#eggson dw

Right as the group stepped out of the elevator, a blackout happened throughout the entire floor.

“...Is that supposed to happen…?” Eclipse is nervous now since she knows what’s about to happen. She’s struggling to control her more dangerous instincts. She glances around the room at her group’s scared expressions.

Part of her wants to run, hunt, and harm her friends. She doesn’t want to do any of that, but it’s hard to stop the transformation once it’s already started. Her eyes are already starting to turn pink.

“The light shouldn’t go out like that.” Brightney is worried now. Why would the light go out suddenly?

Vee taps her microphone tail a few times to get it working. “Is this thing on?” Her power highlights all of the twisteds and machines that are on this floor. What the highlight reveals causes everyone to immediately pause what they’re doing in fear. They all back away from Eclipse instantly.

“...Eclipse…?” Ribecca is the closest to where the wolf toon is standing.

“Stay away from me…! I don’t want to hurt anyone…!” Eclipse is scared and tries to resist the transformation, but isn’t able to for long. She just stands there silently as the changes continue.

“...Are you okay…?” This is one of the last things she hears from someone before she’s fully corrupted by her uncontrollable instincts.

“AWOOO!!” Eclipse’s loud howling as she becomes a full werewolf twisted gets the attention of every other twisted on the floor.

The group quickly splits up and runs to any hiding spots they can find. The now twisted Eclipse looks for any prey. She briefly looks at the small jack-o-lantern toon before she notices a much brighter light coming from behind a crate and approaches it quickly. Her expression is now much more feral than it’s ever been before.

Brightney realizes that she’s been spotted once she hears rapid footsteps getting closer to the crate. She doesn’t even have to look up to know what’s going on. She instead does what anyone would do in this situation and just starts running, getting the attention of the other twisteds on the floor in the process. She doesn’t stop running. She can’t stop yet until everyone is safe.

“Brightney, wait! Don’t run off! It’s not safe!” She doesn’t look back at where Vee is peeking out of her hiding spot.

“Brightney! Come back!” The twisteds continue to run after the lamp toon with the bright glow and don’t pay any attention to the others. It’s like they’re completely invisible to the corrupted versions of their friends.

Multiple members of the group are trying to see if they can get the twisteds off of her but nothing is working because of how low her stealth is. “Get away from her!”

Gourdy and Vee were the most successful with this for a moment before the twisteds just focused on Brightney again and resumed what they were doing before the failed distraction attempt.

It’s already too late for her the moment she made this risky decision, but she can try to keep the twisteds distracted for as long as possible to help her friends escape. She doesn’t realize that she’s just delaying the inevitable.

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Brightney’s footsteps are loud against the cold Ichor stained floor. She’s currently being chased by every twisted. She didn’t think this through all the way since she’s starting to become exhausted and still hasn’t found the opportunity to get away safely. She didn’t realize how fast Eclipse and Coal were as twisteds until just now and has already used up all of her chocolates. She can hear the distant sounds of her friends desperately completing machines as quickly as possible in hope that they can save her from the consequences of her actions.

“Why did I think this was a good idea…? How can I get out of this safely…?” Brightney tries to come up with a plan. It’s what she’s good at, but she just can’t think of anything.

She’s running out of time and needs to think of something quickly. She doesn’t have much stamina left, so she quickly grabs her bottle of pop out of her inventory and takes a huge sip. She’ll have to properly thank Dandy for finding these if she ever sees him again.

She doesn’t realize that the stress of constantly having to think of a solution to every problem is starting to turn her into a twisted.

This brief distraction of not paying attention to how close the twisteds are getting to her causes her to get bitten by Coal, causing her leg to now bleed Ichor from the bite mark. She isn’t able to stop to patch herself up yet though since she’s still being chased. She tries to scan the dark area for any hiding spots.

She notices something is off about her lightbulb soon after she activates her ability to make it easier for herself to see where she’s running. “Is my lightbulb flickering?” It’s not just the flickering that’s suspicious. She also notices that her light is starting to turn red.

“Red…? Why is my light that color? I don’t use red lightbulbs…” She then has a realization of what’s going on after the words leave her mouth. She stops running and the twisteds seem to stop chasing her. They then split off to look for more toons to hunt.

