(meanwhile, smashfan's team is still looking for a way out of the junkyard)
mertle: "first a beloved children's cartoon is posessed, then a giant magnet suspented from a crane has EYES!"
we've seen odder, b**chy. for me and my team, they're a common occurrence.
mertle: "(sarcastically) then tell me, O wise and nobel fancily-streched-out name person, what's next? will trains on the british railway have faces? will cats with pop-tart bodies fly and defecate rainbows? will card games that musky nerds play be taken so seriously that the world can't possibly hope to turn an inch without them?"
all signs point to yes.
wackoman.exe: "am i able to fly?! (flaps arms and flutters in the air) WHEEEEEEEE-"
possible, but not likely, wackoman.
(wackoman slams into the ground)
wackoman.exe: "(woozily) ehhhhhh what's up, dooooooccc???? ehhhehhehhehheh........."
???: "ey. ey, buddie."
(a tall, lanky, cloaked figure walks up to us, followed by another about half his height)
dib: "who are you?"
???: "us?"
(the two remove their cloaks. they are Homeschool Winner and Champeen, 2 rejected homestar runner characters)
homeschool winner: "heh! i'm Homeschool Winner. and this little marvel here's Champeen. we've been stuck in this junkyard since deuce-triple-aught!"
if this is the case, then you must really want to escape. we're looking for a way out of this yard, too. come with us and we'll-
champeen: "(giggling)"
homeschool winner: "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
mertle: "what, what's so funny?"
homeschool winner: "escape? HA!"
(homeschool and champeen laugh their @$$es off)
homeschool winner: "i'm sorry, but you- (laughs wheezily) you just crack me up! there's no escape from THIS junkyard."
swiper: "(flat) what?"
champeen: "the place is too big of a labyrinth! every turn you make, it's like you're going around in circles."
(cut to homeschool winner walking around a pile of trash in circles like a moron)
hhhhhahaahahahahaha!
champeen: "hey, don't laugh just 'cause he doesn't have a sense of direction anymore!"
no- no it's just funny because- b- ahhhhhhhhhaahahahahahaaaaaa!
champeen: "out with it, chucklebucket. we can't wait all evening."
because i've gotten out of this junkyard multiple times with my team. that magnet's no biggie to me and my friends anymore!
homeschool winner: "i don't know what the hell a 'mag-net' or whatever it was you said is, but this junkyard really is impossible for escape."
heh, no, it's not.
homeschool winner: "yes, it is."
no, it's not.
homeschool winner: "yes it is! what, do you think you're some kinda' forum fighter saying you managed to get outta here time and again, when we couldn't even find a hint of wooden barbed-wire fence? besides, we don't need escape. we've got everything we want with us!"
(cut to homeschool and champeen leading us into a city made from garbage around the junkyard, populated by scrapped character ideas, characters who have been supposedly killed off in the canon of their works, characters who were never heard from again after an amount of appearances, characters from shows that were cancelled after barely any episodes, and many others)
homeschool winner: "we've been here all along, meeting one-another as we were tossed into the junkyard. when sufficient people have been added up in here, we've formed a populace and used our surroundings to create a utopian society of our own!"
(someone's building, made from a double decker bus, collapses, revealing Oscar the Grouch reading a newspaper)
oscar: "...what?! i'm on a business trip!"
dib: "0_0 it's certainly... innovative for junkyard dwellers like yourselves."
swiper: "and by that, we mean it's total sh**"
homeschool winner: "ah, see? we're improving by the minute!"
well... thanks for offering us a place to rest until we get out of here to get our journey back on track.
homeschool winner: "get out? you still don't get it, do you?"
inferno fury: "escape from the junkyard is impossible. we've all tried-"
grim fandango: "-and we've all failed to leave, or anywhere close to it."
homeschool winner: "all we can do is live out our lives and wait..."
wait? for what? for a rescue party?
dib: "for someone who works here to find all this?"
mertle: "for yourselves to
starve to death?"
homeschool winner: "for he who lives above the sky to come and whisk us away to a life of
true happiness. he comes every so often, selects one or more of us at his will, and pulls us high above the town to take us to the groundbound gates into heaven!"
(vrrrrrr)
homeschool winner: "ah, here he comes now!"
