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Entry 719

Nothing out of ordinary... Same old place same old routine. Waking up with the same angry possume again, how does it even find me every time, finding somethink edible to eat, getting chased by meeple's robot army... And now finishing it off with some journeling. At this point it's the only think keeping me sane..."

Fan cacled. As it wasn't sad enough as it is, this was his life now, even thou this wasn't always the life he lived, it all did started with somethink big...

Everything changed when the meeple's robots attacked, way back when they all had only one goal in mind; finding and terminating Mephone4 and Mephone4S... After the season finale of the show where Mephone4 hosted both Mephone4 and Mephone4S were destroyed by the deadly robots along with two other contestants. Fan being the, well 'biggest fan' of the show knew deacent amount of information of what happend. He was actually there and watched with his own eyes as it was happening.

It was hard for Fan, witnessing the death of your favorite...thing? Hyperfixation? You get the point. He needed to do a lot of thearpy throu well journalling, it soothed his loneliness a little bit. It  has been a long time since he encountered any other objects, he didn't really mind it at first but as the time past he was feeling his thought getting louder and that wasn't really the best for him. He knew there were objects left... At least he heard their screams once in a while... He imagened the ones who survived just tried to rebuild the homes they lost or just lived in the rubbels of the destroyed homes, not everyone had to be like him and just live in the forest. He actually never had a place that he could call 'home' wheter if it was an actual home or a destroyed one but living like this was okay, not the best but not the worst -most of the time when he doesn't see that possume- he thinks.

Even if his energy for the day was gone the thought of still needing to find somethink to light his fire for tonight made his face drop. He unwillingly got up from the tree trunk he was sitting, shoved his journel to his bag, grabed it and with his legs leading him he looked around. Luckly not so far to him, he was able to find some branches. As he was reaching for them he swore on his life there was somethink or rather someone was near, he -at this point- knew that he was good at his senses and he trusted them. With the area he was in was reather abonded it took him by suprise.

He usally didn't carry any weapons, not the brightest decision he ever had at an robot apocalyples but other than that he always had his trusty army knife; so he tried to took the knife carefully out of his bag with the least of sound he could make. He held the knife in one hand, grabing it with as much force as he can. Finally after standing and looking at the dried branches on the ground for a solid minute he had a little act of bravery to warn whoever there was from Fan's totally threatening nature, he thought it was only fair.

"Look i know there is someone here, so i-i think just show yourself before you get hurt bud!" Fan said while trying to sound ferm and definitly not scared but his voice crack mid sentence definitly gave him away.

That said, the bush near to Fan's left started to make noises, noises indecaided that someone was basicly having trouble with getting out of the bush.

"Hey! hey can you umm...help? I came with peace, i swear!" The object yelled with a high piched voice to make their voice heard or was it their actuall voice?

Fan sighing with relief. He desiaded to help cus' it was that easy to convinse him that it wasn't someone dangerous 'Man, i need to learn how to not trust objects so easily' he thought.

As he got closer to the bush tipy toeing, the noises became more clear as it sounded like someone was cursing to the bush. Fan reached with shaking hands to pull the leafs to look at the object. The object was a test tube with what seem to have some sort of acid inside it with lots of scratchs on the glass. They had glasses which was not that practiacal but Fan guessed they didn't really had a choise. It was eather being blind or being litearlly blind. They had a belt with verias weapons, which should have been a red flag for Fan but he really didn't cared for any of that... Because there was just something with that object that made Fan couldn't look away from them, like some sort of curse... It feels really hot in here for some reason. Was the forest on fire or something??!

"Uhm... Are you planing on helping?-"

"...W-wha!- oh yeah sorry."

With that fan hold on to the stranger to get them out of the bush but he just felt even hotter now wasn't the best time fan focus.

"Thanks, i will just cut to the chase... I need your help Fan."

As they standed, the sun started to set with oranges and purples danceing in the air. Fan looking confused, how could this weirdly charming object knew his name and what could they possibly want..?

"Okay, thats- hold on... How do you know my name?- " Fan thinked, then looked at the 'Test tube' who had a 'are you that stupid?' look.

