Outside a factory called 'Blight Industries'... Green smoke is seen coming out of the chimneys. We see a banner that reads 'PRIVATE SALE.' Various hooded figures are seen entering the building. Edric and Emira are at the door. The boy twin puts a paper which says 'HEX ME' on one of the hooded figure's back. The twins then giggle.
Now inside the factory... The hooded figures gather in front of a stage. Two hooded figures are seen standing on a stage. A light shines on them...
One of the hooded figures speaks with a woman's voice, "Welcome, valued investors, to our annual..." She takes off the hood, "Blight Industries private sale!" The woman is tall with green hair in a bun, blue eyes and pale skin. She wears a violet blouse under a white waistcoat with a triple interlocking orb pattern, navy pants, and heeled blue-gray boots with darker-colored toes, heels and ribbons. She also has small, gold round earrings and a necklace with a pink oval gem.
The man next to her takes off his hood, but trips and faceplants in the process. He has spiky brown hair, gold eyes and pale skin. He is dressed in a dark gray lab coat covered in purple stains from abomination projects, along with gray pants with black boots which are also covered in purple stains. He is also slouching, making him seem shorter than he actually is.
The woman shrugs her shoulders, "If you're interested in reliable home security, we're here to help." She then whispers, "And if you've got an enemy or two... Well, who are we to judge?"
The investors in the crowd all laugh.
The woman points a the man, "This is my husband, Alador Blight, the greatest abomination creator of the era. My name is Odalia and as an oracle, I predict you'll love what we've got in store for you tonight. We are proud to present... The first glimpse of our crowning achievement!"
The husband and wife step aside and up rises Amity with a bored expression on her face. Next to her is a strange abomination-like creature in armor.
Odalia gestures to the machine, "The Abomaton Soldier!"
The investors in the crowd all clap.
The Abomaton starts pouring tea for Amity, doing her hair, and standing ready for a fight.
he wife continues to speak, "It will pour your tea! Help you keep up with the latest trends! And best of all, it will defend you against any unwanted visitors!"
She touches her necklace causing it to begin to glow... The jewel in Amity's necklace glows, receiving a telepathic message from hr mother.
Odalia smiles while she speaks through her necklace, "Mama to Mittens, remember our deal! Make this look good and we'll forgive your recent lackluster performance in school..."
Amity sighs, "Yes, Mom..."
The Abomination robot tries to punch Amity but misses.
The girl speaks in a monotonic tone, "Wow, it's so fast and strong. Order now."
The investors clap and cheer but Alador yawns. The Abomaton then grabs Amity.
The green haired girl shrugs her shoulders, "Oh no, it's undefeatable. How will I ever escape?"
A photograph falls from Amity's sleeve. She eyes it, which reveals it's the one of her, Luz, Willow, Esper and Gus from Grom Night...
The girl tilts her head, "Huh?"
The Abomaton almost steps on the picture. Amity gasps and then uses a spell circle to easily destroy the robot.
The crowd gasps and murmur among each other, "That's awful!" "This show sucks!"
They all then start to turns and leave.
The mother scrambles to address the crowd, "Oh, of course, w-well that was b-but a beta test! We can't wait to see you all next week when we reveal the uh... he finished product in all its glory!" She turns towards her daughter anger in her voice, "Amity! You just lost us a lot of money! What's with you lately?!"
She notices that Amity is staring longingly at the picture...
Odalia glares while thinking, "I see. Looks like our precious mittens has been getting... Distracted."
...
Hooty smashes his face into a steel bucket three times at the side of the Owl House.
Luz speaks while activating glyphs, "Light in the darkness, a glittering bridge of ice, the mightiest tree in the forest! You can make all these, and more, with glyph magic! Welcome to day three of Luz's magic boot camp!"
Fire glyphs then ignite on the ground. King, who was sleeping near one, screams and runs away when it goes off. Lilith cheering and clapping at her desk while Eda is carving something into the desk she's using. Esper smiles while drawing a light glyph onto the mobile chalkboard in front of the adults.
The human gives her 'students' a smile, "Okay, we have covered every glyph I've learned up until now. So today, we'll learn something new!"
Lilith raises her hand, "Are we about to encounter a never-before-seen glyph?"
Luz frowns while looking away, "Un... Fortunately no. These four either came from nature or another witch's spell. I-I don't know where to find more."
Esper shrugged her shoulders, "Yeah Lilith, Luz just has yet to find more of them!"
Both the older stare at each other while Luz looked nervous.
The human shakes her head, "In any case, today we're learning how to alter glyphs to do specific things!"
Lilith holds up a diagram of ice glyphs, "Miss teacher, did I do it right?"
Luz nods her head, "Yeah! That's really good! She smiles when she sees Lilith fist pumps, "Let's see how you're doing, Eda."
Eda then shows her friend that she had carved the fire and ice glyphs overlapping together on the table.
The human quickly shakes her head, "I-I don't think that's such a good-"
The older woman gives her a big smile, "Double glyph combo, go!" She slaps on the glyphs, they started flashing and then explode. She frowns, "Oh dang, I was hoping more of an ice blast situation."
The redhead shrugs her shoulders, "It was kinda a cool explosion though."
The brunette shakes her head, "I know you're impatient to get your powers back but try to master the basics before you start experimenting."
The Owl Lady rolls her eyes, "Ugh, you're as boring as Lily." Her sister then glares at her.
Esper shrugs her shoulders, "Well I can't argue with that." This turns the older woman's glare towards her.
Hooty flies towards the two girls, "Toot toot! The Hexside train is a-coming! Chugga-chugga!" He grabs both children by their collars.
Luz kicks while in the air, "Uh okay, uh, King's in charge while I'm gone. Bye!"
The Owl Tube drags both girls away, leaving them alone.
