No More Squad

I’m sure you know InquisitorMaster. You know…the girl named Alex…she has a group of friends and they call themselves the Squad and they are a part of many people’s memories. I am one of those people. I’d watch the Squad doing what their hearts desired. I still do. I also am surprised on how the Squad changed over the years. I wonder how the old Squad members are doing since they’re no longer with us anymore. No matter what ever happens to the Squad or the channel, I will always seem to seek the happiness all the time with the Squad.
Except for this one time, one that I couldn’t seek happiness in, but pure horror.
It was the afternoon of September 11, 2022. I was watching Spacetoon on my Arab TV. My sister liked watching Spacetoon so I decided to watch with her. She got tired soon and so I put her in her room to sleep. A few minutes after I came back, the broadcasting suddenly cut to black. The next thing that came was a bootleg InquisitorMaster animation that had to be made by some Arab animation company. Someone must’ve gotten their hands on the file of this exact video and hijacked Spacetoon to show it to the public.
Now if I can remember, the video had portrayed the characters a bit differently. Alex seemed to be proud to have Light as a brother, Light seemed to not have a chaotic side, Charli seemed a bit cowardly, Levi seemed more caring, Luca seemed to be a scientist, which I think fits him because he is dressed like one, Jaxx seemed to be easy to distract, Sora seemed to have deeper feelings for Jaxx, and Candi seemed aggressive.
The video started off with a SpongeBob-esque title card. There was a low ambient tune, the background was black with maroon stripes, and in the middle was the text “No More Squad”. This was kinda weird. The title card looked kinda scary. Nonetheless, I kept watching. The title card lasted for exactly 63 seconds before abruptly cutting to black.
The video begins. It is daytime, and we see Alex and Light leaving a grocery store. Then we see Charli as she dashes towards the two in fear. Alex asks what’s wrong and Charli says there’s been a mugging near her neighborhood. Charli is scared. Light calms her down and tells her to be careful when she’s going home. Muggers usually have weapons so if she sees someone with a weapon, she must stay out of that someone’s sight and report the authorities immediately. Charli thanks Light for the advice and soon returns home safely. Alex congratulates Light for giving his advice. We then see Jaxx talking to Sora, Levi, and Luca. Levi tells Sora and Jaxx about a new shop opening at a mall nearby. Then we see Candi loudly rushing at what looked like Mach speed towards Levi only to jump on his back and interrupt the boys’ talk. Candi hugs Levi too tightly. Luca slaps Candi, opening her eyes. Jaxx tells Candi that she was daydreaming again. Candi apologizes in a sarcastic tone and leaves. Sora tells Jaxx, Levi, and Luca that he needs to get home before dark and starts heading home. Jaxx tells Levi to tell them more about the new shop tomorrow and starts heading home. Levi and Luca start heading home too.
At home, We see Luca silently napping in his bedroom for about 15 seconds. Then we see Levi in his bedroom tired. Suddenly, he gets a message on his phone. It’s a message from an unknown person. The message was just a jumble of letters. Levi deletes the message and the conversation and thinks about what that was. Levi then decides to take a nap.
We then cut to Jaxx walking around the city on his way home. Jaxx hears a noise and decides to investigate. He finds a trail of cookies. Jaxx, distracted by the smell, decides to walk along the trail of cookies. The cookies lead to a trap that Jaxx falls into. Jaxx is scared and wonders who did this. Candi appears with a fake smile on her face. Jaxx is surprised and tells Candi what’s going on. Candi asks Jaxx what would happen if someone tried to take his life away and how someone would kill a person like Jaxx. Jaxx tries to break free. Nothing works. Candi tells Jaxx that if she can’t be a part of the Squad, then there can’t be a Squad. Candi says this, and I translate since all the dialogue was Arabic:
“You are an affliction in the eyes of God.”
Candi then takes out and plunges a knife into Jaxx’s heart, but the screen goes to black before we even see Jaxx getting stabbed. During the black screen, Jaxx releases an ear-piercing scream. Jaxx is deceased.
This scared me. Why would Candi do such a thing?!
We then cut to Sora. Sora hears painful screams (the screams from Jaxx) and rushes to the source of the sound. Candi quickly picks up Jaxx, puts him in a room, and vanishes after hearing Sora’s loud footsteps. Sora gets to the source and sees a door. He opens the door and sees a light shining on Jaxx lying on the ground with the knife plunged into his heart. There is blood around him. Sora is absolutely terrified at what he had seen and releases an ear-piercing scream for a few seconds before the video cuts to black.
We cut to the Squad, everyone but Candi, at Jaxx’s grave mourning his death. At this scene, I noticed something. The graves around Jaxx’s had the names of old Squad members, people who were once a part of the Squad. I thought at first that it was supposed to tell me that those old Squad members have died. But I then took it in as just an easter egg.
Anyways, the Squad was there at Jaxx’s grave mourning his death. They were all wearing fancy clothes…you know…the clothes that people wear during funerals. Alex says that they have lost a member of the Squad, a true friend, and that even though this is a tragic loss, they must not let it be a traumatic problem and that they must move on. The video cuts to black again.
