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X just came back from getting david, he had spent all the night thinking of a challenge to give the contestants mostly to try and not think of how four wasn´t there.
They were about to announce the challenge but found themselves seeing everyone arguing over something.
"AHEM!" All the focus of the contestants was on them "The next challenge is-" "BRING BACK FOUR!"
X watched surprised and amazed at how everyone soon started trying everything they could think of to bring back four, he could see the ever growing pile of paper teardrop was making, and the other contestants making four shapes. Heck he could see blocky making what appeared more like a shrine with needle matcb and pen.
His surprise was overcome with confusion as he saw pie getting closer to him only for her to snap one of his nubs so they looked more like a 4 than a x "Uh?- oWW!" ok that wasnt nice..
he took his eyes out of the contestants to rearrange his nubs while donut watched with nerviousness specially when he saw firey after them.
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Suddenly the attention of everyone turned to firey when they took a syringe and quite literally tried to inject four out of donnut who after some seconds of processing what was going on quickly pushed him off but to the surprise of everyone including X and firey himself The liquid in the syringe was a familiar (tho at the same time darker..?) shade of blue as well with a pair of eyes that looked at everyone from their glass prison.
"I... wasn´t expecting that to work." "What now?" Cake asked while firey looked at the liquid in the syringe and donnut walked a little away while nobody looked at him "I guess we´ll.. squirt it out into the shape of Four?"
"Wait!" Interrupted needl- needle before firey could try and prove his theory. "Don´t you think someone more... dextrous should do it?" Coiny quickly agreed with her pointing at Pin since she proved to be great at cakes
"Thanks for saying that about my cake, but... i cant! what if i mess our only chance at getting Four back?" at seeing Pin fear coiny quickly went to her side to try and get her to at least try "Aw cmon please? i know you´d do a great job." Seeing coiny try to help Cake felt confident quickly calling for pin "Pin! BELIEVE in the loser in you." at seeing cake so confident Pin felt the bravery to try "..you´re right."
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..... This was..... Not really what anyone expected to happen.
Four was back at least but it seemed like a more... tiny version of him "Oh god, did i screw up?! oh geez!" "calm Down Pin im sure it wasn´t your fault! maybe they will get bigger with time! is four were talkin about" Pin smiled at needle feeling grateful for her "thanks needly-" "DON´T CALL ME NEEDLY"
X walked to the little version of their friend having an idea at what happened but not quite sure how to feel about this... "Four..?" He needed to know if his friend had any of his memorys back and was just in the body of way better times or was actually just a kid at the moment.
Four who was just sitting quite confused at the objects with limbs around saw X, his face quickly lit up and he smiled jumping to hug his best friend "X!! You are so big now! How did you do it?" X tried to calm his nerves seeing how four was always quick to know when something was bothering him when they were little (what happened to them?) and picked him up causing giggles to come from Four
"Uh... Is nothing four! you just uh......"
"You turned into a kid!?!?" Gelatin accidentally finished saying what x was about to say quite startling Four wich caused quite a lot of contestants present to flinch expecting a screech or zaps but were flabbergasted when Four just smiled and gave a small gasp "So its like im in the future??"
"Uh, i guess thats right!" X gave a sigh of relief at how they kind of explained the situation still not sure how to feel but seeing the smile of Four they let out a smile themselves
"so i guess X is the host now??" "Yeah i guess" at this four face quickly lit up, despite not knowing what they were a host to they would be damned if they didnt try and help their friend "Oh oh! can i be the co-host!!?"
oh dear