Episode 5: The Take Over
Back into the heat of the Infernite's land, and inside of Flain's home. Vulk was sitting, and happily watching Fraze and Pam Pam play with each other. Fraze almost trips, but he's still standing. Vulk gives Fraze a worried look. "Be careful now. You wouldn't want to get yourself hurt... Or really uh... Have your dad get angry at me, haha... That goes for you too, Pam Pam. Although I'll have a bit more leeway with you. You little trouble maker~" Vulk giggles to himself. “Right, sorry Uncle Vulk.” letting myself gain more balance and sit on the couch next to Vulk, in which he pats the side of my head gently. -I’m not a troublemaker? I just look for other ways to seek entertainment!- my eyes sparkle big as I listened to Pam Pam struggle trying to pull out one of the toys from the very crammed chest. “E-Entertainment. What big words heh.. where’d you hear that?” -I just remembered Zorch saying something about a surprise bit of entertainment when you look inside Lunk’s panties when he’s wearing it. Whatever that means?- “I don’t get it?” -Me neither but I think entertainment means fun. Anyway, quit distracting me! I’m so close to- the chest flips over causing all the toys to land on Pam Pam in a cartoonish way however thankfully unhurt by it. Vulk lets out a nervous laugh. "O-oh don't you kids worry about that. That's just Zorch being... Zorch." He gets up and starts helping Pam Pam out of the pile of toys. "Y'know, sometimes it feels like your dad, maybe Lunk, and me, are the only ones that have a good influence on you. Everyone else always teaches something so vulgar... Ah, but they're still good friends of mine. Anyway, you two must be hungry. I'll fix us up some hamlogna sandwiches. And if you're good, You'll get some cookironi as extra~" Vulk walks into the kitchen. After a bit of time, someone knocks at the door. Pam Pam goes to open it, and sees Magnifo, along with one other Mixel. He's a WIztastic that's short, with a hat on each eye, and wings. He also looked very unamused. Magnifo smiles at Pam Pam. "Oh! Just the Mixel I wanted to see! I wanted you to meet Mesmo. He's been my assistant ever since I started doing magic shows! And, he can show how you, and or Fraze, can help out with your amazing abilities!" Magnifo strikes a pose, as well as Mesmo. "Abilities." Says Mesmo in a very monotone voice. Magnifo continues. "It'll be a great way to show the world what you can do!... Well, okay maybe not the WHOLE world... Or even that many Mixels, I'm just so very curious." "Curious." Mesmo repeats. “Huh? Uncle someone’s here? I didn't know we’d have more over?” looking behind the couch I see my brother foolishly open the door letting the stranger in. -Oi look, Magnifo’s here- Getting off the couch I made my way over to Magnifo, giving him a hug, but was a bit cautious of the new guy, hiding behind Magnifo as he introduced us to him. Even after the introduction I was still sorta afraid of him. -Mesmo looks so cool, wouldn't you agree Fraze?- As Pam Pam hugs Mesmo the expression on his face doesn’t change, still having an unamused expression. I’m sure he’s happy on the inside but I don't really respond, still hiding behind Magnifo. -You’ve met uncle Vulk before haven’t you? Probably since you guys have been around before we were born. What’s he going to help us with exactly?- Pam Pam tries to climb on Mesmo with him assisting by spreading out his wings to let him climb onto him. -Yay I get a ride!- Magnifo smiles even wider. "Wowie! I knew you'd get along just fine. So, what's gonna happen is-" Just as Magnifo was talking, Vulk's voice can be heard from inside the house. "Alright, boys. The food is ready!... Wait, who's at the door?" Vulk walks up, and sees Magnifo. Magnifo looks back and waves. "Oh! Hi Vulk! I was just about to take these kids on a spectacular journey to seeing their potential. You wanna come watch? You know I loooooove an audience!" A mix of emotions was going through Vulk's mind. He mumbles something to himself, then shakes his head, and tries to smile. "I-I appreciate the thought, Magnifo. But we were just going to have a slow day today. I mean, they haven't even eaten their lunch yet." "Oh, that's no problem. They can just bring those with us! We're really just going to be right outside the house. I don't want another... Cookironi incident." Magnifo's eye widens, as there's a dark shade on the side of his face. Vulk looks completely confused. "Uhh... Wha?" Magnifo switches back to a happy look. "Anyway! I have Flain's permission. As long as the house doesn't explode. Which won't, because we won't be in it, HA!" Vulk grips the plate of hamlogna sandwiches, filled with worry. "B-but. I was..." Mesmo raises a wing. "Just let the kids choose." Magnifo gives an approving nod. "You're so right, Mesmo! We could have a spectacular magic show outside! Or a... Not as spectacular indoor chill day. What will fate decide?" "Decide." -Heck ya we’re definitely going outside! Itssss so boring in here, and when Magnifo is around something interesting always happens!