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(Hello, readers! Welcome to the very first episode of A Competition Beyond Earth! I hope you’re excited, because we have TONS in store for you today! First, let’s meet our WONDERFUL cast! But first, I’m your host, an author self insert with a different name: Jaxon!)

Jaxon walks up to the microphone on some sort of theatre, with the curtain closed behind him. (Yes, I’m referring to myself in third person, now SHUT it!)

“*Ahem*. Welcome here, viewers, to the pilot of A Competition Beyond Earth, where 16 competitors from across the multiverse compete for the Soul of the Wisher, which can be used to cast one wish. I’m your host, Jaxon, and we have a just lovely set of competition today! Now, shall we introduce them?”

The curtain opens to an empty stage. We cut backstage to see how the cast is doing, however they’re obscured by the lighting being off.

“Um… guys? I’m not sure I’m ready for this…”

“Don’t You Worry Honey I Got You You Will Be Perfectly Fine Up There.”

“Yeah, get your act together man! You can’t go up on stage looking like that!”

“Want me to fix your mask, darling?”

“Yes please…”

We cut back to Jaxon.

“Alright! Are you guys ready back there? Ready or not, It’s time to introduce you all!”

“Firstly, a Pokémon trainer with a big ego and protective flair, please welcome Gary!”

Gary walks upstage and winks towards a corner in the audience. An “Oooooooh!” Is heard from the right, followed by the repetitive chanting of "Gary, Gary, he's our man. If he can't do it, no one can!” He walks to the side.

“Now, I know all of you are excited, but we need you to quiet down or security will have to remove you.” The cheerleaders immediately quiet down in embarrassment. “Next up, we’ve got a little blue hedgehog just made of speed, it’s Sonic!”

Sonic pretty much teleports onstage, leaving a blue trail behind him. He poses and then runs to stand beside Gary.

“After him, we have every woman’s favourite role model and the number one cause of eating disorders, Barbie!”

Barbie struts onstage and waves, sort of posing like a plastic doll. “Hi Ken!”

A male in the audience says “You Ken do it!”

“Man, this girl is SUPER annoying!” A voice backstage whines.

“Shut it, cat!” Jaxon yells. “You’ll have your turn later.” Barbie struts (how does she have the energy for that?!) to stand next to Sonic. “*Ahem.* ANYWAYS, next up, we have the Underground’s FAVOURITE TV star and the one behind all our favourite shows, it’s Mettaton EX!”

Mettaton strikes a variety of poses before standing with his hand on his hip and one foot pointed on the ground. He looks to the contestants. “I’m going to absolutely CRUSH you, darlings!” He grins then moves next to Barbie.

“Man, this guy’s got a huge ego,” Gary complains.

“Sir, respectfully, you have a whole group of cheerleaders in the audience,” Jaxon says, earning a flustered look out of Gary. “ANYWAY, our next contestant is possibly the BEST father out there (at least that I’ve seen), with his name defying his entire personality, please welcome Bandit!”

A square dog walks out from behind the curtain.

“Is something wrong with his biology or something? What the heck happened to him? He’s square!” Sonic commented aside to Gary.

“Heck if I know,” Gary replied. “I mean, you ARE a talking hedgehog, so…”

“Oh, be quiet!” Sonic snapped.

Their bickering lasted Bandit’s entire intro sequence as he was already standing next to Mettaton.

“Now, whilst we are on the line of talking animals, let’s introduce our next contestant, a great inventor and terrible supervillain, we have Team Rocket’s Meowth!”

“Not again,” Gary groaned.

“What’s wrong, darling?” Mettaton queries.

“Meowth is part of a villain organization known as Team Rocket, an organization dedicated to stealing people’s Pokémon! Granted, they’re pretty bad at it, but…”

“And what in the world is a Pokémon?” Mettaton asks.

“What do you mean ‘What is a Pokémon?’” Meowth says. “I’M a Pokémon, ye stupid clanker!”

“What is ‘Clanker’ even supposed to mean?” Gary says.

“Use your brain and think about it!” Meowth says out of frustration. He then goes to stand beside the square dog.

“Would you guys stop bickering back there?!” Jaxon complains. “Anyway, once again with talking animals, we have another from the Sonic Universe. The self-proclaimed ‘Ultimate Lifeform’ even though he’s just a black version of Sonic, again with a huge ego and unlimited snark, please welcome Shadow!”

Shadow walks on, not bothering to lift himself up from a trudge. “Do I have to be here?”

Jaxon gives him a stack of papers. “You signed these when you auditioned, remember? Yes, you DO have to be here.” Shadow glares at him then goes to stand next to Meowth. “Next, we have someone that doesn’t talk AND isn’t an animal, and before you make fun of them they have killed people over stolen food, please welcome to the stage: Kirby!”

Kirby waddles on. “Poyo!” They waddle to stand beside Shadow.

“What in the world is THAT thing?!” Meowth says. Kirby opens their mouth and being to suck in a lot, and I mean a LOT of air. Unfortunately for Meowth, he was directly in the suck radius. “AAAAHHHHH!!! What are you DOING?!” He gets swept off of his feet and into Kirby’s mouth. Kirby shoot a star back out of their mouth where Meowth originally was and when it collides with the wall, Meowth pops out and slumps down. “Oh geez…” Kirby walks to their spot again.

“Like I said, don’t pick a bone with them. I don’t think they have bones, but that is besides the point.” Jaxon sighs. “Moving on, our next contestant is a sentient mess of ribbons with BPD, please welcome Gangle!”

Gangle walks(?) on stage and waves(?) to the audience. “Hello!” She then moves over to stand beside Kirby and she sits down next to them.

“Poyo!”

Gangle wraps her ribbon (hand?) behind Kirby. “I like you already.”

“Poyo?”

“Next up we have a black cat with prowess and destruction, and does anyone notice the huge amount of ego in the room?, it’s Cat Noir!”

A teenager in a black suit does an unnecessary amount of back flips before landing. “Hello! Are you all ready to get absolutely pummelled?”

“Yeah, I see what Jaxon meant by the room being full of ego.” Bandit sighs and facepalms. Cat Noir walks to stand beside Gangle, twirling his pole. However, it hits Gangle in the face, and her mask breaks. Cat Noir continues chilling, not noticing Gangle is in tears.

Mettaton rushes over. “Gangle, are you okay, darling? Here let me fix your mask.”

“Thank… you…” Gangle says between sobs. She puts her now fixed mask back on. Cat Noir remains oblivious to the whole ordeal. Mettaton walks back, shooting Cat Noir a death glare. Cat Noir, once again, SOMEHOW manages to remain oblivious.

Jaxon also remained oblivious. “Next, we have someone who has power equivalent to a god, please welcome SMG0!” (Also known as “Niles.”)

Niles walks in and smirks. “Hello there.” He strides over to Gangle and kneels down to meet her gaze. He smirks. “And who are you? My next target, perhaps?” He leans in. "I see so much potential in you." 

Gangle backs away as best she can before bumping into the wall behind her. “Go, please.”

Niles smiles. “Alright.” He steps over to stand beside Cat Noir. He leans over to make eye contact with her. “Don't worry about thinking about it though, your choices don't matter.”

“Next, we have someone who I thought *didn’t* like challenges, here’s Zooble!”

Zooble walks in and waves towards the audience. “Hey.”

“Zooble! You’re here!” Gangle rushes up to hug them.

“Hello, Gangle,” Zooble says as she is wrapped in the embrace of ribbons. Gangle walks back to her spot, beaming, whilst Zooble goes to stand by Niles.

“It seems you’re a friend of Gangle over there,” Niles states.

“What does it matter to you?” Zooble retorts.

“She’s quite powerful, I think. I want to help her harness that.”

“She is very obviously scared of you and does not want your help. Stay away from her. Furthermore, I have no idea what you are talking about.”

“Why do you care so much? Are you guys, like, dating or something?”

“That doesn’t matter,” Zooble says, exasperated.

“Next up, we have the smartest being in the universe, also known as a laptop, Queen!”

“Is that *really* her name?” Gary comments.

“Actually My Full Name Is Serial Number Q5U4EX7YY2E9N But You May Call Me Queen.”

“Where did you get ‘Queen’ from?” Meowth counters.

“Queen.”

“Q… U… E… oh okay. That checks out,” Meowth figures.

“Next up we have another self-proclaimed genius, the second highest in his class, elegant Neon Knight Berdly!” (This world runs on dark world logic.)

Berdly floats down with some sort of wind magic. “Hello there, competitors!”

“Oh God Oh No Why Just Why.”

“Oh! Queen! Lovely to see you!”

“Hi.”

“I will dedicate myself to helping you win! Anything that stands in-“

“Stop.”

“Huh?”

“If We Are Put On Opposite Teams We Can’t Really Do That (That Is Definitely My Reason).”

“Oh.” Berdly looks dejected and walks to stand beside Queen.

“Next up,” Jaxon says, completely ignoring the contestants at this point, “we have son of the sea god Poseidon and lover of all foods blue, please welcome Percy Jackson!”

Percy walks up on stage nervously, waves to the audience, and goes to stand by the bluebird.

Niles walks up to him. “Son of the sea god?” He leans in. “Don’t think that means I won’t cr-AAAAAAA!”

Percy had shot a bullet of pure distilled water at him. “He’s annoying.”

“And out final contestant, son of the king of the underground and God of Hyperdeath (what does that mean?), please welcome Asriel Dreemurr!”

Asriel walks in (in his god form) and smiles. “You guys had better let me win this.” He moves to stand by Percy.

“Now, with every contestant out of the way, it’s time to make teams! I will now randomize your names.”

Jaxon does something on his phone, then looks up at the contestants.

“Alright! Teams have been decided. Team 1 proceed to the left, team 2 to the right. The teams are as follows:

Team 1:

Sonic
Shadow
Mettaton
Queen
Gangle
Zooble
Berdly
Cat Noir

Team 2:

Asriel
SMG0/Miles
Kirby
Percy
Barbie
Bandit
Gary
Meowth

And now for your first challenge!”

Zooble sighs. “Already? We just got here.”

“Name your teams! Worst team name is up for elimination, and it's contestant voting this season! You guys will have to vote off one of your *own* team members.”

