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Case 0 Type P - File 4 - “Scattered Lilies of the Subconscious”

Location: White Lily Cookie’s Meadow (Lilywhite Space)

Timeline: [Undetermined] Lilywhite Space

Date of Record: January 20, 2021 (PET Relative Time); Actual Date in Lilywhite Space Unknown

Subjects Involved: C/E-925, C/E-22, C/E-73 (22), C/A-95

Employee(s) Responding: Croissant Cookie, Timekeeper Cookie

“WE’RE ALMOST THERE! I HOPE…! HANG ON JUST A LITTLE MORE!” The Timecraft zoomed through the time tunnel, its passengers screaming while Croissant Cookie was tirelessly trying to keep it under control at the helm until the exit rift manifested itself into an area with a grassy meadow lined with thousands of white lilies. Upon exiting the hyperspace warp channel, Croissant Cookie took a look around for a place to land before the craft lurched itself into the ground and crashed with a huff. “Where are we…?”

Roguefort Cookie replied, “I don’t know, but that Blue Cheese Watch was one of a kind in ANY timeline, and if it was ever mishandled or broken by any means besides normal use, time would twist in on itself and end our timeline as we know it. That’s what was written involving what the clockmaker said when they created the Watch for my ancestor several generations ago.”

That feeling of being lost in a place nobody was familiar with was the shared sentiment everyone had upon exiting the Timecraft before a grieving Cookie noticed the crashed machine and approached with uneasiness from the serenity of her seat by the tree within the middle of a meadow of white lilies. As she approached, an unusually calm feeling in the air began to form, as if to hide a whole dimension of nightmares, making it seem but a dream that one would never awaken from. Sunny… perhaps a quiet place to sleep. To grow a patch of Basil to turn into something new. But despite everything this field had to offer, this was not the place for amore… or references to Omori.

“W…who’s there?! Where did you come from? This place isn’t safe for you here!” The Cookie stared the quartet down in fear, for these were not the only ones to see her face within the last hour.

Croissant Cookie responded back in kind. “Well… it’s oddly calm here. Who are you, and what is this place? The Timecraft took us here on its own one way or another, and these coordinates aren’t listed in the Space-Time Atlas or the TBD Handbook.”

“So you’re wanderers too?”

“No, I’m Croissant Cookie of the Time Balance Department, and I was responding to a lead involving a relic once owned by Roguefort Cookie over there…” Croissant Cookie pointed right at Roguefort Cookie, all the while they were winking back while the attention was on them as if to charm or distract from the fluctuating nature of the situation. “…and that such a relic could altar time and transport the user with it to any time period they desired. Unfortunately, Dark Enchantress Cookie appeared and smashed it into pieces, which caused that other rift to open. If you know what this place is, we’d really appreciate the help.”

She stared away from the group and sighed. “I see. I figure that I shouldn’t hide the truth from you. My name is White Lily Cookie, and this place is the Lilywhite Space, otherwise known by wizards of the Blueberry Yogurt Academy as a dimension of unstable magic, restless spirits, and the subconscious mind that exists in between space and time. If my mind’s eye serves correctly, then you four must have come from the same universe as me. Unlike the rest of this place, this white lily meadow is the only place in this dimension where serenity truly exists. The rest of this world writhes with darkness, chaos, and despair… a feeling that once overwhelmed me within the Oven. When I split away from the Ultimate Dough, my mind had awakened to a new reality; one where the world wasn’t as peaceful as it once seemed. One where I had fathomed the truth… The Witches… and the reason they created us Cookies. I saw what Dark Enchantress Cookie did that night, but all I could do was cower in fear. This was not the way. With the help of two other Cookies, they knew what we had to do. Run away. Hide in another world… one where I could escape from my fate. From the darkness. My soul longs for peace, but it has shattered within me… inside and out. Across time and space… my soul’s fragments have scattered… and I am asking you for help in finding those pieces… and for my friends… I must ask them for forgiveness.”

“Forgiveness? For what?”

“…for being the one to cause the Dark Flour War in 1939.”

Croissant Cookie and others looked at each other, and then back at White Lily Cookie. The Dark Flour War was almost a century past, but for those of the Five Kingdoms and the Ancient Cookies themselves, it felt so close to home. Nobody knew how to respond without the situation collapsing into dissent quickly. And then Roguefort Cookie made themselves known and cleared their throat. “That’s quite the tall tale, to have caused the costliest conflict in Cookie history… *OOF* …unless you’re not joking.”

