Bee: You guys worried about Char?
Saph: Totally!
Koda: Yeah, they called me in the middle of the night and just yelled, "what do I do, what do I do, what do I do, what do I do?"
Bee: And what'd you say?
Koda: "I dunno, I dunno, I dunno, I dunno."
Saph:
Bee: They're lucky to have you as a friend.

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-

Ekko and Savannah stood outside the Jewell Industries factory, a subsidiary of the Abomination Coven, where a private sale was being held, greeting guests and maybe putting the occasional 'hex me' on the back of somebody's cloak. Y'know, just for funsies.

Inside we go.

"Welcome, valued investors, to our annual Jewell Industries private sale!" Odalia tossed off her cloak, revealing herself. Btw this Odalia has dirty blonde hair because I say she does. Alador, whose Filipino now (or demon realm equivalent) flung off his cloak too, but not after falling to the ground because he's stupid. "If you're interested in reliable home security, we're here to help! And if you've got an enemy or two, well, who are we to judge?"

Corporate laughter.

"This is my husband, Alador Jewell," She gestured to her very depressed husband. "The greatest abomination creator of the area!" Darius is shaking in his heeled boots right now. "My name is Odalia and, as an oracle, I predict you'll love what we have in store for you tonight. We're proud to present the first glimpse of our crowning achievement- the Abomaton soldier!"

The Abomaton came out of the ground, as did Bee. "It will pour your tea!" The Abomaton poured Bee's tea. "Help you keep up with the latest trends." Abomaton gave Bee a haircut. "And, best of all, it will defend you against any unwanted visitors."

Odalia clutched her necklace, transferring her thoughts into Bee's. Mama to Mittens, remember our deal. Make this look good and we'll forgive your recent lackluster performance in school.

Bee sighed. "Yes, mom." The Abomaton punched the ground as she jumped out of the way. "Wow, it's so fast and strong, order now." She said with zero emotion whatsoever. Go girl, give us nothing. Anyway, these capitalists began ordering now.

The Abomaton picked Bee up. "Oh no. It's undefeatable. How will I ever escape?" A picture fell out of her sleeve (yes, her sleeve), the one of her, Char, Saph and Koda at Grom. The Abomaton was just seconds away from stepping on it and Bee was not about to let that fly, so she destroyed the Abomaton, as one typically does.

The capitalists groaned because there goes their weekly entertainment and also there goes them because they're leaving.

Odalia quickly ran onto the stage. "Of course! That was but a beta test! We can't wait to see you all next week when we reveal the finished product in all its glory!" She then turned to her daughter, pissed as fuck. "Bee! You just lost us a lot of money! What's with you lately?" She noticed the photo. "I see. Looks like our precious Mittens has been getting distracted." Well, no daughter of her's was going to have friends.

-

Hooty banged his head on a cauldron, meant to mimic a school bell. Down to glyph teacher Charlie. "Light in the darkness!" Light glyph. "A glittering bridge of ice!" Ice glyph. "The mightiest tree in the forest!" Plant glyph. "You can make all these and more with glyph magic! Welcome to day three of Char's magic boot camp!" Fire glyphs that damn near cooked King.

"Oooh!" Sasha clapped excitedly, meanwhile Carmen was carving something into her desk. "Okay, we've covered every glyph I've learned up until now. So, today, we'll learn something new." She removed the curtain thing from the board, showing off all the glyphs.

"Are we about to encounter a never before seen glyph?" Sasha asked.

"Unfortunately no..these four either came from nature or another witch's spell. I don't know where to find more."

The Mendoza sisters looked at one another.

Char went on. "In any case," They flipped the board. "We're learning how to alter glyphs to do specific things."

"Ms.Teacher!" Sasha excitedly raised her hand. "Did I do it right?" She held up her ice glyph thing. "Yeah, that's really good. Let's see how you're doing, Carmen." Void looked to see two glyphs, fire and ice, drawn (or more accurately, carved) over one another. "I don't think that's such a good-"

"Double glyph combo, go!" Nothing happened aside from a tiny explosion. "Oh, dang. I was hoping for more of an ice blast situation." The demiwoman said. "I know you're impatient to get your powers back, but try to master the basics before you start experimenting." Char gestured to her board.

