Episode 30: Release the Demons Part 1

In the underworld, the Devil is in his private study. He is sitting on his chair as he is holding a book called 'Controlling your RAGE.' He then opens the book and turns to a certain page.

"Hmm," The Devil replies.

He licks his thumb and begins to turn the page, calmly. But short lived, the Devil slowly rips the page and slowly begins to grow into a rage, almost ready to explain. He continues to rip the pages a few at a time. Then henchman walks in, pushing a dining cart with a gold teapot with a small cut and a small vase with red rose.

Henchman says, "Hi! Looking great, boss. Your fur's almost all grown back."

However, the Devil growls and grunts in anger as he continues to rip the pages from the book.

"Mm," Henchman says.

He then says, "Oh! Looks like someone needs his calming tea poured in his favorite cup!"

That catches the Devil's attention, "Cup?"

The Devil looks at Henchman as he pours him a cup of tea.

Suddenly, the cup ends up appearing to look like Cuphead and begins to mock him, "Hey, dummy! We still have our soul." and exclaims mockingly as he laughs.

Then the rose ends up blooming to look like Red Rose's head and says in a mocking tone, "Yeah. You'll never get our souls."

Then the cup and the rose begin laughing with grins on their faces.

The Devil gasps in shock and screams in rage. He then brings out his pitchfork and fires it at the cup and the rose, destroying the dining cart.

Reaching his limits, the Devil slams his pitchfork to the ground, "That's it!"

He continues seething in anger as he walks away from his chair and says, "I'm throwing everything I've got at that girl and that cup."

"Head!" Henchman points out.

Annoyed, the Devil says, " Thank you, Henchman."

Then commands, "Now bring me my finest demons!"

Meanwhile, in the cottage, Cuphead is sweeping as he whistles a little tone. Red Rose is standing by as she watches Cuphead sweep the floor. Unknown to Cuphead, someone is spying on him from the closet, and slowly opens the door. Cuphead continues to sweep the floor, and isn't aware someone is sneaking up behind him.

Cuphead turns around, "Huh?"

"Ha!" It's Mugman, wearing some weird horse mask.

Cuphead is dumbfounded, "Uh…"

"Um…" Red Rose replies.

"Neigh," Mugman says in an eerie tone, and pretends to be a horse.

Confused, Cuphead asks, "What... What are you wearing?"

"I made it," Mugman says, and removes the horsehead, "It's just like that horse head that scared you when we were little."

"What horse head?" Cuphead asks.

"The one from the hay maze, remember? You froze in terror?" Mugman says, and presents the mask to him.

Cuphead denies it, "I have never frozen in terror!"

"Sure you did. I remembered when I saw this flier," Mugman says, and shows him the flier.

"The hay maze?" Red Rose questions.

"Oh right, you didn't know about it. Every year, there is a maze that is made of hay bales, and there are unexpected surprises," Cuphead says.

"And we were little, there's this horse head that made Cuphead freeze in terror," Mugman says.

"Did not," Cuphead denies.

"You really did Cuphead. I remember it after seeing the flier," Mugman answers.

Flashback: Years Ago

When Cuphead and Mugman, who are very little at the time, walk in the hay made.

A little nervous, Mugman says, "This place is a widdle spooky!"

"Ah, I ain't too worried about it," Little Cuphead says with confidence.

Just then, a frightening, more like an ugly badmade horse head appears and goes next. That causes little Cuphead to be frozen in terror that his body is white as a sheet.

"Cuphead? Cuphead!" Mguman calls out.

And no response. Mugman knocks on his head, but no answer.

Then Mugman waves his hand in front of him, "Cuphead!"

Flashback Ends:

Cuphead continues to deny it, "Never happened. I ain't afraid of no hay maze horse head! Come on." He then grabs the flier and walks to the door, "I'll prove it to ya."

"I'll get my coat," Mugman says, and soon follows.

Then Cuphead says, "Come on Red Rose, you can come with us?"

"Yeah. I'm sure you'll love it. There's also food and drinks too," Mugman says.

"Sure. I'll come with you," Red Rose says, and follows the boys.

Meanwhile, the Devil has his 'finest' demons gathered in one place. The demons are big, monstrous, frightening, and have sharp teeth, claws, and fangs, and other frightening appearances.

The Devil is very impressed, "Ooh!" He chuckles and says as he observes the demons, "Now these are some world-class demons! Ooh! This one has razor-sharp talons." He gasps in excitement, "Oh, and this one has three heads!"

