Golf Ball, Tennis Ball, and Eggy had been answering questions for the last hour. Some were easy, some were tricky, and some were downright unfair. Question 42 was particularly dicey - GB had answered wrong and Dora started to rip her in half, but stopped when Eggy shouted out the correct answer - yet they had all lived.
"Alright," TB said, his voice strained. "You've mentally exhausted us with 50 questions. Do we get to leave now?"
"You have done well," Dora answered, "but there is one final challenge." She began to float again, and they all backed up even further. "You must face me... and live."
"Oh, come on!" GB complained.
Dora raised her arms and curled her hands into fists. The stone platform underneath them suddenly shook, then rose into the air, detaching itself from the lava. Eggy almost fell off, but managed to regain her balance. The platform kept rising until it was high above the volcano.
Dora raised her right arm and brought it down with such force - a karate chop of death - that it cracked the platform in half. The two halves started drifting away from each other, with Tennis Ball on the left and Golf Ball and Eggy on the right. "Tennis Ball!" GB cried.
Dora pondered who to attack first, but only for a second. She settled on Eggy and zoomed towards her. Before she could even blink, Eggy was shoved off the edge. "Aaahhhhh!!"
"Eggy!" Tennis Ball jumped the gap and ran towards Dora, but she just smacked him across the face. He went rolling away, almost falling off the edge. GB ran to the edge to see if Eggy had survived, and she saw-
Dora suddenly grabbed GB, lifted her up, and turned her to face her. "Dadadadadadada. (It is no longer necessary to speak in your foolish language.)" GB shuddered as Dora floated even higher. "Dadadadadadadadadadadada. (You may have answered my questions correctly, but you cannot face my might.)" Dora took Golf Ball's other side with her other hand and started to pull her apart at the crack. This time, she spoke in English and Spanish simultaneously. "DADADADADA. (Because I am ALL-POWERFUL.)"
Suddenly, Dora turned red and vanished from existence. Golf Ball dropped from her grip and, unfortunately for her, cracked in half upon landing. Two cannon shots fired.
TB got up. "What?"
Then he heard a faint voice. "You may have power, but Grassy has a button!"
"Grassy?" TB called out in disbelief. He ran to the edge and looked down. Standing at the crater's edge was Eggy, who had somehow survived the fall, as well as TV and Grassy, who was holding some sort of device.
"Tennis Ball!" Grassy rasped happily.
"Grassy!" Tennis Ball cried. Suddenly, the platform tilted to one side, almost causing the metal ball to lose his balance. It began to slowly sink in the air and crumble, bits and pieces falling into the crater. Dora's power was the only thing holding this in the air, TB thought. I'd better get down.
"Grassy, are you still good at catching people?" he shouted.
TV displayed a recording of Grassy catching Eggy when Dora knocked her off.
Tennis Ball smiled. "Good, because here I come!"
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From behind a large rock, somebody was watching. They sat there as Tennis Ball leaped from the crumbling platform and landed safely on top of Grassy as the rock tumbled into the volcano. Then they saw two figures advancing on the others, and far away, something pink was flying towards everyone. "Well," she muttered to herself, "this should be interesting."
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Tennis Ball rolled off Grassy. "It's good to see you, Grassy," he said.
"I agree!"
TB turned to TV. "TV, can you-" But he stopped, as TV was flashing a warning on his screen. Incoming contestants, it read. "Huh?" TB turned to see Gaty and Flower walking towards them. Lollipop emerged from a rock that she must have been watching behind. Finally, Puffball lowered herself down from the sky.
Tennis Ball, TV, Grassy, and Eggy huddled together and faced Flower, Lollipop, Gaty, and Puffball from a distance. Nobody moved. Finally, Lollipop spoke up. "Looks like the gang's all here," she said sarcastically.
"That's not true," TV replied in a mishmash of voices from previous episodes. "There's still-"
"That doesn't matter," TB interrupted nervously. "What do you guys want?
"Well, every other biome is now uninhabitable," Gaty said. "The only place left to go is here in the mountains." TB looked past Gaty and saw that she was right. The desert and snowy hills were being plagued by their respective storms. Lightning was striking every tree in the jungle. The normal forest was somehow on fire. And the other two biomes - the ones that once contained water, icebergs, and floating patches of earth - were simply gone. There was nothing but void left there.
