JCM Meets the Second Coming of Team Rage (Part 1)
(JCM walks into Wumbology’s science class wearing an eyepatch.)
Wumbology: JCM! I’m loving the pirate getup.
JCM: Wumbo? You’re the science teacher again?
Wumbology: Well, yeah. After SG got outed as Selena Gomez and the one they hired after her died in our war against the ice zombies…
JCM: RIP.
Wumbology: RIP. You know, I never got his name…
JCM: Doesn’t matter now. Anyway, I want to know if it’s possible to use science to grow an eye back…and maybe get me back some lost anime superpowers.
Wumbology: I don’t think it’s science that you’re looking for, JCM: it’s magic.
JCM: Is there anybody around here who knows magic?
Wumbology: Technically, I shouldn’t believe in magic, but there is an old lady in the woods who is said to be capable of…strange things.
JCM: Strange things?
Wumbology: Indeed. But you didn’t hear it from me. Now shoo! I have a class to teach!
(That night, JCM walks into the woods, braving cold air and strange animal noises everywhere. Suddenly, his foot gets pulled by a rope, and he finds himself hanging upside down from a tree branch. An old woman jumps out of a nearby bush.)
Woman: Aha! A fresh kill!
JCM: Wait! I’m not an animal!
Woman: Aww.
(The woman cuts JCM down.)
Woman: Wait a minute. I know you.
(The wrinkles disappear from the woman’s face and the bags vanish from her eyes to reveal who she really is.)
JCM: (gasps) Fa?
Fa: It’s been a long time, JCM.
JCM: Where have you been these last ten years?
Fa: Bought a spellbook on Amazon, left civilization to embrace life as a witch, you know, the usual.
JCM: I’m happy you’re not dead!
Fa: Thanks! I’m happy I’m not dead, too!
(JCM and Fa walk into Fa’s cabin.)
Fa: So, what are you craving? Squirrel? Deer? Berries? Bark?
JCM: I’m good.
Fa: What happened to your eye?
JCM: A bird stole it from me!
Fa: Damn. Sorry to hear that.
JCM: Do you think you could use magic from that spellbook of yours to grow it back?
Fa: Magic isn’t just a toy that you can play with whenever you suffer a devastating mutilation, JCM.
JCM: It’s not?
Fa: No. It can be very dangerous. I could grow you a new eye, but that eye could turn the rest of you evil! You’re better off just living with one eye for the rest of your life.
JCM: No! I didn’t come all the way down here just to get turned away! You will make me a new eye!
(Fa grows to twice her height, and fire appears around her.)
Fa: (echoing) Or what?
(JCM sweats then raises an open palm before closing and opening his eye.)
JCM: Darn it! I forgot! My chiwa doesn’t work anymore.
Fa: Wait, your chiwa doesn’t work anymore?
(Fa returns to her normal height.)
Fa: Your chiwa is our last line of defense against supernatural threats! Without it, we’re royally fucked!
JCM: So, you’ll help me?
Fa: Yes, JCM. I’ll help you.
(Fa pours various potions into a bowl before stirring them together.)
JCM: Oh, do I drink from that?
Fa: Something like that.
(Fa slams JCM’s face into the bowl, and he screams.)
JCM: It burns!
Fa: That means it’s working!
(Fa picks up JCM’s face, which is now red and scarred.)
Fa: You’re probably gonna need a cream for that.
JCM: Do you have that cream?
Fa: (laughs) I’m a witch, not a pharmacist!
(Fa stares into the bowl and scratches her chin.)
Fa: This locator spell says your eye is at Shinya’s restaurant.
JCM: What? How?
Fa: Not sure, but you’re probably going to want to head over there to get your eye. Somehow, that eye is connected to your powers, so making you a new one would do you no good.
JCM: (nods) Thanks, Fa.
(Before JCM leaves the cabin, he turns around.)
JCM: How do I look?
Fa: You look like shit.
JCM: That will have to do!
(JCM runs to shinya’s Korean restaurant, and when he gets there, he finds Elsa holding a gun to Sauce Mama’s head and his twin brother, MCJ, holding a gun to shinya’s head.)
JCM: W-what’s going on?
Sauce: (crying) Get the fuck out, JCM! It’s a trap!
MCJ: Miss me, bro?
(To Be Continued)