My Greatest Enemy (Quacknoblade)

Chapter 3

Word Count: 1033

(Third Person)

The sun rose and shone feebly over the rustic cabin. A fresh blanket of snow lay on the ground. Quackity opened his eyes to see Technoblade staring at him with an unreadable expression on his face.

"Good morning," Quackity murmured, pulling his blanket over his shoulders as he noticed Techno looking at him.

Techno's cheeks went red for a second, before he said, "G'morning Quackity."

Quackity closed his eyes again.

"C'mon, we have to go and harvest and replant the crops; then we can see some information you have about the Eggpire," Techno said, the thuds of his boots telling Quackity that he had walked over to the furnaces.

Quackity suddenly sat up, shivering. He had highly underestimated the chilliness of winter biomes.

He looked at Techno, realising he was wearing his red cape and jewelled crown.

We had a hurried breakfast, and Techno showed me to his farm, which was cleverly hidden under a large cobblestone roof to protect it from the cold.

"Wow! This is amazing!" shouted Quackity, slinging his hoe over his shoulder.

Techno's ears perked up, and he smiled.

- timeskip -

Techno led Quackity back to his cabin, and sat down at the table.

"So. What exactly did you do to the Egg, and why are you in danger?"

- flashback - (Quackity's POV)

I had just set an entire chain of TNT around the egg and was about to light it with the redstone torch I had crafted, when I saw Bad standing behind the egg, with Punz following him at top speed.

"Stop right now, Quackity," Bad said, menace in his voice.

I saw, out of the corner of my eye, Punz, with his crossbow, ready to shoot me. I chose to ignore this and told Bad my thoughts instead.

"BadBoyHalo, there is something severely wrong with you. There is something so wrong with you," I said seethingly, knowing that this 'Egg' business had gone way too far.

"There's nothing wrong. Quackity, I've seen- I've seen the truth!" said Bad, with high efforts of protecting the Crimson.

"I don't know what's going on, Bad. I don't know what's going on. I've talked to you prior, I've talked to you prior, you're not this type of person, Bad. Really?"

"It's the Egg, Quackity!"

"Reeling me in- reeling me in with power? I wanted to see this Egg, I thought I was just gonna see this... goddamn Egg, and all you're doing right now, is you took me to a source of some sort of power, that kind clouds your mind?! I FELT it, Bad! I FELT it, and I was- that felt AWFUL!" i cried, the absolute torture I had been put through coming back to my mind with utter rage.

"No, but you just haven't- you just gotta spend more time with it!" he pleaded, the glow from his black and white character becoming ever more radiant with evil.

"I didn't FEEL like myself! I started- I started getting thoughts, I started getting thoughts! I am so sick and tired- I am so sick and tired of what... You know what, Bad?! I want power, Bad, you're right, I do want power! And I'm not depending on a stupid Egg to get it. Mark my words, Bad. I'm sick and tired of you, and every other person in this goddamn server reading into something that has no meaning, but thinking it does, and using it to gain power, Bad, I'm sick and tired of it. You wanna see power, Bad?! I'm gonna show you some real goddamn power!"

"Oh, really? Really?" he said, a glint of overconfidence in his voice.

"I don't need no goddamn Eggs, no goddamn discs, I don't need none of that, Bad," I said, genuinely not wanting another fully-fledged war over some worthless items.

"You're talking like you have a choice, Quackity. Quackity, everybody is going to be forced to make a choice! You're either with the Egg, or you're against the Egg, Quackity. You don't have a choice."

"Don't ever put me in this kind of situation again, Bad. I don't know what's happened to you, I don't know what's going on, don't EVER put me into this situation again!" I said, just wanting my old friend back.

"I tried the easy way, Quackity. I tried the easy way... But you've chosen the hard way, Quackity," he growled.

I hastily made my way to light the TNT, but Bad yelled.

"STOP! IF YOU MOVE ONE STEP, PUNZ WILL TAKE YOUR LIFE RIGHT NOW!"

"Sure," I said, lifting my hands up in a way of surrender.

"Put that redstone torch away," he said, anger swelling up in him.

"Tell Punz to back off, then I'll put it away."

He told Punz to move, and I took my chance.

I placed the torch down and the deed couldn't be undone.

"This isn't for my personal gain, Bad," I said, before fleeing out of the safe exit I had dug myself. "It's for your own good."

The sound of explosions pierced my ears, and I didn't even have time to review the destruction I had caused.

- end of flashback -

(Third Person)

"Hmm. So... The Eggpire are willing to do anything for and to protect the egg. And you say your TNT didn't affect the Egg?" Techno asked; he seemed interested.

"No, it only broke the crying obsidian covering it." Quackity replied.

"Well, now we know that TNT won't do anything to the egg," said Techno. He laid a map of the entire Dream SMP on the wooden table.

"Okay, so why don't we mark all the spots the Eggpire has invaded or taken. Oh, and the main base," he said, handing Quackity a red marker.

I marked all the spots I knew of.

"Any plans?" Techno asked.

"Well, I suppose we could just get more TNT. I mean, my last attack must have weakened it a little."

"Yeah, but don't you think the Eggpire would take no chances after what you did?"

After a long heated discussion about what they could do, they both agreed they'd look into it the next day.

As they were about to get up, there was a knock on the door.

a/n

HAHAHA cliffhanger lol. Sorry...

Okay, I know things like red markers don't exist in Minecraft, but I really needed smth to mark the map with so... yeh. I'm trying to keep it as realistic to Minecraft as possible so I hope you understand this. Also,I have FIVE upcoming tests, so I probably won't be able to upload chapter 4 as quick, tho I still will be working on it. Hope you have an amazing day!

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