- “Is that a good thing, or a bad thing?” -Who cares! I want something exciting!- “Well if dad said it was ok I’m sure it’ll be fine. As long as Uncle Vulk comes with us we haven’t got to-” -Oh c’mon! It’s ok Dad said it was fine we should go! I wanna have fun!- “I’ll go if Vulk does.” -C’mon Fraze! It’s Magnifo! Let’s go!- Pam Pam rocks back and forth onto Mesmo, very excited for what’s in-stored. But, I was kinda nervous both from Mesmo, and what if something bad happens? Oh well Vulk will keep me safe. He’s here this time. Hopefully. “You’re not wrong, but Vulk is family tho. He’s a part of our lives y’know?” -You’re right... But, I wanna have fun though...- Pam Pam and I look at Vulk for his approval to see what he’ll do and decide. But, even I had to admit I did want to go with Magnifo. It’s why I didn’t turn down the opportunity. It’s more like I wanted everyone together. I do care about Vulk a lot Vulk sees the look in Fraze's eyes. It was clear what he wanted. Vulk sighs. "O-okay I'll be there too. But, just to make sure Magnifo doesn't do anything crazy." Magnifo smirks and raises one of his wands. "Would you call this crazy?" With a twirl of his wand, the hamlogna sandwiches float off the plate, and start multiplying. Only a few were created, nothing crazy. "See? I'm not the same screw up you once knew. I've gotten a tip or two from Zammie, recently. So, yeah! Things are going to be great!" Everyone starts leaving the house, except for Vulk. The sandwiches float away from him as he sees the kids smiling, and being around Magnifo. Vulk gives out an annoyed grunt. "This is not how it's supposed to be..." He then tries to smile, and catches up with everyone else outside. Magnifo, and Mesmo stand side by side. Mesmo puts Pam Pam down and has him walk back to Fraze. Then Magnifo raises both his wands. "Okay! We have a lot we gotta go through, today! We want to see just how much you two can do. So, let's start with something easy... Mesmo?" Mesmo raises his wings above him, which then leads to Magnifo jumping up, and standing on top of them. "You see. One of the most important aspects of your skills is teamwork! It can really enhance what you do!" Magnifo waves his wand. Then a light purple, see through coconapple tree gets made right in front of him. "Thanks to the extra height my assistant has given me. I could reach this coconapple, very easily." He reaches for the coconapple, but it phases right through his claw. "W-well, if they were real... But you get the idea, yeah? Try to find a way to reach up here. With your ability I'm sure it'll be a piece of cake~" "C-cake..." Says Mesmo, struggling to keep Magnifo up. Both Pam Pam and I clapped as we watched the performance. But us having to work together to get that coconapple? But it’s so high up and we’re both very small I don’t know how we’d pull it off… -Don’t worry I got this!- Pam Pam shoots fire from his claws at the tree, not entirely sure why he decided to do that. The fire fazes through the tree for it not being real. I tried to use my ice to put it out but I was starting to get overwhelmed by its spread. Then Magnifo, Mesmo and Vulk stumbled around to put out the fire. As we just watched, not sure what to really do. “We’re being reckless...” -No! I was being smart! All I had to do was set the tree on fire, and it’d melt and the coconapple would fall off!- “But wouldn’t it melt too tho?” -Oh, Right... Got any ideas?- “I could use my ice?” -Ya let’s go with that!- I try to create ice to freeze the tree but actually only ends up freezing the ground causing us both to fall into the ground hard cartoonishly like a person slipping on a banana peel, hurting ourselves in the process. “I have one last idea.” Pulling out the cubit Pam Pam eagerly presses down on it. {visually shows a giant magic hat with a bunny coming out of the hat pulling us both in. A magic wand that by itself taps onto the ring of the hat. “Abra kawoka…… MIX!” Both Pam and I become one as we use the combination of fire and ice, creating a fire staircase and my ice to freeze it with us thankfully having a better grip we safely climb up to the top and reach the coconapple “Tadah!” Vulk, Magnifo, and surprisingly Mesmo were all looking wide eyed. Magnifo had sparkles in his eye. "Beautiful! Just beauti- Aaaah!?" Magnifo falls onto his butt. He looks at Mesmo. "Heeey! What's the big deal?" Mesmo shrugs. "No reason to carry you anymore." "W-well a warning would've been nice..." Magnifo gets back up. Then Vulk taps his hands together. "Okay. We had our fun. What you two did was impressive. But now we're done, right?" Magnifo waggles his claw. "Ooooooh no, my friend. That's just the starting act. What those two did was more than spectacular! We tested their creative skills. Now we have to test the power of their teamwork!" Vulk