Chapter 1
Halloween
That Halloween would change everything. "Bloodsuckers are wimps," commented Salty Rhinoboom to himself as he fought some.
"YOU WILL PAY!!!" said the Bloodsucker, preparing it's worst attack. A rain cloud rained, turning the floor into weird blue stuff. Salty Rhinoboom jumped out of the way, then crushed the Bloodsuckers with some big weights.
"HEAVY!!!" they cried.
"This story is lame," complained Salty Rhinoboom. "Nobody has no plans for it."
"DOUBLE NEGATIVE!!!" exclaimed a Black Cat with a pumpkin head. "Now gimme 60 jellybeans for an EXCLUSIVE SPEEDCHAT PHRASE OF YOUR CHOICE."
So Salty Rhinoboom went on the Trolley and got Treasure Dive. He grabbed a chest, but was running out of air. Four clowns wouldn't let him get up. He finally threw the chest and got through. Thirty jellybeans, thought Salty, dare I get them all in one game? He dived down. He swam past a harmless shark, but got beat up by a bunch of pianos. He only had 15 seconds. By 5 he was only halfway up. He dived...
past a sandwich...
hitting a bear...
and finally made it just as he ran out of air. HE DID IT! The yellow duck rushed to the Toon. "I WANNA SAY SOMETHING AWESOME!!!" he ordered, handing over the jellybeans.
"Weird choice," said the cat, and in Salty's custom phrases appeared: SOMETHING AWESOME!!!
"SOMETHING AWESOME!!!" said Salty Rhinoboom in SpeedChat.
Suddenly, it was midnight at ToonTown time. October was technically over, and the pumpkin dissolved to reveal...
the head of a dog. The only dog of it's color.
Chapter 2
The Shadow Dog
"AAAAAAAAAAAAH, AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH, AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!" screamed Salty Rhinoboom, "YOU AREN'T A CAT!!!"
"Well that was an overreaction," responded the black dog.
"Who are you??" asked the yellow duck.
"I am the Shadow Dog, from Pluto's Aztec Place."
"That's not the same letter, like Donald, Dock, and Dreamland. Minnie and Melodyland-"
"Daisy and Gardens," interrupted the Shadow Dog. "Besides, we tried Pluto's Place that is Aztec, but it didn't have the same rhythym (sp) to it."
"Ah, I see your point," replied Salty. "So if you're from another Neighborhood, why did you come to Donald's Dreamland?"
The Shadow Dog said "Pluto's Aztec Place has no Cogs. Due to the Aztec setting there is no alternate source of gears. So I left by concentrating on the Moon in order to appear there. If you jump off the Moon you land somewhere else, you know! Now I'm here, the only place from which the Moon is visible. I have to get home."
"I can help you get home!" said Salty Rhinoboom, "After all, this entire chapter has been a boring conversation."
"I can just look at the moon, so no thanks," said the dog.
"NOT SO FAST, TOON!" said a random Pencil Pusher who had been listening to the whole thing. Quickly, the Cog scribbled all over the part of the sky that had the Moon on it with a pencil, making the Moon invisible. Not pausing to wonder how you can scribble on the Sky and why a Cog would want to scribble on anything, Salty Rhinoboom took the opportunity to make the story more interesting and went to the playground with the Shadow Dog.
"What do you expect to happen that will make much of an effect on the storyline?" asked the dog.
"SOMETHING AWESOME!!!" Rhinoboom said as he ran around the playground randomly. "SOMETHING AWESOME!!!" he said to a chatless.
"Huh?" said the chatless.
"SOMETHING AWESOME!!!" he said to Fisherman Freud.
"Thanks!" said the fisherman, "The Pet Shop will love these! Bye!"
"I regret giving you that phrase," said the Shadow Dog, "You're abusing it."
"How did you, anyway?" asked Salty Rhinoboom.
