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Back in headquarters, the emotions, other than (Y/N) and Anxiety, were trying to figure out the concept of 'we'. Another emotion, a much smaller emotion was struggling to climb up on the console.

Envy sighs, "I wish I was as tall as all of you."

They looked and saw what appears to be another emotion, a little teal emotion with huge sparkly eyes, named Envy.

"Who the heck are you?" Anger yelled.

"I'm Envy." Envy introduces herself then notices Disgust hair, "Oh, look at your hair."

Disgust waves Envy away, "Oh yeah. Not happening."

Envy gasps at Val onscreen, "Look at her hair! We need hair like that!" She activates the console, prompting Riley to do the same.

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Riley looked at Val's hair, specifically the red streak, "My gosh, I love the red in your hair." She slowly raised her hand up to touch it.

"Oh...Uh." Val seemed confused and slightly creeped out.

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Disgust gasps and pulls Envy back, "What are you doing?!"

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Riley shook her head, quickly stopping, "Hey, maybe you wanna make the team? I can join team red head, too." She smiled nervously, "Yeah, yeah!"

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A hand slammed the console; it belonged what appears to be a giant pink male emotion with a hoodie named Embarrassment.

Embarrassment held onto his strings of the hoodie, "Oh...!" This prompts Riley to blush in shock onscreen.

Anger crossed his arms, "Okay, who's this guy?"

Sadness: What's your name, big fella?

[Ya see. I see the ship in Sadness and Embarrassment but not in Joy & Anger, who seem more like Father and Daughter.]

"That's Embarrassment..." (Y/N) answered.

Anxiety decided to continue, "He's not really big on eye contact or like good talking, but he's a really sweet guy."

Joy smiled nervously, concerned for (Y/N)'s well-being, "Well, welcome to Headquarters, Embarrassment." He held his hand out as Embarrassment did the same except a fist bump, "Oh. We're doing a fist- No. Oh. No?" They mess up a bit, "Going high. You got a real sweaty palm there, buddy."

Embarrassment whimpers with, well, embarrassment.

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Val looked at Riley, "Hey. You wanna come with me actually?" Val offered, "We can meet some of the other Fire Hawks." Val gestured to the other Fire Hawks who were waiting near the entrance.

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Anxiety smiled and shook (Y/N), who wasn't smiling and was being really quiet, "Oh, this is exciting. But we can't let her know we're excited."

The console turned indigo; this prompts Riley to respond nonchalantly.

"Yeah, sounds cool." Riley nods, onscreen.

Anger seemed annoyed, "What emotion was that?"

Anxiety smiled and gestured to the couch, "That's Ennui."

"En- what?" Joy looked at Ennui.

Camera pans to a long haired indigo emotion with a long nose and in a tracksuit and socks named Ennui, lounging on the couch with her cell phone.

"Ennui [on-we]. It's what you would call the boredom." Ennui answered, on her phone.

"Well, come on up here, En-wer." Joy paused, "Am I saying it right? En-wha. No." Joy suddenly got an idea, "Oh! Nicknames! I'm gonna call you Oui-Oui."

"Non." Ennui quickly answered, going back to her phone.

Fear looked from the console to Ennui, "How are you driving?"

Ennui turned her phone to them, "Console app." She demonstrates how it works.

"Hey! Stop it. That's enough." Anger yelled.

Joy tried to calm them down, "Now, now, I know new emotions can sometimes feel unhelpful at first and you just wanna...say to them." Joy looked at Sadness, "...'Why are you so annoying?' But, I've learned that every emotion is good for Riley. Even this turkey." Joy messes with Sadness hair.

Anger sighed, "Okay, fine."

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"Cool. Lead the way." Riley grabbed her bag with excitement.

"Alright, grab your stuff and follow me." Val started to walk off as Riley paused.

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"Oh, but what about our friends?" Sadness asked, as Riley looked at Bree and Grace.

"Val is our future." Envy explained.

"Yes. I agree completely. We need new friends or else we'll be totally alone in high school. Right, (Y/N)?" Anxiety smiled at (Y/N).

"...Yeah...We do." (Y/N) answers nonchalantly, her arms crossed and was somehow now wearing a hoodie and sweatpants.

