BFDI: The power of Shotgun
Finished version
Act 1: Descent into Madness
Context:
After the devastating events of TPOT 15, where One took Gaty and erased her from the timeline, Two is left powerless and emotionally shattered. In TPOT 19, Four seizes Two's powers, transferring them to the contestants for fix the Spacetime Crack in the sky, But the show can't just stop starting the challenge "Battle royale". (Canon)
Without powers and losing what he was supposed to protect, Two finally gets up reflecting on everything what has happened, looking at the sky by the window...
Kicks the door until finally unlocks... Four and the contestants took his powers, leaving Two in vulnerable and desperate status... Recovering partially from his previous status of bedrotting but not enough time to be fine, deciding to take the control and host again to feel useful, Two needs a way to call attention again.
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Two comes to the contestants, knowing that there's a way to stop One and back everything to normality, approaching to them who seems to already starting a challenge by Four?
Two decides to stop the challenge, to make the contestants hear what is happening, Stepping in, but they all were attacking each other. Two, Trying to use his powers to call attention, before realizing he doesn't have it anymore.
In a fit of resignation, Two leave the hotel, searching for something that can answer what is happening, any hint or what is making this or missing him, “If I am not the host… then what am I?” Until finding a back-door, opening the old, rusty door... Leading to a dark place, Which never gave importance about it, since was just old stuff.
Two ends in the Hotel's storage or also called "Backroom", This is where Golf ball and other contestants out things that don't work or are boring, Just like the generator or Pillow's test-things, Even Gelatin forks... Two sees something bright in a box called "Failed experiments, Don't Touch! - (Name erased)", Looking deeper, they find a "Shotgun" like it was written in it, a failed Lasergun. because it was 'inefficient'.
Two with curiosity grabs the Lasergun without knowing how the "Thing" works, with this new thing probably they will listen him. He opens the door, back to the hotel. trying to approach the other contestants to make them listen again. But, nobody hears Two... Some try to even attack Two because of the challenge, all those episodes trying to maintain the composure as the calm host, He finally cracks and snaps Feeling overshadowed by them and even Four, Holding the shotgun, gritting his teeth.
Two lacking any combat experience, Shoots pointing the wall for call contestants attention
BANG!
Everyone looks at them...
"Contestants!"
Bottle beams a laser to Two, Zapping him, like if it were a game. Making Two overreact.
Two holds the failed laser gun with the trigger... Accidentally pointing to Bottle...
The sound becomes blindly and stunning, shattering Bottle...
CRACK!
Glass fragments in the floor
The ringing sound continues, No one moves. Two freezes losing the grip from the shotgun... Two closes his eyes with the loud song...
Like if he is waiting something started, Something like an intro but it doesn't happen (Reference about how commonly TPOT intro starts)
Everyone looks up, Before Pencil focus at Two like an opportunity to her purposes... and several other contestants start attacking Two like if he already was part of the challenge...
Two tries to talk but still getting attacked making almost impossible talk, Being against a wall...
Price tag, Pencil, Liy and others corner Two...
"Stop! Contestants? This is going too far!"
Pencil and Liy start zapping Two without holding back.
Not seeing any other option, Two Presses the trigger even if it's loud, Is the Best option, Two eliminates Pencil and Liy, but then,
Book yells
"Two, Stop!"
Two looks at Book, seeing Pencil destroyed, but, Two just brush it out calling it "Elimination" for disrupt the host, Even If it doesn't works like that... Like he’s trying to convince himself...
"Book, I discovered something! We can make this back to normal!"
Book asks excited "How?! With your powers?"
"I don't have powers... Not anymore"
"Oh."
Two realizes Four gave his powers to the contestants, having an idea...
Taking fragments of his powers back from Liy, Price tag, Pencil and the others that had fragments of his powers, just like Four took his powers... in that way he can find a way to find the other contestants and find Four! A challenge! Find Four... Two only have to find the others... any contestant, probably Golf ball or Tennis ball can help, Book looks a bit worried about pencil, the hole left is big than was done in other challenges or eliminations... Like if something just broke not only physically but without nothing more for do, Book follows Two to search the others contestants... But now, He have a plan to stop One!
"Okay, I have an idea, You need to find Four!"
Book replies
"It wouldn't be better if we rejoin the others too?"
Book follows Two, knowing that is the best option for win the challenge, yet, can't stop feeling about something bad will happen, if she follows Two mostly probably will protect her, wins the challenge then she will get immunity and then, Book, will win! And finally being the leader, Not like Pencil was… Not how her failed…
Two leads Book by the hotel, until the lobby
they step back... Finding...
GB, TB. The silence is awkward until Golf ball realizes what Two have in their hands.
