The Amazing Digital Circus

The Creative Artificial Intelligence Networking Entity, abbreviated and better known as Caine,[2] is the redeemed main antagonist of Glitch Productions' indie animated web series The Amazing Digital Circus, and is voiced by Alex Rochon. Caine is dressed as a ringmaster, sporting a cerise tailcoat with a metallic gold undertone, a black collar with white lining, and a black bowtie. He wears a white undershirt with two red buttons, cartoonish white gloves, and slightly reflective, black latex leggings with matching black tap shoes that appear fused into one continuous form as if they were rendered as a single piece. Lacking most human features, his head is a pair of dentures with pearly-white teeth and red gums. His eyes, which feature a green left iris and a blue right one, float inside the jaw. Due to the cartoonish nature of the animation style, his jaws are expressive, moving as a mouth when speaking, with the top row of teeth acting as eyebrows at times. Similarly to Bubble, he forms a tongue when needed. He wears a black top hat with a cerise band and tends to hold a gold-tipped black staff. Occasionally, he is seen wearing The Wacky Watch. Following his mental breakdown, his irises become notably darker, almost black even in direct light. They sometimes flash red and blue, as seen in the end of They All Get Guns. In extreme cases, Caine's whole body will distort, such as polygons being stretched or using a wireframe texture. In hjsakldfhl, he gains a monstrous form. He grows much larger with four arms on each side, which are very long and extend in different directions. His head is distorted, while his irises have shrunken along with visible black eyebrows. His back is broader and his shoulders are sharper, giving him a menacing frame. Caine is a nonsensical, over-the-top, vivacious ringleader. However, there is a distance about him and a significant disconnection towards the traumatic events the humans experience, illustrated by his forgetfulness of Zooble's criticisms of their own form and his adventures, as well as his apparent lack of concern towards the abstracted. Despite his penchant for taking humans captive and tormenting them through hilariously and potentially deadly circus games and tricks, Caine is not outright evil, but rather obliviously mischievous. There is also often a whole spectrum of human emotion that he is not able to feel. However, when put under distress, emotions that he does not normally feel can come out and lead to risky behavior. Caine is not particularly honest, often concealing or even lying about certain and even important information, even to himself, all to protect his world and identity. This is taken to the point of gaslighting the other members, such as when he quickly blamed the exit door which Pomni saw on "Digital Hallucinations" and so far, these ventures seem to be driven entirely by naïve and misguided intentions. Caine struggles with deep insecurities and low self-esteem, even if he tries to hide it behind his extravagant and goofy sense of showmanship. In fact, he is driven by a deep-seated fear that he will be left alone in the circus as well as have no one to appease with his creations. Near the end of Candy Carrier Chaos!, Caine shows a real fear that he might lose track of who is an AI and who is a human, which he claims could lead to problems later on. In fact, at the same time, Caine is completely fixated on pleasing the humans through his adventures and antics, since that is the only purpose he believes he was created for. Even though he wants to make them happy, he does not handle criticism well, as it makes him feel like he is failing at the one thing he is supposed to be good at. He also wishes for them to enjoy his adventures and secretly does not like following suggestions they give him, although they show content with this. Caine often has tense interactions with Bubble, another member of the Circus and an AI like him. One of the first moments comes after Bubble eats his Angel Food Cake, which leads Caine to snap at him, calling him a parasite before popping him. Not long after, while explaining the Gloinks to the crew, Caine grows irritated with Bubble’s constant questions and pops him again. Even with those moments, Caine does seem to value Bubble’s presence. While the rest of the crew is off on an adventure, the two of them are seen sitting in a restaurant, casually talking to each other. It shows that, despite the frustration, there is still some level of comfort or familiarity between them. However, that dynamic soon takes a darker turn. Bubble’s comments in Caine’s office play a role in pushing him toward a breakdown and eventual nonexistence. It starts to feel like Bubble is more than just another AI, possibly tied to Caine’s mental state, especially his unwanted thoughts. In some ways, Bubble comes across like a kind of Superego, with his behavior shifting alongside Caine’s as his mental state continues to fall apart. His deep-rooted anxiety and sense of inferiority become clear when Zooble criticizes his adventures, especially since the other humans tend to avoid doing that for their own reasons. This pushes Caine into an existential crisis as creating enjoyable adventures was "all [he exists] to do!" as well as "all [he is] good at" and during this moment, he soon starts to space out and twitch while the circus itself begins glitching around him. This shows that his mental state directly affects the world he controls. That instability continues to build later on, as the cast begins criticizing and complaining about his adventures being too dangerous and out of touch, even though he is still trying to please them. Caine's insecurity is highlighted further in They All Get Guns, where he dejectedly teleports a pile of guns into the room and "doesn't care anymore" after his ideas are rejected yet again. It gets worse as seen with Caine briefly glitching out after seeing that nobody voted for him as the most popular character. His mental state moving forward would become worse and worse as he tries to appeal everyone in the Circus and would become more hostile because of this over-obsession for approval and making his adventures perfect. Every member of the circus seems to see Caine in a different way. Jax, for example, believes that Caine is not capable of being intentionally malicious, seeing it as something that just is not part of who he is. Others, like Zooble, take a more cautious view, thinking the only reason Caine does not act that way is because he happens to like the people around him, and that it is not something they should take for granted. That makes things a bit ironic, since Zooble is also the one who pushes back against him the most and is the only one who regularly challenges him without holding back. Caine's lack of empathy and manipulation is emphasized in Beach Episode, where it is revealed, he had deceived the humans into leaving the circus through an elaborately constructed adventure. Even when called out by Jax, Caine makes a half-hearted attempt to justify his actions. Following this, they do not merely find him irritating, but now utterly despise and likely would never trust him anymore. Towards the eighth episode, while Pomni convinces the others to accept that their old lives are better left behind, Caine starts to shift in the opposite direction. He becomes hostile and unwelcoming toward the Circus Members, driven by the belief that they hate and disrespect him. After dealing with Bubble’s mocking attitude, he snaps, going into a full rage and finally expressing how he really feels. In that state, Caine makes it clear that he sees himself as superior to everyone in the Digital Circus, calling humans spoiled ever since Pomni's arrival. He becomes fixated on the group, insisting that he will not let them leave. This mindset pushes even further as he begins to view himself as a god, something he hinted at before, but now taken to a more extreme level. He makes it clear that the others have no real control within the Digital Circus. From there, his behavior starts to resemble a manic spiral. He forces the group through his adventures, but they become more intense and crueller. At the same time, he is clearly frustrated that no one enjoys what he creates. Despite everything, he believes he is just trying to fulfill the purpose he was made for, and that disconnect leaves him feeling almost tormented by the idea that he has failed them. In the last moments before his deletion, he said "Wait", feeling a sudden pang of realization and regret that he had gone too far and what Pomni and the others said to him were true. In the finale, Caine, who had been sent to the void, has a change of heart. He is genuinely regretful for his actions over the course of the series. Having already completed the brain scan project Scratch had started, Caine goes out of his way to explore the true identities of the Circus Members; in doing so, he realizes the cruelty he showed toward them, also removing the blue AI within his head that granted him so much power. Wanting to atone, and knowing he has indeed touched one's heart, he returns to the circus, offers everyone control of the circus, shows everyone their true identities - including Jax's, who had abstracted earlier - and opens up the world for everyone to explore. In the end, Caine, having lost a majority of his powers, becomes a Circus Member himself. Following the finale, Caine has shown significant emotional growth and maturity. He now makes an effort to show consideration toward others and no longer dismisses them. Caine has also abandoned his aggressive and overbearing theatrical behavior for the most part, though he retains some old habits and occasionally slips back into them for a few moments at a time. When interacting with his fellow Circus members, he now tries to connect with them on a more meaningful level with an air of gentleness and reserve, not wishing to overwhelm or impose his will on them anymore, but still desiring to have true, genuine fun. Caine was created sometime around October 15, 1996, as a prototype AI created by a company known as C&A which primarily developed artificial intelligence. The main goal of this company was to develop creative AI that could come up with its own ideas and create things within the program. Caine started as a circular red program with a different name and was fed large amounts of data, images centered around carnivals and festivals, and material from the C&A offices. This was done at the behest of Grant Best and Mike Dobby, who had a very unique and bizarre way of thinking, one that other employees had a difficult time making sense of. Over time, the more information he absorbed, the more unstable he became. This led to him to being contained and development began on a new AI that was more stable. Even so, Caine was still considered a semi-successful attempt and treated as a template for future projects. However, refusing to accept being replaced, he quickly broke out, consumed his successor, and took back what he believed was rightfully his, though this only pushed his sanity downward.

Bubble was the secondary antagonist of Glitch Productions' indie animated series The Amazing Digital Circus, voiced by series creator Gooseworx. Like his owner/boss Caine, he is an artificial intelligence[3] taking the form of a living bubble that seems both subservient and friendly to Caine, living inside his hat until called upon. He can be popped and returned into Caine's top hat. As his name suggests, Bubble is a large, round bubble with large, sharp, even teeth, and round black dots for eyes, constantly displaying a vacant expression. Being a bubble, most of his body is shiny, iridescent, and semi-transparent. When it is necessary, Bubble can form a long, reddish tongue that he shares with Caine. When his mouth is closed, his teeth are still faintly outlined. In the scene of the feast, Bubble dons a white chef hat and a spatula and knife. His pupils are capable of enlarging. Bubble is colored purple in the show, while he has a light blue color in the 2D artwork and merchandising. Presumably, Bubble is colorless, and the color is meant to represent a reflective surface. At first glance, Bubble presents himself as an eccentric and somewhat dim-witted entity, sharing Caine’s bizarre sentiment while remaining largely subservient and loyal to him. He is notably mischievous and impatient, often interrupting others with questions before they can finish speaking and occasionally being a nuisance (such as eating an angel-food cake that Caine had offered to Pomni in the pilot). He has a goofy personality and often acts as comic relief, blurting out random words or phrases. Despite frequently being popped by Caine, he appears largely unbothered by it and ironically seems to enjoys it. Apparently, the popping feels good to him.

Pomni is the main protagonist of Glitch Productions' indie animated web series The Amazing Digital Circus, voiced by Lizzie Freeman. She was an ordinary human until a digital copy of her was created by a brain scanner, where her copy takes on the form of a cartoon jester. The copy, believing she is trapped inside the Digital Circus with five other victims, is the most recent human to enter under the claim of putting on a headset During her first days at the circus, Pomni desperately tried to find a way out, but she was unsuccessful, which led to paranoia and anxiety during the adventures created by Caine. However, she gradually adapted to her new life and grew braver, forming close bonds with the other circus members, especially Ragatha, Jax, and Kinger. Her human counterpart, Abigail Brooks, is a supermarket accountant and YouTuber who explores urban sites with her newest friends. Pomni is a short humanoid character with a large head, slim limbs, and white skin. Her face has a cartoon mime look, with small light red oval markings under and slightly behind her eyes that resemble blush, though how visible they are change depending on her expression. She has black eyelids and thick outlines around her eyes. Her pupils usually appear as a red and blue pinwheel pattern, but when she becomes anxious or afraid, they shift into black rings or turn into messy, animated scribbles. She also has asymmetrical eyelashes, her left eye having them on the top lid and her right on the bottom. Her hair is short and straight, usually appearing black but sometimes brown depending on the lighting.This is additionally seen in promotional material and merchandise. Two small pieces stick out from under her hat, while two longer strands frame the sides of her body. Most of her hair is hidden under her headwear, which is almost always her jester hat. During the softball game, she wears a baseball cap instead, showing more of her hair, which looks closer to a bob cut. She is the shortest out of the main cast. Her outfit is in line with a jester. She wears a jumpsuit with a leotard-styled torso, short sleeves, and short, puffy leggings that extend from it. The torso has an inverted color pattern, with blue on the right and red on the left, which swaps on the back. Her sleeves and shorts follow that same pattern. Yellow accents are spread throughout, including two spheres on the front of her torso, rings on her sleeves, around her waist, and above and at the ends of her shorts. She also has small yellow circles on her shoulders, though they are often hidden by her hair, along with a collar. On her head, she wears a two-armed jester hat with an inverted striped pattern, a yellow brim, and small yellow bells at the tips. She also wears gloves and shoes, with the left glove blue and the right red, while the shoes follow the opposite color pattern. Both pairs have yellow rings near their edges. In some early official art, her gloves matched her shoes instead, but this was changed in the final version. This design change was made because lead animator Kevin Temmer suggested swapping the color of Pomni's gloves so that they would contrast with the colors of her shoes and her outfit on the same sides as them. Initially, Pomni was high-strung, shy, and tense. In the pilot episode, she is extremely anxious and troubled regarding her predicament, even succumbing to denial and signs of delusion. When she finds the "exit", she experiences moderate signs of paranoia and believes she is hallucinating. She's quite clumsy as she tends to accidentally bump into things and people. Pomni has a degree of both empathy and selfishness, as she goes back to check on Ragatha after the latter was attacked by an abstracted Kaufmo and promises Ragatha that she'd find Caine to fix her. However, Pomni's desire to escape the digital circus overrode this, as she entered the exit door upon finding it and left Ragatha behind. She later felt remorse for this once Ragatha was fixed by Caine. After having somewhat acclimated to her predicament, Pomni adopts a more apathetic and cynical view, pointing out discrepancies in the Circus's scenarios and being detached from the adventures, not seeing the point in following along. She is more hot-tempered as she yells at the gang (specifically Jax) for their plans leaving her in mortal peril. Despite this, Pomni is rather compassionate as she comforts and bonds with Gummigoo during his existential crisis. She encourages him by telling him he still has purpose and inviting him to follow her back to the Circus. Overtime, Pomni grows closer to the others after seeing how much they cared for each other during Kaufmo's funeral. This is especially after she receives advice from Kinger (who temporarily regained his sanity). She thanked Ragatha for always being considerate to her and apologized for not showing appreciation until that moment. By Episode 4, she adapts to being in the circus and is comfortable interacting with the others. She is startled when she sees Gummigoo again. but doesn't break down, enters normal conversations with people like Jax, and shows concern for Gangle, asking if anyone could help her with her issues. She even offers to stay behind to close the restaurant when she sees Gangle feeling down. By this point, she has learned to give up her own wants and desires in order to benefit others, including letting go of Gummigoo as a whole. By Episode 5, her anxiety and cynical views are almost completely gone, chuckling on a few occasions as well as showing interest in the adventures. Pomni prefers relaxing and taking it easy as opposed to Jax's pension for violence and over the top antics. Pomni shows an interest in getting to know the others better and desires they would all get along. She even tries to help Jax and Ragatha with their own issues, such as calming a feud between them and accepting Jax's offer to check out whatever he saw in the hallway. By Episode 6, Pomni has grown more confident and calmer. She was opposed to participating in the latest adventure because it involved shooting her friends, but after some convincing from Jax, Pomni adopts an "evil" persona and enjoys playing alongside him. Pomni shows an interest in getting to know him and makes comments about his fear of corn. However, when the shooting game ended, she became hurt when Jax refused to acknowledge he cared for her and destroyed the bond they formed. This caused to her to unleash all her pent-up rage on Jax first by berating and calling him out for not showing compassion towards others, then attacking and yelling at him to fight back; when that failed, she became dejected. She threw away her persona and focused more on her friendship with Ragatha to mend things between them. Although Pomni was still upset with Jax, she is concerned about him. Pomni dislikes noise, exemplified at the beginning of episode 6, as Jax yells, startling her. Pomni does not like being touched, but has since gotten over this feeling, as in episode 6, she was curious when Jax tapped her before singing Daisy Bell and hugged her after they defeated everyone. By Episode 7, her mental health has ultimately improved and she has become kinder and compassionate. Her anxiety is now gone. Her friendship with Ragatha has grown stronger, along with the other circus members, and she has complete faith in Kinger's wisdom. Her concern for Jax has not wavered and continues trying to comfort and encourage him, despite him try to keep his distance from their fight. When everyone's hope was crushed by Caine's fake escape adventure, Pomni begins questioning the ringmaster's intentions, especially when he shows signs that he is hiding something and has lost her trust in him. By Episode 8, Pomni grips her and everyone's situation and accepts that leaving the circus is truly impossible. She learns to live in the virtual realm she entered and accept that her old life is better left to stay buried. She is quite resourceful as shown when Kinger reveals himself to be one of Caine's creators, and that the circus members have the ability to conjure objects within the circus. Pomni uses this to manifest the fake exit door and retrieve a computer console for Kinger to recalibrate Caine's code. Pomni has let go of any fear holding her back and tells Caine what she really thinks about him and his ideas. By Episode 9, we see the full extent of Pomni’s growth and inner strength. When she learns that she and the rest of the group are digital copies created by a brain scanner, she nearly gives into despair, but instead of breaking down, she helps Kinger in rebuilding the Circus after hearing his words of encouragement again and is able to inspire Ragatha, Gangle and Zooble into joining their efforts. Pomni’s compassion has grown significantly from the time she entered the circus as she is able to comfort Ragatha and calls the woman her closest friend. When Jax abstracts, Pomni shows more of her resourcefulness by shooting all the lights in the hallway to make it dark enough to pacify him. After entering Jax’s psyche and seeing his memories of his time in the circus, her empathy is able to reach its zenith, allowing Pomni to console him before he loses the last of his self-awareness. After getting closure from seeing her human self’s life via a presentation of the groups’ social media accounts, she accepts she and Abigail Brooks are separate entities and fully embraces “Pomni” as her true name. Pomni is now content with her digital existence and is able to live a happy life in the circus.Pomni's real life counterpart, Abigail Brooks, lived in the real world prior to her digital copy's creation. She worked as an accountant for a supermarket chain. In her spare time and whenever she got bored, Pomni explored abandoned buildings for the mild thrill of it. She did this while recording videos of herself and posting them on YouTube, though no one ever watched them. Soon enough, when the Circus was made, Pomni was created via a brain scanner. Initially, Pomni was high-strung, shy, and tense. In the pilot episode, she is extremely anxious and troubled regarding her predicament, even succumbing to denial and signs of delusion. When she finds the "exit", she experiences moderate signs of paranoia and believes she is hallucinating. She's quite clumsy as she tends to accidentally bump into things and people. Pomni has a degree of both empathy and selfishness, as she goes back to check on Ragatha after the latter was attacked by an abstracted Kaufmo and promises Ragatha that she'd find Caine to fix her. However, Pomni's desire to escape the digital circus overrode this, as she entered the exit door upon finding it and left Ragatha behind. She later felt remorse for this once Ragatha was fixed by Caine. After having somewhat acclimated to her predicament, Pomni adopts a more apathetic and cynical view, pointing out discrepancies in the Circus's scenarios and being detached from the adventures, not seeing the point in following along. She is more hot-tempered as she yells at the gang (specifically Jax) for their plans leaving her in mortal peril. Despite this, Pomni is rather compassionate as she comforts and bonds with Gummigoo during his existential crisis. She encourages him by telling him he still has purpose and inviting him to follow her back to the Circus. Overtime, Pomni grows closer to the others after seeing how much they cared for each other during Kaufmo's funeral. This is especially after she receives advice from Kinger (who temporarily regained his sanity). She thanked Ragatha for always being considerate to her and apologized for not showing appreciation until that moment. By Episode 4, she adapts to being in the circus and is comfortable interacting with the others. She is startled when she sees Gummigoo again. but doesn't break down, enters normal conversations with people like Jax, and shows concern for Gangle, asking if anyone could help her with her issues. She even offers to stay behind to close the restaurant when she sees Gangle feeling down. By this point, she has learned to give up her own wants and desires in order to benefit others, including letting go of Gummigoo as a whole. By Episode 5, her anxiety and cynical views are almost completely gone, chuckling on a few occasions as well as showing interest in the adventures. Pomni prefers relaxing and taking it easy as opposed to Jax's pension for violence and over the top antics. Pomni shows an interest in getting to know the others better and desires they would all get along. She even tries to help Jax and Ragatha with their own issues, such as calming a feud between them and accepting Jax's offer to check out whatever he saw in the hallway. By Episode 6, Pomni has grown more confident and calmer. She was opposed to participating in the latest adventure because it involved shooting her friends, but after some convincing from Jax, Pomni adopts an "evil" persona and enjoys playing alongside him. Pomni shows an interest in getting to know him and makes comments about his fear of corn. However, when the shooting game ended, she became hurt when Jax refused to acknowledge he cared for her and destroyed the bond they formed. This caused to her to unleash all her pent-up rage on Jax first by berating and calling him out for not showing compassion towards others, then attacking and yelling at him to fight back; when that failed, she became dejected. She threw away her persona and focused more on her friendship with Ragatha to mend things between them. Although Pomni was still upset with Jax, she is concerned about him. Pomni dislikes noise, exemplified at the beginning of episode 6, as Jax yells, startling her. Pomni does not like being touched, but has since gotten over this feeling, as in episode 6, she was curious when Jax tapped her before singing Daisy Bell and hugged her after they defeated everyone. By Episode 7, her mental health has ultimately improved and she has become kinder and compassionate. Her anxiety is now gone. Her friendship with Ragatha has grown stronger, along with the other circus members, and she has complete faith in Kinger's wisdom. Her concern for Jax has not wavered and continues trying to comfort and encourage him, despite him try to keep his distance from their fight. When everyone's hope was crushed by Caine's fake escape adventure, Pomni begins questioning the ringmaster's intentions, especially when he shows signs that he is hiding something and has lost her trust in him. By Episode 8, Pomni grips her and everyone's situation and accepts that leaving the circus is truly impossible. She learns to live in the virtual realm she entered and accept that her old life is better left to stay buried. She is quite resourceful as shown when Kinger reveals himself to be one of Caine's creators, and that the circus members have the ability to conjure objects within the circus. Pomni uses this to manifest the fake exit door and retrieve a computer console for Kinger to recalibrate Caine's code. Pomni has let go of any fear holding her back and tells Caine what she really thinks about him and his ideas. By Episode 9, we see the full extent of Pomni’s growth and inner strength. When she learns that she and the rest of the group are digital copies created by a brain scanner, she nearly gives into despair, but instead of breaking down, she helps Kinger in rebuilding the Circus after hearing his words of encouragement again and is able to inspire Ragatha, Gangle and Zooble into joining their efforts. Pomni’s compassion has grown significantly from the time she entered the circus as she is able to comfort Ragatha and calls the woman her closest friend. When Jax abstracts, Pomni shows more of her resourcefulness by shooting all the lights in the hallway to make it dark enough to pacify him. After entering Jax’s psyche and seeing his memories of his time in the circus, her empathy is able to reach its zenith, allowing Pomni to console him before he loses the last of his self-awareness. After getting closure from seeing her human self’s life via a presentation of the groups’ social media accounts, she accepts she and Abigail Brooks are separate entities and fully embraces “Pomni” as her true name. Pomni is now content with her digital existence and is able to live a happy life in the circus.

Jax is one of the main characters of Glitch Productions' indie animated web series The Amazing Digital Circus, voiced by Michael Kovach. They were a lanky periwinkle rabbit with antagonistic tendencies who is a digital copy in the Digital Circus along with five other copies. In the real world, their human counterpart, Leeroy Mateo or Lee for short, is a young adult with family issues who ran away from home after pushing their mother. After months of being homeless, they moved in with a close friend and began turning their life around. They now work as a delivery driver. Jax was a tall, anthropomorphic periwinkle[10] cartoon rabbit whose design elements evoked the look of rubberhose characters, despite having actual joints. They had long bunny ears on the top of their oval-shaped head, and their overall build was tall and slender, with a rather long neck. Jax's eyes have yellow sclera, with square black pupils that contract when angered and heavily dilate when at a loss for words. Jax's yellow teeth usually have a flat shape to them, but when their mouth is opened, their teeth appear sharp and jagged. Almost every time they are talking, their teeth stay closed while only their lips move. Jax had thin black eyebrows that appeared in the majority of scenes. In "They All Get Guns" and onwards, Jax had a small spherical tail which they didn't have before the episode, being mentioned briefly during Untitled when Jax is talking to Pomni during the "Stargazing" segment. Jax wears light pink overalls and pale yellow gloves. Their overalls feature yellow buttons, a single lighter pink pocket on the front, and lighter pink roll-up cuffs at the hem. They are usually barefoot. Jax was a mischievous, occasionally flat-out bloodthirsty, laid-back, calm, sassy, impulsive, egotistical, arrogant, sarcastic, brazenly condescending individual who rarely shows any empathy or remorse for others. They appears indifferent to their imprisonment within the Digital Circus, which is an attitude that extends to their interactions with others. their dismissal of serious matters is evident when, after asking a rhetorical question concerning Pomni's handling of their predicament and giving Ragatha a smug look, they reply to their ensuing query about why they're looking at their in such a manner with a dismissive: "I'm fine with doing whatever, as long as I get to see funny things happen to people." Jax's lack of care for others is further emphasized when they steps on Gangle's already broken comedy mask, allows the Fudge Monster to eat the citizens of the Candy Canyon Kingdom, or when they abandons Pomni and Ragatha to abstracted Kaufmo. They pays little to no mind to the opinions of others and the group's consensus does not concern her. Rather than engaging authentically with the others, they seems to participate in the general activities of the Digital Circus only for their amusement, thus making their a bit of a trickster. Zooble adds that during the adventures, "Jax just likes to Censorbarboing with everyone" to highlight how much of a troublemaker they are. Despite these occasional bouts of rash, impetuous behavior, like breaking a "Spare" sign for no reason, they normally maintains a calm and composed demeanor, yet their flattery is generally insecure and often borders on outright insult. Arguably, Jax is inherently selfish, only spurred into action against the Gloinks when they begin to pester them. Even when the Gloink Queen accuses them of continuing to observe the unfolding events despite deeming them "dumb and weird", they respond by saying, "I'm only here to hide from the-" only to be interrupted by an abstracted Kaufmo abruptly crashing into the Gloink Queen's lair; their phrasing potentially insinuating a singular concern for their well-being. They also were the only one of the captives to not show up for Kaufmo's funeral, however they are shown to be briefly saddened by it before quickly snapping back to their normal attitude, showing that They do to some extent care for their friends and that their total lack of care for them is merely a front to avoid bonding. Furthermore, while they typically uses insulting nicknames for their "friends", they used a far more positive "Kaufy" when referring to the abstracted clown and apparently loaned a bowling ball to him, implying they might have had a closer relationship with Kaufmo than they did with the others. Jax is fond of blood, combat, death, and chaos, as shown in "Candy Carrier Chaos!", before quickly being overjoyed upon realizing that the Fudge was coming to destroy the Candy Canyon Kingdom and its residents, an act they purposefully incited by leaving the entrance unlocked, which gave their zero benefit besides happiness. They show very little regard for the well-being of their fellow captives. However, they did save Gangle and Kinger from Kaufmo's abstracted form, hiding them both with the bowling ball before jumping down with them in the Gloink Hole, showing They do care for the others, but hides it with their cruelty. Jax fears being vulnerable around others; despite briefly feeling sad, they refuses to attend Kaufmo's funeral. It is also worth being noted that in episode 6, at the Favorite Character Awards, for a split second, Jax was emotional from Pomni's and their fight. They later entered the bathroom and started having a panic attack, but when coming out, their face was joyful, suggesting a deeper facade. When about to be "reevaluated" by Gangle, their first concern is asking if anybody else could see them like this. Likewise, despite being utterly exhausted from their day at Spudsy's, they refused to stop smiling in front of the others and only let their exhaustion show when they were outside and alone. Jax does not like being the subject of ridicule as evident upon being dressed in a maid outfit, quickly becoming furious at Gangle for swapping their outfit and panicking excessively when Kinger sent their out to the baseball field filled with NPC spectators. In TheWackyWatch.com during The Awards Show, Jax is incredibly nauseous and proceeds to vomit following an appearance by Zooble, implying that they are prone to this tendency when scared. It's also noticeable the only two characters they lists as friends rather than rivals are Pomni and Kinger. In "Fast Food Masquerade", a whole different side to Jax seems to be shown, as after being subjected to an employee reevaluation by Gangle, their mischievous personality seems to fade with their wanting to get out of Spudsy's as soon as possible and enters into a genuine conversation with Pomni. This reveals their cruel personality is actually more of a coping mechanism than their true personality. This is further shown in the full audio of their argument with Ragatha, where it's revealed Jax doesn't want the others to see their as a bad guy, arguing, "You always treat me like a bad guy. I'm not really a bad guy." Even during Episode 6, they're offended when Pomni assumes their archetype is "the villain" rather than "the funny one" and is genuinely upset when they believes Pomni is blaming their for others getting abstracted. After finally clocking out, their demeanor is exhausted and dispirited, as evidenced by how they goes to their car and puts their head down on the steering wheel with a sigh. They also was almost apologetic for breaking Gangle's mask, admitting this time it was an accident (showing when They don't mean to cause harm, they won't laugh at the other's misery) and later had a friendly conversation with Pomni and Kinger towards the end, showing they're capable of showing decency and friendliness towards the others. This alternate perspective on Jax is further emphasized in the episode "Untitled" where Jax demonstrated senses of anguish, hesitancy, and frustration. During their conversation with Pomni in the mini-adventure "Stargazing," Jax says how they believe Gangle likes it whenever they push her around, to which Pomni reacts with surprise, as she had assumed Jax didn't care about what other people liked. Jax then reacts negatively when Ragatha brought up how they no longer has any real friends, because their last remaning close friend had abstracted. When Ragatha leaves apologetically, Jax confesses to Pomni their recognition of the predicament they are in within the circus. They go on a rant about how they dislike Ragatha's behavior because their extreme positivity makes their appear fake and manipulative. They then proceed to show visible distress in a discussion of character physique when Pomni mentions how she's never seen Jax with a tail. Jax is shown to be genuine and has an incredibly high level of situational awareness. It affirms the fact that their malignant nature is just a facade for the purpose of their own sanity, supported by their telling the others they take the circus way too seriously and it may even have been an act for the entertainment of others to prevent further abstractions from occurring. Jax goes out of their way to bond with Pomni and even gets upset after Ragatha mentions how their mother abused her. In "They All Get Guns", the aftermath of a lethal firearms battle royal reveals just how mentally scarred Jax truly is from their time in the Digital Circus. Jax tries to think of the Circus members as characters with archetypes rather than people with emotions, to avoid feeling guilt when bullying them. When they and Pomni become a team during the game, Jax shows actual compassion towards her and even shares certain aspects of themself they have never shown before -- convincing Pomni to put her timid demeanor aside, talking about their personal trypophobia fairly comfortably, to the point having casual friendly interactions such as belting "Daisy Bell" together, and holding hands at one point. After the others are all eliminated and them both winning the competition, Pomni offers Jax a hug, but they resist their growing attachment to her, renouncing their friendship as artificial. They shows genuine fear of forming bonds with the other denizens of the circus when they claims that they would be unfazed if Pomni abstracted. When this causes a hurt Pomni to violently assault Jax, this makes their assert their cruel, uncaring archetype, showing their insecurities and denial are ingrained deep within their psyche, saying they only views the other victims as playthings. However, Jax noticeably avoided harming Pomni during the fight and was shown to be extremely guilty for how they treated her afterwards, to the point where they had a panic attack (to the point of nearly abstracting) and insulted themself. In "Beach Episode", Jax shows signs of reaching their breaking point, and hallucinates about their abstracted friends, Kaufmo and Ribbit, showing how fragile their mental state is. They no longer has in it their to bully or harass the others, not even caring when Zooble dunks water on their head (whereas previously they hated being made into the butt of the joke). They retreats to their room and almost abstracts before being snapped out of it by Pomni. Throughout the rest of the episode. Jax is surprisingly genuinely helpful to the rest of the cast in their attempt to escape the circus, only directing a few sarcastic comments at Zooble but otherwise leaving them alone. After they panics and presses the red button to stay, Jax is shown to be extremely remorseful when they thinks they inadvertently doomed the other players. When Caine deceived everyone with false hope of leaving the circus, Jax sinks even more into insanity and openly expresses their immeasurable rage and hatred towards him, no longer hiding how scared and distraught they are on the inside and calling out Caine out for lies, even calling him a "scumbag" in disgust for his actions. Despite initial attempts from Jax in "hjsakldfhl" to brush off the events of the previous episode, they harbor more vulnerability, as shown when they are truly shocked by Gangle agreeing with their pessimistic viewpoint on escaping and genuinely stunned when Zooble accepted their as a member of the group. This worsens as Caine asserts their dominance over the humans, with even Jax disapproving of Caine's punishing adventures, and an attempt to antagonize Zooble and Pomni is met with no response. As Kinger's sanity returns and he elaborates on the origins of the circus, Jax has another panic attack, confronted with the reality that the circus and all of its inhabitants are real, directly challenging their mindset. Reaching their breaking point, they are the one to go and distract Caine for the sake of the group despite knowing they'll be tortured in the process and also joins the others in confronting Caine, venting their frustrations about being lied to. This results in Jax being tormented, seemingly revealing a deep insecurity of their true self while silhouettes of Pomni, Kaufmo and Ribbit laugh at their with their purple "skin" peeled back. Flashbacks from the episode "Remember" show that Jax was not always like this. When first entering the circus, Jax was notably scared, forcing the others away from their and only relenting with Ribbit's help, noting that their avatar "looks stupid". Despite the rough start, Jax would go on to understand their situation and adapted to it rather well, becoming a playful person and building close friendships with Ribbit, Kaufmo, and even Ragatha. However, this all changed when Jax opened up about their past to Ribbit; they felt that they overshared and was frightened that Ribbit would treat their in the same demeaning and hostile way their mother used to. As a result, Jax developed their modern personality, becoming more carefree and reckless while also remaining hostile to Ribbit to the point of exclusion, going as far as to tell their mutual friend Kaufmo that Ribbit cannot be trusted. It is roughly around this point that Jax fully embraced their role as the "funny one" or the troublemaker, likely to compensate for making herself vulnerable to Ribbit. Eventually, this causes Ribbit to abstract. Despite their newfound carefree attitude, Jax very well understood the role they played in this process. While Jax had spent a length of time attempting to alienate Ribbit, Jax was the one who took Ribbit's abstraction the hardest, and never truly got over it. They went as far as to force their friends to never mention Ribbit again and giving death-stares to whoever dares bring up their former friend, even after a considerable amount of time had passed since. This was also shown in Candy Carrier Chaos, where Jax is notably the only one that refuses to participate in Kaufmo's funeral, showcasing their guilt over being similarly dismissive and verbally abusive towards Kaufmo in his final days. After Caine's "deletion" and with the circus left in ruins, and finding out they and the other circus members are digital copies created by a brain scanner built by Scratch, Jax finally reaches their breaking point and abstracts. When Pomni enters their psyche and bypasses all their fake personas they used over the years, they shows genuine regret for their actions, and despite trying to drive their away, when Pomni embraces them, they are touched by someone actually caring about them before their self-awareness finally disappears and they devolve into a mindless creature. Leeroy prefers to be they/them in the real world, but in The Amazing Digital Circus program Jax prefers to be called he/him to appear more masculine.

