(as the title is shown some sinister organ music is played.)
The devil sat seething in his throne. Henchman gingerly approached him.
"Uhh, hiya boss," He said "I got you some tea, served to you in your favourite not- cup-shaped-object."
Henchman offered the Devil a tea filled cat bowl with the name "Mrs. MeowMeow" painted on the side. The devil held the bowl close to his face and started lapping the tea up like a cat.
"Thankyou Henchman," He said "I still haven't found a way to get those cups' souls. As long as they're wearing the sweater, which has somehow been duplicated, I can't steal their souls."
"Errr, boss" Henchman said "have you tried just, you know, killing them."
The devil paused and thought for a second.
"Run that by me again," the devil requested
"Well, if you use a non-magical weapon and just try to kill the cups, that would probably bypass the sweater and because the cups aren't exactly virtuous, their souls will come down here."
"Henchman!" the devil cried with delight "your a genius!"
The devil jumped out of his chair and hugged Henchman.
"Now hand me my finest non magic weapon."
"On it boss Henchman" yelled and jogged off
Henchman soon returned and gave the weapon to the devil. The devil looked down at what Henchman had given him.
"WHAT!" the devil exclaimed "THIS SPOON IS NOT THE MIGHTIEST WEAPON WE HAVE!"
Henchman had given him the golden spoon that came with his pitchfork
"Err, boss" Hechman spoke up, "you know those demons you incinerated. Well, they were gonna use weapons and..."
"Uhhhhhhg," the devil groaned, "get me my second finest non magical weapon."
Henchman jogged away and came back with a skull wedged onto the top of a stick.
"I don't know about this one boss," Henchman said as he handed it over to the devil.
"Oh this will do just fine!" the devil said as he held the skull up to his face to inspect it. Suddenly the skull opened its mouth and bit the devil's nose
"YOOOOOOWWWWW!" the devil cried "it bit me!"
"I did say i wasn't sure about it," Henchman replied
"I guess that means i have to use the spoon then" the devil grumbled .
He grabbed the spoon and slammed it against the floor, expecting to teleport. But nothing happened
"Oh right," the devil said, "I'll be taking the elevator."
The devil walked up to the elevator and stepped inside. The doors closed and the elevator disappeared in a column of flame.
The camera then zooms in on the devil's pitchfork which was left leaning against his throne.
Meanwhile, Cuphead, Mugman and Chalice had discovered a new toy called "Fun snaps"
And were chucking them around and at each other, laughing at the tiny explosions.
Suddenly, the hellish elevator appeared directly in front of where the three cups were running. They skidded to a halt and stepped back from the elevator just as the devil stepped out. Both were shocked to see the other.
the cups and the devil both screamed simultaneously. As the devil was screaming, Cuphead threw his remaining "Fun Snaps" into the devil's mouth, causing him to collapse in a fit of coughing.
The three cups ran. Chalice ran ahead of the two brothers and pulled open the door of the closest shop and ran inside, ushering the other cups to follow her. As the two brothers ran through the door, they closed it behind them . They ran up to the second story of the shop and watched the devil from the window.
Once the devil had recovered from his coughing fits, he got up and chased after the cups. Once he reached the shop that the cups had run into, he rammed his soldier into the door, expecting it to open but the devil just bounced off. The devil rammed the door again but to no avail
Chalice broke down in a fit of hysterics
"I don't think he knows that it's a pull door, HAHAHAHAHAH!"
Cuphead and Mugman looked down at the devil struggling with the door and laughed.
"Is he holding a giant spoon?!" Cuphead cried
"So he is!" Mugman replied.
The devil saw the three cups on the second floor laughing at him and snarled. He couldn't quite hear them but he could see that they were laughing a pointing at him. He threw his spoon as hard as he could at the window the cups were looking out of, like a javelin. The spoon just bounced off the window and the three cups laughed even harder.
Once the initial humour had died away, the three friends started to wonder what to do.
"That door isn't going to hold the devil forever." Mugman said
"Right, we need to think of a way to distract the devil, for an extended amount of time," Chalice stated," let's start by seeing what we've got to use."
