Bowyetta smiled as soon as she saw the Repairman. While still a bit beat up, she was looking better than before, and seemed to have more strength in her arms, as she was holding onto Beepsumu’s hand. Her smile then turned serious. “Um, Mr. Sir… Bowyetta is much thankful that you have saved her. And much sorry for getting you into trouble. She was only wanting to be saving you. …Bowyetta is never wanting to be go backing there.”

The Repairman nodded, looking around. He felt now wasn’t the time to say he would have bounced back, even if he was the one to be under Smithy’s hammer.

“Well,” he replied, “thanks for coming back for me. And, yeah, I can see why you left there; he’s like the evil version of Santa Claus, isn’t he?”

Something seemed to occur to him. He dug behind his back and pulled out the smushed arrow from before, who was still out cold.

“Hey, Beepsumu,” he asked, “Any idea if the arrows can be fixed up?”

“Oh~! Please excuse us, Mr. Sir~! We’re sort of stuck together right now~”

After a bit of waggling, the dog-arrows had gotten themselves free, and were now hovering about the house. Beepsumu was working on repairing Bowyetta, when the dog arrow spoke up once more. “Excuse me, Mr. Sir~? Bowyetta says she would like to speak to you~”

“All right,” he said. “Just let me get up…”

After a moment or two (and some grunting), he pulled himself up to his normal shape and size. After a sigh in satisfaction, he went over to Beepsumu and Bowyetta.

He moved to sit next to the broken Bowyer.

“What do you need?” he asked, plainly. It didn’t seem there was much else for him to say, really.

“Hang on, fellas~! Something tells me they aren’t leaving us behind~!“

When the rest of the dog-arrows had been led inside(including the smashed ones), Beepsumu wasted no time placing Bowyetta on the couch and dashing upstairs. “Everyone in?! I’m taking us home!” She pressed several buttons and switches, and the house began to shake as it did before.

A few minutes later Beepsumu opened her eyes. “D-did it work…?” She went downstairs to look out the window, and was greeted by the familiar white void. “Hey, everyone! We’re home!”

Bowyetta tried to sit up, but it wasn’t working so well for her in her current state. “We having done it? We are escaping? Mr. Sir is safe also? Are my arrows also being?“

“Oof!”

The Repairman flew back into the house, knocked in by a colossal clump of dog arrows, who soon formed a large ball around his magnet.

“Y–yeah,” he grunted, stuck under the pile, “I’m fine. Some of your arrows might need fixing, though…”

He tried to get out, but all he succeeded in doing was making himself a smear on the floor.

Bowyetta flinched slightly as the group held onto her, but she didn’t say anything. Beepsumu attempted to shout over the noise. “I hope this works!”

As the floor fell through, the arrow called down to the group. “Do not cry, dear Bowyetta~! You’re all going to make it~!”

And somehow, it worked.

Somehow, the group found themselves gently floating to the floor below. Smithy was nowhere to be seen. The girls were all pretty shaken, but Jingletooth was the first to say something. “We’re not going to DIE!”

Bowyetta said nothing, but her eyes started to fill up with “tears”.

Bonkakira looked down into the pit below. “Bonkakira thinks she sees our house down there!”

And she was right. When the group finally reached the ground, they found themselves right in front of the house. Jingletooth was the first to stand. “SPACKLEDORF!!” She dashed inside the house.

Beepsumu stood up. “Come on, we’ve gotta get Bowyetta inside.” Bonk helped Beepsumu lift Bowyetta, and Bowyetta shouted to the Repairman.

“Mr. Sir! Please to be coming inside with us!”

The Repairman also said nothing, only looking down to see where the floor was. He hoped there was one.

Other than nearly losing his balance thanks to the dog’s outburst, the descent was pretty uneventful.

He didn’t even wait for Bowyetta to finish talking before rushing it, second only to Jingletooth. With great haste, he began digging through his toolbox before finally pulling out a large, blue, and oddly polygonal magnet. After struggling to get his cart out of its pull, he went outside and held the magnet up, hoping this would get the arrows home.

Bowyetta couldn’t exactly move at the moment, but she still attempted to look at the Repairman. “What you be doing?”

Bonkakira waved her hand at Bowyetta. “Bowyetta, it’s Bonkakira. She brought you your things. Are you gonna be okay?”

Bowyetta smiled at them. “Bowyetta is going to manage. She is just needing some repairing…”

The same arrow from before came up to Bowyetta. “Oh, my dear sweet Bowyetta~! We have a problem~! We’ve lost a lot of our men, and the floor is going to-”

The arrow was interrupted by a loud crashing sound.

“P-problem~! This place is going down~!”

The Repairman was too focused on securing the umbrella to hear what anyone was saying. That is, until there was a loud crashing sound.

“Everyone!” he called out, frantically. “On Bowyetta! NOW!”

He just hoped the arrows could help get the fallen ones to safety. He couldn’t exactly do anything about that right now.

Before Bonkakira followed the group, she stopped to pick up Bowyetta’s belongings: Her umbrella, a six-sided die, a spool of string, and a set of measuring spoons. Beepsumu shot her a quick glare as she did so, but Bonk’s response was “Bowyetta might want this stuff back. Besides, it may come in handy.”

As the group entered the next room, they were met with another extreme blast of heat, this one even stronger than the last. “G-geez…” Beepsumu mumbled. “I feel like my circuits are going to melt… Could we be in-”

Her question was answered when she felt something heavy slamming the floor, accompanied by another one of Bowyetta’s screams. At the back of the room Smithy was chasing Bowyetta with his hammer, slamming it as he went. Neither of them had noticed the group yet. “You’re not going to get away forever!”

Beepsumu called to Bowyetta. “Bowyetta, it’s us! Are you okay? What are you doing?”

Bowyetta gave her one of her smiles. “Bowyetta is remembering something about this room! If we are shaking of the floor enough-”

Bowyetta didn’t have a chance to finish her sentence. Her brief pause was enough to allow Smithy time to catch up to her, and she was only able to give a singular squeak as she was crushed beneath Smithy’s hammer.

Beepsumu couldn’t even react. She wasn’t sure HOW to react. She could only repeat Bowyetta’s words. “Shaking the floor… Shaking… The Floor…”

Bonkakira looked at the items in her hands. “Bonkakira doesn’t think these will be very useful.

She was answered with a knocking noise. “BUT WE MIGHT BE!!”

The Repairman had a visible layer of mist over him now, as even he was feeling the heat.

He could only watch in shock as Smithy chased Bowyetta around, finally crushing her like the arrow from earlier.

He was stunned until he heard something knock from his hammerspace.

He remembered the arrows, and pulled out his two remaining pieces of flint.

“All right,” he said, as they emerged. “Have at it!”

And with that, he dashed over to try and get the badly battered Bowyetta.