I Can Fix This- rewritten

“Don’t you understand? There is no fixing this!”
  The camera pans left slightly to reveal a stunned Rigby standing behind an upset and defeated Mordecai who was slumped over the broken thermostat.
“Mordecai, I– I’m sorry..” Rigby’s voice was low with shame, “I promise you, I will fi-”
  “No.” Mordecai turned around and cut him off in a stern tone. “There is nothing we can do. You quite literally dragged me to my death by bringing me down here. I should’ve known better than to listen to you. Everywhere you go, trouble always follows.” His blue, frostbitten fists tighten in anger as he looks over to his side. “This time, you’ve gone too far.” He chuckles out of disbelief, “Can you believe it? My best friend turned out to be my murderer.”
“Don’t say that, I’m not letting you die!” Panic and desperation took over Rigby’s voice. “Look, I will find a way out, just trust me on this!” He was looking more frantic by the second, having realized what he just did. Mordecai, enraged, shoved him back with force.
“This meat locker is our coffin, Rigby. All there is now is to wait for death to come.” 
  Shivering and holding onto himself, Mordecai walked towards the back of the meat locker, but not before uttering, “Goodbye, Rigby. Don’t follow me, there is no way in Hell that I am dying in the same room as my killer.” 
  As Mordecai walked out of frame, the camera focused on Rigby who stood still in shock for around ten seconds or so, before falling to his knees, lightly weeping with his head down. The crying, and the previous dialogue delivery in general, felt out of place for an episode of Regular Show. This was something that I would see in something more dramatic, or even a soap opera, for that matter. 
  The scene then switches to an empty corridor of the meat locker that was covered in thick layers of freezer burn. It was all over the walls, the shelves, the boxes of meat products, everywhere. Jagged icicles were hanging from the ceiling like stalactites in a cave. The attention to detail for this specific frame was immaculate; it looked hand-drawn with heavy care. Some sort of distorted, psychedelic ambience started to play quietly as the camera slowly zoomed in (which I later identified the music as ‘Airria’ by Steve Roden). Mordecai, slumped over and trying his best to avoid hypothermia, was walking deeper towards the very back of the freezer. He had reached a dead end, but he was too fatigued to walk back. Mordecai then collapsed to the floor and curled up on his side to regain any iota of warmth. Abruptly, a compilation of home video footage began to play on screen. This is what the compilation consisted of.
* A steam train in a heavy blizzard
* A Blue Jay on the snowy ground
* Some sort of eyeball surgery being done in a medical setting
* Two men in vintage, unsettling animal masks walking down a road. One of them appears to be dragging a roadkill deer by its hind leg.
* It switches back to the blue jay clip. This time, the camera is closer to its face as a shrill creaking sound is played loudly.
  A point-of-view shot from Mordecai is seen after the compilation. His vision fades in and out of darkness, as implied by the blurring and darkening visuals that would appear on and off. At last, when he seems to have lost consciousness, the view switches to a bird’s eye view of Mordecai’s motionless body on the frozen floor. At this point, I assumed he was either dead, or dying. Evenmoreso because it stayed like this for an uncomfortable amount of time. 
  I was proven wrong when a faint laughter woke up Mordecai. A thing to notice is that at this point, a white vignette appears at the border of the screen. This is usually only used in flashback, dream, or hallucination sequences, and will be important to remember later on.  The noise only became clearer as the camera cuts to his now alert face as he looked around and over his shoulder, until his eyes focused on…. something. An obscured figure stood at the doorway, and slowly morphed into the shape of Rigby. As it became clearer and more similar to Rigby’s appearance, the laughter only became louder until it was booming out of the speakers of the television. The hallucinated Rigby kept laughing with a cruel grin at Mordecai’s suffering. At the angriest I have ever seen him, Mordecai jumped to his feet and grabbed the raccoon by his leg. “YOU FUCKING PARASITE!” He screamed with anger as he threw Rigby against the wall, leaving behind a dark red blood splatter. Just from hearing and seeing his expression, you could feel pure anger radiate from the screen. To be honest, it made me jump from the intensity and loudness of it. Mordecai then viciously tackled him and punched him repeatedly in the face. Rigby’s face is shown bloodied and mangled, but he was still smiling, and still laughing. Mordecai, in a fit of psychotic rage, shouts at Rigby to stop laughing as he gets up and stomps hard onto his stomach. The sound of bones breaking mixed with wet, rupturing guts made me squick. It was so disgusting and graphic to hear, that it had to be ripped from either a high-quality movie, or actual audio footage. 
  Despite the brutal beatdown that was directed towards him, Rigby showed no signs of experiencing any sort of pain. Even through his pulverized state, he continued to taunt Mordecai with his glee. Mordecai, now filled with frustration, picked up the raccoon and slammed him as hard as he could to the ground. On impact, the scene slowed down dramatically with small droplets of Rigby’s blood splashing Mordecai in the face. Finally, the laughter ceased. Rigby’s body was limp with death, but his expression still remained in mid-laughter. 
  The white vignette border disappears, but Rigby doesn’t. The only difference now is that his dead face had changed to a look of absolute fear and terror, as if he was pleading for any sort of mercy from his attacker. It then cuts to Mordecai in complete shock after he realized what he had done. Rigby was never laughing or jeering at Mordecai as he suffered, it was all a hallucination from an episode of hypothermic psychosis. He slowly got down on his hands to take in the situation. A trail of smeared blood followed the corpse of Rigby, left from the attack. Mordecai’s eyes were notably bloodshot, and did not leave the mess of his once best friend. After what felt like forever, a devastated wail came from the blue jay as the camera started to zoom out ever so slowly to reveal more of the carnage.
That was it. The video ended after that. No credits, nothing.
  I couldn’t believe what I saw. I knew Regular Show liked to challenge the status quo, but I was still shocked that this came from it. This HAD to be some sort of fucked up parody someone at the studios did, but I don’t know who. I don’t believe it was J.G., because the style didn’t resemble his, or Regular Show’s for that matter. The style was a lot more sketchy, and had a bit of gothic-ness in it (think Tim Burton, but not quite). I put the disc back into the plastic case, planning to put it right back where I found it. I never snuck home any more tapes from my job after that. I guess this was karma for my stealing.
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