DiapOut: Chapter 7
Tapping her foot anxiously at the far end of the obstacle course, Kyoko watched in a mix of frustration and anger as the opposing team got the early lead. “What is that idiot doing?” she mumbled to herself. She was already preparing some choice words for Cade once this leg of the competition was over.
“Wahoo!! Go Misa! Slide down that butt like your life depends on it!” shouted Lelaya with her hands cupped around her mouth, blissfully unaware of the daggers that were being shot in her direction through Kyoko’s pupils. Suddenly, she pointed forward, bouncing up and down, before placing a hand on Kyoko’s shoulder, “Look! Look! Your poopy friend found his diaper pin too!”
Rolling her eyes and shrugging Lelaya’s hand off of her shoulder, a still pissed-off Kyoko refused to let the hope of her team advancing to the second stage put her at ease. “C’mon Rupert! You better catch up!”
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Laying a thin, white mat down on the top of the slide, Misa positioned herself in the center and placed her hands on the surface, ready to push off. “Didn’t expect to be used as a baby wipe today but whatever,” she said, chuckling to herself about how ridiculous this all was. If it hadn’t been for Ayaya’s begging, she never would’ve done something this humiliating. It was all she could do now to block out what this show was going to do to her image and focus on the cash prize waiting at the end of all this.
Nudging herself forward, Misa looked over the edge of the rounded slide. It wasn’t super long, being two rounded sides with a divot covered in chocolate pudding going down the center to make it look like a messy butt. She’d be at the bottom in seconds, so she wasn’t expecting it to be all that thrilling. It was, however, quite steep. While she had no issues with heights on a regular basis, the thought of face-planting becoming an internet meme was more than enough to make her overly cautious.
Taking a good, deep breath, Misa hardened her resolve and lurched forward, sending her careening down the center of the slide. “WoooooOOOOOOO!” she shouted as she picked up speed quickly, thanks to the pudding making the surface extra slick. Much to her surprise, other than a small bump midway down, it was a pretty smooth ride. Even though she didn’t want it to appear like she was enjoying herself too much, she couldn’t help but crack a smile as she arrived at the bottom of the bottom.
“Alright, Misa! Let’s goooo!” cheered Ayaya-Girl, waving for Misa to hurry over so that she could continue with the next portion of the race.
Unfortunately, just as Misa was about to tag Ayaya in for the next leg of the race, CassiRole chimed in to stop them. “Ah, ah, ah! Don’t forget, you still need to find the second diaper pin,” she said mockingly in a sing-songy voice.
“Shoot!” yelled Misa. How could she have forgotten to look for the other diaper pin?! Hopefully, this cost them the lead. She stopped dead in her tracks, ready to make her way back toward the slide as quickly as possible. However, due to the pudding-coated floor and her reckless haste, she lost her footing and was sent flailing toward the ground, landing with a hard “oof!” on her stomach.
The audience went wild with uproarious laughter as they all soaked in Misa’s humiliating fall. Picking her head off of the ground, Misa could only groan in despair as the self-fulfilling prophecy she’d had at the top of the slide came true in the worst of ways. Not only did she fall on her face, but now her diaper was brown and droopy thanks to the puddle of pudding that she landed in. Wiping the chocolate pudding away from her eyes and mouth, she shook off her tumble and waddled her way back to the top of the slide, picking up her sliding mat along the way.
Meanwhile, Rupert was just getting started with his first run at the slide. Unlike Misa, he was not at all concerned with looking silly on television. Grabbing his white mat, he dove onto the slide head-first with reckless abandon. “Geronimo!” he screamed as he came down the slide at an even faster speed than Misa, causing the basin of pudding at the bottom to splatter outward in all directions.
Covered head to toe in a light layer of creamy chocolate, Rupert whipped his hair back and looked around the nearby area for the second diaper pin. “Crap, where the heck is it?!” he said, his searching getting a bit more frantic.
“You must’ve missed it on the slide somewhere!” Zeke said, calling out to Rupert from the barrier to the next leg of the race, “Go back to the top and see if you can find anything.”
Groaning, Rupert was not enthused with climbing a set of stairs to get back to the top. That was the least of his worries, though. In his panic-fueled search, he’d wandered onto the Wetters’ half of the course just in time for Misa to come barreling down the slide again.
“LOOOOK OOOUT!” cried Misa in an attempt to get Rupert to move. Sadly, her words came too soon as she collided with her opponent's legs, sweeping them out from under him and knocking herself off of her own mat. A chorus of pained “oohs” emanated from the live audience.
