"How's Muffin doing?"  You ask as you move boxes into Joocie's house. You decided to become roommates with him after Tbh blew up your house for being on Socks's side. You still had things from the base and decided to bring them. He's doing alright. Not great. But alright." He says and puts a box down onto the table and huffs. He sits down into one of the chairs lazily nearby and sighs. "It was nice of you to atleast let him stay here. Speaking of which where is he?" Joocie sits up and looks over at you who had carefully placed a box full of achievements and trophies you've earned. "Probably with Nadwe." He mumbles. "Although, while I am glad to say he and Nadwe are still friends even with a war going on, I feel like Nadwe will try something on our side. Either steal things or attack us." You shake your head, "He wouldn't do that.. He sees you as his brother does he not?" Joocie just shrugs, "At this point I'm not sure anymore of what he thinks of me. He could think I'm an enemy, a brother, an acquaintance, or just a British man who's always on the wrong side.

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"Hey Y/N!" You hear a shout from behind you. You turn and see Joocie running up to you. "Your on your way to the base right?" He asks out of breathe. "Yeah, visiting Dino. What's up?" Joocie pulls out a slip of paper and a book. "Give the note to Socks. I'm about to go give Nadwe this book here that he needed since Muffin can't deliver it for personal reasons. If I don't come back then you know why." He chuckles at the end. You take the slip of paper and stuff it in your pocket. "I'm sure Nadwe wouldn't hurt you." You try to reassure him and start walking. Behind you, you could hear Joocie faintly mumble something. "But Meme and Tbh would.."

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"Ain't I lucky I got away with my life?" Joocie grins at you. You grin back and look around the base filled with chaos. Socks had stolen Dino's notebook and pissed him off. So now Dino has a sword in his hand, ready to strike that smug smile off of Socks's face. Although he was held back by Blaza. Oompa and Woolfster just watched the chaos. Woolfster had decided to whisper insults about Dino to Oompa who laughed quietly. "You sure are." You tell Joocie who smiles. Honestly his smile was the only thing that could make your day light up brighter than the sun itself.

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"I'm going to be having tea with Laff. Would you like to join?" Joocie calls out to you from downstairs. He was preparing to leave to spend time with the only person who didn't pick a side. "Naw it's alright. Have fun dear!" You call out, your face turning red after realizing what you said. You hear Joocie chuckle from downstairs and right before he left the house, "Will do darling!"

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You sit in your room drawing in your own notebook. Tears fell from your face onto the pages. You tried your best to wipe them off but they just left an obvious stain. You throw your notebook down and stand up, walking to Joocie's room, and steal one of his hoodies. They haven't been touched in about two weeks due to the fact that Joocie hadn't been home. You throw it on over your own shirt and walk downstairs, and out the house. You decided to take a walk to Laff's house. To figure out yourself where your best friend had went. After all.. the last time Joocie was seen before he went missing, was when he went to get tea with Laff.

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Everything went to hell. You figured out nothing. You and both sides were in the court room. Trying to stay as far away from the British man as possible. He had already shot Woolfster.. in the head. Muffin's body laid by your feet. Nadwe crying over his body and gripping the boys hand. Dino was nowhere to be found. Neither was Oompa, Oof, of Tbvg. "Everybody get down there!" Laff pointed towards an elevator. Everybody obediently followed each other into the elevator. You all traveled down deeper into the dimly lit area. It looked like a maze of pathways. No exit seemed visible except the way you came. Just a room filled with pillars and an endless floor.

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Laff was gone. Instead, L4FF was there. And he had injured Meme badly by throwing him across the endless room. Socks was knocked out, Nadwe was flying around in bat form looking for Meme, Blaza and Tbh were hiding, both bleeding. And you had a broken wrist, due to L4FF snapping it when you tried to protect Socks before he was knocked out. Your arms were covered in cuts and bruises due to being launched against a pillar. You had almost forgotten about your best friend. But you never would forget. So, while L4FF was busy with Blaza and Tbh when he found them cowering in a safe area they built, you ran off looking for a way out.

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And that lead you to here. Walking down a long, thin, hallway. You had found a small hole in the wall and traveled through it. You knew it led to the below of Laff's house. You just had to snoop around to know where Joocie went before you would probably be killed later. You hear a tapping noise and turn to your right. A door sit in between the tapping and you. You slowly open the door and see a small cell. And a figure you haven't seen in ages. They were talking their fingernails against the cold floor. "Joocie?!" You call out to him. Relieved when he looked up and smiled sadly. He tried to stand himself up but couldn't. So he instead sat on his knees against the bars. You look around the room and spot a set of keys. You quickly flip through them and take a silver key that matched the silver lock on the cell door and ran over to the door, unlocking it quickly.

The lock fell on the ground and you quickly push the door open, get on the ground and hug Joocie tightly. "Been a while hasn't it?" Joocie says, his voice seemed very scratchy and not as smooth as it was before he went missing. "What happened?" You ask as you lay your head on his shoulder. "Laff apparently has his own side.. To put it short from details, he kidnapped me basically. Knocked me out with.. something.. I can't remember.. Broke something over my head. A bottle maybe." He coughs a bit at the end and doesn't stop. You hit his back a few times and stop when he finally stopped coughing. He looked at his hand and saw a splatter of his own blood.

"How long do you think I have?" He asks lifting his head off your shoulder. "Don't ask that.. I don't want to think about that.." You mumble pulling away from the hug. "Well I-" He starts coughing again, frantically trying grab a hold of something, eventually gripping the bars while his other hand comes up to his mouth. "I haven't eaten or anything in.. how long has it been? A few weeks?" You nod and listen to Joocie's heartbeat. You hadn't noticed it during your hug session but his heartbeat was badly slow. At this point he probably had a few hours at most.

"Let's get you out of this cell and get you something to eat." You stand up and grab his hand. You try and walk but you fall back down due to him not following you. "First off.. I can't move from my current position. Second off.. I really... don't want to.. uhm.. be here. Anymore." You look at him with shocked eyes. "You WANT to.. die?" You ask him going back to your sitting position. After a moment of silence, he nods. "At this point, life isn't worth living." You think about your friends and how they are on the brink of death. Socks is probably dead by now anyway. "If your going.. I'm going. Besides.. I haven't told you this yet. But Woolfster and Muffin were shot dead." Joocie frowns, "That's another reason. Even if I did live on, I wouldn't have my brother. Nor most of my friends. But, don't say you'll die with me. I don't want to be the cause of your death."

Your grab his face and take your sword off your belt. "You aren't the cause of this. Laff isn't either. It was all L4FF." You bring your sword to Joocie's back and hug him close. "Thank you Joocie.. I love you."

You stab the sword, hard, into both you and Joocie's chests. You start losing color in your vision, and before you black out into silence, you hear Joocie whisper,

"I love you too.."