We cut to Alex’s house. Alex bangs on the door to her bedroom three times and tells Sora and Charli to come out. Levi tells Alex to let them be for a while. We cut to the bedroom. Sora is there crying, and Charli is there keeping him company trying to calm him down. Anyways, the crying lasted for very long. Too long. Two minutes to be exact. While Sora cries and Charli sits next to him, the lighting around them slowly gets distorted. I wasn’t sure if I heard faint audio of Levi scolding Candi for not attending Jaxx’s funeral. So I guess that’s up for debate. The audio goes silent halfway through. A few seconds later, a random Arabic song started playing, which felt unreal. Why would a bootleg InquisitorMaster animation have some random song? 30 seconds later, the song abruptly stops. And those remaining seconds are just pure silence with Sora and Charli in a black void.
Another cut-to-black happens.
We then cut to Sora in his neighborhood. He’s just on the crosswalk walking with a depressed look. He stops and reflects on Jaxx’s death. He wonders why Jaxx died in the first place and blames himself for it. Candi sneaks up on him and says it’s not his fault. Sora turns around. Candi grabs Sora by the belly and takes out her knife. Candi says this again:
“You are an affliction in the eyes of God.”
Candi then stabs Sora in the right lung. The screen cuts to black before we see Sora getting stabbed. During the black screen. Sora releases an ear-piercing scream while the video flashes from black to white. The audio and video abruptly cuts out.
We then see Charli sitting on a bench looking depressed. Charli looks to the left and sees a noose hanging off a streetlight. Charli heads towards the streetlight, grabs the noose, and hangs herself. The camera cuts to a full shot of hung Charli. Her eyes are censored.
We get yet another cut-to-black.
It cuts to Luca in his bedroom taking a nap. His snoring can be heard and it is annoying. About 20 seconds later, it cut to Levi in his bedroom on his bed lying face-first on the pillow. He can be heard crying. The crying lasts for about 45 seconds and it gets louder and more painful. Suddenly, Levi lets out a loud cry-scream before another abrupt cut-to-black.
It cuts to Alex and Light walking. They then see Charli’s hung corpse in their path. Alex lets out an ear-piercing before she starts crying silently. Then it cuts to Candi in front of Alex and Light. Alex looks up and sees Candi drenched in blood. Alex and Light are then held up by Candi. Light asks Candi what she’s doing. Candi says this one more time:
“You are an affliction in the eyes of God.”
Candi throws the two siblings on the ground, then takes a soap bar, drops it in between them, and then takes her knife and kills Alex. The screen cuts to black again so the stabbing cannot be seen. During the black screen, Alex screams again but the scream is silent. I counted eight seconds of black screen. We then see Light traumatized at Alex’s deceased body. Light is then stabbed just once but the screen doesn’t go to black, so we actually see Light being stabbed.
After Candi kills Alex and Light, she sees Levi in the distance. Levi is terrified and wants Candi to stop this at once. Candi comes closer and closer. Levi tells Candi that she’s been possessed by an evil energy. Candi doesn’t listen and grabs Levi by the shoulder. She tells him that if she can’t be a true Squad member then they will all die and she’ll be the only one remaining. Candi then starts laughing. Levi then takes Candi’s knife while she is distracted and plunges it into Candi’s stomach several times. Candi is deceased. Levi says this to Candi:
“You are an affliction in the eyes of God.”
Another cut-to-black…
We then cut to Levi looking at the sunrise. Luca comes and joins in on him because he is still alive. He is wearing a white golf hat thingy…whatever those things are called. The scene lasts for about 20 seconds before the final cut-to-black.
It then cuts to all the dead Squad characters with their eyes censored and Georgian text above and a loud tone. The text translated to: There is no meaning to life.
This lasted for about seven seconds before abruptly cutting out.
It stayed on a black screen for a good 35 seconds before cutting to the middle of a forest covered in snow. The next thing that I saw was Zach running looking scared, as if he had just seen something nightmarish. It then panned to Jade on the ground. Half of one of her legs and arms were missing. Jade tried to get away from whatever was trying to kill her, but she soon got chopped by a falling axe. Zach, seeing Jade’s death happen, ran as fat as he could, but as he lost whoever was trying to kill him, he tripped on a small box. Zach looked inside and found Drake’s decapitated head inside. Zach screamed, and as he was losing his sanity, he saw a gun, grabbed it, and held it to his head. After about 20 seconds of holding himself at gunpoint and shaking, he took his own life, and it cut to black for about 10 seconds.
The last thing that came was the animation of the Screen Gems 1965 logo. But the S wasn’t red. It was a completely different color, and the animation looked remade.
Why would they end an animation with an edited Screen Gems logo?
The broadcasting went back to normal.
That was all there was to it. That was the entire thing. I was able to get in contact with InquistorMaster through email. I composed a letter to them about this hijacking and if they had anything to do with it.
This is what I got:
Dear viewer and/or subscriber,
We are extremely sorry for what you had seen. No More Squad (under the filename “Candi.m4v”) was a video that we didn’t expect to be shown to the public since our interview with the Arab company that made that animation. What’s more questioning is how someone got their hands on the file and hijacked Spacetoon to air it. We will talk to the company for good reasons. Although they worked hard to make that animation, they told me that this was somewhat an idea from an old friend of mine. We had to watch it because they threatened to break apart from our friendship if not. Please accept my apologies. I hope you'll adapt through this. And I hope the hijacker gets identified. We hope to hear from you again.
Kind respects, your best friend, Alex.
It’s not that much to know that the person who did this was someone from Alex’s past.
But then again, that friend might as well be an affliction in the eyes of God.
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