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It was papas turn again! He could tell ‘cuz his head got all fuzzy sometimes, papa moved around much more before one of his rounds too! fidgety and restless, making a lot more whirring sounds then usual.
Sometimes papa got a little distant, though. It was okay, it was only for a few days at most, then he got to help out! It made him feel all happy inside, especially with how pesky the hiders were, they were still all cheaters in C00lkidds head.
plopping onto the grass, a small oof leaving his mouth as he looked behind him, papa already starting to trot forward, CK scrambled to get up, latching onto papas leg, having to basically tackle it to do so—
“Wait! wait! Papaaa.. You gotta follow our routine!!” He had yelled, a scolding look on his face, eyebrows furrowed— cheeks puffed out like a pufferfish trying to appear more dangerous to other wildlife.
“Sup’r important, we always win with it!” His claws had started to dig into the metal legs, not noticing, not even papa had flinched or made a noise that would say he was in pain, letting go as papa fully stopped moving, as still as a statue.
C00lkidd giggled, already starting on running forward, waving behind at 007n7 — He had to go find ‘em, and whistle! Then papa would come in all cool and wreck all of them!! serves them right!
CK had trudged around the area, steps as silent as could be as he tried to scout out anybody, coming to an area that was intersected, paths leading off in all four directions, walls awkwardly placed within the space, most connected to empty shells of buildings, random cut-outs to run in-between.
C00lkidd found a wall in a great spot, enclosed by the others— crouching behind it, it wasn’t even connected to a building! weird design, but CK didn’t really complain about it, squinting his eyes as he looked around, the tell-tale yellow followed by a small huddle of black, a red tail dragging limp on the ground, it had made CK wince, it hurt his tail when it dragged like that.
It was really unlucky to be caught not even hiding!
CK looked around the area, nothing but grass and buildings, they did not look similar to the buildings CK remembered around his neighbhoor— letting out a happy hum upon realizing they had no protection, slowly standing up, claws sliding against the wall. Letting out a whistle, it was loud and piercing, months of practice; Papa always was quite happy with it, being loud enough to hear across the map on some occasions!
the yellow figure, upon hearing this, froze completely in his steps; buzzing of machinery louder, words CK could not make sense of repeating, overlapping almost, as the black hatted figure seemed to try to push their— CK assumed they friends— friend further onto the path, clear urgency on their face as they looked around, their tail shot up straight.
Then, he heard his papa, loud thudding probably miles away, creaking of trees being pushed past, papa never seemed to care much for the forest; Not in this situation, at home, papa always made sure to teach CK to recycle properly, never to threw litter onto grass, never to carve symbols into trees.
Papa was just excited to play. He always was, CKs attention was drawn back to the two figures, now just one. The yellow figure had still been in the same place, maybe a few inches from where they were first spotted, marks dug into the floor from being pushed.
The other had likely ran away due to their friend not budging despite the clear encouragement, Ck wouldn’t want to be spotted so earlier in, either. The pattering becoming louder, his head craning over to where it was coming from, seeing papa charge over in a straight line, just about to raise his claws up at him—
a sudden loud, ringing noise invaded his ears— making him grit his teeth; eyes closing tight as he scrambled to quickly pull his hands up and over his own ears, tail thrashing.
Every-time papa found somebody, that always happened, making sure he never got to see the result, it bummed him out, he wanted to see papa scold them for being cheaters!!
C00lkidd let out a little groan as he heard the splattering of liquid onto the floor, overlapping voice slowly fading out; the lingering headache pounding, He had cracked an eye open after what CK deemed an appropriate time.
His vision was awfully blurry, Papas back was turned to him— a trail of black substance shimmering from light pouring onto it; the streetlights that had been around the pathway bent and broken, papa had been to big to fit in the pathway.
CK held his hands tighter to the side of his heads when the loud noise of metal being crushed filled the air, the whirring noise becoming louder until it was suddenly cut off, papa slowly turning to face approximately where the whistle had come from earlier, a bit off, but he was getting better; almost looking directly at C00lkidd.
CK let out a smile, ignoring the new coat of oil on papas torn clothing, tail wagging as he happily trotted over, a hand settling on papas leg, giggling— “Tha’s one down! seven to go!” He had held up one clawed finger, thumb held down, it amounted to four, but CK wasn’t aware.
Papas hand slowly made its way down, tips of claws had gently pet the top of Cks head, papas hand too big to truly pet him; capable of enclosing the entirety of it, CK found he didn’t really mind, Papa was still trying his best, even now!
Wide smile plastered on CKs face, teeth pointing out, he pulled away from the hug, stumbling backwards a few steps, “Staaay right here! ‘m gonna go find the rest for you!” sneakers trudging up dirt into the air as he turned, stumbling away— breaking into an actual sprint after a second; tail happily wagging.
007n7 simply waited, body slowly dropping to the ground, legs digging into the dirt, quiet droning had filled the space.