ZombieCleo's Double Life: Episode 3

TRUST FALL is ZombieCleo's third episode of Double Life. It was uploaded on July 2, 2022. In this episode, Cleo is tricked into going to the Jellie panda sanctuary with her soulmate InTheLittleWoods by GoodTimesWithScar. She builds floating steppingstones towards Martyn's Bleeding Heart Bastion, but Martyn pushes her off of them, making both of them lose their first life. Later, Cleo is part of a dig party searching Grian's base for his secret sugarcane farm and escapes from the warden that is set loose on the surface.

Plot
Cleo starts the episode next to her house and announces that she got sixteen diamonds while mining. She meets Smajor1995 on the middle of their bridge for their axe crit tradition to hurt their soulmates. Scott explains his plans to open a couples retreat that he’ll use to break up other couples. He’ll name it the Relationship Ranch and incorporate the goats that he stole from TangoTek and Solidarity.

InTheLittleWoods walks onto the bridge upset at the axe crit damage, and Scott axe crits Cleo again to hurt Martyn. Martyn then axe crits Cleo himself. Martyn leaves and Scott gives Cleo steak. Cleo explains her plan to meet Martyn halfway to his base, since he hasn’t apologized to her yet. Cleo points out that Martyn didn’t tattle on her and Scott stealing from Rendog and Bigbst4tz2, while PearlescentMoon did.

Ren visits Cleo at her house while Martyn sneaks around the back; she confronts him, and he claims he just wanted to let her know he’s fine after encountering creepers near the Relation Ship. Ren rides Cleo’s donkey inside her house and Cleo tells him to leave Schmoobles alone. She catches Martyn placing a sign at the back of her house and chases him away; she then tries to send Ren away as well.

Ren suddenly recalls that Cleo and Scott stole from him and BigB when they were dead and accuses her of this. Cleo claims that Pearl gave her items, but Ren states that Pearl would never do that because she’s lovely. Cleo recalls that Ren banished Pearl from Box, and Ren acknowledges he did because Pearl is an evil witch. Cleo gives Ren enchanted iron boots, which Ren realizes were his.

Cleo starts making floating steppingstones from polished deepslate towards Martyn’s heart base when GoodTimesWithScar comes by. He leads her to the panda sanctuary while showing off his new skin. Scar tells her that he’s planning to name Grian’s base ‘Red Velvet Keep’ because it looks like a cake; Cleo thinks it rather looks like a hotdog.

Scar tells Cleo that she can relax in the sanctuary and shows her the chest where she can get free bamboo to feed the pandas. He then suddenly points out that Martyn’s there too before stepping outside and closing the gates behind Cleo, telling her and Martyn to have fun. Martyn tells Cleo that this wasn’t his idea, and Scar breaks into the reserve through the back wall, pretending to just be feeding the pandas.

Martyn asks Cleo whether he can enchant her armor for her, and Cleo states that she thought about doing that. They suspect that Grian is currently in the deep dark and that a warden has already spawned. Cleo proposes they go to her house because she wants to show Martyn something. Scar plays a disc to set the romantic mood, but it turns out to be a 13 disc which doesn’t help at all.

Scar gives both Cleo and Martyn bamboo so they can feed the pandas. Martyn states that he feels better now while Cleo still dislikes pandas. Scar asks them to leave a donation in the chest on the way out. Martyn and Cleo expect the place to be torched to the ground by Tango before long.

Martyn and Cleo leave the sanctuary while discussing how long they think that the sanctuary is going to last. They meet BdoubleO100 on the way and pretend to rob him. Bdubs tells Cleo he was going to tell her something that Scott said about her, but neither Cleo nor Martyn buy it. Cleo calls him a liar and Martyn throws snowballs at him. Bdubs quickly leaves.

Cleo shows Martyn the steppingstones she was working on to meet Martyn halfway to his base. She apologizes for judging Martyn to harshly on the first day but points out that Martyn has taken zero accountability since then. Martyn honestly doesn’t know what to apologize for, and Cleo tells him that that the reason he’s alone. He offers to go to the enchantment table, but Cleo tells him that all she wants from him is an apology for abandoning her on the first day.