Golf ball panics seeing that Two have the failed-experiment that she made, "Two! Why do you have that?! You don't understand how much damage that lasergun can make! Give it back now before some "Idiot" ends using it, For some reason it was discarded…" Golf ball asks to Two give the weapon...
But Two refuses...
"Don't you understand it? Give the weapon back, why are you even so attached to a failure! It's unstable, Unpredictable, Overpowered for its casing."
Golf ball just respond with more insistence, Tennis ball grab Golfy telling that is enough and just let it, but Golf ball insist that doesn't like to see so unstable weapon with someone else... Book taking advantage tries to attack Golf ball, Tennis ball kicking Book away from her...
"Book, What is your problem!"
"Tennis ball, don't be so bossy like Golf ball, Y'know the challenge!"
"What, Book?! No! We said the challenge stopped! was cancelled!"
Golf ball responds aggressively
"Two, Stop book!"
Two freezes...
Book continues pushing
"Two! What are you waiting?!"
"I... I can't"
"TWO, DO IT!"
A loud sound is heard… Blindfully.
BANG!
Golf ball and Tennis ball were eliminated, Book jumps a bit off by the loudness of the sound but fastly gains her composure, proudly calling Two like her partner, yet...
Two is just silent... Feeling like if everything was so blurry, his head ached... Taking their powers too... Book so cheerful like if they didn't mean nothing…
Book tries to make Two walk, but Two is totally paralyzed grabbing beetween the caset and trigger.
Book hesitant before asking
"Two, are you okay?"
This shakes Two — they didn’t want this. But their psyche is unraveling... Grabbing Book,
“It’s still a challenge... (Two sighs) Just, Look... I want to be heard, Who even started the challenge? Four?”
"Was TV but he already got eliminated, since we thought that you wouldn't back until now"
"What? But I let Four host!"
"Well, Bottle hosted too"
Two looks at Book with distrust and annoyance, He was supposed to be the host, He trusted Four... Acting smug Two finally responds "
"And I hope he did better 'THAN' me, No?"
"Yes, Bottle actually did—" Two just shut her.
"All those episodes, I didn't even— I am still the host right?"
Book answers "Two, What—"
"YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND IT!"
Book steps back from Two, Defensive by what Two would do...
"You don't understand what is lose everything..."
Book flinches, Grabbing Two's hand
Book snaps Yelling at Two
"You think that I don't? I lost my own TEAM! By Pencil's fault! You really think that We- I don't know how it feels? Two, You're not okay, The challenge!"
"The challenge is cancelled…" Two gets closer at Book, before being pushed away by her
"You can't just do that! Not after the challenge started! That's is just illogical and—!"
Two point at Book... (Perspective change)
"Two, What the— are you doing..."
"Hosting."
after a loud ringing sound echoes though the room... Before doing it again... And again... He still feeling the Whispers... so Okay..
Feeling Sickening... Numb...
Two finally leaves the room, Feeling 'weird'... Two tries to retake his composure and the grip of the shotgun...
...
"Everything is fine..."
"I just need to find someone...!"
Hearing some sound like gaps and muffles... He was paranoic? Two slowly approaches at the end of the hallway...
Just finding...
Two stops, Finally he stops... seeing Grassy trembling and crying... Two is shaken, Is enough to make Two try to make everything normal like Four tried, but... Two tries to use his powers to lift Grassy, but it creates unstable energy, Two loses the focus watching so long how it just grows... Grassy pushes Two before something else happened... Two stops, looking at their own hands Then, looks at Grassy...
"S-Sorry... Let's go buddy!"
Two trembles, shaking.
But Grassy stops...
"Grassy thinks that Two isn't okay!"
...
"I am fine..." Coldly Two responds
Yet, Grassy still resisting to be dragged by Two
"What happens buddy?"
"Grassy knows something is happening!"
"I-... (Two sighs)..."
"I don't know anymore... I think that I'm making something wrong? Is just that... They never hear! No matter what! I make challenges, Try my best... But isn't enough?! And every time I just hear 'Four was better!' I am okay?! Why everyone thinks that something is wrong with me?! I can still hosting..."
...
"Wasn't you? You kicked me once... Because I didn't explain the rules properly... Why everyone hates me?!"
Grassy muffles
"Two."
"Is because I am not good enough like Four?!"
"Two?"
"They think I can't be a good host?! I even gave them a hotel and they just... scream!"
"Two!"
"SHUT UP GRASSY!"
Two freezes... finally leaving Grassy's hand...
"I... I didn't mean that!"
"Grassy! Look, Just don't—"
Grassy starts crying... This time Two looks at Grassy coldly
"Stop crying..."
It just becomes worse... Grassy curls up in a corner
Sobbing...
"What I do now…?" Two asks to himself....
But something darker started to appear... A thought...
