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“Man, I'm so excited to start preventing death!” Bottle told her team happily as they relaxed before a challenge.
Suddenly, a fork came flying out of nowhere and hit Pie, causing her to explode. Her blueberry filling covered Bottle, who wiped it off nonchalantly.
“...Annnnd Pie is dead!” She told them cheerfully.
“Wh- who did that?” Black Hole asked.
“It was Gelatin, he threw the fork.” Remote told Black Hole, pointing towards him.
“We should probably get him to stop doing that, then.”
“Actually, I think Barf Bag’s doing that for us.” Remote said, as she watched Barf Bag walk up to him.
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“Um, Gelatin?” Barf Bag started nervously, “Maybe you should stop doing that?”
“But why? It’s fun!” He replied, as he briefly stopped throwing forks around.
“But what if you hit people?”
“I don’t care!” He said, before he started to throw his forks again.
She sighed, before noticing that Lollipop had walked over to her.
“What?” She asked, not wanting to deal with her.
“Well, I was just wondering if you would want some of my patented fork repellant to deal with Gelatin,” Lollipop told her casually, “You do know how it works, right?”
“Yes? Why wouldn’t I?”
“Well, given all of the barf molecules in your head, I wasn’t too sure…”
Barf Bag gave her a frustrated groan. “Lollipop, we need to talk about this barf molecule thing. You may think it lowers my intelligence, but science shows; THAT'S JUST NOT THE CASE!!”
“Mmmm…” Lollipop hummed, before she grabbed Barf Bags hands and wiggled them around.
“Wait, what's that I see? Indeed, it looks like your arms are wiggling.”
“Wh- GET YOUR HANDS OFF OF ME!” Barf Bag yelled at her, slapping her away.
“Well, since you clearly don't care about this topic, perhaps you should take a nap?” Lollipop said, “ It might do you some good.”
Barf Bag screeched in frustration, before she stormed off back to her team.
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“Alright guys, now I’m really ready to start preventing death!” Bottle told her team once again.
Then, another fork came flying towards the group, this time hitting Pen.
He screamed as it pushed him towards Black Hole, and he promptly got sucked up.
“...Oops.” He muttered.
“...Annnnd Pen is dead!”
“Our team has now prevented 0.00 deaths.” Remote recited to the others.
“Guys, we're not doing a good job at this whole ‘saving lives’ thing. We might need to up our game.” Liy told her team, who nodded in agreement.
“Well then, may I interest you folks in my fork repellent?” Lollipop asked as she casually walked up to the six of them.
“Does it help save lives?” Liy questioned her.
“Yep.”
“I’ll take it!”
Lollipop handed her a can of fork repellant, which she shook vigorously before spraying it onto Tree, Pillow and Remote.
Gelatin tried to throw a couple of forks at them, but they swerved away from him, until they finally lodged themselves into Four’s skin.
“OW!” He yelped, as he quickly pulled them out.
“WHO DID THIS?!” He yelled at the contestants, who wordlessly pointed towards Gelatin.
“Uhh…” Gelatin started to panic, as he realized what he had done.
“Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr...” Four growled, as he pointed his hand towards him, before shooting a laser at him.
Gelatin screamed in agony as the laser made him slowly shrivel up, but just before it fully killed him, an alarm rang out.
“Oh!” X said, before he ran over to an alarm clock sitting on the grass nearby and shut it off.
“Four, it’s time for the intro!” he called over to them.
“Fine, whatever.” They groaned, as they reluctantly stopped shooting Gelatin.
Four quickly stretched his hand up into the air, and everything went dark.
.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.
“Now, it’s time for Brake at Flake!” Four said cheerfully.
“Don't you mean Cake at Stake?” X asked curiously.
“No, I don’t.” He said flatly.
“But-”
“I’m not listening to someone who doesn't know their value.”
"...Aww." X looked at the ground sadly.
Four quickly recovered Balloony, and the pillars from before popped up under the feet of Beep’s members.
“Oh wow, I've never been up for elimination before!” He exclaimed, “Gosh, this is- I'm feeling so much pressure!”
“Aw seriously?” David said judgmentally.
“Anyways!” Leafy cut in, “So, I know that we may not have seen eye-to-eye last time, but I wanna let you guys know that I always have your best interests at heart!”
“Then why did you kill Balloony?!” Cloudy yelled at her.