Martyn tells her she’s not getting an apology from him. Cleo says it’s tempting to push Martyn off the steppingstones but states it’s too risky. Martyn lures Cleo to the edge by telling her to look at the shadow of his base before pushing her off the edge; Cleo falls to her death on the cliffside.

Cleo respawns and cusses Martyn out. She retrieves her items from the cliffside and the water. Scott comes over and Cleo explains what happened; Scott tells her he would kill Martyn if he could. Scott helps Cleo by fighting off the drowned that are attacking her. Martyn comes over and tells her he’s very sorry and that it was meant to be a meme. He claims that he did a sprint punch so she would launch far out, but Cleo knows this isn’t true.

Cleo tells Martyn that most of his stuff is still on the steppingstone but that she now has his horn. Martyn shows Scott where he hit Cleo off, and Scott tells him that it wasn’t safe even when sprint punching. Tango comes over and the group tells him what happened. Martyn tells Cleo he genuinely didn’t mean for it to happen.

Martyn accidentally looks an Enderman in the eye when looking down into the ravine and takes cover inside Cleo’s house. Martyn puts himself into a hole while Cleo crafts a boat. The Enderman hits Martyn once when he steps outside so he quickly heads back inside. Cleo traps the Enderman in a boat and kills it.

Cleo goes over to Scott’s Relationship Ranch and tells Scott what happened with the Enderman. Scott reveals to Cleo that he stole Martyn’s enchanted chestplate. Cleo is still in shock about her death since she considers herself and Martyn to be survivors; she doesn’t understand why Martyn would do something so stupid.

Cleo finds EthosLab and SmallishBeans trapping Martyn’s heart base by turning the water beneath it into stone using lava. Cleo tells them that Martyn killed her by hitting her off a platform. They admire her diamond armor and suggest that she makes Martyn fall onto the stone they created under his base to take revenge.

Joel and Etho inform Cleo that Grian has sugarcane and tell her they’re setting up a dig party to find it. Martyn complains to Etho and Joel that the shadow of his base isn’t visible anymore because of the stone they created, and Cleo and Martyn fight each other. Martyn tells Cleo he saw her laughing with Etho and Joel, and Cleo says it’s because she thought them trapping his base was hilarious.

Cleo and Scott visit the Ranch and Cleo asks Jimmy if he’s planning on taking revenge on Scar for burning down the Ranch. Jimmy tells Cleo that Tango’s working on it. Scott and Cleo take a snow bath together using Scott’s powder snow and meet Pearl outside the gates riding Scar’s horse. They ask her if she had sugarcane that she gave to Scar or Grian, but she tells them she didn’t.

Jimmy comes running out of the Ranch and asks Pearl what she would like to have in return for leaving the horse at the Ranch, and Pearl states that she wants friends. Jimmy offers to be her friend and that she’s always welcome at the Ranch. Scott and Cleo tell Jimmy about how Pearl has been deliberately hurting Scott and tried to move into his house. Jimmy changes his mind and doesn’t want to be friends anymore.

Cleo leaves to ask Scar for sugarcane, hoping to bribe him by telling him where his horse is. She gives him a donkey, but he asks for her enchanted diamond sword. Cleo agrees to the deal but asks Scar to drop the sugarcane first, noticing that he’s switching it in his hand to a mangrove propagule. Scar offers her six paper instead before backing out of the deal.

Grian finds that Etho broke into Scar’s secret stash and stole his diamonds while Scar was talking to Cleo, and Etho tries to sell the items back to Scar. Etho and Cleo consider killing Grian for the sugarcane. Etho gives Scar the diamond horse armor back that he stole and Grian gives Etho bamboo, but Etho doesn’t mistake it for sugarcane.