"Being the Shadow Dog gives you special abilities," said the Shadow Dog. "That, and Nobody was going in a totally different direction with this before he released this chapter."
"Ah," said Salty. Then he ran up to the Pet Shop. "SOMETHING AWESOME!!!" Then Donald. "SOMETHING AWESOME!!!" Then the pillow. "SOMETHING AWESOME!!!"
"PASSWORD ACCEPTED," said the pillow, moving up and back to reveal a tunnel. Printed on the tunnel were the words SLEEPY STREET. On the sides were signs saying MICKEY'S MOON BASE and pointing into a tunnel.
"I no longer regret giving you that phrase," said the Shadow Dog.
"OW, OW OW! I'M BEING CRUSHED BY A GIANT PILLOW!" said Glitchy, famous Glitch Master, who happened to be unlucky enough to have decided to walk around on the pillow right then.
Chapter 3
Mickey's Moon Base (Or, LONGEST CHAPTER YET)
Ignoring Glitchy, Salty Rhinoboom walked with the Shadow Dog down Sleepy Street. As he walked along, he noticed several interesting buildings, and once stopped at a place called 'SNOOZE BLUES NEWS
The Latest Insider Info on Music in Dreamland and Beyond' and bought a button to be used to look at a secondary weekly news article.
Eventually, however, he made it to Mickey's Moon Base, way up on the moon. The first thing Salty noticed was that there were very few Toons. Probably because they put the street leading to it behind a pillow which could only be moved with an obscure password. After that, he noticed that buildings were flying off and new ones were landing in their places. At least, he thought they were buildings. Upon closer inspection he realized they were sophisticated cube-y spaceships.
"Where do all the spaceships go after they take off?" asked Salty Rhinoboom.
"I don't know," said the Shadow Dog. "I usually go to a quieter part of the Moon with even fewer Toons anywhere."
Out of the corner of his eye the duck noticed a distinctly different spaceship land. It was dark grey and had COG SHUTTLE written on it in white typewriter text. A hatch opened and several Cogs in astronaut suits colored according to type floated out and slowly propelled themselves towards the ground with high tech contraptions, walking around in the street like normal Cogs. Salty Rhinoboom decided he would call these Cogs 'Space Cogs'.
Earlier, at Donald's Dreamland Playground...
The pillow started to move back to it's original position. Glitchy, almost completely down on Laff, fell down in a heap and, after a while of recovery, checked the ToonTown Time. "4:59!?" he cried, "Oh no! It's almost time for my show." Realizing he didn't have enough time to get to his studio normally, he glitched his way there by walking through walls and teleporting without a hole. Even then, he was a dreaded 3 minutes late.
5:03 ToonTown Time, at Salty Rhinoboom and the Shadow Dog...
As Salty Rhinoboom and the Shadow Dog had gone down the street, they noticed there were 6 types of ship the Cogs could come out of, at least that they'd seen: SELLBOT SHUTTLES, CASHBOT SHUTTLES, LAWBOT SHUTTLES, BOSSBOT SHUTTLES, COG SHUTTLES, and OMEGA-CLASS COG CARRIERS. They had both agreed that neither of them wanted to go inside a Omega-Class Cog Carrier if they could help it. That was earlier, though. Now it was 5:03. One of the few Toons there had turned on a fancy TV, and something was being displayed.
An animation played in high speed of weird things happening in ToonTown. There was singing in high-pitched voices, something about wonderous glitches. The animation and singing both ended shortly, and a Toon came onscreen that Salty Rhinoboom vaguely recognized. "Hello, and welcome to Wonderous Glitches, Season 2," said the Toon, who seemed rather in a hurry. "Today I am going to show you a recent experience I had in Donald's Dock."
"Be sure not to get caught up in the Cogs' Red Tape!" said Mickey.
Now the Toon was swimming around and swam through ground. He came back up on the other side of the fence and walked around.
"I don't watch much TV, doesn't fit the Aztec style," commented the Shadow Dog. "Is it always this creative?"
