How to take down an empire with voices in your head

21. A Rescue Mission Gone Wrong

Techno led the way to where the egg was, going over the plan a third time. Ranboo would just hum and nod in response, focusing more so on the rock he was kicking around.

"Punz said they would be expecting us to arrive," Techno paused at a spawner whole. Ranboo must've forgotten the egg was literally right next to it because he comes to this spawner all the time. "So we should use invis."

Techno pulled out a splash potion, tossing it at the ground. Bubbles flew in the air and all that was remaining was floating pieces of netherite armour. They took their armour off and hopped into the spawner whole.

"It's this way," Techno said but then realized they couldn't see each other. He grabbed a dagger from his positioned covered satchel, "See the floating knife?"

"Pretty sure we call those daggers Techno, but yes I see it."

"Follow it," Techno ordered. The two walked quietly down the mined path, and Ranboo's neck hurt from having to tilt it down to fit. Of course he wasn't tall enough to hop onto Phil's roof but he was tall enough to get neck pains in a mined pathway.

The stone turned into crimson wood and a double gate lay in the path. Techno- well, the floating dagger, paused and Ranboo could picture him leaning over the gates to see if anybody was nearby.

"This is awful security, just hop over the fence," Techno mumbled. Ranboo suppressed a laugh at Techno's complaints as they made their way to a room with a large table. Ranboo took in the full view of the room, glancing high up at the ceiling.

He began to feel uneasy as he looked around, his stomach twisting the more he did. The room felt familiar in a way as if he had been here before. Maybe not at the table, but as a viewer.

Ranboo tried shrugging the weird sensation off, it's not like he's been here before so there was no reason to pay attention to the twisting of his stomach.

"Look over there," Techno pointed and Ranboo's eyes followed his pointed finger.

There was a big box of obsidian, what Ranboo assumed was the egg. The obsidian was covered with dark red vines and gold. There in front of the egg, sat Bad, Hannah, Ponk, and most importantly, Phil. 

"Well, we're in now so we might as well wear off this potion," Techno said. Ranboo nodded as Techno pulled out two buckets of milk from his inventory, "Suit up Ranboo."

With both of them suited up, they made their way over to the egg. The whole group turned to them and Bad stood up, "What are you doing here?"

"You took Phil. Why else would we be here?" Techno scoffed. Ranboo glanced over at Phil, pausing when he saw Phil was just sitting there. Hannah was now standing beside Bad, both with their weapons drawn. Ponk rushed over to Phil, making everyone spring into action.

Ranboo slipped past Bad and Hannah and reached towards Ponk's wrist. Grabbing it Ponk flung back, landing with an oof. He tensed for a moment, not really into all the fighting that was going on. He glanced up from the floor to Phil, "Hey man let's get you out of here."

"Oh thank goodness," Phil sighed as he followed Ranboo, Techno still caught up with Bad and Hannah. Techno had told Ranboo where to go once they got Phil, so he led him to the hole in the wall, "We have to be quick Phil."

Once he was in he reached a helping hand out to Phil, who took it with a smile. They made their way through the slight maze of tunnels, "Wow Techno was right this really was an easy rescue-"

Ranboo was cut off by the sound of something hitting the wall, Ranboo's eyes turned to see a sword jammed in, right above his shoulder. His eyes widened as he turned back to Phil, "What the hell man!"