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Loser climbed up the ruins that now functioned as team houses, Cake spectated from the ground.
“Try not to fall!” Cake called out.
“Don't worry, even if I do fall it won't be too bad, I won't shatter or anything!” Loser replied.
Loser's foot slipped, he caught himself before falling, but that didn't do much to ease Cake's fears.
Clock sat down next to Cake to watch Loser too, Cake took a solid 30 seconds to notice.
“Oh! Hi Clock,” Cake greeted.
“Hey,” Clock replied, “What is Loser doing?”
“Trying to climb the ruins all the way to the top,” Cake responded, then, Loser's hand slipped and he almost fell, barely catching himself, Cake shut his eyes in fear, “and scaring me in the process.”
The trio heard a knock on one of the pillars next to the entrance, Cake walked over to see Tree standing there, "Hey.”
“Uh, hi?” Cake confusedly replied.
Tree sighed, “Black Hole and Fries are still going on about Black Hole accidentally absorbing Fries'... fries, and it's getting tiring,” Tree explained, “Could I sit here until they're done?”
“Oh, yeah, sure,” Cake answered, moving to let Tree walk in.
“Thanks,” Tree thanked, walking in.`
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Puffball floated around the area with a bucket on her head, "PLACE YOUR BETS! WHICH NAMER IS LEAVING THE GAME? PLACE YOUR BETS HERE!”
Tennis Ball walked up to Puffball, "What're you doing?”
“Hm? Oh, well, I wanted to make some money, so I'm letting people place bets on which one of us is leaving.”
“Huh, I'm not gonna vote, cause that'd be, y'know…”
“Weird?”
“Yeah… could I look at the bets though? Out of curiosity.”
“Eh, I don't see why not,” Puffball replied, leaning over to spill the bucket, TB began looking through the bets.
“Golf Ball, Golf Ball, GB, Golf Ball…” TB paused, ”GB… Golfy... Golf Ball she's really annoying... Like, GB she's, like, been, like, bottom two, like, fifty times…” TB read, his voice slowly getting slower as he read off GB's name over and over again.
Puffball cringed, and then swept the bets back into the bucket, “Maybe it was a mistake to read these…”
Golf Ball walked over, with a clipboard on her head, “TB! I've made a breakthrough! I figured out a prediction method to figure out who's going to be eliminated!”
TB froze, “R-really?”
“Yeah! It's amazing, even I don't know who it is yet! I wanted us to be surprised together!” GB then turned to see PB with the bucket, “What's with the bucket.”
“Oh, well, uh, you see, I'm, uh, well, you see, y'know, I'm just, y'know… collecting… water…” Puffball came up with.
“Collecting… water?”
Puffball nodded.
GB did a double take, “I mean that's obviously a lie but I don't care enough to pry further into it.”
PB sighed.
“Anyway, TB! Let's look at the vo-”
“ ATTENTION MEMBERS OF BEST NAME EVER! ” 4 yelled from the distance.
“ I T ‘ S T I M E F O R C A K E A T S T A K E ! ”
“Awww,” GB whined, “Now there's not even a point to it.”
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The members of <Running Gag> sat at the pre-split BFB elimination area, 4 looked through the notecards.
Tennis Ball nervously met eyes with Puffball, who was also pretty nervous, the two then turned to look at Golf Ball, oblivious to everyone else's predictions.
Behind the team were the betters, all anxiously waiting for GB to be eliminated, the group was comprised of Basketball, Remote, 8-Ball, Firey, Rocky, Grassy, Blocky, and Match.
4 finished reading the votes and turned to face the team, “Once again, we're out of cake, so instead your reward will be the Announcer's hopes and dreams!” 4 claimed, holding 9 pieces of paper.
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The Announcer flipped through his diary, “Why is this page ripped?”
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4 blinked, “We got 2 votes in total-”
“What?” Book questioned, “That is… wow…”
“And one of them was from the showrunner!”
Liy looked at the number, mouth agape.
(I would like to interrupt this story by reminding everyone that this is an overall less fun experience for all parties involved if you don’t vote, so please, vote, just comment which member of the losing team you want out, it’s not that hard)
4 looked at the contestants, “Book is the first one safe with no votes!” they announced, throwing a piece of paper to the dictionary.