King jumps onto his feet, "Haha, power!"
Eda stretches her arms into the air, "Yes! Teacher's gone! Hah, I wonder what other combos I can try."
Lilith frowns at her sister, "Teacher said we're supposed to master the basics before-"
The Owl Lady shakes her head, "Basics are so basic. Now if we want to be powerful again we're gonna have to start thinking outside the box!"
The Raven Witch holds up a few flash cards, "If we want to be powerful again, we have to use glyphs perfectly! And we can only do that through 'memorization', 'repetition' and 'following the rules.'" When she speaks, she holds up flash cards with each word on them.
Eda slaps Lilith's cards out of her hands, "Well, I'm more interested in 'experimentation', 'innovation' and uh, 'laughing at tools!' Like you! Hah!" She snorts and walks away.
The dark haired woman frowns at her sister, "Ugh!' She stares down at King, who scratching his horn with his foot.
King raises his eyebrows at her, "Weh? Yeah, yeah. I'll deal with it." He then walks off, "No one ever said power came with responsibility..."
...
Now outside of the Hexside School of Magic and Demonics...
The human freezes before walking up to the door, "Okay, first day back after the petrification ceremony!"
Esper gives her a smile, "Luz, it'll be okay. Just be chill."
Luz smiles at her and pushes the door open...
The redhead points ahead, "Oh hey, there they are!"
Willow and Gus see the two and immediately push past another kid. They run towards the two other children, screaming happily.
The brunette tears up, "Oh my gosh!"
The reunited children all hug each other.
Gus speaks with his voice noticeably deeper, "Esper! Luz! You're okay!"
Esper couldn't help but notice how much taller Gus seemed to have gotten, "Whoa, Gus! Did we uh, miss a birthday or something? You're eye level with me now!" She feels her cheeks heat up.
The illusionist shrugs while rubbing the back of his neck, "Witch puberty. I guess it did make me taller, huh?"
The redhead started to play with her fingers, "Yeah... It did." She definitely felt the red on her face now, and that this was not normal for her.
Luz smiles at their witch friends, "I can't thank you guys enough for helping us and Eda at the Conformatorium."
Gus smiles at their friends, "That's cool, I just hope it helps Eda learn my name. She keeps calling me Goops."
A student passes by the group and waves. "Hey, Goops!"
The illusionist lowers his shoulders, dejected, "It's already spreading..."
Esper actually let out a giggle at this despite her blush, "Aww, it's okay... Goopsie Gus."
Amity eventually passes by the group, "Hey, Luz!"
The human smiles back at her, "Amity!"
Th green haired girl's face turned red upon hearing the other human, "In celebration of your return, I've brought you a homemade fairy pie!" She shoves the pie into Luz's face.
The brunette smiles, "Oh, wow! That sounds so-"
She takes a good look at the fairy pie, which is filled with still alive screaming fairies.
Luz looks disgusted but still smiles, "...Good..."
Amity smiles while looking away from her, "The ingredients are... Very fresh." She keeps on blushing.
The human takes the pie, "Thank you!"
Esper bumps her elbow to Amity's shoulder, "...Do I get anything?"
The popular girl stops for a second, "Oh! Uh! ...I may have forgotten to make you something, Esper. But I'm sure Skara or Jasper got you something!"
The redhead lowers her shoulders, "Aw I see."
Luz smiles at the pair after putting the pie into her bag, "You know, after everything that's happened, I'm just happy to return to some sense of normalcy."
The group all hears sounds coming through school PA system...
The principal's voice is heard over the loud speaker, "You can't just barge in here!"
Odalia's voice is then heard over the same loud speaker, "Yes, we can. We are the Parent Creature Association. Luz Noceda, Esperanza Fox, Willow Park and Augustus Porter, report to Principal Bump's office now! And you too, Amity."
Amity's eyes widen at the sight of the older woman, "Mom?!"
...
Now inside Principal Bump's office. Odalia and Alador flank Principal Bump while the kids are sitting in front of them.
The mother folds her arms, "The abomination situation... The destruction of detention... The rampage of Grom..." She eyes each of the children's faces. Esper glares at her while Willow and Gus have looks of worry on their faces, Luz looks confused and Amity angrily looks to the side with her arms crossed. The woman continues while taking in their expressions, "These are but a few of the incidents that have endangered Hexside students! Including our daughter!"
Odalia ignores the deadly glare her daughter sends her way, "So, the PCA has decided to..." She looks up to see her husband trying to touch the moving tail of the demon on the principal's head and clears her throat.
Alador blinks when she gets his attention, "Oh, right. Um, these three are bad influences and must be executed."
Amity, Luz, Esper, Willow, and Gus gasp.
The father clears his throat, "Ahem, I mean expelled."
Luz and Gus both gasp, "What?!"
Esper rolled her eyes, "Oh you're kidding me!" Willow frowned at this.
Amity stares at her mother furiously. She begins to sit up...
Odalia grabs her own necklace and speaks through Amity's necklace, 'Take this as a lesson, mittens. A Blight always upholds their end of the deal.'
The rich girl gasps and then backs down with a dejected look.
Principal Bump sighs, "Sadly, I have no choice in the matter. Luz, Willow, Augustus, effective immediately you are no longer students of Hexside."
Luz gasps again, "No! But us... Good... Amity, tell them!"
Odalia stares at Amity sternly, "Good. Now, you'll be taking double the classes to make up for lost time. Actually, I'm appalled that you're not in class right now! What were you thinking?" while her daughter looks at her with a defeated expression.
Amity looked down with a sad, defeated expression, "I... I wasn't. I'm sorry..."
The mother snaps her fingers and two Hexside guards barge in. They start to drag Willow, Esper, Gus and Luz away.