“What’s going on…? Why are the twisteds leaving…?” Brightney doesn’t know what happened, but she doesn’t have much time left to think freely.

With the little time she has left before she twists, she increases the brightness of her lightbulb. Even without her sanity, she still wants to help her friends as much as possible. This increased glow from the red light will warn the remaining toons that she’s dangerous now and that they shouldn’t approach her.

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Brightney’s transformation doesn’t go completely unnoticed by the other survivors.

Sprout can just sense that something's off. He doesn’t know why he has this feeling, but he doesn’t ignore it. He quickly approaches Vee since he believes that she’s in the most danger with how bright her green glow is in the dark.

“Are you doing okay, Vee?” He checks in on his friend. He knows how scared she felt when Brightney ran off.

“...I’m fine. I’m just worried about Brightney. We haven’t seen her since she ran off and I was thinking that…” Vee cuts herself off since she’s not used to being openly emotional, not even around her friends.

Sprout doesn’t have to ask about what Vee is thinking. “I’m sure she’s fine. She’s great at coming up with different plans.” He wants to try to reassure her that they’ll all be fine.

This hope that Brightney can handle everything and that she’ll return safely is immediately shattered once they notice a bright red light in the distance followed by multiple sets of footsteps, including ones that sound like they’re coming from a large dog.

Vee activates her mic check ability for the second time on this floor, but it’s already too late to hide. The duo have almost no time to react since Vee almost immediately gets spotted and bitten by Coal. The force of the attack causes her to fall over and break her screen.

CRACK!

Vee lets out a loud glitchy scream from the pain of being torn apart.

“Vee!” Sprout wastes no time and immediately rushes over to Vee to push Coal away from her, getting bit on the arm in the process. He quickly grabs her and runs to a well-hidden hiding spot before checking her injuries.

“S-Sprout…? Everything h-hurts…” Vee’s voice is glitching now. “A-are the injuries b-bad…?”

Sprout just stares in horror at what he’s seeing. “Vee… I don’t know how to heal this… Your wires are exposed…”

“...W-what…?” Vee quickly looks down at her torso to see that it’s been ripped open. Ichor leaks out of her all over the floor and her legs.

Sprout desperately places his hands on the damaged metal in an attempt to stop Vee from losing more Ichor than she already has. He looks up at his friend’s glitching and cracked screen. He notices that she’s crying red digital tears and has an expression with a mix of fear and anger.

“...A-are you going to abandon m-me…? I don’t w-want to be a-alone…” Vee doesn’t want to be alone while she’s in so much pain. She isn’t able to care anymore if she’s not acting like she would normally. She’s starting to show the side of her that she’s never shown to anyone before.

“I’m not going to abandon you, Vee. I could never do that.” Sprout doesn’t care if he’s getting Ichor all over his body. He just doesn’t want to leave a friend behind while she’s in need of reassurance. He’s not going to leave her even as she becomes a twisted. He doesn’t care if he becomes one too anymore since his friend needs him.

The two of them sit together as they both become twisteds. They can feel their bodies painfully stretching out and becoming longer in certain places. Their eyes start to turn red, though Vee’s eyes only become a gradient of red and her usual green color while Sprout’s fully change to match the other twisteds.

The two of them only have a few seconds left before they’re fully corrupted and decide to say anything that they haven’t said to each other before.

“...T-thank you for not abandoning m-me, Sprout…”

“Thank you for opening up to me, Vee. You’re a great friend.”

They don’t know when they both started crying, but they aren’t able to question it more. When they fully become twisteds, they both never actually fully lose their sanity somehow even though they should have. They’ve never seen a sane twisted before now.

“Hopefully the rest of our friends are okay.” This is the last thought they had before losing their ability to speak and think freely.

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Razzle and Dazzle are doing a little better at extracting without being caught. While exploring the floor, they find a heavy object that looks like it could have been used as a stage prop for one of their performances in the past.

“Hey, Dazzle! Do you think we should take this with us?” Razzle asks his twin. His excitement is still there despite the horrors that they’re experiencing.

“...It could be a great way to protect ourselves… Let’s take it…” Dazzle agrees with his brother. He understands how useful having a tool like this could help a lot. It reminds him of the past back when they would host performances with all of their friends. This memory makes him feel a little sad after everything that’s happening now.

