How many lightbulbs does it take?

9. To win a game

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"You want WHO TO HELP?"
The brush's bristles sparked up and flared in their rage. Their eyes, angry and hurt.

"Look i understa---"
"No, pickle! You don't understand. How would you feel if I told you to let Taco help you with something this important?"
"This isn't about her!"
"Not to mention! Test tube has done much WORSE to me! and what? You want to bring her back just so she can hurt me again?"
"Paintbrush. Why don't you understand that this isn't about you? It's not about you or OJ or Salt or Ballon or Suitcase. It's about Lightbulb. Testtube is our only chance at finding her."
"...We could find another way---"
"Fan told me she's messed with timelines before. Everyone saw that portal Paintbrush. It was her technology."
"Fan said it himself! He's never seen the damn thing!! He's making assumptions on what a munipulator told him! "
"It's worth a try to get our friend home safely."
"...I don't wanna lose whats remaining of my vision. I don't wanna lose the progress I've made learning to write again. I don't wanna be a vegetable because that monster just so happens to be a genius!"

Pickle takes their hand.

"I won't let her hurt you. I won't let her hurt anyone ever again."
"You can't keep that promise pickle."
"Do you want her back? Imagine how scared she myst be without her vision right now!"

"Annd trophy just hit the finish line." Lightbulb annonced in disappointment.

"Aw man---" Blue murmured in disappointment.

"Woo! I win again."
The cocky golden trophy sung in his confidence filled voice.

"That's why you're my, number one?"
The wedge of cheese next to him nudged his sholder and slapped his knee. Attempting to squeeze a reaction from his friend. Who stifled back his chuckles of amusement.

"Guess you could even say you take home the gold?" Cheesy continued, slapping his knee again for good measure.

"Cheesy,  you've made those puns every time he's won." An annoyed lightbulb groaned.

"Oh come on! Lighten up a bit! Maybe you could CRACK a smile?" His knee begun to look sore at this point.

"I don't appreciate the jokes about my assault scars." She flatly stated. The rooms silence was deafening.

"Er--- Other lightbulb? Could you lighte--- i mean, be a bit nic---" Oj started before being interrupted.

"Oh no OJ! I went to far with that one," Cheesy looked at him nervously. "I'm sorry Lightbulb."

He looked at her anxiously. He had been trying to be more tasteful for awhile but he seemed to lack the ability to guess what jokes would hurt people.

The gray--eyed lightbulb didn't know much of the background on that, but she could tell he was being genuine. So she sighed and replied, "its alright. Really." and glanced away

"Uh--- does anyone wanna play again?" Blue glanced around dispite not being able to see.

Gray--eyed lightbulb saw this as an opportunity to finally join in. So before Trophy could volunteer so he could stroke his ego. She raised her hand, noticed how awkward that was, cleared her throat, and spoke,  "I want to try."

"Great!" Lightbulb chimed. She had been hoping for her to join in eventually. She hoped that she would know the rules with how many games she's watched. But explained for good measure.

"Okay so it's a pretty generic game. You roll the dice and move accordingly. Land on white, do nothing. Land on green, roll again. Get higher then five and you go forward twice as much as 3 rolls ago. Less then five you go back as much as 2 rolls ago. If you land on red then you have to answer a trivia question. Answer correctly and you move the amount of letters in the answer to the trivia. If you answer wrong you go back the amount of letters in the question. Land on blue an---

The other lightbulb whispered under her breath. "Omga--- why would someone make a game like this?"

She tuned back in to hear the lightbulb across from her say "And thats it!! Any questions?"

She looked at her utterly dumbfounded. "Nope! Crystal clear!"

Suddenly, from behind her she heard a voice. "You can do it! It's really not that hard once you notice the patterns! Here let me help." Dan sat down next to her. "Let's do this!"

She smiled at his adorable enthusiasm. "Yeah lets do this!"

The game seemed to evaporate into chaps pretty quickly. Luckily for the other lightbulb, Fan was incredibly well known for his trivia knolage. So much that he had answered questions before she could even comprehend what the question was!

Eventually though, Fan and the other lightbulb came out triumphant! She didn't know if she should be proud though because Blue honesty kinda sucked at trivia. She somehow got the question, "whats a horse called?" wrong. Though to be fair, she was convinced it was a trick question.

"You guys did amazing!!" Cheesy yelped. "Not as amazing as trophy though, more silver then gold!" He gasped as if he just discovered the best joke sense the one about the chicken. "Like you're eyes!" he saidn awe. He plopped down next to her. "Can i call you that?" he asked.

"Call me what---" The other lightbulb spoke slowly.

"Silver!" Cheesy smiled and awaited her answer

"Sure, anything beats"the other lightbulb""

An actual nickname. It wasn't muxh but it was like a medal to silver. A symbol that maybe they didn't need to stay miserable forever. Just maybe, it was better here.

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Srry thiz took so long schoolz almost over n stuff. I also don't wanna write a super long authors not bc my eyez are already blurry az im typing thiz. But hey! We're getting to the rising action. Thatz cool. Maybe ill actually finish thiz little project.