Lifty catches feels for splendy
Shifty and Lifty were in their house, sorting out some gadgets to help them with their mischievous endeavours. Though Shifty could tell that Lifty wasn’t all there. He seemed lost in thought as he was relying more so on instinct rather than conscious thought. Shifty nudged his arm. “Hey bro? You alright?” He seemed a little worried, but made sure he still seemed nonchalant and chill. Lifty blinked a few times. “Hmm? Oh…” He put down a crowbar and sighed, realising he would have to word this very quickly in order to not sound like a doofus. “Just thinkin, our encounter with squirrelly was quite strange…” He returned his gaze back to his pile of toys and continued sorting them out. Shifty chuckled a bit. “You could say that again! Did you see how quickly he melted just from a bit of sweet talk?!? Maybe you need to try that out and getch’yourself a girl!” Lifty grinned and chuckled a bit, but for some reason his deep thinking face came back on. He looked out of the window, then back at his toolbag. “Hey bro, what if tonight we went off separately. Since I know his weakness I can draw him in and you won’t even have to worry about him!” Shifty raised an eyebrow of doubt, but then he seriously thought about it. “Be careful Lift, before you know it you’ll be putting on makeup for him!” He chuckled to himself a bit. “But yeah, that sounds like a decent plan, you go hit up the grocery store maybe, and I’ll go to the jewellery store!” Lifty put on a convincing fake smile. He looked down at his still disorganised pile and kind of just shoved it all into a bag, putting it over his shoulder. “Sounds good! I’ll go get a head start!” Shifty waved his hand. “Sounds good! See you tonight heh!” Lifty waved back as he headed out of the house.
Lifty arrived at the grocery store, for once he actually looked a little nervous. He had his hands in his pockets as he stepped inside. He whistled a bit and looked around. Petunia was on one of the cash registers, but when she looked up and saw the notorious thief raccoon, she pressed a button under her desk which set off an alarm and then ran off screaming. Lifty was quite bedazzled by such a reaction, sure people knew his face, but it was never really that bad. He let out a bit of a sigh and leaned against the wall as everyone in the grocery store all ran around panicking. Eventually he heard the door open and felt a hand poke him on the shoulder. He didn’t even turn around. “Hey squirrelly, lovely weather today!” He could feel the pure cross armed mom stare behind him. He turns around and looks at Splendid, he had another face mask on. “It’s been two days. You’re really testing my patience Lifty.” Splendid sounded so done with his shit. “Oh relax blue, I ain’t even done nothing yet.” He opens his arms revealing the only thing he had was his bag. “That’s because the alarm here was fast enough to stop you!” Splendid reaches down and grabs at Lifty’s bag, inspecting it and finding all of his tools.
Splendid looked around. “Where’s your brother? Once one of you is around the other one isn’t far…” Lifty finally put on his grin. “It’s just us today squirrelly.” He shoots Splendid a finger gun. Splendid stammers a bit but puts his foot down. “You shut your mouth you crook! I don’t like you! You’re just a worthless scoundrel who ruins other people’s days!” Splendid got a grumpy face as he got really annoyed. Without even skipping a beat, Lifty utterly destroyed Splendid. “Worthless? You’re the superhero who can’t stop a nobody crook! Not to mention your weakness is simply sweet talk…” Splendid paused, his anger quickly turned to shock. He looked around until his shock started turning into sadness as his body tensed up. Lifty’s smug face quickly turned into a look of sympathy as he realised what he just did. “Wait a minute squirrelly I didn’t mean-.” Splendid just screamed an outburst at Lifty, the power of it knocking him back. Lifty watched with a look of sadness as all of a sudden the reason he couldn’t stop thinking of Splendid became apparent to him. Splendid walked out of the grocery store and flew off, noticeably crying. Lifty was stuck there now, seriously wondering what he should do. He slowly got up and rubbed his head. He thought about his brother and how he would react to Lifty coming home late, but then he thought about Splendid. His brain was telling him that Splendid needed him and for some reason, he listened to that part of him as he tossed his bag on the ground and ran to the only place he knew that was associated with Splendid.
