#itsblaza

Memey decided he had to lie. He had to lie to save Tbh, to save the one person who'd cared for his well being. He rammed his body into the door until it broke through, equipping the superhuman strength that Kooki had given to him as a sorry. He picked up Tbh and ran to Medbay, slamming open the door and turning on the light, waking everyone up. "Urggh... who the- MEMEY??? How the- oh my god, TBH!!" Laff shrieked, getting out of the bed and picking up Tbh. "What happened???" Joocie asked, putting two fingers on Tbh's neck to search for a pulse. "I- I don't know, I woke up and Tbh was on the floor, and- and I think I broke through the door!" Memey sobbed, watching as Joocie nodded as Laff put Tbh on a bed. "He's still alive. Quickly, he's losing blood!" Dino and Blaza quickly went to help with the frantic group. Socks handed Memey a cookie to satisfy the monster for longer, offering a small and insincere grin. Hours has passed and TBH is now conscious, he opened his eyes, only to be blinded by the lights so he quickly closed his eyes, not letting any of the blinding light surge his sight. He opened his eyes once again, this time with more caution, he looked around the bright area he was in, he's in Medbay, on a bed, resting and healing. Has it always been this bright in Medbay? He thought, he looked to his sides to see was beside him, it was the teen with the iconic double top hats. But he stopped looking at his sides as it brought pain into his head. Why was he here? What happened? Why is he injured, nothing happened while he and Memey were exploring, right? "Oh, thank god you're awake," Nadwe sat up taller, resting both of his hands on his sheets. Tbh looked up at the pearly ceiling. "W-what... happened...?" Tbh asked, his head pounding with a grinding headache. "Everything... hurts..." His body was on fire. Every muscle, every joint, every organ system in his body was aching to the core. "Memey broke out of security somehow. He said when he came to, he'd attacked you. We need to get stronger doors." Tbh nodded. Obviously it was a blatant lie, but he appreciated Memey covering for him. "Memey brought you in super late. Woke all of us up and absolutely terrified me when you were bleeding in his arms. Blunt force trauma to the head, bites on your limbs, a part missing from your torso..." Nadwe talked like a doctor. Usually Memey would be the one, but he wasn't in the room, having long been sent back to security to watch his friends have fun without him. "But you've gotta be more careful, each day we draw closer to Polus." "Where are the others?" TB asked, "It's working hours right now, so everyone is doing and finishing their daily assigned tasks." The pink man replied. "Oh, so I should go and do my tasks too-" "No no no crab man, you are not going anywhere, that thing did a lot of damage on your body." The teen scolded. "Never knew I'll get scolded by a child." TB joked. "Well I wouldn't have scolded you if you didn't decide to rush out of bed." Nadwe replied. —— Blaza wandered the halls of the Skeld. He'd just finished divert power in shields. He looped around to Reactor, slamming his head on the Start Reactor panel as the buttons began to flash red. He let out a groan and started over, watching the buttons flash on screen. Suddenly, he heard something banging against the wall in Sceurity that made him mistap and start over again. He sighed in frustration and knocked on Security doors. "Memey? Everything all right in there?" No response came. Blaza wore a worried expression as the silence somehow grew louder. He sighed and started back towards reactor. The doors behind him smashed open suddenly, causing the red lights of emergency to flash on and start blaring.

He whipped his head around seeing the blue creature with eyes sprouted around an open slit for a mouth. Uneven and sharp teeth jutted out of the mouth, black slimy tentacles reaching towards him somewhere in the back. Adrenaline rushed the insides of Blaza, his first instinct was to jump and hide in the vents, 'no' he said to himself, it takes way too long to get inside, too risky. He just has to run. So he did.

He bolted out of the hallway running for his life, Cafeteria is right there, he can make, if he close the doors now, he could escape and live. Why doesn't he want to die? He'll just respawn like the rest. He shoved his thoughts away as he reached the hallways between the Engine and Cafeteria. He's there, he can be safe, he can get away. He just has to—-

His thoughts blacked out, silence filled the hallways, the doors around them closed shut, he let his guard down. Blaza looked down, he was held up in the air, blood dripping from his mouth and open wound- Open wound? Right...He was held up, one of the blue creature's tentacles impaled him, hanging him up in the air. He choked on his own blood. The corners of his sight started to blur and darken. Is this how it felt to die by the hands of your fellow Imposter?

Laff wasn't ready for what he'd seen. Laff wasn't ready at all. Not after experiencing it himself. Blaza came running in through the left door, reaching for the button in vain as a black spike stick through his body. Laff covered his mouth to hold in a scream, ducking under a Cafeteria table and watching as tears started to leave his eyes. His eyes widened in terror as the blue creatures stepped into view, tossing Blaza unceremoniously to the side like a rag doll. The body made a loud thump as it slid closer to Laff. The feet of the monster stood still, its tentacles forever moving as it looked around. Finally, when it determined that no one was in view, it turned around and left, leaving a line of blood smearing and scattering across the hallway. Laff waited another few seconds to make sure it was gone before opening his mouth and letting out a sob. The sob became multiple cries, until he was full on having a breakdown. He looked at Blaza, not wanting to see his expression.

