We're back to SnowCat and Becky Joy here- the voter praised the two as having "a ton of surprisingly good synergy." And in this one, Becky's four Goblin NPC's get more involved in the roleplays as well!

 
As the night went on and the sky darkened, SnowCatCuties, Becky and her Knob Goblin buddies were chatting with the shopkeeper. He realised the time and decided to head home, he had to open up the next day, after all. The sound of their laughter echoed throughout the diner as the others conversed and finished their food. Mummies Yummies slowly emptied but their conversation flowed. They talked about home or what they at least called home and talked about where they came from. In same cases it was two very different places.

Red concluded his story. "And that's when I told the guy, 'Well even if my brother was a horse, I don't think I'd be buying my donuts from you guys again, pal!'"

SnowCat held her stomach due to the laughter, before she nearly fell on the floor. "You guys are hilarious, I'm glad I met everyone."

Even after they finally stopped laughing, Goblina continued to smile. "I'm glad you got to meet all four of us- Red & Green, Darson, and me, Goblina."

"I know your names." Snow laughed. "So what's your next plans? Summer is coming up."

"Right now," Darson (the serious one) answered, "we need to plan to get back to Degrassi."

"Yeah!" Becky said, giggling loudly. "I've been in Seaside Town enough but I usually stay down in Degrassi. So I gotta get back and Darson made me promise to get back tonight. Then tomorrow, I wanna color, and also do serious things. Like. . . . I dunno, I sorta forgot."

"Fair enough, I go with the flow really or go where I'm needed at least." Snow's mood seemed to drop.

"I know, right?!" Becky giggled and ate another roasted mushroom.

Goblina, however, seemed more empathetic. "You seem sad suddenly." Then she preemptively cut Becky off saying, "Not you, Becky. Snow."

"Ohhhh," Becky answered. "Okay, good! I mean not good, 'got ya.'"

"Oh it's nothing much. I just remembered my mother was like that. I used to live with her till she sent me to live with my dad. I lost contact with her but now that I'm old enough I want to find her. Only thing is I don't know where she is." Snow tried to give a little smile but it soon faded. Suddenly she perked up. "Anyway, you were saying something about colours?"

Becky's eyes lit up. "Yeah! I love to color! It's soooo much fun, but it isn't very grown up. But I do what I want anyway. Ohh.. do you wanna come visit us and tell us more about your parents and then we'll color and be happy? And maybe Sassy Snake will visit and did you know her name has a lot of s's?"

Becky's eyes went really wide at the thought. The thought of - something, hell, I don't know. I write her and sometimes even I can't keep up with her.

Green shivered. "We could use someone like you there. Things have been kinda crazy since the Knob Goblin kingdom fell apart. I wouldn't mind having a big Honorburg hero around, ya know? Even just the daughter of one. Degrassi is kinda scary for us lil bros."

Goblina laughed. "Green, she's a lot more than just the 'daughter of a hero.' That reminds me though, since you mentioned earlier you were from Honorburg, Snow. Are you familiar with a cat from Honorburg named Silver? Like, not literally a cat but he moved like one. Really strong guy, too."

"Silver!" Snow joyfully shouted. "He was the one who took me to my dad. He had this grey hair that he had since he was born I think. He was awesome. I remember him telling me of how he saved a girl and her family. Thinking of it, I believe it's his wife now. It was a really romantic story."

"Oh my gosh!" Becky smiled ear to ear. "I love that story! I wanna draw it!"

Snow rummaged in her bag and pulled out some paper and a pencil. "Here you go Becky."

"Oh, thanks," Becky said. "I already had dessert though."

Snow looked confused at Becky. "Anyway I remember he visited me once and I gave him a gadget I made. It was one of these." She pulled out a device that showed their location and what was local. "This one is a bit better though as I've worked on it quite a bit."

"We really should get going," Darson reminded them. "It's a long walk to Degrassi."

"Oh wait." Snow suddenly added. "Give me a little time and no one has to walk. I just need to get some metal and some wheels then I can make something for you to sit in and I can drive you."

"We're short on time!" Becky answered. "Can ya do it when we get there?!"

Goblina chose to be the voice of reason. "Do you think you could catch up with us, Snow?"

"I have a bike so sure it should be easy to catch up. I also have to pack up my camp anyway. Want me to make a cart for you to sit in?" Snow asked.

Becky giggled. "Maybe!"

"OK well let's get going then but first take this." Snow handed them a device. "It's so I can find you later." With that Snow got up and headed to her campsite. Once packed up, Snow found the resources required to build a cart and found a way to attach it to her bike. Finally she sped off on her bike and followed the blink on her device till she found the others.

