Chapter 2: Good Memories For Nothing?

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Trent enters his room with 2 kids fallowing him, one had blonde hair and black eyes, and a backwards Red Sox cap, a sweatshirt hoodie, and a pair of dark grey pants. His name was Dwayne Jr., the son of Dwayne Sr., Trent's uncle from his dad's side of the family. Dwayne Jr.'s friend was a redhead girl with turquoise eyes, wearing a Peyton Manning Colts jersey, white jeans, and white shoes. Her name was Laura.

She asks, "How about your computer? Can I have it?"

"No!" Trent exclaims, in annoyance.

"Your video games?" Dwayne Jr. then said.

"No way, forget it, guys! Not a chance, just drop it!"

Dwayne Jr. sighs a bit. So much for getting some of Trent's cool stuff. As they left the room, Trent goes to work on typing on his laptop. He has to get some work done before Friday after all.

Trent's mom came in with cardboard boxes and trash bags, speaking, "Trent, it's time for us to get to work here. Now then, whatever is not going to college with you is either going into the attic or in the trash." The woman takes a box and wrote the word 'College' on it in magic marker.

"Mom, I am not leaving until Friday!" Trent protests to his mother with a frown. "Don't rush this."

"You know that it's garbage day. Some trash must go and you know it."

"Mom!"

Mrs. Cooper, trying to make things simple for Trent, takes her son's skateboard, putting it in the 'College' Box. The mother explains, "It's very simple: skateboard? College. Pop Warner trophy? Well, that will go in the attic all right. Apple core? Trash. You know the rest."

Mrs. Cooper takes an apple core and put it in the trash bag before handing it to Trent. Her son rolls his eyes while taking the thing. His mom can be just a bother to him, even when the boy is now going to college.

Meanwhile, Dwayne Jr. goes back into the room and opens the toy chest. The boy glances at the toys while remarking, "Why do you even have these toys especially that Dani Phantom toy you have for some reason?"

"Dwayne Jr., for the last time, get out of my room!" Trent scowls at Dwayne Jr. in annoyance. The boy rolls his eyes as he walks out the door.

"You're not off the hook either, Dwayne Jr.!" Dwayne Sr. exclaims to his son sternly as he follow Dwayne Jr. out of the room, whereas Laura was making decisions of her own in the 3rd bedroom.

The toys watch from the toy chest in curiosity. Dwayne Sr., who got another box, explains, "You got more toys than you know what to do with back home. Some of them will make the other kids really happy, you know."

"What other kids?" Dwayne Jr. asks his father while reading a magazine.

"Come on, you know, the kids at the daycare. They are always asking for donations."

"Uh, what's 'daycare'?" Toothless asks his friends in a whisper. Most of the other toys are curious too as this is the first time that they ever heard of this 'day care'."

"Now's not the time," Sherman hushes Eduardo quietly. There's no reason to let any humans know about the existence of life of toys.

Junior writes 'Lifetime' on the box.

"You know that you're too old for some of her toys." Mrs. Cooper reminds Laura. sternly. It's true, some of the toys that the girl has got are the same ones that she never played with anymore. "You choose the toys you want to donate. I will drop them off at Sunnydale later on."

The 2 adults leave. The girl looks around her room to see what toys that she herself won't want anymore. Dwayne Jr. helps her. He picks up a xylophone and a Magic 8-Ball, putting them into the box.

Now Laura picks up her old Pacifica Northwest doll, the toy's face is smiling, eager to please. Sadly, the girl has since grown apart of that toy so she toss her into the box before going back to her girl magazine.

Trent's toys look worried. Pacifica was her pal since Laura has first got her.

Cindy said sadly, "Poor Pacifica."

"Whatever, the Corvette is mine!" Gene Belcher exclaimed, eagerly.

"Trent, come on! Pacifca is getting sold and all you care for is her Corvette!" Penny scolds the boy, upset by the burgerboy's selfishness. "What if she wants to get rid of the car too?"

"Then I will steal the thing! Geez, stop acting like you've been through heck and back."

"I did, Gene, I did."

Mr. Cooper came back into the room, noting that Trent is still on his computer. His son obviously didn't want to go through his old toys to see which ones that he doesn't want just yet.

"Trent, you need to start making decisions here." Mr. Cooper said to Trent with a sigh.

