Confrontation

Confrontation is the ninety-seventh episode of Lovely World Season 2 and 920th overall. In this episode, Charles finally realises that Corruption has infiltrated Lovely World and so confronts Hit The Target, since he suspects it is his doing.
== Plot ==
Charles starts the episode in a normal fashion; greeting all three helpers, eating his breakfast — a cooked steak, and adding OfficeLover7 to the Love Garden. Charles is in a rush to get things started as he wants to begin a large Funland build. Unfortunately, these plans never came to fruition as after exiting the Love Garden, Charles finally realises the abundance of Netherack near his house. At first, he assumes it was the helpers playing a practical joke as he thought that they had been playing up recently, but then Charles gets anxious — the mysterious Netherack may be Hit The Target's doing.
Charles decides to check other areas of the house. First, he checks the farm, which is completely covered in Netherack. Then he notices the Netherack is under the trapdoors covering the exterior of the Love Garden and that it is all over Harrison's Hill and Harriot's Hill. Fearing it is to do with something terrible, Charles collects his "Champion Charles" armour but stresses that it may not be Hit The Target at all. He then blocks off the doghouse for precautionary measures. Charles then decides to walk up to Hit The Target's Castle to confront him with the helpers.
thumb|Charles crossing the channel between Lovely World's mainland and Hit The Target's island|left
On the way there, Charles notices that the Netherack is along the river but has not affected most of Lovely World, though seemingly did affect Hit The Target's Castle when it comes into view. He also notices an orange beacon coming from the island where the castle is situated. Charles wants to get a better look at the Corruption so he walks up the Lighthouse to get a bird's-eye view of it. Walking back down, Charles questions if Hit The Target is actually the one behind this, as it could be Rusty Rhino too. So Charles walks to the edge of the mainland, very near to the castle. Charles is nervous about confronting him since after the blowing up of The Compound in the previous Hit The Target attack, Lost Memories, he has no one to protect him anymore. Whilst Charles is trying his hardest to build up enough courage, Dylan runs towards the castle with no hesitation. Charles tells Dylan to hold his horses as he wants everyone to come to the castle at the same time. Shortly after, Charles decides that it is time for them to confront Hit The Target and so crosses the channel with the helpers. As they are crossing there, Charles says that if Hit The Target has nothing to say, he'll take him down.
=== Transcript of the confrontation===
Once they arrive at the island, Charles says he is sick of Hit The Target treating Lovely World like his world, whilst it was Stampy's originally. The confrontation then begins:
Charles: "Hit The Target, Hit The Target, there you are!"
Charles: "Hit The Target, what are you doing, what is going on with all this Netherack?"-
Charles: "Is this your doing? I swear on the rubble of The Compound, if I find out, that you're behind this."
Hit The Target: "So Charles, I can finally speak to you. Face to face."
Charles: "What-what, what have you done."
Hit The Target: "What should've been done from the start!"
Hit The Target: "I restored the cat's world to what it should've been. D'you not understand Charles?"
Hit The Target: "I have unlimited power... and I pity you — you run around pretending to be someone you're not."
Hit The Target: "This is my world. And you showed up. Threatened me. And took over. That ends now."
Charles: "Molly, Dylan, Percy. Stay back!" 
Hit The Target: "Don't you forget Charles. You're in my domain now. This isn't the cat's Lovely World anymore, this is the Nether. And whilst you have been prancing around in control, I've been harnessing my power."
Charles: "What do you mean, harnessing your power? Guys?"
Charles turns around and sees all three helpers are gone
Charles: "No... no, no, no. Not again. Hit The Target, I'm alone again."
Hit The Target: "What you fail to realise is that you always were. These friends of yours are very disposable. I've got 'nough power to wipe them away, at my fingertips."
Charles: "How dare you, Hit The Target. Bring them back now!"
Hit The Target: "Woah Charles, calm down, we're just having a conversation."
Charles: "I saved you, from Rusty. I saved you from that hellhole. Why are you doing this to me? I've lost everyone, everything because of you... my friends are gone. You're destroying the world, you blew up my home. You're destroying my life Hit The Target!"
Hit The Target: "You may have saved me from that evil rhino, but I blew up that tree. Don't you see, Charles, I stopped the inevitable? You destroying the portal did nothing. I decided to take action. Blew it up, and stopped him before it got any worse. I'm the good guy, Charles."
