Test tube's POV:

Ahh! Just perfect! I was currently in my SECRET laboratory studying some samples from a random site. Look at all of these microorganisms! I could just- Wait. What's that sound?

"Oh no! What just happened?!"

I turned my head to see... YIN-YANG?! WHAT- HOW- "WHAT!? How did you find my secret laboratory?" How did he find my secret laboratory?! W-

"You actually have a secret lab?" Yin asked. "Of course she does! She's a stupid SCIENTIST!" Yang said. "And proud!" I said. I walked over to the science rules. "Well, now that you're here, please just follow the Science Rules! Rule number 1: Don't touch anything." I said. Just as I stated 'Dont touch ANYTHING' Yin-Yang was reaching towards an experiment of mine! "Hey, don't!" He got closer. "STOP IT!" I demanded. And.. he touched it wow. "NO! You'll contaminate the experiment! What will it take for you to stop acting like 5-year olds?" I questioned. "If i was not attached to Yang, I wouldn't do anything wrong!" Yin said. "That's because you're a LOSER!" Yang punched yin or more of himself.

"Hmm, fair point. I would actually working on an experiment!" I said. I was walking to one of my experiments, 626. "I call it experiment 626!" I said proudly. I was working on it so that yin-yang would stop fighting..I can't get sleep because of them. "Will it work?" Yin questioned. "How should I know? I haven't tested it yet! But luckily for you, you get to be my test dummies!" I said. "Yin is the real dummy!" Yang shouted. "NO YOU!" Yin said. "That's it!" I said. I grabbed the tube that contained my lovely experiment and forced yin-yang to drink it. I think it's working!! I looked up and saw them floating! A bright light appeared, engulfing my entire lab. As the room cleared up, I could see 2 figures in the room.

...
(a/n: I don't think that's a good idea)

"Yes!" Yin said. "No! I-I mean yes!" yang said. I can't believe it actually worked! Wow! "Hah, it worked! Now you can just-" As soon as I said that yang broke... an experiment. Just great. Oh holly gosh gee whilikers yang just broke an experiment. Why..and yang just broke my ceiling. GOD GOLLY GEE JEEBING WHILIKERS MY CEILING BROKE. "MWAHAHAHAHAH!" Yang escaped MY SECRET laboratory with a rather evil laugh. I just stood there with yin. I was processing what just happened. It started with me trying to look at some gosh darn microorganisms and the next minute yang golly gosh darn broke my ceiling. My life is a lie.

"Hmm......huh." I blurted out. I.. I'm done. I'm... no. This is too much. All I wanted to do was look at damn microorganisms and now my gosh darn whiliker ceiling is BROKEN. Yeah, I'm not anymore.. wait. Why is there a camera in my lab..? WAIT NO-

.・゜゜・　　・゜゜・．

**insert epic inero
add some sick beats to it too
MMM YEAH
PICTUEE YEAH!!!!!!!!**

.・゜゜・　　・゜゜・．

Knife Pov:

I can't believe trophy just blackmailed me to do everything he says. What if I told (O/N) about this? How would they feel? I grunted being in his presence. "Hey Knife, I dropped my protein milkshake!" Trophy said. I couldn't give two shits about his protein milkshake. Ugh. "That's fantastic." I said, rolling my eyes. I'm not going to let him boss me around. "Go make me another one, slave!" Trophy remarked. ...what. Did he just call me a.. slave?! ...no. I'm not doing anything for him. I'm definitely telling (O/N) about this. It's about time they know about trophy's darkside. "Slave!? Who are you calling slave?! I'm not doing-" Trophy interrupted my little protest by pulling out... the picture. I...don't want to be judged as weak... ugh. "Grrr... chocolate or vanilla?" I questioned. I wanted to get this over with. "I want banana blast, you idiot!" He shouted. He threw the empty glass that he 'spilled' at my face. "Agh! GRR..." I growled. Ugh I don't want to be in his vicinity anymore.

"Bright Lights!" Mephone said. I couldn't give two shits right now I needed to make trophy's stupid shake or else he'll show the photo. I grabbed a random blender that needed no plug whatsoever and turned it on. Like, I pressed one of the buttons. The blender made a loud and obnoxious sound but I couldn't care less. "Come with me to the elimination area!" Mephone said. Soon enough mephone got irritated and looked at me. The sound of the blender was annoying a lot. "Knife, do you mind not blending that milkshake in our faces?" Mephone asked. I couldn't care. I wanted to get this over with. "Well, so-rry!" I said with sarcasm. I had to get this stupid shake to trophy or else he would show the stupid photo. Ugh. "You SHOULD be! So let's start the elimination!" Mephone said. I forgot bright lights lost last episode. Couldn't care less. The shake was finished. Finally thank god. And they're all gone. Good.