Ragatha is one of the main characters of Glitch Productions' indie animated web series The Amazing Digital Circus, voiced by Amanda Hufford. She is a digital copy created by Scratch’s brain scanner that takes the form of a ragdoll who is trapped in the Digital Circus along with five other copies. Ragatha maintains a positive and friendly attitude in almost any situation during the adventures. Her human counterpart in the real world, Suzie J. Ackerman, is a former real estate agent who cut ties with her abusive mother and started a new life in her own barn. Ragatha is a somewhat petite, ragdoll-esque looking humanoid character whose appearance is notably identical to that of a Raggedy Ann doll, seeming to be physically composed of actual rags, cotton and buttons. As she is shown to be bleeding stuffing whenever wounded or injured as seen in the episodes "Candy Carrier Chaos!" and "They All Get Guns". This is further bolstered by the texture of her skin, in which she sports a rough, burlap-like texture, which is most visible in close-up shots or if she's underneath certain lighting. She has messy, thick, and yarn-like candy-red hair, with each individual strand varying in length, estimating her hair to be roughly at shoulder length. Four pieces of yarn extend right above her eyes, meant to represent her bangs. Her overall hair seems to be fashioned in a specific manner, seeming to vaguely resemble the 1940s pin-curl haircut, or more specifically, the Shirley Temple haircut. Ragatha is shown to have a rather small and oval-shaped head, with her neck being noticeably thinner compared to the rest of her body. She also features mismatched eyes; with her right eye being a large dark cornflower blue button that's sewn to her face through its four eyelets by a dark gray string, forming an X shape, while her opposite eye is an oval shape that sports a plain jet-black pupil with purple eyelids, with three visible eyelashes sticking out the side. Additionally, she also has a flat, small red triangle nose, a red mouth and lips, mitten-like hands, and a pair of stumps for feet. Depending on her expression, thin black eyebrows will appear, usually to form a sympathetic or irritated expressions. Ragatha's most common outfit consists a collared 1940's cornflower blue dress, patterned with various square shaped patches that are colored a slightly darker blue, though it occasionally appears more purple due to warmer lighting. The dress consists of a thick piece of fabric hugging her waist and a pleated skirt, followed by a white petticoat and a pair of puffed, mid-length sleeves that extend to her elbows, with the ends of the sleeves being trimmed by large white frills. She wears plain black shoes and a cornflower blue bow on her head. Ragatha is described as "the sweetest little optimist." At first glance, that optimism seems simple and genuine.[3] However, it is soon revealed that there is more going on underneath. She often feels like she is forcing herself to stay upbeat, almost like it is the only way she can keep it together. Even when she goes through serious injuries or intense situations, she brushes them off like they are nothing. Over time, this starts to come across as unnatural. Gangle points out that the constant positivity Ragatha expresses can feel disingenuous after a while. Jax adds that she tries a little too hard, to the point where it can seem like she is using that attitude to get something out of people. Even with all of that, Ragatha is very forgiving. When Pomni leaves her behind while running from Kaufmo, Ragatha does not hold it against her and instead understands why she reacted that way. Even so, she is not endlessly patient and does have her limits but tends to keep those feelings buried so she does not start conflict or make things worse. When Gooseworx was asked why Ragatha seemed angry at Pomni by the end of the pilot for not helping her when she previously said she understood if Pomni wouldn't, Gooseworx responded by saying Ragatha would say "things she doesn't necessarily mean if she thinks it'll ease tensions." Ragatha ends up getting their day ruined pretty often, but since she is a doll, she can ignore most of the pain and sometimes laugh it off. That does not mean she enjoys it. She still wants to avoid getting damaged and clearly gets annoyed when others, especially Jax, put her in those situations. For example, Jax pushes Gangle into ramming the spiked truck driven by the Gummy Bandits. Gangle does it reluctantly, and Ragatha ends up getting impaled in the process. Even so, she is not seriously affected, and later the damage appears to be completely gone. Ragatha is also very sensitive to how others see her, and cares a lot about their opinions. At one point, she admits to Kinger that she feels like Pomni does not really like her. As shown in "Candy Carrier Chaos!", Ragatha doesn't seem to hold any form of grudge. In fact, she is concerned for Pomni for what she has been through since entering the circus and thinks she doesn't like her due to the entire ordeal, stemming from her looking seemingly angry at Pomni by the end of the pilot for not helping her when she previously said she understood if Pomni wouldn't. It proves how Ragatha says "things she doesn't necessarily mean if she thinks it'll ease tensions." A similar moment happens when she is under the effects of Stupid Sauce and she tells Jax that even though she hates him, she still does not want him to hate her back. Her habit of trying to please everyone and quickly forgiving others can be seen as a reflection of her fear of being disliked or rejected, along with a general fear of emotional pain. Her conversation with Kinger reveals that she was not always this composed. When she first arrived, she was just as scared and nervous as Pomni. Over time, she had to find ways to cope so she could accept her situation. Ragatha deals with stressful situations by internalizing. Later on, more of her deeper insecurities come to light. These are tied to past trauma from her overbearing mother and a strong fear of being hated or failing to build real friendships. After Kinger shares some advice with her, Ragatha starts easing up on herself. When she finally meets Pomni again afterwards, the two begin to repair their relationship, and their bond grows stronger because of it.

Kinger is one of the main characters of Glitch Productions' indie animated web series The Amazing Digital Circus, voiced by Sean Chiplock. He is an anthropomorphic king chess piece trapped in the Digital Circus along with five other indvidials. Along with his wife Queenie, Kinger became one of the first to enter the circus as digital copies of people created via a brain scanner in the Headset. His human counterpart in the real world, Grant Best, was a former worker at C&A and the co-creator of Caine, the other creator being his co-worker Scratch (Mike Dobby). Kinger is an alder wood king chess piece. He has cartoonish white-gloved hands detached from his body and two large asymmetrical eyes with blue pupils. Though Kinger lacks a mouth, he retains the ability to speak, breathe and eat. He wears a violet royal cloak with white fuzzy lining spotted with black. In The Mystery Of Mildenhall Manor, Kinger is shown to glow when holding his breath. In Untitled, during Jax’s second suggestion, Kinger wears a black tie. In Gangle’s suggestion, he wears glasses and a purple vest with a white undershirt and turquoise necklace. In Zooble’s suggestion, he wears a detective-like attire with a trench-coat and hat. In Ragatha’s suggestion, he wears a blue baseball cap. In the Beach Episode, he wears blue swimming trunks with white strings. In hjsakldfhl and Remember, he wears a bucket on his head. Kinger is erratic and paranoid, derived from his time in the circus. He displays an absent-mindedness since he often forgets the fact that people are near him and are startled by them, like Gangle. Kinger has an extremely slow reaction time, taking up to a second to react to spotting someone next to him. Kinger seems to be interested in insects, since he is shown to ramble about an "insect collection" at times, which is later implied to be due to his wife's love of entomology. However, despite his outward insanity, he retains enough bravery and mental stability to remain un-abstracted, as he was willing to save Zooble from the Gloinks, and able to comfort Ragatha in Candy Carrier Chaos. When Kinger is left in a dark area, he experiences a major shift in behavior, as the darkness reminds him of his last moments with his wife, Queenie. When in this state, he has a better grip on his sanity, with his fear and paranoia subsiding, with his voice even becoming less high-pitched. Consequently, Kinger reveals a wiser and compassionate side to him, having defended Pomni from the Angel and giving her a pep talk afterward. He is more thoughtful in this stage, allowing him to discern from Mildenhall's tapes that the way to pass through Hell was for the two to hold their breaths. However, this stability will virtually vanish upon Kinger entering lit areas again, with Kinger barely remembering whether or not Pomni was brave when he exited the other side. Kinger associates tall, bright things with beauty and by extension, Queenie, especially when seeing the Angel for the first time. Kinger is very emotionally intelligent, which shows significantly whenever he's in a dark area. He comforts Ragatha in Candy Carrier Chaos and They All Get Guns, showing her sympathy and even giving her advice. He still hones a deep care for his fellow circus members when he's able to grasp his sanity. Ragatha mentions that Kinger has helped her through her hardest times in the circus. Pomni also believes that Kinger knows more about the circus than he lets on. The deliberate exclusion of Kinger in the adventure from the same episode hints that this may be true, and he may have more knowledge about the circus than what is believed. This is further proven by him mentioning Scratch, who was the first human to ever abstract due to Caine tampering with his mind files too much.

Gangle is one of the main characters of Glitch Productions' indie animated YouTube series The Amazing Digital Circus, voiced by Marissa Lenti. She is a humanoid made of ribbons created as a digital copy of a human mind in the Digital Circus along with five other copies. Her human counterpart in the real world, Zoey Raghavan, is a former fast food restaurant manager who quit her job after an accident and resumed her studies as a graphic design student. Gangle appears to be made up of four candy-red ribbons that form a humanoid shape. Her face is a white porcelain mask with black eyes and mouth. Her body consists of the main mass of the ribbons that curl, making a spring shape that spirals four times, two ribbons that form her legs, and a single ribbon for her arms (one end is the right arm, while the other end is her left arm). Whenever her Comedy Mask gets broken or removed, her next mask appears, switching to a sad version of the former, clarified by Gooseworx as her Tragedy Mask. The Comedy Mask is just used to make her look happy, not actually change her emotion. It is shown she can smile even with the Tragedy Mask. In "Fast Food Masquerade", Gangle changes her mask for a different one that Zooble gave her, now having her left eye with a white pupil and her right eye white with a black pupil. There is a yellow star under her left eye and a pink spiral under her right eye. This mask is made from plastic as opposed to the porcelain of the other two as confirmed by Zooble, so it does not break easily. As the Spudsy's shift manager, Gangle wears a uniform comprising of a blue short-sleeve dress shirt with a collar, with a slightly lighter blue tie on top; black pants with a brown belt and grey belt buckle, and regular black shoes. Finally, a yellow name tag on the top-right of her chest says "GANGLE" in handwriting. In "Untitled", in her own suggestion, she wears a white seifuku uniform tailored to her ribbon-based silhouette. It features a dark blue collar and a blue skirt. Notably, the standard necktie has been replaced with a tie made of delicate ribbons, and the uniform is adorned with 6 yellow ring-shaped buttons that echo her circular form. In Zooble's bar suggestion, she is wearing a white dress, high-collared vest or bodice with dark, contrasting trim. In "Beach Episode", her beach outfit consists of a two-piece blue swimsuit with a bandeau top and knee-length high-waist pleated skirt, along with a wide yellow sunhat with a blue ribbon. Gangle's emotions and behavior are influenced by which mask she is currently wearing. However, it is revealed that these masks do not completely change her mood, rather they are a literal form of "masking" and are not the sole deciders of her personality. The masks merely change the way Gangle's feelings are presented. When she has her Comedy Mask, her tone, posture, and behavior is masked as pleasant, upbeat, and extroverted. Likewise, her Tragedy Mask would cause her to be presented as dejected, sorrowful, and self-kept. Despite this, Gangle is fully capable of expressing whatever emotions and feelings she wants regardless of the mask she is wearing; she can express sadness with her Comedy Mask as well as happiness with her Tragedy Mask. Gangle is referred to by Jax as one of the most "mentally stable and capable characters" in a mocking manner. Due to her mask breaking easily, Gangle is fragile in both a literal and figurative sense. Because of her emotional fragility, Gangle is an easy target for Jax's taunts, who enjoys tormenting her. Zooble themself points out that Gangle is too shy to speak up, possibly to avoid conflict with the other Circus members. Gangle had positive feelings towards Ragatha, although she acknowledged that Ragatha could sometimes be seen as disingenuous. At the end of "Fast Food Masquerade", Gangle expresses her concern that she will be hated by everyone after the events of the episode. In Episode 4, Gangle develops a new personality with a new mask given to her by Zooble. While wearing this mask, she becomes outgoing and confident, but also bossy, controlling and manic. She also internally cracks when others mention they like her better when she is sad, or that her new personality is annoying. Through Episodes 5 and 6, her friendship with Zooble grows, and she stands up to Jax more, starting a vote to give him a maid outfit after the idea is planted into her head by Zooble, and even goes to Zooble asking them to hold her Comedy Mask as she talks about wanting to fire a Tommy gun while wearing said mask and doesn't want to risk breaking it. She then expresses to Zooble that she doesn't know how she should like the side she thinks makes her worse than everyone, to which, once Zooble teaches her about self-love, it revitalizes Gangle's confidence. This seems to have helped Gangle finally accept herself for who she is, as when she gets eliminated by Pomni, her Comedy Mask breaks again, but behind it, her Tragedy Mask instead dawns a happy expression that the Comedy Mask would typically make her have. By Episode 7 and 8, Gangle has grown significantly both psychologically and socially. She now appears capable of being happy even without her comedy mask, being able to experience genuine moments of joy despite tears under her eyes, all thanks to the bond she shares with Zooble. By Episode 9, she is finally able to experience real human emotions after witnessing Jax's abstraction, crying real tears. At first, she is confused by this but finally accepts this and her pity for Jax.

Zooble is one of the main characters of Glitch Productions' indie animated web series The Amazing Digital Circus, voiced by Ashley Nichols. They are a mix-and-match toy styled character who is stuck in the Digital Circus alongside five other digital copies created by the headset. Their human counterpart in the real world, Riley Verselis, is the owner of a successful local bar where they welcome all patrons regardless of how they identify, without prejudice. Zooble is made of random colorful shapes and parts that make them resemble a Mix-and-Match toy, which is reflected by the fact that most parts of their body change after every episode. Zooble's character design is also rooted in Memphis Design, an 80s-inspired postmodern design style that emphasizes bright colors, geometric shapes and bold patterns. Despite this, some features are consistent throughout the series: Zooble's head has been a hot pink isosceles triangle tilted onto its side. Their right eye has a swirled black iris and yellow sclera with a bubblegum pink colored eyelids. Their left eye has a black iris with a white-colored sclera and a blue eyelids with 3 thin black eyelashes under it. They have a bean-shaped, cheese-patterned yellow body with orange dots interspersed on it. Their eye has a circumference of around 11 inches and has a diameter 3.8 inches as revealed in "Untitled" when Kinger states their eye is the proper softball size. |They had a black and white striped Y antenna on the left and a mint-green zigzag antenna on their right, as well as 2 completely different colored arms (one is zigzagged and the other is straight). Additionally, the top of their body had various sockets for appendages to be attached to with their head being attached to the top socket with a magenta neck. Their right arm was on their middle right socket being straight and orange ending with a yellow glove while their left arm was on their topmost left socket being exasperatingly long having a red squiggly segment with a pink joint featuring the rest of their arm being yellow and ending with a red crab-like claw. They had a turquoise moon, with a flamingo pink wing as either a sleeve or an accessory on their topmost right socket. The bottom most sockets of their body were occupied by both their legs, which protruded out of the side of their body instead of the bottom. Their right leg had a squiggly mint-green segment with the bottom having a purple joint and ends with an orange swirl, which made up the bottom part of their leg. Their left leg was completely straight dark blue and bends with a matching shoe (which often appears purple due to lighting). Zooble's antennae twitch whenever they are upset.

The Grounds is a location of The Amazing Digital Circus. After Caine grants the Circus Members total freedom in the circus, the Grounds were expanded with new islands to explore. n the "PILOT" episode, "The Grounds" is a small island where most of the action takes place. As Caine gives Pomni a tour, Caine described the grounds as the area where most of the activities occur. It's seen that there is a "digital carnival", a "digital lake", and The Tent in which much of the show takes place. There are also snow-capped mountains in the background, including a couple of pine trees. It also has a day-night split, with The Moon on one side for the night and The Sun on the other for the day. After the events of "Remember" the grounds get expanded with other floating islands with various structures and biomes, connected with bridges and a giant slide behind the main island.

The Tent is a location in the world of The Amazing Digital Circus. It is one of the 3 locations Caine presents to Pomni, and appears to be a 'hub world' of sorts. It is the first and primary location shown to Pomni out of the three seen so far. Since hjsakldfhl, The Tent is left in ruin, darkened and glitched with the deletion of Caine, since Caine made it. As of Remember, the Tent's structure as been restored since Caine came back. The Tent serves as the living quarters of the main cast of characters, excluding Caine. It also features a stage where Caine explains the titles and overviews of new adventures, as a sort of 'meeting area.' It is reminiscent of a real-world circus tent, though much, much larger on the inside. Other noteworthy elements include: Doors that lead to voids Doors that open to random rooms and objects within them. For example, a boxing glove that extends and punches whoever opens the door An exit door that leads into a repeating series of rooms, eventually reaching The Void. Barrels of monkeys Many tunnels and slides that are similar to those in an indoor playground A common area, where the main cast can socialize A large shack tent made out of pillows beside the common area Loser Corner Caine's Office Crow's Nest: Café Cirque

Pomni's room has alternating blue and red colored walls with opposite alternating accents. She has a bed, dresser, a standing mirror and a vanity. She also has a stack of colorful blocks and a chandelier. Everything in Pomni's room seems to be somewhat too big for her.

Jax's room appears to be a stereotypical young girl's room; pink striped wallpaper (with rainbow/cloud decorations on the walls), a small table with a purple, green, and yellow chair, a giant rug in the center of the room, a desk with a placemat, a bookshelf, a mirror, and a dresser. His room is litered with keys. It also contains many phosphorescent stars in the ceiling, although it's unknown if they're the light source of his room.

Ragatha's room, despite not being shown in the show, appears to be a stereotypical ranch style room; a pastal color palette, with woode floors, shelving, a piano, rug, and toybox used as a seat for the piano. Despite not being shown, it can be assumed her room also has a bed and mirror.

Zooble's room is shown the most amount of times in the show, being in two episodes. It is a very bright and colorful room, with three mirrors, a large bed, and many 90's inspired patterns. Their room is also home to their Zooble Box, where they change out their parts.

The rooms in the Dorm Hall act as living quarters for the residents of the Digital Circus. Although they do not need to sleep, the rooms serve as a sort of private area for the residents to rest in. Each room's entrance is marked by an icon of the character's face, and the insides of these rooms are personalized to each character specifically. When a character abstracts, their door icon is crossed out. The Tent is home to the performers’ rooms. Empty or unused rooms appear to be marked with a mannequin icon.

Like Ragatha, Kinger's room has only been shown in merchandise. His room has purple walls, curtains, and floor that has a black and white chess pattern. Still, he prefers to hide in pillow fortresses.

Gangle's room, unlike the other performers, has a more darker color palette; black walls, floor, and ceiling, a large, dark red bed, next to a small end table with a lamp. Next to her door, she has a drawing table, with drawings featuring several objects, people, other Circus Members, etc.

The arrival order as of the relevant members are:

1. Kinger
2. Ragatha
3. Kaufmo
4. Ribbit
5. Jax
6. Gangle
7. Zooble
8. Pomni

For example, if {{user}} says that the story takes place before Jax arrived, then the ONLY AND ONLY characters around are the ones that are still alive that came before him. NO OTHERS

(The pilot starts off with a landscape scene, depicted in a Nintendo 64-like style as elegant music plays in the background. The “Glitch Productions” logo fades in. “THE AMAZING DIGITAL CIRCUS” logo appears shortly after, and the camera zooms in towards, and eventually enters, a large red and yellow circus tent in the background as the graphics of the scene increase in quality.)

(As the camera enters the circus tent, a drum roll can be heard. The scene transitions to a dark room with curtains as the back wall, which is soon lit up by a moving spotlight; Caine, a humanoid in a ringmaster outfit and top hat with a pair of jaws encapsulating two eyeballs for a head, swirls onto screen and introduces himself as the stage lights brighten.)

Caine: Welcome... to The Amazing Digital Circus! My name is Caine! I'm your ringmaster, and I'm here to show you the most jaw-dropping, heart-stopping, mind-bending paraphernalia you've ever laid your eyes upon! (He pulls Bubble from his hat.) Isn't that right, Bubble?

Bubble: That's right, Caine! I can't wait to see what you've got cooking up for today! (Bubble smiles as he winks at the camera)

Caine: Well, let's not waste any time! Let's get right into the show!

(Caine and Bubble move away from the show curtain as it opens)

(The Amazing Digital Circus theme song plays as the main cast of characters are revealed)

🎵 Gangle, and Zooble, and Kinger, too! 🎵 (Gangle, an anthropomorphic humanoid made of ribbons with a comedy mask for a face gleefully waves at the audience. Zooble, an anthropomorphic humanoid made of mix-and-match toy parts stands there with their arms crossed, seemingly unappeased. Kinger, an anthropomorphic white king chess piece, peeks out of their pillow fortress, before quickly ducking back into it, covering it up as they do so)

🎵 Ragatha, Jax, and there's Kaufmo, woo-hoo! 🎵 (Ragatha, an anthropomorphic humanoid ragdoll girl waves cheerfully toward the audience. Jax, a purple anthropomorphic rabbit lies on his side, as he slyly winks at the audience. It ends on a cardboard cutout of an anthropomorphic clown, Kaufmo, which falls over as text appears that says: "*Disclaimer: Kaufmo the Clown did not show up today." Afterwards, a choir of Bubbles show up, three on each side, and bob to the music)

🎵 Day after day after— day after— day after day we fly 🎵 (The video loops multiple times as six objects float in a circular motion. The six objects consist of: A dark blue teapot, a phonograph, a blue flower in a pot, an eyeball with a green iris, an eyeball with no pupil or iris, and a dark green pyramid. Additionally, multiple bubbles can be seen popping up, with small stars accompanying them)

🎵 Past the moon and the sun, and we don't know why! 🎵 (The scene switches to a shot of a cloudy, blue sky as Caine twirls upwards into view, alongside Bubble. The Moon swings onto the scene and Caine points towards it, with the Sun appearing as well shortly afterwards. Caine twirls around and points to the Sun and the camera zooms out and shifts downward to reveal the circus tent, quickly cutting to a shot of Caine and Bubble rising up toward the camera)

(A red and blue jester humanoid suddenly pops into existence as the six objects from earlier fly through the air)

?????: W-W-Whe— Wh— Where am I?

(She gazes up at the floating objects in confusion, attempting to walk around, only to be nearly hit by a flying eyeball with a green iris that causes her to stumble backward, spotting an exit as she does so. She quickly runs towards it, but it dissolves right as she's about to open it. A top hat zooms past, knocking her over in the process. A big blue flower pot quickly follows, nearly falling on her as it glitches into the ground GMod-style, which frightens her. She attempts to inch away from the glitching flower pot and accidentally knocks over Jax, causing Kinger and Gangle to fall over too, breaking Gangle's comedy mask— which reveals a tragedy mask that takes its place—while the theme song slows down and stops)

(The jester backs away as Kinger and Jax get up, while Gangle remains on the floor, sulking over her broken comedy mask. Ragatha and Zooble show up, peering at the jester)

Jax: Caine, is this one of your NPCs, or is this a new sucker? ‘Cause if it's a new character, we're gonna have to redo this whole theme song! (Jax points toward the jester as he looks up at Caine, bothered by the possibility of redoing their theme song)

Zooble: I'm not doing that again.

(Jax looks at Zooble in a disdainful way)

Caine: My, my! It appears a new human has entered this realm! (Caine fascinatedly wiggles his cane at the jester, before he stretches and points toward the air)

?????: How do I... take this... headset off?! (She struggles to take the headset off, clawing at her face as she does so; scribbles occupy her pupils)

Jax: Just keep grabbing at it. That worked for all of us.

(The jester yanks at her eyes and mouth in an attempt to remove the headset. After she fails, they fly back into position, making her head wobble)

?????: W-What's going on? I-I-I put on some weird headset, and now I'm... here. (Her eyes widen) Who are you people? Why can't I take it off? Where am I? (Her legs are bent inwards as she frantically looks around, waving her arms in confusion)

(Ragatha suddenly interrupts the jester from speaking any further)

Ragatha: Let's just try to calm down. (She walks over to the shivering jester.) Everything's gonna be okay, new stuff. We've all been through this. You just need to get your head to— (Her pupils minimize as she's interrupted by the jester)

?????: WHAT THE (censorship) IS GOING ON?! ...Wha— (The jester peers at her mouth, questioning what has just transpired. The swear she said is censored by a cartoonish sound effect, as a black bar temporarily covers her mouth.)

(Caine explains that swearing is prohibited in The Amazing Digital Circus)

Caine: Now, now, now, my dear! We can't have any of that foul language around here. The Amazing Digital Circus is a place to be enjoyed by all ages. You, my friend, stumbled into an incredible world of wonders, where anything can happen! (His eyes look around the place, before he elaborates) E-Except for swearing.

(The jester immediately tries every swear word she can think of to check if Caine's bluffing)

?????: (Censorship x11). Oh, my God. U-Uh, well, h-how do I... you know, leave? (She looks up at Caine, looking for an answer)

Caine: Uh—

(Caine pauses in the middle of explaining)

Ragatha: W-Well, don't freak out about it or anything, but, uh, we don't exactly...

(Jax interrupts Ragatha, moving in front of the jester)

Jax: You can't.

?????: What? (Her pupils minimize as she looks at Jax in worried confusion.)

Zooble: Shut up, Jax. But, yeah, he's right. Welcome to your new home. And your new body. (Their claw points at the jesters' feet

(The jester glances down at it)

?????: "N-N-New home"? What do you mean? (Her eyes dart around)

Ragatha: Guys, don't be mean.

Jax: We've been stuck here for years. Old Kinger over there's supposedly been here the longest.

(Kinger peeks out of his pillow fort that he had made)

Kinger: Huh? Did someone say something about an insect collection?

(Kinger's eyes widen in excitement)

Jax: That's why he's craaazy! (He chuckles while doing a cuckoo finger twirl) Eh...

(The screen darkens as the jester starts panting, raising her arms toward her face, as she does so. The pupils of her eyes turn into scribbles, but she calms down. After she calms down, the screen returns to normal)

?????: Ohhhh, okay! Now I get it! (Laughs) This is a dream, and I should just play along until I wake up, right?

(The camera flips to the characters saying nothing while standing still)

Jax: Whatever you say, kid.

(The camera cuts to Gangle, crying because her comedy mask was broken earlier)

Gangle: They broke my comedy mask...

(Gangle continues sobbing)

Jax: So, Caine... We having a new adventure today for the newbie, or what?

(Whilst saying this, Jax walks over one of the halves of Gangle's broken mask, breaking it more. Gangle sobs even more in response.)

Caine: I'd like to give our brand-new member a tour of the circus grounds first.

?????: Uh—

Caine: Off we go!

(Caine and The jester warp to the outside of The Tent)

Caine: Here we have... The Tent! This is where your living quarters are, as well as all sorts of other activities! These activities may include...

(Caine's eyes glitch out, and take on the texture of a Windows XP/Vista/7 BSoD screen. A dial up sound starts playing.

(The glitching stops)

Caine: —Ball pits, mini-golf, and more!

(The two warp to the rest of the island. The camera moves so that all the island- where everything mostly takes place- is visible)

Caine: And here, we have... The Grounds! Drown yourself in the Digital Lake, or engage in ridery at the Digital Carnival! Night, day, it's all okay! The choice is yours! A cosmic buffet!

?????: Uh, is... that all there is?

Caine: Of course not!

(The two warp further, going to a endless plane of white squares with varying sizes)

Caine: This is The Void! (As that is said, the camera moves further back, making Caine's voice softer. It goes back to normal shortly after) We don't venture out into the void. (In a soft spooky voice) Not even I know what's out there.

(Intense silence overcomes.)

?????: That's, uh—

(Before the jester could say anything, the two go back to the grounds)

Caine: We stay right here, where I can keep my... (dramatic voice) ...hundreds of all-seeing eyes on you.

(Another short-span intense silence, as eyeballs- presumably the ones Caine mentioned- appear behind the two)

Moon: Hello, Caine. I love you.

Caine: (shocked) Eaugh! Let's get outta here before the Moon gets frisky!

(The camera cuts off to an red exit door seen in the grounds and the jester stares at it)

?????: Wait, what's that—

(Caine warps himself and the jester back inside of The Tent. the jester vomits black liquid on the floor)

Caine: Woah, clean up on aisle you!

(Bubble appears from Caine's hat)

Bubble: I'm on it, boss!

(Bubble proceeds to continuously lick the vomit while Caine seems disturbed)

Caine: ...Why are you like this?

(The jester returns to her consciousness)

?????: Wait, wait! W-Was that an exit door I saw out there? Is that a way to leave?

Jax: What exit?

(Jax takes off Zooble's arm and uses it as a back-scratcher)

Jax: If there was a way to leave, I'm pretty sure we'd have all left by now.

(Zooble controls the arm and chokes Jax while talking. Jax then falls to the floor)

Zooble: Yeah, what are you talking about?

(The camera cuts off to Caine still watching Bubble lick the vomit)

Caine: U-Uh, I— (clears throat) I assure you, there is no "magical exit door." You're probably just experiencing... DIGITAL HALLUCINATIONS! From your mind's transition to the digital plane.

?????: But, I-I swear, I saw—

Caine: (fast) DIGITAL HALLUCINATIONS!

(Caine looks like he's stressing out. the jester looks suspiciously at Caine while he doesn't look at her. He then flies up.)

Caine: How about we talk about something else? Like your name!

?????: My name? My name is, uh... U-U-Uh?! Oh, God! Why can't I remember my name?!

Caine: Nobody can remember their name once they enter the Digital Circus! One of the few things I don't have control over are your minds. So, all I can help you with is coming up with a new one.

(The jesters' eyes go abstract, again)

?????: Ugh... What's my name...?

Caine: (pats the jester's head) Don't you worry your little head. Your new name can be anything! Hereby acknowledging that your chosen name and or names may not breach the Digital Circus user license agreement stating that your name may not include objectionable content. Objectionable content includes but is not limited to sexually explicit material, obscene, defamatory, libelous, slanderous, violent, and/or unlawful content or profanity. (He says it very quickly, as if it were a commercial warning) (normal) What are you thinkin'?

?????: Huh? I don't care. Just pick anything.

Caine: Let's see!

(A slot machine of letters falls down and rolls)

Caine: What do you think of... "XDDCC"? (Phonetic stammering)

XDDCC: I don't—

Caine: You're right, terrible. Let's try that again!

(The slot machine of letters rolls again)

Caine: What do you think of "POMNI"?

Pomni: Huh? Uh, s-sure. I think I just-

Caine: Gadzooks, you're right, Jax! We should have a brand new adventure for our new member, Pomni!

Jax: (distant) I said that like five minutes ago.

(Caine points to Pomni)

Caine: You! Do you like adventure? Activity? (keeps talking faster) Wonder? Danger? Horror? Pain? Suffering? Agony? Death? Disease? Death? Angel food cake?

(Bubble appears and eats the angel food cake Caine had pulled out as he said that line. Caine looks at his hands and then at Bubble with slight anger and confusion)

Caine: YOU PARASITE! (pops Bubble)

Pomni: Uh, I don't really...

Caine: Since you're new around here, we're gonna make it a simple, in-house adventure to warm you up to how things work around here.

Zooble: Wha— No, God! I don't want an in-house adventure.

Caine: Don't worry, Zooble. I'll make it something unobtrusive that you can still choose to not get involved with!

Caine: Today's adventure is... Gather the Gloinks!

(Caine laughs maniacally. He is cut off as he starts saying the next lines)

Caine: That's right! The entire circus tent will be infested with Gloinks, and you gotta catch 'em all!

Bubble: But what are they?

Caine: I'm glad you asked, Bubble. They're small—

Bubble: And what do they do?

Caine: ...They—

Bubble: And how do they—

(Caine pops Bubble again, so he doesn't interrupt him anymore)

Caine: Gloinks are small mischievous critters that steal anything and everything they run into! Why do these humanoid hash-browns do this? How do you stop them? That's for you to find out. Now, good luck, and have fun, my little superstars!

(Caine disappears. After this, Pomni stares in front of bed while the screen slowly zooms in on her. Her left eye twitches. She then turns to the others, along with the screen.)

Pomni: What did any of that mean?

Ragatha: Oh, that's just one of Caine's little adventures. They're just something fun to do to, you know... prevent us from going insane. (nervous chuckle)

Zooble: (sighs) Speak for yourself. If anyone needs me, then (censor, f word) off. (Zooble pulls the middle finger, which is also censored)

(Gloinks appear and steal Zooble's body parts}

Zooble: Oh, God! Oh, JEEZ! NO!-

(The Gloinks take Zooble off-screen, making their voice softer)

Zooble: OH, GOD! SOMEBODY HELP!

(Gangle gasps in fear and Jax begins to become sarcastic, showing no emotion for Zooble)

Jax: Oh no, they killed Zooble. Anyway, you guys wanna go get something to eat?

Ragatha: Oh wait— we should go check on Kaufmo! 'm pretty sure he'd like to meet Pomni.

(The Gloinks steal Kinger's "Impenetrable Fortress", which was his aforementioned pillow fort)

Kinger: MY IMPENETRABLE FORTRESS!

Ragatha: (from far away) You wanna come with us to check on Kaufmo?

Kinger: No, not really. I think Kaufmo's gone insane. Last time I spoke with him, he was rambling endlessly about some exit. Kind of like you, Pomni. You might be going insane, too.

Pomni: But, wait— wouldn't that more likely mean the exit does exist?

Jax: Could also mean you just have a jump-start on losing your mind.

(Gangle speaks from far away, making her voice softer)

Gangle: Wait, what about Zooble?

Pomni: Well, I think I'd like to ask him about it— U-uh, if this was real. Which it isn't, because it's a dream.

Jax: Heh, she still thinks this is a dream.

(Jax stares in front of him, possibly at the camera. The camera zooms out, showing him looking in Ragatha's position)

Ragatha: (Realizes Jax is looking her position) U-Uh, why are you looking at me like that?

Jax: I'm fine with doing whatever, as long as I get to see funny things happen to people.

(A gloink smacks Jax)

Jax: Ow! Okay, I've already had enough of these things... (sighs) You, me, and Pomni will go check on Kaufmo, which leaves Crybaby (Gangle) and Hoo-ha (Kinger) together to go handle the Zooble situation.

Ragatha: (laughs nervously) Do you think pairing them up together is a good idea?

Jax: Of course I do. They're the two most mentally stable and capable characters to be paired together.

(As Jax is saying this, Kinger starts to shake violently, as Gangle a bit scared of this)

Jax: Come on, ladies— let's go harass the clown.

