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A lady watches the Sun as a soft heartbeat is audible. Crows begin to caw and engulf the screen in black. We transition to an underwater city.
Narrator: The world as we know it... came to an end eons ago.
Lights begin to snap on.
Narrator: Humanity... (Sneering laughter from the citizens) ...twisted, bent... and misshapen by hubris... have entered a golden age... of never-ending life.
The mysterious lady is now walking down a dark street as a crow rests upon a street light and screeches.
All: (Hoarsely) Praise the black hand!
Narrator: The Rotlings... Blissful in their lives of decadent indulgence... Are haunted by a myth.
Town Crier: (Rings a bell) The beast whose blood flows black threatens our blessed world! Fear the prophecy! Fear the human born of the angel's egg!
As he shouts, the lady is given a paper showing the angel's egg.
Narrator: (Shouting) Welcome... to the Gaslight District! Abandoned by God! The denizens of this land are left to rot! Fester! Scab! (Normal voice) And peel... for all eternity.
A brief montage plays, in which a large humanoid creature is seen sharpening a cleaver, A lady scribbles on a piece of paper with a symbol on it, a slimy looking humanoid creature emerges from a toilet and crawls towards a Rotling, and a large beast with a loaf of bread for a head lifts up a car filled with 3 terrified Rotlings and pulls it towards his open mouth, but the scene cuts away before he bites down, the scene then shows a robotic humanoid jamming an unidentified capsule into what appears to be a brain. The same lady from earlier runs to a board showcasing photos, notes, and newspaper clippings, and ties them all together with red wire to the photo she received.
Narrator: That is, until the prophesized human... decides to show its face...
The lady grins as she turns to face the camera, revealing her identity.
——— Part One - The Human born of the Angel's egg.
A bird relieves itself on the streets. An insect climbs out of a sewer to eat the feces, and is run over by two speeding vehicles. As one vehicle speeds on, we meet our "heroes" from earlier: Ken the Butcher, Mud, Breadhead, Fionnán mac Dagda, and Melancholy Hill. Together, they make up the Smiling Dead, a local crime family.
The driver of the vehicle they're chasing screams in terror as he looks back out the window to see them in pursuit of him. Ken drives maniacally as he rams cars off the bridge until he is stopped behind two large trucks. He angrily smacks his head on the steering wheel, making it honk a couple times.
Fionnán held onto Mel. She smirked and kissed him on the head.
Ken: Breadhead! (Turns to the backseat where Breadhead is and starts speaking calmly) Papa needs a favor. Heave left in three... two... one!
Breadhead tilts the car on its side as it drives between the two large trucks, squishing Mel and Fion against the window in the process. The car lands back on all fours as the trucks steer off-road and crash and spin into the air, terrifying their targeted driver. Mud pops out of the car's roof with a sniper rifle, hocks and spits out a bullet, loads it into the chamber, sticks his eye directly into the scope, aims, and fires, hitting the left rear-view mirror. Mud chuckles and covers his eyes before firing again, this time hitting the driver in the back of the head. The bullet flies between his eyes, both of which briefly bulge from their sockets, leaving a gaping hole in his head, which the camera zooms directly through before stopping at the Sliming Dead's car, Mud still emerged from the roof.
Mud: Scum! (A large explosion occurs behind their car as he chucks the rifle away.) Dirty, bloody, pulpy, purple scum! (Cackles madly before suddenly stopping) Wait. (He ducks back down into the car.) Why are we huntin' Jack? I like Jack. (Ken looks away sheepishly)
Fionnán: Not really sure.
Breadhead: (Whilst picking his "nose") If we get paid, who cares why we do it? (Chuckles)
Mel throws a coin directly at Breadhead's head, catching his attention
Melancholy: I'll give you five scarab to turn Mud inside-out.
Ken: (Whilst adjusting his mirror) I'll give him ten.
Mud: (Grumbles before pointing at both Mel and Breadhead) I'd kill you degenerates for free! (Cackles)
Fionnán flinches slightly at the threat.
Mel: He's kidding babe.
Meanwhile, the scene zooms in reverse back through the hole in the head of the other driver, Jack the Rat, who slumps over, presumably dead, losing control of his car.
Melancholy: Hey, babe! Check this out!
She climbs on top of the car.
Fionnán: Impressive.
Ken: (Sighs and turns to face Breadhead) Breadhead, since you were just a bun in the oven, you've been nothing but good.
Breadhead: Ah...
