In the quaint mountain village of Coco in the northern kingdom of Kai. A crowd was gathering outside a small clinic on the edge of town. It had become rather popular for having cured a plague that was going around using some unusual methods. And as a result.
"BURN THE WITCH!"
The 'Doctor Fun's miraculous clown clinic' as it was called, has been accused of witchcraft and is currently being mobbed by angry villagers holding torches and pitchforks.
"Oh no! Doc, I don't think I can hold them for much longer!" The clown nurse said, as he was pushing against the door to the bathroom.
Meanwhile, the smiley masked woman was sipping tea and reading a book at a small table. Behind her was the front door, which had been nailed shut to keep out the mob behind it.
This had all started a couple of months ago. After curing the village of the local plague, the villagers were grateful to the pair, despite their rather strange methods. The village of Coco is a rather old-fashioned place due to being rather isolated from the outside world by the surrounding mountains. So, many were skeptical of the two outsiders when they got to town. That became especially so once it spread that one of their methods involved cutting up the patient to treat an ailment, which was unheard of in that region.
However, when the plague hit the village, they slowly changed their tone. The traditional medicine and methods they usually relied upon did not work and so, in a desperate struggle to survive, one of the villagers went to try the unpopular clinic on the edge of the village. A few hours later he came out with a poodle-shaped stitching on his abdomen, completely cured. And as the news spread, one by one people came to try it out, and every cured patient that stepped out changed the village's attitude towards the place.
By the end of the month, the entire village was cured, and they all had the two of them to thank for it. But a couple of weeks ago…
"Okey Dokey! Here is your reward for being a good boy!" The clown nurse said to the little boy with a bandaged leg before he handed him a lollipop.
"Thank you doctor Fun!" The boy's mother said to the clown.
"What? No, I'm not the doc! she is!"
And with those short words, the clinic was doomed. Apparently, women are forbidden by law from practicing medicine in this country. At most they are permitted to become a doctor's assistant, but even that is rather rare.
With all the seriously ill patients being unconscious from the anesthesia and the more lightly injured patients handled by the male clown nurse, the villagers had mistaken the doctor's assistant for the actual doctor. So, once the word spread that the masked woman in the clinic was the doctor and not just the doctor's wife, the villager's attitudes did a one eighty.
Misogyny, law and tradition banded together in the form of an angry mob and the miracles they performed were attributed to witchcraft. Ever since then the villagers have been banging at their doors, walls and windows to catch the witchdoctor Fun.
"They are coming through the roof! Ah! A FIRE!" The clown nurse yelled as he saw the villagers had lit the clinic on fire.
*SWOOSH*
Just as the villagers had burned down a wall, the people standing in front of the fire were suddenly mowed down by a torrent of water. The clown nurse had put on a red helmet and pulled out a bucket of water, only to be blasted out of the building by the giant water hose Dr. Fun had pulled out of the hidden compartment in the clinic flooring.
*Gargle**gargle*
After being hosed out of the building, the clown nurse had hit his head on a rock. Unfortunately for him, it would seem his helmet wasn't enough protection as he was currently foaming at the mouth outside. Meanwhile, Dr. Fun had taken the water hose, walked through the hole in the wall, and started spraying all the angry villagers.
"WHAT DEMONIC SERPANT IS THAT?!"
"IT WON'T STOP SPITTING WATER AT US! ELDER *SPLASH*"
"GOT YOU! *SPLASH*" A man said as he jumped down from the roof of the clinic to get the drop on her. Only to be splashed away last second as she sent him tumbling away with a torrent of water.
"ELDER WE CAN'T GET NEAR HER LIKE THIS!"
"JUST GRAB THE OTHER ONE AND RETREAT!" The village elder said as they ran away while carrying a gurgling clown nurse.
The next day.
"HELP ME!" The clown nurse screamed while tied to a pole at the center of town.
When a villager went up to light the tinder at his feet, a stream of water came shooting out of the flower affixed to the clown's lapel, putting out the budding fire.
"Someone! Take that demonic flower away from him!" the elder ordered the villagers.
And a few splashes to the face later, the clown had lost his flower as the villagers tried to burn him once again.
*Honk*Honk*
*Crash*
The villager holding the torch was about to step back after lighting the fire when suddenly, a tiny red and yellow car came crashing into him from the side, sending him flying.
"What manner of beast is that?" The elder said.
Soon after, the door opened and out stepped a clown firefighter holding a fire extinguisher.
"UNCLE BUMBO?! SAVE ME!" the clown nurse screamed.
Uncle Bumbo attempted to use the fire extinguisher to put out the fire, but nothing would come out of it. After giving it a few shakes he then threw it over his shoulder before it exploded, hitting the villagers attempting to thwart the clown's rescue. Then Uncle Bumbo pulled out a spray can with the words 'fire repellent' plastered on it.
"CATCH HIM!" The village Chief shouted.
