Questionable Choices [Yan!DSMP x Reader]

Chapter 31: Indoor Playhouse

God, Niki's food is absolutely delicious. As you eat it with her sitting next to Philza, you enthusiastically talk with her about anything and everything. Technoblade is awkwardly sitting next to you, watching your interaction, while Philza simply adds something to the conversation with a smile from time to time. It's fun to talk with her. And it's weird to realize that she actually is a part of the Syndicate while also working at DeMeter, a company which has a lot of power and would be the last thing that should be associated with anarchy.

"I don't know," you shrug, looking away from her. "I'm not necessarily disagreeing or judging you, or anything, but really? What will you do when Wilbur catches you?"

"You're not going to tell him?"

"I never said I would, but he's not that big of an idiot. Hell, Dream simply has to see something suspicious and you're fucked. Why even do it? I mean, Schlatt is the one you guys mainly want to take down, right? So why DeMeter? Why not literally work for Schlatt, rather than in a company that he wants to have very little to do with?"

"DeMeter has the best materials for the best inventions there are," Philza explains calmly. "The material they use to charge most of their machines, or Blue, is extremely useful for our own machinery, since it never runs out of energy. Nobody knows how it's made, other than Schlatt and Connor, allegedly."

"There are materials that can deactivate it, though, when they are put in the circuit. Isolators, as expected. Rubber, glass, asphalt, those, you know? Blue is just electricity, but special, in a way." You hum, thinking of the blue substance that you have seen flowing through the tubes several times. Was that really the right word to use for it? Where the hell did it come from?

"Wait, so you guys have your own shit as well? Can I see it?" you ask when the words have properly been processed and Niki's eyes shine bright.

"Of course! Follow me!" Technoblade almost startles when you stand up energetically, mirroring Niki's energy, and follow her into one of the hallways. Technoblade at first wants to follow as well, but Philza stops him because he needs his son to help with something, whatever that is.

However, you're too curious to really focus on the rest of Phil's words, as Niki quickly enough brings you into a huge room. And then I mean, huge. You're convinced it's even bigger than the now-abandoned part of your basement, which already has a large surface due to your and Sally's need for experimenting there. And when Niki turns on the lights, you're flabbergasted. There is a lot of shit in there. Not a little lot, no, lots of lot. There are some huge fucking things, and then smaller ones under them. And well, your eyes immediately fall on the black things hanging on hooks in the wall. Niki notices your curiosity.

"You have seen Phil's wings already, right? Well, these are ours. Unlike Phil's, which are literally attached to his body and thus a part of him, we need mechanical ones." She approaches the table and takes the wings off the hooks, showing you every single aspect of it and even allowing you to hold them. "Sometimes we all need to fly, which is when we use these. Of course, it's not that handy to just take them with you in the public – everybody will look at you – so we can simply put them over our shoulders under our clothes and-" Niki grabs one of the metal objects, which has to be worn like a backpack, and puts it on her shoulders "-when we need to fly, we simply press this button." She presses the button on her right shoulder and behind her back appear two beautiful wings. "Tada! The best is that they don't destroy your clothes, but that's not visible here. If you want to, we can go outside when it's less windy and I can teach you how to fly?"

She takes off the metal thing again, resulting in the disappearance of the wings, and hands it over to you so that you can look at it. It's a lot different to how you had created the wings of Icarus and Daedalus, from quite a while back, but it functions the same way. "I actually think I'm able to use this thing already," you chuckle. "But thanks anyway. Can I keep it?"