At one moment, Balto thought he was just casually walking with the others, simply enduring the patience as they all were while slowly picking up clues as to where the hero is.
Then it all vanished, just disappeared into chaos, in an instant he was thrown around and hurt to see a gun pointed at him, he was all to shocked to do anything of action, it happened way too fast. The gun was pointed at his head, locked and loaded, he couldn't make up the face of the killer either, he looked up at this killer, not yet ready to die, he was scared and alone in this strange place, and he thought he was even starting to make new friends!
";-;"
"BOOM!"
and just like that, it was back to loneliness, as he slumped down into the bleak eternal darkness of death.
Alone.
Confused.
Afraid.
If anything, it was the Cat Overlord's fault.
Rocket however, never saw it coming, one minute, he was with the weird fish guy, the next moment BLAM! death, never even saw it coming.
Now, both characters find themselves in this mysterious new area the throne room, perhaps a judging area? Then they would both find out that they were with each other and give each other growls of displeasment, since their only interaction had one wavering a gun at the other.
Then they saw Kant, or the weird armored-pyramid-head dude. He explained to them that they were dead, but to become 'alive again' they had to 'fill your vessels of life with your soul...and find shards of a mirror' For Balto, he guessed it made sense, but for Rocket, he thought this was some serious cultist crap, to much 'spiritual nonsense' in here, and that mutt is not good, no monster is, he went to reach for his gun and shoot that thing to be safe, but he realized something...
He was on all fours, had no weapons, and was NAKED!
"DARGH! ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME! THIS IS STUPID! HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO DO ANYTHING? WHY IS THIS HAPPENING? WHO KILLED ME AND DID THIS! I SWEAR I WILL CLAW THEIR EYES OUT."
Balto, on the other hand, when this 'spirit animal' thing rose up dramatically into the sky...and plopped to the ground, seemingly unchanged, aside from a little 'thump' on his way there. Perhaps he already was his spirit animal :3
He looked at the furious Raccoon and smirked;
"Dude, you seriously need to calm yourself."
Then Rocket stopped arguing, perked up his ears, and swung at the mutt,
"Wait, you can talk?"
Balto jumped back in absolute surprise,
"Wait, you can hear me? This is AWESOME!"
"Glad to hear that, but it AINT for me, come on, we gotta go check out some princess, or something like that, It's always something to do with princesses."
Balto nodded, glad to know that, even though it was just a mangy raccoon, that it could talk to him, and that he wouldn't be so lonely.
Perhaps these princesses could do the same, but they could only choose one, and this was all just a matter of 'what is the better color'
"Meh, I'm going for the blue one..."
Balto shouted,
"NO! We do the red one!" for the color red reminded him too much of Jenna, to abandon this one could possibly mean the same thing, thankfully, this raccoon didn't care;
"Fine, we go for the red one then, does that please you? It's not like I care less!"
With that, they
INVESTIGATED THE RED CHICK!