Otherworbly Ravenous Beast

***Otherworbly Ravenous Beast*** is the pilot episode of *Otherworldly Ravenous Beast*. It was teased on June 16th, 2020, and released later that year on December 5th.

## Description

"*Take a first look at the world's first ORBject show! Otherworldly Ravenous Beast (also known as ORB) is a viewer voting competition where the daily lives of a small, growing community of creatures risks being changed forever. Half adventure, half competition, all chaos.*"

## Plot

### Gumdrop's Lost "Ball"

The episode begins with a yellow-colored sphere landing in a bush on a landmass in the middle of an abyss. Its shortly revealed that Eyeball and Gumdrop were playing with the sphere, which they refer to as a ball. Eyeball tells Gumdrop that they can't get their ball back, and when they tell him that they would buy him a new one, he protests saying the ball was special to him as Zo gave it to him. A voice bellows from the abyss saying that they could help, revealing to be the planet herself, Earth. Eyeball and Gumdrop call her out on hearing about their conversation. She apologizes, saying she couldn't help it.

Eyeball asks Earth if she could get their ball. Gumdrop tells her not to tell Zo about losing the ball, but when Earth agrees, Zo overhears this and teleports over. Gumdrop calls Earth out again, this time telling her that everyone can hear her when she talks, which she once again apologizes for. Zo questions Eyeball and Gumdrop about what they were talking about, and Gumdrop makes up a lie saying that they were just planning a surprise party for her birthday. Zo tells him if they really were planning a surprise, she will erase her memory of the conversation. She warps away, only to come back to tell them to keep a look out for her two messing orbs. After that, she teleports away again. After the conversation, Earth finally helps Eyeball and Gumdrop in retrieving the ball by building a land bridge. Problem is, according to her, it would take one to two eons to be completed. Understandably, Gumdrop is upset about this and storms off.

Meanwhile, an airborne creature with visor-like vision is watching Eyeball and Gumdrop and, in a shot that reveals them to be Fuzz, wants to help them out. However, he hears Robert Flower's screams for help and decides to help him out instead.

### Robert Flower and Soot

Upon landing next to him in the Secret Garden, Fuzz asks Robert what he needed help with, when he tells him about Soot wanting to drain his life energy again. Fuzz asks him if Boxcars and Clubs should keep Soot in check, but he tells him that they had better things to do, so he tells Fuzz to clean the "mess" up violently. Robert shows him various tools in his shed. Upset, Soot decides to go to the Crystal Field to get energy from Loop instead.

Upon arrival at the Crystal Field, Soot asks Loop for more energy, promising to repay her. Obliging, she fires an energy beam at them, turning them into ash, before telling them that she decided to change the menu a little. Soot doesn't mind this, telling her that "death flavor" is their favorite. Loop tells them about their debt, but since they've turned into ash, they are drifted away by the wind. Fuzz asks Loop if they could feed Soot without zapping them next time, since Boxcars and Clubs don't like F.A.C.T.S. (fire ashes cleanup task stuff) and he didn't want more reasons for the two to ditch their jobs.

### Guess the Ozzy

In the Library, Billy, Chomps, A, and Ozzy are playing a game known as "Guess the Ozzy" together. Billy finds the game to be fun, but Chomps misinterprets this as her answer and crrects her that Ozzy is a palm tree, which they get right. A complains that the game is rigged towards Chomps, since they have a million points. Ozzy tells them that Chomps is the only one good at the game, since Billy doesn't take it seriously and A over-complicates everything. Billy spots Pip and Vee, ands asks them to join in their game. They both gladly accept. Pip jumps on Ozzy, who turns into a beanbag, and he immediately guesses correctly on what they turned into.

As the game goes on, Fuzz flies past the Library, turning one of his antenna into a radar and calling out for Boxcars and Clubs. Meanwhile, Pip is dominating the game racking up a million points and not letting everyone else guess.

### Boxcars, Clubs, and the Red Orb

Meanwhile, in the Watterberry Hills, Citrus peacefully crawls sleepily, eating a berry to grow another segment. Fuzz calls out for Boxcars with his hand, which is turned into a megaphone, startling him. He transforms his hand back while continuing to search for Boxcars and Clubs. After Citrus lifts up with his snort bubble, Boxcars and Clubs emerges from the Tunnels. Clubs asks Boxcars why they were in hiding, when she tells her she already told her. She immediate guesses its because of Robert Flower, but then she asks if she really did want to know. When Clubs says yes, Boxcars opens her door up to reveal a red-colored orb inside her - one of Zo's two orbs. She said she stole it and put it in her for the sake of getting cash. Clubs asks Boxcars if she stole her sandwich, which she was keeping inside of her. She admits to stealing the sandwich, making her say she owes her a new sandwich. Boxcars tells her to be careful from now on, when Citrus finally falls and pushes Clubs back into the Tunnels, making her say "make that two sandwiches!"

