《Cubits Can't Save You Now (In Progress)》Chapter 18: Unfamiliar Familiars
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"..What are you talking about?" Questioned Max.
"I'm telling you, they just appeared here right now!" Ben told Max.
Krog tried to shush Ben, but he still talked about how the random "aliens" appeared and how Ben reacted to his first time meeting them while Snoof listened to the whole conversation, his eyes filled with hope and wonder. Suddenly, Max spotted Berp's legs & part of his pincers under the dirt that he hid in.
"Ben, is that guy one of your alien friends?" Asked Max as he pointed towards Berp.
Ben then looked behind himself to realize that Berp's dirt was only hiding everything but two of his pincers & his legs.
"Uh.. yeah, that's Berp." Said Ben.
"DANGIT, BEN!" Barked Krog, accidentally giving away his hiding place.
Max looked over at Krog with surprise, never in his plumber years had he seen a species that looked like what Ben had described but here Max was, looking at one. Suspicions instantly clouded Max's mind but he couldn't give away his cover and expose his grandchild to his past, so Max continued with his look of surprise and started turning it into a false look of concern as he shielded his grandson.
"What are you?" Asked Max.
"..Okay, FINE! Since you found me and Berp, we're mixels and you might as well lock us up since that's what the aliens do to mixels in EVERY ALIEN MOVIE I'VE EVER SEEN!" Complained Krog.
"Here, here." Agreed Gurggle, being equally ticked off about the 'aliens' he and Krog were facing.
Max continued to keep his false concerned, expression but mentally, he was recording every little fact. How did these mixels know about Earth?
"Krog, we just met these guys! At least give em' a chance to introduce themselves." Snoof told Krog as he slid over to him.
"How many of you are here?" Asked Max as he kept Ben close as Ben was trying to wiggle out of his grasp.
"Grandpa, these guys are fine! I think." Whined Ben as he struggled to get out of his grandad's grasp as he wanted to get a closer look at the cool aliens that would hopefully fix his crummy summer.
"Uh.. there's five of us right now." Replied Slusho as he popped his head out of the leaves of the tree.
Meanwhile, unknown to everyone at the scene, the keen eye of the key was watching them but the key itself wasn't alive and watching them, it was its creators that was watching the tense exchange of conservation going on.
"Major, WHAT THE NIX IS GOING ON!?" Demanded King Nixel as he watched the conversation through the key's eye.
"Uh, I think the mixels may have met some Spikels? Or perhaps they're mutated Bonzipods? Or aliens?" Guessed Major Nixel, hoping to please his king so he wouldn't get his mustache ripped off.
"Well, whatever they are, why are they here? The mixels are supposed to be fighting over the Mixamajig, not having a conversation with aliens!" Questioned King Nixel as he watched Snoof fiddle with the watch while everyone else talked.
"Your Flatulence, perhaps some Wiztastic spell took them to another planet?" Guessed Major Nixel.
"Yes, but that would mean that this group of fools won't be able to get to the capture point with the Mixamajig!" King Nixel yelled, upset with how much his plan was going off the rails.
In shock and fear, Major Nixel started to sweat and gulped the lump in his nonexistent throat.
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Krader slowly woke up and he smashed the alarm clock that was blaring in his ears. Krader jumped out of bed and he walked over to the room where Rokit was staying and then he loudly knocked on the stone door.
"Rokit, wakey wakey!" Shouted Krader with glee.
Rokit yawned as he got off of the couch.
"Mornin', Krader." Greeted Rokit.
"Morning!" Krader said with a smile.
"So, what's for breakfast?" Questioned Rokit.
"Oh, pancakes!" Krader said as he started to get everything ready for breakfast.
Krader reached in a cabinet and pulled some stone cakes for himself out of a box and he put them on a plate and put the plate on the table.
Then Krader quickly got some actual pancakes started for Rokit.
"So Rokit, how you doing?" Asked Krader.
"Pretty fine I guess, but these honestly taste pretty bland." Admitted Rokit.
"Hm? Why bland?" Asked Krader.
"Well, I gotta be honest here, I don't got a clue." Shrugged Rokit as he pulled out a bottle of Rokit Sauce.
Rokit then squirted some Rokit sauce on his pancake and ate it, but then his head bursted out of his body which caused his dome to shatter and then his head ricocheted off of the ceiling and back onto his own body.
"Woah!" Krader said.
"Don't worry, it happens all the time." Said Rokit as he ate a few more pancakes.
"Maybe we should take walk? It nice day outside!" Suggested Krader as he opened the window to reveal that the lightbulb sun was glowing nice and brightly.
