Bne? more like big nuts entertainment!

*An axolotl wearing a maroon bow tie is seen sitting on a stool in the middle of a warehouse. He brings his microphone up to his mouth.*

**Axle:** Greetings to everyone, my name is Axle the Axolotl! I’m the CEO of Brand Name Everything, the number one company that brings a variety of products to Buenas Bayas, this beautiful island we call our home! For years, we have been the top provider of everything, from birth control pills to fairy dolls. And today, we’re entering the game show industry!

*Axle comes off of his stool, and pulls down a slideshow.*

**Axle:** You see, things haven’t been as smooth for BNE Industries. Employees have been slacking off more and more lately, and that doesn’t really help for the new wave of people moving to the island! Not to mention, there have been *some* minor complaints to our company denouncing the quality of our products, which I personally don’t understand. BUT, with the assistance of our brand new contestants, none of these problems will be an issue any longer!

*The camera cuts to 21 contestants, the 21 contestants of BNE.*

**Axle:** As you all may have known, The BNE Peppie Cola cans have had a special prize inside- contractual obligation to take part in my new TV series, Brand New Era! In this show, the 21 contestants will all compete to raise public awareness and employee morale. Each episode a contestant will be eliminated, and this will keep happening until 3 contestants are the only ones left in the competition. The winner receives a lifetime supply of all of our products!

*Axle pulls the slide back up.*

**Axle:** But enough of that. Let’s introduce the contestants!

*Axle holds up the microphone to Squeaky Bone. She smiles, but is also waving her arms frantically.*

**Axle:** Tell me your name and something about yourself, please.

**Squeaky Bone:** Hello Axle! My name is Squeaky Bone!

**Axle:** Ah! Uh, why are you moving your arms like that?

**Squeaky Bone:** Oh! I’m sorry. This only happens when I’m excited. I really wanted to join this show!

**Axle:** Ah, that’s cute!

*Axle directs the microphone towards Moon Flower.*

**Axle:** Who are you?

**Moon Flower:** My name is Moon Flower, and I am a paladin of the Lunar Children.

**Axle:** Cool! What do you guys do?

**Moon Flower:** We perform seances, detect auras, and perform magic tricks for children.

**Axle:** ...interesting!

*Axle turns to Chocolate Milk.*

**Chocolate Milk:** Hi. My name is Chocolate Milk.

**Axle:** And?

**Chocolate Milk:** And what? Not everyone needs to say ten million things about themselves, you know.

**Axle:** Oh. S-Sorry! *Jeez.*

*Axle points the microphone towards Perhaps. She is a pink shape thingy.*

**Axle:** Oh! Hello, uh-

**Perhaps:** Perhaps.

**Axle:** Really?

**Perhaps:** Perhaps!...

**Axle:** You lost me. So your name is Perhaps, are you a perhaps? Is this what Perhapses look like?

**Perhaps:** Perhaps? I’m confused too, don’t worry.

*Axle turns the microphone towards a pentagon with sunglasses, talking into a phone. Pentagon notices what’s going on and puts the phone away.*

**Axle:** Are you on a call?

**Pentagon:** No, no. My name is Pentagon, and I definitely work for a government organization. I messed that up, let me try again. My name is Pentagon, and I definitely don’t work for a government organization.

**Axle:** I believe you!

*Pentagon returns to his call. Axle shakes his head and turns the microphone to Venus Fly Trap, who’s wearing a Hawaiian shirt.*

**Axle:** Why are you wearing a shirt?

**Venus Fly Trap:** I kinda thought that this was gonna be some sort of Hawaiian vacation. No one said this was gonna be a competition!

**Axle:** It was in, like, every advertisement.

**Venus Fly Trap:** Well maybe I don’t read so good. I’m Venus Fly Trap, by the way.

*The two shake hands. He goes to shake hands with Chicken Plush, who doesn’t accept.*

**Chicken Plush:** S-sorry. Germs, you know?

**Axle:** It’s fine! Not everyone has to accept!

*Axle looks at Chocolate Milk for a second, then looks back.*

**Chicken Plush:** I’m Chicken Plush, I guess, and I’m always a little paranoid.

**Axle:** Always?

**Chicken Plush:** ALWAYS.

*Chicken Plush’s eye twitches. Axle turns the mic towards Silly Straw, who is sitting upside down.*