"Well, I mean maybe." Joy smiled nervously, slightly more concerned over the whole change of (Y/N).

"Here we go." Anxiety takes control; this prompts Riley to anxiously follow Val.

Onscreen, Riley is seen nodding and quickly following after Val, grabbing her bag as she walked.

"Wait up!" Riley walked next to Val and smiled, "Thanks for showing me around."

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Joy stopped Anxiety, "Wait! Why did you do that?"

Anxiety seemed slightly shocked and guilty, "Sorry, what did I do?"

"We just left our best friends behind." Joy looked at (Y/N), "You're not just gonna let this happen, right?"

(Y/N) paused at the slight tenseness in Joy's voice as (Y/N) looked down sadly, "I just...don't want to be alone.." She crossed her arms as if she was giving herself a hug.

"But Riley needs these friends, you know that! You adore that, you need–"

"But what about the new ones we're about to meet?" Anxiety interrupted with a smile.

"No." Joy answered, "Okay, these next three days need to be about Bree and Grace."

"Joy, th...the next three days could determine the next four years of our lives." Anxiety explains.

Joy chuckles, "I think that's overstating things a bit."

"Ooh la la... Joy is so old school." Ennui states, on her phone.

"What?" Joy asked.

"Joy...Anxiety is right." (Y/N) answers, "We need...to have new friends so that we'll never be alone again." She looked at the screen, her face blank yet her eyes seemed scared.

"Look, we all have a job to do. You make Riley happy, Sadness makes her sad, Fear protects her from the scary stuff she can see, (Y/N) makes Riley...well Riley, I guess." Anxiety shrugs, "Never really understood (Y/N)'s job...but my job is to protect her from the scary stuff she can't see. I plan for the future." She seemed excited, "Oh! I can show you. You're gonna love this." She produces a hidden laptop from the console.

"Oh, I was using that as a cupholder." Joy muttered to Sadness.

Anxiety typed on the computer, showing scenarios, "Okay. So my team has run all the data and we're looking at the following likely scenarios." First image on screen, "First, we don't take this camp seriously and we goof off with Bree and Grace. Riley looks really uncool in front of Val. She fails to impress the coach, does not become a Fire Hawk and finally arrives at high school. She has no one, she eats alone and only the teachers know her name."

(Y/N) seemed horrified by that, as she looked down, just thinking about the possibilities if everything goes wrong and only wrong.

"Ew!" Disgust scoffed.

Fear smiled, "Okay, you and I are gonna be friends."

"Oh, this is a sad story." Sadness sniffled.

"It's a ridiculous story." Joy struggles to close the laptop, "Look, again, Love the energy but you're being silly." Joy waves it off, "None of this will actually happen."

"But–" (Y/N) wanted to say yet Joy seemed to be ignoring her as (Y/N) looked away, rubbing her arm, 'Why do I even try anymore?'

Anxiety backed off, "Right, whatever you say, you're the boss."

Suddenly, a grey elderly emotion emerges from a door by the idea shelves.

Nostalgia smiles, "Remember when we all finally came up to Headquarters?"

Ennui leaned back, "That was like thirty seconds ago, Nostalgia."

"Yeah, those were the days." Nostalgia smiled.

Anxiety walked over to her, "Nostalgia! You aren't supposed to be here yet!" She started to push Nostalgia into the room, "You still have about ten years, two graduations, and a best friend's wedding before you're invited, but I will keep you in the loop I promise!" Nostalgia leaves.

"Hey, hey, everybody focus." Envy yells as Anxiety quickly walks back over to them, "Val's leading us into their holy inner sanctum."

"Here we are." On the screen, Val opened the door to the locker rooms, where some of the Fire Hawks team was.

Envy squeals, "These girls are so cool!"

"And older. We are not changing in front of them." Disgust sighed.

Joy smiled, "It's fine. Locker rooms are places of mutual respect."

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Val walked with Riley, "Hey. Come on. I want you to meet the other Fire Hawks."

The other Fire Hawks members meet Riley.

"Hey." Riley greets, nervously.

"Riley is from Michigan." Val introduces Riley.

"Okay, we're stuck with that." Fear seemed to sigh, off-screen.

"Oh cool. Where in Michigan are you from?" One of the members asked.

Riley paused, "Uh..."

