Loyalty | pogtopia traitor!niki

2 | Firework Festival

DISCLAIMER !
In this storyline, Niki are close friends
with Sam (awesamdude) and Antfrost. Also, I know Eret and H wasn't in the festival because of their irl schedules mixing up, but in this story, they are in here.

TW // BLOOD (at the end)

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NIKI stared at herself at the mirror— she doesn’t know how to remove the swelling in her eyes after a long session of crying. She feels like crying again, but she tried so hard to not to, as Sam is waiting for her outside.

“Niki, you can do this. Let’s not cry.” she told to herself, jogging in one place to prevent herself from sobbing again. She made a deep breath before coming out of the restroom.

“You okay now?” Sam asked her, worried. She gave him a faint smile and a nod. “Thanks, Sam. You’re literally the sweetest person in here.” She said, her eyes on the Manburg podium. She heaved a sigh. “Let’s go,”

While in the middle of watching people play on the booths that Fundy and Tubbo made, Quackity went up to the podium to announce something. Their attention suddenly was brought to the beanie boy, listening. “Everyone, gather at the Manburg podium, at the Manburg podium.” He announced and went back in the White House, where Schlatt is just sitting on the couch, drinking beer. Niki just shook my head in disappointment. This government is so fucked up.

If not Wilbur, Alex should’ve been the president. He knows everything about the law, while Schlatt don't. He's also the one who's doing what Schlatt is supposed to do. He is just chilling on his couch, drink cases and cases of beer. If Alex was the president, her farm and her bakery should have been alive right now. Ever since that fucker ruled their country, there are people who just kept stealing things in her farm and bakery. At first, they wanted her to surrender to them, in exchange of her bakery being the number one source of food in Manburg. But she refused because it’ll be against one of her principles, which is not to give in to the enemies.

Everyone followed what Alex said. They are on their seats, waiting for the president to sleep. Schlatt cleared his throat. “Welcome to the festival of Manburg!” He greeted, clapping his hands. Everyone cheered for it except for Niki. “I’ve invited all citizens of Manburg and some very close friends of mine to enjoy the festivities that this nation— something— I don't know,” he shrugged. Niki rolled her eyes while leaning on her hand, asking herself why did this man even get the position. “Basically, I just want to throw a party. You guys know me; I'm a partier, I enjoy a good party, you know— so I decided to put one together for you all, so go partake in the beautiful fruits of this country. So, thanks all for being here, we're just gonna party for a while because that are parties all about!” He ended, declaring that the party has started.

Schlatt dipped down in the water, submerging in it. Alex and Fundy started to worry about him, for he doesn't know how to swim. Niki rolled her eyes as she watched Schlatt slowly drowning, while his minions are helping him to go up. “Does he really depend everything on his people? Even his movements?” Niki muttered, irritated.

Throughout the whole festival, the lass tried so hard to go with the flow. It’s very difficult to keep the happy expression because all citizens of Manburg has been so annoying. If she has a lazer beam power in her eyes, she must've killed them all right at the spot because of those glares.

It was agonizing. Everyone was just having fun, turning a blind eye on how fucked up this country has been ever since Schlatt's rule.

Schlatt's second speech was contradicting to one another; he embarrassed Tubbo for all the things the kid failed on doing, and later thanked him for setting up the festival. If he didn't want anything to go wrong, maybe he should try taking real actions? He's the one who wants his people to do this, therefore, he knows what's perfect to his taste or not.

“So without any further ado, let’s hear it for our right hand man, Tubbo!” He exclaimed, clapping his hands and moved away for Tubbo. Niki just looked at Tubbo and faked a smile for him, just to show moral support.

Talking about Wilbur, they climbed up to the building to snipe what's going on. The two, Will and Tubbo, agreed to have a code for Wilbur to press the button to blow it up. As soon as Tubbo gave his speech, everyone was cheering for it as he referred Tommy and Wilbur the ‘insects’ of the nation and Schlatt being the one who got rid of the insects.

Knowing it was all fake, Niki was over it. She just wanted to go home and rest. She had enough of faking her emotions. But she had to stay for Tubbo.

Thanks for the leadership of Schlatt, Manburg became so much prettier. She wanted to throw up.

“I'd like to thank everyone for coming to this wonderful event.” He said his ending statement and nodded at everyone. Schlatt started to laugh, which made the boy nervous. “W-what's wrong, Schlatt?” He asked the president.

“No, it was just… I was just thinking about it, Tubbo— you got everything else in the speech? Are you done with the speech?” He asked him, and Tubbo affirmed, have nothing else to say.

Schlatt called Alex and gave him boxes. He started locking Tubbo in. “Schlatt— Schlatt, what are you doing?” He tried getting out, but it was too hard to break.

“Tubbo, let’s cut at the fucking chase. It really sucks for me to say this right here in front of everybody and it's kinda awkward. Tubbo, I know what have you been up to.”

“He conspires! With the idiots! With the tyrants that we kicked out of this great country!” Schlatt revealed, shocking Niki. She held onto her sword, ready to fight. Schlatt sighed. “Tubbo, I don't know if you know this but treason, isn't exactly a respectable thing around here, I know what have you been up to, buddy. The fucking tunnels! Your absence from great events! Don't try telling me you have done nothing wrong— because everybody knows it! I see it with my two fucking eyes what you've been doing.”

“I can't find the button, Tommy. I'm pretty sure I marked it under the podium, I can’t find it anymore.” Wilbur told Tommy, chasing his breath. Tommy held onto his sword and shield as they both watched Tubbo getting exposed by Schlatt.

“You know what happens to traitors, Tubbo? Nothing good.”

Techno was asked to come up to the podium, in which he followed right away. Niki tried stopping him from doing so, but he seemed like he was peer-pressured by the rest of them. “Will, let’s save Tubbo, please.”

And in a blink, the fireworks was shot. Everybody screamed in panic, so as the two that were spying on them. Tommy immediately ran towards Techno, pushing him off to check on Tubbo.

She was surrounded with screams, blood, explosions and fireworks. She stared at the stage in front of her, one of the persons she cherished the most is bleeding in front of her, inaudibly asking for help.

“Niki,” Tubbo mouthed, his hand reaching for her. She immediately rushed towards him, placing him in his arms. Tears started to flow from the girl's eyes as she applied cloth on Tubbo's wound to stop the bleeding. He was bleeding too much and she couldn't do anything.

Tommy quickly carried his friend, with Niki assisting them as they went into the forest— specifically to the base of Pogtopia.