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anonymous-person-in-hellhole · 1 year

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Bubs just wants to help :(

As Bubs sits and eats with GingerBrave in the early morning, trying to regain some energy for the day, who should appear but Black Raisin Cookie and her cute little Rai-sen!

“There you are, GingerBrave!” Bubs waves hi, and she responds, “Oh, and zir Bubblegum Cookie, you too!”

“Black Raisin Cookie! I just love my bed at the Inn! I’ve never slept so well!” GingerBrave says, excitedly, making Bubs smile.

The two continue talking about the council, and Bubs tries to listen, but their mind starts racing, thinking that Clotty is possibly in danger... They can’t let their friend get hurt.

“-I’m gonna go and find out what they think!” Bubs suddenly hears GingerBrave say. Bubs takes this as an opportunity to try and have a talk with Clotty, after all, they want to know how they’re doing right now since yesterday. They know they talked a lot last night but... it wasn’t about what happened yesterday, they were just talking about their lives before now...

“I’ll go with you, kid. I wanted to go and meet Clotted Cream anyway...”

“Ooh, why?~” GingerBrave teased, earning a look from Bubs.

“Yes, Bubblegum Cookie, tell us~” Bubs then looks over to Black Raisin in disbelief.

“No, not you too...” They say, annoyedly but clearly as a joke. With that, the two make off to meet the controversial Consul.

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“Ah, GingerBrave, Bubblegum Cookie! Welcome! A splendid morning, is it not?”

Bubs smiles seeing him still so... smirky? Whatever, they’ve gotten used to it, at this point...

“Yup! Preparing for today council session?” GingerBrave asks, to which, Clotted Cream nods, and that’s when Bubs realized that Espresso was in his room, which makes them wonder where his and Madeleine’s chambers were, if they even have one.. “Listen, I think I found a solution!”

“Huh? What’s your solution, Brave?” They didn’t know that GingerBrave was planning on solving this.

“Why take the Soul Jam to the Republic when you can study it here?” Brave gives his actually good idea. ‘I mean, what’s stopping them from using the technology here?’

“Unfortunately, it is not possible.” Espresso suddenly speaks, “Neither the Cookie Kingdom nor the Vanilla Kingdom have the required equipment available.”

“Well, Strawberry Crepe’s machine did have a hard time scanning their Soul Jam...” ‘and me, for some reason...’ Bubs mentally adds.

“Exactly. The Crème Republic's research facilities are by far, more advanced. Our technology is more refined and our scientists’ training is unparalleled.”

Once again, Bubs’ mind wanders as the people around them continue to speak, something about not wasting time with petty arguments. They wondered, because the Grapefruit was also quite advanced, being able to make the magic gear that every knight back in the kingdom were required to have, as well as the technological magic that kept them afloat, they wonder if, had the kingdom have stayed standing, would they have been able to assist in this situation?

(I mean, the king and queen, as well as the scientists were always open to helping any kingdoms... as long as it would benefit the kingdom for helping at least...)

“Alright, well, I’ll see you guys soon!” Brave speaks, and Bubs looks at the situation in front of them, seeing Clotted Cream and Espresso are too busy discussing something clearly important.

“Uh, I’ll be going, too. Good luck with your plan, Clotty!”

“Oh, thank you, Bubblegum Cookie!”

Bubs walks out with GingerBrave, who stares at them slightly confused.

“Uh, what was that about?” GingerBrave asks, which earns him a confused look from Bubs, “I thought you wanted to talk to him? Why’d you leave?”

“He looked busy... I didn’t want to disturb him...”

“... Oh.”

Bubs smiles at him, then rolls their eyes.

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They go back into the Solarium of Unity, the most beautiful part of the kingdom. It shortly took their mind off things as they walked inside of this beautiful place again.

“Oh, Wildberry Cookie!” GingerBrave greets the tall, buff, red-haired Cookie who was as stoic as Financier, though, a little less... “What’cha doing here?”

“I was looking at the beautiful stained glass.” Wildberry said, his voice still monotone, but with a slight hint of happiness in it. He continues, “Hollyberry Cookie’s image looks most awe-inspiring... The artisans managed to capture the essence of her very soul!”

Bubs stares at the image of Hollyberry, and agrees with Wildberry’s sentiment. “It’s such a well-made piece, the Cookies who made it had so much love for making all of them! Hollyberry looks exactly like the happy-go-lucky, determined Cookie that she is!”

“The villagers will be happy to hear that you like this place! They worked hard to make the glass shine once again.” GingerBrave then asks, “Listen, I noticed how you look at Hollyberry Cookie. You really do respect her a lot! I mean, I know you have your orders and all, but isn’t there more to it?”

Before Bubs can tell GingerBrave that this is a very weird question to ask anyone, Wildberry answers, “Yes, GingerBrave. As a knight, I do serve the Hollyberry Kingdom. But I follow the Queen Mother not because of any orders. I am... indebted to her. If it weren’t for Hollyberry Cookie’s help...”

“Indebted...?” Both Bubs and Brave ask together.

“If it weren’t for her, I would have roamed the back alleys fighting for survival with nothing but my fists... I met Her Majesty when I was a young vagrant. I was reckless enough to challenge her, unknowing of who she was. Hollyberry Cookie... showed me the error of my ways.”

“Oh! Haha, I can imagine that! When we first met her, she wore a disguise too!”