The trio looked around them for the first time and realised that the shop they were in was an art shop.
"Oh this will do nicely!" Chalice exclaimed with glee, "get me three sheets of cardboard, scissors and a pen."
The devil was incessantly ramming the door for a good half an hour. As he was doing so, the three cups quietly jumped down from the window, holding the art supplies and scuttled out of sight.
Eventually the devil stepped back to catch his breath and at that moment a random passerby walked up to the door of the shop, pulled it open and walked through.
"AAAAUUUUUUUUUURRRRRRAAG" the devil screamed, "it's a pull door!"
The devil launched himself inside and ran upstairs just to see the window open and no cups in sight. The devil ran to the window and looked out of it. The sun was low and shining in his eyes so it was difficult to see properly but the devil could make out the silhouets of the three cups on top of a car.
"GET BACK HERE!" the devil cried as he jumped out the window, transformed himself into a bull and charged after the car.
The driver of the car understandably stepped on the accelerator and tried to flee from the devil. The devil, however, was faster. He barreled towards the fleeing car, knocking passers by and other vehicles out of the way as he charged.
Suddenly, the fleeing car took a sharp right turn and drove down an alleyway. The devil skidded to a halt and continued to pursue the car. However, the horns on his bull form were too wide to fit down the alley and the devil ended up getting his horns wedged into the brick walls on either side of the pathway.
The devil yelled in anger and returned himself to his regular form. He ran down the alley and saw the car, still driving away from the devil at top speed the devil transformed himself into a bat (reminiscent of the Demon Bat boss, but it is furry). The devil flew high in the sky and dived towards the car. The devil rocketed through the sky and then crashed through the figures of the cups.
He then transformed himself back into his regular form and stuck the landing.
"HA!" the devil yelled as he turned back to look at the cups but they were not there. There were just three smashed up cup shaped pieces of cardboard with the message "looks like you don't got brains or brawn cement mixer" written on them.
Then the car ran him over. The devil got up dazedly and looked at the car just as the driver climbed out, it was the elephant guy.
"tHedEviL!" he screamed and then ran off.
"Where did Those basted cups go!" the devil yelled as he took his oversized spoon out of his pocket(don't question how it got there and it fits because of cartoon physics.). The devil looked around and caught a glimpse of red in between the trees.
The devil slammed his giant spoon on the ground and then groaned when he didn't teleport. The devil whirled his legs in a looney toons like way and rocketed towards the place he saw the glimpse of red.
"Move quickly," Chalice whispered, "we've got to get into the forest, the devil isn't going to follow that car forever."
Suddenly the devil shot out of nowhere, ramming into Cuphead, knocking him over and causing him to skid along the floor.
"YOUR SOUL IS MINE!" the devil cried
Cuphead rolled to the left just as the devil brought down his spoon on where his head was. Cuphead then thew himself towards the devil, grabbing his leg. The devil was immediately electrocuted by the piece of magic sweater Cuphead was wearing.
The devil was mostly rigid with the electricity but he was able to move for small moments of time between pulses. He used this opportunity to transform his hand into a spike and readied it to try and stab Cuphead who was still hugging his leg.
Mugman noticed what was happening and promptly sprung into action. He grabbed the closest thing he could find, which was a large stick and slammed it into the devil's foot.
"YOWWWWWWW" the devil cried as he hopped about clutching his foot.
Mugman pulled his brother to his feet and the trio ran
"I know an old abandoned windmill where we can hide," Chalice said "follow me!"
The tree cups ran towards a large windmill that was in the middle of a field. once they reached the windmill they ran inside and slammed the door.
"Ow ow ow ow ow," The devil said as he hopped around clutching his foot. Eventually he recovered and looked around.
"Where did those blasted Cups go!" he exclaimed.
The devil then shoved his spoon into his pocket, transformed himself into an eagle and flew high into the sky to look for the cups. He was able to catch sight of the cups just as they entered the mill.
"I've got you now!" the devil said with glee.
