Luna appears in Jovian Hall, or the Chainsaw Room that's been mentioned prior. She takes a deep breath and swaps to her boss music playlist. Cole appears with Nicole, and he's holding her by the scruff.
"Sup Rose. Welcome to Hell," Luna waves and smiles. The room is dark and quiet.
"Unlike you sickos, I don't like visiting this weird ass place," Nicole growls, trying to free herself from Cole's grasp.
"I don't like this fuckin' place either, Rose." Luna says.
"Yeah, it sucks, Nicole," Cole chimes in.
"But we need to know why King raged at your very appearance. None of us have ever seen King behave like that," Luna looks to Cole, "I'm sorry Cole didn't explain that."
"I'm not good at explaining," Cole replies.
"I know."
"I'm trying my best"
"I know and I appreciate you for it."
"LET ME DOWNNN!!!" Nicole yells.
"Cole, can you please let Rose down?""
"Fiiiine," Cole drops Nicole, hoping they land face first. She grumbles as she gets up and brushes her shirt off. It starts to lightly snow.
"So this is going swimmingly. What's next? Projectile trucks?" Luna asks, "Right on schedule. We get snow to power hadals up, then the chainsaws."
"Mmm, I like the snow," Cole says.
"Eh. I'm not that fond of it. It's cold." Luna sighs, "You like the snow, Rose?"
"I fucking hate snow.." Nicole mutters.
"Glad we're on the same page then, haha," Luna chuckles. In an instant, the room is filled with decorative arches and colorful lights, a large mirror maze but with clear glass.
"Here we go again." Luna unsheathes her ichor claymore and attempts to strike the glass. Doink, it bounces off.
"Really? This again?" Nicole asks.
"Of course." Luna replies, "You got this layout too? I've had both the clear maze and the projectile trucks. They're both incredibly annoying." Luna takes a deep breath and begins working her way through the maze, making sure to swipe at the air for any strings. Cole just stays standing where he is and brushes the snow off himself as it falls on him. Lights in the distance flash on, and Luna can faintly make out the windows of a lavish 2 story family home past the arches. Through said windows, it looks fully furnished. There's a nameplate, but due to distance it's unreadable.
"Thats new," Nicole squints.
"That's... different." Luna says, "King's house?" Cole is still brushing the snow off him. Luna continues to work her way through the maze, slashing at any strings, and trying to reach this house. The windows slam open with a gust of wind.
"Uhh what." Luna stares. Cole doesn't care, he is more worried about the snow on his fur. An oven flies out of the window, phasing through the arches straight towards Cole. as the oven door swings open from the tumble! Cole gets fucking smacked by the oven, several bones cracking under the hit as he flies back, smacking against the ground. From another window flies out a full size dining table, flipping though the air at Luna as she finds herself at a dead end. Luna tried to slash the table in half but missed. Cole's bones heal immediately, fur falling off to reveal skeleton in some spots. This motherfucker needs some blood haha. He feels angry, but has nobody to target it towards. A toaster is swung at Nicole as it bonks her on the forehead, and when it lands it pops a piece of toast out. We are desperate in living a fantasy where the house has a toaster and perfect slice of toast, but just like any regular toast, this toast, too, will go forgotten.
"Fucking- Ow!" Nicole yells. The foundation of the house shifts as they get closer to it. Cole runs over to the toast and eats it.
"Mmm toast," Cole says with a mouth full of toast. Luna continues to fight through the hell maze. Cole yells to her, "Luna, the toast sucks, don't eat it!"
"I hate toast."
"How can you hate toast?"
"Dry bread."
"Just put water on it!"
"I dont want your dumb appliances!!!" Nicole grabs the toaster and throws it at the darkness above. The toaster falls nearby.
"Nooooo the toaster," Cole sobs. The house shifts again with a rumble. Cole looks up, "Is that my hunger or the house?"
"The house, I think it's pissed." Luna says.
"How can a house be pissed?" Cole asks.
"How does a house fling a toaster at Rose?"
"Got me there."
"πππππ πππππ πππππ πππππ" A loud, distorted voice says. The house sounds as if it's starting to lift off its foundation.
"It's pissed and now it wants to fly. Neat. Alters sure are magical," Luna chortles. The name plate is almost close enough to see, and Luna tries to read it.
"A house should not be able to fly, its concrete foundation is too heavy for it to lift its siding off the ground!" Cole yells.
"Really? Now is when you're gonna use logic? It's an Alter," Luna says, confused.
"You two are annoying.." Nicole mutters.
"It was a bee movie reference, you dumb feline," Cole says. In an instant, the house is thrown at them and fucking explodes, all of the house being ripped in the air as it's slung, furniture, appliances, decor, paintings, rugs, everything in a normal house being thrown. The nameplate was legible for a second- "Projectile House". Jovian Hall has never felt so alive. Luna is downed, bloody, unable to move or continue. Cole pushes off the ground, getting scraped by a couple things and he levitates above the debris. Nicole ducks and covers, you know the song. After a moment, things are quiet again, the debris is phasing through the arches as there's a thin layer of dust in the air.
