(as the title is shown, a piano version of "Rain Rain, Go Away plays")
The sun rose over the Inkwell isles, shining its light on the overly saturated grass and hills.
Cuphead and Mugman were lying in their beds sleeping peacefully when a ray of light shone through a crack in the curtains and directly into both of their eyes. The brothers both woke up simultaneously and were simultaneously blinded by the ray of light.
"Uhhg," Cuphead groaned, "at least we know the weathers good,"
"It's meant to be sunny out there, not in here," Mugman said, "does look like a good day to try out our new boomerang though."
"Yup," Cuphead replied
The two got up, got dressed and went downstairs where Elder Kettle was making Pancakes.
"Good morning boys," Elder Kettle said
"Good morning Elder Kettle," the cups chimed as they sat down at the table.
Cuphead grabbed the bottle of syrup and squirted some into his mouth. He then opened wide so that the pancakes that Elder Kettle flipped to him landed directly in his mouth. He swallowed them all in one.
Mugman however, squirted some syrup into his mouth, mimicking his brother, but ended up choking on the syrup. Cuphead got out of his chair and slapped Mugman on the back a few times to help him cough up all the syrup.
"Thanks *chough* Cuphead" Mugman spluttered.
Elder Kettle then walked over with a pile of Pancakes balanced on the end of the spatula.
"I thought that i'd just bring them to you this time." Elder Kettle said as he plonked the pancakes onto Mugman's plate. Mugman squirted an ungodly amount of syrup onto them and ate them in one bite.
"Thanks Elder Kettle," they both said
"Hohoho," Elder Kettle chuckled, "since you boys seem to be getting along so well today, I probably have time to see my chiropractor and have my Moustache waxed. Toodaloo!"
And with that, Elder Kettle walked out the house and down the road to the town.
"Now let's go grab the boomerang," Cuphead announced.
"Yea" Mugman agreed and the two ran back upstairs
"I know it's here somewhere," Cuphead said, rummaging through his cupboard.
"We've been looking for that boomerang for almost an hour," Mugman complained," You need to organise your things more."
"Relax," Cuphead said, "it's here somewhere. AHA!"
Cuphead pulled out the boomerang and held it in the air.
"Good, now let's go, time's a-wastin."
The two brothers ran down the stairs, opened the door and...
!BLAM!
Suddenly lightning flashed across the sky and rain started to bucket down.
"So much for the good weather," Mugman, "what are we going to do now?"
"Aw banana oil," Cuphead exclaimed, "we don't need to be outside to play with the boomerang. Just watch."
Cuphead threw the boomerang as hard as it could. Rather unsurprisingly there was a loud crash and large amounts of collateral damage.
"Hmmm, there's too many obstructions in here," Cuphead said, "aw heck, what will we do now?"
"I do hope Elder Kettle is Ok out there," Mugman said
The screen then cuts to Elder Kettle forlorn standing underneath a bus shelter.
"Oh consarn it," he grumbled.
Both of the cups were lying in their respective beds
"Uhhg," Cuphead groned, "i'm so bored. There's nothing to do around here."
"What do you mean, there's plenty to do," said Mugman as he happily completed a word search, "you could read a book, play a board game, draw a picture, play a card game, ummmm, you could read a book..."
"This rain is dumb," Cuphead said, "why does it even exist!?"
"Well april showers bring may flowers," Mugman replied
"But it's July!" Cuphead complained.
knock knock knock*
"By the way cuphead do you know 'a word used to dismiss something or to show indifference', eight letters and ends with an 'R'"
"Whatever," Cuphead said, "i'm gonna go answer the door."
Mugman jotted down his answer, jumped out his bunk and followed Cuphead.
Cuphead swung open the door and a figure wearing an anorak that obscured them entirely. The figure brushed past the cups, partially soaking them and walked over to the coat pegs.
"Who are you?" Mugman asked.
"Relax dong dongs, it's me," Chalice said as she hung up our coats.
"How d'ya get here so quickly?" Cuphead inquired.
"Once the rain set in there weren't any chumps on the street who I could charm, so I had to hotwire a car to drive up here. Time passed a lot faster with you two ding dongs. What's there to do around here?"
"Not much," Cuphead answered.
"Hmmmm," Chalice thought, "good thing came prepared."
Calice pulled a deck of cards from her pocket and did the thing where you make them fly from one hand to the other.
"Do you boys consider yourselves gamblers?"
"Well I had to drag Cuphead away from a building called "The Devil's Casino" once. So I think that counts."
"Do you know how to play Polka?" Chalice asked
Both cups shook their heads and Chalice explained Polka to them (if you don't know how to play Polka, it doesn't matter much).
"We don't got any money though," Cuphead said, "what should we do about that?"