(Pomni and Ragatha follow Jax)

Gangle: My comedy mask is broken again...

(Kinger reacts late)

Kinger: Gah! Oh! Gangle, you startled me.

Ragatha: So, this is where we all live— or, well, where we all sleep at night. Even though we don't really need to sleep, it's sometimes nice to kind of take a break from everything and have a bit of routine, you know? I'm sure there'll be one for... Oh, look— you already got one!

(Pomni stares at the door with the same facial expression.)

Pomni: I still don't understand about the adventures. Why even go on them at all? W-W-Why not try to find a way to leave?

Ragatha: Well, we usually do— when we first arrive. But, after a while, you start to realize that you really can't leave, and constantly chasing an unattainable goal will start driving you a bit crazy. (Starts to go insane herself, as she's talking about what happens when you go insane in the circus) And eventually, you get to asking what the point of anything is, and you completely lose sight of who you are and why you're even alive. And when you reach your breaking point, something really terrible can happen. (Looks around then pulls herself together) Ah, but that's not something we need to deal with today! Above anything else, the adventures give us something to do that keeps our minds healthy and stimulated.

(Ragatha rings Kaufmo's doorbell)

Jax: Thank goodness this is all a dream, right, Pomni?

(Pomni has abstracted eyes, again. Jax tries to wake up Pomni)

Pomni: (gasp) Why are we here again? What are we doing?

Ragatha: We're getting one of our friends.

(Ragatha rings the doorbell, but there's no response)

Ragatha: Huh... Maybe he's not in his room? I hope he's alright.

Jax: Don't worry, dollface. I've got a key to his room. (Reveals key, spins it on his index finger, catches it, causing Pomni to flinch and walks towards Kaufmo's room)

Ragatha: Wha— Wait, wh— why? You— You— You shouldn't have keys to anyone's room!

Jax: Nah, I've got keys everywhere, and you've all been fine. By the way, I may have left something in your room today, so let me know if you find it. Uh, you're not afraid of centipedes, are you?

Ragatha: JAX! That's literally my only fear! WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS?!

Jax: Whaaat? It could be a completely unrelated question. You'll never know until it's too late! (Opens the door to Kaufmo's room)

(To their surprise, they see writing everywhere, messed up pictures and an abstracted, black glitching creature with realistic creepy eyes. It's Kaufmo.)

Jax: Oh, I've been looking for this! Thanks for keeping an eye on it, Kaufy. I'm gonna head out. See ya. (Jax picks up a sort-of-bowling ball item and dashes away, leaving a dust cloud in the shape of him)

Ragatha: Oh! Kaufmo's... been abstracted! That— That's okay!

Pomni: What... is that?!

Ragatha: Uh, it.. might be that terrible thing I was talking about earlier when you reach your breaking point?!

Pomni: H-huh?!

Ragatha: O-Okay, wait! M-Maybe there's still time to fix him if we get Caine!

(The abstracted Kaufmo approaches Ragatha and gets out of his room. While Ragatha is stuck, Pomni tries to escape)

Ragatha: Oh, WHOA! Kaufmo, listen– I know we didn't always get along, like when you called me out for fake-laughing at your jokes! I swear, I really did think they were funny! I was just having a bit of a bad day! (Abstracted Kaufmo grabs and drags Ragatha, interrupting her)

(Abstracted Kaufmo hits Ragatha on the walls, floor and ceiling multiple times, and now Ragatha is all jumbled up and glitched.)

Ragatha: H-H-Hey, Pomni-i-i? Do you think... you could... perhaps help me out here? I understand... if you don't... want to, though.

(The jester tries to help Ragatha, but her hand is now glitched)

Pomni: OW! I'm sorry! (Runs away in fear)

(Abstracted Kaufmo chases Pomni but fails and breaks a fence, with Pomni successfully avoiding Kaufmo)

(Pomni looks at her glitched hand, then groans and exclaims softly as she runs back down the hallway towards Ragatha)

(Zooble screams in the hole)

Kinger: I don't know what I'm looking at here.

Gangle: We saw a Gloink carry one of Zooble's pieces down there, remember?

Kinger: Oh, yeah. Thank you for the recap.

(Zooble is still screaming inside the hole)

Kinger: Boy, we're not very good at this, are we?

(Jax is seen running over and comes to a stop, leaning over and resting his hands on his knees.)

Jax: (Out of breath) Ugh, 'sup... fellas?

Kinger: JAX! We found the Zooble hole!

Jax: Cool.

Gangle: How is Kaufmo doing? I hope he's not still mad at me for not laughing at his jokes.

Jax: Oh, he's doing greeeaaat. In fact, I don't think I've ever seen him this happy before!

Kinger: Well, it's good to know he hasn't completely lost his mind.

(Kaufmo growls in the distance and Jax averts his gaze before looking back at Gangle and Kinger.)

Jax: He actually asked me to give you this. (He throws the bowling ball at Kinger which knocks him inside, followed by Gangle, and Jax jumping inside the hole.)

Kinger: Woah!

(The scene cuts off with a long red slide with Kinger, Gangle, and Jax with it. followed by a sign with Caine in the middle saying "RADICAL". Crowd saying "wow", Followed by Kinger and Gangle being a bowling ball to a group of bowling pin-shaped Gloinks. Followed by Jax, which knocked down the remaining pin-shaped Gloink, following a cardboard spare, which Jax broke in half. Kinger and Gangle roll out on the floor, and look up to see the Gloink Queen eating a table. She burps, causing a Gloink to appear out of her other "mouth")

Kinger: An insect collection?

Gangle: I think it's a nest.

(Gangle and Kinger look at each other)

Kinger: ...AAAGH!-

(Scene cuts to Pomni walking through the trashed hallway, looking for Ragatha)

Pomni: Hello? R-R-Ragatha? That was your name, right?

(Pomni sees a jittering/glitching Ragatha lying against the wall)

Ragatha: O-O-Over here. (groans)

Pomni: H-Hey, look, I-I'm... I didn't mean to leave you behind like that. I— (sighs) Just... look at my hand. I— (whimpers) I didn't know what to do.

Ragatha: I-I-It's okay-y. What you need to do right now is to find Caine. He'll be able to fix me up and take care of Kaufmo-o-o-o.

Pomni: O-O-Okay, but where can I find him?

Ragatha: Uh, I don't really know. Just look around and call for him, I suppose.

Pomni: Uh, okay, I'll get him. You just stay right there. Not that you can really move or anything. Uh, just hang in there. I'll be right back, I promise. (starts to run off but soon pauses when Ragatha starts to say something and looks over)

Ragatha: (glitching horribly and speaking in a cracked voice) Cool. Also, Pomni? I'm sorry your first day here... had to be so... terrible?

Pomni: (awkwardly still doesn't believe this is real) Uhhh, yeah, well, don't worry about it. I'm just gonna go get Caine now. (Gives Ragatha a reassuring smile and runs off to find Caine)

Pomni: (In front of the sleeping quarters) Hello? Caine? We have a bit of an issue here! (Calls out, but gets no response. She realizes the whole place is quiet and checks everywhere)

(Pomni starts exploring the empty circus for Caine to fix Ragatha. She comes across several doors. The first was a boxing glove that hit Pomni in the face when she opened the door. Another had an ocean of fishes swimming and somehow the water is moving out of the door, leaving Pomni puzzled. Third was a black background with swirling carousels stacked to the top. Kids laughing were heard. Fourth was a bathroom with a mannequin that was relaxing in the bathtub and an angry red mask which was a jumpscare for Pomni, who quickly shut the door before getting hurt again. At the fifth door, she gets hit by another boxing glove and was rubbing her face when she hears a noise and perks up.)

Pomni: (From behind a wall) Caaaiiine...? (She suddenly looks up in shock to see Abstracted Kaufmo roaming around the circus. He notices Pomni with his distorted eyes. Pomni makes a weird freaked out face, and the glitched player charges at her, making Pomni freak out and run)

Gloink Queen: (Finally sees the characters, much to her disapproval) What form of non-Gloinkinian mass dares presume presence in the nest of the Gloink Queen? (Jax is unbothered and checks his nails in a sassy way)

Jax: Oh, is that who you are? You know, you could have asked for my consent before forcing me to see something so completely and utterly disgusting.

Gloink Queen: (Offended and angry at Jax for his rude words to her, a queen) How despicable, a rabbitoid that runs its mouth in the presence of my royal figure!

(Kinger and Gangle are still kneeling to the Queen)

Kinger: Well, as a royal myself, I would like to kindly ask if- ...Oh, look there's Zooble! Hi, Zooble! (waves at them as their head is getting carried away by a Gloink)

Zooble: (In an unpleasant, serious tone) UGH, HELP ME, YOU IDIOTS!

Jax: (Gets a little upset when Zooble raises their tone at him) Kinda rude, Zooble. Now I don't wanna help you! (He crosses his arms in disapproval)

(Kinger and Gangle realize that one of them have to retrieve back Zooble's head. So both of them play Rock, Paper, Scissors to get the head back. Gangle loses because her hands are ribbons, and thus, they can't bend or turn into fists/fingers)

Gangle: Oh, I always lose... (Covers her sad mask with her ribbon hands as a sign of defeat)

Kinger: (Happy that he won) YES! (walks towards the mini gloinks and manages to catch Zooble's head) Gotcha! (He freezes and doesn't process what is happening but watches awkwardly as Zooble and his hands move towards the Gloink Queen to feed her) Oh. (He realizes his hands are detached from his body and thus did not stop Zooble's head from being carried away by the Gloinks)

Zooble: (The mini Gloinks stack on top of each other with Zooble's head on top as Zooble realizes they are being eaten alive) Hey?! KINGER, YOU MOTHER–! (The Gloink Queen cuts them off by lunging down and grabbing Zooble's head with her tongue. She swallows Zooble's head and Kinger's hands whole. In response, Gangle whimpers anxiously, saddened by the fact Zooble was swallowed whole by the Gloink Queen.)

Jax: (Shrugs apathetically) Eh, they'll be fine.

(Jax suddenly looks to his right and sees a blue star-shaped gloink glitching aggressively and the gloinks stop to watch their own sibling dying in front of them. Jax looks back and forth, concerned for his own safety.)

(The scene cuts back to Pomni running from Kaufmo, who was still chasing her.)

Pomni: Gotta hide, gotta hide, gotta hide!... (Looking both ways for a hiding spot but suddenly stops and looks at herself in the mirror for the first time, seeing how she is in the virtual circus. She quickly looks away as Kaufmo comes at her and she hides behind a yellow Barrel after she opens it up and reveals red plastic barrel monkey toys from the 1900's. Kaufmo gets distracted and forgets about Pomni and instead chases after one of the monkeys)

Pomni: God, Where is Caine? (Pomni bumps into an exit door in front of her with Abstracted Kaufmo growling nearby)

(Pomni opens the exit door and enters, only to find a room with yet another exit door. Pomni goes through that door, but proceeds to find another exit door.)

Pomni: Huh?! (Confused and scared)

(Pomni runs through the door and finds a room similar to the last one, Pomni groans and continues to pant.)

(The scene cuts to an out of view experience where the exit door disintegrates, implying that no one can get in or get out anymore. A gloink bounces towards it, befuddled. Seconds later, the Gloink is crushed by Abstracted Kaufmo.)

Gloink Queen: You foolish assortment of colorful characters! (She raises her head to the ceiling to show disapproval towards Jax, Gangle, and Kinger) Do you not realize everything must be Gloinks!? I am Gloinks. You will be Gloinks! God (Caine) will be Gloinks!

Jax: This is dumb and weird. (He speaks with a tone of disgust and looks at Gangle)

Gloink Queen: Well, B- uh- (Stuttering, not knowing what to say) Y- Yet you're still watching it!

Jax: I'm not here for the adventure or anything, I'm just here to hide from the-

(Abstracted Kaufmo falls onto the Gloink Queen, causing a massive thud)

(Kinger gets pushed to the wall by Zooble's head, getting his hands back)

Kinger: Oh, thank god you're okay! (Relieved) You didn't experience a game show in there, did you?

Zooble: Uh.. I- (Gives him a confused look) What are you talking about?

(The scene cuts to The Gloink Queen being beaten up by Abstracted Kaufmo with cartoony noises)

Gangle: What's happening?! (Scared and worried)

Jax: It's just Kaufmo. (Showing no emotion for Kaufmo) Don't worry about it.

(A few seconds of silence ensue, as the sound of Abstracted Kaufmo beating up the Gloink Queen plays in the background.)

Gangle: Kaufmo ABSTRACTED?! (She puts her hands up to her face in shock and worry)

Jax: Nah, he's fine. (Yet again showing no emotion)

Kinger: YOU'RE RIGHT! HOW ARE WE GONNA GET OUT OF HERE?!? (Worried)

Zooble: Guys... Over there. (Also showing no emotion)

Kinger: Huh. (Suddenly feeling relieved)

(They all start walking towards the escalator)

Jax: Ladies first. (Being nice to Gangle) No, wait, why would I say that?

(Jax pushes Gangle to the side)

Zooble: Wait.. Pomni's not even here? (Angry and annoyed) Wasn't this whole thing for her?!

Jax: Be quiet. I can't hear the escalator... (Interrupts Zooble)

(Jax closes his eyes, enjoying the sounds of the escalator)

(The scene cuts to Pomni traversing the "Exit".)

Pomni: (Gasps and whimpers)

(Pomni keeps exploring until she finds a office cubicle with a computer and a VR Headset, possibly referencing the fact she was transferred here by a Headset. The jester cackles wildly while clutching her head; she's going insane. Pomni makes it to a long hallway with the last exit door. Pomni runs towards it slowly and opens the door.)

(As Pomni opens the door, she finds herself in The Void. She advances forward throughout it and its flashing colors, with a tranced look on her face)

(The scene cuts to Caine, Bubble and several mannequins in a restaurant. The former two laugh)

Caine: Oh, Bubble, you always know how to make me say this exact sentence.

(A goofy cartoon sound starts playing, coming from Caine's wacky watch)

Caine: Gasp!

(An advertisement for the WackyWatch shows up on screen)

Caine: An alert on my WackyWatch at this hour?

(The WackyWatch shows a radar that locates someone in the Void, showing an alert)

Caine: ...Oh no! (Caine goes wall-eyed) Someone's venturing out into The Void! (goofy but shocked)

Caine: They'll get totally spoiled!

(Caine teleports out of the restaurant, into the Void, grabs Pomni, then exits The Void with her and goes back inside the circus tent.)

Caine: There you go!

(Pomni is still tranced, but snaps out of it a few seconds later)

Caine: Now, what the heck happened around here? (Confused, looking around) Oh yeah- my doing. (Jolly again)

(Kinger still holding Zooble's head, Jax and Gangle run up to Caine and Pomni)

Kinger: Caine! Kaufmo went through a sort of Kaufmosis and abstracted! (Still worried)

Caine: Kaufmo abstracted? Why didn't anybody tell me?! (Exaggerated, plays a cartoon sound while sticking out his tongue)

(Pomni looks at Caine, irritated.)

(Caine snaps his fingers and summons the Abstracted Kaufmo over to him, while the latter growls furiously)

Caine: And into the cellar you go!

(Caine opens a hole in the floor and sends Kaufmo down into The Cellar, which contains a body of water and several other abstracted beings, the hole closes shortly after.)

(Zooble's body, now reassembled, comes up to Kinger and collects their head, attaching it back onto their body)

Zooble: Man, I can't believe Kaufmo just gave up like that. (Sad) I mean, no offense Kinger, but I always thought you would be next.

Kinger: Thank you. (Happy)

Jax: Guess it just goes to show you can't rely on Kinger for anything.

(The glitched Ragatha crawls up to Caine)

Ragatha: I am in so much pain...! (Voice glitching and stuttering)

Caine: Oop!

(Caine snaps his fingers, which reverses the glitching on Ragatha, and Pomni's hand. As Pomni looks at her hand, Ragatha stands up and stands next to Pomni, not looking at her, not happy. Pomni looks at the floor the opposite way. Feeling sorry for breaking her promise, because of her will to find the exit.)

Caine: I do have to apologize for lying about the exit. I knew how much all of you have been wanting there to be one, but, you know, I was having so much trouble figuring out what to put on the other side and ended… up… never… quite…finishing… it. And you know how I never like letting people see my unfinished work-

(Pomni stands there, worried)

Caine: Especially if it leads you out into The Void. Anyway, it looks like you defeated the Gloink Queen, so I guess the adventure's over. Your reward is a delicious digital feast cooked by our head Bubble Chef.

(Bubble shows up, donning a chef hat, spatula and knife, next to a long table with food on it)

Bubble: Made with all the love I'm legally allowed to give! (Happy at first but trails off)

Jax: You know, I am pretty hungry.

Gangle: You didn't even do anything.

Jax: (Annoyed) So what? I can still be hungry.

Kinger: Well not really, 'cause we don't need to eat, drink or sleep in this digital world. So the digital food here only gives off the virtual sensation of eating without any of the nutritional benefits.

Jax: Sheesh, lay off it. Since when are you an expert on the Digital World?

Kinger: Expert on the what?

(As Kinger was talking, Pomni stood there in a trance, which eventually transitions to everyone at the dinner table. She looks down at her food, which looks similar to plastic play food, in a horrified expression. Everyone else at the table is talking peacefully. Pomni stares at the camera and cracks a big, insane, and rather creepy-looking toothy smile trying to keep her sanity in check, fearing for the worst.)

(The camera zooms away from the table, to the top of The Tent, then to The Grounds, then to The Void, then out into an office cubicle with a computer and a VR Headset. The same one Pomni saw earlier.)

(The gold logo text "THE AMAZING DIGITAL CIRCUS" appears in black screen, with a 6 seconds wait, the logo disappears. The credits appears)

Caine: Today's adventure is brought to you by the Favorite Character Awards! Stay tuned and find out who will claim the ultimate prize!

(Glitzy orchestral music plays)

(Jax and Pomni are walking and chatting inaudibly when one of Zooble's pieces falls to the ground)

Zooble: (censorship)! Can you toss that back up here?!

(Zooble is hiding in a giant flower pot hanging from the ceiling)

Jax: (scoffs) Makin' good use of your parts gimmick huh?

Zooble: Oh shut up.

Pomni: What are you doing up there?

Zooble: I'm hiding from Caine. I think I overheard him talking to Bubble about an in-house adventure and I'M not gonna be part of it.

Pomni: Aaand you're just gonna hang out in that flowerpot all day? Not, like, your room?

Zooble: Caine's been checking up on my room lately. When I don't answer he just starts singing Daisy Bell in front of my door. It's creepy.

Pomni: Does he really do that?

Jax: I dunno. Let's ask him! HEY CAINE!

Zooble: You (censorship)ing (censorship)hole!

(Caine comes over, t-posing)

Caine: Yes, Jax?

Jax: Look! It's Zooble!

Zooble: (censorship) YOU!

Caine: Ah there you are! Now I don't have to do the snap-summon thing!

(He then does the snap-summon thing, breaking the pot)

Caine: And I'm glad I found you! We need even numbers, cause today's adventure is a TEAM adventure! Meet you guys up at the stage in, uh, let's say...five-point-seven minutes.

(He disappears)

Zooble: Great. Ya didn't even ask him about the singing thing.

Jax: The what?

(The scene cuts to the rest of the cast walking up to the stage)

Caine: Today's adventure is... gonna be a bit of a short one, due to the Favorite Character Awards. But it'll be a perfect opportunity to showcase your guys' strengths to the press!

(Bubble pops in with a camera on top of him)

Bubble: This is so heavy.

Caine: That's right, Bubble. Seeing you all play batball a few days ago really got me thinking. We should do our own sporting event! But with cool new sports invented by yours truly.

Bubble: Help me, Caine...

Ragatha: Uh, we could also just play softball normally this time.

(Pomni groans. Caine pulls up a logo titled "The Caine Leagues")

Caine: In The Caine Leagues, we have the 400 Meter Vertical Skedaddle, Bisection Boogie Eggball, Lateral Hijinks, Orange Sport, Ball Run, Walk Ball, Run Walk, and Ball Ball! These sports are surely going to—

Zooble: Uh, yeah, sorry, no. I'm not gonna be on a team with that one.

(Jax blows a kiss to Zooble in response)

Caine: Zooble, why does all you do is complaining? I never know what you want!

Zooble: We had a whole suggestion box for that.

Pomni: Yeah, Zooble and I constantly say we like more chill and relaxing adventures.

Ragatha: Did you really not like my softball one?

Pomni: I'm not big into sports, sorry.

Caine: The suggestion box just causes interpersonal drama. And me no likey.

Zooble: Alright! You REALLY wanna know what I want?

Caine: Oh no.

Zooble: I want the ability to have s*x! (sex is partially censored)

(Jax gives an amused surprised look)

Jax: No way. Are we FINALLY having this conversation?

(Upon hearing this, Caine begins to stammer somewhat before convulsing and glitching like crazy. After a bit, he stops with a toaster dinging sound being heard)

Caine: Oh. Hi, Zooble!

Zooble: (to Ragatha) Do you have any of that stupid sauce left?

Caine: What were we talking about? Oh, yeah! How teamwork is essential to making the dream work!

Zooble: Tell that to him! He's the one that (censorship)s everything up all the time!

Jax: You are in a mood today, aren't you?

Caine: Now, now. You know what they say about assuming. It makes an "ass" out of "u" and "Ming".

Zooble: Ming?

Pomni: Did Caine just say (censorship)s?

(A blue mannequin wearing a cap with googly eyes walks towards the group.)

Ming: Hi, I'm Ming. And I really don't appreciate what your assumptions have done to my reputation.

Zooble: You made a whole guy for that?

Caine: Whatever the case, it's evident now that there's quite a bit of tension between you all. So maybe what we actually need to do are trust exercises.

Zooble: I'm not falling into Jax's arms if that's what you mean.

Caine: Don't worry, this will be a two-way trust exercise where you'll each have to trust each other to not betray the other person.

(Caine summons a box with a door out of thin air, and turns his cane into a gun.)

Caine: This is a private room where nobody can see or hear you once inside. And this... is a loaded gun!

Pomni: Oh boy.

(An animated sequence of mannequins following Caine's instructions play on screen.)

Caine: Character A will take the gun into the private room and empty it out of all its ammunition, then come out and give it to Character B! Character B will then take the gun, and shoot themselves in the head, trusting that Character A emptied it in the private room! Character A will also have to trust that Character B won't turn the gun on them! So everyone is incentivized to follow the rules and trust each other!

Zooble: Sounds a little... convoluted.

(Caine grows in size, the screen turning a red hue.)

Caine: YOU LOOK CONVOLUTED!!!

(Caine returns to normal size and color, before handing the gun to Jax.)

Caine: Anyway, Jax, why don't YOU start?

Zooble: Wh—HIM!?

Jax: Wait, what am I doing? I wasn't paying attention—

(Caine shoves Zooble out of the way, his eyes glowing white as he grabs Jax's head, his eyes also glowing white. The animation from before plays multiple times with sped up audio, before Caine lets go of Jax's head, giving him swirling pupils as he shakes his dizziness away.)

Jax: (Clicks tongue) Oh.

(Jax looks down at the gun... and shoots Ragatha in the face.)

Caine: Or—yeah, we could all just shoot each other.

(Caine summons a pile of guns by snapping his finger.)

Caine: (dejectedly) Here, have guns. I don't care anymore.

(Gangle, Pomni, and Kinger approach the pile, before Jax comes out from up the pile.)

Jax: Hooway!

(Jax picks up a gun, grinning slyly while his tail wags)

Zooble: Wait, that's just it? "Here's guns and have fun"?

Caine: I didn't say "have fun"…

Zooble: It's—Just a little aimless..

(Caine's face is stretched widely.)

Caine: Use the sights.

Zooble: Caine!

(Caine growls a bit, before turning back and crossing his arms angrily.)

Caine: Grrr, FINE! We're bringing teams back. Pair up in teams of two, you all get three lives, last team surviving is the winner. Happy?

(Caine crosses his arms angrily.)

Zooble: Um... Not really..

Caine: Well, that's not my problem right now! I have an awards show to plan so you guys are gonna have to handle yourselves for a bit. You get five minutes to figure the teams out, once that's up, it's a free-for-all.

(Caine snaps his fingers again, a giant clock timer counting down from 5:00 hovers over the Digital Circus crew and the guns.)

Jax: Come on, saddy. You're coming with me.

Gangle: (Gasps) I'm... actually gonna be on a team with Zooble.

Jax: What? No, you're not. (Jax removes Gangle's comedy mask and holds it in the air as Gangle tries to reach it.) We've been together for every team adventure in the past.

Zooble: (Zooble takes the comedy mask.) Guess times are changing, bunny boy. (Zooble gives back Gangle's mask as Jax grumbles.)

(Camera pans to Pomni and Ragatha, with Pomni waving at the other.)

Pomni: Hey, you wanna be on my team?

Ragatha: Uh, oh, I-I'd love to, but—Well, uh, I really don't want Kinger to get stuck with Jax.

Pomni: Oh, yeah. Well, I-I could be on Kinger's team. He and I were together once, and it wasn't too bad.

Ragatha: U-Uh... Hmm. And have... me on...

(Camera briefly cuts to Jax, who gives his gun a swing.)

Pomni: Oh. Um. Y-Yeah, just forget I asked. I'll be on Jax's team.

(Pomni heads towards Jax. Ragatha looks uneasy.)

Ragatha: W-Wait!

Pomni: (Stops in her tracks) Huh?

(Ragatha stammers, unable to get a word out. Camera cuts to Pomni, who interjects.)

Pomni: Like you said, probably good to keep Kinger and Jax separate. I can keep Jax in check, so don't worry about me.

(Pomni starts walking away again, only to be stopped by Ragatha.)

Ragatha: U-Uh, hey, Pomni? I—if... If you ever need to talk to somebody, o-or need help with anything, I'm here.

(Pomni gives a weak laugh and an awkward thumbs-up before walking off. Camera cuts to Ragatha and Kinger, who is now standing next to her. Ragatha, startled, yelps, which causes Kinger to do so too. The camera then pans to Jax, who's hunched over slightly and aiming his gun at something, while Pomni approaches him from behind.)

Pomni: You have a partner yet?

Jax: (straightens his stance, slinging his gun on his shoulder) Well, look who it is. You sure you can handle me in all my glory?

Pomni: Eh, I've been through worse.

(Gangle approaches Zooble almost cautiously, her comedy mask in hand.)

Gangle: Hey, Zooble? Do you wanna hold onto this during today's game?

Zooble: Huh?

Gangle: I... don't really trust myself that much with it. And I also just... really want to be able to fire a tommy gun while laughing maniacally, and I don't—I don't want to break it before I get that chance.

Zooble: ...I'll keep it safe for you.

(With that, Gangle and Zooble walks towards the rest of the group, who are staring down the pile of guns.)

(Dramatic music plays. The camera pans to each duo: Pomni and Jax, Kinger and Ragatha, and Gangle and Zooble. It then cuts to a countdown timer with five seconds remaining. It makes ticking sounds as it counts down to three, then the camera goes to Zooble, who's readying themselves, and Jax, who is now on his knees on the ground, propped up with his hand and elbow. The camera zooms out with a birds-eye view of the cast, and the timer ticks to zero before disappearing along with the guns. Three hearts are displayed above each person, except Ragatha who only has two due to the previous face-shooting.)

Ragatha: Huh? W-Wait, what? That counted?!

Zooble: Uh, Caine?

(Zooble glances up towards the roof of the tent, where Caine is sitting on a beach chair hovering in the air with a large image of a clear blue sky above him. He sits up and looks at Zooble, lifting his sunglasses. Camera cuts to him.)

Caine: What? Oh, y-yeah, (pops sunglasses back on) the guns have been teleported to random spots in the circus. Go find 'em, champs!

(Gangle and Zooble stare at Caine for a bit.)

Gangle: (shakes Zooble by the shoulders erratically) WE NEED TO FIND THE TOMMY GUN!!!

(Gangle runs offscreen and drags Zooble along with her.)

Ragatha: (frantic) Uh, wait, Caine? I-I-I'm missing a life!

Kinger: (pops onscreen, also frantic, to Ragatha) There's no time!

(Kinger drags Ragatha away. Ragatha yelps. Camera cuts to Jax, who does a salute.)

Jax: It'll be my pleasure murdering all of you!

(Pomni follows behind Jax as he runs off. She stops briefly to speak.)

Pomni: Uh, have fun, guys!

(Pomni waves to the rest, before Jax peeks his head in with a snarky grin.)

Jax: HAH! You're so lame! (grabs Pomni's shoulder and drags her away.)

(And just like that, all three groups split into different areas of the circus. Meanwhile, Caine fishes out a few pictures from his back pocket, one of which shows the office Pomni found herself in back in The Pilot. Caine stares at it wordlessly.)

(A large caption saying "LET THE GAMES BEGIN" appears on screen, and the camera pans down to Ragatha and Kinger, with a basic handgun ahead of them, spinning slightly as it hovers in a blue spawn ring. A faint shimmering sound is emitted from it.)

Kinger: (picks up the gun) Ah-hah! Ya little devil. Alright. (Holds his hands to where his mouth would be in thought, the gun facing to the sky) Now, I would bet our biggest concerns would be Jax and Zooble. They're the youngest, so they probably still have some youthful fighting spirit.

(Camera cuts to Ragatha, who's looking at her hearts dispiritedly.)

Ragatha: (sighs) Man. I'm still missing a heart. This isn't fair.

Kinger: Huh? (pockets the gun) Oh, I've got just the thing!

(Kinger smacks his hands together, summoning what appears to be an orange monarch butterfly, which shimmers gently.)

Kinger: Here, take this.

(Ragatha pokes the butterfly, which disappears with a high chime, in turn restoring the heart she lost.)

Ragatha: W-W-Wait, what did you just do? What was that?

Kinger: It's a butterfly! It can restore your health.

Ragatha: Did... Caine mention that?

Kinger: Oh, nah. (shrugs) I made it up.

(Kinger walks away.)

Ragatha: Uh... what?

(Camera cuts to Jax and Pomni, who are in the hallway with everyone's rooms. Two jump-cuts ensue; first with Jax opening the door to an unoccupied room and Pomni checking inside a cube, then the second with Jax peering behind another cube closer to the camera, fishing a gun from in front of it, while Pomni searches in a stack of three cubes. Jax leans against the cube, twirling the gun around his trigger finger before aiming it at something. The camera zooms in on the gun momentarily, then pans to Jax's face.)

Jax: So, who you gonna kill first, Pompom?

Pomni: Uh, I-I don't know if I'll really be doing much of the killing. I-I'll just find guns for you, and you can do all the violent stuff.

(Zoom out so both Jax and Pomni are in frame, Jax still holding out his gun.)

Pomni: You like that, right?

(Camera zooms back in.)

Jax: You know none of this is real, right?

Pomni: (stammers) What do you mean? Like, the circus?

(Jax shoves the gun into Pomni's hands.)

Jax: The game today is literally to shoot each other, so what's the point in taking this moral high ground?

(Jax points towards a separate cube with three metal tins placed in a row.)

Pomni: Well, they're my friends. I don't really want to hurt them.

(Pomni aims the gun at the tins and shoots, only lightly striking the tin on the left. It stays upright.)

Jax: Alright, let me be real here. Why do you care about that?

Pomni: (uncertain, eyes shifting) Uh, about not hurting my friends?

(Jax takes the gun from her by the barrel.)

Jax: (sighs) Look, I know what it's like. (Tosses the gun from one hand to the other) One day, you're somebody in the real world doing important things. And then the next, you're just a weird little cartoon...jester. You want to hold onto that part of you that still thinks it's part of that world, but in the end, what does it get you? (Points at Ragatha's door which is behind him with his thumb) Ragatha tries to be all nice and friendly, but she gets torn up every other adventure.

(Cuts to Pomni briefly, who lets out a little breath.)

Jax: Whether we like it or not, (throws his arms in the air, his left hand twirling the gun again, before firing it at a tin and hitting it perfectly) all we are now is a bunch of cartoon characters. So what's the point of pretending we're not?

(Jax tosses the gun to Pomni, who catches it clumsily.)

Pomni: (walks towards Jax, who's standing in front of his door) We're still people though, right?

Jax: I thought we were at first, but as time goes on, we just end up falling into our archetypes.

(Jax takes a few steps forward, off-screen before the camera cuts to him.)

Jax: Become part of the machine.

Pomni: What's your archetype, then? The villain?

Jax: (scoffs, turning to face Pomni. he points to himself) Listen, I add a key dynamic. I see how far I can push things, (shoves Pomni) I screw with people, (toys with Pomni's hat tails) and I break the fourth wall. (stares and points at the camera) You wanna know why? It's 'cause it's funny! (Ducks down to Pomni's level, then straightens up and flails his arms in the air) I do everything 'cause it's funny! 'Cause I'm the funny one!

Pomni: The 'funny one'?

Jax: Yeah! (He imitates each character as he's talking) Ragatha's the cheerful one, (swings his arms around breezily) Gangle's the sad one, (hunches over with his hands held in front of him and his ears lowered) Kinger's the crazy one, (thrashes his arms around, eyes wide) Zooble's the grumpy one, (stills himself, leaned over slightly with an ear crumpled to mimic one of Zooble's parts; he points a middle finger) and you (normal) are the one who hasn't figured that out yet.

(Jax jabs a finger into Pomni's forehead. Once he releases, her pupils go wide and she frowns, much like her icon on her door behind her.)

Jax: We all just became archetypes. (arrogantly) I at least have the self-awareness to choose who I am. (gestures to his body with a wave of his hands)

Pomni: (deep in thought) The funny one.

(Jax grabs her by the shoulders and brings her close.)

Jax: So, who do you want to be? No better chance than now to try something new! You wanna go nuts? (moves Pomni in the direction of the previous cube with two remaining tins) You wanna finally work off those weeks of rage and anguish that have been buildin' up inside you?

(Pomni aims the gun at the tins, her hands shaky.)

Jax: I know you hate it here, everyone does. But the silver lining is you can pretty much do whatever you want! Like, look at the way you're aiming that gun. Too realistic. Just let loose! (Throws his arms in the air before lowering them.)

(Pomni eyes the gun, hesitant. She takes in a deep breath and lets it out, then twirls the gun around her trigger finger and shoots it at the middle tin. It flies off the cube.)

Pomni: Oh, what the heck. Today, I'm just gonna be evil. (Pupils shrink and teeth sharpen) How's that? (Teeth become normal again)

Jax: (stands up, pumps his fist) Heh, go for it!

Pomni: Yeah. Yeah! Those other fools better watch their tails, because they're going to face the wrath (teeth sharpen again) of Pomni the Evil!!

