The Princess Bride: Retold (Part 2)

When we last set the tale of The Princess Bride aside (that rhymes), Vizzinni and Fezzik were escorting Buttercup to Guildor where Vizzinni would kill her, leaving Inigo to either kill the mysterious Man In Black in a duel, or wait for him to plummet down the Cliffs of Insanity to his death. We now resume the story:

After Vizzinni and Fezzik left with Buttercup, Inigo had a bit of a chat with the Man In Black while the Man In Black tried to climb higher up the Cliffs, most likely in order to kill Inigo and to either rescue or re-capture Buttercup. Eventually, Inigo decided to lower the rope down for the Man In Black, because the Man In Black was taking a very long time to fall down. Once the Man In Black was on top of the Cliffs with Inigo, they sat and had another bit of a chat.

Inigo told the Man In Black about his sword. It was a sword his father had made for a Six-Fingered Man, not to be confused with the Six-Fingered Man who killed Adrian Monk's wife. The Six Fingered Man was unhappy with the price of the sword, so he had killed Inigo's father and made like a tree, and Inigo had spent his life studying swordplay and pursuing the Six Fingered Man so that he could kill him and make like another tree and get on with his life. At the moment, Inigo told the Man In Black, he couldn't find the Six-Fingered Man, so he was just working for Vizzinni "to pay the bills."

After Inigo finished his story, he and the Man In Black drew their swords so that they could kill each other. They began trying to kill each other and it was very exciting, but they were both very good at killing people, so naturally neither of them succeeded. Eventually, the Man In Black managed to knock the sword out of Inigo's hand, but instead of killing him, he sloshed him on the head with the handle of his own sword, thus rendering him unconscious, made like a nose, and ran (I didn't make that up).

The Man In Black ran. He ran very fast. He ran after Vizzinni and Fezzik because he knew where they were going, and they had something that he wanted. Vizzinni, who had declared a Short Rest, saw him coming at a distance, yelped, wet his pants, grabbed Buttecup by the hand, and told Fezzik to stay behind and kill the Man In Black. Fezzik was very pleased, because he usually didn't get to do important jobs like this. He took a large rock, and hid behind a boulder, waiting for the Man In Black to arrive while Vizzinni made his escape with Buttercup in tow.

Holy Heart-Failure, Batman! What will happen next? Will the Man In Black be rocked to death by Fezzik the Giant? Or will Fezzik die under the sword of the Man In Black? And what will become of Buttercup? Tune in for answers to these terrifying questions, same Bat-time, same Bat-channel. The worst is yet to come!