Into the World of Twisted Wonderland Pt 2

✨Side Story 30: The Clean-Up Crew ✨

"Hmph. Fine," Grim says with slight annoyance.

"Now then, let's try to pick them up," she says as she put her hands on the bag. She attempts to lift the bag, hoping that it'll lift with ease, but was surprised when the bag barely hovered off the ground when she lifted it. She looked at the bag in confusion and tried again, hoping that with a little more force, she'll be able to pick it up, but contrary to her hopes, all she did was just lift a side, by not much. She pants and puts the bag down, looking at the bag in shock. "This bag is heavy!" She exclaims as she catches her breath.

"Heh," Grim smirks. "I knew that it was too much for you, Angel. Humans are so weak," he proudly says as he heads to the bags. "Let me show you how the future strongman of the world is going to do it." He puts his paws on the bag and attempts to lift, only grunting at the effort and giving up, the bag not even moving. "Myah! This is heavy!" He says as he looks at the bag. "Lucky for you, I know a way that get rid of this," he says, taking in a deep breath.

Angel looked at Grim in shock, a familiar scenario coming to mind. "W-wait, Grim! Let's not do that!" She says in a panic, hoping to calm Grim down, sighing in relief that it worked. "Maybe...magic? Not fire breathing magic, though."

"Hmm...." Grim hums in thought. "I guess it never hurts," he says as he looks at the bags. "Lemma see..." He looks at the bag, focusing on them for a while before slight movement was seen. After a few more moments, the bag started to lift off the ground, hovering in the air only to fall back on the ground, leaving Grim breathless. "Ugh...this is hard..." he complains. "Magic can solve everything, so why can't we get rid of trash?!"

Angel looked at the bags in thought. "We...might need more help with this than I thought."

"So, what are we gonna do about the bags?" Grim asks as they walk down the school hallway. "There's so many of them that we gotta get them out by at least two days from now!"

Angel thinks about the situation. Based on what the ghosts said, there's a set schedule for trash pickup, and to their luck, it's not that far, at least two days from now. It's a good amount of time, but for about more than 50 bags to take to the gate by that time with just the two of them is a bit overwhelming. It's enough that the both of them couldn't lift one bag but to try and take them in-and-out the dorm to the gate then back again to repeat is a bit too much. "We're going to need to ask for help."

"And who's gonna help us?" Grim asks skeptically. "We can't ask Ace and Deuce. Those guys look like they can't even lift half of one of those bags. Trey, Riddle, and Cater are out. Probably saying their too pretty or busy to deal with lifting a few bags. Not like Leona gonna help us either. He'll probably just ignore us."

"Hmm..." she hums. "Oh!" She exclaims. "What about Jack or Ruggie?"

"Ya know...that ain't a bad idea," Grim says. "Ruggie will do anything for a quick buck and Jack's so much of a musclehead that anything heavy is just a workout for him!"

"Then let's find him!" Angel says with a smile. "If we can find either, I'm sure they'll lead us to the other." Grim nods and the duo takes off, finding their targets.

"Whew, finally," Ruggie says as he walks down the hall, hands behind his head. "I'm sure Leona will be fine since he's satisfied for a while. Now...where can I find my next job?" He looks around, seeing students talking amongst themselves, overhearing about upcoming plans. "Hmph, these people are talkin' about plans yet they don't know how important money is for those plans," he sighs. "Lucky for me, while they wonderin' how to get money, I'll be the one to snatch it up before them. Shyeeheehee."

"Hey, Ruggie!" Grim calls out, getting his attention.

"Hm?" Ruggie turns around, seeing the two heading towards them. "Oh, it's you two. Whatcha want?" He asks.