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BFDIA 6
“Want some berries?”
The members of Freesmart and WOAH Bunch have been falling from the summit of Yoyle Mountain for what has felt like 10 years. Ruby clutched a hoard of Yoyleberries in her arms.
“I don’t!” Pin responded. “Because I’ve already had 13- well, ummm…. maybe 23? I don’t remember! I feel like it’s been so long!”
Ruby frowned and moved on to the next person. “What about you, Book? Does my friend DICTIONARY want a LICTIONARY?”
“You are OBSESSED with Yoyleberries! You’ve been feeding them to everybody!”
“What?! No…..”
Despite Ruby’s denial, everyone around her was made of Yoylemetal…well, you can’t really tell with Nickel or Needle.
“Yes Ruby, you definitely fed them to EVERYBODY.”
“Aww…”
Book felt a little sympathetic for Ruby. “Well… in an alternative universe, I feel like I would have said no.”
But for some reason, Book also felt like in ANOTHER alternative universe, she would say yes?
“But…. Uhh….. I guess just one would be fine!”
“YAY!!!!”
Maybe Needle was thinking too hard, but she could have sworn that most of the people who were falling were NOT made of Yoylemetal a few minutes ago, including herself. She had no memory of ever eating any Yoyleberries.
——
The Announcer messed up big time. And it wasn’t just him almost getting caught by Pencil earlier.
It had been a WHOLE 10 YEARS since he accidentally shut off the show. Luckily everyone here still believed it had not been that long.
His fellow speaker boxes who have traveled across space and time gave him some bad news. During these 10 years, a future show taking place in the same universe as theirs was created.. something called “IDFB”, “BFB”, and even one called “TPOT”.
Because of his mistake, the link between the BFDIA timeline and the timeline of these future shows was non-existent. He wasn’t sure what happened in the future shows, only that they exist. So how was he going to steer BFDIA in the right direction??
In other words, if BFDIA continues in a way that it wouldn’t make sense in BFB, one of these worlds would be WIPED OUT in order for the universe to make sense of the other. They couldn’t coexist.
Should I just end the production of BFDIA? Their budget was getting incredibly low.
Whatever, he should leave the finances to Firey Speaker Box. Right now, as much as he wanted to return home to his ball pit, he had to stop their world, or their future world, from ending.
He could only think of one solution. The Announcer knew how to time travel with the use of Yoylite, though he often avoided using it due to the dangerous possibilities.
Hypothetically, if he were to travel to the future right now, it wouldn’t send him to BFB, but to either: The (BFDIA) world ending, or the continuation of the world where BFB and TPOT would cease to exist. So time travel wasn’t really a great option.
His solution was one that was very lucky to exist. On the Announcer’s birthday, he received a “TIME-LINK CREATING (TLC) SHOVEL” from the other speaker boxes.
He didn’t know who created it and why they had to make it a SHOVEL of all things, but by gathering enough “WTFs” with the shovel, a link between BFDIA and BFB could be constructed, and the universe would live to see another day.
….he wasn’t FULLY sure how it worked, because like, what the hell are “WTFs”? Announcer noted to ask one of the speaker boxes for a TLC SHOVEL User Manual later.
Perhaps he could give it to a contestant to test it out?
——
Needle recovered Fries, Tennisball, Gelatin, Rocky, and Golfball.
“Good job, Cranklord!” Nickel said.
As she was about to recover Firey, Coiny stopped her. “Ah, Firey doesn’t count. You know that.” Needle shrugged and walked away, along with Coiny.
When they were all gone, Nickel stared at the HPRC for a while. Then typed: “F-I-R-E-Y”. crank crank, ding!
Firey popped out. “Thanks, Nickel. I always knew you were Coiny’s good twin! Wanna form an alliance?”
Nickel grinned. “You mean just you and me?”
“Yup. It’ll be fun!”
“Okey dokey! Let’s go to the cake at stake! Hopefully my new ally isn’t eliminated!”
“Oh no, I forgot about that!!”
Unnoticed, someone, a stranger perhaps, watched the new friendship form from the bushes. The pair began walking to the cake at stake area.
“By the way, I’m not Coiny’s twin! I’m my own thing!”
“Alright, you’re the improved Coiny!”
“Yeah, like that.”
