The episode opens with an announcement from Caine stating that today's adventure is sponsored by the Favorite Character Awards.

Jax and Pomni walk around the circus when they come across Zooble hiding inside a flowerpot. Zooble says they are hiding from Caine because they don't want to take part in his next in-house adventure. Jax calls loudly for Caine, who zooms over and snaps Zooble out of the pot. Caine says they need even numbers for the team adventure he has planned.

Over at the stage, Caine tells the cast that they will be playing special sports of his own invention.
Zooble cuts Caine off, refusing to play on a team with Jax. When Caine asks why Zooble always complains, Zooble brings up the suggestion box, which Caine has now gotten rid of. Pomni seconds Zooble's motion, but Caine says he doesn't like the suggestion box.

When Zooble says they wish they could have sex, a shocked silence follows, and Caine starts to spasm and glitch out for a minute. When Caine recovers, Zooble reiterates their belief that a team game isn't going to work with a troublemaker like Jax.
Sensing the tension in the group, Caine proposes that they do a trust exercise in which one character will unload a gun and then give it to another character to put against their own head, but Zooble refuses to do that with Jax. Caine gives the gun to Jax, but Jax wasn't paying attention to the instructions. Caine grabs Jax and tries to implant the instructions into his mind, but Jax ignores the rules and shoots Ragatha.
Once again, Zooble complains about the adventure, and Caine comes up with new rules: there will be three teams of two, they each have three lives, and the last team standing wins. Caine gives the cast five minutes to figure out the teams on their own. Jax tries to take Gangle for his team, but Gangle teams up with Zooble instead. Jax tries to bully Gangle into coming with him by stealing her comedy mask, but Zooble easily snatches it away from him and Gangle goes with them.

Pomni asks if Ragatha wants to team up with her, but Ragatha is concerned about how Kinger would fare if he teamed up with Jax. Pomni seems happy about the prospect of teaming up with Kinger again, but then Ragatha realizes that arrangement would force her to team up with Jax. Seeing her concern, Pomni offers to be on Jax's team, allowing Ragatha to team up with Kinger. Ragatha looks concerned about this idea too but doesn't have any other option. Ragatha tries to tell Pomni that she can talk to her if she ever needs help with anything, but both of them look a bit awkward as they part. Gangle asks Zooble to hold on to her comedy mask for her when they play the game.
The game begins. Ragatha is dismayed to see that she only has two lives due to Jax shooting her before the game started. The teams split up to look for the guns.

On Team Pew-Pew, Kinger soon finds an automatic pistol. When Ragatha mentions the fact that she only has two hearts while everyone else has three, Kinger creates a glowing butterfly that brings Ragatha back up to full life.

On Team Bad Guys, Jax and Pomni find a revolver. As they discuss strategy, Pomni suggests that she will find guns and let Jax do all the fighting. Jax asks why Pomni is so reluctant to shoot anyone when that is literally the goal of the game. Pomni says she doesn't want to hurt her friends.
As Pomni ponders this idea, Jax encourages her to cut loose and try something wild today. Pomni tries out the cartoon physics by giving the gun a twirl and then shooting one of the tin cans. To her surprise, she is far more accurate when shooting in a cartoony style than she was when she tried to shoot with proper technique. Inspired, Pomni decides to have fun acting destructive today.

Kinger loses a heart when he gets sniped by Zooble. Stuffing flies in all directions when Ragatha gets blasted by Jax and Pomni. Ragatha respawns and takes cover. She grabs a gun, but unfortunately it turns out to be a "Bang!" Flag Gun, and she is quickly shot again by Jax. Ragatha runs into a colorful hallway, but Jax soon corners her. When Jax tries to shoot her, Ragatha sticks her finger into the barrel of his revolver, causing it to backfire on him and take one of his hearts.
Out of lives, Ragatha is sent to the Loser Corner: a dark room with an aquarium and some bleachers.

Pomni tells Jax that Kinger only has one life left.