**Axle:** Hello!

**Silly Straw:** Hello! My name is Silly Straw!

**Axle:** You’re sitting upside down?

**Silly Straw:** Yeah! It’s one of my many specialties.

**Axle:** Cool!

*Axle is about to move the microphone towards Travel Brochure, before-*

**Nothing:** Hey! You forgot me!

**Axle:** Oh. Who are you? And *what* are you?

**Nothing:** I’m Nothing! I’m...nothing. But I feel good about it! I’d rather be nothing over some lame-o object!

**Axle:** Fair enough.

*Axle goes over to Travel Brochure, and this time he isn’t interrupted.*

**Travel Brochure:** My name is Travel Brochure. I guess I can spare a few months to hang around… this *place.*

**Axle:** That sounded mean. Please do not be mean to me. It hurts my feelings.

*Axle gestures to a pink bunny slipper.*

**Axle:** How about you?

*Slipper yawns.*

**Slipper:** My name is Slipper, and this is my friend, Ink Bucket!

*Slipper puts her arm around Ink Bucket. They aren’t pleased.*

**Axle:** They don’t seem very happy!

**Ink Bucket:** Because I’m *not* happy.

**Slipper:** Come on IB! You said you would cheer up for the competition!

**Ink Bucket:** I *never* said that.

**Axle:** I’ll just move onto the next contestant while you two sort that out.

*Axle is about to aim the microphone towards Wasp Nest, but has it snatched away.*

**Axle:** Jeez!

**Wasp Nest:** GIVE ME THAT!

*Wasp Nest stands up on his chair.*

**Wasp Nest:** I’VE COME TO MAKE AN ANNOUNCEMENT. IF **ANY** OF YOU ATTEMPT TO CONTROL ME, OR MY WASPS, I WILL-

*Axle presses a button. The chair breaks from under Wasp Nest.*

**Wasp Nest:** Ouch!

**Axle:** You’ll be an interesting addition! If you don’t get arrested.

*Axle turns the microphone towards Fridge Magnet.*

**Fridge Magnet:** *Dude,* that last guy was *crazy.*

**Wasp Nest:** Shut it.

**Axle:** True, but what about something about you?

**Fridge Magnet:** I am very athletic! And fast! Watch me!

*Fridge Magnet starts running off. Axle begins to speak, but Fridge Magnet is already behind him.*

**Fridge Magnet:** See?

**Axle:** Wow! That was fast.

*Axle goes to Barnacle, who’s reclining back in his seat.*

**Axle:** And you are?

**Barnacle:** Barnacle. The strongest being in all of Buenas Bayas!

**Axle:** Oh! I’ve heard of you! You won the international Straight Banana bench pressing championship a few days ago?

**Barnacle:** Yep! And now I got into this *awesome* competition show thing!

**Axle:** Nice to see someone so enthusiastic!

*Axle goes to Gas Lantern.*

**Gas Lantern:** Awright> They ca' me Gas Lantern. Cannae lea noo?

*Axle is surveying the BNE Patented English to Very Heavy Scottish Accented English Translator.*

**Axle:** No. I’m sorry, but now you have to participate in my show!

**Gas Lantern:** Ah. Sae a'm noo.

*Axle goes to shake Gummy Worm’s tail, but is zapped.*

**Axle:** Ack!

**Gummy Worm:** Heh heh! You fell for *another* one of my various tricks!

**Axle:** Various? But this is the first-

*Gummy Worm smirks, slightly. Axle looks unsettled. Then, he turns the microphone to Manga.*

**Axle:** Kon'nichiwa, tomoyo!

*Manga looks around, and then says quietly:*

**Manga:** Axle?

**Axle:** Dō shita no?

**Manga:** I speak English.

**Axle:** What! I thought you were Japanese!

**Manga:** I’m an exchange student. I’ve been speaking English all my life.

*Axle pulls out a cell phone and puts it to his ear.*

**Axle:** Arnold, you lied to me. Yeah. She speaks English. Well- I’ve been learning Japanese for six months! Whatever. Yes. Wednesday. Goodbye.

*Axle hangs up the phone and goes to Mousey Toy.*

**Axle:** Hi! What’s your-

*Mousey Toy lets out a huge, ear bleeding, mouse screech. Axle and the other contestants cover their ears.*

**Axle:** Ah! That’s one of the weirdest traits yet! What gives?

**Mousey Toy:** Sorry!! You made me nervous! My name is Mousey Toy.

**Axle:** You remind me of the Ditsy Bone.

*Mousey Toy looks back to Squeaky Bone. They both smile.*

**Pig:** Can we hurry this up and move to me? I’m like, the second to last person to be introduced, even though I’m the coolest person here!

