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When Red begann to regain consciousness he noticed something weird. He didn‘t feel exhausted or in pain like he did before he passed out. How is that even possible, TDL had beaten him up so hard that if he was brought to a hospital he‘d be there for weeks of not months. Red squinted his eyes trying to get some feelings into his eyelids to open them, then he heard a voice starting to talk.
„Oh I think…he is waking up.“, they talked slow in a quiet voice but it sounded way more gentle than TDLs voice. Then unmistakingly TDLs voice cut through „Fucking finally, I don‘t have all day waiting for that brat to wake up. He better start telling me about the plan or else he wouldn‘t live to see another day.“, TDL said with a bit of a chuckle, which made Red even more nervous.
„Dark…cut it out,“, the other voice shot back a bit annoyed before turning back to Red „Kid would you please…open your eyes? For your own…good.“, Red could feel their hand softly pat him on the back and he opened his eyes.
When he opened them he came face to fa with TCO, who offered him a small apologetic smile. //What is going one? I-I thought TCO was under the control of The Dark Lord, why is he so nice?//, Red wondered. He lifted himself up, to his surprise with quite ease, and leaned against the wall. Then he looked at both TDL and TCO.
„How am i all healed up and why is Mr. Chosen here?“,Red asked with suspicion. „Please just…call me Chosen and dark brought me…here to heal you up.“,TCO explained calmly. Well this explains Reds first two questions but not how TCO is out out TDLs mind control „But how did you get out of The Dark Lords mind control, i didn‘t think that was possible.“.
TCO was about to answer but was cut of by TDL, who has gotten impatient at this point „That‘s none of your damn business brat and your not the one who gets to ask questions here.“. He walks past TCO to Red and grabs him by the chin, forcing Red to look up into TDLs eyes. „So, will you be a good kid and tell me what i want to know this time or do you need another beating?“, TDL did that fake nice guy voice that he had used on Red before trying to manipulate him.
//Alright now is the moment for my fake story// „NO, NO, NO! PLEASE DON‘T BEAT ME UP AGAIN, I P-PROMISE I‘LL TELL YOU EVERYTHING!“, Red was trying to act as terrified as possible that one might think he wants to win an Oskar for it, but it seems to work because TDL got a pleased expression on his face. Even TCO seems to have bought the act if his look of shock and pity (the kind of pity where you actually feel bad for the person and feel their pain), if it weren‘t for TDL standing right in front of him Red would have patted his shoulder for that performance.
Putting on the fake nice voice again TDL let go of Reds chin and placed his and on Reds shoulder as of to comfort him „Aw don‘t worry kid, everything will be just fine as long as you give me what i want.“, he squeezed Reds shoulder to make the underlining threat more clear. Red nodded frantically and pretended to calm himself down.
„M-Me and my-y friends were-, were planning to f-free orange an-and defeat y-you with his powers and some i-items from Minecra-“, before Red could finish the word he saw TCO behind TDL shaking his head and making a hand gesture to tell Red to not say Minecraft. TDL turned to TCO when he notice where Red was looking and TCO quickly looked away.
„Alright, but what did you mean when you said that ‚phase.1‘ and ‚phase.2‘ were already going smoothly?“, TDL asked dropping the nice act. „Well w-what i ment with t-that was that since w-we are friends with s-some of the Mobs there, we tri-tried to find them and ask them if they cloud h-help us and both worked.“, now that Red thought about it they should have actually done that.
TDL looked at Red for a while trying to see if he‘s lying or not „Well thanks kid for rattling out your friends, i‘ll make sure to tell who betrayed them when i find and kill them.“, he said with a sharp laugh and stood up making his way to the door.
That actually made Red freeze „W-Wait, what do you mean killing them? Won‘t you just imprison them like you did with me?“, TDL looked back at him and rolled his eyes. „Fuck no, I already got you and the orange brat imprisoned, the hell I need the other three for and besides they don‘t react as funny to being tortured like you two do.“, he laughed and ignored the displeased look TCO directed to him.
„Have fun dealing with your guilt brat!“, TDL said loudly and left the cell. TCO waited until he was far enough before he tossed a folded paper to Red. Before Red could ask any questions, TCO made a sign for him to be quiet and left the cell as well closing the door behind himself.
After a few minutes Red opened the paper and saw that it was a detailed instruction of Mitsis infiltration plan, plus an explanation as to why TCO was out of the mind control. //This is amazing! We actually have a chance of winning against The Dark Lord!//, Red thought with excitement and hope.
//Just you wait Dark Lord, we‘re gonna kick your ass!//