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Invitation

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Sam had just finished his daily security checks around the outside of prison. Sure the prison was pretty big and took up a lot of space. Hell, it took him hours to completely scout the outside of the prison, but if it meant keeping the server safe from Dream, he would do it without any hesitation. He tiredly makes his way to the entrance of the prison and takes out his key card from his inventory, he activates the portal, closes his eyes, and steps in the portal, he waits for a few seconds until he is finally teleported in a different room. He swipes a different key card to change the course of teleportation and enters the portal once more.

When he finally arrives at the main entrance inside the prison, he quickly makes his way to his chair and sighs in relief.

Ever since that day at Dream's vault, the list of things he needed to do has been getting longer every day. Sometimes he wishes that things would just go back to the way they were, a time with no wars, no murders, no destruction, just peace, and the server being united as a whole.

His thoughts were suddenly cut off by the beeping noise his monitor made. He turns to the said monitor to see Badboyhalo and Antfrost standing at the entrance of the prison. Honestly, can't a tired man have some time to relax for once. He thought to himself.

"Sorry guys, but the prison won't be allowing any visitors for a while." He says onto a mic with a tired voice. He and Quackity have been torturing dream for the past couple of months and the both of them decided that it was best if they were the only ones who knew about this.

"We're actually here to talk to you, Sam. It's pretty important, so if you could come out here for a sec that would be great." Badboyhalo says with a smile from the other end of the speaker.

He's hesitant but decides to go anyways. "Alright, I'm coming. Wait there."

He stands up from his seat, grabs his key card from his desk, and stands on the portal. He goes out of the prison the same way he went in a couple of minutes ago. He exits the portal and sees Babdboyhalo and Antfrost right in front of him.

"Hello Sam, I'm glad that you made time for us in that busy schedule of yours." Bad smiles. "How are you? It's been a while since the last time we talked."

"Cut the small talk. What's this important thing you wanted to talk about."

"Looks like someone's having a bad day." Antfrost quietly remarks from the back.

"Y'know what, I actually am having a bad day. I'm currently running on no hours of sleep, 5 cups of coffee, and that whiny little bitch in prison isn't helping at all. So if that's all you have to say, I'll be going back now, and I suggest that you take your leave as well." Sam angrily walks away and activates the portal in front of him, but as he was about to step into the portal, Bad stops him by placing a hand on his shoulder.

"Sam, wait, please hear us out. Just ignore my partner over there. He doesn't know"— Bad glares at Ant for the unnecessary comment he gave—"what he's talking about."

Sam sighs and turns around. "Fine, just get to the point."

"So, Ant and I came here to invite you to a banquet the eggpire is hosting." Bad says with a smirk on his face. He turns around and takes an invitation from the pile Ant is currently carrying and hands it over to Sam. "You won't have to worry about anything during the banquet. There will be drinks, food and a couple of other friends as well. So, what do you say Sam? It's a perfect opportunity to finally let loose and relax."

"And what makes you think that I'd just accept this invitation of yours."

Bad's smirk immediately turns into a confused frown. "W-what do you mean?"

"Bad, I'm not even sure how you could have possibly forgotten this, but the last time we spoke to each other, you literally tried to feed me to that egg thing your weird cult worships!?" At this point, Sam was mad. Not only did Bad interrupt his break, but he's also trying to get him to join his weird eggpire cult...again.

"Look, Sam, the eggpire has realized that we may have been too intense. And...uh, honestly we just wanted to apologize for how crazy and aggressive we've come across. And I don't know if you've noticed, but Ant and I have actually been cleaning up some blood vines around the smp."

"Oh?" Sam was pretty shocked to hear that. He never expected Bad to actually get over his obsession with the egg, but perhaps he's been catastrophizing too much. Maybe things are getting better. "So, when's this banquet of yours happening?"

"The details are in the invitation." Bad says as Sam takes the red envelope from his hands. "And since this is an event dedicated to changing for the better...maybe even Dream could attend?"

"Haha very funny Bad." Sam chuckles a bit and rolls his eyes. The two stare at each other in awkward silence before the moment of realization. "Wait, you're not joking."

"Look, I know that Dream has done many bad things, but maybe if he attended events like these, events that are all about changing for the better. Then maybe, just maybe he would cha—"

"No! Are you insane!? Absolutely not Badboyhalo! You said it yourself. He has done many bad things to everyone on this server. That's the reason why he's locked up in prison in the first place. If he escapes just because I let him out to attend some banquet in the hopes of changing him, I would never forgive myself for endangering my friends and my loved ones again!" Sam says, cutting Bad off.

"Y'know what, It's fine. I understand why you wouldn't want him out of prison and that's fine. I'm not forcing you to say yes or anything. I'm just saying, if you were willing to give Dream a chance to change or give him professional help from a therapist then maybe just maybe, he'd be able to change for the better. Look, I don't know about you Sam, but I miss dream. And I believe that there is good in everyone and sometimes people like Dream just need help from others to find their inner goodness. Just consider it, alright? I know that you have the last say in this, but please, consider it."

As much as Sam didn't want to admit it, he truly did miss his friend. But he couldn't let his feelings get in the way of his work. He was the warden for God's sake! If he were to follow his heart instead of his head, chaos would once again be spread across on this server. "Look, I'll consider it, but don't get your hopes up too high."

"Understood." Bad says with a smile. "Well then, we wouldn't want to waste more of your time. We shall now be taking our leave. Goodbye Sam, it's been lovely talking to you. I shall see you at the banquet."

"Goodbye, Badboyhalo. See you soon"