Laff just sat there under the table, not wanting to move at all, this is too much, this is too much for him. He's seen his friends die and get revived before, but this was different. This wasn't child's play, they weren't just playfully pestering each other, no, it was serious this time. There's a monster inside one of his friends, and he felt all kinds of emotions just thinking about it. Anger, grief, pity, guilt, he felt it all. He couldn't handle the pain any longer, this creature wasn't killing for fun, this creature wasn't the friend they thought they knew. And that thought hurt him. He just stayed there, unable to look behind the lifeless corpse. He knows Blaza is okay, he's healing, he's fine. But he still worries, he worries it'll come back for him. He's scared and he can't help it. He let out another sob, this time more quiet.

He has decided. Unclasping his mask, he wiped the tears that flooded his face. He ran into Medbay where Nadwe, TBH were. No sign of Blaza still... he grabbed a medkit and made his way to where the creature was. He can't just hide and do nothing but cry, he needs to help his friend. He needs to help Memey. He needs to help stop their suffering, one way or another.

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Word count: 1324

A very Laff-centered chapter, but who cares?-

I feel very bad for his character hbjdjasd

Instead of the cafeteria, everyone decided that just staying in Medbay would be best. “I- I don’t know what’s going on, but...” Laff said between coughs. “Memey...?” Blaza eyed the blue onesie, staring into the derpy eyes with a deep hatred. “I... well, so...” Memey looked up at the hood of the onesie that fell over his hair. “So... what I think is... there’s something in my onesie. Not physically? But...” he pulled at the fur nervously. “I’m not sure. It acts like the Cookie Monster. If I don’t give it cookies, I’m due time—“ Memey made a eating gesture. “Why can’t you just take it off then?” Laff asked. “I can’t. I try but it just feels like it’s my new skin, like it’s attached to me... sometimes I can talk to it, and it threatens to kill you too if I forcefully take it off.” “So... you kill us so that you don’t have to kill us,” Socks raised an eyebrow. “When you put it that way...” Memey started. He paused to think. “Well, i keep it pacified by eating cookies.” “But... I was in Medbay, finishing my last tasks and... I guess I blacked? And when I woke up, I was still in Medbay, but my suit was all bloody and Socks and Laff were also in the beds. I figured... something had happened. But from the way everyone looked at me...” Memey looked at his feet. “I knew something was up.” It was a huge relief to get it all off his chest. He waited for the room’s silence to break. “I don’t understand, why don’t I remember any of it?” Laff said, adjusting his mask on his face and fiddling with his fingers.

“You weren’t conscious when it happened?” Memey suggested of the possibility. “But I don’ remember passin’ out.” Laff replied, looking at Memey with eyes that writes worry and curiosity. “Well uh-“ Nadwe interrupted, “Socks, sorry to ask, but um, how did you remember if Laff can’t?” Socks opened his mouth, he was about to answer but he closed hus mouth, thinking on how did he remember, even tho Laff didn’t. “I saw it happen.” Socks’ eyes widened as he said his statement with a blank voice.

“Well I guess that explains why Laff can’t remember the whole picture. He was knocked out before he was...” Nadwe gestured his hands to a chopping movement, he didn’t want to say it out loud as he knew a lot of them had bad memories of it. Blaza shivered as the flashback replayed in his head. He wasn’t squeamish but the amount of gore and seeing two people he knew being tortured just left a burned imagine into his brain. He hoped no one noticed, but he knew they all did. “So... to keep this monster at bay, we have to feed you... cookies?” Tbh asked, re-wiring the attention away from Blaza. Memey nodded, giving one of the eyes a cruel whack before looking back at the group. “I haven’t given it anything all day. Lest we want that happening again-“ Memey started, but mid sentence the hoodie came to life. “So many... cookie?” It mumbled. The hoodie began to close. Memey quickly caught the hoodie with his hands, trying to crank it back upwards and away from his face. He fell to his knees as all of his strength was concentrated on keeping himself sober from the Cookie Drug.

“Get away—“ Memey screeched as he failed to resist it. It’s mouth sealed shut, hiding the face of their friend. They can’t get away, no, they just really can’t, there’s too many of them that’s still healing, they can’t leave them here, and they can’t get away and hide either, this ship isn’t as big as people thought.

The blue creature dislocated itself and started to walk to them, it seems faster, why was it faster than before? Was it because of the dislocated joints- “Cookie.” It said, voice much deeper and rougher than before.

 The large figure loomed over the group, scanning each one of them for threats. “Pink... cookie... have...?” The gruff voice boomed as the derpy eyes snapped towards the pink astronaut. “I-I’m sorry, I don’t- GAH!!” Nadwe let out a scream as the thing suddenly lunged towards him. It quickly over took him like before, but easier this time as the fractured shoulder twisted the wrong way and spiked pain into his arm. With a loud and quick WHACK, Nadwe’s skull was cracked open, pooling blood done his head. The monster dropped Nadwe’s body and loomed over him, leaving the others to watch as Nadwe slowly bled out, his shocked and fearful expression painted on his face and frozen in time. “COOKIE,” the gruff creature said again, stepping towards the frightened group. “N-Nadwe...” Laff squeaked, eyes locked on the still, pink man. Suddenly, there was a jolt in his body as the pink man struggled to get up. He picked up his hats and threw them over the monster’s eyes before collapsing. The blue monster, ‘Cookie Monster’ struggled to  remove the two hats that locked and latched onto its big sinister but derpy eyes. They need to find a way to calm him down, they need to find a way to get their friend back, they need to..

