You Know Those Buttons Don't Do Anything, Right?

Now that that's taken care of, we can finally start the battle for The Power of Two!”

— Two

"You Know Those Buttons Don't Do Anything, Right?" is the first episode of Battle for Dream Island: The Power of Two and the 59th episode in the

overall series. The episode was released on January 10, 2021. It was announced to release on Saturday, January 9, 2021, in the stinger of "Uprooting Everything"; however, it was delayed a few hours due to glitches present in the intro.

Two recommended characters, Winner and Price Tag, joined the game (It was originally gonna be only 1, but then Two realized it would make a prime number, preventing the teams from being all equal, so Golf Ball suggessted to add in another), the latter serving as a replacement for Nonexisty due to him not being able to compete, as he does not exist.

Cold open
The episode starts with TV playing a recording of Four suggesting to add back the original A BFDI as the winner's prize for Battle for BFB. Yellow Face suggests to switch back to Battle for BFB, but Fanny disapproves and says that Four had betrayed their trust by reinstating the BFDI after everyone had assumed it was gone for good, and, for all they knew, Four could change the prize repeatedly. The others agree with Fanny. Fries then praises Fanny that she has the spirit of a leader, but asks if Two does any better than Four as a host, as the contestants have been waiting for ages to compete in TPOT. Two then interrupts their conversations by appearing in front of them and telling them they could've said they were ready, which frightens the contestants. Two starts floating around the building, and then flies to the top, reminding them that it was time for Cake at Stake. The contestants as well as the RCs stare at Two blankly from the bottom of the tower, as they can't hear what Two was saying. Two then uses their powers to make them float to the top of the Bathrooms.

Cake at Stake
Two plays the Cake at Stake intro, the same one played at the start of Battle for Dream Island. Nickel asks Two why everyone was brought to do Cake at Stake, and Two reminds everyone that 59,151 votes have been cast on the 26 recommended characters, and only 1 of them are going to join the 40 other contestants to battle. The reward for getting the most votes at Cake at Stake is a Mangosteen, which Two calls a purple tomato (possibly referencing the yellow tomato used in BFDI 18 for the prize of the nominated contestant). Two says that everyone got over 200 votes, and Clock says that's good to hear, but Two interrupts him, saying that they were kidding and announces that Rubber Spatula only got 177 votes. Rubber Spatula is shocked and says nobody likes them, but Pen assures them by implying that over 100 people liked them more than anyone, and tells Rubber Spatula to tell the voters how thankful they are. Rubber Spatula starts naming every single voter's name while TV shows the voters' names, but Two interrupts and tells them to hurry up twice. Rubber Spatula quickly says the rest of all their voters' names, and Two asks if they're finished and claps their hand to make the tile underneath them fall.

The RCs gasp and Two tells Shampoo that they won't be joining too with only 240 votes. Shampoo tries to thank all their voters, but Two gets annoyed and makes the tile underneath Shampoo fall before they can go any further. Two then tells Kitchen Sink, Scissors, and Snare Drum that they didn't make the cut, and the tiles drop underneath them. Scissors gets stuck above the hole and says that they always make cuts, but the surrounding tiles drop around them and they fall. Two tells Conch Shell, Boom Mic, and Clapboard they didn't make the curtains, but Clapboard makes the same pun, and Two gets upset. Clapboard gets Two's attention and drops the tiles underneath them. Camera tells them, "See you in post-production!".

Two informs the 18 remaining RCs that each of them got over 1,000 votes. Clocks thinks that Two is lying, but Two actually told the truth this time and tells Leek that they only got 1,014 votes. Leek is disappointed that Two didn't give them a nickname and the tile under them falls. Two next tells 9-Ball that they only got 1,033 votes, but 9-Ball says that number is hard to spell and doesn't really care, and the tile underneath them falls. Two reveals that Camera, Blender, and Onigiri didn't get enough votes, but struggles when trying to give Onigiri a nickname. Camera gets embarrassed and tells Blender to hide their lens with the lens cap that Onigiri has in their mouth, then the tiles underneath them fall.

