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After the events of what happened 5 years ago and everyone leaving the Equation Playground that day, it has not been the same since, Four and X are an example of this.
Four and X are watching BFDI like usual, but it was not really fun to watch something over and over again after what happened, sure it's a distraction and Four wants to forget all of it. He wants to forget all of it like it never happened.. like Three didn't break apart and physically die, and that she was revived but her value was gone. She was not the same anymore.
As both algebraliens watched the show together, it felt a bit weird. X finally sighed, they have wanted to ask this question for a while but never got the chance to since Four wanted to forget what had happened.
“Four…? How's Three?” X asked, but Four didn't really respond. X asked the same question again and as they watched Four closely, they could see Four's eyes start to shake a little, like he was hesitant to answer this question. Three is fine, but she's still unwell. Very unwell.
“... she's fine.” Four finally spoke, but it felt more forced than usual, she’s fine as if she's not practically and slowly dying everyday. X sighed and interlocked fingers with Four, looking up at him with concern. “Four, please, tell me the truth.”
“.... she's getting worse, I don't know what to do, what if she doesn't get better, what if she dies again what if she DOESN'T come back alive again WHAT IF–” X suddenly hugs Four in immediate concern, Four was panicking but he managed to calm down. “.... im sorry it's just…everyday I try and try and she cant recover…!”
X nodded, understanding Four's fear of losing their friend again, it was completely traumatizing from such a happy place to turn into someone's grave. “It's okay, you did what you had to do..” Soon enough Four calms down and X lets go of Four.
Four then went into his mind and went to the cage to check on Three, she is still in the limp position, laying down and still glitching. Four then used his hand to open the cage, grab Three (who is somehow unfazed for some reason) and carried her out of the cage and out of his head.
She is still limp, but she can still look. “... okay Three, we're going to try again so please calm down..” X tries to reassure Three but she feels scared, not because of Four and X no no, it's the power that she's scared of. The same power One showed her, introduced her to it, is also the same weapon to kill and revive her, but ultimately lose her value.
Four and X stepped back, and Four slowly used his powers, slowly and softly trying to see if he can recover Three, as for a while Three started to calm down but then suddenly she had a horrific visible memory of One introducing the power, which resulted in them fighting, and her being dead. She then starts to panic immediately, hyperventilating too much. “no… nonono NONO PLEASE STOP PLEASE!” Three cried immediately, Four immediately stopped what they were doing and went to Three, hugging her. “Hey, hey. It's okay.. I'm so sorry.” Four sighs, hugging Three until she calmed down. It really pained him to see his friend suffer this fate, it has been 5 years already and she's still suffering..
X sighs, looking at Four. “What should we do? She can't keep living like this… she'll be in despair forever…!” Four looked at X, and then Three, sighing. “We need to find another way. Another way to fix her.” Four stood up, creating a wheelchair for Three and made her get on it so they could go somewhere else, The Equation Playground.
Since everyone left the Equation Playground and left Six in charge of this planet in case One came back, Four and X got on the planet to look for Six, they found the house that Two made 5 years ago before leaving when they were given half the power. X knocked on the door, hoping that someone would answer, no one responded at first, then again, again, again, again and THE LAST TIME X knocked which was the sixth time, Six finally opened the door.
“oh my god who is banging my door at 2 pm—” Six spoke before looking at Four, X and Three, immediately getting into shock. “Four? X?? Three?? What are you both doing here?”
“... it's complicated, can we go inside? Just in case…” X spoke, everyone looking around as if she would come. Six nodded and let them all in. Inside the home it was a bit cozy, it's pretty small as Six sits on the couch. “So what's up? I thought we agreed we should all split up..”
“...” Four sighs, beginning to speak, "I know we agreed on going our separate ways but Three is not getting better, she is getting worse by the minute, we've been trying to heal her but now she's starting to crack more and she is still traumatized by the power..”
“Have you tried any other methods?” Six asked, Four and X looked at each other before looking at Three, she was still in the wheelchair and was kinda shivering. “I'll go get a blanket real quick.” Six spoke as she went to go find a blanket for her, as Four sat on the couch chair he looked at Three. She felt asleep thankfully so she wouldn't have to bear the pain she is still having for a little while, Six came back with a blanket, wrapping around Three so she feels warm.
