Time To Have Fun

[Pinocchio Black]

(ooc: January 12th. Open to kids in Ask That Guy's Army.)

Mano stood sitting on the bench. He'd been tasked to watch all the younger kids. He didn't mind. It was a break from his regular chores at least. He smiled as the other kids came out to play. At least this day wouldn't be boring. He could just relax and watch them play. Perhaps even get to have some fun himself.

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Penny walked out with a grin. She was ready to have some fun. She didn't feel as nervous as she had in Facilier's camp. While she still didn't feel that useful at least she knew no one was trying to hurt or enslave her friends. She smiled seeing Mano walking up to him.

"Hello. I'm Penny." said Penny.

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Pinocchio walked out next. He smiled seeing his older brother Mano. He was unaware Mano was a slave and just thought of him as his brother. Just like Jim and Ronno. He grinned. He knew Jim couldn't make it as he was still recovering from his wound and probably hanging out with Black Lantern Spoony. He smiled taking a seat next to Freckles and Mano.

"Hi. You're Patch's sister right? I'm Pinocchio. Nice to meet you." said Pinocchio.

[Ronno Black]

Patch raced outside, passing both penny and Pinnochio. Why was he running? Because he felt so free! So alive! He was away from facilier with his friends, where he truly belonged and he couldn't be happier! He ran around outside until he couldn't stop before running back to Mano, Pinnochio and Penny along with a few other children, who seemed to be rather confused with how energetic he was. "Sorry! It's just.. I'm so glad to see you guys again!" He then realized he had his sister to introduce. He breathed and responded "Guys. This is my sister penny" He didn't realize penny and pinnochio just exchanged names due to his running around. He then responded to mowgli and taffyta "I don't remember you two. My name's patch, nice to meet you"
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Ronno came outside calmly, unlike patch, and went to Pinnochio only to see his brother talking to penny. That and mano was watching them. Ronno smiled and responded to mano "Hi mano. Nice day out huh?" He smirked to see penny and responded as Pinnochio introduced himself "And I'm his older brother, well adopted older brother, and the name's ronno. Nice to meet you penny. You'll be a nice new addition" He then saw Patch run around and he gave a confused look which disappeared as Patch expressed joy and ronno smiled as patch introduced penny. Ronno laughed "Good to see you too patch and your sis just got our names and we got hers. But nice to see you know she's new" Ronno was rather happy that the two pups were here. It meant more friends. Less... well unlikeable friends that is. Mowgli, pinnochio, the pups and mano and jim were great. It was taffyta he rather disliked. He then responded "Hey how about you and penny tell us how you two figured out how the robots were brainwashed?" He was super curious due to all the rumors of how mechakara got brainwashed but if the pups were uncomfortable that was fine
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Taffyta, for once, was not licking a lolipop, instead she was eating gum and blowing bubbles. As ronno, pinnochio and the pups reconnected, tafftya smirked at the display, touched that the boys were actually not causing trouble and making friends. Even if they were ones they didn't meet. Taffyta then saw mowgli come out with her and she smirked as patch noticed them and introduced himself. "We know a lot about you spots. Rumors have been spreadin' lately. At least from my end" She popped a bubble. She then smirked to penny "Nice to finally have another girl on the team" Her tone throughout talking was, for once, not sardonic or cruel, she was actually being neutral and kind. For once, she seemed to be in a good mood. She then rolled her eyes at ronno who asked about how the two pups figured out about the brainwashed victims, ronno just annoyed her so much. She responded "Don't bother respondin' to him spotty duo, he tends to ask more questions once he's done"
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Mowgli was far more cheerful than taffyta was despite her kindness, he smiled to mano and smiled to the group talking and especially grinned to patch. He was silent for a while as the other kids chatted and ronno asking the pups questions. When taffyta commented on it did he speak "Oh come on. Have more faith in ronno than that. Besides, I wanna know too" He turned to the pups and said quickly "If you don't mind that is" He turned to pinnochio and responded quietly to him as if they were planning something "Say we do something fun if they don't wanna talk about it? We could tell ghost stories or something"

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Wizzer was just about as happy as Patch was. He ran outside and skidded to a halt nearly tackling Patch . "And I'm Wizzer, I'm also Patch's and Penny's brother" Wizzer said with a happy pant and crouched down in a play bow.

[Mano Black]

Mano smiled seeing the kids starting to come out. He grinned as they all began arriving one by one. His three brothers, Penny, Patch, and Taffyta. He knew the two puppies were very close to Mechakara, Dark Heart, and many others. And Pinocchio wasn't just his younger brother Loki seemed to be his uncle. So he knew he had to protect those three the most as well as his brothers Ronno and Mowgli. And if something happened to Wizzer or Taffyta he'd get blamed anyway so he might as well watch out for all of them.

"Hi Penny. I'm Mano. I'm Jim, Pinocchio, Ronno, and Mowgli's brother." said Mano.