Book read the piece of paper, “I haven't even known these things for more than 7 days and I want them dead…”
4 stared into space, offended, before snapping back to reality, “TV is the next one safe with no votes!”
TV stared at the paper thrown to them, “My name is the Announcer and I don't talk as much as these people.”
4 gave a blank smile while staring at the floor, “Nickel, Liy, you're the next ones safe, no votes,” they grumbled, throwing paper to the two contestants.
“Hey, that's the first elimination I've ever survived!” Liy claimed, looking at the paper, “Teardrop is the only saving grace in this world of misery? Well that's just rude.”
Nickel fell over upon getting hit by the paper, and read it, as it was covering his eyes, “I hope Flower doesn't still have her Announcer Crusher.”
4 sat dejectedly in a corner, “Fanny, TB, Puffball, you're safe, still no votes,” they claimed, throwing paper to the three of them, Fanny shredded it, 4 missed TB, and Puffball floated slightly upwards to avoid it.
Only GB, Roboty, and VHSy remain.
“Roboty, you're safe, once again, no votes,” 4 claimed, slapping the contestant with the piece of paper.
TB groaned, “That was GB's only saving grace.”
“What was that?” Golf Ball asked.
“Nothing!”
4 stared at the two remaining contestants, “Golf Ball?”
"Yes?” Golf Ball asked confidently.
4 smiled, “You're…….”
“I already know I'm safe give me the paper,” Golf Ball revealed.
4 scowled at the contestant, “FINE! YOU'RE SAFE!” they yelled, throwing paper at her.
VHSy, with 100% of the vote, anxiously looked around, “This is bad.”
4 then began laughing, “Liy and Roboty remember this! ” VHSy then began to be sucked towards 4.
“Nonononononononononononononononono-” VHSy began chanting, before being sucked into 4 and sent to the E.X.I.T.
Liy then began quickly writing something down on a piece of paper, Fanny leaned over to see she was writing “DON'T GET ELIMINATED ON 4'S EPISODE!” over and over again.
“--- .... / --. --- -.. / .--. .-.. . .- ... . / -. ---” Roboty fearfully beeped.
The betters sitting behind the Namers collectively groaned, Puffball began floating above them, “Suckers!~”
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Teardrop climbed her team's ruins, looking around she noticed Loser had climbed his as well, she waved.
Loser noticed Teardrop on her pillar and waved back.
Bell floated by Teardrop's pillar and brought herself upwards, ringing upon reaching the top and floating next to Teardrop. Teardrop turned to her teammate and waved.
“Hi,” Bell replied, she then looked over to see Loser, “It appears more people then just you have a death wish.”
Teardrop rolled her eyes and lightly kicked Bell, making her swing, Bell chuckled.
Teardrop and Loser then looked over to see that Liy had climbed her pillar as well, Teardrop waved, Liy waved back. Teardrop saw Puffball float up next to Liy, the two were talking about something unintelligible from this range, probably just the elimination or something.
“ ATTENTION CONTESTANTS! ” 4 yelled, “ IT'S TIME FOR TODAY'S CHALLENGE! ”
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The contestants sat in front of 4 in lines, 4 was standing in front of a starting line.
Needle looked at the setting, “I take it this is just a normal race?”
4 nodded, “Yesss! Last team across the finish line is up for elimination!”
Loser turned to Liy and Teardrop, who were standing nearby, “Hey, you two, Liy, Teardrop,” he said, getting the attention of the enemy contestants. “Wanna do a personal race for first? First one of us across the finish line gets a favor from the other two?”
Teardrop thought about it, then nodded, Liy gave a thumbs up.
Loser smiled, "Great.”
“BEfore the the race starts,” 4 blurted, “I would like to have a private talk with…”
“...Bell…” she confusedly looked at the host.
“...Puffball…” she raised an eyebrow.
“...Taco…” she nervously looked around.
“...Boom Mic…” he scratched the back of his head.
“...Woody…” he worriedly rubbed his arm.
“...Rocky…” his default smile turned into an awkward frown.
“... and Dora...” she babbled something incoherent.
4 smiled, “follow me.”