"I think this is real," said Salty Rhinoboom.
The Toon walked in an endless grey area for a while, then left. "And now, live on TV, I, Glitchy, will visit a land where Cogs stretch their arms out for some reason!" said the Toon, climbing into a cannon and shooting himself out of it.
"You can jump really high on the Moon!" said Mickey.
"Wow, really? Lemme try!" said Salty, jumping up into the air and landing on the roof of Goofy's Gag Ship.
As the Glitchy walked around in a strange land, suddenly strange things started appearing and disappearing! "Er, this has never happened before," he said. Then a spaceship landed.
"Hello," said the captain of the Space Bar, a Mickey's Moon Base root beer shop. "Our launch cannon messed up and we ended up here."
"Cannon?!" asked Glitchy. "So THAT'S how you got here. This land can be accessed via cannon using glitches. Mind if I have a look inside?"
Mickey said "Even if you're just coming for a short visit, be sure to take an exclusive 'Mission:' ToonTask from the HQ. We need YOUR help to drive back the COG SHUTTLES."
"AAAAAAAAAH!" said Salty, seeing the Space Bar in the distance and falling off the Gag Ship.
"You should be more careful," said the Shadow Dog. "All we need is to get to a place where we can jump off the moon."
So the duo stopped watching TV and went to Lunar Lane, where signs pointed saying Jump Authorization Zone. However, just as they came out of the tunnel, they saw the guy from the TV. "I know you," he said. "You're the guys who were closest to the pillow when it crushed me. Which one of you prankster guys was the mastermind of this?"
Chapter 4
Sidetracked
"Er, I was just trying out my new SpeedChat phrase and it was apparently a password to get here, which meant moving the, um, pillow," said Salty Rhinoboom said, meanwhile worrying that Glitchy would not believe him.
"So it was you," said Glitchy.
"Yes," said the duck, "but it was an accident. You see, this is the Shadow Dog, an ultimate Toon from Pluto's Aztec Place, and I was just trying to help him get back-"
"Wait," said Glitchy, "Were you trying out a new SpeedChat Phrase or helping this dog? Your story doesn't add up, and I'm going THROW THIS PIE AT YOU!" Then many things happened. A Bossbot Shuttle landed and a Big Cheese Space Cog floated out of it onto the path. Salty, warned about Glitchy's revenge plan, ducked. Glitchy threw the pie and quickly hid inside the 'Meteor and Beans Restaurant' using a glitch. Then, almost predictably (especially to you), the pie hit the Big Cheese who turned to Salty Rhinoboom with an angry look on his face. Then, oddly, when he looked at the Shadow Dog his expression changed, very briefly, to as close as a Cog's face can get to a smile.
The Cog looked back at Salty Rhinoboom. "Are you two together in a group or something? Are you headed for the same place?"
"What if we are?" asked Salty, not sure whether or not to tell him the truth.
"Then we'll take both of you."
"No," said Salty Rhinoboom protectively, just as the Shadow Dog said "Yes."
"Take you both then," said the Big Cheese, grabbing the pair and carrying them into the shuttle. Glitchy, thinking maybe the duck got more than he deserved, quietly sneaked into the shuttle as only a Glitch Master can.
* * *
The inside of the shuttle was slightly bigger than a 5-story Cog Building, and was filled with steering devices, strange radars, panels, and Space Cogs. Salty and the Shadow Dog were amazed by all the technology they saw as the Big Cheese dragged them to a small cell. "Now," the Cog said, "it'll be a short while before we get to Cog Nation, then we'll fight you as we would any random Toons who came in here by will, trying to get rid of us."
Then the Cog left. "You should have said no," said Salty Rhinoboom.
"And let you go in there alone and go sad...or worse? I'm just as much a Toon as you," said the Shadow Dog, "and vice versa."
"I guess," said Salty, lying on the cold, hard, floor to take a nap.
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