The Incomplete World Of Elmore
Part 17 (2 of 9)
~Darrel Feltman
Nervously, Darrel sits in the interrogation chair as Doc glares at him while Clancy writes on his notepad.
Darrell is cut short. "Uh... hi, Miss Watterson?"
"Talk... NOW!" Doc.
The hot dog guzzles and begins to sweat.
"Okay, it all started this morning, around 8:05 a.m.," Darrel explains what happened, and the flashback begins.
[Art style becomes more Doug-like]
An alarm on his phone rings, using the theme song of The Fresh Prince of Bel Air. Darrel gets up from bed, turns the alarm off, and grabs his sunglasses. He goes to the bathroom to wash his blonde hair and comb it. He brushes his teeth, spits them out, then smiles at himself in the mirror as he notices his teeth are now bright and sparkling.
After that, he goes downstairs to meet his brothers Casey and Gus, who are eating breakfast, and his mom Martha has just brought him his breakfast, which consists of sausage and eggs. After a witty catchphrase, which ends up being more of a cringe moment than anything else, a laugh track plays as he leaves the house to begin his day.
He is walking around town when he hears a ringtone from his phone. The image on the screen is a paper cutout of a drawing on lined paper. It shows a person with spiky hair and a muscular upper body. They also wear a skirt, heels, a majorette hat, and runny mascara. This is Wilson Bilson, one of his classmates and also his boyfriend.
Darrel says, "Okay, I'll hang out with my buds at the golf course for a bit; then I'll come over to your house on Sunday, okay?" Darrel then notices Ocho on the sidewalk near the bus stop.
Darrel then ends the call. "Love you, my complex prince."
"Was that your boyfriend on the phone?" asked Ocho.
Yes, we've been dating for a few days now," Darrel said as he walked with the spider toward the cafe.
Which lip tastes better for you, Wilson or Williams?
"Dude!?" Darrel looks at him in anger.
"What? I was asking a question," Ocho said.
"That's personal, and how did you find out about that?" Darrel asked.
Hey, man, it happened before you were dating the paper guy. Plus, I want to say something before we get there. "Ocho, who sounds calm.
"So what are you planning on doing after this? "
"I'm going to go golfing today with my Uncle Mario. You can join if you want to...I'm very serious about golfing."
It's mini golf. Darrel
You have known me for six years now, and you realize how seriously I take golfing, and it calms me down, and I never lose focus. Ocho leans close to Darrel with a severe look on his face.
"...ever." Ocho then hears the ringing sound of the bell at the cafe. Ocho's mood changes to cheerful, while Darrel still looks unsure.
~Elmore Cafe Again
Carrie and Nicolas sit inside the cafe, which now has a Piece theme with aqua-green colors. Four empty tables surround them, and Carrie looks angry at the Cabbit about something.
"(Threatening) If you tell anyone I wear those, I'll harpoon you in the chest! (Cheerfully seeing Ocho and Darrel arrive at the table) Hey guys, how's it going? (Mood changes to emotionless and acting cool) Whatever, about time you two showed up." Carrie
"Greetings, comrades, on this morning of October," Nicolas said in a monotone voice, as cold and emotionless as possible. His expression did not change after seeing them.
The bell of the cafe opened to see Clare, who was very mopey with her, whining about something as she limbed through the floor to the table. She sat beside the cabbit, holding an umbrella, while Clare sobbed like a baby. After that, William walked towards the door with his hand leg and crawled to the chair on the table next to Nicolas.
The next few minutes were awkward silence as no one wanted to talk. Everyone got drinks and food until Darrell spoke up.
"So, does anyone want to talk about what happened to them yesterday?" Darrel asked, breaking the silence.
As cold as ever, Nicolas spoke in a monotone voice, "My neighbor next door died yesterday. He jumped off the roof holding a boulder, then went splat on his yard." As he continued to focus on his drink, Darrel spat out his glass while Carrie looked annoyed. Ocho almost choked on his food, but thankfully, William punched him in the back, allowing him to spit out the food.
"Out of curiosity, what does this small boulder look like?" Darrel asked.
"Well, it was the size of a soccer ball; it had a red string wrapped around it with a spindle on one side and scissors on the other." Nicolas placed the object in his hands, giving it a spherical shape.
