Watching and Listening - An Empires SMP AU

A win and a loss

           Grian gasped when he saw Jimena sit up and look around, blinking. "Jimena, you're alright!" He shouted, hugging her. "Uh, yeah, I am..." She said, sounding distracted. "Oh, and, stay away from Grumbot." Grian told her. "He just sucked the power right out of a Watcher and I do not want to know whether he'll do the same to us." "He what?!" Jimena squeaked in alarm. 

           Then Grian got an idea. "Let's lure the other two Watchers to Grumbot so he can steal their power." "Other two?" Jimena frowned. "Weren't there four of them?" "Yeah, but then one turned into a human and the other was swallowed by Sausage's dog." Lizzie said as she dragged a dead body into a growing pile of dead bodies nearby. 

           Grian and Jimena both started when they realized just how many corpses there were. Grian began to panic when he recognized them. "Lizzie, I'm not dead!" Cleo shouted, annoyed, from inside the pile of corpses. "You technically are! You're a literal zombie!" Lizzie shouted back as she started sprinkling a line of blood and salt around the pile to presumably do the resurrecting stuff. 

            "I'm undead! There's a difference between dead and undead!" Cleo shrieked as she jumped off and ran away. "Now I'm going to break Watcher legs!" Lizzie just hummed like this was perfectly normal and then went back to doing her resurrecting stuff. 

           "Well, don't just stand there gawking," Lizzie told Grian and Jimena after eying them for a second. "Go ahead and fight! And get Grumbot to un-Watcher those Watchers!" "Un-Watcher is not a word." Jimena muttered, but she and Grian both ran off to find a Watcher to lure into their trap. 

           They found Scott and Gem dealing with the yellow one and Joel was fighting the gray one with some of the hermits and emperors who weren't too injured or dead. "Do you want to take righty or lefty?" Grian asked Jimena. "How about both at once?" She asked. Grian nodded and they simultaneously shot beams of red and purple energy at the opposing Watchers. 

           They started and whirled around, snarling. Then the Watchers realized that they were slowly being surrounded and immediately shifted to the defensive, making color-coded shields out of their magic. "We need to get them to Grumbot!" Grian shouted. Everyone looked confused for a second but they went along with it anyway. 

           They started attacking again in such a way that the Watchers were slowly being pushed towards Hermitopia. Then those who could fly turned the fight airborne with those who had projectile and long-distance weaponry shooting from below. Slowly, little by little, the gray and yellow Watchers were being pushed to the top of Hermitopia. 

          Then two giant gloved metal hands came out of nowhere and grabbed the two of them. "Everyone get away!" Grian shouted, just in case Grumbot got any ideas. Everyone backed off as there was a grayish-yellowish flash and Grumbot was holding two humans instead of two Watchers. 

           "Uh... since when could Grumbot do that?" Scott asked perplexedly. "I suggest we don't go near him." Gem said cautiously, backing up even further. "Power." Grumbot mumbled. "I have so much power." "Yeah, let's leave the super powerful power-hungry AI alone and maybe help everyone else deal with False and Martyn?" Grian said, looking down. 

           Everyone looked back on the battlefield. The clone False was busy taking on several different people at once despite how injured everyone was. Martyn was running off into the nearby woods while being pursued by some of his friends. Everyone landed and cautiously approached False, who was viciously slicing up anyone who came close to her. 

           "False! It's over! The other Watchers are no longer a problem!" Jimena called, rushing forward. But Grian looked at False and what he saw chilled him to the bone. "Jimena, I don't think she can hear you!" He called, reaching forward to call the girl back. False's eyes were blank and empty and she just had this sadistic little smile on her face that was in no way natural. She'd been fighting for too long that she was now full of bloodlust. She didn't look like she was going to stop anytime soon. She was just unhinged now.