Distress of The Demonic Distortion

In Grampy’s house, you would find many electrical and mechanical appliances from more crazy things, like nano-machines that can alter the environment, to more mundane things like an electrical typewriter. When it comes to this electrical typewriter, it was just a normal old device that Grampy added many adjustments onto. Originally was just part of a test among several other old objects he took the time of improving and repairing of it became a stay at the household. Its main quirk is that it can produce its own paper, although of course one can put paper outside of it in it too.

Grampy would often use this to write down things like letters and notes on his research on several subjects, but from time-to-time Betty would use it too. Since Grampy is still in the hospital, Betty had been using it more. She would write letters down to be sent to Grampy and would use it for her own journaling and diary-ing, as her previous diary got destroyed. She would sometimes use it just to write down shit… for fun… because she can. Today however, she is writing or typing, whatever, a nice and wholesome message to her Grampy.

“Dear Grampy, someday, maybe someday, me and Bimbo were thinking of potentially becoming great inventors like you! I know we both have the intelligence of a brick, but that doesn’t mean we are incapable of trying our best! I’m sure me and him can come up with wonderful things as great as you! Love, Betty. <3” She took out a pen with pink colored ink to color in the little heart. She then put the message in an envelope and gave it to a little robot that would deliver mail. “You know what to do little fella, teehee!” She patted the robot, and it opened out its jetpack and flew off.

Betty was typing in her room, on a desk, Bimbo was in the back playing paddleball with a bored expression on his face. Betty looked back to him. “Hey Bimbo, wanna try typing on the typewriter! It’s pretty fun and you look bored!” She said with a bright excited smile. “Nah… I’m fine. Plus, I’m not sure if I wanna have fun with Grampy’s tech for a while, at least not until he comes out of the hospital.” He replied. “Oh okay, well hey! I guess at the very least… you are more expressive than you were when you first left the void! Guess you’re just a bit bored and all heheh.” Betty chuckled. Bimbo just looked up, with his eyelid's half closed, at Betty, still with his half-bored face, and then looked down to continue paddling. “Oh, I’m sorry Bim-Bim if I said anything to upset you! Sorry for making it look like I was chuckling at your misfortune, I didn’t mean to!” “It’s fine Betty, I know you didn’t.”

After some time, the robot came back with a message from Grampy. As Grampy couldn’t really write himself, due to his arms still being fucked up and getting repaired, he had a hospital assistant write out for him in red pen. The robot handed the message to Betty. “Dear Betty, I’m sure you and Bimbo can become great inventors someday if you put not only your minds into it but your own hearts. <3 By the way, I had my chip removed as the doctors recommended not to put any of my tech in my body for a while until I am certain it can be safe. But I still wanted you to have it as a little token. You’re allowed to have it as long as you don’t implement it into you too haha! Have fun kiddo! Love, Grampy.” There was the removed chip, cleaned and everything, inside of a little bag. “Woah… guess I gotta watch out for this thing huh?” Betty grabbed the bag and looked around at it out of curiosity.

“I wouldn’t play around with that thing if I were you.” Said a slightly deadpan and soured sounding Bimbo. “Oh okay, I should just leave it down then. Guess if I keep it in the bag everything will be alright?” Said Betty. Bimbo just slowly blinked. “Ah…” Betty put her finger to her cheek. “In the meantime, lemme test something out.” Betty dashed to Bimbo. “Hugs!” She picked up Bimbo and only one heart flew above him and then it popped away, his expression barely changed. “Well at least I can tell you’re getting a little better on the inside! I’m so sorry, that mean ol’ void demon must have taken so much of the life energy outta you!” Betty started caressing Bimbo’s head with a sad and pitiful expression. Bimbo’s head moved a bit to look behind Betty. “Hey what’s going on over there.” He pointed.

Betty also looked back while still holding onto Bimbo. The chip ate the bag it was in, became bigger and started floating on its own to the electric typewriter and merged into it. The electrical device started floating and crazy electrical sparks were flying all over around it and it started morphing into something… demonic. “Uh oh… WHY DID GRAMPY HAVE TO GIVE ME THAT THING?!” Betty started crying into Bimbo’s shoulder. “Hey, don’t cry, we’ll probably figure something out. Unfortunately, you know I can’t use any of his weapons he made for me right now and I still wouldn’t recommend using any he made for you either. But perhaps we can- MMMFFH!” Crumpled pieces of paper shot into Bimbo’s mouth. “Bimbo!!!” Betty said with a scared face but started taking the papers out of his mouth. “Why you! I’ll… I’ll… AAAAAAAHHHH!!!” Betty let out a loud sonic scream at the now demonic typewriter. The typewriter just started growing and looking larger and scarier.

“Aah! Bimbo! What do we do! What do we do! I don’t want the technology in our home to be haunted anymore!” Betty cried again while holding onto Bimbo. Poor girl, she was really sad and scared. “Gah, wish I had enough energy, and better weapons, to beat the shit out of that thing.” Bimbo finally had some more expression, looking a mix between being quite angry and being very drained and tired. Just then the typewriter flew out of the window. “Okay Betty, I think we gotta chase that thing.” Bimbo said as he took out a metal bat. “Oh yeah, let’s get ready!” Betty went werepoodle mode.

The two got their stuff on and went outside. “Betty, uh, one thing you’re probably gonna have to carry me cause I feel drained as shit. It’s probably gonna take a while for me to catch up.” Bimbo said. Betty then carried Bimbo and ran with him at the speed of sound. “Hehe! You’re so fun to hold and carry!” “Ah, haha…” Bimbo blushed a bit with two hearts emerging above his head then popping. “…g-guess I am.” Bimbo had a little smile, a tired smile but a still very visible and clear one. “Aww sweetie! I’m so glad you’re starting to get better!” Betty started squeezing Bimbo tightly but then they crashed and fell down not looking where they were going. “Aaaah! I can’t believe we almost got hit by a car! Oh, Bimbo I feel so dumb! Wait… Bimbo? Bimbo honey bunches? Where are you?” Betty saw her horrifically crushed lover in the distance. “OH NO!” Betty ran towards him quick.

