35MM: A Musical Songfic Series

Stop Time

There. Life. (Focus.)

Xisuma watched the world around him, dust filling the air as he crash landed into the dirt. Everything was spinning, but as he slowly stood up it seemed to all be coming together. Memories flooded into the back of his mind. The fun he had in every single world with his friends. His friends...

Still life (still focus)

All of them were gone now.

Biffa and Python caught an infection and died long before and then it just spread like a wildfire through the server. He warned, or at least tried to, but after seeing the sunken eyes of his longtime tea-companion, he knew that the other's wouldn't take this seriously. "We can just respawn, it will be fine," he heard the words through a sickly and drunken tone of the other armored man. "I'll be here before you kn-" But he never respawned. His body sat there, no signs of vital life. His heart had stopped and there were no brain waves under the thick metal of his helmet. Python was in the bed next to him, separated by only a little table with their glasses of water and some medications that the admin through would help them to heal.

More life. More focus

If only that is what the pills did.

To the red species of Creeper, the pills did nothing but worsen his symptoms. The cough got so bad that eventually silver gunpowder came up his throat and his eyes swelled shut. Python begged for his friends not to see him like this, so Xisuma hid the truth from the rest of the server. He hid that the well known friends of the Admin had been injured at all, let alone that Biffa had died from his illness.

All of this Xisuma saw as he looked at the remains of the building, left behind only for the wild animals and other mobs to take over. Would the zombies take over the land like they had? Would they live their lives as if they were the remains of his friends and loved ones?

Hold!

Were they now zombies too?

Stopped time, captured lights

Eventually everyone died. Respawning didn't work and people were more scared then anything else once they found out the truth. The smell of decay from the human and not-so-human corpses that were laid finally to rest in the impromptu medical tent made the whole town reek of death. People moved away and the clumsy death messages that would plague the chat became almost none. But, of course, they all still died. Tinfoil Chef caught the infection and in his old age, made no effort to fight it off. Instead he chose to take his life into his old, ever so slightly shaken hands. He fired his bow into the sky and landed a final blow to his forehead, finishing him off. Other blows landed to his shoulder, chest, back and metal foot, but the one between his eyes was the one that finished him.

Gathered imaging on photosites

Xisuma begged that to be the end, for the infection to have died off when his friends did, but that was only the start. Jessassin, False, Wels and Stress came to Xisuma at different points of the day after TFC was pronounced dead by the horrified ConVex duo, who acted as plague doctors during the outbreak. Their ties to the Vex prevented them from sharing the sickness. Jess came to Xisuma with a cough that turned into throwing up blood along with ever meal he had ever eaten. False's skin was turning gray and puffing up. Wels was carried by Stress, a shock to all that she can lift him in his full suit of armor, couldn't feel anything below his waist and when she got to the second medical tent, she collapsed there as well. Eventually all four of them died. The ice queen never woke up after taking the knight to the admin and the Vex pronounced her dead moments after her collapse. Next was Jess, who coughed up more and more blood until eventually more of his blood volume was outside of his body than inside. Scans showed he had no brain activity, even though his heart was still beating. Cub inhaled and stuck a short dagger into the back of his head, "there's no coming back from this," he explained as they watched the life drain from his body. Wels and False fought for as long as they could and eventually False even appeared to be getting better, but over the third night they both took a turn for the worst and both died in their sleep.