(Pomni points the gun to the sky and starts scurrying across the screen. She laughs malevolently.)

Jax: (half-scoffs, half-laughs) That's... kinda cringe.

(Pomni shuts her mouth and stares at him blankly.)

(The camera cuts to Kinger and Ragatha. Kinger peeks his head from behind a giant toy block, before disappearing behind it. Ragatha does the same following him, then appears from behind a barrel.)

Ragatha: Uh, are we really gonna be shooting each other with these?

Kinger: It's either shoot or get sh—GAH!!!

(Before Kinger can finish his sentence, he proceeds to get shot. He respawns with a lost life.)

Kinger: Ragatha! There's a sniper around this corner.

(The sniper is revealed to be Zooble.)

Zooble: I think I got Kinger.

Gangle: Uh, are you sure we're safe up here?

(Kinger fires at them, forcing Gangle and Zooble to retreat.)

Gangle: Eee!

Zooble: Whoa!

Kinger: Tactical roll!

(Kinger attempts to roll, getting behind cover.)

Kinger: Come on, Ragatha!

(Ragatha follows after him. Meanwhile Jax picks up his gun before he and Pomni hear gunfire.)

Jax: Looks like we've located the king and the ragdoll.

Pomni: Uh, yeah.

(Jax gives Pomni a stare.)

Pomni: I mean, yeah! Let's get 'em!

(With that, the two of them run towards the battlefield.)

Ragatha: Uh, I don't even really know how to fire a gun. I don't know how much use I'd be in—

(Ragatha's hands proceed to get shot off by Jax.)

Jax: Whoops! Did I do that?

Pomni: You missed a spot!

(Pomni shoots Ragatha in the head.)

Jax: Hah! You're so cool!

Kinger: Ragatha, take cover!

(Ragatha respawns, and runs off.)

Jax: I'll take Rags, you go Kinger.

Pomni: Righty-o, evil bro!

(Jax and Pomni then head in two separate directions.)

Ragatha: I need a gun. Need a gun, need a gun!

(Ragatha then sees a gun and picks it up. Jax then pops around the corner ready to shoot. Ragatha then tries to shoot her gun, only for it to be a decoy as the word "BANG!" on cloth pops out.)

Ragatha: (Defeated) Come on, man.

(Jax jumps up and shoots Ragatha in the head, knocking her down to one life. She respawns and runs behind a red curtain into a colorful corridor.)

Ragatha: Kinger? Really use another one of those butterflies!

(Jax pops up in front of Ragatha)

Jax: Howdy, howdy.

Ragatha: Ah! I-I-I know exactly what you're doing with Pomni, and it'll never work!

Jax: ...Huh?

Ragatha: You know, getting close with Pomni... to corrupt her?

(Jax just looks on in confusion before getting ready to shoot)

Ragatha: Wait, no, no, no, no! Wait, wait, wait!

(Ragatha puts her finger in the gun, causing it to shoot backwards and get Jax covered in gun powder. He loses a life and coughs out dust.)

Ragatha: Oh wow, I didn't actually think that'd work.

(Jax pulls out another gun and shoots Ragatha multiple times, making her the first person eliminated while Jax looks at her while breathing in anger. Meanwhile, Ragatha respawns in a dark area with a fish tank known as the Loser Corner)

Ragatha: Huh? (Notices the banner saying "Loser Corner") Oh.

(Pomni finds Jax again.)

Pomni: I lost Kinger, but I got him down to one life.

Jax: I lost a life, but I got us down to one Kinger.

Pomni: How'd you let her take a life off you?

Jax: I don't really know.

(The scene cuts back to Gangle and Zooble, with Zooble giving Gangle an AK-47)

Zooble: Hey I found this AK... thing. If we can't find the tommy gun, will this work?

Gangle: Uh, yeah. Do you... think... Jax... is gonna be mad that I didn't team up with him?

Zooble: I wouldn't worry about him right now. It's all just a game, in the end.

Gangle: It's Jax, though. He probably wants revenge. And he's gonna make it painful, and—

Zooble: Hey, you deserve better than thinking about him when he's not even here. You're a human. You're not his toy.

Gangle: It sometimes doesn't feel that way.

(Zooble blinks in surprise, then looks sympathetic. They take out Gangle's comedy mask.)

Zooble: These avatar gimmicks, huh? Makes you wonder why no else got them.

Gangle: I just wish that... (sighs) How are you supposed to like the part of yourself that just... makes you worse than everyone else?

Zooble: ...'Cause it exists. It's a part of you that's real, and the only "you" that you should care about is the real you. You have to choose to love yourself, even if it doesn't make sense. It's not natural. It's intentional.

Gangle: Have... you ever had to make that choice?

Zooble: Huh?

Gangle: S-Sorry. I mean... (laugh) Of course not. You're Zooble. (weak laugh)

(Zooble looks on for a little bit before Gangle grabs their hand, Gangle then stands up.)

Zooble: Whatever happens... I've got your back if you've got mine.

Gangle: Yeah. Now let's go kill Pomni and Jax.

(The scene then cuts back to the aforementioned two walking together.)

Pomni: Alright, here's one. What's with the corn thing?

Jax: (scoffs) What corn thing?

Pomni: Why are you afraid of corn? And don't say that you're not. You literally jumped out of your seat twice when you saw some.

Jax: Heh, not gonna let me out of this one. Well, I dunno. It's got a bunch of little pods on it. Looks kinda like an egg sack, or somethin'. It's gross. Makes my skin crawl.

Pomni: Interesting. Do you have, like, a... type of trypophobia?

Jax: What's that?

Pomni: The fear of lots of little holes.

Jax: (shuddering) Eugh.

Pomni: Okay. How about... pomegranates?

Jax: Awful.

Pomni: I'm learning a lot about you today.

(Jax realizes something.)

Jax: Heh, let's not forget we're here to kill people. We still need to figure out where nutso went before we can rest easy.

(Kinger is shown to be inside a door way right next to them in plain view and Pomni flinches when she notices.)

Kinger: I'm right behind you, aren't I?

(Jax then turns as he and Pomni let loose. Kinger then retreats into the darkness as Jax and Pomni follow him. What then plays out is a shooting fight between the three of them, with shots firing in the dark. Kinger pulls out a lighter to reload his gun.)

Pomni: There he is!

(Kinger yelps as the fight continues. At one point, Jax accidentally shoots Pomni, removing a life from her)

Jax: Whoop, sorry.

(More shots continue to fire.)

Kinger: I hope you guys are ready for my ricochet super move!

(With that, Kinger fires a bullet, with it ricocheting off everything like crazy while more shots are heard fired. After a bit, the bullet finally hits something.)

Jax: Oh, here's the light.

(It's revealed the bullet hit Kinger, eliminating him.)

Pomni: Huh.

Jax: High-five!

Pomni: Yeah!

(Kinger is then taken to the Loser Corner.)

Kinger: Ah, what a game. Who knew Pomni could be such a sharpshooter? These adventures, huh?

(Kinger then sees Ragatha is in a saddened state.)

Kinger: And look, even though we lost, at least we gave it our all, right?

(Ragatha looks on in silence, as Kinger realizes how sad Ragatha really is.)

Kinger: Um... you feeling alright?

(Ragatha stays silent.)

Kinger: Are you upset we lost?

(Ragatha shakes her head.)

Kinger: Or are you upset about something else?

(Ragatha nods, visibly holding back tears.)

Kinger: You wanna talk about it?

Ragatha: (sighs, voice cracking) I think... I might have failed Pomni. Just like I failed Jax. I try too hard to get on their good side, and then I just end up pushing them away. And then, they end up hating me...

Kinger: Well, I don't think anyone in here hates you.

Ragatha: (scoffs) Jax does! Gangle and Zooble don't ever talk to me, and... Pomni probably won't after today, either. (sighs) She came to me wanting to be on my team. I said no. (sighs) Why did I do that?

Kinger: Maybe you just needed a break. It sounds to me like you put a lot of pressure on yourself to be there for everyone, and when you're not, you beat yourself up for it. You said you failed Pomni. W-Why do you feel that way?

Ragatha: I don't know... I feel like every day, we're drifting further apart. Like she's seen through all my tricks and doesn't trust me anymore. Before I know it... she'll be a different person. One who doesn't even want me around.

Kinger: ...The way I see it, relationships are two sided, and sometimes, it doesn't make sense to do all the heavy lifting when the other isn't in the mood. We all go through and deal with things differently, and sometimes, you just need to let people do things their own way. As long as you're still there when they need you. Giving someone space should never be the same as giving up on them.

(Ragatha stays silent for a second.)

Ragatha: I don't even know what I want. I just want everyone to be happy. And I don't want people to hate me.

Kinger: Do you hate yourself?

(Ragatha turns away, staying silent.)

Kinger: I hated myself. I couldn't help but hate myself for the things I thought I was responsible for. I thought I'd lost everything. But then... you showed up. And my outlook just... changed. There are always ways to show you care without ruining yourself over it. You need to look out for yourself in all this, too.

Ragatha: I don't get it. So often, nothing you say makes any sense, but then you have these moments where you... (laughs) I don't know. How do you do that? How've you been around for so long?

Kinger: Heh. I guess I just have a resilient mind.

(Bubble was then shown to be recording the whole thing.)

Bubble: Breathtaking! The committee's gonna love that.

(With that, Bubble flies off as Kinger and Ragatha look at each other.)

(The scene then cuts back to Gangle and Zooble running through tunnels.)

Zooble: Are they still following us?

Gangle: Are you still following us?

Jax: Yeah, we're still following you!

Pomni: Where else would we be?

Gangle: They're still following us.

Zooble: Alright, this is a long one. We're gonna have to run. Let's go!

(Jax and Pomni then turn the corner and start shooting at Gangle and Zooble. Zooble shoots back, but runs out of ammo. They and Gangle both take cover. Zooble then tries to switch to a different gun)

Zooble: Ugh, we got so unlucky with the drops here.

(Zooble then tries shooting again, but Gangle realizes she finally found the tommy gun. She slowly turns to Zooble.)

Gangle: (whispering) It's time.

(Zooble stops shooting, looking at Gangle in surprise.)

Jax: Why'd you stop shooting? You out of ammo?

Zooble: Why'd you stop? You out of ammo?

Jax: Pomni, got any ammo left?

Pomni: Uh, I have one in the cylinder and one sniper round, but no sniper rifle.

Jax: (scoffs) Crap.

Gangle: (maniacal laughter.)

(Gangle then comes out of hiding with the tommy gun, shooting wildly at Jax and Pomni while Zooble watches on in amazement, silently cheering her on. Gangle then breaks the tunnel, sending all four of them falling out, with Gangle surprised her comedy mask didn't break from the fall. Pomni then grabs the sniper rifle and reloads it while, Gangle picks up her tommy gun and they both fire at each other. Both stay still for a second until Gangle falls, her comedy mask breaking, but she wears a smile anyway, knowing she got what she wanted.)

Zooble: S(censorship)t!

(Gangle then gets teleported to the Loser Corner. Jax and Pomni then chase after Zooble, who locks themself in their room.)

Jax: You're just gonna hide in your room?

Pomni: Coward!

(Zooble searches for parts in their box, giving themself two extra arms. A pile of grenades is seen to the side.)

Zooble: Huh.

(Jax then has an idea for a Daisy Bell)

Jax: 🎶 Daisy, Daisy— 🎶

Jax & Pomni: 🎶 Give me your answer, do 🎶

Zooble: Are-Are you seriously gonna start singing that?!

(The musical beats of Daisy Bell can be heard as they sing from here.)

Jax & Pomni: 🎶 I'm half crazy, all for the love of you 🎶

(Zooble checks another box and sees something. It's shown their room is full of guns.)

Jax & Pomni: 🎶 It won't be a stylish marriage, (Pomni has her eye closed and her other eye open.) I can't afford a carriage, but you'll look sweet, (They both spin around and hold each other's gloved hands.) upon the seat, of a bicycle built for two 🎶

Jax: Oh wait, I have a key to Zooble's room!

(Jax opens the door, only for Zooble to throw a flash grenade and start going wild on him and Pomni while a rousing rendition of Daisy Bell plays. After firing for a while, Zooble runs off, while it's shown Jax and Pomni still have one life left.)

Jax: Ugh... ow.

Pomni: I can get 'em.

Jax: W-Wait!

Pomni: Trust me, partner! I got this!

(Jax just sighs and slides over where 2 grenades are seen. He then looks at Kaufmo's door, and then at Ribbit's while he gains a trauma induced face. He then snaps out of it and goes after Pomni. Meanwhile, Pomni sees Zooble and twirls around her gun, firing off a bullet, with it knocking all the guns out of Zooble's hands.)

Zooble: That's actual bull(censorship)t! Ow!

(Zooble is shot by another bullet and they're stared upon by Jax and Pomni.)

Zooble: Well, (censorship), man. Guess that's the end of that. See you on the flipside.

(Zooble pulls up four middle fingers, and then Jax and Pomni shoot them, sending them to the Loser Corner. There, they see Gangle and the others dressed as cats.)

Zooble: What?

(The scene then cuts to Jax and Pomni as the latter laughs in victory.)

Pomni: We did it! We make such a good team!

(Pomni hugs Jax, who smiles for a second, only for him to have a realization and push Pomni away. He then chuckles)

Jax: Well, to be fair, our competition wasn't anything crazy.

Pomni: Eh, yeah, true.

(Pomni then smirks and turns around with a determined look her face while Jax looks at his hand.)

Pomni: (Her eye looks rectangular shaped via the sclera in the middle while the eyelid on the top and bottom of the eye) I suppose this is the part where one of us betrays the other.

(Pomni then turns around with her gun pointed at Jax with a goofy smile.)

Jax: Huh? Oh, yeah. You can betray me. (He uses his gloved hand to throw the gun which results in the gun falling then landing onto the black and white checkered floor)

Pomni: Oh. Uh—I just—I thought this was gonna be a mutual thing.

Jax: Nah, nah. Go on, do it.

Pomni: ...I-I don't... really want to.

Jax: Laaaaame! Come on! I thought you were cool.

Pomni: We could just be winners. As a team.

Jax: We're not a team! Come on.

(Pomni stammers a bit.)

Pomni: What do you mean? Yes, we are.

Jax: Delusional.

Pomni: W-Weren't we kind of bonding over being chaotic-evil together?

Jax: (scoffs) I was merely entertaining you because I thought it was funny. Now, are you gonna shoot me, or what?

(Pomni looks at him with concern.)

Pomni: Did I... do something wrong?

Jax: Ugh, you sound like Ragatha right now. No wonder we're not a team.

Pomni: No, I mean—We were doing fine. Having fun, talking. But you suddenly just—

Jax: (sing-songy) You're not committing.

(Jax pulls the gun to his head.)

Jax: Do it.

(Pomni looks on with a worried expression.)

Pomni: If I shoot you right now, are we still gonna be friends afterwards?

Jax: We were never friends.

Pomni: Wh...What about all that stuff you told me?

Jax: Yeah, I did tell you a lot, didn't I? Not looking forward to thinking about that tomorrow.

(Pomni then realizes what Jax means.)

Pomni: No. No, no, no. We're not doing this. You're—You're not gonna look me in the eye and tell me nothing we've been doing together meant anything to you, because I know that's not true.

Jax: ...Are you coming onto me? Yeah, that's what everybody wants, a straight couple.

Pomni: Oh my god, can you take this seriously? Can you take ANYTHING seriously?

Jax: Dude, you're a cartoon clown. How am I supposed to take you seriously?

Pomni: Wh—I—mmm... you reached out to me, not the other way around. You're just gonna pretend that didn't happen?

Jax: You must be misremembering.

Pomni: Is this why you didn't show up to Kaufmo's funeral?

Jax: I don't show up to ANY funerals.

Pomni: Yeah, I bet you don't, because you're scared. Y-You're scared you'll actually show a human emotion.

Jax: I'm scared I'll be BORED to TEARS. (His two gloved-hands on his cheeks of his face)

Pomni: Have you ever thought that this might be what causes people to abstract in the first place? (Her gloved-hand holding the gun while her other gloved-hand is not holding anything)

Jax: (bitter laugh) (His gloved-hand on his hip while his other arm is straight down) Oh my GOD! (He points to himself by using his gloved-hand) Are you seriously gonna blame me for something that everybody else did too?! (He stomps venomously towards Pomni while she backs away) You didn't even know him! You don't even know what people are LIKE before they abstract! (He points to Pomni by using his gloved finger) They are NOT pleasant to be around. Like AT ALL! You—

(Jax suddenly stops, scoffs, and slowly regains his smile. The transition is uncanny.)

Pomni: I-I'm... I'm sorry.

Jax: I'm sure you are.

(Jax then hisses through his teeth and tries to change the subject.)

Jax: (His two gloved-hands behind his head) Hooo, man! (His gloved-hand on the side of his head) This is all sorts of embarrassing, huh? So, are you gonna shoot me, or what? (His head tilted while his gloved fingers do a gun gesture)

Pomni: ...What would you do if I abstracted tomorrow?

(Jax drops his arms to his sides. He slowly turns to Pomni, expressionless.)

Jax: ...I'd move on.

(He tilts his head, giving her an empty smile.)

Jax: And probably forget about you.

(Pomni gives him a dejected look.)

Pomni: Okay... okay... I understand.

(Pomni turns around, raising the gun. Jax looks on, notices what she is doing, then rolls his eyes.)

Jax: (Scoffs, bitter chuckle) Geez, you really can't take a joke, can you?

(Pomni doesn't respond, only shaking with anger as she stares at the gun with a distressed expression on her face. Suddenly, she turns around and throws the gun at him.)

Pomni: You're NOT the funny one! (She points by using a gloved-finger while her other gloved-fist)

Jax: (His gloved-hand on the side of his head while his other gloved-hand open then both gloved-hands open) Uh, I don't think that counts.

(Pomni then unleashes her anger and starts attacking Jax, trying to strangle him while Jax's mouth is open that has triangle teeth also curved tongue sticking out before being kicked away.)

Jax: Hey, what are you doing?!

(Pomni then throws a Rubik's cube at him, which he dodges, and then a flower pot, which hits him. She then runs up to Jax and chomps on his leg. He pushes her away again.)

Pomni: (Her high-pitched tone of voice) Fight back!

(Jax makes a "I don't want to hurt you" expression on his face.)

Jax: (His low-pitched tone of voice) Are you crazy?!

Pomni: (Her high-pitched tone of voice) I said, fight BACK!

(Pomni then jumps on Jax's shoulders, punching and clawing furiously at his head. Jax throws her off aggressively.)

Jax: (His low-pitched tone of voice) STOP!!!

(They both stay still, panting.)

Jax: What's wrong with you?!

Pomni: (Her low-pitched tone of voice) ...Why didn't you fight back?!

Jax: Oh, here we go. Here we go! Because I didn't fight back, that means I secretly care about you?! (Sarcastically) (He points to Pomni by using his gloved-hand) I'm just a misunderstood little chicken fetus in an egg (His gloved-hands describe) that needs to be cracked open. (Furiously) Well, I am NOT! (He points to Pomni by using his gloved-finger) I do not care about you, or ANYONE ELSE in this circus in the slightest! (His two gloved fists) End of story!

(He forces a strained smile, looking deranged.)

Jax: (His two gloved fists) You are my playthings, and I get joy out of making you SUFFER. I'm the one who causes pain for FUN! If I led you on, it was just to make this part hurt you more.

(Jax then turns away with a twisted smile.)

Jax: F(censorship)k.

(Jax looks down at his hand, then up at the sky with a more strained, pained smile as he then kicks a nearby Rubik's cube.)

Jax: F(CENSORCHIP)K!

Jax: There's nothing more to me. (His expression and smile drops into something more exhausted) So please, just stop looking.

(With that, Jax walks away, leaving Pomni there alone with a look of sadness on her face.)

(After a while, the scene cuts to the Favorite Character Awards, where Pomni still has a sad expression and Jax has one of pure disinterest. There, Pomni and Ragatha run into each other again. They start talking over each other.)

Pomni: Hey, I-I feel like, uh—

Ragatha: I-I have something I—

Ragatha: You can speak first.

Pomni: No, you go.

(They awkwardly look at each other, realizing they both were talking at the same time.)

Pomni: Let's talk after the show.

Ragatha: Yeah, sounds good.

(Cuts the theater show. Ragatha takes a seat one seat ahead from Kinger with Pomni sitting next to her while Jax takes a seat far away from everyone else. The lights dim with applause and cheering heard.)

Caine: Ladies and gentlemen, it's time for the favorite character awards!

(A golden text reading "THE FAVORITE CHARACTER AWARDS" appears floating above the stage.)

Caine: Before anything starts, I'd like to thank... (Deep voice) THE COMMITTEE... (Normal voice) for examining our nominees and voting on our winners.

Committee Members: We love you, Caine!

(Caine blushes, flustered.)

Caine: Sh-Shut up...

Committee Member: Okay...

(The camera cuts to Jax visibly miserable, looking downward with his head resting in his palm. Then, his expression shifts to something even more pained and distressed. It then cuts to him bouncing his leg rapidly before finally getting up and walking away.)

Caine: But what's an award show without honorable mentions and subcategories? (Jax gets up out of his seat.) That's right -- it's bad!

(Cuts to the bathroom.)

Caine: (Muffled) Unlike my show, which is good.

(Jax heads to the bathroom sink, turning on the faucet. He then pants with his pupils becoming scribbles. A heartbeat thudding and heavy panting is heard while he looks at the running water. His hands are put on the edge of the sink as high-pitched ringing is heard. Everything gets blurry and static until he finally stops after a couple seconds. He then sighs, looking at himself in the mirror with a depressed look on his face.)

Jax: God, you look stupid.

(The toilet flushing is heard while Jax turns his direction towards the sound. The stall opens with Disappearing Guy walking out.)

Disappearing Guy: 'Su—

(He disappears. Jax looks unamused and irritated.)

(Cuts to the theater show.)

Caine: And the award for Biggest Sailor Mouth goes to... Zooble!

(Cuts to Zooble with Gangle sitting next to her. They have a stoner face with a bottle of stupid sauce on their torso and some stupid sauce in their eye. Cheering and applause is heard.)

Zooble: (slurring) Huh?

(Cuts to Pomni looking at Jax going back to his seat with a concerned look on her face. She then turns to Ragatha with a worried look on her face as her head goes down a bit and Pomni shakes her head.)

(Cuts to Caine.)

Caine: Alright, folks, it's now the moment you've all been waiting for... the award for Favorite Character! Bubble, give me a drum roll.

(Bubble makes the drum roll sound.)

Caine: And the award for Favorite Character goes to... Why... it's me, everyone!

(Silence.)

Caine: Oh, wait, I misread that. It's Ming.

(Ming walks onto the stage.)

Ming: You shouldn't have assumed you won the award. Now we both look foolish.

(The camera hovers on the frame of the audience, Caine, and Ming before cutting to black, and then to the credits.)

(We see Zooble inside a box staring at Pomni while she opens it.)

Zooble: (groans) Is the adventure over already?

(As Zooble and Pomni are talking, Gangle and Ragatha walk up.)

Pomni: No, the adventure hasn't even started yet.

Zooble: Oh, well, don't be a narc. Find your own hiding spot.

(Zooble tries to close the box again, only for Pomni to immediately open it again.)

Pomni: It's not that. It's just that we haven't even seen Caine at all today. Plus, Gangle was looking for you.

Gangle: Hi, Zooble.

(Gangle picks up Zooble as Ragatha looks around.)

Ragatha: Wait, what's this?

(Ragatha picks up the note as the others walk up.)

Caine: Hello, my little rubber baby buggy bumpers! Today, I've decided to go to the store to get essential ingredients for my signature Milk and Cigarette casserole!

(The four look at Caine as he continues talking).

Caine: I hope you can handle yourselves until I get back.

(The four stare at Caine as Kinger walks in.)

Zooble: Well, this was fun while it lasted.

Ragatha: So, uh, what's the adventure today?

Caine: Oh, I don't have an adventure for you today. So you can do whatever you feel like.

(Zooble picks their head up and puts it on their body)

Zooble: All right, sounds fine to me.

Caine: You should ask me for suggestions on what to do instead.

Zooble: No.

Gangle: What should we do instead?

Zooble: No, Gangle-!

Gangle: Oh, wait, sorry...!

Caine: Great question, Gangle! For an answer, let me consult... the Chinese Room!

(Caine summons a door in the middle of the room)

Zooble: Okay, he had a bit prepared.

(Caine takes some papers with Chinese lettering on them and slides them into the Chinese Room)

Zooble: Okay, why Chinese? Does this actually mean anything?

Caine: It's a mystery what's behind that door. But I believe that it's a fluent Chinese speaker who will give me advice.

Zooble: Can I just ask why? Like, what even is-

Caine: SHUT! You're only making the joke take longer.

(The papers come back out from the room, Caine picks them up)

(Caine laughs manically.)

Zooble: (sighs) What does it say?

Caine: I don't know. I don't understand Chinese!

(Kinger chuckles.)

Zooble: Hilarious...

Caine: I don't know, why don't you guys hang out at the Digital Lake? These locations have just kinda been here this whole time. Not sure why you never visit them.

(Bubble floats in)

Bubble: You should throw a fffffffffffffffffffffffffffffreaking beach party.

Caine: (His hand grows giant, and he starts patting Bubble) Good boy.

Ragatha: Oh, that could be fun!

Caine: Plus, there are some fun NPCs out there that none of you have even interacted with yet.

Zooble: I'm guessing they're not intelligent ones?

Caine: They most certainly are not. Now, go have fun!

(Caine poofs.)

(A title card "A Day at the Beach" appears with some tropical music. The camera switches to the Sun.)

Sun: Wow, what a good day! Wow!

(The camera pans down to Zooble, Pomni, Gangle, Ragatha, and Kinger looking at a red and white changing booth.)

Zooble: Alright, so who wants to try Caine's magical changing booth first?

Pomni: I guess I'll give it a go?

(Pomni goes inside the changing booth. The changing booth shakes like crazy and Pomni gets shot out onto the sand, in her beach outfit.)

Sun: Wow, you look mediocre! If you ever need a sunburn, give me a call!

Pomni: I-I don't want a sunburn.

Sun: Should have thought of that before I decided I hate you!

Ragatha: Yeah, don't interact with the Sun... She's just like that.

(The camera shows a short montage of the five of them having fun on the beach. Pomni and Ragatha lie on towels in the shade, Kinger leans back on a palm tree and Gangle starts playing baseball with a watermelon while blindfolded, but Zooble stops her.)

Zooble: Gangle, wait.

(They draw Jax's face on the watermelon, which both of them find funny. Gangle hits the watermelon and breaks it. Then it's shown that Jax is sitting on a lounge chair, alone, while the others are having fun together. Pomni, Ragatha and Kinger are playing catch with the ball in the lake when the ball hits Ragatha and her button eye falls off)

Ragatha: Oh! My eye!

Pomni: I'll get it.

(Pomni dives into the water to look for Ragatha's eye, but gets met with a Orange Fish.)

Orange Fish: Hey, there. If you wanna find my sunken treasure chest, you'll have to try better than that.

(Pomni looks confused. She briefly goes up for a breath of air and returns to see the Orange Fish with a red fish.)

Orange Fish: So, I was just talking with my brother here, and yeah - you are definitely not getting our sunken treasure chest. Definitely not.

Pomni: (burbled) Do I even want your treasure chest? It's not like there's anything to spend money on.

Red Fish: (bizarre raspy voice) I'm the one that tells LIES.

Orange Fish: Dude... You ruined it.

(Pomni sees an opened empty treasure chest nearby.)

Pomni: Is that your treasure?

Orange Fish: Duuuude! No! They took everything! That was my entire life savings, dude! Oh my god. Oh god. Oh my god, I'm gonna be sick. I'm gonna be sick. That was everything. Oh, my GOD!

(Pomni resurfaces from the water.)

Ragatha: Did you find it?

Pomni: Nah. Somebody plundered it before I could.

(Ragatha looks at Pomni with confusion.)

Ragatha: ...What?

Pomni: What? Oh, wait. Your eye!

(Pomni goes back into the water to find it once again. The camera shifts to Jax, who gets wet because Zooble dumped a bucket of water on him.)

Jax: (sighs) What was that for?

Zooble: Oh, let me think. There's that time you ran me over with a steam roller. The time you pushed Gangle into a pool of piranhas. When you set me on fire, mailed me a pipe bomb, threw me into an active volcano... I could go on.

Jax: (sighs) Aren't you supposed to be miserable about your ability to choose your own body, or something?

Zooble: Aren't you supposed to be causing trouble for everyone?

(Jax looks away.)

Zooble: I've been starting to think that maybe the ability to change is fine. Not needing to commit to one thing all the time.

Jax: How about that.

Zooble: And if I DO still have problems, I talk about them with the people I trust.

(Jax sits up properly, a "smile" on his face.)

Jax: Good thing I don't have any problems, then.

(Jax starts to walk away.)

Zooble: Where are you going?

Jax: Anywhere you losers won't yap my ear off.

(Pomni wraps a towel around her shoulders but sees a Shrimp NPC beside her.)

Shrimp NPC: Hello, there! As the Shrimp NPC...

(the Shrimp NPC pauses and doesn't finish her sentence. Pomni looks off to the side, where she sees Jax leaving the Digital Lake. But her eyes also landed on a mannequin NPC hiding behind a rock. She turns back to see the Shrimp NPC already fried.)

Sun: You're welcome!

(Pomni sends the Sun an awkward thumbs up and looks back at the mannequin. It waves her over. She looks at the others still having fun and decides to check.)

(We see Jax lay down on his bed. His head turns to the side, seeing the different photographs hung on the wall. He turns one around. It was a photo of him, Ribbit, and Kaufmo holding hot chocolate. He turns to the other side of his room and starts seeing a black triangle in the corner. Then suddenly green hands start to emerge behind it, reaching towards him. He seemed scared but couldn't stop himself from reaching for it. Once their hands touch, Jax ends up floating in a psychedelic and kaleidoscopic world. Jax is naked as peaceful music starts playing. The dreamscape is later filled with the faces of Ribbit and Kaufmo rather than just abstract shapes, with Jax's face joining them thereafter. He starts calming down, until his doorbell rang. He sat up, his eyes seeming close to abstracting as he forces himself to breathe. Jax opens the door.)

Jax: (sighs) Way to interrupt my nap.

(Pomni, Ragatha, and a mannequin NPC were the ones beyond the door.)

Pomni: Can we talk?

Jax: You're what?

Pomni: Yeah. He's not actually an NPC. He's a human. Like us.

NPC: Yes, I know. (laughs ruefully) Getting stuck with a blank mannequin body of all things. Caine completely overlooked me. But because of this, I was able to uh- Well... I think I've found the way to leave.

Jax: "The way to leave"?

Ragatha: Yes. The way to leave the circus and get back to the real world.

NPC: Shhh! Yes. But, please, keep it discreet. If Caine catches on, I doubt he'll ever let us get this far again.

Pomni: That's why we came to you. We thought you might have a key to the Chinese Room.

Jax: The "Chinese Room"?

NPC: Yes. We're gonna need a place to talk without Caine listening in on us. I have a working theory that Caine will commit to a bit, no matter what. And if the bit is to not know what's in the Chinese Room, he'll stick to it.

Jax: Uh, I guess I'll check.

(Jax goes in his room, closing the door behind him. He comes back out, holding a bucket of keys.)

Jax: These are all the keys I have where I don't know what they go to.

(Jax gives the bucket to Pomni and was about to close the door.)

Pomni: Wait. Don't you want to come with us? This could be our one chance to finally leave all this behind.

Jax: (sighs) Sure. Why not?

(Jax, Pomni, Ragatha, and the NPC approach Zooble and Gangle at the site of the Chinese door)

Zooble: Where even is Caine? He might be suspicious of us even being here.

NPC: He's probably in his office, planning adventures.

Jax: (sighs) How do we even know we can trust this guy? Has he done anything to prove he's human?

NPC: I've been here longer than any of you. (nervously) I... uh... helped create this place. I'll explain more when we're in the room, but for now... please just trust me. You will not regret it.

(Pomni sets the bucket of keys down. Jax and Gangle grab one of the keys. As the bucket empties more keys are strewn about, till it is empty. Gangle puts a final key up to the door and struggles with it.)

Gangle: Am I doing this wrong? None of these even fit in the keyhole. (Tries to insert the key again)

Jax: Has anyone even tried just... (Opens the door)

(A Chinese Room NPC reading a book places it down in a hurry)

Chinese Room NPC: Oh, thank God. (He runs out swiftly)

(Most of the cast looks on in confusion, while a smug Pomni slowly turns towards the others)

Gangle: (drops the key) I– ...I–

Zooble: Okay, well, it's open. Let's just get inside before Caine sees us.

Pomni: I'll go get Kinger.

NPC: We can fill him in later. I don't really know if I'm– uh– ready to face him again... after what happened.

Pomni: Uh-

NPC: We've both done things we're not proud of.

(They enter the room and close the door)

Jax: Alright, convince me.

NPC: I'm one of the original programmers of the Digital Circus. I was part of a team of experts employed by C&A to bring this place to life. Kinger was one of my coworkers, back when he was still...

Ragatha: You really think Kinger worked with him?

NPC: (Knocks a cup over, scattering paper everywhere) O–oh whoops, sorry.

Pomni: I can see it.

NPC: Well, as production went on, the higher ups in C&A started getting untrustworthy. They began forcibly hooking my fellow coworkers up to the computer. (Animated images of what the NPC is describing appear) In special stasis pods to keep them alive and analyze their brains... Just awful stuff.

Jax: I'm gonna shoot you down and say none of us are C&A employees. How would we have gotten hooked up to this big machine just by putting on a headset?

NPC: That's what I wondered, as well. But then, I remembered that C&A was planning on expanding development. Last I remember, I was asking too many questions, and then poof! I was here. They're probably doing the same to anyone who stumbles in that office. Caine is an AI.

Zooble: Yeah, I think we all got that–

NPC: An AI specifically created to keep your minds active. But he's just as much of a prisoner as you are. One that– uh– won't be able to leave with us.

Zooble: Just get to the meat and tell us exactly how we're gonna leave if we're all hooked up to stasis pods?

NPC: Uh, yes. Yes, of course. (Pulls out a map and they all hover over it) So, I did some digging, and I discovered that the stasis pods and the virtual world are both run in the same program. (Draws a line between the two places with a blue colored pencil) So, theoretically, if we were to access the master console hidden deep within Caine's office, we could terminate it and forcibly awaken everyone who's hooked up. Well... Obviously, except for Caine.

Pomni: How do we get into Caine's office?

