Hey guys. Now, before we start this chapter, I'm gonna give a quick update. Currently, I have a part time job for the summer on weekdays, so I'm not gonna be active that much. Also, me and my collaber have been talking, and we've decided to add two new elements to the story. 1, all RWBY characters will have their own super move. And 2, there's going to be a new item that will give them an edge above the bosses. Anyway, that should be it for now, I'll try and get the Bendy story up there soon, but until then, enjoy the chapter, and I'll see ya'll later!
Once the group had gotten out of the flower field, they had reached a large building, that looked like a die.
"This is where King Dice said we had to meet with him. In order to get to the next segment of Inkwell isle, we gotta show him all the contracts we collected on this part of the island." Jaune explained.
"You mean that purple dice dude from the casino?" Nora asked, not knowing who this 'King Dice' was.
"Yeah Nora, King Dice is the Devil's right-hand man." Ruby said. They went inside as King Dice Waited for them. The house itself was a short room, with two entrances in the front and back, that connected Inkwell Isle 1 and 2 together. Sure enough, the big manager stood there, with a large grin on his face. Then, out of nowhere, he started singing, in an incredibly smooth and sleazy voice.
"I'm Mr. King Dice, I'm the gamest in the land. I never play nice, I'm the Devil's right-hand man. I can't let you past, cause you ain't done everything. Bring me those contracts, c'mon bring them to the king!"
Ruby, Jaune, and Yang were all filled with nostalgia hearing the head honcho sing, even Weiss was impressed. The large figure then walked over to them, getting a little too close for comfort.
"If you haven't finished your tasks, haven't worked assiduously. No, I cannot let you pass, don't you mess with me! Don't mess with King Dice (don't mess with King Dice!), don't mess with me! (don't mess with him!) Don't mess with King Dice (don't mess with King Dice!), don't you mess with me!"
"For a villain, he has a rather soothing voice." Cuphead whispered.
"Well, ain't that a pip! Looks like you really put the kibosh on them debtors. You can head on over to the next isle, plenty more marks for you to lean on there!" King Dice said before looking at team JNPR. "Say… I don't recognize you mugs…"
"Uhm, they're our friends." Blake elaborated, "They weren't roped into this, but they did help us."
"I suppose I can allow this," the king said, "after all, the more the merrier, am I right?" King Dice took the contracts they had collected, and vanished into one of his warp holes, allowing the group to pass as they came to the second part of the Aisle. No sooner than exiting did the Elder Kettle catch up to them, nearly out of breath.
"Guys, hang on! Thank the stars I caught up with you." he said, "I believe I've found a way to out of this mess you're in!"
"Hot dawg, you have?!" Cuphead asked, with excitement in his voice.
"Your strength is growing. Soon you'll be a match for that no-good King Dice...and maybe the Devil himself!"
"You're not saying that we should fight the Devil, are you?" Weiss questioned.
"You got that right princess! But you'll never get close to the Devil unless you already have those soul contracts in hand! Only then will you get the chance to turn the tables on that fiend! So when the time comes, do the right thing." The Elder Kettle said.
"Huh...were getting stronger? I don't feel any different…" Yang said, looking at her muscles, "Nope, still the same." Elder kettle then thought before getting an idea.
"I just had an idea." Elder Kettler said. "With each Boss, my boys grow stronger upon defeating them, and get more skilled. But you eight aren't from this world, and the enemies here can be difficult and unpredictable. But they're may be a way for you to have the jump on your enemies. If you go to Porkrind's, I'm sure he'll sell special treats for you ladies and gentlemen so that you can get even stronger just by eating them."
"Food that makes us stronger?! SCORE!" Nora shouted, her eyes becoming check marks.
"This is a cartoon world, so I'm sure there's something like that." Blake deadpanned.
"I wish you the best of luck!" Elder Kettle said, waving the group off, and walking away.
"Okie dokie then, let's split up!" Ruby ordered. The large group then set off in their teams, one going to Porkrind's shop, and the other heading to a large castle in the distance.
(With team C)
"Is that... A castle?" Jaune asked.
"Made entirely out of CANDY!" Ruby squealed as she dashed to it and started zipping all over it, chewing into the walls. Suddenly, she was pulled off by a strong hand.
"HEY!" a woman in pink shouted from atop the castle. "Just what do you think you're doing, eating my castle?" The woman was shaped like a soda bottle, with pink skin, brown hair, and yellow eyes. She tossed Ruby down to the ground, and jumped down there to see what the fuss was about.
"Oh, sorry miss!" Cuphead said before stopping and checking the list over. "Ah! You're Baroness Von Bon Bon!"
"Indeed, and you are all here because…?"
"Listen, we've come to collect your soul contract, like it or not!" Weiss fumed.
