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Katie dusted off her new dark robes from some leftover soul sand, considering they were based in the nether they sure did make their clothes out of damn thick material, the thick black woollen cape with ominous red lining was just getting to be too much even for the fashionista. But she could hold on, it would only take a little longer, she has already come so far.
Looking down at her communicator A name she had been both expecting and dreading popped up in all caps, a pit forming at the base of her stomach
Needyourblood : WE NEED TO TALK RIGHT NOW.
A shaky sigh escaped her mouth as she quickly goes to kill one more soul enderman before teleporting to her home. Before she can get her baring's through the purple fog, two arms grip her shoulders tight and slam her against the wall. Her breath escapes her, and her eyes open wide to see Multi’s piercing her own like daggers. “WHERE IS HE!?” He screams squeezing her shoulders so hard his hands begin to tremble.
Katie looks at him sympathetically before glancing to her door, he put down the contraption so nobody can hear them. Good. “Multi I need you to stay calm as I explain this to you.” Katie swears she can see a green hue forming in his eyes as he bears his canines at her. “STAY CALM!? I’VE COME BACK TO REPORTS FROM MY WORKERS THAT YOU WERE ACTING SUSPICIOUSLY AND THEN OVERHEARD FOOLISH SAYING YOU GAVE NACHO TO DARK CUCURUCHO! YOU SWORE YOU WOULDNT BETRAY HIM! BETRAY OUR FAMILY!” He let go to grip his head as he starts to hyperventilate. But there is no time to panic if he is gonna be like this. “JUST LISTEN I HAVE A PLAN!” He turns back to look at her incredulously “A plan? A plan Katie? You call handing our SON over to the creature that has been hunting him down a plan!? Don't think I don't know what this is for! You just want powers! Everyone here is the same! Everyone is willing to hurt the people around them! HURT ME! To get what they want!” He wails while punching a nearby window, his fist breaking the glass causing cuts to trickle blood down his arm, the photo of Katie in tatters. This is not good.
Katie’s brows furrow in rage at him not listening “Jesus Christ no! Let me explain myself! Had you actually answered my messages the other day when I tried to contact you maybe something else could have been done but right now, I shit you not this is the safest option for him!” Multi stares at her in utter bewilderment “have you finally lost it? Is that it?” Katie groaned in annoyance, stomping over to him now grabbing his shoulders. “Listen asshole! Do you have any idea the SHITHOLE you left me in! After your stunt that killed Juan! You can't talk about me using our son for my own benefit when you literally just used him to help you MURDER A GUY! And everyone and their mother apparently saw it! He has been public enemy number 1 on this island since then! Everyone wants him dead! The north, SIA, The regime were being kinda chill about it since he was my kid but I think in the end if given the chance, they would have taken him out as well! Hell even Evron wants to get him!” Hearing that made multi’s eyes twitch remembering the chat they had.
Multi swats at her dark gloved hand to get her off of him as she continues to speak “I don't know how they got into the reactor, but I know damn well you didn't just open the doors, so that place was no longer safe. I had to come up with a plan and dark cucurucho had been on my ass about Nacho for days, He gave me 3 days to make up my mind AFTER I REPEATEDLY SAID NO BY THE WAY! Until he basically threatened me to say I could either give him up willingly, join their ranks and get my own powers OR they find their own way in sooner rather than later, kill me and take him by force.”
Multi now pacing back and forth rubbing his head with both hands continues to listen to her speak “So I came up with a plan and so far it's been working pretty fucking well!” Multi spins round to finally scream insults at her having had enough of this when his face is hit with a book, too shocked to speak he grabs it and inspects the title. Plans.
