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Waking up Wemmbu felt more rested than he had in years. I mean going to bed at 12 and waking up at 5 was never good for him and he knows that. But who can blame him? He’s a villain for gods sake! They are literally known for doing crime late at night to avoid the worst and most annoying heroes.
Speaking of which he really didn’t want to deal with any heroes today. Although that Rejoice guy seemed really familiar? I wonder why… Oh well he probably just saw him on the news or something…
Dr3@m: Good morning Wemmbu! Please head down stairs to begin today's challenge!
‘Bro Dr3@m why it’s only like 7 in the morning’ Wemmbu complains as he drags himself out of bed.
Dr3@m: Dude it’s like 10 in the morning. I was being generous by letting you and whoever else wanted to sleep in.
‘10 AM!? WHY DIDN’T YOU WAKE ME UP!?’ Wemmbu shouts, momentarily stunned before rushing to get ready.
Dr3@m: You legit needed the sleep bro, you aint hiding those eyebags from anyone…
‘Rude’ Wemmbu comments before practically sprinting downstairs hoping he's not the last one.
And, of course he's the last one. Everyone is already sitting down at the table eating breakfast and talking to each other. Wait what..? Since when did everyone start talking to each other? Ignoring that I guess…
Wemmbu makes his way over to Egg who was talking with- what were their names again? Right, Rejoice and Loppezz. Bro what is with everyone being super friendly this morning?
“Yo, Egg” He calls out. Beginning to sit down beside him.
“ Yo whats up sleeping beauty! You should meet Rejoice and Loppezz. They made breakfast for everyone.” Egg finishes sliding Wemmbu a plate.
“1, rude, I am not a sleeping beauty. 2, thanks I guess.” Wemmbu says as he starts stuffing his face with food.
“Brother, that is not how we say thank you.” Egg deadpans.
“Holy shit this food is really good.”
“We're glad you like it!” Rejoice responds happily!
Wemmbu was about to say something else but got cut off by a system announcement
???: GOOD MORNING PLAYERS!!!!!
???: It’s lovely to meet you all!!! I have a little message for you all! But first…
???: I am T3m1! A friend of Dr3@m’s!
T3m1: Now let’s begin today's challenge!!!
Everyone tensed up at the mention of another challenge.
‘Would it be like yesterday's challenge? It was good learning everyone's names and power outside of their heroes or villain aliases, for information of course. But it was not fun revealing my own.’ Wemmbu started to also get a little nervous thinking about yesterday.
T3m1: Well If you couldn’t tell already, I am much nicer than Dr3@m… So I will be giving you guys much easier and much more fun challenges!
Everyone in the room noticeably relaxed at the mention of easier challenges.
T3m1: So… You all will be having a.. Friendly sparring contest! I will be picking your sparring partner of course!
Wemmbu perked up at that. Fighting? That's like his favorite thing ever, other than hanging out with Egg, obviously.
Although having the what is it? Second system? Yea that sounds right. Having the second system; T3m1 picking their sparring partner didn’t sound overly fun.
Parrot raised his hand like they were in school and waited to ask a question.
T3m1: Yes Parrot?
“Uhh what about those of us who can’t really fight or just don’t prefer to fight? Cause I would not like to go against someone like Flame.”
T3m1: Oh right I forgot, opps! Partners will be picked based on skill! So people like Mane, Flame, Wemmbu, etc, etc, will have strong opponents! Meanwhile those of you who aren’t the best at fighting will have partners with equal skill sets.
T3m1: Also, Rejoice! You will be sitting out. In the odd case someone gets hurt we- I mean I need you to heal them!
“That’s alright, new friend!’ Rejoice exclaims. Seeming content with not having to battle anyone, but still being able to help people.
T3m1: Now that that’s all settled… To the training room!
In The Training Room…
“Yo look at all the wooden weapons” ManePear yells running in to get a better look.
“They have wooden maces!? How do they get that?” Wemmbu shouts equally excited
“Bro there is no way you're using your stupid cheat weapons bro, like bro.” Flame deadpans yet still obviously looking excited at the mention of weapons.
