What is that?!

**"What is that?!"** is the first episode of the comic, Battle for Dream Island: Moon Mix. It was released on January 29th 2021. The comic can be read here.

## Plot

#### Cold Open

The episode begins in Cake Pop waking up with Weird-Ass Cat on top of them, shortly realising they're on the moon. They are told to stand with the other 27 people on the moon, such as Balloony and Shopping Cart, looking after a unconcious Lollipop. Drear-Top asks why they were brought there and Weird-Ass Cat tells the group that they must compete in their show or will be destroyed. The entire group screams and Tree asks how they start to prevent deaths. Shampoo also asks what the prize is but doesn't get an answer as Weird-Ass Cat tells them to get into teams of seven.

#### Creating the Teams

Balloony and Shopping Cart, still carrying Lollipop, quickly team up, as do Lego Brick, Waffle and Tune. Get Well Card tries to join their group, but is left out. CRT and Cake Pop have also felt left out by others so they team up with them. Shampoo wants to join since no one likes them either and brings David for the same reason. Dime tries to be on the same team as Naily, but is declined when she can't make a cat face. Sapphire and Juicebox are both having trouble finding members, so team up, with Clip joining shortly after. Balloony and Shopping Cart's team now has Camera and Naily (the latter joining since Shopping Cart made a cat face) as Lollipop wakes up. She is confused about what's going on, and Liy comes in asking if they want to learn more about the hosts together. She and rest of team agree and team up, with 9-Ball also joins, interested in helping out and *not at all* interested in how the team has more Ls the others. This fills up the team.

Tree asks Book if she'd like to prevent death with him, and she agrees to. He also asks Lego Brick, Waffle and Tune if they'd like to, and they eagerly accept, although Lego isn't happy to be on the same team as Book. Bracelety runs to Ice Cube to be on the same team as her but is stopped by Deadly, asking if she'd question their authority. They let her onto the team consisting of Ice Cube, Tisha' and the previously formed Sapphire, Juicebox and Clip, before instantly regretting it as Bracelety starts hugging them. Kebab tries finding someone to team up with and meets Drear-Top. However, he won't stop talking, so they try to find someone else. They ask Swing Set, with Dime on one of the swings thinking they won't get a response. However, Swing Set does respond and is insulted by Dime not thinking swingsets can talk, so they throw her away before teaming up with Kebab. It is then revealed Swing Set is part of Tree's team. Dime lands near Cake Pop's team, and is chosen as their "last" member. However, it's not their last member as Drear-Top is added to the team since there's no space on the others.

#### Naming the Teams

Drear-Top begins talking which makes Cake Pop tell Weird-Ass Cat "we don't want that." However, it takes this as their team name. Lollipop talks about her invention, the Algebralien Detector. Camera asks if this is "unwarranted product placement" and Lolly says it is, once again making a team name on accident. Bracelety is fangirling over being on Ice Cube's team before Deadly irratibly asks her if they look like "Ice Cube's Excruciating Fan Club". She says yes, despite being warned about being diced if she said that, so the team is named that, with Deadly doing what they said they'd do. Tree's team is the last to come up with a name so Weird-Ass Cat gives them 15 seconds to. Tree tries coming up with variations of Death P.A.C.T. with Lego Brick declining all of them. The result of the team not being able to come up with a name in the given time is Weird-Ass Cat projecting a laser at Book, knocking her out, but also generating the name Studious Blues.

#### Challenge

Despite numerous contestants not being set to go, Weird-Ass Cat starts the first challenge. It's cohort has been split up into four letters, so each team must find one letter and bring it back to the cat, with the last team being up for elimination. Lollipop is confident as she has her Algebralien Detector, but Weird-Ass Cat then eats it, creating a copy for each team to use.

Upon getting her detector back, Lollipop immediately loses it as Liy throws Camera at her and takes it before running off. We Don't Want That find from their detector that there's a letter underground, so they start digging. Ice Cube and Tisha' are upset that Deadly killed Bracelety, but Clip tells them they can get revenge later as now they have to do the challenge. He tells the team the detector is getting a signal from the radio tower, so they make they way. Studious Blues wonders if Book is dead before Lego Brick tells them she's just incapacitated. Tree still thinks they should do something about it, while Lego wants to focus on the challenge. Meanwhile, Tune has already found a letter, I. They hand it in to Weird-Ass Cat, who tells them to put it into their giant machine, making them the first team safe.

The rest of Unwarranted Product Placement try finding Liy by riding on Shopping Cart as Balloony pushes them. Liy then gets them to quickly stop, making Naily fall backwards and pop Balloony. This also gets her stuck in the ground. Liy gets the team to follow her into the cave, not noticing Naily is still stuck. We Don't Want That is still digging down, with CRT noticing it's getting hotter. Drear-Top (using David as a shovel) digs up lava, causing it to rise and burn up most of the team. The only ones who can withstand it are David, Dime and CRT, who find the letter F, grab them and return back. Ice Cube's Excruciating Fan Club has now made it to the radio tower but have to climb up. Deadly helps with this by balancing their teammates with their knife and chucking them to a higher level. Sapphire sees the letter at the top and begins climbing with Juicebox. Unwarranted Product Placement can't see anything in the cave, before Liy finds out Camera can emit a brief flash, so she mashes the flash button to explore deeper into the cave. Dime, David and CRT have made it out of the lava, although CRT is now unconcious. They put their letter in the machine, making We Don't Want That safe, and leaving it down to Ice Cube's Excruciating Fan Club and Unwarranted Product Placement.

Unwarranted Product Placement find D and put them in Shopping Cart before making their way back. Sapphire and Juicebox have made it to the top where I is, but now have to get them down. Sapphire gets an idea by looking down. On the lower level of the tower, Deadly is relaxing, but Ice Cube kicks them off, killing them, to avenge Bracelety. However, Ice Cube quickly dies after as I lands on them, Sapphire dropping them down to their level while also missing it herself. Clip is tasked with throwing I to the machine, as Tisha' doesn't want to touch it. Clip misses as I instead lands right in front of Unwarranted Product Placement, now out of the cave. Sapphire has also now reached the ground and smashed. Juicebox suggests they can still get them to the end from there, but the other team has now put their letter in the machine, putting Ice Cube's Excruciating Fan Club up for elimination. Tisha' tries acting surprised that they lost.

## Deaths

* Bracelety - Killed with a knife by Deadly. (Offscreen)
* Balloony - Popped by Naily's point.
* Drear-Top - Killed by lava.
* Get Well Card - Killed by lava.
* Cake Pop - Killed by lava.
* Shampoo - Killed by lava.
* Deadly - Kicked off the tower by Ice Cube.
* Ice Cube - Smashed by I from BFDI.
* Sapphire - Fell off the tower.

## Trivia

* This episode currently has the most character deaths in an episode, with 9.
* Deadly chucking their team, notably Sapphire, by balancing them with a knife is a reference to BFDI Mini Again's first episode when they did this with Crystal.
* The order of the letters getting to machine is B, F, D, I, mirroring the character and the series name.
* The shot of the cast screaming after learning they'd be destroyed is the opposite of BFB, where the cast gets excited after learning the prize.
* This is currently the only episode of Moon Mix without a stinger.