“B-Betty.” Bimbo slowly raised up a crunched arm towards her. “Please put me out of my misery and take some of my weapons. You’re gonna have to do this one on your own.” He said in a very weak and slow voice, even worse than before. Betty just let out a high-pitched teary scream while holding the hands of Bimbo. Just then, Bimbo started healing a bit, then a bit more from Betty screaming for a long time, then after… “Ay, uh, Betty? You can stop screaming now.” Bimbo looked good as new and way better than before. “Oh Bimbo!” Betty helped Bimbo get up and they walked away from traffic. “Looks like your screams were quite the remedy! I feel like six hundred and sixty-six bucks!” Bimbo twirled around his metal bat then moved his hand on it, engulfing it in hellish flame with a mischievous smile. “Now let’s go bust up that tacky typewriter!” He started swinging around energetically. “Wait a second Bimbo!” Betty put her hand on him, and he stopped moving and looked up at her. “The spooky void demon thing said something about how I have a sound energy that can amplify the energy and powers of others! When I screamed at that typewriter it just became more bigger and scarier! We have to be careful how I use my sound!”

Bimbo started thinking. “Hmm…” Cogs were slowly moving in his thought bubble then fell on his head as the thought bubble poofed away. “You wanna just beat the shit out of it with weapons then?” “Sure okay!” Betty, once really concerned, now replied cheerfully and carefree. The two then went to further search for it. While it was nowhere to be seen, a bunch of papers started darting at Bimbo. “Ah! Ah! Hiya!” He started swinging for his life as the papers got set on fire, only to now become papers on fire. “Crap…” Bimbo started sweating. “Maybe fighting things from a demon with hellfire wasn’t the best idea?” Betty said. “Ugh…” Bimbo growled a bit then started spitting on his bat to put out the flames. “Eeeewwww! That’s so gross! Use the snow around us next time!” Betty said with her tongue out in disgust. “Hey, it did the job didn’t it?” Bimbo said, just then his metal bat started floating out of his hand and started bashing his head. “Ow! Ow! Oof!” He started seeing pentagrams above his head.

“Aah! Stop it you stupid bat! Go away!” Betty tried to grab the bat to keep it away from Bimbo but it just flew off. “Ah great, looks like even non-mechanical stuff is off limits too! Is nothing safe to use! Ugh, oh and thanks for the support, Betty…” Bimbo got up rubbing his head. “Oh, I’m so sorry sugar, it seems like whatever force is behind this it’s really out for you! I mean that typewriter could have easily given me several paper cuts, and that bat could have easily swung at me, but it seems to just be aiming for you.” Betty patted Bimbo’s head gently. “Great just great! Now I have even more of a curse to deal with! How am I gonna be a cool and badass hunter of the supernatural now! I wanted to beat the shit out of things and get paid for it not get beat up all the time myself!” Bimbo started tearing up a bit. “Aaw! Come here! It’s ok! Maybe with my amplifying sound powers I can make you into a real invincible tough guy!” Betty started cuddling Bimbo to comfort him. “*sniff* Really?” Bimbo looked up at Betty with shiny puppy dog eyes. “Hmm maybe, only one way to find out! Now stay put.” Bimbo decided to stay put as Betty told him to.

“Boop BOOP BE DOOOOOOOOOOP!” She yelled out a really large and loud shock wave. Betty closed her eyes tightly while yelling and as she slowly opened them… “Hehehe, did it work? Wait WHAT THE FUCK?!” Right in front of her was what seemed to be Bimbo floating and demonically possessed with lots of objects and tech shit, including the typewriter and bat that tried to beat the shit out of him. His eyes were pretty black with some black stuff leaking out under them. “- .... .. ... / -- ..- - - / .. ... / -. --- / -... .- -.. .- ... ... --..-- / .... . / .-- .. .-.. .-.. / -. . ...- . .-. / -... . .-.-.-” The voice coming out of the possessed dog sounded like a bunch of garbled and distorted noises being mashed and bashed together to form what seemed to be in the pattern of morse code. Betty just had her phone out with her hand on her hip and her eyebrow raised. The text translated to “This mutt is no badass, he will never be.” “Just so you know, my Grampy installed a morse code detector and translator on our phones! You’re not as smart as you think you are! So just communicate to me in basic English if you’re gonna try to say anything to me at all!” The entity just froze for a moment as more black liquid oozed out. “Bimbo is a LOOSER, and he stole your leftovers in the fridge.” The voice said in a now weird G-Major version of his voice that had his normal pitch, a higher pitch and lower pitch overlaying each other. “I don’t care! Well, I am a bit angry now that you mention it, but still, I don’t care! Bimbo can have as many snacks as he wants as long as he asks for permission! And even then, it’s fine if he steals leftovers… sometimes. The boy can be very hungry you know!”

The demon darted its dark eyes around with only small shreds of light on them indicating such movement. “Bimbo has recently put a bomb under the hospital where Grampy is. This is not a joke.” The demon said calmly. “*GASP* Well even if there being a bomb at the hospital is true, it doesn’t make any sense that Bimbo would do it! Not only does he care for Grampy, but he’s been with me most of the time, ever since that little incident, and there is NO WAY he could have planted a bomb in such a faraway hospital.” Betty replied. Just then a loud large explosion could be heard and seen so vastly that it started overtaking the sky. “HUH?! WHAT?!” Betty shrieked. As she was about to cry and rush to Grampy she froze mid run. “The current space-time continuum will be distorted per usual. You will now be sent back to your room along with Grampy and Bimbo standing right in front of you.” The demon said. “Wait, what?! What the heck do you mean! Wait a second!” As Betty blinked, she was sitting right on her bed with Grampy and Bimbo standing next to each other while in front of Betty and waving at her. “Hello Betty, what a wonderful day we are having? Aren’t we?” They kept waving almost in a robotic manner and black ooze came leaking out of their eyes. “H-huh?” Betty looked scared and confused. Just then she realized Pudgy was on her lap and looked at her, with black ooze leaking out of his eyes and mouth. “Little guy?” Betty’s face started twitching. The two guys and the pet now started oozing out more black stuff everywhere as it started to fill the room like a pool. Betty let out such a high pitched scream.