Ken: (Sighs again) But your sister... (He pokes his head out the window.) Get back in here, you little brat!
Melancholy responds by barking at him, thus making him angrier, depicted by a cross-section of one side of his brain shutting off and the other switching on. Ken lets out a guttural scream after this
Fionnán: Oh deer.
Mud: Worse comes to worst, she loses her leg. (Performs the "vanishing finger" trick as the window next to him is rolled down, presumably by Ken) Just sew on a new one when we get-
Ken: Shut it! (Ken punches Mud's head off and it gets caught by Breadhead. Mud's head looks annoyed.)
Breadhead hands Mud's head to Fionnán, who plops his head back on his own body again.
Jack's car then accidentaly drives onto another Rotling's car, knocking it off-road. The symbol of the Black Hand glows and resurrects him, and he grabs the steering wheel just in time to avoid colliding with a truck in front of him, attempting to regain control when he hears thumping on the roof. He then hears chuckling as he pulls a mucus covered revolver out from his mouth, firing at the ceiling behind him.
Melancholy: So, Jack. (As she speaks, he fires at her, but she dodges out of the way.) As I was saying before you BOLTED on us... (Mel has moved to the other window, which Jack fires at only for her to dodge again and move to the windshield. By the time Jack has a clear shot, he's already run out of ammo) my blood, it's purple... (As Mel says this, she runs her finger through Jack's blood on the windshield, stroking it under her nose where her nostrils would be.) Right?!
Jack: (Pointing his empty gun at her.) You can't silence me, black blood!
Melancholy: (Snatches the revolver) Bzzt! Wrong! All Jack needed to do was answer correctly, (She stick the revolver into the hole in his head. The scene cuts to Ken ramming his car into the back of Jack's, then cuts to him slowly getting angrier) and Papa would have shown him some mercy!
Jack: What happens to Mud, Breadhead, and Mac? when they learn you're the human? (Pulls the gun from out of his head and points it back at Mel, the barrel dripping with his blood) Will "Papa" be able to protect you when the whole island pieces together what you are?!
Melancholy pulls out a knife and puts it against Jack's throat.
Melancholy: I'm gonna make sure they don't.
Suddenly, they veer off road and crash.
——
The family catches up to Jack's crashed car. Jack, being revived, groans in pain while Melancholy, some feet away, looks at her bleeding hand.
𝕹𝕺 𝖂𝕴𝕿𝕹𝕰𝕾𝕾𝕰𝕾
Melancholy: (Getting up) Damn it... (She looks up to see a crow staring at her.) Shit...
The rest of the family chuckles at they approach Jack's car. Except for Fionnán, as he goes to Mel to check on her.
Fionnán: Are you ok?
Mel: Pfft, I'm fine babe. You worry too much.
Meanwhile, Breadhead tears the door off by the hinges and chucks it behind him, only for Jack pulls out two revolvers and fire like mad, seeming killing 3/4th of the Smiling Dead. He eventually runs out of bullets. After a brief moment of levity, the Black Hand revives the gang
Ken: (Chuckling) Jack! (The camera zooms into Ken's face, now significantly more detailed) Oh, it kills me to do this to one of my own. So, I won't. Breadhead will do it for me.
Breadhead reaches his hand out and snatches the screaming Jack by both arms before lifting him into the air, causing him to drop his guns.
Jack: Breadhead, please! L-Listen to me!
Breadhead crushes Jack in his hand...
Breadhead: Whoops!
...And tosses him back onto the road.
Jack: (Straining while pointing to Melancholy) She's human... Mud... Breadhead... Mac... Ken deceived us all...
Mud: The shop won't be the same without you, buddy.
Mud pulls out a lighter and lights up a cigar in Jack's mouth.
Ken: (Sighs) Cement him. (He walks away as Mud and Breadhead grab Jack.)
—
Jack has now been put in cement shoes and thrown into the water as visions of Mud, Breadhead, Fionnán mac Dragda, and Melancholy sing about his fate.
♫Cement! Cement! Cement!♫
♫Make sure to hold your breath!♫
♫Once you reach the bottom♫
♫A fate way worse than death!♫
♫Cement! Cement! Cement!♫
Jack sinks to the bottom screaming as numerous pairs of eyes, likely from other victims, become visible from the depths.
—— Part 2: The Whale Belly Butcher Shop.
