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(Nora walks into Meeple HQ and walks up to the dude at the front desk and talks to a hand-sanitizer)
“Good afternoon, mister….”

(The hand-sanitizer stares her down before looking down at his name tag like she grew a second head)
“Tommy, it says my name on my tag.”

(Nora looks off into space before scrabbling for her wallet and pulling out her ID)
“Well my name is uhhhhh, Jane!”

(Nora grins really wide)
“Jane Doe.”

(Tommy raises a brow in unamusement before scanning her ID)
“Right,”

(Nora becomes nervous)
“What- wait, what are you doing?”

(Tommy tiredly groans as he shreds the ID)
“Yeah, this is a defective I.D.”

(Nora stares at the remains of her fake ID before tommy pipes up)
“Company policy.”

(Nora whines politely)
“But I have an appointment.”
“AND that I.D was not a fake!”

(Tommy shrugs)
“Well, you have the appointment, but this ID isn’t valid,”

(Tommy pushes the ripped remains of the I.D to her)
“Listen, I’m sure it’s just a problem with the I.D itself, if you’d like I can reschedule your appointment here at Meeple until you sort out whatever problem is going on.”

(She sighs in relief)
“Okay.”

(Tommy pipes up as Nora turns to leave)
“Oh, I am legally obligated to inform you that the rescheduling will be added to your bill.”

(She stops and scrambles to the desk again)
“Well… can I get a refund?”

(Tommy stares at her like she’s crazy)
“Did you read the terms and conditions that popped up before you agreed to the reservation, it clearly stated no refunds.”

(She is clearly on the verge but she breathes in and out and leaves)
“Okay then, good day, Tommy.”

(A while later she is sneaking back onto the HQ and she takes out her kit)
“What are you hiding Mr. Cobs…”

(She pulls out her grappling hook and preps it for fire but she accidentally pulls the trigger and is pulled into Steven Pual Cobs office.)
“Alright, safety’s off, rope is stable and-”

(Steve (rightful) nearly jumps out of his skin as a random woman grappling hook flies through his window.)
“Who the hell are you?!”

(Nora gets up and backs to the broken window)
“Uh, this is all a dream-”

(Steve presses a button under his desk and the lights go red)
“Code Blue”

(She then dashes for the exit in an epic detailed chase scene happens)
“Get back here!”

(She finally has time to breathe and she thinks about her failings)
“That was too close.”

“I spent all of my money on that damned reservation, I have no where to go.”

(She sees hotel OJ)
“I doubt I could afford that hotel, but I’ll need somewhere to stay until pick up.”

(She pulls out her phone as she walks to hotel OJ to try and contact HQ)
“Crap, my phone’s busted, maybe they have a pay phone or something I can call them with.”

(Nora walks to the front desk, anxiety kicking in and she doesn’t even ring the bell)
“Hey is there a bellhop or something, I’m in a rush.”

(Paper comes up in a comforting manner)
“Oh, I’ll get O.J right now, please take a seat, it may take a while.”

(Nora nervously sits down and Cheesy comes up to her and sits down looking at her expectantly)
“Hi there, what’s your name?”

(Nora realizes her mistake in talking to this guy and she tries inching away from him)
“Howdy stranger my name’s Cheesy!”

(Nora thinks he’s joking)
“Odd name you got there, buddy.”

(Nora realizes that something is genuinely wrong with this guy)
“Hah! I guess you could say my name’s a bit cheesy compared to the others.” *knee slap*

(Figuring she’s stuck here she decides to get some info)
“Umm, I just wanted know anything you may know about Steve Cobs. Assuming you’re a local that is.”

(As Cheesy gets louder Nora gets more overstimulated by this one guy.)
“I’ve never met the guy, but if you mention him to some people you might get an earful of information!” *knee slap, gets closer*
“Get it? Cause corn comes in ears.” *Gets even closer*

(Nora leans away from Cheesy)
“Yep, got it.”

“Yeah, I don’t know much about him, personally I think he’s too corny!” *Knee slap, gets even closer.*

(Soap sees what’s going on and drags him away from Nora)
“Leave her alone Cheesy, I mean it!”

(Cheesy leaves, visibly dejected, nora notes that her name is Soap)
“Sheesh, fine, Soap.”

(Soap shakes Nora’s hand who realizes that she may have found a new mystery that she could report to HQ if she can’t continue the Steve Cobs thing)
“Sorry about him, he doesn’t know a thing about boundaries, I’m Soap by the way!”

(Before Nora can say anything else Paper comes up to her)
“Nice to meet you Soap.”

(Paper leads her back to the front desk as OJ leans for the desk for support, clearly tired, Paper stands next to him offering physical support)
“O.J is here to see you.”

(Soap waves goodbye)
“See you around!”

“Hello there, OJ?”

“Yep, the name’s OJ, I’m the owner of hotel O.J.”
(Wanting to test her theory she tries seeing what OJ stands for)
“Is OJ short for something?”

(OJ looks at her like she is a little blind)
“Yeah, Orange Juice.”

“Cool. Yeah, uh, just wanted to know if there was a phone or something I could borrow to call my uhh, family, I broke my phone and got lost.”

“I’m sorry, we have no phones we can lend you, but you can stay here until everything is sorted out!”

(Nora becomes ecstatic before realizing her conundrum)
“Really? Wait, no, I’m broke.”

“Well, a room is free and I know someone who’d probably be able to fix your phone right up! Her name’s Testtube. ”

“Is there a catch?”

“Nope! Just need to know your name,”

(Nora decides to go along with this to figure out what’s going on)
“It’s uh… Notebook.”

“Naturally,”

“Your room is on the second floor, room 6.”

“Thanks!”

(As she sets her stuff down she writes down in her log the things she had found that day and plans to look for someone who can fix her company issued phone that has fancy spyware (Not spyware as in it looks at you location, spyware as in it is used for spys)).

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Nora had only just settled in the firm hotel bed when the sun’s light obliterated itself through the cheap, thin curtains. She couldn’t get a good night's sleep because of how much noise these -and she doesn’t say this lightly- pea brains were making last night. Nora crawled out of the bed with a groan which transitioned to a tired yawn. Setting up her daily routine she stretched, getting her heart working to bring her brain some needed air for more clarity. Instinctually Nora wanted to check her phone, to see if there was a notification sent from her boss, Carson Stables or anyone from her devision, as she dug through her bag with annoyed attention she finally processed the events of the previous day. She silently cursed, grimacing as she got up from her place on the floor to the nightstand, on it sat her damp, powered off, company issued phone.

“Great.” Nora’s right eye involuntarily twitched as her dread set in and settled as annoyance on her face.
“So I can’t contact HQ, that’s… great.” Nora clamped her teeth together into a hesitant, painful looking (and painful to look at) grin. Broken or not, this was a piece of important spy tech, if she were to get access to some tools and supplies, she could fix it herself.
Sighing, Nora picked up the phone and dropped it into her bag with little care. “Maybe someone here knows a place.” Nora tried comforting herself.

Eventually she found herself in the lobby and only then did a small sliver of hope engulf her, maybe she could get a cup of coffee. As if the Universe wanted this hope of hers to come true, she did find a coffee machine in hotel OJ, but it would appear that the universe is either a prankster or a huge arse because no matter how many times she put in new grounds into the coffee maker, the coffee it made would have an orangy flavor. Every time she brought the cup to her lips she prayed in desperation, changing the deity she was praying to with each comedic spit she gave the coffee. After the umpteenth deity she gave up and sulked cursing this horrible morning to hell under her breath. She walked up to the vending machine only to find Dr. Fizz even though she really wanted chamomile or something of that ilk, or maybe that damn coffee. The reminder of her failure made her feel hysterical, but the Soda was free so she took it, she’d never even heard of Dr. Fizz before and as she tasted it, she knew why. Dejected, she stumbled to a table furthest away from the foot traffic but in a place she could watch the denazines pass by. This morning sucks.

Nora minded what ‘OJ’ said as she got her room, there was a person called test tube who would be able to help her. Seeing how all the objects she’s met had their names just be their species of object she didn’t need help finding Test-Tube, she knew that she would know her when she sees her.

