Another Time, Another Universe

New Day, Old Enemies

"Yogurt Cup, why did you stop? Now we might get... oh, no, did you have another one of those vision things?" Leafy realizes what must've happened and grows even more afraid.

"The alliance's chasing us was such a terrifying situation that I think it indirectly helped me to uncover another possible memory..." I quietly mumble to her.

I don't know why, but this vision and the one I'd seen before seem a bit familiar to me... but I have no way to prove that yet.

Regardless, the main problem that stands in the way is having to confront the members of the dreaded 'alliance': Pencil, Match, Bubble, and Ice Cube.

They glare at us with angry expressions before Ice Cube decides to talk.

"I hope you're ready to take back what you said about us! I already told my whole alliance about you, and now you'll be just like Leafy: a loser with no friends that everyone hates!", she squeaks in her annoying, whiny, high-pitched voice. Then I hear Pencil's voice for the first time.

"From everything Ice Cube, like, told us about you, you deserve all the hate you're gonna, like, get!", Match immediately following her up.

"Yeah, like, what she said!"

The alliance starts to make me really upset, and I feel my face heating up with boiling anger, but then Bubble starts to talk.

"Um... Oi'd loike to beloive that 'Yogurt Cup' is a voiry koind and well-moining indivi-OW! Sorry...", Bubble whimpers as Pencil hits her on her arm, almost popping her; it looked like a hard hit, too.

Leafy had told me that based off of her personal accounts of seeing Bubble being verbally and sometimes even physically abused by her fellow alliance members, she suspected that Bubble was forced into this alliance and didn't actually want to be a part of it, and now I can at least a little more confidently say that Leafy's speculation is true.

Because of this, as well as the knowledge that Bubble is kind unlike the rest of the alliance, I grow so upset that I snap at the alliance members, but making sure not to say anything mean about Bubble, knowing that she doesn't deserve it.

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"So, what Leafy told me about you guys really is true, huh? When she said that Pencil changed from an ambitious nice girl to a rotten brat, that Match was always horrible and mean, that Ice Cube is whiny, annoying and pathetic, but that Bubble is innocent and kind, but being led under the wrong influence, she meant every word! Leafy may not be the most popular object right now, but she has a heart unlike you 3, and when she's just trying to be my friend, you 3 idiots find it necessary to come along and ruin it? It's no WONDER Bubble is so afraid of you guys!", I scream.

Absolutely dumbfounded by my furious outburst, Bubble stares wide-eyed at me with an impressed look, while Pencil, Match and Ice Cube all look away from me, visibly embarrassed. Finally, Pencil manages to mumble a quiet "Yeah, like, whatever" before she, Match and Ice Cube sheepishly walk away.

Bubble, however, stays and gives me a tight hug.

"Thoink you SO much! I don't thoink I would ever be oible to stand up to those joirks. Oi'd been a pushoiver far too long, letting moiself be manipuloited by that alloiance, but you hoilped me free moiself, and for that, Oi will be foroiver groitful." Bubble cheers in her peculiar accent before letting me go.

"No problem, Bubble. I bet you could use real friends after all, and Leafy and I will always be happy to be yours. Where are you gonna go now?"

"Well, Oi'm not shoire exoictly where Oi'll go, now that Oi've proibably been kicked out of the alloiance foroiver, but Oi'll see you around, Yoigurt Cup."

Bubble waves me goodbye as she leaves, and I turn to Leafy.

"Well, today was pretty eventful so far. What do we do now?"

Looking to the sky, she stays silent for a few moments before answering me.

"Tell me about that vision you had. I think I'm beginning to see a pattern."

My longest chapter so far! I know it's been several days since the last chapter, but I'm caught up with schoolwork and other responsibilities like any other person my age, and I don't always have the time to work on this story.

Don't worry, though, because I will never abandon this story, because it's always so fun to write, and I will never let my readers down with permanently unfinished/discontinued stories like most writers on 抖阴社区 do. I take my work very seriously, and in a few days, I'll be back with another chapter. Until then, stay tuned!

Also, when I was writing this chapter, I didn't take note of the fact that yoylemetal is actually really HEAVY in the canon, so I unknowingly wrote it as being really LIGHT, so now it's my headcanon for the ATAU series, I guess :/ 

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