'It was their fault for his own powers stop working!' Two tries to just look away or leave but it drives him guilty...'
'Is Grassy fault!'
Two clenches his fists
"Grassy... I—..."
"IS YOUR FAULT!"
And starts blaming him, blaming him for everything, For his decaying and actions “If you hadn’t survived… I wouldn’t have to remember.” Grassy trembles even more, trying to cling to something before being pushed away, Two finally hits Grassy, He doesn't even wants to think about nothing, Holding Grassy with telekinesis, using his powers against Grassy...
To stop all this... To stop his only moral... To stop his mind..
The cries intensify and a small gasp can be heard...
Two looks at the floor, Throwing the shotgun away, Realizing what he has just done... Two tries to keep the same composed look but is filled with doubt "So– Uh... looks like team–" But Two don't even end that sentence, He looks sick... "The challenge is cancelled! Contestants—" But nobody is in the room... Two tries to revives Grassy but… He can't, He never had that power, Not like X or Four...
Maybe the Recovery center... Is destroyed... He destroyed the only Recovery center left, Wireless Recovery center, He just have to fix this, if he puts everything together...
But is too broken...
Act 1.5: Redemption
Two gets up. Taking out a bit of dust from his hands like it could even wash out the guilt and the violence, Stepping up, Grabbing the shotgun...
to find Four outside the hotel into the pillary ruins trying to find Four or X, But no finding nobody, walking alone, this time questioning if this still being considered a challenge or if Four even will stop ignoring him? There probably have another solution besides killing, probably if Four and X tried together to restore Gaty she will finally come back and then he will continue hosting the show even the winner of TPOT! yet, if Gaty isn't the only one missing? ...
Two goes quiets
Two finally reaches a building, looking interesting, it looked abandoned yet he senses that someone is in, stepping into the TV studio, Finding the other contestants(BFB) and X.
Two at not finding Four in TV studio was more annoyed, but X wish he could help, yet, X was already busy with the dream machine, that used in TPOT 18/BFB 31 for helping Lollipop to find her "Special card"... Two without taking this good ends shooting a contestant but ends with Profily who was still in the memory machine, X panics yelling "What you have done?!" Pushing away Two who were already unstable. Four sensing that something is happening to X, teleport into the TV studio realizing what happened, Screaming at Two if he knows what he has done! Trying to estabilice the rest of contestants that were still connected.
Two points the shotgun at Four, feeling betrayed and disappointed... If they weren't to help then he will take it and fix this, using his powers to potent the shotgun but not precising how strong it would be for not only damage an algebralian but kill it.
...
Four and X intervenes, but Two were already driven into guilt and fear... Four looks disappointed, The same look that he had with One, The same shame, Yet, If bringing Gaty back means killing other algebraliens... Then... Two points out with the fragments of his powers that took, Two’s fragments of Power allow him to temporarily enhance the shotgun, though unstable but also impulse the shoot making it possible to damage Four and X, 'Temporary" Four uses his powers trying to stop Two, Because this moment he doesn't have others to stop Two, Trying to restrain What was supposed who he trusted his Contestants, Two's powers overload because of the fragments making it affects X, Distracting Four's Temporary. Two already overloaded with the feelings and new powers, Points the gun, and press the trigger.
BANG!
...
A stunning silence is left...
Four opens his eyes, disoriented by the loud sound, The bullet didn't affected him... After all, how something so underlined could even hurt an Algebralien, The bullets were useless—
...
Until Four finally takes on the situation... The bullet, It wasn't for him, but for X. Four steps back, feeling hollow, something that he haven't feel in years, he looks around someone to grab, to tell this is fake or a dream, but it isn't... This time isn't screech or "zaps"... Two tries to approach to Four, this time with panic and horror for consolate Four even if Two had fear of what would happen to himself, Four grabs tightly Two's hand... Leaving a mark, almost crying, a look of desperation, something that Two never had seen before...
“I trusted you.”
Making Two step back.
Trying to hold the shotgun right.
Four, shocked but decided to end all this, He helped X to find his value, This time, He will redefine it... Four approaches to X's corpse... With Pain and Fear not knowing what to do but just sure about something, He needs to stop this, Stop Two... grabbing X's powers for stop Two...
The silence feels more loud than Four could ever screech...
"I should have DESTROYED you when I had the Opportunity..." Four finally recognizes Two, Who he has dismissed as a recommended character and just another algebralien, Remembering what happened with One ...
"They shouldn't have been scared of One but scared about this situation could repeat... You just took my contestants and they trusted you, I will make sure you don't touch them again... They were wrong about this…"
Two slightly panicked and hurt grabs the shotgun and points to Four, Pressing the trigger, yet, The shotgun jam, Two lowing his defenses, He knows that what he is doing is wrong but he doesn't want to... He doesn't wants this to stop being a damn other challenge. He was supposed to be better than Four...