"Did it also have googly eyes and a goofy mouth?" asked Darrel.
"Yes," Gumball told Clare and Darrel, looking shocked.
"The matters with you, dawg"?" William typed on his phone, and a laugh track could be heard as the kids looked at where that laughter originated.
"That's because I saw it leave the body and (whispers) take the form of the guy before he died!" Darrel isn't trying to alarm the other customers in the cafe, which surprises them after hearing this.
"That's odd," Nicolas replied, sipping his decaf coffee.
Ocho's phone rings with the Nintendo GameCube opening screen as its ringtone, and he looks down at his phone to answer it. Meanwhile, William flies off somewhere, saying his brother needs him for charity work.
"My uncle called; he said he's here. It's time to go now."
~Driving to the course
Ocho grabs Nicolas like a rag doll, and Darrel walks out with him, waving the girls goodbye as he, Nicolas, and Ocho leave the cafe to see Uncle Mario waiting in his plumbing truck. As they were driving away after a few minutes, Darrel looked behind the car to see the same rolling boulder that killed the mailman rolling towards them. He grabs the cabbit and starts shaking him back and forth.
"Nicolas, it's the boulder from yesterday, the one I was talking about. It's rolling towards the truck!" He points at the back of the window. The cabbit refuses to look out the window.
"Darrel, what if I looked out the window and saw nothing? Then you would get freaked out. IT WASN'T THERE when I looked out again, so you told me about it, but it disappeared again. Causing you to have a mental breakdown, which leads to the truck crash. Why don't you ignore it?"
"But it killed the mailman," Darrel said, still worried.
"We will be at the golf course in two minutes. So stay calm until we get there." The cabbit goes back to his seat, looking at his phone.
Darrel looks out the window and sees that the rolling ball has disappeared. The truck then stops.
"We're here," Uncle Mario said as the three boys exited the car.
~Elmore Golf
Just before entering the golf course, Darrel turns around to see if the rolling stone is still behind them, but it looks like the rock is gone. He sighs in relief as he heads towards the course.
A few minutes later, Gumball tries to get his golf ball into the first hole 87 times, then when he decides to hit the ball so hard that it flies upwards towards the sky and then hits the head of Patrick Fitzgerald, director, causing him to get knocked out while a goblin laughs at this.
"Okay, you should probably just sit this out," Darrel said.
Gumball asks, "What do you mean?" seeking clarification.
"Let me just put this in a way you will understand. It's just that..." Darrel said.
"You suck at golf. Why don't you get us some drinks while we deal with the rest of the game?" Ocho tells the cabbit, who walks away without saying a word.
After Gumball leaves, Ocho and Mario continue as if nothing has happened.
"Wasn't that kind of harsh?" Darrel asked Ocho.
"So, what are you even talking about?" Ocho asked as he hit his golf ball into the hole.
"I knew him when we were younger because our parents worked together, but now he seems more open."
"Then Gumball could handle it, and it wasn't like I was insulting him about anything regarding his family or anything." Ocho
"I'll just take a break after the fifth hole," Darrel said.
"All right, but you'll only have five minutes before I beat the sixth hole."
Darrel leaves and sees a fountain with a bench on it. He starts to think about what's been on his mind lately - how this year of school has gotten crazier since Nicolas came to his school. When he was younger, he was forced to hang out with Nicolas and his pet plant during a few playdates. However, they no longer hang out because Darrel is too afraid of Aphrodite and her strictness. Now, he hopes things will improve when they meet again tomorrow.
Clare had moved to their town, and she looked annoyed about something. He tried to make small talk as he introduced himself as Hot Dog Guy, but she seemed to ignore him. When they got to class, as she was going to his classroom, their teacher Mr. Cornelle, a pixel frog, introduced Clare. However, Clare was easily irritated and started talking to herself out loud, thinking she was speaking in her thoughts. The students called her a weirdo and laughed at her. Her desk was next to Julius Oppenheimer Jr.
His gang looked at Clare like she was fresh meat while he was meat. Rachel, whose classmates didn't like her due to how obnoxious she was, thought it might be hereditary because her brother Tobias, whom she met in elementary school, was also considered very annoying. Rachel talks to Clare at lunch, who is annoyed by her antics of saying, "She is the second obnoxious turquoise being that she met today." This gets Rachel mad at her calling her "A big crybaby who thinks that being sad all the time makes it real life." This makes Clare angry as she calls Rachel an "Obnoxious loser everyone ignores due to her vain narcissism."