The illusionist tried to No, wait! Ahh! No! W-w-w-wait, I'm a good-I'm a good kid-Ahh!"
The plant witch squeals while trying to get away from the guards, "No! Please!"
The redhead digs her heels into the ground to try to stop them being dragged away, "Hey! You traitor!"
Luz reaches for their friend, "No, please! No! Wait! No! Amity! Amity!?"
The green haired woman puts her hand on Amity's shoulder, while her daughter glances back at Luz with a sad expression. The principal sighs before forming a spell circle to close the door.
Now outside the school, the kids are thrown outside of the large doors. This makes all of them fall to the ground next to each other.
The redheaded noticed that Gus's hand had fallen on top of her own, causing her to blush, "Oh! Uh, I'm sorry! That was my fault."
Gus stammered as well, "No no, that was me. It was my hand after all!" He pulled his hand back from her with a noticable blush on his face.
Willow had to put a hand on her mouth to stifle a giggle, causing her friend to look at her. Luz raised an eyebrow at Esper, who rubbed the hand Gus had touched.
The illusionist shakes the red from his face and looks at a leaf to distract himself, "It finally happened! Our memorable adventures caught up to us. Oh, my dad can't find out about this!" He picks up leaf, "I guess I'll have to start surviving off the land!" He attempts to lick the leaf but couldn't bring himself to do it, "Ah! This is impossible!" He then runs away, crying.
The glasses wearing witch hugs a tree, "I guess this is goodbye. I'll water you one last time... With my tears!"
The freckled witch looks at her hands nervously, still blushing.
Luz puts her hand on her friend's shoulder, "Esper? Are you okay?"
The redhead had tensed up with a blush, "Yes! Yes, I'm completely fine! Haha!" She turns her head to notice Alador and Odalia coming out of school and descending down the steps, "Hey it's those two!" She said nervously, still red in the face.
The human nods her head, "You're right! I'll poke your brain later, give me one second!" She starts to run towards the pair of parents, "Hey!"
Odalia glances back with a roll of her eyes.
The brunette folds her arms, "How dare you mess with my friends' lives! What have we ever done to you?" She gestures to her distraught friends, with Esper taking a hesitant step towards Gus.
Odalia scratches her chin, "...The one with red hair doesn't actually seem that upset. Luz, was it? Please, this isn't personal. I actually appreciate your tenacity. We're just trying to teach our daughter a valuable lesson in business."
Luz balls her fists with her arms still folded, "How does this teach anything? We're still gonna be friends with her. I'm calling applesauce on this business baloney!"
Alador, who isn't paying attention to the conversation at all, was following a butterfly in the air.
The mother shakes her head, "Your human language is hard to understand but I think I see your point." She grabs and crushes the butterfly Alador is chasing and releases the carcass, "If you're interested in talking things through, I'm sure we can come to some sort of an agreement..." She hands Luz a black business card that reads 'Blight Industries'.
Esper shakes her head to snap out of it, "Uh, Luz... I don't know if this is a good idea."
The smaller boy witch jumps close to his friend, "Gus chomp!" He bites the card out of her hands and munches on it.
Willow looks at the woman in fear before putting a hand on her friend's shoulders, "Come on, Luz. We can figure this out on our own."
Gus then spits the card out of his mouth, "That's right, we'll get back into Hexside or die trying!"
The plant witch shakes her head, "No one's dying!"
The illusionist shakes his head back at her, "Not with that attitude!"
Both Willow and Gus turn and walk away.
Odalia chuckles while putting her hands on her husband's shoulders, "Yes, well, when that doesn't work, you know where to find us." She then pushes Alador while they walk away together.
...
Now back to inside the Owl House... Eda is making a card pyramid, "Okay, almost got it... Glyph pyramid!"
King raises an eyebrow at her, "And what are you expecting this glyph pyramid to do?"
The Owl Witch smiles at her ward, "It's supposed to prove that I'm the superior witch! Watch and learn." She then slaps on the card pyramid, but it fizzles with a small cloud of black smoke... It fails to do anything impressive.
Eda sighs while slumping her shoulders, "Ugh, okay let's think... Bile sacs have different spell phlegm sloshing around together! So why can't I mix these up too?!"
Th tiny demon puts his hands on his hips, "But those are disgusting liquids, these are symbols from the Isles. Maybe there's a different way to combine them!"
Eda ponders to herself, "Hmmm..."
She then hears Hooty's voice from outside, "Hootly-mootly!"
The Owl Lady looks outside the window... She sees Lilith create an ice crown using glyph combo and put it on top of Hooty's head.
The owl tube's eyes widen, impressed by the scultpure, "Ohhh!"
Eda looks with a jealous expression while Lilith makes two popsicles using glyph combos and offers her friend one.
Hooty gasps, "Ohhh!" He then munches on popsicle, "Yum!"
Lilith then creates a swan ice sculpture with Hooty's face using glyph combo.
The long owl smiles widely at the sight, "Whoahahaha! I bet even Eda couldn't do that! Wow!"
The younger sister growls angrily before folding her arms.
King folds his arms and raises an eyebrow, "Maybe if you just learn the basics like Luz said-"
Eda cracks her knuckles, "I don't have time for basics. I'm on to something and I'll prove it!" She then starts drawing something on a notepad.
...
Now back outside the school... There are three posters showing that Esper, Willow, Luz, and Gus are all banned from Hexside on the wall.
The human folds her arms, "Operation Change Bump's Mind. Let's go!"
