Action Figure Battle Royale

Chapter 8: Cost of Victory

The battle royale in the Williams family home was over. White Team, whose soldiers and guards looked like World War II Soviet Union soldiers camouflaged for winter, had won. In second place was Yellow Team, whose soldiers and guards looked like modern US soldiers camouflaged for hot, sandy deserts. In third place was Blue Team, whose soldiers and guards looked like American soldiers from the American Revolutionary War. In last place was Green Team, whose soldiers and guards looked like science fiction soldiers with armor colored to camouflage in forests because they were made to promote a mid 2000s science fiction movie that had a scene like that. Despite the teams' hatred of all of the other teams, there were very few "civilian" casualties, if one interpreted the toys that tried to stay neutral as being civilians.

While exhausted and breathing heavily, the one surviving White Team medic said, "It's over... We've won..."

"Yeah... but... was this worth losing the other eight of us?" The one surviving White Team medic asked, also exhausted with heavy breathing. The two were the only surviving toys that fought in the battle royale.

The guard thought about the medic's question, but before he could answer, they heard and felt footsteps, which were giant to them. Both of the survivors of the battle royale wondered how they could feel footsteps below them, then suspected that the kids of the Williams family were shaking the whole house. They realized that was not it, so they wondered how that was possible. They did not understand physics and how that could explain it, so they were stumped. Since that was not important to them, the medic whispered, "Oh, $#!t, Maria and Alvin are home!"

The guard tried to stay quiet as he asked her, "What do we do?"

She made a motion signaling him to be quiet so they didn't hear them. They became inanimate, waiting for night to come so they could return to where they were left.

Down below, the two kids were shocked at the look of the house. Action figures of soldiers were everywhere, many with very tiny holes in them. The walls also has holes of similar size in them, and there were a lot of them. Maria asked, "What happened here?"

Alvin quoted a line from a movie and said, "I have no idea!"

Unknown to either of them, while they looked at the mess they didn't know the action figures created, toys in other rooms were rushing back to the spots they were last left in. The four video game character plushies and the anime movie character toy came out from under the bunk bed. Blaze and Mabel were with a bunch of other dolls in the dollhouse. The toy dinosaurs made for the Triassic Garden franchise managed to get back to where they were left a while after Clubtail recovered from being hit by that RC car. The O'Donald Kids' Meal toys went back to where they were left, hoping to be played with but not damaged because their designs were no longer being made due to being out of print for the rest of time. The Blox toys went back to the bin they were in before. The dolls that played the fantasy card game had gone back to the dollhouse a while before, though they arrived after Mabel and Blaze did. The Taterman that was married to the Taterwoman the Williams family owned, along with said Taterwoman, went back to where they were left and rearranged their parts to match the positions they were last left in. The Blox raptor pack and Junior planned to wait until the kids and their parents went to bed to come out and go back to where they started the day. The video game plushies that watched TV in the same room that one of the Tatermen and his Taterwoman played their game also went back to where they were left, as did the horses Blue Team rode to their final battle. Those horses still felt the impact from when the last members of Blue Team jumped onto them even though the three of them used grappling hooks to slow their fall to a safe level for both themselves and the horses. The Claw Game Team, as well as the Lite BuzzBeer the Williams family owned, decided not to go back, because they didn't know if it would be more suspicious to not be in the same spot they were left at, but go back to that spot when no one was looking, or just being in a different spot than where they were left. They decided to stick with the latter, though the Claw Game Team was happy that they got to see the 1995 movie that was the debut for all but one of them.

A couple hours later, Alana Williams, the mother of Alvin and Maria, came home. An hour later, Seth Williams, their father and the husband of Alana, came home. Both parents thought their kids made a mess, but the kids pleaded innocent.

After what felt like an eternity to the two survivors of the battle royale in the Williams family house, night came, and they could only determine it was night by the kids' snoring. They managed to climb down the rope on the vent cover, sneak their way back to where they were left, and became inanimate, waiting for morning to to come so they could be played with. The thirty eight action figures in the battle royale that did not survive ended up in either Unthyr or Everrot, while the dead toy cars ended up in Zahky or Unthyr. After a couple of days, the other toys that tried to stay neutral calmed down, and life among the toys of the Williams family returned to normal, just with a smaller population. The family never figured out what made the mess, but they cleaned it up anyway as best as they could, as the bullet holes were tiny and they didn't know how to clean up bullet holes that were not in flesh.

Back in her domain in Spri with her custom Lite BuzzBeer, Gyhena said, "Why would living toys kill each other?"

Her Lite replied, "Maybe jealousy of having your owner play with another toy?"

She said, "That makes sense."