The scene starts with on a closeup of an unknown creature opening its eye, before zooming out to reveal it to be a whale, whose insides were converted into the Whale Belly Butchershop. The camera them zooms into the door as it opens on its own. Inside, the shop is bustling with activity as customers enjoy their meals and drinks while Breadhead plays the piano.
Ken: Welcome... to the Whale Belly Butchershop.
He kisses a lady's hand making her giggle while also grossing out Melancholy. She serves customers their meal.
Customer: Excellent!
She continues serving meals and places a bottle in Breadhead's head.
Melancholy: There you go.
Breadhead: Thank you, Mel.
Meanwhile, Mud looks around suspiciously and pulls out Jack's wallet (As we can see from his organ donor card). He proceeds to eat all the coins inside of it before eating the whole wallet.
Mud: Say, (Reels in Mel by his arm) Pipsqueak! (Slams his chest to spit a coin out) Impressive stuff out there for your first job. How about you come work for me instead? I'll pay you triple whatever kenny-boy is givin' ya.
He uses his tongue to flick a coin into Melancholy's hand.
Melancholy: Triple of nothing is still nothing.
Breadhead: Yeah... Ken pays us in valuable life experiences.
Fionnán steps out of the kitchen wearing an apron on.
Fionnán: Besides, Ken would most likely have your head on his wall.
Breadhead puts a fourth bottle in his head. Ken walks over and punches Mud in the gut, making him vomit out all the coins he swallowed into the cash register.
Ken: Back to work, ya ungrateful little stains.
Breadhead goes back to playing the piano. He hands a disgruntled Melancholy another meal to serve: A Litterbug's head on a plate. Fionnán heads back into the kitchen.
Melancholy: You're just mad cause your greatest fear's finally been realized: Me, an official member of the Smiling Dead.
She serves the meal and jams a knife into the head, freaking out the customer who happens to also be a Litterbug
Customer: AAAAAAAA-
Meanwhile, Mud flicks Ken's nipple, making him yelp.
Mud: You keep her bored like this, she's gonna start cookin' up some crazy shit herself.
Melancholy: Too late! I already have!
Ken: (Covers up a wound on her arm) Mel, look at you, huh? Delicate, unscarred. All your original limbs, untouched by this putrid world, and I would like to KEEP IT THAT WAY!!!
As Ken says the final words, he suddenly expands to a massive size. Melancholy exclaims softly while making a punching gesture.
Ken: Now look at us. (Breadhead is...) Crusty,... (Mud is...) musty,... (And Ken himself...) and rusty all over. You ain't one of us. And you never will be.
Melancholy: (Exhales sharply) As I was saying... I may have our biggest job yet!
Mud: Ooh! What's the take? (He steals a coin from out of her ear.) Better be enough to get me one of them cozy mattresses.
Cut to a flashback of Mud in the meat freezer, shivering next to various frozen creatures.
Mud: Sick of sleepin' on that meat hook.
Melancholy: (Steals the coin back) No, no, no, Mud. this has nothing to do with scarab. More like... (Whispers in Pig Latin) uman-hay egg-ay.
Breadhead slams down on the piano. Fionnán sticks his head out, staring at Mel with a nervous look on his face.
Mud: (Frightened) The human egg?
All the customers stop what they're doing in shock while muttering to themselves.
Melancholy: (Chuckles) I did some digging and figured out where it is. Paradise Lost. (Ken growls.) We sneak our way into heaven, snatch the egg from its frail old mother, then SMASH IT IN FRONT OF THE WHOLE TOWN! BOOM! We're legends!
Ken: Mel... Paradise Lost belongs to the Virtues. Haven't I ever told you what bein' sentenced to an eternity in the Inferno is like?
Fionnán: Actually, I've never heard of it... only the name of it. What's it like?
Mel: Trust me Fio, you don't wanna-
Ken: He needs to know.
Everything goes dark. Ken starts to imagine what the Inferno was; a frozen wasteland with Rotlings iced within the realm.
Ken: Imagine... bein' subjected to a never-ending rain of filthy, icy sludge! It dripping into every fold of your body as you lay frozen and numb (An icicle falls and lands in someone's eye.), but yet... you can't focus on any of it... as the excruciating pain of pullin' out an INGROWN TOENAIL-!!! (A Virtue Guard walks out of the darkness and uses his sharp claws to pull out Ken's ingrown toenail from his foot (which is iced in with him) and purple blood and slime comes out of Ken's toe.)
Fionnán shudders at it.
Fionnán: I probably shouldn't have asked then.