"First you come onto MY land, then eat MY candy, and now you demand that I hand over MY soul contract?!" the Baroness boomed, "THAT'S IT, OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!"
"You know ruby, you should've waited for us to explain things BEFORE going on an eating frenzy." Jaune said.
"I knew exactly what I was doing, Jaune! This woman is acting like a tyrant queen!" Ruby said slamming her foot on the ground. "Justice will be swift, justice will be painful!" Baroness Von Bon Bon drew her hand across her neck, causing her head to fly off and spin around as she got yanked into her castle by a candy cane. "It will be, delicious!" the leader in red finished.
"YEAH!" everyone else called.
"A great slam and then some, NOW GO!"
"Ready… WALLOP!"
(insert Sugarland Shimmy theme)
Instead of the Baroness attacking them directly, she sent out one of her minions, a large gumball machine that ran around them.
"I chew em up, and spit em out!" it teased, as the lid on its head came off, and a large amount of gumballs flew up into the air.
"Gumballs? Seriously?!" Jaune asked in annoyance, blocking the pelting candy rain with his shield. Pyrrha did the same, as Weiss formed a shield glyph above herself, and Ruby spun her scythe around as Cuphead stood behind her. After the machine stopped, Cuphead jumped off Ruby's shoulders, using his spread shot to deal massive amounts of damage. This caused the Gumball machine to be knocked out, its head exploding into shards of glass, as the body ran away.
"Nice shot!" Jaune said.
"Don't get so cocky, charletons!" Bon Bon yelled from inside, "Go and get them, teach them what for!" Another one of her candy minions emerged from the castle, this one being a little stranger. It was a large brown waffle, with wings made from melted butter
"Straight off the Iron, and Too hot to handle!" it called as it split into ninths and tried to hit them.
"OW!" Jaune called, getting grazed. "Okay, that's it!" He charged at the waffle and jabbed his sword into it as it reformed, getting him right in the center. It moaned in pain, as it flew around the battleground. Suddenly, Cuphead got stabbed in his rear end by a small jelly bean holding a sword.
"Hey, that stung!" Cuphead said, kicking it away. Jaune then leaped up on a platform as he sliced the waffle in half.
"I'm not done yet!" he called slashing wildly and cutting the dastardly breakfast into pieces. "I'm never having Waffles for breakfast for about a few weeks." Unfortunately, the baroness was getting angrier by the second, as she sent out her third and final minion, this one being straight up terrifying. A giant jawbreaker followed by a smaller blue one floated out of the castle, with its sights set on Pyrrha.
"How's the jaw, ol' chum?" it asked.
"Pyrrha, lookout!" Weiss called as it charged. But it wasn't the only thing to worry about, as more jellybeans ran out from the castle, and the baroness herself was shooting from the top of it, leaving the other members of the group distracted. But, Pyrrha had a plan, as the jawbreaker got close to her, she wedged her spear into it, making the bottom and top jaw of it stuck open. Pyrrha then gave the jawbreaker a stiff kick to the face, making it shatter and knocked it out. Its outer shells cracked, and it gained a halo, ascending to heaven.
"Jealous?" Jaune asked Weiss smoothly.
"I swear…." Weiss growled.
"THAT'S IT! I'VE HAD IT WITH YOU!" Bon Bon shouted as she was on top of her castle. She gained a wicked grin as she pulled on two of her castle's own turrets, enraging it, and causing it to sprout two large arms. It then began crawling towards the group.
"Ok, that's unnerving. RUN!" Cuphead screamed, high tailing it.
"I won't sugar coat it, you all never stood a chance!" Bon Bon laughed as her castle beast tried to smash them. It managed to flatten Jaune and Ruby, but since this was a cartoon world, they didn't die, they were just smushed paper thin.
"I thought I was gonna die…" Ruby said.
"Me too, but hey, were in a cartoon so…." Jaune continued. Then, the baron grabbed her own head, and chucked it at Weiss.
"OH DEAR LORD!" she yelled, as the body part spun after her. She invoked her super move on pure instinct and fear, stabbing her rapier into the ground, making a huge wave of ice cover Bon Bon and her castle, putting them both in an icy casing before it exploded, resulting in massive damage.
"A KNOCKOUT!"
The baroness and her castle both burst into tears, and slowly began to back up, with the castle spitting up the soul contract. Weiss, who still had her eyes closed, had no idea what had just happened.
"Color me impressed ice queen!" Cuphead said, picking up the contract.
"Don't call me that! And what just happened, did we win?" Weiss asked.
"Of course we won! You just pulled off the mother of all super moves and put that Baroness in the deep freeze!" Jaune said.
"Deep Freeze…" Weiss repeated to herself, "I like it."