“Uh, well, I-I only wanted the best for him, I just wasn't aware of his condition-!” She replied nervously.
“.- -. -.. / -- . ..--..” Roboty beeped.
(Roboty: “AND ME?”)
“Oh! Roboty, I didn't mean to hurt you either! I'm truly sorry!” She told him, continuing to apologize.
“Do-da-da-da, do-do-do-do...” Four hummed, before the area around the Bathrooms suddenly darkened.
“Oh, that means Cake at Stake is starting...!” Nickel remarked, before promptly getting slapped by Four.
“IT’S BRAKE AT FLAKE!” They shrieked, before promptly pulling back.
“Ahem,” Four cleared his throat, before continuing, “Beepers, you lost last time, which means one of you will be going to SLEEP!”
“Zleeping? I love zleeping! That'z when I get to collect dreamz.” Cloudy said happily.
“Cloudy, don't get so comfortable! Sleeping is Four's code word for elimination and eternal algebra class!” Balloony corrected him, before turning to see Macy looking at him with concern.
“...Uh, Balloony?” Macy asked him confusedly. “How do you know that? You aren’t supposed to...”
“Oh, uh, I was just... guessing?” Balloony replied nervously.
“HMMMMMMMMMM-” Four stared at him intently, as Balloony started to sweat.
“H-hey, Four?” Nickel interrupted, “Why don't you tell us how many votes we got?”
“-MMMMMMMMMM…19,843.” He muttered.
“That’s… almost double the amount from last time! Right?” Macy asked.
“Yup.” Four nodded, “Yay.”
“Now, the prize for today’s elimination is this mini Earth!” Macy said, showing off one of them. “The 7 safe contestants will each get one of them, while the most-voted contestant will be eliminated.”
“Burn center,” Four said casually, “Now, Balloony got the least amount of votes, at 755 votes!”
“Wow, it’s so cool!” He marveled as he caught the Earth, “Look at this!”
He poked an area of the Earth with his finger, just before a giant version of it comes down from the sky and crashes into the ground nearby.
The two hosts stared blankly at the devastation Balloony had caused before they continued.
“Nickel and Cloudy are also under a thousand votes!” Macy said, tossing two Earths towards them.
“Wow, now I’m worth 6 cents!” Nickel replied, as he admired his planet.
“And my planet collection is complete as well!” Cloudy added.
“Is the little one safe?” Balloony asked worriedly.
“Yep, at 1045 votes.” Four answered, throwing an Earth at him as well.
“And Woody is…” Macy trailed off as she read his votes, making him start to panic.
“...Safe, with 2001 votes!” She shouted, making him sigh in relief.
“That says 2010.” Four pointed out.
“...Oh.” She said, embarrassed.
“Hold up!” Nickel interrupted, “So now it's down we’re down to Man, Machine, and Nature. Hmm… which one could our team do without? I'm thinking… machine.”
“.-- --- .-- --..-- / .-. ..- -.. . / -- ..- -.-. .... ..--..” Roboty beeped back indignantly.
(Roboty: “WOW, RUDE MUCH?”)
“Wait, Nickel, What’z a MAN?” Cloudy asked.
“Huh? Oh! A man is someone like David-!” He started to explain.
“What? No, David isn’t a man.” Macy told them, swiftly cutting Nickel off.
“How do you know?” Balloony asked.
“Just… trust me on this.”
“Either way, Roboty is safe with a measly number of votes.” Four lobbed an Earth at ROboty, which bounced off his chestplate with a clang.
“Oh no, David! Now it's just the two of us!” Leafy told him sadly, “Well, although our time on this team together was short, I want you to know that I appreciated every second of it.”
“Aw seriously?” He replied.
“Actually… I hate to say this, but David is…safe.” Macy told her reluctantly.
Four tossed the last planet at him, which David caught while muttering his trademark phrase.
“Sorry about that, Lemon Leaf, but you’ve been eliminated.” Macy apologized while placing one of her tablets in Leafy’s hands, “Any last words?”
“Oh, well,” She started, “You guys were honestly a fantastic team, and I'll miss all of you-AAAAAAA!”
Four cut her off as he started to drag her into the elimination, and she screamed as she was sucked into his head.
…
From a distance, Firey watched the elimination take place with a blank expression, only dropping the facade for a split second as he frowned watching her being eliminated.