Game Room

Chapter 6: The First Task - Part 1

"GOOD CHOICE!!! NOW, WOULD YOU FOLLOW THIS LIGHT?" asked the voice. 

"What light?" I wondered, until I met the huge row of torches. "Wow! Those ph-"

"Uh, Fan? This isn't a time for science." said Paintbrush. "Let's actually do this instead of geeking you way out of here."

"Well, fine." Paintbrush, carrying Suitcase and Balloon walked with Fan the others in the dark corridor. There was an eerie feeling, like an aura surrounding all of them that made Fan's back chill.

"The first task was...parkour, right?" asked Fan. 

"Yeah, it was. Now, that could be easy in a way. At least, I HOPE it's easy. I don't really want to jinx anything after our current situation which is FREAKING ME OUT!!!" shouted Test Tube.

"Jeez, Testy. Just calm down? I-I mean, you're with ME, the miraculous fighter LIGHTBULB!" shouted Lightbulb as her light fizzed out and back again.

"Yeah, I'm DEFINITELY getting that hero vibe." The trail had finally ended on a door. There was a stone doorway that had a huge chill around in. "That's it, huh?"

"Well, yeah. Best to go inside instead of waiting here and starving." said Lightbulb, and Paintbrush, heaving heavily, opened the door.

There were stone and obsidian walls that surrounded them, giving dark chills. The only source of light was lava in a deep pit. Over those deep pits were parkour spots to jump on, which were circular, gray, and floating. Surprising, there were moving figures down there already. "Hey, look, guys! Those could be other survivors that-"

"BAXTER!!!" shouted Lightbulb as she started to zoom through a slide that lead to the first platform. 

"Lightbulb, no! They could be CONTAMITATED!!!!" shouted Paintbrush as they raced after Lightbulb. 

"We're throwing down Balloon and Suitcase!!!" shouted Fan as he threw down the two in the slide. For some reason, Suitcase was a bit heavier than usual. Probably ate too much cookies at OJ's "MePhone's Dead" party.  Fan and Paintbrush were now the only people left. "Should we go down?" 

"Why not? I mean, it's not really a question, since we still have to go down too, but-" Paintbrush grabbed Fan by the hand and they both jumped down the slide together.

"WEEEE!!!!" shouted Paintbrush.

"AAAHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!" shouted Fan. He landed face-first on the ground. When he stood up, he almost fell flat on the ground again at the sight of the other contestants. There was Marshmallow and Apple, Knife, Microphone, Yin-Yang, Trophy, Box, Baseball, and Nickel. 

"Marshmallow!!!" shouted Paintbrush as she ran like a ragnarok at the white object. Marshmallow seemed a little bit awkward after running away from the perimeters of the object show, as she edged away from Painbrushes hug. Baseball yelped at the sight of Suitcase and went to aid her.

"Where were you? Why did you run? And how is APPLE here? Didn't she betray you?!!" Painbrush exclaimed.

"Well, it's kind of a lot to explain..." 

"Well, go on, it's not like we don't have all the time in the world!"

"OH, ACTUALLY, YOU DON'T."

Marshmallow jumped up in surprise and landed back-first on the ground. 

"YOU SEE, I'M ON A TIME LIMIT. I WOULD GUESS... AROUND 132 HOURS, or around 6 days. I DON'T WANT TO OR CAN EXPLAIN, BUT THIS OBSTACLE COURSE WAS OBVIOUSLY BUILT FOR PEOPLE TRYING TO- NEVER MIND, THE POINT IS TO MAKE IT THROUGH. WHOEVER DESIGNED THIS PLACE MADE IT PRETTY HARD. SO, GOOD LUCK. BANG BANG. OH NO-"

"What was that?" asked Marshmallow, avoiding Paintbrushes question. 

"Didn't you always hear that voice?" asked Test Tube. 

"No, like, the bang noises. It didn't sound like it came from that man through the speakers. Do you think someone's out to get him?"

"No, not really. Maybe a way to make us scared?" Everyone was silent. Then, Trophy yelled "What's that?" he pointed to a direction that no one was looking at, and there was a huge parkour map right in front of us. Well, it LOOKED like one. There were platforms around jumping-distance from other platforms at each corner Fan could look at. There was a huge platform on a wall at the end that had a lever on it. 

"So... we go through there?" asked Yin. 

"Ok, whose a good runner and jumper?" Fan asked. He knew that it was parkour. And he knew that he wasn't strong enough for it. Yin-Yang, Trophy and Tissues raised their hands. "Tissues?" Fan was caught off guard. THAT sneezing warthog?

Nickel snickered. "You, Tissues? Ok, no. You stay back. Yin-Yang, Trophy, why don't you guys start? And Knife too." 

Microphone walked to a part of the platform and just started to whisper to herself. Fan wondered what she was doing, but didn't care. 

"I'll go first!" Trophy said victoriously. He quickly jumped off the platform to the one neared, and landed dead center on it. "Easy!"

"Stop bragging!" Test Tube yelled. "Just focus at going to the end. Maybe the lever opens a door or something."

"Yeah, yeah!" Trophy taunted. He moved away from the center to the edge of the platform to jump to the next one when a spike rose from where Trophy was one second earlier. Trophy shrieked like a baby. 

"Welp, traps. How great." Nickel said sarcastically.

"Being sarcastic ISN'T going to help!" Soap said with distain. 

"Look, Soap, this crisis is scary and helpless, being sarcastic will-"

"GAH!!!!" Trophy shrieked. Fan was so focused on Nickel and Soap that he didn't realize that Trophy was already halfway through. However, as Fan looked closer, he gasped in horror as there was a huge gash in Trophy's leg. An arrow was lodged a centimeter next to his foot. 

"TROPHY!" Yin shrieked in horror. Yin-Yang had started the parkour. 

"HAHA, LOSER!" Yang laughed. Trophy obviously wasn't in any state to really continue. Knife went with Yin-Yang. Fan chewed his fingernails nervously. This was all too much to take in. Trophy being stabbed, Balloon and Suitcase in everlasting comas, and finally, Yin-Yang and Knife were fighting and pushing each other as they were jumping on platforms. "Get off me!" shouted Yang.

"Never, you black-and-white turd!" Knife retorted. "Jump behind me so I can go first!" 

"How dare you!" Yang shouted, and in a moment of sheer horror, Yang kicked Knife so hard that he almost fell off the platform. Several people screamed. 

"Ok, we can't do this, we CAN'T do this." Fan murmured in horror. Lightbulb sat in the corner, thinking of ideas, then had a smile on her face. 

"Oh, right. Yo, flat-face! I mean, Fan! Come on, we can be flying buddies!!!"

"Oh no, not this again." Fan said to himself. He didn't even WANT to think about the maze, especially the hole inside his paper.

But before he knew it, Fan was grabbed by the leg from Lightbulb, and was spun around by at least 500 miles per hour. 

"GAAHHHH!!!!!!!!" Fan screamed. He was getting dizzy. Dizzier and dizzier, but it was stopped fairly quickly, and realized that he was at the end.

"What it is!!!!!!!" Lightbulb chanted, and waited for 3 seconds, as if expecting the deep loud booming voice to say "That's called CHEATING, moron!", but nothing came out. Lightbulb let out a sigh of relief.

"Great, now we have to do that around 20 to 25 times."

"WHAT?"

OH MY GOD, I'M SO BADDDDDD

Sorry for the hiatus, my 4 fans (if you are). I had a little writing clog, so this might not be my best work. I'll try to get another page out in around 2 to 3 weeks (maybe sooner!)

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