“Anyways… where were we.. right. We haven't found any method yet, but we don't know what. That's why we need your help.” Six listened as she sighs. “Okay, I'll try, but we can't do this alone. We need some, not some, all of our friends. I think Fifteen, Fourteen and the Zeros are still on this planet, maybe at Fifteen's cabin….”
“Okay, so who goes to look for those guys?” Six asked, the rest looked at each other, and then Six. She sighs, “ugh, fine I guess I'll go get them as perusal.” Six sighs, leaving to go find Fifteen, Fourteen and the Zeros. Four, X and Three are left behind at Six's house. “..... so what should we do now?” X asked, Four looking at him sternly. “You go uh, see what Six has in store, it's been a while.”
X explored the place while Four stayed by Three's side, not trusting himself to not leave her alone. As X looked around they saw a few things that seemed like Six. The photos of all of her friends, assumingly that she misses her friends, there's a lot of photos of Nine though, seems like she misses them the most.
Meanwhile with Six.
Six was walking around the ruler trees, thinking of what to do. She hasn't been in these areas for a while after she was dared by Nine to ding dong ditch at Fifteen's house. That was a horrible day that Six would never forget.
As Six walked in the same paths, through the lily pads of Equation, more mathematical areas, she managed to finally get to Fifteen's place. It was pretty dangerous with a lot of bear traps and other stuff. But Six knows Fifteen's ways.
As they managed to get past all the traps Six looked around one last time, just thinking if there's someone there, if she's there, before raising her arm up and vigorously and repeatedly knocking on the door as loud as she can.
“FIFTEEN!! FIFTEEEEEN!! YOU GOTTA HELP US!!”
She keeps knocking on the door over and over again until finally…
“Oh my god who is banging on the door—OW!!” Six accidentally hits someone, of course that voice wasn't Fifteen since her voice is much deeper. It was, ZERO! Zro specifically because of his dumbass spelling.
“FIFTEE—oh, it's you.. uhhhh…” Six looks down at Zro, who is basically on the ground, maybe passed out. It was maybe 30 seconds before Zro got up again, confused on what happened. “Ugghhhh what happeended….???”
Six immediately shook Zro to the point they almost vomited. “ZRO YOU GOTTA HELP US WE NEED HELP IMMEDIATELY IS FIFTEEN HERE????”
“HEY HEY CALM DOWN LET GO OF ME!!” Zro got off of Six, about to vomit but they held it in (they might vomit a bit later). “Ugh… anyways what? Fifteen??” Zro leaned on the door to get some balance since he's still dizzy.
“Well…. Fifteen went to collect some wood, or something? What happened?”
Six explained the situation to Zro, about what happened with Three after all these years and that they need to get to another place to get help for her.
Zro looked at her with surprise intent, but also in a way which is determined. “Hmm.. I do know what happened to Three, poor girl, she didn't have to suffer such a fate.. but where are we supposed to go? We haven't really left this place except the others..”
That's the mere point, what do they do when trying to find another place? The algebraliens never really ventured that far before the incident and when that incident happened they went to some planets that were close to their own, to not be too far from their home planet.
But what IF they went too far?
Six sighs, knowing that Zro is kinda right, she never left her spot in case… she… has come back. It's been merely years since she's heard of her. Has she even left the moon? Escaped? What will happen when she does escape? Will she come after them all or will she actually change? The questions seem to pile up in Six's head, trying to figure out what's right and what's wrong. Everything happened so fast.
“.... maybe we can go together?” Six asked, the question seems a bit hesitant, like she doesn't know what she's saying because of everything that's happened over the years. Zro looked at her for a bit, then looked away, he's thinking.
It was a few minutes of silence before some footsteps came in the hearing of both Six and Zro. There it was Fifteen, coming back after getting some logs for fire.
“.... what are you doing here?” Fifteen asked, Six looked up at Fifteen when she saw them, a bit scared at first after last time she encountered her.
“Uhhhhh FIFTEEN WE NEED YOUR HELP!!” Six shouted, going up to her but NOT that close to her in case Fifteen needs to defeat herself…!
“THREE IS IN DEEP TROUBLE AND WE NEED YOUR HELP AND—”
“Calm down. I know that Three is badly hurt but why do I have to help?”
