Interdimentionality Compromised: This Shit Again

Night time Is upon the contestants, and with their peaceful slumber, comes their entrance into the Dream World.

Some may dream of their friends and familiars back home, or what they wish for most; 

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Papyrus: BROTHER, THANK YOU FOR FINALLY PICKING UP YOUR SOCK!

sans: no problem bro, you're the coolest.

Papyrus: WHY THANK YOU BROTHER, I'LL START MAKING SOME SPAGHETTI FOR WHEN THE HUMAN ARRIVES!

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Futaba: Hey Ren, wanna join me for a game session? I'm gonna play online doubles.

Ren: Hmmm, sure, why not? Pass me a controller please.

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Gustavo: Hey-a Peppino!

Peppino: Yes Gustavo? What is it?

Gustavo: When's-a your niece coming to visit? 

Peppino: I believe she told-a me that she would be here in a few months, just-a hoping her mental state Is better, her mother told me she's been dealing with some stuff. Mama Mia, Guess it-a runs in the familia.

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However, something that haunts certain contestants, is  found throughout every single universe.

Fear, and with fear, come the nightmares…

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???: What did I do wrong? Why does everyone hate me?

 ???: Mommy, why aren’t you waking up?

???: What’s happening? What is this? What have I become?

???: Please, let them go, take me instead!

???: Not sweet and sour sauce, anything but that!

???: I’m sorry… I’m sorry… I’m a failure.

???: Why? Why would you do this?!

???:... Father… why?...

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While some became used to these nightmares, some had troubles going back to sleep, and decided to do some night walking, to try and clear their minds.

One of these was the princess of the cosmos herself, Rosalina. While she may be hundreds or thousands of years old mentally, she was still very prone to nightmares, and she couldn’t always deal with them or simply go back to sleep, so here she was, going to the common area to find something to do, like the “goddess” she was called back in her world, which to her was a major over exaggeration, she may have found a way to be immortal, but she still needed nutrition and sleep, such was the life. 

However, when she arrived, she wasn’t surprised that there were other contestants there, but more the fact of just how many there were, those being; Puss in Boots, Sage, Hornet, Venoct, Natsuki, X!Chara, and Collector. All of who noticed her coming in.

Rosalina: What are you all doing here?

Puss: Nightmares, what else? El fantasma was the first to arrive, and before you, the two kids over there arrived. “He pointed to Sage and Collector”

Natsuki: I know it sounds insane, but I think this place might have something to do with them.

Hornet: As someone who has a little brother who can access dreams, I think it may be a possibility. But yes, nightmares have been affecting a lot of us.

X!Chara: I heard a door being knocked down, which is what awoke me from my nightmare. That's when I noticed Venoct was missing from his bed, and so I followed him here.

Venoct: Sleeping has been hard for me anyways, so I decided to see what was going on here, and decided to stay, as for the children however…

Rosalina looked over to the two, who were sitting on bean bags while holding in tears, clearly being affected the most by their nightmares.

Rosalina, knowing how nightmares could affect the minds of young children (even if one was an AI and the other was a godlike entity whose ages don’t make sense), so she decided to help in any way, she didn’t care if one of them was in another team, it was the right thing to do.

Rosalina: Allow me to take care of it, I have some… personal experience on handling children with bad dreams.

Everyone looked at a slight inquiry towards Rosalina, but didn’t push it much and continued to do their own things, mainly Puss drinking leche, Venoct and Hornet trying to meditate, and Natsuki and X!Chara having a small talk about terrible parents.

Collector is the first to notice Rosalina, and immediately hugs her, she’s not taken back by this, but she notices how both he and Sage are shaking, and upon touching Collector’s skin, she knew what was happening, and confirmed this upon touching Sage’s forehead.

Rosalina: Goodness, you both are burning up… (how does AI even have a fever?) Hmm, well no matter, I shall help you both deal with this.

She picks up Sage with her other arm, and goes towards the sink, before she can put together how to do it, Venoct’s serpent scarfs extend towards her and both hold wet towels, they put them over the children’s heads, and Rosalina mouths “thank you’s” for the both of them.

She goes over to the couch, where a lever on the side reveals it to be a sofa bed, where she proceeds to lay both children down, making sure their towels stayed on their heads, she then proceeded to sit down next to them by bringing a chair over, and snapping her fingers to summon four pieces of Star Bits.

Rosalina: Eat these, they’ll help you recover, and unlike normal medicine, it has a sweet taste to them.

The children were hesitant at first, but Sage gave it a try, and as it turned out, Rosalina was right, and the starbits tasted like honey and strawberries, but with a different taste that still wasn’t that sweet. Collector soon followed, and he was starry eyed at the flavor.

Collector: Mmmmm, these taste very good, thank you Ms Rosalina.

Rosalina: Your welcome Collector, It should also help you sleep better, so while we have time, would you two like to talk about why you woke up?

Both Sage and Collector flinched a bit at this, but knew it was gonna be brought up sooner or later.

Sage: In my nightmare, everyone I ever cared for… being taken away from me, a-and, all I could do was watch… slowly, as I was being deleted…

Rosalina gives her a hug, whispering something into her ear, when she turns to the Collector, he simply holds a note in hand, which Rosalina simply took gently and began to read.

"Dear contestants, some of you may have gotten a bit of sensory overload due to your minds receiving memories which you didn't possess before coming here, thus, I left an astral projection of your bodies here while you experienced the events happening in your worlds.

Apologies if it may have been sudden but I promise this Will not affect you in any way… physically at least, good luck with trauma.

Good night

• Shade"

Once Rosalina finished reading the letter, she could connect the dots, as she saw that some others in the room also held a similar note, she then turned to the Collector again.

Collector:... The letter was right, and now I know everything I did back at the Boiling Isles… and now, this Is the second time I've ever had watery eyes… I don't like it.

Rosalina: Collector… dear, what you call watery eyes Is called crying, and it's completely normal to do so when we are overwhelmed by emotions, it may not be a nice experience, but that's part of life, and I promise you, you won't hurt anyone, nor will you cause any damage, you're safe here.