She then was in her bed again, but this time tucked in. Bimbo opened the door and was acting like his normal usual self, no spooky dark substances to be seen, he had something in his hand. “Hey Betty and good morning, brought you some pancakes. You know how Grampy went to go to a hotel yesterday so he left me to take care of you, you seemed awfully sick. I hope you get better.” Bimbo put down the food for Betty and started patting her head. “Huh, what happened?” Betty said very faintly. “Shh, don’t speak just yet. You need to eat first or else you’ll stay super weak.” Bimbo said in a soft tone. Just then Betty started looking at her nose and she felt like she was bleeding, she went to slowly touch her nose and she saw she was indeed bleeding… maple syrup? “Aaah-AAAAH!” Betty freaked out. “Shhhhhhh! Eat the pancakes so the maple syrup monster can go away!” Bimbo said in a slightly louder but still soft voice. The pancakes then turned into liquid, and she ended up drinking it. “Ah… the fuck…” Betty’s eyes started squinting. “Atta girl, feel better soon.” Bimbo said while wiping her face with a napkin.

Bimbo then left the room and locked the door. After he left, Betty decided to look outside, slowly reaching for the window and its curtains. As she moved them, what she saw was a horrific sight of several copies of herself oozing out black goo and having a complete blank stare. Expressions ranged from very large warped to smaller neutral smiles just creepily staring at her. “-... --- --- .--. / -... --- --- .--. / .- / -.. --- --- .--.” The voices said in a distorted tone, as if several instruments, tools, equipment and objects were being slammed, destroyed and bashed together. “GAAAAAAHHH!” Betty screamed out loud and all the copies fused into one giant Betty Boop replica, appearing how she looks like when human but with her black lipstick, nails, dress and shoes and flew into the air with a creepy blank stare. Normal Betty started breathing heavily and very quickly but as her breathing got slower, she started getting sleepier. She slowly closed her eyes and finally went to bed. As she fell asleep, a giant void-like portal emerged on her great big forehead. Despite the loud sound it made she was snoring fast asleep. Several black flowers and petals kept emerging out from it and phasing out into the sky, as the flowers stopped blooming out, it was like the very view of outer space could be seen from the portal with beautiful stars, planets and other celestial objects floating about.

Home Is Where The Hearts Are

As Grampy was in the hospital for a few days now, this left Betty to have to take care of the house mostly by herself. While sure, there was the assistance of many machines he had made to make the process of maintaining things easier, she still was handling it by herself as Grampy usually controls the machines. Recently, Bimbo is staying over again and has been helping Betty Boop around with stuff at home.

Bimbo and his family’s house have been destroyed again, not by his own reckless actions, but because unfortunately the current neighborhood they were living in got destroyed by ghosts and demons. Bimbo’s stepfather is an ice cream man who owns a thankfully, but only hypothetically, indestructible ice cream truck that is large enough for his family to have some basic needs in. There’s a fridge, a bed, a bathroom and heck even a mini-TV. The truck was once a normal ice cream truck but has been turned into an ice cream truck on crack thanks to Grampy, whose body recently was pretty cracked.

Because of the cold season, less people are looking forward to getting ice cream. So at least this leaves more free ice cream for the family and friends. As for Bimbo’s mom, she works as a waitress at a diner. While Bimbo’s stepdad tends to be the one who works more in the Spring, Summer and Fall, his mother works more in the Winter. So Bimbo’s mother has been keeping less of an eye on him, not because she doesn’t want to, but because she is more focused on maintaining her job at this time of year. His stepfather has been currently assisting his wife with her job as she is very stressed and he wants to be there and support his wife. Funny how now, their own son is currently spending time with his girlfriend to assist her more.

“Aah, trying to maintain and deal with keeping, not only the house, but all these gadgets and machines in check is tough! Unfortunately I’m just not used to all of it as Grampy is!” Betty said exhausted. “Thank you Bimbo darling, for helping me around.” She said as she hugged him while he wagged his tail with hearts floating above his head. “Heh heh, no problem.” The little floating hearts started dancing around and helped cleaned up whatever mess was left. “Ah, I want little heart assistants too! Hug me! Hug me!” Bimbo hugged Betty and had her own little hearts that flew above her head but instead they didn’t have it in them to assist with anything and fell down. “You know, maybe that’s a sign from your tired soul that you should just rest…” Bimbo stated. “Ugh yeah. But who’s gonna take care of cyborg Pudgy?”

Pudgy, who was previously easily possessed by a rampaging demon robot with currently unknown whereabouts, likely still rampaging, due to a supernatural computer chip implanted in his brain, is now technically a cyborg dog. Pudgy kept munching on the scrap metal around with freakishly demonic metallic tendrils coming out of his mouth. “You know I will, you know I will.” Bimbo patted Betty with a confident look on his face. “Ah… okay… well good thing he coughed us out after realizing we weren’t his acquired taste. He also seems trained enough to not eat any of the complex machines and appliances. He sure does seem to love that scrap metal though.” Betty analyzed. “Hey, knowing Grampy’s kookiness, do you think the old man implanted chips in us too?” Bimbo asked with a slightly blank expression that had his eyelids partly lowered. “That is a good question, but I don’t think so… otherwise we should have gotten hacked and turn into cyborg things ourselves.” “Hmm, good point.”

The two just stood there looking in the distance for a few minutes with blank expressions and eyelids lowered. Then after a bit... “Hugs!” Betty hugged Bimbo really tightly. Just then he wagged his ears and tail and over a million hearts flew out, and decided to look after and tend to the place. “Welp, guess that should be enough to take care of the place. C’mon! Let’s go do something else!” Bimbo grabbed Betty and dashed to put on their winter clothes and their stuff to go outside. “Bimbo what are we planning on doing?” She said while buttoning her coat. “We’re gonna have a nice little trip around the city on my electric scooter!” “Oh okie dokie!” As they went outdoors Bimbo popped out his scooter. “Ladies first!” Bimbo let Betty hop on first. “Oh teehee! Bimbo! You can be such a little gentleman… at times!” More little hearts sprung out from Betty, but they still fell to the floor, this time shivering. “Aww… guess I’m still a bit out of energy…” Betty said while picking up the hearts. “Well don’t worry cause I’m gonna be the one driving anyways so.” Bimbo said.

Just then Bimbo’s electric scooter started morphing and shifting. “Ah! Bimbo get off!” Betty grabbed Bimbo quickly and they both jumped back. The little hearts ran back to the house out of fear and being cold. “AAAH! MY SHIT!” Bimbo horrified and angrily yelled. The scooter then transformed into a floating metal orb and flew away. “Dammit! Well that’s one plan ruined.” Bimbo shook his hand and formed a fist. “What other plans do you have in mind Bim-Bim?” “I dunno, I was just gonna… go with the flow… on my ride… that’s now destroyed… or transformed… into something that’s no longer my ride… I don’t give a shit anymore.” Bimbo crossed his arms and looked angry. “Aw Bimbo, don’t be upset! Wanna go back inside? We can stroll around the city another day.” Betty patted him to comfort him. “Yeah… I guess so. Let’s relax and watch a movie or something. I put some of the food from my parents’ jobs in the fridge.” The two walked back in.