Off to the side of the stage, several crew hands shot each other nervous looks, wondering if they needed to pause the segment to check on the contestants. However, right as one of the safety team was about to leap into action, Jackson was there to hold him back, nodding to Cassi to continue the show.
“Now that’s what we call a DiapOut! Am I right folks?” said Cassi, fixing a bright smile on her as she laughed along with the audience anxiously. In the back of her mind, she was cussing out the two dumbass contestants who ran into each other. If someone gets hurt and ruins her show before it even airs, there would be hell to pay.
Attempting to pick herself up off the floor, Misa squirmed her way out from under Rupert’s heavy legs, recognizing that there was no time to lose. Having already been down the same slide twice, she was at a loss as to where the damn diaper pin was hidden. Breathing heavily, she looked back toward the slide, wondering if there was some way to see it from the base. Squinting her eyes, she noticed a tiny divot in the middle of the slide that had been made to look like a puckered booty hole. With nothing else to go off of, she assumed that must be where the pin has been stashed.
Feeling a bit sorer than she was a minute ago, Misa trudged back up the stairs, ready to take her third trip down the slide. Rupert, on the other hand, was still reeling from the impact. He rolled over and sat up, deciding to take a small breather as he watched Misa. He was terrible at finding things, so wherever Misa found her pin, his would likely be somewhere similar.
Rupert’s actions, while logical, did not appease his teammates. “Rupert, get off your ass! We gotta move!” said Zeke, trying his hardest to get his friend moving again to no avail. Turning his head back, he stared up at Kyoko’s livid expression, a touch of concern welling up in the pit of his stomach.
Sitting back down at the top of the slide, Misa also felt exhaustion start to kick in. “Damn Mia…you had it so lucky…no stairs on your section…” she muttered back at her pudding-drenched friend in between breaths. Cracking her carpal tunnel-riddled fingers, she nudged herself forward once more, slapping a hand down behind her to keep her from moving too fast.
Inch by inch, Misa lowered herself down, making sure to keep as steady as possible. However, there was only so much she could do. The mat under her body began to shift further and further from her stabilizing hand until eventually, she couldn’t hang on anymore. Abandoning her sliding mat, she leaped for the small hole in the center of the slide, grabbing onto the edge just barely.
Down on the ground, Rupert watched as Misa pulled off quite an impressive stunt. Looking back toward his slide, he spotted the same divot that Misa had. “Now that’s what I’m talking about,” he said to himself, finally getting off of the ground as she lined himself up with the hole.
Unlike Misa, Rupert was much taller and more agile. While someone her size would need to go down the slide to reach that point, he was certain that he was capable of reaching it from the bottom. With a running start, he attempted to dash up the slide as far as he could, diving for the butt hole and snagging it with his fingertips. His hands were regrettably too slick, though, causing him to lose his grasp and slide back down.
Misa did not have the same issue though, gaining a stronger handhold due to the direction she came from. Sticking her arm inside the hole, she instantly felt the end of the diaper pin in her hand. “I dunno who would stick a diaper pin up their ass but sorry in advance, friend,” she joked, slapping the side of the butt as she clutched the diaper pin and yanked it out.
“And with that, Misa has retrieved the second pin! Rupert will have to hurry if he wants to stop his team from falling behind again!” said Cassi, easing back into a more casual posture now that both contestants appeared to have fully recovered. They would need to overhaul this section of the course for future players to prevent that from ever happening again.
Cruising down the slide for the final time, Misa moved as fast as her droopy diaper out allow it as she delivered the two enlarged diaper pins to Ayaya. “Go, go!” she said exasperated as she crumpled to the floor, “After this is all over…I’m not leaving my bed for like…a week…maybe two…no, definitely a month…”
Tucking the diaper pins under her arm, it was now Ayaya’s turn to be the hero. All she had to do was make it up a padded staircase and recover the cloth diaper at the top. Sure, the stairs were covered in lotion, but so long as she stepped lightly, she assumed it wouldn’t be too hard. More importantly, she was just happy that her task didn’t require taking a pudding bath. The last thing she needed was to get chocolate in her hair.
Running up to the staircase, Ayaya planted her foot down on the first step, her confidence at an all-time high.
SLIP!
The moment Ayaya put her weight on her foot, it shot out from under her, sending her crashing down to the floor. “What the-” she screamed as the crowd around broke into hysterics. As she placed her hand on the first step to help herself back up, she slipped yet again. Contrary to her initial assessment, this staircase was going to prove a much bigger nuisance than originally thought.
TO BE CONTINUED…