Chapter 40: SHORT! "Happy Tree Friends Reaction"
"Sibley... I've known you for just a few months, and know you do some weird stuff..." Shimmer said as premise, "But this! This has to be the dumbest, and possibly most evil, thing you could do!" She exclaimed in response to the information of what they would be watching.
This reaction made the others in the room, that being Gloom, Lyney, Lynette, Freminet and Arlecchino look at her weirdly, "I'm... not sure I follow..." Gloom brought up, switching her gaze from Shimmer and Sibley quickly.
Sibley laughed a bit at that, "Don't worry! It's fine!" She reassured, getting Shimmer to glare at her harder as she put put on the video.
Starting with the MondoMedia logo and then transitioning into the Happy Tree Friends intro for Eyes Cold Lemonade, showing the squirrel Petunia and the chipmunk Giggles.
The sight on the screen made everyone look at Shimmer confused, "Are you afraid of child things or something?" Lyney questioned confused, not seeing how this could be scary, "You'll see..." Shimmer replied, already familiar with the 'first time' mind.
The episode properly started with Petunia and Giggles working in a crudely made lemonade stand, and with no customers for now, Giggles poured Petunia the last lemonade they had ready, and as Petunia drank it, Giggle realized they were out of it and took a lemon and knife to make more.
"This is still not surprising." Lynette pointed out, "How is the Honorary Harbringer shocked by this?" Arlecchino muttered under her breath looking confused.
Freminet looked carefully at the screen trying to find something wrong with the video, "It just looks like a children show, maybe a little bit detailed on some items, but nothing else." He analyzed.
Giggles got ready to cut the lemon in half, but stopped noticing that her figner was in the way and moved it away before properly cutting the citrus.
Seeing that made Freminet curl an eyebrow, "That's... Weird... Why put so much focus on that? Nothing we brought from other worlds had this much care." He pointed out, "It must be something made for 'kitchen safety' or something." Gloom said, thinking that was the answer, "Oh you innocent things..." Shimmer said with pity, pinching the bridge of her nose.
After cutting the lemon, a crooked nail fell from the stands sign causing Giggles to look up in surprise, right as the sign fell from one side, scraping her face and some teeth off making her scream loudly, which caught the attention of Petunia who spat out the lemonade in shock right onto the exposed flesh of Giggles face, further paining her.
There was no sound at the scene, just the four from the House of Heart looking slightly horrified at the sight, "...THIS IS FOR KIDS!?!?" Gloom yelled in absolute horror, "I told you." Shimmer simply said, already used to the gruesome sights of the series, "I don't believe for a secon this was made for kids!" Arlecchino exclaimed, worried for whatever child happened to find this somehow.
The scene moved on to find the sign reinforced with more nails, Petunia squeezing out some lemon juice for lemonade and Giggles head completely bandaged up, who was still trying to cut a lemon, despite the bandages covering her eyes.
"At least it ended well?" Freminet said, unsure of his own words, "They still didn't leave though..." Gloom pointed out while facepalming, "That would have been the first thing anyone should do in this situtation." Arlecchino agreed.
After Giggles cut the lemon, a nail fell from the other side of the sign, and it fell again, this time crushing Petunia's head between a plank holding it up and itself, spluttering blood all over.
Arlecchino got up at this point and grabbed Sibley by the collar, "Who made this!? WHO MADE THIS!?!?" She demanded while her 'children' tried calming her down, "Are you proud of yourself?" Lynette asked Sibley who just smiled in response, "Of course she is." Shimmer responded to Lynette's question as if it was obvious.
Being squashed caused Petunia's eye to roll over to Giggles, who thought it was a lemon and cut it in half, before squeezing it into a glass, tasting it, but finding it disgusting, and then adding sugar to it before serving it with ice and a slice of eye, then the episode ended.
