As the bus drove over the road calmly, everyone was talking amongst each other. Lightbulb had found a very old cookie underneath her chair.

"Painty, look what I found!" She said, showing it to Paintbrush.

Paintbrush looked up from their sketchbook where they were drawing something.

"What is it?" They asked.

"This old cookie!!" Lightbulb replied.

"Ew- Lightbulb, that cookie is so old! You can't eat that!"

Lightbulb smiled.

"Oh Painty, I'll be fine. Paintings and statues at museums are old too and I eat them as well!" She said before eating the cookie, which made Paintbrush quickly look away as they tried not to gag.

"Hey, who wants to hear a joke?" Cheesy asked.

"No one, shut up." Trophy replied.

"What do you get when you mix a shark and a snowman?" Cheesy asked, completely ignoring Trophy's rude comment. 

"Well, what do you call it?" Goo said, interested.

"Frost bite! Get it?" Cheesy slapped his knee.

Goo and Bot started laughing. Candle and Tea Kettle couldn't help but giggle.

"Haha! Good one!!" Goo told Cheesy, making him smile.

"Thanks!" Cheesy replied.

"You should join our Cheer Factory!" Bot chimed in.

"Yeah, we made the Cheer Factory to make people happy!" Goo added.

"Oh, I like that. I'm in!" Cheesy said happily.

"YAY!" Bot and Goo cheered. "CHEER FACTORY!"

Tea Kettle smiled before turning to Life Ring.

"Are you excited for the camp?" She asked him.

"Yeah, I wonder what skills we'll all learn besides survival skills. And maybe I can strengthen my skills there too. I really feel like it will be pretty neat." Life Ring replied.

"I feel like it'll be neat too." Tea Kettle said. 

She turned to Blueberry.

"And what about you?"

"I don't care about things. Life is just sad. Everything's sad. Life has no meaning." Blueberry replied.

"Wow, emo much." Knife said, rolling his eyes.

"Hey, Cheer up Bluey, I'm sure it'll be great! I feel like we'll learn new things and stuff! It's like, when you join a band and you learn to play a new instrument! It's a new feeling, but pretty exciting!!" Goo said.

Blueberry just sighed, but he couldn't help but smile ever so slightly at Goo's words. The guy was too wholesome.

Meanwhile, Yin-Yang was just sitting there, bored.

"I'm bored." Yang said.

"Yeah, me too." Yin agreed.

Yang suddenly got an idea.

"What if we make the bus explode?" he said excitedly.

"Yang," Yin said sternly, "we are not gonna let the bus explode."

"I heard explosions," Taco chimed in, standing on her seat to talk with Yin-Yang, who was sitting in front of her.

"Wait, you like explosions?" Yang asked.

"Well, I think they're very chaotic and I admire that." Taco replied.

"SHE LIKES EXPLOSIONS! LET'S GOOOOO! Taco, we're friends now." Yang beamed.

"Uh, I don't think it's a good idea." Yin said.

"What? Just because I'm known for being an evil savage you don't think it's a good idea to be friends?" Taco crossed her arms, offended.

"No, I was talking about the explosion thing." Yin clarified.

"Oh, I see." Taco relaxed again. "Well, I am not planning on letting a bus explode anyway. There are some people here that I genuinely hold dear to me." She eyed Mic, Balloon and Suitcase as she said this. Though she seemed to look at Suitcase for a few seconds longer.

"Bump!" MePhone shouted before going over a bump with the bus. 

Taco quickly grabbed Yin-Yang's seat as she flew up into the air. She let out a curse as she did so before sitting down. Somewhere at the front of the bus, there were sounds of barfing coming from Tissues. Soap screamed as soon as she saw it. Yang laughed.

"Finally, some chaos!"

Suitcase turned to Taco. She had seen Taco eyeing her when she said she held some people dear to her.

"You... you really care about me? You really hold me dear to you?" Suitcase asked Taco.

Taco looked back at Suitcase.

"Uhm, yeah, you're my friend, aren't you? Why wouldn't I hold my friends dear to me?" She felt her face heat up a bit. She figured it was because she was a bit embarrassed as she's not that good with feelings;

"Aww, I care about you too. Ironically, you're a better friend than my alliance could ever be in season 2." Suitcase said.

"Agreed." Balloon said.

Taco smiled as she looked out the window.

Half an hour later, the bus came to a stop near a ship port. A pretty big boat was waiting there.

"Everyone, get out and follow me to the boat. The camp is on an island and we need to take the boat. MePad and I will take care of the luggage." MePhone instructed.

"MePhone?" Tissues approached MePhone.

"Ugh, don't tell me you get seasick too." MePhone said.

"...I get seasick too." Tissues said.

MePhone sighed.

"Just barf in the sea." He told Tissues.

Tissues nodded hesitantly as he got on the boat.

Eventually, everyone was on the boat. 

"Please don't let this boat explode." Paintbrush said.

"Oh, don't worry, we need this boat to get back home eventually, so it won't explode. Hopefully. Now, just do your own thing. Ask MePad, Toilet or Floory anything if you need their help." MePhone said before disappearing to start the boat.

"As MePhone said, you can ask me or any of the other assistants anything. If you're hungry, there  is a table with snacks. If you want to relax, you can lay on one of those chairs over there. If you want to stretch your legs and walk around a bit, that's okay too." MePad explained.

Everyone just went to do their own thing after that. Fan and Test Tube were talking a bit. 

"Are you looking forward to the whole camp thing?" Fan asked.

"Yes, I mean, maybe I can finally do something about any social issues I have left. I know I've become better ever since III started, but sometimes I can still accidentally make relationships awkward." Test Tube replied.

"Wow, that's actually a good idea!" Fan said, "I hope you succeed."

"I hope so too." Test Tube said.

Meanwhile, Microphone was talking with Soap.

"I really hope we don't have to do too much weird shit." Mic said.

"I'm sure we don't," Soap reassured Mic, "I hope it's not too dirty."

"Ugh, don't count too much on it." Mic said, rolling her eyes, "Cabins are never squeaky clean."

"Well, then I will make them clean." Soap said.

"Wait, do you have cleaning supplies the- oh." Mic stopped asking once she saw Soap pull out her cleaning supplies collection. "I see."

Soap smiled as she put the stuff away again

"Always be prepared." She said.

The rest of the boat trip went calmly. The boat, indeed, did not explode.

Heheh here's chapter 2! Stay tuned for more!!