Collector finally gives in and begins bawling tears out, to which Rosalina simply kept him close as she hugged him. A few minutes passed, and Collector had gone to sleep, not the happiest way to do so, but he would be more at peace, god knows Rosalina has experience with that.

She stood up and saw that Sage had gone to sleep too with a few tears in her eyes, she grabbed a napkin and wiped away both hers and the Collector's eyes.

Hornet: Hm, you weren't lying when you Said you had experience with it.

She said in a low voice.

Rosalina simply nodded and pulled a glass of water towards her, and sat next to Puss.

Rosalina: Having hundreds of Lumas to look after in their lifespan gives you experience.

Dark Pit: It does show your resolve, which is very commendable… don't tell anyone I said that tho.

Rosalina: Hm, such Is the life of a god-like figure.

And so they all sat there, with a dim light illuminating the room they were in, awaiting for the morning sun…

That Is until they all (except the deeply asleep children) heard a vase break, they got into defensive positions (Natsuki grabbed a kitchen knife from the counter) until they saw the cause of the noise, a yellow lighted robot with a Tail which knocked over the vase.

N: … Hehehe, woops…

Venoct: … I'm not even gonna question it, you wanna join us?

N: Sure!

…

Shade was used to waking with difficulty, despite all his power, he had limits, especially when it came to taking the first step of the day. Today was different though, he felt something heavy, and that was weird, since he almost never sleeps with weighted blankets, so he took a glance down…

… and noticed that a certain someone was on top of him, and that someone was Lumina.

???: Well ain't this awkward? Ammaright audience?

Shade turned to the new voice which he suspected and was right in guessing was the merc with a mouth.

Deadpool: Morning love birds.

Shade: HUH?! NO NO, I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT, WE'RE JUST FRIENDS, AND THERE'S ABSOLUTELY NOTHING WRONG WITH THIS.

Deadpool: Uh huh, says the guy who included the cat notorious for saying that phrase in this show.

Shade: Oh please, I can be a hypocrite.

Deadpool: Ok,welp, see you i'm a few scenes for the challenge, and good luck for the upcoming punch.

Shade: Yeah yeah… wait what upcoming pu-

He was cut short by Lumina suddenly waking, screaming, and punching Shade in the nuts.

Lumina: AAAAAAH, OMG I'M SO SORRY!

Shade: That's fine… I wasn't really planning on children anyway.

Lumina: … Oh, then we gotta fix that "she says as she pulls out a healing staff that looks really sharp" hold still.

Shade: … mother.

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It was finally morning, so a lot of people were finally waking up, but Soldier and Sarge decided that some were taking their sweet time, so they did what any good American patriot would do.

Peppino: YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAaAaAaAaAaaAaAaAaOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

Soldier: WAKIE WAKIE LADIES, IT'S CHALLENGE DAY!

Sarge: SO GET YOUR SORRY ASSES OUT THERE AND GET READY TO WIN "Mostly our team".

Ryuko: DID YOU HAVE TO USE THAT GODDAMN TRUMPET TO WAKE THE WHOLE HOTEL UP?!

Soldier: Yes!

Tankman: Well you heard the men, get ready folks, pain and victory await us.

Poppi suddenly popped up behind them.

Poppi: Poppi and team shall rise in victory!

Doom Slayer just walked by and patted her head. Today was a good day to kick ass.

…

We cut to the kitchen, where most were surprised at seeing the ones already awake, but nevertheless, they had to get ready.

Madeline had awoken not because of the trumpet, but because of a scream that she swore she recognized from somewhere, she knew Jacob and Jaiden were the only ones to come from the same universe, and maybe she was overthinking things, but maybe, just maybe, she might be able to see her-

???: Mamma Mia, I did not have to hear that trumpet again, oh well, might as well get this over and a-done with.

Then she realized, the person she hadn't seen since she was a young child, a person she thought about a lot during the mountain, before the mountain, and after the mountain…

Madeline: Uncle?

Peppino turned and locked eyes with her as he stood just above her height by a bit.

Peppino: Topolina?... Madeline, is that a-really you?

Madeline: The one and only (she said while shrugging and extending her arms out).

Peppino ran and hugged her niece, and a piece of his mid life crisis heart filled in after years.

Peppino: Madeline, oh è così bello vederti mia piccola fragola. (Madeline, oh it is so good to see you my little strawberry)

Madeline: I’m glad to see you too uncle, I can’t believe I didn’t see you yesterday.

Peppino: Well it was all very sudden, and I guess I must have not been paying much attention.

Madeline: Hey, don't worry about it uncle, I’m just happy to see you… so hey, even if we are on different teams, I wish you the best of luck uncle.

Peppino: You too Maddy, you too, no matter the team, we’ll talk after the challenge, how’s-a dat sound?

Madeline: Sounds good uncle.

Peppino: Oh you’re mother must be so proud, well, that’s for later I suppose, good luck niece-a.

Madeline watched her uncle walk away, and a part of her was relieved. But now, this game may have become more fun, a little family rivalry never hurt anyone before, it strengthened the bonds, so she took after her uncle, rushing out as fast as she could, dashing out the building, and towards the first challenge.

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Shade: WAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT!!!!

N: What is it?

Shade: I forgot the second most important message for today.

Jaiden: … Shouldn’t you be starting with the most important th-

Shade: WE HAVE AN INTRO!

Intro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxWVVk_ZBB0 (Thank you DS :D)

Shade: Okay, NOW,  contestants, I hope you had a good sleep-

Deadpool: I’m sure you two had one, if you know what I mean.

Shade and Lumina both blush and turn a bit before moving on from that.

Lumina: A-Anyways, before we begin the challenge, we made a poll for the viewers, to see the popularity of the teams.

Shade: But since it went on for a while, we most likely won’t have the same amount of votes for a while, but anywho, we got 17 voters, not too shabby if I do say so myself, even a record surpassing other some other shows

Lumina: So, Reanimated Company, boy was this a landslide. Let’s see, with no votes are… Flamberge and X!Chara, I’m sorry to say.

