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“Mike! Tear down the board! Tear down the set” Tenna demands from Mike as he usually does when sad, “Tear down my house!! Tear down my Kids!!” Tenna adds unexpectedly, he hasn’t said to destroy his kids before, Battat wasn’t on Mike shift he had to instruct Pluey what to do.
Battat started to talk into his mike(pun intended) “Don’t destroy the set or board, we can use it in the future,” Battat continued before letting Pluey continue doing anything “Don’t destroy his house, don’t even think about it. He is clearly exaggerating.” Battat facepalmed he was clearly annoyed at Tenna not meaning anything, “uhm… you might as well take care of his ‘child’ don’t destory it. Sing to it or something” Battat was just telling what was obvious, and guess what? Tenna took back his words and said to rebuild everything. He was right.
Pluey squeaked out a loud saxophone noise; he sounded worried. “What?” Battat asked, Pluey quickly said something “… YOU- YOU KILLED HIS KID?? YOU BOZO! WE-WE HAVE TO REPLACE IT OR SOMETHING!??” Battat started to rush out of the Mike room to where Tenna’s ‘kid’ is.
Once Battat reached the room he saw the splattered pipis on the floor. “Eugh…” Battat was slightly disgusted by the odd slimy egg inside like substance; Battat put his mike(pun intended{again}) closer to his mouth.”Jongler. The room with Tenna’s kid. Now.”
Jongler hopped over as fast as he could without being noticed or questioned “Hows did dis happen?” Jongler crouched down and attempted a poke at the broken egg.
“You think I know?? Ask Pluey-We need to replace it before Tenna finishes his gameshow and shows that don’t need us, we have…uh 2-3 hours?” Battat checked the clock, hopefully enough time.
They all tried to think of an idea to replace it, Jongler suggests “hows about we get a plain egg and paint it?” Battat and Pluey seemed to agree with doing the idea so they started to go and find the stuff.
Pluey found an extremely huge egg somehow he kept in the Mike room; Jongler and Battat went to the art area of the studio(luckily empty) with the big paint buckets and such tools, and Jongler finds a cyan-blue paint almost the same as the pipis but a couple shades off.
“Heys I think I founds the color.” Jongler pushes over the bucket of paint to Battat for him to check the color; Battat intensely stares at the color mentally comparing the difference between the color of the paint and egg.
“It’s too off! Tenna will know that’s not his kid!” Battat pushes the bucket back to Jongler to put it back in it’s spot. Battat shoves 3 Big paint brushes into his pockets they poke out quite a bit but it gets covered by his poncho.
Pluey comes and joins them and asks what progress have they made, “We got brushes, can’t find the color, it needs to be almost exact.” Battat answers. Pluey thinks about where they could find paint or dye then he got and idea.
“I think theres a mountain somewhere in Tv world with flowers of the color, flowers can be used as dye, right?” Pluey asks Battat.
“MOUNTAIN??? I’m not climbing a mountain for you dumb mis-” Battat was cutoff by Jongler accidentally he supposed.
“Leads the way Plues’!” Jongler pointed; Pluey started to walk off and Jongler followed, Battat (Begrudgingly) also followed out of the room.
Some darkners stared at them weirdly; possibly because they thought some random Pippins and Zapper were following Mike. Either way they had to go the fastest path, since if Tenna found out about the Pipis being broken, Who knows what would happen to Tv World?
They reach the door to the cold place; some zapper was protecting it, but Pluey convinced it to move away being Mike and all of that. Once all of them entered, Battat closed the door behind them so no one could see what shenanigans they were up to.
“Where is it, Pluey?” Battat asked Pluey impatient, Pluey pointed to a direction that Battat never really cared to notice; he didn’t even know the mountain was there. How did he miss it?he didn’t know.
“Nows we’s gotta climb it!” Jongler said (obviously), Battat rolled its eyes annoyed.
They started to climb, the gear came from some where. Mike magic? Pluey had it on hand? Both at once? Battat didn’t know; could be any. He didn’t care; he only wanted to get the dye and get over with this.
Jongler realized that Battat was pretty slow and behind “Boss, youse behind, youse gots to walk faster.”
“No shit-” The wind was harsh, and the poncho smacked Battat in the face, his face turns green(red but he’s green his face turns green from embarrassment)“Ughhh… let’s just go now”Battat started to climb faster.
Pluey was the farthest through. There was nothing to really talk about; somehow climbing a mountain can be boring. They all continue to climb in silence.
They reach the top, Battat stares at the flower to make sure it’s the right color. “Tenna won’t notice the difference.” Battat starts to grab a few flowers, Pluey rolled her eyes as best as she could without actual eyes since it thought that Tenna wouldn’t notice with the dye in the studio but never the less.
They all grabbed as much as they could, “I’s kind of forgot that’s we’s also have to climb down.”
“…Right.” Battat then loses his balance and tumbles down the mountain. Pluey and Jongler are shocked, but whatever Battat has gone through worse; he (probably) survived the fall.
Once they both came down, they checked up on Battat he was fine; Pluey used some healing magic on him and he was fine after the fact.
Now it was a race to making the dye and painting the egg before Tenna finds out. Once they reach their room they grab the egg and start to work as fast as they can. Battat is painting, Jongler is making the dye(somehow doing it fast enough?) and Pluey is keeping watch, as Battat couldn’t trust him doing anything else.
Battat finishes painting and starts to run out to place the egg as fast as possible since the gameshow might end soon. Pluey and Jongler follow behind him.
Battat gives Jongler the egg to open the door to the room where Tenna’s ‘kid’ was and to heal himself since Pluey’s healing Magic isn’t the best.
Battat was still angry about Pluey breaking the egg thing, but then while healing himself he trips on the egg substance and heals it instead.
“Ugh…” Battat gets up and sees that he healed the egg back together, “What. All of that journey and I could of done THAT!?” Battat is just angry with a bit relief before hearing from outside.
“Ohhh~ MIKE~” Tenna calls out searching for them “Where are youu?” Battat quickly puts the real egg in its place and throws the fake into the darkness, Tenna starts to enter Jongler crouches behind Pluey since she’s in suit, Battat also hides behind Pluey but he’s so short that he doesn’t need to crouch.
“There you are MIKE!!!” Tenna yells out happy to finally find Mike “I was SO worried that you almost LEFT me like that Mailman did!” Tenna shrinks down once mentioning the mailman Pluey just pats him on the head, “Oh Mike! You always know how to cheer me up!” Tenna grows a flower from his nose and starts to walk out “C’mon Mike! We got more shows to put on the stars can’t just be missing!”
Pluey starts to follow while Jongler and Battat hide till Tenna fully leaves the room so he doesn’t question what they were doing with Mike.
“Wells that real was a Micheal Phone show!” Jongler said.
“Jongler, what the fuck do you mean???” Battat stares at Jongler with no response from them.