It was a while later when Lifty finally arrived at his destination. He saw the bunker that acted like a prison cell for him and Shifty the last time Splendid caught them. The door was still blown open and a quick inspection inside suggested it was completely untouched since then. He now realised that he didn’t think this far, Splendid wasn’t sitting in this bunker, of course he wasn’t… Lifty sighed and shook his head, eventually committing himself to wander the area to see if he could find anything. Eventually after around 20 minutes of looking around he saw a camper on a hill and decided to go to it. As he approached the door, he heard some activity inside. There was the sound of food sizzling, some walking around, and then a loud tear as though some clothes got ripped in half. Lifty thought about opening the door for a while, torn between knocking or just leaving Splendid be. After a bit of pondering he saw Splendids face staring at him through a window. He jumped up in fear and stumbled back, landing on his ass in a goofy way. But then he looked at Splendid and gave a little wave with a nervous smile. Splendid left the window and opened the door, staring down Lifty. “What do you want.” Lifty slowly got back up on his feet and scratched the back of his head. “Well uhh… I said something I didn’t mean an-.” Splendid quickly went from bitter neutral to angry. “YOU CALLED ME WORTHLESS! WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT?!?” Lifty stumbled back. “L-look I didn’t mean-.” “DIDN’T MEAN WHAT? DIDN’T MEAN TO FLIRT WITH ME?!? MAKE ME FEEL ALL HAPPY AND THEN BASH MY HEAD IN?!?” Splendid stepped out of the house and started walking towards Lifty, causing a great deal of panic in the raccoon. “Look, it just s-slipped out! I’m sorry!” Splendid’s angry face started to drop as it slowly started to look super emotional again. “Slipped out?!? SLIPPED OUT?!? YOU’RE JUST AN EVIL-.” Splendid cut themselves off as Lifty, in an act of desperation, pulled out Splendids face mask and held it out for Splendid to take. Splendid walked up and snatched it out of his hand, inspecting it for any tampering before shoving it in his pocket. He then turned back to staring down Lifty, who was absolutely shaking and trembling right now. After a bit of silence Lifty spoke up. “I didn’t mean to hurt you that bad… it didn’t feel right…” Splendid just clenched his fists and then looked away. Hiding his weakness from Lifty. “Oh who cares anyway…” He turns back to his camper and starts walking back. “I am just a worthless hero… no one looks up to me… no one is ever happy when I show up… no one-.” Lifty suddenly got up. “Don’t say that! You help people! Just because they don’t acknowledge it doesn’t mean they don’t need-.” Splendid turns around, tears covering their face. “I CAN’T EVEN STOP BASIC THIEVES!” They were actively getting closer to each other’s faces. “I can’t stop you from stealing jewels, I can’t stop you from taking clothes, I CAN’T EVEN FACE YOU PROPERLY!” Lifty was completely panicking, there were so many feelings in his head. He put on a determined look suddenly and grabbed the collar of Splendids cape. “Wh-.” Splendid was caught completely off guard. Lifty just pulled him down and gave him a smooch right on the lips. He held it for a second, but slowly pulled away, his breathing spiking as his heart rate was at an all time high. Splendids face went completely red as he froze up like a deer in headlights. After a bit of the two panicking, Lifty got really worried. “Wait sorry- I just thought-.” Splendid kept looking at him, stepping back. He looked back at his camper, but then back at Lifty. “Is this some kind of trick?” He sounded defeated, like he was about to cry again. “No! No it’s not I just-.” Lifty quickly stammered, but then Splendid grew a little smile, which definitely calmed Lifty down a bit. Splendid ran up and gave Lifty a hug and without skipping a beat, Lifty gave it right back, making sure to squeeze the squirrel just a bit. They held each other for a few minutes before Lifty suddenly let out a big yawn, causing both of them to snap out of it. “Oh it’s pretty late…” Lifty let out as he looked at his watch. A shock of panic suddenly surged through him. “Uh oh… I was supposed to be home an hour ago…” He looks around, increasingly getting panicked. “Sorry Squirrelly I gotta go…” Splendid frowned a bit, but slowly let go of the raccoon. “Oh… yeah that’s right… hehe… sorry for keeping you so long…” Lifty cocked Splendid a grin. “I’ll see ya around bluey!” Lifty said as he turned to start walking back home. But then he heard a loud gush of wind, then he felt a pair of hands grab his shoulders, and before he knew it he was off, zooming through the sky at a crazy speed. He panicked quite badly, closing his eyes and tensing up. But after a minute he felt his feet touch the ground as the cold wind stopped blowing. He looked around and saw no trace of Splendid anywhere. Then he realized he was standing at his front door. He stepped inside, whistling to himself to bring himself back to reality as he saw Shifty sitting on the couch, decorated in rings. “Oh hey Lifty! Have fun with ol’ squirrelly?” He chuckled a bit, turning his attention back to the TV. “Oh yeah… it was something alright… glad I managed to get back home safe…” he dipped his head, keeping distance from his brother so that he’d have a hard time reading Lifty’s face. “That bad huh? Well hey! We got our goods!” He tossed a ring at Lifty, which he caught and took a look at. “You wanna come watch some TV?” Lifty looked around, letting out another yawn. “Myehhh sorry bro, I think I gotta go snooze… I’ll catch ya tomorrow.” He said as he walked towards the stairs. “Whatever you say! Have a good night!” Shifty called out, turning his full attention back to the tv as he chomped down a big handful of popcorn. Lifty sighed in relief as he walked upstairs and crawled into bed, lost in thought as he would eventually fall asleep. The end