“ Bro, shut up big broth-Flame bro.” Wemmbu yells almost slipping up.
‘God i’m really pathetic aren’t I? It’s been 5 years, I shouldn’t care so much.’ Wemmbu thinks, angry at the almost major mistake.
Flame notices the slip up but chooses not to comment as T3m1 starts talking again.
T3m1: Now now, everyone! We need to make the groups! Remember this is based on skill level and just for fun! Now the groups will be:
Squiddo vs Egg
Lomedy vs Wifies
Bramzy vs Lettuce
Parrot vs Spoke
Jumper vs Saps
Loppezz vs Zam
Reina vs Boosfer
Ash vs Leo
Minute vs Jaden
Mapicc vs Theo
Mane vs Clown
And finally…
Wemmbu vs Flame!
“You ready to lose Flame?” Wemmbu asks in a mocking tone, picking up the wooden mace.
“You wish Wemmbu. I’m beating you like I always have.” Flame responds, picking up the wooden sword.
T3m1: Wait, wait, wait, slow down you two! We're going to go in the order I announced them so you two will be last and Squiddo and Egg will be first.
Flame and Wemmbu both nod in agreement although they look annoyed not being able to spar first.
T3m1: Oh yeah! Also I’ll be disabling powers so you guys don’t cheat. Except for Rejoice of course!
Nobody minds the fact powers are disabled considering this is a sparring contest not a true fight between two people.
Although there's two people who question how the second system will disable their powers.
Parrot whispers to Wifies: Bro how does the system disable our powers? Aren’t we like, born with them or?
Wifies whispers to Parrot: I don’t know bro, but we should try to figure that out later.
Parrot whispers to Wifies: Alright bro, lets go to the library later.
Wifies whispers to Parrot: Ok, we should focus on the sparring matches though. It’ll help us get a better grip on how everyone fights.
The first couple of matches went pretty quickly with Squiddo beating Egg, Wifies winning against Lomedy, Lettuce beating Branzy, and so on and so forth. Eventually they got to the point in the list where there were only really good players left.
Minute vs Jaden was the first match where people started betting on who would win. Jaden using a mace vs minute using a sword.
Most bets were on Minute considering everyone knew how good he was, but some had faith in Jaden.
Eventually they finished and Minute won.
Next was Mapicc vs Theo.
This one had people guessing because Theo couldn’t use his carts meaning it was sword vs sword.
Theo ended up taking the win by a sliver and was honestly just happy to find someone around his same skill set and level.
Mane vs Clown.
Even Wemmbu and Flame were excited about this one. These were their mentors, the people who helped them get the strength they have now. Flame was taught by Mane, and Wemmbu was also taught by Mane-Clown. Clown was his mentor. He was the one who helped Wemmbu when he had nothing and was homeless.
Sure it was Branzy who had asked Clown to help him, but eventually he could tell Clown had grown fond of him. He and Branzy practically adopted Wemmbu.
As the fight began Flame started cheering for Mane along with the other heroes, knowing this was one of their strongest heroes ever.
Mane looked around before the fight and noticed Wemmbu getting excited and ready to cheer. Was his little starlight going to really cheer for him after all these years?
As the fight began Mane waited to hear Wemmbu cheering his name, but no. Of course he’s cheering for Clown.
‘Wemmbu’s a villain after all he wouldn’t cheer for a hero. Would he? Even if that hero was his brother-? No stop Wemmbu’s a villain. Not your brother, someone that evil could never be your brother.’ Mane thought as the fight continued.
Man he really needs to focus.
With Mane being so distracted the whole fight Clown ended up winning.
As they left the sparring grounds, Mane saw Wemmbu run up to Clown and hugged him?
‘Wemmbu hated physical contact.’ Mane thought getting bitter as Clown ruffled his hair in return.
‘They look like a father and son duo’ Mane chose to ignore it as he could see Flame running up to him.
“Mane bro” Flame started. “You should’ve won, you're super strong. You can easily beat Clown.”