"Yeah... Don't answer that. So how can i help?"

"How much information do you have on Mephone4 ?" Test tube said with a death stair.

"Wha-"

"Look, there is no time for explenasions just tell me everything about him that you know..." Test tube said and paused but it looked like she wanted to say more.

'This wasn't suspicios at all...' Fan tought. "Well since you asked nicely, i can tell you that Mr. Cobs, head of the meeple company, you probably know him i mean who doesn't? Anyways he wanted him gone because he was not up to the times standarts. Apperently thats just what they do on Meeple, they destroy the old models as soon as some new model comes. And of course he is the host-" As fan was yapping his heart out the test tube was running out of patiens.

"Sorry but it's urgent just tell me what exaclly did  he looked like?" 

"Whats that goi-"

"Just answer it!" Test tube raised her voice makeing Fan jumped a little.

"Jeez, do you always cut objects off like that?" Fan said, throwing his arms for dramatic affect and raising his voice even thou he didn't mean to.

Test tube sighed, whispering a 'sorry' to Fan. Now with a gentler voice Test tube asked him to come with them. Fan at this point was kind of hessitant but when Test tube reached their hand for Fan to take it, he just took it, following the object in the dark. This was not like fan at all. Being drivin with this force made him question many parts of his life, he was alwaya been the weird kid no öne wanted to hang out with. He now following someone who needed him left his body with this weird butnice feeling. As he reflected his whole life in his head the sky was now becoming pitch black with pretty little droplets of stars but Fan wasn't really paying attetion to his view he was basicly hopeing that the object he was following wouldn't murder them in the middle of nowhere just because he just desided to help a stranger who has been pretty rude to him until now, not going to lie.

After walking for a time the test tube stoped, the wind brushing Fan's face indicated that they were at somewhere high, even thou fan couldn't tell the differens of his eyes being shut or open the thought of looking down was enough for him to get nauseouse and make his head spinny. Still holding hands, Test tube turned to Fan:

"Do you trust me?"

"Of course not, we just met." at least he wasn't that stupied.

"Eh... Fear enough."

"Wait why arEE- AAAAAAAA"

With that they jumped, the adrenalin filling his body. This was it Fan thought while shutting his eyes, it was over for him. He was going to die just because he desided to help and follow an object he didn't know and he just couldn't believe what kind of idiot would do that-

wait did he just heard a splash... Was he in the water?

Fan opened his eyes, seeing they landed in some kind of pool full of water but there was this smell... Oh shit. "Holy shit..." Fan said while hufing and pufing, trying to breath normally again.

"Elephant shit to be exact."

"WHAT WERE YOU THINKING!!"

Fan yelled finally cathing his breath and hopping out of the pool.

"We could have died or worst could have landed in a piel of shit!" Fan started to walk up and down, Test tube getting out of there as well, trying to stop Fan.

"Yeah but-"

"Why were we at the crapy cliff anyway?"

"... The what?"

"You don't- ugh" Fan pinched the bridge of his so called nose looking frustrated as the seconds passed

"This is where Mephone4 was killed, at his reality shows finale." Fan had reached his limits at this point, almost being faced with death and then accepted to be calm was not somethink he could handle apperently because the other object just looked at him puzzeled, trying to understand.

"Oh... Well then, you'll want to see this." Test tube just shruged and started walking ahead.

What the fuck...

Fan thought it wasn't just him probably, he knew any object that was sane enough would react like he would.

After all of this you would think Fan wouldn't want to follow the test tube, the angry side of him still wanted to yell and scream to the object who almost killed both of them but... Okay but he was kinda curios about what the object was going show him.

This time Test tube walking ahead and leading the way while Fan just quitely followed them. With darkness and stars surrending them they walked and walked and walked...

It was very suprising how they didn't triped on anythink and could just walk without a light leading their way. After what felt like an eternity for Fan the sound of footsteps in front of him stoped. He was basicly blind from the darkness, the eareness made his mind go blank until a flash of light was smited tovered him, makeing the fog in his thoughts go away.