Now inside his office, Principal Bump looking at pictures of him and the trio taken during Grom night with a sad expression. Someone knocks on the window, there's a basket from the trio with a note pleading the principal to un-expel them, a drawing of him, and a disfigured cake which is supposed to resemble his face. Principal Bump gets spooked by the cake and throws it down, hitting the quartet on the head. The trio then try to enter by pretending to be Hexside teachers using Gus' illusion magic but knock into the principal and the teachers outside. Principal Bump breaks their illusion spell and the quartet backs off. Principal Bump turns and walks away with tears. The trio and Esper then try to fly inside using Eda's staff and the girl's spear respectively but they back off when Principal Bump points a ballista at them.
The man then turns to cry, "Life is just so dull without them!" He then continues to sob into her hands.
The guards of Hexside's detention close the main door while glaring at the children.
Gus gasps loudly, "Ah, this is hopeless! Nothing is working!"
Luz folds her arms, "Don't worry guys, as long as we stick together we'll think of something!"
A crow phone flies toward the group of kids and lands atop Willow's head.
The girl begins to panic, "Oh no!"
One of her father's voices is heard from the phone, "Willow Park, did you get expelled?!"
Another crow phone lands on top of Gus' head.
Perry is heard from the bird phone, "This is Perry Porter with breaking news. In light of recent events, Augustus Porter will be grounded for no less than a year!"
Another crow phone grabs Gus by his collar and starts flying up, "Help, Esper! Let me go! No, please, no!"
Esper grabs the boy's hand while he's being dragged away, "Wait, hold on!" Her cheeks bein to redden again when she notices their joined hands.
Willow's father's voice is heard again, "Just one? Willow's grounded for three at least!"
The two crow phones start to pull at Willow and Gus and fly away with the two.
The plant witch kicks while Luz missed her hand, "No, ah! Help, Luz! Help, Luz!"
Gus holds onto his friend's hand, "Esper! Save me!"
However, the girl had to let go when the crow phone pulled the boy with much more force.
Amity passes the human from behind and accidentally drops her book. Luz hears it and turns back toward the source of sound. The popular girl notices the brunette.
"What was that in there! Why didn't you say anything to your mom in the office?"
The human shakes her head while putting her hand on her shoulder, "Esper, no! Let's hear her out!"
The popular girlI'm uh... I'm sorry, I was a coward in there. But my mom-"
Luz puts her hand over Esper's mouth, "Hey, I get it. You're scared of her, but I'm not and I need you to take me to her. She seemed open to talking things through."
Amity quickly shakes her head, "No, no, Luz, you don't have to do that!"
The human frowns back at her friend, "Yes, I do. Willow and Gus don't deserve this. She picks up Amity's book, "So, will you help me, please?"
The popular girl still shakes her head, "I... I can't..."
School bell rings in the distance.
The popular girl slumps her shoulders, "I have to go..." She takes book from the two, turns around and walks away.
The human turns around and walks away sadly but accidentally steps on the business card that was thrown on the floor. She picks it up and notices the address written behind the card. She turns to her childhood friend, "Esper... I think I'm going to try and convince Odalia to let us back in the school!"
Esper frowns with a shrug, "Hmm... I don't know. She seems... Untrustworthy. I mean, did you see the way she was talking to Bump and Amity?"
Luz puts her hands on her friend's shoulders, "We're just going to talk! She's a business woman, I'm sure we can come to some sort of deal!"
The redhead lets out a sigh, "Okay... You convinced me! Fine, go talk to business lady! I'm going to see if I can break Gus and Willow out of their groundings. I don't wanna not see Gus..." She pauses briefly, "...And Willow! For years!"
...
Now, back inside the Owl House... King tilts his head while he watches his guardian draw, "Eda, what the heck is that supposed to be?"
The older woman shows him the paper she was drawing on, "I call it 'The Super Glyph!'"
The tiny demon folds his arms, "More like a stupid glyph!"
Eda frowns at him, "Just you wait, this'll be a killer combo. Lesser glyphs will shrink in fear!" She then taps on the glyph and it turns into an ice cube, "Hah! It didn't blow up!"
The ice cube sparkles and turns into a blob of ice which looks like a large dome with spikes...
King raises his eyebrows once he sees the dome, "Uh, i-is it supposed to do that?"
The ice blob suddenly expands on the table, causing Eda and King to yelp in surprise and run away. It continues to expand, trapping and freezing various objects in the living room inside it.
The Owl Lady grimaces while she watches the dome grow larger and larger, "Uh-huh..."
...
Now outside Blight Manor. Luz picks some flowers from beside the front door and then walks up and knocks on the door, "Hello, Mrs. Blight. I-"
An abomination butler opens the door and grunts.
This makes the girl nod her head, "Ooh."
The purple butler leads Luz into the living room while holding a tray with a teacup and teapot on it.
Luz smiles at the tiny being, "Ooh, this place smells a lot better than the Owl House! Esper's missing out!"
The abomination offers Luz some tea but the girl decides to give his face a makeover instead.
The human tugs at the abomination's gooey face, "And..." She turns the abomination butler's face into a kitty face but it melts immediately. She then laughs, "Well, I tried!" She opens a nearby door and walks down the basement, "Hello? Mr. and Mrs. Blight?"
A severed abomination hand is suddenly thrown into the wall beside the human.
The brunette hops away from the giant purple hand, "Eek!"
Odalia waves her hand upon seeing the girl, "Oh, don't mind him, dear. He's getting ready for our big demonstration tonight!" She then smiles Alador, "It's looking good, hon!"
The father simply grunts and tears a large chunk of the Abomination off.
Luz raises her hand with a smile, "I'm here to appeal to your hearts, Blights!"
The mother smiles at the youngster, "That's sweet but let's get to the deal. We have a rather important presentation tonight showing off some new products..."
The human tilts her head at her, "Like, abominations?"
The green haired woman nods her head, "Something like that. Normally Amity helps us with these things, but she's busy catching up on schoolwork..."
Luz gasps, "I get it! I'll help you show off your weird abomination gunk if you promise to let me and my friends back into school."