The teams each respectively huddled to discuss.

Looking at Team 1:

“I Got One”

“Well, what is it?” Cat Noir asks.

“Queen’s Peons.”

“That name absolutely sucks,” Shadow responds.

“Do You Have A Better Idea.”

“No, but there certainly aren’t any worse ones.”

“I got you, darling,” Mettaton says. “How about:

“The Shining Showstoppers!”

“I can live with that.”

“That’s great, actually!” Sonic compliments.

“I’ll Go Te—“

“Don’t you worry Queen! Your knight in shining armour has arrived and shall do it for you!” Berdly walks away in confidence.

“Okay Go Dearie Quickly.” Queen sighs. “Finally He’s Gone.”

“What do you have against him?” Sonic interrogates.

“There’s Actually Nothing Wrong With Him He’s Just Annoying.”

“Makes sense, I guess.”

Looking over at Team 2…

“Does *anyone* here have any actually GOOD ideas?” Meowth complains.

“Poyo!”

“That’s not even a word, Kirby. Get your act together!”

“Poyo.” Kirby looks down, dejected.

“This is out of nowhere, but what about ‘The Knights?’” Asriel suggests.

“Best thing we have, I guess,” Gary says. “I’ll go tell Jaxon.”

*A few moments later…*

“Alright! We have our names! Team 1 is now the Shining Showstoppers. Team 2 is The Knights. The winners of this challenge are...

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"The Knights! Showstoppers, you are up for elimination. Please follow me to the voting room.”

Gangle didn't want to see Mettaton get eliminated. He's been extremely helpful and nice to her thus far. So she forms a plan and begins to follow Jaxon, who has already started walking.

On the way, Gangle talks to Sonic and Shadow about the introduction ceremony.

When the team arrives, they are seated in voting booth-like seats.

“Please select on your paper with the bingo marker which contestant you want eliminated.”

Cat Noir marks Mettaton’s circle.

Queen marks Berdly’s circle.

They each fold their slip and put it in the box.

“It appears you have all finished voting. I shall now read off the votes.”

“Cat Noir.”

“Berdly.”

“Mettaton.”

“Mettaton.”

“Cat Noir.”

“Mettaton.”

“Cat Noir.”

“Cat Noir.”

“And the final vote goes to…”

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Mettaton sighs.

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Cat Noir looks around, confused.

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“Cat Noir, you are out with 5 votes.”

“What? Why? What did I do?”

“Remember the introduction ceremony?” Gangle says. “You broke my mask and didn’t even notice. Thankfully, Mettaton was a dear and helped me fix it up. You are way to careless to be on this show.”

“You didn’t even try to look at what you were doing!” Sonic accuses.

Cat Noir looks at the ground. “Bye then.”

Jaxon opens a portal. “Better luck next time. See you!”

Cat Noir steps through and it closes behind him.

“And that is the first contestant eliminated from the show! See you guys next time on A Competition Beyone Earth!”

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“Are you going to accept or no?”

“No! Never! Stop! Get away from me!”

“What, do you really think you can get rid of me just like that? I'll get rid of EVERYONE you care for, EVERYONE, until you can only rely on me. Do you want that or no?"

“You wouldn’t!”

“I forced someone to kill their lover once, I DAMN well will.” He smirks. “You are done for, Gangle.”

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“You’re leaving?”

“Well, yeah.”

“Where?”

“A game show competition.”

“Why? What about Paris? Are you not worried about what will happen if you leave?!”

“Not really.”

“But I thought you CARED about us, Cat Noir!”

“Would you like to know why I’m not worried?”

“I ALREADY know! It’s because you don’t CARE about us, do you?!”

“Would you like to know what the prize is?”

“What, cat boy?!”

“The Soul of the Wisher.”

“So, just, a destructive force that would be in the hands of someone as incompetent as YOU?! I’m DONE!” She storms off.

“Oh well, guess it’s just for me then.”

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(Just after Cat Noir leaves)

“As much as I hate to say it,” Gangle starts, “I do not miss him.”

“What do you mean, ‘hate to say?’” Zooble asks. “He was about of a jerk.”

“Yeah That Guy Is Super Annoying I Do Not Miss Him.”

“Are you saying you wouldn’t miss Berdly if he left?” Sonic accuses. “You said he was—“

“No I Did Not You Heard Nothing Sonic.”

“I DEFIN—“

“No. You. Did. Not.”

“Yes, I—“

“Can we find something actually interesting to argue about?” Shadow complains. “All this ‘yes-no’ backtalk gets very annoying to listen to.”

“Actually, we don’t need team division already,” Mettaton counters. “We do NOT need beef between any of you here.”

“He makes a good point, actually,” Zooble says. “Arguing will only slow our team down.”

“Wait Where Did Jaxoff Go.”

“Well, his name is Jax*on*, and he’s probably in his office,” Sonic supplied. 

“I’m going to my dorm,” Shadow says, and he stands up. He walks away and out of the room.

The PA system crackles to life just as Shadow leaves.

“*Everyone please report to the stage immediately. Failure to comply will result in you missing out on some very important material that may cause a loss in the next challenge.*”

A “Come on!” is heard from Shadow, loud enough that those in the room of the Showstopper’s could hear. 

“Alright, darlings, let’s go.” Mettaton walks out and beckons the rest of the team to follow. 

On the stage (behind the curtain), Jaxon waits. Well, one contestant has arrived, but he doesn’t seem much for conversation.

Eventually, the Knights begin to file in, led by Asriel. They file onto the seats opposite the arrival.

That leaves just the Showstoppers, but where are they?

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“So where the heck did Shadow go?” Sonic queries. 

“He Probably Just Went Ahead,” Queen responds.

“I… actually, that makes sense,” Gangle says.

Zooble shuffles to move beside Gangle. “Is something bothering you?”

“I don’t want to talk about that right now,” Gangle says.

“Alright, just let me know if you need anything.”

“Alright..”

Queen seems to take notice and looks behind her. “Are You Two Boys Okay?”

Mettaton rests his hand on Queen’s shoulder. “Neither of them are boys, darling.”

“I Apologize I Was Using It As A Gender-Neutral Term. Although I Am Still Wondering If You Two Are Okay.”

“Yeah, we’re fine,” Gangle says. She gives a small wave as if to signify that they’re perfectly fine.

“Okay Got It.” Queen turns to find that they’re basically at the door.

“Wait We’re Here Let’s Go In.” Queen opens the door and the Showstoppers walk in to find Asriel and Miles brawling. The rest are simply watching what’s happening.

Sonic walks in and butts to the front. “What in the world happened in *here*?!”

“They got bored and are duking it out for some reason,” Gary informs the rest of them. 

“Hey There’s Shadow.”

“Wait, really?” Sonic rushes over to him and begins shaking his hand. “Hi! Did’ja miss me?”

Shadow sighs but ignores him, continuing to watch the brawl. The rest of the team go sit on the same bleachers Shadow is on.

Jaxon steps up to the podium he set up on the stage and speaks. “I’m sure you are all wondering why I called you here today.”

“No, really?” Meowth and Shadow say at the same time. They look at each other. “Hey, I was gonna say that!”

“While it would be funny,” Jaxon interrupts, “I do not wish to write your bout down and so I am interrupting you. Anyways, I have you all in here for two reasons. Whilst we will not be having another challenge today, I will be giving you something that will be absolutely necessary for the next one.” 

“Poyo?”

“And what could that be?” Shadow remarks.

Jaxon holds up a silver bracelet that appeared to be a chain. On the centre was a light purple crystal shaped like a diamond with a silver border around it. “These are your Key Bracelets. The gems should be worn facing outward on your right or left hand—opposite side of your palm. These function as keys to your dorm, as well as notifications being sent to here to inform you of upcoming challenges. They will register who you are by touch and then they will be locked in. You will not be able to remove these from your arm until you are eliminated. These will also serve functions in later challenges, such as the one tomorrow. Everyone, please come up and collect one of your team color. Showstoppers, you are purple, and Knights, you are orange.”

“Um, how would they stay one me?” Gangle queried. “My arms are… ribbons.”

“They auto-tighten,” Jaxon responded.

“O… kay?”

The teams lined up respectively and began collecting. Once they were all secured, Jaxon excused them from the room. Everyone went to their dorms, except for Asriel and Niles.

“So, who are we going to vote out this time?” Asriel asked.

“Whilst I know it would be selfish and rude and all that jazz, we should get out Percy,” Niles stated. “He’s been basically mute and non-contributing, which I know for a fact is not his usual self, and he attacked me in the introduction ceremony. However we need an excuse to vote him out.”

Asriel leaned in. “How about… we rig the next game? We could make our team lose on purpose due to Percy, and that would be an easy vote out.”

Niles grins. “That is despicably evil… I like it.”

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Next morning, both teams were gathered in the cafeteria for breakfast. Everyone was eating except for Queen, Mettaton, Zooble, and Gangle, who were gathered in a table at the far back.

“Okay So Will Sound Super Bad And Evil But. Who Do We Target Next Round.”

“I mean… should we really do that?” Gangle asked. “That seems kind of… unfair.”

“I mean, I have no problems with it. And the other team has Niles, who is definitely a schemer,” Zooble stated.

“Should we target him then?” Mettaton asked. “He would definitely be a huge threat later-game.”

“Actually We Should Go For The Water Kid.”

“You mean Percy?” Gangle asked.

“Look I Don’t Know His Name All I Know Is He Is A Son Of A Sea God And He Would Royally Screw (Fuck) Us Over.”

“So, Percy,” Zooble said.

“I’m fine with that,” Mettaton stated.

“Me as well,” Gangle added.

All of a sudden, their wristbands ping. Queen taps on hers.

“Meet On Stage At 11:00. Bring Tons Of Water. Next Challenge Will Be Hosted Then.”

“Really?” Zooble complains. “The day just started.”

“I mean… he did say the next challenge would be hosted today,” Gangle offers.

“Yeah, you’re right,” Zooble responds.

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Back on stage, the teams are sitting impatiently. Sonic and Shadow are talking, Kirby is waddling in a circle, and Berdly is talking to Queen.

Eventually, Jaxon walks in. “I bet you are—actually I started my speech with that last time. Anyways, we have a challenge today!” Murmuring sprouts amongst the two teams. “What is it? All of you, follow me.”