Breadhead: (takes the pic from Ken) Smash egg? (Ken snaps out of it.) Seems pretty easy to me.
Mud: (now dressed as a judge) Those in favor of a mutiny, point and say... "GO TO HELL!"
Mel, Mud and Breadhead: (all pointing at Ken) "GO TO HELL!"
Fionnán: Can I vote against this?
All this accomplishes is enraging Ken further, emphasized again by the cross-section of his brain. He snatches Melancholy and carries her over his shoulder into the freezer kitchen.
Ken: Father-daughter talk! (Punches the door open before entering) NOW!!!
Fionnán watches them go.
Fionnán: I'm gonna head back into the kitchen and-
Ken: You too Mac!!
Fionnán stops mid step as Ken sudden;y grabs him and takes him to the same place as Mel.
Ken locks it after entering the freezer kitchen with many locks, then skims through the window and shuts the blinds before turning to Mel.
Fionnán: So remind me why I'm here?
Ken: THE HUMAN EGG?!?! What are you selling these idiots, HUH?! There's only ever one human walking around this shit-hole, and that's YOU!
Melancholy: That's the beauty of it, Ken. I'm lying! (Chuckles as her eyes start to glow stark white, only to go back to normal just as suddenly.) It's just some dumb angel egg. All those idiots in town will go crazy about it. We dress it up, (Rips the picture in half) destroy it, and then no one will think twice about me being human ever again! (She pulls out a pair of ice tongs from an iced Litterbug head and points them threateningly in Ken's face while pulling his upper lips with it in the process.) Besides, I'm sick of you cementing all my buddies!
Ken: (grabs it from her then points it close to her face) AND WHO'S FAULT IS THAT?! Jack saw your nose bleed. Honest mistake. Not much we can do about that.
Flashback. Melancholy is reading a spicy magazine while Jack and Fionnán are doing dishes. Fionnán suddenly gets his shirt wet. He takes it off, exposing his chest in front of Melancholy. Blushing, black blood suddenly shoots out of her nose directly onto the plate Jack was washing (somehow not staining it) and she passes out.
Jack: (Gasps before pointing directly at Mel) B-b-b-b-b-... BLACK BLOOD!!!
Fionnán: Oh shrimp.
Fionnán (voiceover): In my defense, I tried to knock him out with a frying pan.
Later...
Ken: (Voiceover) But you straight-up told Romeo, who then told Cathy, who then told Syd...
Ken gasps in horror to witness what Mel did, a freezeframe showing him to be reading the same magazine as Mel. We then cut to the ocean to show Jack and three other Rotlings being cemented in the seas, being revived and screaming as Ken points them out.
Ken: (Voiceover) And now, I'm missin' a dishwasher, busboy, and two waitresses!
Flashback ends.
Fionnán: Well, one dishwasher at least.
Ken: Not helping.
Melancholy: (Hands Ken a hand-crank projector) Dad, work with me here.
Melancholy: (Zips off then pulls down a screen.) Picture this! (Dramatic voice) Ken the butcher, (Ken was not amused while rolling the projector.) handsome leader of the Smiling Dead, slays the human, saves the Gaslight District for another ten thousand years, until the human is born again. (Normal voice as the slideshow ends) Blah, blah, blah. (She pulls out her folder and hands it to him regarding her scheme.) Also throw some crap advertising the restaurant. (Looks over Ken's shoulder) Just look it over? If there's any problem at all, I swear, I'll never bring it up again.
Ken: (Checks it through his reading glasses) All this info is legit? The times, locations... (He slowly gets so angry, his glasses break by themselves.) the virtue.
Melancholy: Mm-hmmm, mm-hmmm, mm-hmmm. Triple-checked, sources confirmed, and then silenced. (She pretends to choke herself.)
Fionnán looks at the folder and nods.
Fionnán: It looks good to me. Plus, she tripled-checked it. Can't go wrong with that.
Melancholy: Thanks babe.
Ken: (Growls) Okay, you win. (Mel exclaims in joy til he picks her up.) One Condition: You don't leave my side. You pull any stunts like earlier today, and you never see sunlight again...
They pinky swear and Ken drops her. Melancholy leaves the room, leaving Ken and Fionnán alone.
Fionnán: The presentation was pretty good. (He Notices Ken isn't really happy about this) Look. I'll make sure she's safe and out of harm.
Ken: Promise?
Fionnán: Yep. Promise.
Ken: You're in as deep shit as she is. You know that right?
Fionnán: Yeah, guess that's why we make a match.
