Chapter 1: The abyss of space
Chapter Text
All it took was just a little more power…
A little more power, and the easy task of coercing someone to hand it over to her.
One had longed for this power ever since the day she had been sealed inside that dreaded moon. Something she had loved, yet had grown to hate.
Space was so vast and full of stars, though it was still so… empty…
There was basically nothing to do, even with all this power at her command.
She made deals with Two’s contestants to get what she wanted, erased a few of them from their timeline, and even kicked Earth out of its orbit! And yet, she didn’t feel satisfied.
She started to feel bored, and maybe even… —Nope!
She hated the idea of admitting she was lonely. So many years trapped inside the moon, and the most interaction she had between then and now was between the few contestants she brought to make deals with. Even then, none of those conversations even meant much in terms of actual conversation.
Nearly all the contestants were frightened, afraid of her. She hadn’t felt any actual connection with anyone for years… The only one who she could relate to was…
Pencil.
The one person out of that whole hotel that she felt that truly understood her, and that she could understand, was Pencil.
Trapped away for years by Four, lonely and without any of your closest allies, yearning for and craving power, One felt like she had finally found someone who she truly could understand, and thought that Pencil could feel the same way.
The only issue being that Pencil hated algebraliens.
Pencil would refuse to see it from One’s perspective, no matter how similar it was to her own, even if she was telling the truth. For all she knew, she was just trying to manipulate her into feeling bad or sympathetic before signing that contract.
But for all she knew right now, her wish to go back and see those friendly faces, was met with the familiar bright green grass below her feet and bright blue sky above.
Maybe the algebraliens aren’t all that bad.
Chapter 2: Planning a reunion(?)
Notes:
I’m using kinda the same intro as the first chapter because it sounded like a strong start for that one AND this one(totally not that I tried reworking this one yesterday with the same beginning)
(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)
Chapter Text
All she ever wanted was just a little more power…
A little more power, and all it took was the easy task of coercing someone to hand it over to her.
One had longed for this same power ever since the day she had been sealed inside that forlorn moon. Something she had loved, yet had grown to hate.
Space was so vast and full of stars, though it was still so… empty. The same sort of feeling that resonated from within.
She had only actually talked to the contestants she had brought to her room, which could’ve been considered to be “enough” interaction with someone else, but she hadn’t actually talked to any of her fellow algebraliens in years. She had almost begun to miss them, as much as she would hate to admit it.
She had all the power she had yearned for, yet she felt no different than before any of this started. She had felt so spiteful of Two and Four, even going as far as to take their powers after Pencil had taken nearly all of it, but it left her feeling empty, and almost bored. So much power, and not enough to do with it.
She kicked the earth out of its orbit, she broke a planet open, for math’s sake! But there wasn’t much else she could do with that power.
Not except…
…
…What if…
She went looking for her dear friend Three?
When One had been locked away in the moon, Three was locked away too, away from One, and away from the other algbraliens. It was about time she went to meet them again for a little… reunion.
Ever since being locked away, this would be the only use that Four would have to her.
Notes:
Theory: One gets bored of all the power, goes and finds 3 again, gives power back out of pure boredom of it after successfully/unsuccessfully finding 3 again(I’m not giving up on the “bored of power” theory I’m holding onto that one hard because I think it’s cool)
lena (Guest) on Chapter 1 Mon 06 Oct 2025 12:20PM UTC
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