Capture the Contestants

## LittleBigPlanet Universe

*"I don't even want the island anymore. Just send me back to the Tiny Chamber already, I don't care. No really, like seriously. It doesn't matter how long I have to stay inside the Tiny Chamber, because at the end of the day, I don't have to win. Mark just has to lose!"*
―Chris to Mark and John
***Capture the Contestants*** is the seventh episode of the first season of *Battle for LittleBigIsland*.

Beginning with this episode, the subsequent episodes in *Battle for LittleBigIsland* have their continuity separate to the events that occurred in *THE FINAL PHASE SAGA*, where the show got cancelled after six episodes.

## Description

*Finally, after 9 years, 5 months and 5 days, episode 7 of BFLBI is finally here! The eliminated contestants have escaped! So yeah, go get them.*

## Story

In the Goiky grasslands, Mark proceeds to jump over the chasm he stumbled upon in the previous episode. When Steve prevails to jump over the chasm himself, he unfortunately miscalculates his landing, causing him to struggle holding onto the ledge, in danger of possibly letting go. Joined by the other BFLBI Contestants, Mark tries to pull Steve up, but everyone falls off the cliff and crash to the ground. Meanwhile down below, Brian realizes that the eliminated contestants are still on the loose due to the Tiny Loser Chamber being destroyed. With Chris continuing to treat everyone else poorly, he offers Ross some watermelon. Unfortunately, Ross tackles Chris, being traumatized by what watermelons did to him during *Welcome to the Battle*.

In *Cake at Stake*, the Announcer, having gotten visual upgrades due to budget uncuts, becomes upset with the lackluster votes, mentioning how some went to Nick and Sam, despite them not being on Team Crazy Nutheads. With Mark, Steve, and Rachel being given two votes each, they participate in a tiebreaker with Kevin, who uses his Win Token to divide his votes in half, causing him to have two votes just like the others. With the contestants each being provided their own bumper car, Mark proceeds to bump Kevin out of the tiebreaker zone, but misses him. Rachel manages to bump Kevin out of the tiebreaker zone herself, causing him to land into the Tiny Chamber.

Sometime later, Mark satisfyingly talks with Brian, while Team Wild Cats becomes concerned over their leadership status. With Chris voted out, the other contestants become optimistic to lead the team themselves. Unfortunately, Dr. Harold overhears this conversation, prompting him to conclude that Team Crazy Nutheads should get to switch up the leadership just like their opponents. Harold becomes obsessed with taking control over his team, hoping to utilize his intelligence to help them win. When Mark protests this campaign, Harold precisely tells him that, while he might be a good contestant, he's doesn't bother to support his team or come up with plans. Just then, the Announcer returns, telling the contestants that there's only one way to settle who'll become the new team leaders.

The Announcer orchestrates the seventh challenge, which is to capture the eliminated contestants who escaped the Tiny Loser Chamber. The Announcer provides the contestants with the rules, saying that the first team that captures three contestants will win the contest, and that the first person on both teams to capture a contestant will become the new Leaders of Team Wild Cats and Team Crazy Nutheads respectively. The Announcer then gave Mark his second Win Token, for coming up with his pun in the fifth contest, while also using this time to give Ross a Win Token too, because of his efforts in the sixth contest. With the challenge set up, the two teams journey to get the eliminated contestants back. While Team Wild Cats stays together, Mark decides to split up his team, telling Brian to go with Harold, while he goes with Rachel and Steve.

While looking for the contestants with Brian, Harold decides to utilize his trustworthy Laser Powered Teleportation Device to 'magically' teleport the eliminated contestants back to the Tiny Chamber. With Stan present in the grasslands, Harold uses his machine to successfully send him back, giving Harold the privilege to become Team Crazy Nutheads' new Leader. Brian, upset that Harold had officially dethroned Mark as the team leader, decides to come up with his own strategy to help capture the contestants. Showcasing to Harold his prank program, Brian's Funny Leg-Pulling Bureau International, Brian's prank involves him moving the Master Recovery Center over to the edge of a chasm, and killing Harold with one of Goiky's famous meteor showers. Harold is re-created in the Master Recovery Center, but the conveyor belt shoots him out off the chasm, causing him to die. The cycle repeats, with Harold being re-created in the Master Recovery Center and shot out of the chasm multiple times.