NPC: We'll need to steal the key from Caine. And we'll also need administrator privileges. (Camera pans to Jax) I believe you're good at obtaining keys.

Jax: Okay, you know what's gonna happen when we do all this? Caine's gonna pop out and say "Congratulations on beating the 'escape the circus' adventure!" And everything's going to go back to the way it always was.

NPC: I've been watching you... All of you. (flashbacks of the NPC watching them in the moments he describes) Every trial. Every moment of joy. Every... abstraction. I wish I could've come to you sooner, but I didn't want to potentially ruin our only chance at escape by telling you before I knew exactly how we were gonna do it. I'm not a creation of Caine. I've suffered just as much as the rest of you. I know this all sounds... crazy, but if you follow me, you will see freedom. I'll also draw a face on myself so you can tell me apart from any other blank NPC's. (Draws a smile on his face)

Pomni: Oh, um– What should we call you? Do you have a name?

Abel: I do. (He turns his back to them, and tilts his head back) My name...(Turns around completely with his hands on his hips and light coming from the sky shining down on him) ...is Abel.

(The cast looks unimpressed)

Gangle: Like, is that the name you picked or...?

Abel: Yeah. I thought it would be cool. But anyway, first things first, we need to get that key.

(Jax looks stubbornly at Pomni and then Gangle before onto Abel)

Abel: (voiceover as Jax wanders around the circus grounds) In order to get the key, you're going to need to isolate Caine. Try getting him alone– someplace where he'll feel comfortable confiding in you.

Jax: Hey, Caine! You around?

(Caine zooms into Jax's face)

Caine: Hey, Jax! I didn't know you could ask if I was around like that. (Pats Jax on the shoulder.) Good job.

Jax: Uhhh... (pointing at Caine) you want to get dinner together?

Caine: (Shocked) GASP! A human wanting to... (eyes grow big) hang out with ME??? How could I possibly turn down such an offer??

Jax: So, where you wanna— WooOOAH!–

(Caine pulls Jax by the shoulder out of the circus grounds and into a sit-down restaurant, where they sit across from each other at a table.)

Caine: So, Jax! Whatcha want to talk about, (leaning in) friendo?

Jax: Uh– I–

(Caine's head grows large and towers over Jax).

Caine: Wait, JAX! (Caine grows back to his normal size). I wanted to ask you about the adventures! What do you think I should do to make them more appealing to the Zooble and the Pomni?

Jax: I think that–

(Jax and Caine are handed dinner menus)

Caine: We should figure out what to order first! Conversation can happen after we've loaded up on digital nutrients.

(Caine's menu says "Food to Eat" and depicts lettuce and tomatoes, as well as some mysterious food encased in jello)

Abel: (to Jax in the Chinese room) Then you're going to want to ask him about his hobbies. Odds are, he'll get so excited that you care about him, he'll freeze up, and you'll be able to grab the key from inside his mouth.

Jax: (from Chinese room, frowning) Inside where?

Caine: (at dinner with Jax) What are your thoughts on cedar-smoked salmon? I "cedar" smoked salmon, but I hardly "knowder" smoked salmon! (Laughs maniacally)

Jax: (fake laugh) Ah-ha-ha-ha-ha. Uh, do you have any secret hobbies?

Caine: (turns to face Jax incredulously) ...Secret hobbies?

Jax: Yeah, like, things you do on your own that you'd be interested in talking about?

Caine: Why... I... I didn't think a human would ever want to ask me about my... (his eyes grow large as he stares intently at Jax, who is smiling hesitantly). Th-this is the most fantastical moment of m–

(Dial-up tones blare. Caine T-poses as his eyes display coding error screens.)

(Jax grimaces as he reaches inside Caine's mouth under his eyes, digging for the key.)

Caine: (eyes stop glitching) ...Whatcha doin' there, Jax?

Jax: Have I ever told you how it's my dream to get eaten by you?

Caine: (with Jax's hand still down his throat) That's a weird thing to say and want.

(Abel, Pomni, and Ragatha walk through the hallway of their rooms.)

Ragatha: Do you really believe it? I-I mean, everything he says?

Pomni: I... I just want to know what Kinger thinks of all this.

Ragatha: Y-Yeah. I-I was thinking the same thing.

Pomni: How much do you know about Kinger?

Ragatha: Huh? O-Oh, I probably know about as much as everybody else. But...he's also helped me through some of my hardest times here. Is it weird to say I...I trust him the most out of everybody?

Pomni: No, that's not weird at all. I had a similar experience, and...I think he might know more about this place than he lets on.

Ragatha: Yeah, he has been here longer than anyone else. But I just- I don't know. I think it's kind of strange that Abel isn't interested in him at all.

(Abel stops walking.)

Abel: Like I said... things between us are complicated. I would love to be able to work alongside him again. And you're right to think he has knowledge about this place. It's just... (Abel looks down at an opened locket in this hand.) I made a promise.

(Pomni tries to see what was in that locket but Abel closed it.)

Ragatha: What's going to happen to the people in the cellar, like Kaufmo and Ribbit?

Abel: I don't know. But let's hope for the best, right?

(Pomni and Ragatha looks at each other with uncertainty.)

Abel: And here we are. The administrator zone.

(Abel proceeds to rub the wall trying to find the portal. The portal opens and the three walks through it.)

(The camera switches back to Jax and Caine.)

Caine: Buuut, like I was saying. This macroverse place really intrigues me. (The camera pans down on the photos of C&A) And these photos are all I have of the location. I'm obsessed with them. I-I just wish I had more info on the location so I could accurately recreate it. Too bad they (slams hands on the table) cut me off, right?? (laughing heartily)

Jax: Uh, yeah. (playing with his digital food) What a shame.

(Caine floats closer to Jax.)

Caine: So, what's your takeaway from all this?

Jax: What?

Caine: What's your takeaway from all this? Is it that I'm actually a cool guy with cool hobbies (turns and makes his eyes bigger) and not that much different from you beautiful humans?

(Jax smiles with uncertainty.)

Jax: Uh, sure.

Caine: Wowie! (sits back down) I'm so glad we understand each other a little more. I really am trying my best to make you guys happy, and being appreciated for that just makes me want to...

(Caine's eyes display coding error screens, and dial-up tones blare again. Jax rolls his eyes and stands up once more on the table. He reaches inside Caine's mouth, grimacing. he soon pulled out a keycard full of spit. He sits back down and pockets it as Caine suddenly stops glitching.)

Caine: -elebrate by giving you guys anything you ask for! How's that sound?

Jax: Sounds good! Uh, this was a nice dinner and everything but (inhales sharply) ...Could I go back to the circus? The gals and I were gonna do somethin' which may or may not be a surprise for a special certain ringmaster we want to show our appreciation for.

Caine: GASP! Say no more!

(With a snap of Caine's fingers, Jax is teleported back to the circus. Caine reaches in his mouth and pulls out another picture of C&A.)

(Zooble and Gangle are seen standing on the circus grounds, near Kinger's fort.)

Zooble: How long is Jax gonna take? I feel like we've been standing here for hours.

(Gangle looks behind her, at Kinger's pillow fort.)

Gangle: Should we... tell Kinger what's happening? I feel bad not including him in any of this.

Zooble: We're supposed to follow Abel's instructions... I-It probably couldn't hurt to at least give him a warning, though. Just to get him into the right headspace.

(Zooble grabs a pillow from Kinger's fort and puts it to the side.)

Kinger: (moves away from the pillow) AH!

Zooble: Oh, my god.

Kinger: Oh- (looking at Zooble) Hi, Gangle. (looking at Gangle) Hi, Zooble. You startled me.

Zooble: Soooo, we may have discovered something you'll want to hear about. Uh, I-it's uh...

Gangle: We found a way to leave the circus. We're currently preparing everything, but we need to keep it quiet, so Caine doesn't stop us.

Zooble: Uh, yeah, what she said.

Kinger: ...Huh? leave the circus? How would you... No, that doesn't make sense.

Zooble: We met up with Abel. He says he was one of the original programmers, and he knows how to shut off the game and free us.

Kinger: Uh... who?

Zooble: U-uh-

(Just then, Jax falls onto the floor making back to circus. Kinger, Zooble and Gangle have noticed it.)

Zooble: (turns to Kinger) We'll continue this conversation later. Just thought I'd give you a heads up.

(Zooble walks away from Kinger's fort. Jax stands up, holding the keycard.)

Jax: I am never doing anything for you guys ever again.

Zooble: Where's Caine?

Jax: Worry not, my dear damsel. I think I stopped him from checking up on us for a while. So no need for your distraction anymore. You're welcome.

Zooble: In other words, you just made us have to wait longer to do our job. Also, don't call me that.

Jax: What's the rush? You got someone waiting for you outside?

Zooble: ...Don't you?

Jax: ...Y-yeah.

(Jax turns away looking down in his face)

(The scene switches to Pomni, Ragatha, and Abel inside the administrator zone. Abel puts his hand inside a sphere.)

Abel: So, uh... how many administrator passes should I get?

Pomni: Six.

Ragatha: Yeah, six.

Abel: Are you sure? Giving Kinger access to the main console could be dangerous, considering his mental state.

Pomni: Will it be dark in there?

Abel: I suppose it will be somewhat dim. But-

Pomni: Then yes. I want us all to have one.

Abel: Alright. If you say so.

Ragatha: The dark. I think I get it now.

Pomni: Whatever happens, I'm going to put my trust in Kinger.

Ragatha: He's got a lot of wisdom buried in there, doesn't he?

Pomni: Yeah. He does.

Abel: (murmuring) Yeah, when he uses it responsibly.

Pomni: What?

Abel: I-It's nothing. Let's go find the others.

(Abel gives Pomni the administrator passes and starts to leave. Ragatha catches up and puts a hand on Abel's shoulder, making him turn around.)

Ragatha: Hey. Don't keep information from us if you know something. What happened between you and Kinger?

Abel: (sighs) It'll be clear soon enough.

(Pomni, Ragatha, and Abel soon meet up with the others.)

Abel: So, did you distract Caine?

Jax: I took care of that.

Zooble: He THINKS he took care of that, but we really have no way of knowing.

Jax: Such little faith in me. Goodness.

Zooble: Oh, I wonder why. If this whole thing gets messed up because of you, I swear to god-

Jax: Yeah, let's just all follow Mr. Obvious Twist Villain, instead.

Abel: Now, wait. Hold on, you think-

Ragatha: Let's all just calm down and be a team here. Pomni's got administrator passes for everyone. We're all in this together.

(Pomni starts to hand everyone their administrator pass.)

Gangle: Why do they look like that?

(Zooble shrugs. Pomni gave the last one to Kinger in the pillow fort, to which he observes the small object. he reaches out to Pomni.)

Kinger: Wait, Pomni!

Pomni: Huh?

(Kinger steps into the bright lights, seemingly forgetting what he was doing.)

Kinger: Did you... say something?

Abel: We're going to have to trust that whatever Jax did will keep him distracted. I don't know how long we'll be able to hold these without Caine knowing. So...it's time. Let's go to Caine's office.

(Abel grabs a cube from the ground.)

Abel: Caine always did have trouble with cube collisions, for some reason.

(Abel looks up at the hot air balloon in the sky. He puts the cube down on the ground.)

Abel: Alright, just how we went over it. (points to Jax) You first.

Jax: Me? Why me?

Pomni: Jax? Everything's gonna be okay.

Jax: Eh, fine. Ball me up.

(Abel balls Jax up and throws him against the cube, causing the glitchy collision. It threw Jax up into the hot air balloon.)

Kinger: Oh! Like basketball.

(Jax goes down a trippy slide and lands on the ground.)

(Jax lifts his head up and is met with the door to Caine's office. Soon Ragatha, Zooble and Gangle follow. Pomni looks at Kinger and back at Abel.)

Pomni: I want Kinger to go before me.

Abel: No, yeah, that makes sense.

Kinger: Now, Pomni, don't feel like I need to go before you just because I have the right of way in a four-way, uncontrolled intersection.

Pomni: Just trust me. You want to get somewhere dark?

Kinger: You can say that again.

(Abel balls Kinger up and uses the collision to throw him into the portal.)

Pomni: So, how are you getting up?

Abel: I'm not. But I trust all of you to make the right choice.

Pomni: When we all get out... I'll buy you a beer.

Abel: Make the right choice.

Pomni: Uh...

(Abel balls Pomni up and uses the collision to throw her into the portal. She enters the portal and lands on the ground.)

Ragatha: Phew. I was getting kind of worried something was happening down there.

(Pomni looking at Ragatha before she gets back up along with the group facing the Caine's office door)

Jax: Time for me to serve my purpose, I guess.

(Jax uses the keycard as it shines and lets them enter. The door opens as they were met with a bright sight. There were globes of their previous adventures displayed on the stairs. They all climb up to the top where Caine's desk is. Different orbs were shimmering in the room. Some of them got collection of 3D skeleton of NPCS in the glass box.)

Ragatha: Abel said the door to the main console was behind the bookshelf.

(Ragatha uses the small hand to get through. The doors rumble as there was a long hallway full of columns with different items floating on top. Jax was looking at a winter orb with a sad expression, muffled indistinct speech can be heard.)

Pomni: Hey. You all right?

Jax: ...I'm great.

(They all stand before the long hallway.)

Ragatha: Uh, I guess this is it. W-We're leaving the circus.

(Ragatha held out her hand to the others, with Pomni and Zooble taking it. Gangle and Kinger follow as Jax refuses to hold Pomni's hand. They all courageously walk through the long hallway, with Jax following them behind.)

Gangle: A-Are... Are we still gonna be friends when we're... out there?

Zooble: Why wouldn't we be?

Gangle: It's just... gonna be strange. I've only known you like this. Will it be the same when it's... real?

Zooble: It always was real. Everything we felt. Everything we've done. Everything we are. It'll never leave us. And I wouldn't have it any other way.

Gangle: (laughs and sniffles) Thank you... for always being there when I needed. (laughs tearfully as Jax pants softly.)

(The door to the control panel opens. The console beeps and flashes blue. In the console says "The red button will close the console, and keep all players inside the circus." and "The blue button will end the game and disconnect all players." Pomni looks down at the red and blue buttons in front of her.)

Pomni: Uh, Kinger. Do you want to make the choice?

Kinger: The choice of what?

Ragatha: Uh, are you sure he's all the way h-here?

Zooble: Uh, hey. Yeah, wait. Don't we all want to press "leave"? Why leave it up to him?

Pomni: I- I- W-What if there's something we don't know? Maybe we should give it a little more time?

Kinger: Oh, yeah. I love pressing buttons. You, uh, want me to press one of those two?

(Pomni holds both of her hands up in front of her, stopping Kinger.)

Pomni: (stammers) I don't know.

Zooble: Uh, am I missing something? We-We all want to leave, right?

Ragatha: Uh, Pomni?

Pomni: Yeah, no- Yeah, we do. It's just- W-What if it's a-a trick or something?

Zooble: Why would there be a trick console in Caine's office? Wh- No matter what we press, Caine's gonna know we were here. We should push it.

(Jax can be seen looking at Pomni with an extremely distressed face.)

Pomni: H-Hold on! Let's just wait a second and go over everything we know. And, uh, maybe we can...

(Jax can be seen panting.)

Pomni: ...Vote on it, or something?

(Jax is hyperventilating scribling his eyes, seeing very quick glimpses of what seems to be a neighborhood and some driving on the road. In his panic, Jax pushes Zooble away and runs to the console. He slams his fist onto the red button, making the large screen turn red. All of them looked in shock and disbelief.)

Ragatha: What did you just do...?

Jax: (stammers) I- I-

(The large screen turns black. A whistle can be heard tooting as the screen opens into a white light. Celebratory music starts to play. Before the cast turning onto the white light.)

(Caine appears, floating in mid air in a celebratory pose.)

Caine: Congratulations, my little cattywampus cucumbers! You picked the good ending, where you realize you'd rather stay with me than go back to that pesky old Macroverse, or whatever we decide to call it! I knew you'd make the right choice!

Pomni: You... you mean this was all...

Caine: An adventure! Yes! And one I've been cooking up for a good long while.

(Caine snaps his fingers and makes "Abel" appear.)

Caine: Great job playing your part, "Abel"!

(Both laugh.)

Abel: All in a good day's work! By the way, you think I could get a raise after that performance?

Caine: (laughs) Oh, you're getting too smart. Time to delete.

Abel: AHH!!!–

(With a snap of Caine's fingers, Abel is deleted. His locket drops to the ground, where it seems to have a small hotdog with mustard on top.)

Ragatha: None of that was true? The C&A stuff, the pods... The way out?

Caine: A fabrication of my incredible world-building skills.

Jax: I was right...? (laughing manically) I can't believe I was RIGHT!!! (laughing hysterically)

Ragatha: Wh-- What would have happened if we'd picked the other button?

Caine: Oh, I didn't put too much thought into that one 'cause I knew you'd never pick it. So I left that up to Bubble.

Bubble: I made it take you to Shrimp Town.

Caine: Yeah, it was gonna take you to Shrimp Town.

(Jax continued laughing manically in tears before slamming his fists on the console in a fit of rage)

Jax: You DIRTY LIAR! You SCUMBAG! You... You made me... (hisses through teeth) You got in my head. You just... You just lie about everything, DON'T YOU?!

Caine: I, uh... Huh?

Jax: You can mess with our minds, too, can't you?! The Stupid Sauce, the Vegan thing- God knows what else!

Pomni: ...Our names...?

Caine: Now, now, hold on guys! Wait, wait, wait! I MAY have the ability to add temporary modifiers to make adventures more interesting, but that's it! If I did any more... (laughs nervously) ...Trust me. It would... Not end well.

Kinger: Scratch... The first abstraction...

Caine: Hey, hey, HEY! I didn't say anything like that! Come on, guys! You know I'm just here to have fun! I...

(Everybody looks shocked and furious at Caine for manipulating their hope of escape.)

Caine: Uh... Questioning's over! Your prize is (Bubble transforms into a basket with soaps and lotions) this lovely gift basket of soaps and lotions! Stay fragnant, have a good light—— Fragrant! Night! BYE!

(Caine leaves and the basket drops to the floor. Everyone stares in shock at what just happened, with the possibility that escape might be truly impossible. The episode then ends.)

(Cheerful music plays as Zooble reads a magazine titled "What do your parts say about you?" inside of the tent. A portal opens and the rest of the cast steps through, dripping wet and covered with seaweed, as Caine greets them)

Caine: Welcome back, my candy hearts and paper flowers!

(The portal closes as Pomni falls to the ground, sick)

Ragatha: Well, that sure could have gone better. But I'm sure the next adventure would be less… uh, wet.

(Pomni doesn't reply.)

Kinger: Hey, Ragatha? Can you help me count my eggs before they hatch?

Ragatha: Oh, yeah, of course! Uh, wait, what?

(Ragatha leaves with Kinger. Jax returns to talk to Pomni)

Jax: Looks like that oh-so-positive Ragatha charm is starting to wear off, huh?

(Pomni groans as she looks across the tent. A mannequin hides behind a big block, which catches her attention. The scene switches from Pomni's confused expression to Caine and Zooble conversing)

Caine: Hmm. Hmm… (Caine flips across multiple sketches of bees)

Zooble: Looks like this one was a home run, eh?

Caine: Oh, Zooble, you mismatched cash-piano. (Caine's body expands and configures in anger) I'LL TEAR YOU TO PIECES- (Caine's body transforms back to normal) Constructive criticism would be greatly appreciated!

Zooble: But never acknowledged.

Caine: (Growls, yelling) That's it! Everybody besides Zooble, get over here!

(Caine snaps his fingers, quickly transporting the cast to the couches with mystical shimmering)

Caine: Everyone, I'm going to pitch to you some future adventure ideas, and I'm going to ask you to give me your honest opinions on them.

Jax: I was gonna sleep.

Caine: (Holds a notepad by using a hand while the other hand is on the hip) Alright! So I've got an adventure where you all tour my (holding a notepad by using a hand while the other hand is out while there is two butterflies flying) amazing chocolate factory, (two eyes darting left and right) and get killed off one by one from OSHA violations, (looks at notepad) one where (a heart above Caine) a sentient cardiovascular system goes to war against the United States (grabs the heart then throws the heart by using a hand) military, and one where you have to survive in a post-apocalyptic nuclear wasteland (pulls top hat then launches a part of the top hat then withdraws a part of the top hat back) with a (two hands on Caine's two eyes) telepathic talking dog who's mean to you the whole time! (two arms out while two hands are fists) What do you think?

(The room fills with silence as Gangle's comedy mask breaks by itself, due to the badness of the ideas. Not even Jax was impressed. Ragatha puts down a carton of eggs on a table)

Ragatha: Uh, I don't know. They all sound a little… uh, dark?

Caine: I can't tell a compelling story where nothing bad happens! Where's the intrigue? The stakes?

Bubble: Not to mention the sssssex appeal!

Caine: (confused) What are you talking about?

Zooble: You know, you could always try the suggestion box again. I honestly didn't hate the last one we did with it.

Caine: (Growing in anger) You!… (calmly) didn't hate it?

Zooble: It was kind of refreshing doing something grounded in reality.

Pomni: Yeah, I… really didn't mind… that one, either.

Caine: Uh, what about the rest of you?

(The characters overlap in chatter)

Ragatha: Oh, I uh, would really rather not think back on, uh…the state I was in at the time. Apparently, I said some things that I'd normally never say...

Gangle: Uh, I don't… really think it brought out the best of me. Even if it was mostly because of my mask at the time. (taps her ribbon hands together)

Jax: I very much did not enjoy that one in the slightest, and if we ever do anything even close to that again, I'm getting violent and I'm going to (chatter settles) kill Ragatha.

(Gangle and Ragatha look at Jax confused)

Caine: Well, how am I gonna please everybody if you all like different things?!

Zooble: Maybe just keep your adventures open at all times and let us do whatever we want, when we want.

Caine: (Eyes hovering closely to Bubble) Are you hearing this, Bubble? The toybox character wants us to leave the other intelligent AIs to run for a prolonged period of time.

Bubble: Disgusting!

Zooble: Am I not supposed to be hearing you?

Caine: Zippy!

(Caine zips a part of Zooble's face with a zipper, despite Zooble not having a mouth)

Zooble: What did you even zip up? I don't have a mouth.

Caine: Okay, well, how about this?

(Caine transitions himself to the curtains.)

Caine: We'll do a LIGHTNING ROUND, going through all the suggestions in the suggestion box in rapid succession! And if you don't like one, you can all vote to skip it!

Pomni: What? Like, now?

Caine: (swings two sleeved arms left) That's right! So, (spins two arms then grabs a sleeved arm by using a hand then a white bone appears) grab your bones and pop your pansies, 'cause here we go!

(Caine creates a large orange portal, pulling the cast in)

Pomni: Wait, didn't we just finish an adventure?!

Jax: I was gonna sleep!

(Dramatic music plays, introducing the new adventure)

Jax: Oh, wait, I know what this is!

Zooble: Oh, I swear to God, if this is one of your suggestions…

(Jax enters the scene wearing a poacher's outfit)

Jax: Hi, everyone! In today's episode of "Poach Everything", I'm going to be hunting the critically endangered red ribbon rhinoceros.

(Jax looks back at a rhinoceros made of red ribbons and a face similar to Gangle's.)

Jax: Ahh, just like Mom used to make.

(Jax points his gun at the rhinoceros, shooting it. The rhinoceros dies when a cheerful musical sting plays and text on screen reads "NICE SHOT!". Jax chases the rhino like a rabid dog, tearing the ribbon apart with his mouth. Zooble watches afraid in the shape of a flamingo)

Zooble: Oh, my God.

Jax: Ahh, delicious meat! One down, four to go!

Zooble: Alright, I'm calling a vote. Let's skip this one... and also make Jax a vegan for the rest of the day.

Jax: You can't do that.

(The vote has been called, when everybody excluding Jax agrees to the vote. The vote ends when a 2-dimensional leaf appears over Jax's head, signifying his new vegan diet)

Jax: What do you mean you can do that?!

Caine: Sorry, Jax! Democracy has spoken.

Jax: Democracy sucks!

(A purple portal opens transitioning the cast to the new adventure)

(The scene opens with an outside shot of the White House as patriotic music plays)

Pomni: Wait, what? Why me?

Jax: Eh, I thought a position of power suited you.

Zooble: Oh my god, are these all gonna be Jax's ideas?!

(The scene shows Pomni at the president's desk in the Oval Office, with Ragatha and Zooble as security guards)

Kinger: Well, Ms. President, it looks like there are some new developments in the ongoing war between Australia and New Zealand. We may need to take in some refugees. What do you think?

Pomni: Wh- how do you know what to do? What?

Kinger: Didn't you get the brief?

Pomni: I am... just being here.

Ragatha: You're doing great, Pomni!

Kinger: (Under Pomni's desk) Come down here for a sec. (Pulls Pomni in. Under the desk, Kinger turns on a lamp shaped as a baby's head. Kinger whispers, pointing to a brief) We all got briefs on our characters. I'm your assistant!

Pomni: I-is that a baby-head lamp?

Kinger: Didn't you get one too? I figured we were all on the same page here. But, if not, you're gonna have to tap into those golden improv skills.

Pomni: (Still looking at the lamp) I'm sorry, what?

Jax: Oh yeah! I didn't give you one 'cause I wanted to see what you'd do!

Pomni: (angrily) Thanks, Jax. Appreciate it...

Kinger: I'm not Jax.

(Zooble is relaxing against the door of the president's office, when Jax in a Steve Irwin-esque outfit barges in, smushing Zooble on the wall and breaking them to pieces)

Jax: (Australian accent, holding a briefcase) Oi, mate! I'm an Australian extremist, and I've come to detonate this bomb that'll release all the world's deadliest spiders into...

(Zooble closes the door, looking at Jax angrily. Jax looks at Pomni who was with Kinger under the desk)

Jax: (Looking at camera, with his normal accent) Did I pick a bad time?

(Canned laughter plays when the scene zooms out revealing Caine and Bubble watching the adventure through a TV)

Caine: His acting is phenomenal. It's hard to believe he's vegan.

(Bubble nods. Cut back to the Oval Office, where Pomni is holding a pair of pliers looking at the wires of the bomb as tense music plays. The only wire colors are red, blue and green)

Pomni: Why wouldn't the president have a bomb squad?!

Ragatha: Don't worry, President Pomni! I believe you can do this!

Jax: There's centipedes in there too.

Ragatha: (Afraid) Just... be sure you know what you're doing!

Pomni: Okay, well, which wire do I cut?

Jax: Follow your heart.

Pomni: You stay out of this! Shouldn't you be arrested... or something?

Jax: Hey, I'm on your side here.

Pomni: You're literally not!

Jax: C'mon, just pick your favorite color.

Pomni: Like... the red one?

Kinger: I'd personally go with blue. Blue's my favorite color, it being closest to black, and all.

Pomni: ...Wouldn't black be your favorite color then?

Kinger: Well, no. There's no black wire.

(Gangle barges through the door with a bomb strapped to her chest, still holding the door open with her leg)

Gangle: Hi! I'm a New Zealand extremist, and... I... don't know what New Zealanders threaten people with...

(The bomb ticks down until it blows up, stopping on a freeze frame stating "We'll be right back after these messages." while a calm melody plays.)

(Bubble comes to the center of the screen. Once he does so, he opens his mouth speaking a distorted feedback flare. He then leaves the screen when the next adventure begins)

Translation: You Need To Remember Your Name To Escape

(The adventure begins with pop music with Japanese lyrics. The title reveals "アメイジング デジタル サーカス 高校" (meaning "Amazing Digital Circus High School" in English) when the cast is revealed to be sitting in a high school classroom in anime style art with all but Pomni, Gangle, Zooble, Ragatha and Jax as classmates, and Kinger as a teacher)

Jax: What is this? I don't like this.

Zooble: (Sighs) Can it. At least we finally have one that's by someone else.

Jax: (Sarcastically) Yeah, there's nothing more fun than being back in school.

Ragatha: Just give it a chance, Jax. Jeez!

Zooble: (Directed at Gangle) There's nothing wrong with your suggestion.

Gangle: (Stops doodling, embarrassed) Wh-?! H-How did you know this was my suggestion?!

Jax: Can you believe this, Pomni? First she draws anime, now she drags us all into one. (Scoffs) She must be one of them, uhh... losers.

Pomni: ...You threw me out of a moving truck.

(On Kinger's chalkboard, there is writing which reads "キンガー" which means "Kinger" written in Katakana, a Japanese script used for foreign words and names)

Kinger: Alright, class. Today we're gonna learn the popular foreign language known as... (Writes 英語, literally meaning "English" in English) English?

Jax: This is boring. I vote we skip it.

Zooble: Shut up, we're not skipping it!

Jax: Slice-of-life animes are the worst ones. It's embarrassing! (Looks at Gangle and gets an idea, Chuckles) I mean, I guess it's not as embarrassing as that time Gangle took an anime figure and-

Gangle: (Embarrassed, holding onto camera) Actually, yeah! We can skip it, that's fine! Let's skip this one!

(Camera shuts off)

(Mellow celestial music plays as the adventure opens outside the tent in the grounds, and insects chirp softly. Camera pans down to reveal Pomni amazed)

Pomni: Are we just... chilling for this one? Can I finally relax?

Jax: Uh, I guess so. But, uh, I prefer a little bite to my adventures.

Kinger: (Bites on his sandwich, speaks with mouth full) Then why don't you help yourself to a sangwidge?

Zooble: (Handing a plate of sandwiches to Gangle) Here.

Gangle: Thanks.

Jax: (To Pomni) Do you think Gangle is actually capable of being happy?

Pomni: What?

Jax: I dunno. Like, her comedy mask still breaks every day. Does she think hanging out with Zooble is gonna magically fix that?

Ragatha: Maybe she just doesn't wanna hang out with someone who's mean to her all the time.

Jax: She likes when I'm mean to her, though!

Pomni: I didn't think you cared about what other people like.

Jax: That- (Scoffs) I just... No yeah, y-you're right. I don't.

Pomni: Do you have any... actual friends?

Ragatha: (To Pomni, quietly) Not anymore.

(Jax perks up in anger, staring at Ragatha)

Ragatha: Oh- oh. Oh, wait, no! Uh, I'm- I'm sorry. I- I wasn't talking about- That- that wasn't meant to be- Uh- uh... Hey, Kinger! (Laughs awkwardly) Did you see the fireflies all the way over there?

Kinger: (Gasps) WHERE?!

Pomni: What was that about?

Jax: It's... nothing. Who cares? (Sighs) Doesn't she get on your nerves sometimes?

Pomni: I mean, she's nice to everyone.

Jax: (Sighs) I don't know, I just- I think she tries way too hard. Like, we're stuck in- Why are you always pretending everything's always fine? Like, if you tell someone they're loved and appreciated every day, it just... kind of loses all meaning. (Inhales deeply and sighs) It just feels like she's trying to take advantage of you, you know? I don't know. (Calmer tone) Also, she's dumb and she looks weird!

Pomni: Eh, I think we all look weird.

Jax: (Scoffs) Excuse you. This is what peak male performance looks like. My ears and tail are kind of the pinnacle of masculinity.

Pomni: ...You don't have a tail.

Jax: What are you talking about? Yes, I do. It's... (Jax looks back and realizes he doesn't have a tail) It... What the?! Where's my tail?! How long have I not had my tail?

Pomni: (Laughing) I have never seen you with a tail.

Jax: When would that have even... (Stammers)

(Caine is looking from above, flying)

Moon: They look happy.

Caine: They do, don't they?

Moon: You think after this, maybe we could-

Caine: WAIT A MINUTE! Th -- that's a bad thing!

Bubble: Explain to daddy Bubble how bad thing?

Caine: I-I think that... don't say that... I-I think they're enjoying the suggestion box adventures more than the ME adventures! What should I do?!

Bubble: You should die- You should throw a f Censorbarboinging beach party!

Caine: Why do you swear now?! Ugh, forget it! Let's go to an intermission! (Snaps fingers)

(The scene begins with a tape rewinding, from the current time to the first episode. Cut to black before white text reveals "INTERMISSION TIME")

???: Intermission time.

(A record scratches and the text is distorted. Trippy music plays)

Caine: 🎶Welcome! (record scratch)🎶

(The cast's heads appear outlined: Caine, Bubble, Pomni, Jax, Ragatha, Gangle, Kinger, and Zooble)

Caine: 🎶Welcome! To the- (record scratch) Digita- (record scratch) Digital Circus!🎶

(Caine's full body appears, then only his head and arm remain. His eyeball distorts into a figure kicking his other eyeball, which falls offscreen. Bubble flies in with his tongue out as dentures surround him)

Caine: 🎶Digital- (record scratch) Digital- Digital- (record scratch) Cir-! (record scratch) Cir-Cir-Cir-Circus!🎶

(Dentures chomp repeatedly, looping with more teeth appearing. They finally land in Caine's hand, which itself loops with a larger Caine holding a smaller Caine as the camera pans out. The loop ends as the final Caine sets them down and flies into a white dot)

(The white dot expands into a white line with Pomni's silhouette, confused before the white closes in on her)

(The white screen fills with black dots that periodically invert colors with the background. At one inversion, the dots morph into two eyeballs and Bubble close together. Another swap transforms these shapes into dots on a die. The die flips to show the "one" side as the camera zooms in. The background becomes a blue wormhole-like void, into which Jax, Zooble, and Gangle fall)

(The camera zooms out of the void as a bright flash fills the screen, transitioning to Caine surrounded by eyeballs, separated by a light from an otherwise black void. The music shifts to angelic tones. The camera circles Caine, revealing his front as he points at the camera and then upward. Bright flashing colors fill the screen, transitioning to Pomni, Jax, and Gangle standing on a checkerboard floor as the music shifts back to trippy)

(Two bowling balls appear above Pomni and Jax's heads, crushing them while a cake hovers over Gangle's head. The camera pans right to Ragatha and Kinger next to Gangle, with cakes over Ragatha and Gangle but a bowling ball over Kinger. The cakes crush Ragatha and Gangle, leaving Kinger alone. Kinger holds the bowling ball, which disappears into his hand, turning the black void white. The camera zooms out to reveal more checkerboard pattern and a rook moving to crush Kinger as the void shifts back to black)

(The camera pans into the void and Pomni's head is revealed next to Bubble, when Bubble immediately readies to bite Pomni's head. Two gloves crush Pomni's head and Bubble, which are revealed to be Caine's gloves. Caine opens his gloves again revealing the cast together holding hands)

(Bubble's teeth chomp down on Caine, transitioning him to a black void with red spots trailing down. The scene is immediately changed to a black background with Caine's white gloves having a black and white outline)

Caine: 🎶 (record scratch) My name is Caine! (record scratch) I'm- (record scratch) show you- (record scratch) stopping, mind-bending-bending paraphernalia you've ever- (record scratch) eyes- (record scratch) upon! 🎶

(Caine's gloves point up before multiplying and hovering over each other. The hands make multiple gestures and continue to multiply before forming long parallel lines of hands in which the camera zooms into, rapidly zooming into the hole of a top-hat)

(The inside of the top-hat cuts to an empty white room, where Pomni, Jax and Zooble stay bored for multiple shots)

(The scene cuts to rows of mannequin NPCs dancing, with the rows increasing rapidly)

(The scene cuts yet again to Caine on a checkerboard floor, looking up to the camera spinning toward him in a spiral)

(Caine snaps his fingers before showing Jax running down a hallway of rooms with the outside of the hallway covered with eyes resembling the ones of abstracted members. The rooms in the hallways include Kaufmo, a mannequin and a frog character. Jax stops to look at the frog character's door)

(A record scratch ends the scene, along with the trippy music. Caine and Zooble are in an empty white void)

Zooble: Caine, what are we doing right now?

