(as the title is shown, the first few bars of "Forest Follies" plays)

"10, 9, 8..." Mugman counted.

Cuphead snapped back to reality and dashed down the hall trying to find a place to hide. He skidded as he tried to turn a corner and bumped into the wall. After he bumped into the wall, Cuphead saw that, at the contact point, a small, mysterious door had opened.

It was the size of a large safe, with dark metal walls and wallpaper covering the front which previously disguised it.

Cuphead saw the opportunity for a good hiding spot and promptly tried to get in the safe.

"Found you!" said Mugman behind him.

"Aww banana oil," Cuphead replied with half his head wedged in the box. He pulled his cup free and began to inspect the safe.

"I wonder what this is for?" Cuphead said as he brought out a strange light blue sphere with a label stuck to the back

"Looks like some sort of crystal ball," Mugman stated

"What does it say on that label at the back?" Cuphead asked

Mugman turned the ball around in his hands and started to read what it said on the label, out to Cuphead

The Peashooter talisman

£16.99

To activate please read

Out the spell stated

Below

Ego míttere volō.

Egonecā́revolō.

As Mugman read out the last two lines, a pale blue vortex started to swirl around him. Cuphead was pulled into the vortex with Mugman. It also pulled various paintings and other household objects into the swirl.

After a few seconds, there was a loud "Pop" and the vortex disappeared, letting everything that was in it clatter to the floor. Cuphead managed to stick the landing and stay standing and Mugman fell flat on his face and was helped up by Cuphead.

"We should really stop reading spells before we know what they do," Mugman said " and the label didn't even say what just happened!"

"Ehh, i ain't too worried about it," Cuphead said.

"And another thing,why is there even a magic ball in a secret safe in the wall of the cottage?" Mugman questioned as he pointed at the now not so hidden compartment in the wall.

Much to his surprise a small ball of blue fire was shot from the tip of his finger and hit the safe, leaving a scorch mark.

"WOOOOH!" Cuphead exclaimed "let me try!"

Cuphead waked up to the exact place where Mugman had been standing, pushed him out the way and started mocking his speech

"Bla bla bla, I'm Mugman, bla bla, hole in the wall ,Bla."

After he said that he pointed his finger at the wall and another ball of fire shot from his fingertip and hit the wall, leaving another scorch mark and a small fire on the wall paper.

"Hey Cuphead" said Mugman who had snuck up behind him "turn around"

"What is it MugsyYyAAAAAAAAAA!"

When Cuphead turned around Mugman was pointing a finger gun at him. Luckily Cuphead had the initiative to duck and the bullet flew harmlessly out the window.

"Well I know what we are doing today!" Cuphead announced with a huge grin on his face

Outside the two cup brothers were practising with their newfound powers. They had set up a small tower of cans and were shooting them down, one-by-one

Cuphead:"Hey Mugsy"

Mugman:"Yes"

Cuphead:"I know we need training and all but why don't we go into the forest and have some fun"

Mugman:"I don't know Cuphead, it seems like a bad idea to run into the wilderness and shoot everything."

Cuphead:"Stop worrying so much, it's not like there are living plants in there that will attack us for disturbing them"

Mugman:"What about the monsters that Elder Kettle told us stories about, like the Deadly Daisy and Goopy le Grand!"

Cuphead:"Like you said, they're just stories"

Mugman:"just like those ghosts were"

Cuphead:"Nah, this is different. Come on!"

(i am now asking you to imagen the upcoming chase scene with the song "Forest Follies" playing in the background)

Cuphead jogged into the forest with Mugman trailing behind him. Cuphead started to shoot everything he saw, yelling with delight as he did. He shot holes in leaves and started small fires on the forest mulch. Mugman soon joined in with his brother and started shooting various pieces of flora.

Soon the two brothers' pyromaniacal excursion attracted the attention of some of the forest's residents. Two deadly-daisies poked their heads out from behind a tree and watched the two cups as they ran around.

