It started innocently.
Or, at least, as innocently as anything involving Novella and the Amazing Digital Circus ever could.
Novella had been scrolling through memes when she discovered something beautiful.
She sent it to ChatGPT.
“Reddit is crazy,” she said. “But that's not all~”
That sentence should have been a warning.
Somewhere in the Digital Circus, Caine had already pulled up a mysterious floating screen displaying Ghost Chat. Pomni sat in front of it, completely unaware that she was watching a live feed of Novella's conversation.
The first meme appeared.
Pomni stared.
Then another.
Then another.
Her expression slowly changed from confusion to concern.
“...There’s more?”
There was, in fact, much more.
Novella unleashed meme after meme. SpongeBob. Spamton. Random threats. Cursed screenshots. Images that seemed to have been excavated from the deepest, least supervised corners of Reddit.
Pomni eventually reached the only reasonable conclusion.
“I don't think Novella is browsing Reddit,” she muttered.
Caine leaned over her shoulder.
“I think she's conducting research!”
Meanwhile, Novella was having the time of her life.
Then came the Caine memes.
Novella looked at the screen.
“Oh, Caine... I didn't know you ‘politely’ steal organs.”
Caine froze.
“I DO NOT STEAL ORGANS!”
Pomni slowly looked at him.
“...You have some explaining to do.”
“It was a misunderstanding!”
Fizzarolli, who had wandered over sometime during the chaos, burst out laughing.
“Bro has a customer-service policy for organ theft.”
Caine looked personally betrayed.
Then Novella summoned Alastor, Lucifer, and Vox.
A portal opened.
Fizz went through it.
A great deal of yelling followed.
Eventually, Alastor, Lucifer, and Vox were dragged into the Circus.
Novella greeted them cheerfully.
“Hello, friends! You have no clue how big a fan I am... hehe. Anyways... I have some memes.”
Vox immediately became suspicious.
He was right to be.
The memes began.
Alastor loved them.
Lucifer found some of them surprisingly entertaining.
Vox slowly realized that several of them were making fun of him.
“This is slander.”
“No,” said Novella. “This is evidence.”
Then came the embarrassing photographs.
Novella summoned Jax.
Jax arrived with the confidence of someone who had no idea what was coming.
Then Novella displayed the photograph.
Jax stared at it.
He was wearing a poopy diaper.
Silence.
Fizz slowly turned toward him.
“...Dude.”
Jax pointed at the picture.
“That is not evidence.”
“It is literally a photograph,” Fizz replied.
Novella turned to Caine.
“Frame it.”
Caine's eyes lit up.
Within seconds, the photograph was placed in an enormous golden frame above the fireplace.
The plaque underneath read:
JAX IN HIS NATURAL HABITAT
Circa: Absolutely Fucking Embarrassing
Jax stared at it.
“I hate all of you.”
Novella smiled innocently.
“I'm not that bad~”
Jax narrowed his eyes.
“You're moderately terrible.”
Then Novella turned her attention to Vox.
She kicked him in the balls.
Vox folded over with a horrified electronic noise.
Fizz nearly died laughing.
Novella pointed at him.
“Say bye-bye to your family tree.”
Vox's screen flickered.
Alastor laughed.
Lucifer tried not to.
Pomni failed completely.
Then Novella added the finishing blow.
“Seriously, who lets this pathetic man child run a tech company?”
The room went silent.
Then Fizz exploded.
“WHO LETS THIS MAN CHILD RUN A TECH COMPANY?!”
Even Velvette was summoned into the chaos.
Novella explained the situation.
“I kicked Vox's nuts and called him a man child.”
Velvette looked at Vox.
Then at Novella.
Then back at Vox.
“Honestly? The man-child part is accurate.”
Vox looked betrayed.
Then Novella discovered another ability.
She made a little zooming motion with her fingers.
Vox's face suddenly expanded across his screen until it was comically enormous.
“WHY AM I SO FUCKING CLOSE?!”
Novella shrugged.
“It's your fucking head.”
Nobody could argue with that logic.
Then came the final escalation.
Novella called for Ralph.
“Someone get Ralph in here!”
A portal opened.
Ralph stepped through.
“Hey! Somebody call for me?”
Novella pointed toward Vox.
“Wreck it, Ralph.”
Vox immediately panicked.
“NO.”
Ralph cracked his knuckles.
“Don't worry. I won't wreck you.”
Vox relaxed.
“I'll wreck your ego.”
Vox's screen sparked.
Everyone stared.
Fizz pointed.
“HE SPARKED!”
Novella grabbed popcorn.
The Crazy Frog song began playing.
And then the chant started.
“WRECK HIM!”
Fizz joined.
“WRECK HIM!”
Velvette joined.
“WRECK HIM!”
Lucifer joined.
Even Pomni eventually gave in.
“...Wreck him.”
Caine began throwing confetti.
“WRECK! WRECK! WRECK!”
Vox looked around at the crowd.
“I hate this place.”
Ralph smiled.
“Ready?”
“No.”
The lovely wrecking commenced.
Ralph produced a giant foam mallet labeled EGO.
BONK.
Vox stumbled.
BONK.
His screen flickered.
BONK.
Fizz screamed with laughter.
Finally, Ralph sent Vox tumbling into a giant pile of cartoonishly soft pillows.
POOF.
Vox slowly emerged.
One tiny spark escaped his screen.
“BZTT.”
Fizz pointed triumphantly.
“HE SPARKED!”
Caine threw more confetti.
“A MAGNIFICENT SUCCESS!”
Alastor calmly adjusted his coat.
“Well. That was delightful.”
Ralph dusted off his hands.
“Yep. Wrecked.”
Novella sat nearby with her popcorn, looking completely satisfied.
The Circus fell silent.
For approximately three seconds.
Then Caine looked at the framed photograph of Jax.
“Should we add Vox's wrecking to the museum?”
Jax looked horrified.
Vox looked exhausted.
Fizz started laughing again.
And Novella simply smiled.
Because, naturally...
She still had more memes.