Two informs the final remaining RCs that there are only 13 of them left, and Discy replies, "Finally!". Two says, "Eager now, aren't we?", and Discy replies, "Um, yeah!", so Two makes everyone wait for the results, but then promptly says that Discy is out, and the tile falls underneath them when they say, "Wait!". Two next reveals that VHSy, Income Tax Return Document, Salt Lamp, and PDA all didn't get the most votes. The tiles underneath them simultaneously fall, and Income Tax Return Document replies, "You'll pay for this, Two!", and PDA replies, "Yeah, and we won't help you figure out how much!". Two responds by telling PDA that they know how to use a pencil. Ice Cube looks at Two angrily, with a growing frown. Cloudy asks Ice Cube what's wrong, to which she replies, "Pencil!".

Shopping Cart tells the remaining RCs that they're the final 8, and the remaining RCs all get cheerful. Two reveals that Anchor only got 2,265 votes, and was about to drop the tile, but Anchor insisted on eliminating themself by slamming into the ground, and Two thanks them. Two also reveals that Tape got out, but Two pronounced it as "Tapy" because of how they give nicknames. Due to this, Foldy mistakes "Tapy" as "Stapy" and gasps, but Basketball tells her that Two said "Tapy" and not "Stapy". Two claps their hands to remove the tile under Tape, but they taped themself to a surrounding tile to prevent them from falling. Tape tells Two that they are stuck with them, but Two peels the tape and shook it off their hand, and Tape falls. Two says, "Shopping Cart?", which implies that they are going to get eliminated, but Shopping Cart says, "Aw! Looks like I didn't get in!". Two comforts Shopping Cart by telling them that they didn't say that they didn't debut, so Shopping Cart thought they won the debut, but Two denied that and awkwardly drops the tile underneath them. After, Two says, "Battery and Avocado! You—", but Avocado interrupts Two by saying they know they didn't make it, and Two should learn a thing or two about suspense, and they both jump down where Shopping Cart fell.

Two informs the veterans that there are three remaining RCs: Winner, Nonexisty, and Price Tag, but Nickel says to Two that they can only see two. Two says that they are flattered that Nickel finds them so attention-grabbing, but then points out the final 3 is "over there", then tells Winner and Price Tag to make room for Nonexisty. Two reveals the next one out is Price Tag, and drops the tile underneath them. Two reveals the final two, and Winner ends up winning the debut, almost 3 times the amount of votes that Nonexisty got. Two gives Winner the mangosteen, and they ingest it.

Just as Two is about to have Winner join, they realize that with Winner joining, they added 40 and 1 (40 + 1) to realize that there are now 41 contestants. Winner questions what is wrong with 41, and Two says that 41 is a prime number. Winner then asks if prime numbers are illegal where Two is from. Two is confused and tells that even 2 is a prime number, and is told that he is "a even prime" by Tennis Ball. However, Tennis Ball's quote embarrasses both Two and Winner, possibly due to its grammatical error (a even prime, instead on an even prime). Marker then asks what is wrong with primes. Fanny answers him by saying that they are impossible to divide up equally (because a prime number's factors are only 1 and itself). Two then points out that there can't be a prime number of contestants because then the teams won't have equal amounts of people. Golf Ball points out the nearest composite numbers are 40 and 42, and since no one wanted to quit, they would add in the second most voted debuter to make the contestant count 42. Unfortunately, the second most voted RC was Nonexisty, which didn't affect the count as Nonexisty equaled 0 due to being a non-visual character, so the RC who received the third most votes, Price Tag, was added to the competition instead, equaling 1 and bringing the total number of contestants up to 42.

