Episode 38: The Devil's Revenge Part 2

Soon enough the elevator reaches the Inkwell Hell's floor. Cuphead opens the elevator, and he and Red Rose step out.

"So this is, the Inkwell Hell," Red Rose says.

"This place is a little creepy," Cuphead says.

Cuphead and Red Rose pick up their bikes and begin to walk down the aisle to see if Mugman is around, and keep a cautious eye out for the Devil. Seeing the tapestry hanging on the wall kind of creeped them out.

"Yikes," Cuphead replies.

"That is just disturbing," Red Rose says.

The two continue to walk down the aisle and soon start to get sweaty and feeling hot.

Cuphead pulls the collar of his shirt and asks, "Ugh, why is it so hot down here?"

"It's the Underworld, Cuphead. I think it's supposed to be hot," Red Rose says.

"Oh. Right," Cuphead replies.

He then fans himself, "Whew! It's hotter than an oven."

"I know, but remember to keep your eyes out. The Devil could be anywhere," Red Rose says.

"And who knows where he's keeping Mugman," Cuphead says.

Right on cue, they hear the Devil's voice, "Oh, come on!"

They both stop and see the voice is coming from a tunnel.

They hear the Devil's voice continue, "I've been torturing you all day. Will you just break already?"

And then, they hear Mugman, "I don't know what you're talking about."

The Devil grumbles in frustration.

Cuphead gasps, "That's Mugman."

"And the Devil," Red Rose says.

Cuphead then shushes Red Rose and she nods her head in reply. Cuphead and Red Rose lean their bikes against the pillars, still holding the pitchfork. Then the two walk down the tunnel to find Mugman.

Meanwhile, the Devil walks into his office with a scowl look on his face. He then yelps in shock to see the clock is almost striking twelve.

"Duh, cuttin' it pretty close," Henchman says in remark.

"Uh…" The Devil replies, worried.

Then he has an idea, "Oh! Say, Henchman, I just remembered. I have some, uh, dry cleaning for you to pick up."

"Duh, okay," Henchman says, and begins to leave

One Henchman's back is turned, the Devil begins to turn the clock counter clockwise.

However, Henchman notices, "Duh, what do you think you're doing?"

The Devil turns to see Henchman standing there with his hands on his hips and a frown on his face.

The Devil tries to make an excuse, "Oh, Henchman! I was just... dusting." chuckles nervously, "It was slow so I just... Daylight savings?"

Henchman shakes his head in disappointment with his arms crossed, "Boss, boss, boss."

Meanwhile, Mugman is still playing marbles on his own, until he feels a tap on his shoulder. He turns to see Cuphead and Red Rose, arriving to rescue him. Cuphead and Mugman both squeal in excitement and give each other a hug. Red Rose smiles and is glad to see the boys are reunited.

Cuphead then apologizes to Mugman, "I'm so sorry, Mugsy!"

Mugman looks up and quickly shushes Cuphead. Then turns to Red Rose and points to see the Devil and Henchman are discussing this little argument.

"You're being very rude. I'm not kidding, Henchman. It was dusty, it was running way too slow-" The Devil says, trying to make an excuse.

But Henchman wags his finger and says, "You ought to be ashamed."

Cuphead picks up the pitchfork and gestures to the two to follow. Then Cuphead, Mugman and Red Rose begin to tip toe away.

But Mugman stops, turns to the prisoner, and whispers, "I'll talk to you later."

And the prisoner lets another scream.

Meanwhile, the devil says to Henchman, "I don't wish to discuss this matter any further."

And suddenly, Henchman notices Mugman is with Cuphead and Red Rose, and the pitchfork as they sneak to the door.

Henchman quickly alerts the Devil, "Boss, look, it's Cuphead and Red Rose!

But the Devil says, "Uh, excuse me, I was talking!"

"But, boss!" Henchman continues to alert his boss.

But the Devil says, "Henchman, you're being very rude."

Henchman grumbles in frustration, and turns the Devil around to see the three closing the door. The Devil gasps in shock to see three friends closing the door. They end up banging the door against the pitchfork before Red Rose quickly moves it and closes the door.

