Twisted Metal: Cartoon Network
By RS
Sweet Tooth: Innocence…forever lost
Driver: Jimmy
Age: 12
Epilogue:
(Jimmy speeds towards where Calypso is standing and pulls a hard right to a stop, knocking over some rubble and car parts on the turn. Jimmy slowly steps out and staggers towards Calypso, much to Calypso's amusement. Jimmy is a wreck after the contest.)
Calypso: Jimmy…you are the winner of my Twisted Metal contest. As your prize, you will now be given anything your heart desires…how are you feeling my boy?
Jimmy: (Panting, hands on knees) Never…again…(Calypso chuckles)…I…made it…can't faint…now…Calypso…
Calypso: Yes?
Jimmy: Calypso…you see me…you see how much of a sissy-boo-boo crybaby I am, don't you?
Calypso: Well…
Jimmy: I'm always weak…always frail…always trying to do my best…but…one time it just wasn't good enough!
Calypso: You know I can make you exactly what you want to be, Jimmy. I've said so before. I can make you…strong.
Jimmy: Not just strong Calypso…confident…I want to be a manly man, because that's what Sarah needs! A manly man…she needs someone who can protect her! I want to be that someone.
Calypso: Very well, your wish is–
Jimmy: Hold on, Calypso, that isn't it!
Calypso: Hm?
Jimmy: I mean…yes, I want to be that strong man…(stands upright and clenches fists)…but I want the chance to prove it to my Sarah! Calypso, I want a second chance at saving Sarah from whoever pushed her off the roof, as a strong man. Give me my wish, and don't let her get hurt.
Calypso: Very well…your wish is granted! (Lightning)
(Jimmy opens his eyes and he's back in Sarah's room with Sarah and his cousin. Once again, the lights go out.)
Jimmy: (Thinking) This is it! (Stands and moves through the darkness just as he heres the pitter-patter of little feet.) I hope I know where I'm going. (Feels the first step of the stairs.) Yes! (Begins to run up the stairs, nearly tripping over one or two.) I can feel it, my strength! Calypso, thank you! I can do this! I can save Sarah! (Jimmy then begins to hear voices just as the lights go on and he reaches the top of the stairs)
Sarah: What the heck did you bring me up here for?
Unknown Voice: I wanted ta show ya somethin'.
Jimmy: (Thinking) It's him!
Sarah: What? The stupid sky!
Unknown Voice: No silly, the view…
Jimmy: (Thinking) No!
Sarah: What about it?
Unknown Voice: This about it!
(Before the person can push Sarah off, Jimmy grabs the person and chucks him behind. Then Jimmy pulls Sarah away from the ledge.)
Jimmy: (To Sarah) You ok?
Sarah: Yeah, I'm fine, and…and when did you get so strong?
(Jimmy looks at the person he pulled aside, and his eyes are filled with shock)
Jimmy: Pud'n!
Pud'n: Yes Jimmy…
Jimmy: So, you were gonna push Sarah off the ledge!
Pud'n: No I wasn't…
Sarah: You mean Pud'n was gonna try to push me off the roof!
Jimmy: Yeah…but I made it just in time.
Pud'n: Maybe to save her…but what about you, cousin!
(Pud'n lunges at Jimmy, but with Jimmy's newfound strength Pud'n is barely a match)
Calypso: Pud'n's blind desire to be with his bunny's and Jimmy's desire to protect Sarah exploded into one wonderful splendor of a match between cousins, until…
Pud'n: AAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!
(Thud)
(Jimmy and Sarah look over the roof ledge to see Pud'n on the ground, bleeding.)
Sarah: Jimmy…
Jimmy: N-no…
Calypso: Ambulances soon came to take Pud'n's body away. Few believed he remained alive after such a fall. Even fewer believed it was a mere accident. Jimmy was sitting down, still shocked after what he had just done with Sarah trying to snap him out of it by his side. Jimmy could here what the adults were planning to do, and no amount of strength could stop it. Jimmy was committed to Blackfield Asylum for the following three months…it was the longest he'd ever been confined…(laughs)
I Am Calypso, And I Thank You For Playing Twisted Metal