'Why it lead to this?' Jr thought from his current position, kneeling in front of a green devil judge with his arms magically bound and his family watching from the left side. 'Why did helping a friend, doing what I felt was right, lead to this situation?'
What this scenario is is Jr facing judgement for committing one of the most heinous crimes in the underworld, betraying the bitch queen aka his mother, Mandy.
"May the guilty party rise?" asked the demon judge, Roy Spleen, from his podium.
Jr said nothing as he rose from the ground and stood on his feet.
"Grim Jr., you stand accused of the following crimes. Association with a prisoner who broke into your home, breaking into a ruler's vault, and stealing one of her prized trophies. What are your thoughts on your crimes?" Roy Spleen asked, pointing his gavel to Jr.
"I didn't do anything wrong." Jr said said as he raised his head to the judge, showing a pleading look in his right eye and left hollow socket. "I was just trying to help my friend."
"Yes, yes, helping a friend. A friend who invaded your home with the soul purpose of stealing a powerful and dangerous artifact!" Roy Spleen said as he pointed to Jr. " I know you must have some form of relationship with the criminal but evidence of harmful intent outweighs your 'friendship.'" he stop for a moment to take a breath before deciding it was time to end this. "I am sorry, your majesty but I have reached my verdict."
Roy Spleen stood up from his chair and gave a stern look to Jr, even though he didn't like what he was about to do.
"Grim Jr., for the crimes of betrayal to the throne and aiding an enemy, I hereby strip you of your powers, title, and birth right as future king of the underworld and sentence you to banishment to the mortal realm" he finished with a single bang of his gavel.
The second that gavel hit the podium, Jr felt the entire world slow down to a near halt and his soul shatter into a million pieces. All he did help Mimi reclaim her powers so she could escape, he never thought it would mean losing EVERYTHING. He slowly turned to his family, hoping one of them would object to this verdict but they did not. Grim just look down in sorrow while covering his eyes with his hood, Mandy looked with disappointment at the child who betrayed her, Lord Pain looked away from his now former master, and Minnie, who had given Jr the cold shoulder since Mimi got to the castle, just scoffed at him with a scowl on her face as she closed her eyes.
'No. Please, no.' Jr thought as he fell to his knees, feeling a great sense of despair as his family just let it happen.
"And now, former prince of the underworld, you shall be stripped of all demonic power before you are cast out." Roy Spleen said as he nodded to a castle guard, who held a special demonic sealing urn for the purpose of taking another's power.
The guard, sad for Jr, nodded and walked to his now former master before pointed the urn at him.
"Please, forgive me for this, young master." it said with a heavy metal heart before activating the enchanted urn. "By the power of the heaven, earth, and underworld, let the power of he who is unworthy, be taken."
The little skeleton boy soon felt extreme pain as he felt his natural reaper powers that had yet to be awakened and the nergal powers he received from Minnie being ripped from him in the form of blue magical energy coming from his body and nergal tentacles coming out of his right eye socket.
"Aaahhh! Rraaahhh!" Jr screamed as he felt his powers, current and unawakened, be ripped from his very soul.
His family all had different reactions to the scene before them and the lights that were glowing. Grim and Lord Pain look away from the sight, not wanting to see his pain, Mandy just crossed her arms, seeing justice for her foolish son's betrayal, and Minnie did the same as her mother, her heart cold to her brother in pain. A full minute passed before the deed was complete and Jr was breathing heavily, now in a human form. No powers and no family.
"And now, before your banishment, we shall bestow your royal power to the next of kin in line for the thrown." Royal spleen proclaim as he gestured for Minnie to step forward, which she silently compiled until she was in front of the guard. "Minimandy, by the power vested in me by your mother, Mandy, and your father, Grim, I hearby dub thee the heir to the underworld throne and the next Grim Reaper." he said as he swung his gavel again.
Minnie nodded and knelling before the guard as he pointed the jar towards her, bestowing not only the power she gave Jr but his own Reaper power as well.
"May thou who is worthy of the power, be bestowed that of which the unworthy hath been stripped." the guard said in a sad tone as the power was transferred.
Minnie sighed in relief as she felt her eye return to her and a new power flow into her and restore her rag doll body. Jr lifted his head to watch as Minnie rose to her feet and gazed upon her new appearance, the stitch lines the were around her body were gone, her blonde had grown and decided back to it's original form, and both eyes were filled and gray once more but her skin still retained it's gray color from when she was put back together in Halloween Town.
"It is wondrous to be whole once more." she said as she turned her gaze to Jr, showing him the new coldness of her eyes before she returned to Mandy, Grim, and Lord Pain.
"And now, the final act. Your banishment." Roy Spleen said as he turned to Grim, who was to make the portal.
Grim solemnly moved forward and brought out his scythe before stopping next to Jr.
"Fogiv mi, son." Grim said to Jr, who simply turned to him with pleading eyes but they were ignored.
Grim spun his signature tool and sliced the floor, opening a spiraling, green portal through space and time to the mortal realm.
Grim then took a step back, silently releasing Jr from his magical restraint before pushing Jr in with the bottom of his scythe. As the former prince was falling in, he turned his body to face his father and show him the tears coming from his eyes as he fell.
"Daaaaaaaad!" Jr shouted as he reached out to him but his hand was met with nothing but air as he fell into the portal, seeing the entrance close.
As the former prince feel, being consumed by nothing but sadness, fate seemed to have different plans as the portal tunnel around him turned into a pitch black void before turning into a tunnel of wind with orangish yellow lightning crackling around it.
'Lightning?' Jr thought as he looked around him before a bolt of lightning suddenly pierced his chest, shocking his body.
"Aaaahhhhh!" he screamed as the lightning coursed through his veins, delivering an unbearable pain to his entire being.
Jr couldn't help but think this was the end, that after losing everything, his life would be next.
'No...No!' Jr thought as he clenched his hands into fists, refusing to just die in this place after being unjustly cast out and stripped of everything. 'I refuse to die here!'
As Jr continued to resist the pain, letting the sadness of losing his home and the anger at his family casting for doing something he knew was right, fuel him and his resolve as the lightning crackling around his body began to turn black and white.
"I REFUSE TO DIE HERE!" Jr shouted as he curled his body into a ball before throwing his arms and legs out, roaring with all his might as a wave of lightning exploded from his body and his eyes crackling with the black and white lightning.
The lightning soon began to settle around his body before Jr started to feel weak and passed out as the portal tunnel turned back into its green spiral and ejected him in the ruins of the lost, former city of heroes, Megaville.