Flamberge:... “Deep breath” FUUUUUUUUU- You know what? That’s fine, I’ll just have to prove myself to the audience, I’m fine.

X!Chara: Eh, was to be expected, but hey, I’ll try to entertain the audience. Some character development would do me fine.

Shade: Next up, with a three way tie in one vote, we have Giovanni, Venoct, and Specter Knight.

Giovanni: Damn, oh well, we all start from the bottom, so thank you loyal minion who voted for me.

Shade: There’s also vote reasons, your reasons for the votes were “Why not”, “While not as amazing as Kyubi (lots of reasons why I love Kyubi) still a great yokai watch rep!”. “He has one of the best themes in Shovel Knight. Considering how good that game's entire soundtrack is, that's saying something!” and “He's pretty cool, close call between him papyrus and N. I want Dimentio out, though it seems he won't, you probably favor him compared to the others, then I want x!chara out, I'm not even sure why, I just decided that I hated their existence the moment I laid my eyes on them.”

X!Chara: I feel personally attacked but that shouldn’t be new to me.

Specter Knight: I’m guessing that second to last one was for me, considering they mentioned Shovel Knight.

Shade: That would be correct.

Venoct: Wait, Kyubi is in one of these too?

Lumina: Yep, it’s gonna be more common than you think, and to clarify some things, alternate universe versions of some of you are already in other shows.

Shade: We’ll get to that later, for now, in a tie for third with two votes each, we have Dimentio and N. Voting reasons being”I really REALLY like purple jesters” and “He’s the only one that can hold a candle to the others”

Dimentio: Why thank you very much, and yes, purple is very fashionable amongst clowns and jesters alike.

N: I’m glad that I’m considered cool among my “peers”, thank you viewers (He says while his eyes display sunglasses and he does finger guns).

Lumina: With three votes, and competing for second place, we have Sage! At three votes. Your reasons being “Sega” and “She’s cute”

Sage: Thank you very much, I’m not common to being addressed as “cute”, but thank you either way.

Shade: And this should be obvious, but, not only was he the most popular of his entire team, but the most popular character in the show overall, with seven votes, GIVE A ROUND OF APPLAUSE FOR THE GREAT PAPYRUS!!!

Papyrus: WOWIE, I DIDN’T KNOW I WAS LIKED THIS MUCH, THANK YOU DEAR VIEWERS, I WON’T LET ANY OF YOU DOWN! THE GREAT PAPYRUS SHALL DO HIS BEST TO WIN!

Lumina: That’s the spirit! As for the reasons, we have, “It's Sans's brother! He makes really good pasta”, “He was around a lot, and I liked his energy as the One and Only Member of the Royal Guard. Also, huh?”, “Papyrus is a chad”, “WELL, THE GREAT PAPYRUS IS THE ULTIMATE CONTESTANT! But in all seriousness, he's the one I know the most about from all of them, and his personality is just nice.”, “He’s just cool” and oh, we’ve got two other show creators.

Shade: Before we begin with their reasons, Papyrus, out of all the characters that have already been in other shows, you were the hardest to get.

Papyrus: OH, I DO APOLOGIZE FOR THAT, BUT I’M CONFUSED AS TO HOW?

Shade: No need to apologize, but the main reason was that you were in like 5 other shows already, these reasons explain it a bit “Of course I love the Chad, I even have him in my show, LDMGS” and from DS my good friend;

 “Firstly, can I just fucking address X!Chara and Dimentio's pictures?

Fucking seriously. X just has the fucking OwO face, and I can literally fucking hear Dimentio say "Hi, welcome to McDimentio's, what the fuck can I get ya?" and I'M FUCKING DYING LMAOOOOOO”

Dimentio: Guilty as charged.

X!Chara: Same, I won’t hide my smugness.

They High five.

Shade: “In all seriousness, Papyrus, I can't not vote for him, he’s my favorite.

Also, you stole him from LDMGS, but I'm not one to talk considering I not only stole 2 contestants, but also a host from CC. *cough cough* Blake, Phil, and Monika *cough cough*

Just letting you know!

- DS

Natsuki: Wait a minute Monika?-

Lumina: We’ll talk about that later, for now, just know that for Papyrus we had to cross between like 200 different timelines to get him here. But in a way, it just goes to show his popularity.

Papyrus: THANK YOU VERY MUCH! I’LL BE SURE TO USE THIS POPULARITY TO GOOD USE DURING THE GAME.

Shade: Nice, anyways moving on to RED Team and Enraged Screams, again with no votes we have… Ryuko.

Ryuko: God fucking dammit! Fuck, guess it’s the hard way for me then. I’ll show you guys!

Lumina: Tied with one vote each, a four way tie between Hornet, Sarge, Poppi and Doom Slayer.

Doom Slayer says nothing and simply starts loading his shotgun to get ready for the challenge, and gives a thumbs up.

Hornet: Oh well, it’s not like I want much attention anyways.

Sarge: God Bless the one that voted for me, I’ll win it for you!

Poppi: Thank you friend-pon who voted for Poppi!

Shade: Reasons were; for Sarge, “He hates them dirty blues.”.

Sarge: That I do.

Shade: Hornet was “It's Hornet. No more reasoning needed.”.

Hornet: I’m not sure what that means, but thank you, I’m touched.

Lumina: For Poppi we got, I’m assuming this is the same voter that gave Sage a vote, “She Cute”

Poppi: Awww, Poppi is flustered, but thank you either way!

Shade: And for Slayer we got… “.”

Sarge and Hornet simply look at Doom Slayer… checks out. Poppi hugs his leg.

Lumina: Anywho, tied for second, we got two votes , we got the two other vets, Soldier and Tankman.

Soldier: SIR YES SIR!

Tank Man: Alrighty! Getting the recognition I deserve.

Shade: Reasons being, “TF2”, “i'll be real with ya, not really attached to anyone here as of now. I wouldn't hesitate to off anyone here for now. needless to say you know which team i wouldn't mind hitting the chopping block first. tank man's been the most fun tho so he gets my vote” and… wait what, this says “SMG4 Mario can solo all of these guys”...

Melony: What does Mario have to do with any of this?