Flashback. It was a rainy day and someone knocked on the door. Ken opens the door to find no one there. As he was about to shut the door, he hears baby wailing and looks down to see a baby in a basket. It has a note on it. Ken picks the basket and brings it in reluctantly. He then reads the note. "Please, take care of my child, Fionnán mac Dagda." Ken looks at the baby as it notices small cuts on it with green blood in them. Ken notices a picture of him with Mel and let's out a sigh.
Flashback end.
Ken: Ok, you both win. But if I find one cut on her, you lose my blessings to marry her.
Fionnán: Deal.
Ken walks out of the room. Fionnán then realizes what he said.
Fionnán: Wait I lose what now?
—— Part 3: The Angel Egg Scheme
A delivery truck make its way to Paradise Lost. Our first Virtue, Diligence, is guarding the gate with its guards when the truck pulls up. Diligence goes up to the driver's window, which the driver, revealed to be Mud, lowers.
Mud: Morning, officer! Uh, I-I believe everything should be in order.
He hands Diligence a clipboard showing the deliveries, which gets approved. The back doors open and two guards enter to inspect. As Diligence moves around, we see the rest of the family hiding in a secret area under the floor. Melancholy gets ready to sneeze from the dust being stomped down to her face, but Fionnán blocks her nose and mouth before she could do so. It appears to be too late, though, as Diligence has gotten suspicious. Before it could react...
Virtue Guard: All Clear!
Diligence grabs the guard and tosses him out of the truck, where he lands on a large spike.
Virtue Guards: Holy shit!
The guards all form a staircase for Diligence to descend, hurting their backs as it does so, not helped by the fact that it is wearing spike heels. Two guards cry out in pain as Diligence stomps on them, while the third moans orgasmically. One guard gives a thumbs up as Diligence approaches Mud.
Diligence: We are pleased. And you...
It scans Mud, who covers his junk as Diligence scans over it.
Diligence: ...are a filthy rancid Rotling! (It stamps the clipboard, then gives it to Mud.) You may proceed.
The lock opens and falls off, squishing a guard. The gates open and the truck enters.
The truck enters Checkpoint: Heaven. Guards open the truck doors, only to get pulled in and beaten up. The family is shown putting on the guards' uniforms.
Fionnán: Huh, who knew these fit.
Melancholy: All right, here's the plan...
She lays out the map.
Melancholy: (Voiceover) Breadhead, you're on angel duty.
Breadhead is shown sneaking into the garden, where he sees an Angel sleeping. He cuts his own head off and his headless body kicks it towards the angel as it wakes up.
Breadhead: Pretty bird love yummy, yummy bread.
The angel flies down as Breadhead opens his mouth. The angel peeks inside and bites Breadhead's tongue. Breadhead, in pain, slams his mouth shut, killing the angel and awakening the other angels in the area.
Melancholy: Mud, secure the cameras and get the guards to focus on our little distraction.
Mud is now shown entering the security room. He sneaks up behind a sleeping guard when he suddenly wakes up.
Joshua: Mud?!
Mud: JOSHUA?!
Joshua hugs Mud, completely obvious to the furious expression on his face.
Mud: (Angrily pulls out his shotgun and loads it with shells from his mouth.) How long has it been? 5,000 years?
Joshua: Actually, 5,245 years. But who's counting? How's my Muddy Buddy?
(Mud aims his shotgun and blows Joshua's brains out.)
Mud: I HATE YA! I ALWAYS HATE YA! (Starts beating Joshua with his own chair) I WILL NEVER FORGIVE YOU!
Back in the garden, Breadhead is sucked up with the other angels as Melancholy, Fionnán mac Dagda and Ken make their way down a corridor.
Melancholy: Three, two, one.
The angels and Breadhead are seen flying over the glass ceiling as an alarm blares.
Mud: (Over speakers) All guards report to the garden! An angel storm is forming! Stop it before it rips this place apart!
The guards make their way to the garden as Melancholy and Ken continue down the corridor as if nothing is happening.
Melancholy: So, things are going pretty smooth. Don't you think?
Fionnán: Well, we haven't been caught yet. So it's going good.
Ken: (Growls and mumbles) Yeah. Oh, yeah.
Melancholy: You're, uh...
Ken stops to see a door labelled "Laboratory"
Melancholy: ...Proud of me, right? Y-You know, with... everything going according to plan, and all?
Ken: (Not paying attention) Uh-huh.
