[Epilogue: How Unfortunate "PART 1"]
?: "Alright, stay calm."
?: "I know that you'll be gone in 2 weeks, but I'm sure they'll be fine. Just as long as Sheldon doesn't pester much whenever he calls."
?: "Alright, Leonard Hofstader. This is your chance to let anyone know what a talented physicist you are."
The man's voice cuts to the scene of Leonard Hofstadter. He has black hair, grey eyes, and wears glasses. He also wears a grey button-up jacket with a yellow T-shirt underneath, maroon pants, and brown loafers.
His wife, Penny, walked up to him with a piece of luggage in her hand.
"Alright, all set and ready to go." Penny said, preparing Leonard's stuff. "I can't believe you got accepted in a program with a bunch of people with ultimate talents."
That is when Penny began to sob, as Leonard tried to comfort her.
"Hey, don't cry. Everything's gonna be okay." Leonard assures Penny. "I'll be back in 2 weeks. Yes, it's long, but-"
"I know, it's just... It's just that I wish I could go with you to that program."
"Because you want to spend time with me more?"
"No, it's because I also have a talent too. Like, I'm an actress, so why didn't they pick me to go to that dumb program?"
"Simple, you have bad acting." A squeaky girls voice interjects.
They both turned around to see his friends, Sheldon, Amy, Raj, Howard, and Bernadette. They were holding a banner that said "Farewell, Leonard!" in bold and capital letters.
"At least I'm not like you with a voice of a gremlin." Penny taunted Bernadette, making her angry.
"Come at me, see what happens." Bernadette threatened.
Leonard walked up to his buddies, with a fake smile crossing his face.
"Wow. I'm guessing you all have prepared this for my leaving, huh?" Leonard said.
"Well, we asked Stuart to make this. So of course we did." Sheldon remarked, then continued. "Leonard, I know you were almost gifted with a brain of knowledge. But in my dearest heart, it's nonscientific to say this but... I will miss you... We will miss you."
"Yeah, it's not the same without you." Howard remarked.
"Guys, I'll be fine." Leonard said. "And to be honest, I'm also in shock, just like all of you. Being accepted as a guest in a program from Hope's Peak Academy, makes me wish I could go back into my mom's womb."
"No worries, man. We're here for you." Raj assures Leonard. "Even if we can't join you, we'll still be by your side, whether we are far or not."
Leonard began to cry. "Come on, guys." Leonard sulked. "You know how sad moments make me cry."
Leonard ran up to them and hugged his friends tightly as his wife joined in as well. Suddenly, it all faded to black when his voice came back to narrate.
"Those were the last words I have heard from them." Leonard narrates. "I don't remember anything at first... But, I remember when I finally got to the yacht and suddenly started to... Pass out."
The scene is where Leonard already got on board in the ship, and when he walked into the dining room, his vision became blurry and spiral. He then flops to the floor as his eyes with shut.
Leonard: "That is when... I heard a voice. It's not Sheldon, but someone else... Someone... New."
Leonard's eyes began to woke up, only to see a blurry vision of a little girl, standing on top of him.
"H...y...Are yo...ka..." The little girl said, very uncleared.
As his blurry vision is gone, he sees not a little girl, but a little cookie who has pale cream dough, light blue eyes, and white hair tied at its end in a gold band. She wears a golden brown beret with white speckles on it, which resembles a cream puff with powdered sugar. Her dress is mainly light yellow-orange with white trim. Around her neck is a blue cape supported with a white bow tie. She also wears brown boots.
"Hey! Are you okay?" The cookie asked, causing Leonard to jump in fear. "Oh, sorry! I shouldn't have startled you like that."
Leonard hesitantly shook his head. "N-no no, it's fine. Really." Leonard assures. "It's just that... I don't know what... Um... What are you exactly?"
"Oh, me? I'm a cookie." The cookie answered. "I'm guessing that you're a bit surprised, aren't you?"
"You think?"