O/N POV (because yes)

So. Bright lights were up for elimination again. I hope lightbulb gets out. I don't like her ever since she sent me to the calm down corner for a false accusation. Wait, scratch that. I hope the cherries get out. Cherries framed me for sending marshmallow to the exosphere. Fuck cherries and lightbulb I hope they get out. I was walking to the elimination grounds when I felt someone grab my arm. I turned around and it was knife! "Oh, hey knife! What do you need?" I asked. "I wanted to talk to you about... something. I feel like you're the only one I can talk to on this team." He answered. Wow... This is a first. "Well...Sure! You can vent to me, I'm all open to it!" I chirped. Knife gave a sheepish smile. "Look, It's regarding trophy." He sternly stated. ...Huh? I looked at him in confusion. "Huh? What do you mean?" I asked. (here comes a monologue lol)

"I know you both are close friends, and I know that both of you guys have feelings for each other, but you should take in consideration on what he's actually capable of. I've seen you talk about season 1 quite a lot with cheesy, and you should know by now that I have a... Dora doll."

He stopped and looked at me. I motioned him to go on. He sighed.

"When I joined season 2, I thought I could maybe.. change myself. I mean, I don't think that's working right now, maybe later I could. That's not what I want to talk about though, so you can throw that aside. What I want to talk about is trophy's behavior towards... me."
He stopped again and looked at me. Wait... "...what did he do to you." I said. I was being serious. I consider knife as a friend since me and him do share some similarities.

"Last episode we won the challenge, but you know how I sat out, right?" I nodded.

"Well, I still have my Dora doll on me and I was talking to it. I felt safe with it, that was until... trophy saw me with the doll. He heard everything..and he decided to take a picture of me with the dora doll... And he was going to show everyone the photo. I didn't want to be looked as weak, so I stopped him. I said I was going to do anything. He wanted me to do everything he said for the rest of the challenge or else he would show the photo. I didn't want that... so I accepted it. He blackmailed me essentially. And now I had to do everything he says because of it. Because of my Dora doll. Because of me. Look, (O/N). If you want to do a 'oh happy go lucky' on trophy, be my guest. But just remember what you're getting yourself into. One moment follows the next. He might just blackmail you next to do his bidding! And worst part, he called me a slave! He called me that right in my face! And that really hurt me, too! I.. ugh. He's just a insufferable object I wouldn't let in my vicinity. That's all I really wanted to say. Just be warned, this is the only time I'll say and mention this with you. Let this sink in, because your best friend could back stab you in the back at any second. At any hour, he can call your friendship off and bully you like the others. At any minute, he can remind you of how 'weak' you are, when I know damn well you aren't. At any day, he can blackmail and make you his personal...'slave.' I don't want to use that term, but it's the hard truth. I'll go now. Goodbye." Knife walked in the horizon.

...
what.
No...

No... trophy would never do that...right?
...
he... did all of that...
and didn't tell me about it..?
...
I can't believe him.
"WAIT!" It was too late.

ᵏⁿⁱᶠᵉ ʷᵃˢ ᵍᵒⁿᵉ
ᵏⁿⁱᶠᵉ ˡᵉᶠᵗ ᵐᵉ ʰᵉʳᵉ ᵗᵒ ᵗʰⁱⁿᵏ
ʷʰᵃᵗ..

𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗔𝗠 𝗜 𝗗𝗢𝗜𝗡𝗚?!?!
𝙄 𝘾𝘼𝙉𝙏 𝘽𝙀𝙇𝙄𝙀𝙑𝙀 𝙏𝙃𝙄𝙎!! 𝙏𝙍𝙊𝙋𝙃𝙔 𝙒𝙊𝙐𝙇𝘿 𝙉𝙀𝙑𝙀𝙍...
𝙱𝚞𝚝...
𝚝𝚛𝚘𝚙𝚑𝚢 𝚍𝚒𝚍.

Trophy... did all of those horrible things...
I can't believe I trusted him...I...
I felt tears pricking at the ends of my eye. I didn't want to believe this, but I did. Why? Why did he have to do that? Why does he have to do this? This isn't fair...I thought he was a genuine friend. I...

i cant forgive him.

I wiped my tears from my eyes and walked over to the elimination grounds. Seems like they're showing the results now.

"This should be good." Mepad said. The results showed the votes between yin-yang and cherries. Get the cherries out of here I hate him. Fuck
cherries get him out. And what do you know, cherries got eliminated.