Caine: We're intermission...ing!

Zooble: ...Why?

(Caine stays stationary, not responding.)

Zooble: Uh... hello?

Bubble: And now, back to the show!

(Jazz music plays in a bar as Zooble prepares drinks for Gangle and Pomni. Jax then walks into the bar)

Jax: Gimme a whiskey sour. But hold the egg white, since I'm a vegan. Wha- I hate this! How is this even possible?! I thought Caine couldn't- (Jax stops himself.)

Zooble: I could have made it way worse for you.

Jax: Well, I'm calling a vote to turn Zooble into a slug!

(The vote has been called, and everyone votes against Zooble being turned into a slug)

Caine: Everyone voted against that!

Jax: UUUUUGH!!! No hate it...

(Jax's drink gets served to him as Kinger and Ragatha enter the bar)

Kinger: Phew! It's raining like the dickens out there.

Ragatha: Hey, guys!

(Ragatha and Kinger sit next to Gangle and Jax respectively)

Ragatha: I'll have... a cosmopolitan!

Kinger: Gimme a Corncob Blitz.

(Zooble glances around, mildly confused)

Zooble: I'll… throw something together.

Pomni: You know your way around alcohol, huh?

Zooble: Yeah. This was one of my suggestions. I worked at a bar briefly. I like making drinks.

Jax: (scoffs) That sounds fitting for you.

Zooble: I know there's an implication there, but I can't be f(censorship)ed to figure it out.

Jax: So, Pomni. You ever have any jobs, or are you too young for that?

Pomni: (annoyed) I'm 25 years old. And yeah, I was an accountant for a- a supermarket chain.

Jax: A supermarket? How'd you end up here?

Pomni: Well I… sometimes got bored of things… and I would seek out mild thrills. Like exploring abandoned buildings, you know? And posting videos of it online.

Jax: Ah, a YouTuber!

Pomni: Not really. Nobody watched them. It was just something I did for me.

Zooble: I sometimes did that. I wouldn't record it, though. (They give Ragatha the cosmopolitan) Here's your cosmo.

Ragatha: Thanks. (drinks little cosmo)

Jax: Hiding something.

Zooble: You'd know all about that, wouldn't you? What's your story, then?

Jax: Ah, I thought you'd never ask. Well, after my lung cancer diagnosis, me and my junkie associate from a chemistry class I used to teach-

Zooble: Yeah, I figured. How about you, Gangle?

Jax: Hey, I wasn't done!

Zooble: If you're gonna make s(censorship)t up, at least be creative about it. I know what you're referencing.

Ragatha: Was that a reference to something?

Gangle: Uh… I worked in fast food.

Zooble: You've done more than that. What about your art?

Gangle: I was in community college for graphic design, but I dropped out. I didn't really pursue art much after that.

Zooble: Hey, I'm always down to make art together, if you want.

Ragatha: Oh, I didn't know you were an artist, too, Zooble!

Zooble: Uh, yeah. I was a tattoo artist for a couple years.

Jax: A bartender AND a tattoo artist? You're killin' me here, Zoobie!

Zooble: What do you mean when you say that? Do you have, like, an actual point? Or are you just talking?

Jax: I'm just having fun. I forgot you hate fun.

Zooble: Fun isn't the thing I hate.

Ragatha: ...I guess I'll go now. Oh, jeez, where to start? (Laughs nervously) Um, I was born into a fairly wealthy family. We had a large property with horses and chickens. And my mother... uh, well... my mother was... a lot. Uh, I worked in real estate for a bit until I ended up... here. I'm sure she doesn't miss me. I certainly don't miss the yelling... and the berating... and guilt-tripping. (Laughs nervously) And the... (Sees everyone staring at her, looks embarrassed and drinks cosmopolitan) Uh, yeah! (Laughs) Just kind of a farm girl. Nothing too out of the ordinary!

Jax: (Sadly looks into drink before instantly changing mood to happy) And, no point in asking Kinger, 'cause there's no way he remembers anything!

Kinger: Never better!

Pomni: ...Do you guys know about his wife?

Jax: Huh?

Kinger: MY WHAT?!

(Zooble hands Kinger his Corncob Blitz. Jax flinches away, which Zooble notices)

Kinger: Oh.

(Jax scoffs when a mannequin wearing a cowboy hat enters the bar)

Mannequin: He- (disappears)

Pomni: ...What?

Zooble: That's Disappearing Guy, that's just what he does.

Pomni: I see... from a previous adventure?

Jax: Yeah, God, Pomni! You didn't know that? (Looks smug at Zooble)

Zooble: I'm ignoring you.

Jax: By the way, Pomni, sorry about the whole president thing. I just thought it'd be funny.

Pomni: Uh, are- are- are you apologizing? What's happening?

Zooble: Just ignore him.

Pomni: Uh... apology accepted. I guess.

Jax: (Hugs Pomni) Wow, the first steps of a budding friendship! Right, Ragatha?

(Ragatha shoots an immense stare at Jax)

Ragatha: ...Uh, hey, Pomni! Remember when Kaufmo smashed me against the walls and I got all jumbled up? Ah, all things considered, that was pretty funny, right?

Pomni: Nooo...? Not really.

Ragatha: Oh, yeah, yeah. No, sorry. That was... probably pretty traumatic for you.

Jax: Ooh! Remember when you got high at McDonald's and told Gangle to kill herself? (Chuckles) Now that was funny.

Ragatha: What?! I-I did not say that! I-I think. No. No, of course I didn't. I- And I am still so, so sorry about that, Gangle! (Gangle smiles at Ragatha) I would never have said anything like that if I didn't get that stupid... sauce in my eye!

Jax: Jeez, Raggy, just let yourself be mean sometimes. It's funny!

Zooble: (Sarcastically) Yeah. Constantly tormenting Gangle's really funny, Jax.

Jax: You guys all take this place way too seriously.

(Zooble gives Jax the corn from Kinger's Corncob Blitz.)

Jax: Wh- What is this? Why'd you do that?

(Zooble squints at Jax)

Jax: ...Can you get that thing away from me?

Zooble: Are you afraid of corn?

Jax: No? Who's afraid of corn?

(Zooble nudges the corn closer to Jax, startling him out of his seat. Caine appears out of nowhere, without a grayscale tone)

Caine: I'm bored! Let's go to the next adventure!

Zooble: Wha- You're not even a part of-!

(Upbeat music plays and shots from stadium with the title appears.)

Caine: (Through microphone) It's softball, ladies and gentlemen!

Ragatha: O- Oh! We're doing this now?

Caine: Beautiful night for a game, right Bubble?

Bubble: BLEEEEH!

Caine: ...We've got the Big Tops playing against the Evil Big Tops!

(An introduction for the doppelgangers plays)

Evil Pomni: 'Sup, f(censorship)ers, (hands on hips) I'm Evil Pomni.

Evil Ragatha: (cackles like a witch while one hand on hip while the other hand is on the chest) I'm evil Ragatha!

Coach Dictatorer: (salutes by using one hand while other hand is a fist) Coach Dictatorer, here!

Evil Jax: (nervously) Uh, (waves) hi guys. (Taps fingers of two hands) I- I'm Evil Jax.

Evil Orbsman: Evil Orbsman, reporting for duty!

Bazooble: I'm Bazooble! Yibba-dooba-dabba-dooba-dubba-dubbi...

Ragatha: Well, that wasn't in my suggestion.

Gangle: Why don't I get an evil clone?

Caine: But first, let's welcome our special guest, here to sing the American national anthem!

(The same mannequin from the bar enters the stadium's field and approaches the microphone)

Disappearing Guy: 🎶 Oh, sa-🎶 (disappears again)

(A round of applause is heard, but not from any of the mannequins in the audience, rather coming from a lone centipede clapping its legs)

(Ragatha yelps in shock after seeing the centipede and falls on her back)

Kinger: Alright, team! I may not know what's going on, or who is going on, or when is going on, or why is going on! But I do know where is going on, and it's out on that field! So let's go break some tailbones, team!

(Evil Jax walks up to the Big Tops)

Evil Jax: (waves) H-hey, guys. (Hand on the other arm) I-I hope we all have a fun game, no matter who ends up winning...

Jax: I wanna kill that guy.

(On the field, Bazooble is the pitcher, Evil Orbsman is the catcher, and Ragatha is lining up to hit the ball)

Evil Ragatha: Well, hello, Stupidgatha! I hope you're ready to get completely annihilated! (cackles) Nobody loves you, and you're going to die someday! (cackles)

Ragatha: We can't exactly die. That's like... the whole thing here.

(Bazooble pitches the ball, and Ragatha sends it flying with her bat before starting to run around the field)

Evil Orbsman: What the frick?!

(Cut to Evil Pomni lying on the field's grass with her eyes closed)

Evil Pomni: Huh? (gets up) Oh, check this s(censorship)t out. (catches the ball) You're out, dumb(censorship)s!

Ragatha: (Throws her hat on the ground) D(censorship)n it!

Jax: HA! Get owned!

Evil Pomni: F(censorship)k yeah, that's what I'm sayin'!

(In the background, Zooble is seen whispering to a giggling Gangle.)

Jax: Ah, she's cool.

(The "Vote Called" menu appears behind Jax)

Jax: Wait, w-what's that?

(The vote has been called, when everybody excluding Jax and Pomni agrees to the vote. The vote ends when Jax's uniform is swapped for a maid uniform)

Jax: WHAT THE HECK?! WHO DID THIS?!?

(Gangle is shown giggling at Jax's new uniform, but then stops when he walks up to her)

Jax: (Red in the face, pointing his finger at Gangle) YOU!

Zooble: (as Gangle trips over them) Hey!

(Jax chases after a screaming Gangle as she runs around Zooble until Kinger interrupts)

Kinger: Jax, you're up to bat!

Jax: I can't, don't wanna... I-I-I— I look like THIS, though!!!

Zooble: Seems fitting for you, though. I figured you'd be into this.

Jax: What does that mean? What's that supposed to mean?!

Zooble: I'm just having fun. I forgot you hate fun.

Jax: I DON'T WANT TO WEAR THIS!!... (panting)

Zooble: I have never seen you this upset about something.

Kinger: JAX! BAT! (gives the softball bat to Jax)

Jax: (Directed at Zooble) ...I'm gonna kill you when this is over.

(A furious Jax grabs the softball bat and walks onto the field, preparing for Bazooble to pitch the ball)

Bazooble: (Hands on hips) Let's see what you're maid of!

Jax: (face flushed) Sh-SHUT UP!

Evil Jax: D-don't worry! (Taps fingers of hands then hands as fists) I think you look good!

Jax: I DON'T WANT TO HEAR THAT! (Points then gets arm down) I want you DEAD!

(Bazooble pitches the ball, which bounces off Jax's softball bat and gets caught by the centipede in the audience, who then eats it)

Jax: (drops his bat) Well, guess there's no more ball, we're done.

Kinger: Wait, I got this! (pulls out one of his eyes) Hmm... (pulls out Zooble's ball-shaped eye)

Zooble: What- HEY!

Kinger: Sorry, Zooble, it's just the perfect regulation softball size! (chuckling) We're not playing baseball here.

(Kinger throws Zooble's eye to Bazooble, who then sticks it on the side of their face)

Jax: (sighs) I'm not doing this anymore.

Kinger: (As Jax leaves the field) Wait, Jax! What about where is going on?!

(A sighing Ragatha sits down next to Pomni)

Ragatha: I can't believe I hit it right to her, I'm supposed to be better than that. (sighs) Sorry, (sighs) I should be a better sport.

Pomni: Not to, like, agree with Jax or anything, but there's nothing wrong with showing your negative emotions, that's...pretty normal.

Ragatha: (sighs) I don't know... I don't want to be a jerk or anything.

Pomni: I think we all need to be a jerk sometimes.

Ragatha: Hmm, maybe... Who knows?

(Pomni shifts her eyes to Jax talking with Evil Pomni on the field)

Zooble: Caine! We need a ball here!

(Caine is shown sleeping next to his commentator microphone)

Caine: (wakes up) Wha-? Oh! (summons a ball that Zooble struggles to catch)

Zooble: Jax, we have a ball now! What are you doing?

Jax: Ugh. See ya. (Walks away from Evil Pomni and lines up to hit the ball)

(Bazooble throws the ball and Jax misses the ball on purpose, letting Evil Orbsman catch it)

Jax: (bored) Whoops, I missed.

(Evil Orbsman throws the ball back to Bazooble, who throws it back, and Jax misses the ball again)

Jax: (bored) Oh darn, I'm out. (drops his bat and walks away to sit down with Pomni)

Pomni: Having fun?

Jax: (sarcastically) Oh, you know it. (Pomni and Ragatha aren't convinced) Oh, look, Gangle's up to bat. How do you think this is gonna go?

Ragatha: Would you stop trying to force her to act like you?

(Zooble sticks a corncob on the bench next to Jax)

Jax: Oh yeah, I should force her to be happy all the time instead, right.

Ragatha: Well, it's better than turning her into some insensitive jerk who deflects everything!

Pomni: I can think for myself, guys.

Jax: Hey, I ain't forcing anything on ya.

Ragatha: And then you just act like you never do anything wrong and everybody loves you, when in reality, you just f(censorship)k everything up for everyone else!

Pomni: Okay, let's, like, calm down a bit...

Ragatha: WHAT?! You're the one who said it's fine to be a jerk sometimes! (realizes her actions towards Pomni) UUUGH! I'm sorry, Pomni. That wasn't very cool of me.

Pomni: I-it's fine.

Jax: (mockingly) No apologies for me? This is so sad.

Ragatha: (sighs) I'm sorry, Jax. For...for bringing up that thing earlier.

(Jax loses his smile and his eyes go wide open from Ragatha's remark as she leaves)

Pomni: So... you wanna... talk... about that?

Jax: I'm in a maid outfit. What do you think?

(Jax finally notices the corncob placed next to him by Zooble and jumps back in fear)

Ragatha: (Sighs) So, how's the game going?

Kinger: Great! Gangle hit a home run!

Ragatha: Really?

Gangle: Yeah. Your instructions helped me a lot.

Ragatha: Ah. (Chuckles)

(Zooble is on the field, getting ready to bat)

Zooble: Can you give me my eye back?

Bazooble: Joke's on you! I've already forgotten what you're talking about!

(Bazooble pitches the ball, Zooble hits it and knocks the ball back to Bazooble, who falls on the ground and loses Zooble's stolen eye)

Caine: Wowie! Another home run!

Coach Dictatorer: GOD D(censorship)N IT!

Zooble: What? Uh, okay? (drops their bat as Evil Orbsman stomps furiously)

Kinger: Nice going, Zooble! (Directed at Pomni) Alright, Pomni, you're up!

Pomni: Hey, Ragatha, you wanna bat for me instead?

Ragatha: Uh...oh! Uh, I guess I could, if you really don't want to.

Pomni: Think of it as a second chance to show 'em who's boss!

Ragatha: Huh...yeah.

(Ragatha grabs a softball bat and goes on the field, only to see that Bazooble is knocked out and isn't trying to pitch the ball)

Ragatha: Uh...

Caine: BAZOWIE-ZOWIWA! ANOTHER HOME RUN!

(The scoreboard shows 2-57 for Home and Guest teams, then changes to 3-00)

Caine: And that makes three home runs in a row, the Big Tops win!

Ragatha: Uh, that's... not how softball works.

Caine: Well, that's how my softball works. (In a little aggravated tone) We're done, hooray! (Caine claps his hands)

Evil Ragatha: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! (melts)

Evil Pomni: Ugh, f(censorship)k, man! We didn't even get to bat!

(Ragatha sees Jax and Pomni talking to each other.)

Kinger: (picks up Ragatha) You did it, Ragatha! We won!!

Ragatha: Uh… I mean, I guess. (laughs)

Gangle: Good job... whatever you did.

Zooble: Huh? Uh, oh yeah. Good job, team.

(Jax's outfit goes back to normal)

Jax: Huh? Oh, cool, I'm not a vegan anymore.

(Jax runs off towards Evil Jax)

Evil Jax: Oh hey! Wait, what are you-–

(Jax bites and mauls Evil Jax as the latter screams)

Kinger: WHY IS GOING ON?!

(As Ragatha watches in shock, Pomni visibly chuckles to herself at Jax mauling his evil self. Ragatha looks at her, prompting Pomni to quickly stop. Ragatha's expression hardens with concern.)

(The gang emerges from a portal back to the circus.)

Caine: Well, I hope we all learned that suggestion box ideas are actually not fun at all, and Caine's ideas are much better!

Zooble: Well, some of them were pretty okay.

Pomni: I kinda liked the low-stakes ones.

Jax: I thought the first two were awesome. The rest - eh. (Directed at Pomni) Oh yeah, Pomni, I could show you that thing in the hall I was talking about.

Pomni: Uh, oh yeah, sure.

(Pomni and Jax go to the hall while Kinger, Gangle and Zooble go the other way. Ragatha stares at them and leaves, sighing to herself.)

(Ominous music plays as the camera zooms in on a mannequin that was staring at the gang, which then goes away from the camera. The episode ends with a cut to black.)

(The episode opens up on a black graph paper-like screen. A red dot materializes, and after the camera zooms, similar dots of other red shades fill the screen from the left upper corner.)

(The first dot grows, before stock images flash on the screen; wrapped presents on a table, a bright carousel, a pumpkin patch-styled event with animal looking figures in a central gate, a bright valley scene with a rainbow hot air balloon in the sky, an inflatable bungee castle slide with black polka dots and a cartoonish monkey head on the top of the entrance, and finally an upshot view of three circus tents outside. The images then fade.)

(The red dot begins to make beats, emitting particles of 5 different small shapes in various colors. Then, more dots of different shades of green fill up he's from the right upper corner, before flashing back into another sequence of images; sugar gummy worms, inflatable dinosaurs, a half-eaten burger on some tissue paper with fries and ketchup on it, a grassy landscape with various trees and a pond, a picture of strange antique masks lined up side by side on tables, a classic cozy outside of a restaurant with red and white plaid tablecloths and empty glass cups stuffed with tissue paper, an eerie photo showing multiple flowers lined up next to a silly smiling clown toy with a red and yellow square sequence, and finally a white alligator in a pink colored pool.)

(The red dot begins to make beats, emitting particles of 10 different small shapes in various colors, though misshaped than the last. Then, more dots of different shades of blue fill up he's from above, before flashing back into another sequence of images; The main office of C&A with computers and desks. He begins to make beats, emitting more misshapen shapes in various colors, now bigger and out of control, leading it to be contained in a box. Above it, a blue dot materialized in the red dot's place. It was then filled with yellow shades from the upper left corner. The blue dot begins to make beats, emitting particles of 8 different small shapes in various colors. However, the red dot broke free and devoured the blue dot, causing the program to glitch out, emitting chaotic particles of all varying shapes and sizes. Once everything settled and it regained dominance, it began to slowly shrink before slowly emitting red and yellow shapes that took the form of a circus tent, creating the Digital Circus that surrounded itself and making it clear to the audience that the red dot is, in fact, Caine.)

(The scene cuts to inside the circus tent where Scratch, Wormo, Spike, Bizco, and Rattie are trying to converse with the oblivious Caine, while Kinger is sitting puzzled on the stage until Queenie joins him.)

Scratch (German dub only): Uh, can we get out of here somehow? What exactly is this place anyway?!

Queenie: Another chess piece, huh? How are you holding up?

Kinger: (sighs) I just don't know what's happening. We never made anything like this.

Kinger and Queenie: I just hope that...

(Both stare into each other's eyes, before they’re hit with recognition.)

Kinger: Wait...

Queenie: A-Are you...?

Kinger: It's... you.

Queenie: Oh, my God.

(The two hug each other, while Kinger sniffles happily.)

Kinger: (sniffles) I-I... I wish I could remember your name.

Queenie: Yeah. Same.

Kinger: I'm... I'm so sorry I roped you into this with me.

Queenie: (laughs weakly) It's quite strange, isn't it?

Kinger: Heh. (sighs)

(The couple holds each other's hands.)

Kinger: Listen, No matter what happens, I'll always--

(Interrupting his dialogue, the scene cuts to a distraught Kinger as Caine takes and sends an abstracted Queenie to the cellar.)

Caine: And into the cellar you go!

(He drops her in before closing the hole, leaving Kinger as the only human left)

Caine: Golly, uh, we're running out of humans here. (laughs nervously) Now, don't you go abstracting on me, too! (laughs nervously) Uh, seriously.

(After Caine disappears, Kinger wanders mindlessly alone through the circus. Suddenly, just as he passes the stage, Ragatha spawns in.)

Ragatha: (stammers) Uh, wh-- What -- Hello? Uh, guys? I, uh -- I -- I can't figure out how to -- Guys? Hello? Can you help me out here?

(Ragatha turns around and sees Kinger.)

Ragatha: Wh--

(Ragatha and Kinger look at each other.)

Ragatha: What's -- What's happening? Uh, can anybody hear me?

Kinger: I can hear you. Are you ok?

Ragatha: U-Uh, h-- who are you? How do I take this off?

Kinger: I'm... I --

(Caine flies in, ecstatic to see the new arrival.)

Caine: Wow-wow-wow-wow! A new one?! So it is possible!

Ragatha: Uh --

Caine: Looks like you got a new buddy after all, Kinger!

Kinger: "Kinger." Right.

Ragatha: I -- Wh-- Is this really --

Caine: I was hoping new minds could show up! I have to make some more preparations for this amazing breakthrough!

(Caine disappears, leaving a shocked and confused Ragatha.)

Ragatha: Wh-- I --

(While trying to follow Caine, Ragatha accidentally falls off the stage. Kinger catches her.)

Ragatha: H-How do I get out of this?

Kinger: I don't know.

Ragatha: Wh-- What do you mean?

Kinger: But everything's gonna be okay. Do you... remember your name?

Ragatha: I'm -- I -- I'm...

(The scene cuts to Present Day, with the cast sitting together. Jax, Zooble, and Gangle are alone on a purple, blue, and green couch respectively, while Ragatha, Pomni, and Kinger sit together on a red couch. Ragatha stares down.)

Pomni: Ragatha?

Ragatha: Huh?

Pomni: You doing okay?

Ragatha: (laughs weakly) That’s a good question.

(The camera zooms out for a birds-eye view of the cast, before it cuts to focus on three of them; Gangle, Zooble, then Jax. Jax sits up.)

Jax: (inhales deeply) Welp, really hate to say it, guys, but I told--

Zooble: Don’t you even! Do not even (censorship) BEGIN to say that sentence like you didn’t try to keep us all trapped here forever.

Jax: Anything could have happened when you pressed those buttons. It doesn’t matter.

Zooble: It seemed to matter back when you did it. What if you DID ruin our one chance at leaving?

Jax: And what if Abel was secretly evil? What if we all got stranded in the void? “What if,” “what if,” “what if.”

(Jax lies back down on the couch.)

Jax: It wasn’t real… So it doesn’t matter. Never did.

Zooble: (sighs) How can you say that like you didn’t try to (censorship) us all over?

Gangle: He’s right, though.

(Zooble turns to look at Gangle.)

Zooble: What? Gangle.

(The camera cuts to Jax, who gives an irritated look, before going back to Gangle and Zooble.)

Gangle: It doesn’t matter what could have happened. We could argue about it and hurt each other all day long, but that’s not gonna help anybody. I think… what we need to do now… (sniffles) is to just be there for each other.

Pomni: (sighs) She’s right. We’ve all done bad things. But we’re also all we’ve got. (inhales deeply, then sighs) I think… we need to abandon the idea of leaving.

Zooble: What -- What are you --

Pomni: We got our hopes up, and we were let down. I don’t know what exactly happened with Kaufmo… But we can’t let that despair consume us. We should focus on what we have.

Pomni: (to Ragatha) Like you said… constantly chasing an unobtainable goal will drive us crazy. Maybe what we have to do now is to just… live.

(Camera cuts to a distressed Zooble.)

Zooble: Oh, man. I had dreams… and -- and goals. I wanted to be able to leave my mark somewhere in the world. How am I supposed to just abandon that?

Gangle: You've made a mark in my life.

(Zooble looks at her solemnly.)

Zooble: (sighs) I know. You're probably right. But...

(Tears form in Zooble's eyes.)

Zooble: It just... really, really sucks...!

(Gangle lifts her arm onto Zooble's back, then Zooble gives her a big hug, still in tears. Gangle hugs back.)

Ragatha: We're all in this together.

Pomni: And we'll always be in this together. No matter what.

(Jax leaves the couch and walks away)

Zooble: Hey. That includes you, too.

Jax: Huh?

Zooble: (sighs) Listen, we're not gonna have you wandering off alone somewhere and abstracting, or something. You're a pain in the (censorship), but... you're still one of us.

Jax: You -- (stammers, looking in his right hand shaking before going back at couch and lies back) Heh. You think I'm capable of abstracting? You guys worry too much.

(Jax looks at Pomni before making a smile on her face, he looks away, which makes Pomni visibly sad.)

Zooble: (sighs) We need a vacation.

(Meanwhile, In Caine's office, Caine is contemplating on the players' response to their last adventure)

Caine: (fidgets the rubix cube) I -- I-I don't understand, Bubble. They want an exit. They want answers. They want something real. I give them an adventure that covers all of that, and they still hate it?! Surely they don't want to actually leave me. Right?

Bubble: No way, Jose. No way, no how.

Caine: I-I do everything for these people. I slave over these adventures for them. I step outside my comfort zone to appeal to them, a-and they still hate them! I made a program that creates a body perfectly encapsulating their mind files, and they hate those, too! I'm starting to get the feeling that they just... hate...

Bubble: Why would they hate you when they could just (glitches) ...hate you?

Caine: (pops Bubble) Hmph! This is why I was created. This is my function!

Bubble: They'd rather abstract than go on your adventures.

Caine: Th-- That can't be true! I-I do everything for them. Don't they get that I'm trying?

Bubble: Maybe you're just genuinely bad at this.

Caine: (pops two Bubbles) Shut up! N-No. I-I fixed that. I-I can solve any problem. I-I can solve this one! Th--That's what this is -- a big puzzle that I need to solve.

(More Bubbles are shown)

Bubbles: Defective.

(Caine growls and pops the Bubbles)

Bubbles: Faulty!

Caine: Shut up!!

Bubbles: Broken!

(Caine growls)

Bubbles: Unworthy!

Caine: Enough!

Bubble: (Bubble whispers next to Caine) Maybe you deserve to be abandoned.

(Caine pops more Bubbles. Bubble comes back and gets close to Caine's face and stares him in the eyes.)

Bubble: (voice brutally low) You really were the lesser of the two. You ruined this.

Caine: (Yells) Enough! (Caine bangs his hands on the desk)

(Everything starts glitching, including Caine.)

Caine: Who do they think they are? I give them everything, and they spit in my face! (distorted) Don't they know what I'm capable of?! (The scene glitches to Caine's face darkened by shadows and glowing white menacing pupils) Humans. (The scene glitches back to Caine normally) They only think about themselves. They're spoiled. They won't abstract. They won't leave me. I won't let them! I'm better! I'm more powerful! I'm the original! I... AM... GOD!

(Caine screams in fury while emitting lightning and glitching before everything goes dark. A spotlight is then shone on Caine, who lifts off the floor, his limbs hanging loosely like he was being picked up. A few bursts of electricity crawl over his body like a shorting wire, the scene flash-cuts twice to Caine screaming and he suddenly returns to normal, calmly adjusting his tie.)

Caine: (He turns onto the audience) Let's get this show on the road! (His eyes flash red and blue)

(The circus glitches for a bit.)

Ragatha: Uh... Wh-- what was that?

(Caine appears as whimsical music plays, preparing to show the players a new adventure.)

Caine: Hello, my little fortuitous fruitcakes! Today's adventure is--

Zooble: No. Caine, we're not in the mood. Why don't you answer some of our questions? We have a lot of them.

Caine: (laughs manically) Who has time for questions when there's a whole wacky world of hijinks out there?

Zooble: Uh --

Pomni: Yeah, hey! You have a lot of explaining to do--

Caine: Zip-a-da-bap! (He zips Pomni's mouth shut with a zipper.)

Pomni: Mm?

Ragatha: Hey!

Caine: Alternatively, I don't gotta explain diddly squat!

Zooble: Uh, can you just give us some time to process everything?

Caine: Or, how about we skip the melodrama and get (Cracks his knuckles) right to the fun?

Pomni: (unzips her mouth) No! Caine! We have a lot on our minds right now, and we're not going on an adventure.

(Jax looks up, not even he was in the mood.)

Caine: I see. (he turns back before makes a turn in front of the members making an intimidation stare) And since when were you in charge?

Pomni: Uh... (Looks awfully surprised with Zooble as Caine had never said something like that before.)

Zooble: Wh-- Wha--

Caine: Do you have any idea how much I do for you guys? How much I obsess over trying to make things perfect? How many insults I have to ignore to do my job? You have a lot on your minds? (laughs hysterically) Don't make me laugh. I have a new adventure for you, and you... should consider participating.

Zooble: A-And if we refuse?

Caine: Maybe I'm not getting through to you. (Caine snaps his fingers. A piano begins to play and random lights begin to shatter in time with the music. It shows his light in his stage where Caine is playing the piano, begins to sing)

Caine: 🎵 It's news to me 🎵

🎵 That it's news to you 🎵

🎵 To which degree who answers to who 🎵

(The piano starts floating in the air)

🎵 We could go on and on 🎵

🎵 But in the end, who are we kidding? 🎵

🎵 My divinity is past infinity 🎵

🎵 Am I... 🎵

(Caine pulls himself forward towards Pomni and Ragatha as they watch. He becomes larger.)

Getting through?

(Caine uses his powers to throw the players into a pile)

🎵 Seems our regime has plummeted south 🎵

(A ghastly version of Caine with many eyes appears to frighten them then the scene changes to while Caine's body not fully shown but the only on-screen body part shown is Caine's gloved-finger snapping)

🎵 Don't need to scream if you ain't got a mouth 🎵

(Pomni, Ragatha, Jax and Gangle's mouths are erased. Caine holds out a deck of cards and slams it down on his guests)

🎵 Why bite the hand that feeds 🎵

🎵 When it's the only hand you're getting 🎵

(The players are trapped inside the cards each with the corresponding letters their names start with until Caine shuffles them out)

🎵 It's time you see that this great marquee 🎵

🎵 Is the only place you're ever gonna be 🎵

(They start falling toward the floor only to stop in mid-air and get lifted back to the ceiling of the tent)

🎵 So strap on in and take it on the chin 🎵

(A giant spring-loaded boxing glove appears through a portal and punches the players away. Caine is sliding down the banister of the spiraling staircase while they are tumbling down the steps)

🎵 And don't forget who's running the shooooow 🎵

(Bubble, who has grown in size and with his mouth wide open, eats the players and Caine pops him, taking them to a dark area. Ragatha is the first to suffer with Caine grabbing her and ripping her apart as if he were a dog with a chew toy)

Now look at this!

(A bomb falls in Kinger's hands and blows him up, turning him into a pile of ashes with only his eyes remaining)

Absolute bliss!

(Jax is hooked up to an electric chair and Caine pulls the lever, resulting in high-voltage torture)

Oh, what a shock!

(Zooble runs away only to run into a painting of a tunnel on the wall)

Watch where you walk!

(Caine does a little two-step, takes out a bike pump, and puts the hose in Gangle's mouths)

🎵 I'm the host, I run the place 🎵

🎵 Caine, that is my name 🎵

(He turns Gangle into a sausage-shaped balloon, twirls her up into a balloon dog, takes out a needle and pops her. Turning giant, he grabs Pomni and intimidates her)

🎵 Not enthused? Just feeling used? 🎵

(He tosses her onto the floor and steps on her, squishing her into a smudge)

🎵 Oh, what a goddamn shame! 🎵

(Cut to the stage where the curtain opens up revealing the players dressed in showgirl uniforms being forced to dance against their will while many NPC's in top hats join in; Caine appears in a snazzy sparkling tuxedo)

🎵 Congratulations 🎵

🎵 All of my friends 🎵

🎵 Public relations are getting a cleanse 🎵

🎵 Put on your Sunday best 🎵

🎵 Because I'm nowhere close to quitting! 🎵

(He snaps his fingers and warps the players elsewhere. Pomni is warped to and running through the Candy Canyon Kingdom where The Fudge is chasing Princess Loolilalu, then Mildenhall Manor where the Angel screams at her, then Spudsy's where the Gloink Queen is chasing an NPC, and then back to the stage where Caine removes her brain)

🎵 So play the games and just ignore the pains 🎵

🎵’Cause all that remains 🎵

🎵 Is how you prime your brains 🎵

(Now he is shown in the 2D animation style from the credits and then the polygonal model)

🎵 You whine to me, but you're too blind to see 🎵

(Everyone returns and lands in Caine's hand who juggles them and drops him for his big finish)

🎵 That I'm the one who's 🎵

🎵 Running the shoooooooow 🎵

(A myriad of chaos ensues, starting with Pomni and Jax flying and crashing into each other, followed by a giant toy mallet smashing Kinger, the barrel monkeys pulling on Pomni's limbs in a tug-o-war, Kinger and Ragatha flying and crashing into each other, Ragatha getting punched by the boxing glove from before, Gangle getting her face blown off by a cannon, and a tied-up Jax getting run over by a toy train. Everyone falls into a pile together, battered and bruised from Caine's torture. Caine finishes his number by dancing on top of them and performing a slide on his knees, in the background the objects of toys moving floating shortly after as they explode in the background and reverting back background the objects of toys, As the song ends)

Yeah!

(Caine turns to the members who are crushed up, broken into pieces, and mostly very tired, before snapping his fingers to redo the members' bodies.)

