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15 - Never Green (5)

  The show is currently on a commercial break.

  “Have you ever eaten a truck?”

  Pictured is a man eating a cookie in the shape of a truck.

  And that concludes the commercial break.

  An orange haired man in a business suit, with a suitcase and clipboard walks out of one of the buildings. He speaks in a very condescending and seemingly disgusted voice, as if he believes himself infinitely above them and is ashamed to be around them.

  “Hello, citizens of Jenny’s Town.

  Everyone turns to face him, their jaws drop.

  Jenny stands up. She’s outraged at her ex-husband not actually being dead. The character who Sherman Chex is currently playing looks back at her as if she were a chicken.

  “It all looks the exact same. It’s as if I never left.”

  He extends the arm holding the clipboard out to point at the crowd.

  “And yet you were all so excited to see my death.”

  Suzanne speaks up.

  “Well, that took you long enough. I nearly had to filibuster this reading.”

  She begins to walk towards the man, though he stops near Jenny to whisper something to her. The camera focuses on this.

  At the same conference from earlier, the episode has been paused at this scene. The man in the audience with a microphone asks another question. His voice is very soothing to the entire audience, though peculiarly also commands an immense presence.

  “This doesn’t seem to be the same character as the previous episode. His personality’s all different, and he doesn’t even look slightly similar”

  The man on the stage’s eyes light up. He steps away from the tape player and towards the edge of the stage. The rest of the audience murmurs, they never even noticed the difference between the two appearances of this character.

  “They seem quite similar. What makes you say so?”

  The man gestures and several bodyguards walk in from off-screen.

  “Just get rid of everything, employees.”

  The bodyguards begin to dismantle each building piece by piece, careful to not rip or actually break anything.

  The citizens get up from their chairs and begin to run around in circles screaming. This makes quite little sense.

  The camera pans over to Jenny’s face, her hands are on her head and her mouth is agape in shock.

  “What the hell?”

  It then pans back to Suzanne and Jenny’s ex-husband.

  “What’s the plan, boss man?”

  “Destroy the entire town, I’m sure she still has it somewhere.”

  “Of course, sir.”

  The scene cuts away to the B plot of the previous episode continuing, though now they also have to deal with the bodyguards attempting to teardown the building as well as the wrecking ball and demolition crew.

  Now that the camera is no longer on the two, Suzanne is quite annoyed at Chex.

  “Why did you go in? What are you even doing, employee?”

  “What are you talking about, you’re my employee.”

  Suzanne’s hand firmly plants itself into her face.

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  “I hate Hells.”

  Walker, who is currently in the form of a postal worker, appears next to them.

  “Hi Suzanne! What’s up with him? He looks peculiar!”

  “He’s sucked into the Lie this Hell is based on... Apparently he has no protection against these.”

  “Really? Even I have protection against Hells because of my Idea backer!”

  A ball of rocks flies around and quickly disperses back into the ground.

  “Apparently he doesn’t have the same protections Rich had back then.”

  Sherman Chex, as the character of Jenny’s Ex-Husband, has absolutely zero idea what they’re talking about, and isn’t even aware he’s not in the current scene. He assembles a chair out of the perfectly cleanly dismantled pieces of the homes and sits down in it. Somehow.

  The scene switches back to Jenny’s shocked face, and she storms over to the pair. Walker left before the scene started such that there would be minimal continuity errors. Though, Chex is still in the chair.

  “What is it that you want, man?!”

  Her ex-husband, who remains unnamed, stands up and puts his hand on his chest. The chair he was sitting on falls apart and gets set on fire.

  “Oh, I thought you’d never ask, it’s quite simple, really.”

  “Just spit it out, moron!”

  He turns his nose up and crosses his arms.

  “I just want the book you stole from my library.”

  Jenny stops moving. The rest of the town stops moving and all look at the scene. Jenny gasps.

  “I didn’t steal it, you gave it to me as a present! I don’t think you—” Her voice becomes more muffled as the camera zooms out and flies into the air.

  The tape stops as the camera reaches high into the sky.

  “Well, we’ve heard quite a few interesting perspectives from the crowd today, and with the end of this episode I believe we’ve reached the end of our time. It’s unfortunate, as I would have hoped to have a longer discussion with you all. Have a great day!”

  The man on stage gathers his things, walks off the stage, and walks out of the building.

  The episode’s over, though Chex is still caught by the lie. He still truly believes himself to be the character of Jenny Mooringway’s Ex-Husband.

  This is why he’s incredibly shocked at the fact that she’s actually giving him back the book.

  Back at Jenny’s house, Walker, Suzanne, Chex, and Jenny are all sitting down on the couch. Jenny picks up the comically large book titled “2521” off her bookshelf and hands it to Chex.

  “Ah, thank you, my property has been returned.”

  “Have you ever read that book?”

  “Why would you even ask? Of course I’ve read it.”

  “Who is the first person the main character saves?”

  “Well, it’s obviously the...”

  He flips through a bunch of pages to find a passage. His suit begins to fall apart, and patches of orange sneak through.

  “His unnamed associate! Page 2000.”

  “It’s a random snake on the side of the road.”

  Suzanne is quite confused at what’s happening here.

  “We have to get him, you know, out of the Lie, Jenny! Why are you trying to flex on your nonexistent ex-husband?”

  “If you’d read the book, you’d know what I’m doing, Suzy.”

  Suzy. It’s a name not many people call her, but a name she’s called nonetheless.

  “Whatever.”

  She walks out of the room and outside.

  Jenny continues to quiz Chex on the book 2521, and he gets all the questions wrong as the character of Jenny Mooringway’s ex-husband has never read it.

  “Favorite food of the main character.”

  “Orange juice, obviously.” He says quite arrogantly.

  “Nope, tomatoes. Name of his wife.”

  “Skylar.”

  “It’s Sciyla, moron.”

  Each question he gets wrong causes the Lie to shatter around him and his clothes turn back into those of Sherman Chex’s.

  “Okay, time for the easiest question. Who is the man he’s referring to on the last page? The man he says he’d rather not ‘have to see again’?”

  “Well that’s clearly—”

  A loud truck drives by, conveniently obscuring the name being said.

  “Nope, it’s—”

  The same exact loud truck drives by, conveniently obscuring the name being said once again.

  Thanks, conveniently timed trucks!

  With this last question, Jenny’s ex-husband’s business suit has completely disappeared, replaced with Sherman Chex’s orange clothes.

  “Oh, I was being incredibly rude, wasn’t I? I’m sorry, ma’am. I’m not sure what washed over me.”

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