The Backyardigans Rejected 2006 Episode - The Void Descender

== Disclaimer ==
This is Part I of Nether’s Sextuplet-Pasta sections. Hope this story gives you the chillies!
== The Story - Intro ==
The Backyardigans was a Nelvana/Nick. Jr show starring the 5 characters, Pablo, Tyron, Uniqua, Tasha, and Austin, who all imaginatively go on adventures such as being pirates, jungle roamers, etc. However behind the vaults of Paramount, there lies a rejected episode that disturbed many kids and younger audiences. One report that spread like wildfire was one kid who watched the episode was found dead, with his body parts scattered and mis located, and his face eaten whole. With that out of the way let me tell you about the episode.
I’ve recently received a package from one of my workers from Nickelodeon Studios, with a note patched in the box that read out, “I can’t take it anymore. The descenders are taking control of me, I want you to destroy the contents of the DVD, before it gets you. Please.” I felt quite unusual reading it, but thought it was a sick joke or something.
I would then open the box to see a Backyardigans DVD. The cover featured the main cast outside their backyard as the show's title was seen alongside its name being, “Scavenger Explorers!” as a scrambled text was seen at the bottom right corner, stating that the DVD had an unreleased episode. 
So I took out the disc and stuck it into my DVD player, not knowing that the descender would ravage through my head tonight.
== DVD Opening ==
The DVD began with the Nick Jr frogs ident, as it started out normal. It was until they smiled at each other, the whole scenery faded to black, except the frogs, which they were confused about. The frogs started shaking and shivering in fear as two pairs of eyes stare down at them before the image distorts and the screen cuts to black.
Unfortunately it would later become nightmarish and there was visibly nothing I could do anything about it.
The Nelvana logo was shown but the polar bear was absent, and so was the star, leaving an empty vainglorious feeling behind the logo.
The Paramount DVD logo would come up, thankfully being normal. However when the disc flew into the mountain, the logo glitched out heavily as scrambled text said, “I WAS WAITING FOR YOU.” 
Then some of Nick Jr DVD promos/previews played, plus a Home Video/DVD release of Blue’s Room. After those the Paramount FBI warning popped up, but strangely it looked different. The background was black and the text was white and was drenched in blood. 
Then it cuts straight to the DVD, which had the main cast in the same render as the DVD front cover. Next to the Backyardigans were only three options. Those being Play All, Episode Selection, and Bonus Features. I selected the “Play All” option and the DVD began with “Quest for the Flying Rock” through “Best Clowns in Town”. After that the final episode would display a warning before actually starting the episode. 
“Please discourage your children from seeing this very last episode that was originally scheduled to air on the Nick Jr channel, due to its graphic nature of violence, blood/gore, and unsettling imagery and sounds. Viewer Discretion is Advised.”
I knew that there was something off about this disc…
== The Episode’s Beginning ==
The intro began, but had a few changes. For starters the backgrounds were pitch black and the characters were only visible. Alongside that the instrumental music was absent, except for the vocals. And at the end of the intro, the logo was seen normally but the flowers looked wilted and the orange flower looked red and had the wordmark black. The creator’s name was crossed out for an awkward reason.
The episode than began with the usual outside top shot of the houses as the title card faded in. The text was black with an dark crimson color outline that said, “The Void Descender”. 
It showed Pablo in the backyard wearing a scary looking costume that resembled a hairy monster. He introduces himself to the viewer and tells us about him having a passion to be scary and big. Pablo would then sing a song about him being big and scary. After the song, he would hide behind a tree, as Tyrone and Uniqua would walk in the shot.
Tyrone and Uniqua wondered where Pablo would hide. They went off looking for him, but unfortunately he wasn’t able to find him anywhere near the backyard. So he got his other friends, Tasha and Austin to look for Pablo. The scenery suddenly transformed into what seemed like a dark & hollow woods landscape. They soon search for the missing blue penguin as one of them looks under hills, logs, heck even inside a tree that had a huge insidery in it. The friends soon realized that they wouldn’t be able to find Pablo in time and thought that they might have losted him. And so, they wandered off into the woods, hoping that they’ll find Pablo. On their way walking however, Austin found himself face to face with a tunnel that had a wooden door that appeared to be locked. They realized that a password was needed to unlock access to the tunnel. So they tried looking for clues around the woods. 
