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In the lobby of the TPOT elimination space, Nickel's eyes widened from the news Eraser had told him: Bomby has gone missing.
"Wait you can't be serious!" Naily says, "What happened?"
"Well, after he had been eliminated," Eraser explains, "Two couldn't find Bomby or Bell to eliminate them."
"Maybe he escaped elimination?"
"It was in the sky on a cloud..."
"Gak gap goop goop!" Nickel says, "What are you talking about? Even if he is missing, he'll be back in no time! He's the strongest boyonocereous there is!"
"... Well if what Eraser said is the case, it has almost been a year since he's gone missing.” Naily replies, “The disappearances probably happened just after your elimination; I think about a year ago.”
Oh yeah… Does that mean that… Oh no. But surely-
"You know, I've also overheard somewhere that there was a whole universe al-teration or whatever... something about Yoi-yite?" Naily adds.
Nickel pushes himself towards her. "Yoylite?"
"Yeah, I think that’s what they called it.” She looks away at Nickel and up at the ceiling. “I don't really know what it is, but apparently it made a time rift that almost made the Universe end,” she says before looking towards the two boys, “which sounds scary, but I don't really buy into it."
"Huh." He puts himself close towards Naily, back to the ground to ask questions like: “Did it look purpley? Medium-sized rock? Kinda glitchy?"
“I didn't hear anything about it other than the time travel stuff. It kind of sounds cool though to travel to the past though.”
"Yeah it does!" Nickel pauses before continuing, “But, I have heard that time travel affects the… timeline I think? Maybe that's not the greatest idea.” ‘And maybe that I saw that yoylite once…’ Nickel thought.
“Oh yeah, but it can’t be that bad.”
“True! …I think.”
Eraser puts his hand onto Nickel’s head. “You know that’s great and all, but why did you ask if it was purple?”
Looking towards the plane of nothingness in his mind, he takes a deep breath. Looking towards Eraser, he says: “...Well I think I heard it before, during…” Nickel’s eyes shift towards the ground. “BFDIA.”
“Which is?”
“The second season.” Nickel blankly states.
“Yeah but what did you eve–”
He interrupts Eraser, “Jeeper gally tallies, do you think that we can save Bomby?”
“Of course we can!" Naily hastily replies, "We just need to escape!”
“Hold on, but–”
“How can we escape, right?”
“No, I'm actually just curious about BFDIA.”
“Oh…” Nickel frowned before continuing onward, “Well maybe we can ask Fries and Puffball? Have you seen those two bumping into that… force-field-thingamabob? Both are trying to destroy it, right? They probably know more than us.”
Naily looks at Eraser, now frowning and gazing at the ground because of the abrupt cut-off, and kicks Nickel, making him say “Ouchie!” before asking: “Why are you avoiding BFDIA? I wanna know. We're friends, so tell me!”
“Fine fine... Well, it kind of sucked… I was such a– a plinkity dink– omph!" Nickel bit his lip, considering his own words a bit better: 'Right! Even though I'm not like that anymore, I don't think like that anymore, they might suspect... wait, would they think... Could that be true?'
Changing from an unusually static and unmoving face for Nickel to a face Naily, slightly frustrated, and Eraser, a little glum, can’t see at all, much to both of their confusion, Nickel states, "Never mind".
“Huh, why not?” Naily asks.
Nickel pauses, trying to think before he speaks.
"I need to go to my room, Naily."
"Wait, what? But what about DnD night? I thought that you'd come today!"
Nickel sighs. "Change of plans..."
"But-" The door was already closed.
...
In his gray, monotone room with bright pops of colorful paint and furniture, Nickel slams himself onto the soft bed while his closed eyes faces down towards the sheets. He wonders to himself: Was the rock mention earlier... the Yoylite he kicked? Tennis Ball’s Yoylite? That can't be, right?
But who is he kidding; of course it was Tennis Ball’s Yoylite. Of course he almost caused the end of the Universe. He has to be pessimistic about this, it’s his fault and the consequences are massive. He can’t be optimistic right now! It has only been a detriment to him, obviously. Knowing how the world works, he might as well have helped this stupid stupid grack jeeber weebers kidnapper too!
Though even then…
Value is in the eye of the beholder. Value is in the eye of the beholder. Value is in the eye of the beholder.
But, overall, the beholders would believe he is less than five cents if they ever found out the truth.
His friends would hate him, as he does himself right now. There’s no coming back to almost destroying the world after all!
Speaking of removal, did Bomby get kidnapped out of pure coincidence of the order? It sure seems like it! Maybe if Bomby got traded out for Nickel, it would’ve been better.
He’s sure that Price Tag would’ve probably said that. After all, you should always trade for a profit! That’s what they did during the “fixing things challenges” (, even if the last trade ended up getting Cake eliminate–).
ANYWAY, it's not like they wanted to cause harm (unlike Pillow...) or even caused that much harm in the first place.
(Unlike himself...)
Why can’t he be less impulsive. He was looking forward to that DnD night! What is wrong with him? Even now he's as impulsive as his past- Pillow! Yeah her. Why did ̶h̶i̶s̶ ̶p̶a̶s̶t̶ ̶s̶e̶l̶f̶… Why did Pillow do that? Any of that actually? What can he do now?
Is he as bad as ̶h̶i̶s̶ ̶p̶a̶s̶t̶ ̶s̶e̶l̶f̶ Pillow? Why why why why! Why can’t he think things through? Why is he ̶a̶l̶w̶a̶y̶s̶ ̶l̶i̶k̶e̶ ̶t̶h̶i̶s̶ like Pillow right now? He looks at the pillow across his bed and hits it, pushing it to the ground. He then grabs it with his teeth, and throws it! That’s what ̶h̶e̶ she deserves! That destroyer enjoyer is just the worst!
Just another useless teammate that has to be discarded… that’s all. They will all be in the back of the wallet rotting away no matter how many losses they have to endure because that's all they're good for.
But even then, he needs to sleep with a pillow, everyday.