Odalia folds her arms with a smile, "Don't worry, human. A Blight always upholds their end of the deal! Now, you might want to go get ready, because we have..."
...
Meanwhile, Esper makes her way to the Porter residence. Perry had just finished giving Gus a lecture about getting expelled from school and had walked into their living room. Gus sighed before laying on his bed, "Aw man... Now what am I gonna do? I can't even look at the Human Appreciation Society! I can't go to school! I'm going to playing hooky! Permanently!"
The girl outside summoned a vine with a spell circle and threw it up in the air. The vine stuck on the window with a 'THUNK!' She grimaced, hoping her friend's father didn't hear the noise. She quickly climbs up the vine and waves at him through the glass.
The boy opened his window with his eyebrow raised. He smiled upon seeing his crush, "Esper!"
The redhead smiles up at her friend, "Hey, Gus! I'm here to be your princess in shining armor and whisk you away! ...So we can go save Luz. She's definitely getting herself into some sort of trouble right now." She turned around to make sure the vine was fully sticking onto the window.
The illusionist lets out a chuckle, "Yeah, something tells me that makes sense." He goes to grab a bag but then hears the door to his bedroom open. This caught his attention.
He freezes before he can grab the bag, "Esper!"
Esper frowns at the boy, "Gus! Come on!" She briefly looks at her friend's father with a smile, "Oh hi, Mr. Porter!" Her eyes widened before suddenly jumping back, "Mr. Porter!"
The father smiles at the girl, "Hello, Esper." He then scratches his chin, "So what are you doing trying to break my son out of his room during the night?"
The redhead rubs the back of her neck, "Uh! Okay, I'll tell you the truth, Mr. Porter. Mrs. Blight was the one who got us expelled, Luz said she was going to try and strike a deal with her. Honestly, I'm sure she bit off more than what she can chew."
Perry nods his head slowly, "...Okay, fine. You both can go but!" He pointed in the air dramatically, "On one condition!" He then smiled, "I get to have an interview with Esper."
Esper raises her eyebrows, "Oh that's it? Sure thing, Mr. Porter!" She turns to look at the moon, "But we can't stick around, we gotta run and find Luz and Willow! With any luck, we'll all be back in school in no time!"
The father smiles at them, "Of course!" He then whispered to her, "Besides... I never liked Odalia. Even when we were in the same class together in Hexside." He then waves his hand to let them go, "You two can go on..."
The pair give the boy's father a smile before sliding down the vine together... Running away to find the rest of their friends in the night.
...
Suddenly, Luz finds herself right in the middle of the Blight Industry product event. She waves to the crowd awkwardly.
Odalia smiles at the crowd with a smile, "...A long night ahead of us folks! Welcome back to Blight Industries!"
The large crowd applauds and cheers for her. The teenager chuckles nervously with a worried expression on her face.
The human rubs the back of her head, "So, Alador, what would you say is the specialty of Blight Industries?"
Alador speaks with a deadpan tone, "We make a variety of abomination-based accessories for home security."
Luz puts her hands on her hips with a smile, "Oh, that sounds pretty safe!"
The man then shrugs his shoulders, "But we specialize in weaponry." He walks away while putting his goggles over his eyes, "You might want to duck."
The brunette took a glyph out of her pocket while looking around, "Huh? Woah!"
A lump of abomination goop suddenly hits the girl. Which then pins her to the wall.
The crowd cheers and applauds for more violence while Luz spits out the stuff that got in her mouth.
Odalia holds a gun fitted with ammo made of Abomination goop, "Yes, our sticky launcher can peacefully subdue any foe! And if peaceful isn't your thing..." She then switches modes on the Abomination gun and turns it into a flamethrower.
Crowd cheers and applauds yet again. Luz then wipes her face clean and gasps at the danger in front of her.
...
Now back at Blight Manor... Amity walks into the living room, removing her cowl, "Mom? I'm ready for the show tonight!"
She looks down and notices a note on a nearby door. She takes it down to read it and on the note it says, 'We found a replacement! -Mom'
The girl tilted her head, "Found a replacement?" She urns around and asks the abomination butler, "Did anyone come to the house today?"
The butler turns to reveal it's disfigured face that somewhat resembles a cat. This makes Amity growl angrily, "Luz! You know what, I'm going to find Esper. With any luck, she's looking for Luz right now."
...
Now inside Willow's house, the girl sits on her bed with a frown. Harvey, one of her fathers, drops a pile of textbooks on her desk. Gilbert, her other father, also stands by the door. Harvey has a tuft of dark brown hair on his mostly bald head, a beard, purple eyes and brown skin. He is wearing a dark green sleeveless tank top with a grey short sleeved tunic underneath, a brown belt, dark gray pants and black boot. He also has a prominent gut. Gilbert has matching dark green with his daughter, pale skin and sharp dark blue eyes. He is wearing an orange shirt with rolled up sleeves, dark brown pants and brown boots. He is also wearing square glasses and a grey apron.
The man with the beard folds his arms, "To make sure you're getting a top-notch education, we're quitting our jobs to homeschool you!"
The other father frowned while playing with his finger nervously, "And we'll spend all our free time having fun as a family!" He then walks out of his daughter's room.
Harvey begins to walk towards the door, "See you at first light for a test on the uh-" He looks down at the book he picked up, "Life cycle of a common swamp toad!" He then closes door with a frown.
Willow continues to look down sadly, but an illusion of a tiny Gus appear next to her.
The small illusion points at the window, "Willow! Hey, Willow!"
Suddenly, a vine is flung upwards to stick to the glass of the window.
The plant witch gasps and then walks towards the glass.
