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Kevin is seen re-reading a random CECU show he had before, mainly to distract himself from his thoughts. He hums a random tune to himself before his door opens, and Sam walks through.
Samantha: Hey, Kev, just wanted to let you know your computer was acting up earlier.
Kevin: Oh, Sam, you’re still here- wait, why?
Samantha: I dunno. Also, what does that mean, you didn’t send me or any of the other people in EK’s show away at all.
Kevin: Just haven’t seen literally any of you in a while.
Samantha: We’re busy in the elimination room not dealing with the contest. Also, you forgot to bring us up ever again, and you left us down here last time.
Just then, the screams of about 15 individuals rang out from the main room, prompting Kevin to go and see that the AWESOME contestants had finally been retrieved, courtesy of Kevin’s twin brother.
EK: Hey, I finally got all these weirdos down here.
Kevin: Thanks, dude. Didn’t ask for that, but thanks anyways.
EK: Sure thing. …hey, have you seen Cream lately? I haven’t seen her around the planet lately?
Kevin: …what?
Before he can dwell on that, the front door is slammed open, a panicked Hugs being the cause.
Kevin: What the f- what?!
He’s grabbed by the shoulders as Hugs babbles out incoherent-ish words.
Hugs: KEVINKINENCHOKEDTODEATHANDTHERECOVERYCENTERISNTWORKINGONHERPLEASEBRINGHERBACK!
Kevin: Slow down, what happened?
Hugs: (sigh) Okay, so what happened was…
A flashback occurs, woah! Hugs, Arla, and Kinen are all sitting around, Kinen still working on her funnel cakes.
Hugs: …y’know, I just realized I don’t actually… remember how exactly I was revived after the beach incident.
Kinen coughs a bit as Arla’s ears perk up.
Hugs: I mean, I know I was revived by something, but… I don’t remember what it was. We have a machine in our spare room now, Gil and I, but I don’t think I saw it when I was brought back. My memory’s a lot fuzzier than I thought.
Arla: Wow… that sounds scary.
Hugs: I mean, yeah. One minute I’m losing all feeling as I melt, the next minute I’m just… in my room again. …uh- Kin? You alright?
Arla looks over to see Kinen’s face turning more and more purple, immediately getting worried.
Kinen: Y- Yeah, I just- these funnel cakes seem… undercooked. I- I think the batter is clogging my throat… can barely breathe…
She coughed a couple times, nothing coming out before falling backwards, both of her girlfriends immediately heading to her side in panic. Arla immediately started trying to shake her awake.
Arla: K- Kin? Kinnie?!
Hugs: Hold on, I’ll get the host! KEVIN, KEVIN!
The flashback ends as we see Hugs and Kevin walking out to where everyone else is gathered around an unconscious Kinen.
Kevin: Sounds like this was just a few seconds ago.
Hugs: No, we were on the other side of the planet. Arla must’ve brought her up here.
Kevin: Alright, lemme take a look at her.
He walks up to check her pulse…
Kevin: …yeah, she isn’t dead.
Hugs: WHAT?! How?!
EK: Well, if what you said is true, I think the funnel cake clogged her throat. Too little air for consciousness, but not enough to kill her.
Kevin: Exactly. I’ll see what I can do-
He then gets hit with a chair leg, which really only serves to annoy him as he turns back to a panting Crimson.
Kevin: Why.
Crimson: You… know why! You threw me halfway across the planet, literally! I had to shake off crashing through a roof before getting back here!
Kevin: Guess that’s why you didn’t vote this time…
Crimson: I’m busy, man! I have stuff to do!
Kevin: …that’s true, sorry… but, until you vote again, you’re demoted from co-host to permanent guest.
Crimson: Aw man.
Hugs: Okay, that’s nice and all, but can you please recover my girlfriend?
Kevin: Once again, not dead. Lemme check the HPRC first, though.
He zips over and types in Kinen’s name before seeing an error message… stating she isn’t dead.
Hugs: …okay, I may have missed that, but still-!
Kevin: Hugs, I’m not just the recovery guy! Do you know how annoying it is having to recover people yourself all the time?!
Hugs: That’s why you have this, I know, but you’re the only person who can help her-
Kevin: It’s just so frustrating that every single time, you don’t go to anyone else for alternate solutions, it’s always the god! Help yourselves for once! Or, y’know what, I don’t even care! Just LEAVE ME ALONE!
He flings a red plus sign right into Kinen’s body. Let me repeat that: a red plus.
Kevin: That was the wrong color. That was the wrong color, oh fuck-
Hugs: What did you do?!
Kinen ended up coughing up the cake stuck in her throat, though she looked… significantly greener than usual.
Kinen: Uuuurrgh…
Arla: Kin? Are you… alright?
She reaches out to see if Kinen is okay… but Kinen just decides to bite down on her arm.
Arla: OW! What the… oh no…
She quickly collapses, turning the same sickly green Kinen is. In other words… They're zombies now.
Kevin: Fuck, uh- ELIMINATION TIME, LET’S GO!
He quickly snaps, and everyone is teleported to the elimination area. And that includes all the rejected debuters, too. Kinen and Arla are now seen in a see-through cell, scratching against the glass trying to get out.
Kevin: Okay, that worked…
Right Hand Man: What was that about?
Kevin: So… I may have just discovered I can make red plusses, and that they apparently degenerate people instead of regenerating them. I’ll fix them later, though, it gives me a great idea for a challenge, which I really need…
Hugs: Wha- seriously?!
Kevin: Hey, I’m going to fix them! Be glad they’re not dead forever.
Hugs: What is your deal today?
Kevin: A sibling of mine is possibly missing, and I didn’t have time to find her. Let’s just show the RCs and get this portion done so we can get to the votes.
The recommended characters for this episode are Twilight Sparkle from My Little Pony (The Musical Fish), Sherma from Hollow Knight: Silksong (William Gnaritas The LORE Guy), The Knight/Ghost also from Hollow Knight (Yuki), Bottle from quiet (RevolvingFate), NO ONE from AVA with a blanket wrapped around him and a mug of hot cocoa in his hands (Apple ⟡), Roboty with tattoos on his (nonexistent) knuckles (White_Tiger), a Dog that is being pet by a disembodied hand (Petting a Dog [I have no knowledge of this anime]), Piranha Plant from Super Smash Brothers Ultimate (sadboiflowerz), SnipyCrab from Tumblr (Curiosity_Guest), YAHF’s nametag (take a wild guess), the entrance to Hell itself (BRONTO BURT), and You from the improv CECU show (Eight).
Kevin: Wait, Bottle? Did Revolve get bored of recommending CoCo?
Bottle: No, I don’t think so.
Tommy: Didn’t you punish her for killing everybody that one time? Where’d you put her?
Kevin blanks… before looking at the cell he put the zombies in. There are three of them now.
Kevin: …whoops. Forgot she was in there. Ah well, I’ll fix her later. Will the four losers of last challenge come on over to the platforms.
Said losers start making their way over, RHM patting 8-Ball on the back for… some reason before the platforms shoot up under them.
Kevin: Alright, let’s get this elimination underway! We got 15 votes once again, so it looks like that’s our average these days. The prizes today are these grilled cheese sandwiches!
He pulls out a plate of 8 sandwiches, 5 of which he throws to the safe contestants.
Snowball: Hey, this is basically just the last prize but with extra steps!
Kevin: Okay? I don’t care. Alright, first things first, any token users?
8-Ball goes to shake his token out from his hammerspace, but finds nothing.
8-Ball: That’s… weird…
Kevin: Alright, no tokens then.