Melancholy: Ken?
Ken: (Growls) Need to make a pit stop. Just need five minutes.
Melancholy: What happened to "don't leave my side"? (The cross-section of Ken's brain appears yet again.)
Ken: (Furious) PLANS CHANGE! This is what you want, right?! To be one of us?! A member of the Smiling- (Sighs) Here's your chance. (He pulls out the map.) Meet me at the stairway. We go up together. Yeah?
They pinky swear.
Ken: Wait for me.
With his back turned, Melancholy and Fionnán mac Dagda enter the elevator and ascends to the top.
Fionnán notices Mel's expression.
Fionnán: Don't worry. He uhh... needing to use the restroom?
Melancholy: heh... yeah
Fionnán: Look, after this heist, nobody's gonna think you are the human. How about it Melany? Turn the frown upside down?
Melancholy chuckles softly before kissing him on the cheek.
Mel: You are adorable at times.
The angel storm knocks her folder out of her hands and upward. Just as Ken enters the laboratory.
Fionnán: Ok, now we just gotta wait for Ken and we'll be good to go for the egg. This is going way better than my anxiety thought. Right Mel... Mel?
Fionnán notices she's gone and he looks up and sees that Melancholy already begins her trip up the Stairway to Heaven.
Fionnán: Oh boy... (sighs) Guess, we'll die together then.
Fionnán quickly follows Mel up the stairs.
Meanwhile, In the laboratory, we meet our next Virtue: Temperance.
Temperance: This may sting for just a moment. Please, forgive me.
It jams a spike and a large egg above him opens slightly. At that moment, Ken arrives and brandishes his butcher knife.
Temperance: BUTCHER! How did you find me?!
Ken throws his knife at Temperance, but it blocks it with its arm. Temperance throws its angel, but Ken smashes it to the ground.
Temperance: I-I-I kept my promise, Ken. I've never spoken a word- any of it- to anyone! Please, reconsider your options!
Without hesitating, Ken proceeds to kill Temperance with his butcher knife. Ken then makes a scene by hollering loudly, alerting Mud in the security room.
Mud: Whoa, whoa, whoa! We don't want that kind of heat, mate!
Unbeknownst to Mud, Joshua's headless body rises behind him.
Meanwhile, Melancholy and Fionnán mac Dagda make their way up the stairs and arrives at a large gate.
Angel Mother: This way, child...
The gates open and she enters. She spots the egg when the Angel Mother lands down and picks it up.
Angel Mother: Child blessed by black blood.
Melancholy: Ah shit... (She holds up her drawing of the Angel Mother) Bad intel.
Fionnán mac Dagda: Who did you get the intel from?
Mel: Bob.
Fionnán mac Dagda: Dang it Bob!
The Angel Mother grabs Mel's arm and scratches her claws through her skin to bleed black blood under her disguise.
Angel Mother: Oh, how you've grown.
The one-eyed angel lands on the Angel Mother's shoulder.
Angel Mother: (Takes Mel's helmet off and tosses it away) I see all, child. (Brings her close to her eye) You cannot hide what you are from me.
Suddenly, a frying pan hits the Angel Mother in the head. She darts an eye at Fionnán.
Fionnán mac Dagda: Leave her alone!
The Angel Mother let's go of Mel and with sudden speed, stands in front of Fionnán. The Angel Mother grabs his arm and scratches his arm, revealing green blood.
Angel Mother: The child of divine heritage. The legends spoke of truth.
Fionnán mac Dagda eyes widen as he could see himself in her reflective eye. Mel looked up and sees Fionnán mac Dagda being held by The Angel Mother and looks to the Egg.
Meanwhile, Ken kills Temperance by tearing its head off. Afterwards, he picks up Temperance's brain as it tries to crawl away, lifts it up and opens his mouth, causing the brain to shriek, eats it, rips out the eye attached to it and starts laughing maniacally as a green glow eminates from his stomach and mouth. Back in the security room, Joshua tears Mud's head off and sounds the alarm to let the other guards know about the intruders.
Diligence: Contain the storm! I'll take care of the intruders.
Back in the security room, Mud and Joshua's bodies are pulling on Mud's head.
Mud: It was just a prank, man! Put me back! Put me back!
Back with Ken, he lights up a cigarette and sets a photo of Temperance holding a baby Melancholy on fire. The fire eventually spreads to the rest of the room.
Angel Mother: You do hear it... don't you?