The Devil shakes Henchman as he screams, "Why didn't you tell me?!"

Then pushes him to the ground. The Devil tries to teleport, but remembers that he doesn't have his pitchfork. He screams in frustration and runs out, stepping on Henchman in the process.

The Devil runs out the door as he screams, "Hey! Get back here!"

Cuphead, Mugman, and Red Rose scream in fright to hear the Devil knows that they're here. Then they begin to run down the cave, but the Devil is chasing after them.

The Devil screams in rage, "I kidnapped you fair and square!"

Mugman reaches into his pocket and pulls out his bag of marbles. He then drops them on the floor. The Devil gasps and begins slipping on the marbles. He then falls to the ground, and some marbles fall into his mouth, causing him to swallow them.

Soon, the three friends reach out of the cave, and into the throne room. Cuphead and Red Rose jump on their bikes and Mugman runs from behind.

Cuphead cries out, "Come on, Mugsy! Hurry!"

Mugman quickly jumps on the bike and the brothers begin to pedal with Red Rose by their side. Mugman turns and becomes shocked to see the Devil is still on their tail.

Mugman screams, "Faster!"

The three begin to pedal on the bike faster. Cuphead turns his head behind.

But Mugman cries out, "Look out!"

The bike wheel hits a rock, causing them to jump a bit. Then Cuphead quickly grabs the pitchfork and it fires at the wall, causing a big hole and lava begins seeping out. The three friends cycle past the lava, before blocking his way. The Devil lets out a scream of anger and transforms into a dragon and begins chasing after them.

The three continue to cycle on their bikes and turn their heads to see the dragon is right behind them. They continue to speed away from the Devil. The three friends continue to cycle away from the Devil as he takes on different shapes of creatures, like an octopus, a jaguar, bull, and a gorilla, and times that the three end up switching bikes and the Devil ends up riding on one of the bikes.

Cuphead, Mugman, and Red Rose continue to ride their bikes to get away from the Devil. Cuphead bumps the bike at a crack and the pitchfork fires, burning the paintings.

Seeing that, the Devil screams, "My paintings!"

Cuphead sees the Devil's devastating face, and laughs with a smile.

Then Cuphead says, "Hey, Mugsy, watch this."

Cuphead then aims the Devil's pitchfork at him. The Devil panics and quickly ducks his head. But then, the blast destroys the Devil's throne.

The Devil cries out, "My throne! I just had that reupholstered!"

And then Cuphead fires the blast at the Devil's check.

The Devil is in pain, "Oh, that really hurts."

Then growls in anger to see the three pedaling away as Cuphead laughs. Yet, the Devil continues to chase after them.

The three continue to pedal through the Underworld and soon find multiple tubes.

Cuphead notices and wonders, "Hey, what are all these tubes?"

"They're all coming from up there!" Mugman answers and points up.

The three look up to see multiple tubes are connected to a tunnel above, and see multiple souls are being sucked in.

Red Rose says in shock, "Oh my gosh, they're full of souls!"

The Devil continues to chase after them and transforms into a bull to charge at them. The three panic and cycle as fast as they can. The Devil manages to ram and then send them flying on the tubes. Cuphead ends up falling off.

"Cuphead!" Mugman cries out.

Luckily, Cuphead is able to hold on the pitchfork and continues to run on the other tube.

Mugman calls out, "Will you quit fooling around and get back on the bike?"

"I got him!" Red Rose calls out.

Red Rose cycles on the tube Cuphead is on and reaches Cuphead from behind.

Red Rose calls out, "Hop on!"

"Got it!" Cuphead says, and hops into the basket of Red Rose's bike.

Seeing them on the tubes, The Devil cries out, "Hey! Get off those tubes! They lead to my... "

Not watching where he's going, The Devil ends up ramming into the Soul Vault and makes a huge hole in it and has his head stuck in it. The Devil then pulls himself up and rubs his head with his hoof.

The Devil groans and says, "...soul vault."

Soon enough the souls begin flying out of the vault.

The Devil gasps and screams, "Not again!"

The Devil tries to capture the souls, but unable to due to the hooves, "Curse these hooves!"