8-Ball: Wait-
Kevin: Before we actually get started, apparently I forgot about William’s message last episode? So let’s play that now.
The TV starts playing the message.
William: Man everything is getting really angsty lately
William: Its legitimately making me want to go to my home dimension for a bit
William: But i don't want the MCCM to follow me there and threaten my wife or somethin.
*Button is Pressed*
Item Received
Pet Rocks
Have a pet rock in this trying time
-Transmission End-
Pet rocks descend into everyone’s hands.
Hugs: Aw, they actually look like pets!
Kevin: I will remember to play William's next message after the ceremony, believe me. Anyways, vote reveal time! The first one safe is Stanley at just one measly vote that came from Rose, who said “a very inhospitable being”.
Well, that’s very rude of them…
Stanley catches his grilled cheese before looking to Yellow in mild worry.
Kevin: No need to fear, lovebirds! Yellow is the next one safe at only 2 votes!
Yellow: Haha, yes!
He also easily catches his sandwich before high-fiving Stanley.
Kevin: Everyone knows who one of the people who voted Yellow was, so we’ll read White_Tiger’s vote out first. “"Their shells are ours. Their souls are ours.
Our hate is forever."
that's a quote from when [SPOILER] [SPOILER] the [SPOILER]”. No clue in any afterlife what you are talking about.
Yellow: Now he’s just spouting gibberish at this point…
Kevin: ADAGE also voted for you, with this reasoning: “Missed opportunity to have Yellow and yellow interact”. I know, I’m disappointed in myself now, too…
Yellow: Who is that they’re talking about?
Kevin: A little Among Us guy that followed me from fmgs:rust that I chickened out of writing… unfortunately. Anyways, bottom two! The Second Coming and 8-Ball!
8-Ball: Oh great, not this again…
Kevin: The first reason for 8-Ball is “welp gotta continue my rep of being the most biased voter here /j
sorry 8-ball if you dont make it to the final 8, it would be really funny if you did but also i dont have it in me to vote out any of these guys, kevin pls stop making me do this” Sorry, I didn’t know how the points were gonna play out, they just happened like that.
8-Ball: Wha- now it’s funny that I just miss out on the final 8?
Kevin: Yep! Voters are easy to please sometimes. “also, i have a huge announcement: I FINALLY WATCHED SO MANY OBJECT SHOWS AND I NOW ACTUALLY KNOW WHAT CHARLETTE AND NO WAY LOOK LIKE THATS RIGHT CHAT I AM NOW NOT IGNORANT TO THE WONDER THAT IS THE OSC” LET’S GOO, proud of you, Apple! Oh yeah, this reason’s from Apple ⟡. “and we actually got both ava 12 and silksong, i am going rabid insane
so uh snowball and hugs go have an emotional talk where you guys make up to each other and connect and become better friends through your struggles and conflicts”
Hugs + Snowball: No.
Kevin: Yeah, that may take a bit longer now. Anywho, first reason for TSC… isn’t even a reason. From Eight is “do another crash out now or i'm unplugging the computer.” I hope you count that one moment earlier, because otherwise, fuck these instructions.
The Second Coming: You have become a lot more irritable these past few challenges.
Kevin: Wow, no shit, Sherlock. Next reason for 8-Ball is from BRONTO BURT, who is either Marx under a new surname or just the Bronto Burt from the fellow_existor256 universe. They say “As the new God, I declare you a BITCH. Besides, you JUST missing out on 8th place! That's hilarious! It's so funny that it makes me want to puncture my lungs!
Wait, I don't have lungs.
It makes me want to puncture someone's lungs! Hell, did it right now, and the screams were just as D E L I C I O U S as I'd hoped!
Anyway.
Uh.
Should have been better, El Em Ay Oh.”
8-Ball: Screw off…
Kevin: Also, they have a message for you, Arla. “lol imagine getting eliminated by a gimmick”.
Arla: Well, someone else is gonna have that happen this time, right? Don’t have to be the only one for much longer.
Profily: Oh shoot, that’s right…
Kevin: Next vote for TSC is from The Musical Fish, who says this: “😦
I don't feel safe anymore-. Shiver me timbers I'm quaking in my boots rn. Just spare me lil bro, I can give you my mom's strawberry jelly pie or a batch of picarones (with syrup) she made PLEASE- 🙏.” You’re fine dude, I was just playing… unless? Nah, just kidding. “Oh yeah, my brother voted and recommended character, I would NEVER actually vote... that's maybe a bad thing but oh well. I got nothing to say surprisingly, a shocker too all as I keep forgetting more often and feeling like a vessel or husk. Also, forgor about the death list, don't even remember what I put. Lucky you, am I right lad or am I right lad? Ciao, anyway, the song for now is:
Partners in Crime (feat. Ash Costello) by Set It Off
Writing very late in the night while exhausted from playing Wii Sports probably ain't good for the brain is it-. As an apology, I'll put two fish facts this time :3. Lez go: Back to coelacanths for a bit, they're some of the only fish left who are lobe-finned, lobe-fins are actually the blueprint for land animals to grow their arms and legs. Thank them later for arms n' legs. Now to mantis shrimp :3, mantis shrimp can punch hard enough to break even crab limbs clean off. When they first punch however, they can produce as much heat as the surface of the sun within a bubble. Pretty cool :D.”
No Way: Both are pretty cool!
Kevin: Yeah I watched a short about the latter animal. I think the channel’s called Natural Habitat Shorts, go check it out. Moving on, 8-Ball’s third vote is from William Gnaritas The LORE guy. “Via process of elimination i voted you cuz i dont know where yer from”. He is from BFDI. Doesn;t anyone check the cast? “Also kev ya forgot to put my last voice message in.” Yep, figured that out earlier today.
8-Ball: Really? That’s lame.
Kevin: Chugging along, TSC’s next vote is from Curiosity_Guest, who says “Hmm... He's not who I know
While he is still TSC I just
Hm
Meh ....
Is that what He would do?
Not in a bad way of course it's really confusing okay I'm trying to figure out why
Plus 8-ball had a disadvantage but that's okay
But yeah :} Good luck to all”.
The final 9 all give their thanks in different ways.
The Second Coming: Well, I’m not tryin’ to be confusing. I wanna win, but I still care about my friends.
Hugs just looks away from him.
Kevin: Last reason for 8-Ball we’ll read comes from Yuki! They say “Sorry, can’t disturb the yaoi and their third wheel :(
Also again, sorry for disappearing :/|” You’re all good! Now if only Cocktail Stick returned, then I could use that one challenge idea I have on my list…
8-Ball: Right, that whole thing… whatever, I’m probably out now, because the voters think it’s “funny” or whatever.
Kevin: Possibly. Anyways, last vote for TSC we’ll read is from RevolvingFate, who says “Since I'm so nice, I shall keep 8-Ball in the game..... because we all know there's no way he'll lose the next purge challenge so he gets a free pass into the final 7. Be grateful! Oh yeah, I vote for Mr. Orange Stickman because of that time he ended up in an infinite black void full of math symbols and nearly destroyed the entire universe because the living embodiment of e^i pi almost beat him up. And also that time he created an infinite time loop…”
The Second Coming: I don’t remember doin’ that… at least, not clearly…
8-Ball: That would be nice…
Kevin: Unfortunately, that won’t be happening-
8-Ball: Damn it, of course…
Kevin: -because,with the exact amount of votes you rejoined with, you are once again eliminated with 8 votes.
8-Ball: …really? 9th place with 8 votes. …hhh, okay. Cool, not like I was gonna make it much further anyways, considering how physical the merge has been.