### Meanwhile at Ash Beach...

Near Ash Beach, Boxie sits down as Fuzz passes by. She wonders where her sister, Jackie, could be, when an arm pops out of her lid and cranks her handle. Jackie pops out, greeting her sister. Boxie asks her how the retreat went, and she responds by saying it was the usual introspective stuff. She tells her that the AC could be a little cooler in here, which brings up the topic of paying rent.

In the Crystal Field, Loop reveals to have another person living inside her, named Bones. She tells Bone to pay her rent.

Back near the beach, Jackie notices Swirl and tells Boxie that they should greet them. Swirl is talking to Magma Hand on the phone, who tells them a joke about rock-paper-scissors. Boxie and Jackie approach Swirl, with the latter asking who they were talking to. They answer that they're talking to Magma Hand. Boxie scolds Jackie for interrupting a person on the phone.

### Fuzz Challenges His Fears

Back at the Cliff's Edge, Oklawk tells Gumdrop and Eyeball that they can't help, since their arms cannot stretch. They also ask the two why they asked them rather than Fuzz, reasoning that he can fly. Gumdrop tells them that Fuzz has developed a fear of flying over the abyss ever since Earth had jokingly convinced him that she was flat, another thing Eyeball calls her out on, to which she once again apologizes. In contrast to what they said, Oklawk stretches one of their arms around the region to grab Fuzz and bring him to the Cliff's Edge. After retrieving him, they ask him if they could get the ball for Gumdrop and Eyeball. Fuzz worries about this because the land the ball is still stuck on is past the abyss, but then he realizes that the "ball" is actually one of Zo's orbs. Underground, Boxcars overhears about the other orb and plans to steal it.

Not wanting to be called a "devil" by Oklawk, Fuzz flies slowly over the abyss to retrieve the orb. From the Edge, Eyeball scolds Gumdrop about this, but he says that Zo told him to look after it for a while. Teleporting in, Zo tells everyone that she must have forgotten about that. Gumdrop apologizes to Zo, saying he was using it to play ball when it got stuck on the cliff. She wasn't mad at him for not telling her that he had one of her orbs, stating she just liked looking at them. However, she warns that they should never touch each other. Fuzz returns with the orb in hand, greeting Zo. Boxcars tells Clubs to prepare.

As soon as Fuzz returns to the main cliff, Oklawk tells him that there was no need to fear the abyss after all. All of a sudden, Boxcars bursts out of the ground under Eyeball, yanking the orb from Fuzz's hands. She then tells everyone that she and Clubs will make money from the orbs. From the mentioning of plurals, Zo realizes that the two had the other orb. Boxcars throws the yellow-colored orb into Clubs making it touch with the red-colored one. At this point, Oklawk states that they're all going to die now that the two orbs have touched. Boxcars is initially confused by this, when she notices smoke coming out of Clubs's door. An extreme amount of energy bursts out of Clubs and flies into the air, eventually covering the sky around the entire region and surrounding Earth.

Everyone notices the sky blackening from around the region, including everyone at the Library, Robert, Citrus, Stump, Loop, Boxie, Jackie, and Swirl. Back at the Cliff's Edge, it is revealed that the group had released an ancient, evil entity. The entity, known as ORB, greets the group. Billy runs up to greet them back.

### Stinger

After the credits, ORB grabs the other orb from Clubs before looking at the group who summoned them. They realize that they have met them before and are disappointed by this, ending the episode.

## Trivia

* Yaw does not make a physical appearance in this episode, even though they made a cameo appearance as a design on the sign of Robert Flower's shed.
* Strangely enough, a while after the storyboard was uploaded to YouTube, it was made private due to Steppi feeling as if it was "repetitive" for the YouTube algorithm and getting in the way of their channel's monotizatiom. As of September 19th, 2021, the storyboard video has been made public again.

## Goofs

* In a couple of shots (2:12 and 6:37), Fuzz's teeth are colored white instead of light green, when white would eventually be the official color for Fuzz's teeth starting in the short "Pen Pals".