Sachland Snippets, Volume 1

A Few Tweaks Here and There

Author's note: This is a sequel to the third story in this collection, Table Tennis Cloneliness, in which Kwazii decides to clone himself so that he can play a game of table tennis... well, with himself, much to Tweak's annoyance. In this one, though, she turns the tables on him...

The green bunny was up bright and early this morning, having woken up from her room within the Launch Bay and jumping over to her workshop to grab a blueprint to one of her latest gadgets she had invented not too long ago. Except that this gadget was... well, very specific to her.

It was the fated cloning device that she originally invented for the Octonauts' orange feline lieutenant, Kwazii. The one that was intended for the excursion-turned-mission a while back (which he did use it for) that he then utilized so that he could play a game of table tennis with himself. And when Tweak found out only a half-hour or so later, she got very cross with her boyfriend, whom she loved and hated for his pirate-y antics in and around the Octopod. Most recently, she had to build seven or eight more Gup-Bs to accommodate for the amount of copies he had, not to mention all of them wanted it to themselves, to Kwazii's chagrin.

She had those two instances on her mind as she picked up the large, rolled-up blue piece of paper and set it down on the table. "Man, would I love to get him back on this," Tweak told herself malevolently as she looked over the blueprints to the device.

It was only three hours later that Tweak would build another copy of said gadget - knowing the consequences of using it, but wanting to seek some revenge on the Kwaz for his inappropriate use of that device. At that point, she called him, who was in his room in the pod adjacent to the garden. "Kwazii... um, Kwaziis?" Tweak awkwardly called from the Launch Bay, unsure if he still had the seven clones with him.

Sure enough, he did. "What's up, Tweakster?" he asked as his clones looked on at the screen that he was talking at.

"There's something I gotta show you in the Launch Bay. Just a little surprise, that's all."

"But it's not my birthday yet."

"I know, I know, just bring you and your copies over, alright?"

"Well... alright then, whatever you say, matey. Kwaziis, to the Launch Bay!"

The video feed then cut off. Tweak was already wearing her own cloning gadget and had also made seven more copies of herself, all having the same green ears (and the same carrot, too), wearing the same tool belt and pink bandana, and the same Southern accent she always talked in. "You ready, Tweaks?" she asked her new copies. Or henchbunnies. Or... whatever she wanted to call them.

All of them accorded in agreement. "Do you think we'll be able to work on the Gups after this?" Tweak #2 eagerly asked.

"Or maybe in the garden?" Tweak #3 was quick to add.

"I'm sure we'll get to all of that as soon as I introduce y'all to some of my friends," Tweak #1 told them.

"Faster that you can say, 'buncha munchy crunchy carrots'?" replied the 4th Tweak from the group, proceeding to take a bite at her own carrot.

"Yeah, I hope," she chuckled. "I'm starting to like this already..."

Just then, the group of Kwaziis entered the Launch Bay via the Octo-chute. "Hey, Tweak," their lead cat greeted the engineer. "So what did you want to... show me?"

The Kwaziis were stunned. Now there were a group of Tweaks standing in front of them. Eight Tweaks. The same number of Kwaziis there were in the room at one time. "Shiver me whiskers!" the eight lieutenants exclaimed in shock. "Tweak, there's--" Kwazii #1 started.