**Axle:** I mean, you were the second to last person to join.

**Pig:** Whatever. Wanna see me do some motorcycle stunts?

**Axle:** Maybe later!

*Axle turns the microphone towards Glow Stone.*

**Axle:** And finally, you!

**Glow Stone:** One thing I can say about me is that I got 40 likes on my Viiverse post!

**Axle:** Okay?

**Glow Stone:** Awesome. I know.

**Axle:** Okay everybody! Now that we have introduced everybody, we will be picking teams. To choose who the three team captains are, you will be participating in a series of rigorous skill-based challenges. No I am just kidding I’m picking names out of this hat.

*Axle holds out a bowler hat with a bunch of paper slips inside. He reaches a hand in and pulls out a slip.*

**Axle:** Venus Fly Trap! You will be the first team captain.

**Venus Fly Trap:** What? Me? Woah, that’s a lot of responsibility… but I’m ready!

*Axle reaches in the hat again and pulls out another slip.*

**Axle:** Pentagon, you are the second team captain.

**Pentagon:** Roger that, sir.

**Axle:** Who is Roger?

*Axle reaches in the hat and pulls out a third slip.*

**Axle:** and Nothing, you are the final team captain!

**Nothing:** Wow! Look at me, being all important!

**Axle:** Alright everybody! Let’s get to picking the teams.

*Venus Fly Trap, Pentagon, and Nothing walk over to Axle, distancing themselves a little from the rest of the contestants.*

**Axle:** You will be choosing in the order I read your names, so Venus Fly Trap, you go first.

**Venus Fly Trap:** Gee, first pick, huh? Well, that Squeaky Bone sure seemed enthusiastic to be in the game, and I like that resolve. I pick her!

**Squeaky Bone:** Yay!!

*Squeaky Bone runs over to Venus Fly Trap and gives him a bone-shatteringly tight hug.*

**Squeaky Bone:** I won’t let you down, bestie!

**Venus Fly Trap:** My ribs… they’d be broken if I had any…

*Pentagon scratches his head.*

**Pentagon:** You’d never want the guy with an army of wasps to not be on your side. I choose Wasp Nest.

*Wasp Nest is lowered by wasps over to Pentagon’s side.*

**Wasp Nest:** EXCELLENT choice.

*Nothing thinks. You can’t see them thinking because they’re Nothing but they are.*

**Nothing:** Slipper seems like she has a good head on her shoulders. I pick her!

*Nothing waits for Slipper to come by his side.*

**Nothing:** ...Slipper?

*Slipper is seen sleeping, standing up.*

**Nothing:** Slipper!

*Slipper jolts awake.*

**Slipper:** Ah! Yeah, sorry. Teams. BNE. That good stuff.

*Slipper attempts to walk over to Nothing.*

**Nothing:** I’m over here.

**Slipper:** Sorry.

*Slipper turns around and walks over to where Nothing actually is.*

**Venus Fly Trap:** Chocolate Milk, you seem normal. That’s all you can ask for sometimes. Join my team!

**Chocolate Milk:** Will do!

*Chocolate Milk joins Venus Fly Trap and Squeaky Bone.*

**Pentagon:** The Lunar Children seem like a powerful organization. I’d like that kind of power on my side. I choose Moon Flower.

**Moon Flower:** Saint Moonchild would be pleased with your decision.

**Pentagon:** I am sure they would be.

*Moon Flower joins Pentagon’s team.*

**Nothing:** Hey Glow Stone. Can you do anything cool?

**Glow Stone:** I can do this!

*Glow Stone briefly levitates.*

**Nothing:** That counts in my book. Join me!

*Glow Stone joins Nothing’s side.*

**Venus Fly Trap:** Silly Straw, I like your contortionism. That’s a valuable asset! Join my team!

**Silly Straw:** Oh yissssss.

*Silly Straw does a series of complicated backflips and joins Venus Fly Trap’s side.*

