User blog:Click here for cookies/The Dream Team Wiki Battle to the Death - Chapter 4

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Chapter 4

Yeetmoi whispers to you: Click, snapp out of it!

Yeetmoi whispers to you: Clik!

Yeetmoi whispers to you: cookies???

Yeetmoi whispers to you: Hsllo?

Yeetmoi whispers to you: iv been trying to contact syou for so long, you havent been responding, when r u coming throiugh?

''Yeetmoi whispers to you: Click her4 for cookies, pul yourself together! We can’t afford to panic right ow! I’m sad tpo, my tingers are shaking, sorry for all the typos.''

“Hey, Cookie.”

The unfamiliar voice jolts me to my senses, and I’m still half asleep. I sit up and stare wildly around through blurry eyes, lodging yet another poisonous arrow in Schism and drawing it to shoulder height.

“Relax. I just wanted to ask if you wanted to team up for the time being.” Standing behind me is DreamsWorstKnightMare, clod in full enchanted Netherite with what seems like an entire barrelful of potions at his belt. His pockets are bulging with enchanted golden apples and he has the most lethal-looking sword I’ve ever seen sitting loosely in a sheath. This is the hacker I saw in the chat earlier, I remember now.

“Why, what’s in it for you?” I’m wary. No doubt he could /kill me any time he wanted.

“You seem like a resourceful person,” he says. His voice is deep and gravelly. “We could benefit each other largely, since I have all this and we’re both clearly excellent fighters.”

“With large egos,” I mutter.

He smiles. “Yes, that too. So, allies or not?”

I consider. He’s obviously stacked, and he wouldn’t be a good enemy to have. Plus, maybe I could get some sick enchanted gear, too. My iron axe’s in bad shape. And this defense thing? Right up my alley.

“I’m down.” I grin weakly as we shake hands, his arm making jangling noises from all of his loot along his entire body. I know I’ve made the right choice.

By midmorning, we’ve relit the portal and come through (great, more hot ‘n’ stuffy terrain) to meet Just, who’s hiding in a makeshift Netherrack hole. Yeetmoi is trying to coax her out, and we come over to help. When she sees us, she starts to consider letting us hoist her out, but a ghast that’s apparently been tearing up the Nether in its search for Just fireballs all three of us. I immediately manage to get myself caught on fire, but Knight kills it, puts out the fire, and splashes Fire Resistance on me. Taking Knight on as an ally seems a better choice all the time.

I tentatively help Just out of the hole and immediately see that when Orchid… left, Just had, like me, cried for a while. As a result, her eyes have experienced the odd phenomenon of someone who has cried in the Nether. For as soon as water pooled in her eyes it evaporated, which stung her cornea a little. Her eyes look normal right now, not puffy, but the whites of her eyes are a faint, pale salmon color. Upon seeing me tears start to leak out again, but I try to calm her down while struggling to keep my own tears from seeping under my eyelids. We’re both so happy to see each other, and so wracked with grief, that we’re both just giant messes.

When Just recovers, she notices Knight, standing there awkwardly as we reunite. She asks me who he is, since player name tags are turned off.

“JustHereForNothing and Yeetmoi,” I say grandly, attempting to sweep my arm to indicate Knight, “meet DreamsWorstKnightMare.”

Recognition dawns in Yeet’s face. “The hacker we saw?”

“Yes, this is him. But we’re teamed now. Be civil, please, guys.” Then I leave the three of them to socialize - also known as stand there and look away, commenting on the weather (hot) - while I survey our surroundings. Then I feel a sharp pain in my leg and double over. It feels like a knife stab, which it may very well be. I whip around, snatching my axe out into the air and readying it, but there’s no one there. Nothing to attack. I’m focusing so intently for any sign of human movement that I almost miss the sound of the portal vwoop behind me, but it’s there. In an instant I understand. Someone came through the portal with an invisibility effect on and stabbed me, then ran away. God, what a coward. They should’ve fought me one-on-one.

Neither Just nor Yeet nor Knight appears to have seen my attacker’s floating knife, and only now is Just noticing my wound.

“Click! Are you all right? Who stabbed you? I’ll make quick work of them.” Just’s hands have balled into fists, clutching an iron axe in one hand, a shield in another.

As she stares around vengefully for my attacker, I explain the situation to her, Yeet, and Knight: “Someone came through the portal while invisible and stabbed me, and I think I have a pretty shrewd idea who.”

Knight stomps out a fire near his shoe. “Well, don’t stall like you’re in a book. Who?”

“I think it was Yacmef. She has motives, skill, materials, and cunning. I don’t know anyone else that would have such brains, but then not have the guts to fight me one-on-one.”

“Well,” Just says reasonably, “maybe she didn’t want to fight all three of us. We’re extremely stacked, thanks to Knight and the abundance of diamonds and Netherite in this particular seed.”

Yacmef found a Looting III Iron Sword!

“Let’s move on,” I say, sorting my inventory. “What say y’all we find a bastion?”

They agree, with a note from Knight about the amount of bastions he’s found. Maybe he’s not a hacker, and just extremely lucky. But the amount of loot he has on him is ridiculous, and still highly unlikely. I don’t know, but I can’t waste all my time debating whether he’s a hacker or not.

“Hey, before we leave - Knight, do you have any better gear you could give us?” I say.

“Yeah, I got some Netherite,” he replies casually, like it’s no big deal.

Before long all four of us are clad in full enchanted Netherite, complete with tools and weapons, and I can’t help but shake my head in wonder at all the shiny purple. It’s very comfortable inside this armor, and I’m traveling in comfort as we continue toward a bastion. We’ve hardly started the journey, though, when we come across Yacmef and NONAMEMANBRO (Peter) in a Nether fortress. I arrive just in time to see Yac drink a fire resistance potion and jump into the lava to avoid getting shot by Peter’s M16, which is pointed at her like a deadly stick. Then I register that Yacmef is here. I quickly and quietly explain what I’m going to do to my friends, and they nod. They’re going to go to the portal on the Overworld side and camp it. There’s no time to lose; Knight wordlessly hands me a fire resistance potion without me having to ask for it - that’s another thing I really like about him as an ally - and I drink it in one gulp.

With my sheath of poisonous arrows slung across my back and Schism at my side, I salute my allies and leap backwards into the fiery mass below.

With my sheath of poisonous arrows slung across my back and Schism at my side, I salute my allies and leap backwards into the fiery mass below.

Author’s notes -

1) Attention to detail is an important virtue in life.

2) I’m sorry that I forgot to include Yeetmoi in the first draft TvT

References:

- “Taking Knight on as an ally seems a better choice all the time.” is a sentence from the original Hunger Games book, but it’s “Taking Rue on as an ally seems a better choice all the time.”

Members:

Click here for cookies (Click, Cookie)

Maki is magic (Maki)

JustHereForNothing (Just)

Yeetmoi (Yeet)

Blursedimages (Blursed, Ghostimages)

StarShadow2 (Star)

Yacmef (Yac)

ThEtBe (ThEtBe)

LemonStickersXOXO (Parker)

Winged Lizzarrd (Lizzarrd)

DONTFEEDMYBEESCOCAINE (Tele)

NONAMEMANBRO (Peter)

Orchifly (Orch, Orchid, Ghostifly)

DreamsWorstKnightMare (Knight)

SimpWasFoundUwU, I didn’t include you because you joined when we were extremely deep into the roleplay.

Graynotfound, I didn’t include you for the same reason.