Suddenly, Flower spotted what Grassy was holding. "Wait..." she spoke, her voice trembling slightly. "Is that... the button Four used in episode 5?"
"You bet it is!" Grassy brandished it and stepped forward. The others took (or floated) a step back. "And Grassy's not afraid to use it!" To demonstrate, he pointed the button at Puffball and pressed it. A large buzz sounded, and a laser hit Puffball, turning her red and deleting her from reality. A cannon shot fired and Gaty fell over in fright.
"If you guys don't leave us alone, I'll- oops!" Grassy took another step and, not looking where he was going, tripped over a rock. He dropped the button and it clattered away, settling down a few feet in front of him.
Everybody froze. Then chaos ensued as several people rushed to the button. Lollipop reached it first and managed to zap Eggy with it, but Flower grabbed her stick and she dropped the button, which skittered away and stopped on the edge of the crater. Flower flung Lollipop by her stick with all her might and hit Tennis Ball in the side of his head. Stunned, TB fell over and Flower let go of Lollipop, the candy's momentum carrying her away into the volcano.
Gaty and TV rushed for the button at the same time but bonked heads. While they were dazed, Flower ran over and grabbed the button, holding it in the air triumphantly. "Haha!" But Grassy jumped at her. She fumbled with the button and accidentally pressed the base of it, wrapping white bandages around Grassy. However, his momentum carried him forward, and he hit Flower's face. She staggered backwards from the force and bumped into Gaty and TV, sending them all - button included - tumbling down into the lava below. A moment later, six cannon shots in a row echoed overhead.
TB sat up, still alive but very confused. He looked around. "...what just happened?"
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The moon was rising. After sitting in darkness for a few minutes, unsure what to do, Tennis Ball decided to climb down the mountains to see if he could find anyone else. He was halfway down the volcano (the flowing lava had hardened a while ago) when he tripped on something. Luckily, he was on a pretty flat spot; otherwise he would have rolled away into the void at the base of the mountain.
He stood up and looked to see what he had tripped on. "No way," he gasped. "Rocky?"
Rocky barfed on TB to assure him that he was, in fact, Rocky, and not some other sentient rock.
TB shook the barf off his face. "I guess it's just us now, eh?" Then he looked down at the void and got an idea. He felt a sinking feeling in the pit of his stomach. "Oh, man..." He looked back at Rocky. "I don't want to do this, but..." Rocky just stared back innocently. Tennis Ball screwed his eyes shut and kicked Rocky down the mountain, then immediately regretted it, as his foot throbbed from the pain.
But the deed was done. Rocky bounced off the slope once, twice, then he vanished into the void. The usual cannon shot blasted somewhere overhead.
Tennis Ball waited for something to happen, but nothing did. "Uhhh... hello? Four? Have I won?" The clouds overhead slowly formed to spell one large word: NO.
"Well then, who's left?"
A voice spoke behind TB. "Maybe you should turn around and look."
If Tennis Ball had hair on the back of his neck (or a neck), it would have stuck straight up in fright. He whirled around just in time to see Ruby shove him off the ledge. He rolled down the mountain and fell into the void, screaming the whole way. One final cannon shot cut off his voice, then silence settled upon the mountain.
Ruby looked up at the sky expectantly. Nothing happened for a moment. Then Four's voice rang out. "Congratulations, Ruby! You've won! here is your prize for surviving 64 other people..."
Something twinkled in the sky. Then, something started to slowly float down from the sky. Something magical, legendary, and amazing. The B.F.D.I.
Ruby held her hands out to catch it, and the moment it touched her fingers, everything went white, blinding her. When she opened her eyes again, she was back in the plains next to the golden forest. The arena was nowhere to be seen, and neither were Four or X, but all around her, the other former contestants (now including PDA) were groaning and waking up. Looks like their deaths hadn't been permanent.
Ruby looked down. The B.F.D.I was still in her hands. She smiled and hugged it, then ran over to find Flower and Bubble to tell them the great news.
She had won!
yay for Ruby :)
thanks for reading this, I enjoyed writing it (back in May lol) and as I said in the info chapter, it's one of the reasons I got onto Wattpad
uh I don't really know how to end this so thanks again and bye lol