Pibby - "Fade To Black"

Dodge Greenley has outright said that Pibby was most likely never going to become a show. There keeps being weird little copyright extensions and stuff like that, but it most likely won’t become a show. Not only that, but one of Dodge’s friends has confirmed it won’t become a show. That really sucks.
When Dodge announced that it would most likely never become a show on his instagram, he posted concept art from the now left-behind show featuring things such as Pibby messing with the progress bar on a video, and some concepts for a corrupted version of Yosemite Sam.
There was one thing he left out.
I know I’m probably not gonna be believed here, but I actually worked on the show a good bit. I wrote some parts, did some storyboarding and stuff like that. Only partial stuff every now and then. It wasn’t my full-time job, only a part-time thing. I enjoyed it. 
Dodge had an idea for how the series would end. We got to making that before the actual final episodes preceding it were imagined, pretty sure it was developed the same time as the recently leaked pilot storyboard.
The video file was  “PIBfadetoblack_concept.mp4”, and was mostly created by Dodge for a good bit of the ending. He wanted to flesh out the idea for the ending in every way he could. I respect that.
Now, because of the fact that this specific ending has been scrapped, I can openly share about it online. 
The video starts with a blank white production card. It displayed the name of the show along with the words “Final episode” and “Fade To Black [CONCEPT]” to go with it. After a bit of this screen, we get a slam cut into an intense scene.
Pibby, Melira and Alloy Boy are sprinting through a nighttime forest setting with looks of terror on their faces. All of them are screaming. The darkness pours behind them with the smiling emoji face protruding from it. Trees knock down as it makes its way towards them.
They sprint into the forest, going down various paths. They would every now and then run into the darkness, but are able to run away.
Alloy Boy is caught by a tentacle of the darkness hiding within the trees, and it stabs him through the chest before protruding back in. He drops once the spike leaves his body. Pibby screams in horror as a response.
Melira and Pibby both rush over to him and pick him up.
“HURRY, HURRY!!”
Melira runs with Alloy Boy in her arms, bloodied and unconscious. They sprint into the forest again, before they both run into a dead end, being a pile of knocked over trees blocking their path. They try to make their way to the opposite direction, but notice the darkness is closing in. They both scramble to try and climb the barricade, and fail. They immediately go running into the trees.
They blindly sprint into the mass of trees, no visible path in sight. Text reading things like “A NEW ERA BEGINS WITH YOUR END”, “COME BACK MF”, and “Y R U RUNNING” would flood the screen as the scene would repeatedly datamosh and glitch.
Melira was suddenly grabbed by a tentacle of the darkness and dragged into the distance. Pibby screams as Melira is hauled away off screen and her blood curdling screams are heard along with the rending of flesh. 
Pibby hears loud rustling sounds, and turns her head to look at whatever caused it. She looks to where the sound was, and notices a pile of the corruption standing next to a tree with the emoji face protruding from it.
The pile of corruption promptly knocks down the tree. We get a shot of Pibby’s face dawning with horror. She attempts to run away, but the tree falls onto her skull, killing her instantly. The shot freezes on when she’s hit with the tree.
The frame we get stuck on has blood and brain matter splattering from her skull. Her eyes have rolled to the back of her head, and her eyes have instantly become bloodshot. After a while of this shot in utter silence, we fade into a new scene.
There’s a soft bitcrushed reversed piano playing in the background. The scenery is Pibby’s show, her home, unaffected by the darkness for some strange reason. Nobody else is in frame, except for Pibby, who looks exactly like she did before the darkness, her back facing the camera.
She stands in front of two graves, marked “Alloy Boy” and “Melira”. She would then begin to speak.
“How…”
“How did we not know?”
It was here I noticed her voice had become slightly bitcrushed/lower quality when compared to the other voicelines.
“I don’t get it, y’know?”
“What…what happened here? Like for real what happened here?”
“I just…I just don’t understand…”
She takes a deep breath and continues speaking.
“We were wrong. I...I can see that now, we were wrong.”
“If we didn’t act out, everybody would be happy. We wouldn’t have to worry.”
“Not gonna lie, I was under the impression that we were fighting the good fight. That we were fighting against something bad.”
“How did we not see it? How were we that blind to the fact we were attempting to destroy a just ruler? The embodiment of peace?”
“Bro really thought they were the ones in the right.”
“Ain't no way. That’s a lie. Blasphemy and nothing but.”
“But, there's no need to worry now. It’s not too late to fix our mistake, to make up for it.”
“It is all forgiving. It is all loving. It will accept us as its beautiful children no matter what we have done. We will be forever grateful for its grace.”
She repeated the last sentence, with emphasis on the first word.
“We will be forever grateful for its grace.”
She continued. “Isn’t that right, you two?”
The screen suddenly cut to black. The video was left in silence just long enough for me to think the clip had ended. Just as I decided I was gonna get up to do something, I was startled by the sudden next scene.
It resumes from where we left off, except the scene has completely changed.
The entirety of the sky above was just the darkness. The tree was drenched in it, and it was slowly flowing over the horizon. Pibby looked worse for wear.
Her hair was still neatly tied together, but she was clearly no longer herself. Her pupils were gone and her jaw was extended to otherwise impossible amounts in a permanent grin. Her head had the gruesome injury she had when the tree fell on her. She was twitching heavily. She was much taller and lanky than what she was supposed to look like, and her flesh was ripping apart from how much taller she had become. 
The mutilated zombies that were once Melira and Alloy Boy were halfway out of their graves. The stab through Alloy Boy’s chest was leaking with darkness as it would profusely pour from his mouth. Melira was worse.
Her arms were violently ripped off and her chest was ripped open with her ribcage exposed. Her jaw was ripped off, and her face was violently skinned off. Her eyes were gone. The remains of her face were twisted into a smile. All the blood that should have been present was replaced with the darkness. Darkness would form from the destroyed remains of her arms, and would replace her arms with new ones. Tentacles would pour from her eye sockets and mouth.
Phrases would flood the screen in text similar to the ones as before, new ones I recall being “TFW YOU BUILD A KINGDOM FROM THE ASHES OF A LONG GONE WORLD”, “#VIRAL”, and “1K SUBSCRIBER SPECIAL”. 
Ear-grating static noises and the laughter of a crowd were blasting through the speakers for a bit, before black text on a white background reappeared, reading “[Credits here]”. The video ended after a bit of that screen before the video finally ended.
Considering the fact that Dodge allowed me to talk about this scrapped concept ending, I’ll probably post it soon. Not right now though, as I have important things I need to get to doing. So for now, you’ll just have to wait. But I will post it at some point. So stay tuned.
You’re just gonna have to wait.
----Art by Alex Codex
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