in this au, the other contestants didn’t try and get revived. Only you did, carrying the decoy orb, the bomb. Mephone 4 tried to stop cobs from getting it and hence forth the blast was just enough for cobs to somehow survive. His popped kernels scattered everywhere. Mephone 4 is traumatised. MEPHONE 4: “what the…FUCK??” Steve cobs: “moaning in pain, every bone in his body shattered”