Where does a contestant go after they've been eliminated from the Battle for Dream Island?
It's a question everyone has thought about at some point or another, but they never really wanted to find out the answer, *especially* if it was on their own. When they joined the competition, they did so under the deluded belief that *they* were the ones that were gonna win the island, that they'd be able to partake in its many delights with however many friends (or associates, or acquaintances, or whatever) they decide to let in, since that's also one of the many, *many* things they'd be given if they won. But there's only one Dream Island. Just a single one. If there *were* more than one, after all, then what'd be the point of giving them away through such a convoluted manner? There'd be at least 2,763 better ways to randomly donate these islands to the good people of Goiky, and perhaps the world beyond. But no. There is only *one* Dream Island, as far as everyone is aware. That's what made it such an alluring and captivating prize. Really, it didn't matter what the island actually had; all that mattered was that *they* got to say they owned the island, and everyone else (*especially* their worst enemy, if they had one) couldn't say the same. It's a great feeling. It's satisfying. A most wonderful sensation that everyone wanted to relish and enjoy for the rest of time, since they seemed to be doomed in this miserable Earth for the rest of their natural lives.
But, *again*, there was only one Dream Island. To quote Pin's immortal words: only one of them can win. Everyone else had to be disposed of *somehow*.
Golf Ball was one of the exceptional few that thought about this conundrum more frequently than the occasional, rare, infrequent, once in a blue moon thought crossing their mind. It was part of her whole thing: asking questions about all sorts of things, things that everyone took at face value, that everyone *really* didn't want to look into too closely, because that'd make them feel like GB, and they all agreed (for whatever reason) that that was a bad thing. Where *did* they go after being eliminated? Why were they sent so far away after being eliminated, anyhow? Why couldn't they just stay where they were, watching the competition from the sidelines instead? Why were they even in the competition to begin with? What compelled them to join in? What drove them to do all sorts of degrading, humiliating things in order to get the slightest chance of winning Dream Island? What drove them to do *anything*, really? How are they alive? Why did they come to be? Why did *anything* come to be? Why does the universe exist? Why does existence have to be full of so much *suffering*? These questions and 2,763 more constantly polluted Golf Ball's brain, constantly pushing her to work, to study, to investigate, to get to the bottom of life's greatest mysteries.
Fortunately for her, this particular question seemed to be a rather trivial one; for most of the seasons of the Battle for Dream Island, the matter of where everyone went after getting the boot is a closed case. In the first two seasons, not only were their fates explicitly described on several occasions, not *only* did they get to see everyone stuck in those terrible prisons, but Golf Ball was also unfortunate enough to be one of those inmates, despite *clearly* being the best possible option to win Dream Island. *Seriously*. Do they not see that everyone else would just bring it to ruin?
Whatever. Her experiences stuck with *them* provided... some amount of insights, though she tried as hard as she could to suppress it.
When the Battle for Dream Island started up again under the iron fist of the algebralians, they were a little bit more cryptic about the destination of the unfortunate souls. Everyone watched in horror as those who were frowned upon by the voters were just... *absorbed* into Four, disappearing into the numeral, never to be seen again. It was a distressing time, that was for sure.
But eventually, with enough stubbornness and persistence, clues began to emerge which paved the way to the total unraveling of the enigma. One lucky contestant was freed from that unholy place, and from there it was easy to get all the answers. With everyone else too busy ignoring Leafy like the plague (except for Pin, for whatever reason), Golf Ball only needed a single night to extract all the information from her. The leaf was more than happy to divulge the secrets of the Eternal Algebra Class Withfour, how they were all sentenced to doing homework forever by that strange creature, locked in a prison that was controlled entirely by their whims.