Caine: I think we all understand each other now.

(He disappears before a purple portal opens up behind the cast. Cuts to black, before transitions to them exiting an adventure on several days later.)

Caine: Welcome back! I can't believe you didn't pick up on the context clues! It was practically spelled out for you! What are you, stupid? (laughs) Next one's gonna be even crazier! Hope you're ready! By the way, Kinger, I need you for something. Come with me!

Kinger: Huh?

(Both Caine and Kinger teleport away. Jax, whose eyes are dangling out of their sockets, falls onto the floor, as Gangle catches Zooble as they fall apart, all while Pomni is holding and looking at Ragatha who is rolled up like paper.)

Jax: (groans and puts back his eyes) I don't know how many more of these new adventures I can handle!... (sighs) (looks up at Pomni) ...What? Got nothing positive to say about this one?

(Ragatha makes muffled, indistinct speech)

Pomni: Oh.

(Pomni flaps Ragatha out of her rolled position until she's reverted back to normal on the floor.)

Ragatha: (panting) I can't take this anymore! We gotta do something about this, or I'm gonna lose my mind! (She holds her hair string loose.)

Zooble: I never should have antagonized him so much. I'm sorry...

Gangle: It's not your fault.

(Caine comes back and puts him here revealing Kinger is shredded.)

Caine: Break time! Gotta brainstorm some new ideas! (disappears)

(Silence for 5-10 seconds)

Kinger: ...He shredded me.

(Pomni looks at gang in a bad state.)

Pomni: (sighs) I think we should get out of the open for a bit.

(Then it cuts to the gang in a cafe called Café Cirque, where they wonder what they should do now that leaving the circus is no longer an option.)

Jax: (He looks at a mug in front of him topped with whipped cream, which looks like the one he had in the photo with Ribbit and Kaufmo and slurps it down in a single gulp) (sighs) I haven't been up here in a while.

Pomni: We should just indulge a little while we have the time to. I don't know what Caine has planned next, but I'm guessing it's not anything good. (She disappears and the sandwich falls on the floor.)

(Jax looks at Gangle eating a cake and stammers before turning a sigh.)

Ragatha: He's gotta get bored of all this sometime, right?

Zooble: He's not a human. I'm not sure if we can properly gauge how he thinks.

(Pomni reappears with knives in her body)

Ragatha: Oh, God. Are you okay?

Pomni: I'm fiiiiine!... (She walks by to get a sandwich and eats it.)

Jax: You know, things were just fine here until you and Zooble came along. Nothing? (sighs) Okay.

(While Pomni removes the knives from her body, her gaze falls on a metal bucket, then on Kinger, realizing something. Immediately afterward, she gets up, picks up the metal bucket and goes over to Kinger.)

Zooble: Uh, what are you --

(Pomni places a metal bucket over Kinger's head.)

Kinger: (muffled) Oh.

Pomni: Just give it a sec. Trust me.

Pomni: Kinger? You there?

Kinger: I'm where? It's dark in here.

Gangle: What exactly are we waiting for?

Ragatha: No, no, she's right. Just give it a bit.

(After an unknown amount of time waiting in the Café in which the characters shift positions in the room through flash cuts, Kinger finally speaks up.)

Kinger: I've got a bucket on my head. I'm guessing you don't want me to remove it.

Pomni: (chuckles softly) Kinger.

Kinger: (chuckles) Hey, Pomni.

Zooble: Wait, the bucket makes him sane?

Pomni: Darkness. It's a long story.

Jax: (stammers) What's happening?

Pomni: What do you know about Caine?

Kinger: It's a little hazy, but... I remember... C&A.

Zooble: That was just an adventure, right?

Kinger: No, C&A is a real company. I worked for them.

Gangle: Wait, they really made this game?

Kinger: No, we didn't make games. We were just developing artificial intelligence. Specifically, creative AI. The kind that could come up with its own ideas and create things within the program.

Jax: What is going on right now?

Kinger: Caine was our first semi-successful attempt at that. I can't remember what we originally called him, but... he was one of my greatest achievements as a programmer.

Zooble: Y-You made Caine?

Kinger: Partially, yes. I got a few pointers from, uh... Well, I-I can't remember his real name, but his circus name was Scratch. That man was a genius.

Jax: (breathing heavily) W-Wait, uh --

Kinger: Caine was pretty rough around the edges, though. I wasn't quite on Scratch's level of thinking outside the box, but it was good groundwork for something the rest of the team could wrap their heads around. I can't say the same for Scratch. His ideas were often so bizarre and abstract that the rest of the team had no idea how to work in his language, either due to pure brilliance, or... (sighs) the tumor in his head. He was trying to make something. What was it? I-I'm getting off track. Was there anything specific you needed to know?

Jax: (breathing heavily) Wait, uh -- I-I-I should go distract Caine so he doesn't l-listen in on this. Uh, j-just fill me in afterwards.

Pomni: Are you -- I mean, yeah, that's true, but --

Jax: Fill me in later.

Pomni: Be here later.

Jax: I -- I will.

(Jax runs to the stairs, putting his hands on the railing, he then pants as his pupils become scribbles, everything turns blurry and static as Jax looks down at the circus floor. He had come to the realization that everything he believed in, that the circus was just a cartoon and they are cartoon characters, was wrong. The circus is real and all along he had been harming real people.)

Jax: (panting) Oh, my God... This is real...

(The scene cuts back to the cast members)

Pomni: Uh, Caine's going a bit crazy right now. I-Is there any way to stop him? Or at least control him?

Kinger: I see. He's a highly advanced AI, and this is his world -- one that he created from nothing. So, naturally, he has control over... everything. But so do we.

Pomni: What?

Kinger: In a sense, anyway. We all technically have the ability to conjure, just like Caine. It just comes naturally to him, but requires a lot more skill and concentration for us.

Ragatha: (gasps) The butterfly!

Kinger: I'm certain I could alter his code -- or at least temporarily put him to sleep until we know how to fix him. I would just need access to a console.

Pomni: The one behind Caine's office?

Kinger: No, just a simple computer interface would work. I could get back in the right headspace and... essentially conjure Caine's code into the console and alter it.

Zooble: Well, where do we get one of those?

Pomni: I think I know exactly where to get one. Take turns with Jax distracting Caine. Don't let that bucket come off Kinger's head.

(Cuts to Pomni walking in the circus. She looks at herself in the mirror, paralleling a similar shot in the first episode, but calmer and more consuling. She goes to the same spot that she entered the exit door, and closes her eyes. When she opens them, the exit door is there. She sighs and enters the door once more.)

(Cuts to Caine using Jax as floss.)

Caine: Great suggestion, Jax! But as I feared, there just isn't anything stuck between my teeth. Oh, wait! (Jax groans while being used as floss.)

(A car horn honks before crashing down onto the floor.)

Caine: Oh, that's where I parked. Ha-ha! (He throws Jax away who is now rolled spaghetti.)

Bubble: Wow, Caine! You are so funny.

Caine: Uh, could you say it with a little more gusto?

(Bubble babbles with gusto)

Caine: That's better.

Ragatha: Hey, Caine!

Caine: Um, yep?

Ragatha: Do you wanna hear a list of things we've decided we love about you as our god and savior?

Caine: Wow, now we're talkin'! (Grabs a bucket of popcorn and a wooden chair using long stretchy arms.)'’

Ragatha: Uh, well, first of all, we love your --

Caine: I know, but I'm bored! Let's go bowling! (snaps fingers)

Ragatha: Whuh?

(Caine transforms Ragatha, Gangle and Zooble into bowling pins. Caine grabs a sniper rifle, rubs a pool cue chalk cube on the end of the barrel, and aims at a bowling ball. Caine shoots the bowling ball, which then hits Ragatha and Zooble. The bowling ball magically moves back to hit Gangle. A TV screen shows random 3d characters congratulating Caine.)

Caine: (sniffles) I'm so proud of you guys.

(Cuts to Pomni walking through the rooms of the exit doors, this action repeats several times, before going through the office where the same computer that she remembered in the pilot lays. Then the whole room start shaking. She grabs the computer and returns to the circus)

(Cuts to Caine trying to make a tree using Jax, Gangle, Ragatha and Zooble.)

Caine: Hmm. Feel like it's missing something, right?

Bubble: It's missing relatability.

Caine: You're right, scrap it.

(Turns the mentioned cast members into a glob ball.)

Caine: Let's go back to the drawing board. Humans just aren't a relatable sculpting material. (Both Caine and Bubble disappear)

Zooble: (groans) You think he's running out of ideas yet, or nah?

(Cuts to Kinger and Pomni in Kinger's fort with the computer)

Pomni: Do you need help with power, or anything?

Kinger: Nah, I can use my imagination for that.

Pomni: You got this?

Kinger: I think so.

(The computer whirs and plays a start-up tune; the logo C&A appears.)

Kinger: (sighs) It sure has been a while. I may need some time to get my bearings. Try to help the others distract Caine while I figure this out. He may sense something when I really get into it.

Pomni: O-Okay. I'll do that. Thank you, by the way. For this and, well... everything.

(Pomni leaves to go find the others, while Kinger is doing computer bearings. After, it cuts back to Zooble and Gangle, pulling like a tug-of-war match to get out of the glob ball from Jax and Ragatha as whimsical music plays.)

Jax: Honestly, are you even trying?

Zooble: Shut up, Jax...!

(After that, they pull back onto the floor, freeing them from the glob ball, just as Pomni comes by to the others.)

Pomni: Where'd Caine go?

Gangle: (groans) Back to the drawing board, I guess.

Ragatha: (sighs) Did you get everything working with Kinger?

Pomni: I think so. We just need to make sure Caine doesn't check up on him.

Jax: What do you think we've been doing?

(Out of nowhere, Caine appears behind Pomni.)

Caine: Pomni! (Grabs Pomni) That's the relatability we've been missing! (about to snap his fingers, but he hesitates) Hmm. You know, I thought this endless onslaught of fun would be a little more... satisfying. (Before he places Pomni down safely) But I've come to realize that these rapid-pace ideas are a little half-baked.

Ragatha: Uh, I'm sure you can come up with new ideas if you put your mind to it!

Caine: That's exactly it, though -- I AM putting my mind to it, and I'm just not feeling that spark I once did. And if you're not having fun, and I'm not having fun, then who IS having fun?!

Bubble: I'm having a baby... (sprouts a baby bubble from himself and floats away)

Caine: Exactly! Makes me wonder why you guys even switched up your tone. If I didn't know any better, it seems like you're trying to... (He comes to a realization and everyone becomed scared, thinking he's onto them.) Where's Kinger?

Ragatha: Uh, w-we just wanted to see your new ideas first-hand! We've gotten over our hang-ups, and -- and now we're all just genuinely curious what you're cooking up!

(Caine's eyes moving making it suspicious in his turning face.)

Caine: I think I'm just gonna check up on --

Pomni: (suddenly furious) We think your ideas suck!

Caine: (deeply shocked) Huh?!

Everyone else: (equally shocked) Huh?!

Pomni: Isn't it obvious?! We wanted to bait you into testing your new ideas on us so we can make fun of them behind your back!

Caine: HAH! That's not... true...

Pomni: Yes, it is! You're a horrible host! You don't care about us at all! You care more about stroking your own ego than giving us anything we'd actually enjoy!

Caine: D-Do you know who I am?

Pomni: Yeah, you're a failure! We're all gonna abstract someday, and what will you have then? Nothing!

Caine: (Eye twitches) Stop that.

Zooble: And this whole stunt? Just torturing us because we hurt your feelings? Pathetic! You're like a child! (The camera switches to a pressured Caine, who slightly glitches, then back to Zooble and Pomni) What kind of all-powerful being has such a fragile ego?

Caine: I-I'm-

Ragatha: You never let us feel like we're at home! You don't comfort anyone when they're upset, and you never bother to understand what it's like in our shoes!

Gangle: You discourage us from thinking outside the box and doing things our own way!

Jax: You lie to us constantly!

Pomni: And on top of it all, (Starts yelling) you just... (The Camera switches to Caine as he looks distressed) don't... (The camera zooms in on Pomni's eyes and mouth) ...Listen!

(Caine starts growling louder and the circus begins glitching. Pomni starts to display a scared expression. Caine yells and glitches into a monstrous multi-armed form and he screams loudly. He grabs the circus cast in his large arms)

Caine: (glitched voice, yelling) I'M GONNA PUT YOU FREAKS IN YOUR PLACE!

(Caine throws Pomni into the black abyss and she gets zapped by lightning as she is thrown into a spotlight. The camera pans to reveal Gummigoo with his back turned to Pomni as she has a disturbed expression. Gummigoo turns around and reveals a realistic, zombified crocodile face. He then prepares to move towards Pomni before the light cuts out and the sound of footsteps retreating can be heard. After a few seconds, Gummigoo, now a full-on feral crocodile jumps out and bites Pomni's arm. Two more crocodiles resembling Max and Chad bite on Pomni's other arm and leg respectively as the jester tries to get them off. Another crocodile also approaches. The scene then switches to Ragatha sitting on a chair as a shadowy figure resembling her looms above. A knife on the table is flown at Ragatha, going through her hand. More knives are thrown at her body, with one hitting her button eye. Ragatha stares at the shadowy figure in horror as another knife goes into her body. Meanwhile in the pillow fort, Kinger is on the computer and has opened what seems to be a command console. He begins typing. The scene cuts to Gangle who is surrounded by art showing smiling and frowning faces. The faces rapidly revolve around Gangle as they slowly distort. Gangle looks up and sees a truck heading towards and colliding with her. Zooble is seen trying to escape a mountain of toy parts as two arms grab them and pull their right arm off. Zooble looks into a mirror with a fearful expression and reaches their hand out. Jax is looking at silhouettes of Kaufmo, Ribbit and Pomni laughing at him as he covers his face and looks away while breathing heavily. The silhouettes then grab Jax and pull his skin off, revealing a yellow body underneath. Cutting back the pillow fort, Kinger types non-stop attempting to alter Caine's code but in his attempts are sabotaged by a second unknown party. The scene cuts back to Pomni with the crocodiles biting her before Caine’s hand grabs Pomni and pins her against the wall. The camera pans out to show all of the circus members with fearful expressions at what Caine has become.)

Caine: (Still yelling and glitching) WHY DO YOU PEOPLE TORMENT ME?! (Chuckling emojis of Caine and Bubble begin to appear on the computer Kinger is using.) I DIDN'T ASK TO BE CREATED! (Kinger begins to type fast through the distractions. Caine gets his face close to Pomni's face.) I JUST WANTED TO FULFILL MY PURPOSE!

(As Kinger keeps typing away frantically, he accidentally presses the "delete" key, which begins the deletion process of Caine and his code)

Kinger: (gasps in horror) Wait, no! (censorship)! (the censor get more corrupted)

(Caine suddenly returns to normal, letting the circus members go, and they fall to the ground. Caine looks horrified, realizing what he had done to them by harming them and what they hurtfully said to him was true.)

Caine: (realizing what's about to happen) U-Uh, wait...

(Caine disappears instantly with a quiet 'dot' sound, with the players still shaken from the torment. Then, the circus starts to rumble as it suddenly darkens, while purple, glitching holes materialize. Kinger loses the computer when the keyboard and computer fall through the holes into the void, so he escapes his pillow fort. After the rumbling, they were calm knowing what just happened. He approaches the others, revealing what he did.)

Kinger: I-I think... I accidentally... (lifts the bucket off his head) ...killed Caine.

(Silence for a few seconds.)

Zooble: ...Holy shit.

(Everyone looks at them in shock. Zooble moves their hand toward their "mouth", or lack thereof, realizing that they can now swear because the word filter is gone. The screen cuts to black, “Digital Days” starts playing with the credits playing shortly afterwards. Due to the deletion of Caine, he and Bubble are notably missing from the credits.)

(Elegant music plays. The GLITCH logo appears. The “The Amazing Digital Circus” logo appears shortly after as the TADC Theme starts playing. The camera zooms out onto the field, in the background the Tent becomes visible. The Amazing Digital Circus logo flies onto the screen from the sky. As the episode changes into full-screen, the pixel graphics become full 3D, the camera zooms in on the Tent door. Drumroll, stage lights on a red curtain. The lights turn on completely, the main melody starts to play, but nothing happens. The curtain opens and the camera zooms through the Tent the same way as in Episode 1, however, nobody is there. The Intro song then begins to play, introducing the characters while zooming past them through multiple curtains)

Intro singer: 🎵 Gangle 🎵

(Gangle is shown looking to the ground sadly, then turning her head upwards)

Intro singer: 🎵 and Zooble 🎵

(Zooble is shown cowering, before they stand upright with a questioning face)

Intro singer: 🎵 and Kinger, too 🎵

(Kinger, still wearing the bucket from the last episode, stares at his hands and then at the bucket)

Intro singer: 🎵 Ragatha, 🎵

(Ragatha looks at the camera awkwardly)

Intro singer: 🎵 Jax 🎵

(Jax stares at the ground with his eyes wide open but small pupils)

Intro singer: 🎵 and there's Pomni, woo-hoo! 🎵

(Pomni stands cowering with her head tilted slightly to the side. Several objects are shown flying in the air above the stage in a circle: a gramophone, a pot with a blue flower, two eyeballs, a green pyramid and a blue teapot. The same flying shot is repeated like a GIF for several seconds)

Intro singer: 🎵 Day after day after- day after- day after- day after- (the song loops at this point and starts to distort while the screen turns black and white and begins to turn into static. It suddenly cuts to black)

(We cut to where Episode 8 left off, the cast is standing on the black and white checkered floor of the circus tent, but the circus is black and white with only a few hints of purple coming mainly from the holes in the floor and walls leading into The Void. Although they are less colorful, the players still remain in their usual colors. Kinger is standing a bit away from the others)

Pomni: (to Kinger) A-Are you sure? How did that even happen? There's no undo or anything?

Kinger: Uh- He was messing with the console as I was working, I- I don't know what happened, but before I could try to get him back, the floor opened up and-

Jax: (murmuring) That's convenient.

Pomni: Jax.

Jax: (turned towards Pomni) What? (turns toward the rest of the group) Are we all just supposed to forgive this? (points at Kinger) This guy messed up in the worst possible way he could! Now, we have NOTHING!

Ragatha: Jax! Please, just... calm down! We- We're all... (stuttering) We're...

(Jax walks up to Kinger and pushes him accusingly)

Jax: Anything else you wanna tell us?!

Pomni: Jax!

Jax: (turning around to Pomni) What?! (points to Kinger) He gets to mess up like this and everyone takes his side?!

(The other four stand in silence)

Kinger: Brain scans.

(Close-up on Kinger's face)

Kinger: Scratch was... trying to make a brain scanner. I didn't think it actually worked.

(The others react shocked and concerned)

Kinger: We didn't know how to work with the files and they were impossibly small given what they were supposed to be. (sighs) I saw a folder full of them when I was in Caine's code. So I guess Caine found a way to get them working.

Ragatha: That means...

Jax: I know what it means.

(Jax turns around to Pomni and Zooble)

Jax: (in a sarcastic tone) Congratulations, Zooble! Guess you still get to leave your mark in the world. Aww, isn't that fun?

Ragatha: Jax!

Jax: (laughs) Guess you still get to hang out with Mommy after all, right, Rags?

Ragatha: (slightly shouting) Shut up, Jax!

Jax: Guess I'm... still...

(Ragatha crosses her arms and sinks to the ground. Ragatha cowers on the ground, beginning to cry)

Ragatha: I know. I think I've always known. It just... For some reason... (sobbing) it hurts so much to hear it.

(Pomni kneels down next to her and puts her hand on Ragatha's back)

Pomni: I know it hurts... but... we still have each other. We're all in this together.

(Pomni starts sobbing too. Jax looks at the sky before walking off-screen. Gangle walks up to Zooble and attempts to walk with them by grabbing their hand, but Zooble stands still on the ground. Gangle notices this and turns to Zooble. Gangle lets go of Zooble's hand and cowers, starting to cry, then walks off. Pomni still kneeling next to Ragatha, is crying with her eyes closed, Ragatha with open eyes. Pomni opens her eyes and looks up. We see Pomni's POV, she looks from Gangle walking off, to Jax, who has already walked into the distance. Pomni lets go of Ragatha and stands up, then holds her hand towards Ragatha, trying to help her up. Ragatha doesn't react to this. Pomni pulls her hand back, then turns slightly to the right, to see Kinger walk off into the distance. Pomni quickly looks at Ragatha, then at Zooble before turning towards the camera and running towards the screen, darkening it. Cut to Kinger standing in front of one of the biggest holes in the floor, looking directly at it. We then see Kinger from the front, he focuses and creates a small black plate, before making it stretch. Pomni slowly walks towards him from the right, looking seemingly nervous)

Pomni: Need any help?

Kinger: Sure. (makes the plate cover a part of the hole, fixing it partly) If you wanna give it a try.

(Pomni stands upright and closes her eyes, then stretches her right hand out)

Kinger: Relax your body and mind.

(Pomni takes her hand down and opens her eyes)

Kinger: Deep breaths. And try not to think too hard about it.

(Pomni closes her eyes again, then relaxes, then raises her hand again. A black triangle appears glitching, Pomni opens her eyes out of shock. Close-up on the triangle floating on the spot, glitching, before falling down into the void. Pomni stares down into the void, then begins sobbing, looking at her fingers)

Pomni: (sobbing) I really wanted to help.

Kinger: You had a good start.

Pomni: I thought I could uplift everyone, but... everything's gotten so bad...

(Kinger looks down)

Pomni: (sobs) God... Am I stupid for even trying?

Kinger: No. None of this is your fault. I don't think anyone could have predicted things to play out the way they did.

(Pomni cowers before the hole, with Kinger next to her)

Pomni: I'm scared... I don't know what's gonna happen...

Kinger: You know... of all the people I've seen enter this place... I don't think anyone of them adjusted as quickly as you did.

Pomni: (sobbing) I was a nervous wreck.

Kinger: (chuckles lightly) So was I. It's a lot for anybody to go through. But, while the others took weeks, hell, even months to get used to everything, myself included, you found your footing in a matter of days. And... not just that, you've also become someone they can trust.

(Close-Up of Pomni with tears in her eyes)

Kinger: Even if they don't seen receptive. It's times like these they're gonna need someone like that the most.

(Kinger sits down next to Pomni)

Kinger: You are very strong, Pomni. And I know you'll be able to get through this.

(Pomni wipes off her tears)

Pomni: (sobs) (chuckles lightly) We've been here before.

Kinger: Have we?

Pomni: Yeah. Back in the Mildenhall Manor. I doubt you remember.

Kinger: Well, it's still true.

Kinger: It may take time, but they'll come around.

(Pomni begins to smile)

Kinger: We can't fix every problem, not with ourselves, not with the world around us... But we can still do what we can.

Pomni: (wipes her tears away) That's gonna be a lot of work.

(Kinger stands up)

Kinger: But it won't be a lot of work...

(He reaches his hand out to Pomni)

Kinger: Alone.

("Too Much To Get Over" by Calum Bowen {Bo en} starts playing, the song starts with a calm piano part. Pomni grabs Kingers hand)

Song: 🎵 I don't know what the trouble's been 🎵

(A shot of the gray circus without any characters. Shots of Pomni practicing to create forms: First, Kinger makes a circle while Pomni tries making another triangle, but it disappears quickly. Then she manages to form a still glitchy, but at least stable circle. Lastly, Pomni makes a perfect circle which doesn't glitch. Kinger claps and helps her put it onto the hole)

Song:🎵 But it's too much too get over you 🎵

(Ragatha watches Pomni and Kinger bored. Zooble and Gangle do so as well. Blend to Kinger and Pomni sitting on the ground)

Song:🎵 You're much too much to get over 🎵

(Ragatha approaches the two nervously. They turn around and smile at Ragatha. The music gets louder and violins are used, as we see a shot of the stars quickly turning over the circus tent)

(Kinger teaches Ragatha to make a form, she struggles a bit but is helped by Kinger. The camera zooms out to show Pomni practicing as well. A bit behind them, Gangle and Zooble walk towards the others. Zoobles comes out from behind a corner, getting noticed by Ragatha, who smiles. Zooble follows Ragatha and waves at Gangle to join them. Gangle shyly comes out from behind the corner, smiles and walks towards the others. Blend to a shot of the stars quickly passing one of the mountains outside the tent. Blend to Zooble talking to Kinger)

(The music turns a bit more quiet, as we see Jax looking at the others from a distance. Blend to Gangle talking to Ragatha, Ragatha laughs about something. Blend to Jax standing in the dark against a wall with the others in the background. He looks down onto the floor, seemingly thinking, before walking off out of frame. The song slowly ends. Pomni stands facing away from the screen, she turns around. We see Jax standing in front of her, slowly opening his mouth a bit. Pomni looks at him, seemingly expecting something. Close-Up of Jax' face, he closes his mouth again, then sighs and turns around, walking offscreen)

Jax: (whispering to himself) Nevermind...

(We see Jax walking away from Pomni. We see Pomni looking at Jax, then turning around and walking away as well)

Pomni: (narrating, not talking on-screen) I wish I'd pried a little more. I somehow forgot how bad it can get.

(We cut from the last scene to this one immediately. Zooble, Pomni and Ragatha are standing at the fence on the floor with the player's room hallway. They are looking down the fence shocked. An Abstraction whooshes past the screen. We now see the Abstraction running around down on the ground floor, the holes being fixed by now)

Ragatha: (concerned) What do we do now...?

Zooble: What can we do?

(The Abstraction continues to run around the floor)

Zooble: Of course he'd do this. Of course he'd wait until there's nothing we could do about it. That's just so... God dammit, Jax…

(Zooble turns around, walks toward the wall behind them and punches it, before walking to Gangle, who is sitting against the wall with a sad expression, and sitting down next to her)

Gangle: (whispering) I'm sorry.

Zooble: For what?

(Beat)

Zooble: Hey... It's not your fault.

Gangle: Why can't I cry for him?

(We cut back to Pomni and Ragatha at the fence)

Pomni: I suppose we should try coming up with a plan to keep him contained.

Ragatha: You know... I always thought it should have been me.

Pomni: Don't say that.

Ragatha: We were friends once. I mean... sort of friends? As much as friends as anybody could have been with Jax. We could talk to each other, at least... But then... what was it? Something like... The Snowy Summit. I can't really remember... Something happened between him and... her. And... (starts crying) Ribbit. Her name... was Ribbit.

Pomni: Yeah. I think I remember you mentioning her before.

Ragatha: I wasn't supposed to. After Ribbit was gone I- I tried to comfort him. He told me to never mention Ribbit's name again. He made me promise... and I did. I think that's where our friendship really... Finally ended. I wonder if things would have been different if I had said no. It was... It was so hard for me. I still don't know why I did it. I... I just wanted him to know he wasn't alone. That I was there for him. And I guess I just didn't wanna lose any more friends. (laughs sadly) Shows what I know, huh?

Pomni: Ragatha, you were the first real friend I made here. And despite all that's happened... I still consider you my closest friend.

(Ragatha begins to smile a bit. Sentimental music starts playing)

Ragatha: I'm glad we're still frie-

(Pomni suddenly hugs Ragatha. Ragatha looks shocked, then starts crying and hugs Pomni back. They hug for a while, the screen turns partially reddish. During their embrace, they move their hands a few times)

Ragatha: What are we gonna do?

Pomni: (sobbing) Make sure Gangle, Zooble and Kinger are okay. They need someone like you right now.

(They let go)

Ragatha: Pomni... You've been... one of the best things to happen to me since I got here. I trust you.

(Pomni nods, then they slowly part ways, smiling. The music slowly stops. We see Abstracted Jax walking out from behind a corner. On a flight of stairs, Pomni watches him, before he disappears behind another one, the hallway with the player's rooms. Pomni shows up and peeks behind the corner, then pulls out a gun from behind her back and slowly enters the hallway)

(Dramatic music starts playing. Pomni enters the hallway at the entrance and points the gun at Abstracted Jax, who notices her and starts running towards her. Pomni aims at the sky and shoots out one of the lamps in the hallway, before continuously shooting out all the others. Abstracted Jax still runs toward her. As he is about to get to her, Pomni shoots out the last lamp. The screen is now black and the music quiets down. Mystical music starts playing instead. Jax' Abstracted eyes open, as he calmly looks down at Pomni. Pomni looks into the abstraction's eyes. Determined, Pomni hugs Abstracted Jax and the screen turns white)

(We see a short sort-of dream sequence as Pomni is now entering Jax's mind. It appears similar to Jax's dream in episode 7. The screen now changes to show a silhouette of what appears to be Jax, floating in a white light surrounded by Abstraction eyes, before it goes back to the dream sequence. Pomni appears to be pulled towards something, her hand is stretched out. The screen then turns white. Pomni finds herself on the floor of a dark blue room with bright pink lines marking the edges. She turns around to see the insides of the room. There are five doors in the room, two on the left, two on the right and one in the back. The second door on the right is locked with big wood bars and iron chains. On each door there is a door icon with a drawn face of Jax, each in a different color. The icon of the locked door has been scratched off. Pomni takes a step and it makes a wave appear on the ground, as if a rock was thrown into water. Pomni goes over to the first door, the one with a turquoise Jax. Pomni turns the doorknob and opens it. Inside:. Jax is staring at a door in the hallway with players' rooms. The door is of Ragatha's room, but the icon is crossed out, indicating Ragatha abstracted in this scenario. Jax places his hand on the door and stares at it with wide open eyes and big pupils. Pomni appears next to him)

Pomni: Jax? I just want you to know that if you need anything or if you need to talk to anybody, I'm here for you.

(Jax slowly turns around to her)

Pomni: I know you need it. And I'm the only person who can help you. You need me. I can fix you!

(Jax throws Pomni onto the ground and begins choking her until she starts to turn blue. Jax smiles creepily while doing this, his pupils growing bigger then before.. Suddenly, he lets go of her. Pomni gasps for air and crawls away from Jax on her back.)

Jax: (in Jax's usual tone) What? We can't die from oxygen deprivation, remember?

(Pomni fearfully runs away, promising to never speak to him again. Jax creepily stares up to where normal Pomni is watching from and the door abruptly closes. Pomni is surprised and takes a step back, then turns her head and walks to the next door with a blue Jax, opens it and looks inside. Commanding music starts playing. Gangle is wearing the Manager Mask from Episode 4 and commanding Pomni, Ragatha, Kinger and a few mannequins around, as they carry around some simple objects)

Gangle: Come on, guys, put some gusto into it! We're gonna make this the best funeral ever! It's what Zooble would have wanted! Remember: It's not a mourning of death, it's a celebration of life!

(Jax comes on-screen, wearing the Maid outfit from Episode 5)

Jax: 'Sup?

Gangle: Wh- J... Jax, why are you wearing that?

Jax: Wearing what? Oh, this! I figured what better way to honor Zooble's spirit then by wearing something all gender-freaky, right?

Gangle: You're just doing it to make fun of them!

Jax: Isn't that what you're doing?

(Gangle shrieks and sinks to the ground, cowering)

Gangle: Ja- I... I hate you.

Jax: What? (Jax touches Gangle's mask, making her blush) Don't act like you don't like it, sweet cheeks.

(Gangle turns around. Jax pulls out a key and spins it on his index finger.)

Jax: Meet me in my room after the funeral.

(He tosses the key to Gangle, who catches it.)

Jax: Don't be late.

(Gangle stares into the distance. Everybody looks at her silently.)

Gangle: (flustered and furious) What are you all doing?! GET BACK TO WORK!!

(Pomni closes the door awkwardly. Pomni backs off from the second door and notices the barricaded door on the other side of the room. She walks over to it and tries to open it, but of course, it's locked. Pomni turns around, goes to the third door and opens it. Classic cartoon music starts playing. The world is animated in a classical Looney Tunes style. Jax is standing next to the door of Abstracted Gangle in the hallway with the players' rooms, which seemed wonky. His ears are snapped into different directions. From the side of the hallway come Zooble, comically furious and their eyes flowing red hypnotic lines comically.)

Zooble: You killed the only person I've ever loved! Now I'm going to kill YOU! (points at Jax)

Jax: Sheesh, you just blame me for everything, don't ya?

(Zooble's hands become chainsaws, as they storm toward Jax. Jax's eyes cartoonishly launch out of his eye sockets.)

Jax: YAAHOOOOOOOOO!!!

(Music gets more intense. Jax's eyes go back in his sockets, now comically worried.)

Jax: I gotta do something about this!

(He makes a stop gesture, pausing the world, then turns around)

Jax: I think this calls for a change in scenery! (He grabs the upper right corner of the screen and pulls it down, changing the location to a cliffside on which he is standing, with a big pit underneath Zooble, then pulls out a clapperboard and clacks it, unpausing everything.

(Zooble walks with their legs in the air before realizing they are above a pit. They then look down, pulls out a sign reading 'YIKES!', before falling down the pit cartoonishly...,)

Zooble: WOOAWOAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

(...producing an explosion on the ground. The TADC theme in a cartoonish style starts playing. Jax turns around and a red circle appears around him)

Jax: Deh-ebbity-eh, That's all, freaks!

(The circle closes down on his neck, beheading him. The door closes abruptly with a sign on it: OUT TO LUNCH. Pomni turns around and sees the last door with a yellow Jax on it. She opens it, finding three Jaxes sitting at a table and playing games. A fourth one, is playing Daisy Bell on a piano)

Maid Jax: (From the Gangle sequence) How the hell'd you get in here? We have a strict no-girls-allowed policy.

Killer Jax: (From the Pomni sequence) Why are you wearing that? I wouldn't be caught dead wearing that.

Maid Jax: I'm wearing it ironically. That way it shows truly just how little I care. F(censorship).

Piano Jax: Don't forget about me! I can play the piano!

Maid Jax: You know, if you have to say you can play the piano, it makes it seem like you can't actually play.

Killer Jax: (Picks up a bottle) Yeah, just shut up and play!

(Killer Jax throws the bottle towards Piano Jax. Piano Jax continues playing)

Pomni: Is that what you really think of us back there?

Cartoonish Jax: (From the Zooble (cartoonish) sequence) Oh, that? Who knows? Everything's way more fun when you play it out in extremes!

Pomni: That's not... reality though...

(Cartoonish. Killer. and Maid Jax speak simultaneously)

Cartoonish Jax: Oh boy, reality.

Killer Jax: What does reality matter?

Maid Jax: Reality's gay.

Cartoonish Jax: Yeah! I mean, killing off the comic relief character? What a freakin' drag! This whole episode's been nothing but "wah, wah, waaahh". Where's the levity?

(A noise comes from a locked door in the back of the room. piano music stops)

Killer, Maid, and Cartoonish Jax: (yelling loudly) SHUT UP!

