Well this was new information. This idiot framed his counterpart just for the hell of it? What a lame villain! Doing evil deeds with nothing to really gain?

“Your plan totally backfired on you, chump!”, sneered Wheezy. “you thought he’d lose his job? Thought that’d get the law on his tail? No…we actually need his help. I think Toontown would have imploded long ago if it wasn’t for him!”

I had to agree that we needed him, but the fact that he was stammering obviously indicated that he was hiding something.

My eyes narrowed, and I asked “What are you not telling us, you palooka?”
-Smartass

The Repairman couldn’t help but be flattered by Wheezy’s insistence at how useful he was. Still, he had to disagree; knowing the Breaker, he would try something like this to make his breaks easier to keep.

Even so, they were the cops, so he didn’t protest any more than an eye roll.

The Breaker made a quick glance at the camera and shrugged. The Repairman winced, but still said nothing.

"Ah, y-y’know,” the Breaker started. “Just wanted to make sure I never had to do my job again. Man, she made it seem like such a good idea at the time…”

Bonkakira stepped forward. “Bonkakira thinks that might be a bad idea. Haven’t you ever seen all those horror movies? When the group splits up…”

Beepsumu turned to her with a slightly frustrated look. “This isn’t a movie, Bonk. Nothing’s going to happen if we break off here…”

Jingletooth finally spoke again. “WHERE’S SPACKLEDORF?!”

Beepsumu quickly shushed her. “Please, keep your voice down! Is it just me or is everything much louder in here? A-anyways, Spackledorf’s still in the house, so he should be fine until we’ve found Bowyetta…”

The dog arrow pointed itself again. “You’ll find her over there~ Trust me, my kind can always recognize our Bowyers~ The only thing I must warn you about is, there are many others of Bowyetta’s kind in there~ Please take care not to get injured by them~” It turned towards the Repairman once more. “Will you also be coming with us, Mr. Sir?”

The Repairman waved a hand.

“No no,” he said, “She’s right…splitting up isn’t a good idea.”

He jumped as Jingletooth shouted.

“…Yeah, let’s go,” he finally said, before moving in the direction the arrow pointed towards. “Where do you think she is…?”

I snorted, rolling my eyes and crossing my arms.

“Make it snappy! We don’t got all day for questioning!” I barked, before pulling him beside, and whispering, “You tried. You get a precipitation trophy like them millennials get. You were….” I sighed, not used to complementing nobody, “a good actor. Let’s just not do this again. Ever.”

Roughly shoving the blob towards the Breaker, I stood by the boys. Greasy fidgeted with his tie, Stupid and Psycho were bickering. About what, that’s anybody’s guess and to be honest I didn’t give a damn. Wheezy lit up his….one hundred and third? Yeah…his 103rd cigarette of the day.

I looked on, bemused as the Repairman had to stoop down, as well as someone his shape can stoop, to question the Breaker about who was paying him.
-Smartass

The Repairman listened patiently to the weasel.

"What do you mean, ‘actor…’?” he muttered.

Aloud he said, “Agreed. Let’s not do this again.”

When he finally got to ask, the Breaker stammered and looked from side to side.

“Who paid me? Oh, um…er…”

He sighed.

“Yeah, no one,” he admitted. “I just thought my job’d be easier with you out of the picture.”

The small part of the Repairman that was still weasel wanted to return the compliment, but he thought better of it. He just shook his head and turned to the actual weasels.

“…Can I go now…?”

Open Starter!

“Carry it? IF there was a reason to… I’d likely tie it to myself if not just carry it in my hands.” Ace shrugged, not quite seeing what his strange visitor was getting at. “I’m not a toon though, so I wouldn’t be able to use this ‘inventory’ either right?” The repairman being the only toon Ace had ever met, it seemes logical that he’d think all toons look like the repairman.

“Uh…”

The Repairman remembered that many Toons don’t identify as such.

“…actually, you kind of are…

Oh gosh. This was gonna be tricky. The Repairman stood up, ready to kick open his toolbox just in case.

“…You could use an inventory, I think.”

wiseguypuppychild:

@askthefwrp

“Hey. You’re the guy who I owe quite a lot after the amount of fourth wall breaking I did in the 1990′s, aren’t you?”

The Repairman couldn’t help but do a double-take. This Toon knew him…? Maybe he didn’t have the lack of presence he thought he had…

“Um…” he said, “I don’t charge people for it. Where’d you get that idea?”

Sparky watched the Repairman’s reaction with a sort of pride. He loved his home and enjoyed it when others did too! He almost wished he’d brought Wind along, as one of the founders he surely would have had some stories about all the places he was showing off, but alas. Perhaps he would pop up on his own later anyways, the ghosts all had a habit of doing that. 

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“Yup, it looks pretty grand, doesn’t it? Castle Town’s one of the few cities that looks as old as it is. There’s others, like Papuchia, Aboda, Whittleton- that’s where the new kid lives by the way- that are just as old, but they weren’t built out of stone so the old buildings didn’t last as long. The only clue the uninitiated would have about their age is the fact that they have train stations on the Spirit Tracks, whereas the newer cities have younger depots on the tracks they built as the population grew.

So what else would you like to see? We could go to another city, or see one of the Temples- there’s one underwater that’s pretty cool- or even the Tower of Spirits! There’s some settlements of Anouki and Gorons up north that I always like visiting. We could even show you the new kid if you wanted! Or, we could just chill around here, it’s up to you really.”

“…Huh.”

He would have to remember that. Maybe not cement and staples, but rocks needed to go into Fourth Wall cracks.

Immediately, he realized the problem with this and shook his head. Nah, that would make things worse.