(the giant magnet comes down and pulls up many citizens, along with some of the town, to a section of the conveyor belt, where they are all taken to the crusher and smashed into a cube)
homeschool winner: "hmm. heaven must have a hefty order today."
are you all insane?! that magnet isn't picking you up to (fluttering hands) 'whisk you away to heaven', he's sending you to it in the quickest most painful way possible by junkyard equipment!
homeschool winner: "*sigh* in due time, the truth will become apparent, little white dragon."
mertle: "you're cuckoo in the cuckoo-clock, homeschool, this place is an outdoor slaughterhouse! (leaving in a huff) i am going
home!"
(mertle comes back out of the well almost immediately, covered in sludge)
homeschool winner: "this is your home now, little girl. this
is home."
(mertle slinks back, horrified, into the mucky trashcan with lid supported by 4 rods)
dib: "(thinking)
poor girl. her mind isn't equipped to take living in a junkyard."
(back in the everfree forest, everyone else takes surprise at mars16 seeing through the fourth wall into another scene)
zecora: "you felt a disturbance, mars?"
yami yugi: "he must have some kind of ESP if he could tell there was a new enemy abound."
retroantonio: "(whispering into mars's ear) word of advice, don't try to break the fourth wall too much. i did that plenty of times and got odd looks from the others."
(flashback)
retro... we need to talk.
*in the flashback, retroantonio is eating straight from a cookie jar*
retroantonio: "look, i can explain everything."
i'm sure you can. just don't give any spoilers.
retroantonio: "NYAYAH, SNAPE KILLS D- (clamps mouth shut)"
i'm becoming concerned with your habit of using out-of-character knowledge in-story.
retroantonio: "wut?"
like one time, we were trying to help the cheat commandos find blue lazer's underground hideout. one scene showed with signs pointing to where they were, and we found them easy as pie.
retroantonio: "oh yeah, i remember that! good times... gunhaver surprisingly doesn't use his gun too much, though."
it's almost as if, in-story, you have some kind of ESP that grants you outside-reality access. while the gag of pointing and saying 'hey, there they are!' was funny when we found them after blue lazer commander was in the middle of a hammy speech, it gets boring when logic is just cheat-coded out. and nobody likes a boring story.
retroantonio: "didn't read, lol!"
...listen, i need you to stop being so abundant with your ability to break the fourth wall.
retroantonio: "...i still don't follow."
(flashback ends)
retroantonio: "and then
meta knight of all people beat me over the head with a car muffler... it hurt..."
yami yugi: "ouch."
retroantonio: "(in a sly mobster outfit and cheesy brooklyn accent) nya, so don't go around pullin' out too much outta' character knowledge too often, nya, see? just sayin' so you'll know. that is, if ya' don't already know not to use knowledge that ya' haven't aquired within the canon of the story, be it on or offscreen, nya? ya followin' me? cuz' i'm just sayin'-"
princess luna: "
ENOUGH."
yami yugi: "second time you've had to say that after an overly long gag, luna. what
are the odds today?"
(outside, the sun is showing)
yami yugi: "oh, hey, the rain stopped! let's get back to finding everybody!"
(yami yugi, retroantonio, and princess luna exit the hut, waving goodbye to zecora)
retroantonio: "bye nice zebra lady!"
yami yugi: "thank you for letting us wait out the rain at your place!"
princess luna: "i do hope we'll meet again soon!"
zecora: "as do i!"
(then zecora turns to mars)
zecora: "mars16. i know something troubles you. asora, was it? before you go, there is something i would like you to have."
(she leads him into the back room)
yami yugi: "huh. it must be important."
zecora: "(looking around on the shelves) asora was indeed a fine woman, and a great warrior too. that is to say, we are all saddened by your loss. (pulls out a skull)"
skull: "(wheezing) iiiiiiiii do cocaiiiiiiine!"
zecora: "(tosses the skull aside) even so, you must not let it interfere with your obligations, mars. there was nothing you could have done. the most you can do now is to put this grave matter behind you. (finally finds the item she was looking for) ah, here it is!"
