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Flame had been walking through the desert near the prison compound the law tried to take him when he was captured. He honestly thought he was completely cooked when they locked him in that cell. And lord that kid he was stuck with was really testing his patience. The thought of him made him tighten his grip on his sword slightly. He should’ve killed that kid when he got the chance. But at least he was free right? The sunset cast a warm orange around him, he would usually keep on moving to his next target but he was exhausted from today. He kept on walking until he found a cave to duck into for the night. Not completely convenient but beggars can’t be choosers right?
As he entered he placed down a torch, then jumped when he saw a figure slumped against the wall immediately getting into a defensive position. But upon further inspection he realized that no one other than Wemmbu was sitting there muttering under his breath. From what Flame could see there were no injuries on his body. So why does he look like that? Walking towards him and crouching down he heard what Wemmbu was muttering. Something about Egg, which with a quick scan around the area Flame noted he was nowhere to be found.
“Yo bro Wemmbu! Are you good?” Flame asked.
“Flame?” Wemmbu slurred. Looking up slowly. His eyes were unfocused.
“Hey bro what happened to you?” Flame laughed slightly.
“You have to help me. They got him.” Wemmbu said suddenly, Flame raised an eyebrow.
“Who got who?”
“The law. They took him. They took Egg.”
“They took him?” Flame said slowly, eyes widening.
“Flame, you have to help me please.” Wemmbu pleaded, speech still slurring. Flame looked at Wemmbu, really looked at him. Out of all the times he’s seen him, Wemmbu has never been scared. He also had that stupid smirk on his face. Even when every odds was against him, time and time after Flame beat him he was always confident. Now he just looked scared. It unsettled Flame.
“Okay calm down bro. We’re gonna get him back, don't worry about it. But we need to worry about you right now bro. What exactly happened?”
“We don’t have time for this! We need to go help him.” Wemmbu complained trying to get up, Flame pushed him back down.
“You are no help to him right now bro. You can barely pronounce your words right, let alone fight right now. The quicker you tell me what happened the quicker I can help you. Which means we get to Egg.”
“I don’t remember.” Wemmbu whined.
“I need you to try. How did you end up slumped against a wall in a cave?” Wemmbu stayed silent, spacing out. Flame sighed, then noticed the bubbles coming from Wemmbu. There were the regular ones, the light blue speed bubbles, the yellow strength bubbles but there were also darker colored bubbles coming from him.
“Hey bro, focus. What did they do? Could they have splashed you with any potions? Did you try to fight them?”
“Of course I tried to fight them.” Wemmbu snapped, then he sighed deeply. “I think they splashed me with potions?”
“Okay that’s helpful. What did they splash you with?”
“I don’t know.” Wemmbu whined again. Jesus Christ this was gonna be harder than he thought. Flame dragged a hand down his face.
“Okay bro open your inventory and tell me when potion effects you have right now.”
Wemmbu glared at him, but slowly opened his inventory and looked at his effects.
“Speed, strength, weakness, harming, slowness, slow falling, decay.”
“Damn, they got you good. Okay bro here’s what were gonna do.” Flame explained starting to dig through his shukler boxes. He pulled out his brewing stand, water bottles, milk, and supplies to make potions. “This is gonna suck but we need to get those potions out of your system so that we can go get Egg. Drink this first,” Flame said, giving him a water bottle. “Then drink the milk. The water’s gonna help this go a little bit smoother so you’re not extremely dehydrated but because you have so many potions in your system drinking the milk is gonna make you throw up because of the sudden loss of effect. But that’s kinda a good thing because that means it truly gets all of the potions out of your system.” Flame also handed him an empty bucket. “Throw up in this not on me bro. You ready?”
“Holy yap bro.” Wemmbu muttered, taking the milk after finishing drinking the water. Flame rolled his eyes.
“Do you want help or not?”
“Okay fine.” Wemmbu slurred. Lifting the milk to his mouth and chugging it. As soon as he was finished he dropped the bucket and shuttered. Flame noticed the bubbles were gone, good.
“How you feeling bro?”
“I feel fine-” Wemmbu cut himself off with a gag, he immediately brought the bucket back and throwing up into it. Flame offered an awkward pat on his back as comfort. Wemmbu looked back up, shaking his head slightly. “Ugh.”
“Feel better?” Flame asked. Looking at Wemmbu’s eyes he could see that they were a bit more focused than before. Actually looking at Flame than through him.