The two girls argue at lunch while in the background, Loki, the goldfish, is talking to Julius about something the goldfish gave him money. Then when he was eating his sandwich mid-bite, he saw his crush's and later boyfriend, Wilson Bilson, in slow motion, who was with Jared, a muppet. But when the paper guy was about to talk, his voice shouted, and Harry's (Ocho) came out.
"Hey, Dude, wake up!" Darrel then looked around, and Clare and Rachel had pixel eyes with their fingers snapping at him.
"Yo, Darrel, stop daydreaming," Rachel and Clare said in unison.
Then, like that, Darrel, who was sleeping, woke up with a yelp as Ocho was alone and looked irritated.
"We have two more holes to play; let's go!"
"Huh? What? Harry, I thought we were still on the fifth hole."
"You got up from the bench and started playing again."
Don't you mean sleepwalking? Where's Uncle Mario? Darrel
"He left for a plumbing emergency, as his brother called him."
"Oh, that's right, the guy who wears green is taller than Mario and is afraid of ghosts."
Uncle Luciano, so let's finish this game and get Gumball. Ocho, holding his golf club, now walks to the final hole.
Darrel was just about to hit his golf ball when a tornado suddenly appeared from nowhere and sucked him and the entire golf course into its vortex.
Darrel screams like a little girl as he is sucked into the vortex. The yellow golf ball flies toward the hole. Ocho, who is positioning his ball, is too focused on the game to notice or care about the tornado.
"Now, this is more like it for the final hole," Ocho said as he prepared to hit his golf ball.
"Yeah, just what we need! Both of us trapped inside a vortex!" Darrel shouts in panic.
Ocho hits the golf ball as it zooms around the tornado. Going through all the other golf courses, it flies down and hits Darrel's ball, falling into the hole while Ocho stands there just as it's barely in the spot.
Ocho has a dazed expression, and then it turns to rage. He hits his golf club on the ground, causing creaks on it. Then Ocho inherently calms down and tells Darrel," Good game," intending to shake his hand, which the hot dog does in confusion, but then the ground they're standing on collapses as the two start falling.
Darrel screams, "We're going to fall to our death!" He is panicking.
"You know, I can fly, right?" Ocho said.
"In the middle of a powerful hurricane?! Yeah, good luck with that!" Darrel says as he glares at Ocho, who is hovering in mid-air.
"You show off!" Darrell says as he falls, and Ocho catches him.
Darrel then sees Nicolas falling mid-air, fighting a giant blue fan while punching it from within its turbines. Seeing this, Darrel tells Ocho to get Gumball and points to the Cabbit, who kicks the fan robot to the ground. He then swoops in and grabs the Cabbit. The golf course is in ruins when the storm clears, but Ocho's golf ball finally lands in the hole. Ocho lands next to the crater created by the fan robot, with the two boys now on his back.
"What on earth just occurred?!" Darrell exclaimed in shock.
"One of the students from Carmen's old school transformed into a giant fan and then created a tornado, so I have to kill him." Nicolas
Darrel looked dumbfoundedly at him.
"What?!" Darrel exclaimed in surprise.
I lost the game by two points (I just figured it out). ELMORE GOLF COURSE, NOOOO! Ocho sounded distraught.
Ocho says in rage, "Who did this?" The cabbit points to the crater.
Nicolas points at the crater. "He did it," he says. Ocho, in rage, flies down into the hole, followed by the Cabbit and the dog.
When he gets down there, all that remains of Luft is a broken offline android. This shocks Darrel to see a corpse, and Nicolas responds as usual.
"Damn it; someone beat me to it," Ocho curses as he clenches his fists in anger. He slams his foot on Luft's remains, causing the head to fall off. Nicolas grabs the decapitated head and looks at Darrel.
The guy on the phone said there were eight of them; with one gone, the other seven must be after the rest.
"Then what should we do but take the rest of them down? Just one of them did this to the golf course." Darrel
Ocho punched the headless Android's body in rage, causing it to explode into even more pieces.
"If we don't, they will destroy the rest of this town and your family."