Kevin: Yeah, sorry about that. The last few voters you had were sri, sadboiflowerz, YAHF, and Hoe Kohzd. The latter just said “balls”.
8-Ball: Mature of them to do that.
Kevin: sri said “Sorry, man, process of elimination. I can't eliminate the two characters who got me invested in the series, and I can't separate the couple.
Sincerest condolences to Hugs (for the record I don't remember having any part in their separation, but still). A word of warning: I can support your whole "don't hold back" thing, but remember that it doesn't always do exactly what you want it to.” Well, Kinen and Hugs were the only two up for elimination, so you were kinda… forced to have a part to play in that.
Hugs: Don’t worry, I’ll try to be careful. Not fun having your head crushed.
Kevin: sadboiflowerz says “AGHAHSGGA NOOOOO IDONTWANNA YOUCANT MAKE ME
sorry 8-ball my bro but I can’t getrid of anyone else 💔 (not that it’ll matter if you buy and use a token)”
8-Ball: I bought an Immunity Token, but I have no clue where the heck I put it!
Right Hand Man flips a coin quickly before catching it.
Kevin: “also kevin? with how much people have been mentioning ink bastard I’d go check up on that situation to make sure he’s not up to anything. you don’t have to but be safe” What about him? Last I checked- did I put on the option where you can see other people’s votes? …I don’t think so. Anyways, he should still be locked up, and if not, he can’t get in here anyways.
T-Shirt: Are you sure about that?
Kevin: Yep. And now for the last vote… I’ll let him tell it.
He gestures to a closet that was there the entire time, no one paid attention to it. A deep, mysterious, echoy voice rings out.
Mystery Person: Firstly I would like to address the pressing question on everyone’s minds a question philosophers question vastly and a question every single wonderful reader of KIDS wants to truly know and get the answer to, a question so vast and even more important than the question of who will be the winner of the show-
The voice cuts out as it transfers to the inside of the closet, the voice now much more recognizable if not muffled a bit.
Not So Mystery Person: -and I am trying to draw this out as much as possible ok here I go uhhhhh…
The person breaks out of the closet, shattering the wooden doors despite them not even being locked. The person, of course… is YAHF.
YAHF: I’MQUEER there I said it! The gig is up! I am queer! The secret is out! The question everyone was asking for! No one saw this one coming! I am trans! I’m an egg! Yes I did not come out of the closet on Pride Month yes I am disappointed too but I wasn’t gonna wait that long trapped in a BOX AGAIN and also the show would’ve been over by then!
Kevin: He- Hey, congratulations, Word Blockster!
Hugs: That’s actually really cool! Welcome to the club!
YAHF: You’re trans, too?
Hugs: Yeah, nonbinary.
YAHF: Nice. Anyways onto the long awaited pronouns! my pronouns are He/She/They and they usually switch when my gender changes, some days I’m just She/Her, others I’m They/He, it changes constantly with different combinations and I will have something to mark when my pronouns change/ what they are at the time. Of course I also don’t mind people using any pronouns since they change a lot and not everyone will know when it changes and which to use but for now I will have this.
He pulls out a triangle blue sticker that says he/him and sticks it on.
YAHF: (ahem) Hi some of y’all may know me, my name is YAHF I’m genderfluid and my pronouns He/Him are on my sticker 🤙
Everyone politely applauded him, giving their encouragements.
Philbert: Congrats, dude.
Yang: Yeah, good job, loser!
Right Hand Man: Doesn’t really matter to me what you identify as, as long as it isn’t an enemy of the Toppat Clan.
YAHF: Thank you, thank you, I feel so appreciated! Ok after that I guess onto my vote reason BUT FIRST! AUGGHH MY HEART IT PAINS ME TO SEE HUGS SO SAD OVER THE LOSE OF THEIR LOVERS AUGH 😭😭😭😭😭😭 Secondly the cast is all male man 🧍♂️(Kevin: Some people are nonbinary, but continue) we gotta get some girls back into the game so like can Arla and Kinen join again to boost the diversity hmm? \(•^• )/ in fact all eliminated females should join back and since technically I am female and I am technically eliminated I should technically be able to join back too (*^*🙏) [I definitely didn’t come out just for this one joke].
Hugs: I’d love that! Thanks for the support, YAHF.
Kevin: Wish I could, but that’d both be completely unfair, and would fuck up my episode plan. They got pretty far as is anyhow.
YAHF: Not far enough… Ok so like out of everyone here my least favorite is 8-Ball sorry but you gotta go I can’t handle another heart break again 🤧
8-Ball: It’s fine, I guess. Was hoping I could get to the final 8, but this is just as well.
YAHF: Fun fact time! Fun fact #1 36 is a perfect square and 3+6 is 9 which is also a perfect square neat right?
Fun fact #2 I was originally gonna simply come out by writing my pronouns in my vote when I first voted but forgot to, the second time I wanted to come out was when my pronouns were put into question and I’ve been thinking about it every since and I just happened to want to come out now for no particular reason other than I felt ready to! This is also my second time coming out to people! First time was with my friends!
Kevin: Nice, props to you, dude! That takes guts!
YAHF: And now lastly… WHY DOES THE 268th-ish mention OF MY NAME HAVE A LOWERCASE a IN IT!!!! BETRAYAL!!!!! I AM APPALLED!!!! AND I FEEL SO SAD 😢😔😭😔 it is a sad day for the beautiful name that is YAHF we should hold a funeral in honor of the capital A in my name”
Kevin: Okay, I didn’t even register that before you mentioned that, it was a complete typo on my part, but I’m not changing it, otherwise this wouldn’t make sense.
YAHF: …meanie.
Kevin: Yeah, yeah, whatever, let’s play William’s message.
The TV starts up again.
William: So uhhhhhh this might sound bad but...
William: I kinda saw something with my omniscience and uhhhhhh.
William: Marx, bastard that he is freed Ink Blob from its prison.
William: So.....
*Button is Pressed*
Item Received
Sponge Sword
Location: Next to Kevin
Enchantments:
Unnatural Durability: Very durable this thing is.
Water Absorb: Absorbs any liquid that touches it.
William: There have an emergency thing you can use.
-Transmission End-
Kevin: …he fucking what.
The sponge sword drops right next to Kevin, snapping him quickly out of his rage as he picks it up and examines it. Upon turning it around…
Spongebob: Hi, how are ya?
Kevin: AAH!
He pulls back from it as Spongebob reforms into his natural shape.
Kevin: Wait, how’d you get turned into a sword by William?
Spongebob: I don’t remember. But I’d be glad to help ya later!
Kevin: Well… thanks. You can hang out in the host building, I guess, until further notice.
Spongebob: Sounds like a plan, Stan!
He walks away towards said building before turning around.
Spongebob: Wait, how am I breathing out of water?
Kevin: Me.
Spongebob: Oh, okay!
Spongebob leaves. Kevin then presses the elimination button and 8-Ball is flung away.
Kevin: That was completely unnecessary, but it felt like a formality. Anyways, now I have to add the possibility of Ink Blob and Marx working together to make my life more miserable than it is right now, but one worry at a time. Challenge time!
He snaps, and everyone more important (like the losers and failed debuters) teleports to the larger planet, along with the cell the now refocusing zombies are in.
Kevin: Alright, the spooky season is around for our viewers at home, so today’s challenge will be another Halloween themed one: zombie survival!
Hugs: WHAT?!
Kevin: Calm the FUCK down and let me explain! So, you all will be split into 8 groups based around our 8 remaining contestants. The groups will be random. Your group is not out until it has entirely been eradicated, by any means. Death or zombification, since they aren’t exactly that far gone.
