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Liam stared at the sky, leg throbbing due to his injury, he noticed that the song that was playing had ended, he thought it quite nicely described the situation he was in

"I should try going back to the cave" Liam said as he turned around, he entered the cave and sat down at the stool, he looked at the mic and messed with it to talk to his friends, it made a click, indicating it was on, he spoke into it

"H-hello, can anyone hear me?, is this working?" Liam said

"BACKPACK!" Amelia screamed, a glimmer of hope in her voice

"LIAM!" Bryce yelled, with the same tone as Amelia

Liam was excited at the sounds of their hopeful voices

"Yeah guys, i-its me, I got to Airy's place and found the computer that can send you guys home!" He said

"Can you do that?" Amelia asked

"I don't know how, im so sorry" Liam said

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Amelia broke down in tears, Bryce and Charlotte running over to her to comfort her, Liams heart broke at this, she deserved to be happy more than any of them, he walked out of the cave to cool off

He grabbed the laptop and got an idea, can he charge Texty with this?, he sure hoped so, he plugged the laptop in to the computer, it charged it, he opened it up

"Texty?, are you there?"

"*holy shit Im alive, hi Liam :)*"

"YES, your alive, anyways, I'm at the computer, airy is gone so I have free access to it"

"*you killed him, yay*"

"NO, but I tried to kill him, I broke my leg trying though. It's gonna be a while before it get them out"

"*aw damn*"

"Well, I'm going to get some rest, I'll be back"

When Liam came back to the cabin, he sobbed for a bit and went back

"Have you found anything yet Texty?"

"*no*"

He looked at his friends on the plane, he missed them, he could see they were all sleeping, he hoped they were having at least semi nice dreams

He sat down and thought about that fateful mid February evening, it was a nice and peaceful one, before his life got ruined, he rummaged through the endless files, trying to see what he could find that could possibly help him, but the backpack found nothing, he couldn't find anything in the piles and piles of files that were on Airy's computer, he tried for hours and hours, eventually falling asleep at the table, catching some well needed z's

Button woke up in a strange place, this was her neighborhood, whoever that "Airy" guy was, he was strange, the last thing she remembered was a massive rock coming down, and she ended up here, she saw her friend Elysia calling her name, she noticed a table with a radio on it, and two chairs on it, but instead of checking it out, she ran to Elysia, before everything faded white

Bryce awoke, he was still on this shitty plane, he hated looking at the same fucking grass, the same shitty green grass that covered this plane, the grass blades looking extra ugly today, he screamed in frustration, wondering when the hell Liam would get them out, he thought about Kylie, he hoped to god she was ok, that she would be alright, he hoped and hoped, Amelia was still crying, as she ran off to the shack, he felt terrible about that

Kylie sat down on her bed, she was just relaxing after a long day at epic burger, she missed Bryce, she wished he hadn't died on that smokestack, it would have been so much easier to do her job that way, he was her best work friend, she just though about him until the mustard bottle fell asleep

Garrett was a little empty after Amelia's disappearance, the yoga studio would never be the same without her, he wanted her back but he knew she would never

Stone tumbled back into thier rocky home, the ground filled with carbon copies of him, with all the knowledge in the omniverse, his main goal was to stop Airy from continuing ONE, he picked Liam to do the job because his strong willpower would make him perfect to do the job

Charise was talking on the phone with her friend Taylor, but she randomly stopped talking, she wondered what happened to her, she called and texted but to no avail, she was about to give up when Taylor finally texted back, she felt so relieved

Liam sobbed, he wanted more than anything to get back to his life, he wanted to save his friends and go home, but he couldn't because some sicko kidnapped him and forced him to play a game for 7 months, and when he finally got a chance to kill him, he failed miserably, he lightly cut his left pinky toe, making sure not to cause excessive bleeding, he bandaged the toe up and went back to the cave

Caney woke up in a strange place, his job with a table, two chairs, and a radio, he ran after his mother who was calling them anyways

Stone felt horrible, he saw the future playing out now, Scen- Amelia smashing against the wooden pole that was used for a challenge recently, he could see the massive pole tilt 44 degrees to the left, before swinging its unstable base 69 (nice) degrees forward, going to 85 degrees right and 85 degrees forward, and with one final left hook from Amelia, the pole swung 88 degrees to the left, falling on the candle

Texty was looking through files on the computer when she heard a shatter from the plane, only one contestant could make that sound

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Ame pulled the antenna, she landed