Shade: I have absolutely no idea.

Tank Man: Eh whatever, at least we got votes. Probably doesn’t mean anything.

Somewhere, a fat Italian sneezes.

Shade: True, now then, in second place, we got Deadpool! With 4 votes.

Deadpool: Yay!- Wait a second, you edited this text because you were writing this and gave me a fake sense of victory, for shame writer… Anyways, THANK YOU ALL WHO VOTED FOR ME! WOHOO!

Lumina: Your reasons were, “I really like his attitude. Also, the merc with a mouth is early.”, “C'mon, it's Deadpool. I'm almost certain it's scientifically impossible for him to be un-entertaining to watch! (Unless he's actually TRYING to be unentertaining, of course.)”, and “FOURTH WALL BREAKAGE BABYYYYYY”.

Deadpool: Hell yeah bitch! Still, thanks to those who voted for me!

Shade: Finally in first place, we got the italian man himself, Peppino Spaghetti! 

Peppino: YEAOH! Thank-a you viewers, I wasn’t-a expecting this, but I’m glad to be liked by you guys-a! I’m starting to feel a lot-a better now

Lumina: The reasons for Peppino were, “Lol, screaming Italian man. I loved his game!”, “Well, This one was very close between Peppino and Soldier, but I ended up choosing Peppino, even if barely, because I feel as if he has more room to exceed in challenges.”, and from DS and a few of his contestants;

“𝐀𝐥𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐲, 𝐒𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐭. 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐨.

Yeah. Heads, we go fer dat Sarge guy. Tails, we go fer Soldier.

𝐅𝐥𝐢𝐩 𝐢𝐭!

...

...𝐈𝐭 𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐭'𝐬 𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞...

...Peppino it is.

𝐘𝐮𝐩. 𝐏𝐞𝐩𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐨.

(He's the better Italian video game character.)

(Peppino>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Mario)

- 𝐋𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐮𝐬 𝐓𝐮𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐫 and The Scout”

Soldier and Sarge: DAMN YOU SCOUT YOU SON A BITCH!/TUCKER YA DIRTY BLUE!

Shade: Moving onto, pfft, Shadows within balls.

They all groan with the exception of Master Core, who has a big troll smile plastered all over their face.

Lumina: Only one of you got no votes, that being, Chat Noir.

Chat Noir: Oh well, guess I’ll just have to give it my all.

Lumina: With a two way tie again, with one vote each, we have The Devil, and Dark Pit.

Shade: And rushing it a bit here, tied for third with two votes each, we have Joker, Natsuki, Puss In Boots and The Ink Demon.

Ink Demon: ThE dARk PUddLeS shAlL Be mERcIfUL To yOu wHO VoTEd FOr mE, so tHAnK YoU.

Joker: Yeah yeah, calm the edge there satan, but thank you viewers. (He says while bowing).

Lumina: Voting reasons were, “All fear the Ink Demon.”, “Well, I can't just not root for THE Leader of the Phantom Thieves of Heart. Also what?”, and “Lads I said it before I can only pick one sooooo ink demon”, “They call him ol scratch, mr. s, big d”, “I hate everyone here except puss (and alpharad), especially master core, seriously, he's basically an OC, if there's elimination and it's chosen by the readers, I hope he's out first (tho most likely not, isn't it mr. writer >:( )”, … uhm, I’m gonna skip that reason, and finally from DS;

(bitch) 𝐎𝐤𝐚𝐲, 𝐈 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 "𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧 𝐁𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐬" 𝐢𝐬𝐧'𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐚𝐭 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐢𝐭 𝐢𝐬𝐧'𝐭 𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐀𝐋𝐋𝐘 𝐅𝐔𝐂𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐎𝐎𝐏𝐒.

Nah. Shadows within Balls is definitely worse.

(sad) 𝐘𝐨𝐮'𝐰𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭... 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐛𝐚𝐰𝐰𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬? 𝐀𝐢𝐰?

I was thinking cum, but if you say so.

(happy) ...𝐖𝐇𝐀𝐓.

Don't worry about it. Who should we pick?

(salesman) 𝐈 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐲𝐚, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐢𝐭'𝐥𝐥 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐚𝐭 𝐚 𝐛𝐢𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐚 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐞. 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬? 𝐈'𝐥𝐥 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐧 𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫 𝐲𝐚 𝐜𝐚𝐧'𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐮𝐬𝐞!

I refuse.

(salesman) 𝐃𝐚𝐫𝐧 𝐢𝐭.

Hmm... How about Natsuki? Monika said she was her friend.

(happy) 𝐖𝐡𝐲, 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐬𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐝 𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐚, 𝐊𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐢. 𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐜𝐪𝐮𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞?

Sure. Also, Devil. Don't even fucking think about laying a finger on Cuphead. You'll get a taste of 1.3 million volts if you do that.

(bitch) 𝐘𝐞𝐚𝐡. 𝐃𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐟𝐮𝐜𝐤 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝!

Wait. Didn't Mr. Game & Watch beat Master Core once?

(bitch) 𝐎𝐡 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐡... 𝐖𝐞𝐥𝐥, 𝐟𝐮𝐜𝐤 𝐌𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐞, 𝐈 𝐠𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐬...

Cool.

- Denki Kaminari 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐄𝐍𝐀

Master Core: Yes~, use your hate, feed me… also HI MR GAME AND WATCH!

Natsuki: Well, at least Monika’s friends are voting for me, so thanks you two.

Puss: I am flattered, but please, don’t take your rage out on my amigos, no need for unnecessary hatred.

Devil: At least I have a fan, oh and another thing, if you dare threaten me, I’ll not only take that Cup’s soul, I’ll eat yours for dinner! So be wary, “Kaminari and ENA” I’ll keep an eye on you. But you are right on one thing, at least our team name isn’t “Oops”.

Dark Pit: Eh. Whatever, thanks to the one who at least voted for me.

The Ink Demon quickly switches to Ink Bendy and holds up a thumbs up, and turns back immediately.

Shade: Again I think this is the same voter, Natsuki’s other reason is “She cute”

Natsuki: I-I’M NOT CUTE! B-Baka! “mumbling” thanks I guess… “mumbling”

Shade: Coming in second, we got Master Core, at three votes.