(With Team M)
"So… who should we go after first?" Nora asked as they left Porkrind's shop with a bag of sweets he gave them. Suddenly, the pilot flask from earlier ran up to them.
"Hey, hold it right there, kids!" he said. "You're going after Dijimmi the Great, aren't you?"
"Uh, I guess so…" Mugman said, not sure who he was referring to.
"Dijimmi the Great… it appears he's on the list of contractors." Ren said, looking at the list.
"Well you're in luck!" the pilot said, "I just upgraded my biplanes. You can now wallop your enemies with bombs!"
"That should help a lot, so where's Mugman's plane?" Blake asked.
"Right over there." The pilot pointed to a blue plane near a large pyramid. Next to it, was a pink plane. "I figured since there was more of you, you'd need more planes."'
"Well thank you dude!" Yang smiled, as she walked over to the pyramid. Near it, was a golden lamp, and out of it came an orange, muscular Genie.
"Behold, I am Dijimmi the Great, the most powerful genie to ever live!" the genie boomed.
"Oh snap, he's ripped!" Yang joked. Mugman got on one knee, bowing to the magical being.
"Oh great Dijimmi," he said, "we have come here to..."
"I already know why you're here!" Dijimmi interrupted. "You have gotten yourselves into a deal with the devil, and you must collect all of the Soul Contracts from the debtors he racked up, one of which… being me."
"Well then, that just makes things easy to explain! Now hand over your Soul Contract!" Nora ordered.
"You will have to make me!" Dijimmi replied, summoning a magic carpet, and flying away.
"After him! Blake, Yang, get on!" Mugman said, getting into his plane and putting on his flight goggles.
"Move over Renny, I'm driving!" Nora cheered getting into the pink plane.
"I'm gonna die…" Ren sighed, hopping onto the left wing. Blake got on to the left wing of Mugman's plane while Yang took the right. The two planes began to climb into the air, as Dijimmi was waiting.
"You are persistent, I will give you that…" he said sarcastically, "But, I will give you a fight you will never forget!" He used his pipe to puff out images of Team M's Dead faces, and pulled out a large golden chest from nowhere, placing it in front of him on the carpet.
"A brawl is surely brewing, YOU'RE UP!"
"Ready… WALLOP!"
(Pyramid Peril Theme)
The fight began with Dijimmi's chest opening, and blue and pink swords flying out of it.
"Eat hot lead, Chump!" Nora called firing at Dijimmi. The genie just smiled as the bullets hit him, confident he would win the fight.
"You look the fool, falling for the first trick I learnt at genie school!" he boasted, as he fired a flaming skull out of his mouth. The duo plane team NEARLY dodged the nightmare inducing attack, as gems and gold began flying out of the chest.
"Ok, this guy's nuts!" Yang said, as she launched herself off the plane with a shot from her gauntlets, and used another shot to send herself flying at Dijimmi. She socked him in the face, and landed back on the plane.
"Yang, no risk-taking on the plane!" Mugman scolded.
"C'mon, can't a girl have fun?" Yang said, with a smug look.
"Not in this situation." Mugman said.
"Will you two quit it!?" Blake hollered, "He's doing something!" She was right, Dijimmi had ditched his carpet, and was now meditating. He then faded away, as the group flew into a large hallway-like chamber.
"You're not going to stack up!" the all-powerful genie called. Large spinning poles then appeared, with some layers of them having his face on them.
"Shoot the layers with his face on it!" Ren pointed out. Nora grinned, as she switched to the bomb weapon, and blast away the layer with his face on it. There were several more poles, along with saw blades that rose up and down on wooden sticks, one of which hit Nora's plane.
"Gah!" Nora said, "Were okay Ren, he just clipped the wing!" After that phase was over, a large sarcophagus in the shape of Dijimmi descended from the sky.
"Do you need to borrow my sarcophagus?" it asked, before opening itself, revealing a large orange face within. The face screeched, and began to move up in down inside the case.
"Thank you for the nightmare fuel!" Yang deadpanned. As the face moved up and down, ghost-like mummies flew out of the sarcophagus, nearly hitting Mugman's plane.
"This is getting dangerous…" Blake said. The face then shot out its eyes, which moved in a wave-like motion. The team managed to dodge them, and deal more damage with bombs, rockets, and bullets alike. The face closed the sarcophagus with a terrified look, with the case itself crying and bouncing away.
"He's gotta be nearly done!" Yang hoped.
"I don't think so…" Ren said as Dijimmi appeared again, and began to meditate once more. He stared into Mugman's mind, and got the perfect idea, indicated by his turban turning into a lightbulb. He then transformed into a hand, and lifted up a puppet version of Cuphead, known as Puphead.
"A… puppet?" Blake said, completely confused.