Leonard got up from his feet and dust himself off, as he realized that he sees himself in an island of somewhat, along with a luxurious hotel right behind him. He scratched his head as he felt confused.
"What is this place?" Leonard asked the cookie.
"I don't know either." The cookie answered. "I also woke up here as you did, even everyone is confused from this place."
"Everyone?"
"Yeah, I'm not the only one here who woke up from this place." The cookie remarked. "But if you wanna meet them, you can explore here as much as you like. Oh, and by the way, my name is Cream Puff Cookie, the Ultimate Wizard."
"Oh, it's nice to meet you, Cream Puff... Coo-" Leonard struggled to say her name. "I'll just call you Cream Puff, if you want."
"Sure! I don't mind. What's your name by the way?"
"Oh, me? Leonard Hofstader, and uhh... I'm a physicist, Ultimate Physicist."
Cream Puff looked at Leonard, feeling dumbfounded as she tilts her head in confusion.
"It's a scientist who specializes in the field of physics, which encompasses the interactions of matter and energy at all length and time scales in the physical universe." Leonard explains to Cream Puff
"Oh. Then it's nice to meet you. Well, I best be off."
And with that, Cream Puff walked off to the other direction.
Leonard: "Alright Leonard, you can do this. A little tour won't mind. Once I'm done roaming around here, I'll find that exit. I wonder what this place is anyways?"
As Leonard walks around the hotel, he noticed that the entrance have a banner with the sentence "Welcome, dear guests to the Ultimate Guest Program" in capital letters. There was also the logo of Hope's Peak Academy at the top.
Leonard: "Ultimate Guest Program? The Hope's Peak Academy logo? Wait, am I-"
"No. This has to be a joke." Leonard thought, who now turns to shout out to someone. "Haha! Good joke, everyone! I'm not falling for this!"
"Does that look like a damn joke to you?" A husk voice spoke from behind.
Leonard jolted to find an anthropomorphic cat standing behind him. He has black eyes with yellow irises and slit pupils, red-feathered eyebrows, and small black hearts above them. He also has dark taupe fur, overlayed with white on his face, torso, feet, and upper arms, a long dark-taupe tail, and large red wings. He wears a black top hat with a red band and a gold button-like decoration, a red bowtie around his neck, and a set of black trousers held by black suspenders over his shoulders.
The cat looked at Leonard, feeling grumbled with a bottle of beer on his hand.
"What? You ain't seen a demon this close before?" The cat said, not feeling pleased. "I ain't that kind of shit bag."
"W-wait, you're a what-now?" Leonard repeats.
"A demon?"
"Well, I must be in hell." Leonard mentioned. "I'm sorry, it's just that-"
"What? I might steal your soul and shit?! Believe me, I ain't an overlord, pussy!... Well, not anymore."
It was in silence as Leonard and The Anthropomorphic Cat just stands there, feeling a little awkward for Leonard. The cat began to speak as he puts down his bottle of beer.
"Alright, let's cut to the chase." The cat begins to introduce himself. "The name's Husk, Ultimate Bartender. Nice to meet you, or... Whatever. I don't give a shit anyways."
Leonard: "Ultimate Bartender? And I thought Penny was a bartender. Although, I'm still confused. Am I in hell or am I dreaming?!"
"This ain't a dream, four-eyes." Husk tells Leonard. "It's all real and shit."
Leonard: "Wait, how can he read my mind?"
"What part of 'overlord' and 'demon do you not fuckin' understand? Listen, I can see through your soul and read that little mind of yours, and let's just say... Boy, you're a messed up as shit."
"What?" Leonard cackles. "I don't know what you're talking about. What makes you think I'm messed up?"
"Well, for starters, your parents don't notice your attributions sometimes. That also considers your mother. Unrecognizable, depressed, and would sometimes felt annoyed by that smart-ass roommate of yours."
Leonard: "Smart-ass Roommate? Is he taking about Sheldon?"
