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Tsukasa gets a random text at 2am. But he was asleep… "What's so important that it's worth ruining my beauty sleep?" He asked no one in particular as he rubbed his eye and slowly reached his hand out to grab his phone on his side-table.
He turned on his phone to immediately get blinded so he quickly turned down the brightness before the blindness became permanent. When he finally opened his phone he was met with a text from Emu.
☆¡Wonderhoy!☆: GUYS I HAVE AN IDEA
AN AWESOME SUPER DUPER WONDERHOY IDEA
Meanie (Nene): it's 2am…
Thing 1 (Rui): no no I'm interested now :3 ?
☆¡Wonderhoy!☆: HAVE YOU HEARD OF WEBKINZ!?!??
Meanie: I think I had one…
Thing 1: yes and?
☆¡Wonderhoy!☆: OMG YES YES SUPER DUPER!!!! DO YOU ALREADY HAVE ACCOUNTS!?!?
Meanie: I deleted mine like 5 years ago but I bet Rui still has his…
☆¡Wonderhoy!☆: WOWWOWOWO WINDERHOYYYYY!!!!
How did she type that? Anyways this is where Tsukasa came in, watching his phone's texts like it was a horror movie.
Tsu: What's a web-kinz?
He asked like an idiot.
☆¡Wonderhoy!☆: GASPPPPP!!!!! OMG YOU DOM'T KNOW WHAT WEBKINZ ARE!?!?!? OMG IM GONNA HAVE TO TEACH YOU EVERYTHING AND AND AMD
Emu was getting so excited that the autocorrect couldn't keep up with her.
Tsu: what the hell did I wake up to
Thing 1: oh Tsukasa~
☆¡Wonderhoy!☆: ANYWAYS TSUKASA!!!! GET ON YOUR COMPUTER!!!!!
Tsu: The only computer we have is the family computer and… it's old…
Thing 1: oh that doesn't matter, Tsukasa-kun! Webkinz was created in 2005! You should be fine with that old piece of crap!
Tsu: I stg rui I wanna go to sleep
Meanie: lol
Tsu: don't enable them!!!
Meanie: lol
☆¡Wonderhoy!☆: COMPUTER!!!!!
Tsu: fine but if my parents-
They're out on another trip, Tsukasa-kun.
Tsu: I mean if my sister gets woken up, you'll be to blame!!!!
Meanie: stop procrastinating and get on the damn computer
Tsukasa sighed as he looked at his phone one last time for any hope that he wouldn't have to do this before turning off the screen and sneaking downstairs.
Luckily if he was heard at all, Saki would've told him before he even left his room, due to him having no door.
He cringed as the stairs creaked… every… single… step. He quickly stumbled into the computer room and turned the ancient artifact on. He luckily knew the password from multiple sneak ins of playing the Sims 3 with Saki at 8pm. (so scandalous!)
He spelled the website wrong and got sent to a very shady site but changed a letter and he was on a kid's site webpage.
Tsu: how do I sign up?
Meanie: you… fuck this can we do voice chat on nightcord
Tsu: but it's 3am!!!!
Meanie: but you're stupid
Tsu: HEY!!!
Thing 1: no Tsukasa, Nene's right. I also do wish to hear your "trying to be quiet so your sister doesn't hear you rage quitting at webkinz" voice as well fufufu
Tsu: how tf can you rage quit at a kid's game?
Thing 1: you'll find out…
Tsukasa (reluctantly) gets on nightcord to see that the three were already secretly talking, and had also made a webkinz server. He joined said server, and joined the voice chat.
"Tsukasa, you're finally here," said Nene's voice, riddled with sarcasm and annoyance.
"Yeah so how do I log in?" He asked, again like an idiot.
"There's literally a giant "log in" button in the middle of the screen, are you 6."
"No, excuse me!! It's all in English!!"
"Change the language in the settings, dumbass."
"WHERE'S THAT!?!?!?"
While Tsukasa was learning the basics Emu was busy role-playing with Rui's in-game webkinz character.
Rui was also spamming emojis in the chat, unrelated.
Oh wait but it is because Tsukasa didn't know how to turn off nightcord notifications and um… he isn't wearing headphones. Aka Nene's now hearing double.
"Tsukasa- what the fuck is going on with your mic."
"Mic? This computer is 10 years old!!!"
"Please put some headphones in before I choke you through the screen. I believe the notifications blasting through your computer are glitching the voice quality."
"Uh… we'll see if I can find any," he rummaged around the room, nothing. So he ran up the stairs to get his own… without ending the call.
