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“Wait bro I’m still TIREDDDDDD”
“Wemmbu bro you need to get up, they might find us here”
“BUT I”M TIRED YUNGYYY”
“IDC BRO GET UP”
It had been a few hours since the group had settled down in the forest. They’ve already gotten Egg back due to a genius strategy Jaden came up with. The gist of the plan was to pull Egg’s stasis and get him to continuously set more pre-done stasis chambers to outdo the civilization. Though it was hard, they were able to get rid of all 16 chambers with the help of Egg finally locking in, and health pots.
“Bro Jaden, you actually pulled a genius move back there”
Wemmbu said as he flailed his legs to the annoyance of Yungwil.
“Thanks bro-”
“BRO, STOP IGNORING ME WEMMBU”
“BRO, I don’t get why we just have to immediately get out of here, like we have Egg now. If it comes to it I’ll just cook them with my mace!”
“That’s not IT bro, Arachnid’s civ has like THOUSANDS of soldiers, and even if they don’t bring them all, all the royalty are stacked with FULL netherite.”
Wemmbu scoffed at hearing this, true to his egoistic nature, he didn’t think much of these variables. He looked over to Jaden, trying to see if he agreed with him.
“I’m not gonna lie Wemmbu, I’m with Yungy with this one. Almost all our resources have been depleted already.”
“Are you serious bro, surely you’d agree with me right Egg?”
Egg, who had stayed silent this entire time, had no idea what they were talking about.
“Huh”
“Okay, y’know what bro. FINE. Lets go”
Following Wemmbu’s words the group began leaving the forest, where one set of Egg’s stasis had originally been hidden.
“How’d they even build this under the bedrock yo”
Egg commented as they all travelled in a random direction. Wemmbu stepped towards Egg with his hands behind his head.
“I was actually wondering that too, like how did they do that?”
Before anyone else could comment on it an Ender Portal appeared in front of them. Quickly, everyone got into a fighting stance, with Wemmbu and Jaden pulling out their maces, and Yungwill taking out his sword.
The person who came out had full netherite armor, a pure black skin, and a IGN that was a bunch of underscores. Along with them came a group of similar people without trims, and names that were a scramble of characters. The group lined up in a triangular like formation.
“You have been invited”
Parrot sat uncomfortably in the chair between Spoke and Jamato. There was a heavy, dark atmosphere between the two, you could practically see a dark aura around them. Not to mention silence that had lasted for way too long. Personally Parrot liked quiet spaces, but this was overwhelming. Should he say something? What would he even say? He could ask why the NOTCH he was brought here. Or he could ask who this guy beside him was. Or he could- y’know what lets just say something.
“So, uhm. Spoke?”
“Yea what’s up?”
“Uhh, so why did you bring me here?”
“Oh did I not tell you?”
“No, bro.”
Matter-fact, Spoke told him almost nothing. He thought back to the moment.
“Looks like everyone’s favorite avian has arrived!”
“Spoke? You're actually… Bro, I haven’t seen you in a while, how have you been?”
“Good man, can’t say the same about you however…”
Spoke looked Parrot up and down. His hair was messy, bruises littered most of his exposed skin, his wings looked unkempt, and he was practically covered in dirt. He didn’t comment on it though. Parrot was about to speak, noticing Spoke’s gaze but was cut off by him.
“Commander, go n’ find the other guy I told you about. Try not to be too aggressive, same method.”
With that _ left the room and closed the door behind him. Parrot then attempted to speak up again but was interrupted with Spoke grabbing his hand and sitting him down beside Spokes own chair, which was the throne, but Parrot guessed he didn’t mean anything with it.
“Now we wait!”
“Wha-”
He was ONCE AGAIN cut off by the sound of a pencil scratching horrible handwriting onto a piece of paper. Geez, this guy is pathetic. You would never assume he was the one that partook in taking down two big organizations that terrorized the server, or at least one did.
Bringing himself back into the present, he stared at Spoke, looking for an answer. Spoke thought with a finger on his chin.
“ Well, this might seem confusing, but I just wanted to hang out!”
“What?”
“Like I want all of us to just hang out, kinda like if we were friends in the, or my early days of Unstable.”
Spoke’s words seemed so childish, so carefree, yet it was solemn. Filled with the weight of an unobtainable reality.
“I… That’s sweet. What, who else are you inviting, I heard you were getting other people atleast.”
“My friend, that is a great question, I’m inviting everyone who has my charm! And others, if you want.”
“I see, so like everyone who was at the law fight. I get it.”
He looked over to the chair next to him which sat JamatoP in it. He looked familiar, wasn’t he Spoke’s friend back when he started messing with exploits?
“Is Jamato gonna be a part of it?”
