https://youtu.be/X3ke4k8DjL8

(A Humble Farmer has finished attending to her plants when the other Monkie Kids teleport on to her plantation.)

Angie: Ow ow, UGH I still wished I didn't drink that birth water now I have a freaking CHILD!

Angel: Wait I gonna be a grandma! As Macaque and Sun Wukong will be grandpas!

Mei: Ugh! He's not here either! Tangy, get your head in the game!

Lorise: Yeah Tangy!

Humble farmer: My bok choy! Welp, there goes the winter rations. (She starts digging a hole.) Guess I better get grave diggin' for me and my folk.

Tang: I'm sorry. We're looking for our friend and I lost my cheat sheet, so we don't know where we are and I'm starting to freak out pretty hard, and these guys are desensitized to my breakdowns, so I need a reaction. For the love of the Great Sage, I need a reaction!

Pigsy + Athena: Tang! Would you pull yourself together?!

Tang: I'm sorry. I'm just— I'm having a meltdown and I have no idea what's going on and—

Sandy: Tangy, we're right there with you, old friend. But right now, we need to find MK and Monkey King. (Mei hands Tang his khakkhara.) We gotta hold it together until then. (Tang prepares to teleport them away.)

Aims: LEEGGO!!

Humble farmer: Oh, you mean Sun Wukong? The Great Sage Equal to Heaven?

Angie: Yeah yeah!!

Mei: You mean you've seen him?!

Humble farmer: Yeah, I've seen him. He done made a mess of the whole air round my geese stable.

Pigsy: Uh, geese stable?

Angie: Geese really?

Humble farmer: Ay-yarp. See, I always been sayin' why come horses get themselves a fancy stable, but the geese don't?

Tang: (He points at the light behind the geese stable.) Guys, look at this!

Humble farmer: I say to brick with that. (The Monkie Kids have taken a peek around the stable.) Geese are truly a noble bird, and I take great pride in my gaggle.

Mei: Huh. You think Monkey King made this?

Lorise: I think so?

Athena: Guys look the crack!

(The crack started to get bigger)

Mei: MK? That's MK!

MK (Echo): Stop! Stop! Stop! Stop!

Angel: Oh no.

Angie: We need to get to MK now!

Aims: Yeah!

(Then the monkie kid gang jumpped into the crack)

Inky: Hey, nice of you to join us, bud. You know, none of this would have happened without you, right?

Mei: Yeah. And us too! (The rest of the Monkie Kids crash in.) Without us, you wouldn't be able to stop this thing. That's what you were saying, right?

Monkey King: Not really, but I like the energy.

Tang: The curse! Is it just me or is it way scarier than it was before?

Angel: Sunny!

Monkey King: Peaches! Oh thank budda you're okay!

Angie: MK! (She ran to MK and she hugged him) Hey hey everything is alright...

Pigsy: How did Azure say to defeat this thing again?

Monkey King: Azure... Lion? Angie!

Angie: I GOT SUCKED INTO THE SCROLL AS MY PAST LIFE!

Inky: Say goodbye!

Aims: Uh oh.

Athena: NO NO YOU AINT DOING THIS DEMON!

Mei: Wait, no! Hold on! (The protective curse darkens everything, splitting the view from one another.)

Tang: Where'd they go?

(Lorise took Mei's hand in fear)

Lorise: I don't like this!

Aims: I HATE THIS!!

Inky: Such pitiful creatures. Cowardly. Reckless. Monstrosities!

Monkey King: MK! Where are you?

Inky: All doomed to play a role in tearing this world apart. To cause nothing but chaos and destruction.

Angie: MK? Guys?

(Then she saw Inky walking up to her and grabbed her wrist)

Inky: And Angie didn't you forget what your destiny was. Every Star Warrior will have to die to protect Harbinger of Chaos before it's to late and soon you'll die from protecting him!

Angie: No!

Monkey King: Enough! I've never let anyone dictate my destiny in the past, and I'm not about to start now. None of us are! We can't change who we were yesterday, or in a past life, or a hundred lifetimes ago. We live with the choices we've made. But what matters is the choices we make right now! Only we decide who we are and what we do with the power we have!

Inky: Nice hero speech, bud, but I know better. Deep in your hearts, you don't believe a word of that.

Mei: Yeah, well, we're pretty good at fakin' it till we makin' it, so you better takin' it, son!

Tang: Yeah! I might be a coward, but we've faced scarier monsters than you!

Angie: So if I die protecting MK, so what I'll keep living for knowing that I can protect my friends!

(Then her body started to glow and a shard of the star floats to her hand and she smiled)

Angel: We'll keep fighting for who we are no matter what! (Her body started to glow and a shard of the star came to her hand) And we will stop whoever is pulling the strings!

Athena: We may be from another world but we know we have our friends and we'll know if we wanna quit fighting!

(Then her body glows and a shard of the star floats to her hand)

Lorise + Aims: No matter what we'll keep fighting until we have a happy ending! (Then two stars flouts down to their hands and the body begins to glow)

Monkey King: I won't let some curse bully me or my friends or my lover a second longer! (Everyone standing summons their power and clears the illusion the protective curse made. The Monkie Kids use their weapons to hold the curse in place.)

Inky: You can see it, can't you? This is your fate. Your friends and your love will turn on you, seeing you for the monster you will become. (MK taps into his monkey form.) They will destroy you, Harbinger of Chaos. It's just like the Lady Bone Demon said. Despite your efforts, all you'll ever do is cause pain and suffering.

MK: Stop talking! Get out of my head! (He leaps up, summoning his powers, and dives at the protective curse.)

Angie: Thats my MK!

Inky: Then prove us wrong. (MK disintegrates the curse, which explodes into ball of light.)

Mei: (Simultaneously.) He did it!

Pigsy: (Simultaneously.) That's my boy. (MK flickers out of his monkey form.) Now would be a good time to get out of here!

Angel: Yeah we got everybody! Now we gotta get out of here!

Athena: Okay but question

Mei: But how?! (An opening brings their attention and Azure Lion steps in.)

Monkey King: You.

Azure Lion: (He sighs.) Me. (He snaps and pillars of light form around them, separating everyone from one another.)

MK: What? (He finds himself in a new area with the other Monkie Kids.) Monkey King? Where are we? (He looks around as his friends take stance.) Azure? Where's Monkey King?

(Azure Lion looks up from the scroll he's holding, his eye glowing ominously in purple.)

https://youtu.be/ORIu-E_gDu0

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Next: The Brotherhood

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