As the two went home, they took off their outside stuff and looked around the home. “Huh, strange… shouldn’t there be a bunch of representations for our feelings for one another walking around?” Bimbo scratched his head. “Ah! I hear something! It’s coming closer!” Betty said and she and Bimbo hid behind the umbrella container and coat rack. They peaked their heads out just a little bit to see but remained quiet. A little heart was running really fast but then got tired. “Aww poor little empathic icon.” Betty whispered. “Shh!” Bimbo put a finger over Betty’s mouth. Just then one of Grampy’s weird vacuum cleaner machine things slowly got up to the heart, the heart tried to crawl away and was making a motion pleading to not get sucked in but got sucked in anyways. The vacuum then moved around as if it was looking around then left the room. “Well, that explains it… sheesh… guess the tech is still fucked. Maybe from getting his ass pummeled by that mechanical demon the chip in Grampy’s brain also got a bit fucked.” Bimbo said. “But most of the tech has been fine! I mean look at cyborg Pudgy right now, he’s still well behaved!” Cyborg Pudgy was sleeping on his freakishly long metal mouth tendrils forming a bed. “Something else must be happening!” Said Betty. “Well, guess that means we’re gonna have to find out then, aren’t we?” Bimbo twirled out his gun.

The two slowly went to investigate what was going on. They listened to the sound of the vacuum and followed it. As they were walking between rooms, just then, a bunch of mechanical kitchen appliances started moving around and started shooting things, from silverware to hot food, at Bimbo. “YOW!” Bimbo jumped up so high his head crashed into the sealing. The loud noise caught some attention of the vacuum. “Ah! Bimbo we gotta run!” Betty was trying to yank out Bimbo. “MMMMFFF!” He yelled muffled. His gun dropped out of his hand, after he crashed into the sealing, and started blasting upwards. “EEEEK!” Betty screamed and eventually finally got Bimbo out and the two ran. As they ran however, the interior of the house kept warping and changing.

The environment became vastly… dreamlike. Like it was easily recognizable as the home, but also so distorted it clearly wasn’t. Cyborg Pudgy started floating in the distance like there was no gravity, while still asleep. “Augh! Not me and my Grampy’s beautiful home! Sure his wacky technology could fix this but those might be screwed up too!” Betty put her hands on her head in dismay. “Welp,” Bimbo started dropping all his mechanized weapons. “guess it’s gonna be knives out for me.” “Ah! Good idea! I don’t think I could ever drop my special microphone but I’ll try not to use it…” Betty went werepoodle mode and got her claws out. As the two formed a thumbs up sign something was shifting behind them. The weapons Bimbo had dropped turned into a tank. “Uh, run.” Said Bimbo with a shocked face. “Yeah good idea!” Betty grabbed Bimbo and they dashed but so did the tank.

The tank started blasting and blasting. The two were fleeing for their lives. But then cyborg Pudgy floated near the tank and ate it whole, easily crushing it with the metal tendrils. “Wow thanks Pudgy, mama loves you!” “Yeah good boy, papa appreciates ya!” Said Betty and Bimbo respectively. Pudgy went to hug Betty and Bimbo. “Daaaaaawwwwww!” Betty and Bimbo said in unison while they hugged Pudgy back. Over billions of hearts flew over their heads and the sound of the vacuum came near. Pudgy flew away out of fear. “No wait, Pudgy! Come back! Our baby!” Betty tried to reach out to Pudgy. “You know he’s not literally our baby right?” Bimbo said all snarky. “Yes his is! You just called yourself his papa!” “I- whatever.” 

They looked back and saw many of their heart symbols get sucked by the vacuum. “Why does it want our hearts so badly?” Betty asked. “Beats me, I know the symbols of our emotions we generate come from aspects of our soul or… something like that… maybe it’s possessed by a demon that feeds on symbols?” Bimbo replied. “Hmm, well whatever. I’m not just gonna let it feed on aspects of our anything!” Betty dashed to the vacuum. “Hey wait!” Bimbo tried to reach out to Betty but she already ran. As Betty tried to aim to scratch and slash it, it simply dodged. “Huh?!” Betty fell on the ground. The vacuum then went to chase Bimbo. “Why me?! WHY ME?!” The vacuum tried to take in Bimbo. Betty grabbed onto him and attempted to dash with him, but the vacuum was trying to pull him in even more now.

He flew back and the vacuum was already on his tail. “GAAAH! Betty!” Bimbo put one hand gripping on the floor and the other reaching out to Betty. “Bim-BOOOO!” Betty was simply flown back but didn’t get hurt, she slowly reverted to her human form. “Ugh… no…” One last attempt, Betty got up and went to save her boyfriend. Bimbo tried stabbing the vacuum, but it started growing more meaner and more vicious. “Your scary looks don’t scare me!” Bimbo started sweating. Betty then jumped on the vacuum and tried to grab onto Bimbo as much as she can, but as the vacuum was trying to reel him in it got them both. “UUUUUGGGHH! Oooof!” They fell down into a void, a vacuum if you will. “Thank goodness it’s not so yucky and dusty in here!” Betty said. “Betty, I think we’re trapped.” Bimbo said sourly. “Oh… yeah…” They looked up ahead. “Bimbo look! So many hearts!” Betty pointed. The two walked slowly near the clump of hearts.

The two got close up. “Wooooaaaaaahhhh…” They said simultaneously. “They seem to be continuously replicating!” Betty said. “They’re even spawning in different colors! Ours’ were redder and pinker!” A mass array of colors could be seen of different hues and different shades. Bimbo tried using his supernatural sniff from his connection to Hell. “It’s ours alright and seems like it’s indeed the work of a demon is behind this. I gotta ask why though? What’s it wants with not only our love symbols but only me and not you? It couldn’t be the previous robot demon with its acquired tastes and all, for obvious reasons, this could be a new one.”  Bimbo said while putting his hand to his chin thinking. “You shouldn’t be here as a pair…” An ominous voice was heard. Betty and Bimbo shivered but then got angry.

