Chapter 2: Botanic Panic!
Walking over the small bridge, Cuphead, Mugman, and Red Rose are going to find the first debtor on the list. In reality, the first on the list are three residents that Cuphead and Mugman know. Let's just say, they are not very happy about getting the contracts from them.
"So the first on the list is The Root Pack. It's not going to be easy to explain our situation to them," Cuphead says, reading the list and showing a sad look on his face.
"Why is that?" Red Rose asks.
"Because we friends time, and I don't think they willing to give up their contract that easily," Mugman sadly answers.
Understanding the situation, Red Rose sadly says, "Oh."
"Still, are you sure there not another way out of it?" Rose Red asks.
"Nope. Either we collect the contracts or the devil collects our souls by tomorrow," Cuphead answers.
"And you guys hate having to be the devil's errand boys?" Red Rose asks.
D"You could say that," Mugman replies with a sad look.
"I don't like this either, but that what the devil wants. And Elder Kettle said to play along for now," Cuphead says.
"You're right. I just wish there's another way to get out of hole we're in," Red Rose says.
"You're not in the hole. We are," Mugman clarifies.
"Yeah. You're just helping us get out of it," Cuphead agrees.
The three friends begin laughing with smile on their faces, but the happiness is not going to last long.
Working in a vegetable garden, their live three giant vegetable. A large yellow potato name Moe Tato. A big light yellow with a purple nose name Weepy. And finally, a orange carrot with leaves on it. His name is Pyscarrot. The three are picking vegetables from their garden.
Pyscarrot look up ahead to notice someone coming towards them.
He shows a grin, and says, "Well, well, look who it is. Cuphead and Mugman."
The other look to see Cuphead and Mugman walking toward the garden, and notice someone with them.
Weepy confirms, "And someone is with them?"
The three walk over to the front of the garden gate to see the veggies.
"Hey boys, what brings you here?" Moe asks.
"A-a who is with you? A-a new friend?" Weepy replies.
"She is. This is Red Rose," Mugman says.
"Hello," Red Rose replies, waving her hand.
"Red Rose huh? You must be new here. I never seen you on Inwell Isle before," Psycarrot replies.
"You could say that," Red Rose says, rolling her eyes.
Moe turns to Weep, and says, "You see, the boys are fine. They're just playing with their new friend."
"B-b-but, I-I-I saw them running really f-fast. A-a-and they were c-carrying a boat o-over their heads," Weepy replies.
The three children look away. Mugman is rubbing his arm nervously. Red Rose has her hands together and kicks the ground with her foot. Cuphead turns away with a stern look, and holding the parchment in her hand.
"Anyway, what bring you kids her here? And what's with the long face?" Psycarrot asks.
The three aren't saying a word.
Red Rose leans to Cuphead, and asks, "So which one of us is going to tell them?"
Cuphead sighs, "I'll do it."
Cuphead walks over with a frustrated look on his face. The three giant veggie look rather confused. Cuphead unroles the paper, that reads "Notice to Repossess" and "Dvil's Office" in large words, while everything else is small.
"Sorry guys… but we're here to collect your debt," Cuphead firmly says, and then put his hand on his face.
"What?!" the three veggies exclaim in shock.
"Look. We… we don't want to do it, but we have…" Mugman begins to speak.
But Psycarrot sternly says looking a bit aggressive, "Let me guess… you kids messed with the Devil."
"Well sorry, but we're not giving up our contract… " Psycarrot sternly says.
Moe jumps in, and shouts, "Without a fight!"
The kids becomes shocked to hear that the three giant veggies are going to fight for their contracts.
Red Rose comes in between the group, and says, "Now hold on guys, let's be reasonable about this. For one, I never meddle with this Devil guy who you owed to. And second, the boys don't want to do it but…"
"Look out Rose!" Mugman shouts, and pushes her out of the way as she lets out scream.
Soon a giant ball of dirt goes past them.
The two manage to get up.
"Thank you Mugman," Red Rose says.
Mugman blushes, and says, "You're welcome. I just didn't want you to get hurt."
They then hear Cuphead angrily shouts, "You got some nerve attack my friend like that."
