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“No Quackity”
“Sam please come on-“
“I’m not spending over an hour with… that”
Quackity and Sam were currently standing on the outskirts of Las Nevadas, arguing (they tended to do that a lot recently).
Behind Quackity stood Foolish, Fundy, and Purpled. Charlie stood next to Fundy, held back by a child leash.
“It’s only for like three hours, Sam. Come on!”
“Three hours too many. Just get one of them to watch Charlie” Sam said, gesturing to the three behind Quackity.
“No I won’t. Because you know why? They’ve already watched Charlie. And they’ve already have covered you turns to watch them in the past. Now they are coming with me and you are gonna watch it”. And with that Quackity turned around, grabbed the leash and thrusted it at Sam. Sam went to push it away when he looked up at Q.
Quackity looked tired. There was dark bags under his eyes and while his face had a hard look, his eyes were pleading with Sam.
Sam sighed, cursed himself for the mercy he had left, and took the leash. Quackity gave him a small smile.
“Thank you Sam” He said before clapping his hands together, “Alright boys let’s go!” And the group turned from Sam and Charlie and walked away from Las Nevadas.
Sam turned to look at Charlie. It was aggressively waving at the group as they walked away before it turned towards Sam.
“Hello Sam from Pandora’s box! Are we gonna have fun today?” Charlie asked with the biggest smile.
Sam looking down at Charlie with his eyebrows furrowed. Sam didn’t know why Quackity kept Charlie around. Sure it was a helpful spy, but if he was in Q’s situation he would have told him that good friends shut up and sit still unless needed. But alas, it seems as though Quackity has more mercy.
“It depends on you” Sam replied and turned back towards Las Nevadas and dragged Charlie behind.
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“This isn’t very fun” Charlie complained.
Charlie was tied to a post and Sam was relaxing in a lawn chair. They were sat by a small pool outside of Sam’s Las Nevadas residence. Sam’s armor was off for once and he was reading a book with a rose printed on the cover. Charlie wasn’t close enough to get into the water, but it could dip its toes in.
“I don’t know about you, but I’m having fun. Maybe you should try harder!” Sam replied.
“Oh okay!” Charlie said and it turned back to the water and kicked its feet in the water. Charlie was straining against its leash and slowly leaning closer. Sam went back to his book. He was finally getting his much needed rest.
Sam was so caught up in his relaxing that he didn’t hear the snap of the leash. He did however hear the splash that followed.
Sam sighed and lowered his book. Swimming around in his pool was Charlie with the biggest smile and broken leash floating behind it. After seeing it, Sam couldn’t help but have a little smile. He had originally banned it from entering the pool because he was worried about them tainting the water. But watching them swim around, it was holding itself together pretty well. Sam went back to his book, but after about 10 more minutes, he had the worst or best idea.
“Hey Charlie! Has Q ever taken you to get ice cream?”
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Sam and Charlie sat outside in the middle of Las Nevadas by one of the many fountains. Charlie was holding a cone of ice cream with a vanilla scoop and staring at it curiously.
“Ok Charlie watch me!” Sam said holding his own cone with a chocolate scoop. He held the ice cream up to his face and took a lick while Charlie slowly mirrored him.
“Good job! Now just keep doing that until your done” Sam said brightly as he continued to lick his own cone. Charlie slowly licked his own cone, occasionally glancing towards Sam just to make sure they were doing it right. It was quite a sight to behold. A creeper hybrid, now back in his netherite armor, assisted what looked to be a human eat an ice cream.
“Hey Sam from Pandora’s box?” Charlie said after a minute.
“What is it Charlie?”
“I know some people say you’re scary and mean and all but I think your pretty cool!” Sam stared at it.
“Oh Um thank you, Charlie”. Sam had no idea how this sentiment Slime knew how to worm its way into his heart, but yet it had managed to. Sam raised his hand and placed his hand on Charlie’s head. Charlie froze for a second before leaning into the touch.
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After they finished their ice cream, the two took a walk around Las Nevadas and Sam pointed out certain landmarks that interested him. One perk about having Charlie as a companion was that it was interested in almost everything and was a great listener. Sam was showing Charlie one of his favorite building he designed, an apartment, when Charlie suddenly pulled on Sam’s sleeve.
“What it is?” Sam asked turning towards Charlie, who had a look of horror on its face. It didn’t respond, just grabbed Sam by the shoulders and spun him around before hiding behind him. They were standing in a fairly deserted area, but their was a person standing a few yards away from the two.
They had on shiny netherite armor. They had golden blonde hair poking out from under their helmet, large black wings on their back, and a hardened look on their face. Sam instantly knew, it was Phil and he looked pissed.
Sam pulled out his sword.
“Phil. What are you doing here?” Sam asked.
“Where’s Techno, Sam” Phil asked coldly.
Sam narrowed his eyes. “Phil I think we both know that answer”.
Phil nodded and pulled out his own sword. “Unfortunately I do”.
“I don’t want to fight you, Phil. I’m just doing my job”.
“I don’t want to fight you either, which is why I’m not going to. NOW!”
Suddenly, Sam could feel Charlie’s hands get pulled off his back. Sam spun around but instantly met a sword hilt to the face. Sam fell backwards and a foot held him to the ground. Niki’s face appeared in his vision and dropped a potion onto him. His vision slowly started to fade in and out. He tried to look towards Charlie, but he couldn’t manage to turn far enough before he passed out.
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“He’s out Phil” Niki reported as she stared down at Sam before removing her foot. Phil walked forward and joined the group.
“Good job mate!” Phil complimented. He look towards their final companion.
“What you got there, Ranboo?”
“I thought it was a person but now umm” Ranboo said holding up a small slime in their hands. “Like I pulled them away from Sam and now I’m holding a slime”
“Can I see it?” Phil asked. Ranboo handed them the slime. Phil stared down it. It look vaguely familiar. As if he had seen it a long long time ago. It looked like a typical slime, but something was different about it.
Phil shrugged.
“Take it anyways, something seems special about it”, he said handing it back to Ranboo. Ranboo opened their bag and attempted to place the slime in it. For some reason he couldn’t manage to place it in. After a second of trying, Ranboo sighed.
“This thing does not wanna corporate!” They laughed, “I’ll just carry it”.
“Okay!” Phil said brightly, “Lets head out”. Niki pulled out a rope and tied up Sam. Phil held out his arms. Niki and Ranboo lifted the creeper hybrid up and placed him in Phil’s arms. Phil then extended his long wings and took off. Ranboo then took Niki’s hand and closed their eyes.
The two then disappeared leaving only purple sparkles behind.