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All was silent, except for a soft roar in the distance. At first nothing could be seen but the constant roar that grew louder. Confused Becky and the Knob Goblins looked around, trying to work out what was making the noise. Just then an something was moved fast over the horizon with a cloud of dust and sand behind it. They soon realised it was Snow and as she approached they jumped and waved to get her attention.

Out of nowhere, an arrow comes flying through the air towards the group. The aim was terrible and missed everyone. It was so terrible that no one noticed till the second one missed them all yet again - and Becky only noticed after Goblina told her. Everyone ducked and the bandit headed in the direction of the shots that were fired. Not just a bandit - a disco bandit defector! They knocked the bandit down and got ready to attack the remaining enemies.

"Go on three. One. Two. Three," Darson and Goblina counted. On that they jumped over the mound and found a passive perfidious pastamancer running away.

Suddenly the brothers Red and Green, walking at the back, screamed as a turtle tamer traitor ran off with their bag.

"Ahhh, my lunch!" Red yelled out, falling to his knees in defeat while Green just stood there trembling and shaking.

Becky looked towards SnowCat, getting quite distracted. Becky smiled as big a smile as anyone had ever smiled, I reckon. "Oh hi!"

SnowCat pulled up and looked confused. "What's going on?"

Becky shrugged. "What do ya mean?"

"Red's on the floor, Green's shaking, Darson and Goblina have their weapons drawn over there."

Becky shrugged. "Hey, what's your favorite holiday? Mine is whatever's next. Oh, I can't wait to get to Degrassi."

"Don't mind her," Goblina said, finally putting her knife away. "It was just a random fight. But I don't recall adventurers like those attacking people before. Usually they only mess with you if you mess with them first. Then again, adventurers don't tend to be very nice towards Knob Goblins, either."

"Oh ok, nothing major I hope, anyway are you guys getting on?" SnowCat indicated to the trailer at the back that she created.

"They stole the most important thing of all! My lunch!" Red cried out. "One of my many lunches!"

"Oh no how dare they. Let's go get them. Jump on the back and get ready to aim. I'll get close to them on the bike," SnowCat instructed as she revved the engine. "I do love the way it purrs."

"Sure!" Red sounded enthusiastic. "Do I got time to eat one of my many lunches first?!"

"Jump on first and you can try to eat one before we reach them," SnowCat hurried him on. Quickly they jumped on the trailer and Red got out a comically oversized loaf of bread & meat and started eating. SnowCat sped off at top speed almost causing Red to jolt in the back.

"Anyone got a ranged weapon?" SnowCat shouted.

"Rah'wanno," Red replied with his mouth full. "Ra'ink Rekky rhin Rrr's'n."

"In English?" Snow replied confused.

Red gave a comically large swallow, surprisingly not choking on it. "I said, 'I dunno. I think Becky and Darson do.' Er, I mean, miss Becky."

"Ok nevermind then." SnowCat got ready her crossbow and as she drew closer to the bandit she took aim and fired. The bandit fell, dropping the bag which Red literally dove off of SnowCat's trailer to retrieve.

"Well, that was pretty easy," Red said, holding up a peace sign, which caused random, disembodied laughter.

"Yh lol so what's next?" SnowCat asked.

Red's eyes lit up. "Like, let's wait for the others to catch up while I eat my comically oversized lunch!"

He started chomping on his sandwich to more comical laughter.

"What's with the random laughter?" Snow asked confused.

"I dunno," Red answered as the others casually walked up in a bunch. That provoked more inexplicable canned laughter. "Hey, Goblina, did you hear random laughter?"

"I dunno," she answered with a shrug. "Let me try. Ahem. Two guys walked into a bar. The third one ducked.'"

She was met with absolute silence, other than the sound of two random crickets.

After a moment SnowCat sniggered at the joke.

"Close enough," Red said, resulting in more disembodied laughter.

"That's really weird," Darson noted. "Katay Sagal was right; it doesn't seem to correspond to anything funny happening." He waited a moment for his laughter and looked crossed that he didn't get any.

Snow noticed Darson's angered look and started to snigger. She walked over to him and patted him on the head. "There, there."

"Yeah, we should get out of these repeating woods," Goblina suggested. "And get to our next destination."

"Yeah," Red answered, finishing off his sandwich. "The crime here is horrible."

 
More disembodied laughter.

"Right, just jump on the back of the trailer and we will move on. Where's next?" Snow instructed.

Becky jumped up and down, cheering. "Degrassi Knoll!"

That got another round of canned laughter, causing the others to look around in confusion.

The end.

To be continued.

Going back to the opening notes, the voter mentions SnowCat and Becky have had "fun and snippy pieces all around." During rankings, he talks about the two offering consistent "fun" throughout their stories.

It also starts tying SnowCat into the Loathing Kingdom by mentioning someone from Honorburg she knows. Next up is Mary Kate. In fact, she's in the next four co-writes in a row! Nice.