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Eggchan wasn’t that surprised when Flamefrags came to find him, threatened him, all of the above. “It was inevitable.” Eggchan thought the allyship between the two was always destined to fall through. He wasn’t surprised when he was bought out and taken hostage by another group, Arachnid and his Spider civilization. What did surprise Eggchan is when he saw Wemmbu again in the caves.
He wasn’t wearing his helmet, although not a devastating disadvantage, it was a disadvantage nonetheless. Eggchan was escorted into Arachnid’s in what Egg’s opinion was an “Extremely over the top and extravagant” throne room, where he was standing there beside Arachnid, his hands tied behind his back with spidery silk cloth.
“Egg!” Wemmbu says, walking up to the two of them with Yungy accompanying him. Despite that, the sight of his best friend restrained made him tighten his grip on [ Gambit ].
“Sup bro?” Egg greets normally, being taken hostage has become practically an everyday thing for the fallen angel.
“Wemmbu.” Arachnid starts rudely interrupting the reunion of the two friends, “I’m sure you know what we want from you, Wemmbu.” He begins, “We just want your cooperation inexchange for Eggchan’s safety.”
“Look man– I know, you gave me the whole lecture earlier.” Wemmbu deadpans,
“Bro Wemmbu, it’s fine. You don’t have to work for them for me.” Eggchan says, knowing Wemmbu clearly didn’t want to participate, much less participate in the politics of the server.
“Look, you do want Eggchan safe. Don’t you?” Arachnid asks, to which Wemmbu nods, clearly not knowing where he was going to take this.
“You want the server off your back, you want to be free.” Arachnid continues, to which Wemmbu reluctantly nods.
Eggchan knows where the spider is taking this, he’s seen this all before.The need for Wemmbu’s power. And it was obvious Wemmbu would indeed fall for the manipulation without realizing in the slightest. “Wemmbu bro he’s trying to–”\
“We can give you that.” Arachnid cuts Eggchan off, circling Wemmbu who was clearly deep in thought. “All these things that the server prevents you from doing, we can help you.”
“No he can’t Wemmbu.” Eggchan interrupts, his brows furrowing at Arachnid.
“Yes we can.” Yungy says, a smirk playing at his lips as he watches the entire thing play out. “In exchange, you help us.”
“Hah!” Egg scoffs, “There it is, who could’ve possibly guessed.” He follows up sarcastically
“Cool, amazing. More deals with people in political power that I don’t care for.” Wemmbu grumbles.
“But you do care for Eggchan, no?” Arachnid follows up, making Wemmbu furrow his brows at the potential threat. “We’ll keep Eggchan safe, and just work for us. You have the power that we need, and if you don’t cooperate, the things we could do are countless. We could sell him out to another civilization who won’t be as kind about making deals with you.”
“You’re not even giving me a choice here!--” Wemmbu can barely get his statement in before getting cut off.
“We are. Work with us and we keep Eggchan safe, you have one less thing to worry about. And if you don’t we’ll let him run free but we both know it’s inevitable especially now with everything going on that Eggchan will get caught up in something and his new captors won’t be as nice as us. We could keep him completely safe as long as you work with us, but if others did the same, who knows?” Arachnid asks, the idea quickly taking root in Wemmbu’s mind. “He could be tortured out for information or leverage over you. He could be locked up in incredibly disgusting conditions–”
“Wemmbu– you seriously can’t be considering this shit?!” Eggchan interrupts.
“You have the power that we need.” Arachnid continues calmly, undisturbed by the interruption on Eggchan’s end. “We help you and you help us.”
The directness clearly hit Wemmbu.
No beating around the bush
No false friendliness
Just direct honesty on what they wanted, and what they wished to receive.
“And if I refuse?” Wemmbu asks
“Were we not clear??--” Yungy asks before being interrupted by Arachnid.
“Eggchan goes back to being leveraged against you instead of leverage for you.” Arachnid says simply.
Wemmbu was silent, clearly thinking of what to say, what his answer would be. And the fact that Wemmbu was thinking about it in the first place only meant that he was thinking about agreeing. Because a part of him, albeit an extremely stupid part of him, believes that this would solve everything.
This would keep Eggchan safe from being targeted by everybody, would keep Eggchan safe from being used as a bargaining tool to other civilizations that wanted to cause more harm than good.
“Maybe if Arachnid became king…” The thought clearly overtook Wemmbu’s thoughts.
“Maybe the server would be better for the two of them, maybe they would stop getting dragged into pointless things with pointless results, maybe– just maybe he could be on this server like he was part of it, not like he was the enemy everywhere he went.
“Oooh~ He’s thinking everybody hush.” Yungy teases, covering his eyes mockingly
“I’m going to kill you.” Wemmbu hisses “I’m not working for anyone– nor am I thinking of working for anyone for that matter.”
Arachnid stopped right in front of Wemmbu. “Yes, you are.”