ZombieCleo's Double Life: Episode 2

UNHINGED EXES? is ZombieCleo's second episode of Double Life. It was uploaded on June 24, 2022. In this episode, Cleo builds a bridge between her and Smajor1995's house while they both deal with their ex-soulmates PearlescentMoon and InTheLittleWoods. Martyn tries to win Cleo back by building a heart for her, but this doesn't work on her. BdoubleO100 and ImpulseSV try to convince Cleo that Martyn is planning to kill her, but Cleo doesn't fall for their lies. At the end of the episode, Cleo helps Scott steal Solidarity and TangoTek's goats and steal Bigbst4tz2's items after he and Rendog die to an Enderman.

Plot
The episode starts with Cleo next to her house announcing that she’s obtained six diamonds. She goes to Smajor1995’s house and tells him about the diamonds; she gives two of them to Scott for a sword. Scott wants to start a tradition where he and Cleo meet each other at the start of each episode and axe crit each other to hurt and scare their soulmates. Cleo agrees and she hits Scott first before he hits her back.

Cleo starts building a new bridge between her and Scott’s house when EthosLab comes by to visit. He offers to barter with her and asks if she has sugarcane or cows. She responds that she and Scott have cows and they cross the bridge to Scott’s place. Etho explains he’s there to barter and asks for cows. He gives a spyglass to Cleo, and Cleo gives half of the redstone dust she mined in return.

Scott asks Etho for sugarcane, but Etho tells him he’s looking for that too. They settle on a deal of two of Etho’s sheep for two of Scott’s cows. Etho asks Cleo and Scott whether they are partnered, and they tell him they are, but that neither of them will die if the other dies; Scott hits Cleo to demonstrate and Cleo hits Scott back.

Etho returns with four sheep and puts the sheep in the sheep pen. Scott and Cleo let him take one grown up cow and four baby cows. Scott later tells Cleo about a deal that Solidarity had made for two goats; Grian had said that the goats need to be in a mountain biome to shed horns, but Scott doesn’t know if that’s true. He states that he was very tempted to kill the goats as he doesn’t want Jimmy to get a horn.

Scott and Cleo notice InTheLittleWoods building a floating heart above the nearby ravine and tell him he’s dropping the property value of everyone around him. Cleo asks Martyn what he’s doing there and proposes to get a flint-and-steel. Martyn calls Cleo childish, immature, and selfish, but tells her that when she stops being like that, he’ll be more than happy to link back up with her so they can be proper soulmates.

Martyn believes that Scott is whispering in Cleo’s ear, convincing her that Martyn doesn’t care about her while he was providing for her. Cleo corrects Martyn, stating that she was the one that first brought up that her and Scott’s soulmates didn’t care for them and that they should just team up. Martyn keeps up his ‘provider’ storyline and tells Cleo that Scott doesn’t care about her but only cares about winning.

Cleo tells Martyn that the current situation is best for both of them, since Cleo doesn’t feel she brings anything to the table in terms of combat skills, stating that she only has her one-liners. Martyn tells Cleo he loves puns and one-liners, and that he’ll bring the skill if she brings the vibes. Cleo tells Martyn that he doesn’t have to look out for her, since she already has Scott looking out for her and even willing to lay down his life for her.

Martyn thinks that they should think about PearlescentMoon, and Cleo suggests he gets Pearl, so both Cleo and Martyn will have two health bars to go through. They notice Rendog and Bigbst4tz2, and Cleo suggests that Martyn team up with Ren and BigB as well.

Ren visits Cleo’s house and introduces her to his horse Bee. BigB comes over as well, and the two ask her what’s going on between her and Martyn. She tells them she and Martyn are soulbound but that she considers Scott to be her true soulmate; she explains that Martyn is building a heart to win her over. They make fun of Martyn staring through the window and wearing the wrong skin. Ren and BigB leave, and Cleo tells Martyn that maybe he shouldn’t join up with them.

Martyn tells Cleo he’s going to the deep dark later together with Ren and BigB. Cleo bridges over to Martyn with dirt and gives him two diamonds for a sword, telling him to not die. She removes the dirt bridge and goes over to Scott, who’s building a new house. Cleo compliments the build, though Scott notes that the house is very flammable. Cleo tells Scott that Martyn told her he’s going to the deep dark later, so she gave him two of her diamonds for a diamond sword. Scott doesn’t think the sword will help much since Martyn will be dead the moment the warden spawns, but Cleo counters that he’ll at least have something to enchant.