Razzle takes control of their conjoined body for more speed while Dazzle acts as the lookout for any twisteds that could be nearby.

“...Razzle… There’s a twisted nearby…” Dazzle warns Razzle as soon as he sees a twisted approaching.

“Thanks for the warning, Dazzle!” Razzle hides both of them behind a nearby crate before going silent. They wait for the twisted to pass by while gripping the prop just in case stealth doesn’t work.

The twisted doesn’t seem to notice them. They continue to travel in silence to increase their stealth further once the coast is clear and soon come across another unfinished machine.

“Hey, look! There’s another machine here!” Razzle is excited about this. They might be allowed to get off this floor soon.

“...Another one…? You can let me do it…” Dazzle isn’t as excited to extract another machine as his twin, but he also doesn’t want to be on this floor for longer than he already has been.

The twins switch control easily and start working on this machine as quickly and carefully as possible. As they’re extracting, Dazzle will sometimes glance up at their surroundings to check for twisteds before turning his attention back to the valve. Soon the machine’s light turns from red to green to signal that it’s been completed.

“Onto the next one!” Razzle takes control and starts looking for another machine to finish.

“...There’s more…?” Dazzle doesn’t understand his brother’s enthusiasm sometimes. This is definitely one of those times since they’re literally trying to survive in a dangerous situation.

“Of course there’s more, Dazzle! We need to complete all of the machines on this floor before we can leave!” Razzle doesn’t understand why his twin is being so pessimistic all of a sudden.

“...I’m sure the others are taking care of these machines too… We don’t have to do all of them…” Dazzle doesn’t want to upset his usually cheerful twin, but he doesn’t want him to completely ignore the truth of what’s actually happening to everyone.

The twins are interrupted by the sound of howling before they can continue their disagreement. They turn to look behind them just in time to spot Eclipse running at them faster than they can escape from. They don’t want to hurt her since she’s still one of their friends even if she can’t control her body, so they hold the prop to be more on the defensive side of fighting. Eclipse lunges at them to bite and claw at their arms, but they react by blocking her and pushing her away from them.

“...Razzle! We need to run…! We won’t be able to fight her…!” Dazzle is more aware of their weaknesses. He hopes that his twin won’t try to argue with him more.

“I’m sure that we’ll be fine, Dazzle! You worry too much!” Razzle makes the mistake of not listening to the warning.

This major mistake gives Eclipse the opportunity to use her sharp claws to slash at the conjoined twins’ masks.

CRACK!!!!

Two very loud cracks can be heard at the same time as Razzle and Dazzle’s masks break in half. Their ichor gets everywhere on their clothes and ribbons. They recover from the extreme pain just long enough to quickly find a part of the floor that isn’t near any dangerous twisteds. They feel so tired from losing a lot of their Ichor.

Everything is blurry and they can barely see their surroundings. Dazzle is barely able to notice a heavy metal weight on the floor nearby.

“...Razzle…? Are you okay…?” Dazzle looks over to see that his brother’s remaining eye is starting to turn pink and then red. His smile is looking a lot more crazy than usual.

Dazzle looks at his reflection in the metal weight to see that his eye is also starting to change colors. He also notices that their ribbons are starting to become longer and more vine-like. He quickly grabs some of their vines and the weight and ties them around the metal. He can’t allow them to accidentally harm anyone while they have no control over their actions.

“...I’m sorry, Razzle… I can’t let you hurt anyone…” Dazzle apologies to his twin as he starts tying their arms up with their long ribbons. It’s hard, but he somehow manages to do it.

Once they aren’t able to move anymore, the twins just sit in silence. It’s not very peaceful since Razzle keeps trying to free himself. Dazzle makes sure his brother isn’t able to. Eventually the two of them fall asleep after using up all of their energy. Their masks subconsciously fit together to make up for how they’re both missing half.

The conjoined twins now sit together in the middle of their long vine-like ribbons while sleeping.

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Ribecca doesn’t look back as she runs through Ichor puddles to escape from the twisted versions of her friends. Eclipse and Coal have gotten close to catching up a few times, but she was able to dodge them by taking a shortcut through the Ichor. She’s taking advantage of being a skeleton with an immunity to getting sick. Brightney’s red light gives away her location before she attacks, so she’s easy to dodge too. An Ichor tendril summoned by Sprout attempts to block her path, forcing her to take another path. Vee’s attempts to create popups to slow her fail.