The teams get up and walk behind him off the stage and into the back, where a door lies. Jaxon opens it to reveal a field with a straight-line running track. “You guys will be doing a foot-race today. This is approx. 400 m in length. The start line alternates team colours, and your bracelet will glow if you are on your lane. Would everyone please find their place?”

Everyone walked over and began to walk along the track until they reached their designated spot. On the outermost track, there was Barbie, followed by Berdly, Niles, Gangle, Asriel, Shadow, Gary, Zooble, Percy, Mettaton, Meowth, Queen, Kirby, Sonic, and finally Bandit.

“Your bracelets track how long you take to run the track and will auto-place you. The team that has the the longest average will be up for elimination. Anything is fair game so long as you stay in your lane, except for killing someone. If you do so, your team will be automatically put up for elimination. Of course, I have the ability to revive them, but I’d rather not deal with that today. Am I clear?” The teams nod.

Bandit raises his paw. “The other teams has both Sonic and Shadow though. How is that fair?”

Jaxon looks at him. “Anything is fair game. Anyways, are you all ready to go?” The teams nod again. “Alright. The race beings in 3…”

Kirby runs to the side field and swallows a tire, then rolls back.

Sonic gives a thumbs-up to Shadow from across the track. Shadow ignores him.

“2…”

Gangle looks nervously at the people beside her.

Percy looks at the water bottles in the grass.

“1…”

Mettaton grins at Zooble, who just stares back due to not having a mouth.

Berdly summons his halberd.

“Go!”

Everyone runs off. Sonic and Shadow have already finished the course. Of those remaining, Kirby, Queen, and Mettaton are neck and neck at the front. Berdly follows close behind with his wind magic, and Niles is a bit farther behind but is still catching up to the bluebird. In the back, we have Zooble and Percy running neck-and-neck in a competition not to be last. In the middle, Gangle is going as fast as possible to get away from Asriel. That is, until Asriel remembers he has wings, and jumps and flies off to catch up to Niles. Bandit remains at the back of the middle at a light jog. Barbie stays in a clean seventh.

That’s when Zooble remembers something. They’re supposed to be targeting Percy. They slam their fist into him, sending him back a few feet, before he begins to run again, a little slower than before. He sends water up from him open bottle and directs it at Zooble, who stumbles but still remains ahead.

Gangle looks ahead at the front to see Kirby in a tire form, then she gets an idea. She springs and curls up into a roll, sending her rolling forward. She catches up with Kirby, however doesn’t get farther as Kirby angles their self to knock Gangle off the track. She springs and regains her footing, but is sent back into the empty space between the front and the middle.

Berdly is flying with wind magic above when he sees Asriel catching up. He sends a gust of wind back, sending Asriel back to the middle. Asriel sends a star crashing down at him, but Berdly knocks it away with his halberd. He then sends a few separate gusts back at Asriel, then creates a tornado in front of Kirby. They get swept up and Berdly allows them to drop. However, he doesn’t notice Asriel readying his Chaos Blaster, until he gets engulfed in pure light and is forced to drop down.

In the middle again, Gangle sees this and curls back up, easily passing Kirby and making it to the front of the race. She avoids a few dropping stars, and completely ignores a thunderbolt sent directly at her (due to her being rubber). She’s nearly at the end when Kirby revs up and zooms past her to take third place.She makes it in fourth, however.

Percy sees Queen and Mettaton nearing the end, and in a last ditch effort, they move the water off of Zooble and send it flying their way. It lands on Queen, however she is a laptop. Which doesn’t work very well, as she glitches out and falls. Mettaton immediately stops and rushes over, tapping his bracelet and relaying to Jason that Queen is injured.

“*Everyone, we have a death due to Percy murdering Queen. Don’t worry, I can revive her, but the race has been called off. Knights, you are up for elimination. Do not proceed to the voting room yet; I will send a time for you. Lunch begins at 12:00.*”

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In the cafeteria (with Queen back), the four non-eaters sit at a table in the back. 

“Well It Appears We Don’t Really Have Anymore Work To Do,” Queen says. “That Water Boy Is Going Home Today.”

“I’m just glad you’re okay, darling,” Mettaton says.

“Well Of Course I’m Okay I’m Alive And I Can’t Feel Pain Because I’m A Robot. You Have No Idea How Jumbled My CPU Was Though Is That What Overthinking Is Like For Humans.”

“So…” Gangle starts, “Death for you is like… overthinking?”

“Imagine the amount of times I’ve died,” Zooble jokes.

“Besides that,” Mettaton begins, “I was thinking we invite someone new to our alliance.”

“And who would that be?” Zooble asks.

“Meowth,” Mettaton replies. “Although I am aware he doesn’t like me, he appears to be on good terms with Gangle and Zooble and he hasn’t really talked to Queen much, so there’s a good chance he’ll accept. Queen, darling, can you run diagnostics on this?”

“Hold On… Probability Meowth Accepts: 87.46%.”

“Should I go ask him then?” Zooble says.

“Yeah Go Ahead.”

“Alright, see ya.” Zooble leaves the table, gets up, and goes to where Meowth and Kirby are sitting.

“Meowth, mind if I talk to you for a moment?” Meowth looks up from the pet food (he’s a cat, okay?) to meet Zooble.

“Sure, I guess.” Zooble takes a seat opposite Kirby. “So what do you want?”

“This might sound a bit far-fetched, but how about joining an alliance?”

“Well, that depends. Who’s all in?”

“Me, Gangle, Queen, and Mettaton, who I am aware you dislike, however he suggested the idea. So what do you say, are you in?”

Meowth scratches his chin, then says “Only if Kirby joins as well.”

“Really? I thought you didn’t like him.”

“Them, actually, but yeah, we’ve made up.”

“Poyo?” Kirby takes notice of the conversation.

Meowth looks to the other side of the table. “Kirby, would you like to join our alliance here?”

“Poyo!” Kirby waves their arms. Meowth tuns back to Zooble. “Kirby says yeah, what about the rest of them?”

Zooble looks at her Key Bracelet and relays the message to the rest of her team. Eventually, she gets a ping back. “They say yes.”

“Alright! Give me the lowdown.”

“We’re targeting Percy, who was getting eliminated anyway for killing Queen, so that’s nice at least.”

“Eh, fair.” Meowth and Kirby’s bracelets ping. “Well, alright, we’ve got to go to elimination now. See ya!”

Zooble waves goodbye as the Knights leave the room.

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One elimination later, Percy is noticeably missing from the room. Jaxon sends out a ping for everyone to meet on the stage effective immediately.

When everyone arrives, Jaxon is actually on time. He takes to the mic.

“Alright, I have something big to announce. This next challenge, one of you will be gaining an advantage based on a popularity vote.” He looks around the room. “Frankly, I think it’s a bit obvious who’s going to win it, but I’ll keep my suspicions to myself.”

Murmuring arises as people try to guess who it is.

“Of course, voting hasn’t happened yet, so you’ll have to wait. However, for those watching, you can vote here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSenY0c5npuJsOVkeTKF-inh9cN9TPBltrmwjfosSuoUw6Kq-A/viewform?usp=dialog .”

“I’m Sorry Did You Just Read Out An Entire Url.”

“Shut up Queen. Anyways, thank you all for reading—“

“Is this not a show?” Niles asks.

“Besides the point. Anyways, see you all next episode!”

~~~~~~~

“So, it appears you’ve formed a little alliance, Gangle. How cute. With Queen, the gay robot, and Zooble?” He smirks. “Pathetic.”

At least he doesn’t know about Meowth or Kirby, Gangle thinks. “Just… go away! First Niles, and now you?!”

“Yeah, we’re working together. So what about it? You’re still going to lose.”

~~~~~~~~

Gary is walking around when he sees Jaxon’s office with the door open. He walks in and softly closes the door behind him. There is a book lying open on his desk.

“What the hell is this?” Gary asks himself. He sits down at the chair. “Oh no. Oh no. There—this can’t be—what?” He continues to pore at the book. Eventually, he decides to leave the office and go back to bed. In his dorm, he sits down on his bed and thinks.

“How the hell is the Soul of the Wisher still here if Chaos took it?” He paced around, until he realized something.

“Jaxon, when I get my hands on you…”

Chapter Text

Jaxon is poring over his notebook when his phone rings. Landline, orange, however Jaxon had modded it (This is a lie, I hired someone *else* to mod it for me) to have a keypad instead of a dial. He picked to the phone and put it to his ear.

“Alright, what do you want?” Jaxon asked.

“Do you still have the Soul?” The voice on the other end was a black woman in what appeared to be her mid 20’s. Her voice was in a peaceful tone, enough to make almost anyone do as she says.

“Yes, why do you care?”

“You need to put it back,” she persuaded.

“Absolutely not. You know exactly why I took it from the Wisher. Sure, they’re dead now, but it is unsafe to grant that power back, especially since Wisher will want revenge.” Jaxon tapped his desk a bit impatiently. “It is for the good it does not return.”

“I see. Well, in such a case, you will die.” How the fuck was she being so calm about this? “Or, unless, you do return it.”

“It’s not like you can kill me,” Jaxon said calmly. “You had your Origin Powers revoked for a reason.”

“Trust me, if you do not comply, I will find a way.” Her tone was now harsh and demanding.

Jaxon laughed. “Last time you said that, you got your best friend killed! What the fuck do you HONESTLY think will happen this time? What, you’ll suddenly win?”

“I didn’t kill them though, you did.”

“The Wisher was being irresponsible with their powers, and as such, we made a decision to kill them. You fought back, naive, and you and your stupid friends got removed from Origin Point.” He chuckles. “There is a reason everything happens, Wrath. Don’t give me a reason to kill you.” He pauses. “Say, how’d you get my number?”

She practically grins into the microphone. “A friend of yours.”

“Who would that be?”

