The Persistent Plague

**"The Persistent Plague"** is the 2022 Halloween special episode of the MMC HTF Crossover.

## Plot

### Beginning

The Episode Starts With A 1990s ABC Sports Styled Up Next Card With An Announcer Saying The Following: "Next On GBS 7, A Small Parasite Will Cause Problems By Getting Into The Brains Of Several Characters, Causing Them To Act Like Zombies, But Having Common Sense And The Same Intelligence. Will The Maverick Hunter Society Be Able To Stop The Plague Before It Spreads More? How Will They Save Everyone? Join Brandon And His Family As They Fight Against "The Persistent Plague" The 2022 Halloween Episode Of Megaman Chronicles X Happy Tree Friends, Next On GBS 7, The One To Watch. The Episode Opens Up At Sniffles Lab, As He Is Experimenting On Chemical Substances, Until Nutty Comes In. Nutty Says "Dude! You Need To Check This Out! I Found This Expired Candy Bar That Was In Your Fridge, And I'm Gonna Eat It!" Sniffles Says "Wait?! Expired?! Nutty No! You Don't Know What Is In That! You Might Get…" Before He Could Finish His Sentence, He Eats It And Says "You Might Get What Now?!" Sniffles Says "Sick! You Might Get Sick! No One Knows What's In That Thing, For All We Know, It Might Be A Parasite!" Nutty Says "Oh Please! That Type Of Thing Only Happens In Movies! I'll Be Fine!" Suddenly, Nutty's Stomach Starts To Feel Weird. Nutty Says "Ooh! On Second Thought, I Probably Should Have Threw That Away, Because Wow I Feel Awful!" Sniffles Is Shocked And Says “Oh No, You Probably Have An Infection, Come On.” Sniffles Grabbed Nutty By The Arm And Puts Him On The Couch And Begins To Examine Everything; Mouth, Eyes, Ears, Skin, Brain And Bones. He Then Sees Something Shocking. Sniffles Says “Oh God! You Have A Parasite In Your Brain, It Seems That It Is Eating It Little By Little! What A Horror, And The Worst Thing Is That I Do Not Know If There Is A Cure, I Have Never Seen These Kinds Of Worms!” He Took Samples Of His Slime And Blood, Examined Them And Concluded That The Parasite That Nutty Had Was Extremely Contagious, With Just The Slime Or Blood It Could Be Transmitted, And Apparently The Symptoms Developed In 2 Days Or Could Even To Be Less, All His Observations Were Written Down In A Notebook And Next To These He Put The Radiographs. Sniffles Then Says “There’s Gotta Be A Cure For This! The Deceased Kevin Ward Jr Be Damned!” He Looked At Nutty As He Sees Nutty As He Starts Develeping White Vein Like Marks On His Body. Sniffles Says “Huh?! That Isn’t Normal! Shit!” Sniffles Approached Nutty As He Starts To Move Very Slowly As He Awakens With A White Outline On His Eyes And He Jumps Up And Attacks Sniffles As We Cut To Black. We Then See The Intro Sequence For This Episode As Lightning Goes Off In The Background. The Intro Then Ends As We Fade Up To MHS As Alarms Go Off And Brandon And Cheyenne Ask Donovan What The Hell Is Going On. Donovan Says “Well, There’s A Small Parasite That Has Gotten Into The Brains Of Several Characters, Causing Them To Act Like Zombies, But Having Common Sense And The Same Intelligence. This Parasite Is Highly Contagious And I Want You To Eliminate It Before It Infects Us All! Me And Several Other Scientists Will Try To Develop A Cure While You Guys Are Trying To Take Down The Infected Friends” Brandon Says “Got It! We’ll Try Our Best To Get Them Back To Normal!” The Hunters Rush Off As We Then Fade To Cuddles House As Cuddles, Anais Waterson, Andrew Waterson, Toothy, Magnolia, Daisy, Bucky, Petunia, Handy, Hammer, Stacy, Josh, Lilly, Joy, Flippy, Krazy, Flynn, Flaky, Disco Bear, Funky, Shaky, Karl, Flakes, Flappy, Fluky, Shifty, Lifty, Splendid, Pop, Cub, Luna, And Lumpy Are Celebrating Cuddles’s Birthday. “Happy Birthday, Cuddles!” They All Yelled At The Same Time. Cuddles Thanked While Blowing Out The Birthday Candles. Anais Asks “What Did You Ask For, Honey?” Cuddles Says “It’s Bad Luck To Reveal The Wishes, But Hey... I Wish We Were All Well, I Don’t Want Anyone To Die, And Since The Curse That Had Tormented Us So Much For Years Is Not There, I Want Everyone To Be Well” Shifty Says “Yes, But Remember, If They We Died Permanently, We Wouldn't Be Able To Revive. Like Pop’s Old Wife” Pop Slaps Shifty Yells At Shifty “Keep My Old Deeased Wife’s Name Out Of You Fucking Mouth!” Flippy Then Says “Well, If It Was A Problem, We Would Have Gotten Rid Of Those Evil Alter-Ego Years Ago!” Flaky Then Says “But Now They Protect Us From Danger.” Shifty Then Says “Ugh! Whatever! Lets Just Continue The Party!” Handy Says “Hey! Where’s Sniffles And Nutty?!” Petunia Then Says “I Don’t Know, But I Was Watching The News Earlier That Stated That A Viral Parasite That Turns People Into Zombies Was Being Studied On.” Stacy Says “A Viral Parasite? Why Would They Experiment On That?!” Josh Then Says “It’s Not Like Anyone Is Infected, Right?!” Suddenly The Door To Cuddles’s House Slammed Open Revealing A Group Of Ten People Coming In! Sniffles Says “Hey! Sorry We’re Late! We’ve Just Got Caught Up In Traffic!” Cuddles Welcomes Them But Then Sees That Something Is Off About Them. Giggles Says “Hey, I Don’t Know If This Matters, But You Guys Have Some Very Odd White Vein Like Body Paint All Over You And Your Eyes Have A White Outline. Did You Guys Dress Up As Zombies For The Halloween Party?! Because That Isn’t Until Next Week!” Nutty Then Says “Oh, These Aren't Costumes.” Snowers Then Realizes Something And Says “Guys! Those Guys Are Actually Zombies! Run!” Everyone Scattered As People Left And Right Were Getting Bitten, As Toothy’s Family, Cuddles Family, Flippy’s Family, Flaky’s Family, Pop’s Family And Karl’s Family Along With