The Angel Mother jabs with her beak, attempting to strike Melancholy, who is now holding the egg. Fionnán mac Dagda helps Mel as he looks up at The Angel Mother.
Angel Mother: The call of the prophecy... echoes louder each day!
The Angel Mother grabs Melancholy and throws her. Melancholy tries to get up and pulls her knife out. Fionnán mac Dagda throws a frying pan at The Angel Mother, only for her to grab it and toss it aside and grab Fionnán and throwing him at Melancholy. Mel helps him up as he grabs the frying pan.
Ken walks towards the Stairway to Heaven and sees a note saying "Plans Changed". He gets enraged as the cross-section appears one more time.
Angel Mother: A legion of angels to rain fire upon all those who rot upon the earth...
Melancholy climbs on top of the Angel Mother and jams the knife into her head, shattering her halo. She gets flung back and the Angel Mother howls in pain. Melancholy grabs the egg and flees with Fionnán mac Dagda.
——
Mud, having regained his head, makes his way to the garden. He finds Breadhead, who also got his head back just at the exact moment.
Breadhead: Whoa.
Mud: Get Ken, Mac, and Mel! Meet me at the entrance!
Melancholy and Fionnán mac Dagda being chased by the Angel Mother. She swipes at Melancholy, who loses her footing and falls off the stairs. Fionnán mac Dagda tries to grab Melancholy and he ends up falling with her. Mel grabs the egg and Fionnán grabs her and lands in Ken's arms.
Ken: Do our pinkie promises mean nothing to you?
Melancholy: (Coughs) Give me shit later.
The Angel Mother is climbing down the tower, her halo still visibly shattered.
Angel Mother: FOOLISH BLIND HUMAN!
She tries to grab the duo, but before she could, Breadhead intervenes and grabs them in his arms.
Virtue Guard: Intruders!
BAM! The guard gets run over by Mud in the truck.
Mud: In! Now!
Breadhead throws Melancholy, Fionnán mac Dagda and Ken into the back of the truck.
Ken: Ow!
Breadhead closes the doors.
Angel Mother: Touch not your feet upon the land to be razed! When your day of destiny arrives, we shall be there to guide you on silver wings!
As she speaks, Breadhead sniffs yeast, which makes him strong enough to punch the truck away. As Breadhead evades the angels, the truck runs over soldiers before hitting Diligence.
Diligence: YOU!!!
Mud screams before Breadhead flicks him off and he is run over, until it grabs the mini ladder in front of the truck doors.
Inside the truck, Ken is holding Melancholy in his arms.
Ken: (Panting) Stay with me... stay with me.
Fionnán mac Dagda: Don't leave us... please...
Fionnán mac Dagda breathes in a slight panic.
Diligence opens the doors and begins to attack Ken, only for the latter to rip its arm off. Diligence brandishes a sword in place of its arm and they duel. Diligence slices Ken's head, who in turn strikes back. Diligence grabs Ken by his throat.
Angel Mother: You... Belong... TO THE ANGELS!
The truck avoids more angels as Fionnán mac Dagda swings a frying pan into Diligence's head, causing him to stagger and Ken shoves Diligence out the door. Diligence is caught up in the angel army and is shredded.
Diligence: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaa-----
Melancholy: (Giggling) I'm invincible! Me! A member of the Smiling Dead! (Laughs, then passes out)
Ken looks at his daughter with a sad and disappointed expression on his face, not wanting her to be like him
Ken: (Sighs) I'll make sure you never end up... like one of us.
Fionnán mac Dagda:... She's gonna be ok.... Right?
Ken: Yeah.... She'll live...
Fionnán mac Dagda sighs as he slumps on a box as He looks at Mel.
Ken: You did good today... Thanks for the save.
Fionnán mac Dagda: Well, the gang wouldn't be the same without ya.
—— Part 4: The Human Death Ceremony
The crowd gathers for the ceremony.
Ken: Welcome, fine denizens of the Gaslight District! Today, I present to you... the human egg!
Mel, on Ken's shoulders, raised the egg over the prophesied drawing. Crowd cheers before chanting "Spike!" four times. Horns blow, drums beating, a Rotling pulls a lever as an electrical surge courses through the wires to the stage where a hatch opens up a twisted spike in front of Mel standing nervously with the egg.
Melancholy: Uh...
Ken: Keep it together, kid. They're buying it. (To the crowd) A prayer... to the black hand!
Ken and the crowd perform a wiggling finger trick.