"Whoa, it's like looking in a mirror." Mugman said, fascinated by this wooden replica of his brother.
"And Dijimmi is going to use it to attack us, isn't he?" Ren asked. Sure enough, the puppet began walking in the air.
"This beating is free, no strings attached!" it said, in a completely mocking Cuphead voice. Its finger opened up, and it began shooting blue and pink projectiles. Nora parried every pink bullet she could, as Dijimmi's turban floated down from the sky, and began chasing her plane.
"Ok, this is chaos, even for ME!" Yang stated. Nora growled, and decided to take matters into her own hands. She got out of the cockpit of her plane, and grabbed her hammer.
"Nora, get back in the cockpit!" Ren called.
"Don't worry Ren, I'm just stepping out for a bit!" the goddess of thunder assured, "Just steer for me, would ya?" She then leaped off the plane, and raised her hammer in the air. At that moment, a lightning bolt struck the weapon, supercharging it. Nora then spun around like a tornado, heading towards Puphead, who was just as shocked as the others were. "Nora, SMASH!" Nora called, smashing Puphead into pieces.
"SWEET SON OF A SALAMISE SALAMANDER'S SHOE!" Mugman shouted.
"I think you got him, Nora…" Ren said as Nora landed back on her own plane.
"You fight well," Dijimmi's voice said, "however, I think it's time I end this drama!" The genie himself appeared, growing to gigantic size, while summoning three pyramids with eyes that circled the group.
"Oh, COME ON!" Nora called.
"WHAT ARE THE ODDS!?" Yang added.
"I'm going to need new volunteers, these ones shall collapse in fear!" Dijimmi taunted, as he shot a psychic wave from the gem in his turban. Mugman's plane took the hit, knocking Yang off in the process.
"YANG!" Everyone called, as Mugman dive bombed to catch her. While she fell, Yang accidentally swallowed one of the treats bought from Porkgrind whole.
"Ugh… I don't feel so good…" she said, as her aura began to glow. Mugman didn't have time to catch up as Dijimmi was still on the attack as Yang fell to the ground with an ear splitting "BOOM!" the sound effect showing up in the process.
"Well, that was easy." Dijimmi said, as he laughed evilly. However, the blonde bruiser wasn't done yet… Yellow smoke began to form around her crater, rising into the air. Out of the smoke came a massive fist which punched Dijimmi right in the face, resulting in a slow-motion reaction to the massive hit.
"A KNOCKOUT!"
Dijimmi began to cough on his own pipe, as he shrank down to normal size, and retreated into his lamp.
"That, was, AWESOME!" Nora hollered.
"Yeah, but… what happened to Yang?" Blake asked.
"I dunno, we should look for her down on the isle." Mugman said.
"Aren't we forgetting something?" Ren asked.
"Oh yeah, Dijimmi's Soul Contract!" Mugman said. He flew down to the lamp, which spat out the piece of paper. "That's one more in the bag!"
"Now where's Yang, and more importantly, what happened to her?" Blake asked.
"Uh, I'm right here." Yang said, as she was behind Blake.
"Oh man, I can't believe you're okay..." Mugman said, but all he was staring at when he turned around was a boot. He looked upwards, and saw that Yang was now as tall as the pyramid. "HOLY SATAN!"
"Where the heck are you guys? I can't really see a lot from where I am…." Yang said.
"Uh… Yang?! You might wanna take in your new perspective!" Nora said.
"YOU'RE FLIPPING HUGE!" Mugman added.
"What?! I can't hear you from up here!" Yang called back.
"LOOK DOWNWARDS!"
"You want me to get water?"
"Sigh… I've got this." Nora said before getting her hammer out and whacking it on Yang's boot.
"OW, Nora what the hell was that for?!"
"Look down, yang! How can I slam my hammer on your foot?!" Nora asked.
"Huh?" Yang asked before looking down. "HOLY CRAP, I'M HUGE!"
"How did this happen to you!?" Blake asked, cupping her hands over her mouth.
"One of the treats we brought must've did this, she must've eaten it accidentally when she fell." Ren assumed. As soon as he said that, Yang began shrinking, until she was her normal size again. "Hm, I guess the effect must be temporary."
"Lemme see the wrapper." Mugman said reading the contents. "Mega Cake: grow to giant size in seconds, or your money back."
"So, I ate this, and I grew?" Yang asked, trying to wrap her head around this.
"I think as long as you're in our world, you can become Giant Sized." Mugman said.
"Cartoon Physics, how do they work?!" Nora wondered.
"Hey, if it helps us beat bosses, I love it!" Yang stated.
"Ok, let's just get a move-on." Blake said.
"There's only three more contractors on this part of the island." Mugman said, "So we better head on out!" The group nodded, and left the pyramid.