Nene shook her head before she heard footsteps, but they didn't sound like the hurried ones Tsukasa left with.
"Maybe he's just out of breath, it is 3am lol," she whispered to herself before hearing a rather feminine voice respond.
"Who's there?" The voice seemed a bit scared. If she was Rui she'd probably try to scare the poor girl.
"Just Nene, for now. It's just nightcord, I'm not a ghost," Nene stated bluntly, hoping for the person to understand.
She heard a sigh or relief before she heard sudden, hurried footsteps come into the room. "SAKI!!!!! Why are you up this late into the night????"
"Oh, I just heard footsteps, I thought maybe someone had snuck in…"
"Nonono! It's just me! Sorry about that by the way! My friends dragged me into playing some dumb kid's game."
"Oh it's fine! Maybe I'll join when the sun rises!" She chuckled a bit before waving to her brother and going back to bed.
He sat back at the computer, plugging his headphones into the pc.
"Is that better?" He huffed, finally evening his breath.
"Yeah but ya know… the other two aren't gonna be happy if I tell them you think grand ol' webkinz is just a "dumb kid's game" … lol"
"Don't- Wait, why do I care? Just tell them. Shouldn't they already know how I feel?"
Nene shook her head, "whatever, I don't care anymore. Shall we get you registered?"
He rolled his eyes, "fine but… wait don't I need to buy a stuffed animal to access this?"
"Not anymore. Webkinz kinda broke now so they made it accessible to all players. Also they used to delete all accounts that hadn't gotten a pet in a year…"
"FOR REAL!?!??!"
"I think… I forgot if that's real. I just remember Rui saying that. Anyways click that."
They chose a pet and made a username and password. (Nene promised she had her eyes closed… she did not and planned the hack into his account)
"I'm in the game! Now what?"
"Just follow Ms. Birdy and then you'll get to pick a room."
"She's a bird?"
"An ugly one, lol."
Tsukasa did what he was told and yada yada. I'm done with "Tsukasa does not know how the game works" shit.
Emu then screamed at them to join her house so they complied.
Rui and Emu were both these platypus looking creatures, Emu was pink, (of course) and Nene was some green creature that Tsukasa didn't have the balls to ask what it was. Meanwhile Tsukasa was some dog breed that he couldn't legally pronounce… and poor as hell. (In game)
"LOOK AT PINKY!!!! ISN'T SHE SO CUTE???" Emu shouted her question at her audience of 3.
"Yeah I guess so," Nene replied.
"GASP!?!?!? YOU GUESS??? WHAT DO YOU MEAN "YOU GUESS??" PINKY IS THE CUTEST MOST WONDERHOY CREATURE ON THIS PLANET EARTH!!!"
"It looks like a de-evolution-ed duck."
"RUI!!! TELL THEM HOW WONDERHOY GOOGLES ARE!!!"
"Googles? You mean Google… right?" Tsukasa questioned, like an idiot again.
"That's where you're wrong, Tsukasa-kun. Googles are a made up species made up by Ganz, the creator of webkinz, in the 1980's. I assume they crossed over to webkinz from some other franchise."
"NOW TELL THEM WHY GOOGLES ARE WONDERHOY!!!"
"Googles are wonderhoy because, just look at them. They are beauty and grace. Every cute thing put into one."
"They're in the shape of a dick," Nene pointed out.
"W- ANTI WONDERHOY!!!!" She could not handle the truth.
"Also I have a feeling Rui only likes them because they kinda look like platypi if you squint and are half blind."
"Hey hey hey! No need to make assumptions here! I like Googles and platypi all the same but they're so very different."
At this point even Tsukasa had caught his bluff, shaking his head.
"I feel judgment through the screen!!"
"And you're right," Nene rolled her eyes, very close to leaving Emu's pink princess house.
But suddenly, Rui started changing animals every 2 seconds. Maybe he'd learned how to speed-run the process or he's just good at mashing buttons until things work in his favor. Either way he switched about 10 times before eventually setting on a black cat. (Named gumdrop for some reason)
"Did you enjoy the show?" Rui asked with silence as his answer for a good 5 seconds, he was about to speak up again until someone interrupted him.
"OMG OMG SO WONDERHOY!!!! HOW DID YOU DO IT!?!?!?"
He chuckled a bit, "magic," he said with a funky effect in his voice.
"WOAH!"
"It wasn't magic, I've seen him do it before, he just clicks really fast," Nene remarks, remembering him showing her said trick when she was about 7.
"Don't ruin the magic Nene- I mean magic ruiner!!"