Spotting a green test-tube with a strange green liquid inside, Nora got up from her seat, took a deep breath and got into her persona of Notebook, gingerly walking to the frankly overworked looking object.

“Hello, are you Test-tube?”

Nora had only realized she had snuck up on poor Test-Tube when she flinched and shot around to face the red notebook with rosy cheeks.
“Yep! Howdy stranger, what can I do for you?”

Nora felt a bit of anxiety crawling up her throat, after all, this test-tube seemed rather important and professional.
“Yeah, I was told you’re good at fixing things and umm… does that mean you have a workshop?”

Test-Tube shrugged, with a smile.
“Uh, sure.”

Nora felt some tension from her shoulders ease up on her, a sigh of relief pushed her worries and tension and she felt a confidence boost work itself inside of her.
“Great because I need to borrow it.”

Test-tube’s expression changed and her brows furrowing in thought. Nora was a perceptive object and picked up a small nervous lip bite.
“Umm, can’t do that for you. But I can take whatever it is off your hands to fix it.”
Test-tube shook her unease away and masked it with a warm smile.

Nora felt a bit dejected and frankly, more than a bit frustrated, this morning just couldn’t go her way, huh? Begrudgingly Nora decided not to press the matter.
“Umm, actually, never mind, I can deal with it myself!”

Even if Nora had no eyes she would still be able to feel the analyzing and judging eyes of the taller object.
“It’s a personal item, you know, an item that I wouldn’t want to show off.” it wasn’t a full on lie.

After a solid 10 seconds of the two standing in awkward silence, Test-tube sacrificed herself to cut the awkward silence in half.
“Um, see you around, bye!”
Before Nora could even begin to utter her own good bye, Test-tube had sped off. Leaving the poor red notebook confused and alone.

(After being teased about knife that made trophy question his orientation, he knew he was the rizzler but knife said otherwise, he tried to prove it by asking out all the girls in hotel oj, the cherries said no respectfully, Testtube told him to get out the way and not now, soap sprayed her germ killer thing in his eyes, trophy decided to hit on paintbrush but they were just confused so paintbrush lied about their gender and told him they were a boy just to get trophy the hell away from them, microphone turned on her button to scream in his face to get trophy away from her because she hates trophy, lightbulb was uncomfortable so she just told trophy to go away, marshmallow said nothing and walked away from him, apple just slapped trophy in the face, suitcase told trophy he was a jerk in a nice tone and then walked off, salt told him she prefers a gentleman like OJ instead of trophy and last but not least pepper dramatically cried to get trophy to buzz off, he was storming off wanting to go get a dr fizz to calm down his anger but then… he saw a red pink cheeks notebook woman and trophy thinking to himself that this is a perfect chance to prove himself the rizzler)
“Hey there, Notebook~.” Trophy c

Nora wasn’t usually caught off guard, she was trained to always be on high alert, but she involuntarily jumped back as that golden colored trophy popped out of nowhere.
“Jesus!”

“Ha! Not quite, I’m Trophy.” The taller object chuckled.

Nora quickly regained composure of herself, and set most of her mind off to find a place to fix her phone.
“Right, well, I’m a bit busy, sorry.”

“Well I can be busy with you.” Trophy cooed as he got close and swung his arm around her, enough to keep her close, enough for her to be far enough away from him to swat his hand off.

Nora felt flustered inside, then guilt. Sure she’s never had the chance to flirt or mess around, but this was no time for a dating break, this mission wasn’t to find love. It’s to expose cobs if he is guilty or not.
“It’s a personal thing.”

Trophy smirked. Nora wanted to wipe her mind of this and began scanning her surroundings when she saw something… strange to say the least.
“Why is there just a vending machine in the middle of a clearing? We aren’t near the hotel or any other buildings or paths.” Nora walked away from Trophy, with the taller one nearly stumbling over.
“Oh? Are you thirsty? Are you sure you can reach the buttons?” Trophy half genuinely asked, half teased.

The notebook gingerly approached the vending machine, acting as though it were some rabid animal readying itself to lunge. When all of a sudden she fell to the floor.

Trophy initially flinched back at the sudden movement before dread filled him as he approached her. “Notebook, are you okay-“

Nora snapped up to face him before snapping back down into the Earth.

Realizing the moment was not at all fatal Trophy sighed before an annoyed look formed on his face. “Or you can look for water in the soil like a worm.”

Nora smirked at no one in particular, her theory was right.
“Hey, are you strong?”

Trophy perked up, a cocky smile adorning his face.
Of course I am! I’m the literal strongest guy in inanima-

Before he could even truly begin his long spiel, Notebook shoved him in the abdomen and into the machine before getting herself in a position where she would easily be able to push the vending machine onto its back-if Trophy were to help her.
“You done talking now? ‘Cuz I’m gonna need you for this.”

“Whoa, you’re strong for someone without arms.” Trophy was visibly shaken from the encounter but quickly recovered, offering a dumb open mouth grin.

After pushing the machine over, Notebook was met with a dimly lit tunnel.

“Hey, mind doing look out duty?”
Notebook wasn’t asking to be frank, she was demanding. The previous anxiety gone from her voice, replaced with utter focus.

Trophy let out an exasperated sigh, putting his hands half-heartedly up in surrender.
“Really? Putting me to work after you had me move me to the vending machine like that? Jeez.” Trophy whined.

She rolled her eyes and let her body succumb to gravity as she tumbled down the tunnel. Whatever she was expecting to find down here was quickly forgotten and likely paled in comparison. She was expecting a lab, yes, but what the actual-.
Nora wasn’t even able to move a muscle out of pure shock, confusion, and a certain je ne sais quoi. Everything the company had technology wise was that of a baby's first drawing, absolute trash. Eventually she did find the humility and curiosity to explore.

THUMP

Nora turned around so fast she was surprised she hadn’t gotten whiplash, she was then there, test tube! She groaned as she got up seeing that same red Notebook and… oh great, it's that egotistic trophy “And what do we have here!” Test tube points at the two

Trophy pointed at Nora “If you want to kill anyone, do her! It was her idea!” Nora gave him the Damn it look, “Trophy, you were on look out!”. Testtube was displeased, she clenched her fist only hearing the cracks of her knuckles “How did you find my secret lab?!”

Nora attempted to guilt-trip Testtube by leveraging her extensive knowledge to sound intellectually superior. “Listen, if you’re going to make a secret lab, you may want to put it somewhere less obvious.”That just made it worse, Testtube was seething mad “Just put down my stuff!” Notebook tried to surrender to conclude this into agreement “Listen, I just wanted to fix my Mephone and I just needed the supplies.”

With a scoff and an eye roll, Test Tube showed her disdain. “Maybe you could’ve asked, but for now, get out!”

Nora’s eyes went wide but she had to convince her to understand her cause, she just wanted to get on with the mission so badly “Testtube! Please you must understand“. Test Tube flinched, literally not in the mood to hear any more red objects like fan do their little nerdy stuff, she turned and then yelled“OUT!!!! OUT MEANS OUT YOU UNCULTURED SCHOOL THING THAT HAS BEEN CARRIED AROUND ALL DAY!!! DON'T GET YOUR GERMS AROUND MY LAB!!! THEY PROBABLY HAVE APPLE SAUCE, SNOT, HAND SANITIZER WHATEVER KIDS HAVE!!!”

Nora bit her tongue not wanting to escalate the problem, she walked away as trophy stood there stunned about that entire interaction… he then remembered knife’s advice that he should try apologizing to redeem himself… apart of him wants to do it, to manipulate the situation into going his way, but another part of him feels… guilt, I mean who knows what that notebook has gone through, without a second thought trophy jogged over to notebook
“NOTEBOOK! NOTEBOOK! NOTEBOOK!”

Nora looks back at the golden trophy, she stops for a bit as trophy put his hands on his knees to catch his break, notebook just decides to give him a chance, I mean she has dealt with worse and he wasn’t a Assassin… it’s a dumbass trophy, nora sighed and rolled her eyes
“Y-yes…”

Trophy stopped, his fingers twisting together. "I... Uh... Please accept my apologies. I fell short, and I sincerely hope there's an opportunity for me to make amends?" Nora's patience was thin. "Just go." Trophy was still following her "Anything. Just don't ask me to leave."