Master Core: Hell yeah.

Devil: Shut it you.

Shade: His reasons were, “The ultimate menace”, “For the absolutely awesome addition to the team name”, and “Gotta show the Master Core some respect. So many game overs . . . ugh.”

Master Core: Thank you, thank you! I’ll be here all day.

Lumina: And finally, with 4 votes, give it up for the internet funny man, Alpharad!

Alpharad: “claps hard” YEAH, Glad to see my popularity shines through the multiverse, and remember to like and subscribe!

Lumina: His reasons are, “internet funny man”, “as soon as i saw jacob and jaiden be here, i knew this would be based”, “Aplharad. Anyways, spelling errors you made aside, it's Alpharad. He's done a lot of crazy things, and he also just has a great personality.” and, wait you made a spelling error?

Shade: I was in a bit of a rush.

Lumina: Ok then, fair enough, I would've made the same mistake, anyways, finally, “Literally Mt favourite youtuber.

*insert the antiperspirant joke*”.

Alpharad: Cringe is temporary, being insane is forever.

Shade: Wise words, anyways, our final team, I came up with a good name since you chose two.

Tricky simply shrugs and laughs silently, while Madeline gives him a flat look.

Shade: From now on you shall be referred to as: Celestial Markipliers.

Madeline: … I can’t tell if that’s better or worse.

Tricky: CLOWN APPROVES!

Lumina: Anyways, this is FINALLY the first team where everyone got at least one vote, with another four way tie, what a surprise, you four have one vote each, Melony, Discord, Rosalina, and Madeline.

Melony: Oh well, we’ll just have to do our best, thank you viewers!

Lumina: Reasons being, “I really like Rosalina's attitude with her team. It was nice like a mother. Clown How?”, “This is a tough one, but the emotional journey of Celeste makes my favorite Madeline”, “I am a large fan of randomness and chaos in all forms and this guy was my first exposure to the concept”, and from DS… Melony, you might wanna read this alone, since… well you’ll see.

Melony seems confused and walks up to him, grabbing the paper with her voting reason.

“Hm... What do you think, Cliffe?

𝐋𝐞𝐭'𝐬 𝐯𝐨𝐭𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐠𝐢𝐫𝐥𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝. 𝐉𝐚𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐲𝐞𝐝 𝐦𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐏𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐧, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬, 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐧'𝐭 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐞. 𝐌𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐥𝐲 '𝐜𝐮𝐳 𝐲𝐨𝐮'𝐫𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐝, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐡. 𝐆𝐨 𝐚𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐝.

Thanks, Jack. Also, hi, Melony! Know I'll be rooting for you! Love you!

𝐎𝐡, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 "𝐈’𝐦 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐞 𝐈’𝐦 𝐬𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐲𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐢𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐫" 𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐛𝐯𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞.

- Axol 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐏𝐮𝐫𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐞”

Melony simply stares as she clutches the paper in her hands, she starts shaking a lot.

Melony:... A- Axol?

Jaiden: Melony, what's wrong?

Melony: No, no this, this can’t be he’s… 

She suddenly feels something warm on her legs, and notices Collector and Hat Kid hugging her, with eyes pleading to not cry.

Lumina: We know it’s very sudden, but it’s true, Axol is alive in DS’ show. Once his show finishes… I can’t promise you anything, but right now, he’s fine and well.

Melony: … I… I understand.

Jaiden: Will you be ok?

Melony: Yes… Thank you. (she pats Hat Kid and Collector, they smile back at her) Thank you all. And Axol, if you're watching this, I love you too!

Shade: “sniff” That was touching, but we do have to move on, anyways, tied for second with two votes each, we have Collector  Hat Kid, and Jaiden.

Jaiden: Considering everything, I’m fine with this (she looks at the camera) and thank you guys as well, you’re cool!

Collector: Yay! New friends who like me!

Lumina: For your reasons we got “I have this thing where my mind just refuses to vote against an Owl House character, thus this pick. Discord was a VERY close 2nd, though.”, “what i said about jacob, both are based”, “This team is full of AMAZING characters but I have to go with the collector due to my love for the owl house”, “WHY ARE THERE SO MANY CHARACTERS I LIKE I WANNA PICK EM ALLLLLLL 😭” aww thank you, and “I, the random reader of your fic, refuse to say”, and Finally, again from the same voter, for Hat Kid “That's not how grammar works. She is the cutest thing ever!”

Jaiden: I’m not sure what the second to last one means, but still, thanks guys.

Hat Kid: Thank you!

Shade: And finally, we got another first place tie, with 3 votes each, we got Queen, and Tricky the Clown!

Queen: OHOHOHOHOHOHO! Thank You Darlings! Get Me Some Potassium And Let's Win This Shit!

Tricky: CLOWN IS PLEASED WITH THESE RESULTS!

Lumina: For Queen we got, “I Only Play Mobile Games” (LMAO), “Idk” and “They aren’t single they’re saving themselves for Markiplier”.

Queen: Ok (LOL) Still Have No Idea Where That Came From, But Thank You!

Shade: As for Tricky, “CLOWN”, “Rule 1 of fiction: you don't kill clowns. But again, jokes aside, Tricky is just an exciting character to watch, and seeing madness combat anywhere is exciting.”, and “He felt like such a curveball compared to everyone else in this team, I love it. I will ignore discord's existence, and will also half-ignore the existence of the collector.”

Tricky: THANK YOU VERY MUCH AUDIENCE, CLOWN SHALL INVITE YOU THREE TO HOT DOGS AFTER THE SHOW!

Shade: AND- WITH- THAT! We can finally begin the challenge, which is completely different from what we had originally planned, but oh well.

Lumina: This challenge Will be a simple race from this island, all the way over to~

She points at an island far away from where they were standing

Lumina: ~ there and back.

Shade: No need to worry yourselves, You won't need to swim, it is an option, but we have placed multiple platforms of many shapes, lengths and sizes. To make it more interesting, each platform has different small obstacles, whether It be athletic, or maybe even just a gun.