He smiled at Patch with a grin.

"Hi Patch right? Good to see you. I'm glad you and your siblings and the others are back in this army again." said Mano.

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Penny smiled at Mano.

"Hey Mano. Glad to meet you." said Penny.

She turned as Pinocchio asked if she was Patch's sister.

"Yep. Patch and Wizzer are my brothers here. I have a few sisters and brothers in Critic's army here too. I just hope none of them get hurt." said Penny.

She turned seeing Patch arrive and chuckled at how energetic he was.

"Hey Patch. I see you're happy to be back here." said Penny.

She turned looking at Ronno, Mowgli, and Taffyta.

"Hello. Nice to meet you." said Penny.

She paused at Ronno's question.

"Well I guess we figured it out together. But we weren't sure. Seven of Nine, Insano, Insuedo, Chuckles, and Phantom Virus were the real ones who figured it out. They made a plan to free Rodney, Seven of Eleven and Dark Heart from the mind control. We overheard their plans and realized we were right and helped them debrainwash them. Poor Mechakara though. Malachite froze him. It took us awhile to thaw him out. And Mechakara had already seemed to turn good while frozen. It was turned out great. Mechakara even hurt that mean Malachite before we left so he wasn't able to help the others c hase us. Thankfully we got help and we made it back." said Penny.

She paused looking at Taffyta and grinned.

"I'm glad to see another girl here too. I thought the only girls were on Critic's army. Well there was Gi but she's a teenager. She's almost a grown up." said Penny.

She grinned as Wizzer joined them.

"Hi Wizzer. Glad you could make it." said Penny.

She heard Pinocchio's words and smiled at him and then frowned when he said he was a fool to think Facilier was once cool. She didn't really know what to say to that. But he quickly shifted topics to asking if they wanted to play a game. She didn't know Pinocchio that well but he clearly didn't want to talk about what he said. So playing a game could maybe take his mind off it.

"Sure. A game sounds foun." said Penny.

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Pinocchio chuckled as Patch came out running around in circles. He petted the dog and grinned.

"It's okay Patch. I'm glad to see you back too. I missed you and Mechakara and Dark Heart. Mechakara and Dark Heart were trying to teach me how to fight. Mechakara was a good friend and I'm glad he was brainwashed. Wait I didn't say that right. I mean I'm glad he didn't join Facilier willingly. That you and the others were able to bring him, Dark Heart, Seven of Eleven, Rodney, and Insano back here." said Pinocchio.

He listened to them and grinned.

"Man you guys were brave. Helping out your friends and going against Facilier and the others. I can't believe I once thought Facilier was cool. I'm such a fool." said Pinocchio.

He paused realizing he said that out loud and blushed. He tried to change the subject.

"Uh why don't we play a game?" asked Pinocchio.

He paused looking at Taffyta and smiled. She was mean to him and well pretty much all of them. Although she seemed to be a kinder to the adults probably not wanting to get them mad. He smiled as Wizzer joined them.

"Hi Wizzer. Nice to meet you." said Pinocchio.

He paused hearing Mowgli's suggestion of ghost stories.

"Ooh that could be fun too. What do you guys want to do?" asked Pinocchio.

[Mowgli Black]

Patch was glad everybody was glad to see him and was glad Wizzer was there to introduce himself. He nodded to Mano and responded "Thanks. It's good to be back" He then nodded to everything Penny said "We had a feeling things were fishy and stuff so we tried to do detective work but it turned out for us in the end thanks to Seven of Nine, Virus and Chuckles" Patch then smiled as Pinnochio petted him, saying he was glad to see him and that he was glad Mechakara and the rest of them were back, that he missed them. He then was confused to Pinnochio's statement but ignored it. He then wagged his tail at the ideas of what to do. "I like ghost stories but if you guys like a game better that's fine!"
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Ronno was annoyed with Taffyta's comments but ignored them. He listened to all the conversations but tuned them out with the idea of ghost stories or games. "I'm ok with either. Let's just play. What happened happened. Thanks for answering me anyway penny and patch" He then turned to listen to the others. He was glad that they could have a chance to be kids again today. No more seperations for them anymore "Let's have fun today" He heard Pinnochio's statement but didn't want to ask about it
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Mowlgli was glad Pinnochio liked his idea but smiled at the idea of games. He didn't know what else to say but smile and agree quite yet. "Games sound fine but I would like to do ghost stories too" He waited for the responses from the others. He felt less insignificant here with the other children
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"Really? That's a disappointment. Well doesn't matter you and me can hang out if you want penny" Taffyta offered kindly. She then listened as Penny and Patch explained the situation and Pinnochio politely respond back. She paused in complete confusion with what Pinnochio said about being a fool over thinking Facilier's coolness. She rolled her eyes ignoring it, not really giving a damn "Hey why not? Let's do both of your ideas. That way we have time to ourselves"