Free the End

24 [Two by Two]

TW // blood, gore, big-ass spider

Bad gazed down the deep, dark ravine at the little wooden path running at the bottom, illuminated by light in each tunnel and hissing lava.

"Whoa," Skeppy said from behind him.

"Let me see," a6d said from behind him.

Bad spotted a cobweb and jumped out toward it.

A6d let out a cry of surprise as Skeppy gasped and tried to catch him.

Bad fell right on the cobweb and lost all his momentum. He expected to faze through slowly and then fall the last two blocks, but he stayed stuck on top of it for a second. He had just enough time to be confused about why his feet were trapped in the sticky string before it released him and he slid out, dropping on his boots.
He waved up at the other two.

"What the hell?!" A6d's voice echoed down.

Bad frowned. "Language!"

Skeppy jumped off the ledge and Bad backed out of the way as he plummeted towards the spiderweb.
And missed. Skeppy fell hard on the ground with a shout of surprise, and Bad immediately rushed to help him.
"Oh my goodness are you okay Skeppy?! You almost died!!"
Skeppy sucked in a gasping breath and nodded, wiping off his scraped palms and knees. Bad quickly gave him some food to eat and Skeppy took it gratefully.

A6d decided to just place a block below him and fall on it repeatedly instead of jumping.
"How did you know how to do that?" Skeppy asked Bad.

Bad shrugged. "Dream did it in a manhunt one time, or a challenge video, I don't really remember."

"Oh, cool."

A6d dropped down smoothly next to them. "Maybe warn us next time. You good, Skeppy?"

"WAAAAAIT!" Skeppy whined. "Does this mean both of you guys are better than me at Minecraft? That's not fair."

Bad opened his mouth to answer but a6d said,
"Well, Bad's actually probably the best of all of us since he did all the stuff with Dream and the Dream Team, but seriously, Skeppy, I don't think I'm much of an... um... I don't know the word... challenge? for you."

"I can't believe Bad's better than me at something," Skeppy grumbled.

"HEY what's that supposed to mean?" Bad asked.

"Nothing, just you're usually not that good at things."

A6d said "you say that like it's not offensive" as Bad defended himself with "I'm better than you at singing, and uh, building!" He put his hands on his hips.

"He's better at you than roleplaying," Vin said to Skeppy.

"WHAT?" Skeppy gave a6d a really confused look as Bad wonderingly asked, "You watch the SMP?"

A6d shrugged and Skeppy crossed his arms. "And that's not true anyway-" he pointed at Bad- "you cried the first time we did the red Skeppy thing."

"Hey!" Bad couldn't believe Skeppy would bring that up again. It was embarrassing enough in front of thousands of fans.
"That was only because you made me think about if I actually lost you."

A6d stayed silent.

Skeppy nodded. "Yeah, see? So I did a good job."

Now Bad was thinking about it again. "-I just got overwhelmed- and you didn't care- about anything... or me." He started to get choked up again.

"Aww hey- hey I'm sorry." Skeppy rushed over to Bad and hugged him. "I'm sorry I'm sorry."

Bad clung to Skeppy. He balled his hoodie into his fists and hid his face. He tried not to think about how Skeppy or a6d might die here, for real.
He sniffed. "I'm OK."