Episode 7: “Carrie, Carrie, Quite Contrary…”
[INT. CARRIE’S HOUSE – DAY]
(A cartoonishly bright sun hangs in the sky. Carrie is pouring cereal, humming. It’s offbeat and bubbly.)
CARRIE (to herself, smiling): “Third time pouring it right! I call that a win. And no Stix here to blow up my house again…”
(Knock on the door. Rudy peeks in.)
RUDY: “Yo, breakfast champion! We still on for training today?”
Rudy’s personality feels different today…
CARRIE (cheerful): “Mhm! Just… had some dreams again.”
RUDY (sits on couch): “Oh… uh.. Wanna talk about it?”
(Carrie nods. The room dims slightly.)
[FLASHBACK – GRAINY REALISM FILTER – CARRIE’S PAST]
(Carrie’s mom is tall and bouncy [heh], like a rubbery Looney Tune. Her dad is hyper-realistic, detailed like a grim oil painting.)
DAD (off-screen): “Don’t make me tell you again!”
(A crash. Carrie hides under a couch, smiling.)
YOUNG CARRIE (V.O.): “I was always happy. Not because I wanted to be. Just… that’s how I was made!”
(The mother weeps. The father storms out. A jail cell slams shut. A white room flashes—her mother, restrained and giggling.)
[INT. CARRIE’S HOUSE – BACK TO PRESENT]
CARRIE (soft): “Foster homes. College. Then this town. And… I stayed.”
RUDY: “…I’m really glad you did.”
(Carrie tears up, smiling.)
CARRIE: “It’s weird. I’m always happy… even when I shouldn’t be.”
RUDY (nods): “That’s not weird. That’s brave.”
CARRIE: “It’s just that.. the more happier I am or I choose to be, the stronger—“
(Suddenly, a MASSIVE EXPLOSION shakes the window.)
[EXT. CENTER OF HAPPY TOWN – CHAOS]
(Citizens scream as confetti explodes in the air. A floating woman in a magician’s outfit hovers above the cracked ground, twirling a wand.)
MAGICIAN: “Greetings, insects! It’s time to clean this filthy little town.”
PRINCESS (already pissed): “Did you just insult my entire aesthetic??”
(The sky shimmers—reality warps. Buildings stretch like taffy. Roads curve into staircases. The Magician distorts gravity and physics—Rudy and her friends just brush it off as a “minor inconvenience”.)
ZORA: “Okay yeah I’m NOT sober enough for this.”
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QUIBBLE: “Has she lost her mind?! Because I have… I can’t find it!!”
his brain ran into a trash can. So he ran after it.
Wade (stoic as ever): “…This isn’t supposed to happen on a Tuesday!!”
Stix: “Oh for fucks sake, it’s not Tuesday anymore! It’s another normal Wednesday..”
(The Magician alters Gravity, Rudy and Quibble just keep moving as if that didn’t mattered to them)
[INT. WARPED HAPPY TOWN – BATTLEFIELD]
(The main cast springs into action. Rudy flips forward and draws her bo staff. Quibble materializes a boxing glove the size of a motorcycle.)
STIX: “Oh cool, we’re doing THIS again.”
QUIBBLE: “I vote we throw her into the Sun!”
(The Magician fires reality-warping light beams. Zora and Wade get caught—sealed inside glass prisms.)
PRINCESS: “HEY! I WAS USING THEM!!”
MAGICIAN (laughing): “Let’s see you all disappear! ABRASIFJANJD!!”
[EXT. ROOFTOPS – CARRIE HIDES ALONE]
(Carrie curls up behind a rooftop chimney, shaking.)
CARRIE (to herself): “They’ve got it. I don’t fight. I don’t… I don’t…”
(She sees Rudy being targeted. Light beams close in. Rudy dodges in a quick flash. Rudy then fired her bazooka—trying to hit The Magician, but she turned the missiles into fish. The Magician attempted to warp reality by altering the environment—Rudy successfully breaks out of the attack and lands a punch on her)
CARRIE (snaps): “Nope. No. NUH-UH.”
(She stands. Lifts a whole 3 story house. Her body stretches like warm dough as she hurls the entire building at the Magician.)
CARRIE: “Eh..!”
[INT. FINAL BATTLE SEQUENCE – ACTION TIME]
(Rudy activates a hidden jetpack, flipping through the air. She spins, draws her sniper rifle, and fires suppressive shots.)
MAGICIAN: “YOU. LITTLE. WORM.”
RUDY (dodging beams, smirking): “You talk so much. You ever shut up?”
(Rudy charges—POW! KICK! SMACK! 30-hit combo. The Magician stumbles.)
RUDY: “Let me show you how we clean house.”
(She grabs the Magician’s arm, spins her midair, and punches her straight through three buildings by stretching her own arm.)
(The Magician attempts to teleport away—only to find she’s holding a wooden stick.)
MAGICIAN: “…Huh? MY WAND!!?”
(Carrie holds the real wand. She snaps it in half.)
MAGICIAN: “No no no—!”
RUDY (grinning): “Bye now.”
(SMASH! Rudy kicks her into space. She explodes in a star-shaped puff of glitter.)
MAGICIAN: “RUUUUDYYYY…..!!!!”
[EXT. CENTER OF TOWN – POST-BATTLE CALM]
(Everyone cheers. Zora and Wade are freed. Quibble floats down and grabs confetti to toss.)
QUIBBLE: “CARRIE!! MVP!!”
Quibble and his own Soul hugged. Stix was jealous that he didn’t have his back.
STIX: “Bah..”
RUDY (to Carrie): “You saved all of us. You good?”
CARRIE (smiling warmly, deeply): “…I think I finally know why I’m happy.”
(Beat. Quibble walks up and hands her a pie. Carrie eats it in one bite.)
PRINCESS: “Next person to try reality-warping Happy Town is getting vaporized. I mean it.”
STIX: “Wait, I was gonna try that next Wednesday… again, heh—“
Princess tackles Stix and beats him up.
STIX: “WA-WAIT!! I’m joking!! ACK!! AHH!! ZORA, HELP!!—AHH—“
[EXT. HAPPY TOWN PARK – NIGHTFALL]
(The group has a peaceful picnic under a paper moon. Laughter. Warm lights. Carrie laughs too. Genuinely.)
CARRIE (V.O.): “I don’t know what’s coming next. But maybe… just maybe… I’m strong enough to smile through it.”
END OF EPISODE 7