Lumina: To make things more interesting, those who can fly are technically allowed to do so, but there are flying obstacles as well, so it won't be a cakewalk, or in this case, cakefly for you, however, only three people from each team can run, the rest of the teams will be on land as spectators.

Master Core: Fuck!

Sage: Seems simple enough, but Is there anything else to it?

Shade: Glad you asked, because there Is. Firstly, as some of you might have guessed, since three of each team are participating, the race will be divided into three sections, so think of it as a tag team race. First third Is from this island to that one, second will be an ascent and descent from the mountain., and finally the third section Will be a Rush to get back here.

Lumina: And second of all, at the top of the mountain of that island in the second section are four music boxes. You must bring it here while its melody plays, and you need to make sure that the music box you pick is related to your team. They are color coded but it won't be as easy as you think.

Shade: To win, the runner has to be holding the music box, and cross the line over here.

He points to a finish line that was behind them.

Ryuko: How the hell did we not notice that?

Deadpool: I think it's best not to think too hard about it. Trust me.

Shade: Ok let's see "muttering random shit because yes' OH RIGHT, one final rule that I cannot repeat enough, ABSOLUTELY NO TELEPORTING OF ANY KIND, it would ruin the entire purpose of this.

Discord: I think you're missing a tiny detail.

Shade: … Nope, I don’t think so.

Lumina: Ok, with that cleared up, get ready to plan how you'll do this.

With that, the teams got to work on how they would play their parts.

…

Specter Knight: If we're going to pick 3 runners, I'd say our best choices are N, Venoct, and X!Chara

Dimentio: I'd have to agree, N might be the fastest overall here by terms of simple travel speed, Venoct is a glass cannon that specializes on attack and speed, and X!Chara is as fast as a fly dodging the swipes of a cheetah.

Giovanni: … and you know this, how exactly?

Dimentio: Hahahaha, my friend, a magician never reveals his secrets.

Venoct: Then it's decided, X, N, and I shall participate in the race.

Specter Knight: In that case, I think it'd be a good strategy for N to rush as fast as he can on the way back, while X makes the starting run, and you stand as the mountain runner.

N: Ok, I like that plan.

X!Chara: Nice planning skills there Specter.

Sage: Indeed, it shows your experience with this type of situations.

Specter Knight: Then you are all lucky I decided to use them with you, and not against you.

…

Tank Man: Alright this one Is gonna be tough one, who’s going up then?

Hornet: I would like to volunteer for being the first runner, not to brag, but I have kept up with creatures with amazing horsepower, and my reaction speed is quite sufficient so I wouldn’t have much trouble dodging projectiles, which most likely would be prominent during the first section.

Sarge: Alright, I can respect that attitude, now as for the second part. I think we got two pretty good options. Soldier. my bestest bud in this darn team, or Poppi, the crotch kicking girl in this team.

Ryuko: Please, never give the rest of us nicknames like that.

Sarge: No promises.

Deadpool: Either could work, but I feel like Soldier’s more unhinged mindset might throw off the other teams’ grindset (turns to the camera) if you know what I mean.

Soldier: Very well then! I will not let this team down, in the words of Sun Tzu, if fighting will surely result in victory, then you must fight!

Ryuko: As for the final runner, who's up to it?

Peppino: If I may-a, believe it or not, I have great physical speed, speedometers say I can reach-a speed of Mach 10.

Ryuko: You know what? I would usually call bluff, but I think I believe it considering everything.

Sarge: With that then, we entrust You Peppino!

Peppino: I'll certainly try my best-a, "nervous mutters" oh Santa María.

…

Joker: Ok, I think I have a good idea of how to do this, Ink Demon goes first to give us a sizable advantage. Dark Pit goes second up the mountain, and Chat goes last, are we in agreement to this?

Dark Pit:  Sounds like a good enough plan to me.

Master Core: Good, this segment is getting too long.

Okay fine you don’t have to break the fourth walls feelings

…

Jaiden: Ok, let’s keep it simple, and start with the most important part, the mountain, who here has experience mountain climbing?

Madeline: Lucky for you all, I once climbed a bigger mountain to deal with my mental issues back then, so leave that part to me.

Rosalina: Good to see that you went through a stage of self improvement dear.

Collector: Oh, oh, oh, can I go third so we finish first? I can go really fast! Maybe even faster than anyone!

Jaiden: Alright Collector, you can go last buddy.

Collector: Yay!

Jaiden: And finally… Tricky, can you move around with that sign of yours?

Tricky: CORRECT, CLOWN CAN MOVE AROUND QUICKLY USING TRUSTY STREET SIGN

Jaiden:  Great, then we’re all set, the rest of us will wait for you here.

Discord: Then, it’s go time team! 

He snaps his fingers and a copy of him wearing a fancy suit appears out of nowhere.

Announcer Discord: LET’S GET READY TO RUUUUUUUUMBLE!

<<<<<<

Shade: Ok, now with that out of the way, it’s finally time to get this show on the road! Contestants! First runners, to your positions! We’ll take the second and third runners to their wait area, which is just the second island.

He snaps his fingers, and Venoct, N, Soldier, Peppino, Chat Noir, Dark Pit, Madeline and Collector are all teleported to the island.

Lumina: Good luck to you all! You’ll need it, I designed everything myself!

Queen: OHOHOHOHOHOH! Then That’s How We Know It’s Going To Be: Bombastic.

X!Chara, Hornet, The Ink Demon and Tricky get into positions.

Hornet: May the best team win.

X!Chara: Thank you, you too.

Lumina: Would the rest of their teams get into the four boats conveniently placed for you to spectate on the sidelines please?

The contestants turn their heads, and 4 boats splash into existence, specifically, yachts. 

Specter Knight: Why do these look familiar?

Giovanni: No idea dude, let’s just roll with it!

Shade: Agreed. Now then, on your marks…

The runners get into running positions.

Lumina: Get set…

They clutch their muscles.

Shade & Lumina: GO!

The four runners take off, to which the boats start moving in their predetermined positions to play catch up, immediately a barrage of projectiles start coming from the platforms. Bendy and Tricky are seemingly unaffected by most of the projectiles, since the latter was underground and the former was mostly liquid.