But the moment he used the spray can, an impossibly large amount of white and sticky foam came flowing out of the tiny can. It put out the fire, but the recoil from the ridiculous amount of foam spraying out was too much for poor uncle Bumbo to control, and he ended up spraying the entire plaza as he spun in a circle until it emptied.
*Clang*
"HE DROPPED THE UNHOLY WEAPON! TAKE HIM!" The elder screamed at whoever wasn't stuck to the ground and/or walls by the foam.
Uncle Bumbo had gotten dizzy from all the spinning. As he was stumbling around in a daze, another clown came out of the small car. He was holding a long stick that he was struggling to pull out of the small car.
"HM! *Ptooey* UNCLE DIMPLES?! HELP ME!" The clown nurse said after spitting out the foam in his mouth.
While the villagers were busy trying and failing to catch the tumbling Bumbo without getting their feet stuck in the sticky foam on the ground, uncle Dimples was trying to pull out the stick that had gotten stuck in the car door. Finally, he got it loose as he fell backwards, headbutting the poor lady who was trying to get the drop on him while he was distracted. Apparently, the stick that was half the length of the plaza was a shovel, and the part that had gotten stuck was the shovelhead that just fell off the handle. Seeing the shovel that had fallen to his side, Uncle Dimples turned to the left, swinging the excessively long handle over the plaza, smacking countless villagers in the head before it was raised into the air as Dimples had bent down to pick it up.
"UNCLE DIMPLES! LOOK OUT!" The clown nurse screamed as he saw a villager with a pitchfork come charging at his uncle from behind.
*Bonk*
After finally grabbing the handle of the shovel, uncle Dimples stood up causing the raised wooden pole to come smacking down on the poor man's head, knocking him out.
"You say something?" Uncle Dimples asked as he turned to look in his nephew's direction, giving another round of concussions to whoever didn't pay him enough attention, including but not limited to uncle Bumbo.
"Don't you worry nephew! I'll save you!" Dimples said as he went to try and dig the nurse out of the pile of foam. And as he started digging, Dimples managed to smash the windshield of the clown car while waving around the stick with a loosely attached shovelhead.
"AUNT FIZZLE? NO!" The nurse said as he saw his aunt come sprinting out of the clown car with a giant squeaky hammer, and smacked uncle Dimples over the head knocking him out.
"HE IS DOWN NOW GET THEM!" One of the villagers screamed.
But the next moment. A horde of clowns came crawling out the doors and the broken windshield of the clown car.
"COUSIN GIGGLES! BROTHER GIZMO! LITTLE DAISY DOODLE! GRANDPAPPY BOZO!..."
And apparently, every single one of them was part of the clown nurses extended family. Looking at the clown-apocalypse from above the roof of her small clinic was Dr. Fun. She was sitting on a chair, holding a pair of binoculars and munching on some popcorn as she watched the army of clowns climb over each other to save her employee, while they kept getting in each other's way.
Eventually, after many trials and errors, as well as countless gags and goofs, the clown family managed to free the clown nurse. Of course, the villagers had all either fled the scene or been incapacitated long before that since their biggest obstacle was more their own allies than the angry mob. By the time they finished, the entire plaza was covered in foam, pastries and balloon animals.
"Thank you everybody! So, what brought you all to town?" The pie covered clown nurse asked.
"WHAT?" Grandpappy Bozo yelled, while holding his giant hearing horn.
"HE ASKED WHY WE CAME!" Aunt Fizzle yelled into the horn.
"Ah! You don't need to shout! We came cause Dr. Fun called us with the clown signal!" Grandpappy Bozo said as he pointed to the sky.
It wasn't too visible before because it was daytime, but now that the sky was darkening, a feint symbol of a clown nose and shoes could be seen projecting onto the clouds. Its source came from Doctor Fun's miraculous clown clinic.
"Oh! So, it was the Doc then! Thanks for the save everyone!"
"WHAT?"
"Don't mention it! Smell you later!" Uncle Bumbo said as the entire clown army started squeezing back into the tiny car before driving into the horizon.
...
The day after.
A group of soldiers riding on horseback entered Coco village. They were a little caught off guard upon seeing the residue from the clown apocalypse as they entered the plaza.
"WHAT HAPPENED HERE? WHERE IS THE LEADER OF THIS VILLAGE?" The man leading the soldiers yelled.
"Ah! Are you here to arrest that witch?" The village elder asked as he approached the men.
"Who are you?"
"I am the village elder in charge of this place! If you are looking for the witchdoctor, then I am afraid you are too late." He said, before leading the group of soldiers to the edge of town.
*Gasp*
"WHAT IS THIS?!" The soldier said while his men looked in astonishment at the scene before them.
"This is where the witch lived up until yesterday." The village elder spoke.
The clinic that had stood there just the day before was gone, and in its place was a large depression in the ground. From the crater and towards the mountain forest were the tracks of what seemed to belong to some kind of giant bird.