Toontown - New Generation Chapter 4 (OLD!)

Chapter 4: As a Reminder Part 1

Two-Face C506-D2935 stood next to the extremely fidgety Don Leonardo, as the cog constantly kept pulling out his pocket mirror and checking himself in the small reflecting object. He would often smooth back his hair and check his teeth, and to be quite frank, C506-D2935 was becoming quite annoyed.

"Would you relax? You look fine." "Right! She'll love you! Uh..not like she does not love you already." Two-Face C506-D2935 chuckled.

Don nodded took in a deep breath, and then exhaled. C506-D2935 shook his head, reaching into the inside pocket of his suit and pulling out a cigar, handing it to Don, his scowling side flipping to a taunting smirk.

"Need a smoke?"

"No thank you, I am fine." said Don, as he folded his hands in front of him and looked at the long line of cogs waiting to get in before looking down the sidewalk, waiting for his quote on quote "date". For this past month, up until this point, Don had been spending a lot of time with Mingler A16-A7769. They'd often spend time together on coffee breaks, would go cause mayhem on the streets with low-laff toons, and had even spent the night at each other's places a couple of nights. However, even if everything seemed fine and dandy, he could not help but feel that he was missing something...he still felt...empty. 

But he was sure it was nothing. He was over the event that happened three months prior. Besides, Mingler A16-A7769 was an amazing  and charming woman. A cog woman. In fact, he was going to work up the courage to take their relationship to the next level.

"Hello? Did you hear what I said?" "Honestly, A20-Z2556. You have to stop distancing out like that. It annoys me."

"What?" Don shook his head, tilting his head down slightly to meet the slightly shorter man's gaze. The Two-Face pointed in said direction of which two female cogs were approaching him. 

"Your woman is here." "And who is that cutie that she brought with her?" C506-D2935 attempted his best to stop drooling at the Name Dropper that accompanied the Mingler. Even Don had to slap himself mentally so that he would snap out of it. He fixed his bow-tie and cleared his throat, placing his best smile on his lips.

"Hello there, beautiful." Don took Mingler A16-A7769's hand in his and kissed the back of it gently, scanning her body. She wore a deep red dress that had a heart-cut shape at the top, a white sash around the waist, and was long to the ground. Her hair and make-up never changed however. Mingler A16-A7769 giggled, as she also eyed him in his attire: freshly pressed black tuxedo with a black bow-tie and his usual black slacks. 

"Why thank you. You look rather ravishing yourself." said Mingler A16-A7769, earning a smirk from the blue-eyed Mr. Hollywood in response. Meanwhile, her friend, B386-F7929, was busy flirting with C506-D2935, as expected.

"You look good too, you know. I love what you did to your hair." "Yes. You certainly look better than you usually do."

"Oh, boi stop! You makin' a sistah blush!" Name Dropper B386-F7929 giggled, touching her heated cheek with one hand while she waved him off with her other in an "oh you" manner. Everyone within the group chuckled and giggled, before Don finally had spoken up.

"Well, I guess we better be getting inside. We would not want these ladies to stand out here forever, knowing that there is a party inside." said Don, holding out his arm for the Mingler to take. She smiled and without hesitant, grabbed his arm, proceeded to follow the other two towards the line to head inside the building.

(Meanwhile...)

"Wow. Look who lookin' all fancy tonight." Taffy smirked, as she approached her childhood best friend, who had been chatting with Quinn and Miss Mousey and their dates. Laffy, who she had been referring to, had turned to face the orange toon, and instantly squealed jubilantly. She wasted no time in embracing the newcomer, who returned the hug with a light heart laugh. They then pulled away from each other, Taffy taking a closer look. Laffy was wearing a fit-and-flare red dress that stopped two inches above her knee, the top being heart shaped with lace that weaved into flowers covering the top and sufficing as a long-sleeve down her arms. She also wore red close-toe pumps and had a rose in place where her bow usually would be. She looked awfully adorable.

"Well, its about time you made it." Miss Mousey cut in, walking over with a teasing smirk. Even she looked amazing, as she wore a white gown that was sleeveless, and folded over one other in the front, it low-cut enough to where you could see her cleavage. She had her hair curled and up in a fancy ponytail, with a strand curling along the sides of her face. She also wore pearls on her wrists and around her neck. Taffy smirked at the cream yellow mouse.

"Mm, all y'all lookin' mighty fine dis afterahnoon I see." Taffy teased, nodding towards the two men who were with the cat toon and the mouse toon, who smirked right back at her.

"Where's your date?" Quinn's date, who was a green cat had spoken up for the black cat toon, who was silently sipping on her cup of jellybeans. She was wearing a lavender colored dress that stopped three inches above the floor, it sparkling from all the glitter on it. She also wore white accessories with it along with white open-toe heels.

Taffy had just opened her mouth to speak when indeed, her date, which was surprisingly Jacob Megahopper's best friend: Master Fireball Toppenwoof, had arrived just in the nick of time. Taffy grinned and immediately linked her arm with his, pointing to him.