Cleo tells Scott that Martyn is trying to win her over, but that she told him that the situation is best the way it is now, gaslighting him into thinking things are fine. Scott tells Cleo to come over if she needs food while Martyn is in the deep dark and tells her that Pearl has been taking damage to annoy him. Cleo hits Scott to hurt and scare Pearl again.

Cleo continues to build the bridge, and she and Scott hear a new horn; they wonder whether it might be Jimmy’s. Scott states that he’s willing to kill himself twice, so he’s allowed to kill Jimmy if Jimmy gets a horn. Cleo mentions the issue of her and Scott being aligned when they’re on their red life; they each vow to not murder the other.

GoodTimesWithScar comes over and offers Cleo and Scott a powder snow bucket so they can torture their soulmates by freezing themselves. Scott quickly realizes that Scar made the same offer to Pearl, but Scar denies this. Scar places the snow and he, Scott, and Cleo all step in it to hurt their soulmates, though Cleo quickly steps out of it as it makes her too nervous.

Scar and Scott stay in the snow until they reach three and two hearts before stepping out of it. Scott notices that Pearl has started eating. Cleo remarks that Martyn isn’t torturing her like this. Scar tries to steal Scott’s stonecutter, but Scott and Cleo prevent this, and Scar leaves.

Scott notices that one of the horn sounds seems to come from Jimmy’s direction, and Cleo advises that Scott find out what Jimmy’s horn sounds like, so he won’t respond to it. Scott leaves to go to the Ranch while Cleo harvests wheat from Scott’s farm. Sometime later, she notices Pearl running to Scott’s house with Scott chasing behind her. She decides to forcefully move in and enters the house with Scott and Cleo behind her.

Scott and Pearl argue with each other and Cleo places an oak plank wall in front of Pearl. Scott questions why Pearl wants to be soulbound; she answers that she never wanted that, but that it’s fun to bother him. Pearl leaves and Scott and Cleo are convinced that Pearl has gone crazy. They notice that Martyn has added red blocks to his heart build, and Scott remarks on how while Cleo’s soulmate his is trying to woo her, his is just batshit crazy.

Scott tells Cleo that Pearl is the reason why Jimmy and TangoTek have horns now, since she taught them how to get one in exchange for food. He tells her that both Jimmy and Tango have the new horn, so he’s now going to spread the news to everyone to not respond to the new horn sound. Scott leaves and Cleo later hears the new horn sound with no one else responding.

Cleo makes improvements to her house while Ren and BigB pass by. She’s later visited by Tango, who makes a pop-up stall outside her house called ‘Tango’s bad advice’ with a sign saying the advice costs one iron ingot. Cleo states that she already got the worst advice, namely having Martyn as her soulmate, but gives Tango an iron ingot anyway. Tango thinks for a moment and then gives Cleo the bad advice that she should go caving with him.

Tango’s second bad advice is that she should be in the deep dark, and Cleo states that she’s technically already down there since Martyn’s down there. Tango feels terrible for her that she’s taking all the risk and none of the glory, but Cleo says it’s fine since she has a lot of food on her.

Cleo tames a donkey and names it Schmoobles. She returns home and is visited by Etho and SmallishBeans, who comment on her new bridge and how it’s perfect for taking pillagers across. Cleo hits Etho when he and Joel keep snooping through her chests. Joel states that it’s two against one, but then apologizes on Etho’s insistence. Cleo asks them to warn her whenever they plan on taking pillagers across the bridge, and Joel shows Cleo his Etho shirt.

Cleo visits Scott and they discuss how their soulmates seem to be taking less damage now. She rides her donkey to Grian’s base and finds Jimmy there, who explains his plan to make a book, gather signatures from everyone who can see Martyn’s base from their base, and then give the book to Martyn so they can force him to move. Cleo states that Jimmy is like a Homeowners Association, and Jimmy agrees but tells her he can’t find any sugarcane for a book. Cleo and Jimmy both compliment Grian’s base.

Cleo visits Pearl in her tower but is reluctant to enter the build because she’s afraid of Pearl; Pearl tells her she’s fine now that she has her dog Tilly back, so Cleo comes in. Cleo compliments the build and Pearl shows her that BdoubleO100 and ImpulseSV live close by. Pearl proclaims that she’s all alone, and Cleo tells her she could find another group to join and make her own soul binds. Pearl then states that Tilly is her soulmate, and Cleo leaves, promising to come by another time.

Cleo visits Impulse and Bdubs’ base, and Bdubs tells her that Martyn has been saying bad things behind her back. Impulse states that lots of people have come to their house to hang out before opening up about their feelings about their partnerships. Bdubs and Impulse warn Cleo to sleep with her eyes open.

