Everyone was at Hotel OJ to socialize with each other. Everyone was happy to see each other again. The only reason the contestants were here was because MePhone needed a break and noticed everyone else needed that too. So he sent them to Hotel OJ for a few days.

The only one who wasn't in the lobby with everyone else was Test Tube. Test Tube was in her hotel room. She was busy with an experiment. Since she couldn't go to her lab, she decided to do it here. It was a serum that could cure depression instantly. It wasn't done yet, let alone tested, so Test Tube had to make sure it wouldn't go wrong.

Suddenly, Fan walked in.

"Hey Test Tube, I was looking for you- oh, sorry. I didn't mean to startle you. Hehe..." Fan said when he saw Test Tube was pretty startled by him suddenly coming in without knocking.

"Hey Fan, it's ok." Test Tube said.

"Are you working on the depression cure?" Fan asked.

Test Tube nodded. Fan looked at the thing. It was a test tube with a purple liquid in it.

"I haven't tested it yet, and it's not done either, so please be careful." Test Tube warned.

Fan nodded.

Test Tube continued working on the cure. Fan sat on a stool beside her, watching with interest as Test Tube took a drop of a different liquid, using a pipette, and dropping it into the purple liquid.

After a few minutes, Test Tube felt a bit thirsty.

"Fan, I'm gonna get a drink real quick. Could you watch the experiment for me?"

Fan nodded. "Of course Testy!" He replied happily.

"Thanks, means a lot." Test Tube thanked Fan as she ran off.

Fan looked at the tube with the purple liquid, which was bubbling now.

Then, Lightbulb bursted in. Fan screamed and almost bumped the thing over.

"Hey 'Tube, how much do I owe you for these- oh, hey Fan, where is 'Tube?" Lightbulb asked, holding a few DrFizz cans in her arms.

"She's getting a drink. Also, be careful! Test Tube told me to watch this and make sure nothing happens to it!" Fan replied.

"Oh, sorry." Lightbulb said.

She walked up to Fan and looked at the liquid.

"Ooh, looks tasty, haha." She said.

"It's a cure for depression and it's not finished yet." Fan said.

"Oh, well I could use that. I'm feeling pretty down lately now that Painty is eliminated."

Lightbulb grabbed the test tube and was about to drink the liquid. Test Tube then walked in.

"I'm ba- Lightbulb what are you doing?!" She shouted.

Lightbulb startled and dropped the test tube on accident. It shattered as it fell.

"Oops." She said, smiling sheepishly.

"OH GOLLY!" Test Tube screamed as purple smoke started rising up.

She wanted to run up to it, but felt dizzy. Before she knew it, she was knocked out, just like Lightbulb and Fan. The smoke went through the open door and eventually reached the lobby too, knocking everyone else out...

Paintbrush slowly opened their eyes.

"Wh- what happened?" They asked, then noticed their voice sounded different. A higher pitch.

They sat up and noticed everything looked bigger. Well, everyone else was the same.

The others were slowly waking up too.

"Why is everything so, like, big?" Salt asked.

Then, Test Tube came running in, with Lightbulb and Fan following her.

"OH GOLLY! GUYS, THE LIQUID! IT HAS TURNED US INTO BABIES!" She screamed.

"What?" Paper asked, clinging onto OJ.

"So 'Tube was working on a depression cure, I dropped it by accident and it knocked us all out! And when we woke up we all noticed we were very small and then 'Tube figured out the thing had turned us into babies." Lightbulb explained.

"Oooohhh." Everyone said. "WAIT WHAT?!"

Then, panic was unleashed. Everyone ran around, screaming.

"What's going to happen next? You don't wanna miss this one!" Fan said, his voice barely audible because of everyone else screaming.

"HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO MANAGE THE HOTEL LIKE THIS?!" OJ yelled, then sat down, crying.

Suddenly, the door slammed open, revealing MePhone, Toilet and MePad. The slam was so sudden it actually distracted everyone from panicking. They all looked at the door.

"I'm ba- what the hell happened here?" MePhone exclaimed when he saw everyone.

Lightbulb walked up to MePhone and clung onto his leg, crying.

"We're turned into babies! And it's all my fault!" She cried.

"I'm confused." MePad said.

"Well, Lightbulb dropped Testy's experiment and then there was smoke and we got all knocked out and woke up as babies." Fan explained.

"Oh." MePad said. "That explains it."

"Aww look at you little sweeties, so cute and small!" Toilet said, adoring the mini objects.

MePhone sighed as he picked Lightbulb up and started cradling her, trying to somewhat calm her down.

"I was actually going to explain the next challenge, but since... THIS happened..." he looked at Lightbulb for a moment.

Lightbulb had already calmed down and snuggled a bit in MePhone's arms.

"What's wrong with them being babies?" MePad asked.

MePhone glanced at the baby objects for a moment. Toilet was giving Yin-Yang a piggyback ride on his head. Yin-Yang was laughing and clapping their hands. Toilet was laughing too.

"They can't compete like this!" MePhone replied, talking a bit too loudly, which caused Lightbulb, who just fell asleep, to wake up and frown.

"I think I can try to make an antidote, but I first have to figure out how to reach everything, since, yeah, we all turned into minis..." Test Tube said.

Lightbulb was looking around and spotted Paintbrush, sitting somewhere.

"Painty!" She said, reaching her hand.

MePhone put Lightbulb down and Lightbulb ran off to Paintbrush.

"Hi!" She said happily, sitting down next to them.

"Hey..." Paintbrush said with a sigh.

"Look, I'm sorry about the whole... baby thing-" "It isn't your fault. Ok, well, it is, but... ugh, you get the point. We're not mad at you. I'm just... a bit sad. I miss being tall. And I miss you..." Paintbrush blushed a bit as they said the last part and looked away.

"Aww, I miss you too..." Lightbulb said as she hugged Paintbrush sideways. "Hey, where is Baxter? Did he turn into a baby crab too? Because that'd be amazing."

"I... I honestly don't know..."

As they were talking about Baxter, Baxter was just walking up to the two. He was still normal, since the liquid didn't work on animals, apparently.

"Baxter!" Lightbulb said as she hugged the crab. Since she was so small now, Baxter was like the size of a small dog for her. He didn't even fit on her palm.

"Ah, so he's still normal..." Paintbrush mumbled.

"Alright, I have decided to still let the competition continue. So follow me to the challenge field." MePhone announced.

Lightbulb stood up.

"Bye Painty, bye Baxter..." she said sadly. She hugged her friend (or future lover >:3) and the crab and left, trying her hardest not to cry.

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