Creating the teams
Two orders the contestants (except Black Hole) to board the elevator inside one of the Bathrooms. Nickel asks what teams they will form, and Two suggests forming 6 teams of 7. Donut says he's sticking with Barf Bag, and Naily says she's sticking with Bomby, but not on the same team as Donut and Barf Bag as he expected. Coiny, Pin, and Needle join with Donut, with the intent of getting W.O.A.H. Bunch back together again.

The camera cuts to Clock and Cake, Clock looks at Winner and exclaims "It's Winner! You guys remember Winner right?" Cake and Eggy say no, and Clock explains that Loser and Winner were a duo during the start of Loser's career. However, Loser eventually went solo and hit the mainstream, and Winner was forgotten. Eggy then claims she's more into Loser's recent work. Clock says to Eggy, "Well, suit yourself, but, I'm not gonna miss out." Naily invites Cake to their team (because Cake was sad), and Cake accepts. Tennis Ball and Golf Ball stick together and Basketball joins too, Puffball complains that they forgot she was a ball when they created A Better Name Than That, a team that supposedly had "all of the balls", and forcefully joins Golf Ball's team, even if they didn't accept her. Fries joins too, Eraser along with him. Pen looks at Eraser's team.

Tree suggests that Death P.A.C.T. should just stay the same since they coincidentally have 7 people. Everyone is on board, but Pen, wanting to be with Eraser knowing he has a chance to do so, is hesitant, and even though Pie tries convincing him to stay, he splits off to join Eraser. Fanny replaces him (due to Pen calling Death P.A.C.T. haters), and Tree notices that Pillow is gone. Pen joins Eraser and asks about Blocky, Fries tells him that Blocky stayed in BFB and that their team has 7 people already, Golf Ball complains about all the "useless people" the team has. So Basketball splits off, leaving a spot open, and joins Robot Flower and Grassy. TV takes the open spot in Golf Ball's team.

Rocky teams with Yellow Face and Cloudy. Saw tells Gaty that she misses Lollipop and Taco, and they team up. Book is rejected by them, as she is told that she needs to meet new friends so she can "be better" despite already trying to redeem her actions since BFB 14. Book invites Ice Cube, which she also rejects, even while Book saved her back in the same episode. Pillow suddenly picks her up and starts reading her. Ice Cube joins Winner's team, and Saw and Gaty join Barf Bag's because they have zigzags, Lightning says he's a zigzag too. Snowball asks to team up, but Lightning rejects and leaves him.

Naily lets Price Tag join her team (saying that they look "epic") and they both show their cat faces (to confirm if Price Tag is epic). Snowball tries to join but gets kicked by Naily in offense about her being armless. Bell and Foldy team-up. Marker tries to join but gets kicked out by Bell, and instead joins Lightning, which he reluctantly agrees to do so since he declined of being friends with him back in BFB 1. Basketball invites Eggy, Bell, and Foldy to their team. Cloudy and Winner connect teams and Bottle splits off from Death P.A.C.T. and joins them (to have fun), making a full team. Pillow puts Book down and Book tells her not to read her, but Pillow states she was just looking at the pictures. Pillow and Book then join Naily and Taggy's team and Book begins talking to Bomby, reminding him they were both cranking the HPHPRCC back in BFDIA 5d, as well as inviting Nickel, reminding him if the same thing, making another full team. Lightning and Marker join Death P.A.C.T as they accept students in preventing death. Eggy tells Basketball that there is only one contestant that hasn't been picked yet: Snowball, who joins Eggy's team, much to Basketball's disgust.