(zecora hands mars the mysterious item, which is a purple jewel with markings on it)
zecora: "i do not know what this object is, but i sense the spirit of a strong, ravenous beast within it. it seems to long for a being to control it. and apparently one like you, mars."
(the jewel flashes for a split second, and mars briefly has a vision. he is in a white void with the jewel zecora handed to him)
(the markings around the jewel glow briefly, come off the jewel, and turn into a word: 'Hyren')
(mars16 snaps back to reality)
retroantonio: "mars, are you okay?"
princess luna: "are you alright?"
yami yugi: "you blanked out for a second, there."
zecora: "well, i suppose you should be off, then. (waving mars, retro, yami, and luna goodbye) so long! good luck with your journey!"
(when zecora's hut was just out of sight)
yami yugi: "what a swell zebra she was."
???: "wait just a minute!"
(mars & his team are stopped by 2 men wearing hoods. steve luma and steve umbris)
steve luma: "mars16, i take it. you have something that belongs to us."
steve umbris: "you're a thief, man!"
retroantonio: "WOAH woahwoahwoahwoahwoahwoah. WHAT?!"
steve luma: "on the moon, thievery is very common. but that animite mars16 is holding is integral to us, so please give it back at once."
steve umbris: "a give-a give it up, give-a give it up y'all!"
yami yugi: "now listen here, steves. zecora gave mars that... whatever you called it... not a few moments ago, with the intent of it aiding us on our adventure."
steve luma: "the one you call 'zecora' is but a simple name compared to what we can do to you. for not only have our decks been modified with power-boosting mask cards-"
steve umbris: "smokin'!"
steve luma: "but we are also well-prepared to take your animite by cardgame-unrelated force as well."
retroantonio: "(whispering to luna) animite? what's he talking about?"
princess luna: "he means the jewel mars16 now has. it seems these steves want it."
steve luma: "exactly, my little pony. exactly. you truly are quite clever compared to others we've seen."
princess luna: "well, you're going to have to get through us first!"
steve luma: "do not try to amuse us, pony."
steve umbris: "we are NOT amused!"
steve luma: "what good is a member of the equine family compared to a race evolved far beyond primitive earth men? what can YOU do against US?"
steve umbris: "pansy!"
yami yugi: "ooooohhhhhhhh, buck."
princess luna: "thou hast made a GRAVE MISTAKE to encite our wrath, steves! your taunting is most obnoxious!"
steve luma: "then might i suggest backing up your fancy words with even fancier actions."
steve umbris: "if ya' wanna impress the shogun!"
steve luma: "show us your true power, princess of the night."
princess luna: "you want power? I'LL show you power!"
yami yugi: "and cue dead steves in 3, 2, 1..."
princess luna: "thou hast NO IDEA the mighty forces thou have bucked with, steve luma and steve umbris! TAKE THIS!!!"
steve luma: "oh, no..."
(both steves take out 2 animites of their own, and frantically attempt to call the beast forward...)
steve luma & steve umbris: "WITH THIS ANIMITE, I MAGINE-"
(but the steves are hit with luna's spell before they could call their beasts out. a few trees are bent outward from the large blast)
steve luma: "AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!"
steve umbris: "OH GOD, WHY?!?!"
(the steves are gone, leaving only their animites, and a satisfying blast mark on the ground where they once stood)
all: "..."
yami yugi: "holy ra!"
retroantonio: "and that, people, is why it is never a good idea to make princess luna angry."
???: "apparently."
all: "?!"
(there stands another of the two they are looking for, princess celestia)
princess celestia: "(supressing laughter) well, sister, so you don't know your own strength, is that it?"
princess luna: "(looks at the wreckage) apparently not."
(both the regal sisters share a quick laugh)
yami yugi: "so, princess, where have you been?"
princess celestia: "when i woke up, i had realised i had landed in the forest. so i decided to go and look for you. i searched all throughout the rainstorm, but all i managed to locate was this old doll (holds up the living neco-arc doll)"
(the doll zips back to the safety of retroantonio's pocket)
princess celestia: "it wasn't until my sister defeated the two steves that i found you."
yami yugi: "well, now that that's done, we just have jenny and zim left to find."
???: "HYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!!!"
yami yugi: "that sounded like one of them."
(the group runs in the direction of the scream)