**Pentagon:** Gas Lantern. You seem wise. Want to join this team?

**Gas Lantern:** I dinae wantae join any stinkin’ team!

**Pentagon:** Didn’t understand that. Taking it as a yes.

**Gas Lantern:** Howkin none o’ ya weans understan’ me?!

*Gas Lantern walks over to Pentagon’s side.*

**Nothing:** Pig is so cool I love Pig I want Pig on my team.

**Pig:** Many people feel the same way.

*Pig nonchalantly strolls over to Nothing’s side.*

**Venus Fly Trap:** Fridge Magnet might be one of the fastest people I’ve ever seen. She should come with us!

*Fridge Magnet darts over to Venus Fly Trap’s team.*

**Fridge Magnet:** I promise I won’t let you down!

*Pentagon surveys the remaining contestants.*

**Pentagon:** I feel Mousey Toy could be a valuable asset.

**Mousey Toy:** Valuable asset is my middle name!

*Mousey Toy skitters over to Pentagon’s team.*

**Mousey Toy:** My parents hated me.

**Nothing:** I hear Barnacle can bench press over one gorillion pounds.

*The camera zooms out to reveal that Barnacle is already bench pressing all of the team members at once.*

**Barnacle:** That I can do!

*Venus Fly Trap thinks.*

**Venus Fly Trap:** Manga, what’s your GPA?

**Manga:** 7.01?

**Venus Fly Trap:** Welcome aboard!

*Manga joins Venus Fly Trap’s team.*

**Pentagon:** Uh, how about… Travel Brochure.

*Travel Brochure scoffs.*

**Travel Brochure:** Psh! If I have to, I guess.

*Travel Brochure joins Pentagon’s side.*

**Pentagon:** I don’t like your attitude.

*Nothing ponders.*

**Nothing:** Perhaps, what are you?

**Perhaps:** Beats me.

**Nothing:** *Perhaps* you should join my team.

**Perhaps:** Okey-dokey!!

*Perhaps happily joins Nothing’s team.*

**Venus Fly Trap:** Chicken Plush, buddy, come on my side.

**Chicken Plush:** ...really? You want me?

**Venus Fly Trap:** I do.

*Chicken Plush joins Venus Fly Trap’s team.*

**Pentagon:** Gummy Worm, you should come with us.

*Gummy Worm slithers over to Pentagon’s side. Pentagon puts out a hand for a handshake, but Gummy Worm just bites his ankle instead.*

**Pentagon:** Ouch.

**Nothing:** Well, Ink Bucket, I guess you’re with us.

**Ink Bucket:** Last pick. Figures.

*Ink Bucket joins Nothing’s team.*

**Slipper:** Welcome, amigo.

**Axle:** So the teams are decided! Oh boy!

*Confetti rains down and light applause is heard. A party horn is played as the blank-faced contestants stare.*

**Axle:** Anyways, before our first challenge, you will need to come up with some team names.

**Venus Fly Trap:** Gee. What kind of name should we choose for our team?

*Venus Fly Trap takes a sip from his BNE-branded Power Punch juice box.*

**Venus Fly Trap:** Team names, team names, team names. Gee.

*Venus Fly Trap takes another loud, lengthy sip from his BNE-branded Power Punch juice box.*

**Chocolate Milk:** Hey, I’ve got an idea.

**Venus Fly Trap:** And what’s that?

**Chocolate Milk:** How about the Power Punchers?

**Squeaky Bone:** A totally awesome name for our totally awesome team!

**Venus Fly Trap:** It’s settled then! We are the Power Punchers.

*Pentagon thinks.*

**Pentagon:** Our name is the uhhhh, ummmm… uhhhhh… I…

*Pentagon spots a tiki torch on the far side of the warehouse.*

**Pentagon:** The… Tiki… Tyrants. Yeah. That.

**Travel Brochure:** I SUPPOSE it works.

*Nothing converses with his team members.*

**Nothing:** Well I’m nothing but I don’t want this team to be nothing, because nothing plus nothing is nothing, and that’s not good, you can’t be nothing, but I can be nothing because that’s me. Anyways I want our team name to be something… something…

**Glow Stone:** The Something Somethings!

**Nothing:** What?

*The entire team clamors about what a great name that is.*

**Nothing:** Okay whatever we’re the Something Somethings then.

**Axle:** It’s settled! Those are the team names. And now for the first challenge!

*Axle pulls up a chart with a bunch of graphs and numbers on it.*

**Axle:** It is scientifically proven that 100% of people love it when you give them a flyer.

**Silly Straw:** Well of course!

**Perhaps:** I know I love when I get a flyer!

**Axle:** I would like to raise awareness about my great and cool products, so today, your challenge is to hand out flyers to the citizens of Buenas Bayas! Each team will get a big stack of flyers with QR codes on them. The QR codes lead to our website, so I will receive data on which team successfully handed out the most. Are there any questions?