“Good try, better luck after you die, Chaos.”

~~~~~~~~

Sonic is sitting on the couch in his and Shadow’s dorm. He’s reading a stack of comic books with a bag of Doritos on the desk next to him. Shadow is sitting at his desk; he appears to be engrossed in some kind of platformer FPS game. He doesn’t have earbuds plugged in and the volume is at full blast. 

“Hey, dude,” Sonic says, “can you turn that down?” Shadow doesn’t acknowledge him. The music playing in the background is an instrumental heavy metal track.

Sonic walks over and puts a hand on the PC. “Shadowwwwww?”

Shadow side-eyes him with enough sass to rival a teenage white girl at Starbucks, then goes back to shooting up a military base. Seems he won’t be turning it down. That’s fine. Sonic reaches over to the speaker and turns it down, but before it’s at a good volume Shadow slaps his hand away. Sonic’s finger drags on the dial, bringing it back up to max.

“Oh my God,” Shadow exclaims, “what the hell do you want?”

“For you to turn the volume down?” Sonic asks.

“You could have just *said* that,” Shadow replies, then turns the volume a bit lower, at least enough for Sonic to concentrate.

“I *did*, you just weren’t listening because you couldn’t hear me over shooting your crap!”

Shadow facepalms. “Go back to doing whatever you were doing, I do not want to deal with this right now.” Sonic complies and returns to the couch.

A faint rainbow glow emanates from the desk drawer, unnoticed by Sonic. Shadow, however, knew exactly what was there.

A faint rainbow glow emanates from a cabinet in Sonic’s nightstand. Shadow remains oblivious, however Sonic knows exactly what is there.

A full set of the Chaos Emeralds. Or, rather, two.

~~~~~~~~

A few hours later, in the dining hall, Gary sat across from Berdly absolutely devouring a stack of pancakes as if he hadn’t eaten for a few days. Jaxon had said to get as much energy as possible for the next challenge. Berdly was chugging a Monster Dew, completely ignoring the chicken-flavoured ramen he picked instead of an actual breakfast.

“Um, Berdly?” Gary asked. “Should you not be eating, you know, actual food?”

“Do not worry, Gary,” Berdly said with confidence, “I shall provide everyone with a marvellous performance of my skills, even without proper nutrition!”

“You didn’t even get proper nutrition for food,” Gary exclaimed, “you just got some 26 day-old ramen!”

“Our family hasn’t been able to afford ramen for the longest time, let me enjoy my food in peace!”

“What the hell were you eating if you couldn’t afford ramen?!”

“Food? You’re acting like it’s the cheapest thing you could buy on the market!”

“It is?!”

“No it isn’t! $35 a pack is expensive and not worth it!”

“What are they making your ramen with that it’s 80 times the price it normally is?”

“Noodles? What else do you make ramen with?!”

“Noodles are in NO way expensive!”

“Yes they are!”

“Where the hell do you get your noodles from?”

“Some local grocery store, I don’t know!”

“Are you saying they’re selling ramen at $35 a pack?!”

“That’s how much it’s sold for everywhere!”

“Dude, where do you live where ramen is so expensive?”

“Hometown?”

“Is your town seriously named ‘Hometown?’ Next you’ll tell me the city nearby is named Homecity!”

“It is!”

“WHAT?!” This drew the attention of everyone else in the dining hall.

“What the hell are *you* arguing about?” Shadow asks.

“Bluebird over here has ramen for $35 a pack!”

“Where do you live that ramen is $35 a pack, Venezuela?!” Shadow exclaims.

“What’s Venezuela?!” Berdly and Gary ask at the same time.

“Neither of you know what Venezuela is?!” Sonic asks. “Did you, like, not pay attention in school?”

“I’ll have you know, I’m the second-highest in my class and I have no idea what this ‘Venezuela’ thing is!” Berdly was half convinced none of them knew what they were talking about.

“It’s, you know, a country?” Sonic was half-wondering if this argument was worth continuing.

“I’m sorry,” Gary asks, “but what the *hell* is a country?!”

“Okay, you guys definitely didn’t go to school.” Sonic looked very unamused by this conversation.

“Excuse me, I’ll have you know I am the HIGHEST—“

“Second highest,” Shadow interrupted.

“—scoring student in my class!” Berdly stood with one foot on the table and wings on his hips. “So I recommend you shut up! I want to go back to my chicken flavoured ramen anyway.”

“Chicken flavoured?” Mettaton screamed. “Aren’t you a—“

“I am NOT a chicken, thank you very much!”

“Hey,” Sonic began, “since when were you a part of this?”

“Um, uh, um, NOT IMPORTANT!” Mettaton exclaimed or frustration.

“As A Computer,” Queen began, “I Can Confirm That Burghley Is In Fact: Not A Chicken.”

“Thank you!” Berdly said.

“Don’t Mention It,” Queen replied. “Ever.”

Soon everyone gets a ping on their Key Bracelets.

*Meet on the stage at 1:00 PM for the next challenge. Like I said fuel up, you’ll need as much energy as possible for this one.*

~~~~~~~~

In Asriel and Niles’ dorm, they’re each sitting on their beds facing each other, talking about elimination.

“We need to target Gangle’s alliance,” Niles said, “they’re easily the largest in the game and are likely recruiting more people as we speak. I mean, four people?”

“Yeah,” Asriel agreed, “only problem I have with that is that sets us up for elimination. We should get rid of all the weak players on our team so that we can rebound in the future.”

“Well, then, who do you have in mind?”

“Bandit.”

“Fuck did he do?”

“He’s easily the weakest on our team remaining, other than Gary, but I have plans for him.”

“What kind of plans?”

“Secret ones.” Niles shot him a glare and Asriel had to stifle a laugh that comes from being glared at by a cyclops.

“If I probe you enough, will you tell me?”

“No.”

“Fine.”

“Anyways, like I said, Bandit is a huge setback to our team. He must be eliminated.”

Niles smirks. “Alright then, we’re eliminating Bandit tonight.”

~~~~~~~~

Gary is messing around with his bracelet when he accidentally taps the gem. He panics and runs to get a cloth. When he sits back down on his bed to wipe it down he sees that the bracelet has a digital menu.