“Um,” he started, considering the options. Definitely not the underwater temple (not with an inky body)…Oh, gosh, several neat-sounding options. But did Sparky say…

“…New kid?” he asked. “You mean, a new hero?”

It would actually be kinda nice to see the new guy. Besides, it might help if the “flesh-and-blood” incarnation knew about the Wall, too…

“It’s not real.” ((Songbird))

kitterahsdollhouse:

Songbird shook her head, it HAD to be real! She could FEEL the strong warmth of the sun. The humongous, tall, vibrant green trees, she saw swaying in the distance. She heard the distant call of her people in those trees. Sunflowers bent toward the sun let off a unique fragrance. The wide open blue sky looked to inviting. Free and home. “W-w-wan-nt to g-g-go…” She said, not taking her eyes off the scene before her. She chirped a few times and started walking further into the illusion.

Meanwhile, the Repairman only saw this bird-woman in a cage, her having the expression of a character who’s checked out. By the looks of her and the cage around her, he couldn’t exactly blame her.

Still, he was around; he should try something so she can get out.

“Look, whatever you’re seeing…  it still isn’t real. Now, I could try to get you out, but I need you to snap out of it…”

The dog arrow tilted towards the Repairman looking alarmed. “Um, excuse me, Mr. Sir~! But, that hallway leads to Smithy’s room~! Bowyetta would not want to go there~”

“But then where is she?” Beepsumu asked.

The dog arrow looked around. “Just think~ Bowyetta would want to go somewhere she can hide~ Somewhere she can go unnoticed~” The dog arrow pointed itself in the opposite direction. “Down there is where Bowyetta’s kind are made and stored~ If she remembers this place as well as I do, she’ll be in there~”

Beepsumu looked around. “What do we do? Bowyetta is in there, but the house isn’t… And if we go after the house we might run into Smithy… Anyone have an idea?”

“Wait, so your house is at Smithy’s?” the Repairman asked incredulously. “As in, the guy we’re trying to get away from?”

He covered his eyes with one hand. Somehow, he wasn’t exactly surprised.

“All right,” he sighed, “we should probably split up. Someone needs to find Bowyetta, and someone needs to make sure your teleporting house is okay.”

He looked back at the group, wondering what they thought.

The princess took the gesture as an opportunity to glance around, especially near the roots of the hedge walls. If this creature was any kin to the Termina’s Boes than it would have numbers hidden close by.
“Of course, the garden’s closed off at night. I just wanted…”
She trailed off herself. There was no sense in talking when he wasnt going to listen- If Zelda wanted to be ignored she wouldve stayed in her court.
“Is- Why call it a wall? N-not to sound rude, but that’s not a wall. It’s almost like a pond was somehow turned on its side.”

“Wait, a pond turned sideways?” he asked. “First time I heard it described like that.”

The Repairman paused for thought at the girl’s question.

“…Well, ‘boundary’ might be better,” he admitted, “but I see it as a Wall, and frankly, that’s catchier. Anyway…”

He looked back at the covered break in the Wall. He realized with a sigh that he should probably tell her what she saw.

“…that’s the Fourth Wall. It keeps our worlds and…the world they call ‘real life’ separate.”

He got his bucket of cement ready. He could tell this might be an issue.

“…yeah, I’m here to fix it, so…”

I quickly whipped my head around and saw the repairman looking like an oily ice cream cone in the summer sun. “What happened??” I hissed. “Why ain’t you getting back into shape? He’s gonna notice any second!”

Wheezy noticed the change, and decided to keep the Breaker preoccupated. “I never heard of you! I don’t think anybody even knows your name.” He snorted.

The Breaker shot back, “Just like nobody knows yours? What is it….Wacky? Walter? ….no seriously. What is it? Pulling a blank here.”

“We don’t need nobody to know our names,” drawled Greasy, “because everybody knows us as a unit. And you? You’re just a gaudy little lump with a hammer. A nobody. Completely useless….unless you count the “for every good, there’s an equal and opposite bad” thing. But TV tropes don’t bring home the bacon. And by the looks of your dump of an apartment, you don’t even got the pan drippings!“

Stupid picked up the mallet, while Greasy was taunting the Breaker, receded to whack him on the noggin, splattering clay everywhere.

Chunks of his nonexistent form spewed everywhere, which began to re-form, motionless until his face was reapplied. The face landed in Wheezy’s hands, and he dropped it when the face shouted, "What’s the big idea? You trying to kill me?”

Psycho cackled and asked, “Can we just put this guy in the kiln already? I wanna see him as a statue!”

“I think we’ll let the Repairman decide.” I said. “Whaddya think, blob?”

-Smartass

"Not happenin’…” he said, beginning to slur as his mouth lost form. “Can’t…keep…it up…”

He began to slip back into his normal shape at a more rapid pace, until finally he was just his old self with a few extra bumps.

“Sorry boss,” he murmered, sheepishly. “Guess I can’t be ya brother foreva, eh?”

He was already finding less joy in seeing the Breaker get squished, though he still snickered a little.

He hesitated as the pink one asked whether the Breaker should be cooked. On the one hand, there was still some weasel left in him that would love this, but on the other hand, the Repairman really didn’t think it necessary.

“C’mon,” the breaker said, “do somethin’. Those shows aren’t gonna watch themselves…”

Finally, the Repairman found an answer that satisfied both minds he was in.

“Hang on,” he said, “I want to ask ‘im a few things first…”

He went over to the recently reformed Breaker casually.

So, eh, who wuz payin’ ya–you?“ he asked. Gosh, that was a horrible accent. Was he really talking like that?