“Sorry Flame, I was just a little distracted this fight.” Mane pauses for a moment before continuing. “I’ll make sure to win next time.” He finally adds, ruffling Flame’s hair in the process.
“Mane bro, stop, I'm not a little kid anymore.” Flame whines
“Yea you are” Mane retorts. Playfully bickering as they walk over to the weapons rack.
Flame grabs his sword and they make their way over to the sparring arena. He starts warming up with simple strikes to conserve his energy.
In the meantime Wemmbu is focused on stretching his wings. He has his wooden mace beside him. Obviously still thinking about how they got it. As he too does some simple strikes with it to conserve energy just like Flame.
This is the fight everyone's been waiting for. The two biggest rivals, Flame vs Wemmbu.
As the two get into place, the energy is high. Spoke is starting a betting pool on who will win, Theo and Mapicc brought snacks for everyone, and Clown and Mane were about to watch their mentees fight.
T3m1: Alright everybody! It is time for the match you have all been waiting for… Flame vs Wemmbu!!! OK on begin, ready?. 3, Wemmbu feels the adrenalin kicking in 2, Flame gets into the zone, 1.. They’re both ready to fight. BEGIN!
Wemmbu and Flame charge at each other trading hits left and right. Wemmbu shoots up in the air preparing to slam down on Flame. Flame notices and moves his position to block it.
They repeat an arrangement of switching from offense to defense depending on who was attacking. Until they’ve been fighting for so long that both Flame’s sword and Wemmbu’s mace break at the same time.
T3m1: Now that was an exciting match everybody! Since both your weapons broke at the same time.. It’s a tie!
Flame and Wemmbu both grumble and exit the arena. They’re both annoyed that they didn’t win and instead got stuck with a tie. But they’ll settle the score another day.
T3m1: Everyone listen up! You’re going to want to get some rest before tomorrow! As you will have another challenge!
“Are we going to have a challenge everyday or something?” Wifies asks.
T3m1: You will unless there’s excruciating circumstances or the challenge from the other day hasn’t ended!
Wifies nods accepting the answer.
People start leaving the training room in small groups heading to go get food, relax in the living room, or head to bed for the night.
Wemmbu walks out with Clown and Branzy, since Egg left with Jaden, Loppezz, and Rejoice a bit earlier.
“That was a good fight but you should work on your macing technique and conserve energy a bit more. We should start tomorrow morning” Clown notes from the fight.
“Clown!” Branzy says exasperated. “Give the poor kid a break he just fought for almost 1 hour.”
“I know, I know.” Clown says, looking helpless at his husband's words.
“Hey kid” Clown calls to Wemmbu
“Hmm?” Wemmbu just responds as he’s drinking water.
“I’m proud of you ya know? Your skills have improved over the last few years.” Clown says with a fond look on his face.
“Really!?” Wemmbu asks, looking up from his water.
“Really kid.”Clown says, as he ruffles Wemmbu’s hair.
‘He’s not a lost cause anymore… He finally did it. It might not be Mane who said it but it doesn’t matter.’
“But we still have to work on your technique a little bit and a better way of conserving your energy.” Clown adds
“Clown! Give him a break!” Branzy says, still sounding annoyed
“Ok, Ok!” Clown says. He’s a little scared of his husband.(Branzy is scary, you can’t blame clown. I mean who makes a giant murder machine that runs on chickens for fun!?)
Wemmbu laughs a genuine laugh at his parents- wait can he call them parents? I mean they basically raised him so yea. He laughs at his parents bickering wishing this moment could be nice for a little longer.
Dr3@m: Did you really have to say you're nicer and more fun than me..?
T3m1: Yes you’re evil bro..
Dr3@m: No I’m not… I just come up with great challenge ideas…
T3m1: Bro, you’re legit coming up with the most evil ideas possible… You’re going to traumatize them…
DR3@m: Shush… They're fine…
T3m1: Omg… No they’re not fine… They’re traumatized enough already… They don’t need more from you…
Dr3@m: Rude… And I mean… You're not wrong but… They need more.. :D
T3m1: Bro I’m so done with you…