Cuphead and the others notice that two of the veggies are missing, and they are being confronted by Moe Tato. Red Rose and Mugman get up, and join Cuphead.
"It looks like we're going to fight them in order to get to the other," Red Rose replies.
"It seems like it," Mugman agrees.
Then Cuphead says, "We need to be careful."
"Yeah. Cause he's going to attack!" Red Rose panics.
The boys look to see Moe Tato begins to spit out balls of dirt. The three friends duck out of the way. With that, Cuphead and Mugman begin to shoot multiple beams of light at the potato from their finger. Red Rose is a bit hesitate about it at first, but knows she has to fight. She then begins to shoot the giant potato the same way.
Mugman shouts, "Look out, he's going to attack."
And he's right, Moe launches balls of dirt from his mouth and worms, that aim for the three kids. Luckily, they are able to dodge out of the way. Cuphead manages to hit one of the worms by jumping on it. After that, Red Rose and the two brothers continue to shoot at the potato with their finger. Soon enough, the potato has been defeated, and is knocked out.
"One down, two to go," Cuphead says.
"The others must be in the garden," Red Rose says.
Then Mugman says, "Then let's go."
The three friends go inside of the garden to find the other two. They look around to see rows of vegetables growing from the ground, but not giant vegetables. Just then, they begin to feel the ground shaking. Suddenly, the giant onion, Weepy pops out of the ground.
"P-psycarrot w-w-wants me to stop you… s-s-o, n-no hard f-feelings right," Weepy nervously says.
Red Rose feels sad, and says, "I… I'm starting to feel sorry for having to do this."
"Yeah. Especially on Weepy," Mugman says.
Just then Cuphead notice, "I think he's going to cry."
The others look to see that Weepy has tears coming from his eyes, and his mouth looks like he is whimpering. Just then, Weepy begins to cry big and loud, like streams of water are spraying from his eyes. The kids run as the water continue to be spray by the crying onion and a strong smell begins to surround the area.
Red Rose eyes begin to water, "Hey guys, my eyes are beginning to water too."
"Mime too," The brothers reply.
Then Cuphead says, "Must be Weepy strong onion sent and tears. We need to take him out."
"Right," Red Rose replies, wiping the tears from her face.
They then begin to shoot at the giant onion. Weepy the onion continues to shed tears as water drops try to hit the three young friends. For some reason, Weepy has been taken out with no problem at all. In fact, since there are three of them, they are able to defeat him easily. Soon, the onion is now underground.
"So… I guess Weepy isn't much of a fighter is he?" Red Rose questions.
"You could say that," Mugman replies.
"We still need to find Psycarrot," Cuphead replies.
"Yeaj. Where is he anyway?" Red Rose questions, looking around the garden.
Cuphead and Mugman look around as well, but they can't find the giant carrot. Suddenly, they end up seeing a large shadow coming from behind. The three turn around to see Psycarrot behind them with a smirk on his face, and yellow circles coming from his eyes. Just then, a third eye appears on his forehead, and shoots a psychic attack at them.
Cuphead shouts, "Look out!"
The three jump out of the way before the attack can hit them. The three end up landing on their bottoms soon after. The three look behind them to see the giant carrot.
Red Rose panics, "Since when your friend can do that?"
"I never knew he can do that before," Mugman says.
"Me either, but we still have to fight him," Cuphead says.
Mugman looks up, "And we better start attacking because… carrots ahead!"
The three look up to see carret are flying like bullets right at them. Cuphead and the others begin to shoot at them. The three continue to shot at the carret while trying to dodge the carrots. He then uses his third eye to strike them with a psychic attack. Red Rose dodges the attack and continue to shot at the giant carrot.
Red Rose takes deep breath. She is starting to get tired, but continues to keep shooting at the carrots that goes by. She turns to see Mugman and Cuphead blasting the giant carrot. Once she sees the carrots are not around, Red Rose continue to fire at Psycarrot. Of course, the come across some carrots that are different from the rest, and feel like they get more power everytime they hit it.
As they continue to fire their beams at the giant carrot, carrot like missles continue to keep coming. It's like there's no end to.
"There's no end to it," Mugman says.