She keeps running before eventually losing them. She runs into a nearby room and accidentally steps into a circle of what looks like red vines.

“Vines…? Why are there vines here? This isn’t the greenhouse floor.” Ribecca reaches down to feel the texture of these mysterious ‘plants’. When she feels them, she recognizes the appearance and texture of ribbons instantly from all of the times she’s made everyone’s costumes for Halloween and made multiple adjustments for the ones with unique anatomy.

“...Ribbons… There’s only two toons with red ribbons… Wait…” Ribecca looks up quickly after her realization.

The sleeping twins can feel something touching their ribbon circle trap. They quickly wake up and look around. Their masks separate from their twin as they stand up and stare at the unlucky toon who came across their circle.

“Guys, I didn’t realize you would be here! I didn’t mean to disturb your rest! I can leave and you can go back to sleep.” Ribecca’s words are completely ignored by Razzle and Dazzle as their sharp ribbons shoot out from the ground and stab into her bones, including the spot where her heart is located. They don’t need their arms to be free to attack. Having their arms tied up seemed to just make them even stronger than they were as toons.

Ribecca forces herself to be quiet before her screams get the attention of more twisteds. She tries to run out of the circle to find a spot where she can patch herself up with the health kit she still carries on her. Her escape attempt fails when suddenly one of her legs gets grabbed. She fails and cracks her skull open, causing more Ichor to leak out. Black tears involuntarily leak out of her eyes from the shock of suddenly hitting the ground hard.

She doesn’t know how she did it, since everything is starting to become blurry and hard to keep track of, but she manages to escape the ribbon trap before Razzle and Dazzle can harm her more. She glances back just in time to catch Dazzle looking at her with an expression of fear and regret.

The skeleton toon finds a hiding spot and opens her health kit. Her hands are Ichor stained and shaking as she attempts to reach for something to use to wipe her hands clean. She’s barely able to hold on for long though when she accidentally drops the item that she found.

“...Why am I shaking so much…?” She’s starting to become angry. At what? Why is she so angry?

Is it because of what’s happening to everyone? It would make sense, but she doesn’t even know who’s behind all of this. She shouldn’t be feeling this angry. It’s not normal for her. She attempts to take some deep breaths but nothing she does seems to be working.

Ribecca can feel herself losing her sanity slowly. She doesn’t have much time left and there’s nothing she can do to prevent herself from accidentally harming her friends. Ichor continues to drip down from her head and heart.

“...I hope they’ll forgive me if I ever return to normal.”

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Ding!

“Yay!! Hehehe!” Gourdy has just finished another machine without fully realizing what kind of horrible situation is going on around him. “We should be almost done with this floor now!”

The pumpkin child looks around the area for more machines. When he doesn’t find any, he keeps walking while holding onto his locket. He suddenly has this strange feeling that he’s being watched by someone, but he doesn’t know why. He looks around and sees nothing. It’s just him here. He’s probably just being paranoid.

“There’s nobody here, so why do I feel like I’m being watched?” He doesn’t stop moving.

As he continues walking, he hears metallic footsteps followed by the sounds of leaves. He recognizes them immediately with how much he looks up to the other mains.

“Miss Vee! Mr Seedly!” He’s excited to see them again after they got split up when Eclipse transformed into her full werewolf form.

As they get closer, Gourdy quickly notices that something is off about them. They’re now a lot taller than usual and have red eyes. He looks up and sees that Miss Vee’s screen is cracked and glitching and that her torso has been torn open to expose her wires.

“Miss Vee, are you hurt? Here! You can use my bandages!” Gourdy approaches the two twisteds and holds out his health kit for Vee to take.

Instead of one of them taking the health kit from the innocent toon in front of them, Sprout summons one of his tendrils. The thin Ichor creation slashes at Gourdy.

“Ow! Mr Seedly…? Why did you hurt me…?” The suddenness of this attack causes him to let go of his health kit. His locket’s ability highlights where it landed, but he doesn’t get to grab it again since the twisted versions of Sprout and Vee start to approach him and don’t seem friendly.