——
Fries felt SUPER sore after being recovered by “Crank-lord”. It felt like he had been asleep for 10 years. Not only that, his memory wasn’t too great. What happened again?
…
Right, Puffball betrayed them…
I thought she was the only decent person on our team, but I guess not.. He wished he didn’t have to team up with anyone, though it would be pretty disadvantageous so early in the game.
“So, Team No-Name, last episode you guys failed to reach the summit of Yoyle Mountain. So you’re up for elimination!” Firey speaker box chirped.
“Wow. It feels like yesterday that happened! It’s like I just blinked my eyes and suddenly it’s the next episode!” Fries thought it was pretty obvious he was being sarcastic, because what he REALLY meant was that it feels like it’s been 10 years since that happened. Nobody spoke of the elephant in the room.
“Uhhh…”
Most of Cake at Stake flew past his head because he didn’t care to pay attention. Puffball just flew into Firey’s prize or whatever. Tennisball, who’s supposed to be SMART, ate Yoyleberries zapped with electric currents and died. Also Fries was safe, cool.
“Uhh, why are you not eating your cake? That’s rude.”
Fries displayed Tennisball’s corpse in front of FSB. “BECAUSE?!?!?”
Golf ball started complaining about being in the bottom two, again. “WHAT! HOW DO I KEEP ENDING UP IN THE BOTTOM TWO? I’M THE LEADER OF MY TEAM!”
Fries, who was still holding up Tennisball’s body, was mildly concerned by what happened next. “Okay, I know I’m canonically supposed to be dead right now, but I’m coming back to life to say that GOLFBALL, you’ve blurted out that line so many heckin’ times I wanna rip my ears off!”
Did tennis balls have ears? I mean they can hear, so maybe??
“Okay, back to being dead now!” TB reverted back to his deceased face, with his tongue hanging out and all that. Gross…
Long story short, actually the story isn’t that long, but Puffball got eliminated, which everyone probably expected. WOAH bunch started their episode-ly team switch. Fries didn’t really care if they lost a team member because honestly having the biggest team was getting annoying.
(12 “Keep those neck muscles extended!” later…)
…Fries wasn’t too familiar with Gelatin or anything, but his voice sounded…different. Also, he only just started to notice that his fries smelled horrible. They were like, a year old. Maybe even 10. But didn’t he JUST get recovered?
“Eh, whatever..”
——
Gelatin (But Fries also felt like it was Pin who was saying it??) didn’t like that everyone was made of metal.
“Want to use my Anti-Yoyler?”
“Huh? What are you talking about, Fries? Pin already removed their metal with the yellow tomatoes!”
“W….What?”
He looked around, and indeed, everyone was back to normal in the blink of an eye. Was I hallucinating earlier or something?
“Silly Fries, you must be expiring!”
“Shut up Gelatin!”
Firey sighed. How could Rocky leave him??
Nickel walked to the sad Firey. “Hey Firey! Good to see you’re safe!”
Firey looked up. “Of course I am! I even won the prize!”
“What’d you get?”
“..A meteor shield.”
“That’s not really helpful..”
“Yeah.. it protected me from Puffball, but when am I EVER gonna use it again?? Hey wait, now that we’re allies, do you wanna switch back over to No-Name? We could really use it after Rocky left!”
“Sure!- wait…” Nickel looked at his teammates. He’d hate to be so disloyal. And Coiny would definitely know about his alliance with his enemy, right? “I think we better keep this alliance a secret. I don't want anyone to see me as a traitor, you know?”
“Oh, okay! We can do that, as long as only one team is UFE.”
“If we’re gonna work on separate teams, just call my name and I’ll come help you!”
“Alright, I’ll do the same!”
——
“Today’s challenge is to find a cozy building to live in!”
Okay, okay, you guys know how BFDIA 6 goes.
Umm, long story short for real this time, they found a completely normal hotel, Pencil sucks at driving, Nickel’s adopted, Fries accidentally exchanged phone numbers with Evil Leafy, Freesmart and Woah Bunch ‘played on the seesaw’, then Woah Bunch lost… yeah, you should all know that already.
Hey wait, did WOAH Bunch really lose? Or has the timeline changed?
——
In the Evil Here hotel
“Team NO-Name is the first team to fully fall asleep, so they’re safe! That means it’s just down to Freesmart and WOAH Bunch!”