Which is pretty much true, why does Fifteen need their help? I mean she wasn't the one who put One in the moon so what reason was there to help Three? Or maybe she can help if no one bothers her.
Six sighs as she tries to explain the situation more calmly, “I get that, but Four and X have been trying to fix Three, she’s not getting better! We need to go to another place where we can find another solution for her to get better!”
Fifteen listened to Six, and sighs. “Okay, that's pretty understandable, but can Four recover Three with their powers?”
“Yes but Three has trauma from it, i know you and zro and… Fourteen, ugh, weren't there but it was genuinely the scariest thing I have ever seen in my life, Three DIED and came back to life by One, the same person that killed her! She can't recover from the same power that killed her!”
Fifteen listened to Six's words, thinking along the way. After a minute she sighs finally, putting the logs up. “Fine, I'm coming. But I'm not doing this for anybody else other than Three, because she's my friend.”
Six nodded, looking at Zro. “And uh…”
“I'll come too, and then rest of the Zeros! But what about—”
“ME!!!” Fourteen comes out of nowhere and immediately tackles Zro, Zro lets out a scream and tries to get off of Fourteen while Fourteen laughs at him, not really doing anything just being an annoying idiot.
“Fourteen get off of Zro.” Fifteen complained, Fourteen didn't want to get off of Zro but he was probably gonna get hit with something if he doesn't comply so they get off. “FINNNNEEEEE, You're so negative!!”
Fifteen just rolls her eyes, watching as Zro went to get the other Zeros. “So what are we gonna do?”
Six looked at Fifteen, then Fourteen, and back to Fifteen.
“Okay but first, put Fourteen on a leash,”
“Hey….”
“I'll tell Zro the rest while you guys listen.”
Just then Zro brought all the other zeros with them, looking like theyre about to move into a big ass house. “Okay we're here! What's next?”
“Right Zro, you do have a bunker after the uhhhhhhhhh incident that we won't talk about because it was very traumatic and a lot of lava?” Six asked and of course Zro nodded immediately. “Yup! Do you want me to locate the others? I can do that!”
“Great, while you do that I can get the others to where Four, X and Three are! Follow me!”
Six went ahead and Fifteen, Fourteen and the rest of the zeros followed Six, while Zro went to his bunker.
Meanwhile with Four, X and Three.
Four and X were just waiting for Six to come back, X was just doodling on some paper they found while Four was just near Three, watching her a bit carefully. Three was thankfully asleep, she was shivering a lot.
“Are we gonna find what we're looking for?” X asked, still worried about Three, the past years have been hard on her, she can't even fathom to even recognize herself when the mirror is in eye view. She can't even walk without tripping, it's like her whole personality was just stolen from her, like her value.
Four sighs, looking away at Three to look at X. “I don't know, I hope we do, I dont like to see her suffer for this long…”
Then a knock came from the door, and Six walked in, well one of the zeros knocked on the door. “Im back, I've gotten the rest, Zeros, Fourteen, Fifteen. Zro went to the bunker to locate the others.”
“Okay, so what should we do now?” Four asked, looking around at the others. When no one responded Four sighed. “Okay, that's good, because I have a plan… X did you finish the plan?”
X, who was apparently doodling the plan, gave it to Four, it was badly drawn, but it's pretty explanatory.
“Alright, so first off, we get the rest of our friends back together, then we go find other planets to see if they can help us!” Four exclaimed, thinking his plan is pretty easy and straightforward. But the others seem to slightly disagree.
Six spoke up about it, a bit concerned. “So… this is the plan. I get that but what if something happens? Like what if a big ass meteor just comes out of nowhere and just knocks us out!”
“Well then we can just avoid it, or if it's really big to avoid then we can just use our powers to shield ourselves! Easy Peasy.”
“But—”
“No buts Six, end of story, end of plan.”
Four sighs as he checks over the plan again, Six just rolls her eyes and sits down on one of the chairs. The atmosphere was a bit quiet, a bit uneasy too. After what happened to Three it was completely different, the Equation Playground wasn't really the same after that.
Six looks around the same living room in the same house she's supposed to take watch over in case she comes back, she looks at a picture that she framed in her house, it was her and Nine, her best friend. She misses them a lot.