“Yes, we should be here as a pair! You’re the one taking hearts from both of us! Why are you doing that? Why don’t you go and get your own and leave me and my lover alone!” Betty said angrily wagging her finger. “Betty… I’m sorry… but you wouldn’t understand…” The voice sounded solemn. “Don’t ‘Betty’ me! Who the HELL are YOU? Those little hearts are sorta parts of our own subconscious you know… in a way! At least that’s what I heard! Both of us are very involved in this! And what do you mean I wouldn’t understand! I understand me and Bimbo better than you!” Betty held onto Bimbo tight. “I am sorry, but I cannot say as I am incapable of telling you-” “AH FUCK THIS SHIT. You either tell us what your goddamned deal is or leave us THE FUCK alone! We already know you’re some type of demon and all! So, if you aren’t even planning on eating our entire souls, how about you just go away and revert things back to normal! I’m not even sure what you want with me, but my curse makes it incapable of fully killing off my soul anyways so-” Bimbo went on and on but then it was like a force of darkness shoved him back. “Bimbo!” Betty went to him.

“Betty, I tried to keep you out of this. This guy is a Hellion. You may think of him as your hero, but he is not. He is no knight in shining armor like in some fairytale, and you know it. I’m a demon but one who must still follow the regulations of certain things, and thus, I have to take care of this little sinner.” The voice still ominously said. Betty just got more frustrated. “He’s a hellion AND my hero! I don’t care what anyone says about Bimbo! He’s not only my boyfriend but my oldest and bestest friend! I don’t care what any ‘regulations’ have to say! Maybe you feel the need to cheaply make copies of our hearts because YOU lack one and have no love or friends!” The voice just grunted. Just then the floating orb that looked to be the one that was formerly Bimbo’s scooter came in, then out came several metallic tendrils. “A fusion of both the electric scooter of the sinful little hound and the tendrils of your temporarily cybernetic ‘son’ who’s now just a normal pet again as anything synthetic and mechanized has been removed from him. Such an unintelligent little creature should not remain with such unstable power. Have fun.” The mechanism started rushing towards Bimbo. 

“No!” Betty tried to transform but couldn’t. Her microphone then floated in front of her. “Here, try and sing, as you love doing to pass the time. You’re quite the natural. Ignore what’s going on in the back it will all be over soon.” Betty just got even more furious… absolutely mad. She started singing, but not out of love but out of fury. “WHY YOU PIECE OF SHIT! I’M HOPING YOU GET HIT! YOU BETTER STOP THIS CAUSE I’VE HAD IT!” Betty sung and rushed to help Bimbo. “Hurting my boy like this, why? All it makes wants to do is make me cry! I can’t just ignore it and let this happen to him, I’d want to die! I hope this thing’s circuits FRY!” Betty started bashing the robot with her microphone. “I don’t care if my boy is a sinner, because to me he’s a winner! And everyday the line between those two things grows thinner!” Bimbo started holding hands with Betty and sung along. “Come on now, scream and shout! We’re in this together let it all out! No matter what you do to us we won’t pout! Cause in the end our love for each other is our only route!” A shockwave of energy blasted the robot to bits.

Distant clapping could be heard. “Well done… well done… Well then do not pout at this.” Suddenly a dark force grabbed Bimbo and took him deeper into the void. Betty gasped. “No! NO! BimbOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!” An even more intense shockwave came out from Betty. It was so vast it was like it spread across the entire void and the environment around her started cracking like shards of broken glass when someone hits the really high note. Betty found herself back inside of her living room, all things reverted back to normal, but Bimbo was now of course… likely burning in Hell. “Betty, your soundwaves have the potent abilities of amplifying powers. It is such a strong energy and truly has tremendously impactful waves. One simply cannot wait for them to further… bloom.” The ominous voice said echoing in Betty’s brain. “SHUT UP!” Betty yelled while putting her hands on her head. After a while of heavy breathing, she sat down on the couch. A normal, now non-cyborg and chip-less, Pudgy came up to Betty and comforted her. “Aw… my sweet baby. I’m sorry papa isn’t here with us now but at least mama can spend time with you.” Little hearts started flying over Betty’s head and the noise of a vacuum started sucking them up. “What the fuck dammit!” But when she looked back, nothing was seen to be there. “Oh geez…”

After a few minutes, in an infernal array of pitch-black flame, Bimbo emerged right in front of Betty. “Bimbo! That was quick, what did that big bad demon do to you?” Bimbo was just standing there with a neutral, yet wide eyed, face and his eyes slowly moved to look at Betty. “I dunno, all I remember was… void.” He remained with his mouth open after he spoke. “Hmm, well at least you are here with me.” Betty went to hug Bimbo. “Yeah…” No sign of hearts. Bimbo still remained with the same expression, only movement his face made was very slow blinking. “So, eh...” Betty's eye's started rapidly darting around anxiously. “You wanna go and watch a movie with me? I'll make us some nice white hot chocolate and get some nice chocolate covered popcorn!” Betty said all sweetly and started squishing Bimbo's cheeks. “Sure... thing...” Bimbo's responses sure were freakishly sluggish, but Betty still wanted to have a nice time with him. “Well then, let's go! I'll set things up in my room all comfy cozy for the both of us! We're gonna have such a nice time!” Betty and Bimbo started walking with Pudgy following them... but as the pair wasn't looking, it was like black liquid, similar to oil, was coming out of Pudgy's eyes.

Time For School

It’s morning time, Betty Boop and Bimbo have been staying warm inside her comfy home and room. It seems to have remained a calm and peaceful night. Betty finally wakes up to her gleeful surprise that her beloved Bimbo has been resting in a sleeping bag on her floor.

“Ha… hi! Morning Bim-Bim! H-hah. I am still so very sleepy. How are you doing?” She said very gently and slowly. “Oh, uh hi Betty! I’m good… so uh… remember anything that happened recently? Ya know… before you fell asleep and all?” Bimbo was sorta half asleep and half awake but opened his eyes a bit once he heard Betty. “Oh-h… no, not really. I barely remember anything haha! My brain is kinda fuzzy teehee…” Bimbo just looked at her in silence. “All I could remember was dreaming about bubbles… sweet bubbles… not really much else.” Betty said. “…Weeelllll ooookaaaaayyy.” Bimbo said. “Hey, don’t we have school today?” Betty said still sorta tired. “Yeah… good thing we’re both technically homeschooled by Grampy. Well, I guess it’s more homeschool for you since this is your home but y’know what I mean.”