Pen patted Woody on the back, “It was nice knowing you.”
Woody gave a flat glare to Pen and walked with the rest of the chosen contestants.
4 stopped them when they were out of earshot, then turned towards the seven chosen contestants, “I lied.”
“W-wuh?” Woody questioned.
“What do you mean you lied?” Taco asked.
“I lied about the challenge, you seven have the true challenge,” 4 explained.
Puffball nervously looked around, “Well what is it?”
“In truth, the first team to cross the finish line will be up for elimination, it's your job to stop your teams from being first.”
Rocky gave a confused look to 4, then turned back to his team and looked directly at Cloudy and Balloony, who can fly, then turned back to 4 with an angry glare.
“I'm with Wocky,” Woody claimed, flatly looking at Lightning.
Dora looked at her team, then turned back to 4 (feel free to skip this) “4 you absolute cheat and fool of a host look at my team my team is comprised of Black Hole who is a flying contestant who on top of flying is capable of absorbing other contestants which even with my power is completely unavoidable there's no way I can deal with this on top of him there's also Yellow Face who has a supply of ridiculous and absurd products that could allow him to cheat the race on top of that he has limited flying abilities then there's Bracelety who while not on the smarter side is an incredibly determined contestant who could potentially be stretched and flung across challenges to cheat them and would be willing to do basically anything so long as Ice Cube promises to hug her or something this is a terrible idea for a challenge you're turning us against our team this is the exact opposite of a team building exercise all that will come out of this is conflict and hatred which makes this challenge horrible TV was a much better host then you I wasn't with them a lot as I was sadly eliminated early in BFDIA but TV held the competition well and didn't bias challenges in one team's favor what you have done is put Boom Mic who is an entirely normal person against Bell and Puffball who can fly to go up ahead and sabotage their team but that isn't all you have chosen Rocky and Woody for this challenge while Woody has improved tremendously with his fears and calling me proud would be an understatement I don't think under any circumstances is pitting him against Blocky Snowball Eraser Pen Lightning and Remote a good idea hey if you actually read this rant then go get yourself a cookie you're special and while Rocky is far from being incapable of helping his team and dealing with issues himself he is at the end of the day a handicapped contestant in regards to this challenge as he is short armless and incapable of speech and therefore cannot relay information to his team on top of that Cloudy is on his team and he can fly it is not fair to make him deal with that this is like the tortoise and the hare except the hare has a jetpack and also common sense and going past this there's also Taco who is a capable contestant but pitting her against several other athletic and smart contestants simply isn't fair think about it Profiley Firey and Gelatin are also capable of the things Taco can do and she's dealing with all of them at once this is a horrible challenge you are a horrible host I despise you.”
4 blinked a few times, “I don't care.”
Dora angrily beeped.
Boom Mic turned to look at his team, seeing Loser stretching and Winner suplexing a boulder, he sighed, “Welp, at least Camera is gonna have company…”
“One more thing,” 4 added, “if you tell anyone else about the true challenge you'll instantly be up for elimination!”
Taco looked over to her winner-filled team, “I'm starting to regret joining a team filled with nothing but power players.”
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The teams got back into line, Clapboard looked at Mic, “You okay bud?”
Mic sighed, “No…”
Clapboard looked around, “Wanna talk about it?”
“I can't until after the challenge.”
Clapboard dejectedly looked at the ground, “Well, then, wanna get coffee after this?”
Boom Mic nodded.
4 picked up David and slapped him, he made an air horn noise, “GO!”
Instantly Liy, Teardrop, and Loser took off, Bell began swiftly flying towards TD, Puffball did the same for Liy, Boom Mic sighed and ran with his team after Loser.
Cloudy began flying forward to get a headstart, Rocky panicked and began looking around for a way to stall, then, Rocky smiled, just a tad more sinisterly then normal.
“Bulleh!” Rocky said while throwing up on 8-Ball, which corroded him.
Match anxiously looked at her teammate, then turned to Cloudy, who stopped, and Balloony, “You're carrying him.”
Balloony sighed and picked up Rocky, Cloudy floated nearby, Rocky satisfiedly smiled.
