Archive of Our Own ^beta

Chapter Text

“Fouurrrr!” X announced with a smile, trotting around holding a bunch of tennis balls while looking for his blue friend.

“Hmmmmm?? Fourrr?” X frowned. “Fouuuurrrrr!”

X was running around looking for Four. Some of the contestants that chose to stay with them looked at the yellow algebrailen with a confused glance.

“Profily!” X dropped the tennis balls and ran up to the profile picture sitting on the floor with a smile. They looked up at X. “Have you seen Four anywhere?”

“Nope!” They shook their head. Then stood up with a worried voice; “Why? Has dear forty-four gone missing again?”

“Yeeeahhh! I can’t find him anyywherrreee!” X pouted to Profily.

“Hm…. Maybe we can go ask around?” They offered a hand to X.

“Okkayyy..” He took Profily’s hand and slumped down, upset. Profily was all smiles as they walked off with X in tow.

“Where’d you last see him Xy?” Profily looked at said person as they walked.

“Near the abandoned railway, But I already checked around there and he was gonneee!” The algebrailen exclaimed by stopping walking and lifting his hands up, slightly lifting Profily with only his strength.

“Whoa-ho. Don’t worry dear Xy! We’ll find Forty-Four in no time!” Profily smiled larger and patted X on the head. X was frowning deeply. They looked ahead and ran forward towards Flower, dragging X with them.

“Hey Flower! Have you seen Four anywhere around here?” Profily looked up at her.

“Huh– Four’s missing again? I haven’t seen him anywhere all day! That’s no good!” Flower put a hand to the bottom of her head.

“Oh well, thanks anyway Flower! Off we go!” Profily waved at Flower as they walked off. X by this point was just sitting on the ground pouting but Profily had no trouble dragging him along, he was like as light as a feather right now.

“Profily?” X commented.

“Yes, my small yellow friend?” He smiled, looking down at him.

“I don’t feel so good..” He pouted, looking up at Profily as said person was looking down at him.

“Don’t worry! You’ll feel better once we fi–” Profily stopped talking mid sentence, X had disappeared out of thin air. Profily’s smiled faded as they looked around hesitantly. “Xyy…?”

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

X blinked hazily, noticing Profily was gone and in his replacement was a room with three beds in it and two other people. “Whaaaaaaaattt—”

One of the electronics in there looked at X, They were way taller than him and seemed to resemble an iPad. Unlike the other electronic in here, they had legs.

“Oh look! They’re awake now!” The iPad-like person mentioned the TV-looking one. They both looked at X.

“Where am I?” X’s eyebrows lowered as he looked around. He was sitting on a bed with crossed legs.

“We have no idea. But MePad believes it’s a house somewhere.” The TV-Looking one chimed in.

“Oh.” He frowned, standing up off of the bed. He raised an eyebrow. “How long have you two been here?”

“Eh, maybe ten minutes? It surely hasn’t been that long, right Tivo?” MePad looked at Tivo. The mentioned person nodded by using the face on their screen.

“Are you two new contestants? I don’t know why Four would get more people after the season’s done.” The yellow algebrailen sounded confused as he tilted his head at the two electronics.

“Psh, Nah. I’m not in any competition, I just Co-Hosted one a tiny while back. I’m still friends with the host though.” MePad spoke up again, rolling his eyes dismissively.

“Same with me, but I’m still co-hosting with my pal Oodle.” Tivo smiled on their screen.

“Ooooh! Cool! I was a co-host of a show too! The season ended recently though,” X seemed a bit sad when he said it had ended. But he still was happy.

“What’s your name by the way?” Tivo asked this time. It seemed that MePad was a bit more talkative than Tivo was, but no complaining here.

“X!” He smiled. He quite liked these two now, but he still couldn’t stop thinking about how Four had just disappeared not too long before himself.

“Cute name!” MePad had walked over and patted him on the head using a foot. X squished down a bit with the pats.

“By the way, have either of you two seen somebody named four?” He raised an eyebrow then lifted a hand up above his own head. “He’s about this tall, Blue, and shaped like a four!”

Tivo and MePad shared a glance for a moment then both shook their heads no.

“Awh.” X frowned and slumped back down on the bed he had woken up on.

“Hey It’s alright! We both have somebody who went missing so we can understand.” MePad nodded as he said that. In MePad’s eyes, X was like a child to him. So it only felt right to be soft with him.

“Really?” X looked up at him with wide eyes. He had his legs out to the side in a v-shape and his arms were on the bed in the middle of his legs.

“Yeah, I mentioned my friend Oodle a bit ago– During an elimination he got sucked into one of the portals he can create and I have no idea where he went. I had to finish the elimination without him.” Tivo said in a bit of a sad voice, the face on their screen was tilted sideways.

“Same with me but different teleportation method, His name is MePhone and we were chatting when it happened. I have to believe it has something to do with where we got teleported since mine and Tivo’s story line up at around the same time.” MePad shrugged.

X smiled and laughed a bit. He moved over and hopped off of the bed. He looked at the door. “Have you gone out of the room yet?”

“No, sadly the door’s locked. We tried opening it for a while but nothing would work.” Tivo sighed. “You could try it yourself if you want?” Tivo offered to X.