"Ugh, you're as boring as Sashy."

"Toot-toot!" Hootsifer hath blessed us with his presence. "The Hexside train's a comin! Chugga, chugga!" Hooty then proceeded to bite Char's hoot. "Uh, okay, King's in charge while I'm gone. Bye!"

"Haha! Power!"

"Yes! Teacher's gone!" Carmen shouted like a thirteen year old middle school boy who is a dick to everybody but somehow still has more friends than you. "I wonder what other combos I can try." They rubbed their hands together mischievously.

"Teacher said we're supposed to master the basics before-" Shut up, Sashy.

"Basics are so basic. Now if we wanna be powerful again, we're gonna have to start thinking outside the box."

Sasha stood up. "If we want to be powerful again, we have to use glyphs perfectly. And we can only do that trough-" She pulled out her flashcards. "Memorization, repetition and following the rules." Carmen smack the flashcards out of her sister's hands. "Well, I'm more interest in experimentation, innovation and laughing at tools! Like you!" They then laughed and walked away.

"Ugh!" Sasha glared down at King. "Weh?" He looked up. "Yeah, yeah, I'll deal with it. Nobody ever said power came with responsibility."

-

Char stood outside the doors. "Okay. First day back after the petrification ceremony. Just be chill." Like the gay musical writer Char never listened to. That one is called Be More Chill but shut up. Anyway, void opened the door and the first thing void sees is the fruits.

Insert friend screaming.

"Woah, Koda, did I miss a birthday or something?" Char said in reference to the fact that he was like an inch taller now and had a deeper voice, which means he's gonna get all the guys now.

"Witch puberty."

"I can't thank you guys enough for helping me and Carmen at the Conformatorium." Char smiled. "It's cool." Koda did the "are they y'know" hand because he is, in fact, y'know. "I just hope it helps Carmen learn my name. She keeps calling me Koops."

"Hey, Koops."

"It's already spreading." Pray for Koops, everyone.

"Hey, Char." A wild witch bitch has arrived.

"Bee!"

"In celebration of your return, I have made you a homemade fairy pie." Bee held out said fairy pie. "Oh, that sounds so-" Char looked down at the fairy pie, which was filled with screaming fairies. "The ingredients are very fresh." Bee handed the pie to the blonde. "Thank you." Honestly, void would probably just give it to the Mendozas later. "Y'know, after everything that's happened, I'm just happy to return to some sense of normalcy."

Ah, dammit, Charlie, you said the thing.

"You can't just barge in here!"

"Yes, we can! We are the Parent-Creature Association! Charlotte Tyler Jones, Saph Garcia, and Dakoda Adams, report to Principal Bump's office now! And you too, Bee."

"Mom?!"

Into Bump's office we go, we're Odalia's pulling a Karen. "The abomination situation, the destruction of detention, the rampage at Grom. These are but a few of the incidents that have endangered Hexside students. Including our daughter."

Bee glared at her mom.

"So, the PCA has decided-" She looked at her husband and cleared her throat.

"Oh, right. These three are bad influences and must be executed."

Gay gasps all around.

"I mean expelled."

Gay gasps part two electric boogaloo.

Odalia once again clutched her necklace, once again sending her thoughts into Bee's. Take this as a lesson, Mittens. A Jewell always upholds their end of the deal.

"Sadly, I have no choice in the matter." Bump frowned. "Charlotte, Saph, Dakoda, effective immediately, you are no longer students of Hexside."

Even more gay gasps.

Char quickly stood up. "No, but us, good! Bee, tell them!" They pleaded. Instead, Bee stayed quiet, staring down at her lap. "Good." Odalia crossed her arms. "Now, you'll be taking double the classes to make up for lost time. Actually, I'm appalled that you're not in class right now, what are you thinking?" Odalia, I am going to push you out of the Archives.

"Right, sorry." Bee stood up. Well, looks like somebody- Gary? Gary, you mother fucker! I missed you, but goddamn it, play the music at the right time, please! At least let me finish my goddamn sentence. God, Andrew was right, I should fire you. You are so lucky I have an emotional attachment to you.

Odalia snapped her fingers, summoning the trouble dudes, who then dragged the fruits + Char out.