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Boom Mic anxiously looked around the setting, Loser had gotten a massive head start, and his team was overall doing pretty good.
Or pretty bad depending on how you see the situation.
The team ran through Best Name Ever's ruins as a shortcut, Mic looked around the area, noticing that the members of BNE had left their belongings around.
And then he noticed Puffball's speaker.
Grinning, Boom Mic looked at his team, who were entirely unaware, he then plugged himself into the speaker, covered his ears, and got really close to it.
The feedback was unbearable .
Clapboard fell to the ground, unable to cover her ears, Loser slipped and fell to the ground, Naily got distracted and nailed herself into the ground, Price Tag made a ‘X/’ face and fell, Winner covered Clock's ears for him, Cake splattered into the ground, Bomby almost manually blew himself up.
Mic smiled at a job well done, then realized how messed up that was and walked away from the speaker.
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F.D.I. looked at their first actual challenge, in front of them was a wooden bridge, fine enough, not too bad, the problem is that there was molten lava underneath the bridge and lava geysers were exploding.
Woody leaned on Blocky for help, Blocky patted his head a few times, “So who's first?”
Nobody answered.
Pen sighed and began walking on the bridge, Blocky followed, keeping Woody and Grassy close while doing so, Remote followed Woody, then Basketball followed Remote, then Eraser, then Snowball, then Lightning, Anchor stayed on solid ground.
Woody anxiously clinged onto Blocky, Remote patted his back to comfort him. Woody looked around, then discreetly kicked a rope on the bridge to make it shake, Basketball tripped onto Remote.
Remote kicked Basketball off of her, causing the sports equipment to fall on Eraser, shaking the bridge more.
Basketball huffed, “Did you have to kick me that hard?”
“I didn't mean to,” Remote reasoned.
“Still didn't have to kick me.”
Remote glared at Basketball.
“Don't,” Lightning ordered, pointing at Remote, “Last time a round contestant and a contestant whose body is almost a trapezoid fought on a bridge their team got close to splitting up.”
Remote nodded, seeing the reasoning, then kept walking.
Woody kicked the bridge again.
This time it snapped.
The splitting bridge cut the team in half, on one side was Anchor, Lightning, Snowball, Eraser, and Basketball, on the other was Remote, Woody, Grassy, Blocky, and Pen.
Pen looked at the broken bridge, “Uhhh, guess you guys are gonna have to find another way, unless Lightning wants to carry you across.”
Lightning looked at Snowball, then back at Pen, “No.”
“Okay, uh, let's keep moving then,” Remote said, walking forward.
Woody smiled and followed his now fractured team.
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Liy jumped over a pillar, gaining on Teardrop, Puffball flew above the duo, and saw Loser was catching back up. Puffball then looked around, seeing a pillar up ahead, she began headbutting the pillar, making it fall, blocking the path. Liy and Teardrop stopped in their tracks, Loser caught up to the duo, looking around Loser couldn't find a way to get around the pillar. He then walked up to it and leaned on it.
“What? Getting tired?” Liy jokingly taunted.
“Nope,” Loser replied, “I'll throw the two of you up if you pull me up after.”
Liy looked at Teardrop, who shrugged and walked over, stepping on Loser's cupped hands, he threw her up onto the pillar, Liy walked over and he did the same. Liy grabbed Teardrop's feet, she leaned over the pillar and reached out for Loser, who grabbed her hands, Liy then pulled the two of them up.
“Alright, shall we resume then?” Liy asked, Teardrop and Loser nodded, Liy then jumped off the pillar and continued their race.
Puffball slammed herself into the side of a pillar in rage, then followed Liy.
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Bell sat with her team, she had knocked over a pillar to block their progress, then someone else knocked over one behind them, trapping everyone except Teardrop, who was doing her own thing.
Coiny paced around the room, looking for any kind of way out, Pin and Barf Bag accompanied him. Coiny turned to face Pin, “Could I climb on you for a sec?”
“Sure go ahead,” Pin replied, Coiny then hoisted himself up onto his best friend, he began knocking on random parts of the ceiling, before pausing.
“That sounds hollow,” he commented.
Donut walked over, Coiny repeated the action, “That's definitely hollow,” Donut claimed, “sounds exactly like 4's soul when I absorbed them.”