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"Oh no. What now?" Fear asked Joy.

"Okay. Looks like we're committing to this. Cities in Michigan." Joy questioned, thinking.

"Make something up." (Y/N) looked at Anxiety, speaking in a dull tone, "If...that's smart...I don't know."

"Great Idea, Depresso!" Anxiety smiled, "We're making something up." Anxiety pressed a button.

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"I'm from all over." Riley answered.

The member nods, "Nice. See ya out there."

Val walked to her team, "Hey, you wanna sit with us?" Val offered.

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"Oh she wants to sit with us!" Anxiety gasped, "Everything is beautiful."

"Everything is meh...but at least we probably won't end up alone." (Y/N) showed her hands into her hoodie pocket.

"There's not enough room for Bree and Grace." Joy nudged Anxiety and (Y/N), by mistake, over, "Oh. Let's go sit over there." Joy gestured to a free three-seater.

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Riley smiled, "I was gonna go save seats for my friends, but thanks anyway." She walked to the free seats.

Val paused, "Oh. Uh, yeah." She smiled, "Okay. No worries."

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"See, was that so hard?" Joy smiled.

Anxiety seemed worried, "No, you're totally right." She mutters, "That decision's not gonna haunt us for the rest of our lives at all."

(Y/N) seemed to look away, not wanting to be alone, especially since Bree and Grace wouldn't be at that high school like Val and the Fire Hawks would. Joy wasn't listening.

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Riley saw Bree and Grace enter the Locker room, "Bree and Grace!" The two spot Riley and walk over.

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Joy pressed a button as Anxiety and (Y/N) shared a worrying look, "Time to celebrate!"

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"Say Awoooga!" Riley cheers, referencing another movie.

"Awoooga!" The three cheer.

Coach Roberts walks in, "Alright ladies, let's all settle in." The three kept fooling around.

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Joy kept on pressing buttons as Anxiety tried to stop Joy before they got in trouble.

"Uh, Joy?" Anxiety tried to stop Joy.

"Joy...made we should let Anxiety take the wheel." (Y/N) tried to stop Joy but was ignored, again.

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Coach Roberts turned to the three, "Ladies, settle in means settle down." The three shut up, "I need your focus, which means now I'm gonna need your cell phones. All of them." She took out a basket as everyone was shocked by this and groaned, "Ah-ah-ah! You're here to work. Not goof around, Got that Andersen?"

Riley blushed of embarrassment, "Yes, coach."

"Please put all your phones in the basket. You can get them back at the end of camp."

Grace nudged the two, "Wow, the coach is so serious." She muttered.

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Anxiety tried to squeak in, "Joy, I'm just curious. Maybe um, I could..."

Joy moved Anxiety out of the way, "Thank you. Not now."

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Riley snickers, "I know, right?"

Coach Roberts heard the snickering, "You think this is funny. Uh-huh. Well you know what else is funny? Skating lines. Now hit the ice ladies!" She exclaims.

Everyone groans at this.

Fire Hawks Member walked past, "Great job, Michigan."

"Thanks a lot, new girl." Another member exclaims.

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"Bravo Joy. She's totally fitting in now." Ennui was on her phone.

Joy rolled his eyes, "Oh, thanks so much, Oui-Oui." He looked at (Y/N), "I could use some help out here..." He whispered.

"...But...maybe Anxiety could handle this." (Y/N) smiled nervously, "Trust me?"

"(Y/N). Anxiety will make Riley ditch her friends...who cares if we're lonely in High School, we'll make friends once we get in! Don't be such a worry-wart..." Joy smiled and nudged her, "Who cares? Just...we don't need Anxiety, all we need is..."

(Y/N) waited for what Joy was gonna say, thinking it would be him and her, like it always was.

"Joy. Me!" Joy smiled happily, "You can't be love at the state you are in right now...it's not that bad...things will get better for you, for us, for Riley! Just...don't be selfish." Joy kissed (Y/N)'s cheek and looked back to the screen, sighing.

(Y/N) stood there in pure and utter shock at what Joy just said, 'Am...I sick or something?' She stepped away from Riley, walked over to the belief pillar and slightly smiled at it, 'I am a good person.' She repeats in her head.