Meanwhile, John seeks Team Wild Cats' help to capture Chris, despite his poor treatment towards them. Chris, overhearing John, prevails to escape his former teammates by hiding in the forest, which is where he stumbles upon Rick. When Tom and Tony prevail to get Chris, he simply just leaves while they're arguing with each other. Meanwhile, Sam decides to purchase Barry's latest and greatest product, the Super Ultra Mega Monster Jukebox 9000 Deluxe. She gives it to John, who uses its powerful music radius to blast Rick straight into the Tiny Chamber. Meanwhile, Carlos tries to confess his love for Rebecca, but they're distracted when Brian and Harold show up to capture them. Brian uses his prank to send Rebecca to the Tiny Chamber, giving Team Wild Cats the opportunity to get Carlos while he's mourning over Rebecca's loss. Nick uses Barry's *PlayStation* Move Controller to send Carlos back.

With both teams having captured two eliminated contestants each, the members of Team Wild Cats proceed to chase down Chris, who is the last eliminated contestant remaining. While trying to escape his former teammates, Chris runs through Silver's Hut, with everyone else following him from behind. Unfortunately, this causes Silver's Hut to be completely destroyed from the inside. Team Wild Cats continues to chase after Chris, who stops running when he stumbles upon the Evil Canyon.

With Chris surrounded by both teams, both Mark and John proceed to take him down. Chris however, concludes that it doesn't matter whether he wins LittleBigIsland or not, just as long as Mark and Team Crazy Nutheads lose. With that in mind, Chris uses his trusty mirror to stop Brian, who tries to shoot Chris with the Laser Powered Teleportation Device. The laserbeam is deflected towards a random bush, which gets teleported to the Tiny Chamber. Chris then tries to stop the group with a bomb, but it gets teleported to the Tiny Chamber as well. With the bomb detonating inside the Tiny Chamber, the eliminated contestants get resurrected by the Master Recovery Center, but they fall off the cliff back down into the Tiny Chamber.

Harold desperately tells Brian to shoot Chris, but Brian refuses, having gotten tired putting up with Harold's orders. Brian pushes the Laser Powered Teleportation Device off the cliff, but before it destroys, it shoots on more laserbeam that sends Chris to the Tiny Chamber for good. With Chris gone, the Announcer declares Team Crazy Nutheads to have won, causing Team Wild Cats to be up for elimination. With Harold and John being the first two people on their teams to have sent people back, they become the new leaders of Team Crazy Nutheads and Team Wild Cats respectively.

Sometime later, Mark talks with Brian, questioning the possibility of there being a parallel universe where *Battle for LittleBigIsland* got cancelled after six episodes, prompting the show's creator to go insane and try to destroy the entire Imagisphere. Brian considers Mark's theory to be terrible, with Ross agreeing with him. When Harold shows up to tell Mark that there truly is, theoretically, a timeline within the Multiverse where that happens, Mark concludes they should just be glad that it isn't theirs. Meanwhile in the Crazy Dimension, Silverhawk's corpse is shown to still be lying on the floor in front of the Gatekeeper's Portal, while *Pink Shoelaces* is playing in the background.