“Well, let's leave then,” Pillow said, picking up Needle and spinning her upside down.
“Hey uh I'd rather you not-” Needle started, before getting stabbed into the ceiling by Pillow.
“Hey, Pillow, how's about you not do that?” Donut asked, “That's our teammate, you can't just use her as a tool when you need something.”
Pillow either ignored Donut or just didn't hear him. It's hard to tell.
Saw angrily walked over to Pillow and took Needle out of her hands, “Stop,” she ordered, placing Needle back down.
“Thank you, Saw,” Needle replied.
Barf Bag climbed on Pin after asking and lifted up Coiny, who took off the panel in the ceiling, he climbed into the crawlspace. “Well this isn't an exit but it's something ,” he commented.
“Well… what is it then?” Gaty asked, moving to get a better look.
“Don't know yet, stand somewhere other than directly under the hole,” Coiny warned, then dropped some sort of box into the main room, then jumped down himself.
Donut took the cover off the box and began looking through it, “It's a bunch of letters addressed to the hosts.”
Gaty kneeled to look at the box, “The side of it says ‘Auditions’.”
“Oh!” Pin replied, “These must be the recommended character's auditions! Seeing as Camera, Clapboard, Boom Mic, Anchor, and VHSy got chosen, these must just be the other RCs!”
“Seems like it,” Saw commented flipping through them, “Conch Shell, Battery, Shopping Cart, Snare Drum, Onigiri, Sink… what? No, that can't be right…”
“Hm? What is it?” Bell asked.
Donut leaned over, completely flabbergasted by the text he just read, then took the letter out of Saw's hands, and read it aloud, “FIREY JUNIOR!?”
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BANG
“This feels unethical.”
“I DON'T CARE! WE WERE IN BFB! WE DESERVE TO BE IN THERE JUST AS MUCH AS EVERYONE ELSE!”
BANG
“Well, I don't want to go and ruin the competition for other people…”
“Listen, you were one of the original recommended characters! Think about it, how come Fanny, Naily, and Tree get to stay but not you!?”
BANG
Robot Flower sighed, “I get that but I'm afraid the teams are already made, you saw the episode! We can't just join, they'll kick us out.”
“I'm aware,” Firey Jr. replied, “Which is why I have a plan to get us back in!”
BANG
“Could you put down the battering ram?” R. Flower asked.
Junior looked down at the battering ram he was using to try and break down the door to the Announcer's office, he had to stand on a stool to use it, “No.”
BANG
- Flower sighed, this probably wasn't going to end well.
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Regular Flower looked up, the gate they needed to go through was closed and this handy sign told them that they need one person to hold a switch so the others can go through, then someone else needs to open the door for the one.
Leafy spectated the scene, then got an idea, “Spongy could we use you as-”
“No!” Spongy replied.
“I mean, weren't you fine with it back in BFB 1-”
“I'm not your tool!”
“I don't think of you as one I'm asking you to just help with the challenge-”
“I'm not doing it-”
“FINE! TACO! GET OVER HERE!” Flower yelled, grabbing Taco and throwing her up to the switch.
Taco landed on the ground and looked around, all that was up here was a lever and a locked door.
Luckily for Taco, she was the only one who knew that.
“OH! There's someone else up here!” Taco lied, yelling down to her team.
“You okay? Do I need to send Firey up there or something?” Flower asked.
“No, I think I got it!” Taco yelled back down. She then sat on the ground, this was too easy.
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Dora reclined on a beach chair, sunglasses on her face, holding a glass of definitely PG liquid, sitting next to her was Eggy, also reclining on a beach chair also with sunglasses. Dora lifted her sunglasses up to look over at Black Hole and Fries, who were arguing over something trivial. Dora put her sunglasses back down, this was all too easy.
Eggy looked at her fellow contestant, “We're gonna lose the challenge aren't we?”
Dora gave an affirming beep.
Eggy sighed, “At least that means one of them will be gone, any bets on which one?”
Dora beeped.
“Yeah, I agree, it probably would be Fries.”
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Donut paced around the room, rereading the letters from Firey Jr. and Robot Flower over and over again, he remembered what they had been told at the beginning of the game.