*Gummy Worm raises her tail.*

**Axle:** Yes?

**Gummy Worm:** Can you repeat everything? I wasn’t listening.

**Axle:** Never!! Let the challenge begin!!

*All of the contestants leave the warehouse, grabbing a stack of their respective flyers as they leave. They squint as the tropical sun shines on the parking lot. Ink Bucket blinks, confused.*

**Ink Bucket: ...**I feel like I know all of you already.

**Gummy Worm:** Nope!

**Chicken Plush:** I’ve never met any of you in my life.

**Ink Bucket:** Ah, whatever. It’s nothing.

*Mousey Toy spots a citizen of the island.*

**Mousey Toy:** Look! A big piece of cheese!

*Mousey Toy pounces on the “cheese” and bites a big chunk out of it. She spits it out immediately.*

**Mousey Toy:** Ptoo!

**Sponge Citizen:** Hey, I’m a sponge, not cheese.

**City Pamphlet:** Haven’t you heard, Mousey Toy? Practically everyone who lives in Buenas Bayas is either a sponge or an axolotl. It’s Earth’s favorite ethnostate.

*Mousey Toy looks back on the citizen.*

**Mousey Toy:** Oh, sorry. Want a flyer?

**Sponge Citizen:** I’d love a flyer!

*Mousey Toy gives the sponge a flyer. The view pans over to the Something Somethings, who are standing by Pig’s motorcycle.*

**Pig:** Alright gang. If we wanna get around quick, we’re gonna have to ride my baby. Hop on!

*Pig jumps on her motorcycle and the rest of the team follows suit. They rev up the engine and peel off. The Power Punchers, walking on the sidewalk with their flyers, watch as the Something Somethings ride away.*

**Venus Fly Trap:** Ohhhh, man. They’ve got a motorcycle. We’re boned! They’re gonna be able to cover so much more ground!

**Manga:** They are riding awfully fast. They may be able to cover more ground, but at the speed they are going, they may miss some citizens.

**Venus Fly Trap:** Maybe you’re right, but still, we gotta find a way to pick up the pace!

**Fridge Magnet:** Pshh. I’m sure they won’t even get one flyer in anyone’s hands.

*The shot cuts to the Something Somethings just ripping it through the streets of Buenas Bayas. Pig, laughing, rides through a stoplight.*

**Pig:** Wheeee!

*Pig grabs a handful of flyers and throws them at the Sponges with remarkable accuracy. Two catch theirs, but the third slices a sponge right in half.*

**Sponge Citizen:** Well that may have been a deadly papercut but I am still just so excited to scan this QR code.

*The shot cuts back to the Something Somethings on their motorcycle.*

**Maybe:** Hey Pig, I was thinking!

**Pig:** Impressive! I don’t ever do that!

**Maybe:** Glow Stone can fly and stuff! Why don’t we use that somehow?

**Glow Stone:** It is true! I can fly!

**Pig:** If you want to help, go for it!

P*ig hands Glow Stone a bunch of flyers.*

**Glow Stone:** Thanks!

*Glow Stone levitates straight upward, leaving the Something Somethings behind. The shot cuts to the Tiki Tyrants, still walking. Mousey Toy is handing out flyers to all of the people they pass.*

**Mousey Toy:** You get a flyer, you get a flyer, you get a flyer…

*The shot pans to Moon Flower, trailing behind but also handing out pamphlets.*

**Moon Flower:** You get a flyer, you get a flyer, you get a flyer…

*The team stops. Pentagon turns to Moon Flower.*

**Pentagon:** Hey Moon Flower, what flyers are you handing out?

*Pentagon snatches the pamphlets out of Moon Flower’s hands.*

**Pentagon:** “Accept the love of Saint Moonchild into your li”- hey, these aren’t the flyers we’re supposed to be handing out.