But then, Gilbert opens the door, causing his daughter to gasp again. The father raises his head, "Hey, Willow, uh-" He then notices the tiny Gus illusion and the vine, then looks at Willow who is heading towards window. He smiles and puts a finger on his mouth, makes a 'shhh' sound then closes the door.
The plant witch smiles, then turns around and opens the window. She sees Esper, Gus and Amity are standing outside on the ground below.
The popular girl's whispers harshly, "Luz is in trouble!"
Gus shakes his head with an annoyed tone, "Again." He twirls his fingers around, keeping up the tiny illusion of himself.
Esper rubs the back of her neck while her friend summons her own vine to slide down the one she had sent up, "Yeaaaah, I'm noticing that this is starting to become a pattern."
...
Now back outside the Blight Industries... Crowds can be heard cheering and applauding while Luz's terrified screaming also rings through the air. The four students stand outside, wondering how to get inside without being seen.
Willow puts her hand on her chin to ponder, "Okay, I can use the root system underground to tunnel our way in..."
Amity shakes her head, "That'll take too long!"
Esper nods her head in agreement, "Amity's right! We should just rush the guards at the door!"
Gus points his finger in the air, "No, no, no. I'll distract them with illusions of beautiful lady guards!"
The plant witch folds her arms, "This isn't a cartoon from the '40s, Gus! We need a better plan!"
The illusionist frowns at his friend, "This could work!"
The redhead rubs her eyebrows, "Guys, come on. If we're just going to argue, I am going to run in there myself!"
The popular girl squared her shoulders, "That's what I'm saying! We should just bust our way through!"
Gus gestures to himself dramatically, "You're stunting my growth as an artist! Just let me try this!"
Willow takes a step forward, "We are running out of time! We gotta get in now!"
Amity stomps her foot, "We have to help Luz now!"
Esper moves to leave the group, "Guys! Come on!"
However, two teenagers put their hands on the redhead's shoulders. And a teenage boy's voice is heard, "Here's an idea."
All four children look at the newcomers...
Edric is revealed to be speaking and he shrugs his shoulders, "Why don't you just walk through the front?" He and Emira throw each of them a cloak.
Amity tilts her head at her siblings, "Ed! Em! You're helping?"
Emira smiles at her, "Of course! Just... Don't tell Mom."
The younger students each put on their cloak and walk inside. The boy puts paper which says 'Hex me!' on all their of their backs. The twins laugh at this but Amity and Esper throw them back.
The papers all hit the boy twin in the face, causing him to scream, "Ahhh! Ugh!"
Amity points two fingers at the twins and walks backwards, growling. She puts her hand on Esper's back before they rush to follow their friends.
The trio runs inside the factory into an excited crowd cheering and clapping while Luz is busy trying to get away from the Abomaton shooting an arrow at her.
Luz pants, "Ah!" She then dodges the Abomaton's fist slamming into the ground, "Whoa!" She then dodges a punch.
She takes out a piece of paper and uses ice glyph magic to block the Abominaton's attack.
But another arrow breaks the ice block, pushing Luz backwards. An Abomination fist punches Luz upwards, which makes her scream before the hand catches her when she falls down.
The crowd continues cheering and applauding. The abomination points the bow at Luz while she grunts and closes her eyes, waiting for the incoming attack.
Odalia raises her voice, "Thank you, thank you. And they say said we couldn't make crossbows more fun! Next, we're very excited to show you our last product from this line." The invention then puts the young girl down on the stage.
The human breaths in a sigh of relief, "Thank goodness, only one more to go."
The older witch continues to speak, "My husband has been toiling away to bring you..." She steps aside, the ground opens up and Luz yelps, crawling away.
Another Abomaton rises up with smoke around it...
Odalia gestures to the machine, "The Abomaton 2.0!"
The crowd gasps. So does Amity, who takes off her hood, turns around and starts climbing up a ladder.
Esper rushes to follow her up the ladder, "Amity, wait up!"
The plant witch reaches for the younger girl, "Guys, wait!"
Both Gus and Willow take off their hoods but are immediately grabbed by a security Abominations.
Odalia continues her speech, "It's bigger! It's better! The Abomaton 2.0 is the perfect soldier. It won't rest until its enemy is completely eliminated!"
The crowd oohs and a few of them claps in reaction to the machine.
Luz laughs nervously while backing up, "You're a big boy, aren't ya?"
The Abomaton's hands turns into a scythe and a chainsaw. Luz makes a scared noise and looks at the Abomaton with a terrified expression. The goopy robot starts attacking Luz and manages to grab her by her foot.
The human scrapes her nails on the floor, "Okay! It's super strong! I think the crowd gets it!"
Alador simply looks at his wife, "She has a point, Odalia."
The woman folds her arms, "Didn't you hear me? It won't rest until its enemy is completely eliminated!"
The Abomaton lifts Luz up by her foot, Luz screams and is thrown upwards...
...Luckily, she lands on a beam. She let out a relieved sigh, "Okay, at least it can't get me up here..."
However, right after she said that, the Abomaton jumps up and lands behind her.
The human lets out a exasperated breath, "Luz, you fool!"
She then uses an ice glyph to block the Abomaton. But the machine breaks it. The girl picks up a piece of shattered ice and use it as a sword to fight off the Abomaton. Both Amity and Esper are seen climbing up a ladder while Luz keeps on fighting the goopy robot. Luz uses plant glyph to lift herself up then swings around towards the Abomaton with a fire glyph just as it fires another blast.
Then, there is an explosion!
The Abomaton falls to the ground, breaking the floor. The crowd starts to run away. Luz is hanging onto a vine for her dear life with her eyes shut. She opens her eyes and notices that she is facing the Abomaton and is close to the ground. The vine breaks and she falls...
The human lands onto the ground, "Ah!" She then lands, "Hey! I'm alive!"
The Abomaton grabs the girl by her foot again.
