Airborne Attack

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## Airborne Attack

### Challenge

Pop the other team balloons, the two teams that loses their members first are up for elimination.

### Winner(s)

* Madness of '"Bland"' Colors
* The Friendies

### Loser(s)

* A Better **Gamers** Than ***THAT!***
* Magic of Cinder

### Death(s)

* Gray
* Gold
* Helium (off-screen)
* Ice
* Orange (off-screen)

### Release date

December 10th, 2021

**Airborne Attack** is the 13th episode and overall of the Research of the Cyro-Battle! series. It was released on December 10th, 2021.

## Plot

The episode begins with Teal and Turquoise talking about last challenge. Which moves to Purple and Lavender, talking about the upcoming elimination while Dandelion and Olive are at the coffee stand. Dandelion askes Lavender about it and gets confused after no response. The intro happens at this point.

### Elimination

Magic of Cinder attends the elimination, with RST beginning by calling them morons, much to Purple's annoyance. Dandelion askes how many votes while Silver is thrown back at the seats, then a crown, who appears to be Kuino, appears out of nowhere and sets up the voting screen while watching the elimination. The elimination has 24 votes, with Purple being frightened about being eliminated, but gets only one vote and is safe, much to her relief. Lavender and Stone are also safe with two votes while Licorice is safe with four votes, leading to Dandelion and Silver in the bottom two. Dandelion is the last one safe with six votes and Silver is eliminated with nine votes and sent off-screen into the eliminated place.

### Challenge

Before the challenge, RST is about to explain what the balloons are until Yellow cuts him out, thinking it is for a fun challenge. Only to make RST annoyed and sends Yellow and the other teams at the sky with the balloon attached to them, making Yellow freak out. The challenge begins and Gold, Ice, Stone, and Helium are eliminated early due to weighing themselves down and Helium floating up. Green is asking Lime about a plan but is out early after Stone grabs into his arm and falls with him to the ground. Gold and Ice lands head-first, causing them both to die, much to RST's annoyance. Meanwhile, Brown and Dandelion are both insulting eachother while Lavender, Licorice, and Purple are getting nails, much to Licorice's fear that she might lose her grip and fall. Only for Dandelion to get his balloon popped when Brown kicked it, making him out of the challenge. But Dandelion also lands on Teal while she was having an conversation with Turquoise, thus putting her out as well. Purple gets a nail and throws it at Cobalt and Gray, the former being used as an shield by the latter. Much to Gray's confusion, Cobalt gets out of his grip and grabs the nail, and stabs Gray on the head-eye with the nail, killing him. Blue askes Cyan about something to do but Cyan tells him to think, while Yellow askes Brown about a plan, only to get his balloon popped by Brown, much to Blue and Cyan's anger. Olive tells Black about finding his brother (who he was unaware that he got eliminated from the challenge earlier), but Licorice loses her grip from holding onto Purple's foot too long and her balloon is popped by an nail and falls ontop of Black, getting him out also. Cyan complains to Brown about popping Yellow's balloon, though Brown calls him "useless". White talks to Turquoise and both has a chat since "Rampage Fighting" while Olive talks to Cobalt and Lime about plans after losing Black. The scene cuts back to Purple, who is in need of assistance to get a nail. But Lavender, who was behind her, had her balloon popped by Cobalt from afar that she is out of the challenge. Much to Purple's anger, she throws a nail back at Cobalt while hes bragging, thus getting him out. The scene cuts back to Turquoise and White, the former alerting White but is too late as White's balloon is popped by Brown, who forgot that she is an team member of The Friendies until Cyan confronts him. Leading Turquoise to have enough time to pop Brown's balloon in return, which she is in returned, is out of the challenge by Cyan. And who in return, gets himself out by Olive after being tricked. Red is seen begging Lime for help as hes the only member left of his team, which Lime agrees but both are cut off when Purple intervenes. Purple pops both of their balloons and causes A Better **Gamers** Than ***THAT!*** to be up for elimination, only to also get her team up for elimination when Olive does an sneak attack on her. Both Madnesss of *"Bland"* Colors and The Friendies are safe but Olive wins for his team when he throws a nail that pops Blue's balloon.

### After Challenge

Gold, Gray, Helium, Ice, and Orange are shortly recovered after the end of the challenge, with Gold asking Red about their team only to get a response that Purple caused their team to be up for elimination. Making Gold scream in fear of being eliminated, while Turquoise calls him annoying. Olive tells Lime about his plan of getting their team safe, with Lime complementing him. The voting screen appears.

### Stinger

Cyan complains to Blue about losing to Olive, but Blue atleast confronts him, saying that they didn't lose atleast. But pauses as they see Brown and Yellow arguing about the action, then the episode ends.

## Trivia

* While ***not shown***, Helium and Orange died while going up the sky. Helium died from flying into outer space since shes helium , and Orange fell to her death off-screen after both of their balloons pop.
* Due to problems holding the nail basket with balloons, the basket is rather instead glued to the background.
* While not explained, your allowed to eliminate other contestants by other means via:
	+ Punching the balloon hard enough.
	+ Using a nail to kill someone as shown when Cobalt killed Gray.
	+ Falling ontop the contestant to take them down with you.
		- Against this is the fact Brown (from The Friendies) and Cobalt (from Madness of *"Bland"* Colors) began team sabotaging as they both took down some members of their team.

## References

* This challenge is based off the BFDI episode; BFDI 11: Lofty.

## Deaths

* Gray (Stabbed in the eye-face by Cobalt.)
* Gold (Fell due to weighting down his balloon and died after impacting head-first onto the ground.)
* Helium (Floated off-screen to her death in outer space.)
* Ice (Slipped from her balloon waist and died from fall.)
* Orange (Fell to her death off-screen after Helium's balloon popped and dropped her.)