The cabbit replied to Darrel and just looked at him without saying a word. Nicolas looked at the head, then looked back at him.
"What should we do then?" Darrell asked.
"First, we need to find Bobert; he's a machine and can scan this droid for information," Gumball said.
Ocho takes his phone and shows an image of Bobert at the park with Clare and Carrie running for their lives.
~Elmore Park
After that, the trio ran to the park, but Darrel got exhausted, so Nicolas carried him on his back. They arrived at the park and found Bobert looking out into the distance from the top of the hill.
Nicolas approaches Bobert, who turns his head and rotates his body to see him. The cabbit holds Luft's head in front of Bobert.
"We need your help; please scan this head."
"Beep." Bobert removes the human skin and then scans him. Bobert rips the top of Luft's head and uses a cord inside the robot to get the data from the Android.
While that's happening, Ocho puts the pilot hat on his head while Darrell looks at him.
"What?" Ocho asked.
"You just robbed a corpse," Darrel whispered loudly as people gathered around the park.
"So, he destroyed the golf course that was my favorite place. He was trying to kill us, so screw that guy." Ocho
"Okay," Darrel said, crossing his arms.
After Bobert finishes downloading, a recording of Luft talking to his ground is heard. They say two of their friends are going to the woods in the park to attack Clare and Carrie. Nicholas's ears perk up then he turns to the two boys.
"We need to go and save Sis and Carrie," Nicolas said.
"Okay, it's about time I got to crush one of those punks," Ocho says as he bangs his fists together.
"Darrel, you stay here with Bobert while Ocho and I go and take down those Franklin Steins," the cabbit and spider run towards the forest, leaving Darrel alone with the robot.
"Have you seen any good movies recently?" Darrel asked.
"Beep," Bobert turns his head to see Darrel.
A massive rumble is heard as the ground shakes. The duo sees Carmen, who looks furious with fire in her eyes and fangs in her teeth, carrying William by his hand and leg.
"(demonic voice) You send that eyeball to spy on me! Carmen."
"(Nervously and terrified with his voice squeaky.) "Wait, it was all William, Ocho, and Carrie's idea." Darrel covered his face.
William glares at him for throwing his friends under the bus, and Carmen disapproves of his cowardice.
She grabs Darrel by the throat and drags him and William away. She turns to Bobert, but her expression remains unchanged.
"(Normal voice) Hello Bobert!" Carmen
"Beep," he waves goodbye as Carmen starts running towards the woods, leaving a fire trail behind her. The flames from her tail accidentally set some of the trees on fire.
By the time they arrive, Nicolas is there with Ocho and a rat plant creature. Carmen lets go of William and Darrel as her eyes sparkle seeing the cabbit. Carrie and Clare pop out of the lake, and Clare struggles to breathe, and her eyes look damaged.
The cabbit and cactus looked at each other and tried to speak, but their words were gibberish and awkward.
Nicolas smiled at her, "Hey, it's okay. I understand. I was trying to save my sister and best friend, and I didn't think you would be here."
"Oh... Hi... I was trying to find you. I heard from you... From William's phone... And if you were in any danger from my old classmate Gumball."
Darrel then feels a pain in his arm. He turns to see the albino rat biting his hand. This causes him to scream, causing Carmen and Nicolas to look at Darrel, trying to get Aphrodite off of him.
Then William gets hit in the face with a bubble. The group turns around to see Blase still alive and angry.
Blase aims for Aphrodite, who Nicolas jumps to protect, getting himself lampooned in the chest and going down with a thud.
"Time for all of you to swim with the fishes." Blase raises his arm, but Clare gets angry as her eyes turn red, and she attacks Blase, punching him so hard that he falls into pieces of sushi in the lake.
"Go fish," said Clare. The lake exploded, and Clare fainted face-first with a thud. There was a moment of silence until they grabbed the unconscious kids and ran to the hospital. During the run, Darrel saw the rolling stone on the other side of the street, and then it went onto the back of a truck. He was about to say something but decided to keep it to himself. As for right now, he and the others had to get Clare, Nicolas, and William to the hospital.