"Bee!" Char shouted. "Bee!"

The last thing void saw was her staring back at them as her mother placed a hand on her shoulder.

Right outside, Koda was pacing back and forth, his hands in the air. "It finally happened! Our memorable adventures caught up to us!" He said. Char was leaned over the stairs railing and Saph was quite literally hugging trees. Anyway, Koda continued being upsetti spaghetti. "Oh, my mada can't find out about this. I guess I'll have to start surviving off the land." He lifted up a leaf, before proclaiming that this was impossible.

Over to local tree hugger, Saph. "Well, I guess this is goodbye. I'll water you one last time. With my tears!"

Char groaned. Right then, the Jewell parents walked by. "Hey!" Void shouted. "How dare you mess with my friend's lives? What have we ever done to you?"

"Charlotte, was it?" Odalia asked. "Please, this isn't personal. I actually appreciate your tenacity. We're just trying to teach our daughter a valuable lesson in business."

"How does this teach anything? We're still gonna be friends with her. I'm calling applesauce on this business baloney!"

"You're human language is hard to understand, but I think I see your point." She grabbed a Jewell Industries card out of Alador's pocket. "If you're interested in talking things through, I'm sure we can come to some sort of an agreement." She handed the card to Char.

"Koda Chomp™!" Koda then proceeded to chomp the card.

Saph walked over, draping an arm around Char's shoulders. "Come on, Charlie." She said. "We'll figure this out on our own."

Koda spit out the card. "That's right! We'll get back into Hexside or die trying."

"No one's dying."

"Not with that attitude."

Rich lady laugh. "Yes, well, when that doesn't work, you'll know where to find us." The Jewell parents then walked away.

-

"Okay. Almost got it." Carmen got it. "Glyph pyramid!" 

"And what are you expecting this glyph pyramid to do?" King asked. "It's supposed to prove that I'm the superior witch. Watch and learn." They then hit the glyph pyramid and got nothing aside from some tiny blue fire. "Ugh, okay, let's think. Bile sacs have different spell phlegm sloshing around together, so why can't I mix these up too?"

"Those are disgusting liquids. These are symbols from the isles." King reminded her. "Maybe there's a different way to combine them."

"Hm.."

"HOOGLY MOOGLY!"

Carmen peaked outside to see Sasha not sucking ass at ice glyphs. AKA making a crown, necklace and statue for Hooty. "Wow! I bet even Carmen couldn't do that!"

Well, Mama Carmen's mad now.

"Maybe if you just learn the basics like Lottie said-"

"I don't have time for basics! I'm onto something and I'll prove it." The witch cracked her knuckles and pulled out a notepad.

-

As the Hextrio stared at their BANNED posters, Char heroically announced "Operation Change Bump's Mind." The fruits nodded. "Lets go!"

Plan A-
Bump was flipping through memories of the fruits ft.Char when he heard a knocking sound on his window. He walked over and saw a note asking to for them to be un-expelled, a hyper realistic drawing of him and a horrifying cake of him. He screamed bloody murder and safe to say, Plan A has failed.

Plan B-
Go in disguised as teachers! Yeah, that was shut down right away.

Plan C-
Just fly in. Well, Bump has a cannon so they flew away. "Life is just so dull without them!" Yeah, we're all feeling that after the finale. Anyway-

"Ugh, this is hopeless! Nothing is working!" Koda exclaimed. "Don't worry, guys." Void placed a hand on his shoulder. "So long as we work together, we'll think of something." Two crow-phones came on over.

"Oh no."

"Saph Garcia!" Divine's voice came through the phone. "Did you get expelled?"

Another crow phone came over and began lifting Koda into the air. "This is Alex Adams with breaking news: in light of recent developments, Dakoda Adams will be grounded for no less than a year."

"Just one? Saph's grounded for three at least!" And as such, the fruits were carried off by the crow phones.

Char turned around to see Bee dropping her books and approached her. "I'm sorry." The witch apologized. "I was a coward in there. But, my mom-"

"Hey. I get it, you're scared of her. But I'm not. And I need you to take me to her." Char, this isn't an MCU movie, you can tone it down. "She seemed open to talking things through."