“Yes. A Cookie of great strength but great humbleness. That experience was... eye-opening. I was a rough street kid, but she treated me with kindness, like a family. Most importantly, she taught me to fight for something that matters... That is why I am here.”

“She sounds like an amazing Cookie...”

“Wow! She must trust you so much if she brought you here!”

He continues to declare his undying loyalty to Hollyberry Cookie, and Bubs relates with all he has to say.

“Your dedication to the Queen Mother is so admirable, Wildberry Cookie.”

“Bubblegum Cookie, I’ve heard from Crunchy Chip Cookie that you are an ex-knight. What was your loyalty to? If you do not mind my inquiring.”

Bubs is taken aback quite a bit... they didn’t expect even one Cookie to know about it... If only Brave’s introduction for them didn’t involve talking about how they were an ex-knight...

“Sorry, I’d really rather not say...”

“Understandable, pardon for my being rude.”

“Pardon granted.”

“Woah, Bubblegum Cookie! I didn’t know you could grant pardons?”

“I can’t. I’m just being polite.”

The duo laughs as the stoic Wildberry smiles.

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Walking into the White Lily Greenhouse, where the day before, they had just found out about the true nature of the Cookie with the same name and ingredients as the flowers growing here, a Cookie that them and their past Kingdom used to praise and adore... Bubs was feeling very uncomfortable walking in...

That uneasiness ends when GingerBrave calls out for Pure Vanilla, even though the Cookie in front of them was clearly Madeleine, you can’t mistake his cream blond hair, his style, or his boisterous personality for any other Cookie. Even he admits that.

“What’cha doing here, Madeleine?”

“Well, you see, I arose early in the morning, and have been trying to put my thoughts in order ever since. ALl those otherwordly enemies we’ve met in our quest... Brave Cookies fighting them... The decision only seems difficult, while it’s actually fairly simple: the Heroes must share their Soul Jam. Only this way our world can be saved!”

“Very good point, Ser Madeleine... I didn’t expect such profound reasoning from you...”

“Of course! And, naturally...” He then continues on about how beautiful this greenhouse is, and is only paralleled by him... Both Brave and Bubs agree, and tell him to enjoy himself as they take their leave.

“Looks like Madeleine Cookie has his own concerns at times...”

“Well, of course, Brave, even someone like him would think about this...”

“Well, you aren’t wrong...”

Bubs takes a quick glance at the Lilies growing, uneasiness creeping up like an aura around them before walking out.

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To the Wafflebot Hangar, the two travelers go to next, making sure to knock at the door of the very frazzled Strawberry Crepe. Only one of them are going in, though, and it’s Bubblegum.

GingerBrave asks Bubs, “Are you sure you wanna go in? Who knows how they’ll figure out what’s ‘wrong’ with you...”

“Eh, it’ll be better than what training I’ve had to endure... Besides, it’s better to figure it out now instead of later...”

So, they walk in, seeing Crepe in the midst of repairing their robot, with some soft cream, other Cookies helping out. Bubs waves goodbye to GingerBrave, who says he’s heading to the Plaza, and to tell Strawberry Crepe he’s greeting them.

“Hey, Strawberry Crepe.”

“Oh, hello, I could use even more hands, could you help, whoever you are?”

“Huh?” Bubs wonders, before deciding to help anyway, because code of conduct, even though they aren’t a real knight anymore...

So, they took off their jacket and gloves, revealing their impressive muscles and startling scars, and get to work on helping with both lifting and managing the machinery of the robot. It takes only two hours along with breaks for Strawberry Crepe to be satisfied enough with the repairs, that they call everyone to continue on with their lives. Before turning to Bubs.

“Oh, what the? When did you get here, 1% despair?”

“I was helping you the entire time, Crepe.”

“Nevermind that, you’re here now, and I need to know exactly what about you makes you so difficult to interpret!” So, Crepe dragged Bubs to their testing chambers, and Bubs prepares for whatever’s about to happen...

Tests were run for hours, and most of the results showed that overall, they were a normal Cookie... although, with a little flash of the same words of Anomalous Nature Of Matter Acclimated Life Yeans...

“Hmm... it seems to flash whenever it has to analyze your data...”

“Yeah, except this time, it’s not even making it fry... why?”

“Well, we’ve done pretty much every test I can think of... I’m sure you were tested before, did anything strange happen during those times?”

“Uh... no, not really... well, maybe...” Bubs then recounts the story of their first testing, and at first, the machines were fine, but a little while later, the machines were reported to be fried... “I just didn’t think it was because of me...”

“You know... I once tried scanning the Soul Jam 75% Plain Vanilla has, and it almost short-circuited my machineries too...”

“I don’t know... I never really found myself being an anomaly... besides... my survival...but other than that, nothing ever comes to mind.”

Strawberry Crepe sits down, sighing in defeat, and Bubs feels horrible for them, but also confused, because what else about them could be anomalous in nature? Their mind? Their abilities? Not really...

“Well, it seems that the council is about to start... are you ready to go, Ser Bubs?”

Bubs wears their gloves and jacket, before nodding. The two leave the hangar to the council meeting room.

#bubblegum cookie #cookie run kingdom #cookie run #clotted cream cookie #gingerbrave #black raisin cookie #espresso cookie #wildberry cookie #madeleine cookie #strawberry crepe cookie #i had a hard time writing this...#it was still fun #but still... this was difficult to write...#bubs day 4

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