He starts to run as fast as he can, but is already starting to get tired. Tears form in his eyes from feelings of being betrayed and the pain of being slashed at. Something more painful is going on with his body, but he tries to ignore it for now since he can’t stop running until these monsters aren’t looking for him anymore. The two twisteds seem to notice something before he does because they lose interest.

The pain gets worse and forces Gourdy to sit on the floor in the wide open space. “Why does my body hurt…?” He looks down at his body and notices the long vines growing.

He tries to move slightly, but he can’t for some reason. It’s almost like he’s now stuck in the ground. His body and vines continue to grow longer and soon he’s completely stuck in the ground. The leaves on his head grow longer and curve just like horns of dragons from the stories that Soulvester would always tell him when he would ask about his cool knight adventures.

Gourdy just stays there and imagines times where everything was normal before everyone started transforming into dangerous monsters. He doesn’t notice that he dropped his locket with the only picture he still has of his parents.

Maybe one day everything will become normal someday. There must be a way to fix this, right? Every problem should have a solution, even if it’s not obvious.

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Eggson is the last toon remaining, but he doesn’t realize that yet. He just keeps doing as many machines as he can since the floor is almost done.

He finishes every machine that he can find as quickly as possible. Hitting the machines gently with his cane helps speed this process up by a lot.

Tap! Ding!

Tap! Ding!

Tap! Ding!

For awhile Eggson has been noticing that it’s weirdly silent on this floor and that he hasn’t seen the others since they’ve started. He suspects that something is off and checks his surroundings for any of his friends. He thinks he should look for them before he finishes the last machine.

He can hear the sound of footsteps before he sees who they belong to. He doesn’t need to be able to see to recognize Vee. She hasn’t noticed him yet because he’s hiding behind a bookshelf. This hiding spot gives him the perfect view of all of the changes Vee went through when becoming a twisted. He waits for her to be completely out of view before sneaking away.

“What happened to her?” Eggson doesn’t have much time to figure it out while he’s still in this situation. He has to keep moving.

He’s almost done extracting all of the remaining machines. He doesn’t understand why there’s multiple types but some of them are easy enough to figure out. So far the hardest one for him to work on is the ‘Swimmy Barnaby’ machine type.

The fish on the screen swims through seaweed obstacles that get harder to avoid as it goes on. He attempts to go for a coin, but ends up hitting a seaweed.

ERRRR!!!!

The machine makes a loud failure noise, instantly getting the attention of a certain TV twisted on the floor. A digital pop-up appears in Eggson’s view. He struggles to figure out how to get it to go away as loud footsteps get closer to his current location.

“AWOOO!!” Eclipse alerts any twisteds that didn’t hear the machine failing.

Eggson tries to run, though a combination of Vee’s digital pop-up slowing him down, Sprout’s Ichor tendril attempting to block the path, and Eclipse and Coal’s fast speed, cause him to get hit.

He manages to hide behind a crate long enough for the twisteds to lose interest in him. Once the hallway is clear, he returns to the machine to hopefully finish it.

He feels exhausted as the strange technology in front of him finally lets out a ding of completion. The elevator door opens, but he’s too tired to continue.

“...Hopefully Dandy will be fine.” This is the last thought Eggson has before he collapses on the cold Ichor stained floor.

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The elevator closes and Dandy’s shop comes up from wherever it was.

“Welcome back to my shop everyone! I got some upgrades that you might like!” Dandy greets the suspiciously empty elevator. It was supposed to be full of toons, but somehow none of them returned.

This confuses the flower toon as he looks around for a sign that his friends are okay. There’s still no answer. It’s just him.

“Where is everyone?” Being alone bothers him a lot more than he thought it would. His paws touch the cold elevator floor as he steps down from the box he usually stands on to appear taller than he actually is.

He looks around the elevator again while searching the corners for any toons that could be hiding. He finds nobody there. He feels lonely.

“I need to find my friends.” Dandy knows he’s taking a huge risk here, but he doesn’t like being alone. It’s starting to bother him.

It’s his fault that his friends are missing. He now feels like he has to find them before something bad happens. He needs to see them okay before his guilt corrupts him.

He moves back over to his controls and selects a floor at random. He doesn’t realize that it’s already almost too late and that he’s already starting to become a twisted. The first change is that his petals and leaves are becoming sharper.