

"Grimora may or may not have.. uhh.. deleted the game?"

"What." P03 said, getting up from the desk, the other stoats were peeking inside the room as well, to see what was happening.

"You've- You've gotta be joking! It's not funny. Fuck you." P03 said.

"P03- I'm not joking. I've been trying to recover the files for the past few days with no luck and I think they might be gone."

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P03 hopped off the chair, knocking into one of the stoats that were listening as it ran.

It needed some time alone.

Chapter 4: Chaotic chapter before more angst happens

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"Hey!! Archivist!!" G0lly yelled, running up to the archivist who was, somehow, reading a book. "Yes, dear?" Archivist hummed sweetly.

"I wanna show you something!" G0lly said, guiding archivist outside.

"...Why are we out here?" Archivist asked.

"Watch this!" G0LLY said with a hum, taking out a pair of car keys and running up to Luke's car. With a push of a button, G0LLY had unlocked the car.

"G0LLY, don't you think this is a bad idea?-" Archivist questioned. 

"Not really, why?" G0lly responded.

"We could get seriously hurt, neither of us can drive." Archivist warned,

"MMMmMmmm.. Yeah so?" G0lly smiled, while struggling to open the car door. "Aha!" She said, opening the door and getting on the driver's side. Archivist huffed and got on the passenger side. "Do you even know how to work this?? Can you even reach the pedals?" Archivist questioned.

"I dunno!" Golly said, before starting the car and stepping on the breaks, and crashing into a nearby tree before backing up the car.

Archivist facepalmed.

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P03 looked up at the clock, it feels like it's been years, but it's only been a week, he's been sorta hiding under Luke's bed, hoarding screws and wires because it somehow makes him feel closer to normal. Canvas and Photographer are off doing their own things so it doesn't have to worry about them.

 

That's when P03 heard Luke's house phone go off. Hmm, strange. They'll just wait it out.

But it keeps ringing. Ringing and ringing and ringing. P03 got up and dashed to the phone, picking it up and was about to put it down. When they heard the voice. "Hello, I'm [REDACTED] from Gamefuna. Is Luke Carder here?"

 

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"AAAAA SLOW DOWN SLOW DOWN-" Archivist yelped, G0lly was on the highway going at 90 miles in a 45 mile zone, while also RUNNING FROM COPS-

"We need to pull over!" Archivist yelled. "I think that's a bad idea now-" G0lly replied, not realizing they were losing control of the wheel. 

...And they crashed into some woods.

 

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"No, no I don't think I'll be sending it." P03 said in response to the person calling them. "I'm not sending the floppy. I don't care if you want it or whatever. It's not in your possession anymore."

"We will take legal action if-" The Gamefuna employee replied.

"Legal action? Over a FLOPPY?? Please." P03 laughed. "You'd make a fool out of yourself. You'd also be wasting time and resources, dumbass. Don't call us again." P03 hung up the phone just as archivist and G0LLY entered the house, G0lly was carrying a bag of candy "Hai P03!!! I got something for you."

"Is it my mental state?"

"Well no but-"

"No thanks." P03 went and hid under Luke's bed again, G0lly frowns. 

Chapter 5: Recovery.

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Luke walked inside the house, pissed. "Okay.. which one of you CRASHED THE CAR?"

Archivist points at G0LLY.

"Oh. Well. I instantly forgive you but.. WHY??"

"I wanted to cheer up P03!" G0LLY weeped.

"I don't have the money for this. If you guys keep this up I'll be putting you all in cages." Luke huffed. 

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P03 was still hiding under Luke's bed, ABSOLUTELY stunned from the interaction they had with gamefuna. Sure they probably made gamefuna back off but that was still.. scary.

P03 could hear Luke enter the room, and Luke YANKED P03 out from under the bed.

"hey hEY HEY HEY-" P03 yelps, trying to hold on the bed with no luck. 

"Come on dumbass, I have something to show you."

"I'm too busy being.. What's the word? "Depressed"? Eh." 

Luke continues dragging P03 to his computer.

"Why are we here, are you here to continue to mock me or to show me some bullshit cat video?"

"P03. Look."

P03 looked up and couldn't believe his eyes.

