The Red Moon Always Shines

Chapter 60: Prison of deceit

NPG was excitedly teaching Markus how to build rustic houses, with Rodger observing to make sure neither of them destroyed anything, or went overboard. So it made sense that he was the first to see the sky bleed red, and he was given no time to react before a portal forcefully tore itself open before the half done house, the loud crack of it alerting the other two of what was going on.

NPG jumped down, with Markus parkouring down behind him, and walked up to Rodger, eyes never leaving the red rip, "Rodg what is that?" glancing up at the sky his black eyes widened, stepping back a bit in shock, "And what happened to the sky?"

"Who cares!" Cries Markus, getting both of their attention, "It doesn't matter right now, not when we have bigger things to worry about!" Looking in between them his face paled, "Uhm, you two have weapons, right? Or at least know how to use them, right?"

Rodger didn't even tell him anything before he whirled around, sword already in hand. But the robot froze when he was faced with a drawn blade, a dark clawed hand holding to it in a sure grip. Following the hand up a thin bony form of, what could only be described as a demonic bone version of an enderman, appeared, soulless white eyes watching them silently. Behind the being many more of its kind, all different looking but still looking similar, walked out of the red rift.

"Something tells me I'm not going to like you." Rodger snarked, eyes never leaving the blade trained on him.

It chuckled at him, it's spindly tail swishing behind it slowly, "What gave it away?"

"I don't know about you, but having a sword pointed at you tends to tell you that the person isn't really on your side." He said, snark still fully on. "But if you are please do to tell me now, I'd hate for things to go south because of a misunderstanding."

"They literally just ripped a portal into the air and are now holding you at blade tip," Markus deadpanned, "I don't think anything here is a misunderstanding."

Rodger gave a look before looking over his shoulder with narrowed eyes, "Sarcasm kid, sarcasm. Please do learn it, I hate explaining myself." Markus backed up with a sheepish smile, but startled when his back met a bony rib cage. Whirling around he came face to face with the chest of another one of the creatures, this one smaller but bulkier than the first one. This was what made Roger actually look around, only to then promptly curse loudly, they were surrounded on all fronts, there were even some perched on the unfinished rustic house, clawed feet digging into the build and making wood splinters fall. Looking back at the first one he narrowed his eyes, "What do you want with us?"

"I'm glad you asked, because of course I will tell you exactly that." Seems like Rodger wasn't the only one here with snark in him. It lunged out and grabbed the robot by the throat, the action doing nothing but restrain him, "No that is something I will not do. But don't you worry, you'll be seeing why soon enough." Faster than Rodger could even react and an electric disk was brought out and slapped onto his forehead, a blue current of electricity flashed over his body before he went limp. The leader, as that was the only thing they could assume it was, not so gently handed the unconscious droid to another creature, he then dragged him through the portal and out of view for the remaining two.

"Rodger!" Cried NPG, staggering towards the portal with an outstretched arm, but he was stopped by a hard hit to the back of the head, knocking him down to the ground. With a grunt he pulled himself up to his elbows, some of his face scratched up to reveal the metal under his fake skin, he was about to stand up and- well he don't know what, but he'd do something. Only to stop at the sight of one of the creatures resting its massive hands on Markus' shoulders, one push away from painfully restricting him. Seeing, and realizing, what would happen if he attempted to fight back he stayed down, eyes looking at the teen apologetically.