Nora was still mad but she decided to soften up for a bit “Fine… I guess I just wanna go on a walk…” Trophy nods in agreement, trophy accidentally got too comfortable and he reached out to hold Nora’s but when a gentle finger touched her palm she got flustered then she slapped his hand away from her, notebook chuckles nervously “Ok ok… I hope some company can help…”

As the two were walking they spotted a weird looking creepy mansion, Nora decided to take a look inside as trophy followed along, they were walking around a bit until “WHO ARE YOU GUYS?!!?” Notebook saw a marshmallow and she knew her name so she casually said “Oh hi marshmallow” Marshmallow flinched, she didn’t introduce herself “I- uh- wait- what?! How do you know my name you creep?!”

Nora chuckles at the marshmallow calling her a creep “It’s because my name is notebook and I am a notebook and trophy is a trophy and your name has to be marshmallow”. Marshmallow stood there completely dumbfounded “Oh… I’m so sorry… hi notebook… and also TROPHY?!!? WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING HERE!!”

Trophy recognized marshmallow, they never talked so much in the first few episodes before
“Oh… hey marsh-“ Marshmallow interrupts him not wanting to even hear what he has to say “Yea yea I know you but we never talked and you’re not important… but the red notebook is because she isn’t a contestant!”

Nora clears her throat wanting to get on with the stuff that needs to happen “Yeah yeah anyways I’m sorry if I was being rude… but let me start over! Ahem… it’s so nice to meet you!” Nora chuckles “I-I appreciate your energy but… can you tell me more about this… creepy place”

Marshmallow puts a finger on her chin “Hmmm… you’re in the purgatory mansion! Welcome!” Nora looks around “Ohhhh… I can see that…” All the sudden they heard giggling, Nora was feeling uneasy while trophy got behind her “Trophy, are you seriously afraid of ghosts?…”

Trophy pretended to not be scared even though he was sweating a lot “O-oh I’m ok! I’m just gonna protect you!” Nora laughs at the irony he is spitting out “Oh yea, like the old classics where the ghost come out from behind~”

Trophy’s face went red then he looked the other way like a tsundere but still sweating “Shut up…” he mumbles. Nora then takes the turn of being the one who teases “Okay~”

All the sudden a pink thing of air did a loop around then popped up in front of the three “Woah woah! What is goin on?… new contestants I see?…” Trophy shrieked as Nora just stared in ridicule and questioning as she saw bow, marshmallow then spoke “One is contestant and one is not… and the red notebook isn’t a contestant” Bow nods “Ohhh! Ok! Anyways hiiiiiyyyaaa my name is bow and this is where I live… and over there is dough”

Nora nod nervously “Cool… so what happens here?” Bow looks around “Weeellll… I would say… not much… I can’t leave or anything but I’m happy with this life yknow…” Nora wasn’t so normalized to this but then she thought this could be a clue, if ghost don't exist then this has to be some hologram connected to MeLife, Nora knew what to do and all she had to do was snoop out some questions “I’m sorry but ghost are just… yknow but how are there ghosts here?”

Bow taps her fingers “Well… I will tell you the story of how I got this tail!” Nora wasn’t interesting. “I’m good… but marshmallow… can’t mephone like regenerate you guys?…” Bow thinks “No… he just wants us to be killed off” Nora was dumbfounded
“Right… the dumbass just wants to look good but seriously, did he just say that or he doesn’t wanna tell you something…”

Bow says “Well… I don’t actually know… I mean he just says that we should be dead and that’s it…” Something then pops into Nora's mind “What if mephone can’t revive you ever again! How many times have you died?!”

Bow looks offended “Hey let us have some hope girl… but I died 1 time and the 2nd time I died I’m now here…” Nora thinks “So he can’t revive you ever again…” Bow got a little mad “H-hey! I said let me have hope!” Nora puts her hands up in surrender
“Ok ok! I’m not gonna be talking to ya anymore… anyways marshmallow, have you ever asked mephone to regenerate her?” “Well… I’m not sure actually, I asked but… he just says she’s dead end of story..”

Nora then offered, with an unwavering belief in its own correctness “He has to be hiding something!” Marshmallow looks surprised and defends mephone4 “Woah woah! Don’t make assumptions! He probably tried!” Nora then objects “Well what if… she has been killed off the first time and she can never come back… Oh… but I thought everyone here has only one life…”

Marshmallows tilted her head, a soft furrow appearing in their brow. "O-one life?..." she repeated, her voice a quiet question. Nora thought that these people had 2 lives which was odd… but she wasn’t gonna say anything about it because she is still blending in “Actually never mind…”

"What if..." Marshmallow offered hesitantly, their voice soft, "...we told MePhone about your thoughts?" “No, no, I'm good”... Nora thought frantically, her internal voice a whirlwind of panic. “Well-“ Nora interrupts marshmallow “I’m not a contestant and it’s kinda rude to do that without consent to a non contestant” Marshmallow holds up her hands in surrender “Ok ok! Geez!”

Trophy, nora, marshmallow and ghost bow had been walking around the mansion, bow was yappin a lot and then all the sudden she mentioned a story about how she got her tail and notebook asked about it and then now responded this “Well there was this race thingy magingy and if the line hits you then uhh.. your like dead, but it only got my feet”

Nora was confused “I’m sorry but I’m having a hard time processing this… help me understand”

Bow sighs and facepalms, of course no one pays close attention and then after they start asking questions “Well what do you wanna know?” “I wanna know where you were!!” Bow thinks for a bit “Well… there was blue… everywhere and there was just a race line and then dough followed me…”
Nora was getting somewhere “What kind of blue” Bow thinks for a moment “The same blue as… mephone?” Nora was collecting her thoughts “Wait… mephone… mephone… mee… me tech… meeple… cobs… me tech… this is the purgatory mansion so it has no me in it… do you have boundaries and limits?…”

Bow thinks for a bit but then answers “Well I don’t like it when people invade my personal space and take my food I mean like I ha-“ Nora gestures her hands telling her to stop “No I’m not talking about those boundaries, I’m talking about you being a ghost and… I think you know what I mean” Bow then re-thinks “Ooohh… well we can’t really leave the mansion sadly”

Nora then thinks… for a while until her eyes widen, she felt this sort of unease going on in her mind… was everything she was told a lie… she cleared her thoughts but she thought sharing her thoughts would escalate a tragedy so all she could say was “We need to not tell a soul about this marshmallow!”

Marshmallow faces notebook “B-but what if I need to tell mephone… this could be ba-“ Nora interrupts “I MEAN IT!!!”

Trophy chimes in “Woah woah ladies… stay calm…” Nora snaps at trophy
“THIS DOESNT INVOLVE YOU!!, marshmallow just please don’t tell anyone about this!!!” Marshmallow's brow furrowed with a newfound concern, their voice a little louder now. "Well... the information you were talking about actually kind of scared me, so I feel like I really should tell MePhone." Nora tried to sound more convincing “Marshmallow I mean it!!!”

Bow chimes in “Look red girl… I agree with marshmallow…” Dough flies over “I agree with my sister bro” “I AM NOT YOUR SISTER!!” Trophy steps by marshmallow “I kinda agree with marshmallow too…”

Nora was trembling, feeling unheard. “You guys are really oblivious… aren’t you guys… that’s just cute… you know I have been a researcher for years but training isn’t easy… I learn about the stuff I never wanted to learn about but I always get mentally and physically hurt in the end… I was never fine you know… I just wanna let out my knowledge instead of bottling it up, now I have to suffer with this smarty pants stuff… DO YOU NOT KNOW HOW MUCH PAIN I HAD TO ENDURE!!!”