"Like what?" Trent asks his dad as Mr. Cooper opens the toy chest, with the toys going back into 'Toy Mode' once more.

"Well, what will you do with these toys? Shall we give them away to the daycare center at Lifetime Fitness?"

"No way! Forget it, Dad!"

"Maybe we will sell them online." Mr. Cooper suggested to Trent, much to his annoyance.

"Dad, no one would want those old toys, they're nothing but junk!" Trent scowled to his father in annoyance, making him lower the lid a bit. If the toys could, they would gasp and look horrified by what their owner just called them: 'junk'. It's as if he doesn't care for them anymore!

"Okay, fine. But you got until Friday to decide. Whatever isn't going to college or going into the attic is getting thrown out."

"Fine, whatever you say Dad."

Trent goes back to his laptop making Mr. Cooper shake his head before leaving. Once she's gone, the boy sighs and closes his laptop before looking his room. Then Trent rolls his chair to the toy chest and opens his lid. There they are: his toys, his old friends, frozen and smiling, forever eager to play.

The truth is, Trent doesn't really mean to call them 'trash'. The boy just doesn't want to give his toys away; they're like family to him. Heck, he went as far to fix Sherman's arm when he returned home from camp when he was 10.

Sure, Trent had to give away or sold most of his other toys over the years but that's because he didn't have a choice.

Of course, as most of the boxes are taken, Trent grabs a trash bag nearby and opens it up. The boy begins taking his toys and putting Toothless, Cindy, Libby, Arnold and Helga into the bag itself. Trent opens up Gene via his cork and take his change out before putting the said cork back in and putting him, along with the rest of his toys into the trash bag.

Trent then picks up Jimmy, Sherman and Penny while looking at their smiling faces. The boy wants to take one more toy with him to college and the other into the bag. Which one?

As the toys watch on, Trent has finally made his decision: he puts Sherman and Penny into the College box and Jimmy into the trash bag. The boy genius, stunned and hurt, gasps with the others as his owner closes the bag tightly.

Trent now picks up the trash bag, taking it right out of his room. Sherman and Penny came to life and watch from the box in shock and disbelief.

To them, it looks like Trent is tossing the rest of his toys into the trash!

Inside the crowded and dim lighted bag, the toys look worried and freaked out. Toothless exclaims, "Aaaaah! What is happening?"

"Idiot! We're getting thrown out!" Gumball exclaimed. "What else could be happening?"

Back in Trent's room, Sherman and Penny jump out of the box and run across the room and get behind the door frame. They watch Trent walk towards the attic door, open the door to the attic. Penny sighs in relief. Looks like Trent was going to store them into the attic after all.

However, Laura is struggling with her box of stuff, the box hits the frame, causing the Magic 8-ball to fall out.

Trent then said, "Hey, need a hand?"

The boy picks up the 8-Ball before helping his cousin's friend carry the box downstairs.

Meanwhile, Trent's dad and Dwayne Sr. were getting things ready for the day.

"So, Trent's going to college, huh?" Dwayne Sr. said.

"Yeah. It's hard to believe that Trent's going to college. It feels like just yesterday he was born." Mr. Cooper said. "My wife's taking the fact that he's moving away a little hard."

"Well, that's how some parents are. I remember when my mom saw me move out, it was heartbreaking for her." Dwayne Sr. said. "I con only imagine how my wife would feel when Dwayne Jr. grows up."

"Honey, can you help with the trash?" Mrs. Cooper asked her husband.

"Oh, uh, I can help!" Dwayne Sr. then said, unbeknownst to them, Dwayne Jr. was eavesdropping from the living room.

"What?" Laura asked her friend.

"My dad always has a hard time doing the simplest task." Dwayne Jr. said, embarrassed. "One time, he tried fixing my bike, before I even knew it, the wheels were gone. They were gone."

"Come on, your father can't be that embarrassing." Laura then said.

Meanwhile in the trash bag, the toys were piled all over each other, with no idea about what's going on. Cindy is hyperventilating like mad. This can't be happening!

"I can't breathe! I can't breathe!" Cindy frantically exclaimed.

"This can't be happening!" Toothless exclaims in terror. The day that most toys have feard has arrived, Trent's going to throw them away.

"Wait! Do you guys hear that?" Jimmy asked in alarm. The toys listen to some sort of noise coming from outside the bag, a faint creaking. What is that noise?