"I THINK I managed to recover inscryption. But look." Luke looked into the game files. A Lot of files were either corrupted or gone entirely. And P03 knew that.

"I dont think it'll work." P03 huffed.

"Files are entirely missing. And or corrupted."

"So? Wouldnt hurt to try." Luke says as he clicked Inscryption.exe.

The game booted up, in the normal, non-3D game. But P03s part of the introduction- P03s EVERYTHING was gone. 

"Weird." P03 said.

"..Is there any way we can you know.. contact em?" Luke asked.

"Why not try hooking up a microphone and see how south that goes?" P03 says. Half jokingly.

"Well.. let's try that."

Chapter 6: Vanished

Notes:

In which luke gets shot at 2 times in the same chapter

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"Hello?" Luke decided to test his mic in leshys cabin, to see how it went. 

Leshy responded back with a simple ?.

"Okay, is it working?"

"Yes." Leshy responds.

"I can hear you now. Challenger."

"Uhh.. Dont know if you know this.. but its luke. Look uhh- some weird bullshit happened and- P03 is real now and is a stoat??"

"...Ah. very pecuilar." Leshy hummed.

"I dont even know how it happened.. they sorta… showed up one day? But anyways. Any idea how I can get P03 back in? Another day with this monster is pure hell-"

Suddenly, a loud BANG was heard from where Luke's backdoor was.

"...Shit. I'll be back." Luke got up and ran.

A gunshot was heard. And when luke went over to where the backdoor was. They saw one of stoats lying on the ground. And 3 people who broke down Luke's door.

They looked at who the stoat was. It was G0LLY.

weirdly enough.. she wasnt bleeding at all. She was clearly hurt but.. not bleeding. But it didnt matter now. Luke grabbed the two other stoats and threw them at 2 of the people. And then hit the other in the head with a clock. The stoats are probably causing permanent blinding to the other two.

Luke grabbed the guns from them and shot all of the assassins dead.

"Jesus christ." Luke huffed. He looked at G0LLY. only tO REALIZE SHES??? UP AND WALKING AROUND??

"whAT???" Luke yells.

"Oh yeah! That's why me and archivist survived the car crash!" G0LLY smiled.

"...what. you know what. How about you guys go hide the bodies annnnd I'll get back to doing what I was." Luke facepalms, going back to his desk.

Just to see P03 insulting leshy on the microphone like a toxic gamer.

"I BLAME YOU! YOU DID THIS!" P03 yells at leshy.

"..I did turn you into a stoat the first time, I'll admit that. But i did nothing this time. You simply are just a stoat."

"i HATE THIS, FUCK YOU AND YOUR WEIRD CRYPTID ASS!!" 

Luke had to pick up P03 before any physical damage was done to his computer.

"Leshy-" Luke interrupted.

"Is there any way P03 can even.. get back in?"

"...I Dont know. This has never happened before."

"Obviously." P03 huffed.

"Now, let me go so I can go hoard screws and forks." P03 snarled out, but luke refused.

Luke was about to speak up, when another gunshot was heard.

"Shit THEY'VE GOT MORE PEOPLE???" Luke said, not scared but frustrated.

Leshy looked concerned. But didnt say anything. "Hey P03, why dont you go be useful and commit mass homicide?" Luke asked, putting P03 down.

"...Pretty sure that's illegal-" 

Luke glared at P03.

"Okay okay. Fine." P03 ran into the next room over, some people were screaming and defintley dying.

Although.. one of them got past the stoats radar, and went into the room Luke was in.

"....Aww shit. Leshy were really in for it now-" Luke said before the computer monitor was shot.

"ASSHOLE! That cost me like 120$ at goodwill!" Luke is now getting shot at, he run and tries to take cover.

He bumps into Photographer, who Luke promptly throws at the gamefuna assassin and, after a few seconds. Killed.

"...Holy shit. I think I'm a murder now." Luke says

Chapter 7: Oh god oh f

Notes:

Well.. let's just say.. theres gonna be a character coming in who isnt a inscryption character but is a daniel mullins character. Hmm. Wonder who it is :)?

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P03 was back to hiding under the bed again, he stole bits and pieces from the broken computer monitor.. so those are theirs now.

Annoyingly, he can hear the sound of a bug buzzing nearby, which again. Was annoying.