The Devil changes into an octopus and begins capturing the souls.

Seeing that, Cuphead grins and says, "Serves you right, you big jerk!"

"Oh he's a jerk alright," Red Rose says.

She then grins and says, "Hey Cuphead, mind if I take a whack at it."

"Don't mind if I do. Switch," Cuphead says.

Red Rose nods her head. Cuphead and Red Rose switch places, now Cuphead is pedaling Red Rose's bike, while the young sailor is holding the pitchfork in her hands. Red Rose then fires the Devil's pitchfork and breaks one of the tubes. Cuphead and Red Rose laugh as they ride the bike down the tubes with Mugman following from the other tubes.

Seeing what's happening, the Devil screams, "What are you doing?!"

The three friends continue to ride on the tubes, as Red Rose uses the Devil's pitchfork to destroy the tubes, freeing the souls trapped inside.

The Devil screams in rage, "Stop that, you rotten brats!

The souls continue to fly out of the tubes to get to the upper form.

The telephone's souls cheer, "Yay!"

The Devil screams in anger that he accidentally lets the souls he's holding go, and they fly away.

Then the Devil screams, "No!"

The Devil sobs to see all the souls he has collected are gone.

Then growls in rage as his body fires up.

Seeing the Devil furious, Cuphead says, "Uh-oh, time to go."

"Agreed," Red Rose says.

Cuphead then switches with Red Rose, allowing her to pedal her bike. Cuphead then grabs the pitchfork. The three rides U-turn on the tube, and down the ramp at top speed. They then jump and land on the ramp close to the lava. Then continues to pedal across the Underworld

Cuphead gasps to notice, "There's the elevator! That's our ticket out of here."

They turn and reach the elevator. They rush to get their bikes inside before getting in the elevator themselves.

Cuphead quickly pushes the button as he panics, "Come on, come on, come on, come on!"

The elevator bell dings as it closes.

The three sigh in relief, "Whew!"

Cuphead happily cheers, "We made it, guys!"

Then the three friends hug each other.

Mugman happily says, "Thanks for rescuing me from eternal torment."

"No, thank you for saving my soul so many times," Cuphead says.

"Well, I'm thankful we finally got out of there," Red Rose says.

Suddenly, Cuphead notices something, "Wait, how come the elevator ain't moving?"

Red Rose looks around and says, "Something's not right."

Suddenly, the elevator's walls begin to fall over and the three remain close to one another as they whimper in worry. Mugman then screams in fear. And soon, the three realize that they're in the Devil's mouth, and the Devil has made himself big as a giant.

Furious, the Devil shouts, "You porcelain-headed idiots!"

"Let's get outta here!" Cuphead cries out.

Cuphead grabs Mugman and Red Rose's hand and jumps out of the mouth. The Devil tries to catch them, but misses. Then the three friends begin to fall from their high position. Cuphead quickly sits on the pitchfork and flies down to catch his two friends. Cuphead is able to catch Red Rose, but the Devil grabs Mugman before he can reach them. The Devil maniacally laughs to have Mugman in his clutches.

The Devil demands, "Now give me back my pitchfo-" but ends up coughing and gagging.

He reaches into his mouth with his other hand and grabs the two bikes. He grumbles in anger and flicks them, and they both crash to the ground.

Then the Devil demands, "Now give me back my pitchfork!"

"Mm, I don't think so. I found it fair and square," Cuphead says.

The Devil growls in anger that he clenches his fist, and begins crushing Mugman.

Mugman screams, "Cuphead!"

Seeing his brother in trouble, Cuphead calls out, "Hey, leave my brother out of this! You know the rules of pitchfork ownership."

The Devil gasps in realization, "Finders keepers."

"Losers weepers," Cuphead adds.

The Devil sighs and reverts back to his original size. Cuphead flies the pitchfork down and they jump off.

"Yeah, that's right. You want this back? You gotta make a deal," Cuphead says.

The Devil sighs and says, "I suppose I have no choice. Give me my pitchfork and you can have your annoying brother. Trade on three?"

"Trade on three," Cuphead says.