The horrible sight caused Lyney to start sobbing in frustration, Freminet turned around, and Gloom was rubbing her eyes, somehow feeling the pain of the eye getting cut through, "...Are we done?" Arlecchino questioned while covering Lynette's eyes to avoid her seeing that, "Ehh... One more." Sibley said triggering Shimmer to let out random noises in frustration.
Another episode started, this time for Out On A Limb with the Character this time being the Moose Lumpy.
"I see an axe there..." Gloom said, already dreading what was going to happen, "Please... Shut. Up." Freminet requested in an uncharacteristically stern voice.
The episode properly started with Lumpy cutting down a tree with an axe, unluckily for him it started falling towards him and when he tried to escape, he tripped on a rock and the the tree almost fell on him, but stopped for some reason.
This made everyone except Shimmer sigh in relief, "Oh good, not everyone dies I guess." Arlecchino said with a less on edge tone, "I mean, yeah, not everyone dies, but I know this episode." Shimmer replied, immediately bringing the dread back.
Seeing the tree stop, Lumpy sighed in relief, before looking down and seeing that it stopped because of a sturdy branch that buried his leg in the ground, making him yell in horror.
"Oh no..." Lynette said with a facepalm, "Hey he still got the axe at least!" Lyney brought up, "That would make the three fall on him." Arlecchino shot down immediately, "Nice theories." Shimmer told them, knowing already how it would go.
Lumpy tried pulling his leg out, then tried pushing the tree up, but managed nothing, then he saw the axe next to him and smiled as he prepared to cut the branch, but with one wind up the head of the axe went flying off the stick.
"This cannot possibly get worse for him." Freminet said, feeling sorry for Lumpy, "You say that, but how can he get out of there now?" Gloom pointed out.
Looking at the now headless axe, Lumpy thought before checking his pocket, finding a spoon, a paperclip and a button, taking the spoon he looked at the tree, knowing it would be useless to try that, so he resigned himself, put the stick of the axe in his mouth and began jamming the spoon in the flesh of his leg.
Shimmer nodded at that while looking at the others, "There it is." She stated seeing how the other four looked like they were about to puke, "While horrible, it is the only course of action without heavy machinery." Arlecchino relented, seeing no other way to escape that.
The scene cut to a view of the forest in the day and then it skipped to night where the sounds of Lumpy cutting his legs could still be heard, the it switched to the spoon covered in blood, Lumpy crying, biting the stick in half, and then to his leg, which just had bone at this point.
Everyone, this time even Shimmer, retched slightly at the sight, "Never gets easier to see." The light elemental said, trying to keep her lunch down, "That's something I wouldn't wish upon my worst enemy." Lyney said rejecting even the idea, "And you shouldn't, I saw it happen to some people and it ruined their lives..." Arlecchino informed, agreeing with the decision,
Lumpy tried breaking the bone with the spoon and just managed to get hurt more, so to speed things up he grabbed a rock, whimpering a bit as he did and used it to force the spoon to break the bone.
"Oh by the grace of her Majesty! No!" Gloom said in horror seeing that happen, "That might be the worst way to break a bone..." Lynette said, sweating cold.
At the second slam, the spoon got lodged in the bone, getting stuck much to Lumpy's horror, and with some twisting, he managed to break bone and seemingly free himself.
Seeing the bone break made everyone sigh in contentment, "Thank all the Archons it's over..." Freminet said in relief, "Yeah..." Shimmer said in agreement, but felt like there was something she was forgetting.
Lumpy smiled thinking it was over, but then looking at his leg he saw he cut off the wrong one, and then resigned himself again, taking the paperclip, straightened it, bit down on his cut off leg and got to work again, ending the episode.
"How did I forget that..." Shimmer muttered, mentally scolding herself, "It got way worse." Gloom said outloud before noticing Lyney and Freminet were gone, "Where-" She was asking, but then heard puking from another room, "I don't blame them." Lynette threw her cents in, meanwhile, Arlecchin grabbed Sibley again, "I'm going to hurt you a lot for this." She informed making Sibley teleport away.