~DaisyLand
After arriving, Alan checks on his brother while Carmen apologizes to Nicolas. Nicolas tells her it isn't her fault that this happened and that if he had been more careful, Clare and William wouldn't be in those beds. Carrie was drooling about something, making Carmen jealous, but the ghost denies that she was drooling. Darrell is disgusted that the drool is on his feet. It was dropped after Clare was muttering about going to Daisyland. Aphrodite stays behind to look after Nicolas. Carrie was drooling about something, making Carmen jealous. It was dropped after Clare was muttering about going to Daisyland.
After a few minutes, the trio and Carmen got a headache and headed home until the remaining council members ambushed them. Carmen ran away, taking a motorcycle as someone who looked like a cigarette lighter chased her. Darrell was about to warn the two but then disappeared in a flash along with Blitz. When he looked around, the hot dog found himself in a hall of mirrors. Cautiously he walked around, turning his body to see if Blitz was there.
"Say handsome, hows about you ditch the freaks and join us and be mine?" Blitz tempts him. Darrel smiles and raises his face, thinking he will join him just as he reaches for his hand to shake. The hot dog lifts his hand away with a "psych" and shoots him point blank with a flare gun. Before the hot dog leaves, a flash of time freezes for a few seconds, and Darrel feels holes in his chest.
Blitz is now in front of him, raising his weapon with a slasher smile. Darrel looks like he is about to fight with his sunglasses shining. Then he does what he does best in a situation like this:
"Run away!" Darrel screams as he runs around the maze while Blitz chases after him in rage. Darrel uses Still Standing to shoot rays of light around the mirrors, blinding Blitz as he mindlessly starts destroying the mirrors around the maze. After a couple of minutes, Blitz regains sight after shooting almost every mirror in the labyrinth of mirrors and sees Darrel, who is panicking as he shakes with fear.
"Time For One Last Moment Together!" Blitz fires his stop-time powers at Darrel, causing a flash to engulf the room. But it's revealed that he froze himself, and the hot dog was behind him as that mirror makes the person looking at that reflection invisible. Frozen in place, Darrel uses his light sword to slice Blitz's body. After time resumes for Blitz, he falls apart and explodes, taking the hall of mirrors. After surviving the explosion of the destroyed attraction, Darrel finds himself in Daisyland.
He knows about many kindergartners; Teri and Clare would love this place. He looks around the destroyed site, finds the time stopper in the rubble, and takes it. He wanders around the park seeing all the attractions and looking for either Carrie or Ocho.
"Okay, now, if I was obsessed with speed, where would I go?" He looks at a monitor showing the Sally Cart of Carrie fighting Schnell.
"Bingo," Darrell runs to the go-kart course where Carrie is.
When he got there, he saw Schnell running down towards him, so he aimed at Schnell, who was charging at Carrie for a final attack. The item was super effective on the speeding android as Schnell was in slow motion while Carrie killed her with her sickle and Smooth Criminal.
When Darrel and Carrie met, the two did a high five and said, "Excellent," also making guitar noises as Schnell exploded. Lapin said they left Daisyland with merchandise and saw a red ball going somewhere along.
"I am coming, Carrie; I'll save you from the burning hospital," Lapin says as he runs unknowingly, not seeing Carrie.
The two kids looked in shock and headed toward the hospital. Carrie then teleported to the burning hospital to get their friends out. Darrel lost consciousness, and when he woke up, he saw Julius being beaten up by Aphrodite.
The rat plant runs towards Nicolas, who wakes up. Julius was about to summon his stand when Carmen, who had transformed into a scarecrow cactus wearing Aztec clothing, appeared behind him and sent the bomb guy flying into the air, exploding like a firework. Gumball, who saw Carmen's transformation, turned into a snow monster.
Darrel heroically ran away with the others following him, only to be arrested by the police.
[Art Style Returns To Normal]
You murdered a man who could stop time with a light sword, and a rolling ball followed you? Doc
"Yes. But the first one was self-defense, and they would have harmed everyone in the hospital if we hadn't stopped them." Darrel said.
Doc asked, "What about the ball you mentioned earlier?"
"It's still out there, but when it transformed, it took on the exact appearance of your neighbor with the horns. After that ball came to his house, he died," Darrel tries to warn her, but Doc and Clancy think he is crazy about the ball.
"We got what we needed from you," Doc says. The guards outside the room enter, taking Darrell away with a nervous look on his face.
"Bring in the next one," Clancy ordered before retrieving William.