It was them posing for the picture, or well Nine was. Six was looking at them with a frustrated look, the one that says “what the hell are you doing? You look stupid.” but Nine was practically having the time of their life, it wasn't everyday he usually takes a picture with Six, so of course she took this opportunity to pose as stupid as possible, it was funny, cute even.
Suddenly there was a knock on the door, it seems like Zros' gadget actually worked after all! even though it worked last time……
“Oh, someone came! I wonder who it is?” X spoke, Four goes to the door and opens it, expecting it's just one person as of right now…
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Oh nevermind it's ALL OF THEM.
Two, Five, Seven, Eight, Nine and Ten came back to Six's location due to Zros location tracker wanting them here. As all of them got inside, Six immediately tackled Nine to the ground and hugged them.
“OW!! Hii Sixer!” Nine laughs it off and hugs Six back. “Okay okay stop hugging each other like you both are long lost couples, get up, we have to tell the plan again.”
Six just looked at Four angrily.
“I would NEVER date Nine in a million years!”
“You're saying it like an exaggeration…”
Six slapped Nine when she said that, getting off of them but smirking a bit as she made them get up. Everyone got seated to listen to Four's plan.
“Alright, like I said before, we got our friends back together, now the next step is to find a planet to get help!”
“Oh boy! More people's skin to eat!!” Everyone looking at Fourteen in a very concerned matter.
“Why is he coming along again??? This is a literal CANNIBAL we have in our—”
“Okay so firstly, the plan is to have Three healed, if anyone remembers. All we need to do is find a planet, so get packing!!” Four shouted, ignoring Five completely.
For the past few minutes, the others have been packing. X seems hesitant to go, he hasn't been to another planet other than earth with Four, Four doesn't trust them to go out alone, thinking X will venture too far and get lost. X seems more scared of Three's outcome.
Three has been through a lot, for the past 5 years she did not get any better, it affected her mental and physical health drastically low to the point she couldn't even move if she wanted to. X hoped there would be someone that was kind enough to help out with Three, but not everything is sunshine and rainbows.
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For the past few days, we've been traveling from planet to planet. First is that crystal-like planet with those crystal creatures! I didn't know which of my friends were suitable for this planet, but this planet was DEFINITELY not for Three. They immediately started attacking us, it hit three and she started glitching out again, we had to go to space immediately to get her to calm down! It was scary… everyone just agreed it was too dangerous for Three, too hostile.
Next was that skateboard planet Nine liked, they got along with those little skateboard guys, I tried to do a little dance but they were unfortunately disappointed, whatever. We DID stay a day or two, heh.. ME! Anyways we did stay a day or two here but the hills are dangerous. I was watching Three for the moment, I literally just let go for one second and suddenly she was gone, luckily I managed to save her before she fell and everyone suddenly wanted to scream at me for that, it wasn't my fault the areas were so steep! Maybe she could've stayed in… wherever Four put her! But everyone decided to leave the planet, Nine asked if he could visit one day and Four said maybe… maybe that maybe was just a no.
Then on that fire planet, it was pretty hot, but with my super platonic friendship bubble I made sure everyone was safe. It was pretty suitable for Eight, he was still deciding. I think it is suitable since he's made of literal lead. But it was too hot for us, I stupidly thought nothing could hurt me and went to hug those little critters of lava but I burned myself and flew away out of panic… Everyone then decided to not go to this planet, hey.. at least Three managed to look at other planets, it was fun.
We did pass a planet that Four and X were on, but Four didn't go.. for some reason? Maybe it's probably abandoned? Or maybe those little guys that they watched on the TV won't help us? Four is weird…
We took this break on a broken meteor, it seems like something hit something, like a spaceship! I didn't see it happen but I hope that person is okay! I don't remember their appearance but they look pink! Eh ill probably never see them again so its best to not worry about someone you never met before. I did see this weird… whatever it was and went to it. It had some speakerbox in ballpits. I asked if they wanted to have some fun or maybe even help our friend here but they just ignored me!! Maybe since I called them dummy… whateverrr
We haven't found a planet for a while. Well we did, we just didn't go to it directly. It was fun for Three to see new planets, but she looks like she's gonna pass out any second. It gets colder the more we get further away… I miss my warm planet. I wish we find someone that actually has a heart to care for, I don't care who it was! Maybe some fellow… uuhuuh…… Alphabet? Do they even exist??? I mean we speak for a reason. Maybe they're some god or something. Whatever, I will not think much of it. I just want my friend to get better!!