Four doesn't even looked at Two anymore, Recognizing that look, He once had it... Zapping Two, Making already Two's unstable power being stronger and almost unbearable for a simple Number, Two barely pushes himself away from Four, He tries to shoot but the gun is stuck! Four zaps Two again this time liberating a power oversaturation making Four and Two against the wall, the gun directly falling into Two's feet...
If he did this, Nobody else would annoy him, Nobody else would compare him with Four anymore...
And Wouldn't need this power anymore...
...
In moments of panic and justification makes Rationalization starts to merge with instinct
For last time Four looks at Two, Not like a host, enemy or algebralien anymore but... A monster... Something he could have stopped but de didn't... Before Two–
BANG!
What happened...?
Two swallows hard
Dragging in the floor, Pushes away watching what happened...?
Two tries and gets up... Watching at the floor who...
Act 2: Angrophobia
The contestants that already was awakened, Bubble behind the others, Match were horrified.
"Two?! Four, X! They are fine, Right?!" Two looks terrified, Looking at Match, Wanting to cry, to tell everything will be okay, Two steps back... Until hits against a wall... Match touches Two just to being pushed away, The same face of confusion when Gaty was eliminated... He can't just— This is not what he wanted–! He just needed to keep everyone safe and someone would just win The power for Two! finally out, in pillars ruins... Shaken... Two not shows or says nothing about what happened inside... paranoic, The voices... All hated him...
Match:
"Two! Wait—!"
"Yoylecake! Twoi, please stop!"
He was worse than Four
...
Two just falls... Tears on his face looking at Match...
Bubble hides behind Match
"Yoy, What is happenin'?!"
not the typical sad or resentment look... but, Hate, Regret, Recognition he have done something that can't be fixed even with power...
"I will fix this…"
Match puts herself in front of Bubble, defending her
"Two, What are you doing…?!"
"I'm sorry..."
¡POP!
Running into the hotel, not to find a solution, but hide... Find something that can end himself from doing more damage...
Two reaches the kitchen... and lock the door, trying to use his own powers against himself, Pressing against the fridge door, Seeing drawings that they made, Some drawings he did just broke, Four, X, Two and...
...
Was harmful...
One silently appears behind Two, with the same, slowly and confident face and posture like she have, She already won... It wasn't expected to Two breakdown like that, Yet, Two just did the dirty work and One can finally get Two's, Four and even X powers... Two looks at One with fear, walking away, trying to just vanish everything, his problems with the shotgun but it's left without bullets...
"So, Two, it's a pity, No? We have more in common than you think!" One approaches to Two, The guilt and desperation that Two has for bringing back Gaty is more strong than his sanity... Two corners One not letting her escape this time grabbing her... One without expecting this, Seeing Two powerless uses her powers to try to push him but Two... Two tries to shoot at One with the gun without bullets anymore, tired of all this, One uses her powers and throws the shotgun away, Two out of rage draining the only what they have, Pins One against the wall, He asked nicely, He asked politely for just be heard, but they didn't, they never did, not even Four, And Two? just makes what One once made...
...Break...
Drain her powers and everything what she was...
Even as Two "breaks" One, she is smiling.
She laughs softly.
Not evil laugh. Just knowing.
Because One’s victory wasn’t power.
It was pushing Two to break.
And she got that.
"Until everything comes to normal...
Until something changes...
Until they tell this was just another challenge...
Until this is fake..."
(The camera refuses to show what happened but just focuses on Two.)
Act 3: Lost
Silence, Just his breaths and steps...
The kitchen door opening and closing...
Two closed the door of the hotel, If he can fuse his powers with others maybe he can get Gaty back, It have to work, If not then everything he made—
Taking One, Four and X powers Two tries to bring back Gaty, A light appears, The fused abilities surge through him, unstable but immense... Two almost faints, Partially recovering Gaty but glitching, Because the deal isn't fully broken and she was erased, this just being almost a corpse just enough for react slight gestures... Two tries to touch Gaty but he pass through her like if she's not here... Two tries it one time more. It have to work!
it doesn't, it just make Gaty look at him... Two tries to touch Gaty once more, it just feel cold, like air... Using his powers just made cracks on him, so much power in a number, isn't meant to hold others values...
They grabs the Shotgun tightly, Carrying the "Corpse" of Gaty... Two doesn't even know what he is holding anymore.
Final: Two hugging Gaty, glitching mid-way.
with everyone corpses around... In the hotel lobby Gaty opens her eyes — not relieved — but afraid.
Not of the corpses.
Not of One.
Of Two...
"...Who are you?"
—The last one standing—
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