## Characters

* NaturalReader Mike as The Announcer
* Silverhawk555 as:
	+ Chris
	+ Mark
	+ Brian
	+ John
	+ Barry
	+ Silverhawk
	+ Cori
* TechnoVoltage as Dr. Harold
* ZeonZaeX as:
	+ Tom
	+ Tony
	+ Rebecca
* HunterTheRestless as:
	+ Ross
	+ Kevin
* Camezii as:
	+ Sam
	+ Rachel
* LuckyLerry as:
	+ Nick
	+ Steve
* Dominic as:
	+ Rick
	+ Carlos
* Tom (Gibberish) as Bookworm
* The-LBP-Deadpool as Stan (Reused Voice Clips)

## Development

*"Unfortunately, Episode 7 was never finished. Due to voice actors being unavailable, and having to do one episode a month, my motivation to continue the series was quickly running out. Kevin was going to be the one to lose the tiebreaker. I created a BFLBI reboot on LBP3 in later 2015. Episode 1 got pretty far, but my PS3 couldn't handle it so instead I got a PS4 and moved on to other projects like Out Walking the Dog 2. I tried writing a script for a one-off reunion episode, twice, in 2016 and 2017. This reunion idea was finally realized in 2021 when I wrote the script for Battle for BFLBI: The Power of Tanner."*
―Silverhawk555
With *Cliffs 'n' Riddles* completed, Silverhawk555 sought to continue *Battle for LittleBigIsland*, prompting him to produce the seventh episode during June 2014. Unfortunately, the episode's development received pushbacks, due to people being unavailable to do voice acting. When Silverhawk moved to *LittleBigPlanet 3*, he decided to put the show behind him, being convinced to prioritize other projects. Though the didn't published to the *LittleBigPlanet* Community due to it's incompletion, it was published to Silverhawk555's YouTube Channel on September 15th, 2022.

While the *Battle for LittleBigIsland* Series still remained incomplete by this time, Silverhawk555 was soon motivated by Jacknjellify releasing *BFDIA 6: Well Rested*, 10 years since the previous episode to *Battle for Dream Island Again*, to continue his series. Silverhawk collaborated with TechnoVoltage, who wrote the majority of the script. With the episode being reworked in September 2023, Silverhawk555 published it to Project Lighthouse to celebrate *Battle for LittleBigIsland's* 10th Birthday, October 1st, 2023, though the episode didn't get published until six days later.

## Trivia

* This is currently the longest *Battle for LittleBigIsland* episode.
* Starting with this episode, the BFLBI Contestants have their *Battle for BFLBI: The Power of Tanner* voices, due to this being a separate continuity to *THE FINAL PHASE SAGA*.
	+ Camezii virtually couldn't return to voice Rachel and Sam, due to his computer getting temporarily hacked during the movie's production.
	+ Dr. Harold is the only character who had his voice actor replaced since *Battle for BFLBI: The Power of Tanner*, due to William Jack Lawson being unfortunately exposed by Dominic to have groomed various people within the *LittleBigPlanet* Community. With Jack gone, TechnoVoltage took it upon himself to voice Harold, becoming his current voice actor.
* Dominic is credited by 'Knollad', despite having dropped the name since *Jack: An Extensive Dive*.

## References

### *Battle for LittleBigIsland* Series

* When Mark questions what happened to the Tiny Loser Chamber, he says it just like how he did when he questioned what the Tiny Loser Chamber was in *Something About Keys*.
* Mark mentions to Dr. Harold that they won the second, third, and fifth contests, referencing previous episodes in the series' main continuity.
* The Brian's Funny Leg-Pulling Bureau International prank presents Dr. Harold being killed by a meteor, which happens multiple times during *Battle for BFLBI: The Power of Tanner*, where the meteor joke contributes to Rachel, Tom, Tony, Edward Fitzgerald, and Sarah Bermudez's deaths.
* The joke in *Battle for BFLBI: The Power of Tanner*, where Rick mourns over his lackluster character development, is reused when Chris stumbles upon him. Sometime later, a reused voice clip from the movie is heard during the scene where Rick gets blasted by Sam's jukebox to the Tiny Chamber.
* When Team Wild Cats proceeds to capture Carlos, John concludes he's quite incapacitated, referencing the scene in *Battle for BFLBI: The Power of Tanner*, where Carlos couldn't join Rebecca's team, causing him to become incapacitated.