Naming the teams
After joining, Snowball, out of pride from himself, says the team must be The Strongest Team on Earth. Lightning then realizes that they’re already picking team names, and after thinking what they should name themselves, Black Hole says "Isn't it obvious? Let's just be Death P.A.C.T. again," naming the team on purpose but lodging the word "Again" in accidentally. Pen wants his team to be Death P.A.C.T. Again as well, despite having split from them to join with Eraser, but Golf Ball stops him, and almost chooses a name accidentally as she did in BFDI 9 and BFB 1. She stops herself prompting not to say another word, but Tennis Ball asks her "Are You Okay?" and chooses the name by accident, much to her disappointment. Coiny, Pin, Needle, and Donut think their team's name should be W.O.A.H. Bunch but Gaty and Barf Bag disagree and suggest that they should be The Zig-zags. The two sides erupt into an argument, and Saw tries to intervene, but accidentally slipped and shouted "we're team-EIGHT-s!", from having sniffed on 8-Ball's fumes in BFB 8 and named themselves the Team8s. Clock suggested their team name be "The Winners!", but Winner says that they don't want their name to be in the team name, which Clock understood and omits "Winner" from the team name, leading it to become The S!. Price Tag says the other team names are stupid and Book tells them that as long as they are careful they can avoid choosing it by accident. Cake and Nickel agree, and so does Naily, replying "we're Just Not", ironically naming her team by accident as well.

Challenge
Eggy informs Two that the teams are named, and Two reveals he was going to give them names. Eraser goes up to Two and asks what the first challenge is. Two says they were about to announce it but got distracted thinking about how ugly the area looked. They ask where the plants are, and Eggy explains that everything got burnt up by the overflowing lava from BFB 14. Two asks what color the trees and the grass were, and Remote says "green and yellow", causing Two to misinterpret her words, making the grass yellow and the trees green. Remote was about to tell Two to switch the colors but Naily says they look nicer like this, and Two begins the new intro. After the intro, Two says that the contest is to get to the top of the tower. Every member of the team has to get to the top to win immunity, and the last team to get all of their members to the top would be up for elimination. Two flies to the top of the tower, and once they are at the top, he tells the contestants that once they get up to the top, they aren't allowed to go back down. No one hears them, though, so no one is aware of this rule.

Lightning says he won't forget to fly, flying to the top of the tower to then celebrate the victory. Tree says "What about us?", but he can't hear them. Remote gives Tree a megaphone, and Tree yells up to Lightning again, asking "What about us, how are we going to get up?" Lightning attempts to fly back down to carry them, but he is unable to go back down due to Two's powers. Two then tells her that going back down is not allowed. Meanwhile, Are You Okay tries to climb onto Puffball, but they can't fit, leaving Golf Ball to say that there really wasn't enough room up there, referencing Gelatin's quote, used multiple time in BFDIA. TV suggests using the trebuchet Tennis Ball used in BFB 1 but because it had been damaged by the lava, Tennis Ball had to go create a new one. Cloudy is carrying Rocky, but he can't go very fast because Rocky will fall through him and puke on him. Grassy and Robot Flower hop onto Bell, floating up to the top. Grassy and Robot Flower hop off, but Bell is also unable to go back down due to Two. Eggy directs Basketball's attention to The S!, who has Winner throwing Yellow Face to the top. Eggy suggests throwing people, and Snowball volunteers to throw, because he has arms. Eggy suggests Foldy. Foldy says she's one of the lightest contestants but is worried because of how windy it is. Snowball ignores her, picking her up and throwing her, causing her to fly around in the wind.

Basketball sees Just Not entering the building, telling them they'll lose if they take the stairs. Naily calls her stupid, telling her they're using the elevator, leaving Basketball shocked she didn't think of that. Eggy stays to watch Foldy while Basketball and Snowball chase after Just Not. Just Not manage to get in the elevator before it closes, but Basketball and Snowball aren't able to. Snowball pries the door open, causing the elevator to stop. Basketball heads inside the elevator shaft to try and fix the elevator.

