Overtaken - a BFB/II2 fanfic (very slow updates)

Phonenapped

The first thing he realized was that he was not in Test Tube's laboratory. The second thing he realized was that he had actually been unconscious for some time. Or rather, powered off.

MePhone4 automatically ran a systems check to see if anything was wrong. Screen, check. Internal timer, functioning as normal. 95% of other applications, perfect. The only three things not working - and he tested them - were his newly installed quick-travel app, his ability to generate anything from nothing, and his WiFi/cellular connection. Wherever he was, it had cut him off from the outside world.

Speaking of which, where was he?

MePhone finally sat up and looked around. He was in a small, white room. That was it. No door, no windows, no furniture whatsoever, and no visible light source. A cold trickle of dread slid down his side. Unfortunately, he now knew exactly where he was.

A sudden burst of feedback from some hidden speaker made him jump. An uncomfortably familiar voice cleared its throat. "Is this thing on?"

MePhone clenched his fists. "Cobs."

"Ah, so you can hear me. Well, welcome back to the MeCloud, MePhone4. It has been quite a while since your last visit."

"How did you get me here again?"

"So curious! It's wonderful to see you still as inquisitive as the day I created you."

"Just answer the question."

"I have no obligation to." Cobs sighed. "But, as my only alternative at the moment is to do boring troubleshooting, I suppose I might as well. You're not going anywhere, anyway, so there's no harm to it."

"HOW-"

"Yes, yes, calm down. You see, last night, I abducted a certain porcelain friend of yours to-"

"Toilet?" MePhone interrupted. "Why? And he's NOT my friend."

A blip of static came through - another frustrated sigh. "What is it with you mechanical minds? You ask a question, and then when I begin to answer, you very rudely interrupt me. As I was saying, I took Toilet into custody recently with the help of a new creation of mine. The idea was to use him as bait. For you. But, after a little questionnaire and some truth serum, he spilled the fact that you despise him - in addition to spilling quite a lot of toilet water - so I decided to take matters into my own hands."

"Truth serum?" MePhone was horrified. On the mainland, truth serum had been outlawed long ago for the extremely painful side effects that it caused in the users. "You... you monster! Toilet may be the most annoying object on earth, but even I wouldn't do that to him!"

"At least we can agree on the matter of him being, to put it mildly, 'annoying.'" Some shuffling of papers could be heard. "To continue, it was a simple matter to tweak your teleportation application slightly, once I realized earlier today that you had downloaded and used it. All you had to do was activate it again, and voila - instantaneous capture. Quite an ingenious plan, if I do say so myself."

MePhone could picture the smug look on Cobs' face perfectly. "My contestants will come for me, you know. And Four, too - oh, man." It was his turn to smile smugly. "If Four ever gets to you, you'll wish you'd never been born. At the risk of sounding extremely cliche, you're not going to get away with this!"

He could almost hear the corn's smile grow wider. "Oh, but I will, dear creation. Or have you forgotten that literally nobody else in the world knows where you are right now?"

Before MePhone could come up with a snappy reply, he heard the speaker turn off with a click. He realized that Cobs was, unfortunately, correct. Nobody in either universe knew his location, and he also realized that they might not look for him. He knew he wasn't very well-liked. Furthermore, a third realization hit, about how Test Tube's portal wasn't working - Four was trapped in his own universe, and so were about thirty other objects that he could really use.