Chapter 2: More Survivors
Although Grim intended to head to the Bastion, he felt there might be more survivors around than just him, Billy and Mindy. As the trio searched, they heard a cry from the house belonging to Irwin. Irwin had just woke up thinking he'll be late to school, but all he woke up to was a statue of his grandmother and his grandfather Dracula prepared to yell at him for oversleeping.
"Grand mama is a statue!" cried Irwin as he was in distress.
"That came from Irwin's!" said Billy.
"Great another loser survived this whatever it is" said Mindy.
"It's called the Calamity Mindy" replied Grim, "and it's all Billy's fault for starting it. We need to pick up as many survivors as we can and ship off to the Bastion."
As the trio rushed over to Irwin's place, they first found Irwin's father typically turned into a statue reading his newspaper. They headed upstairs to find Irwin in tears crying like a baby in his bed knowing that his grandmother and grandfather wouldn't be coming back.
"Grim how could you take them!" cried Irwin as he was sobbing uncontrollably.
"I didn't do this you twit!" replied Grim, "Billy here caused what's known as the Calamity."
"What the heck is that yo?" asked Irwin who stopped sobbing for a moment.
"It's when the entire world around you starts to fall apart, and every last love one you ever knew is turned to stone forever" replied Grim, "the scythe has no way of changing it back."
"Wait a second, Mandy!" cried Irwin as he dashed right out of his room and out of his house.
As Irwin raced to find Mandy he found Mandy turned to stone trying to get Billy to go to the bus.
"This is perfect yo!" laughed Irwin.
"How the heck can this be perfect?" cried Grim.
"Mandy's a statue, that means I'll be able to worship her forever, and ever and ever!" laughed Irwin.
"But a minute ago you were crying that your grandparents were turned to stone, and your father and mother must be already stone too" added Grim.
"But having Mandy being turned to stone makes up for that yo, now she can't reject me" continued Irwin.
"I hate to agree with this loser here, but he makes a point, I can mock Mandy all I want and there'll be no consequences" added Mindy.
"But, what about your popularity?" asked Grim, "There'll be no one else here but me, Irwin and Billy, and we all know you hate to be around losers, especially if it's going to be forever."
"Then what the heck are we waiting for, I want to get out of this nightmare!" cried Mindy.
"There must be another survivor we can find" said Grim.
"At last!" roared a familiar voice with joy, "A garden that I can finally enjoy peacefully for the rest of my entire life!"
"General Skarr, that weird one eye guy survived!" laughed Billy.
Billy raced over to General Skarr's residence, Skarr was quite pleased not knowing what really caused the Calamity, he had setup the Endsville townsfolk as part of his garden. Often these townsfolk would be mocking Skarr for having a poor garden all because Billy was the one who ends up wrecking and destroying it.
"Ah yes, I could get use to this kind of lifestyle, how do you like that this is for all the time you mocked me!" roared Skarr at a statue of an old man who apparently didn't like Skarr before the Calamity.
"Wow, it's a statue place!" laughed Billy.
"What, how the heck did you survive this!" cried Skarr.
"I caused it!" laughed Billy.
"It figures, I knew this was too good to be true" sighed Skarr.
"But we can still have fun in your garden" said Billy.
Billy then jumped onboard a lawnmower and started to tear up Skarr's priceless roses.
"Stop it, stop it!" cried Skarr.
"And like you said, I can do this forever, and ever and ever, and ever, and ever!" laughed Billy as he tore through more bushes.
Grim along with Mindy came as quickly as they could, Irwin stood by with the statue of Mandy admiring her and worshipping her like a Goddess.
"Reaper, I want you to waste Billy for destroying my garden!" roared Skarr, "I want a garden that'll last forever, now I have to clean it up because of Billy!"
"Seriously Skarr, do you want to startup your garden everyday even with your new additional garden items like the Endsville townsfolk only to be destroyed by Billy?" asked Grim.
"Now that you mentioned that, it's no different before this, this, this, what is this apocalypse?" asked Skarr.
"It's called the Calamity" replied Grim, "and me scythe can't do a thing to reverse it."
"Well what about that Bastion place you were mentioning so that I can get back to being Miss Popular again?" asked Mindy.
"Hold on, I'm getting there" said Grim, "first we need to get Irwin, and even bring Mandy along in her statue form."
Grim ends up creating a portal with his scythe to which he along with Billy, Skarr, Mindy and Irwin bringing along Mandy in her statue form head toward the Bastion. There a certain Rucks was mending the Bastion when all of them showed right up.
"Grim, I didn't expect to see you so soon" said Rucks.
"Who the heck is the old guy?" asked Billy.
"He's Rucks, he is responsible for creating the Bastion, Billy her caused the Calamity in his world, is it possible for the Bastion to revive it?" asked Grim, "Me scythe won't even do the job right."
"Hmm, sounds like a tough job, tell you what, there are about six cores that you'll need to find for the Bastion" said Rucks, "I'll give you each a map to show you the way."
"Well they never said this was going to be easy" said Mindy as she was the most eager among them all to get this over with.
"I'm down with that" added Skarr.
As Grim was prepared to teleport the four to separate locations, Grim had hoped Billy wouldn't screw things up even more.
"Oh I do hope they'll be able to fix this mess" sighed Grim.
"They better" added Rucks.