CoCo bangs on the cage, angrily glaring at Kevin as he steps back in surprise.
Kevin: See? Also, since this is an odd numbered episode, someone will be eliminated by the end, but this time, the winner will pick the loser!
The final 8 gasps in BFDI form. Kevin walks over to the cell, preparing to release the three annoyed infected.
Kevin: Alright, here we go…
He claps this time, and everyone is shuffled around into these groups:
Team Hugs: Level UP Waluigi, FID Waluigi, Blue, Berd, Tomater, Yin-Yang, Charlotte, TI-30
Team Profily: Tailspike, Yellow M&M, Wheel, Squidward, Teardrop, Amelia, No Way, Pixel
Team The Second Coming: The Doise, 8-Ball, Life-Sized Sprigatito Plush, Samantha, Mario, Guy, Gun 2
Team Snowball: Vernias, Infinite Amount of Beds, YAHF, Cane’s Cup, Skater Dog, Cherries, Red Eraser
Team Stanley: Cube, Monitor, Cheez-It, T-Shirt, Notepad, Packing Peanut, Bucket
Team Clock: Flash, Rainbow Brick, Minecraft Steve, iPod Touch, Soda, Tiery, Golf Ball, Grassy
Team Yellow: Tommy, Philbert, Floretta, Liam, 1000° Iron Ball, Tissues, Yuki
Team Right Hand Man: Arla, Words With Friends Tile, Elizabeth, Pentadecagon, Brainy, Airy, Generic Blue Stick Guy, Crave Me Bar
Kevin: Alright, now we can start! You all get a five second headstart, go!
The groups all split off as they run away. After five seconds is up, Kevin rips the cell in half… only to immediately be attacked by CoCo.
Kevin: Ah, fuck! Get off of me!
Kinen and Arla watch for a little bit before running off themselves. We focus on Hugs’ group first as they slow down, Hugs looking over their group.
Waluigis: Oh, of course I have to deal with you!
Hugs: Hey, Charlotte, reunited early…!
Charlotte: Yep, even if it’s for this stupid challenge. Hey, sorry about Snowball and all, but what is your deal with him?
Hugs: …did you not hear? SB got her eliminated in-
Charlotte: Okay, no, got that part, I wanna know why you’re being this hostile. It’s not that big a deal, it sounds like.
Hugs: If you didn’t interrupt me, I was getting to that. …he ended up punching through her face…
Charlotte: …ohhhhhh. Yikes… well, I’m sure he didn’t mean to.
Hugs: I’m aware of that… It hurts no less.
Tomater: why can’t anything like that happen to me
Berd: What?
Tomater: I didn’t say anything.
Blue decides to wander off for some reason, likely in search of his friends. Speaking of, focus is shifted to TSC’s group.
The Second Coming: Alright, everyone’s here, right?
8-Ball rolls up to them not long after.
8-Ball: Now they should be…
Samantha: Okay, how do we go about this? Obviously we can’t stay out in the open, we’ll just get caught.
Mario: Where is there to hide-a, though? This is-a basically a barren wasteland.
Guy: I’m sure we can find something. Aren’t the rocky remains of the maze still here?
The Second Coming: Yeah, but I don't think those will do us any good. If only I had my inventory on me…
Just then, Doise yells out, causing the others to look and see the two zombies have caught him.
The Second Coming: Ah, crap! RUN!
Mario jumped on 8-Ball to make him run faster before everyone else ran away, the furries and Doise quickly following.
The Second Coming: I forgot how fast they are!
Samantha sees that LSSP is very unable to keep up, unable to save them before Doise trips and just… eats them by accident, due to how small they are compared to his mouth.
Samantha: Why must we have some of the worst runners…?
Focus shifts to Yellow’s team, already having found the rubble of the maze.
Yuki: So what are we doing here?
Yellow: I’m planning to either have us build stuff with the rubble or use my command staff to undo part of this damage so we can have a hiding spot.
Philbert: Wait, can’t you just use that staff to protect us?
Yellow: …actually, you have a good point.
He creates a shield around his group before remembering something.
Yellow: Hey, wait, maybe we can get help from Stanley and his group! Strength in numbers, right?
Tissues: I guess so…?
Tommy: Let’s get going before the zombies start goin’ after us. I know there’s not a lot of them, but we gotta stay vigilant.
Yellow’s group heads off, Florreta deciding to collect some of the rock pieces before following them. We pan over to see Clock’s team just strolling along, Minecraft Steve holding out his sword for any attackers.
Flash: Uuuugghh… Nothing interesting is happening right now…
Golf Ball: That’s good. It gives us time to devise a strategy for how to deal with these zombies.
Tiery: But they’re not the only thing we have to worry about. Kevin said we could also get out if we just died, so we have to worry about other teams attacking us, too. Only three people were zombified at the start.
Golf Ball: That is no excuse to not plan!
Flash: Wait, if we can just kill the other teams… I’m heading off!
She runs away before anybody can stop her.
iPod Touch: She’s probably dead. Oh well, the rest of us can protect ourselves.
Golf Ball: Ugh, fine…
Flash continues to run, speeding by Snowball’s group, who are digging for some reason.
Infinite Amount of Beds: This is really the best idea you had?
Snowball: None of you are suggesting anything better.
Skater Dog: Yeah, come on, guys, just keep digging and we’ll figure it out from there.
Vernias: Yeahhh, I’d rather not be stuck in a hole.
He pulls out a Warp Star again, with YAHF and Cherries latching onto it.
Vernias: Have fun, guys!
Snowball: Wh- Fine! Ditch us! Not like I care…
Infinite Amount of Beds: …I probably should’ve gone with them.
As the three ditchers fly through the sky, the Cherries look down to see if they can find anyone else before the star gets shot out of the sky, causing the three to fall. Cut to see that RHM is the perpetrator, some of his teammates looking on is shock.
Right Hand Man: …the more people who die, the better chances we have.
Pentadecagon: No, the better chances you have. We aren’t able to win a prize.
Right Hand Man: But it does allow you to survive this challenge. Would you rather have your body rot or be murdered by something else?
Pentadecagon: Of course not, I’m just saying us surviving doesn’t mean we all collectively win.
Brainy: Speaking of, can we find a way out of the open, please?
Airy: Let’s just keep going.
Right Hand Man: Fine by me…
Elizabeth decides to wander off during this discussion. Cut to Profily’s team wandering aimlessly, Pixel easily pushing Tailspike along.
Tailspike: I’m surprised how strong you are.
Pixel: yeah, me too tbh
Yellow M&M: So how are we gonna stop these guys?
Profily: Huh? Oh, we won’t, Kevin’ll deal with them after the challenge!
Amelia: I think he meant what we’re gonna do to prevent them from catching us.
Profily: Just be faster, of course. Oh, hi Stanley!
Stanley and his group are seen a little ways away, the mentioned waving back.
Monitor: …anyone else noticing how much this team is hopeless?
T-Shirt: Hey! We’re not hopeless.
Monitor: You can barely keep yourself upright, Cheez-It is clinically insane, Packing Peanut is way too frail, and Notepad barely does anything. Not to mention we literally have an inanimate bucket that’s gonna be no help at all.
Notepad stands up just to slap him. Now that every team has been seen, time for the real carnage to begin! Vernias, Cherries, and YAHF land in front of where TSC’s team is running.
YAHF: Ow…
8-Ball accidentally rams right into him as the others slow down to greet them.
Samantha: Hey guys…
Vernias: Oh, hey Sam! What’re you- oh shit!
