This is a fanfic about Cuphead and the Delicious Last Course.

The main character OC will be Curly Barnaby. It will be in her POV.

With this out of the way, let's begin.

Chapter 1

"One more time, I can do it!" I growled as I finally buckled down to defeat the final boss of Cuphead's DLC one more time. It was agonizing and tedious, but I'd managed to make it to S rank on each of the main game and DLC bosses on Expert mode aside from Saltbaker himself! And I knew that, if I won, I'd feel so great! I got my hands to grip the controller and proceeded to dodge and shoot all of his crazy food-based attacks, all to the final bout against his heart with Ms Chalice... and with the sound of the Knockout, I was victorious! I beat it quickly, didn't lose a single heart, parried at least 5 different attacks, and I got 3 stars of skill! And with the final bit of accomplishment to the game, I sighed in relief and noted that it was actually 6 in the evening, mainly because I had off of work for the day and that was the only time that I could play my games for an entire day without leaving home.

In case you were wondering, my name is Curly Barnaby, which is one of the worst names my parents could've given me and caused issues at school for obvious reasons. But among my small group of friends who also liked games like I did, they said that I'd love a game called Cuphead, since the characters in the game were extremely fun to fight and each had even worse names than I had. And after researching, they were 100 percent right. Cala Maria the mermaid? Hilda Berg? Ribby and Croaks? Even some of the DLC characters like Glumstone and Esther Winchester? It made me fall in love with it, which only grew when I started playing the game and saw the game was entirely animated like the old-timey cartoons from the old days, like in the oldest of old cartoons like Warner Bros, Disney, and Fleischer especially! Hell, my favorite reference was Grim Matchstick, who was based on the creator of Betty Boop, had a stuter like the man himself, and was one giant reference machine to how he was based on numerous things like Pete's Dragon, the Calico Dragon cartoon, and even Maleficent's dragon form!

But I'd finally finished the hardest task in the game, aside from going after the goal of getting the divine relic and defeating King Dice to get 9 hearts at once, which was one of the weirdest, yet most fun achievements I'd ever done! But after doing this all, I then sighed contentedly and proceeded to go and make myself some supper. I placed a store-bought pizza in the oven and turned it on, knowing the perfect time for cooking a pizza in my oven without preheat to 300 was 45 minutes. And I still had to call my friends after giving them the picture on my phone of the final blow, which would be amazingly awesome. They'd think of me as a true hero, being the only one in our group to do a 100 percent completion of Cuphead!

But... when I sent the message to all of them, I then got a random text from a random sender, which said something that made me... concerned.

"You think you're so hot? Then how about we make a deal?" the message asked, along with some emojis of the demon faces, including the red one that was very creepy to me. And since I had no idea who it was, I then proceeded to try and block the caller... but the option wasn't there? "No use worming your way out of this one, bitch! You embarrassed me way too much, now you'll be given a deal you cannot refuse!" the next text said as I then decided to be daring and text something back to him.

"Who are you and what do you want?" I asked, trying to stay calm, but knowing that this was just like in those horror movies.

"You know who I am. You beat all the S ranks and think you're hot shit because of that? Then how about this?" the message asked as I then felt something... off. I looked at where I felt that off feeling... and I immediately freaked out! Why? My hands and feet were turning into metal! SCRAP METAL!

"EEEK! OKAY, OKAY! I'LL ACCEPT WHATEVER DEAL IT IS! JUST FIX IT! FIX IT NOW!" I shouted into the phone via a voice message, my heart racing a million miles a minute... it was like a book I read where a girl got turned into literal garbage because she was tricked by a robot girl. Sentient garbage. Sentient garbage that couldn't move, speak, or feel anything, but had a soul... (YES, it was from a FNAF book, but you know what?! It's easy to read it, IT'S QUITE ANOTHER TO HAVE IT HAPPEN TO YOU!)

"Okay, then, the deal is this," the message said as I then felt something happen. My hands and feet turned back to normal... but then my hands started to enter my phone! I would have freaked out about that, but there was one thing that was on my mind that I'd just remembered... the pizza! I ran as fast as I could to the oven and immediately grabbed it with my only free hand and turned off the preheat! And JUST in time, because once I did so, I felt myself get sucked the rest of the way into the phone! And when I did... I gasped as I was sent through a large tunnel of red and black lights before I'd landed in a casino!... And when I looked around, I saw that I was... I was animated! And I LOOKED HOT!

"Whoa?! What the?!" I gasped in shock before I then heard a demonic laughter as I saw the big man appear from nearby, him being just as big in the first phase of his fight and me being the same size as the Elder Kettle... so just about the same size as 1 1/2 Cupheads.