“Surprisingly, yes.” Wemmbu chuckled. Lightly placing the bucket next to him, away from Flame thank god.
“Okay the worst part is over. I’m gonna give you a regen potion and hopefully that’ll get you feeling okay enough so that we can go to the law base.” Flame explained as he put the ingredients for said potion in the brewing stand.
“Is it a good idea to give me potions after I just threw all of them up?” Wemmbu questioned. Flame rolled his eyes.
“That was because of how many potions you had and the different effects they all had. They don’t mix very well and it’s clear the law did that on purpose. Now why they didn’t capture you while you were in that state is a question that I’m curious about. Can you actually tell me what happened now that you can think straight?”
Wemmbu stayed silent for a moment before his eyes lit up with recognition.
“Me and Egg were trying to find somewhere else to go to figure out how to get Jaden out of prison. While we were walking through the desert we were jumped by a bunch of law men. I thought that I was holding pretty well until they splashed me with a million potions and captured Egg while I was dazed. I guess I wasn’t moving fast enough for them because I could barely stand up straight so they put me here and I guess they were gonna come back for me later? I don’t really understand the plan.”
“Wow, maybe the law was stupider than we thought.” Flame muttered under his breath. “Was Lettuce there?”
“No it was that SargeLaw guy. He’s all mad at me cause I killed his brother.” Wemmbu rolled his eyes.
“Oh yeah I heard about that.” Flame chuckled, taking the potion off the brewing stand and giving it to Wemmbu. “Drink.”
“Yeah yeah.” Wemmbu scoffed, but drinking the potion anyways. “Where’d you hear about Sarge Law?”
“Well me and Mane-”
“Mane? I thought he died?” Wemmbu cut him off quickly.
“Everyone did. But I found him. Anyways, me and Mane went to some village and he started blowing it up so I told one of the people to go get the law. When the law came SargeLaw came. He was talking about avenging his brother that you killed.” Flame responded, raising an eyebrow at Wemmbu. Wemmbu laughed.
“Look bro it wasn’t like it was personal. I had just escaped prison and I needed to get some anger out. He was annoying in prison anyway so I’m not too upset about him dying.”
“I guess bro. Do you feel better?” Flame asked, standing up and collecting all his items.
“Yeah. Let’s go get Egg.” Wemmbu nodded. Standing up himself slowly.
“Great. Now the good news is that I think I know exactly where they took him.”
“Really?”
“When I got captured they took me to this compound that they said they made especially for me. It’s not too far from here and I took out like half the guards there so this should honestly be quick.”
“You got captured?!” Wemmbu asked incredulously.
“Yes bro I got stranded! But Mane broke me out.” Wemmbu paused for a moment, then snapped out of it.
“Okay. Lead the way.”
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When they arrived at the law base it was clear that the resources they usually had were drained. There were way less guards than law standard, all varying from diamond to even iron armor. Wemmbu laughed at the sight.
“Okay so what’s the plan?” Wemmbu asked when they got close.
“We go to where they’re holding Egg. I’ll blow up the wall and you grab Egg. I’ll distract the guards while you splash Egg with invis and break his armor.”
“Ew they’re still doing that copper armor thing?” Wemmbu questioned.
“Did they make you guys wear it while you were in prison?”
“Yeah it was kinda my fault.. Spoke splashed me with invis while we were coming back from that announcement a couple months ago to try to help me escape. When they caught me again they made me and everyone else start wearing that stupid armor so it wouldn’t happen again.”
“Why is everything always your fault?” Flame teased.
“Okay bro chill.” Wemmbu laughed. “We need to focus on getting Egg. Where should we go after we get him?”
“As far as we can get from here. Maybe duck underground for a little bit? I don’t know as long as the law can’t find us.”
“Do you have any extra gear to give him? I’m honestly kinda broke right now.” Wemmbu confessed.
“Yeah I got you.” Flame said, placing and digging through his enderchest. Then he handed Wemmbu a shulker. “Here.”
“Thank you bro. Splash us.” Wemmbu said huddling close next to Flame. Flame nodded, splashing invis at our feet and running towards the walls of the compound.
As they approached Flame wind charged up the wall and waited for Wemmbu to do the same.
“Stay close.” Flame whispered. Walking towards the cells. As they got close Flame could faintly hear Egg talking inside.
“Yo bro technically I didn’t do anything wrong so can you just let me go?” Egg asked.
“You attempted to murder multiple lawmen!” SargeLaw argued back.