“Oh yeah haha! You got banned from several buildings in the city, including several schools, for being labeled as a ‘menace to society’ or something? Your curse and connection to Hell also throws some people off. Hhhh… and your parents don’t have enough money to move or travel to another place for your schooling and they don’t plan to.” Betty said still sleepily and slowly. “Er… um… yeah heheh…” Bimbo said in a slightly awkward tone. “Not like I care cause I’m a bad boy who’s too cool for school anyways! …Except Grampy’s school cause that’s cool.” Bimbo now tried to say in a proud tone. “Well, I’m glad we can both be homeschooled together! I made sure I got the same treatment too because I love being with you no matter what!” Betty went and gave Bimbo a tired hug. “Aw, I like being with you too.” Bimbo hugged back.

The pair got themselves prepared, with brushing their teeth, eating breakfast and putting on new clothes. “Hey Bimbo, you just snapped your fingers to give us new clothing did you fuel up on spirit energy again?” Betty said now half sleepy and pointing at Bimbo out of confusion with her eyes in different directions. “Mmmmmm… yes maybe yes…” Bimbo said with a blank stare. “Ah… okay… c-cool.” There was complete silence from both for one minute and then Betty collapsed on the floor and snored loudly. Bimbo snapped his fingers to wake her up feeling all energized. “WOW! WOW! WOW! BOOP BOOP BOOP BOOP BOOP BOOP BOOP DOOP DOOP DOOP DOOP DOOP DOOP DOOP!” Betty started running all over the place like a mad-gal. “Guess I gave you too much energy. Ah well, let’s go and meet Grampy his alarm should be going off anytime soon.” The two sat in the living room, waiting for Grampy.

“BOOP A DOOP A DOO BOOP A DOOP A DOO BOOP A DOOP A DOO!” Betty was jumping up and down on the sofa and acted like she was on crack. “You okay, colonel?” Betty’s head slowly turned to face Bimbo making a cracking noise. “AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!” Betty let out a loud shockwave of excitement. Bimbo crashed into a wall but because he also had the hacks of lots of soul energy, so it didn’t hurt… that much. “Heh… guess I should try to use this energy to energize myself then…” Moments later… “AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA” both did a simultaneous, synchronized scream in unison. Grampy started walking in, with his thinking cap on, to witness his two little crack headed students.

“Mornin’ children! Nice to see you are all rising and shining today!” The old man said. “AAAAAAAAAA!!!” They kept energetically screaming. “So, first things first, I suggest ya tone things down a notch cause we still have to wait for Koko to join us!” The two energetic fucks then simultaneously got less energized but were okay with waiting for their friend. “Second things second, I should mention that I am not really Grampy. I am a highly sophisticated and advanced A.I. that he has created that perfectly imitates him. Because of a very small supernatural chip, used with supernaturally enhanced science, that he put inside of his brain, me and him share a psychic link! Isn’t that swell!” Betty and Bimbo looked at each other in confusion but then shrugged. “Sounds like something he would do.” Said Bimbo. “Yeah, I’d be more surprised if he HADN’T done something like that by now.” Betty said. “Finally, third things third, I am part of a series of several other Grampy robots currently being made down in his funky little laboratory! Remember to not tamper with them children! Other than that, please be patient and have fun as long as you aren’t doing things in a reckless way. Haha!”

“Hmm…” Bimbo started thinking and had a mischievous grin. “Bimbo! You better not be thinking of doing something mischievous with my Grampy’s inventions!” Betty waved her finger at Bimbo angrily. “Actually… you know what? With the shit that happened recently I think it’s better not to fuck with anything… for a while.” Bimbo stopped grinning. “Good boy! I’m not sure what caused you to have such a change of heart, but I am hoping it’s genuine of you!” Betty smiled but then looked at him sternly and wearily. “You… really don’t remember?” Bimbo asked concerned. “If you are talking about recently, I remember after you exploded cause of our ruined date, I got home… and I fell asleep, had a strange dream of you saving me from something… and… you were right on my floor when I woke up!” Betty said being serious. “But earlier you said you could only remember dreaming about bubbles!” Bimbo said concerned and confused. “Well, you know I am QUITE forgetful! Hmmph! Not my fault I don’t have photographic memory!” Betty started getting a bit fussy.

“Now settle down children! No need to get all upset here!” The Grampy robot replica said. “Sorry Grampy- er I mean Not Grampy? Robo-Grampy? Grampy Robot?” Question marks floated over Betty’s head. “Any name you are comfortable identifying me with is fine.” The robot replied. “Um… okay. Guess I’ll just call you teacher! Haha!” As Betty was laughing gleefully Bimbo was very concerned. “Something… with that thing… must’ve fucked with her memory. I know Betty is the type to get lost in her dreams and forget about many things in reality but…” He thought to himself. “I have to find out what’s going on with my girl.” Bimbo tried to use his mass acquired spirit energy to look into her soul… but then…

“H-hey! Where did all my big spirit energy go? Did I already loose too much? Even from that big ass pool? Goddamit!” Bimbo started sweating nervously. “Maybe the spirits floated away Bimbo! I thought it was SO obvious that sometimes spirits will sometimes possess bodies only to leave them, Mr. Remember It All!” Betty said while making an “XP” face. “But that’s not how I got the spirits! I drank from a pool full of them!” “Now why would you do that?” “Because I was hungry!” “That’s insane! I’m hoping they weren’t hurt by you eating them alive!” “They were barely even conscious! They were just energy!” “How do you know?” Bimbo just sat there in silence and put his hand to his head. “Ugh… Betty why do you have to be like this today…” “Be like what?!”

“Hey uh, please quit yer bickering! If you fight any more, I may have to punish you both!” The Grampy robot said. Betty and Bimbo both just sat there in silence and didn’t say a peep. “So, I have received a message that Koko will not be able to join us today, due to him and his family having to fend off some entities trying to attack their house.” The robot said. “Oh well that sucks…” Bimbo said. “Second of all, I-” Just then the Grampy bot spontaneously combusted and exploded. The two on the couch screamed very loudly then looked at each other. They then looked at their phones. “Hmm strange I didn’t get any messages from Koko or his relatives.” Betty said. “Me neither you think that bot glitched? …Or could it be, something else?” Bimbo said looking at Betty ominously. “Oh no…” Just then they heard a large crash, things falling and an explosion nearby.