Walnut Cookie roughly elbowed Roguefort Cookie for that retort. Swiftly too, as if to get even for the past escapades they had put her through. “This isn’t the time for jokes, Roguefort Cookie. Everyone who’s gone through a decent history class or did their own research knows that the Dark Flour War saw a lot of bad things happen, and that’s not even counting the fact that this was indeed the most fatal war in the history of Earthbread. Every once in a while, I still get a call regarding one of countless cold cases from a long time ago, and plenty of those incidents had dated back to that era. The last call I got regarding an incident originating from that era was a cold case involving arson and the burning of what everyone called the Sacred Pomegranate Tree. The culprit was eventually identified as Dark Enchantress Cookie, who after failing to destroy the nearby village the first time, had later manipulated Pomegranate Cookie into burning the tree using a fire-starting crystal we’ve yet to identify. As of last recording, the village had recovered part of the tree and grew a new one elsewhere, where an odd natural-looking Cookie-shaped opening was found within the side of the tree.”

Croissant Cookie backed up Walnut Cookie on her stance. “Sorry, but she’s right. The Time Registry Division’s got plenty on the Dark Flour War, and a lot of that stuff’s not for the faint hearted. The Time Analysis Division still studies the event’s reflection and similarities to a similar war on Outer Earthbread that took place during the same timeframe. White Lily Cookie, we’ve just got one more question for you: What do you know about the Blue Cheese Watch?”

“The Blue Cheese Watch? Was not that YOUR responsibility, Roguefort Cookie?” Emerging through another time rift, Timekeeper Cookie entered the scene atop her Sonic Embroider.

Seeing the Director appear, Croissant Cookie turned her head to see where she came from. “Timekeeper Cookie!”

“Croissant Cookie. It is a bit unusual to see you here of all places, especially when I tasked you with responding to this lead as my most capable on-call employee during these holidays. Is it not?”

“Yeah, about that… Dark Enchantress Cookie smashed the watch.”

“That is quite amusing, to think that she would WHAT NOW?!�� Timekeeper Cookie instantly lost her cool upon hearing this. “Do you know what that would do to you… no… EVERYONE HERE?! Not only does that mean she has a full run on the time-space continuum, but it also means that our timeline would twist and implode at any time, erasing EVERYTHING in it from existence. And not even I could reverse it. The two of you… do I make myself clear?”

“Yes, Timekeeper Cookie!” Croissant Cookie was quick on the response. “We’ll fix this problem right away.”

“I guess so…” White Lily Cookie on the other hand was quite hesitant to respond, knowing full well that she would have to face her own worst enemy: herself. “What is your plan?”

Timekeeper Cookie unrolled a set of schematics detailing her company’s last resort plan in case of temporal immolation caused by a relic. “This is something that I call Operation: Time Twister, also known as the TBD’s last resort contingency plan. This plan has three phases:”

Find the Timeguard Keepers. They know the other timelines better than anyone else in the Primary Earthbread Timeline, especially so since they are parallel variations of Cookies from this timeline who joined the Time Balance Department in their timeline instead of Croissant Cookie here.

Track down the fragments of the Blue Cheese Watch… and White Lily Cookie’s soulstones too. Cookie Resources and representatives from other divisions will be partitioned to form a support team to aid in this operation and calculate which worlds and timelines these fragments landed in. Get them back by any means necessary. Other factions will plan to track them down before you do and use these fragments to achieve their own goals, and some notorious Cookies such as Twizzly Gummy Cookie will prove to be trouble.

A separation from an Ancient Cookie started this mess, and she will need to be there to finish it. That means you, White Lily Cookie. Find the other Ancient Heroes and have them finish this mess at the root. Take whoever you need to in order to find them. While you’re at it, try finding alternate variants of opposing factions like the Cookies of Darkness. They might prove useful in finding a weakness.

“Then that’s the plan…? I think I know where I can find the others.”

“You do, White Lily Cookie?” Walnut Cookie asked, perhaps trying to find leads to her own cold cases in the process.

“It’s the year 1945 on a midsummer’s night, all five of us are going to meet up in the Vanilla Castle during an assault mounted by Dark Enchantress Cookie to stop her. The attack is already underway. Civilians are escaping in droves by airship whilst covered by a joint rearguard of Wafflebots and Cookie Knights… some successfully escaped… others not so much. One was left behind in a cryobaking pod due to a piloting error. Cake Monsters have overwhelmed the castle’s defenses. This is our last stand to end the Dark Flour War.”

“Then what are we waiting for then?!” Almond Cookie asked, losing patience with a case like this opening up. “We need to get this Cookie back to that castle, ASAP.”

Timekeeper Cookie chuckled. “Oh, I can help with that since your Timecraft is utterly destroyed. As for your Ancient Cookie here, she needs to get ready, effective immediately.” With a snip of her Sonic Embroider, White Lily Cookie fell into a time rift that opened up beneath her while the others fell into another rift alongside the Timecraft’s wreckage.

“Here we go again…!” Walnut Cookie yelled as she fell into the rift.

Realizing the floor had been torn from under her alongside her Timecraft, Croissant Cookie’s cheer of a new adventure turned into a scream of terror in freefall. “Time travel! WooaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaa…!”

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[End of File 4] - [Next: File 5 - “The Lost City of Vanilla”] - [Previous: File 3.1 - “Crimson Starfall”] - [Return to Case Record]

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