At the Aerospace Manufacturing Plant
The two teams screamed continuously, their bodies switching between being dunked in water and shivering in fear from Evil Leary’s cold glare.
“AAAAAAA”
“AAAAAAA”
“AAAAAAAaaa… wait, I know!” Nickel had an ally! “FIREEYYYYYYY!!! HELP ME!!!”
Needle stopped screaming. “..You really think he’s gonna hear you? And FSB said-“ she was cut off by the water. “-No-name has already fallen asleep!”
Coiny chuckled. “Nickel, Firey is still dead, remember? We didn’t recover him.”
Spongy also joined in on the non-screaming. “Coiny, obviously someone out there, perhaps his team, revived him.”
“I guess that’s true, but Nickel, why did you call for Firey’s help of all people?”
“uhh…he’s…the first person I thought of!”
Firey appeared on the roof of the building. “HEY GUYS!”
“Firey! I knew you’d hear me! Help sabotage the Freesmarters for us!”
“On it!” He jumped on the right side of the pipe. “W-wait, there’s so much water! I can’t go in there!” Firey scrambled away and clung to the middle of the pipe, which unfortunately for him, was where Evil leafy stood. “AAAAAAAAA”
A sinister, red glow shined on the center of the pipe. “Oh no, he got possessed! I’m sorry, Firey!” Nickel yelled.
“I figured that would happen. Firey isn’t the most reliable guy.” Coiny whispered to Nickel.
Apparently the now-possessed Firey had a great sense of hearing, because he went straight for Coiny. “Wait what??”
Black, thorny vines shot out of Firey’s back and pushed Coiny and Needle off the pipe. The shift in weight became unbalanced and Freesmart sank further in the water. “Firey!! I said to sabotage Freesmart, not us!- Oh, they’re in the water now, cool.”
Somehow, even while possessed, he understood Nickel. He turned away and teleported to the other side. Book was about to swim out of the water, when Ice cube suddenly pulled her away from the surface. She tried her best to communicate underwater. “Don’t get out of the water yet, or Firey will get you! I have the balloons, we just need to tie-“ she started screaming, because something, or someone, was pulling her deeper into the water. It was Coiny.
Needle, who was also in the water after being pushed off, popped Ice cube’s balloons. Book slapped Coiny away and the Freesmarters swam off. The weight from the right side of the dehumidifier was lifted, causing the WOAH Bunch side to sink back in the water. Everyone except Spongy ran to the other side to balance it out.
Ice cube floated on the surface of the water, as ice cubes do. “Oh great, we lost our balloons.”
“Any other ideas to get out of this place?” Pencil asked.
Book floated on her back. “Well, we can’t swim to the bottom and try opening the doors, could we? The pressure from the flooded building is too strong compared to the outside, so the doors are pretty much sealed shut.”
“omg, it’s over for us..” Ruby cried.
Meanwhile, the rest of Woah Bunch remained on the pipe. Evil Firey didn’t move because he was fixated on Freesmart, but couldn’t reach them. Coiny and Needle climbed back on as well.
“…Well, Firey’s not doing anything, but how are we gonna fall asleep now? We don’t have our blankets and pillows.”
Pin was floating under them. “Guys! Rocky is dead! He fell on my point!”
“Oh my mint, we forgot about Pin!” Bomby and Coiny pulled her up. “I guess we have to get out of here if we want to recover him. How do we get out?” Coiny asked.
“…Hmmh! I know!” Yellow face pushed Bomby towards the middle. “Evil Leafy!”
“H-Hey! What are you doing?” Bomby screeched.
Evil Leafy/Firey approached Bomby and lit his fuse. “OH NO FIREY YOU LIT MY FUSE!”
Yellow face remained unfazed, his usual unsettling smile creeping up even at the thought of Bomby’s demise. “Needle, now you can throw Bomby at the wall so we can get out!”
“Alright..” She tossed Bomby, whose explosion damaged the wall. Water erupted from the damage, pouring out and forming a pool from the brick fences at floor level.
“Now it’s safe to jump!” Pin cheered. “Good job, Yellow Face!”
WOAH Bunch jumped off the building, landing safely in the pool. “Weee!”
Evil Leafy/Firey remained on the pipe due to their shared weakness of water.