The Devil begins to count, "One, two…"

But Cuphead says, "Wait, wait! Is it on three or right after three?

"On three," The Devil answers.

But Cuphead questions, "Or should it be after?"

"No, on three!" The Devil says.

Mugman then screams in frustration, "Will you just do the trade already?!"

"Okay, okay!" Cuphead and the Devil reply.

And with that, the Devil starts to count, "One…"

Then Cuphea says, "Two…"

And they both say at the same time, "Three!"

And with that, the Devil tosses Mugman as Cuphead tosses the pitchfork. The Devil grabs his pitchfork while Cuphead catches his brother in his arms. The two brothers gasp and giggle with glee.

Cuphead happily says, "Hey, buddy! Welcome back!"

"All right. The deal is done. Now get out!" The Devil says, annoyed.

"Jeez. Mr. Grumps over here," Cuphead says.

Red Rose giggles and says, "Yeah. Talk about a Sour Ball."

"Somebody needs a nap," Mugman says.

The Devil grows irritated and shouts, "I said…" and screams in a demonic voice, " ...get out!"

And with that, the gates open, allowing the three friends to pedal out of the exit and ride back to the forest. Having his pitchfork back, the Devil uses his magic to repair all the damages the three have done. The Devil then sits on his throne to rest a bit.

He then smiles in relief as he stares at his pitchfork, "Oh! Back at last, my darling."

He then begins kissing it and is very glad to have his pitchfork back. However, the Devil notices something off about it.

The Devil smacks his lips and questions, "Is that grape jelly?"

Then notices something in disgust, "Ew, there's a hair on it!" and takes a hair on it.

He then notices, "What... And it's bent?"

"Unbelievable!" The Devil screams in a demonic tone.

Suddenly, Henchman says, "Duh, okay, boss. Time to pay up."

The Devil sees Henchman dressed in a Hawaiian shirt with a flower necklace, and a sunhat, with two suitcases. The Devil groans and places his hand on his face, realizing that he has also lost the bet.

Meanwhile, deep in the forest, Cuphead, Mugman, and Red Rose pedal their bikes down the path of the forest and as far from the Devil as possible.

All three replies, "Phew!" In relief.

"That was close," Cupjhead says.

"A little too close," Red Rose says.

Then Mugman says to Cuphead, "Well, I hope you learned something from all this."

"Believe me, Mugsy. This guy's on the straight and narrow starting right now," Cuphead says.

"Whew! Music to my ears," Mugman says in relief.

Then Mugman asks, "So, uh, now that you don't owe the Devil your soul anymore, what are you gonna do next?"

"Hmm…" Cuphead thinks about it.

And the next moment, the three are at the Devil's carnival again, and Cuphead is playing Soul Ball, the cause of the mess they got into. Cuphead throws the ball and it goes into the center hole.

The announcer says, "Winner!"

The citizens of the Isles cheer. Mugman sighs woozily and falls to the ground.

Red Rose sighs and picks up Mugman, and then picks up Cuphead.

Cuphead shouts, "Hey, I was on a roll!"

"Well you can forget it, Cuphead. Being at this carnival is what got us in this mess, and I can see that you still haven't learned your lesson. Let's get out of here and do something else," Red Rose says.

Then begins dragging Cuphead out of the carnival.

Cuphead sighs, "Oh well, fun while it lasted. But hey, at least I get to hang out with my favorite brother and my favorite friend."

"That's sweet Cuphead, but we're still leaving this carnival and doing something else," Red Rose says.

"Aw banana oil!" Cuphead says, and begins to pout with his arms crossed.

Meanwhile, at a tropical beach, Henchman is lying on a beach town in the sand wearing a swimsuit, sunglasses and sunbathing under the sun.

"Ah! Finally, some time to get away from it all," Henchman says.

"You said it. To a long overdue break, for both our sakes," Quadratus says.

"Cheers to that," Henchman says, picking up his drink.

Then offers, "Oh, uh, want a sip?

"Don't mind if I do," Quadratus says.

Quadrats begins to take a sip of the drink. However, Quadratus is taking more than a sip of Henchman's drink.

Henchman takes it away and says, "I said a sip."