has a hand on his hip, looking not as patient as usual. "Well, seeing as there's nothing physical here that would be okay to destroy. We should skip that one..." Vulk rolls his eye. "Except maybe you..." Magnifo scratches his chin then a lightbulb appears above his head. "Ah, ha! You're a genius, Vulk!" Magnifo waves both wands in each claw, surrounding them with purple magical lines. "Abra! Cowakaa... Doooooodleeeee!" He taps both wands on his chest. His whole body flashes purple. Then, a clone of himself split out of him. The clone stood there with a blank expression. But, everything from Magnifo's metallic like body, to his likeness was one to one. Vulk was so surprised that his lower jaw hits the ground. Magnifo chuckles. "Heh. Impressive, I know. Another trick I learned from Zammie. I can make as many clones of myself as I want! W-well theoretically. It would take more training to make a whole army, but hey! Here's your target! Oh! And don't worry. The clone is only a shell. They don't have thoughts or feelings. Once he takes enough damage he'll just poof!" Hearing about this starts to make me worry. "Poof?" -Damage? Wait, is he wanting us to harm the clone?- “Would we do that? I don't want hurt another mixel. it's also someone I care about." Maybe it's because I'm a kid I wasn't really sure what they were trying to get us to do. I don't think Flain would be fond of us hurting a mixel as a teamworking effort? -Step aside Fraze watch, and observe as I use my fire- "Hold on we shouldn-" Before I could even finish Pam Pam swung both his arms pretty fast as they became a fire circle. "Pam Pam are you crazy?.. That's a fellow mixel!" Using my ice I freeze his arms to hold him in place. "What are you doing? That's not just a mixel. He’s our friend, someone we care about. Why would you hurt them without a second thought?" -But Magnifo said it wasn't him. Let me do this. I bet one day I can defeat 30 nixels by myself, and you're just holding me back!- "This isn't the same as a nixel, Pam. This isn't a game either, Pam." Pam filled with rage fully gulfed himself in flames as he broke himself free from my ice. and runs over to me knocking me down, as he layed over on top of me. -Game? no one said this was a game you don't know how it feels to badly lose to nixels, and almost get killed in their grasp!- "Pam I would know this better than anyone you’re a part of me remember? I know how you feel and you know how I do." Pam either knowing that I was right, or the fact that he could hurt me immediately gets off and steps a good distance away from me in disgust. Not at me, but more from himself. -"I just don't want to fail again”- We both say in unison Magnifo stood there. His smile slowly fading away. "Hmm... Maybe I overlooked how beating up someone that looks like me would feel to someone else..." Vulk crosses his arms and looks unamused. "I don't see the problem with that. As you said it isn't you. So I don't have to feel bad when I do this!" Vulk dashes forward, and uppercuts where the clone's nuts would be. He flies up in the air before disappearing into a purple poof. Vulk smirks and looks at the kids. "See? It's all good. But, I can understand how fighting another Mixel could feel bad. Sometimes that sort of stuff happens, and you have to be ready for it. However... It depends on who the Mixel is if it feels really bad..." Vulk looks towards Magnifo, and looks happy. "Hey, How about you make more of those clones? Y'know... For learning?" Magnifo sweats a little, but still smiles. "I-I suppose that works. Anything to make this fun for everyone!" Magnifo does his spell, this time making three copies of himself. Vulk cracks his knuckles. "Just what I needed..." Vulk puts his hands out and shoots a burst of flame to the first clone, covering him into flames before poofing. Then, he dashes behind the second one and kicks them from behind, they poof. Then, with the last one. He charges a flame ball in his hands and shoots the projectile down at the clone's nuts. After the last one poofs, Magnifo was sweating a lot more, and does a nervous chuckle. "W-wowie. You're uh... Very enthusiastic for this lesson huh?" Vulk blows at his fist, as if he's blowing off a gun after shooting it. He turns his head a bit, unamused. "Just a coincidence. Now are you going to make more?" "U-uh sure, sure! Just don't expect that much more. This is still quite the new spell for me, haha." Vulk gets into a fighting stance, ready for anymore clones to show. The both of us did nothing. Only holding onto each other as we watched Uncle Vulk continue to defeat what looked like a copy of Magnifo over and over again. -Is it me or does someone have a grudge on someone?