Welcome to my newest Fanfic, titled The Prodigal. I teased this at the tail end of my last Fanfic, Flodge, and now it's time for the full reveal (of the first chapter)! This takes place in the Perrito Cinematic Universe (PCU, I guess) a short time after the events of Magenta, and plot twist, Purple and King are not showing up for a while. I have plans for them, I promise you that, but these first several chapters, they will not appear. Someone will, feel free to take a guess, but not them. Aside from that, this has some of my favorite dialogue I've ever written. It just makes me laugh... as a math nerd, but I'm getting ahead of myself.
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It won't be hard, but it will still be fun.
===GUESS THE POV!===
I woke up late and to my surprise, everything seemed normal. Living with the Fighting Stick Figures, you never know what to expect on any given day, but the guys were somewhat quiet, practicing their fighting with each other in Alan’s photoshop window. I rubbed my somewhat tired eyes and looked up at them. It’s so great seeing them having fun together and I felt compelled to join them. I climbed up into the window.
“Guys! Guys!” I called, waving. They ceased their sparring match and ran over to me.
“Morning, sleepyhead.” Green joked.
“He’s finally up, Yellow! Can we do our plan now?” Red begged.
“Sure thing, Reddy Bear.” Yellow answered gently.
“What’s your plan?” I asked, a little worried.
“We were waiting for you to wake up so that we could do something together,” Blue explained. “Beating Minecraft.” This gave me thought.
“You know, you’re right.” I noted. “How have we had access to the game for so long and not done that together yet?”
“Well, Blue and I were close,” Green said, “and we would’ve killed it if Purple was in his right mind at the time.”
“Oh dang, I forgot about that.” Red replied.
“It sounds like fun.” I figured. “Speaking of, is Purple joining us?”
“Did Green not tell you?” Blue responded. “He’s out of town.”
“I might’ve forgotten.” I considered that as a possibility.
“You remember how distraught he was after Magenta left for college.” Yellow elaborated. “King thought it would be good for the two of them to get away while the weather was still warm.”
“So it’ll just be us five, the OG’s.” Green added. “Care to join us, SC?”
“Do I have a choice? There are a million ways this could go wrong…”
“Aww, c’mon, SC! Pleeeeeease?” Red begged. I sighed reluctantly.
“You’ve been watching too much The Last Wish. Fine, I’m in.” I conceded.
“Yes!” Blue said, pumping his fist in celebration.
“Let’s venture forth, brethren!” Yellow proclaimed. The rest of us followed.
We grabbed a few supplies, mostly just enough to create a new Nether Portal, and returned to the Nether. However, instead of heading in the direction of King’s old bastion, we headed in the opposite direction, hoping to find a new world. Once we got seemingly far enough away, we built a new portal and stepped through it. We appeared in the middle of a wintery, snow-covered spruce forest. ‘Perfect.’ I thought. ‘Enough wood to last a lifetime, if needed.’
“Alright, guys, any extra stuff in your inventories?” Yellow asked. We all emptied our pockets of Minecraft items and dumped it all into a pile. Yellow blocked the Nether portal we came from with cobblestone and burned the rest of the stuff with a flint and steel, including the flint and steel he used. We stomped the fire out once everything was gone.
“OK, then. We’re starting from scratch. Nothing in our inventories, no way to return to the Nether through this portal.” Blue summarized.
“Sooo, are we all just gonna try beating Minecraft together?” I asked.
“Well, I was thinking we could split into teams and see who can beat the game faster.” Green suggested.
“I like that idea.” Red agreed. “What should teams be?”
“Well, SC and Green should be team captains.” Yellow explained. “Those two on the same team together are overpowered, even if it would be just the two of them.” The other Primaries nodded in agreement, and I had to agree as well.
“Fair enough, but what will the teams be?” Blue asked. “One of them is going to have an extra member. Who’s gonna have the first pick?”
