Pikes and Spikes

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QUOTE-"I think I know how to get you revenge, but we'll need some help."(Pixel)

Previous episode: Pyromania

Next Episode: Lines in the Sand

Pikes and Spikes is the fourth episode in the Pixel series T.V. show.

Plot
This episode starts off where Pyromania ended, as Grape Pixel is sitting in a pile of weapons surrounded by six idiots. They ask what happened, and Grape Pixel says "It's a long story", but continues to tell it.

A flashback to him skateboarding leads him to find three viruses. He taunts them, and attempts to fight them, but is easily outnumbered and thrown in a jail cell. The other two antisocial pixels in there are Spike Pixel and Knight Pixel. When trying to talk to them about escape, his only reply is that it's hopeless. Spike Pixel remarks that he is an adventure movie geek, and tried everything, but nothing worked. Knight Pixel says that they have been in here for a while, but they can't remember how long. When Grape Pixel asks what the newest technology is (to estimate the year), Spike Pixel replies with a floppy disk, and Knight Pixel replies with the Raspberry phone (a Pixel universe Blackberry phone). When they ask in return Grape Pixel says "probably whatever we're on", and the two look at him in confusion. When Grape Pixel asks what they get to eat, they reply with Glop. Spike Pixel says the glop sometimes is inedible, as he swears that he tasted calamine lotion in it. Grape Pixel then gets an idea.

That night, the three pixels coat themselves in glop, and slip through the cell bars. Posing as the head of a knight statue, Knight Pixel waits until a virus comes. They then hop on them and stab them with their gladius, and the virus is left bleeding. They then attempt to pass the gates, but the alarm is sent off. Knight Pixel attempts to fight off the approaching virus army, but is punched and knocked out. However, they were tossed out of the castle as a result. When Spike Pixel and Grape Pixel attempted to escape, they both knew they wouldn't make it, so Grape Pixel decided to kick Spike Pixel, and toss them out of the castle.

Grape Pixel was the only Pixel left, and the gates were almost closed, and Grape Pixel ran, but Razareth caught him, and you see him punching Grape Pixel until the gate closes. Grape Pixel reappears inside a nanoglass cube. His life force and physical embodiment are transformed into the crest on Razareth's head, and the story ends.

When the six heroes realize what Grape Pixel had been through, and they attempt to apologize for what he went through, he ignores their sorrow and searches through the junk in the junkyard. The team doesn't understand what he's doing. He asks for a candy wrapper, and Wixel hand him a wrapper for Atbash:The Effort Candy. Using it to reflect the light from a flashlight (which he drew on, so it says "To the junkyard"), it shines in Spike Pixel's eyes. Initially annoyed, he takes a picture of it with his phone due to the brightness (though at first he accidentally takes a horrible selfie) reads the message, and calls Knight Pixel. The two pixels arrive on foot, and when the see Grape Pixel, they can't believe it. They run over to him and hug him, as they haven't seen each other for around 7 years. Knight Pixel says that they have to go for revenge, but Spike Pixel replies that they couldn't do it last time, and now they just sit on their couch eating potato chips. Grape Pixel then introduces Pixel, Rixel, Wixel, Money Pixel, Ninja Pixel, and Lego Pixel. He says that with some reinforcements, they can get their revenge. Pixel then states that he's getting a plan together.

TRIVIA
-This episode brings back Razareth, albeit in a flashback

-This episode introduces Knight Pixel and Spike Pixel

-This episode introduces Month Pixels, with the introduction of Spike Pixel

-This is the first episode that is mainly a flashback, being the story of Grape Pixel (and technically Spike Pixel and Knight Pixel)

-When Knight Pixel is punched out of the castle, you can see their natural color under the helmet-Blue

-Instead of using the light reflector created from scraps, Grape Pixel was originally going to use his phone to text Spike Pixel and Knight Pixel in a group-chat, but this caused a plot hole as Grape Pixel only interacted with the two for around six hours before they broke out, and the two had been stuck in the cell for several decades (the plot takes place in around 2010), so Spike Pixel had been in there since 1979, and Knight Pixel since 1999, so they logically wouldn't have phones

-A new virus called Circuit Breaker was originally intended to appear in this episode, but didn't*

-The title Pikes and Spikes is supposed to resemble Knight Pixel (pikes) and Spike Pixel (spikes)

-This episode uses the least amount of voices from the main cast, with only two (Pixel and Wixel)

-Knight Pixel was originally going to be first seen in a virus cell alongside Graviton and Pixel**

-Spike Pixel was originally going to be a background character with few lines***

CAST
Pixel-EarthNinja444

Wixel-TBA

Grape Pixel-TBA

Knight Pixel-TBA

Spike Pixel-EarthNinja444

Razareth-TBA

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CREATOR NOTES
* So originally I was going to have Circuit breaker be the one who pulls the alarm, brutally punches Grape Pixel, etc. Essentially, he was gonna be the Main antagonist of the First season once Naalc had a couple episodes, but I changed the plot to give Circuit Breaker more to do than punch a pixel. Essentially, they're a crestless Pixel, but their four spikes contain four pixels, so he's kinda deformed in a way. The colors on his spikes will change for two reasons

CANONICALLY-He collects Pixels and drops them off for the wimpier viruses who can't do anything

THE REAL REASON-I forgot the original colors

** I also originally was going to introduce Graviton sooner, by exactly episode 10, alongside Knight Pixel. The plot of this episode is based off of the OG episode 10's plot where three Pixels do their best to escape a virus prison. Pixel would accidentally end up there using a Wormhole Orb, and have to break out. The following episode would have Ninja Pixel betray the team and go after Knight Pixel (still inside the castle, similar to Grape Pixel's sacrifice).

*** Until I took a liking to Apple Pixel and Pumpkin Pixel, all of the month Pixels were going to essentially be the "filler pixels", which were defenseless citizens of 8-BIT to prove the place actually had a population. Spike Pixel was going to have a single like, 3 seconds to shine after they're freed by a "Nightmare****" Rixel. They really didn't do much until that point in time.

**** So essentially, Nightmare characters were characters experiencing a false reality, like a cross between Venomari Venom from Ninjago and "The dunk of making a mess" from 2017's Ducktales. They would experience Reality as an illusion, but all life forms would be there, albeit shown as different things. I'm not saying this will be scrapped though...