Charles: "So blowing up the only place I call home is being the good guy? I get comfortable in Lovely World, and you throw it back in my face. You do more damage than good, Hit The Target." 
Charles: "Eur-phff. I'm so over your plots and schemes and antics. I'm-I'm so sick of it. You trying to control everything. Just c'm'ere, Hit The Target, c'm'ere!"
Charles tries to hit Hit The Target but despite his best efforts, he doesn't hurt him at all
Charles: "Wha-a"
Hit The Target: "You know I told you, Charles. You're in my domain now. Let's get to business. If you don't give me Lovely World, the Nether will keep spreading. I'll be able to talk, everywhere."
Charles: "No, Hit The Target. No. I'm not giving you, anything. Hold on... you can only speak in the Nether..."
Hit The Target: "Stupid wolf. You've never heard me talk before. Now... that, my domain is here. I can speak... where are you going?!"
Charles runs away from Hit The Target, ending their conversation
===Charles' idea to return home===
After the confrontation with Hit The Target, Charles tells the viewers that he has an idea. He says if he jumps into the lava river on the island, he'll respawn at home, and since Hit The Target can only speak in the Nether, he won't be able to talk to him.
After dying in the lava and respawning, Charles seems relieved to be back in his bedroom. He grabs his Special Occasion armour (his armour and inventory had vanished when he died in the lava) and exclaims that maybe he can lure Hit The Target to the Funland and send some sort of signal, to alert him and the helpers to come, meaning he would have more people on his side to scare-off Hit The Target. He searches through all the chests in the storage room to find something that could be used to lure Hit The Target in and finds green-stained glass. He explains that he plans to alternate the colour of the beacon near the Golf Course from white to green multiple times to alert Hit The Target of his whereabouts, hoping the helpers would also recognise this and escape wherever they are being kept. He also says that because the Corruption never spread to the Funland, Hit The Target shouldn't be able to talk there. 
As Charles walks over, he tries to up his confidence by taking deep breaths, briefly alluding to that this is what his dad's advice was. Before he starts alternating the glass, Charles checks to see that Hit The Target isn't already coming, then begins. he breaks the red-stained glass, which sets the beacon to white, then keeps placing back green glass to reflect the beacon from white to the colour green. As he alternates, Charles occasionally checks between switching to check if Hit The Target is arriving. 
Charles seems to hear something, as he looks up, realising Hit The Target has finally arrived. "Ha! What you failed to realise is you revealed your weakness to me Hit The Target. You actually had me for a minute. But I'm telling you, I'm always one step ahead. If you look behind you, you'll see Percy and Molly, who escaped the Nether and somehow managed to understand what my plan was without me telling them. A word. I'm sure that Dylan is at your pathetic castle, dismantling whatever machine you did or used to change Lovely World to the Nether. Now, Hit The Target. This is what you're going to do: whatever machine you've made you're going to dismantle it, and if you don't I'm going to kill you. My last breath, will be used fighting you, Hit The Target, you've made me so annoyed, Hit The Target, and I will not let you hurt my friends, and I will not let you destroy Stampy's legacy anymore than you already have. This is not your world any more. I'm here, and guys just get him, just get him, go, run, just go and... there you go Hit The Target, I win. Once again, and that's what you don't realise, Hit The Target, I'm always one step ahead and I always will be!"
Charles explains the reason the helpers knew what to do is that they'd always had a Plan B if he at any time disappeared, they would always recuperate; and the colour green was his distress signal. Charles then says he will try to destroy the Netherack over the coming days and replaces his armour on the mannequin. He then says goodbye to the viewers and ends the episode looking back out to the Corruption on his balcony — just as he did at the start of the episode.
==Trivia==
*This episode was heavily teased by this post. Its caption read, "HeLP uS! — sEptEMbeR 7tH" and featured a backdrop of the Nether.
*The Nether had been slowly introduced to Lovely World since episode 900, with it first being noticeable in episode 903. By episode 919, most of Charles' view from outside his balcony is completely Nether, though he doesn't mention it. After Charles does his ending-off greeting at the end of that episode, Hit The Target's voice can be heard, saying "The Nether is coming. There's nothing they can do to stop that."
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