“That sounds like… IT CAME FROM THE LABORATORY!” They said simultaneously. The two started running. Betty grabbed a remote that gave her and Bimbo access to her Grampy’s lab. The two went in, it was truly such a large place as it’s very interior is made from supernaturally enhanced technology that can shape it to the owner’s whim. Betty and Bimbo took out their weapons, her microphone and his guns respectively. “Hmm strange everything looks normal.” Betty whispered as the two were walking slowly and carefully. “Yeah, nothing seems broken or tampered with… suspicious…” Bimbo replied darting his eyes around. Just then the two stopped to see a very large, gigantic even, mechanical monstrosity some feet away from the munching on what appeared to be unfinished Grampy robots. It had the appearance of an orb standing on several tendrils with a highly vague resemblance to a face. Bimbo instantly started aiming at it. “Wait Bimbo! Be patient what if it attacks!” Betty tried to put Bimbo’s arms down but luckily for the two the monster didn’t attack but instead ran away. “Huh?!” The two said simultaneously.

“After it! No one eats my Grampy’s hard work even if it’s kooky!” Betty said. The two started chasing it and it ran and ran. Suddenly it teleported out. “Oh god.” Bimbo put his hand to his head out of frustration. “Maybe if you let me blast it wouldn’t have gotten away!” “Hmmph, well how do you know it wouldn’t have still gotten away? Could have just teleported to avoid your blasts.” Betty said with her hands folded all sassily. “Ugh! Whatever! Let’s just get out of here and hopefully find that thing!” Betty pressed the remote and they were in the living room again. “Before that, we should check on Grampy!” Betty said worried. “What if we don’t have time for that!” Bimbo shouted but Betty was already going to his room. Bimbo followed.

“Grampy?! Are you okay!” Betty shouted worried for him while barging into his room. Grampy was sound asleep. “Oh good… he’s fine…” Betty sighed with relief. “You don’t find it concerning how he’s been sleeping for an awful while? I know old people sleep a lot but…” Bimbo said. “Knowing my Grampy, he probably made some weird tech devices to sustain him while he sleeps. It could be part of some weird experiment of his.” “Good point.” The two then closed his door and rushed outside. “Now where is that robotic thing?” Bimbo got a shotgun out. “Hey, Bimbo why are we outside? Aren’t we supposed to have school right now?” Betty said a bit dizzy. “You’ve gotta be kidding me! Not at a time like this!” “Wait I remember! A robot ate our lunch and we gotta go after it!” “Er… close enough! Now c’mon let’s go!” The two ran and ran until they could find the mechanized menace.

After a while they took a break and sat down on a nearby bench. “God, I feel oddly sleepy.” Said Bimbo. “So do I…” said Betty. “We should probably head back.” Bimbo said. “Yeah, we just have to-” Betty was about to say but then the two fell asleep at the same time. Just then the two slowly woke up and saw that they weren’t where they once were. “Hey Bimbo, why does everything seem so, cold and steely inside?” “Beats me but- wait we are inside the robot, are we?” They were indeed inside of the robot. Betty and Bimbo sat in silence for a few seconds. “So, what do we do now?” Bimbo said. “I dunno, it was YOUR idea to go after the robot!” Betty replied. “Hey, don’t go and turn this into the blame game!” Suddenly they were interrupted. “Hey guys how are you doing?” Said a familiar voice. “KOKO?!” The two said at the same time.

With a warm smile and a wave Koko was also indeed inside of the robot. “Hey Koko, Betty’s gramps made a robot and was having a bunch of others being made, and the already made one was trying to be our teacher and all and gave us a message that you couldn’t come cause your family’s home was being attacked and shit, it then exploded and then this giant robot started eating the other robots and teleported away and we went to find it but I guess it caught us while we accidentally fell asleep. Was it true you couldn’t come because of that or was it just a cover up made by the robot probably hacking shit or using whatever weird tech stuff it could do?” Bimbo said. “Yeah, me and my family were getting attacked.” “Well was it from this thing? Did it kidnap you and your fam?” “Er, no. We were just getting attacked by a bunch of ghosts, or spirits, or phantoms. My family is safe and sound and aren’t with me. I just kinda… slid in here?” “Why tho?” Both said. “Was curious.” The clown replied.

The two just looked at each other and shrugged at his response. “You know… maybe those ghost spirit phantoms were rampaging from Bimbo tormenting them while eating them alive and dead!” Betty said fussy again. “Hey I drank not ate! And I didn’t think any were conscious!” Bimbo said furious again. “Same difference.” “Who knows if it even was the same ones?! It could have been a coincidence!” Before the two could bicker more they were stopped. “Hey guys, please calm down. I don’t wanna see you fight, okay? I’m not sure what happened between you too, but spirits always roam in my area all the time haha!” Koko tried to get them to calm down. “Well when I was in Hell I was forced to get so hungry that I had to drink a pool of liquid spirits, which I FELT weren’t very conscious, and Betty seems to have gotten her brain and memories a bit warped by a bubblegum creature that tried to copy her appearance, possess her and kill her.” “Why you- WAIT WHAT?!” Betty said shocked. “Hmm.” Koko being the smartest and most intelligent of the three buffoons started thinking.

He then went to Bimbo and Betty and put his hands on their big fucking heads. As a shapeshifting goo creature himself, Koko’s currently solid form then shifted into a semi-solid then liquid state and then analyzed Bimbo and Betty down to the microscopic level. It was like he had the power of psychometry once he focused enough. “So as you know it’s not like I can always get a 100% accurate reading but, as someone who tends to study these things a lot, it seems like you guys have made an encounter with some sort of demons. I can still sense some of their remnants on you. Bimbo’s should be more obvious… for obvious reasons… as for Betty…” Koko said as he was pulling something out from her nose. “I found these very tiny wads of gum coming out of your brain. No new ones seem to be coming out anymore, likely because it was a creature who’s power stops being in effect once it dies, but it’s few living yet presumably non sentient pieces were still lingering in there.” Betty made a face cringing in disgust. “Eeeeeewwwww! But thank you for removing it…” “No problem.” Koko said corrosively destroying the goo with his own goo.