"I found him like this today, i mean HOW could he even be here, definitlly have no idea on that haha... So yeah what do you think?"

Fan just froze in his place, unable to think or pay attantion to the object right beside him.

"Mephone..?"

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"Mephone 4?"

Fan couldnt believe it, was he dreaming, was he finally gone insane? That was a high posibality, seeing someone you saw getting killed with your own eyes would probably do that to you-

"Oh good, found the right one!" 

With that test tube just fliped the corpse of the person Fan thought was not really infront of him and took out a screwdriver.

The green object looked like she couldn't care less. A devious smirk formed on her face like a mad person, it made Fan go uneasy as she took her sweet time with unscrewing the back panel of mephone. The panel opened with a loud creek. Inside the phone was expectedly not in a good condision. Cobwebs and dust was covering every inch of the system. She dipped her hands with eager.

Finally all she was trying to find was in her hands, if she could find it with that much grime... But there was nothing... Just wires and other disgusting stuff that builded up over the years.

Just to her luck.

"Fuck! Its gone! Of course it is.." 

Fan finally snaped back to reality with the objects curses, not really nowing what she was looking for, she just looked genuinly pissed and started going back and forth while curseing under her breath.

He found watching the test tube's freak out session very entertaining but his focus was shifting to the stiff body of the host whether he liked it or not. His legs was just moving with their own will. He started to get closer, and closer...

He stoped, his eyes were already used to the dark, just the glimses of the flashlights hue was guiding him now, test tube must have droped it when she strated freaking out. 

At the tips of his feet there was the corpse of the beloved host of his favorite show was laying motionless. It was giving him the creeps for sure, could also been the wind that gently brushed the red objects back but he wasn't really paying attention to that. 

The Phones back was wide open with cips and wires all tangeled up with each other. Fan really didnt understand much about these kind of stuff, it always looked confusing to him but judgeing by the looks of it the green object knew a desent amount of this stuff to look for whatever she was looking for from the begining. When he looked at test tube again she was still going back and forth as they now strated panicing in silence.

"Umm can you.. can you bring him back?"

Fan asked hesitantly, he was already imagening the answer Test tube was going to give him, even with her voice.

"Why would i do that?"

The test tube just turned to face him, her face simpley said 'i dont give a shit if its not helping me'. Sure she didn't found the 'thing' that could change everythink for her, its not that important anyways... But she can't talk about that to him, the last think she wanted was a weirdo following him like a lost puppy. Maybe he would leave if she did what he wanted, could've be easier than killing him anyways.

She took a deep breath as the thoughts in her head cleared.

'Don't forget why you are here test tube help the freak and get lost.'

Fan was watching the test tube as she breathed very heavyly, sound of her breath slowing down as the time passed, standing like this was becaming very awkward but he couldn't complain, she was looking rednecked enough for fan already, no pun-intended.

"You seem.."

"Ughhh finee...i'll try but when i'm finished don't follow me, got it?"

And with that much of convincing Test tube got closer to the laying corpse, sat down and started immerging her hands in the corpse's crabbed insides.

Fan was becoming irritaided as this cutting mid sentens thing happening more frequently but he just nodded as Test tube focused on her work.

'Who did she think she was cutting me off and demanding orders?'

Maybe never seeing this object ever again was for the best, at least for his sake. 

"...What do you execlly want form...it? Like did it owe you a dinner or somethink?"

Test tube smirked, what? She couldn't be serious all the time, she had her moments, rarely but at least she had them. You should she the uncomic she worked with.

"And stop standing, it distracks me"

In fan's head he thought how could someone threathen someone just a second ago and then crack jokes at them like nothing happend, it just didn't really make sence. 

But at this point he didn't had the energy to think about how bizarre this whole situacion was, what time was it anyways and just sat down at the soft grass underneath him.

The green object was already digging the inside of the machine with their hands as it tangled along with the rest of the wires.

"Haha very funny... First of all He didn't had anythink promised for me... İt's complaceted" 

She shruged "...I wasn't that curios anyways-"

"Okay, so it all started back when i just so happen to be near a tree when mephone..."