Hammer, Milly, Fancy, Madly, Lilly, And Joy Escaped Unharmed As Well As Splendid. Toothy Says “How In The World Did They Become Zombies!” Cuddles Then Says I Don’t Know But The Rest Of The City Must Be Alerted!” The Gang Came To Fresko’s House And Began To Frantically Knock On The Door. Cuddles Says “Fresko! We Need You and Your Friend’s Help! Like, Right Now!” Fresko Opens The Door And Says “What The Hell Is Going On?!” Cuddles Then Tell Fresko “The Town Is Being Attacked By Zombies! We Need You And We Need Your Guy’s Help!” Toothy Then Says, “We Also Need To Find The Maverick Hunter Society To Warn Them About The Dangerous Attack!” Fresko Then Says “Maverick Hunter Society? You Mean The Guys Protecting The World From Danger? Because They Are Here, But They And Some Other Survivors Are In A Underground Safe Zone Beneath My House, Lets Get There Before We All Become Rotten Flesh!” We Then Circlewipe To Fresko’s Underground Bunker/Secret Headquarters With The Other Survivors And All Of MHS. Brandon Thanks Everyone For Coming And Pulls Out A DVD Of A Presentation He Made And Puts It Into The DVD Slot On The Computer. Brandon Then Says “As You All Know, A Parasite Has Been Infecting The Minds Of Several HTF Citizens. But, It Seems That Their Personality And Intelligence Are Still The Same.” All Of Them Gasp As Flaky Says “Wait! So They Are Infected, But Their Personality And Intelligence Are Still The Same?!” Karl Then Says “That’s Weird That A Parasite, Especially One With A Zombie Like Virus Would Do That!” Flynn Then Asks “Is There A Cure?” And Cheyenne Miller Says “Luckly, Our Scientist Had Developed A Device To Eliminate The Parasite In Their Minds.” Molly Opens A Garage Door Full Of Mega Buster Like Weapons, In All Sorts Of Colors. Xavier Then Says “The Device Is Basically The Normal Mega Busters, But Has A Special Apex Chip Built In The Device That Can Wipe The Parasite Completely Out Of Their Heads.” Zoe Then Says “But, It Seems That Doing This Might Kill Them, So It’s A Matter Of If You Want To Kill Your Friends In Order To Eliminate A Plague Or To Join Them To Cause Havoc In HTF City.” Austin Says “All Of You Will Get A Buster In Your Colors, So All Of You Guys Will Have One.” Yumi Says “Well, From What I’ve Studied From, It Seems That It Takes Longer To Get Infected For Some People, Those Include All Maverick Hunters, Flippy, Karl, Ale, Krazy, Flaky, Disco Bear, Splendid, Fresko, Juggles, Pelty, Flakes, Flakem, Madly, Fancy, Muffins, Xeba, All Kids And Me!” Xeba Says “Maybe My Infection Takes Longer Because I’m Already Infected With The Zalgo Virus, And As Tom From Eddsworld Once Said, You Can’t Possess Something Twice.” Splendid Says “Yeah! I Know That All Too Well.” Flippy And Flaky Both Then Say “Same Here.” Brandon Says “At Least You Didn’t Have To Fight The Leader Of The Black Dragon Clan.” Xeba Then Says “Wait A Minute! Ain’t Your Version Of Amnesia More Story Driven Instead Of A Rock Hard AMV Series?” Brandon Then Says “Well, I Had To Make It As Much As A Megaman Series In My Eyes As Possible. Anyways, Lets Go Hunt Some Zombies, Grab Your Weapons And Lets Go!” They Grab Their Weapons And Head Out To The City To Slay The Zombies, Sammy And Sara Are Shot In The Head By Alexander Sisera And Alexis Dillingham, Jordan K, Bigtail And Hovee Are Shot In The Head By Xeba, Yoyo And Gillian, Mikey And Jakey Are Shot In The Head By Muffins And Zachary Hughes And Ben And Katie Are Shot In The Head By Ale With Blood Splashing In Ale’s Face, Instantly Infecting Her. Josh Grayson Gelling And Aile Garofolo Are Then Infected By Ale Biting Them And Then The Three With Stacy And Josh Are Shot Dead By Austin Carlson, Ryan Tuttle, Ryan Zerbinos, Bradley Culvert And Sam Germain. Brandon And The Guys Then Approach Sniffles And Nutty And Stop Them And He Says “You Are All A Disease, And I'm The Cure For All Of Your Troubles!!” Nutty Then Says “Wait A Minute! Before You Kill Us! There’s Something You Guys Need To Know! This Disease Is Not Really Controlling Us, It’s Helping Us Avoid The HTF Death Curse!” Brandon Says “Huh?! Being Undead Is A Way To Avoid The Curse? Because I’m A Different Type Of Undead, The Kind Of Undead Jason Voorhees Was In Friday The 13th Parts 6, 7, And 8. Sniffles Then Says “Uh, I Think The Word You Looking For Is Revenant.” Brandon Says “Yeah, But I See That You Guys Are Also A Type Of Undead. So, It Wouldn’t Be A Problem To Both Set Aside Our Conflicts And All Live In Harmony.” Jared Then Says “Dad?! Is It Really True That Those Parasites Aren’t Eating Away At They’re Minds?” And Someone In The Distance Says “It’s Not The Truth You All Though.” Donovan And Emily Run Up To Brandon And Emily Says “From What We’ve Been Studying On The Parasite, It Seems Like It Was A Gift From The HTF Gods To Help Them Avoid The Death Curse Of The HTF World.” Donovan Then Says “We’ve Also Developed A Serum That Can Help All Of You Avoid Death Like The Other Infected Creatures.” Brandon Then Says “Hmm, Don? That Actually Might Work, And Besides, I’ve Just Noticed Something About This. All Normal Functions Still Remain The Same, So We Can All Go Back To Living Our Lives!” Sniffles Then Says “So What Do You Say? Truce?” Brandon Shakes His Hand And Says Truce As We Pan Up To The Sky, Ending The Episode With A Short Paragraph Of The Aftermath That Says “Everyone Went Back To Living In Harmony As The Gods Would Want It, Although Not Looking Like Their Normal Selves. Sometime Later, The Parasite Would Eventually Leave The Infected, Turning Them Back To Normal, But Still Having The Enhancements They Had When They Were Infected, So No One Has To Worry About Dying Again…”

