Object Laboratories (an II / BFDI AU)

An Unpleasant Start

The cold footsteps echoed through the lab's hallways as Teardrop began to walk through them, giving each former contestant their own rooms, which were all fairly empty.

Teardrop walked off to her main office, leaving the objects to themselves.

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"Ah, now we're in a lab. That's great.", Nickel said, the sarcasm still as obvious as ever.

He sighed, trying to find a way out of this.

This was until Knife put a hand on his shoulder, stopping him.

"Look. I want to get outta here as much as you, or the next person, but is it really possible?"

"...Yeah, of course it isn't.", Nickel sighed, and stopped focusing on a way to escape.

"But hey, if one of us can pull something crazy off, then we're going for it.", Knife said, trying to find a hopeful side, even if he was being hopeless just a few seconds ago.

"Yeah, i guess..", Nickel said, not knowing much on what to say, hating this laboratory already.

"..."

"..."

"So, we both hate this place, and wanna get out real badly, huh?", Knife asked to Nickel, wondering if they're on the same page.

Nickel sighed.

"Of course."

"...You know, Knife.. Why else wouldn't it be that way?"

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Leafy saw the nearby object in the same chamber as her, and quickly hugged her, wanting to make friends with Taco as soon as possible.

"Wh- Let GO of me, you freak! I don't want another 'Mic-Situation' happening again!"

Leafy's smile went down into a frown, saddened by Taco's words.

"...You're not.. the Taco i know..?"

"...Oh.."

"...Sorry.."

Taco sighed, feeling bad that she said that.

"Sorry. Emotional habit, i'm not quite used to others being this.. Kind around me."

Leafy chuckled a little at Taco's words, and followed up with her own.

"No, no, it's fine! I get it! Really, i do, though.. Because of this not-so relevant thing that happened years ago.."

"No, go on, i'm all for listening.", Taco said, wanting to hear Leafy's story, interested in it rather than not wanting to hear it.

Leafy let out a long inhale, and a long exhale, as she prepared herself to explain to Taco, or at least another kind of Taco.

"Well, there was this time where i competed in a show, right? Then me and this fire dude, he's called Firey, by the way. Anyways, me and Firey got farther than any other contestant ever could, even with all the the times both of us have been up for elimination, we survived! Somehow. But anyways, we made it to the Final 2, and Firey got the Dream Island all of us were competing for, he lets everyone in, you know, even Coiny, someone he used to absolutely HATE at the time. But what does he do, then? Not let me in, so i, out of anger, used the slip of paper as 'money' to buy Dream Island, and steal it from Firey, since Announcer was somehow okay with it! ...Then i got chased by, like.. Literally almost everyone that had competed at the time.. Excluding some, and Firey. Since he didn't want to chase me."

Taco looked in interest as she sat on the cold, hard floor and listened to Leafy's story, of how she was close to winning Dream Island, but had it taken right away from Firey.

"Interesting. You know, perhaps you and i aren't so different than we thought, no?"

Leafy looked at Taco, confused by this, but then realized..

"Wait, you went through something similar? I'd bet it was an orange-colored contestant that ended up winning, like Firey!"

Taco sighed deeply, then nodded.

"Yes. OJ to be exact, or rather, 'Orange Juice'. But most prefer to call him 'OJ'."

Leafy nodded in understanding, then asked..

"So what'd OJ get as the prize, then? Since Firey got Dream Island, with a hotel-"

"Yes. Yes it was a hotel. But that came out of the million.", Taco said, cutting leafy off.

Leafy looked in confusion, before asking another question.

"...Wait, a million dollars? Who would make you compete for that?"

Taco let out a long, deep, heavy sigh.

"MePhone4. He made us jump off a cliff with literal shit on 2 sides, and clean water in the middle. I'm not kidding. Literal. Shit."

Leafy gasped as Taco mentioned something about the cliff.

"Waiiit.. What? Why?! That's nasty! My first challenge was to push people off of a balance beam!"

Taco looked at Leafy, a bit jealous that Leafy's first challenge was much better than her's.

"Damn. You have a good host, then, i'll admit. Speaking of which, wasn't it that 'Announcer' fellow you mentioned earlier?"

"Yeah, he IS a pretty good host, well, for the most part, sure, some things he does are a little unhinged, but he was overall a great guy! Probably not as bad as MePhone4?", Leafy explained to Taco about Announcer, and had asked a question about Taco's host, MePhone4.

"...Yes, truly not as bad."

Both Taco and Leafy sighed, they had no idea what to say now, perhaps it was best for them to sit together on the floor for now, both unsure of what might happen next.

end of chapter!!!

yeah the first few chapters are gonna be them getting to know each other

wrong tacoleaf? i think very much /j

knickel or something? can yall get names?? i don't ship but like.. yall are gonna comment shit like that anyways.. soooo...

also, between this, Under A Terrible Reign, and Teleported Unto A New World, i'm REALLY not sure which one to focus the most on