Two then closed their book after they finished writing, tired. They hoped no one saw it… well Three maybe saw it since she's behind them. They're traveling by number order, she seems too weak to care, so Two sighs.
Ultimately they were starting to give up, it was pointless, the other planets were cool for staying but not for long, they can't adapt to it easily with Three in danger. Yeah Four can just keep her in the cage but she won't know the world, she would want to experience a lot of stuff, but she's so unmotivated for so long, it was starting to affect the others too.
“This is pointless, we have been flying in space for Infinity knows what!” Eight exclaimed, all the others agreeing. “Yeah! I'm starting to get cold, we're far from our home planet… how long until we find the right one?” Two whined, Four sighing, looking back at the others. “We'll find it, I'm sure of it.” Four spoke, trying to find some neighboring planets, but all of them started to look dull and duller as they kept going.
“... hey, they seem more dull, are you sure we aren't going somewhere dangerous?” Fifteen asked, everyone looking at the planets, they seem…. Burnt. Some pieces of the planets broke off, X sees one in the distance, one that was currently burning…? There were some red parts but some normal parts were still intact… it felt.. nevermind.
Four kept trying to look for a place, sighing as he found one. It wasn't a planet they were looking for currently, they don't even know if people lived there, they just need a place to rest.
The planet was slightly dull, it was weird since the further they go, the duller the planets get. It felt like it still had some life on that planet, but it felt abandoned.
The Algebralians flew to that planet until they landed safely in some small area, filled with lots of trees. They kinda fell too quickly, except Four who was very mindful of Three, yet the others landed safely.
“We could rest here until we get better, in the meantime we can find some help in the meantime.” Four spoke, looking around for some areas along with the others. There was one thing that Fourteen noticed. When they were eating bark (unfortunately), he noticed that there were some patterns in the bark, mathematical equations.
“Oh! Oh guys I found some math equations in bark! Tasty…”
“Fourteen stop eating the bark, it's not even that edible!”
Eight exclaimed, sighing as he went to snatch the bark away from him, Fourteen all of a sudden wanted to NOT give the bark to Eight.
As the others looked around, there was some stuff that they recognized, but they were different. Instead of operator leaves, there were…. Hydrogen… leaves? There were scientific leaves of the periodic table on these leaves, and the bark is also different too. There's Alphabets on the leaves if you look closer, along with more stuff.
“Woah, what is this place? It's so diverse with everything!” Nine smiled, running around the area with their skateboard. “Dont go too far you idiot! We don't know this place at all!!” Six shouted as she scurried over to Nine to make sure she doesn't trip.
Seven looked around, he hadn't spoken much together despite him being the one who would talk the most. He looked around and saw musical notes. “Ooo, are those music notes!” Seven smiled, going to the trees.
It seems to be playable since it has some strings. Seven was going to play on the bark but Five stopped them. “Heyyyy i want to play!!” Seven whined, everyone just rolling their eyes.
“This place seems interesting, like Nine said, it's so diverse and full of life, but some parts are pretty dull.” Ten said, keeping note of where they are, everyone went to a cave to rest themselves, since they have been planet finding for so long.
Everyone exhaled since they finally got a place to relax, but they were still cold, shivering. Three was honestly the coldest, well she has been cold since then. “Quick! Someone get wood!” Four exclaimed, everyone didn't move one bit, until Fifteen sighed and stood up.
“I'll go get wood.” Fifteen spoke before leaving the cave, of course with her firearm just in case. The others just stay in the cave.
Two wanted to go explore like they always do, so they announced to their friends that they'll explore and come back and leave the cave as well, hoping that when they come back, they'll be met with warm fire, hoping it's like the same with their home planet.
Two went into their book, writing down all the stuff that is happening as of right now.
