Bernadette and Clarence's Stormy Sleepover

**Bernadette and Clarence's Stormy Sleepover** is the twelfth episode of the Punch Time Exploders, and the first episode of the Battle Crashers Story Arc. In this story, Bernadette and Uncle Grandpa decide to attend the biggest sleepover party ever at Clarence's house, when things go awry.

## Summary

In the first of a story arc in the Prologue season of Punch Time Exploders, Uncle Grandpa takes Bernadette Willows to Aberdale, where a certain boy plans a big sleepover that goes awry fairly quickly.

## Plot

The story begins with a boy named Clarence getting ready to plan a huge slumber party at his house with all of his friends. He calls Jeff, Sumo, his teacher Ms. Baker, Belson, and Mr. Reese, but they all say they're too busy. After getting bored with the current sleepover, Bernadette and Uncle Grandpa arrive, and Clarence's mother Mary suggests a smaller sleepover with the others, including her boyfriend Chad. Clarence, cheered up, decides to invite Jeff over now that the party isn't so big, and promises to go get him a raisin drink. When Jeff gets there, he heads in the backyard and starts flying his Jellyman kite, which gets caught in the power lines and apparently causing the power to go out. Feeling guilty, Jeff manages to keep Mary, Chad and Bernadette from going outside. After a while, they start to get concerned about Jeff's behavior and start worrying about Clarence. Jeff, also worried about Clarence, realizes he never thought to use the walkie-talkie to call Clarence, but ultimately, the four of them decide to go look for him, with Uncle Grandpa and his friends following close behind. When Chad and Jeff start arguing, Mary pulls over and tells them to be alert in order to look for Clarence, only for Bernadette and Uncle Grandpa's RV to disappear. Jeff suddenly remembers where Clarence went and Mary drives toward Main Street.

Bernadette and Uncle Grandpa find themselves in a white void where the former learns that her future self Queen Bernadette is on vacation and meets a giant woman known as Superiora. She sends Bernadette two hours before the storm, where she comes across Sumo and his family, as she is unseen by them. Sumo's father, Mel, soon mistakes the power outage for the apocalypse and moves the family into a bunker, but learns that Sumo snuck his baby badger Candice inside and puts her outside, causing a rift between the two. That night, Mel discovers Sumo got out to get Candice, but the storm sweeps her away in the creek, and the two decide to go look for her.

Bernadette is then sent to the school, where Belson, having filled Mr. Reese's room with hundreds of bags of manure, pranks Mr. Reese by gluing binoculars to his eyes when the power goes out. When they head to the gym, they find Ms. Shoop, who tells them Ms. Baker isn't there, and so the two have to go find her, with Mr. Gus and Pizza Steve accompanying them. In a typical buddy-cop scenario, they search Ms. Baker's classroom and find her address, with Belson helping Mr. Reese drive there. They find the place empty, but Belson finds a postcard saying that Ms. Baker is moving to California. He tries sparing Mr. Reese's feelings, but after being accused of quitting on the job, he tells him about the postcard, much to Mr. Reese's dismay. After cheering him up, the group realizes Ms. Shoop knew about Ms. Baker the whole time, and drive back to the school.

Bernadette is then transported back to the present, and is in plain view of Mary Chad and Jeff as they look for Clarence at the Rough Riders fast food restaurant, when Belson and Mr. Reese arrive to pick them and Percy up.

At the gym, Ms. Shoop reveals that she knew about Ms. Baker moving to California and wanted to practice basketball in the gym alone, not caring about anyone else out there in the flood. It's also revealed that she and Belson made a deal, in which she would wipe his detention record clean if he kept Mr. Reese out of her way. But then Ms. Baker is heard on the radio and after a struggle, Belson and Mr. Reese learn that she and several other people are trapped in a building somewhere and they go to her, with Bernadette tagging along.

Meanwhile, Queen Bernadette arrives the Late Larry's Nite Bites convenience store, where Clarence encounters Ms. Baker and gets trapped with them, the mayor, Meg, the employee, and E.J., one of Jeff's moms. After a while, and with Meg refusing to let them leave, Clarence decides to begin his sleepover fun with the people he's with until his walkie-talkie (or as he calls it, his Jeffy-talkie) falls out of his coat pocket and Ms. Baker uses it to call for help. Meg stops her while revealing she's moving to California, upsetting Clarence. The group sees Meg heading outside to remove an advertisement after the mayor eats all the popcorn chips, but still refuses to let them leave. Ms. Baker comes up with a plan to escape by drinking from the Slimy Raisin Freezy machine (while Clarence saves a cup for Jeff). Meg goes to unlock the door to take the sign down, but Clarence snatches the key and flushes it down the toilet, ensuring his secret plan to make Ms. Baker stay, but keeping the group trapped. Bernadette, Belson and Mr. Reese crash into the store, allowing the group to leave the store and head to the gym.

At the gym, Mary and Chad are overjoyed to see Clarence again as he gives Jeff the raisin drink he saved for him. Clarence tries to convince Ms. Baker not to move to California, to no avail. Suddenly, water flows into the gym as Jeff reveals that it's the lowest point in Aberdale, causing everyone to panic, and then they fight over the right to head to the cliff, which is the highest part of town. Jeff then confesses to causing the power outage, only to be corrected by a guy named Ham, who says the town's power system broke down during the storm. Clarence makes a speech about how we just wanted to have a sleepover with the people he loves and wants everyone to stop fighting. Mr. Reese sees the mayor taking off in his helicopter and sees Candice fighting him off and jumping out as it crashes down. Though the mayor survives, everyone starts panicking again until Bernadette and Clarence convince Ms. Baker to take charge and do her job as safety officer.

Ms. Baker gets an idea from Clarence's sleepover fort, and the people of Aberdale form a wall around the gym using the bags of manure. They succeed, but Candice manages to squeeze through and reunite with Sumo, and Ms. Shoop plugs up the hole by slamming a basketball into it. Soon Clarence's sleepover commences with Ms. Baker deciding to stay in Aberdale, and the episode ends.

## Trivia

* This episode was originally planned to be a deviantART exclusive.
* The plot of this episode is the first to have an altered plotline. In this episode's case, Bernadette will be taken on a time-travelling adventure that connects all the episodes of the original miniseries' episodes together.
* While the writing of this story wasn't especially bad, this was one of the producer's least, if not THE least, favorite episode to work on, mostly due to not liking the original show *Clarence*.

## Links

* deviantART
	+ Part 1: https://www.deviantart.com/heavyhitterconnor/art/Bernadette-and-Clarence-s-Stormy-Sleepover-Part-1-787137617
	+ Part 2: https://www.deviantart.com/heavyhitterconnor/art/Bernadette-and-Clarence-s-Stormy-Sleepover-Part-2-787234352
	+ Part 3: https://www.deviantart.com/heavyhitterconnor/art/Bernadette-and-Clarence-s-Stormy-Sleepover-Part-3-787234499
	+ Part 4: https://www.deviantart.com/heavyhitterconnor/art/Bernadette-and-Clarence-s-Stormy-Sleepover-Part-4-787234750
	+ Part 5: https://www.deviantart.com/heavyhitterconnor/art/Bernadette-and-Clarence-s-Stormy-Sleepover-Part-5-787234641
	+ Part 6: https://www.deviantart.com/heavyhitterconnor/art/Bernadette-and-Clarence-s-Stormy-Sleepover-Part-6-787234662
* Full story: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fkIer2PU9lVwPqKQXza3Cyk-wrTkY6eY3uJIQjewtpY/edit?usp=sharing