"Yeah, that's the name I'm talking about." Husk replied, reading his mind again. "What kind of dumb shithead would name their child, Sheldon?"
"In that statement, I say a religious mother who say she gave birth to the eyes of lord." Leonard answered, ironically. "Hold on, if you're a demon, why are you here? Shouldn't you be like, I don't know, hell or something?"
"I fucking hate answering that." Husk admits, as he began to drink from his bottle. "Oh what the hell. Look, I just came here as a guest, like you are. And apparently when I was about to board the ship, I suddenly passed out and shit. That's all I remember when I woke up in this dump."
Leonard: "He felt the same thing? Huh. I wonder why?"
Husk finishes his bottle of beer and belched a bit, then turns to Leonard.
"Look, if you wanna do some investigating shit, go talk to the others." Husk advices Leonard. "There are 18 of us roaming around this island, and I can tell you already talked to 2. That might be the little cookie and me. I ain't giving you no damn tour, so you're better off by yourself."
Husk walks off, leaving Leonard out as he went into the hotel.
Leonard: "Well that was rude. But maybe I should go in the hotel. That's what I was about to do anyways."
Leonard walks forward to the hotel, not sure if it's safe. When he enters, he noticed 3 people at the bellhop, mostly minding their own business.
The first was a red anthropomorphic echidna who is eating bread that's the size of his arm. He wears red and yellow shoes with green cuffs, light gray soles, and metallic, sextuple-bolted plates on top. He also wears large, white, mitten-like gloves with sock-like cuffs and two pointy, spiked knuckles on each hand.
The second one was Chinese teenage girl who is just tapping her finger on the desk. She has black hair in high pigtails with side-parted bangs, brown eyes, and has two orange ribbons tying around her hair. She wears a black and orange jacket with golden-orange bell sleeves, a white short sleeved mini-cheongsam with an orange phoenix tail design at the hem, and black boots with an orange heel and orange toe connected to a strap.
The third one was a anthropomorphic pig who was brushing her hair. She has blonde hair, azul eyes, and has mascara. She wears a white sequent gown, underneath a brown fur coat, black heeled-boots, and has two pearl necklaces around her neck.
Leonard: "Okay. At least I'm not the only human here. Wait, is that Miss Piggy and Knuckles The Echidna?"
Leonard was gesturing to the pig and the echidna, when the teenager noticed him and began to speak.
"Hello!" The teenager exclaimed, joyously. "Are you also a guest here?"
"O-oh! Umm... Y-yes. Yes I am." Leonard stammered, when the echidna, Knuckles, walked up to him in suspicion.
"Hold it right there." Knuckles interjects, looking dead-serious. "Are you an enemy of some sort? If you are, then I will challenge you to the death."
"What? No! I just walked in here." Leonard protests.
"Just ignore him, he's like that when I first met him." Miss Piggy also interjects. "By the way, I'm Miss Piggy, and I am the greatest, and most fabulous actress of all time. The Ultimate Actress."
"Yeah, I know who you are. You're from The Muppet Show, and clearly it's obvious to me who you are."
"Oh... Well, I am the most prettiest woman there. Wouldn't you agree?"
"Jeez, don't hog much of the attention." The teenager said. "It's my turn to introduce myself. I'm Ling Xiaoyu, Ultimate Martial Artist! Nice to meet you!"
Leonard: "Ling Xiaoyu? Where have I heard that name befo- Oh wait, nevermind, she's from Tekken. Why do I bother guessing?"
"Well, it's nice to meet you too, Xiaoyu." Leonard kindly said. "And Knu- I mean, can you tell me your name then?... Not like I'm familiar with you, just asking."
He gestures to Knuckles, acting like Leonard doesn't know him. Then Knuckles began to introduce as he kneels down on one knees.
"Oh boy." Miss Piggy ironically rolls her eyes as Knuckles begins his introduction.