Meanwhile, Hornet and X where putting a lot of effort on dodging, X blinking in and out of certain spots, while Hornet used her needle to bounce off of a lot of the incoming projectiles and weapons, which included but were not limited to: Bullets, Missiles, Spikes, Mallets, comically placed buzzsaws (which almost triggered PTSD with Hornet), etc.

Tricky sped ahead and broke part of the bridge with his sign, which didn’t mean much to the others who just jumped over it with ease. 

The next set of platforms were infested with sea creatures, which Lumina was staring madly at.

Sage: That seems like a very common misconception. Most marine life Is very calm around others, even sharks will only really be docile when blood Is drawn.

Giovanni: Huh, you learn something new everyday.

And just like Sage said, the runners simply tan across the waters without any issue.

Hornet suddenly threw her needle forward, which pierced Bendy (which was not affected at all) and attached itself to Tricky’s sign, she then proceeded to pierce Bendy and go through him (which did nothing but anger him) and attached herself to Tricky’s sign, which he noticed and tried to shake her off.

Tricky: HEY, NO FREE RIDES, SPIDERS NOT ALLOWED!

Hornet: Then I’m afraid I must break some rules.

While this was happening, X!Chara managed to catch up to the others by bouncing off some water balloons filled with ice, which he stuck the landing on Bendy’s head, and took a fast lead, with a smug expression on his face.

X!Chara: Later nerds.

This in turn angered the Ink Demon enough that he started going in all fours, using his hooves as leverage to cover more ground. This shakes the platform which cause Tricky and Hornet to zig zag a lot, but luckily not falling into the water by a few inches.

X!Chara and The Ink Demon were basically toe to toe, but X!Chara manages to keep his distance and gets to Venoct.

X!Chara: You’re up, good luck!

Venoct: Thank you.

Bendy manages to catch up and gets to Dark Pit, they nod at each other, and Dark Pit takes to the skies with his limited flight.

Hornet managed to use the momentum of Tricky’s random swinging to propel herself forwards and got to the island first.

Hornet: Move Soldier!

Soldier: Sir yes sir!

Tricky arrived just a few seconds afterwards, while Soldier broke all the laws of physics and launched himself upwards using a rocket launcher.

Tricky: GO GIRL NO TIME TO THINK OF PHYSICS!

Madeline: Right!

Immediately Madeline was surrounded in a binking aura and was dashing quickly towards the mountain, which she was climbing without difficulty, she managed to avoid Soldier’s rockets as he propelled himself upwards, and even managed to bounce off Dark Pit’s head.

Dark Pit: Ach! Don’t get too cocky!

Dark Pit pulled on his bow and aimed at Madeline, however, what no one was expecting was Madeline to turn around mid-air with a determined face, and quickly pulled a bow and arrow of her own, which she managed to collide with Dark Pit’s own arrow.

Madeline: It’s all in the skill buddy.

She spun again and launched two arrows that managed to pin Venoct’s dragon scarfs, which she landed next to and she winked as he passed him.

Venoct: Hm, she’s good.

He easily frees himself.

Venoct: But it’s gonna take more than that!

They were trying to outpace each other, until suddenly.

Soldier: SCREAMING EAGLES!!!!!!!!!!!

Soldier managed to gain the upper hand and landed on the top of the mountain, where he took notice of the four boxes in front of him, a red one, a black spiral one, and two multicolored ones. He quickly took the Red one and blasted off the top of the mountain. Madeline and Venoct managed to arrive at a similar time, but before they could grab their boxes, they were blinded by an explosion, which came from Dark Pit. He grabbed the Black box and glided down.

Madeline and Venoct looked down and saw the two multicolored boxes, however, one looked more spiritual, with more spirals and wisps, while the other had a clear design of constellations… and Markiplier's face.

Venoct took a jump, but wasn’t expecting for Madeline to dash diagonally downwards and took a long jump down the mountain.

The four of them arrived at similar times, they winded up the musical boxes, and gave them to their teammates, with only one thing to say.

Venoct, Soldier, Dark Pit, Madeline:RUN FOR IT!

And so they did, N and Collector took of the fastest leaving a cloud of sand behind them, which blinded Peppino and Chat Noir for a second, before they too ran with their boxes in hand, they knew that now it wasn’t about winning, it was a race to not end in last.

Peppino managed to pick up some speed, which Chat took note of, so, with quick thinking while dodging a barrage of projectiles, he bounced off ahead with his staff, and pulled his hand up.

Chat Noir:CATACLYSM!

He touched the platform, which immediately started disintegrating, and Peppino didn’t react on time, and fell in the water.

Chat Noir: Apologies good sir, but I kinda have to win this, au revoir!

And so he took off, and it took a while but Peppino managed to get out of the water, which he looked at himself with disappointment, and he pinched his nose.

Peppino: Accidenti, ottimo lavoro Peppino, now the team is gonna lose-a, and they got nobody to blame but me.

To add salt to the wound, a giant rocket launcher was at his side, ready to fire, Peppino awaited his pain, until the machine started smoking, and the rocket stored inside simply slid off, to reveal it was a comically large rocket.

Peppino sat there for a good 3 seconds… Before he got a crazy idea, crazy enough to work. He pulled out a stereo, picked a song, picked up the rocket, kicked it, and said three iconic words.

Peppino: Let’s a go.

…

Just as Chat Noir was attempting to catch up with the Collector and N, the rest of his team noticed a weird wiring sound, akin to a clock. 

Devil: Ugh, what is that hellish noise, sounds like an alarm clock.

Joker: Maybe it’s one of the music box-

                                                                                                               IT’S 

PIZZA

 TIME!

Suddenly, out of nowhere, Peppino picked up massive speed with the comically large rocket that didn’t go off at first, now reaching speeds of over MACH 20, Peppino was leaving a trail of fire behind him destroying the platforms they were all running, which the other three took note of.

Chat Noir: What the HELL-

Random Voice: Y'ALL READY TO GET FUNKY!?