Great...Just great

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"And that sums up to how the world we know now happened."

Fan finally remembered to breathe and took a deep breath, his throat was feeling sore from all that talking, it had been a while since Fan spoke this much and this loudly, it was almost relaxing for him. 

On the other hand Test tube was certain that she finally gone deaf, it was a miracle how someone could talk endlessly and be as loud as a moving truck. 

"Thanks for the history class but again i wasn't curiuos."

"Oh."

"Anyways, it's done let me just..."

She reached out for the button at the top of mephone's head. With that a white apple with a bite taken out of it appered on the screen. 

This was it, it was happening after all this time, this time Fan had a glims of hope, hope for somethink better. It even made him tear up a little.

He wasn't crying, Test tube was crying.

The laying corpse on the ground was now not so dead anymore, with the loading bar slowly rising it made fan a little more excited, it's wasn't really the same for the other object as she started to get up from her spot and started walking away from Fan with nothing to say. 

'I will kill myself if i had to see that guy again, i swear-'

But Fan wasn't paying any attention as the object left his sight, he was more interested to how slow the bar rised at the screen and what execlly would he tell the phone when he woke up?

'Hey hi i'm fan and welcome to the future!'

No, wasn't enough detail.

'I know you, such a big fan of your work!'

No, that was too creepy, even for him.

"Ughh... What happened"

Mephone slowly straightened up from where he was laying, being motionless for more than a decade made it hard for him to move, makeing him almost forget how it felt to have limbs and how to control them. 

When he looked around a skittish looking briggt red object was turned around to face him, they were really close for some reason, the object was sitting right by his legs and was getting closer. At first he pulled back a little, first thing he saw after years was a stranger and he was sure it was called being plausible.

But the object wasn't getting the point that Mephone didn't want to get closer with someone he didn't know but Fan just got closer, it made the phone alarmed, he wasn't liking this one bit, his expression becaming stiff.

Fan wasn't the best at reading objects faces but he realised the more he got closer mephone was not getting closer at all. As you can see Fan was...let's say not socially awear. 

So he decaided standing was the second best thing to do other than following the phone. 

...

This was becaming obstrusive.

Fan finally took a breath he didn't realised he was holding.

'Come on Fan, you are good at talking, it's literally the only thing you do.'

"H-hi" fan pointed yo himself "Fan" he talked really slowly like he was trying to talk to a imbecile. 

Mephone just looked strangley, did the object thought he didn't knew how to talk?

"...Yeah i can see that." 

Fan was an idiot, a loveable one but he just looked like an idiot for now.

"Sorry... I -amm..." 

Fan went blank. He sweard from his head smoke was forming like his system got over heated. He couldn't even realised that the phone was now on his feet, walking or at least taking baby steps, really slowly that it was questionable if this counted as walking. Wobbling with each step he finally got close enough for Fan to snap back, he automaticly reached his arms for the faltering phone to take it.

"Thanks..."

"...I know this is going to sound creepy but i know you."

Fan stopped, he really didn't know how to contiune that sentens but at this point he wasn't really thinking, just his mouth betraying him for the millionth time in his life.

"I thought you died... I saw you die! With my eyes!" Mephone was cluching his hands onto Fan's arms now, his grip getting tighter. 

"You...you were there?" Mephone raised an eyebrow. Finally he let go of the Fan's embrace.

"It was the season finale, i had to be there."

"Let me guess cus' you're the biggest fan of the show?"

They looked at each other and couldn't help but chuckle at the dumb joke. It did lightten the mood after all, mephone wasn't really a fan of obscurant situacions anyways.

As the sun rised the two objects were now sitting side by side where Fan found the phone, the morning breeze brushing both of their faces. 

This was really nice, it almost made Fan forget they were in a robot apocalypes.

But now what?

Mephone's presents didn't really change the fact that they were in a scrummage, did it? 

Maybe if he...

"I have an idea!" Fan strucked up from where he was sitting.

Mephone turned to face, now looking at a Fan with sparks in his eyes.

"But we will be needing help from some people..."