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c!Ant is searching for c!Velvet right after a 'slight' altercation on the server, leaving the majority of everything in shambles and utter chaos. Ant knew that the last he saw Velvet was that he was taking c!Technoblade to the old egg containment room below the land, as a last 'let's make up our differences away from the chaos'.
He made his way through the corridor, crimson vines reburrowing themselves into cobblestone.
Ant feared the worse.
He stepped into the main room, the roof now blown open thanks to Snowchester's nuclear efforts, but still being illuminated by the glowshrooms the egg had made all those months ago.
Ant heard the familiar clacking of Velvet's mary janes on the cobblestone floor and turned to the source, only for his face to contort into pure horror.
There stood Velvet, still alive, wearing Techno's golden crown and dirtied crimson kings coat, both of which had small splashes of gore on them. His remaining eye is puffed up and revealing the sign of hyphema with tricklets of blood running from his forehead and irritated eye.
Velvet welcomed Ant in a hoarse, tired voice that was similar to that of the voice Ant had heard when he was sill under the influence of the Egg. "Hiya cutie, welcome home..."
Ant's eyes watered at the sight, "Oh my god… Velvet…" He cocked his head to the side and approached his crimsoned lover. "Dear… what did you do?!" His voice peaked in a crescendo, tears now spilling.
Velvet's wicked smile never ceased. But his eyelid drooped and brought his blood crusted hands up to Ant's face.
"Oh, Ant, dear, gorgeous… don't cry…" Velvet took off Ant's googles, which were filling up with salty tears. Ant burried his face into the stained and dingy white fluff of Techno's cloak, pulling away after the stench of old blood and dirt hit him like a minecart.
"Velvet, what the FUCK did you do to Techno?!" Ant shrieked, Velvet's smile got impossibly wider, "He was a threat, Ant. He showed us how much danger he could potentially put all of us through… Dear, were you not there when he destroyed that… L'manburg place?" Ant frowned and bit back tears, "Wh- who do you mean 'us'?" He inquired, backing away from his gone lover.
"'Us'? Ah! Yes! It's Crimson and I… we've become pretty good friends lately… 'specially it was the only thing that kept me company in the vault, even when you didn't come and see me…" "Velvet I was BARRED from even entering! You know damn well Sam fired me and you should also know damn well that Techno and I saved both YOU and Dream!" Ant shouted at him, gripping the holster to a small knife and took several steps back. Velvet's smile faltered, "You don't have to be scared." He took the cloak off, stretching his black and deep crimson wings out, walking over to Ant, draping it over him, "There we go, we can live out that dream of ours, my love, you remember?" Ant shook his head, "No. No. Velvet, this isn't you." He quickly shucked off the dirty, stained cape, "Velvet, what fucking compelled you to kill him?!" "I anwered that, love." He picked the cape back up and put it on himself and turned away, walking towards the remains of the Egg.
Ant drew his arm behind his back and grabbed a hand on his enchanted netherite axe, slowly following Velvet. He had an iron grip on it, holding it steadily to his side, wiping his eyes with his free hand.
Velvet stopped and looked at the rotting shell, "There's no need for this thing to still be here…" He flicked his wrist up and up came several vines from the ground, they arced over the pile of rot and brought it back into the ground, vines up rooting coarse dirt and andesite. "There we go, I 'oughta give some other… things back to the ground…"
All of a sudden, Velvet sensed Ant running up behind him, hearing a scrape of an axe on the ground, he whipped around and vines protruding prot his left arm caught the axe as it swung towards his head. Velvet raised his other hand to Ant's and gently took his grip off of the handle, "Ant… and you ask ME why I killed Techno?" He revved his arm back and chucked the axe behind Ant, right into a shroomlight, shattering it into small chunks.
Velvet loomed down at the catboy, his smile now gone. He tisked, "You are the one who wanted him alive again, did you not?" Velvet crooked his head, lips barely moving.
Ant squinted, that… that was not Velvet's voice. It was the same that had greeted him.
"Ye...yes. But not in the way that he's POSSESSED!" Ant shouted at the husk of his boyfriend. He smiled gently, the red and cream colored chrysanthemum wriggled outwards a bit. "Antfrost…" It slurred, walking towards him, "You wanted him back, but as your mind told me… he was far dead…"
Ant was walking backwards as it was walking forward, it's voice returned to Velvet's "Ant, you know I love you to be mad at you…"
"I'm not in love with you . I'm in love with Velvet. You are not him."