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Just a series of one shots me and Dragonpro write while I try to write more(for my several things I should get back to) and for them to get motivated to write again!

Rules
-there will be no NSFW
-I can guarantee on my end there will be Angst(-JAD)
-no requests
-and just overall nothing inappropriate or illegal in certain senses (some crimes are allowed not all)

-written by JAD

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“Hey you guys still alive?” A white haired girl said walking into the house. She had a bag slung over her shoulder, boots making a noise against the wood floor.

“Right over hErE kiddo?” A familiar southern accent said as a man with a microphone head peaked out of the doorway that led to the main dinning room area(even though there was no need for a kitchen and what not). She smiled seeing him walking over and setting her back on the table.

The microphone headed man walked back over to another man who was sitting at the table, he had a tv for a head though the front of his casing where the screen was seemed to be coming off and the microphone headed man was trying to tape it together.

“Hello hero how was your trip?” The tv headed man said in his British accent voice quiet due to the volume dial having been bumped making him sigh and turn it back up.

“It was fine I found some stuff to hopefully help repair you three, at least a little” Hero said digging through her bag “just glad to see you and Dial stayed in one piece while I was gone” she teased making the microphone headed man, Dial, chuckle.

“You know it’ll take more than a bit of decay to take me and ole’ RGB here out” Dial said giving his cousin a noogie or the best he could with their non human heads.

“You two are frustrating” a voice came from a chair, purple hair just barely visible over the table.

“Hello to you too TOby” hero said smiling “got some more thread” she said placing what she had gotten on the table.

The three men were not in the best condition after Make believe started to decay. RGBs casing had started to fall a part along with his screen cracking, occasionally a foot or hand would fall off too; Dial had started to rust, one of his wires no longer connected and his on air signed cracked and chipped, he also had some exposed internal wires on his microphone and a few other parts; TOby had lost an eye and his stitching had started to come undone as they decayed with their world.

They couldn’t go to the market for a variety of reasons(one being that last time RGB was there he got himself banned) and they were all living in the house of paint ) Hero making trips there to see her friends that lived there now and to get supplies for the three she lived with.

She grabbed some stuff for RGBs casing going over and sitting on a chair next to him as she worked on putting it back together earning a winch from the man every now and then. As Dial grabbed some covering for his exposed wires before going to help TOby get stitched up.

Later RGB was sitting with Hero on the couch, the room was quiet besides a phonograph softly playing music in the corner.

“I’m sorry” RGB spoke hunched over a bit elbows on his knees.

She sighed “I know, you don’t have to keep saying it” she looked to him “I told you already I forgive you, and I’m sorry I couldn’t be a better hero” she said sighing softly.

“You are a great hero, hero just I never should’ve dragged you into this you were a child and now look at where we are…sitting in a house in a decaying world waiting to disappear” he sighed blue and red trickling from his screen getting caught on cracks and beading up before streaming down like tears.

“But it hasn’t fully decayed yet, there’s still time to fix it” she said trying to be optimistic getting a small smile from the Telly headed man.

“I hope you’re right…though only time will tell” he said softly, she looked as some black ink rose from her vents, she had been seeing more recently which worried her.

“Maybe it’s time we get some rest, I’ll see you in the morning RGB” she got up patting his shoulder and going to head to her room until she felt his gloved hand gently stop her as he got up and gently pulled her to his chest.

“I’m sure you’ll find a way to stop this, but please whatever you do, be careful and don’t be rash” he said hugging the girl gently, she was surprised but returned the hug.

“I promise” she said, neither acknowledging his hollow that promise was as they broke from their hugs and went to their respective rooms for the night. Resting as the make believe continued to decay.

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It was late, 3am precisely and frankly it feels like it had been for the last few hours…days? Hero didn’t know at this point but knew she had to do whatever she needed to quickly. Hero held a doll close to her chest, the doll was a TV head with colorful test bars and a dapper suit. She had been told that the doll would protect her from the creatures she saw when she fell into paralysis which was more true than her mom had ever realized. As she was walking she froze up when she heard footsteps, they didn’t belong to the others as they weren’t the sound of other kids and it didn’t sound like dress shoes or sneakers.

Each step was followed by a sickening pop or crack like the toes broke or were rearranged with every step and the legs creaked when they would bed, then the voice came.

“Darling, don’t hide from your mother it’s ok” it sounded like her mother she wanted to believe it was but she was currently alone, her parents were not in the house or even outside the house in the dense dark forest that surrounded them. She squeezed the doll she was holding tightly as she heard footsteps slowly grow closer though she couldn’t move she felt paralyzed, she kept trying to will her legs to run back to her room, back to safety but they wouldn’t budge.

She almost screamed when she was suddenly grabbed by gloved hands and dragged behind the couch, a hand covering her mouth, another holding her close to a broad chest. The doll having slipped from her hands and now lying next to her and the person who held her she looked up meeting a TV head who was looking up a bit while trying to stay hidden as she saw the silhouette of what seemed like a human at first glance till she noticed the impossibly wide smile and broken looking arm resting on the couch just mere inches from the TV head holding her securely. Clouds outside shifted allowing the moonlight to shine onto the creature allowing Hero to see the pale ashy skin, deep sunken eyes behind long dark greasy hair that covered the creatures face as it looked around, the rows of human teeth inside the wide smiling shining in the moonlight as the clawed hand moved from the couch to scratch at its own face leaving claw marks across its already disfigured face. Hero wished the moon would be covered again so she didn’t have to see it but as she stared at it she stayed frozen in fear , unable to tear her eyes away from it as it looked for her. The man holding her pulled her closer and tilted his head down to hide the shine from his screen and also broke the creature from Hero’s view and, if it spotted them, her from the creature's view.

The creature started to walk again and Hero finally was able to move, grabbing onto the man’s arms for comfort, shaking a bit out of fear, the hand covering her mouth slowly moving to her hair, trusting her not to make a noise as he gently ran his hand through her hair to calm her the best he could. The creature slowly passed them still calling to her in a sickly sweet tone using her mothers voice making her want to cry. Once it had passed the Telly headed man moved to his knees shifting her to one arm and looking over the couch and looking around for any sign of the creature and once he was sure it wouldn’t be able to see them he grabbed the doll and handed it back to her before swiftly moving to a different room with her.

They got to an office which was the closest room they could get to at the moment and he set her down carefully. “Hero are you alright?” He asked softly, his familiar British accent giving her a source of comfort after that.

“Y-yeah I’ll be fine” she replied though kept her death grip on him and the doll. “I-I froze up again it could’ve gotten me” she said terrified.

“It’s not your fault, these paralysis creatures will cause paralysis, especially the more tired you are, which I’m sure you’re exhausted,” he said to her, brushing some hair from her face to check her over for any injuries.

“I’m fine RGB” she said though it was interrupted by a yawn.

“Let’s get you back to your room so you can sleep, I’ll be right there so it will be ok” he said as he picked up the tired child walking to the door and listened for any sounds coming from the other end and when he heard non he quickly left the room heading to the young girls room where the others were in hopes of her getting at least some sleep.