Episode 23

## Day 7

Over the sound of the speeding train, the Outlaws hear Ebenzer Rouge shout “HIBBEDY HO, HERE COMES THE SNOW.”

They quickly traverse the mountain, and the train pulls into the lower region of the ice castle through fancy archways.

The train comes to a stop in a station inside the castle, and the gang heads up the escalator. At the top are two large metal doors. Robin spies a panel on the right side of the doors, clearly iced over. PT attempts to open the door on the right, and as he turns the knob, bars slide down over the left-side door. PT and Conrad attempt to open both doors at the same time. Conrad snaps off the handle of the door, and PT’s hand slips and he slices it on the ice. Rudolpho wrenches open the door on the left in front of PT. The door on the right, with no handle, is blocked by metal bars.

Rudolpho demands his sword back from Conrad, and Conrad says “sure, I’ll reunite you” or something to that effect, and stabs at Red. Red side steps, Inuyasha-style, and brings his elbow down on Conrad’s wrist to disarm him. Robin dashes over to snatch the sword. The sword begins muttering to him. Remy asks him to give the sword back to Red, who claims he is able to control it. As Robin looks from Conrad and Red to the sword, Conrad attempts to sweep the leg, and PT attempts to kick the sword out of his hand, and both fail. Rudolph tries to pick up PT and Conrad by the scruffs of their necks. Conrad tries to resist, while PT allows himself to be picked up. Remy whips her flask at Robin’s hand to get him to drop it, but she misses.

Rudolfo tosses the boys aside as Robin hands him the sword, and Conrad pulls out his candy glass knife and attempts to stab Red in the hand, saying “through brightest day and darkest night no evil will escape my sight.” Robin pulls the sword away from Red, refusing to give it to anyone. Red attempts to side kick Conrad, though Conrad catches his foot and throws it down. Conrad tells him they need to keep an eye on Robin because he knows what the sword can do, and Red tells him he will snag the sword and use it to kill the ice wizard.

What seems like a wizened old man comes toward them (though it turns out to be a Humbug). He says he has seen no sapphire, and invites them to the castle’s New Year’s party.

At the party, sitting atop a raised platform, is an enormous (size of a small car), very adorable and sweet baby with a giant sapphire lodged in the center of its head. (King Baby)

The party is full of normal-looking guests, sipping flutes of champagne and wearing sparkly cocktail dresses. Conrad tries to order two bottles of champagne from Slim Jim behind the bar. Ebenezer Rouge, behind the bar, addresses Conrad.

Robin and Red approach two slender young men, Richard and Rodney, holding hands, who criticize their fashion sense.

Ebenezer, shaking up a batch of martinis, introduces himself to Conrad. Conrad asks him about the New Year’s baby, who Rouge calls “eater of time and worlds.”

Remy and PT are examining the baby. Remy jangles her keys at the baby as PT shakes his waterskein as if it was a bottle. The baby takes the bottle from PT, struggling with the cap. PT, with a boost from Remy, reaches out to help the baby with the lid.

One of the party guests tells Robin and Red that everyone at the party is from different time periods (the party is taking place in 2020-2021) and that every year the baby eats the time passed, and then everyone eats the baby.

Conrad is conversing with Rouge. Marty, the old Humbug, is summoned over. Rouge asks who let Conrad and company in, and Conrad snitches on Marty. Upon hearing Rouge explain that when the baby eats time, they will die, he shakes up the bottle of champagne he is holding and shoots it into Rouge’s good eye.

The baby drinks from the waterskein and passes out, and Remy and PT pry and wrench the sapphire from the baby’s head (it is clearly attached to his brain).

Robin, seeing the commotion, slices Richard in half and screams to PT and Remy “LET’S GO!”

The baby floats in mid-air, blue lights bursting through its skin. The party guests start to yell about how the baby is going to disappear, growing sharp teeth and clambering up the platform.

PT attempts to throw a molotov cocktail at the platform as they run away, but drops it behind him and burns himself unconscious. Remy begins to drag his body away from the flames and toward the entrance. Conrad, being chased by Rouge, shoots the second bottle of champagne into Rouge’s eye, nailing him, and running for Remy and PT.

Red demands his sword from Robin, and attempts to punch him in the face as Robin throws up his buckler (shield). Red’s fist disintegrates into snow. Red throws his other hand into the shield, and it also disintegrates into snow.

Conrad catches up with Remy and scoops up PT, and Remy unsheaths her nail-and-chain covered baseball bat. PT regains some consciousness.

Ebenezer Rouge sees that the Outlaws are escaping, and pursues them. He blindly shoots Goku-style ice rays around the room. Red tells Robin to run and destroy the sword, and Red tells him there is only one way to defeat Ebenezer Rouge. He stomps his hooves and charges, antlers first, into Rouge. Rouge is too slow, and Red impales him with his antlers, lifting him into the air. Ebenezer puts his hands directly on Red’s face and ice rays him, zapping directly through his head, decapitating him.

The Outlaws escape through the Great Hall, snatching up platters to use as sleds, and they blow down the side of the mountain on sleds. Robin eats it off his sled and it goes flying down the mountain. He sits and scoots on the buckler, taking off quickly down the mountain and making it down by a hair. They all hop into the train with square wheels, and they reach the bottom of the mountain having attained all three gems.