Ken: Rotten little human hidin' in that egg, listen, and listen good. You shall never find peace in our land... as we will bathe this spike in your black blood time and time again. For you are the one thing to threaten our gift of eternal life. Now, let us rejoice in our victory! Let us restart the cycle! Let us praise the black hand for ANOTHER 10,000 YEARS!!!
Crowd goes wild. Mel's still nervous.
Ken: (To Mel) Now, just like you planned.
Fionnán mac Dagda gives a nervous smile and a thumbs up to her, hoping to ease her.
Melancholy gives a weakly smile and walks over to the spike.
Melancholy: Death... to the human. Life for us eternal!
Suddenly, before she could do it, the egg cracks. All Rotlings gasp in shock before cutting to black.
Melancholy: (Offscreen) No... no, no, no, no, no, not now.
A light shines on Mel moving the egg down close to her. It keeps breaking until it hatches into a baby Angel crowling in her hands. Whispering was heard from the Rotlings staring at this revelation until...
Rotling #1: Liars!
Rotling #2: Charlatans!
Rotling #3: Hobgoblins!
Rotling #4: Liars and cheats!
Rotling #5: Liars and cheats!
Rotling #6: Bloody fibbers!
The rabble's insults overlap over each other.
Town Crier: Shh... that's not a human.
Melancholy/Fionnán mac Dagda: Dad/Ken... what do we do now?
Ken looks down disappointedly, knowing that their plan was a total fail, the entire family went from feared legends to straight-up liars in the eyes of everyone else; their best chance at convincing people that Mel isn't human has been completely shattered within seconds.
———
Narrator: Welcome to the Gaslight District. A land of eternal life... for all but one of its denizens. A place where everyone has secrets to bury... and skeletons to hide. Six feet deep or a thousand fathoms under the sea... Eventually... all things rise to the surface.
As he speaks, the camera pans form the district, up to Paradise lost, where as the gates open up to Heaven, Diligence gets revived, and to the Stairway to Heaven, where the Angel Mother closes the gates. A hook then lowers underwater, where Jack is seen, still cemented. Whether or not he is pulled up remains to be seen..
Credits roll. A choir begins to sing.
♪I walked upon a melancholy hill♪
♪While whale-song echoed from the chasm deep♪
♪The weight of family bonds cementing still♪
♪The secrets that our fathers chose to keep♪
♪We drown our vulgar truths beneath the tide♪
♪And lance the boils that fester in the dark♪
♪The trust we place in blood has been belied♪
♪The soul adrift without a guiding mark♪
♪A ship of family now unrigg'd adrift♪
♪Conceals a cargo of unspoken shame♪
♪The veil between the worlds begins to lift♪
♪As we bear witness to a butcher's-
The choir drowns out as an Emergency Alert begins to play.
𝙿𝚁𝙾𝙿𝙷𝙴𝚃𝙸𝙲 𝚃𝙷𝚁𝙴𝙰𝚃 𝙰𝙻𝙴𝚁𝚃
THE HUMAN THREAT REMAINS UNCONTAINED.
ALL DENIZENS ARE REMINDED THAT FALSE
SIGHTINGS OR MALICIOUS REPORTS WILL
BE PROSECUTED AS DELIBERATE ACTS OF
TERROR AGAINST THE GASLIGHT DISTRICT.
OFFENDERS WILL BE PROCESSED ACCORDING
TO PROTOCOL OMEGA-7. YOUR COMPLIANCE
IS MANDATORY. YOUR COOPERATION IS APPRECIATED.
YOUR FEAR IS UNNECESSARY.
𝚁𝙴𝙼𝙰𝙸𝙽 𝚅𝙸𝙶𝙸𝙻𝙰𝙽𝚃, 𝚂𝚃𝙰𝚈 𝙸𝙽𝙳𝙾𝙾𝚁𝚂, 𝙰𝚁𝙼 𝚈𝙾𝚄𝚁𝚂𝙴𝙻𝚅𝙴𝚂
Since I've heard the second episode is about to release, I've figured it's time I covered this one. Let me know what you think of this with honest thoughts.
I will release the bio for Fionnán mac Dagda soon, be patient my friends.
Pray for the whole world to renounce and Repent it's sins and turn to God, for he is our Father and we wants us with him in heaven.
I hope you all Read your scriptures, praise the lord, And As always, Have a blessed Morning / Afternoon / Evening / Night / Day / Week / Month / Year / even a second/ millisecond.
And don't forget,
Jesus Loves you.