"Who do those numbskulls think they are!" one said

"Yeah" the other replied "we ought to teach them a lesson"

At that, both flowers let out a high pitched whistle. The trees and bushes behind them started to rustle and then exploded as various sentient plants burst forth, Goopy le Grand front and centre there were many deadly-daisies, terrible-tulips,Toothy-Terror aggravating-acorns, murderous-mushrooms and bothersome-blueberries. All of them in a mob, chasing after the two brothers

As they realised that they were being chased, the two cups' yells and whoops of delight transformed in cries of fear. As they ran Cuphead and Mugman tried to shoot behind themselves and get rid of the mob but most of their shots either knocked over a plant, which was almost immediately replaced by another or bounced off the gelatinous body of Goopy le Grand.

The cups kept running, hoping to get out of the woods. Cuphead looked back at the horde of plants to try and aim with his finger gun better but he wasn't looking where he was going and so ran straight into a tree.

He fell to the floor, dazed, and the mob quickly caught up with him. Mugman didn't immediately notice that Cuphead had fallen and only realised when he was too far away to help. As Cuphead was shooting back at the mob, he noticed that his hands were starting to glow, more and more and now they had a bright, light blue aura around them.

Once the hoard had reached the place he had fallen, Cuphead instinctively raised his hands in a defensive manner with his hands trying to shield his head.

Suddenly a huge ball of blue flame, the size of Cuphead himself, blasted fourth from his outward-facing palms.

The flaming sphere ploughed through the foes, flinging some out of the way and incinerating others. After that onslaught the only one left standing was Goopy le grand. As Cuphead was getting up and readying himself to continue running, another ball of light shot past him, hitting the huge slime right between the eyes and sending it hurtling into the distance.

"Thanks Mugsy" Cuphead said "these new powers are really cool, we should come up with a name for that big blue ball thing"

"Ok, but we need to think this through carefully." Mugman insisted "the naming of a new discovery is very important, so that..."

"Let's call it an EX," Cuphead cut in

"What does that even mean?"

"I dunno, I just sounded cool."

"Well it needs to mean something."

"Errrrrr, it means, errrrrrrr, extremely X-plosive."

"Explosive starts with and E," Mugman corrected

"Nahhhhhh," Cuphead

"Well," Mugman sighed, "I'll add the forest to my list of places I can't go for fear of death."

"Ooh come on Mugsy" Cuphead replied "it's not that bad. Say what, how about we go into town. There are no plants there."

"Didn't we just learn our lesson about running around and shooting stuff," Mugman pointed out

"Pfffffffft," Cuphead retorted "this is different, we'll be in the city this time."

"I'm not so sure about th..."

"That's great Mugsy! Off we go," Cuphead cut in as he turned and started walking towards the city

"But I didn't say anything."

"Sure you did. Now let's go, it'll be fine."

The two brothers wandered down to the town centre. They walked through the streets until they reached a large square with a fountain in the middle. The two cups sat down in the middle.

"Well, this looks like a good place to shoot some things."

"No Cuphead," Mugman insisted "we are already in enough trouble with the police, we don't need arson on our record too."

"Uhhhhhg," Cuphead groaned "what do you have against a little bit of fun hu? It's not like the police are around or anything"

"HALT! In the name of the law" said a voice on the other side of the square .it was the bee policeman, with a couple of other officers

"You have been charged with reckless driving, cookie theft and so many disturbances of the peace we ran out of paper!" yelled the policeman again, holding up a piece of paper covered in tally marks.

Cuphead turned around and pointed his finger gun at the officers but Mugman grabbed his hand and pointed it at the sky so all of Cuphead's shots flew harmlessly into the sky.

"No shooting the police!" scalded Mugman.

Mugman turned and ran, dragging cuphead behind him, Cuphead still shooting into the sky.

Cuphead soon got to his feet and ran with Mugman.

The two brothers darted around the town trying to shake the cops off their trail but were not able to. Mugman swerved right into a side alley, hoping for it to pop out somewhere else but it was a dead end.

"Oh no! We're trapped. We're gonna get put back in the slammer!" Mugman cried

"The crowbar hotel" Cuphead replied

"The clink"

"The ol' Hooba Dooba" Cuphead said melodically

"Oi!" the bee policeman yelled, "the ol' Hooba Dooba isn't even a thing."

"Quick!" Cuphead yelled, "grab my handle!"