- I said nothing, only really watching, feeling very uncomfortable through most of it. This felt wrong. I think Vulk was trying to teach us something, but I got a different vibe from it. I think Magnifo did too, Looking over at Mesmo seeing him only show the same expression with his eyes not blinking in sync.. Mesmo he's he's.. Honestly he's really hard to read, but I think he's upset too on the inside… Ya, on the inside. Regardless, neither one of us wanted to participate, only holding each other's arms as we watched our uncle actually behave scarily. Magnifo makes another clone. Vulk goes for a kick to the crotch. But, as he was going for that, the clone flashes blue for a second, and side steps the attack. At this second everyone was looking shocked. Including Magnifo. The clone pushes Vulk away, and Vulk looks very angry. "What?! Magnifo! You said they don't move!" "T-they shouldn't! Unless the spell malfunctioned?" Vulk rolled his eye. "Oh, of course the spell went wrong, it's you were talking about!" Magnifo looked genuinely shocked. "V-Vulk wha-" The clone flashes blue again. He splits into two, then four, eight, sixteen. Eventually everyone is surrounded by Magnifo lookalikes. Everyone is in the center, with their backs touching each other. Magnifo is now looking very worried. "Oh geez. Oh Gosh! Honestly, an explosion as a mess up would be a lot easier to deal with than this!" Every clone gets another flash of blue. Now they're walking in on the group. Vulk stares back at the slowly approaching clones. "Looks like they'll be fighting back now. It's life or death!" Each clone that walks to Vulk has him punch or kick them away. Magnifo points his wand at the clones and shoots around their chest, or crotch area. Sometimes hitting the nuts. "L-look I'm an entertainer, not a shooter! Not to mention it's so weird shooting someone that looks just like me..." Mesmo has an angry look for once. He swipes the air, sideways with his wings. Which shoots out a sharp projectile that sometimes hits multiple targets at once. And, thanks to his height, mostly hit the nuts. -Now can we do something? Let us try out our powers show Fla.. I mean dad we aren't worthless let's show these guys what we're made of.- Pam Pam shoots his fist in the air full of energy ready to strike, but I softly put his arms down. Something feels wrong. "Hold on. We should think outside the box. Why are the copies upset in the first place? -Well because they.. We.. Well.. ...- "Let me try something. if it fails go at it. But if you trust me you'll let me do this." Showing no signs of harm or indication of wanting to fight. I approached the group of Magnifos that circled around us. “I understand why you're upset, You guys did nothing wrong and in a sense are alive, just about as much as we are." Pam Pam seeing where I'm getting at steps in front of me and chimes in -You see I am a spirit that just so happens to have a mind of it's own. In a way you dudes are like that, too. Even though you guys are supposed to be mindless copies. You do have minds, and you do have your own thoughts, and feelings. In a sense you're like me. I'm a copy of this guy.- Pam gives me a soft hug -We may be the same person or a part of each other. We still have our own thoughts, and well, I for sure wouldn't like it if I only was here just to be used as target practice then get replaced. You guys deserve better.- "We should have approached this situation differently. and I'm sorry for that." -Uh if you want to anyway dude- Vulk and Magnifo look mortified as they see Fraze just walk in. But, they start to relax when the copies don't attack them. In fact they start hugging them. Vulk and Magnifo look at each other, completely baffled. Then, everyone hears the voice of an older person. "My my. What an interesting turn of events." A figure of a Mixel was standing on top of Flain's house. He jumps down to the center, and Magnifo gasps. "Z-Zammie!?" Just like any WIztastic, he was mostly purple with blue accents here or there. He's around Vulk's height, and holding a blue staff taller than him as a sorta walking stick. He taps his staff on the ground, making the clones flash blue, and stop attacking. "First of all, who would've thought that a few kids could test the theory of the clones you make havin' some sense of being alive? I used to think it was baloney, but looks like even I still have a few things to learn, ho ho ho!" Magnifo, still kinda shocked about a lot, crouches down a bit to Zammie. "Uhhh I'm sorry, but whyyyy are you here?" Zammie looks unamused, and has the bottom part of his staff lightly tap Magnifo's nuts. "Yoich! Whaaat? What did I do?" "I told ya not to crouch down like that... Makes me feel small." A small tap like that was enough to make Magnifo grunt some more. Vulk was giggling in the background. Then Zammie speaks up. "It's simple, really. I know you like to show off your magic like it's some show, or somethin'. I can sense that kind of stuff, even when I really don't want to... I usually just peek in, see what you're doing, then be on my way. But today was different. As I saw those clones you've made, that red guy was shown' signs of