Team Unmasked continues looking for weapons. Zooble finds an assault rifle, but Gangle is still holding out for a Tommy gun. Gangle wonders if Jax will be angry at her for not teaming up with him and worries what his revenge against her might be.
As Pomni and Jax search for the others, Pomni asks why Jax is afraid of corn. It turns out that Jax possibly has some form of trypophobia. They stumble across Kinger, who is hiding in a doorway leading to a pitch-black room. A shootout commences, illuminated only by the muzzle flare of the guns (and a lighter when Kinger stops to reload). Jax accidentally shoots Pomni at one point. Kinger tries his super ricochet move, in which the bullet bounces all over the room, but when the lights come on, it turns out this only succeeded in hitting Kinger himself, and now he is out of lives.Kinger arrives in the Loser Corner, where he sees that Ragatha is looking very sad.
Kinger tries to talk things through with Ragatha. Ragatha feels like no one else likes her at the circus, and though she has tried to connect with Pomni, she worries that Pomni is drifting away from her.
Kinger recalls how he used to hate himself due to all the feelings of guilt he was carrying, but his outlook started to change after Ragatha arrived in the circus. He encourages Ragatha to take care of herself too while she's worrying about everyone else. Ragatha wonders why Kinger is so uncharacteristically wise and coherent. Their conversation is interrupted by Bubble, who has been filming them on a video recorder.

Pomni and Jax pursue Zooble and Gangle through the tube. Both teams are almost completely out of ammo, but Gangle suddenly finds the Tommy gun. With her comedy mask on, Gangle rushes out, shooting wildly with her Tommy gun while she laughs maniacally. The Tommy gun completely fails to hit anyone, but the bullets cut through the tube, which falls apart. Everyone falls onto the ground below. Gangle is elated when she manages to land without breaking her mask, but Pomni quickly snatches Zooble's sniper rifle and loads it with the one sniper shot she had found earlier. Pomni takes Gangle out of the game with a quick headshot. Unarmed, Zooble runs to their room and locks the door. While Pomni and Jax tauntingly sing "Daisy Bell" outside their door, Zooble rummages through their chest of parts, attaching extra arms to their body. They then notice that some weapons have spawned inside their room…

Jax takes out the key to Zooble's room when suddenly Zooble leaps out, their four arms each holding assault weapons shooting rapidly and riddling Team Bad Guys with bullets. Zooble takes off down the hall, while Pomni and Jax respawn, both on their last lives.

Pomni rushes out after Zooble. Taking note of the one bullet remaining in her revolver, Pomni does a dramatic flourish and fires. Her bullet ricochets all over the place, somehow managing to precisely disarm all four of Zooble's weapons.
Jax and Pomni finish off Zooble, who arrives in Loser Corner to see that everyone else is dressed like a cat for some reason.

Pomni hugs Jax, saying they made a good team. Jax looks uncomfortable being hugged and shrugs her off, saying their competitors weren't anything special. Still in character as "Pomni the Evil", Pomni theatrically suggests that they betray each other now, pointing her gun at Jax. Jax just tosses his gun away and tells her to go ahead, but it doesn't feel fun to Pomni if Jax isn't playing too. Pomni suggests they can just celebrate their victory as a team, but Jax suddenly says they were never a team, and that Pomni was delusional to think otherwise. Pomni is hurt to think that what felt like bonding to her didn't feel that way to Jax. Jax flippantly denies them being friends and keeps deflecting. Pomni gets upset at Jax's refusal to show any genuine emotion and says that behavior like this might contribute to abstraction. Jax laughs bitterly, and anger starts to show in his voice, despite the grin on his face.
Jax recovers and tries to return to his usual demeanor. Pomni apologizes for what she said, but both of them are shaken.
Pomni turns away, crushed. As she looks at the gun in her quivering hand, Jax says she just can't take a joke. This causes Pomni to snap. She throws the gun at Jax, then throws herself at him, grabbing him by the throat and then biting him, yelling at him to fight back. Jax finally throws her off.
Later, the characters all go to a theatre where the Favorite Character Awards are being held. While everyone takes their seats, Jax suddenly starts to have a panic attack, and runs to the bathroom. As he stands at the sink, the pupils in his eyes become mere scribbles, and he breathes heavily, spiraling out of control. Jax manages to calm down and is distracted by Disappearing Guy.

Caine gives Zooble the award for biggest sailor mouth. Pomni looks nervously at the back of the theatre where she sees Jax go back to his seat, now with his usual grin. Caine announces that he himself has won the award for favorite character, but then realizes he misread the card, and the winner is actually Ming.
After the credits, Caine checks to see how many votes he got, and when he sees he didn't get any, he glitches for a moment.