They Wonder

Three little animals all sluggishly did their routine in the empty classroom, devoid of little kids due to it being a Saturday. They were traumatized to the point where they didn't know what to say. The duckling, Ming Ming, was tailor sitting in front of the door to her cage, Tuck, the turtle, was cradled inside of his shell, and the hamster, Linny, that being the chief, was sitting idle, masticating on a single celery stick. One that was undeserved and unrewarded. Her thoughts bubbled up like sparkling water about the incident that happened today. 
"...what have we done?"
Ming Ming sputters, on the urge of drowning herself in her own tears. Enough to fill a birdbath. Upon hearing this, Tuck pokes his head out of his shell and raises an eyebrow, confused at the question his somewhat-sibling asked.
"Who's 'we,' Ming Ming?"
"Wh- Tuck, what do you mean by that?"
Tuck groans and rubs his face before standing back up, his face now cringed with disgust.
"Where do I even start with you!? You got too distracted thinking about yourself, like you always do, and look where we ended up," Tuck shouted. "You were supposed to grab the CORNER of the net, and you couldn't even do that right!"
"WHAT!?" Ming Ming squawked instinctively. "You can't pin all of this on me, Tuck! You were too SLOW to even get to the net! We had to stand and wait for you! Don't act like I'm the one to blame!"
"Oh yeah?! Maybe if you pulled your head out of your tail, we would've been able to get through this, and we wouldn't be sitting here MOPING!"
"Well, if YOU weren't such a SLOWPOKE, we would've gotten the job done faster! You were too slow to even get the stupid sail set up on the flyboat this morning, let alone your costume on!"
"Well, at least I don't rush through everything I do even if the task is as simple as FITTING A WHEEL ON THE FLYBOAT WITH YOUR FLOPPY WINGS!"
"YOU TAKE THAT BACK, MR. 'ADOPTED!' YOU HAD TO BE CODDLED BY LINNY GROWING UP!"
Tuck gasps. "DON'T BRING HER INTO THIS, YOU LITTLE-"
The two go at it for quite some time, even threatening to harm each other if they didn't admit to each other's 'wrongs.' What wrongs? What had them confused in the moment was the thought of their lacking equating to mistakes. Keeping something like that in mind could drive anyone overboard without proper help. These two little animals were no exception. Linny clenches her little paw, and grits her teeth, some of the celery spilling out of her mouth from everything she was hearing spew out of her two best friends. Finally, she shouts like she's never done so before.
"SHUT UP!"
That made everyone button up quick. Tuck and Ming Ming looked back at Linny with horror filling their eyes, hearts slamming against their chests like hammers nailing into glass. Linny would take deep breaths, and in her quiet, gentle tone, she'd speak up.
"It's no one's fault... things come naturally, okay? We won't be able to save everyone, and this proves it. This was a very hard task to do, and I'm sure all of our other friends wouldn't have been able to do this, let alone with others their size. I get it, we could've done better, but... why would either of you even CONSIDER blaming each other because of our flaws?! We've loved each other for years, not just as a team, but as siblings! We're like family!"
Linny's chokes back tears, but inhales to keep herself from crying just a little bit longer. It won't last too long, though.
"We're all faulty in some way... but that doesn't make us mistakes in general. I'm sure that even though we couldn't save that dolphin from... t-the shark... I-I'm sure he's looking down from the skies, thankful that we at least tried to get him out of that situation. We did our best, even if you two don't think so!"
The floodgates in Linny's head snap like twigs, and her little eyes started to water. 
"Please! Please don't fight over this, I'm begging you! I HATE seeing you two like this, it makes me want to throw up!"
That was it. This whole speech she gave to them about friendship was rather bittersweet. Sweet, because she cared for them, and understood their grief. Bitter because, to rub another pint of salt into the cut, they made the little hamster that led them to success burst into tears, and they couldn't forgive themselves for that, even after a decade passes. 
It will take a hot minute for the three of them to move on from this traumatic episode, but the least they can do for now to show that they can do better, is a simple group hug. That's when the phone rang.
Maybe redemption is in order.
----Idea by dibbingsauce/1hat6y0u
Category:Nickelodeon
Category:Feelspasta
Category:Death
Category:Animation
Category:Television
Category:Lafawnda's Reading Hour
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