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Four was… annoyed at best, all these contestants over here killing each other when the world itself is in danger of collapsing, and all because of that lonely little One, and when trying to get Two to do anything at all they refuse! Not like they’d be much of help anyways Four reassured himself I can do this just fine anyways… Just as he finally pulled himself away from the side of Two’s bed to see Liy and Pencil run across the hallway occasionally blasting Twos power at each other in an attempt to kill the other, “HEY!!” he yelled as he began chasing after the two, “YOU’VE GOTTA STOP HAVING THAT MUCH POWER!!”
“You’re one talk!” Pencil yelled back, levitating Liy with a green light and throwing her against Four, sending them both flying back one floor and running to the roof.
Four grunted as Liy leaped off them and ran after Pencil. After getting up and brushing the dust off themself, they stared at the stairs for a second.. No, no time to think, I need to get this sorted first. and so they set off towards Liy, breathing heavily as the roof grew closer, pushing Liy behind themself, “Pencil..?” he called out quietly as he made it to the roof a few seconds of silence before a loud crash and crunching noise could be heard making Four jump and swiftly look at the direction the noise came from. And there stood Pencil over Liys mangled corpse.. would it even be considered a corpse? “You shouldn’t have that Pencil, you don’t know how to use it!” Four doesn't need to be reminded of the terrible things this that this power can cause WITH practice.
Pencil laughs coldly, “OH, should i do what YOU do?? When you trap people away for years?! when you twist us up, spin us around, for WHAT?!?” she began walking closer to Four with an enraged look on her face, emphasizing the word ‘trap’ with exasperated hand movements.
Four felt their breaths getting faster almost frozen before snapping themself out of it, throwing out their hands and blasting a few beams of white light at Pencil in which she dodges easily as she threw herself Four and kicking them to the ground, “WAI-” he almost yelled before being cut off as she grabbed his arm, and he felt everything, all of his power being absorbed out of his body. There were a few small seconds of silence.. But it felt like a million years… eyes, he could feel someone other than Pencil watching him from somewhere, “C-cut it out Pencil! There’s another number here!”
“I know, you already stole their show” Pencil hissed as she scowled down at Four, before looking at her left arm that was now glowing blue with his power, holding her hand up to inspect it for a moment, before zapping him with it.
Four grunted, closing his eyes as he felt a wave of harsh pain go through his body, trying to pick himself up, to teleport, to RUN AWAY but to no avail, all he could do was painfully push himself away from Pencil, “N-no thats not-!” he was cut off again by Pencil kicking him towards the edge of the roof, “AUGH, stop!” Four was getting desperate, he couldn’t let this happen, all of this happened too fast for himself to barely react! He almost didn’t notice the bugs that were now crawling underneath him as he continued to push himself dangerously close to the edge, “Pencil please-” he knows its futile, and the oven that crashed against his head, only hammered that fact into his brain. But that won’t stop Four from trying at least one more time. Even with the small tears in his eyes. Just one more, “I get it! You’re mad at me!! But yo-”
“Bye, Four” Pencil said, cutting him off in an irate tone, scowling at him one more time before painfully grabbing him by the wrist and throwing him off the edge and blasting him with her power one last time, as if for sport and walked away from the side of the roof…
Falling, if only I could have said goodbye to him one last time.. Four thought to himself with tears forming in his eyes, defeated, he knew an algebralian could only survive so much in so little time without the yoyolites power, this fall was likely his last, and he knew that X wouldn’t let him end up like Three… poor Three, his thoughts were abruptly cut off by instead of the ground…But his eyes met an even worse fate… One was standing there with her yellow star shaped eyes, he didn’t remember those..
“Yooink!” One said as she caught Four with her power, “Finnaly! gotcha..” she said with a friendly look on her face but her eyes and tone told a different story.
“X!! Help-!!” Four yelped before teleporting alongside One, finding himself dangling over the hole in the moon that had been caused episodes ago by Lightning’s blind rage.
“Just one moment please,” One winked at Four then flew back to whichever direction the hotel was, leaving Four to their own thoughts for around eight minutes, which only increased his anxiety.
Why is she here? What is she doing? Useless questions, but Four couldn’t help the nagging fear… fear, it had been so long since Four had actually been scared, sure there was definitely one or two scares throughout the years but not actual… terror.
“HAHAHAA, IT WORKED!! OH WOW, WOW!!!” One yelled from below, her voice echoing as she flew back up, now with green and light blue magic radiated off of her.
“One let me go!” Four yelled up at her, “My power’s gone!”
“Yep, that's the idea,” she said dangerously, glaring at him like she had been the day Four and the other Algebralians had locked her in the moon to rot for the next 15 years.
“Did you not take your time to think about what had happened? What about Three?! This power is dangerous! You can’t control it!!” Four’s yells were getting quieter, a sign of losing hope..
“OH and YOU can?!” One hissed down at him, eyes like daggers into Four’s soul.
Four breathed heavily trying to find something that could get him away from this conversation without being in danger, “I thought you being trapped in there would make you see-”
One finally snapped, cutting Four off, “SEE What?! Uhg! Well.. Maybe you’ll see whatever YOU thought I’D see!!”
“Wha?” Four’s fear was absolute now, but he didn’t have much time to process anyway, because seconds later he was kicked full force into the moon, letting out a small yelp of pain as his head hit the cold rock behind him, falling down and hitting the bottom of the moon with a quiet thud.
“Maybe I'll let you out in, oh, fifteen years or so?! BYE!!” One yelled in triumph.
“One! No! Don’t do this! please..” Four yelled.
One glared down at him one last time, her words echoing against the walls of the moon, before resealing it.
Four punched the wall over and over again trying to do anything, but it was useless, “No! No…” His punches slowed as he slumped down tears in his eyes. This can’t be happening, yeah im not alone, im sure ill wake up and this is a bad dream… it has to be.. Four let his mind race for a few more seconds, at some point it seemed one had somehow used her power to throw the moon.. Somewhere. It's all my fault, I should have done anything to stop this from happening, I should have done something but I just stood there and let her take me away. Now X is left defenseless and it’s all my fault. The thought of X certainly didn’t help in Four’s little self shaming, the one he had promised to protect no matter what is alone once again, and for what he thought was his own greed to rid pencil of Two’s power even though it was for a good cause.
Four was alone, so very alone….