"Your fate is this, Curly Barnaby," the devil said as he then proceeded to show me a slew of contracts, me knowing what they were for. The contracts for the bosses in the game! "If you think that you're hot shit for beating the game on S ranks, try doing it as yourself! You won't win against a single boss!" the devil smirked before laughing evilly, me looking to his left and seeing that King Dice was there next to him... and that he had something in hand. He had a charm that was extremely useful, that being the Heart Ring. I then looked at the devil and then spoke.

"Before I do that, how about I get one wager," I said, which made King Dice smirk. I still felt super scared, but I didn't want to show it, so I hid behind a cocky grin.

"Oh really? And what in the world would you have to wager, little lady?" he asked as I then looked at his heart ring.

"I will offer a deal. If I can roll the dice up to a total of 14 with a single roll of three dice, I get that Heart Ring you're wearing," I said, him looking at me with a smirk.

"Peh, that's if you win. What if King Dice wins, little lady?" the devil asked, me knowing that I had to give up one of my boons for going through the game, which would make it harder.

"If I lose, then I have to either go through the entire adventure with JUST the peashooter OR go through the whole adventure with no charms and one less hit point per boss," I said, the devil smirking at that.

"Sounds like a deal!" the devil smirked as they then gave me three sets of dice... but then, before I could roll them, I simply laid them on the table with the sixes face-up, and I made him and King Dice growl when I proved they were hoping to scam me with rigged dice, each one immediately going to 1.

"Yeah, no, I don't do rigged dice. I know how casinos work, cheapskates," I said, that making King Dice growl angrily as he then simply gave me a new set, but not before proving that these three dice were not fixed, and they could stay on the correct sides when they were rolled.

"Thank you. Besides, the odds are already very low that I'll get 14 or higher, you didn't need to cheat me, mister King Dice," I growled before then grabbing the good dice and proceeding to shake them in my hands with seriousness. "Come on, Curly needs a new pair of CUNGADERO!" I shouted, which I intentionally did to confuse the duo, in case they had any gravity powers against the dice, me seeing that it worked! And when the dice finished rolling after their confusion from the word of Spamton G Spamton, the result... BARELY a win! I got EXACTLY 14 in the form of 4, 4, and 6!

"YEESSS!" I shouted as the devil and King Dice growled at me.

"Why you little... you little-" King Dice was about to finish before I growled at him.

"Oh no, I'm not little. That's your crotch, mister baby dick," I said, him looking at me in fury before then simply grabbing the heart ring and giving it to me.

"Now get out!" the devil shouted as he showed me the door, but before he could do anything, King Dice shouted.

"HOLD ON, BOSS! LET ME DO IT!" King Dice growled as I then frowned and braced for impact... and after waiting for the hit... I felt his boot hit my glute so hard, I flew all the way from Inkwell Hell to the Elder Kettle's house across the islands! I then landed right on my face and was shocked at how the most I felt was sore from the impact with the ground.

"Owie... baby dice can't handle me winning against him at his own game... at least I get the heart ring," I smirked as I held it in my hand with pride, me then placing it on my finger and feeling stronger for sure! I then heard a door open nearby and I looked to its direction to see that... the one that was there at the Elder Kettle's house WASN'T the Elder Kettle! It was actually someone that was even more powerful. It was a character from one of the games on my phone, that being a very powerful card monster from Yugioh Duel Links, it being one of the antagonists of the GX series.

"Yubel?..." I asked, not knowing if I should be glad to see them or scared, considering that she loved pain and thought that giving pain to others was the truest form of love.

"Tee-hee-hee... so, the one from outside the screen gets pulled into a colorful world because of her senseless pride? Not the first time, certainly not the last either," they said, me seeing that it was the 4-Kids english voice that was also used in Duel Links.

"Not the last? Not the first?... And what do you mean because of senseless pride?" I asked, her snickering at me as she then simply pointed to her hand and I then saw that I had a different version of my cell phone that was all cartoony and alive! And the voice that it had?

"She's talkin' truth 'ere, missy! Sending the screenshots and video of you beating Chef Saltbaker as S rank to prove you were the best of the best? Why d'ya think that big ol' Devil Hoochy brought ya here? If ya fail, then he does the worst thing to ya that you fear, that bein' what 'e was gonna do back 'ome. Wouldn't be fun livin' as trash, would it?" she asked, her words scaring me big time, despite her having the voice of a cowgirl. I get that this was the same phone I got when I visited Texas with family members, but I didn't care about that.

"I am terrified of becoming a literal pile of trash... not because of death... but because I'm terrified of being still alive and aware of the situation... will I be able to do anything? Will anyone know what happened to me? And would I still be able to hear and see everything that happens around me? It's... it's horrifying to think of what could happen to me if I lose..." I sighed with concern.