And grows excited to see one particular demon, "Ah! And oh, hey, hey. Look at the muscles on this guy." He lets out a chuckle and sigh happily.

The Devil walks with his hand and begins his back as he says, "So I assume you're all wondering why I summoned you here today. Let me tell you about this girl and this cup."

"Head," Henchman points out.

"Thank you, Henchman," The Devil says, annoyed.

Then begins to explain, Never before have I been subjected to such criminal disrespect by a couple of mortals. First, they lost at Soul Ball, but that cup's dumb brother grabbed his soul and stuffed it back in, which is completely unethical after I stole it fair and square. And then they destroyed the whole carnival!" He then inhales sharply and continues, "Then they go on Roll the Dice, which is impossible to lose. And wouldn't you know it? Th cup couldn't name 'Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star.'"

Seeing the Devil's anger rising, Henchman slowly walks back and hides behind the rocks.

The Devil continues his rant, "I mean, who can't name 'Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star'?"

The Devil is so enraged that he lets out raging fire and turns his demons into ashes. The Henchman peeks out in shock to see what has been displayed.

Just then, with an upbeat upbeat tune, King Dice enters the scene, "Number one here. Fashionably late and fashionably fashionable, as per usu-"

He then screams and gasps in fright to see the ashes and asks, "What did you do?"

The Devil ignores him and commands, "Bring me my second-finest demon!"

Meanwhile, Cuphead, Mugman, and Red Rose arrive at the hay maze. There are also some food booths and small games as well.

"This is gonna be good," Mugman says, and has his beverage.

Cuphead flaps his lips and says "Uh-huh."

"You don't sound too interested, Cuphead," Red Rose says.

"Trust me, it's going to be pretty boring. It's basically for little kids," Cuphead says.

They all walk to the ticket booth and the vendor says, "Tickets, please."

Cuphead then hands the three the tickets, and the vendor takes them. Then all enter the maze. The first to appear is a ghost that is made from a white sheet and hanging on a clothing line by clips.

Cuphead sarcastically says, "Ooh, real scary." And walks away.

Red Rose then says, "This doesn't seem that scary at all."

Mugman laughs, "That horse mask is gonna make you freeze in terror. Then you'll have to admit you were afraid." and chuckles as he follows them. He really can't wait until Cuphead freeze in terror.

"Was it really that scary?" Red Rose asks, following the boys.

"It was enough to make Cuphead freeze in terror. You have to see it to believe it," Mugman say

Back in the underworld, The Devil has his second set of demons in line.

The Devil continues to rant, "I mean who can't name 'Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star'? Hmm? And then they had these... these... these sweaters. They were invisible and impenetrable and dumb, and I couldn't just take their soul out and eat them before their very eyes!"

Henchman stands back to hide again, and pulls King Dice to hide before the Devil releases his flaming rage, turning his second batch of demons to ashes as well. Then Henchman and King Dick stick their heads out in fear.

The Devil furiously commands, "Third-finest!"

And there is the third group of demons, but this batch is not as good as the first two. Mainly questionable for the Devil.

The Devil leans to Henchman and asks, "These are my finest demons?"

"Uh, well, now, yeah," Henchman says.

Indeed, this group of demons seem like an odd bunch. There is a large round, wheezing fish-like demon, A spider demon with a group of small eyes, a flying eyeball with two different size wings and it struggles to fly, and a vulture-like demon warbling and moving its head sound. There's even a cyclops with an eyepatch over its eye.

"A cyclops with an eye patch. And how does that work exactly?" the Devil questions.

The cyclops claims frighteningly. It growls and goes on a rampage, but slams his head on the hanging rocks.

"Ah. It doesn't," The Devil comments.

Then looks down and says in disgust, "Ew! And what's this thing?"

The demon is a very small round demon with black horse, big eyes, and small fins and a tail. It moves its little arms as it chirps.

"Is that all you do?" The Devil questions and narrows his eyes.

The little demon blenches green fire and throws it at the fish demon, turning it into dust. And the napping turtle demon steps aside.

"Mm-hmm," The Devil says, nodding his head, "Wow. You blew up the biggest one. Great job."

He grumbles in frustration, and says, "I am so angry right now. I want to obliterate all of you, but I cannot even begin to imagine the fourth-finest demons."

"Uh, or as they're now known, the second-finest," Henchman says.