{CONTACTS} {CALENDAR} {MESSAGE BOARD} {10:30}

He takes a look at the calendar first. Later today, at @1, *Challenge* is scheduled. He clicks best he can on the holo menu on the event, and a location pops up—the stage. He swipes out and goes to contacts. Every other contestant is listed (excluding eliminated ones). He sees a plus-button on the top-right and clicks on it—another list of contacts pop up with *Create Group* at the top. He adds Berdly, Sonic, and Shadow, and hits call. He needs to talk about the book.

~~~~~~~

After lunch, everyone gathered on the stage behind a closed curtain to discuss. Jaxon is sitting at his desk writing something. Gary, Berdly, Sonic, and Shadow exchange nervous looks. Gangle and Zooble are whispering amongst themselves. Barbie is practicing fashion model poses, much to her neighbour Kirby’s annoyance.

“Alright,” Jaxon said, stepping up to the podium he had set up, “are you guys ready for the next challenge? Like I said, you may need to eat up, because today is going to be a really difficult challenge. And before you ask, yes, it may or may not involve death.”

“Poyo?”

“Okay I’d Rather Not Do That Again.”

“Don’t worry, if you play your cards right, you’ll be fine. Before we get to the challenge however, it’s time to reveal the votes from last night!”

Everyone leaned forward, including Barbie, who fell flat on her face. Jaxon snickered but otherwise ignored her.

“Now, it was not remotely who I thought it was. The one with the highest average was, surprisingly, Kirby, with an average of 7.67.”

“Poyo?!” Even Kirby looked taken aback.

“That’s right, Kirby was won the popularity vote! This means Kirby gets an advantage in the next challenge.”

“What the—“ Niles is stuttering, “—I thought I was one of the favourites!”

“Actually, you’re a manipulative fucking trash bag asshole, but that is irrelevant. Now, I can’t reveal the advantage without the challenge, so off we go!” He snaps, and everyone teleports onto a big stone circle. Around it seems to be… a roulette machine? Were they gonna go life-sized gambling or something?

“This challenge is called Duel Roulette. What does that mean? Right now, you are on the Central Arena, where you guys will be duking it out. How will we decide who duels who? Well, that’s where Kirby’s advantage coms in. If the roulette picks you, Kirby may opt to choose your opponent. If not, you choose. It continues until all 14 of you have fought one other person. Someone may not fight twice. You win by either killing your opponent or fully knocking out of the ring with no change of recovery.”

“Oh, yay, murder,” Zooble and Niles said at the exact same time with exactly opposite tones. They look at each other.

“Oh, rivalry already?” Jaxon asked. “Kirby, take notes.”

“Can we, uh, opt out of this?” Bandit asked nervously.

“I mean, if you want to lose, sure.”

“Um.. what about those of us who don’t have powers?” Gangle asked.

“Oh, right! I almost forgot! For those of you who don’t have powers, I have something installed on your bracelets. Tap the screen.”

They did so. The layout now read

{CONTACTS} {CALENDAR} {MESSAGE BOARD} {10:30} {ABILITY INFORMATION}

For those without powers. 

“You see ‘Ability Information?’ Click that.

They did.

“If you read under, it gives each of you an understanding of what you can do now.”

*Gangle:

*Ribbon arms now extend at will.

*Zooble:

*Summon and throw toy blocks at the opponent. These have a huge amount of force in them.

*Barbie:

*Your makeup kit can now be used to create smoke clouds.

*Bandit:

*You can teleport at will.

*Gary:

*You may choose to opt to bring one of your Pokemon into battle instead.*

“Are you all ready?!” Jaxon was grinning maniacally.

“I think he’s a sociopath,” Gangle whispered to Zooble.

“Isn’t he named after the resident sociopath in the circus?” Zooble whispered back.

“Probably not, but they are very similar.”

“*ahem*—ANYWAYS, Time to start!” A button comes up out of the floor and he summons a comically large metal hammer and slams it. The roulette begins spinning around them. He creates a metal slide and he summons a ball and rolls it down until it hits the roulette. It spins…

And spins…

And spins…

And spins…

“Oh! It’s slowing down!” Niles pointed out. Sure enough it was moving slowly, until it went between Gary and Berdly’s spaces, and…

It fell down into Berdly’s spot.

“Alright,” Jaxon said to Kirby, “Would you like to choose a member of the opposing team to be his opponent?”

“Poyo!” Kirby waddles over to Barbie. “Poyo!”

“Alright then, it’s decided! Berdly vs. Barbie is going to be the first match of the day!” Metal rises on the roulette to block Berdly and Barbie’s spots.

“Wait—if we’re on the stage, won’t we be caught in the crossfire?” Zooble asked.

“Oh yeah! Jaxon says. He snaps and they now all circle the stadium from above. They are in metal chairs supported by a few poles across the stadium along with a wall that extends diagonally to the outside of the roulette.

“Are you not worried about us falling down?!” Meowth exclaimed.

“My magic is *very* good, excuse you!” He snaps and Berdly and Barbie go onto the stadium.

Barbie v. Berdly

“Are you ready?” Jaxon said at the top of his lungs. “The match shall begin in 3…”

Berdly summoned his halberd.

“2…”

Barbie pulled out her makeup kit.

“1…”

Asriel snickers. It all goes according to plan.

“Fight!”

Immediately, Berdly speeds forward with his wind magic, holding his halberd behind him. Barbie quickly conjures a pink smoke cloud and runs to the side. Berdly stops and looks around in confusion, before Barbie walks out of a brown smoke cloud and grabs him, swinging him in the direction of one of the poles. She misses, and Berdly loops around and back to counter with conjuring a tornado and sending it flying it her way. It clears a path in the smoke despite missing Barbie—

Hold on, he could use his wind magic to clear out the smoke!

He immediately sends a huge gust of wind to clear the smoke, and Barbie realizes she’ll have to change her game plan. She instantly charges forward. Berdly flies up.

All according to plan.

She runs, away now, as Berdly comes crashing down on her. At the last second, she throws her makeup kit behind, and it catches inside Berdly’s open beak.

She snaps.

The kit explodes, and the smoke begins to fill Berdly’s system, leaving him hacking on the ground whilst Barbie beats the shit out of him.

Berdly thought fast, then remembers he has wind magic. The SECOND idea forms.

He waits until he is facing up, then uses his magic to send the smoke out of him. He blasts the kit far enough to leave the stadium, leaving Barbie powerless. He then uses wind magic to send her flying off the edge.

He sucks in a lungful of actual air. “I honestly cannot believe I just did that.”

Jaxon snaps and he’s above the stadium, in a chair. Barbie sits across from him.

Berdly looks at her. “I though you were a nice person?”

“Not to men,” she says, smiling. “The only man I care about is Ken.”

“Barbie,” Jaxon says, “you are making yourself the second contestant I hate with my guts. First a psychopath, now a misandrist?”

“Hey, I like Ken!” Barbie screams in defence.

“Whatever,” Jaxon says, and he jumps down onto the stage without earning a single bruise (I’m just that badass). He summons his hammer again and slams the button that has come back. The ball goes around and lands on Gary. 

“Kirby, do you wish to give this man his partner?” Jaxon asks.

“Poyo!” Kirby points at Shadow. 

“Alright then!” Jaxon snaps and he’s back up. Gary and Shadow are down on the stadium. “Gary, would you like to opt to use one of your Pokémon?”

Gary nodded. “I wish to use…”

He tosses out a Pokéball and out comes a huge blue turtle standing on two legs with cannons coming out the gaps in its shell.

“Blastoise!”

Jaxon teleports Gary up, then informs him, “Same rules apply to your Pokémon. If it gets thrown out w/o recovery, dies, or is otherwise rendered unable to battle, you lose. I will, of course revive your Pokémon.”

Gary looked at Jaxon with a shocked expression. “You’d kill off one of my Pokémon?!”

Jaxon gives him the look. “For the love of God, I can fucking revive them!”

“That still doesn’t change how screwed up that is!” Gary yells.

“Shut it!” Jaxon says.

“Yeah, no.”

Gary (Blastoise) v. Shadow

“WHATEVER! The match begins in 3…”

Blastoise just stands there.

Shadow is tapping his foot.

“2…”

They’re still doing that.

“1…”

They’re still doing that, what the fuck did you expect?

“Go!”

Shadow dashes forwards to Blastoise. He tries to begin pushing him, but is slowed down into the speed of a regular run by Blastoise’s weight.

“Blastoise,” Gary calls, “Water pulse!” Blastoise obliges and sends out a turret of water from the cannons on its back at Shadow. He doesn’t realize and is blasted towards the other side of the stage. He runs forward again to Blastoise.

All according to plan.

“Jump and use Withdraw!” Gary calls out. Blastoise jumps up then sinks back into his shell.

“Are you a dumbass?” Shadow calls from below. He then pushes the Pokemon onto its side and sends it rolling off the stage.

“Shoot, uh, Blastoise! Use Rapid Spin counterclockwise!” Blastoise then suddenly swaps direction, and begins spinning to Shadow.

Shadow grabs Blastoise’s shell and runs the opposite way as fast as he can to stop Blastoise. He then kicks it to force Blastoise back out the shell. He then pulls out a gun and shoots the Pokemon in the head (what the fuck?!).

Luckily for Gary, he was looking away since Shadow pulled the gun. Jaxon revives the Pokemon with apparently the same powers he used to get the giant ball, just before Gary looks back.

Jaxon looks at him. “You lost.”

“But,” Gary says, “my Pokemon is still there…”

“Blastoise got killed with a gun and I revived him whilst you weren’t looking,” Jaxon informs him. “You lost.”

Gary looks down at Shadow. “You what?” Shadow does something with his hands, presumably a signal of some sort, and Gary does a facepalm.

“Besides that, we need to do the next round.” Jaxon summons the ball and rolls it down again and presses a button he supposedly added whilst he was watching Gary and Blastoise battle. The ball sins around and lands on Zooble.

Zooble rolls their eyes. “F[BOINK]k.”

Jaxon looks at Kirby. “And who would you like to be Zooble’s opponent?”

Kirby looks around with mischief in his eyes. Niles takes note. “Dont mess this up, Kirbs.” Kirby glares, then seemingly in revenge points at Asriel.

Zooble rolls their eyes at this. “So Kirby is finally learning how power scaling works.” Kirby shoots them a glare and Zooble flips them off (however the fingers get covered by censor bars—what fun is that?). Kirby chooses to ignore and instead points at the stage below, yelling “Poyo!”

Jaxon snaps and Zooble and Asriel are teleported down. Asriel shoots off a shining grin in Zooble’s direction. “Looks like I’m gonna have loads of fun beating you to a pulp, missy!”

Zooble crosses their arms. “Well, at least we ca—did you just call me ‘missy?’”

Asriel looks at them. “Yes?”

“B[YOINK]ch, do I look like a f[BOOM]cking ‘miss’ to you?”

“Actually, you look like a mix-and-match made by a five year old.” This gives Zooble a chance to flip the God of Hyperdeath off. 

Jaxon cuts in from above. “I think it’s about time you start the match!”

“Fine,” Zooble says.

Zooble v. Asriel

“Alright, the match beings in 3…”

Asriel smiles the toothiest grin imaginable.

“2…”

Zooble has summoned a toy block and is tossing it up and down.

“1…”

Zooble grabs the block and moves to a battle ready stance with their right hand holding the block behind them. Asriel closes his eyes and his mouth goes into a closed-lips smile as he beings to glow rainbows.