"And that's why I came here. To give you two different strengths... well, three, if you include me rigging the game back at the Devil's casino so you'd win, but don't say that or you're going to die," Yubel said, me gulping at that.

"Um... before I ask any more questions relating to this... do I refer to you as they or she?" I asked, Yubel snickering.

"Really? Well, I prefer either or. Male, female, them, it, all the same to me," she said, me smirking at that. Made sense, since Yubel was literally half male and half female, especially on the torso.

"Okay.. now for the serious questions... is time frozen back home? Am I going to need to go to Chef Saltbaker on Isle 4? And am I able to return if I win?" I asked, Yubel smirking.

"The answers are no, yes, and only through the Chef's Wondertart can you go back home, as your world is a part of the Astral Plane to this world. But I can say that the contract of beating all the different bosses can be beaten by defeating the Devil. If you kill him off, you don't need to worry about turning into scrap metal. AND you can save the other poor chaps that he's already turned," she said, me gulping at that.

"How many tried before and failed?" I asked, her then holding up ten fingers. "Wow... okay, that's not as many as I thought, but it's still scary that they're being tortured by their worst fears right now..." I said.

"Each one who has succumbed to their fates are kept as trophies in the Devil's casino. I will say that you're the third female that's done this, but you have an edge, as you were also the fastest to S rank all the bosses," Yubel said, me looking at her and then at my phone, and then at my ring.

"So what are those strengths you mentioned earlier?" I asked, Yubel then proceeding to place her long, demonic fingers on my shoulders... and I gasped as I felt that I got two different powers. Firstly, I got each of the different items I needed, which included all the different firing options AND the aeroplane with bombs feature! And the second... I honestly didn't know.

"The second power I gave you is this. If you happen to defeat a boss, you will acquire one of their strengths as well as gain the ability to speak to them through the contract that holds their souls," she said, me gawking at that.

"Really? That sounds... spooky, yet awesome?..." I said, Yubel looking at me with a furrowed brow and I then hung my head as the weight of the situation finally got to me. "Sorry, I'm just now realizing that I'm stuck in a different universe with no way to go home except by killing the devil and then forcing Chef Saltbaker to give me the Wondertart... it's... it's a lot..." I sighed as I then sat on the ground.

"I'd say you should get to work, boss! After all, the devil will know if ya'll aren't at work. He don't like folks that skip out on 'is deals, even in our world," my phone said as I then looked at myself in the window of the Elder Kettle's house to see how I looked. I had regular human skin in this world as well as my thick glasses, but I also had been changed in weight and height so that I now was the same width as Pilot Saluki and I was in the same outfit I was when I came here... my unicorn footy pajamas that I got for Christmas from my grandma... I loved them, but I'd never get caught wearing them in front of my friends or extended family. So I only wore them when I had the reign of my own house.

"Um... Other than the unicorn jammies, I think I look a lot better like this than back home... what is the ruling for the Wondertart, per chance?" I asked as Yubel snickered.

"Playing with fire, are we? Well, that sounds like who I'm more used to, especially when you used me to become Queen of Games rank," she smirked at me.

"Eh, it was both that and the Fire King deck being made for your card line," I smirked.

"Right. Anyways, my guess is that you want to beat the system and eat your own Wondertart, don't you?" she asked, me nodding at her. "Then I can say this. When you get the chance, steal the recipe from Saltbaker and see if you can steal someone else's soul who deserves some comeuppance. I'd recommend Baby Dice or Devil's Food," Yubel snickered, me smiling at that.

"He'll be pissed, but I don't care, I will do that for sure... now I should get going... you coming with?" I asked, her shaking her head no.

"I'm just going to watch from afar. I do like pain, but I draw the line at getting attacked by stupid cartoons. Even in my universe, all the monsters HATE Toon Monsters," she said, me being confused.

"Why?"

"Have you seen what they did to some of them? Some like Toon Dark Magician Girl look fine, but then you got Toon Mermaid, Manga Ryu Ryan, Toon Barrel Dragon, and the stupidest bit of iron ever bastardized, Toon Ancient Gear Golem. I mean, talk about a mouthful! And he looks ridiculous!" she said in annoyance.

"Eh, I always thought Anna Kaboom's signature cards were bigger mouthfuls. Like Superdreadnought Rail Cannon Gustav Max was the biggest of the mouthfuls... but at least I know I'll have an eyewitness and some partial guidance from you," I smirked.

"Indeed. Now get going. You have either the Root Pack or Goopy LeGrand to go for, so choose wisely," she said, me nodding at her.