Annoyed, the Devil says, "Thank you, Henchman!"

The Devil then shows the poster and says, "Look. They're no longer wearing the protective sweaters. So-"

Henchman interrupts, "Which is in an undisclosed location."

However, Henchman notices the Devil has a disapproving look on his face.

He then sheepishly says, "Uh, 'Thank you, Henchman.'"

Then The Devil says to the demons, "Just bring them to me, and I'll rip out their souls."

However, none of the demons are saying anything.

The Devil continues, "Bring them back, you live!"

But the demons aren't moving either. One of the demons even coughs.

The Devil frowns and angrily says, "Fail and I destroy you!"

And soon, the demons are on the move.

The Devil commands, "Release the demons!"

The gates leading to the underworld opens and all the demons hurry out to be in their work. The cyclops ends up bumping into the trees as he is blinded by the eye patch.

King Dice laughs, "Big D, Big D. It is a pleasure to watch you in action. Nobody works a room like you."

"Are you still here?" The Devil questions.

Soon, King Dice realizes, "You mean number one's got to do it too?" and points to himself.

"Not quite, I have a special assignment for you," The Devil says.

"And what's that?" King Dice questions.

"The demons will be able to handle capturing them, but I want you to be sure that they capture the girl," The Devil says.

"Girl?" King Dice questions.

Henchman says, "You know, that girl uh, Red Rose. She was on Roll the Dice as well. The one who throws the die at you, and exposes you to being a cheater."

King Dice thinks and remembers what happened on Roll the Dice.

Flashback: On Roll the Dice

Cuphead says, "I guess I lost. Let's head back home."

Suddenly, Kind Dice approaches them, "Oh, that's actually a good thing. When the dice shatter, you go directly to the mystery prize room, yay! You can bring your friend in there too. In you go…" and pushes Cuphead and Red Rose to the door.

Having enough of this, Red Rose confronts King Dice, "Hold on! Cuphead lost when the dice broke so he lost! Plus, I didn't even play the game so I can't go into the mystery prize room! So why are you so determined to get him in that room, unless you rigged it so he can win."

Just then, the elephant says, "Hey, she's right! He lost! He's not supposed to get a prize."

Then the elderly elephant shouts, "The girl's right! This show is rigged!"

With that the audience begins booing.

"You, Shut up!" King Dice says.

Then tries to push Cuphead and Red Rose in the room, "Get in there!"

Red Rose grabs Cuphead and moves out of the way, "No way! You cheated!"

"Rigged, huh?" Cuphead replies.

Then let out a huff. "Hmph!"

"Exactly," Red Rose says.

She takes one of the die and says, "Come on, let's get out of here."

"I couldn't agree with you more," Cuphead says.

With that, Cuphead and Red Rose begin to take their leave.

Cuphead then picks up Mugman and says, "Come on, Mugsy. Let's leave with our dignity intact."

King Dice cries out in anger, "No! You have to win!"

He grabs the wooden mustache off the prize room area and angrily says, "You both are going in that room one way or another."

And charges to attack them.

"Well then, how about you let me 'Roll the dice,' " Red Rose says, and holds the die in her hand.

With that, Red Rose then throws the die at King Dice and it slams him to the wall. The audience gasps in surprise as the die falls down and King Dice feels dizzy from the collision. Soon, everyone begins laughing. Even Cuphead and Mugman, who is able to unfreeze himself to see the event, begin laughing. Then Elder Kettle's tire hits King Dice on the back, making him fall down. Then bounces to Red Rose, allowing her to catch it.

Flashback Ends:

King Dice rubs the back of his head, "How can I forget? She has quite an arm for a girl her age."

Then asks, "But why not let the demons deal with her. I know she owes you her soul, but…"

"Because, I'm going to have a lot of pleasure taking out her soul, especially since her father, Captain Storm Wilds, is on one of the top of my revenge list," The Devil angrily says.

"Oh yeah. You mention that when you found out who her father is. And you've been bitter are Storm since he ruined your work in Sugarland," King Dice says.

Then crosses his arms, "That explains a lot. She is just as stubborn as he is."

"And I swore I would get even with him. And his daughter's soul should do to even the score. I want you to make sure those demons capture her and her little boyfriend and bring them to me, even if you have to separate them," The Devil angrily says, glaring at King Dice.

Then points in the opposite direction, "Now get going!"

King Dice yelps in fright and runs out of the cave to carry out the Devil's orders.