He positioned himself above the Windmill and dived. The devil crashed through the top of the building and landed directly in front of the cups, back in his true form, holding his spoon.
The cups all screamed and scattered. The devil first chased after Cuphead. Cuphead scrambled away from the devil. Along the way, the devil was swinging his spoon wildly, smashing through walls and equipment. Cuphead dodged and weaved but the devil was immediately smashing any cover he could find. Soon the devil had backed Cuphead into a corner.
"I've got you now meddlesome brat!" the devil yelled as he raised the giant spoon over his head.
"Yoohoo," Chalice chimed, "over here devil."
The devil looked over to see Chalice dancing on top of a table. He growled and ran towards her.
"You should not be dancing, you deal breaker, i won that contest fair and square."
"Oh no," Chalice said as she pulled a bag of marbles out her pocket and poured them on the floor, "looks as if the world's best dancer just dropped her marbles again."
The devil tried to slow down but was not able to stop in time, he was sent, stumbling and slipping on the marbles, across the room and directly into a wall. A shower of dust and rubble was sprinkled on top of his fur making him look really dirty.
The devil growled and looked around the room.
"Yoo hoo," Mugman chided from the other side of the room, "over here devil."
The devil charged across the room. Just before he struck he heard another voice from the other side of the room
"Hey devil," Cuphead yelled "looks like you don't even want my soul."
That distracted the devil causing him to strike too far to the left, missing Mugman. He turned and ran at Cuphead, raising his spoon over his head, ready to strike. Cuphead dived to the right and the devil struck down where he used to stand.
Suddenly a white cloud of fine powder filled the room. Cuphead blindly scrambled across the floor trying to get away from the devil. He groped along the floor until he felt someone grab his hand. He was half guided, half dragged out of the mill, which was now enveloped in a white cloud of dust.
"Nice work dingdong," said the person who had grabbed him, it was Chalice," good idea standing on top of all those flour bags, it'll take hours for all that to settle."
The three cups (Mugman got out by himself) got up and surveyed their handy work: a huge cloud of flour obscuring the old windmill. They stood there for a few seconds until Cuphead realised he was still holding Chalice's hand and quickly let go.
"We should probably go," Mugman said, "the devil will escape eventually."
The trio of cups then walked off away from the old mill, chatting happily.
The devil raged about for a while, smashing everything within reach. He couldn't see anything but assumed that if he kept swinging he'd eventually find a cup. As he swung he felt the spoon hit something rock and watched as a single spark was produced and sailed through the air..
Suddenly the entire building was blasted to smithereens in a massive explosion, leaving the devil standing in the middle of the massive scorch mark, covered in soot.
"Grrrrrrr," the devil grumbled, " those blasted cups got away again! They can't just run from me, I'm the devil!"
He slammed his spoon into the ground expecting to teleport back to hell but nothing happened.
"Oh right," the devil said, "looks like I'll be using the elevator."
The devil reached into his pocket, and pulled out a piece of chalk. He drew a small square on the floor and held the chalk up to his head to read the inscriptions but was confused when there weren't any.
"What! Someone switched my magic chalk with regular chalk!" the devil cried, "guess i have to take the stairs."
The devil walked over towards the hell stairs and was about to walk down them when he stumbled directly into a wall. He stepped back a few paces to look at the blockage.
"This stairway is closed for maintenance." the devil read." What maintenance! These stairs have existed for aeons in perfect condition!"
The devil turned away from the stairs and started walking away
"I guess I have to use the..."
he counted on his fingers and then started to panic.
"No, there's got to be another way into hell. but what if there isn't!? What if I really am TRAPPED IN THE MORTAL REALM!?
After the devil said this the camera pans downwards into hell and zooms in on the devil's pitchfork . Then a pale blue bony hand reached out and grabbed the pitch fork, it was Stickler.
Stickler, with pitchfork in hand, walked up the red carpet and sat on the devil's throne.
"Looks like there are going to be some changes around here." Stickler announced as demons started to crowd at the foot of the throne
Then the camera does an iris out, focusing on Stickler's head.