He finally sees the three zombified contestants chasing after the group. TSC thinks quickly and throws the Cherries at them, causing them and the other three to be knocked down as the rest escape.
Right Cherry: Traitors!
That is the only word they can get out before two bites are taken by the furries and one entire cherry is consumed by Doise, successfully zombifying them. Doise then motions to spread out, as they aren’t getting anywhere just chasing this one group. The others nod before heading off, Cherry stumbling about due to imbalance. As the new group of 8 keeps running, we pan to see Hugs’ group still ambling about.
Berd: So, does anyone know how far we gotta walk?
Yin: We’ll walk as far as we need to in order to escape!
FID Waluigi: Yeah, quit whining! I've gone through much worse than just walking across a planet!
TI-30: No-one. Cares.
Hugs: …someone’s coming.
Yin: Wha?
Hugs: Someone’s coming for us.
She looks around… before looking up to see a blue cuboid descending upon them.
Hugs: OH CRAP!
Everyone jumps out of the way before a (slightly chubbier than normal) CoCo lands. FID Waluigi quickly kicks his smaller, pixelated counterpart at her, but she just slaps him back. Waluigi knocks Waluigi right back with his racket before CoCo just catches and bites the pixel Waluigi and tries to pounce on the taller purple plumber. She gets spiked into the ground by his racket.
FID Waluigi: Alright, let’s get the heck outta here!
Hugs: Killing the other guy was entirely unnecessary, but whatever.
Tomater also gets got by a quickly recovered CoCo before everyone decides to run.
Charlotte: This was a terrible start! Why do we have to deal with them?!
We cut to Yellow and Stanley finally running into each other as the two hug each other, their groups following after.
Cube: Oh, hey, Yellow.
Yellow: Hey, Cube. Do you guys wanna come with us?
Packing Peanut: Are you sure that’s a good idea?
Tommy: Yellow’s taking the “strength in numbers” thing. We just hope it works.
Liam: Hey, are we missing someone?
T-Shirt: Eh, we’ll be fine, one person isn’t everything unless they’re the last one.
Yuki: Let’s just set up the stupid forcefield.
Yellow: Right, right.
No need for that, Yellow, I got this.
A room appears around the two groups, just excluding Floretta who had managed to catch up to them.
Floretta: Ack! Aw man…
She turns to walk somewhere else before bumping into Elizabeth.
Elizabeth: Hey, watch it…!
Floretta: Sorry… um, my group is locked up in that room over there, m- may I stick with you?
Elizabeth: …whatever. Don’t get too close.
She starts walking again, Floretta trailing behind with a smile. Meanwhile, Snowball’s group was now digging sideways, having seemingly escaped the surface fully (unknowing of a new guest that slid down behind them).
Skater Dog: …this sucks.
Snowball: Shut up! It’s a good strategy!
Red Eraser: It’s too hot down here… Why’d we have to dig so far down?!
Cane’s Cup: We’ll be fine, we just have to-
He quickly gets bitten by the Cherry that followed them, causing panic between the other four.
Infinite Amount of Beds: Oh crap, let’s go!
They dig faster and faster, though Red Eraser and Skater Dog get shoved to the back and turned into zombies. Eventually, the two remaining breach the surface again, Snowball whacking the zombified contestants as IAOB quickly places a dirt block in the hole to block them out.
Infinite Amount of Beds: …we need a different strategy.
Snowball: I’m outta here. If those other guys can ditch, so can I.
Speaking of the other guys, they had slowed down upon seeing no one else coming for them, now just walking around.
Vernias: …and that’s not even getting into the implications of-
Guy: Literally nobody asked, and you’ve been talking for two hours…
8-Ball: It can’t have actually been that long, but yeah, you’ve been talking a while…
Samantha: Sorry, bud.
Guy: Oh yeah, something I’m curious about is how you two became friends so fast.
Vernias: Oh yeah, that! During the restaurant challenge, me and Sam were stuck as cashiers, so we got to interact more.
Samantha: Turns out we’re a lot more amicable than we thought.
YAHF: Can we find some guns or something? I wanna go to town on these zombies like I did in the tower defense challenge.
The Second Coming: Woah, hey, these are our friends, still. Would you really wanna gun down Kinen and Arla?
YAHF: …damn it. Can I at least try killing the others?
A rock then hits YAHF, dislodging one of his letters.
YHF: OW, WHAT THE HELL?!
He sees the zombified Doise howling in laughter at him, just making him angrier. So he does what any normal person would do: throws the boulder right back, fully murdering the Doise. …he then just places his letter back, connecting it to his body once more.
YAHF: let’s keep going.
8-Ball: …sure, let’s.
Back to Profily’s team, they found a random hole in the middle of nowhere.
No Way: …why are we here again?
Profily: I wanna see if something’s down here, but I don’t want us all to go down in case it’s deadly.
Tailspike: I can go down there.
Teardrop decides to just push him in… hearing biting before Tailspike flies backup, greener than before.
Wheel: …great job.
The rest of the zombies crawl out of the hole, causing everyone else to run away in fear. Yellow M&M is not fast enough and just… gets eaten.
Yellow M&M: AHHH! Tell my tale!
Profily: No, M&M! I’ll win for you, buddy!
Wheel: Keep running, idiot!
Profily: Oh right.
They continue running, passing by Clock’s team.
Grassy: Where are they going?
Rainbow Brick: Uh, maybe the other way of those zombies?
The rest of the team starts running as well, Clock not reacting fast enough to not get bitten.
Minecraft Steve: Well, there goes our leader.
Golf Ball: What?
iPod: Don’t get hung up, just run!
Moving away from that short scene, RHM’s group is building a shelter with the rubble of the maze left behind. Flash is nearby, planning her murder method.
Words With Friends Tile: And you’re sure this is a good idea, dude?
Brainy: Of course, any shelter is better than no shelter.
Generic Blue Stick Guy: Unless it falls on us or somethin’.
That gave Flash just the idea she needed, chuckling before descending into the rubble. Eventually, the shoddy shelter was built, but only the thinner ones and WWFT were able to squeeze in.
Brainy: …I may have forgotten a door. Oh wait, here's one.
Turns out the door was the only thing not destroyed from the rubble. Brainy ran over to get it, allowing Flash to sneak up from the back wall and try nudging a piece of rubble out of the way.
Pentadecagon: What are you doing?
Flash starts back as she realizes she’s not alone.
Flash: …speeding up the challenge. These stupid zombies aren’t gonna do everything themselves, considering there were only three of them at the start.
Pentadecagon: Just like the zombie that’s approaching us?
Flash: Wha?
She turns to see a quickly approaching Arla. Thinking quickly, Flash just picks up Pentadecagon and uses him as a shield, which doesn’t prove very fruitful as Arla just breaks through him and tries biting Flash regardless.
Flash: Agh, get off!
She kicks her into the shelter, causing it to rumble. RHM quickly books it out of there along with WWFT as the rest of the inhabitants get crushed.
Flash: Yes!
Crave Me Bar comes out of the rubble, entirely unscathed.
Crave Me Bar: Well, that was rude.
Flash: Ugh, that was the point-!
She quickly gets bitten before Arla pounces on Crave Me Bar, taking a bigger bite out of his head as the others escape. Elsewhere, Hugs’ group is still attempting to escape from CoCo, Yin-Yang and Berd falling behind.
Yang: Come on, hurry up, Yin!
Yin: I’m tired!
Berd: My legs feel like they’re dying- woah!
