[ WP ] Numbers 0-9 become self aware , and are refusing to work with one another to form the bigger numbers . What happens ?

Four startled me while I ate lunch in our dingy cafeteria. 
 
 *Hey Addi! How are you doing? Got a second? * 
 
 I never heard any of the numbers call me by my full name, Addition. But I guess things had been different this week since the numbers strike began. Usually they never showed much interest in me, unless they needed something. 
 
 *Yeah, I got a minute. What's up? * 
 
 *So I was wondering... can you maybe come over this evening, sometime after class? I want you to show me how to do that thing. You know... where you... * 
 
 *Make more of you? * I finished. *Yeah, I guess I can do that. * 
 
 *Thanks! You're the best. To be honest, I've been lonely ever since the uh, fight happened. The numbers are, well, were, my best friends but nobody talks anymore. I do n't know what to do. I figure with your help I could make more fours and at least I'd have some company. * 
 
 *I understand. I'll talk with EQ, see what we can do. See you tonight. * 
 
 My turkey and tuna sandwich sat untouched. EQ, or Equals as most knew him, was going to have a fit. He hated the numbers because they were the popular ones and he never got any credit in equations. And now I was going to have to convince him to let 4 + 4 equal something other than eight, since eight would n't cooperate with four. 
 
 **I do n't know how to move this forward! ** 