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Donut looked around the field that the game would be taking place in, he then looked at the contestants, it was mostly the same, Coiny, Barf Bag, Naily, Gelatin, they were all here… almost, all here.
Donut walked over to the Announcer, “Hey, speaker box, where's Junior?”
Golf Ball and TV walked over, “Where's Robot Flower? I wanted all the mechanical minds back on my team,” she claimed, gesturing to TV, who smiled.
The Announcer paused for a moment, then replied with, “They said they did not feel like competing, a shame, really, I would've liked to have all the contestants together.”
“Ah, shame, well, if you see him, tell him I say hi,” Donut responded.
“Hm, that's a real shame, any plans for our new teammate TV?” GB asked, walking with the robot.
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What made it stranger is, it would be one thing if these were auditions like the rest of the RCs, but these were responses . As in, they had sent Jr. and R. Flower letters asking to have them in the game, they accepted, and then changed their mind.
“You okay bud?” Barf Bag asked, watching Donut anxiously walk around the room.
“This is so weird, do you think Jr. changed his mind? The Hosts? Did he just never show up? Did the new RCs replace him?” Donut asked.
Barf Bag shrugged, “Sorry but I couldn't tell you.”
Donut scratched his head, “I feel like we should tell the other ex-members of Team Ice Cube, they might wanna know.”
Barf Bag thought about it, “We should definitely tell Bomby, and Naily, Spongy, and Gelatin might want to know, but I don't think Bracelety would care, she was out so early and only cared about Ice Cube, who was on a different team.”
Donut nodded.
“ Hey did you guys hear something? ” a muffled voice asked from outside the room.
“People!” Coiny yelled, “HEY! ANYONE OUT THERE, WE ARE STUCK BEHIND THIS PILLAR, PLEASE LET US OUT!”
“ Coiny? What do you mean ‘us’? How many people are in there? ”
“EVERY MEMBER OF THE W.O.A.H. BUNCH AGAIN EXCEPT TEARDROP!”
“ Oh, tell Donut I say hi! ” a different voice asked.
Donut raised an eyebrow, before realizing, “It's Lightning and Anchor.”
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Lightning floated next to a fallen pillar, standing next to Anchor, him and Anchor turned to see the rest of the team waiting to move on, “Don't you dare,” Eraser ordered.
“What do you mean?” Anchor asked.
“We can't help another team, it is imperative to our success that the other teams be unable to win,” Basketball stated.
“In non-nerd speak, it's better for us if the other teams can't move,” Snowball added.
Lightning gestured to the pillar, “We can't just leave them here-”
“Can and will,” Eraser replied, walking down the path, Basketball and Snowball followed.
Lightning began to dejectedly float with them, before Anchor grabbed his hand.
Anchor held up three fingers, then two, then one, “They're out of earshot now,” Anchor explained, then turned to Lightning, “Spin me and chuck me into that full speed.”
Lightning nodded and picked up Anchor, then began spinning, faster and faster, then let go of Anchor, throwing him right into the pillar, shattering it.
Anchor got back on his feet and looked into the room, seeing 9/10 members of the W.O.A.H. Bunch Again. "Hey guys,” Anchor greeted.
Coiny walked out of the room and patted Anchor on the back, “Thanks you two.”
“No problem,” Lightning replied, winking and shooting finger guns, “Though we should get back to our team before they notice we're missing, see you guys around.” With that, Lightning and Anchor flew/ran back to their team.
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Over with the other half of Funny Doings International, Remote is saving Woody from certain doom.
“Stay calm, you'll be okay,” Remote comforted, pulling Woody up.
Woody nervously looked back down the ledge he was hanging over, seeing the lava bubble made the contestant incredibly nervous.
Blocky grabbed Remote and pulled her backwards, pulling Woody out of the pit. Pen helped Remote to her feet and then checked on Woody.
Woody smiled, he intentionally fell down that hole to stall his half of the team, he was just hoping Lightning hadn't gotten an insane lead.
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Profiley idly waited for the gate to open, Taco had been up there for a while, why hadn't she pulled the lever yet?
The social media character walked over to Flower, “Throw me up there, I'm gonna go check on Taco.”