"No, no." Bee shook her head, almost seemingly warning her. "Char, you don't have to do that." She said. "Yes, I do." Void bent down to pick up one of Bee's books. "Saph and Koda don't deserve this. So, will you help me, please?" Char was on one knee, holding up the book. If this isn't how my future wife proposes to me, then I don't want it.

"I..." Bee thought for a second before saying in a soft voice "I can't." The bell rang. "I have to go." She took her book and walked away.

Char began walking away from the school, before seeing and then picking up the Jewell Industries card that had been Koda Chomped™.

-

"Carmen, what the heck is that supposed to be?" King asked, gesturing to the weird pile of glyphs on the table. "I call it the super glyph!" Carmen proclaimed.

"More like a stupid glyph." Unfortunately, Carmen Mendoza will never recover from this sick burn. "Just you wait! This will be a killer combo. Lesser glyphs will shrink in fear." She tapped the super glyph and at first, there was just a plain ol' ice cube. "Ha! It didn't blow up!"

But then that ice cube became a bit bigger and also spiky.

"Uh, is it supposed to do that?"

It expanded more, King and Carmen narrowly dodging it, as it froze there couch and couchside tables.

"Uh-huh."

-

Char walked up to the Jewell Manor, knocking on their door. The door began to open "Hello, Mrs.Jewell, I-" The door completely opened to reveal a butler abomination. "Oh." Abomination led her into the living. "Oooh. This place smells a lot better than the Owl House." Before going into the Jewell lab/workshop/whatever the fuck, void drew a cat face onto the abomination. "And boop!" It drooped again.

"Well, I tried." They then went down into capitalism behind the scenes. "Hello? Mr and Mrs.Jewell?" An abomination hand hit the wall and Char saw Odalia sitting like the condescending rich lady she is and Alador toiling away, making a new abomaton. "Oh, don't mind him, dear." Odalia said, taking a sip of tea. "He's getting read for our big demonstration tonight. It's looking good, hun!"

"I'm here to to appeal to your hearts, Jewells."

"That's sweet. But let's get to the deal." Odalia kept that condescending rich lady smirk. "We have a rather important presentation tonight, showing off some new products."

"Like abominations?"

"Something like that. Normally, Bee helps us with these things, but she's busy catching up on school work."

"I get it." Char sighed. "I'll help you show off your weird abomination gunk if you promise to let me and my friends back into school."

"Don't worry, human. A Jewell always upholds their end of the deal. Now, you might want to go get ready, because we have-"

-

"-A long night ahead of us, folks! Welcome back to Jewell Industries!"

Capitalist clapping.

Char laughed nervously in lower middle class. "So, Alador, what would you say is the specialty of Jewell Industries?"

"We make a variety of abomination based accessories for home security."

"Oh, that sounds pretty safe."

"But we specialize in weaponry." He walked away. "You might want to duck."

"Huh?" Odalia shot Char into the wall with some goop. "Yes, our Sticky Launcher can peacefully subdue any foe. And, if peaceful isn't your thing-" She turned it to the fire setting. Oh, Char was gonna fucking die here.

-

"Mom? I'm ready for the show tonight." Bee walked through her living room, before noticing a note from her mom. "We found a replacement?" She panicly turned to the abomination butler. "Did anyone come to the house today?"

She saw the cat face.

Oh, that demibitch.

-

Divine dropped a stack of books on Saph's desk. "To make sure you're getting a top notch education, we're quitting our jobs to home school you."

"And we'll spend all our free time having fun as a family." Eerie smiled.

"See you at first light on the uh-" Divine picked up the first book. "Life cycle of a common swamp toad." And she shut the door. Soon enough, a Koda illusion appeared on the stack of books. 

"Saph! Hey, Saph!" The illusion pointed to the window and Saph went over to open it, but not before Eerie opened the door. "Hey, Saph, uh-" She noticed the Koda illusion, she noticed her daughter near the window. She smiled, winked and shut the door.

Saph smiled before opening the window, looking down and seeing Bee and Koda.

"Char is in trouble!"

"Again." Translation: "Why do I keep making friends with dumb lesbians?"