“Fight!”

Zooble swings their right arm forward and sends out a stack going into Asriel’s stomach. He deflects it with a sword he got from who knows where and slices through more on his way to Zooble. They create a stack of blocks as a wall, which Asriel slams into before slicing through to see…

No one?

A huge block smacks him on the upside of the head.His head slams into the floor as he gets thrown to the side by a huge blue sphere. He deflects an oncoming cylinder with a chaos blaster before aiming and charging up.

With only a few milliseconds before it fires, Zooble summons an orange triangle to force them to clip and launch a few feet to the right, causing Asriel to miss entirely. That is before he swings it so the light beam is directly on Zooble. This leaves them invisible in the light, and the blaster turns off.

And Zooble is still standing.

“Hey, so next time you need to take into account the fact that I can’t f[TWANG]cking die, dumb[WOMP]ss.” Asriel summons his sword. Zooble doesn’t see it as they continue to insult Asriel, until they get flung off the map. In a last ditch effort, they summon a block in hopes the speed they’re going will cause a clip. It works…

In the wrong direction. Zooble is sent flying away, until Jaxon teleports them both up. “Asriel wins in the first victory for the Knights!” Applause from the rest of the team rings out. 

“So,” Berdly chides, “It looks like Kirby is finally being useful for their team! My utmost applause!”

Kirby inhales a toy block Zooble is tossing (much to their annoyance) and shoots a star that changes into the block just after it nails the bluebird directly in the forehead.

“Hey!” Berdly protests, and gets out of his seat to run at Kirby. However he seems to forget the inside of the circle has nothing on it and they fall to the stadium below. Jaxon sighs and teleports him up (along with fixing a broken beak).

“Let’s get on with the next matchup!” Jaxon announces, clearly trying to ignore Zooble and Berdly squabbling. He spins the roulette again and throws a metal ball down. It spins and lands on Queen.

“Oh Heck (Hell) Yeah”

“Why, in any world whatsoever,” Mettaton says, “would you enjoy fighting?”

“It’s Fun, Also I Brought GIGA Queen.”

“I KNEW I should have brought the Thrash Machine along!” Berdly exclaims. He then pauses. “Wait.”

“You Are Aware I Obliterated It Right.”

“Crap!” Berdly yells.

“Ignoring them, Kirby, who would you like to be Queen’s opponent?”

Kirby points at Meowth without hesitation.

“Hey,” Mewoth says, “I thought we were friends now, what ha—“

“*POYO!*” Kirby yells loudly.

Jaxon, not wishing to hear them argue (This is a lie) teleports Queen and Meowth down. “Are you two ready?”

“Hell Yeah.”

“I don’t have a choice, do I?”

“Alright! One more thing, I created this area with Dynamax and gave myself a band, so, Meowth, if you wish to Dynamax, inform me.”

“Oh?!”

Queen v. Meowth

“The match will begin in 3…”

Queen begins pouring herself a glass of lime-coloured wine.

“2…”

Meowth is scratching the ground with his foot, probably due to nerves.

“1…”

Queen checks the label on the label one last time before storing it… somewhere? 

“Fight!”

Meowth rushes forwards. “Scratch!” He yells as his claws begin to glow. Queen laughs and throws her glass of ‘wine’ down. It explodes. Meowth is sent flying backwards, all the way to the edge. He quickly runs back on to near the centre. Queen is pouring herself another glass as the bipedal cat rushes her. She jumps up and stomps with her foot on Meowth, but he dodges successfully. This leaves Meowth behind her, and he launches up to kick Queen in the back of the head before yelling “Bite!” A large white jaw appears out of nowhere and chomps down on Queen’s head, forcing her to spill her wine. It lands on the stage…

And begins to create a hole in the ground.

“Hey, hold on two darn seconds!” Meowth yells at no one in particular. “That ain’t wine, that’s acid!”

“Well Yeah Do You Think I Would Drink Wine When That Would Be Bad For My Circuits?” Queen asks rhetorically. “Oh Whatever. That Is Irrelevant. It Is Time I Kick: Your Ass.” She moves out of the way of a large shadow forming on the ground, and Meowth figures it best to do the same. Eventually, a giant mechanical statue lands.

“Meet: GIGA Queen.” She then begins to climb up with Meowth following close behind. A last minute strategy; if he didn’t prevent Queen from getting to the top he would be flung off easily. Meowth reached a runnable slope and easily caught up to Queen. She uses her acid glass to create a shield. Meowth jumps off the robot and latches onto the shield and beings going around to the other side. It continues to rise as Queen climbs one-armed, the other holding her glass. Meowth reaches the side, then gets an idea.

“Scratch!” He yells, but doesn’t activate the move. This surprises Queen and she drops her glass to the stadium, where it explodes, creating an absolutely massive crater. This knocks GIGA Queen off-balance. As the robot begins to fall on its back, both Meowth and Queen attempt to  relocate themselves away from the back to avoid being crushed. Meowth reaches the top first, and then rushes to where Queen is moving and yells “Fury Swipes!” He then proceeds to claw the shit out of Queen’s visor, Causing her to lose her grip…

And with a final kick to the face, Queen is sent into the crater below, winning Meowth the match. Jaxon snaps and they both teleport up, and GIGA Queen is sent who-knows-where. “Congrats to you, Meowth! Looks like your team is making a comeback!” He steps out of his seat and walks to the centre, creating floating metal platforms so he doesn’t fall. “Anyway, next up is…” He spins the roulette and sends the ball down. It lands on Kirby. Kirby doesn’t let Jaxon say anything else (rude!) as he points at Mettaton.

“Oh?!” Mettaton gasps out.

“Poyo.” Kirby says.

“That… doesn’t explain much at all, darling.” The flamboyant robot then jumps down to the stadium, sticking the landing. Kirby jumps and floats down.

Kirby v. Mettaton

“Well, you guys seem excited!” Jaxon comments from above. “Kirby, since I want this to be a fair fight, swallow this.” He walks over to Shadow and swipes his gun before throwing it down to Kirby, who swallows it. That’s right, his neutral special is a gun! “It’s the only proper way to dodge Mettaton’s attacks. Alright, with that out of the way, let’s begin! The match beings in 3…”

Kirby looks up and files a few practice shot at the tips of the pillars holding the circle up. They all hit perfectly.

“2…”

Mettaton is holding a bomb with a plus-sign on it. 

“1…”

Dude, how does Kirby keep shooting? Oh wait, I gave Shadow’s gun infinite ammo.

“Fight!”

Mettaton jumps up and deliveres a kick downwards onto Kirb. In retaliation, Kirby panics and fires a shot at his leg, causing it to turn yellow and retract before it comes out to hit them straight in the barrel. Kirby flies off and lands near the edge. Mettaton’s leg keeps on pulsing in and out of the socket. This gives Kirby an idea. They shoot the other leg causing it to turn yellow as well, leaving Mettaton unable to balance. Mettaton is left to remain there, but…

He detaches his fucking legs. 

That’s right, he fucking detached his legs. He then holds up a disco ball emitting white and blue lasers. It begins to turn, sending a white laser to Kirby. Kirby begins to run away, but soon reach the edge of the circle. They panic and shoot the disco ball, causing the white and blue lasers to swap colours. Kirby is so stunned by this, they don’t move. This causes the blue laser to pass through them, and…

It doesn’t do anything? Kirby tries the same with a white laser, but gets badly hurt. So Kirby has to shoot the ball and then stand still. Got it. Kirby continues to do this until the ball runs out of power. Mettaton begins throwing bombs at Kirby. Kirby panics and shoots them, but they get attacked by a plus-shaped laser beam when the bullet lands. So shoot, and dodge. Kirby does this until Mettaton stops throwing. He then runs forwards. Mettaton reaches out and grabs him, then throwing him up to be level with the other contestants. Bad idea. Kirby shoots down, causing Mettaton’s whole body to spasm out, and he brings himself off the edge in record time. 

“And that’s a win for Kirby!” Jaxon calls out. “I spun the roulette during your play through, and it landed on Sonic. Kirby, pick Sonic’s opponent please.” Kirby points their barrel at Bandit. “Bandit? Alright!” Jaxon claps and Sonic and Bandit are teleported down to the stadium.

“Hey, can I have my damn gun back?!” Shadow yells.

Jaxon turns to face him. “Right.” He snaps and the gun is taken from Kirby (who returns to normal form) and placed on Shadow’s lap. He takes it. 

“I really don’t like this,” Bandit says.

“Yeah, well, fuck you then!” Jaxon says.

Sonic v. Bandit

“The match beings in 3…”

Sonic does the same thing as Shadow, the little copycat.

“2…”

Bandit is shivering even though it’s +30˚C.

“1…”

Bandit beings to speak, “Um, do we hav-“

“Fight!”

In a panic, Bandit teleports up to the ring.

“Oh,” Jaxon says. “Well, that’s a win for Sonic I guess?” He snaps and Sonic is teleported up.

“Anyways, that leaves our final matchup, Gangle and Niles.”

“Why…” Gangle says, before being teleported down with Niles.

“Remember our ‘deal,’ Gangle,” Niles says.

Gangle v. Niles (SMG0)

“3…”

Gangle is practicing using her ribbons.

“2…”

Niles is doing a brawler pose to try to look cool or something, but right now he looks like a fucking idiot.

“1…”

Gangle has latched onto two poles behind her and is backing to the edge.

“Fight!”

Gangle jumps off.

“Ok, so do I—“ Niles is interrupted as Gangle swings in and bashes into him. She then loops her ribbon around his neck and tightens it whilst swinging him around, before flinging him off.

“F[GROWL]k you, a[DOINK]hole!”

“Okay,” Jaxon says. “Two quick matches for the finale, I… didn’t… want that. Okay. Um.” He snaps and Gangle and Niles teleport up. “Knights, you are up for elimination again.” He snaps again and they are at the stage. “Meet in your team room in 10 minutes.”

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In the team room, everyone was seated in their voting booth things.

“Alright, vote.”

Niles unscrews the cap to the Bingo marker and stamps Bandit’s circle.

Bandit stamps Niles’ circle.

Meowth nearly creates a hole in Niles’ circle.

When all the ballots are turned in, Jaxon leans on his desk. “Alright, time to read off the votes.”

“Niles.”

“Bandit.”

“Bandit.”

“Niles.”

“Bandit.”

“Niles.”

“What I will say is the last vote goes to one of you. Niles, you’re a fucking asshole bitch, and Bandit, you forfeited your match.” He over dramatically draws the last ballot. “The next person eliminated from ACBE is…”

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“Dude, can you stop with the suspense?” Asriel snaps. “We’ve been sitting here for a minute!”

“Oh, right.” Jaxon quickly corrects his awkward stance, then says, “Bandit, get out.” He creates a portal below his chair that he falls through.

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“So, you’re telling me Jaxon is evil?” Berdly asks.

“Not just that, but from what I’ve read, he’s a god, which explains his ability to summon metal and other stuff.” Gary stands up. “How do we stop a god?”

“Actually, the answer is looking you in the face,” Sonic says. “We get a god.”

“I might be able to help you with that.”

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“What the hell are you talking about?” Shadow asks.

“No, I have a better question—how the heck did you get in here!?” Berdly interrupts.