“I gave up Nacho knowing full well that they need him Alive, and in doing so I got back into the graces of everyone on the island including dark cucurucho! The guy has even given me an office in his realm AND his temple! I’m supposed to be there now and wait for orders from him. But I had to give this to you as soon as possible, its a list of everything I was able to gather since you went away. Everyone has been planning something against you multi, and none of its gonna be easy to beat, but knowing what's coming is at least a start.” Multi skims through the pages to see photos of cells in what appears to be the nether as well as the giant temple. Notes on coordinates and the different groups with their plans to attack him were all correctly labelled on a separate page. This... this was useful, and if she really gave them both up then she would have no need to give him this. He looked up to her, with a smidge of hope in his eyes.
Katie’s eyes softened at the sight. “Listen I know it wasn't a good choice, god knows I haven't been able to sleep properly since... hearing him call for me like that.” Katie’s voice begins to break as she turns and puts her thick black hood over her eyes.
In desperate need to finish this conversation before she continues her mission however, she clears her throat and turns back around, staring at multi with teary but determind eyes. “But it was the best I could think of. Nacho is alive and no longer being hunted, I have the trust of the islanders again so I can gather more intel and share it with you, AND I will be getting my powers most likely today when I get my next mission. Then I will be able to protect him myself finally.” Multi let out a heavy breath “aren't you forgetting something Katie!? How do you plan to protect him if he is still trapped and being experimented with Kurwa!”
She smiles at that before pulling out a small blue crystal with bits of sand still clinging to its glowing edges. Multi’s eyes scrunch in confusion at the strange stone “This Multi, is a soul pearl. And this specific soul pearl is attached to our son. Whenever I want, I can just throw this on the ground and poof! He will appear before us.” Multi’s eyes light up at this and he makes a B-line for the pearl. Katie being slightly taller manages to hold him back “Just wait! Wait! I know! I want to bring him back too but it's not the right time! I know it sucks but I am so close to saving not only nacho with this but tomate and pepino as well!” Multi pauses mid attempt at grabbing her wrist to get the stone “what? How?” Katie sighs “Listen, fatal error managed to take the two from the federation and they are currently being experimented on alongside nacho. When they are done for the day they are gonna put them in their cells, I know where the cells are! I have free roaming rights around the whole temple! I can sneak over to them and attach these spare soul pearls to them. Then I get my powers for doing such a good job with all my tasks, I tp out of there to your reactor so they don’t see me, I release nacho, pepino and tomate at the same time, dark workers have no idea where they went, we have everyone back! we know all of the Islander’s plans against us and I have badass powers to go mama bear on these bitches! Tell me that isn't a great plan!”
She stares at multi with a proud grin expectantly, multi looks at her wide eyed as he processes all of this information. “wait, katie.. That... Thats actually kind of brilliant.” He steps back a pace, with his finger under his chin in contemplation, going over everything she said and skimming through the book of plans again. “Your right.. Holyshit your right. And I... I did leave you to have to go through all of this by yourself...” He turned back around to her looking like a kicked puppy. “I... I’m sorry Katie, for getting so mad at you, for not believing you. But mostly for underestimating you.” Katie flinched at the look of pure honesty he was giving her. “Everyone is wrong about you, your already strong but I do respect the desire to become stronger, not for yourself but for those you care about. I should have put more trust in you. I’m sorry, truly.”
And that broke the damn that was holding back her tears for the past few days, Katie dissolved into a sniveling tear-streaked mess “I... I’m so sorry! I lost our son! I did my best but he’s- hic! I- I swear I will get him back! Thank-HIC! You!” Rubbing at her tears with her woolen sleave, she barely registered Multis soft chuckle as he closed the distance and actually hugged her for once! “Like you said, I did bad too. We may not be parents of the year, but we still love our son and want him to survive all this... shit.” Katie returned the well needed hug, resting her head on his lab coat soaking it with tears. “How did we end up here?” She whispered as multi patted her head to comfort her like he would nacho when he was upset. “I don't know Katie, but we are strong, the strongest ones here. We will get out of it, I promise you.” Multi leans back now to quickly get out of the hug and clear his throat
“Ah... by the way, what the fuck do you mean Ewron has a fucking godzilla?”