"Well, alright. I ain't seen much of Planet Mixel so this might be good." Agreed Rokit as he ate his last pancake.
So then the two got off of their chairs and went outside for a nice walk. Meanwhile, in a different timeline in the Magma Wastelands, Flain and Seismo were currently getting ready to ride the lavaslide when all of a sudden, a pointy-eared nixel came out of nowhere to cause some chaos and ruin their fun.
"Ugh! A nixel. Why do you guys always have to nix our fun?" Complained Flain.
"Mixels? PBBBHHT! Nixels? Hehehehehe!" Spat the nixel as he gave two thumbs-ups.
"Don't think so." Said Flain with confidence.
Annoyed with what Flain has said in response, the nixel immediately headbutted Flain.
"Dude, quit it! Cease the lameness!" Shouted Flain as the nixel continued to headbutt him.
And then the nixel suddenly started attempting to eat Seismo's foot, but failing to do so due to his rock-hard exoskeleton getting in the way, so then Seismo simply shook off the nixel, causing him to fall out of his shell and his shell to fall back onto him.
"Niii-AGH!" Screamed the nixel as it suddenly fell through a glitchy portal that appeared from underneath it out of nowhere.
The nixel fell out of the portal and it noticed that instead of the Magma Wastelands it was in earlier, it was now in the Cragster Mines. It looked around in confusion and annoyance, despising everything in the Cragster Mines and their colors but then it saw two more mixels walking near it. One was Krader, the leader of the Cragsters, and the other was some other weird mixel that it didn't know anything about, aka Rokit. It started to charge at one of the mixels and leapt at his overbite... only for it to do no damage but keep attempting to bite it anyway.
"..Uh.. do Nixels normally do this kinda thing?" Questioned Rokit, weirded out by how the nixel did no damage to his overbite.
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"Yeah, yeah, me think so." Said Krader.
Rokit attempted to pull the nixel off of his overbite and then he and Krader watched as it attempted to reach Rokit's face just to scratch it but couldn't due to how far away the nixel was being held from Rokit's face.
"Where it come from?" Asked Krader.
"Well, how am I supposed to know? We just saw it appear outta nowhere." Questioned Rokit.
"Hmm, we no know where Nixel Land is, we take to Flain!" Krader said.
"You honestly got a point there, Krader. We don't know where Nixel Land is." Agreed Rokit.
Rainbow cubits fall from the top of the scene which fills the scene which in turn causes the scene transfer. Cut to Flain reading a book on his bed and large, hard knocking is heard on the door.
"Coming!" Called Flain as he set down his book.
Flain walked up to the door, only to find Krader, Rokit, and a nixel.
"Woah, at least warn me before bringing a nixel in the house." Flain told Krader and Rokit.
"But Flain, we no know where nixel came from!" Krader said.
"Yeah, and we couldn't send it back to where it came from so we had to ask you what we should do with it." Replied Rokit.
"So, what we do with nixel?" Asked Krader as he grabbed the nixel from Rokit and held it up for Flain to see.
Flain looked at the nixel and then hehad an idea.
"Hey Krader, do you have a bird cage lying around?" Flain asked.
A few minutes later the nixel was now being contained in a birdcage but it was still trying to attack the mixels as it stuck its pincers out, trying to claw whoever came too close.
"So.. are we just gonna leave im' here?" Questioned Rokit.
"Well, we can't send him back to Nixel Land since we don't know where that is. Besides, we can't let it run wile in Mixel Land either." Said Flain.
"So he you pet now? What his name?" Guessed Krader.
"It's not a pet, Krader. We're just keeping it here for now." Reminded Flain.
Suddenly, the four heard the door open, revealing it to be Seismo and.. another Flain?
"Hey have you-.." Said Other Flain before stopping himself Flain in shock as he saw another Flain, Krader, and a weird green mixel looking at him in shock as a nixel was trying to attack them from a birdcage.
The two Flains looked at each other and promptly said three words.
"WHAT THE SCHINXEL?!" Shouted the two Flains.
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The Flains got closer to each other, examining each other's features to see if they're truly the same person while Seismo was closing the door behind himself.
"Y-you're not actually me, are you?" Asked Flain.
"Look, I know when I'm me but you can't be me either. Why do you look so much like me, anyway?" Replied Other Flain.
"Because I'm Flain." Replied Flain.
"So am I." Said Other Flain.
While the two Flains examined each other, Rokit, Krader, and Seismo watched in confusion while the nixel continued to attempt to reach out its claws to attempt to claw the two firey birds.
"Nix, NIX!" Screamed the nixel.