"Uh, who am I kidding? I deserve this." One of the cherries said. You damm right you do. "What do you mean, Cherries? I thought you were pretty cool! (O/N) would have gotten away with it if it wasn't for you!" That damn apple said. I was boiling with rage, especially what happened earlier and the framing incident. "For the last damn time, I DIDN'T SEND MARSHMALLOW TO MARS!!!!" I shouted. They all looked at me. "Okay, and?" Lightbulb bluntly said. I was taken aback by this. I... "...maybe I should keep my mouth shut." I mumbled. I felt tears forming, but I held them in. I didn't want to be seen as weak, because as knife said, trophy can and will call our friendship off and bully me for being weak.

"Because...(sighs) I sent Marshmallow to Mars!" The cherries finally confessed. Thank God! Everyone except for cherries and marshmallow gasped in shock. "WHAT!? Why would you do that?" Fan asked. "I was just mad that they didn't like my jokes. I was out of line. I'm sorry, guys." Cherries sat up and walked over to me with sorrow in both of their eyes. Now I'm starting to feel bad for both. I can't believe I went all of my way to get mad over this when I could of just brushed it off and apologized, but I made it worse. I always make things worse. I'm weak. "Will you forgive me, (O/N)?" Cherries asked. I... "...yes." I replied. I couldn't just stay silent forever. "Well, thanks for accepting my apology..." Cherries said, walking off. All I could do was sit down. I wasn't in the right mindset right now.

"Okay, Cherries, now just get into the portal!" Mephone demanded. "Well, before I go, I just want to say- " Cherries got rudely pushed in the portal by... Yang? I'm missing about a books worth of pages right now. "What is it? We aren't connected anymore! You can go now!" Yin asked calmly. "I will!" Yang said. His eyes turned red (oh no emo!!). "And I will kill everyone here, including you! MWHAHHAHAHAHHAA!" Yang ran off somewhere. Idk where..where did he go? I don't know but I don't care anymore. Yang has every right to-

shut up mind.  Focus on what's going on right now.  Ugh.

"He sure seems okay to me!" Toilet said, making a derpy face.  That was honestly funny, but I don't want to laugh.  It hurts to laugh.  What's happening..?  "Whatever. On to the next challenge, it's a triathlon!" Mephone announced. "Wait, what does triathlon mean?" Apple questioned. "Same here." I said. Wait...my voice sounds monotone. Shit, I need to talk to knife about this. "Well, you ignoramuses! It's basically a 3-part race: swimming, cycling, and running. And you gotta tri your best to win!" Mephone said.

*SLAP*

"Okay, Cheesy, they got the joke." Mephone said.  "Yeah, NOW they did." Cheesy said.  Wait...no. I shouldn't talk to knife.  I should talk to cheesy about this.

"And because the team captains are SOOOO awesome..." Mephone said.

"Yeah?" Lightbulb said.

"They will NOT be participating." Mephone announced.

"Oh, the humanity, I can't compete." Lightbulb proceeded to pull out a lawn chair out of nowhere. "Oh no! Seems like my team's doomed, nooo!" She pulled out sunglasses out of nowhere. She sits and on her left said laid baseball.  BASEBALL?! Et tu?! "And-and, we'll be fine, eh, we'll be alright..." Lightbulb said bluntly. Wow.

     "Well, without our captain, I guess I'M in charge now. So let's see... we need someone who hasn't done much to compete in the challenges... SOAP! You've been rather useless." Nickel said. "Oh, you say I'm USELESS now?! How would you like it if I stopped cleaning up everything for you guys?! HMMMMM?!" Soap said.  She gave a look at nickel with a weird face. "That's a useless point soap." I said. "AND NOBODY ASKED YOU." Soap yelled. I was taken aback by her rude remark.

"I'd like that quite a bit actually." Nickel said, and soap looked like she was about to die. "Mmm... who else...maybe you, Trophy, you're a jock." Nickel said. I looked over a trophy. "Eh, I don't feel like it." Trophy said, dropping his shake on the ground. "KNIFE! You should go..." Trophy walked to knife. "Well, I'm not sure if..." "PIC-ture!" "Okay, I'll do it!"

    "I think Balloon should compete!" Suitcase suggested.  "I would, but I'm too SLOW!" Balloon said. Microphone was going to speak, but nickel shut her mouth up. "YES, you can go, too" Nickel said.  "Mmmmm!" Microphone hummed in agreement.

