Why HTF Has Been On Long Hiatuses - Part 2

Why HTF Has Been On Long Hiatuses - Part 2 is the continuation to the first part of the story with the same name by Sleep Mast R. It aired on deviantART on June 15, 2018.

In this part, the always-sleeping Cub gets lost from the family and ends up in a very strange place.

Plot
The story starts in the middle of the night, with Joshua and Jessica sitting on their handmade bed, sleepless because they slept too much during the day. They question how it's even possible that Cub always sleeps. They are also afraid that they will be hated if they become nocturnal (i.e. sleeping through the day and awake through the night). Meanwhile, Jordan K is sitting on his bed, still missing his tails from Part 1. He is unable to sleep.

Later, when morning comes, Cub sleeps on and Smalltail wakes up with a stretch. Jordan K is then seen with dark circles under his eyes, indicating that he didn't get any sleep. However, he is still sleepless because he lacks his tails. Jasmine is then seen in Cub's room. She guesses that Cub will sleep the day away, and tries to tell him the bed is full of germs. He doesn't react, so she puts him on the roof of the house in an attempt to punish him.

The scene then cuts to the family's kitchen, where Jamie has a special breakfast of popcorn-flavored pancakes for the family. Hovee likes the breakfast, and Ginger questions where Jordan K is. Jordan is seen standing sleep-deprived in front of his mother (Amanda), who tries to get him to go to sleep, but he refuses. She also tells him that she just got Joshua and Jessica to bed (presumably because they were up all night). As the breakfast is irrelevant to the story, it is then skipped with the use of a time card.

David then walks up to Cub's room, and sees to his utter horror that the bed is empty. Due to Cub's sleeping sickness, he has never seen the bed without Cub in it for the past month. The family (along with Cuddles) goes to have a look. Jasmine then tells David that she put Cub on the roof to punish him for always sleeping.

Unfortunately, before David climbs up to the roof, Cub carelessly rolls off of it, and falls down into the trunk of Lifty and Shifty's van in Doggone It. Shifty then drives the van. The raccoons discuss that they have everything to take to the bank even though they may have a few unneeded things. Eventually Shifty drives toward a red light without seeing it and Lifty alerts him. He then stops the van at a strong halt, which throws Cub out and onto the curb of Brainy's house. Brainy walks outside and picks up Cub, threatening to put him on his table of shame if he doesn't wake up.

Meanwhile, David climbed a ladder to the roof and doesn't see Cub there; he gets disappointed at Jasmine for "lying" even though she didn't lie. He gets fed up and asks the family to search for Cub. Ginger looks in the bathroom and doesn't see him there. Hovee observes that Pop is sleeping when he looks in Pop's room. Cuddles looks in the living room where the babies are still sleeping, but in weirder positions than before. Jamie looks in the kitchen and doesn't see Cub. Bigtail asks Smalltail if he saw Cub and Smalltail denies, as well as pointing out that Bigtail doesn't have a tail and nicknaming him "No-tail." Jordan K is unable to search because he is sleepy and has a headache; again Amanda tells him to sleep and he refuses.

After negative results, David tells them that they should go outside to continue searching. So he, Cuddles, Bigtail, Hovee and Ginger go outside; Ginger explains that Jamie's busy cooking something and Jasmine said she'd investigate Cub. He also says no one should be alarmed upon seeing sleepers. Hovee agrees that they should start in case the Kaplan Boys get their tails back as a reward, additionally pointing out that if he gets his tail back then he'll take a nap. David tells everyone to compromise in the search and look in different directions for efficiency, and that he'll stay at the starting spot where they'll meet him back.

Cuddles sets off west, Bigtail sets off north, Hovee sets off east, and Ginger sets off south. Then they disappear. Hovee is then seen coming across Disco Bear asleep in his bed, and then leaving the house. The scene then cuts to the Kaplans' house, where Jordan K's eyes are red (indicating ill condition). As Amanda tries to get him to go to sleep, Joshua and Jessica can be seen in an awkward piled position while they sleep, and Smalltail is seen filthy after having eaten the popcorn Jamie made and peed his diaper.

