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"I think Jumper's gonna be soooo mad at me when she finds out I let Wemmbu destroy his own college." One voice laughed.
Another sighed. "Well, serves you right for dragging me into this."
"Nah, you love us!" The first voice insisted. "I hope Wemmbu dies, and I hope your boyfriend dies." The second voice said, with a flat no-joking tone. A weird silence followed. Before the first voice opened their mouth again. "Are you talking about—?"
"I hope you accidentally bleach your hair the ugliest color." The second voice cut the first one off.
"4C, stop being such a bi—"
Eggchan groaned. He heard two voices bickering, their voices echoed among the vast area. He assumed, since their voices were pretty echo-y. He didn't know what was happening, what the two voices were talking about, who they were, and where he was.
He heard something about Wemmbu though..?
"What's going.. on.." He mumbled, rubbing his head. His vision started becoming clearer as he opened his eyes to see two figures in front of him. One of them wearing a resemblance of a clown costume. Though a bit more casual and less detailed. With a party hat resting on their head. The other person was a slime hybrid. Hair blue, skin blue, and goggles on their head. And a slightly annoyed expression.
"Who the heck are you people..?" He questioned, eyes darting between the two of them.
"So.. um.. hey! Eggchan!" The clown person waved. "I'm.. wait, can we say our names?" She looked over at the other person for confirmation. "Do whatever, Squiddo."
"Squiddo?"
The slime guy flinched a bit, but didn't say anything. "Too late for that then.." Squiddo muttered. "Yep! Hi, Squiddo," She gestured to herself. "I'm also Fabricator, the vigilante that broke into a bank with Wemmbu then became a criminal for a bit. Yeah, that's me." Then they turned towards the slime hybrid. "This is 4CVIT, guy that Wemmbu threatened to make a nuke? Remember?" 4CVIT didn't ring a bell to him. Was the guy even a vigilante? Or was he just some dude Wemmbu picked up from the street?
Either way, Wemmbu was lowkey kind of an ass for being him into the nuke business.
"Hi." 4CVIT greeted. Not so amused with Squiddo.
Egg shook his head. "Nah.. I kinda.. ignored most things that happened with superheroes.. since.. Wemmbu was being weird."
"Right, well, you're here now, do you remember what happened?" Squiddo asked.
"Uhh.."
He was on the battlefield.. spying on Wemmbu's fight with Flame. Then he got bonked on the head by a hammer. Is Squiddo holding a hammer? "You were the one who bonked me?" He pointed to her hammer.
The reason he was spying on Wemmbu was because he wanted to turn in his side of the paper.
"Wait, why the hell am I here?! Where am I?" He suddenly gained consciousness of what was going on. Squiddo rubbed the back of her neck before stepping back next to 4C. Who just sighed at his distress. "Did you guys kidnap me..?" The two of them were in front of him. In some dark alleyway. Was that not the perfect formula for a kidnapping? What other reason would Squiddo have knocked him out?
"Okay.. well, you're not.. kidnapped? I'd say.. but.. hm." Squiddo struggled to find words to describe it.
"You basically kidnapped him, Squiddo." 4C deadpanned. "Look, Eggchan, is that right?"
"Uh. Yeah?"
"All Wemmbu said was that we needed to take you away from the battlefield. He's pursuing that rivalry with the Immortal demon or whatever he does these days.." 4C sounded awfully tired, but he took a step back and pointed to the end of the alleyway. Or what looked like the street. "Why would Wemmbu tell you guys to do that? Is he like.. an idiot or something?!" Egg questioned.
"Oh my gosh I'm gonna fail.. I'm gonna fail.. because my partner was a freaking brick.." He sobbed. Mourning his previous grades.
"Squiddo..."
"I can try to do something about it.." They replied, unsure. "Hey! Um, on the brighter side.." Egg didn't look up from the floor. It was far too miserable to look anywhere but down. "We're here at an abandoned Chunk-E-Cheese..?" Squiddo seemed less confident and bright than before.
Egg blinked, then looked up, not caring about his previous opinion.
"Wait, what?"
"Yeah.. so like.." Squiddo shifted her feet around on the ground. "We um.. We kidnapped you cause Wemmbu told us," They said slowly. "That was all you, not me." 4CVIT corrected. "Uh, yeah right, and then we brought you to the Chuck-E-Cheese." 4C piped down at that one. So he probably helped bring Egg to the abandoned Chuck-E-Cheese.
"Do you.. wanna go play some games at said abandoned Chuck-E-Cheese...?" Squiddo offered.
Eggchan got off the ground, then he wiped off the dirt on his pants. His legs slowly waking up. "I can yell at Wemmbu later?"
"Yeah, sure man."
"Do whatever, that guy's a total scammer."
"Then yeah, sure, since I'm gonna fail tomorrow, might as well have fun before that." He agreed. Squiddo smiled, putting their hands up into the air, cheering, not so silently. 4C followed after her, not as enthusiastic. "Why did you choose a Chuck-E-Cheese specifically? Or was it just improvising the plan?"
