Green and Pink ran for their lives as Orange, who was now bleach white, gave chase.
With a ferocious chomp, the dino jumped the blind rainbow friend, biting him on the neck. Pink turned, watching as the color was sapped out of Green.
"Green!" She said in despair.
"Run while you still can!" He shouted back, "It hurts! It hurts!" Green slowly turned as pale as Orange before standing up. "It… it feels good!" He suddenly laughed.
"You see that Pink?" Said Orange, "Join us! What's the matter? Scared?"
Pink screamed a ran, passing by Purple, who was watching from the vents before Green and Orange found him.
"This can't be happening!" Said Pink, "The rainbow friends can't end like this!"
Suddenly a door opened ahead, revealing Red. "Quickly Pink! This way!" He called out.
Pink entered the room before Red closed it. "Red?"
"Quick, barricade the door! We should be safe in here. Your color is still in tact right?"
"My color? What? I don't believe that! What about my brother Blue? We have to go back for him!"
"It's too dangerous, everyone but us is an enemy. Now we have to move quickly before-" something grabbed Red by the ankles. "Oh dear…"
Purple, white as a ghost, reached from the vent, grabbing Red. "Won't you join us Red?" He said before leaping up and biting Red. Sapping the scientist's color.
"No! No!" Cried Red as he turned. "AAAAAUUGH!… Join us!"
Pink had to leave before her color got drained too. She made a dash for it, the colorless zombies that were once her friends in hot pursuit, Until she came up a dead end. They cornered her, getting ready to drain her color, when a blue hand from a nearby door grabbed Pink and pulled her in before locking the door. The zombies banging angrily from outside, demanding that they join them.
"Shh, sis it's me!" Said the voice of Pink's brother Blue, who was doused in what appeared to be white paint.
"Blue?" Said Pink, "You're okay!" But then her eyes fell upon a second figure behind him, who was as white as everyone outside. "Ahh!"
"No! Pink! It's okay, she's not one of them!"
"Wha? Then who?"
"A little late for introductions, but Pink meet White, Red tricked her into becoming a Rainbow Friend like the rest of us a while ago."
"Green," Said White. "Is he…?"
"I'm afraid he didn't make it." Said Pink, turning to her brother. "But Blue What's happening out there? Why's everyone acting so strangely? And what happened to their colors? And why are you covered in white paint?"
"Ah, not again." Blue dropped his head in disappointment. "I don't know if we can take another incident."
"What do you mean 'not again'? This has happened before?"
"I hardly believed it myself." Said White
"It was before your and White's time as Rainbow Friends." Began Blue. "We're safe in here for now so I might as well tell you the story so you could better understand the situation."
Blue went on to explain how it started when he, Green, Orange, and Purple had all been tricked by Red into becoming Rainbow Friends before they inevitably turned the tables on him and made him into one as well.
Red did tests on Blue, feeding him different concoctions but to no avail much to Red's frustration.
When A monsoon fell upon the Odd world theme park Red decided to do something risky on the rooftop. Blue tried to stop him but was too late when several bolts of lightning struck one of Red's lightning rods and as he laid there at Blue's feet all the color drained from his body.
Red came back to life but was no longer himself, he bit Blue and drained his color as well, turning him ghostly white.
The curse spread amongst the rainbow friends, draining them of color and turning them into colorless zombies that seek to rid the world of color. It went on until Purple was the only one left, the chased him to the lab and cornered him when the storm outside settled and sunlight started to show through the skylight in the Lab's ceiling. When everyone stepped in the light their color returned and all was well once more.
"But now the infection is back," stated Pink, "we're all losing our color again!"
"Yeah, but at least we now know how to cure it." Said Blue.
"But what about the white paint?" Asked Pink.
"That was White's idea." Explained Blue.
As if on cue, White took out a can of paint.
"I met with Orange earlier when he got infected," she exclaimed. "But because I already lack color he paid no mind. I doused Blue with the paint to help camouflage him. Turns out they can't tell the difference, so I'm gonna need you to close your eyes and hold your breath."
"Uh okay." Pink complied as White dumped the paint onto her, making her sputter out the substance.
"Alright," started Blue, "Now we gotta wait until the sun comes out and get them to step into it."
"And I have a plan." White took out a second can of paint, only this time the label read "cyan", before dumping it on herself. "I'll get their attention with this colored paint to buy some time, while they're busy chasing me I'll need you two to head to the lab and prepare a trap for them."
"Okay…" said Pink, "seems easy enough."
Suddenly the door burst open, revealing Orange, "You were saying!" He said.
"I'll meet you at the lab!" Said White before making a run for it. The hoard, ignoring Blue and Pink, advanced her way.