havin' some sorta issue." Magnifo gives Zammie an unamused look. "His name is Vulk." "Yeah, don't care. So anyway, I wanted to test somethin'. He clearly wanted to keep fightin' them clones So, with a little spell, I had them start fightin' back. I wanted to see if I could get more info on how red here feels. And I think I got it." Zammie points his staff at Vulk. "You're jealous of Magnifo, and you're taking your anger out on a lookalike of him" Vulk grits his teeth. "I-I'm not jealous. You're jealous." "Uh huh, right." -This the almighty Zammie?.. I was expecting him to be a bit... Taller? Even dad's taller him- "Wha? This was a test? So does that mean the clones aren't." The both of us pause only looking at each other then look away with me staring at the ground while Pam Pam stares at the clones. -I'm alone aren't I?- "Of course not. You got me and Dad uncle Lunk and Vulk-" I start to list off every mixel I knew of until Pam Pam cut me short mid conversation. -That's not what I meant... But Vulk.. Even he gets jealous? Do you think Dad gets jealous?- "Of course not why would he ever get jealous? He has everything that he all wants... Though..." -What was Vulk jealous of? I thought he was ok?- Zammie looks over to Pam Pam. He walks closer and closer, really inspecting him. "Hmmmmmm... Your thoughts on the clones interest me. Not to mention this magical feel I have from ya… You're different from the others. So I'll forgive that statement." As Zammie invades Pam Pam's personal space. Mesmo was looking back at the clones, unblinking. And they looked back at him. It almost felt like they had an understanding with each other. As that happens, Magnifo looks at Vulk, nervously rubbing his own arm. "I mean... With the way you're acting now it kinda fits... I tried to play it off as just for fun... But what you said earlier really hurt..." Vulk looks away, because he knows if he looks at Magnifo's eye. It'll make him sad. "I just... Ugh... It felt like you were trying to one up me this whole day. Like I've taken care of Fraze and Pam Pam much longer than you. And yet they already feel that attached to you? I-It's not fair..." Magnifo covers his maw with one claw, in shock. "I... What!? That was never my intention! Vulk, you should've told me how you felt." Vulk looks to the ground, arms crossed. "I didn't want to ruin the day with my selfish attitude... I'm supposed to be the nice one... But looks like I still ruined it anyway..." A tear goes down Vulk's eye. Magnifo gives Vulk a hug. "I'm sorry... Sometimes I'll have my head up in the clouds, and I don't notice these things, haha..." Vulk hugs back. "No I'M sorry! We all care for those kids. It's not all about me." The two of them hug it out for a bit. Then Zammie smirks at them. "Heh. I love bein' right." Pam and I both run into the hug squeezing our way through so that we’d be right in between the Vulk and Magnifo. “I’m sorry it felt like you were sidelined. I tried to help you be involved because you’re always family to us, Vulk.” -Yaya. Sorry dude. But, Fraze is right. Even if we decide to hangout with other mixels, just know you’ll always be our uncle, and that won’t change ever. We both are very thankful for all you do for us. And, sorry it felt like I was ignoring you. But you’re not a friend, Vulk your family to us.- “And it's always a treat seeing you. I actually really missed you a lot. You've been gone a bit because of work...” My stomach begins to growl “I could use a bite..” -Me too, tho what ever happened to our lunch?- Vulk became more teary eyed. "Awwww~ Come here~" Vulk gives everyone a hug. Then, Magnifo looks around. "I feel like we're forgetting someone..." Just off screen was Mesmo standing there, watching everyone hug. Magnifo opens up his arm, and Mesmo hops right into his grasp. "There. Now everyone is here... O-oh wait, Zammie?" Zammie looks unamused. "I don't do hugs. In fact this is enough social interaction for one day. I'm goin' back to my cave." Zammie just waddles away, and Magnifo has sparkles around him. "So wise~" Vulk lets the hug go and speaks. "Now then. Pam Pam's right! Why don't we finally have our lunch?" Everyone starts walking back inside Flain's house. But, Magnifo stops in place. "Wait, I just noticed something. Every one of my spells didn't go crazy, or exploded! YES! Woohoo! I'm spectacular! This calls for a celebrational firework show!" Magnifo makes a top hat appear in his claw, and he swirls a wand above it. "Abra! Cowwakaa! Do-" The hat explodes, which covers his whole body in black soot. Zammie laughs in the distance. "Yeeep I felt that one from over here. Maybe next time!" Off in the distance Zaptor had all the plates with hamlogna sandwiches that he quickly munched away on for himself. As he ran quickly with them. “Haha all for mysel- ahhhhh!” Zaptor fell through a pothole that was randomly left on the road. “Not again!”
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