They all looked at Nora stunned and shocked about her outburst, Nora looked left and right at them and then just sighs, her breath was shaky holding back tears as her face turned pink from embarrassment “You know what… I’m leaving…”

Then she ran away out of the mansion as the tears rolled down her cheeks… what the hell they are idiot and she is a government professional, no… she was the idiot for being smart, they didn’t deserve that, no… not at all, why just why- all the sudden her thoughts were interrupted by trophy walking to her not bothering to even run, Nora stopped in her place not daring to say a word, trophy stopped then spoke “Notebook… I think marshmallow will keep her mouth shut… and I’m sorry that I have been a bone head since I met you…”

Nora takes a deep breath getting ready to spill some lies being an investigator to cover herself “N-no I’m sorry… I feel… like a failure… I worked all my life for this moment… I had so many moments and I wanna make my ancestors proud… I wanna make my dead parents proud… I wanna make my company proud, I want the people to be safe… but I feel like I’m the bad guy who will lead people into threats and stuff and…” As she was rambling about her troubles through the tears trophy started feeling something he would never feel… sympathetic- nonono he would never I mean he would have a soft spot but… trophy walked up to her as she was rambling about her self hatred issues, trophy then pulled her close and kissed her forehead to shut her up, notebook was flabbergasted as her face turned reddish pink… even more pink)
“T-tr-trophy w-wh-wha-what I-I”

Trophy chuckles “I do that to a lot of women and they like it a lot…” Nora’s brain was literally having a computer virus and trophy was laughing about it, he then looked at the sky as the bottom of the sun was squishing an ombré between yellow and pink “Hey… let’s get back to hotel OJ… ok?” Nora nods and takes his hand to stand up and they walk back together in silence… it was an awkward walk, trophy stole a glance at notebook as his smile was forming, it wasn’t his usual smile he does at the other contestants before he was voted off, it was more of a comforting smile as notebook couldn’t get her mind of what he just did

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Nora woke up all groggily, her mind wasn’t thinking straight after what happened yesterday… especially with trophy, she got out of bed and started walking downstairs until she heard a voice “Notebook! You look rather…” He took a pause. Tired?...” Nora blinked slowly, mind feeling like pure slush, “I look awesome…”

Trophy nods sheepishly knowing that she isn’t much of a morning person “True… I made non-orange coffee if you want some…” Nora shook her head to change her expression, her eyes expanded with sparkles “Yes please…” she sat down and was taking a sip of her hot coffee “Ahhh… this is so good… I have coffee everyday and that was the only time my coffee tastes bad but still…” Trophy chuckle “Coffee addict eh?”

Nora wanted to chuckle but she had no energy “I have a job!” Trophy was now curious “What kind of job…” Nora knew she had to lie… AGAIN “Ummm… I’m an investigator so I send information to scientists so they can study it and crap, I’m just the go-getter” Trophy nods “Oooohhh I see” Nora just chugged down her coffee “Anyways I need to get going…”

Trophy raises an eyebrow “What are you doing?…” Nora had to come up with something to hide she was gonna research about mephone “I was- uhh… gonna continue to do my work… yeah! I need to walk somewhere!” Trophy shrugs “Ok?…”

Nora then exits hotel oj to walk around, as she felt the coldish breeze hit her as her face adapted it more, she would think that mephone was the key to leading to cobs guilty or not guilty case. As she was walking around she felt her back and back of her head feel a invisible pressure of feeling someone’s eyes on her but she ignored that red flag to find mephone

Taco was finally healed but she wanted pickles redemption, why the hell did she ever think of doing that thing with the final four, she swims through the bushes as mepad follows a long. Taco would do anything just to be forgiven, she all the sudden heard voices… it was… knowledge…, she would follow the voice that was getting louder but it was at normal volume, she would then see a red notebook with pink cheeks and was muttering to herself and taco heard something about meeple, mephone and ect ect, and it was starting to get to taco’s assumptions that she could now a password to hack mephone and take the money and redeem herself, taco carefully made sure to not step on a stick as the lipstick colored notebook was yappin.

Taco asked mepad if he had anything but mepad was getting hesitant if he should help her or not help her. Taco gave him a glare then mepad just gave in and gave taco a drugged cloth, taco carefully walked over to Nora and then CRACK “AH WHOS THERE?!!?” Taco then pounced on her as she turned her back, taco put a arm around her and then used her free hand to press the cloth to her nose and mouth, Nora rolled her eyes up in drowsiness until her body became light, she was still breathing she was just unconscious “Alright mepad! Teleport me and her to wherever it’s inconspicuous”

Mepad nods obediently then teleports the two girls into what used to be mephones “loser closet”. Taco grabbed the rope and she wrapped it around a notebook connecting her arms to her torso and waist and then wrapped extra around her hands and then to her feet, she backs away admiring the work she did and then mepad summons tape so taco and sticks it on her mouth. Nora’s vision was all hazy and blurry and her mind felt like butter in a microwave and slow, she then regained her consciousness and then looked around and her eyes shaded the sides with eerie and then her vision was all together and she saw a taco standing in front of her and a iPad standing on the side “Hello… notebook right?”

Nora tried to say something but her voice was muffled and she felt the strains pressing on to her as she struggled then taco spoke with evilness and manipulation sounding sweet in her voice “Don’t struggle too much dear… the more you struggle it will hurt. you can die from suffocation~”

Nora was used to being kidnapped, I mean she was a spy and she would find a way to get out, somehow. Mepad was in the corner of the closet watching this play out, he felt bad but he did want to help taco but was this the right way to help?, taco then got to Nora’s eye level “Tell me about mephone… and if any personally security to hack or whatever then tell me any passwords!”

As taco pulled the tape off of Nora’s mouth she winced, in all of her spy missions her best technique was to not scream so she just tried to listen to taco and see if there was a way to manipulate her “I’m so sorry but I have no idea who mephone is and also why do you think I am the master at this?”

Taco then grabs mepads arm and then turns on voice recording and would replay all of Nora’s words she said about mephone and other stuff “Now… I’m gonna ask again… tell me more about mephone. c'mon give me some hope here~” Nora was sweating, she didn’t want any harm but she tried to follow her mental rules in being kidnapped. “I… I’m not telling you anything!”

Taco would chuckle finding this amusing “Then what if… I stab you-“ Mepad then interrupts “NO NO, NO ONE IS HURTING ANYONE!!!” “Well maybe we do, maybe I could prick you with 100 needles, burn you, drug you!! Ohohoho so many things I can do~” “NO NO ONE IS GONNA DO THAT” Taco would then roll her eyes then sweetly with a hint of sarcasm say “Oh I’m kidding I’m kidding…” Taco would then look around the room to find something sharp that could cause harm until she heard glass shatter “Perfect” She would break a bottle to make it sharp as a knife and then slowly approach notebook “Say goodbye… spy~”

Taco raised the bottle high as Nora was wincing as it already hit her but out of the blue a green pickle came into the room “Hey I need a new battery for my remote contro-“ Pickle dropped his controller as he saw the scene of taco about to stab a innocent looking red notebook “P-pickle please you don’t understand! I-“ Pickle sighs then he would have a straight face and then he spoke in a stern voice “Back… away…”

Taco hesitantly backed away with worry in her eyes, pickle approaches the notebook and starts untying her “Sorry about taco. she has been an idiot in season 1 of inanimate insanity but after she lost season 1 of inanimate insanity she unveiled she fooled us all and she has been… yknow…” Nora nods but on the inside she just wants to leave the closet not having a conversation with anyone “I know… I know…”

When pickle was done untying her, he walked to the doorframe motioning taco and mepad to follow him, Nora walked out catching her breath trying to cope with how she was kidnapped, she has been through a worse kidnapping situation but she still tried to cope with it. She was now finding mephone so she could ask questions but all the sudden a portal was formed right infront of her. A lightbulb and a paintbrush came out and the first thing they saw was a red notebook. Lightbulb then said something “Uhhh… excuse me but… WHO ARE YOU?!!?”