He trips over nothing and then is bitten, CoCo going the extra mile and ripping a chunk of flesh out of his head. She pounces on Yin’s arm and bites him, too, before being punched off by Yang before she can do any further damage. Unfortunately, Kinen comes out of nowhere and tackles her girlfriend.
Hugs: AHH! KIN, NO!
TI-30 attempts to get Kinen off, but CoCo prevents that by smashing him on the ground as the other two run off. Hugs manages to keep her mouth away pretty well, before she ends up punching Kinen right into CoCo, knocking the latter out and making the former whimper.
Hugs: Oh no, Kin, I- I didn’t mean to- oh my gosh…
They reach out for Kinen, who backs away a bit, yanking her mask back up before standing up.
Hugs: …what was that about?
Kinen just looks away guiltily, unbelieving she could even try to do that even in a compromised state. Hugs looks around before taking a step back.
Hugs: Look, I’d love to stay and chat, but I’ve got a challenge to win. I’ll see you when you’re better, honey!
She runs off as Kinen waves after her, before the wolf quickly gets away from CoCo lest she face her wrath. We return to TSC’s group and its stragglers, who end up running into Blue.
The Second Coming: He-hey, Blue! How are ya, man?
Blue gestures that he’s been fine before becoming curious about TSC’s whole audible voice thing.
The Second Coming: Oh yeah, the voice thing. Yeah, Kev gave us these actual voices for the Among Us challenge, and we’ve kept them since we didn’t die then.
Guy: So you guys can just communicate normally?
The Second Coming: Yeah? We're still able to talk, just… i- I dunno, okay?
Mario: You guys think we should-a keep going?
8-Ball: Well, I don’t see anyone behind us, so I think we’re good for now.
Pixel suddenly appears out of nowhere, knocking 8-Ball away and attempting to jump Samantha, but he’s quickly shattered by a surprisingly powerful kick by Vernias.
Gun 2: …well, that was rude.
Wheel: So’s this!
Wheel grabs Gun 2 before firing them off, killing Guy and knocking Wheel backwards into an approaching Teardrop, splashing her into a lifeless puddle on the ground.
The Second Coming: What the heck was that?!
YAHF: The other teams are attacking, and we just lost two people!
Profily: Wait, no, I didn’t tell them to do that!
YAHF: I don’t care! It’s my schtick to be mad at you for joining in my place!
As Profily’s team approaches, they stop immediately as YAHF jumps Profily, causing a fight between the two. Profily is much more on the evasive, but he can’t evade forever as YAHF throws a particularly mean punch that knocks Profily half across the planet.
No Way: Dude, what’s your deal with them?
YAHF: I… just said earlier, it’s my whole thing. Now go away.
Tailspike then appears and bites Amelia, causing everyone to scream and run away. Meanwhile, back with the room dwellers…
Monitor: …so how has competing been for you guys?
It’s been surprisingly splendid. I didn’t actually expect Stanley to get this far considering his… less than stellar communication skills.
Yellow: That’s not very nice.
Hey, I’m just joking around.
Stanley looks very distrustful of that, but looks back down.
Yellow: Well, it’s been pretty nice growing closer to Stanley and making it to the final 8. It’s crazy to think we’re at a quarter of the cast we started out with.
Packing Peanut: Yeah, I bet it is! Would’ve been nice to make it that far…
Tommy: Well, not all of us can make it to the end, this is an elimination based game.
Yuki: You guys should be glad you even got to compete. I’ve been stuck in a cramped lounge, then a box, then I got thrown back to my home before having to work my way back here! At least Cocktail Stick isn’t here anymore…
Cube: Yeah, not too sure about that. We’ve been killed plenty a time by our host, and despite how many times he apologizes, he keeps on doing it!
Liam: He at least has empathy, I guess… not like Airy or… A- Animatic…
Cheez-It: Speaking of, where’d that guy go?
Yellow: Actually… where’d Floretta go? Wasn’t she with us?
Just then, something hit the ceiling, managing to crack it and shake the room, freaking most of the inhabitants out. Outside, it’s shown that Profily was the one who hit the ceiling, having died from the impact. RHM’s group runs by just then, still being chased by their zombies. RHM remembers he still has his gun, and four rounds in it, so he shoots at the three, hoping to kill them off. But somehow, Arla sprouts an arm from her mouth that flicks the bullet away (courtesy of Kevin's alterations), Flash just grabs it, and Crave is entirely unaffected by it.
Right Hand Man: What the hell?!
Brainy: I think we got the worst ones!
He then gets Flash’s bullet spiked through him.
Words With Friends Tile: Oh no, bro! It’s only us two left!
Right Hand Man: Why is everyone so useless?!
The remaining Waluigi and Charlotte come up to the room Yellow and Stanley’s groups are in.
Waluigi: Wah? What the heck is that?
Charlotte: Where’d this room come from…?
She presses her side up to it to hear if anyone’s inside… and there’s a lot of voices inside it.
Charlotte: There’s two entire groups in there!
Waluigi: *gasp* Cheaters! We gotta take that room down!
Wait, what?! Stanley, Yellow, anyone else that can hear me, the room’s about to be taken down!
Yellow: WHAT?! Quick, everyone, under my-
They’re not fast enough to evade Waluigi’s Bob-Omb, which takes out an entire corner along with its inhabitants: Monitor, Cheez-It, T-Shirt, and Liam.
Waluigi: Surprise, you’re all gonna die!
He quickly dodges 1000° Iron Ball before blowing them up with another Bob-Omb. Charlotte pulls him out of the way as people start flowing out with intent to harm.
Yellow: This is not what I wanted, but we’ll get through this. They can’t survive my staff, can they?
Stanley just nods before hearing cries that are not from either of the opposing two. They look outside to see that the berds are busy getting literally stomped by Waluigi while Charlotte rips apart Packing Peanut. Yellow prepares his staff… before CoCo skates in with Skater Dog, attacking the two.
No, Stanley, get ooooooh great, he’s infected now. That’s just fantastic…
Yep, Yellow and Stanley were caught off guard and bitten. Bucket then gets trampled by CoCo, knocking it out too.
Cube: What the- how are things going so wrong?!
Charlotte: Hey, Cube, get outta here before we hurt you!
Cube: What?
Charlotte: What, you’re still my friend. I can’t be concerned about you even in a challenge like this?
Notepad then locks in, drawing an angry face before literally tearing through Charlotte and trampling Waluigi and throwing him into the room.
Waluigi: You think that’s enough to kill me?
He chuckles as he pulls out a purple Banzai Bill, Tissues and Yuki having long since run away, going even faster now at the sight of the Bill. Notepad grabs Cube and quickly zips out of the way before the Banzai Bill can hit them.
Waluigi: Ah, whatever. I need to get outta here before-
He’s quickly taken down by Yellow and Stanley. What a loser. Speaking of losers, we see Snowball and IAOB now being chased down by Red Eraser and Clock.
Snowball: Crap, crap, CRAP! Why are these guys chasing us specifically?!
Infinite Amount of Beds: We were probably the closest!
They end up running right into Hugs, knocking the three down.
Hugs: Ow, watch it- oh, it’s just you.
Snowball: Ugh, get out of here!
He tries kicking her, but she dodges before grabbing his leg and, looking behind her to see the zombies approaching, throws Snowball with all her might directly into them, killing Snowball entirely and slowing the two down in the process.
Infinite Amount of Beds: Hey, what was that for?!
Hugs just looks down at him.
Hugs: …I need all the help I can get.
She dashes away as the zombies catch up to IAOB, who jumps away before being grabbed by Red Eraser and bitten on the leg. Let’s finally catch up with Clock’s team, who have tired themselves out from running and are currently residing by the unclosed gorge.
