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Jax was dying from laughter.
If after this Caine wanted to steal his role as the funny one, Jax doesn’t think he could even argue. Because here he was, sitting in a bright blue plastic boat, in a tunnel filled to the brim with hearts and pink lights.
A tunnel of love… with gangle.
He knew logically it wasn’t meant to be romantic, Caine had to know that romance existed, (he knew that some people were married, or in love) but he never really acknowledged it. The dancing teddy bears holding a sign that said ‘please be my friend’ spelled it out for him. So Caine wasn’t the funny one (obviously not) he was just kinda dumb, which Jax already knew.
It still didn’t stop it from being hilarious.
Gangle was sitting next to him, but to say she still is seems like a stretch. She’s on the floor of the boat, curled up. All he can even see is the backside of her mask, he knows her body is under her, it’s just so compressed and pushed together it’s hidden (pro of being made out of ribbon he guesses).
It was alright though, it just made it all even more funny!
The boat moved slowly, passing more and more posters and dolls with sappy hearts glittery text.
‘Are you friends yet? Is it working’
It definitely was not working.
They passed a whole bee section, and at this point Jax was getting pretty bored with it all. Gangle hadn’t moved an inch “alright let’s destroy this place”
Though he got no response, which is fine! Of course, it’s not like he needed permission. He swiftly got up to his feet’s, and latched himself onto the nearby ledge (making sure to rock the boat as much as possible on his way out!!).
Destroying it all is easy work, rip the signs, throw the robots in the water, somewhat fun, but it too, got boring fast.
“Okay I’m done with this” Jax then says. “CAINE?!” He shouts “Caine???? We’re done???”
Caine pops out of thin air, and says excitedly “Oh my sweet bestest friends in the whole wide- wait…. Jax where’s your new best friend?” He paused, looking around.
Oh gangles not here anymore. The boat seemed to have stayed floating down the man made (robot made???) river. So, ever helpful, Jax points down it too.
“OH SWEET GLUESTICKS SHE DROWNED?!!”
“No she’s on the boat” Jax says plainly “can we leave now?”
“Oh right!” Caine snaps, and gangle falls out from next to him “NOW YOU TWO ARE INSEPARABLE YOU CAN BOTH RETURN TO THE CIRCUS! Thank you so much for reaching out for me gangle, this was such a good idea!!!!”
So… it was gangles idea then? With a smirk Jax turns his head to look at her. She seems to be almost collapsing it on herself, which leads Jax to think that this was definitely not what she had asked.
Still it does mean that she asked for something along the lines of this, and that is pretty funny to him.
Almost in an instant Jax is plopped back into the circus, the song in the background changes from the sappy love balled to bouncy circus music in a split second, and he has to blink rapidly to adjust the suddenly being in a different place, Caine loves to transport them in this way, and it never gets easier no matter how much he does it.
Luckily Jax is great at adapting, or at seeming like he already has. Easily he’s able to place a smile on his face, while he waits for the slight nausea to die down.
“Wow ribbon, didn’t know you felt that way” he said to gangle in his normal tone.
“Ughhhshhh” gangle groans “what?” She seems as disoriented as he feels, yet she makes the mistake of showing it.
“Can’t take a little teleportation?” He teases.
“WAIT?! I didn’t want that!!!” She then says quickly “I don’t even know what that was about!!” She laughs nervously, smiling with her sad mask on (it annoys Jax.) “I really don’t know why Caine did that-“ she shrugs.
He just smirks “oh of course you don’t, freak”
“I’m not-!!!!”
He walks away “I’m going to sleep now, all that sappy-ness tired me out”
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Gangle was going to kill herself.
(Not actually but she felt like she was going to die from embarrassment.)
Caine constantly says that he doesn’t use his adventures to torture them. She believed him when he made all of them walk across a river of blood, she believed him when he made them fend off a zombie apocalypse, and she believed him when she had a miserable time at spudies and got hit by a car.
She doesn’t believe him now.
It’s the tunnel of LOVE what in the world was he thinking????
Caine wanted her to feel pain, she knew that now. ‘Can you find a way to get Jax off my back’ doesn’t mean ‘can you put us through the tunnel of love’????? Like how did he even get that??????
Gangle wants nothing more then the curl up and die, and luckily the one thing her ribbon body seems good at is making herself as small as possible.
She knows one thing for sure, she can never look Jax in the eyes ever again.
“HELLO my favorite roachly rodent, w-“ Caine.
The moment he popped into view she sat up and shot him and glare, letting out an annoyed huff.
“Huffs of joy I see! Where is your new best friend???”
Caine had to be lying. (She knew, deep inside that he wasn’t. He was just programmed like this, but still the tone of his voice, the obvious mess up. It all made him seem like he knew what he was doing just hiding it. Even if she logically knows it’s not what’s happening.)
“Caine. That was bad.” As plain and simple as she could manage, just so he couldn’t somewhat twist her words in a positive direction “what were you thinking??”
“I-…. Bad???? But you and Jax had such a fun time?? Your best friends now????” WHERE IN THE WORLD IS HE GETTING THIS FROM????????! “Ah I know what’s wrong!! You and Jax clearly have separation issues, you lost him, and are taking it out on me, it’s okay I’ll show you where he is”
before she could try to reason with him she is teleported… somewhere-?
She hates being teleported, she bites down the urge to throw up, knowing that it would be more annoying if she does. Humans shouldn’t be allowed to teleport, she still feels her brain back in the main area of the circus, not yet caught up to her body.
The nausea died down and she…. Blinks once, then twice.
It’s so dark? She squints, trying to adjust her eyes. She moves her leg a little, trying to feel the area around her, without taking a step in fear something will be on the ground and she’ll trip.
“What…?” Jax’s voice, he sounds tired. Oh god. Oh god?!! Did Caine sent her in Jax’s room? Clearly he did she just feels her heart sink. Where’s the door??? It’s so dark.
“Uhm-“ she hates that she has to speak aloud.
“Gangle????”
“Caine teleported me in here…” she wants to knock her head on the side of the wall over and over.
“Caine… whatever! Get out!!” Before she can say ‘I don’t know where the door is’ she hears him getting up, and feels his hand push her shoulder in a direction. She gets the idea and starts walking, as the door is far too quickly opened and shut behind her.
She always forgets how quickly Jax moves. Faster then any human can, she hasn’t figured out why he can do it yet, but when he runs he leaves a cartoonish puff of clouds behind.
“Gangle there you are! Why the *BOINK* where you in Jax’s room?” Zoobles voice “and where were you today”
She sighs “Caine… can we go to your room? I’ll tell you all about it”
Zooble nods.