~ Revenge ~ [BFB AU/Fanfic] ~

Chapter 10: Troubles Doubled

"One, two, three..seventeen...twenty.."

"That's only twenty batteries!" Golf Ball exclaimed.

"I know.. but I can't find anymore! Your factory is a mess!" Tennis Ball apologized.

Ever since the lavapocalypse, Golf Ball's factory had all kinds of garbage coming out of the chute and into the building. She never had the time to fix it since she was too busy competing in challenges.

One of the hand-powered recovery centers (there's four total) had a malfunction in its system, so Golf Ball had to make a newer one. The only problem was that it was battery powered.

The battery-powered-hand-powered recovery center had been there for a pretty long time already. Replacing the batteries was never a problem before. Until they realized that they were running low on them.

"Come on Tennisball! We can't risk another broken recovery center! I'm running out of parts!" Golf Ball started searching for more batteries in the pile. "According to my calculations, we still have about 36 hours to find 87 batteries more before the recovery center explodes."

"Wh-what? Why explode?" Tennis Ball stammered.

"Because nobody else wanted to replace the batteries for it when I asked them to. The only way to get other objects to listen is to give them a good reason on why they should do something." Golf Ball replied.

"And you thought giving them a time limit would be a good reason?" Tennis Ball asked.

"Yes. Objects tend to do things faster when pressured." Golf Ball stated simply. "Plus, when their life is on the line, they know not to joke about it either. Now stop wasting time and look for more batteries! We are now down to 36 hours, 45 minutes, and 56 seconds!"

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"That makes no sense at all."

Pencil crossed her arms as she thought about Match's explanation.

"How would Blocky have snuck into the van without ANY of us noticing? There are SIX of us Match, SIX!"

"Well.. what if he like- had some sort of like- invisibility device from like- Golf Ball?" Match attempted to explain.

"That's highly unlikely. I mean, sure he was on the same team as Golf Ball in BFB, but that doesn't mean they actually got along, now did they?"

"He like- could have uh.. like- stole it..?"

"Doesn't Golf Ball have an alarm in her factory? Also, she would've known if something was missing, Match. She may be a bossy bot, but holy sharpener, is she SMART."

"I like- guess you're like- right, Pence-Pence..."

Match sighed, walking back to the other three. "Well, it was like- worth a shot."

"Woit now? Isn't there a way to prove to Poincil that Ice Cube's innocent?"

"Mmmaybe we wait here for 'fake Ice Cube' to come back, so we can prove to her that she was innocent all along..?" Book suggested.

Match thought for a second as an even better idea clicked into place. "How about we like- stay in that like- building over there? That way the 'fake Ice Cube' won't realize we were planning to... uh..." She thought of a word.

"Reveal them.?" Ruby piped up.

"Yeah... that." Match looked around at the others, wanting their opinion.