“Oh, I’m also a god.” The deity that somehow entered the room winks.

“Jeez,” Sonic complains, “can we just have ONE normal day here?”

The deity stifles a laugh. “You are in a gameshow ran by a god who stole another god’s soul, what do you expect?”

“Hold on,” Gary says, slamming his fist down. “What do you mean ‘stole another god’s soul’?”

The deity looks unimpressed. “The Soul of the Wisher.”

“What the heck?” Berdly says. “That’s a weirdly shaped soul, aren’t they just like hearts or something?”

“They are in your polyverse,” the deity says.

“What the hell is a polyverse?” Shadow asks.

“Oh my gosh, your stupidity makes me want to kill myself,” the deity says, causing everyone else to look at her. “A polyverse is a universe and each of their infinite timelines. The most well-known universes in a polyverse get named after the host polyverse. For example, Berdly’s universe is the most popular one in the Deltarune polyverse, therefore it is given the title Deltarune{α}. Subsequently, the most popular branch of the timeline, commonly known as Deltarune Snowgrave, is known as Deltarune{α|α*}.”

“How are you saying symbols, like, it’s, not a word, but, like, I can HEAR an asterisk—“

Gary is cut off by the deity. “I’m a god, that’s how. Point is, souls in this polyverse are physical, such that they can persist outside of the body infinitely. This also means beings created in this universe can be revived via souls. The Soul of the Wisher can be used to revive the Wisher. Jaxon’s, or Chaos’ soul, is known as The Soul of Chaos. Interacting with The Soul of the Wisher grants a wish, and The Soul of Chaos causes disorder when interacted with. Both can be used for good, however they can also be used for bad.”

“But what about the rest of the gameshows?” Berdly asks. “Sonic & Shadow are also in TWGOC, but they can’t be in two separate shows at once!”

“Basically, if you interfere with a timeline, there is always a timeline where you didn’t interfere with it, such that both TWGOC and ACBE can be canon to each other, along with other shows, such at ECER, CDCAT, DICKS (okay who the hell is coming up with these names), etc.”

“Okay, and how does this tie back to Jaxon stealing a soul?” Sonic asks.

“He killed the Wisher, another deity, and took the Soul to prevent revival. This renders the Wisher functionally unable to do anything.”

Berdly shifts forward. “And what’s stopping us from ganging up on you and taking your soul?”

“I am a god, as such only gods can harm each other.” She then fizzles for a bit. “Oh, I have to go. I’ll definitely show up next time though ;)” She then completely glitches out of the space, leaving Gary, Sonic, Shadow, and Berdly alone. 

Nothing happens for a moment. Everyone is standing still, looking at each other confused. Then, Berdly interrupts the silence.

“I’m hungry, meeting’s over.” He walks out the room. After a few seconds of deliberation, Sonic, Shadow, and Gary follow.

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Gangle and Zooble aren’t in the mess hall, where everyone else is. They’re in their dorm. Gangle is pacing, and Zooble is laying in bed, unwilling to get up. 

“Oh jeez,” Zooble says, “How are you up?”

“I… don’t know,” Gangle responds. “Probably anxiety from my fight yesterday.”

“Why?” Zooble asks. “You won.”

“Yeah, against Niles,” Gangle responds. “He cornered me. Says if I don’t work with him, he’s gonna single me out and I’ll be screwed. He’s like if Jax was more evil.”

“Oh yay, another Jax.” Zooble turns over and groans into their pillow. 

“I think he’s… worse than Jax, actually,” Gangle says.

“That’s even *worse!*” Zooble groans, still into their pillow. “I [BARK]ing hate my lifeeeeeeee…”

“Yeah, well, let’s go see what psychopathic challenge Jaxon has for us today.” Gangle says.

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There was nothing left. Just a pure, black, void.

Just kidding, we’re in the cafeteria now. I’m not gonna end the show that early!

Berdly is bothering Queen much to the annoyance of Mettaton, Meowth, and Kirby. Queen, however, is slowly inching a glass of battery acid towards him.

“Burgheley Look To Your Left.”

He looks to see the acid right next to his beak. In a panic, he slaps it with his wing, causing a mini explosion on the ground.

Berdly looks down at the scorched floor, then turns to Queen. “Oh, shoot. I am NOT taking responsibility for this.” He then leaves towards his own table.

Queen sighs in relief. She walks away as well to avoid responsibility. However, a few moments later, Jaxon walks in. He floats over to the burn mark on the ground, then looks at Queen. “So what the fuck happened to my floor?”

“Blame Bueregelie He Hit My Acid Glass.”

Jaxon wheels around to face Berdly and sends a claw machine grabber thing through the roof. It grabs Berdly and spins him around to face Jaxon, before letting him go and moving upwards, leaving a giant hole in the roof.

“Ok,” Jaxon says, “What the hell did you do to my floor?”

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Cut away to Zooble and Gangle, Zooble is carrying a pizza box that was in their fridge (they finally felt like eating) and Gangle, being lazy, is wrapped around Zooble. Zooble opens the doorknob to the cafeteria, and walks in…

To find a hole in the roof, a part of the floor scorched, and everyone looking at Jaxon and Berdly. Gangle quickly unwraps herself from Zooble.

“I did NOT do anything for your floor!” Berdly says.

“Actually Yes He Did It Was Hilarious.”

“No, I—ok I did. It was an accident though—“ Jaxon is inching closer to him. “IT WAS AN ACCIDENT—“

“No He Like Slapped The Glass And Sent It Straight Into The Ground.”

“You were gonna pour it on my beak?!”

“You Didn’t Deny It.”

“No I DIDN’T deny it, I provided extra context!”

“Why Are You Getting So Defensive”

“Because you’re accusing me?”

“Crap Good Point.”

“OH MY GOD,” Jaxon interrupts, “Do you ever shut up? Fuck you guys, we’re doing a challenge right now.” He slaps Berdly and everyone teleports above the Duel Roulette stadium. The ring above is gone, and instead they are standing on mini hovering platforms. The ring below now has a barrier. The stone of the stadium is now replaced with snow. Jaxon floats in the centre, failing to look badass. “Alright, this challenge is called The Great Fall-Off. Basically, each of you have projectiles that you can throw at the ground. I’ve made it so that if you throw a projectile at someone, it will be repelled up into the air. When you throw a projectile at the ground, the snow around it will fall down. There are 3 layers, and once you reach the bottom, you are out. Teams still apply, and the first team to lose all their members gets to lose a member. How does that sound?” He pauses, then says, “Oh right. To summon these projectiles, you just think them into existence. Oh, and there’s no cool down, but you have to actually throw them or they’ll just drop. You can’t summon them on the other end of the field, they have to be near you.” He pauses, and gestures to Queen and Mettaton. “You two both tied for the advantage, so I picked whoever had the higher average last time. Queen, you have the ability to respawn at the top if you are eliminated. Alright, begin in 3…”

Zooble tests out their projectile, it being the toy blocks.

Meowth and Gary both have Pokéballs.

Sonic and Shadow have mimicked Chaos Emeralds.

“2…”

Kirby has little stars.

Queen has Acid Glasses.

Mettaton has the plus sign bombs.

Asriel also has rainbow stars, but they flash rainbow.

“1…”

Berdly has balls of electricity.

Gangle has little tragedy/comedy masks.

Niles has USB drives.

Barbie has makeup kits.

“GO!”

Kirby flings a star at Shadow, but it reflects and creates a hole underneath them. They fall down, and quickly suck up a lungful of air to float back up. They fling another star at the snow below Gangle, which creates a giant hole underneath. Gangle panics and attempts to extend her ribbon to latch up, but her powers don’t exist anymore. She lands on the snow below, and her comedy mask breaks. In anger, she throws a comedy mask up through the hole. It flies to Barbie, where it is deflected to the floor below Asriel. He panics and launches forward, before sending a rainbow star to the right. It deflects off of Zooble and lands right in front of Queen. Queen doesn’t fall, however, as she stops just in time. She snaps to face the other direction, finding Gary behind her. Gary summons a Pokéball, but forgets to hold it and drops to his feet. He jumps back just as a crater is formed. While he is in midair, Queen grabs his legs and throws him down the hole behind her, however she slips and falls down the hole Gary made.

On the other side of the battlefield, Sonic is tossing emeralds below Niles, who is tossing USB drives back. Niles is doing the over-the-top dodging with backflips, running, even throwing his own USB sticks at Sonic’s to ruin their momentum. Sonic, however, is just really fucking fast. This stops working when one of Niles’s USB Drives is sent flying up from Sonic, landing smack in the middle of where he is. He tries to run, but hits the edge of the hole and falls to the next floor. He scrambles to get back up, and sees 2 of his other teammates there, Queen and Gangle. Surprisingly, no one else is there, but there is a strikingly big hole in the centre. He looks at Queen and Gangle. “So what the hell happened here?”

“We Had A Bit Of Fun With Another Guy And Now He’s Tossing Pokéballs At Us. Except He Sucks At It And Now He Is Just Raising The Size OF The Hole In The Centre.”

“Ok, so, uh…” Sonic was left without anything to say. “What do we do now then?”

“We just, uh… wait, I guess?” Gangle suggests.

“We Should Strategize, So That We Don’t Mess Up And Get Jumpscared By A Guy From The Other Team Falling Down.”

“I feel like instead of creating another big hole,” Sonic says, gesturing to the Gary Pit, “we should just lead the people who fall here into the hole.” At that moment, Barbie falls directly through the centre and through the Gary hole. A lout “What the HELL?” can be heard from below. “Or that, yeah, that works too.”

“I Can Respawn So I Should Be Doing Most Of The Dirty Work,” Queen replied.

“Ok,” Sonic says, “so we go bully them into the centre, and leave them all at the bottom—or wait, I have a better idea!”

“Oh, and what might that be?” Gangle asked.

“Simple, we just get—“ At that moment, a pile of snow lands on sonic, as well as Asriel. Queen and Gangle panic and immediately hurl projectiles at the ground below Asriel, causing both Asriel and Sonic to go down.

Gary notices the two and walks over. “So, it appears you two have FALLEN DOWN. Wait, why was my voice so much louder there?”

“Maybe because you’re a man who never knows how to shut up!” Barbie yells from nearby.

“Yes, yes, we’ve been over this already, you’re an asshole misandrist, calm down.” Gary sighs, then readies a Pokéball. “Anyway, looks like we gotta deal with Sonic over here.”

“I don’t think so.” Sonic stands up rapidly, causing Asriel to fall over. Sonic summons an emerald and drops it near Asriel, then kicks him into the newly-made hole. 

FIRST ELIMINATED: ASRIEL DREEMUR

“I have more willpower, more DETERMINATION, to—okay Jaxon, can you stop doing that?” Jaxon doesn’t respond. “Oh whatever, who cares.” Sonic throws an emerald at the floor beneath Gary, and he falls through.

SECOND ELIMINATED: GARY OAK

“Man, I ALWAYS have to do everything myself,” Barbie says. She struts over to Sonic, then summons a makeup kit. “Now to get rid of this weird blue… hedgehog… thing, whatever you are.”

“Um, no,” Sonic replies. “I don’t think so.”

“Okay,” Barbie says, “What makes you think so?”