Meanwhile, Freesmart was still under the pipe, floating around. “Guys!! WOAH Bunch just made a hole in the wall, we can jump out too!” Book called.
Pencil slapped her. “We’re GIRLS! But yeah, let’s go!”
Pin flinched at the four members crashing into the pool. “Ugh, Freesmart is here too!” She groaned.
“Guys, run! We have the blankets, we just need to find a different building! Any building!” Pencil shouted. Ruby stuck her tongue at Pin as she escaped the pool.
“We can’t let them do that, after them!!” Pin yelped, attempting to swim after them but failing due to her..circumstances.
“Uh no, we don’t have time to do that. We need to recover Rocky and Bomby so all of us can sleep.”
“Dang it, you’re right!”
——
Freesmart entered a building which was labeled “Nice Area”. (Yes, this is an actual building in Yoyle City.) Pencil smiled. “Huh. Nice area!”
“Yeah, that’s what it’s called.”
It appeared to be a hangout place of some kind. It wasn’t as disgusting-looking as the other abandoned buildings, but still had a slight musty feeling. “I guess it’s good enough. Let’s go to sleep.”
Ice cube played music on her headphones. “Woah, Ice cube, you figured out how to retire your headphones?”
“What a soothing tune!”
“I should consider you.. a more valuable.. team member….” the team dozed off.
——
The team was very tired after a long run to the HPRC, especially while being soaking wet during a cold night.
crank crank, ding! Rocky and Bomby were recovered. Bomby glared at Yellow Face, but didn’t say anything. FSB appeared out of nowhere, as usual. “Sorry, WOAH Bunch! Freesmart fell asleep before you guys did! So you’re up for elimination!”
“Noooooo!”
——
Oh. Okay, so WOAH Bunch still lost. I guess nothing important changed.
——
BFDIA 7
The Announcer didn’t have to worry about their budget anymore, thanks to Lewis who lended them the money after winning the lottery. Maybe things were going to be okay.
Then, FSB just HAD to mess up and get the LOL locked up…he shouldn’t have trusted him to run the show.
Oh yeah, FreeSmart also got their hands on Yoylite, which may be a good thing, or a bad thing???? Probably a bad thing. Yep, that’s bad.
Besides these side problems, he still had to get someone to use the Time-link creation shovel. Maybe he could get Lewis? His talent IS digging holes…
Well, the truth was, the Announcer rigged the lottery Lewis entered because he knew his kind heart would donate to FSB. He wanted to use this “Lottery rigging” as a payment for whichever contestant would help him, and Lewis already won the lottery, so he wouldn’t have any payment for him. Also, it’s hard to communicate with him.
(And if you’re wondering, speaker boxes can’t enter the lottery (DISCRIMINATION!!), so the Announcer can’t rig it for himself to win. The reason for this will be explained later. A long time later.)
He recalled a time in BFDIA 2, when he heard the words: “Get digging, Bomby.”
——
“Hey, why are you guys still at the Aerospace Manufacturing Plant??” FSB totally wasn’t asking this because he wanted to use Coiny and Nickel to get more money.
“Um, Nickel suggested we try to go back and save Firey, but now we’ve been stuck here for three weeks! Plus it’s our home, isn’t it?”
“That doesn’t HAVE to be your home… but I appreciate your efforts in saving my owner.”
Firey Speaker box shot the still-possessed Firey with freeze juice. Both him and Evil Leafy crashed into the water as an ice statue.
“Sigh…I’m so sorry, my wonderful owner… well, let’s see how many votes we received!”
69548.
Wait, actually 269548.
Bomby felt a little unsettled. Why was nobody talking about the huge jump in votes? Where did all these people come from?!?! Last time we only had a total of 9810 votes!!
He quickly forgot about this oddity because he won the prize! I’m not sure what I did last episode to get so many likes, but yay! I didn’t think I would be so loved.
Bomby was transformed into a “cute little Yoyleberry” (as stated by Nickel, to Bomby's displeasure). Yellow face had a not so great reaction to the new color, but if he’s gonna be a hater, so be it. Spongy’s frisbee partner (Rocky) got eliminated, but at least he got to eat…um, asbestos cake.
——
crank crank, ding!
Firey was recovered. “Thanks, Nickel! Sorry I couldn’t stop them…”
“It’s okay, we would’ve lost anyway since Rocky died. At least I’m safe!”