Spoke paused at this. Would Jamato be a part of the reunion? They weren’t exactly friends, he was just his prisoner. He thought about lying to Parrot but decided to come clean given Jamato would probably say something. But before he could say anything Jamato’s voice came first.
“We’re not friends. Not anymore.”
“Wow those are the first words you’ve spoken since we came here.” Spoke remarked mockingly.
Jamato scoffed in reply.
Parrot wasn’t exactly surprised given the tension from earlier. But he was still curious given they used to be friends, at least he thought so. Parrot didn't speak another word until he looked back at Spoke. His earlier smile had drooped to a slight frown. He looked slightly uncomfortable, staring into nothing as Parrot observed him.
“You good Spoke?”
“Huh? Yeah I’m fine, don't you worry your little head about it!”
In reality Spoke wasn’t exactly fine. The words Jamato had spoken hit him in the wrong way. It wasn’t exactly a lie, but it didn’t feel like the truth. Not the comment of them not being friends anymore, they definitely weren’t. But were they even friends in the first place? He wouldn’t deny their past friendship, back when he felt safe around him, happy, comfortable. But it felt so foreign to him now. He couldn’t think about it at all. No, he lied, he always thought about it. Of the time before Jamato had left him. He constantly thought about it. He’d even had dreams about it. He still held on to it. He still had the hairstyle that he had cut to copy Jamato’s own as a prank. Though shorter due to Mapicc’s persuasion to cut it, he was always too scared to change it completely.
Wait, what was he even thinking about? He needs to focus, Parrot’s the one he should be talking to right now.
“Invited?, WDYM INVITED? Why is bro tryn’a aurafarm?”
Egg chuckled at Wemmbu’s comment.
“Holdup Wemmbu, this seems like a nice respectful young man looking for a civilized conversation, lemme entertain him.”
“Wha-”
“So by ‘invited’, what are you referring to, sirrrr- underscore, is someone hosting a tea party?”
“Yo Egg I don’t think this is the time to be joking around, he could be apart of Arachind civ.”
“Yea I agree with Yungy.”
“Bro you and Jaden are no fun, like let me have some fun yo.”
Wemmbu broke out into one of those obnoxious fits of laughter before locking in and bringing his attention back to the elephant in the room… or forest.
“So, are you apart of Spider Civ orrrr-”
“No, I am from an organization called ‘Null’ and our leader, Spokeishere, requests to see you.”
“Spoke?”
“Null, leader, Spoke? What the freak?”
“How many chapters did I miss bro”
“Who’s Spoke?”
Wemmbu slightly lowered his weapon and looked confused as he spoke.
“So like, first, how do I trust you? Seco-”
“Proof”
“Wha- Rude”
The Null commander ignored Wemmbu’s comment as he took out a rainbow lightning shaped charm. Wemmbu looked stunned by the charm, at first he was lost, but he realized instantly after. Like many others, he knew how the charm worked. He stared skeptically at the charm, observing for something that might’ve looked off. But everything was good, the runes, the enchantments, the shape I guess?
“Oh that’s the thing that Spoke gave us in the law fight.”
Jaden muttered.
“Yeah I remember that, but they took mine’s while they were chaining me up and it shattered so I don’t really have it anymore”
“I think I lost mines at sea when I was in Old Man Lynn’s base”
“Damn well, I still have mines”
“WHO IS SPOKE AND WHAT THE FREAK IS THAT”
The three jumped at Yungy’s sudden outburst.”
“Bro chill out Yungy, he’s just our friend”
“Oh”
An uncomfortable silence loomed among the four before the commander spoke up.
“Go through this portal, and I’ll bring you to him.”
“Okay, wait, when did we agree to go with you? Disrespectfully, we’re kinda busy, so go tell Spoke we won’t make it or something”
“I don’t believe you have a choice.”
Wemmbu scoffed at this, raising his mace along with the other two.
“Says who exactly?”
“There are over 50 players who are presumably a part of Arachnid Civilization coming in this direction from the west.”
Wemmbu and the others tensed up at this.
“What? How do we know you’re not lying.”
“I have scouts everywhere, and you wouldn’t want to take the risk now would you?”
Wemmbu was about to retaliate before Jaden, one of the only sensible people there, spoke up.
“I’m pretty sure taking this offer wouldn’t be too bad, besides we don’t exactly have a goal right now, except to get away. This is like, the perfect opportunity”
“Oof, I’m with Jaden with this one Wemmbu I’m not gonna lie.”
“OH MY, bro.”
He looked over to Egg, who was playing with the insects that were flying around him. Wemmbu was absolutely dumbfounded, sighed and hesitantly complied.
“Not to mention I– OH, look who finally joined us! Our favorite Libertarion!”