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Alan's PC, main desktop screen, 9:27 pm
"NOO!!" The Second Coming shouted, insistent. "For the hundredth time, I am NOT going to be a basketball hoop!!"
"Come ON!!" Blue begs him. "It would be so COOL!!" Their arms shook with excitement.
"Besides," Green points out, leaning casually on Blue's shoulder, "Using spider web as basketball hoop material has been very disappointing. And your head is a pretty good shape for it."
The Second Coming stomps his foot onto the black taskbar. "I HAVE heard your points, but the answer is still NO!" They then enter into the Color Gang's collective Minecraft house and flops onto their red bed. Green and Blue follow close behind them.
Smushing a pillow against his face, TSC moans, "It's only January and Alan has me working on multiple projects!! He has SO. MANY. ANIMATIONS. TO DO!!" It didn't take long for TSC to begin on a long rant about the different scenes he had been working on lately.
Green shrugged in sympathy. It has been true that The Second Coming had been very occupied lately since Alan Becker had begun working on the multiple projects he had in mind for the year. Though he had been eager to help, it has begun to take a toll on TSC. Whenever Green would sneak downstairs to steal sugar from TSC at night lately, he would always catch TSC'S arms jerking as though he was trying to animate in his sleep.
"I NEED TO GO TO SLEEP!!" At this point, TSC let out a high-pitched shriek and collapses onto bed, gently snoring.
"Welp, that went poorly," Blue remarked. "I wonder what Red, Purple, and Yellow are doing?"
Inside the storage folder
"Heheheheeehehee!!" Yellow rubbed their hands together, admiring his newly built launchers. "This is so cool!!"
"I know!!" Red shrieks, gathering the rabbit spawn eggs. "This is going to be SICK!!"
Purple dances with glee atop a "family_vacationphoto1.jpg(1)" file, barely able to contain their own excitement. "This is definitely going to be interesting. And it should work, given that I helped a lot with the planning."
Red, Yellow, and Purple were organizing a huge prank on the other members of the Color Gang. Red had wanted to do the creeper prank again, Yellow was still a smidge salty about Blue killing their Ghast pet, and Purple was bored.
Purple slipped on their elytra, then slipped a huge Ghast costume on. Using a rocket, Purple shot up into the air, looking very much like a real Ghast. They floated around effortlessly.
"Perfect!" Red cheered, clapping. "Now, we must work on your Ghast moan imitation!"
Purple sighed. "Are you SURE we can just do the impression without the moaning?"
Yellow slapped their forehead. "You HAVE to do the moaning correctly in order for the prank to work! Now, Red, demonstrate!"
Red took in a deep breath and let out a high-pitched sound that perfectly mimicked a Ghast. She turned to Purple. "Now your turn!"
Purple let out an awkward moaning sound that caused Red to sigh loudly. "Sorry," they croaked.
"Pur-ple, you were supPOSED to master the moaning for the prank!"
"I know, I know!"
Yellow rubbed his chin. "All that time living in the Nether, and you couldn't mimic a Ghast on command?"
"Nah, King hates Ghasts," Purple replied. "He specifically chose to construct his fortress in a place where he wouldn't have to encounter them so much. We just had piglin henchmen roaming around."
"Ah."
Red threw up her arms. "Well, great. This is going to be a tough cookie. Blue has been to the Nether plenty more times than the rest of us. He is not going to believe the costume."
Yellow shrugged. "Perhaps it will be for the better. At least Blue won't be so trigger happy."
"I thought that was what the egg launcher is for. To keep Blue occupied so he doesn't fire at me." Purple pointed out.
"Well yeah, I am trying to be optimistic here."
"I suppose we are going to operate without the sounds," Red conceded, wanting to get the show on the road.
"Yeah, after all, it would be cool to see them wrack their brains to see how they didn't see us coming!" Purple did a loop-de-loop of glee, nearly tossing off their costume.
"Alright, then," Yellow announced, ready for some action. "It's showtime!!"
"YEAH!!" All three cheered.
Alan's PC, 9:37 pm
Blue is outside in his vegetable garden, whistling as he harvested some ripened beets for some soup. Green is nearby, mindlessly tapping out some random notes on a couple of noteblocks.
Blue filled up the cauldron with water and began chopping up the beets. Once he felt he was satisfied, he poured the chopped beets into the cauldron. Then, he chopped and dumped in some carrots as well.
Green looked up as the smell of the soup reached up to him. "Oh nice..."
"Yep! It's for TSC as an apology." Blue filled up a wooden bowl for a taste. "It's beet soup, but I added some carrots since TSC really likes them." He held the bowl to his lips and drank heavily. "Ah. Lovely." He then filled out another bowl for Green to have.
"Thanks!" Green raised the bowl to drink, but spotted something behind Blue. "Uh... Blue?"
"Hm, yeah, Green? What's up?" Blue looked behind him. "OH STICKS--"
"GHAST!! A GHAST!!" Green leapt up to his feet, tossing the bowl of soup in the air and frantically began searching his Minecraft hotbar for weapons.
Blue immediately began doing the same, impulsively reaching for his crossbow. He began to aim at the Ghast, but the Ghast immediately shot way up high above his head before Blue could fire.
At that moment, Blue felt the presence of some small and fluffy somethings at his feet, and heard the sounds of munching.
He looked behind -- rabbits!! They are attacking his carrot patch!! "Oh no!!" Blue cried out. "Those are for TSC!!" He rushed to his carrot patch to harvest whatever the rabbits haven't eated up. "Shoo!! SHOO!!"
"I got it!" Green cried out, pulling out dandelions. With these, Green lured the rabbits away from the carrot patch, while Blue quickly made a fenced in space for them to stay.
"Alright that's good--" Green's words were cut off suddenly as the Ghast scooped Blue off the ground and went high into the air. "BLUEE!!" Green retrieved his fishing hook and chased the Ghast.
When Green managed to hook onto the Ghast, it opened its mouth. Expecting to go up in flames, Green was confused when he heard it instead make a weird noise.
A weird, non-Ghast, in fact, very familiar noise.
Green blinked in surprise. "Purple? Is that you??" He tugged on the fishing hook, pulling off the costume and revealing a sheepish looking Purple flying with his elytra, holding Blue.
Dropping Blue onto a tree, Purple raised his arms. "Ta-da!! It was a prank!"
Red and Yellow leapt out from their hiding places in the desktop and jumped up to join Purple, giggling. Green noticed Red holding a couple of rabbit spawn eggs.
"Oh, haha, very funny." Green crossed his arms. "Very stupid prank."
"Yeah, but it scared the sticks outta you, huh?" Red sniggered.
"Did you have to attack my vegetables?!" Blue griped, dropping down from the tree. "I was in the middle of cooking!!"
Yellow responded. "Well, we had to keep you from accidentally killing Purple, duh."
"Hmph, I'll get you someday!!" Blue shook his fist at them. "No soup for you!!"
A loud BLAST caught their attention. Red and Yellow looked up to the source of the sound. The storage folder.
Green followed their gaze. "Is that more of your prank?"
"No!" Red swore. "It is not!"
Purple gulped. "I think I forgot to close the Nether portal..." they admitted.
The Second Coming, sleepy and irritated, stepped out of the Minecraft House, diamond sword drawn. "What's the meaning of this?"
Red scrambled to open the storage folder. She stumbled back as she saw what had happened.
The Nether portal is in smoking ruins. Several of the files in the folder are smoldering in flames. Standing next to the ruins, wearing an impenetrable experession, is a figure Red never wanted to meet again.
"Well, well, well," Herobrine chuckled. "Nice to see you lot again."