-

More terrified screams of Char as the remainder of the Hexsqaud rolled up. Let's start with Saph's idea. "Okay, I can use the root system underground to tunnel our way in."

"That'll take too long." Bee said. "We should just rush the guards at the door." Violence. Writer Char approves.

Koda's turn. "No, no, no! I'll distract them with illusions of beautiful lady guards."

"This isn't a cartoon from the 40s, Koda! We need a better plan!"

"This could work!"

"We should just bust our way through!"

"You're stunting my growth as an artist!"

Gay bickering.

"Here's an idea." They looked over to see Ekko and Savannah. "Why don't you just go through the front?" Ekko tossed his sister + friends some cloaks.

"Ek, Sav, you're helping?" Bee smiled. "Of course. Just..don't tell mom." Savannah said. Bee, Koda and Saph put their cloaks on and Savannah and Ekko put some hex me papers on the back, giggling to themselves. The hex me papers were then sent flying back into Ekko and Bee glared at her siblings before heading inside.

The capitalists cheered as the literal child was attacked. Thankfully, Char has the power of glyphs, so she can protect herself to an extent, but holy fucking titan is this bitch gonna die. 

"Thank you, thank you." Odalia smiled and the crossbow abomination. "And they said we couldn't make crossbows more fun." Odalia, you will not disgrace Marcy Wu like that. "Next, we're very excited to show you our last product from this line."

Char sighed with relief. "Thank goodness, only one more to go."

"My husband has been toiling away to bring you-" Dramatic pause as it rises from the ground. "The Abomaton 2.0!"

Bee gasped, rushing over to a ladder and climbing onto it. 

"Bee, wait!" Saph and Koda tried to stop her before being detained by two abomination guards.

Back to capitalism. "It's bigger, it's better, the Abomaton 2.0 is the perfect soldier! It won't rest until it's enemy is completely eliminated."

The capitalists clapped more.

Char once again laughed nervously in lower middle class. "You're a big boy, aren't ya?"

The Abomaton, who I will be calling Arlo, made his hands weapony and Char jumped out of the way, hoping to try and avoid death to the best of their ability. Arlo grabbed void's ankle, knocking them to the stage floor, where it was at eye level with Odalia. "Okay, it's super strong. I think the audience gets it."

"She has a point, Odalia." Alador said.

"Didn't you hear me? It won't rest until its enemy is completely eliminated." Hey, remember when Odalia literally wanted to murder a fucking child because she was distracting her daughter in school? Yeah, me too. Anyway-

Char got tossed up into the rafters. "Okay, at least it can't get me up here." Arlo got up there. "Char, you fool!" They smacked down an ice glyph, which Arlo sliced up, leaving her with an icy rapier of sorts. Void fought off Arlo pretty well, meanwhile Bee was climbing her way up into the rafters. Arlo then destroyed the ice sword. He then kept trying to hit her with a fucking flail.

Char swung on a plant glyph and boom! Explosion.

The demigirl opened her eyes to find herself dangling and then her tiny vine snapped. "Hey, I'm alive."

Arlo grabbed her ankle.

"Oh no."

Arlo made his hand into a scythe.

"I'm dead!"

They shut their eyes before the blade suddenly stopped and Arlo began bubbling, his hands exploding.

"Hey!" The crowd looked and Char directed their attention to the rafters, where the voice had come from. "Stay away from my Char!"

"Bee?" Lesbian blushing.

-

While Sasha and Hooty were chilling outside, Sasha making more ice stuff for her bestie, she heard some crashing noises from inside. "Carmen?" She knocked on the door. "Are these distress noises or normal noises?"

"Totally normal! Don't come in!" Meanwhile, Carmen also had a flail and was fighting against this giant ice blob, while King held onto her ankle. "I am your mother! You will obey me and die!"

Anyway, ice blob kept expanding and it got their flail and also King. "Carmen! Help me, Carmen! Carmen, help me!" King has henceforth been consumed by the ice.

Carmen gasp. "Ugh, fine." Alright, time to give in. "Sasha, emergency!"

Sasha kicked in the door. "Woah."

"Yeah, yeah, I messed up. I'm ready to follow the rules."

"Actually, I'd like to try an experiment."

"Ooooh!" Get you a supportive bestie like Hooty.