Bdubs tells Cleo she is welcome to stay at his and Impulse’s house as a place of refuge. Cleo pretends outraged since she gave Martyn diamonds earlier that session, but slowly catches on that Bdubs and Impulse are lying. She asks them why they can’t tell her the concrete details of what Martyn said, and they tell her they made a promise not to. She tells them she’ll just go to Martyn and pretend to him that Bdubs and Impulse told her everything, and the two tell her that Martyn planned on making traps to hurt her.

Bdubs then tells her Scott had also been saying things about her, but Cleo claims that Scott hasn’t left his house all day. She calls Bdubs a liar and questions him and Impulse on when exactly Scott came over. Cleo states that Bdubs should never lie to her, despite her and Bdubs being divorced. Bdubs breaks and apologizes to her for lying, stating that he’ll never do it again. Cleo then leaves their base.

Cleo returns to her house, and she and Scott hide inside while Etho and Joel pass by with a group of pillagers. Scott tells Cleo he made a bow for her and that he’s currently trying to steal the goat from the Ranch through a tunnel. He asks her to lead Jimmy and Tango away from the Ranch by pretending that they should check something out at Scar’s or Grian’s place.

Cleo rides to the Ranch and tells Jimmy and Tango that Scar did something amazing that they need to check out. Jimmy and Tango leave the Ranch, and Cleo is confronted by Martyn on his own donkey. Cleo tells Martyn that some people have been telling lies about him, namely that he’s plotting to kill her. She lets Martyn guess who told her the lies before revealing to him that it was Impulse and Bdubs.

Cleo tells Martyn that Impulse and Bdubs also claimed that Scott was bad-mouthing her, which is how she found out that they were telling lies since Scott hasn’t left his house all day. Martyn thinks that Impulse and Bdubs are being salty because Martyn sold them potion ingredients that they can’t use.

Martyn and Cleo spot Bdubs at the Box in the distance and they think he must be spreading gossip again. They also spot Pearl on the roof. Cleo tells Martyn about Jimmy’s HOA plan, but Martyn states that he won’t remove his house unless he’s told so in writing. Cleo spots Scott coming out of his tunnel behind Martyn, so she quickly leaves the Ranch, telling Martyn that she’ll get in trouble if she still there when Jimmy and Tango come back.

Cleo joins up with Scott and they meet Bdubs. They call him a liar, and Cleo tells him she told Martyn about his lies as well. Bdubs leaves to go look for Martyn while Scott and Cleo walk to Scott’s house. Scott tells Cleo he left the goats in a hole far away from the Ranch. They notice that BigB and Ren have died and head over to Box. They find Pearl there who tells them what happened, and Scott steals most of BigB’s items at the bottom of the ladder at the side of the building. Pearl is disappointed in him and plans on giving the remaining items back to Ren and BigB.

Scott and Cleo return to Scott’s house and share the items Scott stole while looking at Jimmy panicking in the distance. They wonder whether Martyn is going to rat her out, since she’d hinted earlier that she’s done something bad; Cleo thinks that Martyn can prove he’s a good soulbound by not ratting her out. She tells Scott that she gave Martyn a flower and she gives Scott a flower as well, which Scott plants next to his house.

Tango comes over to Scott’s house and confronts Cleo. He accuses Cleo of telling him and Jimmy to go to Scar’s place when there was nothing to see, but Cleo claims to have been talking to Martyn while they were away from their base, which Scott says is true. He then thinks that Martyn did it but Cleo states that she can prove that Martyn didn’t since she gave Martyn a flower.

Jimmy comes over and repeats the accusation against Cleo. He also warns Scott against her. They accuse Cleo of killing their goats, but she denies it, and she and Scott laugh because they think it’s funny. Jimmy notices Scar setting the Ranch on fire and he and Tango run there while Scott messages Scar to run away. Scott and Cleo laugh at the perfect timing, even though they don’t know why exactly Scar set the Ranch on fire. They chase after Jimmy and Tango to help put out the fire.

Scott asks why Scar would set the Ranch on fire and Jimmy and Tango reveal that they stole Scar’s horse. Jimmy thanks everyone who came to help put out the fire and figuratively takes down the HOA signs at Martyn’s request. Tango starts making plans to get revenge on Scar and Pearl and Scott egg him on, put don’t manage to convince him to get immediate revenge. Scott and Cleo walk back to their houses, and they discuss how things could not have gone better for them, which is where the episode ends.

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Sometimes the person you have to forgive is yourself...