"A mix of both.." Squiddo answered. "I thought it'd be funny to take you to Chuck-E-Cheese because Wemmbu told me to kidnap you." She chuckled.
Egg tilted his head. "It's a FNAF reference." 4C filled in the gap. "Ohh.." He nodded, reminded of the video game. "The one with animatronics..? Like.. Freddy Fazbear?" He recalled vaguely. "Yes! That's the one!" Squiddo confirmed. "What does Wemmbu have to do with FNAF?" That seemed to draw a laugh from Squiddo.
"Purple guy."
"Sorry?"
"Purple guy." 4C repeated. "Who?" Eggchan genuinely did not know what they were talking about. Was this a big inside joke he didn't get? He never played the games.. He does remember watching Wemmbu dress up as someone from—
"Wemmbu looks like purple guy. William Afton? I swear I convinced him to dress up as him one Halloween."
"The guy with a hat? That's purple guy?"
"Yup!" Squiddo said, sharply turning to face the abandoned Chuck-E-Cheese. "I think you need more FNAF in your life, Eggchan." She declared. "I could? But I sort of don't have time because Wemmbu is dumbass and hired you to bonk me on the head and I'm gonna fail my history class and why would you ever go along to kidnapping some dude you've never met before..?" The last part sounded more like a cry for help than a question.
Squiddo paused, looking at 4C, before opening their mouth to answer.
"Look, Egg, I'm really sorry," They emphasized. "But both me and 4C are in debt to Wemmbu. And there's honestly nothing we can do about it."
"So..? Just run away, that clown is not that hard to fight back against."
"Egg, you probably have no clue how Wemmbu is like, since you only know him when he's not murdering people." 4C joined the conversation. "He could probably kill us in a second, he has our money, our payment.. we didn't even profit from helping him nuke a place! Can you believe it..?" He spluttered out, almost as if it was so ridiculous, it was a joke.
"It's.. so annoying to know that we have to do favors for him all the time. I didn't want to help Squiddo move a knocked out innocent person! I didn't even want to help Wemmbu in the first place! But we have to! That's how the underground world works." He muttered.
Egg felt a surge of annoyance directed at Wemmbu.
At no point in his life, has Egg ever been really really mad at Wemmbu. He's a nuisance, he's lazy, he's sarcastic, he's shallow even. To other people, there'd be no reason to even be friends with him.
But Egg always knew that he was somehow the exception to all that. His jokes didn't bother him. When Wemmbu was slacking, all Egg had to do was scold him. If he ever really wants something, then he'll fight for it. If he cares, he cares more than you'd expect. And the lack of emotional empathy from his side is probably a psychological issue that he refuses to check out.
Despite that, Egg stayed, he endured, (if you wanted to be dramatic about it)
He wasn't going to leave now, no matter how much Wemmbu annoyed him. He was staying. And that was that.
Though now, Egg found himself more frustrated than ever.
Was Wemmbu seriously being that much of an ass? Squiddo and 4CVIT don't even seem like horrible people. They were both competent enough to kidnap Egg and they weren't bad people.
"Hey, you know what, I'd be pretty upset if I got kidnapped too, but.. can we try to go to the Chuck-E-Cheese?" Squiddo suggested.
"We're all a little bit tired of Wemmbu, so we don't have to think of Wemmbu! We can go to the Chuck-E-Cheese, we can ignore our problems for just an hour. Place shitty 8-Bit games that are probably discontinued by now. Does that sound like a plan?" They offered.
"Yeah, you know what, Wemmbu can catch a stray, I'll deal with him later." Egg walked up to the handle of the door.
"Seriously, the guy needs to learn how to take responsibility for his actions." 4C grumbled, following right behind Squiddo. He opened the door of the Chuck-E-Cheese.
The place didn't look abandoned.. It was just empty. Which didn't really surprise Egg all that much, since Chuck-E-Cheese was usually empty anyways. But the way that the yellow light of the broken rectangle lights hit the ground made Egg bothered. The way the spider webs in the corner of the walls looked like the would build up and continue forever. It was disturbing.
It was off-putting.
But at the same time, it was fun, Squiddo seemed to think that.
She ran into the area, hands up in the air, she was clearly enthusiastic about this. "Wait wait wait! Since this place is abandoned and I already have a criminal record I could just illegally turn this place into Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria!" They declared, their voice echoing throughout the whole building.
"I mean, sure, yeah! I'll support, how much would you make your pizza?" 4C questioned.
"If I buy a pizza, do I get to be spared from dying to animatronics?" Egg asked in theory. "Uh.. I don't know, if, and only if they're not hungry." Squiddo stepped to the back of the Pizzeria, the shadows making them look ominous. "But I'd make the pizzas pretty expensive. Getting pizza from the Freddy Fazbear is pretty big."
