Disconnected (SockSMP AU)

L4FF

Blood warning

Meme heard glass shatter once again, but this time it wasn't against his back. He glanced towards to see Joocie stumbling out.

It seemed it didn't matter what buttons Nadwe pressed, not when he could break them out other ways. Wictoria looked tired, yet relieved at her hard work before falling over in an unconscious pile on the ground. Joocie also fell down, he was in the chamber longer then Oof.

"Huh. I really should have made the glass tougher," L4FF muttered. Meme grinned, at least something was going to plan. Now to defeat L4FF once and for all.

Meme charged at L4FF, adrenaline coursing through his veins, and punched him. L4FF punched back and launched Meme across the floor. Meme knew L4FF could punch harder, maybe this was doing something..?

"I do not know why you keep trying. Clearly your efforts are amounting to nothing," L4FF said, "I only let you keep trying because it amuses me to see you fail."

Meme still kept hope that L4FF was lying to make him give up. He had to do something. He had to.

L4FF walked over to him slowly and picked Meme up by his chin with one hand.

"Consider this a warning."

L4FF raised his other hand and scraped his cold metal finger across Meme's face. Meme felt the skin tear open and oh gosh it hurt it hurt it hurt-

Meme fell to the ground and put his hand up to his face. His left eye was squeezed shut from the scratch that was now across his face. He moved his hand back. It was red. He felt lightheaded, not a good sign. He just needed to survive longer then L4FF. That was all. Why was it seeming so hard?

He carefully put one leg in front of the other. He needed to stand up but fear gripped him when he felt his knees buckle under him.

Meme swore under his breath.

"You know, I'm surprised you're still conscious. With that much blood loss I would think a normal human like you would collapse, seeing you still struggle to get up is really inspiring!" L4FF paused, "I'm happy you're still conscious. The longer the game goes on the better."

"What even is... Is this game?" Meme said between breaths.

"Heh, finally wondering? It's simple. The game of life. Survival of the fittest. And it seems you are losing," L4FF said, "I could kill you so easily. I could kill all of you. But I don't. Because part of a game is 'having fun'. Aren't you happy? You get to live long enough to see your failures before I-"

L4FF was cut off from the sound of the door opening. He scowled.

"Seriously? I was monologuing!" L4FF said, "that took ALL of the dramatic atmosphere out."

Meme held his head up a little higher. He could make this work.

"Meme! Meme!" Nadwe called out, running down the stairs as fast as he could with Muffin's hand firmly in his grip... Which wasn't that fast. Muffin was running fairly slow. Well, he was jogging. Not running. Still, Nadwe refused to let him go.

"It's the mask! You need to break his mask, but like happily- OH MAN WHAT HAPPENED TO YOUR FACE!?" Nadwe squeaked and jumped back. Muffin buried his face in Nadwe's back to avoid looking. Meme tentatively raised a hand to his face, Nadwe considered Meme didn't actually know how large the cut was and didn't think it was... That bad.

However, Nadwe had bigger issues.

"What do you mean, happily?" Meme grunted.

"I mean- I was telling you this BEFORE I knew you got injured."

"Enough about.. About that. How can I stop him?"

"It feeds off negative emotions, if you break it you can weaken it. Maybe then you can st-"

"Enough," L4FF interrupted and turned towards the 14-year-olds, "I can't lose, not now."

"Muffin, stay back," Nadwe told the younger boy, "I don't want to lose you again." Muffin shook his head.

"I'm staying with you," Muffin said and he offered a shaky smile, "14-year-old gang forever?"

Nadwe smiled, "14-year-old gang forever. Alright L4FF, we're ready!" Nadwe pulled out the MonikaHaterSlayer and held it in front of him and his best friend. His eyes shined bright red.

"You think that puny sword will stop me?" L4FF asked. Nadwe shrugged.

"Worth a shot. Plus-" Nadwe was cut off by L4FF pulling out his gravity gun and grabbing him. Nadwe struggled.

"Plus what?"

"I'm not trying to defeat you. I'm just trying to keep you busy until the cavalry arrives."

Meme stood up. He swayed a little on the spot before taking a step forward.

And another step.

And another step.

He started running. His son was struggling. His best friends died. His wife was currently unconscious on the ground. His friends have all suffered. Because of him. Because of L4FF.

He loved them. L4FF was messing with his family, and Meme couldn't take it any longer. He took his last ounce of strength left within him and bottled it up.

This was for Socks and Tbh.

He punched L4FF right in the mask. He pulled his hand back. It was red. A quarter of it dislodged itself and fell to the ground with a thunk. Another quarter reverted back to its gold sheen. Meme's vision started to blur.

"Meme..?" L4FF called out.

All Meme saw was black.

Nadwe fell down seconds ago but he was already admiring the golden chunk dislodged.

"Not so powerful now, huh?" Nadwe said. He grabbed the mask piece. He wouldn't let L4FF have it again. He grinned. Meme did it.

"Lock 'em up in the gulag. Don't let him ever get out," Nadwe said.

L4FF slowly moved his hand to the exposed flesh and started to laugh as his robotic hand was stained red.

"It appears I underestimated you, FatMemeGod," L4FF said. He smiled at the unconscious body.

"I won't make that mistake next time."

L4FF stayed as still as a statue.

"You're just gonna let us capture you?" Blaza asked, breaking the stunned silence.

"I lost fair and square. That's how the game works." L4FF let Blaza take him up to the gulag.

"Oh, and Nadwe? Could you try to find Oof and Woolf again? We'll need some help patching everyone up, once we deal with L4FF," Blaza said. Nadwe nodded.

"So we're finally safe?" Muffin asked timidly. Nadwe nodded and smiled.

"We're safe..."

PART 1 - END

Now for what I've dubbed the socksmp S2 of Disconnected. Aka, they don't get a break. Because I said so. So yeah, halfway point. Since the next stuff you don't have any more SockSMP to bounce things off of, only Frogg knows what's happening and even then they don't really. I can't wait to show you all of this mess <3

Also if you know which line in this chapter is a quote and what it's quoting you get a gold star.