You may not yet know this, but RoboRabbit was known throughout the universe as the master of the game called Fufgo, a competition of speed, agility, and reflexes. The only known person who could match RoboRabbit's skill in Fufgo hadn't challenged him in thousands of years. And now, here he was. No one had noticed the stairs that had appeared in the middle of the room, nor the dude standing in front of them, until now.
"I challenge you," said Platypus, "to a stair competition." And everyone commenced staring at him.
"Stair, not stare!" he exclaimed. "Now, if you wish to access these stairs, you must defeat me in a match of Fufgo."*
"Very well," said RoboRabbit. "We accept. If any one of us defeats you, we get to climb the stair."
"But if not," replied Platypus, "you must all go home and never find out what's at the top of this stair."
"Don't do it, RoboRabbit," said Hilarious Hyena. "We can easily beat him."
"I accept," said RoboRabbit.
"Why, Platypus?" asked Megano. "Why would you want to doom the universe?"
"I think the universe is just fine the way it is," replied Platypus.
"The world is weird," said Jhoqi.
"Enough talk," said RoboRabbit. "If we're going to have an epic game of Fufgo, we'd better start now. Fufgo!" And thus the battle commenced, with everyone assuming a ready stance and complete silence, which is called for by the rules of Fufgo, ensuing.
Diomedes was the first to be defeated. Fufgo is played free for all, so after Platypus crippled him it was Bloopanda that took him out. He went to to get a soda and came back. Jhoqi was not very agile or fast, so she was fairly easily crippled by Hilarious Hyena and finished off by RoboRabbit. Then, when Megano attempted a swing at RoboRabbit, he dodged and counterattacked. Hilarious Hyena, whom RoboRabbit refused to even move in the direction of, then crippled him and was, in turn, attacked by Killer Kangaroo. Platypus took Killer Kangaroo out all at once, but Teddy, who hadn't even been noticed thus far, surprise attacked him.
After Megano crippled Teddy she was reluctantly defeated by RoboRabbit. Hilarious Hyena attacked Bloopanda, but he defeated her. Then a series of swift attacks left just RoboRabbit and Platypus still in the game. There was no avoiding this outcome.
Both equally matched in every way and completely determined to win, RoboRabbit battled Platypus faster than the eye could follow. Diomedes showed up with not only a soda. but also an enormous bag of popcorn for everyone to share. By the time they finished the popcorn, a crowd of over a hundred people had shown up, rooting for RoboRabbit mostly, although their rooting left them unable to move yet completely capable of absorbing nutrients from the ground. They soon trunked trunks so long they could use them to eat peanuts off the ground, and before long Platypus and RoboRabbit were in an elephant forest. And still they continued fighting.
*bum bum bum