   I glanced over at cheesy.  I walked up to him, grabbed him by the arm, and dragged him.  "Hey, where are you going?" Cheesy questioned. "I need to talk to you. And I need to get away from them." I said.  "Hey...your voice doesn't sound like....you. Is everything alright..?" He asked. I was silent the walk, but found the place. "Woah...How did you find this?" He said. "Well, One day I was wandering around in this forest.. you know..near the contestant grounds and happen to find this. C'mon cheesy!" I said, happily skipping, my hand around his.

Cheesy's POV (because I said so)

This placed looked mystical!  But I couldn't help but notice our hands. My hand was intertwined around theirs, and I couldn't help but blush. I looked down at our hands, and that only made me blush even more. What are these feelings?  "Cheesy, I know a place where we can sit.  Here." They said, sitting down. They used their free hand to pat the spot to their left. I sat down, our hands still intertwined. I looked at them, and they looked at me. We made eye contact.

Their smile slowly faded as I continued staring. "So...I wanted to talk about something that's been on my mind...since today. I trust you with this information. Promise to keep it a secret?" O/n said.  "...promise." I said. They sighed as they started a monologue.

"Knife told me something today. It was regarding about trophy. Now, you know trophy is my friend and all...and I actually developed feelings for him. I thought he would be so kind...boy was..I wrong. He... He did something unimaginable. Trophy...he... blackmailed knife. Cheesy, you know knife's my friend, right?" I nod. "Well, knife told me that he got blackmailed after trophy caught him with his...Dora doll.  He said that trophy wanted knife to do everything he said for the rest of the competition.  Knife didn't want to look weak, but he didn't want to do it. He was ultimately forced to do his biding. Knife said that trophy even called knife a slave. That was seriously messed up what trophy did...and now I'm scared. What if trophy does the same thing to me? I'm scared to be his friend anymore. I don't know what to do! Everything's confusing to me...I.-"

I interrupted them.

"O/N...you don't have to be afraid. I knew something was up with trophy ever since this morning. I'm glad you decided to speak about it to me. What trophy did was wrong, and we both know it. Knife also doesn't deserve what he's going through. O/n, no matter what trophy might do to you, I will always protect you. If trophy ends up trying to hurt you, then I'll run as fast as I can and protect you.  And what I know is if a "friend" ever decides to do that cruel act, then that object is not a true friend. I personally think trophy is trying to use you, and I say no to that! Using someone is wrong! O/N, what I'm trying to say is...don't let trophy hold you back from gaining new trust! I care about you, I really do, even If I look like I don't. I will always be there for you, and don't you forget it..."

I looked at their face.

"You know, you're very cute when you blush." I blurted out loud. "What..." O/N said, blushing. I can't believe I said that out loud. "I uh-" "Heh. Don't apologize cheesy." O/N said. They got up, our hands still intertwined with one another. "Now, let's get back to the contestant grounds, yeah?" O/N said. I looked at them.  "Yeah..." I said. O/N smiled and let one of their hands loose. "Better keep up this time jokester!" O/N happily said. They ran and I followed right behind.  I've been feeling this way around O/N ever since when I took their sketchbook.  I can't help it. Their just... beautiful. I might be in...love with them...We're almost here! :D

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O/N POV:

   I feel better after talking to cheesy about it.  I really needed to get that off my chest.  The contestant grounds is almost there!  To avoid suspicion, I let my hand fall off of his. Before I left the forest I turned around and looked at cheesy. I gave him a warm smile before exiting. I walked over to the challenge.

"Not to be rude, but actually, yes, I wanna be rude here! Go away, and start running already!" Knife said.  Oh my god-

"Knife!! Are you okay?" I said, running to him.  "Do I look okay to you?" He said.  "Well..no?" I answered.  "Sigh..That stupid yang guy knocked me off my bike, and that broke my leg.  Stupid leg...stupid trophy...where were you anyway?" Knife asked.  "Nowhere!!!!" I lied.  Knife gave me a look that says 'stop lying bitch.' I gave up, slumping a little while crossing my arms.  "Fine, I was with cheesy.  You were doing the challenge so I couldn't talk to you.  I didn't want to talk to trophy about it, so I went with the most logical option I guess, and that was cheesy." I explained.  "So that explains why you left in a hurry." Knife said.  "Yeah.  Hey, after the challenge, want me to put that in a cast?  I have loads of experience with that stuff." I asked.  "Yeah, sure." Knife grumbled.  I gave him a genuine smile, not a fake smile, but a genuine smile.  I swore I saw a faint pink dust his blade, but I don't know. 

"I said, WITH MY, SECRET, WEAPON!!!!!!!!!" Microphone screamed.

OW WHAT THE FUCK?! I looked up and I saw fan gliding by that force.  Oh fuck-

"Team Bright Lights finally wins, about time!"  Mephone announced.  Oh shit, we lost?  Oh god, I don't want to be eliminated...