“Since I guess the robo-teacher has, um, passed on… want me to teach you guys some things?” Koko asked politely. “Uh sure.” “Why not?” Said Bimbo and Betty respectively. “Okay so first things first, as we know, people have collectively defined the idea of planes of existence. There are many beliefs and philosophies around the world of what exactly a plane is and how many there could be, but for the most part, those considered ‘professionals’ on the natural and the supernatural have stated there are two planes the physical and the astral also known as the spiritual plane.” “Yeah yeah, we know all this already.” Bimbo said rudely. “You asked me to teach didn’t you?” “Yes.” “Cool, now shut your trap and let me continue.” Koko said with an annoyed smile.

“Anyways, the astral plane is where spirit energy is on, spirit energy is technically everywhere just like with matter on the physical plane. Matter makes up an individual’s physical body, spiritual energy makes up an individual’s soul, also known as a spirit and astral body. Many believe there is power within the soul, but power is a versatile concept that manifests in different ways. How easy it is to tap into this power can vary from person to person. Creatures such as demons can easily manipulate and absorb this power as they are beings naturally inclined to aspects and traits of the soul. Feeding on souls or certain aspects of them are a huge part of a demons diet, many can only live off of souls. There is our own realm of Earth, a physical world that can be warped by the astral powers of the soul and spiritual energy and the inverse being the realm of the Demons, a highly spiritual, mental and astral world that can warp into being physical. While seen as vastly different realms, the two are inherently interconnected.” “Hey aren’t we in a giant robot? Lol, when are we gonna get out.” Bimbo interrupted again. “You know if you’re getting bored you can just say that.” Koko furled his eyebrows.

“I do think it is a good question, when are we gonna get out of the robot? I’m hungry! I think it stole our dinner right?” Said Betty. “No Betty, it didn’t steal any of our dinner.” Responded Bimbo. “Breakfast then?” “No…” They all sat there in silence for a bit. “You know I can just corrode ourselves out…” Said Koko. “Yeah that’s a great idea!” “Koko is so smart!” Said Betty and Bimbo respectively. “Okay now just hold on.” Koko was about to easily break out of the robot, but then it was not so easy as the robot destroyed his arms off without a trace in a split second. “Aw honk dammit!” “YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO ESCAPE, NOT YET!” The robot said in an extremely loud and robotic voice. “MUST CONSUME MORE METAL, AND MORE SOULS, BUT YOU ARE NOT OF MY ACQUIRED TASTE. YET I CANNOT LET YOU ESCAPE.” “Oh no! Are we gonna be stuck forever? Waaaaaah!” Betty cried. “Calm down Betty, you know that’s not how things usually go for us.” Bimbo said. “Are you some kind of demon robot?” Koko simply asked. “AFFIRMATIVE.” “Did you consume Bimbo’s spirit energy he consumed?” “ABSOLUTELY, AND THE GHOSTS IN YOUR AREA TOO.” “What is your goal?” “MUNCH. MUNCH.”

As Koko was slowly regrowing new arms the robot zapped the trio very shockingly and painfully. The screams were quite supernaturally electrifying. “Okay that is some real potent energy! We at least now know what it’s responsible for and what it wants.” Koko adjusted his hat as he and the gang slowly got up. “HEY CHILDREN!” A holographic projection of Grampy popped out of nowhere jumpscaring the three and causing them to scream again. “Aw haha, sorry, didn’t mean to scare ya! As my robot with a psychic link said! I have a very tiny supernatural chip lodged into my noggin! So not only can I have a link with my robots I can also summon holographic projections of myself! Ain’t that swell!” “How come the robot isn’t you but the hologram is actually you?” Bimbo asked. “Because… one is A.I. copying me and the other is like, er, I guess you can say my virtual avatar?” “Um, k.” “Hmm, looks like you’re all stuck inside a demon robot! That’s a shame. Good thing what isn’t a shame is because it ate my robots I can ugh… probably… hack into… it.” The Grampy projection tried hacking into it while making a strained face. KABOOM!

The robot then exploded and imploded at the same time. Luckily Koko put up a blob barrier around everyone so they wouldn’t be harmed of hurt. “Ok now we just need to-“ All of a sudden the Grampy projection shut off. “Grampy!” Betty shouted. “Hey where the fuck are we anyways?” Said Bimbo. “YOU DO NOT HACK ROBOT, ROBOT HACKS YOU!” The robot remade its body and said in the most monotone form of what could even be called anger. The robot summoned Grampy’s actual body then ruthlessly beat the shit out of it with its metallic tendrils. As the gang watched in horror they tried to confront the robot but it warped them back to Grampy’s home. “Ahhh! I’m glad we’re back home but no! My Grampy is getting his ass beat!” Betty cried. Just after she said that Grampy was warped back home all fucked up. “Hey… I’m still alive… and well…” He said as he coughs up blood and teeth. “Grampy!” Betty went to hug him. “Ah… sweet granddaughter. Don’t worry about me… with the power of super technology I should be able to HUUURGGHHH!” Grampy started coughing up blood, nuts and bolts. “Actually send me to the fucking hospital please. This is beyond supernatural pain.”

After calling an ambulance and sending Grampy to the hospital the gang sat in the living room feeling… upset. “Aw, poor Grampy. I feel so bad, he looked really fucked up!” Betty frowned. “Eh, he’ll probably be fine, aren’t we gonna talk about how there’s a killer robot on the loose?” Said Bimbo. “Well, aren’t there several killer robots always on the loose? Including demon ones? Unfortunately it’s not like it’s a unique incident but-” “Shut your trap, Koko.” “Make me.” Bimbo and Koko took out their weapons, mechanically made ones and ones made from his blob body respectively. Then they started fighting each other. “Boys stop! You’re gonna mess up the house! At least take it outside!” Betty tried to get them to stop. Just then Pudgy walked by near them. They all stopped and went to look at Pudgy being a cute little idiot of a pet non sapient dog. “Awwww!” They all went. Just then, Pudgy started shaking and a bunch of mechanical wires and tendrils ate the gang. “HAHA, GOOD THING THE ELDERLY INDIVIDUAL ALSO PUT A CHIP IN THE DOG.” The robot said in its monotone laugh.

Unfortunately, the gang didn’t really properly get to go to school today, and their teacher is in the hospital. But that is okay because it is okay. Perhaps the moral of the story is do not be so overconfident that even your super-technologically infused data chips will be safe from being hacked by demon robots.