#### Moral

“Sometimes, There Are No Happy Endings, Only Cinematically Epic Ones.”

## Deaths

1. Sammy And Sara Are Shot In The Head By Alexander Sisera And Alexis Dillingham
2. Jordan K, Bigtail And Hovee Are Shot In The Head By Xeba, Yoyo And Gillian
3. Mikey And Jakey Are Shot In The Head By Muffins And Zachary Hughes
4. Ben And Katie Are Shot In The Head By Ale
5. Ale, Josh, Stacy, Aile Garofolo And Josh Grayson Gelling Are Shot Dead By Austin Carlson, Ryan Tuttle, Ryan Zerbinos, Bradley Culvert And Sam Germain

## Injuries

1. Nutty Is Infected By A Parasite From A Expired Chocolate Bar
2. Sniffles Is Infected After Nutty Attacks Him
3. Cocoa, Jordan K, Bigtail, Hovee, Sammy, Sara, Mikey, Jakey, Ben, And Katie Were Infected By Nutty And Sniffles
4. Giggles, Snowers, Petunia, Handy, Stacy, Josh, Shifty, Lifty, And Lumpy Were Infected By Cocoa, Jordan K, Bigtail, Hovee, Sammy, Sara, Mikey, Jakey, Ben, Katie, Nutty And Sniffles
5. Ben And Katie’s Blood Splashes On Ale’s Face, Infecting Her
6. Josh Grayson Gelling And Aile Garofolo Are Infected By Ale Biting Them
7. Everyone Else Was Infected After The Episode And Then Defected From The Virus

## Survival rate

* Amount of total main characters: **110**
* Amount of surviving main characters: **96**
* Amount of dead main characters: **14**
* Total rate: **87%**

## Trivia

* This Story Is Based On A Story By GamyGammy.
* Shifty Being Slapped By Pop Is A Reference To The Moments During The 2022 Oscars Where Will Smith Smacks Chris Rock For Flirting With Smith’s Wife Jada Pinkett.
* This Episode Has The Most Surviving Characters Of Any Episode Ever