**City Pamphlet:** Moon Flower! We’re not here to recruit people into your cult!

**Moon Flower:** Hey it is LEGALLY DISTINCT from a cult.

**Gas Lantern:** We cannae be wastin’ time wi’ that nonsense.

*Pentagon takes out a lighter and burns Moon Flower’s pamphlets. She looks gaunt. In a dull tone of voice she says:*

**Moon Flower:** I will remember that.

*The shot cuts back to the Power Punchers, wandering around and handing out flyers. Venus Fly Trap is still stressing out.*

**Venus Fly Trap:** We’re going so slow. They’ve won the challenge a hundred times by now! We need to find some kind of vehicle!

*The Power Punchers stop as they overhear a conversation. They look over and see a golf course, where two sponges are chatting next to their golf cart.*

**Sponge Citizen:** Boy, is it a wonderful day. The only thing that could possibly ruin our game of golf is if a rag-tag team consisting of a glass of chocolate milk, a yellow chew toy, a silly straw, a Japanese comic book, a plush chicken doll, a fridge magnet, and a venus fly trap wearing a hawaiian shirt came along and took our golf cart.

**Other Sponge Citizen:** I was thinking the same thing.

*The Power Punchers blink a few times. The shot cuts to them riding away on the golf cart, with Venus Fly Trap driving.*

**Sponge Citizen:** YOU *RATS!*

**Chicken Plush:** I-I promise we’ll give it back!

**Venus Fly Trap:** I didn’t promise anything like that.

*The shot cuts to Glow Stone, floating into clouds. Suddenly a plane passes by, and she is tangled up in the banner trailing behind it, reading “Drink Peppie”.*

**Glow Stone:** ACK! Stop the plane! I’m stuck in this banner!

*The pilot turns around.*

**Axolotl Intern:** Listen man I’ve got a job to do.

**Glow Stone:** Me too! Lemme out!

**Axolotl Intern:** Pay me a dollar.

**Glow Stone:** This is no way to treat the Guiness World Record holder for most candy corn eaten in an hour!

*The shot cuts back to the Tiki Tyrants. Wasp Nest is holding a sponge at wasp-point, which is a phrase I just invented.*

**Wasp Nest:** Take this flyer, or I will STING you with my ENORMOUS CLOUD OF WASPS!

**Sponge Citizen:** Why, there’s no need to threaten me with your enormous cloud of wasps, friend! I love taking flyers!

*The sponge takes a flyer out of Wasp Nest’s hands. He looks about on the verge of tears.*

**Wasp Nest:** Why am I even alive?

*Pentagon looks around and takes out his phone.*

**Pentagon:** Yeah… if you can get some of the IT boys in on that… “BNE”? Brand Name Everything. Just need that number changed. Thanks.

*The shot cuts to Axle on his computer, with three different counts of flyers for the three teams. The Tiki Tyrants’ number jumps from 37 to 500 instantly.*

**Axle:** Wow! How cool is it that they gave flyers to 463 people at once!

*The shot cuts back to Pentagon, hanging up the phone.*

**Moon Flower:** Who was that?

**Pentagon:** …my mom.

*The shot switches to Glow Stone, still tangled up in the banner.*

**Glow Stone:** Well if I’m gonna be stuck here, I better just drop the pamphlets and try my luck!

*Glow Stone lets go of the pamphlets. The wind carries them directly into the island’s volcano.*

**Glow Stone:** Darn.

*The shot cuts back to the Something Somethings, zipping through the streets of Buenas Bayas. Pig is still laughing hysterically, while the rest of the team members casually chatter. Slipper is folding up her flyer.*

**Slipper:** So if you fold the edge like this… you get a paper airplane!

**Ink Bucket:** Huh… neat, I guess.

**Slipper:** You bet it’s neat-I-guess!

*Slipper throws her paper airplane. It does a loop-de-loop and lands directly in a sponge’s eye.*

**Sponge Citizen:** Oh boy! A flyer, and right in my retina too!

*The shot cuts back to the motorcycle. Nothing realizes something.*

**Nothing:** Hey, look over there, on that golf cart. Isn’t that…?

*The Power Punchers turn on the intersection. Suddenly, the two teams are driving side by side. Venus Fly Trap is too distracted throwing out flyers to notice.*