Nora was a little bit caught off guard due to lightbulbs shocked reaction “Don’t worry, don't worry it’s a hotel so you better be prepared because some random people will come to this big hotel. you know what I mean?… But anyways, do you know who mephone is?! If you do tell me more please, it he related to me tech or-” Paintbrush noticed lightbulbs overwhelmed face so they stepped up and was gonna talk to the red notebook “Listen… if you want to learn more about mephone then go to this place”

they then show a map and then they point at a cave, Nora nods and then takes the map, at night notebook would be getting her items to then leave hotel oj to go to the cave and then find some sort of blue jewels and then take one, crack it open and then leave

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In the evening Nora came into the hotel all rusty and tired, when she was approaching the hotel she heard some… catchy music? She would then be at the door, twist the door knob and then pull it away to see a party. She would come inside to see trophy just chilling and when trophy turned to notebook his face would light up and then he would leap to notebook greeting her “Heya noteb-“

He would pause where he was gonna talk to see Nora all lifeless looking and bored “Hey… look maybe just drop whatever you need to drop off in your room and come on down, everyone else wants to meet a hotel guest”

Nora nods as she smiles at him, she would then drop off her research and then come downstairs to be a part of the party. She was kinda anxious so to higher up her bravery she would find some drinks but there was no alcohol. She would find OJ and then ask him if there is any whiskey or wine but OJ told her that there is strictly no alcohol allowed here. She was just there a little nervous but why the hell should she be nervous if there is literally pea brain objects h- “Heeyyyaaa guest”

Nora would turn to see a baseball who could be named baseball of course “H-hi, you must be baseball because you’re a baseball… correct?” Baseball giggles “Of course! Anyways, whatcha doing here, huh?” Nora would fidget with her hands trying to think of the right words “Well I’m a investigator for scientist so… I am finding science stuff and blah blah yknow”

Baseball would nod “Ooohhh I see… your not as bad as Testtube, she would just be “blablabalabalabla lalaladededededededeedeeew science science coo coo goo goo plu plu plu buuuhhh”, yeah that’s testtube for you” Nora would find that statement funny, she would then see a nickel heading towards them “Hey aren’t you trophys girlfriend?”

Nora’s face would turn redder than it is and hold her hands out in defense “Nonononono that’s all wrong. W-who told you so?!” Nickel would shrug with a stupid smug look on his face “Oh he’s just been… softer when he came back that day. Even he made you that coffee you craved which he never ever does for anyone!”

Nora would then come up with something “I’m sorry but I have a job yknow and I am not a dumb object who would just compete in a game show for money to get rich like that! I make actual money from actual work!” Nickel would scoff and roll his eyes “Soooooooo coool~”

Baseball and nickel will then walk to the couch to play that one game pickle likes, as Nora was just there and a kind looking suitcase would come up to her “Notebook, right?” Nora nods softly to give confidence to suitcase “Ummm… I just- we don’t get guest a lot of guests at this hotel so… I just wanted to say hi that’s all”

Nora would smile softly as she left, she would just look around being silent until she felt a hard arm on her shoulder “Heeeyyyyyyyy you must be the new guest!!” Microphone said enthusiastically which made Nora overwhelmed but she kept up with it “I-uh yea! Hehe”

Microphone would laugh then lightly punch her shoulder “Aren’t you a little cutie!” Nora would laugh anxiously with microphone until they heard a silly voice “Hey microphone… don’t overwhelm the girl too much, ok?”

She would then see a red fan, she was kinda happy to know she wasn’t the only red object in hotel OJ “Hiya stranger! I bet ya already know me since you read some of my blogs” Nora tilts her head “Huh?…” “Yknow… it’s me! Fan!” Nora tilts her head completely dumbfounded “Ok?…”

Microphone scoffs playfully “Fan not everyone knows you on the internet y'know” Fan sighs “I know… but anyway hello!” “H-hi” “I’m fan… and because you're a notebook your name must be notebook!” She nods “Y-yeah I’m notebook!” Fan would give her shoulder a light punch “Anyways I’m gonna go see what Testtube is up to”

Nora chuckled anxiously but also is agitated about Testtube that dorkish nerd jerk, notebook was just clearing her thoughts thinking about nothing specifically until-...

Someone shrieked, it was microphone. All the guest saw pickle inanimate “S-something happened! I don’t know what b-but I swear I didn’t-“ Because Nora was an important person that worked for the government she has detective skills. She then chimes in “I know it wasn’t you because if someone kills someone then the victim should have injuries, he doesn’t have a single trace of blood or a single scratch on him but-” Nora was then cut off by balloon “How are you so smart about murder stuff?!!? What are you?”

Nora was now stuttering and stammering “I-I uhhh” Trophy then stepped by notebook then put a hand on her back and announced “Guys guys! Don’t worry she is a talker as always and if she ever talks again then let her and don’t question it because she is super duper smart, smarter than all of you guys!”

Nickel was amused and scoffed “Wooow looks like notebooks boyfriend stepped up” Trophy became flushed “For the last damn time nickel… she… is… not… MY GIRLFRIEND!!!!” Nickel chuckles at his outburst “Yeah yeah…”

Trophys expression changed to flushed red and stern until he faced Nora, his expression softened at her “Notebook… you are doing too much now it’s not good for your mental health, go rest.”

Nora wanted to argue but she didn’t feel like it, she didn’t feel like doing anything now so she just rested her shoulders and walked to the elevator and then to her hotel room. She walks in and checks her fixed phone which shows a Lock Screen of her time at a work party and the time was 10:00PM.  She flops down on the bed not in the mood to even scroll on her phone so she just passes out.

As she was dreaming she felt flashbacks of her life, the O.B.E.A. Training, waking up in blood at 13, Other cruel missions and ect. She then opens her eyes and then rolls to the window side of the room seeing the light rays flash through the windows.

Nora then gets up and then goes downstairs to see… no one? This is confusing, she wonders what happened to all of them but then she thought of trophys voice, his advice “Just don’t relax. Have good mental health”.

Nora decided to not even look for anyone because 1: she is shy and introverted and 2: she likes the quiet. She would then do all sorts of stupid stuff around the hotel… well not too stupid because she is not a pea brain like all the other objects, she was doing fun stuff like reading by the oj pool, eating a healthy and super yummy meal in quiet, running laps around the hotel for exercise and whatever is boring fun but all the sudden it just hit her, these 20 minutes were fun but there is a special person she would like to have fun with. She would then search for clues to find where the others are or if the others were out and what time will they be back. As she kept searching around she would start to feel some consciousness but she is already awake so she just ignored that feeling and kept searching.

So I guess relaxing makes you feel more awake, that’s good, she was thinking about trophy and how she is more relaxed because of him. He is so handsome… maybe i guess hot… mayb- all the sudden she heard a loud weird noise. She ran downstairs fast as possible and when she went into the gaming room she all the sudden dropped still, she couldn’t move, her eyes were wide, she was trying to manipulate herself this wasn’t true. It was all the objects inanimate and they had writings on them and they said their weaknesses and how they act in a negative way, notebook leaned down to trophys inanimate state and there was a “sore loser” writing on his face.

Nora was gonna find out who did this and once she knows who then they are gonna be in so much trouble by authorities and maybe with some people who work for the government. Nora was searching around the grounds trying to find the man behind the slaughter, the culprit, the one who is gonna get their ass caught by supreme federal force, she couldn’t find who was doing this so she tried to exit hotel OJ but the door was locked as the weird noises got louder. She then tried another door but it didn’t work, her breathing got faster, sweat was forming and her shoulders were rapidly going up and down as she kept trying to open the door even though it won't budge. Nora turns her head to see mephone but it wasn’t the mephone she knows about, it was an X mephone. When the mephone shined the X on her face, Nora squeaked in pain, damn that burned her face. As she was on the floor enduring the pain helplessly she heard footsteps that got louder and louder.

“Well well well, if it isn’t one of Carson stables spies”

Nora immediately new that voice, it was definitely Steve cobs

“C-cobs?!!?”

Steve chuckles in amusement and satisfaction as she knew who it was without asking

“Look notebook… or should I say… Nora books, I am going to give you the chance to stay alive IF you give up the mission and leave this area…”

More mephones walked towards her

“Leave now… or die”

Everything felt like the end for her

“I”

“Said”

“Give.”

“Up.”

“NOW.”