"I am Knuckles, the last of the Echidna Warriors. Also known as the Ultimate Warrior. I am pleased to meet you, fellow human."
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"Um... Hello to you as well." Leonard awkwardly said it. "I'm Leonard Hofstader. Ultimate Physicist."
"Well, it is nice to meet you, Lenny." Miss Piggy said, calling Leonard 'Lenny'. "Can I call you Lenny? Leonard is not my style of speaking, dear."
"Sure, I guess." Leonard hesitantly agreed. "Like I care... N-not that I care for you, just... Saying."
"If you're trying to flirt with muah, I'll have you know that I have a boyfriend."
"I know. And I am married."
"Oh... Well, I best be off. I need to go take a loo. Have fun with your chitchat, kiss kiss."
And with that, Miss Piggy left to go to the restroom.
"She was nice." Xiaoyu spoke first. "So, Leonard. Did you also wake up from this place?"
"It's kinda obvious, you know that?" Leonard said. "Well, to be honest, I was getting on a ship headed to the event. I didn't know this was the place. Although I am missing my luggage though."
"Really? Me too." Xiaoyu replied. "I was just heading on the ship and saying goodbye to my friends, but when all of a sudden I passed."
"Same to me too." Knuckles added. "I got on the ship, and passed out."
"Huh. We had the same similarities. You passed out from the ship, you passed out from the ship, and I did too. Strange."
Leonard: "Very strange, indeed. I wonder why we passed from the ship? Was it nausea, or was it something else?"
"Well, I better get going." Leonard said. "It's been nice talking to you two. Have fun... Whatever you're doing."
"Oh, before you go, I think you need this." Xiaoyu said, stopping Leonard and gives him a cellphone. "It's a cellphone, which I think they're called 'MonoCell'. I just only saw this box when I woke up here. I can tell this is yours, because it has your name on it."
Leonard grabs the MonoCell and turns to Xiaoyu. "Thanks." Leonard thanked Xiaoyu. "Although, I'm confused. What's a MonoCell?"
"I don't know. I just saw the box that says MonoCell, and open to find these phones. They're kind of cute, not gonna lie."
Xiaoyu walks back to the clerk's desk as she starts a conversation with Knuckles. Leonard then opens his MonoCell, to find a profile about him, with all of his information and descriptions.
Leonard: "Wow. How did they get my personal information here? There wasn't even a form for that. They even have my lactose intolerance."
As Leonard was distracted by the MonoCell, he suddenly bumped into someone, causing them to trip.
"Hey! Watch where you're going, four-eyes!" A voice of an angsty teenage girl was heard, as Leonard took off his eyes on the MonoCell to find a robot.
This robot has neon purple eyes and short, dull purple hair. She wears a black hoodie, short and frilly black skirt, a black striped beanie with a glittery bobble at the tip, and black boots with long, dark purple striped socks. She got up and starts glaring at Leonard.
"Okay, I'm sorry that I-" Leonard was about to apologize, but the robot strike back.
"One more word from you, and I swear I'll blast with my Lazer gun!" The robot scolds Leonard, making him feel threatened. "*sighs* If only I can find it. Probably they confiscated it. But anyways, are you also a guest to this stupid program?"
"Umm... I-I'm gonna yes?" Leonard replied, meekly. "And uhh... You are?"
"Uzi Doorman, Ultimate Rebel." Uzi said. "You got a problem with that, then bite me!"
Leonard: "Of course. When there's an event, there would sometimes be a snarky person... Or better yet, a robot."
"Anyways, I'm looking for a way to escape this dump."
"Escape? Why do you wanna escape an event like this"
"Bite me! I didn't agree to go here. Whatever, I'll find a way out otherwise. Tell this to someone, and you're dead!"
Uzi walked off, and Leonard continues to walk through the hallway with his MonoCell on him. He then noticed a map icon on the bottom-left corner on the screen. He clicks on it to find the map of the island, and the hotel he is in.
[TO BE CONTINUED]