Us & Them

### Air date

December 24, 2023 (Patreon)December 25, 2023 (NewgroundsDecember 30, 2023 (YouTube)

**Us & Them** is the third episode of the Monkey Wrench series. The episode was uploaded to Zeurel's Patreon on December 24, 2023, then Newgrounds on December 25, 2023, and YouTube on December 30, 2023.

## Plot

The episode starts with the El Patito television show, then then the television zooms out to Shrike watching the cartoon and eating popcorn in the spaceship. Beeps plays the guitar with his damaged prosthetic arm that electrocutes, distracting Shrike from watching the cartoon, Beeps responds that he wants to play the guitar and asks him to watch his cartoons in his room, but Shrike responds that he's driving his spaceship. When Beeps gets back to play his guitar, his prosthetic arm electrocutes again and Shrike grabs his guitar to play it, bragging about playing like a master while playing it poorly and tosses it to Beeps who shows and plays it more skillfully to Shrike, who then asks to keep it down to watch his cartoon. Beep's prosthetic arm electrocutes him again and briefly looking at his arm, he questions the life and worries for Lythops. Shrike brushes off and points he's fine. Beeps questions Sanches' morality while Shrike shows no regret regardless of other life, then asks where they're going as Beeps says they're dropping by Log guys. Beeps begins to hear the unknown sounds in his headphones as the spaceship computer beeps the distress call, Shrike misinterprets it as an ID address card and Beeps angrily corrects him until he knows it. Flying through the wormhole, the incoming transmission reveals Scratch and Scritch outside their destroyed spaceship, leaving Shrike disappointed as well as Scratch nervously.

Scratch yells for the unwanted transmission, Shrike taunts him to help him under the destruction. Scratch brushes off for being fine, nevertheless, the Monkey Wrench crew will be on their way to save them, enraging Scratch who owes him to call off his dept. The Monkey Crew arrives at their destination and flies to the Scratch Gang's spaceship, revealing that their spaceship is ambushed by the mushroom alien. Beeps is confused by it while Shrike is eager to attack it, but Beeps pauses him so he can ask to let go of Scratch Gang's spaceship or threaten them, but realizes it has no video but sound on, as well as is unable to detect language. Shrike quickly begins to shoot the mushroom entity, while defending with Scratch Gang's spaceship, which enrages him from thought-friendly fire. The Monkey Wrench crew flies across to destroy the tentacles to release the spaceship but gets grabbed by the tentacle, swinging it around while stumbling the box, eventually freed from shooting the tentacle, but from stumbling box releases the (evil guys) that manipulates the left arm of the spaceship while Monkey Crew tries to stop the arm, failing it though. With no choice, the Monkey Crew rips off the left arm and uses it to fight the mushroom alien which lets go of the Scratch Gang. During the fight of shooting the mushroom, the mushroom alien sends the incoming transmission that Beeps tries to communicate with but leaves with the error. Shrike uses the full blast on the alien that destroys the bottom, making it flee from the battle. While Shrike taunts at fleeing alien, Scratch asks about the transport of their spaceship.

The Monkey Crew tows the broken spaceship while Scratch Gang moves to theirs. Scratch complains about necessities around the unfamiliar spaceship (TBA)