Watching and Listening - An Empires SMP AU

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          The clone dropped to the floor unconscious with a twisted look on her face as her body absorbed the potion. False took a step back, flinging away the now empty vial. She didn't entirely know what the potion did, but she didn't want to touch it. On second thought, she picked up the bottle again and set it aside to test the potion for later. 

           Across the room, Doc groaned; him and Cleo trying to stem the blood flow coming from an enormous wound in his middle. Everyone else crowded around him and someone managed to get a healing potion from somewhere. "I'm fine," Doc grumbled, but he didn't shove them away as Cleo poured the healing potion on him. "I've got other first aid stuff upstairs," False said, and Bdubs climbed the ladder to go and get it. 

           "Cleo?" Jevin called out, sounding groggy. Everyone turned to see the blue slime slide into his clothes lying on the floor and then morph into his regular humanoid form. "What happened?" "You don't remember?" False asked, slowly developing a theory about the potions. Jevin paused and then shook his head. "The last thing I remember is us leaving for your tower..." "The potions must cause amnesia," False murmured, looking at the broken vial. 

           Then Jimena stirred and started to get up from the floor. "What? What happened?!" The girl shot to her feet and glanced around at the hermits. She stared at hermit False for a few seconds and then she noticed the clone still unconscious on the floor. Horrified, she dropped down and started to shake her awake. "False, wake up!" "No!" Hermit False shouted. She reached out, not knowing what to do, but she didn't want her clone to wake up and then start attacking them again. 

           Cleo grabbed the computer and hit Jimena on the head with it. The girl slowly turned to look at her with an angry expression and then keeled over, knocked out next to False. But False too was waking up. Cleo hit her on the head with the computer too. And then both of them were asleep on the floor. 

           False let out a sigh of relief that the two of them would pose no threat, at least for now. And then she realized what computer Cleo had just used to knock them out. The important computer that was needed for the mindwiping chair. "Cleo!" False said. "What?" Cleo asked. "My computer!" Cleo glanced at the computer she held. Awkwardly whistling, she slowly put it back down on the table she'd found it on. 

           False just stared at the broken gadget sputtering sparks from multiple cracks on its surface. "Great, now I need to get a new computer!" "It's not that bad, right?" Jevin asked hopefully. "No," Doc growled, getting up even though his wound told him not to. "Without that computer, False isn't going to be able to fix her clone's memories." "Well, we just get a new computer, then," Jevin said, still on a hopeful note. "Have you seen these empires, Jevin?" Cleo rolled her eyes. "They're straight out of a dnd world. I don't think they even know what a computer is." 

           "Oh," Jevin said, deflating. Just then, Bdubs came down the ladder, having finally found the first aid kit, and Cleo took it to use on Doc. "Them too," Bdubs said, pointing at Jimena and False. Then he caught sight of the unfortunate computer and jumped back slightly. "Cleo, did you hit them on the head with a computer?" "Yes," Cleo replied promptly. 

           False wasn't even listening. She just bent down and looked at her clone's face. With her eyes shut and expression fading to peaceful, she looked so innocent. And yet she wasn't. How close False was to finally fixing her and then now they'd had a setback. A setback that probably wouldn't get fixed for a while, considering the limited technology available. Still, maybe she and Doc could cobble together a rudimentary computer out of scrap metal. 

           "Doc, do you think we can build a computer?" False asked. "You're still trying to get rid of her memories?" Doc asked. "You saw what just happened!" False shouted. "She literally stabbed you and she's not even fully evil yet!" "Technically because I tried to chop her with an ax first," Doc muttered under his voice. "Wait, what?" Jevin asked, blinking rapidly. "Why are you guys defending her?" False asked, frustrated. "Because why not?" Bdubs said.