To The End

4

MePhone was still nowhere to be found by the time everyone else was awake and ready to compete. Lightbulb seemed to be the most chipper, and seemed more giddy than she usually was- especially considering how all of her friends were stuck in Hotel OJ, according to everyone else's knowledge. "Hey, do you guys know where MePhone is?" Suitcase yawned as she stretched her legs. Knife shrugged. "Dunno. Why should it concern us? Just means that none of us get eliminated today." Suitcase nodded, taking Knife's words into consideration. "Yeah, that's true.." She looked at Baseball. The two only just recently started talking again, after mining in the cave. Although.. she still felt something wrong about it.

     Lightbulb skipped around them, semi-shouting. "Cmon, guys! Wake up, we got a competition today!" The other three looked at her confused and she stopped. "What? Someone's gotta fill in Toilet's role! Besides, I miss the lil' guy!" Knife and Baseball groaned together. "Ugh, Lightbulb, you're the only one who still misses it." "Well- one of us has to!" She responded back crossing her arms. Baseball shook his head and sat down. "Well, if we've got nothing to do, might as well wait for MePhone. Wherever he is."  Suitcase nodded quietly and sat down next to him. Knife shrugged, also sitting down. Lightbulb was the only one who didn't. "Tough crowd." She laughed.

After what waiting for what seemed like forever, MePhone finally showed up. "It's about time!" Knife groaned. MePhone simply dusted himself off. "Well hello to you too, Mr. Tough Guy. Anyways. Are you all ready for today's challenge?" He cheered enthusiastically. "It's finally time for us to get back on track!" "Yeah, but.. what are we going to do?" Suitcase stood up, Baseball following her. "There.. isn't much for us to do.." her voice trailed off as MePhone shot her a glare. "Yeesh. You're all such a dull group, where's the personality around here?" He groaned. "Well, you threw one of them out!" Lightbulb chimed in. The 4 contestants were now surrounding MePhone, all watching him. His face turned to a look of disgust. "Oh, please. We all know it's better without that disgusting thing around." "Yeah, but- where's the other one?" Baseball spoke, to which MePhone shrugged, and replied in a monotone voice conceding his anger. "Dunno. His loss." He walked away from them. "Sooooo.." "Don't tell us you don't have anything planned again!" Knife groaned, sliding his hand across his face. Baseball whined. "I reaaally don't wanna have to do filler again!" The other two agreed quietly. "Oh, shut up all of you! I'll think of something, just- give me time!" MePhone snapped back at them, then walked off. "Yeesh. What's gotten into his boots?" "He's not wearing boots, Lightbulb." She sighed. "It's an expression!"

       The hotel wasn't bustling with energy at all, which was weird because it wasn't too early in the morning. In fact it was rather quiet, minus the chit-chat from Salt and Pepper in the hot tub a couple rooms down. God, they were loud. Before the sun had come up, Paintbrush managed to sneak back into the hotel without getting caught. Instead of risking waking Fan up, they just sat on the couch in the main bit of the hotel, watching the clock tick on the wall. Their eyes darted to the calendar. It wasn't Friday, so the hotel was spared of Cheesy's horrendous jokes.. maybe they could wake everyone up with an Arts N' Crafts class? No. They had one recently and should probably wait a little longer.

      Finally after what seemed like hours, people came trudging down the stairs. It was Pickle, with Bomb at his side. "H-H-Hey P-P-Paintbrush!" Bomb stuttered, and they chuckled and waved. "Hey, erm- Paintbrush. Could you move so we can play our game?" "Oh! Sure-" They awkwardly scooted out of the chair and then waved goodbye as the two started their game. Paintbrush went back to their room, where Fan was talking to TestTube. She seemed to be angrily shouting about her elimination, still. "Gh- I just- I cant believe her! She didn't do ANYTHING and yet I'm the one that gets the blame?! What kind of-" "Am I interrupting something?" TestTube and Fan jumped. "Golly! Sorry Paintbrush, I didn't realize you were there-" "Nonono- TestTube's just angry! That's all-" They chuckled and went back to their own bed. Baxter slowly climbed out from their hair, tired as he just woke up. "Well good morning to you too." They gently pet the crab. TestTube sat up. "Y-You didn't hear anything, did you Paintbrush?" "Just you complaining." "Wh-hey!" Paintbrush snickered. "Why not try talking to Mic instead of angrily yelling about her?" Fan nodded at Paintbrushes statement. "Yeah, y'know or you could write about it on your blog!" He held up his phone and TestTube shot him a look. "You're the only one out of all of us that does that, Fan. I'm NOT starting a blog just for that!" "Sorry.." He murmured, writing something down onto his phone. Paintbrush looked at Baxter, who blinked at them. "I don't get it either, dont worry." TestTube stood up. "I should just go start another experiment—Golly! My lab! Oh. My lab." "Here she goes agaaainnnn.." Fan sighed and TestTube clenched her fist as her eye twitched. "I forgot—" she spoke through gritted teeth and a half angry smile. "That a certain SOMEONE DESTROYED IT AND TOOK EVERYTHING!"

MePhone finally came back to the four who were bored out of their minds. "Welp. I can't think of anything, so.. how about you guys just uhh- get a day off?" "Can we go to Hotel OJ?" Lightbulb looked up. MePhone snorted. "Tch. Go ahead if you'd like to get eliminated." "Then why don't you think of something so it isn't tempting?" Baseball spoke out, gently nudging Suitcase who seemed lost in thoughts, not reacting to Baseball at all. "Alright, alright fine. The contest today is.." They waited, staring at him. "Is.." "Hurry up already!" MePhone grew angry, tired of their remarks. "ALRIGHT! You want a challenge? Go find MePad." Lightbulb raised her hand, only for her to receive a nasty glare in response."But- what about-" "DONT. You want a challenge? I gave you a challenge." He turned around, no longer facing them. "Find MePad, and bring him back. The person who finds him gets immunity. Deal?" The three nodded and Suitcase snapped back to reality. "Wh-Huh?" "Welcome back! We're uhm, finding a Co-Host." Baseball stood her up. "You uh, you okay there?" "Huh? Yeah.." she smiled lightly. "Come on. Let's go see if we can get a-" Lightbulb and Knife were already gone, along with MePhone. "Head start.." The two sighed. "This is gonna be a looong challenge."