Missing Machinery

**Missing Machinery** is the 13th episode of BFDI Weekly and the 13th episode overall.

The challenge is to rescue The Announcer from Plug.

### How It Got Started

Needle sets up a picnic for Spongy and Ice Cube just to have an alliance. At first, Spongy and Ice Cube weren't too sure because they're already a team. But after Needle told them about the merge coming soon, Spongy and Ice Cube decide to join Needle's alliance.

TV started playing a commerical called How To Live: Object's Lifestyle. After telling that armless object characters tend to live happily and longer lives, Eraser decides to cut his arms with a knife. Leafy refuses to let Eraser cut his limbs off. Eraser is disappointed that it's time for cake at stake. Leafy, however, is excited about it, even to the point of having binoculars to watch.

### Cake At Stake

TV shows up and decides to do the voting really quick. Eraser and Woody are safe and Pencil is eliminated. Bubble silently watches with a neutral expression. TV then kicks Eraser and Woody out of the cake and stake. TV opens the TLC and grabbing all the eliminated contestants, putting them at cake and stake. Each of them were sent back with less votes, leaving Match and Cloudy. Woody makes a drumroll and TV declares that Cloudy is rejoining the game. Disappointed, Match gets sent back to the TLC.

### Before The Challenge

TV shows a video that the Announcer was held hostage by Plug. Plug explains that he wants to bring Cloudy back due to his unfair elimination and decides to kidnap Announcer. Plug threatens them if they don't bring Cloudy back to the show or to him, he will let Announcer fall into the lava and die. Eraser and Spongy thinks the background is fake. Plug begins throwing a little tantrum, telling them to shut up. He explains to the contestants once again and turns off the video.

Then Beach Ball suddenly arrives, willing to help the contestants to save Announcer, much to everyone's shock. As Needle was about to faint, Eraser tries to get her to fall into his arms. Needle refuses and decides to fall into Woody's arms instead, much to Eraser's anger.

### Challenge

Before they can start the challenge, TV decides to merge into two teams, with Beach ball joining them.

During a montage, the contestants try searching for the announcer.

Beach Ball finds a pixated secret door, which leads to Plug's lair. Plug pulls the arm lever causing the level to slowly fall down below into the lava. Tennis Ball starts panicking, but Pen snaps him out of it. Pen starts whispering to his teammates, telling him about his plan.

Meanwhile, Golf Ball distracts Plug by Cloudy. Announcer tells Plug it's Tennis Ball who is flung into the air like a slingshot (which Spongy is used as). Tennis Ball crashes into Plug, sending him flying in the air and landed on the cliff where he dangles from.
Tennis Ball notices that Announcer is gone and sees the other team run ahead with Announcer. Beach Ball tells his team to stop them, but it was already too late. Announcer explains to the contestants that Plug kidnapped him to his evil lair and kept begging him to bring Cloudy back. After TV told him everything, Announcer decide to keep Cloudy in the game only for Plug to stop pestering him about Cloudy. Announcer kicks Beach Ball out, due to having no OC's allowed.

### Stinger

In his lair, Plug is still dangling from a cliff.

### Trivia

The BFDI intro is replaced by IDFB intro for the rest of the series.

Feather makes a cameo in a commerical.

Balloony makes a cameo, being deflated.

This is the second time Football appears and Woody begins to drumroll.