"Does that mean Freddy is the one serving us? And like.. making the pizza?"
Squiddo thought about it.
"I'm not sure 4C, but if you'd prefer Freddy, the.. you know, evil-robotic-killing-machine to serve it to you. Then yeah!"
After the hypothetical about Squiddo turning the place into Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria, Egg walked up to one of the arcade machines. The screen was black, and the lights along the sides of it were turned off. He grabbed onto the controller of the machine.
"Are any of these even on?" He kicked the bottom of it.
A booting up sound came from the machine.
"Didn't expect that to work..." He murmured, looking at the sign on the front of the machine. Flappy bird. Not that out-dated, but it's been a while since he's been to an arcade.
"You got one to work?" 4C looked over to his direction. "Yeah, I dunno, I just kicked it." He explained. "That definitely shouldn't have worked." He stated, skeptical. "Dunno man, it's just my greatness." He huffed, a joke. "I don't have the energy or capacity to try and understand the redstone behind this." He gave up after looking at it for about half a minute.
The next few minutes were just the three of them trying to turn on other machines. Squiddo ended up finding a Dance Dance Revolution game.
"4C, you and me! Right now! Dance off!" Squiddo yelled, leaving no room for 4C to argue. He clapped for both of them. Squiddo was actually really good at it, and 4C was keeping up. Egg had a chance to play, but Squiddo absolutely destroyed him. And when he went up against 4C, he found himself trying really hard, there was a chance. A really slim chance. But a chance nonetheless.
"Egg, you can't use your hands!"
"I think some players do it for harder songs.. but it's not illegal."
"Why don't you use it then?!"
"Because! Just dancing it off with my feet is a better experience!"
By the time they were done touring all of the games in the arcade, time had flown by. "What time is it exactly..? Do you guys have my bag?" He asked. "No, sorry." Squiddo shook her head. "You didn't have it when I bonked you on the head, so.. did you leave it in class or something?"
"It's 5:30 by the way."
"Oh, thanks. And um.. I might've left it on some bench? I'm pretty sure either Loppezz or Rejoice would've grabbed it." He thought out loud. "Want us to drop you off? Or.. I guess just me, since I sort of have to drop 4C back to his house." Squiddo offered.
"Really? Yeah, that'd be good. You have a car?"
"A van." They gestured their head to the white most kidnapper looking van he's ever seen."
"How did you.. not get caught?"
"No clue, man, but I didn't." Squiddo left it at that. "I don't know either.. Squiddo brought a whole body bag."
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That all led to Egg patching up a burnt Wemmbu back at his apartment.
"Tell me.. how you got burns all over your arms?" He asked, sliding the lid of the ointment cream. He had a few first aid things lying around, because Wemmbu would sometimes drop into his apartment after a fight. Of course, Eggchan learned that recently. Wemmbu didn't say much, kept his head down, and spaced out.
"Hello? Bro? You there?"
"I'm here."
"Okay, so then, did Fragger do this during your fight?" He asked. Wemmbu nodded. "Ugh.. I was so close! If I had just done one more attack! I was so close, Egg!" He complained. His voice cracking up. "He just left! He just straight up left! How could he do that? He talks about 'honor' or whatever but the second I had the upper hand he left! He left and I had to deal with Soar and Copy!"
"Did you get it out of your system?"
He sighed. "...yeah."
"How'd it go with Soar and Copy?" Egg asked, just trying to fill the air with sound. So it wouldn't be so awkward patching Wemmbu up after his fight.
"Soar and Copy are like.. horrible to deal with, bro. I try running away and Soar already figured out my route! There's like fifty clones about to jump me! By the time I beat all of them, Soar's already caught up to me by that point! I have no clue how he's the number one hero, literally all of his plans involve Copy!"
"Maybe because their hero partners?"
"Uh, yeah, Egg, I know that part. You can't have Copy without Soar. Just— I'm upset, okay? I'm upset that you followed me, I'm upset that Flame just straight up left, I'm upset that Soar actually knows how to do his job. I'm upset."
"Well then, just ignore Fragger? You know I'm pretty upset too. Right?"
Wemmbu tensed down. "Yeah I mean.. I guess."
"I practically failed history." He broke the news. "I don't think you did, you could just say you got kidnapped." Wemmbu chuckled.
"But I kind of wasn't. Being with Squiddo and 4C was kinda fun, we went to an abandoned Chuck-E-Cheese. We should go to an arcade with Loppezz and Rejoice sometime." He made a mental node. "I'm pretty sure Squiddo posted a picture of you being kidnapped on their Tiktok account. They're actually pretty popular for some reason."
"Like.. as Fabricator?"
"A burner phone."
"Could you like.. start paying them..?" Egg whispered.
Wemmbu went silent, the only sound being the bandages Egg wrapped tightly. Around the areas where Fragger pierced with his sword.
"I'll consider it."
It was a small victory, but it was a victory nonetheless.