Tennisball approached him. “Umm.. Okay, Firey… we’re.. really close friends, right?”
——
In short, as you already know, Gelatin and Firey switched to Freesmart. “Sorry Nickel, I have to try and get Ruby’s Yoylite this episode!”
“That’s alright! We can help each other next challenge!”
“By the way, shouldn’t we try and make a cool name for our alliance?”
“I think we should. What about.. Zeeky Boogy Doog?”
An explosion was heard in the distance. “Eh, sounds too dangerous!”
“Aww, okay.. what about Gleeg Snag Zip?” Another explosion was heard.
Nickel winced. “That’s too.. explosive of a name, you know?”
“I know! You two should be called Nickel Oxide (NiO for short), because when you burn nickel, you make nickel oxide! Though I’d like to note that Nickel is actually made of 25% nickel and 75% copper, aka cupronickel!”
“Tennisball, why are you here? You’re not in our alliance!”
“Awhhh okay…” TB walked away.
“I think it’s a good name though! NiO can be pronounced like Neo, which means new, and we’re a new alliance!”
“Good thinking! Also, I noticed even though nickels are 75% copper, they’re still nickel-colored! That must mean you’re cooler than Coiny!”
“Heh, I guess I am!”
——
Tennisball sent two of their teammates to FreeSmart for a rock. Fries wasn’t against this idea at all, as long as they actively sabotaged the Freesmarters. It was Gelatin and Firey who were leaving, after all.
Not too long later, he saw FreeSmart blasting off into space, so they’re probably doing a great job.
——
“I wonder what my next product should be!”
The Announcer sprung up from the bushes behind Yellow Face. “How about you make something… edible? Like… a grape flavored…uh….drink?”
“No! Grapes are PURPLE!” Yellow Face spat.
“But look over there.”
Bomby was gleefully frolicking around, not a single care in the world.
“You can use him for your next product.” the Announcer said.
“Wow! You’re right! Time to kidnap him! Thanks, random speaker box!”
——
“B-O-M-B-Y” beeped the HPRC. The speaker box cranked the device as it whirred.
Ding! “Huh? WHERE’S YELLOW FACE?!”
“He’s selling your remains as a grape flavored powder to your other teammates right now. 200% off.”
“What! My remains aren’t that valueless!” Bomby crossed his arms, annoyed he was being left out.
“Anyway, I need you for something. Follow me.”
——
In the Yoyle Woodlands
Fries didn’t know how he ended up with these people. The two balls have been nerding out about the stupid space rock for 10 minutes. Luckily, he glued GB to a tree, so he walked away.
“Hello” a familiar voice chimed.
Far away enough from his teammates to hear, the Announcer sneaked up on Fries.
“Uh, what do you want”
“I want to give you a gift. Here. Isn’t it cool?” Although the speaker box wanted to convey a cooler image of the gift, his robotic and monotone voice was unhelpful.
“Oh, a shovel. Wow, thanks.”
.
.
.
“Uh, so, what do you want?” Fries sounded like he didn’t want the Announcer to be here, like his presence was unnecessary.
“You might find some building materials underground for the challenge. Go dig.”
“Eh, I don’t feel like digging right now. Wait, who’s behind you?”
Bomby revealed himself. “Huh? Fries? Speaker box, why am I here?”
“Fries, now you have someone to dig for you.”
“WHAT! SPEAKER BOX, HOW COULD YOU!-” Bomby cried, before his attention was hypnotically directed on Fries.
“Get digging, Bomby. The building materials are probably underground”
Bomby instantly started digging. The Announcer imaginarily patted himself on the back. “My work here is done. Kind of. Time to see how the shovel works.”
3 minutes later
Fries wasn’t the most patient person in the world, so he jumped down the hole to see if Bomby found anything yet.
He landed on top of Bomby (and somehow didn’t break his legs I guess), who was mindlessly digging.
“Hmm… nothing yet. Wait, what's this?”
On the handle of the shovel, it said in glowing Yoylese, “GET DIGGING”.
“…Isn't that my phrase?”
Then, Fries shivered a bit. It was gradually getting colder and colder… and brighter??
“why is it getting brighter, aren’t we going downwards-”
After one last swing of the shovel, the floor broke. It was hard to explain, but it was like they had just dug to the other side of the world.
Or perhaps, a different world.
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