Tiery: Are you sure this is a good place to rest?
Golf Ball: Of course, none of those undead creatures would be stupid enough to go over here and risk fully dying!
iPod Touch: I think some would be, actually, but whatever. Also, I think we’re the only team with more than like five members left, due to lack of screen time.
Soda: We’re doing pretty good for ourselves!
A groan is heard as the team sees a heavily damaged Tomater and Berd approach, both actually stereotypical zombies.
Tiery: You had to say something.
Grassy: They don’t seem to be going very fast…
Golf Ball: Better for us, let’s get out of here!
Tomater picks Berd up and throws him at the group upon this suggestion, managing to knock Minecraft Steve off to his and Berd’s deaths.
Rainbow Brick: Uh oh.
iPod Touch: Idiots, RUN!
Most of the team is quick enough to run away, but Tiery, who had sat on the edge, has to get himself up, which makes him get caught by his fellow Animatic Battle participant. Meanwhile, with the other 7 person group, they’re still searching for wherever 8-Ball went.
Mario: Jeez, that-a Pixel fella is-a really strong…
Samantha: He couldn’t have gone that far, right?
Gun 2: I think he could’ve…
The group hears groaning, and YAHF immediately grabs onto Gun 2 to fend whoever approaches off (to Gun 2’s loud objection), but turns out it’s just 8-Ball, a chunk of his head being taken out.
8-Ball: Hey guys… hit a wall… really hard.
The Second Coming: Jeez dude, you look awful, are you alright?
8-Ball: Of course not, I have a chunk of my self missing.
The Second Coming: Right, stupid question.
Gun 2: Can you put me down now, please?
YAHF: Absolutely not, I need to fend off zombies.
Level UP Waluigi approaches the group slowly enough for YAHF to spot and shoot him,killing him instantly. However, that ended up just being a distraction for Amelia to get 8-Ball, causing YAHF to go and shoot her, only to see Gun 2 was out of bullets.
YAHF: …really? Only 2 bullets?
Gun 2: Hey, don’t blame me!
8-Ball rolls up and bites Gun 2’s leg, causing the rest of them to run away, Blue hopping a bit to see if any of them are salvageable before giving up on the idea and running.
Vernias: Hey, wait a sec… none of these guys can fly, right?
Samantha: Uh, yeah, why?
Vernias pulls out a Warp Star with a smirk on his face.
Samantha: …oh god dammit, not again-
Cut to Vernias and Samantha flying through the sky, Samantha screaming her lungs out as she clings to Vern’s leg.
Vernias: What’s wrong, you were fine the last time we did this!
Samantha: Last time we weren’t as high! And there was a point!
As they fly around, Profily’s group’s remains finally slow Wheel down.
Wheel: This challenge sucks!
No Way: Yeah, no clue what Kevin was thinking with this.
Squidward: I’m just surprised I made it this far.
Yang laughs as he quickly approaches the trio, No Way quickly taking his pole out of his head and fending Yin-Yang off with it.
Squidward: Oh come on! What have I done to you, universe?!
Wheel: We’re not dead yet!
Yang slams past No Way to bite down on Wheel, popping his rubber and blowing Yin-Yang away.
No Way: …ow…
Elizabeth and Floretta finally get focus again, walking around wordlessly… until Elizabeth speaks up.
Elizabeth: Why do you keep being around me?
Floretta: Wh- huh?
Elizabeth: Why are you constantly around me? You helped me in the dodgeball challenge, you kept trying to talk to me in the restaurant challenge. Even on our off time, you seek me out. Why?!
Floretta: I dunno, you… look like you could use a friend.
Elizabeth: …I could use a friend. …god, you’re stupidly optimistic.
Floretta: Hey!
Elizabeth: I don’t know if you picked up on this, but I hate life. I don’t want to exist, at least not like this. I’m suicidal.
Floretta: Woah.
Elizabeth: Oh come on, you’re 16, you can hear it. What would I need friends for?
Floretta: …literally nobody asks to be born in the body they get. But we make the most of it. Do you really want to look back on life and be just as miserable every single moment of it?
Elizabeth: Of course not, that’s why I won’t look back-
Floretta: WATCH OUT!
Elizabeth yelps as she slips off the edge of the gorge, just being saved by Floretta grabbing onto her shirt collar. Her life flashes before her eyes, but she basically has no time to process before being yanked back onto solid ground.
Floretta: You need to be careful, or you will die early thanks to not paying attention! …h- hey, are you… are you alright?
Elizabeth tries to slow her breathing, but it doesn't seem to work. She just looks back at Floretta wide-eyed.
Elizabeth: N- No… no, I’m not.
Floretta tentatively reaches for Elizabeth, who surprisingly doesn’t pull away, so Floretta sits her back up and hugs her. …Elizabeth lazily hugs back.
Elizabeth: …didn’t know near-death could be so terrifying.
Floretta: Yeah, death can be scary. So, now will you promise me to avoid doing it intentionally…?
Elizabeth: That’s… not really how it works, but… whatever, I guess having you around will be helpful.
Floretta smiles in a “keep going” kind of way.
Elizabeth: …fine, and it’d be nice to have a ffff… fffrieend. Ugh, that word is foreign to me.
She’s pulled right back into a hug, which Elizabeth discreetly smiles at… before Floretta spots something approaching and gasps before the two end up slammed into by Wheel (who had been blown this way by the air firing out of his hole), knocking all three into the gorge and to their deaths. Meanwhile, Hugs stumbles upon TSC’s group via accidentally getting slammed into by YAHF.
YAHF: Who- OHMYGOSH, HUGS!
YAHF squeezes Hugs tight before letting go.
Hugs: Hey guys. Oh- Blue, this is where you’ve been!
Blue scratches the back of his head apologetically. Notepad and Cube happen upon the group as well, Notepad readying himself to fight them.
The Second Coming: Oh… hey.
Notepad takes the first swing, TSC swiftly dodging before Mario and YAHF punch back, a 3 against one starting as Cube stays back. Notepad holds up well, managing to fend off the three pretty easily… allowing the group to get caught up to by FID Waluigi, who bites Cube then throws him at the fighters, managing to get TSC.
YAHF: Hey! Fucker!
YAHF picks up Notepad and slams him down onto FID Waluigi, incapacitating him and killing Notepad, eviscerating Stanley’s team.
YAHF: jeez… Let’s get outta here.
Hugs: Yeah.
The four run off as Waluigi runs after them. Clock’s team is seen next, still running away from Tomater and a newly zombified Tiery, the former hitching a ride on the latter. Suddenly, Tissues rockets into the two, splattering Tomater completely and cracking Tiery. Yuki arrives shortly after.
Yuki: Hey losers.
Soda: Mean.
Golf Ball: What do you want?!
Tissues is bitten in the background, prompting Yuki to usher the group to keep running away.
Yuki: Well, considering I'm the last one on my team now… temporary protection until we find everyone else?
iPod Touch: Temporary, you say? Hmm…
Golf Ball: Absolutely not!
She kicks Yuki away, accidentally sending them over the two zombies. They end up landing on Words With Friends Tile, flattening them temporarily before RHM kicks them into the ground, getting them stuck.
Right Hand Man: Screw off, we can’t afford stragglers.
Yuki: Well, screw you too!
RHM and WWFT run off as Yuki screams in pain once the zombies catch up to them. Yellow’s team is now gone. Clock's team continues to run when iPod notices Vernias and Sam in the sky.
iPod Touch: …oh hell no.