Soon later Uniqua found a hidden passage that led to the password riddle, so they brought it into the tunnel where the code was stored and thus the tunnel was unlocked. They all went down the tunnel to find Pablo. Where they would find another puzzle to solve. Three logs that blocked the door in sight was the riddle in question. Tasha found a small interior room with an ax hidden, however it was sealed with hard glass. So she tried to punch the glass wall, but it was no anvil, all it did was hurt her hand and knuckles. Tyrone then came in and grabbed a grenade out of nowhere as he loaded it in and fired it onto the glass door, which led to the wall exploding as they braced for impact. Then Austin ran in to get the ax and soon broke down the three logs that blocked their way from finding Pablo.
They broke in the door, which led them into a long, dark hallway. All the remaining Backyardigans saw were just complete darkness with no light available. Suddenly they soon found Pablo! What a relief! However… as they got closer to Pablo, he turned around and said, “You all thought you'd found me?” Tyrone and the others were baffled about what Pablo said. This is where things got really deranged and frightening. Pablo soon began to change into an unrecognizable monster with peeling dark skin, legs that resembled a crab, no hand nor limbs, and supported one eyeball that was visible to the head which was shaped like a decaying skull. They all ran away from the now monstrous creature, as it began to chase after them while letting out a demonic toned screech. 
Austin tripped on one of the logs that he broke down while running away from the creature. The shallow figure then bit down on Austin’s head and shredded him whole, leaving behind skull fragments of him. Uniqua was soon bound to be next as she was crushed by one of the crab-like legs and bled to death in agony. Tasha was soon next as she died by the figure tearing her with its claws on the bottom of its head. Tyrone realized that all of his friends were deceased thanks to the demonic powers of the now infamous monster that forecasted Pablo. The desperate orange moose ended up in a dead end, he knew he had nowhere else to escape, as the figure was approaching at a fast and furious speed rate. Tyrone accepted his own fate as soon the entity approached him. But before it could kill him, the scene cuts to him waking up in the backyard, letting out a short scream, “NO!!” He soon sighed in relief as he survived but was abruptly noticed by the awful surrounded by the constant change of the backyard around him. The houses and walls were nearly destroyed, the trees and grasses were wilted and withered away without a trace, and the sky was black with a mixture of dark red. 
Tyrone soon became depressed and just stood there alone, knowing that he lost his friends. A jingle of the ending theme to the show itself came on as usual, but however it was referenced by a song from Toreador March, only the first half of the jingle was heard however. The scenery abruptly disappeared except Tyrone, as the entity faded behind him, ready to kill him. However it abruptly cuts to black, leaving me at the edge of my seat, soon cutting to the credits, in which the background was black and the text remained there. The closing theme was silent yet remained normal anyway. 
Just then the closing logos appeared but were always far from normalized. The Nelvana logo was like the opening variant, except the logo's font is horror-like, including the CORUS byline. The same pair of the unsettling eyes were briefly seen during this. 
The Nick Jr Productions logo had Jr in a dark background, looking very scared. As that happened a figure that resembled Kirk Odd faded in behind Jr, as he became more scared than ever. 
The image distorts before cutting it the Nickelodeon logo, which was dark red and the bottom of the haypile droopy as the text mark was written backwards. The same familiar jingle of the noedolekciN theme was heard in the background, but slower and with reverb mixed in it. 
== Aftermath ==
The logo soon faded out, and sent me back to the menu. But to my surprise, the characters were absent. Just then the DVD menu turned black and fitted back to my DVD player screen. I heard a faint whisper before me ejecting the disc out of the player, “I’ve warned you…” I couldn’t help but destroy the disc along with the case. That night I couldn’t sleep because of the figure watching me outside of my bedroom. I got sleep paralysis the day after I watched the disc. I tried distancing myself from watching the Backyardigans ever since that day. Now I have a feeling that my wound will descender very soon. I wonder…
Category:Lost Episodes
Category:The Backyardigans
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