The brunette gasps, "Oh, no."
The machine's hand turns into an axe and swings at the girl...
Luz tries to back away but can't, "I'm dead! She then closes her eyes, waiting for her death...
...But something stops the Abomaton.
This makes the human open her eyes, "Huh?"
The Abomaton's hands both explode, letting the girl go.
Amity shots from her spot on the upper platform, "Hey!"
The remaining crowd gasps and sees the teenaged girl is standing on top of a beam.
Amity casts two spell circles in her hands, "Stay away from my Luz!"
The brunette looks at Amity with a surprised expression, "Amity?"
Esper rushes on the platform, "I'm coming, guys! Don't you worry!"
However, the security Abomaton jumps up in front of the girl. She stops in her place with a skid, preparing a spell circle, "Uh! Actually, I have a slight detour! Go get em, Amity!"
...
Back at the Owl House... Hooty is wearing a crown made of ice and ice chain necklace with a popsicle in his mouth. He is looking at his friend drawing something on a notepad. A sudden loud noise and a rumble grabs both their attention.
Lilith knocks on door, "Edalyn? Are these distress noises or normal noises?"
The ice blob begins expanding slowly in front of the slightly younger witch in the other room.
Eda shouts back at her, "Totally normal! Don't come in!" She points at the blob, "I am your mother! You will obey me and die!" She hits the ice blob with a mace but the weapon is absorbed by the blob.
The Owl Lady is pushed by a spike, "Ugh!"
King screams when the blob catches his tail, "Eda, help me! Help me, Eda! Eda, help me!"
Unfortunately, the poor young demon is frozen inside the blob.
The witch gasps with a horrified expression, "Ugh, fine! Lilith, emergency!"
The Raven Witch kicks open the door, "Whoa!"
Eda rolls her eyes, "Yeah, yeah. I messed up. I'm ready to follow the rules."
Lilith holds a few pieces of paper in her hands, "Actually, I'd like to try an experiment!"
Hooty shakes his neck, "Ooooooh!"
...
Now, back at inside Blight Industries... Esper sends a fireball towards the purple machine. It attempts to block the fireball but gets hit in the gut when it feels multiple vines move to strike it. It lurches over her, seemingly calculating her movements.
The redhead then relaxed her shoulders, "It's a bit scary how I'm getting used to all this danger. Wait a minute... This thing doesn't know I'm a dual caster, does it?"
The Abomaton sends a punch her way, only for the girl to catch the fist.
She can feel her heel slip a little before she regains her footing. She pushes back against the fist, "Nice try! I know you don't know but I'M the one who can tackle a Slitherbeast by herself!"
The redhead struggles to bring up her left hand, digging her finger into the goop to make the failed combination of glyphs Eda had made up earlier.
Upon tapping the symbol, it made the Abomaton's fist explode!
This made the girl fly backwards but she did land back on the platform with a tumble.
Esper raises both her fists, ready to attack the machine again...
Meanwhile, Amity had already slid down a rope and ran in front of the Abomaton, "Huh-uh!" She lands in front of the human, creating two purple spell circles.
Odalia picks up her necklace and thinks through it, her words speaking to her daughter, 'Amity Blight, you are in so much troub-'
Amity takes her necklace off and breaks it, this makes her mother gasp. She speaks with a confident voice, "Luz..." She looks back at her crush, "Are you okay?"
The human looks at Amity while blushing, "Uh-huh..." She gasps, "Look out!"
The popular girl's spell circle disappears, the Abomaton stands up and tries to punch Amity. But the girl holds him back with her spell circles, putting in intense effort. The Abomaton's hands start melting.
Odalia stomps her foot, "Amity! Get away from the human!"
The daughter shakes her head, "No, you're gonna listen to me for once! Luz, Esper, Willow and Gus are my friends!" She pushes the Abomaton backwards with her magic, "They're nice to each other, they listen to each other. They make me think about the kind of person I really want to be!"
She forces the Abomaton to kneel down. Luz runs towards Amity and they stand together back-to-back. They accidentally glance at each other and immediately look away, both blushing with awkward expressions.
The mother looks at the 'units ordered' meter angrily while Alador appears to be intrigued by the turn of events. She stomps her foot again, "Ugh! What do you want?!"
Amity glares at her mother, "Let my friends back into Hexside or else your precious investors will watch me rip this thing apart bit! By! Bit!"
Luz whispers to her friend, "Can you actually do that?"
The witch puts her finger to her lips, "Shhh!"
The crowd boos at all of them... "Come on!" "This is horrible!"
Odalia looks at the 'Units Ordered' meter in frustration before groaning, "Fine! It's a deal! Just stop with the theatrics!"
Luz and Amity glance at each other and smile. Amity stops using her spell circles. The Abomaton's hand changes into a large hammer and brings it down towards the duo. Amity rushes over to protect Luz. The machine's hammer pounds right where the duo are. The Abomaton lifts up the hammer with the pair is seen pretending to have died. The Abomaton's hammer is revealed to be hollow in the middle and it transforms back to a normal hand. The duo open their eyes, look at each other and smile, then go back to pretend dying. The Abomaton's eyes go dark and the crowd gasps. The Abomaton shuts down and falls to the ground. The crowd cheers and applauds.
Willow gasps, "Luz!"
Esper raises her head at the sound of her friend's voice, "Luz! Amity!" She forms a green spell circle to form various vines, overpowering the robot. The green plants sneaks inside the machinery to jam inside the gears, messing up the invention and stopping it from working from the inside.
She holds onto the bottom of the platform, preparing to jump down, "Okay... Okay, easy does it..."
Both the plant and the illusion witch run towards Amity and Luz with worried expressions. The 'units ordered' meter goes up so high it explodes. Odalia looks at Amity and Luz with pure anger.