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Coach Roberts watched the team skate back and forth, "You're lagging behind Andersen! Skate harder!" The coach blows her whistle, "Alright ladies, take a breather. Then we'll divide you into teams."

Riley sighed as she exits the ice, as she grabbed her water and leaned against the wall, she heard something, peaking, she saw Val and her friends talking about her.

"That Michigan girl is off to rough stuff." One of the members explained.

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Anxiety seemed worried, "Oh no, are they talking about us?"

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"Yeah. There's no way coach is putting her on the team if she can't get it together." Another explained.

Val chuckled, "Uh, okay Dani. Like you had it all together when you were a freshman?"

Dani scoffed, "Ugh! I wasn't that immature."

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Embarrassment, who is on the whole console, reminds Sadness that can't reach the button that she is close to, "Oh." Sadness touches the console as well, "I got you, big guy."

Envy seemed worried, "Oh, I always wanted people to talk about us but not like this." She pouts.

Sadness and the other emotions, except the new ones and (Y/N), "Oh Joy, what do we do now?" Sadness asked.

"Um, we can just um..." Joy had no ideas, but needed to think of one.

Anxiety popped up, "I have an idea." She held a light bulb.

"Okay." Joy crossed his arms.

"If we can get Val on our side, everything will be great." Anxiety puts an idea into the console.

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Riley wiped her tears away and approached Val once Anxiety took control.

"Uh, Val?" Riley gulps.

Val paused and smiled, "Oh. Hey Riley, what's up?"

"Uh-uh, I... I'm so sorry." Riley apologized, "I didn't mean to get the whole team skating lines. I feel terrible. I respect you so much, I would never do anything—"

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Joy tried to stop Anxiety, "Uh, that's laying it on a bit thick, don't you think?"

"Shh. Joy." Anxiety continued to work her magic.

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"—hockey player and you lead the team so amazingly and I-I-I really look up to you." Riley explained.

"Okay, okay. Thanks. Listen, the coach was pretty hard on you today. But it's not a bad thing. It means you're on her radar..." Val explained, waking down to Riley.

"Really?" Riley asked.

"Listen, I'm glad you came to talk with me. Hey, let's try to be on the same team later. Okay?" Val offered.

Riley smiled, "Oh, yeah. Cool."

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"Wow. I wish I could do that!" Envy cheers.

"Good job. Wow." Ennui said, up from the couch.

"Wow!" Fear looked at Anxiety with such admiration.

Anxiety seemed grateful, "Oh, you guys, I mean it really wasn't anything. I'm just trying to help."

Joy forced a smile, "I agree. Great job, Anxiety. I step back, you stepped in, you got Riley back on track, now I'm ready to step back in." Anxiety stopped Joy.

"Uh, but that was just part one of my plan." Anxiety states.

Joy paused, "There's a part two?"

"A good plan has many parts, Joy." Anxiety smiled.

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Back on the ice, Coach Roberts stands in front of the girls.

"Okay ladies, we're gonna form your teams for the rest of camp. Now split yourselves down the middle. Team one on the right, team two on the left." Coach Roberts gestured to the left and right side.

Bree smiled at Riley and Grace, "Let's do this."

"We're on the same team, right?" Grace smiled.

Riley paused, "Right." She turned to Val who waved Riley over.

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Envy squealed, "Val wants us!"

"But we promised Bree and Grace." Joy pressed a button as Riley started to go one way.

"Joy, we have to plan for the future." Anxiety pressed a button.

Riley is confused; Anxiety frantically works the console.

"Come on, Riley, move. Move those feet. Val's on team one, you want to be on team one, let's go!" Anxiety grumbles, confused why Riley wasn't moving.

Joy smirked, "She made a promise to her friends. She's not gonna break it." He turned to (Y/N), "Right, Dove?"

"...Mhm." (Y/N) smiled at the Sense Of Self.

"Oh, you're so right, Joy." Anxiety walked to the Sense Of Self as Anxiety takes out the Sense of Self, shocking Joy, Sadness, Disgust, Fear and Anger.

(Y/N)'s eyes widened as she looked down, all pink fading from her figure as her face went fully blank. She pulled up her hood as she kept her head down. As all the pink orbs in the memory area turned gray, like her.