OKAY OKAY so we just found this new planet and it's SO COOL!! I mean we haven't seen anything like this!! Music notes, science plants, alphabet bark??? This is genuinely the coolest place WE'VE seen in a while, even Nine thinks this is really cool!! When Nine sees a place that's super cool, she isn't exaggerating!! I wonder what sort of new stuff I could—
Suddenly Two bumped into a building, falling down to the ground with their book and pencil scattered, Two rub their head and look up…
It's an abandoned… market?
Two have heard some stuff about a market, it has all sorts of stuff, it looks extremely abandoned. They immediately grabbed their notebook and took notes of it, going inside AND immediately going back outside yeah that place is currently rotting.
“Ugh! Disgusting… Now that I think about it, I'm hungry!” Two whined, also taking notes that they're hungry. They began searching for food, maybe there's a suspicious pie shaped food on a windowsill just WAITING to be eaten?
Well it wasn't that, but they did smell wood, it smells earthy! Wow is that why Fourteen was eating literal bark… whatever not the time to think about Fourteen. Two went to where the smell of that wood came from, it was some really big bunker, it looked like Fifteens.. well except:
There's so many more traps than usual! Luckily Two can fly over them.
More signs, instead of LEAVE!! or GO AWAY!! It's more like DANGER. COME AT YOUR OWN RISK. NO OTHER SPECIES ALLOWED. wait what?? Other species?? What does that mean?
The entrance looks like it has some code! Whatever it is, Two will just go straight head first in.
Two shrugged, flying over the traps, looking at the entrance. They tried a few 4 digit codes like 1234, 1111, 0000, 2763, NOTHING WORKED. Two groans and tries the windows, not opening, locked from the inside. Two just then put in some random code, like 8203, 2009, 1100, 0011. It was frustrating to figure out the code so Two just used their limitless power and just broke the door altogether. “Uhhh… I think I'll fix this… after I finish LOOKING AROUND!”
Two smiled with glee like they hadn't just broken into someone's potential house as they looked around, and boy it was dangerous….! Zro had mentioned that the house of Fifteen is fine, it was cozy, just a few weapons or there. But man this place is PACKED.
There were all kinds of weapons, bear traps, multiple guns, this feels like some 18+ movie! Scary… they started to walk around until they saw some cameras.
“Hm? Cameras? What…” As they approached, they saw loads of cameras, it was the entrance to the person's house, random locations… even the area where they landed! Were they being recorded as they go and seek?
Two got scared a bit, they didn't really know much about cameras, if it is really recording them then what does it mean when someone has been seeing them? Does this person know of their existence? Maybe they can finally get—
loud heavy footsteps were at the entrance.
two wasn't alone.
As soon as Two heard those footsteps, they immediately teleported away out of fear, they didn't get to see the silhouette of the person! Well actually they did, they were just so scared of those footsteps.
If Two remembers the silhouette of the person, it looked like a V shaped person.. but hoping they have cameras they should tell the others, maybe… oh wow it was starting to get dark, two didn't even realize.
When Two came back to the cave they were met with BIG warmth, finally! Everyone was huddled up for more warmth and safety, Two got into the bundle and sighed, finally at peace. They started to write in their book about what happened to them before immediately falling asleep.
The others tried to tell some stories before going to sleep. Three was just huddled in the middle for extra warmth with a blanket. Anyways with the stories.
Six shared a story about how much peace she had now that she was finally at peace without them, but after a while she missed their asses
Nine shared a story about how he actually knew these little guys. He hoped that everyone could've stayed longer but it's Dangerous for Three. Nonetheless at least Six gets to meet them, they indeed loved her…
Fifteen also shared a story, which was very recent. She was just collecting wood when she saw a metal hand, when she went to investigate it moved, maybe it was just a hunce but she seems suspicious.
After that everyone went to sleep, except Three, she was still awake. She's still breathing and fine, but she stood up properly for a bit, just looking at the sky, at the moon.
“..... im sorry.” she spoke a final whisper, wiping her eyes. She never meant to hurt her, she just wanted friends and she broke the promise. It was wrong of her to do that… One never deserved that. She felt like she was a bad friend… but she sighed, finally going to sleep. Maybe One will change? Maybe not… but it feels so off, she's gone, she's supposed to feel righteous, One literally killed her and came back! But she still couldn't forget about the broken promise.