Blaza picked up the passed out teen, looking at the others for the to do, but none had the guts to knock out the monster again, none had the guts to do it, why? Memey is inside, they can’t have another injured friend, they can’t. This is all to much, too much gore, too much blood spill for any of them to handle. Then an idea snapped at TBH, “Hey guys- didn’t Memey said he keeps this thing pacified by giving cookies?-“ he asked as he got closer to the door to run for some cookies in the kitchen of cafeteria. “Yeah he did say that.” Joocie confirmed.

Without hesitation, Joocie made a beeline for the cafeteria. Tbh stayed behind with Blaza as the demon ripped off the black hats and whipped its head around to see the terrified Blaza and Nadwe. It was just about ready to bite off Blaza’s head when Tbh pulled out two rolls of bandages and ran around the monster, allowing them to tangle and wrap around the blue fur. Blaza let out a sigh of relief before picking up Nadwe and seeking him carefully onto the scanner. “Hurry g-“ Tbh yelled down the hall before being interrupted by a bite on his leg. The tangled monster had folks over but it quickly worked its way towards Tbh and sank its mouth over Tbh’s ankle. Tbh let out a whimper but kept shouting down the hall. Finally, after seemingly hours of sustaining the bite on his leg, Joocie came running back with the cookie jar, screwing open the lid while making his way back. Joocie quickly arrived and started to try and pry the monster off of Tbh, Laff arriving soon after and helping.

Joocie attempted to lure the blue creature out of Medbay. The creature smelled the scent of the cookie jar Joocie has opened and followed. He took slow steps out of Medbay and into Upper Engine, the creature was staring at him with derpy eyes, it reached out for the cookies but Joocie flinched as he thought it was gonna rip him too, and then he realized it was going for the cookies, so he carefully and fearfully gave the jar to the tall creature. Its height started to shrink as it ate the cookies, after seconds, was it THAT fast? it looked at Joocie and smiled, it’s mouth reopened again, this time it revealed Memey’s passed out state. He quickly caught the passed out man as the man’s grasp of the jar fell. He’s alright, they’re alright. They can’t let this happen again, they’ve seen too much they couldn’t handle it all.

 Memey was locked up in security, the vent locked and screwed shut. Sometimes, when someone passed by, they could hear roaring and banging from the other side. For this reason, Socks, Blaza, Dino, and Laff avoid the left side. “Memey...?” Tbh knocked on Security doors. “*hic* h-hello... Tbh....” Memey whimpered on the other side. It broke Tbh’s heart hearing Memey so upset. Tbh sighed and slid a cookie through the slot they made. Memey picked it up and ate it, pacifying the monster that’s only blocked from the world with a nimble teen. The doors slid open, revealing a sobbing and exhausted Memey. “I’m sorry, Memey. But this had to happen.” Tbh limped into the room and closed the door behind him, examining the dents and securing the walls. He slid a bowl of food to Memey, who set it next to him without taking a bite. “I know. It just gets... lonely in here just talking to myself.” Tbh felt a pang of pity and sorrow in his heart. “Well...” Tbh contemplated his thoughts. “Be quiet. I’ll let you out.”

“Wait what-“ a glimmer of hope could be heard from Memey’s voice, but it soon died out as he dropped himself into his ocean of thoughts, “No..we can’t do that- Kooki will hurt you- it will hurt them- I don’t want that..” Memey said, despair in his eyes as he thought of the ways the monster could hurt his friends. “I don’t want it...” “But think of it Memey, being isolated all the time isn’t healthy, and you know that very well with your totally legit Medical Degree and all.” TBH joked, he wanted to cheer up his friend. “You need to breathe too, y’know. Plus everyone’s asleep so we won’t encounter anyone.”

 Memey gave in, nodding grimly and allowing Tbh to help him up. “Okay, we have to be quiet. I’ll take you to the cafeteria, that way if anyone wakes up they won’t be able to see you from the other side of the room. Let’s go have some fun while you can, I just don’t want you to hurt anyone.” Tbh quickly pulled Memey towards the cafeteria, the slight limp still present. “They’re all sleeping in medbay. If we go down to lower engine and go left, we can reach storage and go up. Cmon, I wanna let you have some air.” The duo made their way to the cafeteria, using a flashlight as their source of light. This became a routine, where Tbh would bring Memey food and then bring him to various rooms. Memey started to appreciate it, but one fateful day, it all changed.

   Kooki was extra grumpy and hungry that day.

They were just having fun, they didn’t notice the derpy eyes going red, they didn’t notice when the hood of Memey’s onesie started to latch and wrap his face, they didn’t notice, it was unfair to them. It was unfair, he gave him a cookie, why was it still mad, why did it suddenly take control. Why?