"That's it." P03 huffed, getting out from under the bed, and immediately began chasing the bug around, who in turn was trying to fly away.

They SWORE they could actually hear the bug yelping.

After a while of chasing, they managed to grab the bug. And when they looked at the bug.

They realized. It was a stinkbug.

"Wait. Grimora?" P03 knew it was a bit of a stretch.. but with how it's currently going. There's a chance.

"...Y..yes?- wait, P03?" The stinkbug looked up.

P03 felt genuinely relieved. 

"G..gri..grimora.." P03 sobbed out, tears building up uncontrollably.

"Oh, don't be sad dear!" Grimora said softly.

"I'm not sad YOU'RE SAD-" P03 hissed out. 

"Wait, why are you real now? Did the same thing that happened to me happen to you??"

Grimora shrugged poorly.

P03 sighed. "We should tell Luke then. Yet another person to deal with.." P03 huffed, letting go of Grimora.

P03 thought. How would Luke even react..?

 

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Luke was looking at his computer. He had just bought a new monitor from goodwill and had recently gotten another threat from gamefuna. And was dealing with it. Trying to scare them away again. He really didn't wanna deal with this shit.

...He was this close to just shutting down his computer and not dealing with it..

That is. Until his computer screen started glitching. It was the same exact glitching he had seen on his videos when he first found and played inscryption. He thought it was simply his old camera.. but now.. he knows something is up.

"What.. what the fuck..?" Luke got up and backed up as his computer began emitting a horrible screech, with steam coming out of his computer. "What the fuck??" He tried to boot off his computer.. with no avail. Luke was honestly terrified. Eventually the computer blue screened, but instead of showing the normal bluescreen message there's… just a smile. A omnious smile. He freaks out to hear steps coming toward him, only to find out it's just P03. "OooH HEY-" Luke says nervously.

"......Soo.. Luke. Grimora is real now and a stinkbug." 

"What." Luke says.

"Yeep. No way to sugarcoat it." Luke feels something land on his head. "Hello!" A soft, tiny voice says. Its obviously grimora. "...Well. shes managable." Luke huffed, still thinking about what had happened a minute ago. It shook him to his core. Something was up. And he might of released it.

Chapter 8: Local cryptic found in mans house

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Luke was having a.. rough night of sleep, per se. He simply just.. couldnt get to sleep.

He stared at the clock on his bedroom wall. Going tick. tick. tick. tick.

His silence was rudely interrupted by a loud CRASH nearby. 

"I swear to god if its gamefuna again." Luke got up. He walked to his living room. Trying to turn on his lights in there on. Only to no avail as he watched his currently broken light bulb flicker and spark. Since when was it broken? He asked himself. He was concerned that the lights did not turn on either. Leaving him in darkness. He heard footsteps around him 

"You think this is the right house?" A unknown voice spoke up.

"Yes.. I believe so." A much more familiar voice said.

Luke grabbed a lamp to use as a weapon, before speaking up.

"WHOS THERE?!"

"Ah there he is." The voice spoke up

Luke made out two silhouettes, a wolf and.. leshy. Luke isnt surprised.

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P03 woke up, disappointed every time that he isnt in his normal body.

"..Damn it." He walks out from under Luke's bed and into the kitchen. Only to spot Magnificus (who is a wolf, that's what you get bitch.) And leshy. P03, without speaking a word, bites leshy on the leg.

"...And that's p03." Luke huffed.

Leshy picked up P03, examining them. P03 reacts with pure aggression. Biting and squirming around before kicking leshy in the face. Leshy throws p03 in the oven.

"What the f-" 

"He'll be fine." Leshy says.

P03 is being baked but looks fine. Luke decides he needs more sleep.

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It's two am, luke has not slept, in fact, he managed to fix his computer and boot it up.

Only though.. something was wrong. A notepad file opened itself.

"What the-"

"H3ll0, Luk3 C4rd3r." Luke raised a brow. Who ever was typing was bad at it.

"Who are you?" He typed in.

"1t d03snt m4tt3r, d03s 1t?' It responded back instantly.

"Th4nk y0u f0r "fr331ng" m3, but 1 w4nt s0m3th1ng fr0m y0u."

"What is it?"