This was requested by @AzureGroux, and takes place during TPOT 1.
"Contestants! Your first challenge is what I like to call 'Zap!'. I have a huge carpet here, and 42 pairs of socks. Well, 36 pairs, because Bell, Black Hole, Lightning, Yellow Face, Puffball and Cloudy have no legs. Sorry. Anyways, the goal is to gather as much static electricity as possible, and shock as many people, but you can only do that if you're part of the 'Zap Team'. The Zap Team will initially consist of... one, carry the three, plus four... twelve contestants! If you get tagged, you are now part of the Zap Team. The first team to fully become part of the Zap Team will be up for elimination. Any questions?"
"To clarify, who will be part of the Zap Team?" Lightning asks.
"Oh, uh... I have this very random generator which will decide!"
Taggy, Fanny, Remote, Gaty, Coiny, Bottle, Clock, Grassy, Basketball, Nickel, Golf Ball and TV end up being the zap team.
"Three, two, one, GO!"
In short, Team8s had Needle, Pin and Saw still standing, The S had Winner and Icy, Death P.A.C.T Again had Tree and Marker, Are You Okay had Tennis Ball, Eraser, Fries and Pen, Just Not had Bomby, leaving The Strongest Team on Earth to lose, with Snowball standing alone for much of the game.
Remote's POV
Machines don't normally feel pleasure, apart from maybe when Basketball gives a fresh load of batteries, but shocking people gives me a feeling that I've never felt before. It gives me the shivers every time, and it feels so great! I need to do more.
I walk into our team cabin, which is thankfully covered in carpet, and rub my feet, while I'm still wearing the socks, on the floor. I search for the easiest target. Tree's on a date with Bottle, so it can't be him, Fanny's... I don't actually know where she is. Pie is sleeping, Lightning is literally electricity, and Black Hole would just suck me up. So there's only one other person. Marker. I find him playing noughts and crosses against himself, and shock him. It was basically a hit and run.
My next target is Tree. He's walking towards our cabin, holding hands with Bottle, so I creep up behind, and shock him.
"Ouch! What the leaf was that for!" Tree scolds. I shrug and shock Bottle for the fun of it.
"Hehe, that tickles!"
"Hey, come back here!" Tree screams as I run off. Well, that's job done.
Black Hole's POV
Tree comes back in a really bad mood.
"What's wrong, Tree? Date go wrong?"
"No, Remote's still shocking everyone. We should stop her."
"How?"
"Why don't we wait till she's asleep, and take them off and hide them?"
"Yeah, that could work. But what if she finds them again?"
"Trust me, she won't."
Tree's POV
She's finally asleep a one o'clock in the morning. I sneak into her room, and try to take off her socks, but she moves just before I can slip them off.
The next morning, Remote keeps giving me dirty looks from across the room when we have breakfast. So Black Hole decides to take this into their own hands.
"Remote, you know we care about you, but you have to take those socks off. It's hurting all of us."
"I am not giving up these socks if they're the last things I have!"
"Come on, Remote! Just take them off!"
"No! I am not taking them off!"
Black Hole's POV
Eventually, Tree has to resort to pinning her against a wall while Lightning slips them off. But Remote's a relentless machine, so she keeps finding them wherever we hide them, whether is on the roof, in the chef's room in the hotel or even inside Bottle. Remote is a relentless machine. But now we've found the best spot. Inside Tree. Sometimes even I can't find them if I try, and Remote hasn't found them yet, so that's good, I guess.
She's found them. And she's back to shocking everyone now, along with the fact that she's protecting them like nothing else, makes it impossible to get them back. I have to get them back, by any means possible.
Remote's POV
They will not take my precious socks. Not now. I hide them the only place where I know they won't go. Inside me. I open up myself, and slide my socks inside, so they can't find them.
Black Hole's POV
I have to talk to Remote. Why didn't I think of this before?
"Hey, Remote."
"If it's about the socks, forget it."
"Well, it is, but I have a compromise. What if I give you this huge load of batteries for those socks?"
"Hmm... I guess we could do that. But on one conditions."
"I'm all ears. Well, black holes don't have ears, but you get the gist."
"If I'm allowed to cannonball in them whenever I want."
"Consider it done."
And that, my friends, is how I got Remote's socks back.