X grinned and walked over to the door. He grabbed the handle and shook it, he twisted it and tried to get it open but nothing he would do would work. “RRRR.”

He glared at the door, using one of his powers he did something similar to laser eyes and shot the door with white beams of light from his eyes. Nothing happened to the doors. MePad and Tivo just slowly looked at each other awkwardly as X started punching the door.

He frowned and slumped up against the door facing the two electronics. “Why are doors so strrronnnnnnggggg!” He pouted.

“..Don’t worry bud, that one’s just different. Somehow.” MePad walked over and patted X on the head again with a foot.

“Ookkaayy..” He sighed sadly, squishing himself down somehow with the sigh.

“How long do you think we’ll be in here, Tivo?” MePad turned around to face the limbless TV.

“Eh, not sure. I can hear some noise from behind this wall so I don’t assume that long.” Tivo metaphorically shrugged, the blue and white TV watching and listening silently.

“I want Fourrrr.” X pouted on the ground. He had tried teleporting, making the door disappear, everything in his power basically. Nothing has worked so far.

“We’ll get out of here soon enough X, don’t worry. You’ll find Four soon!” MePad smiled,
Patting X on the back with a foot to get up and guiding him back to his bed. “What exactly are you by the way, if you don’t mind me asking?”

“Oh, I don’t mind! I’m an algebrailen!” He smiled, figuring that they would know what an algebrailen was.

Tivo hummed in the background, they were still next to the bed with the nameplate as ‘Tivo’ due to them having the lack of legs or arms. Apparently they were trying to listen to something on the other side of the wall.

“..Neat?” MePad said hesitantly with a small shrug. MePad walked over to his own bed and sat down onto it.

They sat in silence for a while before a screeching-like noise came from beyond the wall where Tivo was listening. It was short but oh so loud even if they were in a different room.

“Well, that confirms there’s another room or at least people over there.” MePad nodded to the wall behind Tivo slightly.

X gasped joyfully and hopped off of the bed. He basically floated extremely fast over to the wall where Tivo was and shoved himself into it. MePad and Tivo looked at him with confused looks.

“Are you okay? That looks like it would’ve hurt.” Tivo stated, looking at him.

“That was Four! Four is over thereeee! I need to go there!” X joyfully said, trying to somehow scrape the wall off or like.. Create a tear in it.

“I don’t think doing that will work to get into there–” MePad muttered, watching awkwardly from his bed.

“I’m going to keep trying anyway!” He sounded determined to phase through the wall somehow.

MePad and Tivo shared another long look as X angrily attacked the wall.

“You stole Four! Gimme back Fourrr!” He said to the wall.

Tivo’s screen-face looked up. A thumping noise was heard from beyond their door and then voices talking. “It looks like they managed to get out of their room. I wonder if our door will work now?”

“I’ll go check.” MePad stood up and walked to the door, fiddling with the doorknob by using a foot. It was still very much locked for them. “It’s still locked, maybe it’ll unlock soon?”

Tivo shrugged on the screen, he could hear a lot of footsteps and voices. There was one that was familiar to the TV. “Oh, Oodle is here. That means your MePhone should be here too.”

“Oh phew, that’s good to know!” MePad smiled then looked at X, who had seemingly ignored their whole conversation based on how they’re still attacking the wall. “Hey X, You can stop now. The others have gotten out of their room, We should also be let out soon.”

The algebrailen looked behind him quickly. “Really? Yayy!” He jumped with joy while having a large smile on his face.

After that, the door made a clicking noise and MePad tried the doorknob again with a foot. This time it actually opened and outside of it was a hallway and then a few others looking around or chatting. X ran out from behind MePad and jumped at Four.

“Fourrr! I missed you!” He hugged the blue algebrailen.

“Hi, X.” Four couldn’t help but smile a bit and wrap an arm behind X’s back.

“There you are, MePad! We have to leave, can you teleport us out?” MePhone walked over to the MePad.

“I’m sorry, Sir, but my teleportation won’t work at all. We’re stuck here unless we find a way out and back home.” He sighed to MePhone.

“Darn. Alright, we can try that. Let's look downstairs.” MePhone put an arm on MePad’s back and they went downstairs together.

Tivo made a tsking noise, still in the room. A speaker box wandered into the room and they looked at each other for a small moment. “Is there an ‘Oodle’ out there? Green outline, white base?” Tivo asked.

“Yeah. Want me to grab him for you?” Tivo wasn’t expecting the text-to-speech voice but he was glad it wasn’t that heavy. Tivo nodded by moving his digital face up and down. The speaker box wandered out and a few seconds later Oodle appeared in the room.

“Oh! Tivo! You’re here too?” He smiled and walked up to the doodle TV. “Oh wait I just realised that means we left the contestants unattended–”

“They should be fine.” Tivo put in. “Have you figured out where we are?”

Oodle sighed and shook his head no. “Nope. All I know is that it’s some house!”

All Tivo did was hum. Oodle startled and almost fell when a loud thud vibrated the hallway and co-host room from one of the contestant doors. “What is going on in there?” Oodle questioned as he regained his balance.

Four glared at the door the thud had come out of. X noticed this and kicked the door.

“Ow!” X simply stated.