𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠.

-New beginnings-

-A/N- This story starts at season 2!!! Enjoy :)

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The soft glow from the Moon illuminated Hotel O.J on a cool summer night.

Obnoxious and loud party music blared from inside the hotel walls. The former contestants of the popular reality TV show, Inanimate Insanity (minus Balloon), were enjoying a party hosted by O.J after his exciting victory from the previous season. The party raged on past midnight until all the tired objects had headed off to sleep.

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Early in the morning the hotel residents heard the loud droning of a small plane fly past the window.

Before they could enjoy breakfast, they piled out of the hotel to investigate further.

High in the sky, now barely visible to the curious onlookers below, was MePhone, the host of Inanimate Insanity. MePhone took a dramatic leap off the side of the plane and free-falled down before hitting the ground hard with an embarrassingly loud *thwack*.

His parachute had failed him.

The slightly taken-aback objects awkwardly watched MePhone as he got up and stumbled towards them.

"Uhmm...Hi?" said O.J in a confused voice.

"Greetings and Salutations!" replied MePhone while collecting his composure.

"Uhhh..." replied a squeaky voice from the crowd.

"Well it's great to see you too," said MePhone quickly, "I see you've done something impressive with your prize O.J."

"Thanks." replied O.J happily.

"And since we last saw each other," continued MePhone, "Adam agreed to let me have a personal assistant for the second season! I was told I'd meet him hear." he said enthusiastically.

"Hello! Is there a Mista Phone here!?" said an annoying voice from the distance.

A horrified look came across MePhone's face when he saw the Toilet coming towards him that was supposed to be his new assistant.

"Hello, Sir, are you the Mista Phone I was told to assist by Master Adam?" asked Toilet.

Still horrified, MePhone hurriedly called Adam and questioned him about his new lackluster assistant.

Adam explained the situation about how nobody actually wanted to be his assistant and how they couldn't find anyone else, before quickly hanging up. To MePhone's displeasure, he realized he would have to spend the next year (or more) with Toilet.

"Uhh, why are you here again?" questioned Paper from the crowd.

"Oh, right well... It's been 2 years since Inanimate Insanity was released, cool, right?" said MePhone slightly abashed.

"No, not really." said Balloon.

"Is that the only reason you flew here? Pretty terrible reason..." said Marshmallow irritably. (probably from the lack of breakfast)

"Actually, It's not, because Inanimate Insanity season 2 is taking place right here!" replied MePhone.

He motioned vaguely towards Hotel O.J and the fields surrounding it as he said this.

"No it's not, my winning hotel is here! And I'm telling you, it's not going anywhere-" said O.J firmly.

Suddenly, without warning, the plane from before flew straight towards, and then straight into Hotel O.J with a massive *BANG*.

Startled, many objects gasped and fell back in surprise.

The impact had caused considerable damage and created a large hole in the side of the building, plus a lot of broken windows.A sharp ringing from the noise of the crash shattered O.J's glass into multiple pieces on the ground beside MePhone.

The Plane's bottom storage hatch opened with a crack, and from it fell out 7 screaming objects. They hit the ground harshly in a large heap.

Unseen and unbeknownst to everyone, when these 7 new objects met the grassy earth, 3 crimson coloured strings had gotten closer to each other than they had ever been before. Fate had brought 3 lucky objects closer to their destinies. Of course, none of them had any idea that they were mere meters away from their soulmates. They'd just have to wait and find out for themselves.

When he saw the objects land, MePhone strolled over and announced, "These are the new stereotypes, ...uh I- I mean the season 2 contestants."

Murmurs broke out amongst the old contestants when they heard this.

"Aw...so you're replacing us with them? Really!?" said an annoyed Lightbulb in the crowd.

"What's wrong with us!?" asked one of the new contestants angrily. The speaker was from a pair of Cherries.

"Yeah, that wasn't a bright thing to say!" said another, who was a piece of Cheese. "Heh Heh, get it?" He asked the Cherries.

"Heh Heh, nice one!" they replied.

"Ugh..." said Lightbulb.

"Okay, let's get to it!" interrupted MePhone. "I want some of you, the old contestants, to rejoin the game and battle alongside them. So check out this slot machine!" he said while showing off a slot machine. "Only eight of you will join the game, it'll be decided by chance." he explained.

So, one by one the recurring contestants for season 2 were chosen.

Ultimately, Paintbrush, Knife, Nickel, Lightbulb, Balloon (to the unhappiness of everyone else) Marshmallow, Apple and Baseball had all secured a place.

"That's our season two cast!" said MePhone.

The unchosen objects from season 1 were disgruntled and were whispering angrily behind MePhone's back.

"But our season 1 winner is still dead!" said Paper worriedly.

"Oh yeah, well, let's bring him back." replied MePhone as he opened up his revive menu. Then with the press of a button O.J materialized back to life.

"So that's how it works!!" exclaimed an enthusiastic Fan from the side.

This avid new contestant was one of the lucky 3 that was guided by Fate to the place where he would meet his special someone.

"Wha...What happened?" asked the newly revived O.J, slightly dazed.

"We didn't make season 2!" replied Paper in disappointment.

"Oh well. I don't really have a reason to be in season 2, I mean i did win season 1. So I don't really need to be in season 2." replied O.J with a shrug."It's fine anyways, we can still chill in my aw-some-ho-teEaahl??!!" he said the last bit in shock at the sight of his ruined hotel.

"What happened!?" he uttered in despair.

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-A/N- The story starts off pretty slow but i promise it'll get better!!