That noise that the toys in the bag are hearing is the attic ladder which, spring-loaded, begins to retract back into place, pushing the trash bag filled of toys out of the way.

Back inside the bag, the toys tumble over each other screaming, "Whoaaaaaa..." as the whole thing is tipped over, however, only Kid Ford and Edmund fall out of the bag.

Edmund noticed and the 2 boys ran as soon as they got the chance. They ran up to Sherman and Penny, and hid behind the door.

Dwayne Sr. was heading upstairs as well, but then noticed the trash bag. He then said, "Well, that must be from the party Geoff and Brody threw last night. Well, a man's job is never done!"

Then, the idiot uncle took the bag downstairs, much to the horror of 4 certain toys.

"No, that idiot is screwing up again!" Sherman angrily said, panicking.

"Don't worry, Sherman, I always have an idea." Penny then said. Then, she called out, "Suey! Suey!"

Then, Snoopy, the cooper family's beloved dog entered the room, but unfortunately, years have taken its toll on the mutt. Snoopy himself is now old, saggy and panting but he still came to the toys nevertheless.

Edmund got onto Snoopy's back while ordering, "All right, buddy, to the curb, yeah!" Unfortunately, the dog suddenly yawns and flops over, making the toy yell as he gets pinned in the progress. "No, Snoopy, don't!"

Penny cringes a bit then sighs as she came over to help Edmund pull the dog back a bit, causing the dog to roll over a bit to allow the toy to escape. As Edmund sits up while gasping.

"He's getting too old for this." Penny said, in angst.

Everyone heard a door slam, making them gasp and rush over to a window. As they look out, the four spot Dwayne Jr. dropping the trash bags on the curb...will the toys in one of them! To make matters worse, a garbage truck is coming down the street right now!

The toys panicked. It didn't take long for them to realize where they are all are at right now.

"We're on the curb, we're on the curb!" Cindy exclaimed in fear.

"Oh, I knew it would come to this. Trent doesn't want us! What's the point anymore?"" Gumball exclaim with a groan. The toys are going to thrown into the garbage truck, send to a landfill, never to be seen and/or played with again!

Suddenly what the cat toy just said gave Jimmy a huge thought and an idea.

"Brain blast!" Jimmy exclaimed, looking at Toothless.

"What are you looking at me for?" Toothless cluelessly said.

"Guess we'll have to get downstairs ourselves per the usual way!" Sherman exclaims as he grabs a pair of scissors and put them in his pocket. The 4 toys rush out of the room via the window and slides down a drainpipe. Both of them hit a gutter and lands in the bushes below, only Sherman lands on the gutter painfully on his groin and lands in the bushes painfully on his face.

"You really have to stop getting hit in the groin." Edmund then said.

"Now's not the time." Sherman said, angrily gritting his teeth, not wanting to be reminded about how he always gets hit in the groin as if it's a running gag.

Sherman quickly uses the scissors to get himself and the others out of the bush. The two spots the garbage truck approaching Trent's driveway. They've got to hurry!
The couple races out and goes into hiding behind a mail box post. The two glance as they saw a garbage man wearing headphones acting like he's playing air guitar while drumming the mail box. As he does, the guy is emptying a garbage can into the truck.

Sherman and Penny duck from behind the post before they quickly plunge the scissors into a trash bag. Nothing but trash came out. The couple goes for another bag and rips it open, but no luck. Just trash.

Soon the truck drives down the street, allowing Sherman and Penny to come out of hiding and rush after it. Maybe the two can save their friends before the worst comes to past. The vehicle stops at the next house, making the couple hide behind a fire hydrant.

The dumper hops off a runner and, to Sherman and Penny's horror, pulls a lever causing the truck's compactor to lower and scoop up the trash bags. As the two toys watch in horror some more, the whole thing retract, crunching the whole thing like mad.

It's too late. Their friends are gone, crunched into bits. Why didn't they save them in time? Now it looks like...

Suddenly, Edmund and Ford walk up to Sherman and tap Sherman's shoulder. The 2 turn around and heard a noise nearby making them turn to see an odd sight: an upside down recycling bin scurring on little feet into the Cooper's garbage. The couple sighs in relief. Their friends must've gotten out of the trash bag in time!

Penny then said, "If it's not too late, maybe I could clear the air and tell them the truth."

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