All the mephones shined their Xs at Nora that made her slowly fade away in consciousness in pain. It has been an hour and she still didn’t die but as the seconds go by the pain slowly faded. Nora then shot up in her bed in cold sweat, she was looking left and right then at her door and she saw some glitching fade, it was weird but she had the worst headache ever so she could not acknowledge it, she got up quickly and tried to go after it but she just paused before running. She didn’t wanna waste her energy trying to catch the mephone so she just sighed and relaxed her tensed muscles. She was walking to her lamp, turns it off then hops into bed. The next day she wakes up to the final contestants doing their final challenge. It was 8:00 and she was way too tired. She would then go back to sleep not even caring what time to wake up at.

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***Trophy's POV***

As always there was a hotel OJ party, sometimes it feels like it is getting old but it’s never getting old! Anyways the two contestants who are suitcase and knife were at hotel OJ and catching up with people and yada yada yada while trophy was there getting a Dr fizz. Suitcase was talking to balloon and soap took a picture of mic and they playfully were mad at eachother while knife high fives mic. He then came up to trophy and trophy looks two ways and then he said

“W-well… sup knife” Knife raised an eyebrow, he expected him to say something toxic to him but then he realized it could have been that red notebook he talks to “So… that notebook made you soft eh?”

Trophys face dusted pink, he almost spat out his dr fizz but he swallowed it accidentally choking on it “M-me?! Soft?! I’m not soft!!! You gotten soft, you’ll probably let the suitcase win!”

“Pffft! Nope! Still gonna beat her!”

“N-not with that attitude you won’t! Shoving down all the feelings inside of you!”

“You’re shoving down your feelings big time man, you want to marry that notebook don’t you!”

Trophy sighs in defeat, maybe to settle this like men is to have a real man to man conversation, he feels weak but now this is a way for him to be tough “Look… ok fine I do…”

Knife's smile softens as he looks at the golden trophys face, he then puts a hand on his shoulder “If I had to admit it I feel like I have soften up to yknow, to be honest… I feel bad for suitcase, she has been going through betrayal and hallucinations and that junk and to be honest I kinda want to let suitcase win. it’s a part of manhood, you will loosen up and have open arms soon!”

Trophy smiles at knife, for once in his life he doesn’t feel like a jock or jerk “Thanks man… but good luck!” Knife smiles at him “Heyyy to be honest I feel like winning a million of dollars sounds worthless if you are in a show about being idiotic. I’d rather marry a smart person who actually makes money from working instead y'know!”

Trophys face flushes but he doesn’t try to cover it up to deny it “Hehe, maybe… I love notebook and I would date her but just let’s leave it a not now” Knife chuckles then smirks “Sure sure take your time, and if you ever pick a fight just so you know there will be one thing that will stop you from being so irresponsible…”

“What do y-“ Trophy then thought too far in the future, having kids is going to stop him from being the jock he is- NONONONONO not now not now not nowwwww “H-hey!!! Not so far, p-please now I feel my muscles fading from hearing that…” Knife tries to hold back a laugh “Ok ok… but keep doing what you’re doing ok!” Trophy nods then they hug each other and hardly pat each other on the back “Thanks man!” Knife walks way as he holds a thumbs up “No problem brother”

***pov over***
As the party went on with Nora which she was now snooping around rooms. She was now stalking mephone, she would hear a lot of his conversations, the conversation with mepad, mephone and the finale 2 contestants was about mephone not wanting to go at all and also was about knife and suitcase asking if he can bring pickle to life. Nora then wrote in herself that mephone has some sort of fear of going to meeple and she also found out that the contestants went there before and her hypothesis was they could have met Steve cobs there. She went downstairs to the hotel oj party and she saw some very unfamiliar people like a purple candle, silver spoon, a light blue cabinet, blue slime and other unfamiliar objects but she just assumed that they went to other areas here for fun because a purpose of a hotel is to just use it for storage and sleeping their and then going to do stuff. Anyways as she went downstairs she knew that baseball and lightbulb the so called team leaders of their inanimate insanity challenge will be watching us, notebook went downstairs and was greeted by the team leaders, baseball casually said hi but then lightbulb bursted out.

“OMG YOUR THE RED NOTEBOOK THAT CAME OUT OF THE PORTAL!”

Nora looks the other way nervously as she fidgets with her fingers

“Well I-“

Lightbulb interrupted

“Hello weird notebook!”

Oj and paper step up, paper cheerfully says

“Hello and welcome to hop!”

Oj facepalms

“Paper, in the name of the sweet almighty gods it’s HOJP-“

Paper shushes him

“Just let me be OJ”

Oj sighs then looks at Nora

“And you must be the resident who checked in… I-it’s weird that you check in this hotel and never party with us… I mean you did one time but hey if this is a work trip then you came to the right place because hotel OJ is for work trips and fun! Having fun notebook?”

She nods

“I am, thanks OJ. Anyways can someone please tell me what’s going on here…”

Baseball replies to Nora

“Well the final 2 have to do the finale and mephone and mepad have some stuff to do…”

It was just silent until they all heard that weird noise, Testtube was about to make a comment but then fan said

“I know that sound from anywhere… guys that is (I FORGOT WHAT FAN SAID HERE 😭) ANYONE WITH ME!!!”

Paper was sad

“Awww you guys are leaving already! We were gonna do a spoiled lemon reunion!”

Spoiled lemon? Who the hell is spoiled lemon, notebook decided to ask who that was and maybe she can see if this spoiled lemon person is apart of MeLife

“Hold on hold on… who is this spoiled lemon guy?!”

All the objects look at her like she was born yesterday, paper then says something

“You don’t know spoiled lemon… the band, this song?! “ALL I WANT TO DO, IS GO TO A PARTY 🎶 “

Nora was puzzled, why did she never here this band before, she rubs it off and then lies

“Oh… that spoiled lemon… oh yea I love spoiled lemon!”

Paintbrush nods with Testtube

“Yea I’m hopping off of hop.”

Baseball jumps

“Wait! It’s not safe to go out yet!”

Lightbulb interrupts as she then lays on a chair

“What baseball really means is we all are ok and it’s ok to go out!”

Fan, Testtube and paintbrush then walks out of hotel oj

“Thanks!”

Lightbulb then looks at baseball

“See! That got a much better reaction!”

THE THE FUTURE IS SO YESTERDAY WHEN EVERYTHING IS RUN RUN RUN YOUR WAY AND I FORGET SOME OF THE LYRICS BUT I DONT CAAARRREWW THE FUTURE IS SO YESTERDAY

As the hotel oj party went on, baseball was talking to yinyang then lightbulb and oj was bothering paper as he made paper hats. Nora was on her laptop doing some work on the couch, she was filling out papers and trophy was next to her, thankfully he is a ding dong head and does not know what she is doing. It was two seconds until oj was acting nervous and then oj came out of the room

“Does anyone hear that?”

Lightbulbs hands were on her hips

“Apparently there has been a lot of weird noises today, why don’t we all try to make our own, I’ll start! Mglarglarglar… sorry that could have been calmer”

Oj backed away

“It’s coming closer”

Baseball looks where oj is looking

“Oj, I don’t here anything”

Oj looks around and then spots mephone X, he then fell on his butt while hyperventilating

“No… stop! NOOOO!!!”

The Mephone got OJ and OJ then spilled on the floor as everyone screamed, this was Nora’s final straw, as everyone was surrounding the empty glass she ran to her room. She went inside her drawer and then she plopped a fanny pack on her floor and then she would throw in anything, bandages and weapons and her phones. After she packed her stuff she rolls up blankets and covers up the mini blankets with the big blankets so whoever walks in can think she is still sleeping. She walks towards her hotel room window and then carefully climb out then safely got down and ran.

Nora then went outside of hotel oj, she then looked up and spotted the Mecloud. she got her grabbing hook ready and then pointed it BOOM, she was now flying in the air. As she was flying up she then saw the Mecloud building then back flipped swinger right onto the roof, she looked to her left to see that an air tag was broken

“Oops… that was an accident.”