"Dude, can you not?" Asked the Flains in unison.
"NIIIIIX! NIX NIX NIX!" Shouted the nixel.
Clearly annoyed with the nixel, the Flains continued to examine each other while the nixel continued to scream his ears off but then it whistled for the other nixels to attack the mixels for him since it couldn't right now due to being stuck inside a bird cage, but no nixels came. The nixel whistled again, but he was still the only nixel in the room. So then it continued to whistle aggressively in an attempt to grab some attention from some nearby & far away nixels, but every attempt only ended in failure. Meanwhile, Rokit was getting really annoyed with all of the chaos going on with the nixel being way more annoying than usual now that it started whistling and the fact that there is suddenly two of Flain, but Rokit was mostly getting tired of just the whistling nixel.
Rokit turned towards the nixel with an intense glare.
"Can ya'll shut up for JUST ONE SECOND!?" Shouted Rokit.
Soon enough, the nixel was shocked silent, but then it started to aggressively whistle again which annoyed Rokit a lot more.
"You okay, Rokit?" Asked Krader.
"I no think so, but maybe he need fresh air?" Assumed Seismo.
And then Seismo's assumption led Rokit to gain an idea of his own.
"You know what? Maybe you're right. Maybe we ALL need some fresh air, AWAY FROM THIS CHAOS!" Shouted Rokit as he floated to the door.
Rokit opened the door and suddenly, he saw a dinner table with a bunch of strange creatures eating some strange food where the Cragster Mines should be.
"...Okay, can anyone ask me why the heck the Mines are gone?" Questioned Rokit as he closed the door and turned towards the four other mixels and the caged nixel.
But the five couldn't answer his question due to being silent from confusion, leaving the nixel the only one making all the racket.
"Nixel, would you SHUT UP!?" Rokit shouted at the nixel, causing it to go shocked silent once again.
Cut to a close-up of Rokit whereas in the background, an old woman with blue skin, purple eyes, a powdered wig paired with a golden tiara that includes a purple gem, a black vest, and a purple gown walked towards Rokit with a stern expression upon her face.
"YOU! I suggest you and your filthy possum cat thing get out, I don't accept noisy, desperate things like you. Your peers, on the other hand, would make interesting guests for my dinner party." Warned the old woman.
Then the old woman called for her servants who looked like imposing, muscular humanoids with crystal or metal balls that act as both heads and eyes, and Baroque-style uniforms and powdered wigs. The servants held up Rokit and the nixel's bird cage while the two Cragsters ran into the dinner party in excitement but the two Flains were still suspicious of the party.
"Sorry, but do we know you?" Questioned Other Flain.
"Ahem, you may call me Queen Entozoa and I am inviting the two gray men that entered the part and you two firey birds in a test to see who is more deserving of my kingdom and my power in which I have spent 1,000 years building." Introduced the old woman.
"..I'm Flain and this is Flain Two." Said Flain.
"Wait, why am I Flain Two?" Asked Other Flain.
"I don't know, but I felt like it might be a good way of telling the difference between us." Replied Flain.
But then Other Flain got an idea, and one that could make it easier to differentiate between the two Flains.
"Wait, hold on a second." Reminded Other Flain.
Other Flain then walked towards a red drawer next to Flain's bed and pulled out a dark purple bowtie, and then he put it on and showed it to Flain.
"..Are you done yet or do you wish to have dinner?" Questioned Queen Entozoa.
"Yeah, we're good." Said the Flains in unison.
Meanwhile, Rokit and the nixel struggled to wiggle out of the servants' grips but then Rokit got an idea. He shot one foot of each guard and chased after Krader so that he could put him back in the Mixel world along with Seismo because Rokit just couldn't trust Queen Entozoa, for she was merely a stranger to him.
"WAIT, WE DON'T KNOW HER YET!" Shouted Rokit.
"What the- GET BACK HERE! YOU'RE NOT EVEN SUPPOSED TO COME TO MY PARTY!" Barked Queen Entozoa.
"AND I DON'T CARE!" Yelled Rokit as the Nixel silently rolled away, for it wanted to enjoy this chaos.
When the servants caught notice of the Nixel rolling away, they immediately chased after it, prompting the nixel to go much faster towards the portal and follow Rokit.
Rokit noticed the servants chasing after the nixel and he quickly grabbed the little cretin and he rocketed up to the ceiling since the servants couldn't fly. Realizing that she and her servants had no way of getting up to him, she decided to just have him be stuck up there.
"You may have infiltrated my dinner, but you STAY on the ceiling UNTIL my DINNER PARTY IS DONE!" Warned Queen Entozoa.
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