**Silly Straw:** Venus Fly Trap! My boy!!

**Venus Fly Trap:** What’s going on?

**Silly Straw:** Look over there! The Something Somethings!

*Silly Straw points. Venus Fly Trap panics.*

**Venus Fly Trap:** Oh man. They’re throwing out just as many flyers as we are!

*The shot cuts to Pig looking at the Power Punchers, similarly panicked.*

**Pig:** They’re throwing out just as many flyers as we are! They think they can outdo PIG?

**Barnacle:** Here, I’ve got this.

*Barnacle crumples up a flyer and throws it at the Power Punchers. Chicken Plush is hit and sent careening into a pile of trash cans.*

**Chicken Plush:** I KNEW something like this would happen...

**Squeaky Bone:** Hey! That was our friend!

**Manga:** Throw some flyers at them!

*Squeaky Bone throws a few flyers at the Something Somethings, not knocking anyone off but bothering Pig.*

**Pig:** They RETALIATE?! They’ve gone too far!

*Barnacle throws another paper ball, missing and shattering a window. Venus Fly Trap thinks.*

**Venus Fly Trap:** We’re gonna need something stronger than a paper ball to outdo that arm! Does anyone have anything we can throw?

*Silly Straw is seen eating an ice cream cone.*

**Silly Straw:** No.

**Venus Fly Trap:** Gimme that!

*Venus Fly Trap grabs Silly Straw’s ice cream cone and throws it at the wheel of the motorcycle. The Something Somethings start spinning out, sending the motorcycle into a fire hydrant and knocking everyone off. The Something Somethings all lay on the ground.*

**Pig:** Well that’s nothing some duct tape won’t fix-

*The motorcycle explodes for no reason, sending all of the Something Somethings flying. The Power Punchers cheer as they ride away.*

**Chocolate Milk:** Alright, Venus Fly Trap!! Way to go!

*The camera pans up and the day shifts to night. Axle is once again seen at his computer.*

**Axle:** And now, episode one is finished! During the commotion, the Power Punchers punched their way to victory by handing out more posters than the Something Something's! So, the Something's are up for elimination! I wonder what they're doing now…

*Cut to the Something's. They're walking down the road, humiliated from their loss. Except the sleeping Slipper, who is being carried by a weary Ink Bucket.*

**Nothing:** D-Don't worry guys! I'm sure it can't get worse than this!

**Pig:** My motorcycle is TRASHED, we lost the first contest, and our flying team mate is nowhere to be found!

*The team walks silently.*

**Pig:** It’s not your fault. Today has been stressful.

**Ink Bucket:** I know…

**Perhaps:** Where is Glow Stone?

*We cut to Glow Stone, who's still all tangled up in the banner. They’re seen on the side of the volcano.*

**Glow Stone:** At least I have the warmth of this volcano!

*The glow of the volcano’s warmth visibly goes away.*

**Glow Stone:** Crap.

*Cut to the voting screen. Axle and the Something's are on it.*

**Axle:** VIEWERS! VOTE IN THE COMMENTS USING NUMBER AND SQUARE BRACKETS FOR WHO **YOU** THINK DESERVES TO BE ELIMINATED! WHOEVER GETS THE MIST VOTES LEAVES THE SHOW!

*Voting ends when this post is 3 days old!*

* [1] to vote **Barnacle**!
* [2] to vote **Glow Stone**!
* [3] to vote **Ink Bucket**!
* [4] to vote **Nothing**!
* [5] to vote **Pig**!
* [6] to vote **Perhaps**!
* [7] to vote **Slipper**!

*A mysterious figure is sitting at his desk, watching over the contestants. He closes the laptop.*

**Mysterious Figure:** Well. It seems that he really started another competition. I'm not gonna let this go on for any longer. Contact that contestant I told to join in order to-

*Another voice is heard in the background.*

**Mysterious Figure 2:** Wait!

**Mysterious Figure:** What? I'm monologuing!

**Mysterious Figure 2:** I know that you have a thing against this Axle guy, but wouldn't say end it immediately. Play the long game, find flaws and terminate it then, y'know?

**Mysterious Figure:** Hm. Maybe I will do that. **Let the game begin.**

*Screen cuts to black.*

**Brand New Era**:

Barnacle • Chocolate Milk • Chicken Plush • Fridge Magnet • Glow Stone • Gummy Worm • Ink Bucket • Manga • Moon Flower • Mousey Toy • Nothing • Pig • Pentagon • Perhaps • Silly Straw • Slipper • Squeaky Bone • Travel Brochure • Venus Fly • Trap • Wasp Nest