Meanwhile, in the search, Bigtail asks Snowers if he saw Cub. Snowers denies and says he's waiting for Giggles, then points out Bigtail's lack of a tail. Cuddles asks Music if he saw Cub. He says no. Ginger asks Flaky if she saw Cub; as much as Flaky was annoyed around Ginger, the last time she saw Cub was when Cub was sleeping on her glass table. Hovee then asks Flippy if he knows where Cub is (due to Flippy being a bear and all). Flippy explains that Cub will probably sleep until Hovee's birthday, because of an uncommon situation of bears hibernating outside the winter. Then he demonstrates by swallowing a sleeping pill. Unfortunately for Hovee, the pill was not fake, so Flippy ends up fast asleep throughout the rest of the story.

Meanwhile, at Brainy's house, Brainy tries feeding Cub but Cub doesn't wake up. Brainy resorts to asking his family members about the bear cub. Ginger, Hovee and Bigtail are then seen meeting back with David after an unsuccessful search for Cub. Cuddles stayed behind and bravely continued the search on his own. Then Hovee pointed out that all four bears in the official HTF (Cub, Pop, Disco Bear and Flippy)

Controversy

 * Brainy angrily kicked Cub out of his house. This is out of character: he is supposed to be kind and gentle.
 * Sleep Mast R explained that Brainy would go angry in roleplays. However, he only does that when people troll him, and he certainly wouldn't be horrid to Cub in this case.

Trivia

 * In the abbreviated name WHHBOLH, the abbreviated "HTF" is written as just the first letter "H."
 * The same is true for BFB; the "BFDI" is written as just "B."
 * This part is approximately 16 minutes in length, beating Part 1.
 * Several things about the Kaplan Boys' tails are revealed in this part:
 * They can sleep easily when they have their tails;
 * Jordan K and Hovee can fly using their tails;
 * Bigtail's tail can light up so he can see in darkness.
 * This part reveals Hovee's love interest in Splendid, as Hovee's bedroom has a picture on the wall with him and Splendid together with the label "ANGELIC BOND."
 * The sleeping Kaplan family scene is inspired by Sleep Mast R's real life situations at the beginning of a family vacation.
 * When David looks at Ripley, the SHTFII meme "HANDY WAS HERE!" is written backwards on the glass door.
 * This most likely means someone on the other side of the glass door (i.e. in Ripley's house) wrote it.
 * There are several sleeping characters and interesting props in the background.
 * Mime can be seen running to a bathroom after eating Lammy's sandwich, just like Flaky in Royal Flush.
 * When Cub rolls over at sunrise, a question is given in text: "How did his beanie never fall off his head?" Indeed, this is a common HTF goof involving hats and physics.
 * When Joshua and Jessica are seen sleeping, their tails are seen detached on the left side. It is assumed that as a punishment for ripping off Jordan, Hovee and Bigtail's tails, either they lost their tails naturally or someone ripped them off. **When the parents carry them to their crib, theirtails are then seen taped to their butts with old Scotch tape.
 * When Cuddles is with the sleeping babies, Jessica's face is directly down on the pillow. In real life, sleeping this way can be harmful due to possible loss of breath.
 * When Brainy says he knows that Flippy and Annalise are both sleeping, the viewers already knew that Flippy is sleeping. However, Annalise's situation was not seen at all. ==Production Notes== *When the Kaplan Boys got their tails back, Jordan K was originally going to sleep in a bed made out of Bigtail's and Hovee's tails (the ones attached to them) and Joshua and Jessica's tails made into a pillow. This idea was dropped.
 * When Hovee said "By some kind of coincidence, I came across each one..." the Flash was originally going to display Cub, Pop, Disco Bear and Flippy sleeping. **Said display can be found in the source file, specifically in a symbol in the library whose Use Count is zero. *Part 2 was originally going to have Splendid going to sleep (or sleeping throughout his appearance), but instead it has Splendid waking up. ==Possible Faults== *When Jordan K, Hovee and Bigtail jump and yell "WE GOT OUR TAILS BACK!", Jordan K's eyes are normal, but they should be sleep-deprived because this occurs before Jordan sleeps. *When Petunia is facing away, her tail is on her front. (This has been fixed in the dA version.) *When Jordan K and Jamie are naked, their stomach markings are supposed to be blue and pink respectively, to match the insides of their ears.