Marker tells his team about the broken elevator. He suggests using Fanny to blow them up, but Pie explains that Fanny's propeller isn't strong enough to blow them all up. Remote then exclaims she has a plan, grabbing Marker and uncapping him. She draws a visual representation of her plan on the wall, explaining that they can run up the stairs, jump out, and be flung to the top due to Black Hole's gravity. Pie points out she's vandalizing the wall, but Marker tells them his ink is washable. Death P.A.C.T. Again runs up the stairs, excluding Black Hole. Book hears their footsteps, and Cake asks them to get them out. Pie asks if they're dying. Cake says no, and Pie leaves them behind. Meanwhile, with Are You Okay, Tennis Ball has fixed the trebuchet, now making it more like a catapult. Puffball shoots them off, but it overshoots, causing them to land on a tree, which launches them back. They begin to go back and forth. Fries' fries fall out, so Puffball grabs Fries and uses him to catch the team and drop them on the roof, making Are You Okay the first team safe.

Winner continues to throw their teammates up. Bottle shatters when she hits the ground. Clock kicks Yellow Face over, using him as a cushion to prevent Ice Cube from dying as well. Clock asks Two if Bottle counts even though she's dead due to her corpse landing on the roof. Two asks if it should, and Clock says it should, so Two says it counts. Winner overshoots with Rocky, but Rocky propels himself onto the roof by barfing on Foldy. This causes Foldy to fall to the ground. Winner uses their arm to jump up the Bathrooms, making The S! the second team safe. Coiny claims he has a plan, grabbing Pin and using her sharp side to scale the Bathrooms. Barf Bag does the same with Needle, and Donut does the same with Saw. They ask how they'll get Gaty up, Saw asks Donut to hold her over the edge. Donut does so, allowing Gaty to use her magnetic hinges to float up to the top. This makes Team8s the next team safe.

Death P.A.C.T. Again is tired from climbing the stairs, so Tree asks if it's high enough. Remote throws a plant out the window, which goes into Black Hole, prompting her to say "Maybe we didn't think this through". Fanny puts one of her batteries into Remote, causing Remote to become super energized. She states that since they are already more than halfway up, they should just climb the stairs. At the bottom of the tower, Snowball pulls a random pulley, causing the elevator to drop. Basketball pushes Snowball out of the way, and the elevator bounces off of Basketball and to the top, making Just Not safe. The elevator comes to the bottom, now fixed. Eggy and Foldy run in, and the four head into the elevator. At the top floor, Marker presses the up button on the elevator as they pass by. They reach the top, rushing to the edge to get Black Hole. Tree shouts down, but Black Hole can't hear them because Black Holes aren't known for their sense of hearing. Lightning tells his team they can't go back down. Tree pulls out the megaphone Remote gave him but drops it into Black Hole. Remote takes out the battery Fanny gave her, and Tree throws it down and gets Black Hole's attention. Black Hole begins to fly up, but The Strongest Team On Earth gets to the top before him, making Death P.A.C.T. Again up for elimination. Everyone gets angry at Two for not projecting their voice enough, teaming up, and beating them up together.

Stinger
The stinger takes back 8 months ago, when Stapy and Liy are on the ground outside the EXIT, at the time when their escape plan from The Escape From Four fails.

Liy then gets up and announces that "It's time for Plan B", while Stapy knocks the tower down, revealing Firey Jr. was climbing it (Plus Roboty though he was among the stacked objects), knocking Four backward. Stapy and Liy enter the EXIT, Liy removes the boards from the door, and Pencil asks what they are doing. Liy says she was never able to see what was behind the door before Four boarded it up, and she unlocks the door with the staple she got from Stapy, then she opens the door with a white light ending with a cliffhanger, where BFDI:TPOT 2's stinger will most likely take place.

Debut votes
59,151 votes were cast for the debuts. The contestant with the most votes was Winner. However, since 40 + 1 equaled 41 which was a prime number, the contestants wouldn't be able to split up into equal teams. They needed another contestant to join in order to make it 42, which can be split equally. So, Nonexisty was initially chosen to join since they were the second most voted contestant. However, because Nonexisty was nowhere to be seen due to being a nonvisual character, Price Tag was chosen as Nonexisty's replacement instead. Therefore, Winner and Price Tag both joined TPOT, along with the 40 contestants that switched from Battle for BFB to Two's show.