“Yeah but I didn’t really kill anyone did I? So technically I didn’t do anything wrong so can I go?”
“Even if you didn’t do that, you’re still associated with one of the most wanted players on the server!”
“Wemmbu’s not me bro!” Egg argued. Flame heard Wemmbu snicker next to him. Flame dropped down at the wall where Egg was being held. Ironically it was the same cell that Flame was held in when he was captured. He placed the tnt and backed up. As soon as the the smoke cleared from the explosion he lunged into the cell and brought his sword towards SargeLaw.
“Hey buddy!” He heard Wemmbu call as he splashed Egg with invis.
“Oh bro thank god I was lowkey getting worried.” He heard Egg say.
“Okay bro we don’t have time for that right now. Chug these, I'm gonna break your armor.” Wemmbu said, punching Egg while he’s in a corner. “Flame you good bro?”
“I’m fine.” Flame called. Striking SargeLaw again.
“Is that Wemmbu?! You will pay for what you did to my brother!” Sarge called as he blew into his horn. Flame rolled his eyes.
“Okay bro whatever. Just give it up, I already beat you earlier, I'll beat you again.” Flame said. Ten more law men filled the prison and Flame pearled up into the ceiling, charging his spear at them and killing three of them. He could faintly hear Egg’s armor being broken as they giggled.
“Wemmbu, how we looking over there?” Flame called out.
“Almost done! Just need to get his leggings.” He called back.
“Mind helping me when you’re done?”
“Yeah I got you!” Flame heard the last piece of armor break. “Okay take this and run bro. I’ll catch up to you.” Wemmbu told Egg, then he turned his attention to all of the law men in the room. He immediately wind charged up and lifted his mace high above his head. Crashing it down on the nearest player, killing them.
The chat was soon filled with death messages.
ElliottAXE was slain by FlameFrags using Fragger
Valxis was smashed by Wemmbu using Cruible
Cassh_ was slain by FlameFrags using Fragger
Daoao was smashed by Wemmbu using Cruible
As much as Flames hate to admit it he missed this. Being able to just fight and know that someone had your back completely. He felt the same way when he was fighting with Mane by his side. Actually getting his brother back like he secretly wished for years. It felt good to trust someone and be trusted.
“Have you ever thought about caring about people? More than a title?” Mane asked him as they were boating to a nearby village. Flame stayed silent for a long moment. A name came to mind when the question was asked.
“I mean there was a point,” he shrugged “but I don’t think we’re there anymore.”
“Flame bro what do you think?” Wemmbu asked, snapping Flame out of his thoughts.
“What?”
“Do you think we should take this or just dip? I'm assuming more law will come and when they find out both of us are here Lettuce is for sure coming.” Wemmbu explained. Flame thought about it for a second. Surveying their surroundings this was a pretty easy fight. Hell him and Wemmbu took down a thousand people, these forty in here seemed like nothing. But Wemmbu was right. More law would come and they would run out of resources eventually. Even if Flame did just restock on loot.
“Let’s go. We did what we were here to do.” Flame replied. Blocking a player's attack with his shield. Then turning around and trapping them in a cobweb. Flame took off his armor and took off towards the exit.
“Sounds good to me.” Wemmbu said, following suit.
“Don’t let them get away!” Sarge called. The action was useless though, with how many people were in one place it would be impossible to see where they went.
—----
They ended up meeting about five hundred blocks away from the law base. Not far enough for them to be completely safe, but good enough to regroup for time being.
“Bro lowkey thank god you’re okay I thought I was cooked. I’ve never seen you so out of it.” Egg said, clapping Wemmbu on his shoulder. Wemmbu smiled at him.
“Well we both would’ve been cooked if it wasn’t for Flame. He actually decided to be helpful today.”
“Okay bro, remind me to never help you again?” Flame sighed.
“No I’m kidding, chill!” Wemmbu laughed. “For what it’s worth, it was fun fighting with you again. Especially since you’re not trying to kill me right now.”
“That can change.”
“Okay okay I’m trying to be nice! We make a good team is all I’m saying. We should probably get going though before Lettuce shows up with all the actual good netherite people.” Wemmbu said, turning towards Egg. “You wanna come with us?”
“Nah I still have some of my own stuff to take care of.” Flame replied.
“Oh. Well.. I’ll see you around?” Wemmbu asked with a grin.
“Have you ever thought about caring about people? More than a title?”
“Yeah. I’ll see you around.” Flame agreed, smiling.