BFDI All Over: Flower in Bloom

Intermision 1 - Flashbacks and Unanswered Questions

It was very early in the morning, just before 5:30, where most wouldn't choose to be awake. Announcer didn't have Cake at Stake until a little after noon, after all, so most were still sound asleep from the stress of the last challenge. Not Golf Ball, however. She had invited her best friend and, currently, opponent on another team, Tennis Ball to a special place...a metal grate with a hatch in the ground.

"GB, what...is this?" Tennis Ball asked his friend, unsure as to why he was woken up and brought here so early.

"Somewhere nobody can hear us. I don't want anyone eavesdropping on us." GB explained, before pulling on the latch with her mouth, leading to a small, dark staircase.

"I ask again. What is this?" Tennis Ball asked, as his smaller friend would begin hopping down numerous flights of stairs.

"It's something I've been working on." GB gave him a grin before stepping down...into GB's underground factory...or what was hopefully going to be her underground factory anyways. It was dark, illuminated mostly by some dim lights dangling far overhead. There were machines and other small projects set up everywhere, including a few recovery centers, one for Pencil and a new modified one for Ice Cube, there was a huge dip in the middle of the room, with some rusted over train tracks and two tunnels on both sides, both sealed off with metal plating. Truth be told, this was an abandoned and sealed off subway station when Golf Ball found it. However, some walls set up, some rewired electricity and about four dozen or so mousetraps made it into an acceptable-looking factory, or at least a nice, livable space.

"Welcome, TB" Golf Ball said, seeming excited to show this off for a while, "I took this old place and I made it into my future private factory!"

Tennis Ball was more than impressed by how big of a glow up this place got, before he thought to ask, "Wasn't setting all of this up kind of dangerous? Especially since this place was abandoned for a while... I mean, what if you got hurt?"

"I'd pop out of a recovery center, duh." GB brushed it off. She did have a GBRC at the ready at all times, of course, she just always kept it hidden, in case Blocky got another prank idea. She'd turn to show TB a projector, which shone on the wall opposite the train tracks.

"Okay, we have a lot to discuss, mostly about Flower. There's a lot of weird things going on and I need a second opinion."

"I haven't really been paying much attention to her..." TB took a seat on the floor, stretching his legs out. "But if there was anything strange going on with her, I think I'd notice."

GB just snorted in response, rolling her eyes. "Well, that just goes to show how perceptive you are, my trusty TB. Here, I'm going to show you a few pictures I took, and I want you to give me your best explanation of what could be going through Flower's mind."

It was admittedly a little hard to work a slides projector while having no arms to easily shuffle the slides in and out with, but GB managed to get the first picture up - a shot of the balance beam taken from far below in the water. Three silhouettes are visible standing on the beam, likely Flower, Pin, and the Announcer.

"Exhibit A: Flower inexplicably knows that the balance beam isn't the only challenge we have to go through, despite seemingly experiencing it for the first time."

TB, who had been more focused on trying to discern the colorful blobs standing atop the beam, took a moment to come up with an answer. "Hmm... well, pushing any scientific explanations aside, I'd say she just made a lucky guess. After all, it wasn't like the Announcer specified this would be the only challenge..."