"Mic, I think people have finally figured out your strategy... screaming at people! And just a side note, it's NOT working, so please stop!" Nickel said.  "Agreed, and also microphone?  NEVER DO THAT EVER AGAIN ITS GOING TO BE THE DEATH OF ME." I said.  "I thought it was effective! What do you know, anyway?" Microphone said.  It was directed to the both of us.  I glanced over at nickel, and he just shrugged at me, I shrugged back.  "More than you, apparently." I replied.  Nickel was almost laughing and Microphone stood there with a shocked look.

"Hey O/N, and Wow, Knife, I can't believe what this whole blackmailing thing has caused." Trophy said.  I looked at trophy.  "Yeah! It really gave me a good beating, so can you please let me off the hook now?" Knife asked.  Please trophy, say yes.  "What? No! I was talking about how you made us lose the challenge! If I had half a brain, I'd show everyone the photo now." Trophy said.  What the hell?  I heard knife grumble under his breath.  "What?" Trophy asked.  "Wh-what?" Knife replied.  I looked at trophy.  "Hey, trophy." I said.  Trophy looked at me.  "Oh, hey O/N.  You look off today.  Is there something wrong?" Trophy said.

"Why."  Trophy looked at me.  "What are you talking about?" Trophy said.  "Why are you doing this?  Knife doesn't deserve this.  He doesn't deserve to be blackmailed.  You don't need to blackmail other objects trophy!  Blackmailing is just wrong!  Why? WHY?! WHERE IS THE TROPHY I KNOW?!" I shouted.  Trophy took a step back.  I'm assuming he doesn't know how to respond to this.  I look at him dead in the eye.  I don't want to call our friendship off.  I don't want to... "Trophy...A part of me wants to forgive you, and a part of me doesn't want to.  What should I do?  I'm scared...please help me.  I can't choose on my own, I need other people's opinions on something to make me choose.  Help me figure something out!  I can't think on my own..." I was shaking.  I don't know what to do.  I'm scared.  I'm terrified.

"I.......*sigh* O/N...I'm sorry I didn't tell you this sooner.  It's just, I'm a jock.  I want to win every challenge and I'll take just anything.  I'll risk anything just to win.  Even if that means I can't make friends.  Every single friend I make dumps me when they found out I do acts like this.  I don't want to admit this, but I really do think I'm a monster, O/N.  I can't really help myself because it's a part of what I do basically.  I don't know who told you this, but I'm kinda glad they did.  I don't want to look back at the past.  I never wanted to act this way, but I have to.  I want to please the audience as much as possible.  Please, O/N... forgive me.  I'll tell you everything when we get back." Trophy said.  I.....

I looked over at knife.  He really can see the hurt in my eyes, but he can also see that I do truly forgive him.  He nodded.  I sighed and hugged trophy.  Trophy jolted in shock.

"I.....forgive you...Please tell me everything when we get back." I said.  Trophy hummed.   "I got business to take care of..." Knife said.  "Are you sure knife?  Your leg is broken..." I said.  "I don't care about it right now.  It's payback time..." Knife said.  He walked over to yang.

"Ha! No way, you losers!" Yang said.  Knife looked pissed.  "Gimme that!" Knife said, grabbing the antidote.  "It's payback time!" Knife forces Yang to drink the antidote.  "Kniferific!" He celebrated.  I forgot I was hugging trophy.  "Oops, sorry my bad." I said, breaking the hug.  "Nah, it's alright." Trophy said.  A bright light engulfed us, and Yin-yang was back together.  "Ugh! This was way too much! Okay, nobody is ever allowed in my laboratory ever again!"  Test tube said.  What?  "What Laboratory?"  Suitcase asked.  "Um...heh... *inaudible noises*" what's wrong with test tube?

"Okay, just get into the frames and do a pose I guess?" Mephone said, forcing us into frames.  I'm not posing.

"So viewers, vote for one member of the Grand Slams to be eliminated! Vote on InanimateInsanity.com! Simply click on the button for the person you want to send home." Mephone said, and the camera stopped rolling.  Mephone sighed.  "Alright guys, leave me be!  I have to finish this super deluxe chocolate chip cookie I forgot to eat." Mephone said.  "Trophy, before you say anything, I have to tend to knife, alright?" I said.  "Okay, I'll be waiting for you in our dorm." He said before walking off to the dorm place.

"Hey, knife.  Remember?  I gotta give you a cast on the leg.  C'mon." I said, picking knife up.  "Go to my room, I don't want to go to yours.  I know you share one with trophy." Knife said. I nodded.