"You boys just go grab anything that you think you think is worth anything and we'll figure it out."
The two brothers ran back up to their rooms and rummaged around looking for things of value.
"Cuphead, how come you want to play a card game now? I said we could play a card game not five minutes ago and you refused."
"I dunno, guess I just changed my mind," Cuphead replied.
Cuphead looked over at his brother and saw that a smirk was slowly building up on his face.
"Whatcha lookin' at me like that for?" Cuphead asked.
"You like Chalice, don't you," Mugman said.
"WHAT!? NO! OF COURSE I DON'T!" Cuphead yelled but he was slowly beginning to go red in the face, "keep all of that mushy stuff out of my board games would ya!"
"Hmmm, sure Cuphead,sure"
The two brothers soon came back down with an armload of random junk. Amongst Mugman's armload was a bag with a small amount of ACME Grow still in it, a couple light bulbs and a suspicious envelope. Amidst Cuphead's items was the magic chalk which he found under a pile of clothes, his pillow and lots of cookies.
(this game scene is mostly from Cuphead's perspective and they will be playing the "Texas Hold'em" variant.)
"Ok boys," Chalice said," the ante will be 10$."
Cuphead counted out ten cookies and placed them in front of him. Chalice inspected the cookies and nodded aprovingly. Mugman, on the other hand, placed his mystery envelope in front of him.
"What's that?" both Cuphead and Chalice asked.
"It's an envelope with Cuphead's deepest darkest secret inside."
Cuphead's pupils shrunk but he kept his cool.
"Pffft, I don't have any 'deep dark secrets'," Cuphead dismissed," and there's no way that's worth ten bucks! right?"
Chalice looked suspiciously at Cuphead
"Alright i'll give it to ya," Chalice gave in, "you've got me intrigued."
Chalice dealt out the cards and Cuphead looked at what he had
Jack of spades
Ace of Spades
Mugman took one look at his cards and folded.
"I'll raise you ten bucks," Chalice said
Cuphead matched it and the game continued. Chalice revealed the "Flop" which is the first three cards.
Ten of Spades
Nine of Hearts
Nine fo Spades
Chalice raised another twenty and Cuphead matched it. Throughout the game so far Cuphead had kept his face fixed in a state of subdued terror. Chalice on the other hand was smiling and giggling away without care because she knew that Cuphead wouldn't fold with the envelope on the line.
Chalice then revealed the "Turn" (the next card).
King of Spades
Chalice raised another ten and Cuphead matched.
"Cuphead," Mugman asked, "are you alright, by this point you've normally bet everything you have already."
Cuphead just glared at Mugman who backed off.
Finally Chalice revealed the "River" (the final card).
Queen of spades
Chalice surveyed her cards once more and then proceed to push everything she had forward. Cuphead copied matched her by pushing his entire pile of debris forward, leaving a trail of crumbs.
"You ready," Chalice said as she readied to reveal her cards. Cuphead nodded. The two both placed their cards on the table
Cuphead looked over at Chalice's hand
Nine of Clubs
Nine of Diamonds
And with that, she could make:
All the Nines
"Four of a kind," Chalice said with an air of finality, "read em and weep."
"Errrr, Chalice," Mugman said, bringing her back to reality, "you lost"
Chalice looked over at what Cuphead had. And her eyes widend as she saw what he could make.
Ace of Spades
King of Spades
Queen of spades
Jack of Spades
Ten of spades
Nine of Spades
"A ROYAL FLUSH!" Chalice exclaimed, "and I cheated, guess you really are lucky. Good job."
Cuphead breathed a big sigh of relief and then reached over and grabbed the envelope. Chalice tried to get behind Cuphead so she could read the envelope over his shoulder but Cuphead scooted backwards to the corner of the room and opened it there.
He tore open the envelope and inside was..
Another envelope. He was about to tear it open when something caught his eye. There was a note in the corner of the secondary envelope that read: 'there is nothing inside this envelope, but Cuphead does not know that. He will do anything to make you not open it.'
Cuphead growled and balled up the note. He launched himself at Mugman who was in hysterics about the whole situation and the two bounced out of frame in a mass of fists and pain.
"Since everybody seems high-strung today," Mugman said, smiling sheepishly at CUphead who just glared back, "how about we play a nice board game. No stakes, no money on the line, just some good old fashioned fun."
Mugman picked up a board game box and plonked it on the floor. Chalice picked up the box and inspected it.
"The Pain Game," Chalice read aloud, "Mugman, are you sure about this."
"Yea," Cuphead agreed, grabbing the box and flipping it over to read the back, "it says here that it has ended 1348 friendships, caused 348 divorces and incited 132 fights and this is one of the first copies sold."