"Op, found 'em." 

"Sorry I'm late, Doll-Face. I was waiting to meet you here." Master Fireball smirked, earning a pat on the arm as an acceptance of his apology.

"Uh, speaking of dates, where's mine?" Laffy had placed her hands on her hips and looked around, trying to see through the crowd of people for the blue rabbit toon.

"Who knows and who cares. Tonight, we shall get the most mega sugar-rush ever known to toon!" said Miss Mousey's date, who was a purple duck, high-fiving Quinn's date who hooted and hollared in agreement.

"I like da sound o' dat." Taffy smirked.

"Well what are we standing around fo'? Lets go!" Miss Mousey squealed with excitement, as the seven toons began to make their way to the center of the park, where a good majority of toons were dancing to the loud music.

(Meanwhile...)

"And so its like that I says...I says....'Look here toon! If you're gonna....i-if you're *hic* gonna cross in th-the *hic* danger zone....you gotta 'nother *belch*...th-thing coming...'" Robber Baron A19-K9626 said to a rather vexed Big Wig B500-G7208.

"For thee last time, I do not care about you or your petty accomplishments...I simply wish to enjoy this Ball in peace. Now leave me be." Big Wig B500-G7208 hissed, before turning his back on Robber Baron A19-K9626 leaving the befuddled cog to be by himself. However, this did not upset the cog, as he only found himself giggling, waving at the cog in response.

"'Kay...*hic*...Bye Whitey!"

From a short distance from the drunken cog, a group that consisted of three Big Cheeses were watching, rather amused by the scene that played before them.

"What a pity. Party has not hardly begun and the lad's already drunk off his ass." mused Big Cheese A746-A7736.

"Indeed." replied Big Cheese A08-I4790, after letting out a puff of smoke from his cigar, turning his attention to the crowd of cogs from the four different fields who mixed and mingled, all in formal attires appropriate for a Ball, including him and his group.

"A08, I hate to be the downer of your little cigar fest, but should you not be smoking outside?" questioned Big Cheese A67-H0008, as he pointed to the cigar his friend was holding. Big Cheese A08-I4790 only took in another puff of the smoke and let it settle within his "lungs", before letting the smoke slip past his lips, a slight smirk on his face.

"Or what? They'll throw me out? Oh please, there's a bunch of cogs in this room. They'll hardly notice."

"And if they do?" questioned A746-A7736. A08-I4790 shrugged, shaking his head.

"I would not care. I have better things to do anyways than be wasting my time here." said A08-I4790, as he turned and walked off with his cigar in his mouth, shoving his hands in his black slacks to his black tuxedo. The other Big Wigs exchanged glances of worry.

"He's been awfully extra gloomy lately." commented A746-A7736. A67-H0008 nodded in response.

"I agree. I wonder what is on his mind." replied A67-H0008.

Meanwhile, at the refreshment table, stood the group of four which consisted of Don, Mingler A16-A7769, Name Dropper B386-F7929, and Two-Face C506-D2935. While the other two smaller rank cogs were tipsy at this point, constantly giggling and flirting with each other the whole time, Don seemed to be distance towards Mingler A16-A7769 this evening, which she had noticed.

"A20, are you alright?" Mingler A16-A7769 asked, as Don instantly snapped out of it, looking down at the female cog with a frown.

"W-What? O-Oh...y-yes...I am fine..." said Don, as he found himself looking off in the distance once again, earning a huff from Mingler A16-A7769. 

"Are you sure? You've been refusing to look at me since we got in..." A16-A7769 meekly touched his arm, a hint of slightly tangent, dark grey substance building up in her eyes. "It is not because of...because of me, is it?" Don's eyes widened in realization. He had been in a sense ignoring her all night...or at least trying to, and this alone was hurting her. 

"No...no sweetheart, of course not." Don had wrapped his free arm around her waist and had pulled her closer, smiling softly as she had placed her hand on his chest, looking up at him with a slight smile on her bright red-coated lips. "You look amazing tonight. I guess I am just in a sense...shy..." he lied, knowing better.

He was not sure why this was happening all of a sudden. When he was doing so well. When he would look at A16-A7769, all he could see was the pink toon he had so desperately tried to forget about for months now. It perhaps had something to do with the rather odd dream he had the night before. Either way, his system was giving off an uncomfortable spark every time he would look at Mingler A16-A7769. How pink her hair and skin tone was, just like the pink rabbit. How her eyes sparkled when she'd look at him, just like the pink toon's did when they got lost in each other's gazes for the first time. He could never forget the sweet sound of her voice when she spoke...

"I like your eyes..." echoed in his brain, and soon, he found himself deeply disturbed within his own mechanical parts.

"I need to see her..." was all that raced within his hard drive, as he suddenly removed himself from the female cog, leaving her in a perplexed state. He walked off and slipped through the crowd of mixed cogs and headed towards the exit, ignoring the calling of A16-A7769 as he went, his eyes shadowed and his focus soley on another purpose.