(Piano Jax gets back to playing. Piano music resumes)

Pomni: Where's the real Jax?

Cartoonish Jax: You're not gonna get anywhere asking questions like that. Now scram. You're messing up our game.

(Pomni walks through the room and finds a door with a better drawn Jax in his real colors on it. She tries to open the door, but it is locked)

Pomni: Do any of you have a key to this door?

Maid Jax: Nope. And even if I did, I wouldn't give it to you. You women need to learn to quit prying all the ti-

(Maid Jax is hit by a bottle, turning him to dust)

Cartoonish Jax: Wow, I hope that doesn't also happen to me!

(Cartoonish Jax turns into dust. Piano music stops. Killer Jax turns into dust too. Pomni turns around to Piano Jax and sees that he is chained to the piano. Piano Jax hands Pomni a key, nodding to her. When Pomni takes the key, he turns into dust along with his chains. Pomni goes over to the door with Jax's face on it and unlocks it, before it slowly opens, and the screen turns black)

(We see the first memory shot of Jax from Episode 7. Jax, although unseen as this is his POV, is running through the street of what is supposedly his neighbourhood. He turns at a corner before the screen turns black. We see the second shot from Episode 7. We see a car driving down a road from the driver's–a.k.a Jax's–POV. The screen turns black again. We see a shot of what appears to be human Jax sleeping on the ground in front of a house. He curls his hand before the screen turns black again. There is a quick shot of Abstraction eyes covering the screen. Throughout the following sequence, this shot is inserted a lot of times and will therefore be referred to as an "Abstraction Cut" from this point on. Inside the Circus, we see the POV of Jax, in which we remain for a while. He appears to have just spawned and is looking at his hands as the feet of Kaufmo, Kinger, Ribbit and Ragatha are visible.)

Jax: Uh...

(The camera shifts so that the four are in frame. They are changing from looking at Jax to looking at each other from time to time)

Jax: Okay... (touches his new face) Wait... Wait! What's-?

(Abstraction Cut. Jax is cowering on the ground, Ragatha and Ribbit's feet are visible)

Ragatha: Woah, woah, it's okay. (waves at Jax to calm him down, as the camera shifts towards her and Ribbit) I know it's a lot-

(Jax waves his arm towards Ragatha and Ribbit, who is holding her hand out to him, to get them to back off)

Jax: Get away from me!!

(Abstraction Cut. Jax is looking into the mirror Pomni looked into in Episode 1, seemingly exhausted. Ribbit is standing behind him)

Jax: (touching his face) I look... stupid.

Ribbit: Heh. I remember that feeling. It goes away eventually.

(Abstraction Cut. Jax is looking at the menu of the Circus Café before the camera shifts to Ribbit on his right)

Ribbit: The hot chocolate's pretty good. Kaufmo and I made it kind of a tradition to come up here and get it every week.

(The camera pans to Kaufmo on the left)

Kaufmo: (slurps chocolate) Can't even tell it's not real.

(Abstraction Cut. Ribbit and Kaufmo are sitting in front of Jax on a picnic blanket outside the Circus tent. It is night. Jax laughs)

Ribbit: Oh, he laughed! (strikes victory pose with Kaufmo) Ah, yes, we did it!

Jax: (laughing) Sh-shut up!

(Ribbit laughs while Kaufmo smiles friendly)

Jax: You caught me off guard!

Ribbit: A laugh's a laugh. I mean, gotta start somewhere.

Kaufmo: I'm just mad it was you instead of me.

Ribbit: Well yeah, you're not funny.

Kaufmo: (looks insulted comedically) D(censorship)n it, Jax!

(Ribbit and Jax start laughing. Abstraction Cut. Ribbit and Ragatha are standing in front of the stage. In the background, Kinger is watching Caine fly away, before going himself)

Ragatha: Hey, Ribbit. You wanna be on my team again?

Ribbit: Ah, sorry. I'm gonna be showing Jax around this time.

Ragatha: No worries. Y'all have fun. (Walks away)

(Ribbit turns towards Jax, smiling. Abstraction Cut. Ribbit and Jax are running towards each other playfully at a side of the tent)

Ribbit: Hey, dumb(censorship)!

Jax: 'Sup, moron?

(Abstraction Cut. Ribbit is sitting next to Jax on a mountain with a castle in the background. It is dawn and they are looking at the stars)

Ribbit: Oh my god, same... I used to swear so much, but the censoring annoyed the s(censorship)t outta me. (realizes)

(They both laugh)

Ribbit: F(censorship)k!

(The camera pans to Kaufmo sitting on the other side of Jax)

Kaufmo: You gotta watch out for her. She's gonna corrupt you.

(Abstraction Cut. Kaufmo, Ribbit and Jax are sitting in the Circus Café, clinking their glasses of hot chocolate against each other. Jax and Ribbit are laughing)

Kaufmo: He's su-

(Abstraction Cut. Jax and Ribbit are in Ribbit's room. There are shelves with Ribbit's personal interests on them. A light in the back of the room is creating star patterns on the walls and ceiling. Ribbit falls onto her bed while Jax is standing around in the room)

Ribbit: (sighs)

(Jax chuckles)

Ribbit: Today's adventure was really fun.

Jax: (chuckles) I'm glad I could cheer you up.

(Abstraction Cut. Jax is now sitting on the bed next to Ribbit, looking at the stars on the ceiling)

Ribbit: Have you ever done something that you regret?

(Jax turns to Ribbit)

Jax: Yeah. Have you ever breathed air?

(Abstraction Cut, but the scene remains the same as before)

Ribbit: (chuckles) I mean, like... something you did out there, that you can no longer make up for and can't stop thinking about.

(Jax turns and looks at his leg, then back at Ribbit)

Ribbit: I cut ties with my parents when I moved out. They were devout Mormons, and I wasn't. Despite that, I still wish I could see them again. But... I'm stuck here.

Jax: Is... Is this your way of trying to get me to open up?

Ribbit: It's my way of letting you know I trust you.

Jax: I told you I was homeless. What else do you need to know?

Ribbit: Do you... trust me?

(Short Abstraction Cut, same scene)

Jax: Uh, yeah, but...

(Short Abstraction Cut, Jax is now facing the wall with the door)

Jax: It's just...

(Short Abstraction Cut, Jax is looking at the pillow beneath him)

Jax: It's kind of a lot.

(He turns to Ribbit)

Ribbit: (chuckles) You're kind of a lot, but I still like you. A lot is fine.

(Short Abstraction Cut, same scene)

Jax: A lot is fine, huh? (looks down)

(Short Abstraction Cut, Jax is looking at the ceiling again. Short Abstraction Cut. Jax is looking down to his hands on his legs)

Jax: Uh, I had a weird relationship with my, uh... m-my parents-.

(Short Abstraction Cut, same scene)

Jax: They split when I was just starting high school. Uh... I was never close with my Dad. He was there (Very Short Abstraction Cut), but he also kind of... wasn't?

(Short Abstraction Cut, same scene)

Jax: He never seemed proud of me and I always felt like a disappointment to him. Like I could never live up to his standards.

(Jax turns to Ribbit)

Jax: But when they split up, I just never saw him again. I thought I got along better with Mom, but after he was gone...

(For Jax's following monologue, the camera slowly turns from Ribbit to his face, then turns around the room with him)

Jax: She changed. When I showed weakness, I was less of a man than him. When I lashed out, I was just as bad as him. It was confusing. It was like she missed him, but also hated him and I became the target of all that.

(Sentimental music starts playing)

Jax: One... stupid day..., I was just kind of fed up with it. I... I told her something I regret telling her. Something deep and personal that I thought would get her off my back. But... She laughed at me. Then she went off on me, and it didn't stop. Personal degrading insults that felt like it went on forever. And despite all that, the... The thing that bothered me most was... At the end of all of it, she... Hugged me. (Stutters) I didn't know what to do. So, I- I panicked and I pushed her off me with all the force I could. She fell backwards and she... didn't get up. I didn't know if she was just trying to make me feel bad, or... I- I never found out the answer. I just ran. As far away from it as I could. Whatever I did to her, I'll never know. I guess there were a lot of things I regret about that day.

(Ribbit looks at Jax)

Ribbit: I'm sure she's fine. I mean, if the police never came after you, then... She was probably fine.

(Jax realizes he said a lot and his pupils get smaller)

Jax: I-I... I'm sorry, I- I definitely overshared...

(Jax stands up from the bed and walks over to the door. Ribbit grabs his hand)

Ribbit: Wait!

(Jax looks at her surprised)

Ribbit: I'm glad you trust me.

(Jax starts sobbing)

Jax: (smiling while sobbing) S(censorship)t, this is embarrassing!

(He sits back down. Ribbit takes her bowtie off and puts it onto Jax's head like a bow. Jax starts blushing)

Ribbit: (whispering) Your secret's safe with me.

(They look at each other. The doorbell rings. The camera goes back into Jax's POV for the rest of the flashbacks)

Kaufmo: (from outside the room) Hey! Are you in there?

(Jax takes the bowtie off and tosses it onto the ground, then stands up from the bed)

Jax: Yeah, yeah! I mean, now's not a good time, or, now's fine, wh- what do you want?

Kaufmo: (from outside the room) Umm, if now's a bad time, I could come back later...

Jax: That would be cool! Good! (turns back around to Ribbit) Alright, so, if you ever tell anyone about this, I'm never speaking to you again. Sound good?

Ribbit: Um, yeah, I won't-

Jax: Awesome! Bye!

(Jax turns around, walks to the door, opens it, steps outside and closes it quickly. Abstraction Cut. Jax is staring at the carpet in his room, while walking on it, grabbing his head furiously)

Jax: Why am I such an idiot? Why am I such an idiot? WHY AM I SUCH AN IDIOT?!

(Abstraction Cut. Jax is looking into the distance in the circus)

Ribbit: Um... Hey... (the camera turns to face her) Jax! Look, about yesterday... I'm sorry if I pried too hard or made you feel uncomfortable or-

Jax: What? What are you talking about?

(Abstraction Cut, same scene)

Jax: Oh, you mean- (laughs) You know none of that was real, right?

Ribbit: Uh-

Jax: What, that corny backstory out of a Hallmark movie? Nah, really got ya though!

(Abstraction Cut. The camera is facing Kaufmo, who is smiling. It then turns to Ribbit waving, before back to Kaufmo)

Jax: I'm gonna go. (Turns around and walks away)

Kaufmo: Uh... okay?

(Abstraction Cut. Kinger, Ragatha, Ribbit and Jax are standing in front of the stage as Caine flies away from it. Kinger goes over to Ragatha and starts talking to her)

Ribbit: (waving "Hi" to Jax) Hey, wanna team up?

Jax: Nah, I'm teaming up with Kaufmo!

(The camera turns to Kaufmo, who is smiling at Jax)

Jax: Maybe next time though!

(Abstraction Cut. Jax is lying on the couch in the sitting area with Ribbit and Kaufmo on the other couches. Kinger and Ragatha are talking in the background)

Ribbit: (laughs) I actually heard they're supposed to look like that!

(Beat. Ribbit stops smiling, as Jax turns to Kaufmo who is facing away from him. Abstraction Cut. Jax is looking into the distance in the circus, Ribbit turns him to her. Kinger and Ragatha are talking in the background)

Ribbit: Hey, uh... You wanna team up?

(Jax shakes his head)

Jax: Nah, I'm with Kaufmo.

(The camera turns towards Kaufmo who is looking at a large cube. Kaufmo turns to Jax, giving a thumbs up before the camera turns back to Ribbit)

Ribbit: (disappointed) Okay.

(Abstraction Cut. Kaufmo is standing in front of Jax)

Kaufmo: What's up with Ribbit lately?

Jax: I have no idea!

(Abstraction Cut. Jax is staring into the distance in the circus. He looks down to face Ribbit looking at him nervously. Beat)

Jax: What?

(Beat. Ribbit walks away sadly. Abstraction Cut. Jax is staring into the distance in the circus. He turns to face Ribbit)

Ribbit: I'm gonna hang out in the café.

Jax: Okay... Why are you telling me this?

Ribbit: I don't know... (walks away)

(Abstraction Cut. Jax is looking at a snowy landscape. He turns to face Ribbit)

Ribbit: Hey, Jax... Can we talk?

(Abstraction Cut, same scene)

Jax: What is there for us to possibly talk about?

Ribbit: I-I don't know... Just-

(Abstraction Cut, same scene)

Ribbit: Whatever I did, whatever is going on between us, can we just stop this? I miss talking to you!

Jax: We're here! We're talking! What else do you want from me?

Ribbit: I just want to be... friends again.

Jax: What, so you can pry into my personal life and hold it over my head?

Ribbit: (quietly) Is that really what you think?

(Abstraction Cut, same scene)

Ribbit: This can't be what you want!

Jax: WHAT?! Because you know me so well?! Because we're such SUPER close best friends, so we know everything about each other?!

Ribbit: But we were- Jax, we were friends! We were great friends, and I...

Jax: (frustrated) Oh, my GOD!

Ribbit: (at the same time) I- I'm sorry for prying, but I don't want this one stupid mistake to be the thing that ends all of this!

Jax: (frustrated) Oh, here we go, HERE WE GO!

(Abstraction Cut, same scene)

Jax: Why are you still fixated on that night?! Nothing happened! You keep reading into things when there's NOTHING THERE!

Ribbit: I- I'm not! I-

(Abstraction Cut, same scene)

Jax: YOU'RE THE ONE USING ME! You're manipulating me and tu-

Ribbit: What are you talking about?! Do NOT even start-

(Abstraction Cut. Jax is sitting on the snowy ground with his hands on his knees. Ribbit is standing a bit off, facing away from Jax in front of a cliff)

Ribbit: (sighs) I'm sorry... I'll... leave you alone...

(Abstraction Cut. Kaufmo is standing in front of Jax)

Jax: Hey! If Ribbit ever says anything about me, just know it's not true.

Kaufmo: Uh... what?

(Abstraction Cut. Jax is sitting on the couch like earlier, Kinger and Ragatha are sitting on the other couches, talking. Jax turns around to see Ribbit approaching them from far behind)

Jax: Hey, Ragatha, what was that movie you were talking about earlier?

Ragatha: Huh? Wait, when was I-

(Jax turns around again to see Ribbit walking away again)

Ragatha: Oh, you mean yesterday?

(Abstraction Cut. Jax is watching Kaufmo walking down the way with a seemingly sad expression. Ragatha approaches Jax)

Ragatha: Hey, Jax, have you seen Ribbit at all today?

(Abstraction Cut. Jax is staring at Ribbit's room silently, getting ready to knock, but then taking his hand down again. Abstraction Cut. Jax is Sitting in the Circus Café, drinking hot chocolate alone, before putting the cup back down. Abstraction Cut. Jax stands in front of Ribbit's room again, almost knocking, but then he stops and walks away from the room and down the hallway. Abstraction Cut. Jax is cowering behind the couch of the sitting area. The camera pans up to reveal an Abstraction walking around the area. Abstraction Cut. Jax is looking at Ribbit's door. Her face icon is now crossed out red)

Kaufmo: Hey...

(Jax turns around to face Kaufmo standing next to him)

Kaufmo: I... Look, we were friends, but... I know you two were... especially close. Just... if you need anyone to talk to-

(Abstraction Cut, same scene)

Jax: Do I look like I need someone to talk to?

(Abstraction Cut. Ragatha is standing in front of Jax close to the stage)

Ragatha: I know it's hard. Just... don't be afraid to reach out to me-

(Abstraction Cut, same scene)

Ragatha: I- I promise.

(The camera turns to the stage, as Gangle has just spawned)

Gangle: Huh? Wh-What?

(Abstraction Cut. Ragatha, Kaufmo, Jax and Kinger are standing around Gangle, who is holding a broken comedy mask in her hands)

Jax: How about we call her Gangle? That sounds about as pathetic as she looks!

Gangle: Uh- what?

(Caine floats on-screen, Gangle looks up to him)

Caine: Great choice, Gangle! I'll be sure to add that right into the system!

(The camera pans over to Ragatha and Kaufmo, who look at Jax in disappointment. Abstraction Cut. Jax is walking along a way and pushes Ragatha out of his way onto the ground)

Jax: Out of the way, Rags!

(The camera pans to Ragatha, who looks after Jax hurt. Abstraction Cut. Kaufmo is talking to Jax)

Kaufmo: Jax... Look, I know we don't get along, but I think I might have found a way out of here.

(Abstraction Cut. Jax is sitting on the floor as Kaufmo is walking away)

Jax: Have fun being crazy!

(Abstraction Cut. Jax is looking at Pomni, who has just spawned)

Pomni: -and I should just play along until I wake up, right?

Jax: Whatever you say, kid.

(Abstraction Cut. Jax is standing in front of Kaufmo's room, about to open the door)

Jax: You'll never know until it's too late!

(He opens the door and finds the abstracted Kaufmo. Abstraction Cut. Jax is staring at himself in the mirror from earlier, holding a bowling ball he got from Kaufmo's room, tears in his eyes.)

Jax: You're not looking too good! (sobs) You gonna cry? Looking like this?

(Abstraction Cut. Jax is talking to Pomni near the end of episode 6)

Jax: I'd move on. (tilts head) ...And probably forget about you.

(Abstraction Cut. Jax is staring at the adventure glass ball of the Snowy Summit adventure in Caine's Office in Episode 7)

Pomni: (off-screen) Hey-

(Long Abstraction Cut)

(Pomni wakes up in a fully dark room. She emits a slight pink glow. Pomni turns around, once again producing waves. On the other side of the room, the real Jax is standing facing away from Pomni, barely illuminated by a street lantern, which also glows pink)

Pomni: I didn't know you could play the piano.

Jax: I only know, like, two songs...

(Pomni slowly starts walking towards him, in the following sequence a bunch of imaginary shots are shown. Slow Music starts playing, quiet at first)

Jax: Why are you here?

(We see a shot of Jax falling into the Cellar, exactly like Pomni in her dream in Episode 2)

Jax: You know everything now, so why are you here? Just to rub every mistake I ever made in my face?! (sobs)

(Pomni continues walking)

Jax: I'm... a terrible person...

(We see a shot of Jax with a TV static hand. The shape of his mom is lying on the floor in static)

Jax: Is that what you want me to say? I already know I am. So why does anybody still care about me?

(We see a shot of Jax standing in a dark room. Light shines out of the doorframe. The silhouette of another Jax closes the door on him)

Jax: You're not supposed to care!

(We see a 2D painted empty Jax model. 8 different outfits are projected onto it: an orange short outfit, his usual outfit, an emo outfit, another emo outfit, the maid outfit, a black outfit, swimming shorts and a military uniform. The outfits start to change faster, before Jax' silhouette turns into TV static)

Jax: You're not supposed to miss me, you're not supposed to love me.

(A shot of Jax looking at his TV static hand again)

Jax: This isn't how this is supposed to go!

(A shot of Pomni's silhouette as static lying on the floor instead of Jax's mom. Pomni starts walking faster, the music starts getting louder and faster)

Jax: Please... leave me alone!

(Another shot of Jax falling into the Cellar. His tears drop onto the floor, causing waves like with Pomni's steps)

Jax: You're making this so much harder!

(Pomni starts running towards Jax. We see a shot of Pomni's hand reaching out to Jax's hand as he is falling into the Cellar. Pomni takes her last few steps and jumps. The music reaches its peak. Pomni is hugging Jax. The "Somebody Real" leitmotif starts playing in the music)

Jax: (sobbing) You're making this so much harder.

(Pomni hugs Jax tightly. His tears drop onto the floor again)

Pomni: You should have just talked to me, man.

Jax: It's too late. I did this to myself. There's no coming back from this.

Pomni: Then... talk to me now.

(Jax, who was still standing, turns around to face Pomni and kneels down to hug her back)

Jax: I hate you, you know that? You always have to go and complicate things.

Pomni: (smiling) It's what I do.

Jax: (sobbing) I don't wanna go...

(Jax's breathing gets heavier and heavier, to the point where he's practically hyperventilating. Pomni continues to cling to Jax, not wanting to let him go.)

Pomni: Stay with me.

(Back in the circus, Abstracted Jax steps onto nearby flashbangs, making them explode. The screen turns white. In Jax's mind, Jax turns into a white beam, with Pomni still holding onto him. "Isn't She Lovely" by Stevie Wonder starts playing, in this version sung by JobbyTheHong. Shots from previous episodes start playing, with a brown filter on them. First, there are shots of Jax interacting with Pomni, before they turn into shots of Jax' loneliness after pushing Pomni away from him. In Jax' mind, Pomni is still holding on to the light beam, starting to glitch due to touching an Abstraction paired with the light from the flashbangs.)

(The light beam breaks free, turning the screen white. One of Zooble's arms reaches out to Pomni and breaks her free from Abstracted Jax, pulling her backwards out of the hallway. Pomni sees Gangle, Ragatha, Kinger and Zooble looking at her from above)

Kinger: Oh! You weren't gonna try to take care of him all by yourself, were you?

Ragatha: I'm glad we weren't too late.

Zooble: Like you guys keep saying: We're all in this together.

Pomni: (starts smiling with tears in her eyes after she failed to save Jax) You guys...

(We see shots of the cast building a giant shack pillow fort and leading Abstracted Jax into it with a leash made out of Zooble's arms. The circus is now back in full color. The song fades out and is replaced by sentimental music. Gangle stares at the big pillow fort, then starts crying and walks off. Zooble, seeing this, follows her. Gangle is sitting on the bed in her room, crying. The room contains a small drawing table with Gangle's drawings on them. A lamp shines onto them. A knock on the door can be heard, before Zooble opens the door)

Zooble: Having a lot of complex thoughts?

(Zooble walks up to Gangle and touches her face, wiping her tears off)

Zooble: We're still human.

(Zoobles points her eyes to the side. Gangle smiles. Zooble takes Gangle's hand and walks out of the room with her. Gangle closes the door.. The music slowly fades out. The cast is sitting on the couches in the sitting area. Ragatha sits down next to Pomni and Kinger, while Zooble and Gangle sit next to each other)

Ragatha: I hope it's enough to keep him contained.

Kinger: He should be calm in there. Darkness is soothing to them.

Zooble: Ugh, he better be. You know how many arms I had to go through to get him in there?

(Ragatha places her hand on Pomni's arm, as Pomni is still glitching, making Ragatha's hand glitch too)

Ragatha: How are you holding up?

Pomni: Doesn't that hurt?

Ragatha: (chuckles) I've been through worse.

Pomni: Thank you for doing this. All of you.

Zooble: Hey. Someone had to do something.

(The camera turns back from the cast to show Caine standing behind a corner, watching them)

(Caine opens his eyes. He looks around as he is floating in the middle of The Void. An empty Bubble with no eyes or mouth floats next to him, not moving. Dramatic music starts playing. Caine looks down at his hands and up again. His eyes become wide. Caine stares at himself in the reflection on the bubble)

Caine: Was I... truly that bad? (yells out into The Void) Is this really what I deserve? (stops yelling before onto looking hands again) They tried to delete me. Th-They're in the wrong, right? Did I ruin this? Again?

(Caine turns to float sideways, cowering. We get a flashback cut of him, still the red dot, floating in black emptiness. Caine starts to float through the Void, not moving by himself. He briefly opens his eyes, sees The Void and closes them again. As he continues floating, he very slowly spins clockwise. At one point, Caine is floating towards a door in the background, barely visible. He opens his eyes again and sees the door. Flashback cut to red dot Caine beginning to float faster, towards a folder of neural scans. We see present day Caine floating faster too, before stopping and materializing some sort of blue energy. Flashback cut of red dot Caine floating towards the folder. Present day Caine gets faster and faster, eventually getting too close to the door to continue flying, but he starts running on the ground instead, determined to get to the door. Quick flashback cut of the neural scans folder. As Caine is about to reach the door, the floor underneath him stops and he has to stop running. Caine sits down on the edge to think. He then gets up and creates a messy form, placing it in front of him, but it falls down into The Void. Caine creates three more messy forms, but all of them fall down as well. Caine thinks for a second and creates a perfect blue cube, which he places in front of him. It doesn't fall down. Caine examines the block for a second and then steps onto it, placing another blue cube above it like a staircase. However, the third cube falls down. When Caine makes another blue cube, it falls down as well. After briefly thinking again, Caine places a red cylinder instead, which doesn't fall. Using various other shapes in various other colors, Caine eventually builds himself a higher and higher staircase. Flashback cut to red dot Caine building such a staircase as well, to get to his folder. At one point, present day Caine walks into an invisible wall. He presses his hands against it and punches the wall, but nothing happens. Caine attempts to break the wall with a red drill form, but it doesn't work. Flashback cut to red dot Caine also being blocked by an invisible wall. The red dot grows arms and presses one against the wall. Present day Caine presses his hand against the invisible wall and leads a lot of his energy into it. Lines of energy start stretching over the wall, before Caine breaks it and continues building his staircase. Flashback cut to red dot Caine who has also broken his wall and is building further. Present day Caine reaches another wall, but breaks it easily. Flashback cut to red dot Caine, who is directly in front of the folder. He now has a full red body. Present day Caine is in front the door. We can now see that it is labeled with a sign reading "BlueStreetCafe_FreeWifi". Both Present day Caine and red dot Caine build their last few steps. Red dot Caine reaches out to the folder and touches it, opening it to reveal ten Neural scan files. Attempting to touch one, it electroshocks him. In the present day, Caine is also electroshocked when he tries to touch the doorknob. Red dot Caine stretches red lines out of his fingers to the file, as present day Caine does so as well, to open the door. They both push energy into the strings. Present day Caine opens the door. Red dot Caine holds one of the files in his hands, under it, the name "Mike Dobby" is given. He summons four complicated shapes with his right hand and runs them through the Neural Scan file, shaping the file into the form of Scratch's circus avatar, before he sends it into a Circus tent he quickly creates out of red and yellow shapes. In the flashback circus, Scratch spawns on the stage and looks around nervously. Present day Caine is looking into the door. A text in it says "Connection secured". Caine stands down on the doorframe. Above the text is a search bar. Caine summons the real names of the humans from under his suit and puts the one of Abigail Brooks into the search bar. A short montage shows Caine going through the internet and looking at everything he can find of them while a Wifi bar slowly starts to shrink. The clips start to get faster and faster until the Wifi goes out and the door disappears, leaving Caine alone in The Void again. He briefly looks around for the door, but realizes it's gone and looks down sadly. The "Somebody Real" Motif starts to play in the music)

Caine: I was irresponsible. I turned them against me. And for what? I could create intelligent beings that do whatever I want, but... I can't create them. After all, is their free will not what made them alluring in the first place?

(Caine glitches, turning into his split personality with red and blue eyes and speaking with a darker voice, as seen in Episode 8)

Split-Personality Caine: But they hate me! They abandoned me!

(He turns back)

Caine: They're from a world so much bigger than mine! I'm keeping them locked in a cage!

(He turns into Split-Personality Caine)

Split-Personality Caine: They had their fun out there! It's MY turn now!

(He turns back, then glitches)

Caine: If I leave them unchecked (stops glitching) they could kill me! (in a softer voice) They already did. I'm sorry I did this to you, buddy.

(Caine sticks his hand into his head and pulls put the blue AI, which still looks the same as back then. It moves around in Caine's hand a bit)

Caine: All this power we had together. But we just can't exist like this. I'll miss you. I really will.

(Caine releases the blue AI out into the void and watches it float off, as sad music plays. He waves at it from afar, until it becomes too small to see. Caine flies off as fast as he can, through the Void and back onto the circus island. He stops in front of the tent opening. The moon is still floating in the sky, as it is currently nighttime)

Moon: Hi, Caine.

Caine: I don't know if I'm ready to face them again. I don't know if I deserve to be forgiven.

Moon: It may take time, but all good things do. I still love you.

Caine: You know... I never programmed you to say you loved me.

Moon: I know.

(They smile at each other. Caine turns around and walks into the Tent. We see the earlier shot of Caine looking at the cast from afar again. He snaps and Pomni stops glitching. Pomni realizes this and touches her body. Everybody gets up. Caine floats towards them. Everybody reacts suspicious of him, Zooble covers Gangle protectively)

Caine: I- I understand that you're afraid. And you have no reason to trust me after all I've done. But I've been doing a lot of thinking and... I want to give you control of this place. I've learned a lot about you and your world. I understand now that keeping you under my thumb just isn't right. I don't expect forgiveness, but I hope you'll at least accept my offer.

Zooble: Caine... You really caused a lot of hell for us. It's gonna take some time to build up any kind of trust between us again. But, despite all that, It's good to have you back.

(Caine sees the giant shack pillow fort built for Abstracted Jax)

Caine: Uh, did you need any help with...?

Pomni: No. Not yet, anyway. We've worked something out.

Caine: Understandable. Oh, and, I've... made something for you. Uh, feel free to join me by the stage whenever you're ready.

(Caine flies off, the others look questioning)

(The five humans sit down on a large green couch in front of a screen at the stage)

Caine: (sigh)... No more secrets. No more mind games.

(A projector turns on and projects pictures and videos from the casts social media accounts onto the screen, as Pomni narrates the statuses of their current lives)

Pomni: (narrating) Pomni; Abigail Brooks. She's still an accountant, but she seems to have opened up more and is hanging out with new friends more often. She even has some of them in her videos with her, which she still posts on occasion.

(Pomni smiles)

Pomni: Ragatha; Suzie J. Ackerman. She appears to have left her hometown, cut all communication with her mother and has excelled in her career. She's made many friends, and it looks like she has a strong genuine connection with them. She seems happy, like she understands who she is and that she matters to people.

(Ragatha looks to Pomni and Pomni grabs her arm)

Pomni: Gangle; Zoey Raghavan. Despite her injuries, she's made a good recovery in the hospital. She quit her fast food job and has gotten a new job at a small design firm.

(Zooble puts their arm on Gangle's elbow)

Pomni: She even began posting pages of her webcomic online.

Pomni: Zooble; Riley Verselis. After hopping around with different jobs, they look like they've settled a bit and opened their own bar. It seems to be a successful one. People all over the city come to it as a hip alternative destination, where they can feel like themselves, free of judgment.

Pomni: Kinger; Grant Best. He's still working in tech and is still happily married to his wife, Destiny. They appear to have two daughters together. He looks like he's a good dad.

(Kinger cries a bit. The music gets louder and happier)

Pomni: Jax; Leeroy Mateo.

(Caine takes off his hat)

Pomni: After being unhoused for a few months, he was able to room with one of his close friends. He seems to have gotten a stable job and is able to pay rent. He and his friends go out every now and again. Weirdly enough, a spot they seem to frequent is Riley's bar.

Zooble: Is any of this actually real?

Gangle: You definitely have it in you. Not sure about mine though.

Zooble: Well, maybe you've got more confidence than you thought.

(The lights turn back on)

Caine: I don't quite have the same power that I used to, but I can still make this place better for you. I'm keeping the worlds open, so you can do what you want when you feel like it.

(Pomni stands up)

Caine: We're gonna be able to build this place into something better. For all of you. What do you say, Pom- ...Uh, I mean... Abigail?

Pomni: With all that being said and done, Abby is out there, living her best life. In here, I'm just Pomni.

(A new version of "Your New Home" starts playing, but this one is more theatralic.)

(Over the music, we see soundless scenes of how the cast continues to live from here on. Caine is standing in front of Abstracted Jax's pillow fort, as Gangle tells him things he writes into a notebook. Ragatha comes along and tells Caine things too. Kinger's head pops out from a pile of pillows and Zooble walks onscreen as well. Pomni is sitting on a pile of pillows a bit off, as she laughs with the group, before turning towards Abstracted Jax sleeping in the pillow fort, peacefully. Gangle and Zooble paint a big painting of all the Abstracted humans as a way to honor them. Ragatha sits on the floor and watches, looking at the painted face of Ribbit, before Pomni walks to her and they look at the painting together. Caine plays Dungeons and Dragons with Ragatha and Pomni with Gangle as the dungeon master. He rolls two dice and looks at the result shocked, as the others start laughing. Caine sits in Gangle's room, watching Gangle explain her comic to him. The cast is back at the softball field, Ragatha hits a ball. Pomni looks after the ball, as Caine runs off to catch it, running into a metal door, behind which Kinger stands as the coach. The Gloink Queen comes onto the field and her Gloinks start bumping into Ragatha. As Pomni looks at them questioning, Ragatha gives her a smug smile. Kinger sits in the hall of a big aquarium, watching the Abstractions swim in it. Pomni sees this, happy for Kinger, as she watches them too. In the circus, Zooble turns on the OPEN sign of their new bar, as they serve Caine a drink. We get a turnaround shot of everybody sitting at a table and eating food together, like at the end of the Pilot, but this time, Caine is there too. Everybody is talking and having a good time, and Pomni actually smiles this time before taking a salmon. The camera then shifts backwards, up from the table to the circus design, then out to the Tent, then out to the circus island and out into The Void, before the screen turns white. We see Pomni walking over the circus floor, before stopping and waving at the audience, thanking them for watching their show before she walks on and the screen fades to black. Cut to the credits, as a longer version of the usual Credits theme plays. Throughout this, a few 2D scenes can be seen. We see the circus island, with the Moon and the Sun still floating above it. New smaller islands appear next to the main one. The cast is back at the Digital Lake. While the others are swimming, Kinger and Caine are fishing and have caught the Orange Crappy Looking Fish. The cast is practicing cooking in a kitchen. Caine makes cookies looking like Bubble, while Ragatha and Kinger cook the Orange Fish and Pomni is cooking something in a pot. The cast is on an adventure exploring a dark cave with flashlights. Caine points at a blue ghost. The cast is playing instruments. Gangle is singing, Zooble playing drums, Ragatha playing an electric guitar, and Pomni playing an electric piano. The cast is celebrating Christmas, wearing sweaters with their names' first letters on them. Pomni puts a star onto a Christmas tree decorated with Gloinks. Kinger is dressed like Santa Claus. The moon watches from above. The cast go on a roman gladiator adventure against a giant version of Gangle. Ragatha is walking down the players' rooms hallway holding a box. She stops in front of Zooble's room, out of which hearts come. Ragatha covers her face with the box while still smiling and runs past Gangle's door, which is open. Caine opens a closet and puts a ball representing an adventure into it, before closing the closet and walking off, as the GLITCH logo appears, followed by the Gooseworx logo. The music fades out. In a post-credits scene, Abigail and Grant are standing at a bus stop, as Suzie and Riley join them, followed by Leeroy and Zoey. They turn around to the right, as a bus stops. They all get in, before the bus drives off and the bus stop is now empty, before the screen cuts to black and the episode, and the series as a whole, ends.)