Flower stared at her teammate for a second, before shrugging and doing as was told.
Profiley landed on the tower and looked at Taco, sitting in front of the unpulled lever, drawing on the floor.
Taco noticed her teammate and worriedly looked around, “Uh, I can explain.”
“Go ahead,” Profiley replied.
Taco scratched the back of her head, “I beat them and got distracted?”
Profiley raised an eyebrow and walked over to pull the lever, Taco got in their way. “Taco, get out of the way, we need to win.”
“I know, but, uh, we can't win like this.”
“What do you mean?” Profiley asked, “We need to open the gate to get to the finish line.”
“Well uh, you see-” Taco started.
“You know what, I'm gonna stop humoring you, if you had any intention to flip the switch, you would've done it ten minutes ago,” Profiley claimed, walking towards the switch.
Taco blocked them again.
Profiley looked at Taco, “I want to preface this by saying that I do think of you as a friend and care about you,” after saying that, Profiley suplexed Taco and ran for the lever.
Taco got back on her feet and ran after Profiley, she grabbed their leg, tripping them, using their free leg, Profiley kicked Taco off of them. Getting back up Profiley grabbed the switch, Taco saw this and grabbed Profiley, throwing them back to the other side of the tower.
Profiley got back on their feet, and looked at Taco, “So what's the plan here? You know that by throwing the challenge, you make yourself a massive target, remember what happened to Puffball in BFDIA?”
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Speaking of Puffball, her, Bell, and Boom Mic were currently in a fierce competition for not-last.
Boom Mic had run out of breath and slowed to a crawl, Clapboard opted to travel with Mic and let the team go ahead to make sure he's okay.
Bell getting trapped in the room with her team was both the best and worst possible thing that could've happened. On one hand, 8/10 of her teammates were accounted for and weren't going to make it to the end, on the other hand, the ninth was Teardrop . Bell was just forced to leave one of the most fierce, competitive contestants unattended.
Lastly, there's Puffball, who has opted to pretty much neglect every member of her team except Liy, the rest of them were far from athletic. If you asked Liy to describe herself in one word, it'd be adventurous, so Puffball had to put 110% of her focus on Liy.
Puffball groaned, “I wish one of the other two would just finish the dang race already!” Puffball then froze, and had a simple thought.
Puffball smiled.
Puffball didn't just smile, she gave the most sinister grin she could manage.
Puffball floated down to Teardrop, who was currently in 3rd in her race with Liy and Loser.
“Heyyy, Teardrop, could we talk for a sec?” Puffball asked.
Teardrop gave a confused look, then decided to humor her, and nodded.
“So, like, gonna be honest, I feel like you deserve to win the race doubly more than Loser and especially Liy.”
TD raised an eyebrow.
“I know, I know, Liy's on my team and everything, but, like, you got 3rd in BFB! Liy was in the bottom 4 , she doesn't really deserve it like you do,” Puffball lied, she felt bad talking about her friend like this.
Teardrop didn't fully agree but nodded anyway.
“So, I was wondering if I could just fly you to the finish line? Y'know, let you get the win you were robbed of back in BFB?”
Teardrop thought about it, then realized, Loser never said they couldn't use other contestants to their advantage, and if it wasn't okay, she'll declare 2nd place the winner.
Teardrop nodded and jumped onto Puffball, who began flying her to the finish line.
Bell swung in to see what was happening and had to keep herself from screaming, she knocked over a pillar to disorient Puffball, and failed.
Loser looked up to see Teardrop flying on Puffball, and gave a bewildered look, then turned to Liy, who was neck and neck with him, “Could we do that the whole time?”
Liy looked up, “Hey that's my teammate!”
Teardrop jumped off Puffball at the final stretch, Loser and Liy climbed up onto it the intended way.
Bell decided to throw out any scrap of subtlety and decided to try and ram TD to keep her from crossing the finish line.
She was so close too, it's a shame.
Teardrop stepped across the finish line, ending the challenge.
4 appeared in front of Teardrop, Loser fell to his knees and yelled “Nooooooooooo-”
“THE W.O.A.H. BUNCH AGAIN IS UP FOR ELIMINATION!”