He was cut off by Peppino colliding against his back, which he then proceeded to jump and collided with both N and The Collector.

Once the explosion faded the other three and their boxes were all lying next to each other, while Peppino took the lead while keeping his momentum, immediately an alarm flared to life, and hundreds of guns and blades started raining down at Peppino…

… but he wasn’t gonna sugarcoat it.

Peppino made a pose which launched away any upcoming damage upon him, he kept running and running no matter what came, and in his mind, the clock was ticking.

He sped up as much as humanly possible when he noticed that The Collector managed to wake up and was spiraling with his box and a bunch of stars around him.

Collector: That wasn’t very nice!

Now he was not only dodging stars but also bullets, he then noticed the platform started rising and turning into a ramp filled with spikes, buzzsaws, and a bunch of other guns, but among everything, was a sword. He ran ahead managing to avoid Collector’s attacks, and he managed to grab the sword, he held it up, and a lightning bolt struck him, causing any stars or other projectiles to bounce off. 

Everyone expected to look at nothing but a pile of dust, but instead in place was a shining armor, Peppino had managed to get one of his transformations.

He was now: Knight Peppino!

With the new transformation, he began sliding down the ramp, being practically unaffected by everything thanks to his new armor, but The Collector didn’t let down and continued following him, to add up, N and Chat had also woken up, and now it was truly a race.

N shot a few beams that cut the platform, and Peppino began falling, luckily, he remembered the prayer used to get rid of his transformations and he then dived downwards with his box in hand.

Peppino: EYAAAAAOAOAOAOW!!!

With one final push, he stuck the landing, and ran like no man had ever ran before, and neither N, Collector or Chat could have stopped this Italian man with determination filling his eyes. But the star child did not agree with this sentiment, and used one final star to propel himself forward.

It was neck to neck, no more guns, no more blades, just and Italian and a Star Child competing for the first place.

Finally, someone crossed the finish line first.

Lumina: Peppino Spaghetti gets first place! Meaning that RED Team and Enraged Screams wins the challenge! With Collector close behind making Celestial Markipliers second place of the race!

Peppino dropped the music box, and started making random poses until finishing in one iconic pose while music played on the background which the rest of his team (Doom Slayer simply bopped his head once and pulled out his Doom Blade) also danced along with, and ended with poses on their own.

Meanwhile with Collector, he was laying on the ground face first, Rosalina approached him and picked him up, taking note of the tears forming on his face. She use her sleeve to wipe them away and hugged the Collector, which he returned.

Collector: I’m sorry… I wasn’t fast enough…

Rosalina: It’s okay darling, you tried your best, that’s what matters.

Jaiden and Queen approached to give their own words.

Jaiden: And you ended in second place, if it were anyone else we might have ended in third or even lost, you did well kiddo.

She said as she patted his head, meanwhile Queen was looking towards Peppino.

Queen: +, No One Could Have Predicted The Italian Man To Break The Speed Of Sound Limit, Which Is Quite The Feat.

Collector simply smiled and started laughing.

Meanwhile, Chat Noir and N were trying to get third place, until N looked down at his box, and something felt wrong, until he recalled the rules…

He flew down to ground level and stopped dead in his tracks, which Chat and the rest of his team were confused by, maybe he was gonna throw out a secret weapon, maybe he was gonna destroy the platform, but no, nothing.

So Chat just ran ahead, and crossed the finish line.

Chat Noir: “Huff” “Puff” So… did I make it?

Shade: … Nope.

Chat Noir: Great great… WAIT WHAT!?

Shade: In third place, Reanimated Company!

Reanimated Company and Shadows within balls: WHAT!?!?!?

Lumina: Because apparently…

N walked up calmly.

Lumina: N actually took into account the rules. The Second Rule states, and I quote myself; “You must bring it here while its melody plays, and you need to make sure that the music box you pick is related to your team. They are color coded but it won't be as easy as you think.”

Shade: And if you quickly take a glance at the boxes.

Chat Noir noticed the box he was carrying, expecting it to be pure black spirals… Instead it was multicolored with wisps. Meanwhile N was carrying the Black box.

Chat Noir: But, how, when?!

N: Hehe, well…

“Flashback”

Collector took off with his box in hand, but before leaving, he decided to cause a bit of mischief, and switched N’s and Chat’s boxes, he took off, but didn’t realize that N’s systems were still online”.

“End of Flashback”

N: And that’s pretty much it (he looks at Collector) Great plan by the way kid! Could’ve fooled me.

Collector: Thanks!

Shade: And so, Shadows within Balls, you guys are up for elimination!

Confetti rained upon them. Quickly, no one had to say anything and glanced at Devil, who was starting to glow red, they all backed away and…

Devil: … AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!

Shade: While he continues, VIEWERS! Click on the link to vote for who will get eliminated off of the team! 

Voting is finished, thank you for your time, or, keep an eye out for the next one!

Specter Knight: That was some quick thinking N, I must say I’m impressed.

N: Oh come on it was nothing.

Sage: Negative, if it weren't for you we would have been up for elimination, your quick thinking and recalling of the rules we would have lost.

Dimentio: Especially those of us who are quite prideful, myself included.

Papyrus: INDEED, SO CONGRATS N, YOU DESERVE THE PRAISE!

N: Alright fine, thank you guys!

Giovanni: Of course, we should also give props to the other runners, Venoct, X, you two put quite the race out there.

X!Chara: Thanks, I thought that if I did well I would gain not only your guys’ respect, but also the audience’s respect.

Venoct put his hand on his shoulder.

Venoct: You don’t have to prove anything kid, as long as you are friendly and helpful or however you wanna act, that’s fine, you’re your own person, remember that alright? I’m gonna take a quick meditation session, if anyone wants to join me, you can find me in the backyard.

X!Chara and the rest of the team watched him walk away, and he was suddenly filled with relief, he walk towards him to join him.

Flamberge: Hm, that was sweet.

Specter Knight: So it was, I might join them later, for now, take a break everyone, you deserve it.

Dimentio: Farewell for now then, Ciao!

And so they all went towards different directions, ignoring the footsteps that no one noticed.