He grabs Soda and shakes him up rapidly before tipping him upside down and shooting him off like a bottle rocket towards the fliers. Samantha notices this and quickly tries to warn Vernias.
Samantha: VERN, WATCH OUT, THERE’S A ROCKET-
Soda shatters upon impact, also causing the star to shatter and for Vernias and Samantha to fall to the ground. It’s sadly a fatal impact for Vernias, due to how high they were, but Samantha cartoonishly slams into the ground, leaving a hole in the shape of her silhouette. She quickly pulls herself out before running away, seeing RHM and WWFT being chased by what’s now four zombies. The final 13 all end up running to the same spot, and all end up cornered by the zombies that accumulated over the challenge.
No Way: Crap, crap, crap!
iPod Touch: We are not ending this here!
He throws Grassy and Golf Ball over the zombies, only for them to get caught by CoCo in Cane’s Cup.
iPod Touch: …fuck.
Blue starts digging straight down as the zombies close in slowly for dramatic effect, making a hole big enough for most of the remaining survivors. Everyone left quickly gets into the hole, WWFT being stomped particularly hard by Rainbow Brick, killing him. The final 10 all try to contribute to the hole, quickly digging sideways to get away from the zombies as Blue places blocks back where they’d come from to block them off.
No Way: Okay, great, now what?
YAHF quickly grabs Rainbow Brick and shatters iPod’s screen.
Hugs: What the hell, man?!
YAHF: What? I want the challenge to be over.
Squidward: Yeah, me too, I just wanna go home and relax…
The zombies start breaking through the dirt blocks, causing Blue to dig quicker until he ends up in the hole Snowball’s team dug, getting them back to the surface.
No Way: Yes, freedom!
Before they leave, they get nabbed by their old Object Olympian teammate, Yin-Yang.
No Way: OH, COME ON-
Everyone left runs as No Way gets bitten, the rest of the zombies flooding out to chase after the final 8. Blue gets hungry and tired, and stops to eat some Nether Wart, getting him caught. Seeing this, YAHF trips Mario up, evening out the last team into one person.
Samantha: What was that for?!
YAHF: Even-ness. Didn’t want one team to have an unfair advantage-
Rainbow Brick: Shut up, dude!
YAHF smacks him in the face angrily, slowing him down enough to get him caught. Clock’s team is out.
Hugs: Nice going.
YAHF: Thanks! WOAH!
The remaining five all run up to the edge of the gorge, Squidward being unlucky enough to actually fall in.
Samantha: Jeez, we’re losing everyone now.
Right Hand Man: Keep going!
The four run along the side of the gorge, hoping the congregation falls off the edge as well. Some of them do, but most of them continue to chase after the four. Samantha makes the mistake of looking back at the horde, causing her to not look where she’s going and fall off the side, just being held up by her hand. No one helpful comes to her aid, so she’s instead saved by the two furries.
Samantha: Oh great…
After she’s zombified by the two, they continue to chase, Samantha actually being a big help to the zombies thanks to how fast she can get. Hugs does a headcount, realizing the only people left in the contest are from Snowball and RHM’s group.
Hugs: rrrgh… YAHF, I can’t let Snowball win and eliminate me!
YAHF: What? You’re still on that?
Hugs looks at him judgingly.
YAHF: …yeah, guess I have to room to say that. But are you suggesting I sacrifice myself just to save you?
Hugs: Well, I mean-
YAHF jumps backwards before she can even say anything.
Hugs: Oop, okay then.
The final two end up running up a random hill with a tree at the peak (was not there before), and start climbing said tree. Right Hand Man has a significantly easier time doing it while Hugs is struggling. But eventually, both make it to the top as the zombies just scratch at the bark, too tired to climb.
Hugs: Well… looks like it’s either you or me, Right Hand. Um, so how do you-
She gets the barrel of his pistol shoved right against her snout.
Right Hand Man: Knew I saved this last bullet for something.
Hugs: …plea-
A gunshot rings out as Hugs flops dead on the ground, ending the challenge. Kevin then finally shows back up, looking a bit annoyed for some reason, before he generates a giant green plus this time and throws it at everyone, turning all the zombies back to normal and reviving Hugs.
The Second Coming: Ugh… what happened…?
Kinen: My face hurts still… oh hey, the gunk in my throat is gone!
Kevin: Yeah sorry about that. Made for a great challenge, though!
Arla: Wait, what? Who won?
Hugs: Urgh…
Kinen + Arla: HUGS!
They immediately rush to her side.
Arla: Are you okay?
Hugs: Uh… not really, just got shot through the face and lost out on getting Snowball out…
Kinen: …what?!
Right Hand Man lands out of the tree just then.
Kevin: Ah, Right Hand Man, congratulations on winning the challenge! You remember what the prize is, right?
Right Hand Man: Of course. This is gonna be fun…
After everyone is recovered and sent back to the other planet, the losing 7 are put on the elimination platforms, while RHM gets to join Kevin on the host platform.
Kevin: Alright, RHM, since you won, you get to choose 8th place. Any ideas on who that may be already?
Right Hand Man: Yeah, actually thought about it during the last part of the challenge.
He scans the crowd, everyone there a little nervous about their statuses in the game. Well, except Clock, who is not at all paying attention to anything. Eventually… Right Hand Man makes his decision.
…
Right Hand Man: I don't like the advantage couples get. Yellow, you're done here.
Yellow: WHAT?!
The Second Coming: Yeah, what?!
Right Hand Man: I've seen what happens. Couples get bias points from the voters because they're “so cute” or whatever. I hate when people get advantages like that, and Yellow is clearly the more capable of you two.
That's not very nice of you.
Kevin: As rude as it may be, it's a verdict. Yellow, you have been eliminated.
Yellow just sighs in defeat before getting a hug from Stanley, which he quickly returns.
Yellow: …win for me, alright, Stan?
Stanley just nods before they pull back, allowing the Sender Scoop Thrower to activate and fling Yellow away. Once everyone gets back down to ground level, Stanley just looks down sadly before TSC comes over to pat his shoulder. Hugs also approaches him, seeming sorrowful.
Hugs: Hey, Stanley… sorry about the whole… incident with Charlotte’s elimination. I didn’t mean to ignore you.
Stanley just pats her head, showing he forgives her. After she chuckles at the feeling, her expression turns serious.
Hugs: So, you obviously know Stan, but TSC, have you realized how much of a threat Right Hand Man is?
The Second Coming: Well… he hasn’t lost any challenges yet…
Hugs: Exactly. And even when he did, he ended up on the prize poll in episode 32! We gotta take him down a peg!
I can agree with this. So, is this another alliance?
Hugs: You could say that…
The three gaze at the retreating RHM, who did not pay attention to the encounter. Meanwhile, Kevin is pondering something.
Kevin: Hm… what should I poll this episode? We already had a prize, and no one’s going home…
YAHF scoots in slowly, looking at Kevin with an expectant :> expression.
Kevin: …y’know what, that could work.
YAHF: Yes, haha, finally!
Kevin: Leave before I change my mind.
YAHF: Yes, sir!
Kevin: Alright… viewers, vote in the poll in this very sentence on if YAHF should be considered a season 1 contestant. The option with the most votes will be our verdict. Voting ends on November 3rd. Happy voting, and Happy Halloween!
Ink Blob: Alright, one down… you got any ideas, Marx?
Marx: Maybe we can get someone from the present to join us!
Ink Blob: The… present?
Marx: Yeah, this show doesn’t really keep up with that, remember? Every three days?
Ink Blob: Weird. Well, who did you have in mind?
Marx pulls open a portal, and the two look at someone emitting a blue and green glow…