“-oooooooo?”
“WHAT!?” Coiny yelled, climbing up onto the cliff, “BUT TEARDROP GOT FIRST!”
4 snapped their fingers, summoning every contestant to the cliff face, they all looked at the confused Teardrop, on the finish line.
Gelatin turned to see Profiley and Taco having a wrestling match, Taco looked at him, “I can explain.”
“No need,” 4 commented, “I'll do it! I lied.”
“W-What?” Clapboard asked.
“The challenge wasn't to get first place! It was to get in any place BUT first place! The seven contestants I pulled aside tried to stop you.”
Profiley looked at the food item crushing them, “Oooooh that's why you didn't pull the lever… I am so sorry.”
Taco shrugged, “Eh, you didn't know, it's fine.”
Blocky looked at Woody, “Wait, when you were falling off those cliffs, was that-?”
Woody nodded, giddy.
Blocky got a massive grin, “WOODY YOU GENIUS! That was slick, I had no idea!”
Remote nodded in agreement.
Pin looked over at Bell, hanging in shame, she walked over and patted her back a little bit, “It's okay, we all got trapped in that room.”
“Wait so Puffball was my team's pick? She didn't really do anything,” Liy commented.
“I was the one knocking over pillars-”
That got a glare from Needle and Gaty.
“-also I-”
She was cut off by Teardrop grabbing her and glaring into her soul.
Puffball grinned, “-also I may have told an eensy weensy little lie~”
Teardrop started breathing heavily.
Liy scratched the back of her head, walked over to Puffball, and lightly pushed her away, Puffball floated back over to the other Namers, getting compliments from Golf Ball for her idea. She was about to say something to Teardrop, but the W.O.A.H. Bunch Again member just shamefully walked to the cliff face and sat on it.
U.F.E. Team: W.O.A.H. Bunch Again
Members Up For Elimination: Coiny, Pin, Donut, Needle, Teardrop, Barf Bag, Saw, Gaty, Bell, and Pillow
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It was nighttime, and Teardrop was still sitting on that cliff face, disappointed in herself. Liy walked over to the enemy contestant and sat next to her, patting her on the back, Loser followed behind and sat on the other side of Teardrop.
For a brief moment, the trio sat in silence, before something donned on Loser.
“Hey, TD?” Loser spoke, catching the loser’s attention, “I just realized, I never said you had to win the challenge to get the favor.”
Teardrop raised a confused eyebrow.
“Back at the start of the race, my criteria was to cross the finish line to get the two favors, not win the challenge, so… yeah, you won the race between us three.”
Teardrop gave a weak smile, appreciating the effort.
Liy patted the contestant on the back, “If you ever need that favor from me, pick whatever method you want and tell me.”
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Anchor walked along the path, just going on a nightwalk, “Hey Eraser,” he greeted, seeing his teammate to the side of the path.
“You betrayed us.”
“Pardon?”
“We told you and Lightning not to let the W.O.A.H. Bunch out, you let them out,” Eraser explained.
Anchor shrugged, “So? The challenge was to not win, so didn’t that help?”
“It doesn’t matter if it helped,” Eraser countered, “What matters is that you fully intended to give them another chance at winning, when, at the time, we all thought we needed to finish first.”
Anchor rolled his eyes.
Eraser pinched his face, “I understand that you have some problems with our morality and all that, and that’s fine, I’m not telling you that you have to like us, but you can’t go throwing challenges just cause you like another team better.”
“...Well-”
“No ‘well’, Anchor, what’s gonna happen when the voters don’t appreciate you throwing challenges? Huh? I’ll tell you, either you or Lightning are going home, and I hate to tell you Anchor, but you’re new .”
Anchor awkwardly looked around, “So?”
“What that means is, when the voters are told to pick between someone they’ve known for 3 seasons and someone they’ve known for 1… well, I’m sure you can guess who’ll leave,” Eraser explained.
Anchor didn’t respond.
Eraser sighed, “You can hang out with Coiny and Pin and Donut and all them, I don’t care, just, prioritize winning first, okay?”
Anchor sighed, “...okay.”
“Thanks,” Eraser said, then, he walked back to his team’s ruins.