Mugman knew better than to argue and did as he was told. Cuphead then pointed both of his palms at the ground, jumped and used an EX to blast him and Mugman onto the roof of the nearest building

"That was... AWESOME!" Cuphead exclaimed

"Yea but we should probably get home" Mugman said as he gestured to the sirens and flashing lights all over the city

"That's probably a good idea," Cuphead admitted, "but how will we get back, the city's full of the Kawklipers."

"What are Kawklipers" Mugman asked

"It means the police, Chalice told me."

Mugman looked a Cuphead suspiciously but decided not to dawdle

"We need a way to get back to the cottage, that avoids using the ground," Mugman thought aloud

Suddenly something Caught Cuphead's eye. He reached over and forcefully turned Mugman's head to point at what he had seen, making Mugman's neck crack loudly. Cuphead pointed at the building next to them, which had a big sign on it reading

Rideable Rockets

£14.99

The night was flashing red and blue from the police lights. Sirests blared and the focus was on the RidableRocket Co warehouse that the two fugitives were suspected to be hiding in.

"We've blocked all exits and will storm the building on your orders, over." one police bee shouted to her commanding officer.

"good job, go ahead and flush out those cups, over."

Just as the chief officer was about to give the order to bust down the doors, a large silueted form shot up from the roof of the building. Cuphead and Mugman were riding one of the rideable rockets. Mugman had added two strings to the front of the rocket to provide a bit of steering. They shot through the air as an instrumental version of "Welcome to the Cuphead Show" played in the background. The rocket veered wildly in the air before Mugman managed to gain control. Cuphead was at the back, waving his arms in the air and whooping with joy, whereas Mugman was struggling to keep the rocket under control, and was sweating from stress. He felt like he was in a rodeo, holding on for dear life.

The rocket soon passed over the cottage and Mugman grabbed Cuphead, who was not paying attention and jumped off. They both landed on the roof and bounced off. Cuphead landed on his feet and Mugman was spun wildly in the air and landed flat on his face.

The two brothers promptly scrambled to the door, leapt into the house and slammed the door behind them.

"phew , that was a close one. These powers are great!" Cuphead exclaimed

"I'm not so sure Cuphead," Mugman said " have you ever heard the saying: with great power comes great responsibility?"

"Yes, i've heard it waaaaaaaay too many times"

"Well point is, you certainly do not have great responsibility and in the few hours that we have had these powers we have been chased twice and should probably keep a low profile for the next few days."

"Uhhhhhhhg, Mugsy it was just a bit of fun."

"Well one day "a bit of fun" will probably be the end of both of us." Mugman scoffed. He walked over to where he had left the crystal ball and looked realy closely at the bottom of the label and discovered there was some fine print.

If you wish to reverse the effects of this object

Just recite the spell (as stated above) in reverse

Mugman immediately said the spell before Cuphead tried to stop him

"ōlov erettím ogE ōlov erā́cen ogE" he shouted dramatically

The talisman floated into the air and started to spin. It made a noise, similar to a vacuum cleaner and appeared to suck a long trail of blue smoke from the tip of Cuphead and Mugman's finger once all of the smoke had been absorbed, both brothers covered shielded their faces, expecting a dramatic event but the orb just made a loud "POP" and fell down onto the floor.

When Cuphead realised that nothing traumatic had happened he stood up straight and saw Mugman standing rather suspiciously with his hands clasped behind his back.

"Where'd the magic thingy go?" Cuphead asked

"I've hid it," Mugman replied

"Hid it!" Cuphead exclaimed "I looked away for like five seconds, you can't hide stuff that fast."

"Ok, then i threw it," Mugman said "you've got to find it."

Cuphead squinted suspiciously at Mugman but then shrugged and started looking around the room for the Magical ball.

Meanwhile Mugman side stepped into an adjacent room and pulled the amulet from behind his back

"Better find a proper place to hide this," Mugman said to himself.

Meanwhile, in the forest, a group, made up of a few battered plants, sat around a large tree stump (like a round table).

"Those darn cups made a Mockery of our forest." one said

"I don't think they'll come back though" replied another "we gave 'em a good scare"

"That's true but we need to be vigilant for more attacks" replied the first one

Suddenly a soft whistling sound filled the air. The plants all looked up to see a large rocket hurtling towards them.

There was an explosion of light and sound that flung plants off in various directions. The camera zoomed out to get a wide view of the forest and then faded to black.