Voice testing- muse suddenly hit along with a wave of nostalgia

[gotthechalk]

I gotta say mun- I have a feeling you and I are gonna get along. Sure, the stuff you draw with is no magic chalk- but we do share a love of art. Any mun who'd wanna try playing me would do to have a creative spirit! Plus, you seem pretty excited about bringing me here, so why not? I'll give it a chance.

I don't think the chalk would work in any of those games though, so it might be tricky tryin' to send me to one. ...Would I even be able to get to ChalkZone? I mean I guess I could, if I could find a blackboard somewhere...

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[skribbled]

[Because he's the antagonist. It's in the job description. With a maniacal toothy grin, Skrawl picks up Snap by his scarf, holding him in the air.]

Well well, we meet again~ Though I had a nagging feeling Tabootie's obnoxious little YES-MAN wouldn't be too far behind! I'm so dreadfully sorry our last encounter was cut short, and I was really looking forward to making you far more pleasant by GRINDING YOU INTO A PILE OF BLUE DUST!

[gotthechalk]

Hey! You leave him alone! It's me you want, not Snap!

[There he goes again, reaching into his pockets for the chalk he doesn't have. No chalk Rudy. ..It wouldn't work out here anyway.]

[bluerthanyou]

Aw man, not the scarf again...

Funny, I think you'd be a lot nicer as a pile of dust too! HEY RUDY! Do somethin' about this chump already, will ya?

[There's all kinds of crazy hazards in the world outside Chalk Zone - Snap learned that the hard way. Rudy's gotta have something up his sleeve, right? He ALWAYS does!]

[skribbled]

Oh~? What are you going to do, draw something to save him with the AIR in your pockets?

[Skrawl laughs again.]

This is FAR too easy now~!

[With Snap still in his grasp, the monster decides to throw him directly at Rudy. Incoming!]

[bluerthanyou]

WAUUUUUUUUGH!

[gotthechalk]

!!!!!!!!!

[No way he's dodging that- ..with barely time to scream in surprise, Rudy is hit by Snap squarely in the stomach, sending them both tumbling to the ground, painfully. The boy groans and sits up, rubbing the side of his head with a hiss of pain.]

..Snap...you ok?

...I-...I'm....I would have- ...drawn a net to catch you with or...or a mattress to break your fall- ...but I-..

[He looks down at his empty hands. ...no chalk.]

[bluerthanyou]

[He gets up, staggering in dizziness for a moment but quickly shaking himself out of it.]

I-I'm okay! Geez, what a jerk!

[Then, darting back to Rudy and grabbing his shirt, giving him a bit of a shake.]

C'mon Rudy, you gotta think of SOMEthing! So what if you don't got any chalk? Don't you have any of... of that fixative stuff, or some other fancy real world trick? Give us one of your bright ideas, bucko!

[He breaks into a grin at that last statement. If anyone can come up with creative solutions to a problem, chalk or no chalk, it's Rudy for sure!]

[gotthechalk]

I-...I-

[He blinks quickly when Snap grabs him by the shirt- ...he's right, his mind is racing. What could he do? ....but every thought he has rolls back around to him needing magic chalk to produce something he didn't have. ....Something his mun hadn't allowed.
He literally had nothing on him, nothing he could use to fight back against Skrawl. ...nothing but his wits, and so far those had been failing spectacularly.]

I-...I'm trying Snap, but I just don't- ....my mun-

...I can't do anything unless- ....SHE allows it!

[bluerthanyou]

Oooooh, says who? Come on Rudy, you've been in tougher situations than this before! Tell that mun that if she's gonna be a bigger jerk than tall, mismatched, an' ugly over there, she can forget about playin' you!

[Even if that means Snap doesn't get to see Rudy anymore? Maybe, maybe he didn't think about that. But Snap would take just about anything over seeing Rudy like this.]

And if you won't, I will!

[gotthechalk]

...

[As much as everything Skrawl has said is eating at him, Rudy knows his best friend is right. They've been in far tougher situations- ..and it wasn't like Skrawl was even doing anything right now other than trying to get to him by making him distrust his own mun. The drawing hated everyone, even his OWN mun- so why should Rudy trust his judgement in the first place?

Glancing back over at Skrawl before looking back at Snap, Rudy sighs, pulling Snap's hands from his shirt.]

No- ...no Snap, you're right. I.. I can handle Skrawl.

[He says this with a grimace, looking back over at afore-mentioned evil chalk drawing.]

...but what he's saying is right too, whether I want to believe it or not. ...You guys are controlled by muns- ...and so am I. But I mean....if- ...if she didn't give me any chalk here..

There must be a reason. Right?

[IT'S BECAUSE YOU CAN'T USE IT RUDY.]

...Besides me not being able to use it.