### *Battle for Dream Island* Series

* The Anniversary Wheel is shown in the beginning to celebrate *Battle for LittleBigIsland's* 10th Birthday, October 1st, 2023. In the *Battle for Dream Island* Series, the Anniversary Wheel is used to celebrate the original show's birthday, January 1st, 2010.
* The movie begins with the text '**JUNE 2014'**, referencing *BFDIA 6: Well Rested*, which begins with the text, '**BFDIA 6 - September 1st, 2013'**.
* The beginning scene with the BFLBI Contestants trying to pull up Steve references *BFDI 14: Half a Loaf Is Better Than None*, where the contestants try to pull up Eraser, but they unfortunately fall to the ground. Mark recites Pen's words when he successfully jumps over the chasm.
* The Tiny Loser Chamber becomes the "Tiny Chamber" in this episode. Within the *Battle for Dream Island* Series, the Tiny Loser Chamber becomes the Tiny Chamber in *BFDI 21: The Glistening*.
* The number 2763 is referenced twice within this episode, first when Mark overcalculates the possibilities of him taking out Kevin within the tiebreaker, and second when Barry promotes his product.
* The Laser Powered Teleportation Device is present within this episode. Within the *Battle for Dream Island* Series, the Laser Powered Teleportation Device is introduced in *BFDI 14: Half a Loaf Is Better Than None*.
* Brian unveils Brian's Funny Leg-Pulling Bureau International, which is a reference to Blocky's Funny Doings International.
	+ The specific prank Brian pulls is inspired by the prank in *BFDIA 8: Cycle of Life*, where Blocky uses the Master Recovery Center to continuously kill and revive Ice Cube by putting it towards the edge of a cliff. Unlike the original version however, Brian doesn't utilize a tree within his prank.
* Upon discovering the Tiny Chamber's poor establishment, John describes it to be a 'Weak Trembling Fortress', referencing the titular elimination place that Team No-Name created during *BFDIA 7: Intruder Alert*.
* When Sam overhears Barry promoting his *PlayStation* Move Controller product, she concludes Barry is miraculously having a very specific commercial for what Team Wild Cats needs, referencing what Bottle says while Yellow Face is promoting something in *BFDI TPOT 7: The Seven Wonders of Goiky*.
* The scene where Chris tries to escape Team Wild Cats through the woods references the beginning scene within *BFDIA 1: Yeah, Who? I Wanna Know*, where the *Battle for Dream Island* contestants proceed to capture Leafy, to prevent her from stealing Dream Island for herself. During this chase sequence, they stumble upon the Evil Canyon, just like within the original episode.
* Chris utilizes his mirror to prevent Brian from sending him to the Tiny Chamber with the Laser Powered Teleportation Device. Just like what Flower proceeds to do to prevent herself being eliminated during *BFDI 24: Insectophobe's Nightmare 2*, Chris uses his mirror to deflect the laser towards a random bush, teleporting it into the Tiny Chamber. Upon discovering the bush, Rick questions why it's there, just like Tennis Ball in the original episode. Chris later says "Oh no, not here again!" when he is ultimately teleported to the Tiny Chamber.

### Miscellaneous

* TechnoVoltage's voice is heard when Kevin rambles about his bumper car.
* When Team Wild Cats proceeds throughout the Goiky grasslands during the competition, Tony persuades the group to hurry up, believing these creation games won't permanently last. Tom concludes they still have seven years left, referencing the unfortunately problematic controversy where Jon Rosa proceeded to hack the *LittleBigPlanet* Servers during 2021.
* The price to Barry's revolutionary *PlayStation* Move Controller references the total money made during *Can I Beat The Simpsons Road Rage IN ONE SITTING?*, summing up to $1,001,304.
* The scene where Chris realizes he doesn't have to win, just as long as Mark loses, is a reference to the *Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker* meme, where General Hux tells the Resistance that he doesn't care if they win, saying he just needs Kylo Ren to lose.

## External Links

1. ↑ Jack - YouTube
2. ↑ @DomIsBallin on Twitter