"Let's go sis!" Said Blue, he and his sister making a break for the lab.
White ran around the corridor, being sure to avoid any ventilation along the way in case Purple was prowling anywhere.
"Join us!" The mob chanted behind.
White found the locker room, taking note of the time on a clock that hung on the wall overhead, 6:55 am, before hiding herself in one of lockers.
The hoard swarmed in, searching everywhere for White.
"Search the lockers!" Said Purple.
They all forced the units opened for their prey. So far no luck.
White felt her heart race when Green stood in front of the unit she hid in. He was about to open it when a loud clang from the hall caught everyone's attention. They all ran off to the direction it came from, giving White time to exit the locker.
She ran into the showers when she slipped in a puddle of water. The dull thud sound she made when she fell was heard by blind Green who advanced towards her direction.
She staggered to her feet when the squeaking of Green's footsteps reached her ears. Panicked, she searched for some place to run but found that she was in a dead end.
"Finally," said Green, cornering her, "I have you all to myself."
"Green stop you don't have to do this!" Said White, backing into one of the shower heads.
"There's no need to be afraid," Green inched closer towards her. "Join us White."
"This isn't what you want Green, this isn't what any of us want."
But Green picked her up in his hands, though one of White's dangling feet had accidentally turned the shower on.
"It is now," he said, "Just stop resisting and it'll all be over."
Green bared his fangs and bit into White's shoulder, making her scream out in pain.
She felt no other change, but seeing the oozing paint dripping from her body into a puddle beneath them, flowing down the drain, gave her another idea.
But she had to check on Pink and Blue first, closing two of her eyes as her third eye located her remaining friends in the lab preparing the trap. Perfect, just need to stall everyone a little longer to notify them.
"I…I see the other two," she stated after Green set her down, "try checking the theater."
That was a lie of course but Green seemed convinced and left to notify the others. Now to run over to the lab while she could.
Blue had nailed a tarp over the overhead window on the ceiling, a rope dangling from it to pull it down, while Pink painted a target on the floor underneath it as best she could with her feet.
"Okay, now we just have to wait for White to get everyone in here." Stated Blue.
"I sure hope she's alright ." commented Pink.
"Don't worry," comforted Blue, "White may not be as strong as the rest of us but she's smart, I'm sure she can manage on her own."
A knock on the door caught their attention, White's face was visible through the door windows, the infected hadn't seem to have followed her. Blue went over to let her in.
"White!" He said surprised, "What happened? And where are the others?"
"Green cornered me in the showers," Explained White, "Long story short the paint got washed off. Anyway I told them that I saw you two in the theater with my clairvoyance, but it's only a matter of time before they catch on. Is the trap ready?"
"Just about. We'll need some way to draw them in though."
"Right, one of you will have to be bait while the other pulls the rope at the right moment."
The two siblings looked at one another hesitantly for a moment before Blue bravely spoke. "I'll do it, they're my friends and I gotta do what I can for them."
They heard a sound from outside, the infected hoard was nearing their location. White hastily handed Blue a damp towel to clean the paint off.
"Quick, wipe yourself down." She said, "I'll call them in, Pink you hide and get ready."
Pink hid herself, holding the dangling rope with her teeth.
White went outside.
"I found someone!" She called out to them, gaining their attention. "he's over here!"
The infected hurried to her direction, White turned to Blue with a wink and a thumbs up before hiding alongside Pink.
Almost at once the infected hoard burst through the doors, when their sights fell upon Blue, who stood boldly on the target, they advanced toward him crying out "Join us!" Blue took several steps back, making sure to get them all on the target.
"Wait for it…" muttered White to Pink. Then when the time was just right. "NOW!"
As hard as she could, Pink tugged on the rope with her teeth, tearing the tarp away from the ceiling. Sunlight poured in from the skylight overhead.
The hoard screamed and cried out in agony as the blinding light illuminated the lab, melting the whiteness from their skin to be replaced with their real colors.
After a fleeting moment the screams died out and a hushed silence filled the room as Purple, Green, Orange, and Red laid unconscious on the floor. Blue, White, and Pink all knelt by them to make sure they were okay.
The gang awoke with a groan.
"Oh… what happened?" Said Purple.
"Blegh… I don't feel so good." Uttered Orange, staggering to his feet.
White knelt by Green, cradling the back of his head in one hand as his eyes fluttered open. She gently embraced him when consciousness returned to him.
"We're all back to normal." Stated Red in amazement.
"It was White's idea," announced Blue, "She's saved us all!"
"And I couldn't have done it without the help of my friends." Said White proudly.
AUTHOR'S NOTE: Next up, RAINBOW FRIENDS vs POPPY PLAYTIME?!