Author: twistedwindowpane
hS/Kaitlyn
Distress
Summary: The PPC brought them together. Can a badfic tear them apart? This is a sort-of-standalone ship fic in MoaM reality, set after the events of "Man on a Mission". (MoaM reality is a different reality from the Shipverse, in deference to its occasionally dark subject matter. TL;DR: MoaM reality's two defining characteristics are its Agent!Boarders premise and the events of MoaM: the ultimately successful sporking of a nasty Wolfenstein 3D bleepfic that made some very odd things happen to various agents. How exactly did all of this happen? It's still being finished.)

It had been a year since the sporking of "Fountain of Youth", and Huinesoron had only recently found out that Intern Twistey had never taken the necessary Bleeprin to recover from the incident.

"No, no, I'm fine," she had insisted when questioned about it. "My own imagination has come up with worse. Even before the fic came out, or before I knew about Celebrian or Rose Potter or-."

"If that's the case," hS had replied, "you really need the Bleeprin."

She had put one hand on her hip. "Do I now. How much did you prescribe to me, again?"

"Mm... one pill daily for three weeks, if I recall."

"Jesus, that's a lot."

"A serious amount for a serious event. No amount of insistence is going to get you out of this."

She had rolled her eyes, then been called over by Intern Willis, who wanted to show her a Suvian artifact he'd traded for with an agent. Huinesoron had never had a chance since then to catch up to Twistey about the Bleeprin. It really didn't make any sense to him that she was resisting, as she'd clearly been the hardest hit by the fic, and he secretly feared that she felt no different about what had happened to her than she had in her original brainwashed state. Bleugh, it was sickening to think about.

He was trying to figure out how to get the Bleeprin, and possibly some Anti-Lustin, into Twistey's food when [BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP!!!]

Huinesoron was jolted out of his thoughts by the sound, and looked up to see Kaitlyn dashing for the console. She pressed the button and motioned him over. "Let's see what we have this time."

hS and Kaitlyn had been moved by Upstairs to the Department of Floaters for an indeterminate amount of time, and had been assigned no badfics with any unpleasant content for that amount of time. Well, the Sunflower Official had said that it was "until the mess from when you wantonly seized command of all Boarders has been sorted out," but who knows what all he had meant by that. In the meantime, the two of them had received nothing but the most inoffensive of badfics, in order to be properly "readjusted". Of course, Huinesoron had insisted that he was fine now, but the SO is hard to convince.

"Looks like nothing's changed," said Kaitlyn. "This one's a crossover."

Huinesoron looked a bit closer. "Hmm." Then he cleared his throat.
"Thaw The Frozen Heart (DDLC X Frozen X Baldi's Basics - Ice!Monika X Fire!Male!Reader, IceXFire!Cutcake)" He paused. "What's Cutcake?"

"Well, it's a ship name... sounds like a character who likes knives and a character who bakes. Which would be..." she scrolled through the fic... "Yuri and Natsuki." She looked at her husband. "Nice wordplay for a badfic."

hS smiled at his wife. At least she was enjoying these tamer missions. Personally, although he would do anything to protect canon, these ones brought him no adrenaline whatsoever. There had to be something truly shocking for the sporking to be truly satisfying. And this one was so close to being there... Doki Doki Literature Club and Baldi's Basics in Education and Learning were both horror games, but this was just a lighthearted romance fic with other continua thrown in for extra flavor.

He continued reading the description. "When you transferred to your friend Light!Sayori's high school and she invited you to the school literature club, you didn't realize you'd meet the love of your life. But the school holds more danger than you realize. Your math teacher Mr. Darkness!Baldi is keen on making you miserable. But you are determined to thaw Ice!Monika's frozen heart."

"Wow," said hS, "there's elements other than ice and fire in this. Good job, Frozen fanbase, you've learned something."

Kaitlyn laughed for a bit. "Okay, it's a reader fic. Where's the crash dummy?"

He shrugged and shook his head. "I don't know, I think Twistey tried to marry it or something."

"I doubt that's the case." Kaitlyn turned to face the opposite direction and leaned on the console. "Let me go look for it-"

A portal opened exactly where hS was. "Aaah!" he cried as he was sucked into its depths.

Kaitlyn stood shocked for a second, then shook herself, quickly grabbed a backpack full of agent gear, and followed.