"Luna, you good?" Cole asks.
No response.
"You uh taking a nap?"
No response.
"You look pretty bloody over there!"
No response. Though, if she could move or say anything, she'd probably roll her eyes and scream for help. Nicole coughs, getting up from the rubble in a rather lucky spot, she has a few cuts, though. Something slithers above them in the dark. Cole goes down and lands, not caring about the snek on the ceiling, and walks over to Luna. She's unaware of her surroundings, her focus depleted. Cole kneels down.
"Luna, Luna how much focus do you have?" Cole asks. Luna doesn't respond, and Cole goes, "oh no it's all gone, noooooooooo." If Luna could roll her eyes, she would at this very moment.
"Serves you right," Nicole says.
"Fuck you Nicole, you look like a rat," Cole says. If Luna could flip Rose off, she would at this very moment.
"Like you have much room to talk, fuckface!" As Nicole spoke, there's more shifting in the ceiling, the lights flicker.
"I have all the room to talk, cause I could fuckin eat your face off!" Cole yells.
"help," Luna, with some fuckin miracle gets that one word out before going unconscious.
"Oops," Cole says, healing Luna up. Luna feels her focus come back.
"Took ya long enough." She says, "still not able to fight... but if you'd like, I'd love to get the fuck outta here."
"I wanna kill something before I leave," Cole chuckles. The lights flicker more as the lights change from the colors to white lights, the room seeming black and white.
"Huh, that's new," Luna is still pretty out of it, but at least she's not dead, "Sooo uh, shall we wait then? Monochrome is new for Jovian Hall..."
"I wanna wait a moment," Cole says.
"πππΆππ πππΆππ πππΆππ πππΆππ πππΆππ πππΆππ πππΆππ πππΆππ πππΆππ πππΆππ πππΆππ πππΆππ πππΆππ πππΆππ πππΆππ πΏπΈππ±πΈ π΄ππππ πππ ππ½π πππππ π½πππ" the voice says from above, as a large face with glowing eyes and sloppy layers of human teeth lower to face them.
"Welp, that's King." Luna says. Nicole raises and eyebrow and turns to see the face.
"Ruler??.....huh.." she tilts her head.
"Rose, do you recognize them?" Luna asks.
"Recognize them? HA! I basically raised your dumb ass," she walks up the face without a hint of fear, as King faintly moves back some.
"πΌ ππΆπΎπΉ ππ πππΆππ" King says.
"What... you... raised them???"
"Really, you guys don't recognize his dumb face?" Nicole asks, chuckling slightly.
"It's King," Cole says.
"Why would we recognize some random non-feral??? Or..wait." Luna goes silent for a second.
"You gonna say it or?" Cole asks.
"Sorry, I lost it." Luna sighs. Nicole grabs King's face. As King attempts to pull back, Nicole keeps a strong grip and pries the mouth open. Past the layers of teeth, they see another face with glowing white eyes. A normal sized, nonferal fox face, but scars all over. Like burn marks. The fox snarls.
"......what." Luna says, "The white eyes are throwing me off."
"Who is that?" Cole asks. Nicole lets go as the large mouth snaps shut.
"It's Jack! Seems he's a liiiitlle bit not himself right now, though," Nicole laughs.
"Pardon THE FUCK ME THAT'S JACK????????????" Luna yells, "WHAT THE FUCK????" King grumbles as he slinks back into the darkness. Luna continues, "WHAT THE FUCK, HE WAS IN THE COLLECTION"
"Louudd," Cole whimpers.
"S-sorry cole.." Luna takes a fucking fuck ton of breaths, she's losing her shit, "It was Jack this entire time."
"It's fine.. just caught me off guard."
"Explains why he's still a pansy when I yell at him," Nicole mutters.
"The idiot that burnt a fucking mask to his face," Luna explains to Cole, "The one that caused blood//water."
"Who the fuck would burn a mask to their face?"
"Jack did. He was a Saint."
"Ohhhhh"
"Seems like his mask has changed a lil bit huh?" Nicole chuckles.
"Then at some point, he was a carnie worker. N-no shit, Nicole. What the fuck. Wait, soooooo that's why he freaked the fuck out when you revived. Because he remembered the collection."
"Yeah, no shit, Luna," Nicole says.
"Uhh, thanks for uhhh ahem unmasking Jack for us," Luna says.
"Oh, I'm not doing this for you," she smiles.
"Then who are you doing it for?" Cole asks.
"Hey, Jack? What do we do with nonbelievers?" The floor of the room starts to warp as Nicole speaks..
"...what." Luna says, stunned "Cole, we might wanna fuckin leave." Arms begin to grow from the black tiles, and Luna yells, "no no no NO ROSE DON'T"
"Oh really we might want to leave?" Cole says, grabbing Luna, "bye rat bitch haa-" Cole and Luna disappear.