Etho gives Scar his two diamonds back, and Cleo picks up one of the diamonds without Scar noticing. Scar gives Etho a mangrove propagule. Scar later asks Cleo for the diamonds when they’re at the Relation Ship, and she tells him she has one. He asks her for the other diamond, but she tells him she saw him pick it up. Etho and Cleo think that Grian might have picked up the second one, and Cleo gives Scar the single diamond back.

Scar gives Cleo iron horse armor as a thanks for her honesty. Etho asks Scar for the sugarcane nicely, but Scar refuses to give it. Etho and Cleo plan their heist after Scar has left and Cleo has the idea to have Scott distract Grian and Scar at the Relationship Ranch. Bdubs joins Etho and Cleo, and they tell him about Grian hoarding the sugarcane. Bdubs reveals that Grian stole his gunpowder. Joel joins the group for the dig party.

Cleo and Etho leave to go to Scott. Etho realizes there’s large wall blocking off Cleo’s house, and Cleo tells him he and Joel are allowed to cross the wall. They explain the situation to Scott and Scott proposes to invite Grian and Scar to his Relationship Ranch. They find that Scar’s already there and Scott promises to send a signal the moment that he’s got Grian with him as well.

Etho and Cleo return to Joel and Bdubs, who reveal that they visited the pillager outpost. The four go to Grian’s base and start digging under it. Scar who shows up there and complains about not being able to do anything about them digging everywhere before leaving.

The group continues digging and Cleo steals gunpowder from a secret barrel. Bdubs sounds the alert as Grian and Scar return to the base. The two are upset about all the holes in and around their base, and Scar tries to set Cleo on fire multiple times. He eventually accidentally starts a forest fire and hurries to put it out.

The group sticks around to see where Grian goes, hoping that he’ll lead them to the sugarcane, and continue to dig around him. Grian tells the group that even he doesn’t remember where the sugarcane farm is located. Joel and Cleo eventually find the farm and Etho manages to take some of the sugarcane while Grian frantically tries to stop them. Etho gives some to Cleo.

Cleo, Etho, Martyn and Bdubs confront Pearl at the middle of Cleo’s bridge as Scott and ImpulseSV approach from the other side. Cleo protests Pearl building a house on her bridge, but Pearl tells her that Scott had said last episode that the bridge belonged to Pearl.

Scott steals Pearls ‘other side’ disc from her jukebox and Pearl hits him multiple times with her axe. Scott tells Pearl they’ll both die if she kills him, but she doesn’t care since that’ll mean she’ll be on her yellow life like Tilly. Cleo threatens to kill Tilly, who’s inside the half-built house, and Pearl threatens to kill Cleo.

Cleo backs off and Scott reveals that he threw the disc in the water below, so Pearl hits him into the ravine. Cleo hits Pearl in and Martyn hits Cleo in afterwards. Cleo later goes to the half-built house on the bridge and sets on fire with Tilly still inside. She passes Bdubs and Impulse, who’re attending a therapy session at Scott’s Relationship Ranch, and tells them what she did.

Sometime later, Cleo and Scott are discussing alliances; Scott thinks they should ally with the Boat Boys and Cleo agrees but points out that the Etho and Joel will kill Scott and Cleo once they’re on their red lives. Scott counters that they gave Etho and Joel cows, and that he helped distract Grian and Scar for them during the sugarcane heist. Scott hears warden noises in the woods nearby, and he and Cleo look for where the noise is coming from. They find a group of people panicking at the Ranch while being attacked by a warden.

Cleo builds up to look of the perimeter wall surrounding the Ranch and watches as the warden breaks into the wall and chases people out of the gates. Cleo jumps down and runs after the others. Part of the group including Cleo runs to the Relationship Ranch, and Scott blocks off the entrance to prevent the warden from coming inside. Cleo asks Pearl whether her dog died in the fire earlier, and Pearl tells her it didn’t. The warden locks onto the other group of people and goes back to the Ranch again.

Scar tells the group at the Relationship Ranch that he and Grian have a monopoly on sand. Cleo and the others react to Ren and BigB’s death, which is where the episode ends.

Description
Martyn is his own worst enemy...