BFB Hunger Games [COMPLETED]

Chapter 7: Arena Events

Roboty was on an island floating in the void, peacefully napping in standby mode when Four's voice woke him up abruptly. ".-- .... .- - / -. --- .-- ..--.." he beeped, annoyed.

"Hello again, everyone! This is a pre-recorded message. Today is a very special day, because it's arena event time! Over the next few days or so, there will be various natural disasters occurring all over the arena. Two of the biomes will even be destroyed! Can you guess which ones? Have fun!" Four's voice faded away.

A faraway cannon shot echoed almost immediately after quiet had settled again. "- .... .- - / .-- .- ... / ..-. .- ... - .-.-.-"

Suddenly, Roboty felt the island beneath him move downward. It was slowly sinking into the void, but it started to sink faster and faster. Then all of a sudden, as if gravity had returned to the island, it freefell. Other islands were doing the same. Roboty could see it happening to Clock and Spongy, who had been trapped together on an island since day one.

"-.-. ..- .-. ... . / -.-- --- ..- --..-- / ..-. --- ..- .-. -.-.--" Roboty beeped vehemently as he plummeted into nothingness. Three cannon shots echoed into the dark.

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"...then Flower managed to get iance safe, and Team Ice Cube was up for elimination. Then absolutely nothing happened until Four teleported us all into this arena, and now here we are."

8-Ball was silent for several moments as he pondered all the information Basketball just gave him. They were all picking their way down a steep slope on the side of one of the mountains. Below them was the desert, and right next to that, the forest. Basketball had decided to put Grassy in Bottle to keep him safe. They were attempting to play Go Fish right now, although it was going poorly. Grassy was cheating because he could see Bottle's cards through her face.

"So yeah," Basketball said, snapping 8-Ball out of his train of thought. "That's everything that's happened since you were eliminated."

"Thanks for the update." 8-Ball rolled on for another minute in silence. "And thanks for rescuing me from that ditch this morning."

"Anything for our fearless team leader!" Basketball grinned.

Suddenly, the ground beneath them rumbled slightly. Basketball and 8-Ball stopped walking/rolling. Bottle wobbled for a moment before regaining her balance. "What was that?" 8-Ball asked.

"That must be one of the natural disasters Four mentioned," Bottle replied cheerfully. "An earthquake!"

"We'd better get down this mountain fast," Basketball said nervously. But before any of them could move, another larger rumble shook the ground. This time, Bottle lost her balance and fell over. "Oopsies!" She and Grassy went tumbling down the mountain.

"Bottle! Grassy!" Basketball cried. She ran forward but immediately tripped on a rock and bumped into 8-Ball, sending them both down the slope.

"Weeeeeee!!" Grassy laughed as he and Bottle were spinning around. Finally, Bottle hit the base of the mountain with a crack and shattered into several pieces. Grassy went rolling away, laughing the whole time. Eventually, he came to a stop and his laughter turned into heavy breathing. "That was fun! Let's do it again!" But he got no response. Then he heard three cannon shots fire in the sky.

Grassy got up and looked around. "Basketball?" Then he saw them. Basketball and 8-Ball had been punctured and smashed respectively when they hit some sharp rocks at the foot of the mountain. Grassy covered his mouth. "Basketball..."

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"...well, it's getting late," a voice read aloud from Donut's diary. "I'll tell you tomorrow, diary." A pause. "But Donut... that was the last entry in your diary. Aw, man, looks like I gotta find some new reading material." A crack suddenly appeared in the jawbreaker, and after a moment, it split open, revealing none other than Loser. He raised his hand in greeting, but before he could say a word, he realized that he was not in the EXIT anymore. "...where am I?"

Loser looked around. He was standing on top of a small iceberg in the middle of a large lake. Far to his right, there was a forest. Far to his left, there was nothing but void. Straight ahead of him, not too far away, was a mountain range.

Four cannon shots in succession made him jump. "What the heck is going on?" Hearing the sudden rush of water behind him, he turned. The lake was draining into the void. "Oh no!" He turned again, leaped off the iceberg into the freezing water, and began to swim as fast as he could.

But it wasn't enough. He had almost reached the shore when the last of the lake and icebergs fell into the void. "Noooooooooo!" Loser's voice faded away as he fell, finally being silenced by a cannon shot.

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Blocky was following Ice Cube when he found the cannon.

He had been following her through the snowy hills for three days now, and bordering on three nights, as the sun was beginning to set, just touching the horizon. Earlier that day, they had reached the desert, and Icy turned away to keep following the snowy edge, so Blocky went that way too. He was honestly surprised she hadn't spotted him yet.

But when he spotted Yellow Face in the desert and, more importantly, the cannon Yellow Face had, he forgot all about Icy. He ran over to YF. "Dude! Where did you GET this cannon?"

Yellow Face turned to Blocky. "Oh, hey! I just found this here a few minutes ago! There's a pile of cannonballs and everything, but I haven't tried it out yet."

"Can I try?"

"Sure!"

Blocky loaded in a cannonball. He went to the back of it, carefully aimed at Ice Cube, and lit the fuse with the box of matches that was also there. With a loud and earth-shattering BOOM that sounded completely different from the cannon shots used to signify someone's death, a cannonball shot towards Icy and completely annihilated her. The death cannon shot sounded in the distance and echoed away.

"That was AWESOME!" Blocky said. "But my ears are ringing pretty badly."

"Mine are fine!" Yellow Face was wearing his earmuffs.

Blocky looked up in the sky and saw Cloudy and Naily in the distance flying towards them. "How about I try long-range?" Loading another cannonball, he took aim and fired once more, scoring another direct hit. They were obliterated. Two more death cannon shots fired.

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Far away, somewhere in the mountains, Donut was walking when he spotted something flying towards him. He squinted, then realized it was a cannonball. "Ahhh!!" Before he could run, the cannonball reached him, but it didn't hit him - it flew straight through his open mouth and slammed into the rocks behind him.

He managed to stay standing for a full three seconds before fainting.

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"I LOVE this cannon!" Then Blocky got an idea. "Yellow Face - can you shoot me out of the cannon?"

"I can try!" Excited, Blocky jumped to the cannon hole and tried to squeeze himself in. It was tricky, as he was square and the hole was round, but he eventually managed to get himself completely inside, except for his face, which was sticking out. "Ok, ready!"

YF hummed as he struck a match with his mouth and lit the fuse. But when the fuse ran out, nothing happened. "Huh."

"What is it?" Blocky tried to look, but he couldn't move anything.

"The cannon's not doing anything!" Then the cannon exploded, killing them both.

Two final death cannon shots fired away before the echoes of the explosion had even disappeared, but as the sun set, silence settled on the desert once more.

What's that? A chapter that's released on time? Preposterous!