"Oh, nonsense," Mugman said, waving his hand as if wafting away the comment, "how bad can it be?"
Mugman took it out of the box and laid the game out. It was a simple looking game with some brightly coloured counters, some die and a board with simple rought that you had to navigate your piece through.
"Actually," Cuphead said, "this does look like fun,"
~*10 minutes later*~
"YOU RIGGED THAT DICE ROLL, I SAW YOU! YOU HIT IT WITH YOUR HAND!" m
Mugman screamed at Chalice.
"I'M RIGGING THE DICE ROLL!? YOU'RE THE ONE WHO GOT THREE SIXES IN A ROW. THAT DICE IS WEIGHTED! I KNOW IT!" Chalice shouted back
"YEA!" CUphead agreed, "AND STOP MOVING MY PIECES BACK WHEN I'M NOT LOOKING!"
"DON'T YOU START CUPHEAD!" Both Mugman and Chalice yelled.
"YOU'RE THE WORST ONE HERE!" Mugman exclaimed.
"WELL YOU IS A..."
The three cups launched themselves at each other and once again bounced out of frame in a bouncing ball of dust fists and pain.
The three cups were all sitting back down in a circle, complete with numerous minor injuries and a disgruntled expression.
"Ok,"Cuphead said, "since all of the games that we've played have turned into a fight, how about we just cut to the chase, huh?"
Cuphead held up three pillows and three blindfolds.
"Cuphead," Mugman interjected, "you do remember what happened last time, don't you?"
"That was just you getting your man handle. Remember?" Cuphead replied.
"Your man handle?" Chalice asked "what the heck's that?" but the cups brothers were too engrossed in their conversation to notice.
"I still got a bad feeling about this," Mugman said.
"Oh banana oil," Cuphead said, "quit worrying so much. Hey Chalice you wanna play?"
"Woo, fighting but with less pain!" Chalice exclaimed, "I could get used to that. I'm in!"
Cuphead tossed a pillow and a blindfold to his friends and they readied to fight.
"Forget Bowlboy," Cuphead said, "I'm gonna smack you so hard they'll call you Sandman."
"Pfft," Chalice said, rolling her eyes, "I'm about to turn you into grog, buddy ol' pal!"
"Your head must be filled with spiked milk if you think you can take on this mug!"
"Okay, three"... Cuphead began
"Two..." Mugman said tentatively
"One," Chalice said
And then all at once they shouted "GO!"
The Cuphead and Mugman both charged at full speed but ran straight past each other. Mugman ran out the door and into the pouring rain and then groped his way back inside, shivering and wet.
Cuphead managed to get himself in an intense fight with the coat hanger. He also seemed to be losing as every time he hit it, the coat hanger would be knocked backwards, bounce off the wall and come right back at him.
Chalice just stood in the middle of the room listening to the chaos around her.
"Oh brother, this is gonna be too good to miss," she said as she took off her blindfold.
She walked over to Mugman who was scrabbling about in a puddle of water, trying to get up, and smacked him in the face with the pillow.
Mugman fell on his butt and began to swing his pillow wildly in the direction of the atack
"Hahaha," Chalice laughed," the look on your face was priceless!"
"The look on my face!?" Mugman cried, tearing off his blindfold, "Chalice, why aren't you wearing your blindfold?!"
But Chalice was already moving to her next target. Mugman watched as Chalice walked up to Cuphead, who was still being beaten up by the coat hanger .She hit Cuphead in the face with her pillow , knocking him to the floor and knocking his blindfold off. After witnessing this Mugman and Chalice both burst into laughter.
"Hey!" Cuphead yelled "what part 'blindfolded' did you not understand!".
Then he saw Mugman who was still struggling to stand up, always slipping in the puddle and delirious with laughter.
"Bfbfbahahahah," Cuphead laughed
"Hahah, that was so worth breaking the rules for!" Chalice said between fits of hysterics.
"Breaking the rules, ehh," Cuphead thought, "Hey Mugsy, how about we team up and teach this jerk a lesson."
"I'm in," Mugman agreed.
"Oh it's on!" Chalice yelled, getting herself into a fighting stance.
"GO!" Cuphead shouted and the two brothers attacked
Everyone was laughing too much to really play attention to the fighting. Everyone was slipping and sliding in the puddles , whacking themselves by accident.
The camera angle then switches to outside, looking in on the cups through the window. As the cups, drunk on joy, haphazardly fought, the weather began to clear up and the sun came out.
The camera then does an "iris out," focusing in on the window that you can see the cups through.
(if you're wondering what an "iris out" is, it's A transition where the screen turns to solid black starting at the edges and pushing inwards, forcing the view of the scene into an ever-dwindling circle in the manner of a camera iris closing)