She looks straight to see the other tags talking and doing stupid stuff until they paused to see this crazy notebook with a grappling hook who is next to a dead air tag, they ran away to report this to Steve cobs. Nora then takes the elevator downstairs to get to the front desk, once she did she found the same hand sanitizer from before, he looks at her then rolls his eyes

“What do you want now…”

Nora pinches the bridge of her nose, she had no time for his bullcrap

“Where is cobs office?!!?”

He sighs

“Press that button! But just so you know he is on lunch break so he will be back in 20 minutes. He isn’t in his office”

Nora goes back in the elevator then the elevator door closes then it goes up, when the elevator dinged she ran out and into cobs office. The door had a face ID thing so she would pull up a picture of Steve cobs that was sent by Carson stables, she scans it on the thing then she goes to his desk. Nora was searching through his cabinet and she saw… drawings? It looks like a kid drew these and they were bad drawings of the contestants.

She then opened the bottom drawer and found some sort of code… but which code goes with which item, she looks up at a computer then typed in the code she is holding the computer flashed into a search bar and on the top it says “Hello, Steve Cobs!”. It was cobs computer, she would then look through his search history, some were just business stuff and other was… questionable stuff… then she found this website in his browser, she clicked on the “www.minder.com” and it was a dating app, she looks through it and sees that he has been hitting on this user called puppybear489, she clicked on the chat and saw that puppybear489 is a 16 year old water bottle that goes by the name by Wanda bryers and Nora scrolled through the chat to see that Steve Cobs pretend to be a young corn man which was scary, she would then chat Wanda

Cornyguyxo3o: hello, is your name Wanda?

Puppybear489: yes! Cmon don’t act like you don’t know me Darren!

Darren?! Is Steve cobs really- nonono this needs to end now, Nora collected her thoughts then typed back.

Cornyguyxo3o: look… how old am I?

Puppybear489: awww cmonnnn, aren’t you 18?

18?! Ok Steve cobs you are now making yourself real guilty here!

Cornyguyxo3o: look… I’m not Darren or whatever, my name is Nora books and I work for the national spy agency and this entire time you have been chatting a 40 or 30 year old man

Puppybear489: huh?… what?

Cornyguyxo3o: here is some proof

Nora sends the user a real photo of Steve cobs in his office

Puppybear489: That's fake!

Cornyguyxo3o: then how about we FaceTime

Puppybear489: well… we never really FaceTime

Cornyguyxo3o: oh I wonder why! Anyways

*calling…. Calling…. Calling….*

As they were calling the water bottle’s eyes widened as she saw the office

“Wait!… prove it that it is not a backround and also show me your police thing or whatever”

Nora turns the camera around then after that she shows proof she is a spy, the water bottle speaks

“Oh m-“

“Say less! He will be arrested for this and also block this user and also your way too young to be on this app so I’m sorry but I’m gonna have to remove you from this app”

“No no, I’m never coming back to minder ever again!”

The call ends and Nora then deletes his profile on that dating app, poor Wanda… hopefully she will be ok. Anyways she would then click on files, when it opened up she would see that all the contents files were on there, some of the eliminated were still on there, she scrolled down and she saw a file called MeLife. She clicks on the file and then it takes her to this thing of buttons that have objects on the buttons which are similar to the objects she knows but there was some missing. She then tried to do this, she would try to look for OJ but he wasn’t there, then pickle but not there. All she could see was two of them gone then she realized that those used to be pickle and oj.

She then thinks for a little. Mephone made the show… mephone is metech… metech made the show… metech made a lot of things she sees… metech made… them? The thought lingered in her mind and she was gonna find out if they are real but she hopes they aren’t, it all seems too real for here. She remembers her life, her everything. Those bad drawings did explain their personalities. But they can’t be born to live up like that because people get to choose their own personalities.

She would keep searching files and see video files and clicks on it, she would see videos of mephone, she clicks on the first one and it shows mephone being all childish, it was all of his memories. As Nora watched him be childish and sweet, cobs was just playing the role as the abusive parent. The videos showed he had ideas for making reality tv shows, he was drawing and watching reality shows, Nora exited the files and turned off his computer, she then put all the pieces together… mephone, cobs and her are real and the others are not… not even trophy… why… just why… she felt tears about to drop, there was a lump on her throat and her nose stung a little. She felt weak to the gut.

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Meanwhile at the hotel all the objects were doing a protection circle so they can protect someone from going inanimate and then the thing between toilet and mephone happens they are just talking and then toilet who was the mephone X started accusing him of hiding something until mepad knew he had to confess something then baseball told him to not hold it in and then mephone took a deep breath. Meanwhile with cobs he was on a ship and then he was being all villany and talking about having those eggs until his mewatch started to vibrate telling him that someone is in his office, meanwhile with mephone

“And that about it!…” All the objects were shocked, they didn’t know how to process it all and the cherries thought he was dumb, balloon was upset of him for making him be mistakeful and paper felt possessed because of the evil loose leaf paper idea. Mic rolls her eyes. “When lightbulb, paintbrush, fan, Testtube and notebook come back I guess I’ll tell them the news”

Mephones sorrow face dropped into a confused one. “A notebook?” “Yeah?… the red one with pink cheeks? “Guys… I never remember making a red notebook!” OJs jaw dropped

“Wait wait wait… if she isn’t real… but she cared to be in this fictional hotel… IS SHE A SPY?!!?” Pepper then speaks “Maybe she is working for cobs…” Trophy then speaks up in a loud volume so no one says anything “Guys! I do not think notebook is a spy!!! She could be created by metech or something!!”

Nickel scoffs “You’re just standing up for her because she is your girlfriend isn’t it?!”

Trophy snaps in a flushed face “Can you just drop that nickel!!” “Hehe never gets old” Mepad interrupts “Guys guys don’t fight, trophy, if you don’t think she is a spy then go to her room and get her!” Trophy salutes “Will do!”

Trophy then went upstairs, found Nora’s room and opened the door to see a lump on the bed, trophy quietly steps over there to make sure to not wake her up if she is sleeping. He then lifts up the covers to see nothing under there, he starts to panic “Uhhhhhh she isn’t here…”

Trophy looks out the room to see all the contestants, the cherries talk in sync “Then where is she!!” Trophy then shot a determined look “I’m gonna look for her.” Trophy runs out of hotel oj, as he did mepad and taco followed along with trophy “Why are you guys following me?” Mepad responds “She could be in meeple doing something so you need assistance for help and taco will come along to redeem herself”

They were trying to find something inflatable until they ran into marshmallow and trophy had the dumbest idea “Oh hi g-“ “Hey I bought some candy air, want some” “Oh… I never knew that was a thing but sure!” Marshmallow was holding in bubbles in her mouth that made her go fat like a balloon or like balloon, they all got on her then trophy stops on her that made her blow air out of her as they flew fast to the mecloud. Meanwhile with Nora she was just there processing her emotions, she was taking photos of some illegal stuff he did until BANG!!!

“Oh… it’s you again… you're not supposed to be her-“ Cobs then saw everything, he saw cabinets open and he saw that she looked through his computer “Oh… I guess if that is so then I guess I can’t let you live anymore…” Nora then stands up “I am a spy and I work for police officers so you are under arrest for copyrighting and abuse to technology and to the egg environment!”

Cobs chuckles then pulls out a gun “I don’t think so…” Nora was used to seeing guns pointed at her but this time because she is going through a lot of emotional baggage she panicked so she opened the window and was about to jump out until… BOOM! “AHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! HOLY S*beep* MOTHERF*Beep* THAT F*Beep*ING HURTED YOU *beep*HOLE WHY THE ACTUAL *Beep* DID YOU DO THAT YOU SON OF A *beep*”

Meanwhile when the others were there at the front of the HQ they were just dumbfounded that she actually cussed on a family friendly TV show and the beeping was so loud that even mephone and some other contestants heard. Nora was wincing at the pain in her shoulder, she then steps back at the door then runs out. Steve cobs speaks in his walkie talkie “Close down every exit! We are going on lock down!”