“I have an idea.” Yellow replied. “I’m thinking of a number between-”
“NO!” Red, Blue, Green and I interrupted him at the same time.
“What?” Yellow asked defensively.
“The last time you did that, you came up with something stupid.” Red protested. “What was it? I can’t remember…”
“The square root of 75, I think.” I recalled.
“Hey, that’s a number between one and 10, is it not?” Yellow fired back.
“Bro, most normal people come up with a whole number, like one, or two, or seven.” Green retaliated sarcastically. “You, however, come up with something irrational. Who does that?”
“Seriously buddy, can you come up with an equation that involves the square root of 75?” Blue asked rhetorically.
“The square root of 75 equals five radical three.” Yellow answered, smirking. “I still see nothing wrong with that.”
“I don’t see anything right with it.” Red muttered. “What even is the square root of 75 anyway?”
“8.66025403-” Yellow began before getting interrupted.
“It was a rhetorical question, Yellow!” Red snapped. “It was also metaphorical, poetic and theoretical.”
“Guys, guys, we’re burning sunlight.” I said, trying to reel in this argument. “I have a coin. It’s not Minecraft related, so it won’t be able to help us.” I dug a coin out of my pocket. “Green, call it in the air.” I flipped it.
“Tails.”
I caught it and slapped it into my wrist. Sure enough, it was tails.
“Yes! Tails never fails!” Green exclaimed.
“You get first pick, Green.” I said. “Who’s your choice?”
“I want… Yellow.” Green decided after a pause. The lemon-lime duo clasped their hands together in a sort of brotherly handshake. After his selection, it was my turn. ‘Blue or Red? Blue or Red?’ I thought.
“Your turn, bro.” Green said tauntingly.
“I know, I know.” I replied. “I’ll take… Red as my partner.” Red looked surprised, but honored as well. He stepped over to me and we hugged each other.
“I’m surprised you picked me, SC.” Red admitted.
“They say opposites attract.” I elaborated. “Plus, with our combined fighting ability, that Ender Dragon is gonna die just by looking at us coming for it.”
“I won’t let you down.” Red promised.
“I know you won’t, little bro.”
“Alrighty, Blue, you ready to join the winning team?” Green asked.
“As long as we get victory Netherwart at the end of this.” Blue answered, strolling over to them. He and Yellow high-fived, and then Yellow stepped out in front of them, between the two groups of us.
“OK, gentlemen, the goal is to be the first team to take down the Ender Dragon first.” He explained. “Any and all resources are accessible/usable to us, however, there will be no stealing from the other team’s chests, barrels, etc. Be sure to label all chests/structures in some way, else they will be seen as fair game, no different than chests in a village, a dungeon, or buried treasure. Chests inside a labeled base are assumed part of the base and thus belong to that team. Also, no helping the other team with builds, fortresses, etc., basically no tampering, be it positive or negative. You all recall the last time that happened.” Blue and I shuddered, remembering the time we each accidentally killed Green over a build.
Yellow continued, “I hope this doesn’t need to be said, but that includes killing each other. No killing each other. Other than those simple rules, everything is fair game. Any weird strategy, technique, and otherwise is on the table, just so long as you don’t help or hurt the opposing team. Teammates may share resources, chests, and the like with each other, but not the opposition. Finally, the team that lands the final blow on the Ender Dragon wins. There are golden trophies waiting for us when we get home. Are there any questions?”
Silence.
“Excellent!” Yellow returned to his team, flanking Green on one side. Blue flanked Green’s other side.
“You’re going down, bro.” Green said coldly, staring me directly in the eyes.
“I’d like to see you try.” I replied tersely. Red scowled at them, clenching his fists.
“Is everyone ready?” Yellow asked. We all nodded, confirming Yellow’s question. “Excellent. On my mark. 3… 2… 1… GO!”
With Yellow’s proclamation of “GO!,” the game was on.
TO BE CONTINUED...
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