Gardenview... What a beautiful and interesting place, yes?.. Full of living cartoons, rainbows, sunshine- you get the jest... It's a child's dream come true!... That was, until the machines appeared...

When Arthur and Delilah announced they were going to be using these machines as another form of energy, somehow no one but you, Astro, Rodger, Teagan, and Brightney of all Toons weren't suspicious of the fact Ichor was going to be the main thing these machines were powered by. Which, for the record, Ichor is what all of you Toons are MADE OUT OF. To add on top of this, the more common toons have been acting weird lately! Like, I'm talking about Poppy, Boxten, Yatta- heck, even SHRIMPO was acting off! They kept forgetting certain events, like that one time Pebble and Coal actually had a wholesome moment together while playing, or when Cosmo made that really cool Dinosaur themed cake for Shelly's birthday all by himself. They remembered everything else BUT certain events like that...

To make it weirder, they'd only forget them after having to get a "check up" with Delilah... That, and Dandy was oddly very.. Excited, if you will, about this new usage in machines, despite what they run on... So, the five of you new something was definitely up about this whole thing... And it lead you all to form a secret organization called the U.S.T. Or, Undercover. Specialized. Toons.. Rodger was the lead investigator, and did most of the work above ground by talking with other Toons and such, unsurprisingly. You and Astro worked kinda like spys, acting like normal toon's all the time while secretly gathering information from Toon handlers and such. Brightney was the messenger, sending information from Rodger to Teagan by night specifically- despite not being the stealthiest. As for Teagan, she was simply the meeting organizer and planner. Occasionally secretly gathering skills off of Toon's she invites to her tea parties to look for more members for the group. The U.S.T. Is a simple, yet very effective group.

To cut to the chase, you all figured out what caused the mass incident at Gardenview on -8/11/2002- When 40 people, mainly children and staff, got killed or went missing on main shop floor by 3 horrifying, twisted looking versions of Shrimpo and Yatta. Yes, the remaining staff did manage to either hide or dispose of these monsters for a time, but Gardenview was quickly closed and abandoned after the incident....

And it was all because of the experiments with Ichor...

Before all of it, Delilah was doing some very dangerous, practically Illegal testing on Toons, starting with the common, less favored ones. For what purpose? You didn't know... But for every failed test, the dumby would just store or hide away these monsters and make a new clone of the former Toon in replacement... And well, now that there's no Human life left in Gardenview... Someone's gotta finish what was started...

Which, is what you found out. Ever since Sprout, a very important toon in Gardenview, went missing, you and Pebble (an added recruit) have been going on more runs trying to find him in this giant, twisted infested facility... And while you went on a solo run despite Astro telling multiple times not to... You found something strange on a particular floor... A door. Covered head to toe in Ichor... With noise coming from inside.... It was scary to say the least, but Sprout could be in there- needing your help... So you went in... And saw something terrifying.

Sprout on an operation like table, almost unrecognizable in his new, unconscious monstrous form. Ichor was EVERYWHERE and these documents and models of future twisted designs were on the walls too... And horrifyingly enough, Dandy of all Toons was standing next to the operation bed, hands, cheeks, and chest covered in ichor... He looked just as shocked and scared to see you... But also a little angry too..

Dandy: ". Wha- Y/N?... W-What in Arthur's name are you doing here?... You weren't supposed to see this... ." He said eerily calmly.