“Well,” Sonic says, then tosses an emerald behind him. It creates a crater and Barbie falls, hanging on to the ledge of the hole. “Because I can send you down right now, can I not?” He lifts his foot to step on Barbie’s hand. She smiles at him, before summoning a makeup kit with her free hand. Sonic pauses. “What are you going to even do with that?”

She smiles. “This.” She throws it to the underside of the snow beneath Sonic, causing him to fall. 

THIRD ELIMINATED: SONIC THE HEDGEHOG

Barbie hosts herself up and nearly falls into the new hole she’s created, then looks at the hole where Sonic and Asriel fell from. When will the next person fall down?

Back at the top, Kirby and Mettaton are having a second round of fighting, jumping between platforms as the top has been separated into segments. Mettaton is swinging his arms to try to get Kirby down, however Kirby can basically float. Mettaton thinks of something, then jumps and latches onto Kirby before lading on the ground. This unfortunately does not last, as Kirby kicks themselves free. This forces Mettaton to slide in front of Niles, who kicks him before sending Mettaton below with a USB. Niles then begins to run over to Zooble, but falls in a hole in the way. In a panic, he tries to grab the ledge, but instead grabs on Meowth’s leg and they fall down to the second floor, narrowly missing the huge hole in the centre. As it turns out, Queen and Gangle are there, on the other side.

“Niles, what the heck!” Meowth yells at him.

“I fell down and tried to latch onto the ledge, but grabbed your leg instead somehow,” Niles responds. “Anyway, we have a problem at 12 o’clock. You see if you look across, there’s Queen and Gangle, also Mettaton is resting against the wall not doing anything. You can deal with Queen, I need to talk to Gangle, because I’m pissed as hell right now.”

“Alright, have fun,” Meowth says, then begins to trudge along the circle. Niles goes the other way, effectively cornering Queen and Gangle.

“Woah What The Heck (Hell) When Did They Get Here.”

“Just now, numbnuts!” Queen looks away from Gangle to see Meowth has already made it to Queen’s side.

“I Don’t Think I’ve Heard That Insult Before Did You Come Up With It Yourself?”

“NO, just.. ah screw this!” Meowth summons a Pokéball.

Gangle sees Niles approaching and walks over to meet him. “So, how are you, Niles?”

“We need to talk, Niles says, and grabs her ribbon.

“NOW?” Gangle asks, exasperated.

“Yes, now. I’m still kind of pissed at you nearly getting me eliminated yesterday. So you will stop whatever you’re doing and you will let me progress. Do you know just how much support I had to rally to NOT get eliminated?” He sighs. “I’m pissed as fuck at you. Change your goddamn attitude, or I will fucking rig this game so hard you’ll never have a fucking chance at anything ever again. Is that understood?”

Gangle smiles. “No.”

Niles winces, and steps back. “WHAT?”

She looks at him. “I’ve had to deal with people like you before. They’re not fun. And you know what? Playing their game never f[BOINK]ing worked for me; you’ll just keep hurting me for your own benefit. So the answer is laid out very simple in front of me here: I don’t listen to you.” She smiles, and then produces a tragedy mask. “Starting… now.” She creates a hold and throws him in.

Queen is walking over. “Don’t Worry The Kitty Is Gone How Are You.”

Gangle sighs. “I’m doing well. I think I just lifted a huge weight off my chest there.”

Queen looks at her. “You Don’t Have A Chest.”

Gangle oh so wished she had fingers right now, to flip this damn computer woman off.

Mettaton walks over. “What are you two doing here?”

Queen spans to face Mettaton. “She’s Doing Something Weird With Her Arm Ribbon, And I Don’t Know What It Is.”

Gangle suddenly looks up in disbelief. “Forget my ribbon, what is happening up there?!”

Back at the top, Kirby is doing a very good job of not getting murdered. Despite being cornered by Berdly, Zooble, and Shadow, they’re doing an excellent job of maneuvering, eventually getting the three trapped on the same island. 

The three shrink away to the centre, as Kirby slowly inches more off of the edge of the island.

“Shoot,” Queen comments from below. “The Only Way To Get Kirby Down Is Via Grabbing Onto Them And Sacrificing Yourself, And They’re Too Far Away To Do That.”

Berdly throws an electroball to the underside of Kirby. It gets deflected the opposite way and lands on the platform Kirby was using to regain air. Kirby sees this and decides to just throw a star directly underneath where they’re all standing, causing the three Showstoppers to fall through the big hole in the second layer straight to the bottom. Kirby, however, floats to the outside ring to see Queen, Gangle, and Mettaton.

“Well, We Are Screwed.”

At the bottom, Zooble is struggling to fend off Barbie. They throw a block behind Barbie, but Barbie sidesteps the hole. Zooble jumps at Barbie to grab her, then throws her down the hole at the bottom.

FOURTH ELIMINATED: BARBIE BITCH

Now alone, Zooble walks over to help Shadow deal with Niles. Niles has Shadow surrounded by holes, and is widening them. Zooble jumps and kicks Niles in the back of the head, and Niles falls down into the gape. However, he grabs Zooble leg and pulls them down with him.

FIFTH ELIMINATED: NILES

SIXTH ELIMINATED: ZOOBLE

Shadow decides to jump out of the trap he was put in, and tackles Meowth to the ground. Just then, Queen, Mettaton, and Gangle all fall directly on top of him. Berdly throws an electroball up to hit Kirby, but it deflects and lands near him. Then, the giant pile of people fall down. 

SEVENTH ELIMINATED: MEOWTH

EIGHTH ELIMINATED: METTATON

NINTH ELIMINATED: GANGLE

TENTH ELIMINATED: SHADOW

Meowth, you see, sacrificed himself to get 4 others out. Pretty badass. However, he forgot one key detail.

Queen was now at the top, falling. She grabs on to Kirby. Kirby summons a star and slams it onto Queens stomach. Or, well, tries to. It gets deflected and lands under the snow Berdly is standing on, and he doesn’t notice, leaving him to fall. 

ELEVENTH ELIMINATED: BERDLY

Kirby kicks up on Queen to send themselves up. They suck in a lungful of air. Queen is left to fall, and lose.

TWELTH ELIMINATED: QUEEN

WINNER: KNIGHTS

Jaxon goes to the loser room and teleports Kirby down. “And that concludes the challenge! That was a cool as hell finale there, but the Showstoppers lost. Meet me for elimination at… 2:30.” He snaps and everyone is back in the cafeteria. 

“Also, the viewers left messages for some of you!” Jaxon says. “To Niles: how does it feel being trash that loses to fucking ribbons?”

Niles glares at him. “Fuck off.”

“You’re acting like I wrote it!” Jaxon says. “Anyway, Asriel (ooo imma sing this): how does it feel losing to a cartoon character suckaaaaaaaa!”

Zooble tries to flip the camera off, but fails as this is a fanfic and not a tv show.

“For Berdly: I like you keep doing what you’re doing.” He scoffs. “Berdly you ruined my cafeteria floor. Fuck you.”

“I don’t know,” Berdly says, “the viewers say I should keep doing what I’m doing.” Jaxon facepalms.

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During lunch, Queen, Mettaton, Gangle, Zooble, Meowth, and Kirby are at the back table in the corner. 

“I wish we didn’t get a challenge during f[BONK]ing breakfast, otherwise we could have strategized.” Zooble is looking at the pizza box with pizza scattered all over the floor that them and Gangle were gonna eat. Oh well.

“I Mean That Was A Pretty Badass Move There Kirby Good Job.”

“Poyo!”

“Anyways,” Mettaton interjects, “We need to figure out which one to eliminate. We have four people here that hold all the cards during elimination.”

“Let’s see,” Meowth says, “You can either go for Sonic, Shadow, or Berdly.”

“Can We Get Berdly I Don’t Like Him.”

“Also, Jaxon would like us more,” Gangle says.

“I don’t know, seems kinda cheap to just go for the one person that someone here dislikes,” Zooble states. “Sure, Berdly is annoying sometimes, but he has really powerful wind magic himself. I feel like its safer to go Sonic, because Shadow is just Sonic with a gun. We won’t experience any real… downgrade if he’s gone. Berdly’s probably not going to be nearly as good at non-action based challenges.”

“I’m Surprised He’s So Good At Action Stuff Considering He’s Fat As A Pig.”

Gangle looks at Queen. “No, he’s not?! He’s like closer to a stick figure or something—his bones are probably hollow.”

“Actually You’re Right Updating Barge Lee…” Queen shut down and a progress monitor filled her visor.

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“Alright,” Jaxon says, “welcome to elimination. This sucks because I actually like most of this team. MOST OF IT,” he says, glaring at Berdly. “Anyway, mark your cards or whatever the fuck.”

Berdly votes himself.

Queen attempts to throw the bingo marker at Sonic’s circle, but misses and leaves a huge mark in the wall of the cubicle. She gives up and just marks it normally.

Zooble is struggling to hold the bingo marker. God, why didn’t they pick different parts today?

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Jaxon smiles. “I wanted to see how long it would take, but y’all got put in a freeze-frame… Oh whatever. Sonic, you’re dead. Bye!” He opens a portal below Sonic.

“Wait!” Sonic yelps, “I need my—“ He’s abruptly cut off by the portal closing.

“I’m sure that was nothing important,” Jaxon says. “Anyway, that means the episode is over! Go do whatever y’all like to do after episodes.

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Gary looks at the deity, back where him, Shadow, and Berdly met up. “So you need us to find you another vessel.”

“Yes,” the deity says. “And I know just the guy.”

“And who might that be?” Berdly asks.

“Niles.”

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Asriel got out of bed, and began pacing around the room. He couldn’t sleep. And he noticed something odd in his room.

“Niles, where are you?” Asriel screamed.

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Gangle laid wrapped around Zooble. Neither were sleeping, but both were content.

“Hey, Zooble,” Gangle asks, “How are you taking all this? The competition, I mean.”

“I don’t know,” Zooble says. “I mean, it’s kind of fun sometimes, but mostly it feels like this is the second time I’ve been kidnapped by a sadist.”

“You signed up for the show, Zooble,” Gangle points out, and giggles a bit.

“Yeah, but—sometimes I wonder if I actually want to be here.” Zooble stretches, but accidentally pops off an arm and a leg. Gangle helps reattach them via being already wrapped around Zooble.

“What would you wish for?” Gangle asked.

Zooble sighs. “I mean, I could do something selfish, but at the same time… what about just removing the concept of abstraction from our universe? Like, everyone who abstracted just undoes that and abstraction is impossible? It might be a bit overcrowded then, but Ii kind of miss them.”

Gangle giggles. “I feel like Jax would be very happy about that, though.”

Zooble shifts. “What do you mean?”

“His only two friends that I knew of both abstracted. I mean, sure, he stopped caring much after Ribbit, but… it sucks to lose Kaufmo as well? And, I mean, Pomni is warming up to him.” Gangle smiled. “Kinger would probably be happy to see Queenie again.”

Zooble sighs again. “Did I ever tell you how happy you make me?”

“Huh?”

“I don’t know… I just like your presence, just, you maybe. I’m bad at this emotions s[HONK]t.”

“No, no, I get you,” Gangle said. She held on a bit tighter as those were the last words said that night, as they drifted to sleep.

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