-

Bee slid down on a rope, landing on the ground. 

Odalia clutched her necklace. "Bee Jewell, you are in so much trou-"

Bee destroyed her own necklace. "Char, are you okay?" She asked, turning to the blonde.

"Uh-huh." More lesbian blushing. "Look out!" Bee quickly turned her attention to Arlo, making magic circles and holding him back as best she could.

"Bee!" Odalia shouted. "Get away from the human!"

"No, you're gonna listen to me for once!" Bee stated. Power of friendship time. "Char, Saph and Koda are my friends! They're nice to each other!" No, we're not but okay. True friendship is bullying the shit out of your friend idc. Obviously in a joking way though, don't be actual dicks to your friends, that is not cute or quirky or whatever. "They listen to each other! They make me think about the kind of person I really want to be!" She knocked Arlo to the floor.

Char smiled and stood up, running over to Bee, void's glyphs in hand, standing back to back with her. The two glanced at each other and both assumed tomato mode.

"Ugh, what do you want?!"

"Let my friends back into Hexside or else your precious investors will watch me rip this thing apart, bit by bit."

"Can you actually do that?"

"Shh!"

Capitalist booing.

"Ugh, fine! It's a deal! Just stop with the theatrics!"

The lesbians smiled at one another and Bee released Arlo, him crushing the two of them. But not really because they opened their eyes and winked at one another for extra gayness. 

Arlo shut down and the crowd started cheering over the child death because I guess we're in the fucking hunger games universe now.

The fruits quickly rushed over to Bee and Char.

Lotta, lotta units got ordered.

Now Odalia's upsetti spaghetti. "As if I'd actually let them go back. I will call every authority I know. I'll make sure they can't-"

"Odalia!" Alador is on his way to slay. "You made a deal with your daughter. And a Jewell always upholds their end of the deal. Besides, she's getting stronger. Strong enough to be a coven head someday."

Well, coven head means both power and money. "Wise words, dear. We have to focus on what's best for the family." She looked around and noticed Alador focusing on a butterfly instead of his wife. "Alador!"

Hey, autism be damned, my boy can make some great abominations.

-

King sneezed because he was just inside an ice blob and this is a cartoon, what do you expect? 

"Okay, so, uh, how did you beat that thing again?" Carmen asked. "Would you like me to lay out the basics?" Sasha smirked.

"Yes."

Exposition time. "Well, you were right, these glyphs act like the basic elements, but instead of containing magic like we do, they command the magic around them. They're like words and drawing glyphs on top of each other like you did-"

"Was like screaming three different words at the same time. The spell got confused!"

"Yes. The Glyph Combo©, copyright, me, Sasha, helps organize the commands, so you can combine and specify what you wanna do."

TL/DR: Sasha saved King from ice blob.

"So with the right combo, you can cast any spell!" Carmen's so smart you guys. "Maybe the reason Char hasn't found any more glyphs is because there aren't anymore." King suggested.

"Well, then we better start learning some new combinations."

The door opened, revealing Charlatte. "Hey, guys." They greeted as they wiped some abomination gunk out of her hair. "Hey, Charlie, we actually learned something new." Carmen said. 

"Sorry, can it wait till morning? I need to lie down."

"Wait, Ms.Teaher!" Sasha raised her hand. "Do I get extra credit?" She pulled an ice statue of Sasha essentially worshiping Char like some kind of goddess.

"Oh- my gosh."

"I can do it too." Carmen smacked an ice glyph and made an ice ball.

"Yeah, wow, extra credit for everyone." They flung two golden stars at the sisters before heading upstairs to presumably be half-dead for the next twelve hours.

-

"Despite the spectacle, this was quite a successful sail." Odalia said, walking up Alador, who was fixing up an abomination. "Excellent job on the 2.0, dear."

"Yes, your Abomatons are quite extraordinary." Our golden demigirl has returned. "Too bad no one will be receiving them."

The Jewell parents quickly kneeled.

"The Emperor will be buying every one of your Abomatons and will personally fund research into making them stronger."

"Th-that's great news! We're honored to h-"

"You should be. Emperor Belos doesn't take kindly to citizens building a private army." And then she and the two scouts walked off.