[Yes. Like Poppy from Trolls - the true-colors scene XD]

Joy rushed to (Y/N), seeing her looking depressed, "What are you doing?" He held (Y/N) tight.

Riley looks over to Val in response.

"No, you can't have that! Put that back!" Joy snatched the Sense of Self and reinserts the Sense of Self; Riley looks back at Bree and Grace. Joy sighs.

(Y/N) let out a sigh as she slowly had a bit of her pink self back but not by much.

"Joy, I don't mean to overstep, but it has to be done!" Anxiety takes out the sense of self again; both fight over it as (Y/N) went through both emotions of love, happiness then depression, emotionless.

"Wait, what are you — no!" Joy watched as Anxiety took the sense of self to the memory launcher.

Anxiety brings down the back-of-mind memory launcher and places the Sense of Self in it; she launches it to the back of the mind. As (Y/N) finally was placed in the form of depression, emotionless.

Joy gasps, "No..." Joy turned to (Y/N), "DOVE!" He turned to (Y/N), who seemed to be quiet, self-kept.

"I know change is scary, bu...but watch." Anxiety takes control again, making Riley look back at the Fire Hawks and join their side as Bree and Grace notice.

"Alright, welcome to our team, Michigan." Val smiled as Riley briefly looks back at the distraught Bree and Grace before moving on.

"That is not Riley." Joy explains, standing up from sitting on the floor next to (Y/N), who was curled up into a little ball.

"I know, it's a better Riley..." Anxiety smiled.

"A Riley who won't be alone next year." Envy smiled, looking at (Y/N), "Depression doesn't want to be alone! We know that...we want to help her and Riley!"

"We build her a new sense of self, a brand new her...and Depresso will be happy again." Anxiety explained as she activates the code bringing up the elevator to the Belief System; the originals, except for (Y/N), stop her.

"No no no! You can't go down there with that." Joy exclaims.

"Over my dead flaming body!" Anger yelled.

Pause; Anxiety is hurt, "I am truly sorry. I was so looking forward to working with you guys."

Embarrassment grabbed all the five emotions.

"What do you think you're doing?" Joy yelled.

Anger growled, "Get off me!"

Anxiety held the memory in her hands, "Riley's life is more complex now. It requires more specific emotions than all of you. You just aren't what she needs anymore, Joy..." Joy feels hurt by Anxiety's statement.

"How dare you madam?" Fear exclaimed.

"You can't just bottle us up!" Joy scoffed.

Anxiety smiled, "Oh, that's a great idea."

The five emotions are placed into a jar. As the others watched, Embarrassment was holding the curled up (Y/N) in his arms.

[I see Embarrassment being your protective, shy, older brother. While Anxiety & Envy are those younger cousins who always want to spend time with you, impress you and make you happy. Ennui is like the nonchalant aunt who could give less than a crap]

"It's not forever, it's just until Riley makes varsity or until she turns eighteen, or ma...maybe forever. I don't know. We'll have to see. Uh, bye!" Anxiety smiled and waved.

"Anxiety! Riley needs us!" Joy saw (Y/N) look at them sadly, "Dove..." He seemed to see the pain in her eyes as he watched her with a hurt expression.

The jar is lowered out of Headquarters as the originals shout indistinctly.

"Okay. Don't worry, Riley. You're in good hands. Now let's change everything about you." Anxiety smiled, "(Y/N), mind watching Riley..."

(Y/N) didn't reply, just got out of Embarrasment's hold and slowly, sluggishly, walked over to the console, staring at the screen, doing nothing.

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The second generation reaches the Belief System; Envy and Ennui are squished to Embarrassment's back before flopping down.

Envy follows Anxiety, "Quick question: How do we build a new Riley, which I'm loving by the way. Amazing concept, if it took them thirteen years to build the old one?"

"Well, good news is we're not starting from scratch." Anxiety puts the memory in the water.

Envy's eyes sparkle, "I wanna plant one."

"Next time." Anxiety pats Envy's head, as Envy pouts, Anxiety pucks the string.

If I'm a Fire Hawk, I won't be alone.

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Back in headquarters, (Y/N) turned her head to see a small orange sense of self start to grow as (Y/N) seemed to twitch, she was holding something in. Something that would explode soon, something that she wouldn't be able to control. She was still a good person, right? She still made Riley a good person...right?

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