"And that giant veggie continues to shoot at us with his third eye," Red Rose says.
"What are we gonna do?" Mugman asks.
"We need to continue attacking," Cuphead says.
Cuphead continues to attack the carrots that is coming their way. Mugman and Red Rose continues to fire at the giant carrot monster. When Cuphead hits the last carrot that looks different, he starts to feel a strange power. He turns to see Mugman and Rose Red fighting the carrot.
Cuphead shouts, "Mugman, Red Rose, out of the way!"
Hearing Cuphead's warning, Mugman and Red Rose run away as they fire at the carrot missiles. Cuphead then jumps up in the air, and begin to spray a large amount of liquid from his head at Psycarrot. The blast is enough to hit the carrot knocking him out, and finishing the battle.
Mugman happily shouts, "Woah whoo!"
Mugman and Red Rose run to Cuphead who is sitting on the ground, feeling very tired.
"You did great Cuphead," Mugman says.
"Yeah. You were amazing," Red Rose complements.
"Yeah. Thanks," Cuphead says, getting up from the ground.
"U-u-um g-guys," A weary voice replies.
Cuphead and the others turn to see Weepy holding a parchment paper.
"Weepy?" Red Rose questions.
Weepy hands over the parchment, and says, "Here you go."
"Is that…" Mugman questions.
"Your contract?" Cuphead adds.
"Y-yeah. I-I don't know w-why you guys meddle with the D-d-devil, b-but seems that you n-need our c-c-contract," Weepy replies.
Weepy hands Cuphead the contract, and is looking very sad about it.
Cuphead sighs, "We didn't want to do it. We don't have a choice. Not only that, Red Rose has never meddle with the devil before. Honest."
"Huh?" Weepy says with a confused look.
"It's true. We lost a bet to him at the casino. He said he spared us if we collected his contract by midnight tomorrow. Until we can figure out how to get out of this, we had no choice but to play along with it," Mugman explains.
"S-sounds like y-you two g-got into quite a mess," Weepy replies.
Then he asks, "B-but what a-about R-r-red Rose? Wha-what's her story?"
Cuphead turns to Red Rose, and asks in concern, "Are you alright with telling him?"
"It's alright," Red Rose answers.
Red Rose turns to Weepy, and says, "Weepy, the boat you saw the boys were carrying, I was in there unconscious after I fell overboard from my father's ship."
"What?" Weepy exclaims in shock.
"It's true. I never came in contact with the Devil because I never been to Inkwell until now. I'm tagging along with the boys after helping me, and I'm also trying to find my dad and his ship to see if he and the crew made it on the island too," Red Rose explains.
"I-I-I… I'm so sorry!" Weep shouts, beginning to cry.
Red Rose pats Weepy, "There, there, it's okay. But I have to ask, have you seen a brown ship with a crescent moon emblem at the side and a gold mermaid on the front."
Weepy manages to calm down, and says, "I-I'm sorry… I-I haven't."
"That's okay," Red Rose says.
"Thanks for giving us this, and we're sorry we have to do it," Mugman says.
"T-t-that's okay. I-I wish we never got tangled with the D-devil to begin with," Weepy says.
"Don't worry, we'll think of something," Mugman says.
"Either way, we must be off. We still got a lot of contracts to collect," Cuphead says.
"How many?" Weepy asks.
"Sixteen more," Red Rose says with a sigh.
"O-oh… I g-guess you b-better get going," Weepy says.
"Yeah. We better get going," Cuphead says.
"Bye," Red Rose and Mugman say.
"Bye," Weepy replies.
The three leave the garden to find the next person on their contract list to collect. As they walk down the path, the three do feel a bad about having to do this to the Root Pack.
"I feel bad about this," Mugman says, feeling guilty.
"Me too, but we still need to collect the contracts," Cuphead says.
"Don't worry, I'm sure we'll think of something," Red Rose says.
"Let's hope so," Cuphead says.
"Yeah. Let's continue with collecting those contracts and we'll figure out something from there," Mugman says.
"Sounds good to me," Red Rose agrees.
The three continue to walk down the road to find the next person on their contract collecting list.