Then Steve cobs was just dilly dallying and walking like it is a normal day as he was hunting Nora down, why? Because there were some AirTags chasing her, Nora saw an air tag get close up to her so she uses her spy training skills and kicks the AirTag open. Other AirTags blocked her way then she kicked about 12 of them down. She was running towards a closing gate, she then slid down then kept running, she then saw mepad, taco, marshmallow and trophy in sight. Nora then stops by then to catch her breath and now marshmallow was asking a bunch of questions. “I’ll explain everything later!” Marshmallow was gonna say something but taco grabbed her hand then the four ran and Nora was gonna run with them but then “Yooo hoo… times up spy.”

She stood in place, not moving an inch, the others stopped to see Steve behind her “Go on notebook… or should I say… Ms books… go run.” When she lifted up her foot to press it down on the 1 inch away from her concrete all the sudden she felt something go through her stomach, her stomach was sore as hell. She fell to the ground, she was trying to hold the bleeding

“Notebook!!!” Trophy ran to her, the horror in his eyes and the panic he felt, the sweat coming down “Notebook!!! I uhh… just stay put! I can get mephone to call someone!!! Or… MEPAD PLEASE CALL 911 OR ANY HOSPITAL!!!” Mepad was panicked, he tried to call someone but for some reason it wouldn’t work

“I don’t think it’s working but I’m trying!” Trophys gaze turned back to the bleeding notebook, he cups her face and tries to hold in tears “Please! Just hold on!!” Nora coughs out blood, her eyes were full of realization that she won’t make it so she knew she had to do this now

“Trophy… My name isn't notebook… never was… it’s actually Nora… Nora books, the real reason why I’m here is because I’m supposed to see if cobs is guilty or not… and I was never an investigator… I’m a spy…” Trophy shivers as he held her “Why are you dumping so much information now…” Nora coughs then looks in his eyes giving him the ‘You know the answer’ look he eventually understood “No… NO!!! YOU WILL LIVE!!! YOU WILL MAKE IT!!!”.

Nora was acutely aware of her limited time left, the only reason she hadn’t been writhing in pain was due to the adrenaline of the situation, but she refused to die on the floor bleeding out in sadness, no, she’d die with something good coming out of this. Using what little strength she had she sat up and moved to trophy, intertwining his lips with hers. At first she was afraid she did something wrong as he winced against her, but before she could pull away trophy put his hand gently on her back, melting into the kiss. She no longer cared who saw as the approaching pain was flooded by pleasure and relief. Her head became light as she tasted the sweet flavour of Dr. Fizz and she couldn’t but smile, breaking their kiss as Trophy took that as a good place to stop as he pulled away, the only thing connecting their mouths was a fragile bridge of their intertwined saliva. Trophy was so clearly self conscious of this as he swatted the bridge away, involentaily she chuckled as his demeanor shifted from an egotistical jock, to that of a sweet and sensitive partner. Nora nodded, yes, this was a good way to die. Nora lies their, her vision became white until

Her pulse was gone

The others just stood their, all they could hear was trophys sadness as cobs stood there all satisfied of what he did

“Well then… I guess you guys should start running or else maybe the same thing could happen to one of you guys… especially you mepad… should have killed you when I had created you

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As mepad teleported the 3 objects out leaving Nora’s corpse there. They didn’t teleport at the hotel, they were at the purgatory mansion. Trophy was silently agonizing as the other 3 were just traumatized or didn’t know what to say. Apple ran up to marshmallow. “MARSHMALLOW! Are you ok?!” “Yes apple… just… I need to lie down..”

Apple and marshmallow were having their interaction and everyone was talking amongst themselves except for trophy who did not feel like talking at all, microphone then asked mepad “Where is notebook?” Mepad then froze up, it's like the traumatizing scene played again, he didn’t know how to put it into words so he just stutters “W-well-“

Taco fidgeted for a bit then decided to hold out Nora’s wallet “Souvenir?” Microphone takes the wallet and sees an ID card of her real name and her real job. The others were interested and then mepad was gonna stop them microphone shouted out “Wait… SHE WORKS FOR THE GOVERNMENT” “And she was gonna see if cobs is guilty or not?!… well he is guilty as charge!”
Trophy was just there… grieving. He was frowning and his eyes were wet and red, he looked tired as hell, paintbrush taps trophy on the shoulder “Trophy? What happened to notebook- I mean Nora?” Trophy breaks eye contact with them and looks at the floor in pure despair “…she’s gone…” Paintbrush knew what he meant but said something that will hopefully cheer him up “I mean… you’ll see her in another life!”

“Are you an idiot?! I’m not real and she is and we won’t come to the same afterlife as me!!! YOU IDIOT!!!” Taco breaks them up by asking mepad “What is happening to the final 2?! They could be hurt just like how Nora was!!” Mepad shows them what’s happening “It looks like they will be on soon!”

Bow was hearing all of this from the walls, she flies out and flies to mepad “But what do we do?! Aren’t they gonna like, die?!” Mepad sighs, hoping he isn’t correct “It’s possible…” Bow just stared at him like he was an idiot “BUT WHAT ARE WE GONNA DO NOW?!!?” Dough then flies in “Who are all of these people” Mepad looks at dough “Sorry for not notifying you for coming but hotel OJ is under attack!”

Paper whimpers “T-they got OJ!” Paintbrush then says “We need to alert suitcase and knife! I know they are at the mecloud but how do we tell them about this?” Taco then adds on to help paintbrushes cause “we think they are on the sailboat but mepad can’t teleport that far, I would know cuz I abused his power before but now I’m helping” Paintbrush nods “Noted”

“And I can’t leave the perimeters of the mansion! It’s like house arrest… haunted house arrest” Marshmallow looks down thinking “There has to be a way” Apple looks over at bow “Bow, remember how you can be a little possessive?” Bow scoffs “Yes I know but I’m trying to work on the- ohhhh now I know~”

As the entire apple being possessed and teleported thing happened and she talked to knife and suitcase, trophy sat in the corner… silently crying as he clung onto his knees. It was really true… Nora was gone and he was never gonna see her for the rest of eternity. As the hours went by all the objects felt the world around them glitching, even themselves until they vanished… everything mephone created has vanished.

(WATCH EPISODE 18 AND PRETEND TROPHY HAS GONE EMO LOL)

After everything happened, trophy stood by the vending machine which was the first place she and trophy met. He was looking at the stars to see a sign of Nora in the sky. “You doing ok trophy?” The ghost of knife was there by trophy “Just… I miss her”

Knife knew he was talking about “I mean to be honest it has only been just a few days but I already liked noteb- I mean Nora… but she loved you the most didn’t she.?” “Yea… she did… damn you cobs! I’m glad he’s dead… but it doesn’t change the fact I’m never seeing Nora again…”

Knife sighs and puts a hand on his shoulder “You did all you could.” trophy scoffs as a tear rolls down his face “It should have been me though…” “Don’t say that! Either way, that still was gonna happen!” Trophy sighs “I mean real life people have one shot… ONE shot and I can get regenerated whenever I want to! She deserves to survive…” “Well… yea but what if the laser does get you? Or something bad happens and you die?! Because if you do die guess who will never recover!” Trophy looks at knife in the eyes “Who?” “Nora! She loves you so much that she did that! She is watching you with Angel wings!”

“I know… Nora would miss me like that…” trophy sighs before knifes grip got tighter on him “But wanna know who else will miss you!” “Who?…” knife smiles a little sadly “Me…”

Trophys smiles with his eyes before smiling softly, they would both try to hug but trophy went through knife then he fell on the ground, because it was a hill he was rolling down, why? Because trophies have cups and cups are round so he is rolling down the hill “THANKS KNIIFFFEE!!!!” Knife gives him a thumbs up. When trophy stopped rolling he looked at the sky again but this time, finally happy after Nora’s death. He knows Nora will always love him.

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This is my II oc I made and my friend helped out with it, we would do calls and stuff just for this FanFic and now we are finally done. I hope you all enjoy and this will be on AO3 and it will be my friends account. I first made my oc on November Thursday 7th and the first call we did was when we were playing pressure and then after my math tutoring we started the fan-fic and stuff. Anyways GOOD NEWS!!! We will be at the II and BFDI tour!!! Thanks so much for reading this fic and I hope yall make fan art and other stuff about this.