The mother growls furiously, "As if I'd actually let them go back! I will call every authority I know! I'll make sure they can't-"
Alador's voice is heard from behind his wife, "Odalia!"
The woman turns to face her husband, who isn't pleased.
The brown haired man frowns at her, "You made a deal with your daughter and a Blight always upholds their end of the deal!"
Esper raised her fist in the air, "Wahoo! We did it! Mr. Husband Man finally talks back to her!"
However... This caused the redhead to start to fall from the platform, "Uh oh... Woah, woah, woah! Hey!"
The girl felt her body to fall down in the air, waving her arms. She tried to grab the metal platform but missed both attempts, "Of all the times to not have my spear!" She braced for the impact of the ground...
Suddenly, she felt two arms catch her body. She looked down at the muscular arms that could have only been formed by an illusionist. Her face heats up when she notices that Gus was the one holding her, "Oh! I... Uh! Hi!"
The boy puts her down with some red on his own face, "Um here! Caught you!"
The witchling feels her face continue to redden, "Hahaha, yeah! You... Um... Sure caught me!" She puts her hood up to cover her face and thinks to herself, 'Is this really happening right now?'
The nearby plant witch lets out a giggle with a knowing look, "Aw come on, you two. We'll have plenty of time to talk back at the Owl House." Willow then offers her hand to Luz and help her up effortlessly. The friends then all smile and walk away together.
Meanwhile, Alador squares his shoulders, "Besides, she's getting stronger." He puts hands on Odalia's shoulder and whispers to her, "Strong enough to become a coven head someday."
Odalia grins, "Wise words, dear. We have to focus on what's best for the family-" She turns around and notices her husband is gone. She glances to her left and notices Alador chasing a butterfly. She then groans and facepalms, "Alador!"
...
Back to inside the Owl House, both Lilith and Eda are drawing something on their own pieces of paper.
King has a towel wrapped around his head and is holding a cup with steaming tea in his hands, "Ah-choo!"
Eda tilts her head, "Okay so, uh, how did you beat that thing again?"
Lilith smiles smugly, "Would you like me to lay out 'the basics?'"
The Owl Lady stares at her sister unhappily, "Yes."
The older woman begins her explanation, "Well, you were right. These glyphs act like the basic elements! But instead of containing magic like we do, they command the magic around them. They're like words! And drawing glyphs on top of each other like you did-"
Eda interrupted her with a gasp, "Was like screaming three different words at the same time! The spell got confused!"
Lilith nods her head, "Yes. The glyph combo, copyright me, Lilith, helps organize the commands." She slaps a paper with a glyph combo on it onto the ice blob. The ice blob flashes and then melts. The older woman smiles, "So you can combine and specify what you want to do!"
King shivers after the ice lob disappears, "A-a-b-b-bout t-t-time!"
The Owl Lady catches some snow in her hand and looks up above at the snow in wonder. And now they sit together on the couch while King recovers from being in the ice blob. His ward smiles, "So with the right combo, you can cast any spell!"
The young demon shrugs his shoulders, "Maybe the reason Luz hasn't found any more glyphs is because there... Aren't any more."
Eda shrugs with a smile, "Then we better start learning some new combinations!"
Suddenly, the door is heard being pushed open and hitting something.
Luz wipes off abomination gunk of her hair runs up to the group, "Hey, guys!" She turns to wipe the gunk out of Esper's ponytail, "There we go, Esper."
The witchling smiles back at her, "Thanks! You know the goop sticks easily in my hair."
Eda smirks at the two, "Hey, Luz! Esper! We actually learned something new!"
The human shakes her head, "Sorry, can it wait 'till morning?" She stretches and yawns, "I need to lie down."
The redhead giggles, "Haha, someone overexterted themselves!"
Luz pushes her arm with a smile, "Psssh, shush you!"
Lilith puts her hand up before the human could leave the room, "Wait, Miss Teacher!"
She turns to her left then turns back holding an ice sculpture. The sculpture is of her kneeling before Luz, who is a wise scholar holding a scroll.
The older woman smiles, "Do I get extra credit?"
The brunette lets out an amused giggle, "Oh, my gosh!"
Esper coughs inside her hand, "Try hard!"
The human shakes her head at her oldest friend, "Oh shush you."
Eda stares jealously at her sister, "I can do that too!"
She slaps on a paper with ice glyph drawn on it. The glyph turns into and ice cube and rolls off the table. This makes the older witch look at Luz and gestures towards the ice cube, "Hmm."
The redhead shrugs her shoulders at her mentor, "It was worth a shot."
Luz's eyebrows raise in surprise, "Wow! Yeah! Extra credit for everyone! She throws two pieces of star-shaped paper to Lilith and Eda then walks away. Lilith catches one and holds it to her face gratefully while Eda and King just stare at her.
The young demon then sneezes, "Ah-choo!"
...
Back inside the Blight Industries factory. The abomination servants are sweeping the floor.
Odalia walks towards Alador with a smile, "Oh, despite the spectacle, this was quite a successful sale! Excellent job on the 2.0, dear."
Suddenly, the Golden Guard's voice is heard from their door, "Yes!" He walks in with two coven scouts, "Your Abomatons are quite extraordinary. Too bad no one will be receiving them."
The woman immediately kneels down upon seeing the high ranking guard. She then puts her and on her husband's shoulder to make him do the same.
The Golden Guard stands tall in front of them, "The Emperor will be buying every one of your Abomatons and will personally fund research into making them stronger."
The mother then looks up, "T-That's great news! We are honored to have-"
The teenager shrugs his shoulders, "You should be. Emperor Belos doesn't take kindly to citizens making a... Private army."
With that, the Golden Guard then turns and walks away. Both husband and wife stand up look at each other with worried expressions...
