Salutations!
•𝕃𝕠𝕘𝕚𝕔𝕒𝕝𝕃𝕚𝕖𝕤• on Thomas Sanders Fan Amino suggested writing an angsty fanfic for my 2000+ Followers thank-you post.
So here's an angsty thing that takes place before Virgil joined the light sides/knew of them. I'm not the happiest with this fic/the plot, but it's alright! I was watching the puppet Sanders Sides video, and Logan as a robot was very inspiring!
Warnings: Abusive/Manipulative friendship, evilly portrayed Deceit, injuries, violence (someone gets shot oop), other possibly triggering content.
The Snake That Tricked Thunder
"Deceit told Virgil that they were robots, unfeeling, unable to be hurt. But it was a lie, was it not? Because one of them now lay, dying on the wooden floorboards while Deceit cruelly laughed as Virgil stared aghast at the horror he had caused."
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"Robots?" Virgil asked quietly as he trailed along after Deceit, the straight-backed, confident Deceitful side marching along the gloomy corridor, with the meek and slouching Anxious trait trailing behind him.
Just like always.
"Yes Virgil, robots. For target practice." Deceit replied, rolling his eyes lazily. "You fight like a blind puppy. If I want to keep you around for a while, alive, you'll need to learn self-defense tactics."
Deceit paused, before turning and testing his hand on Virgil's shoulder, gloved fingers digging painfully into the limb before Virgil felt the sensation of Deceit sinking out, bringing Virgil with him. As they rose up in a new area, Deceit rose a single finger to his lips, demanding silence from the anxious side.
Virgil looked around, finding that they were standing in a small hallway, which opened into a big room that looked to be an auditorium. Virgil crept forward, hand tightening on the barrel of the gun Deceit had conjured for him, before reaching the edge of the wall, and peering around it to look down at the stage of the auditorium, where three forms were standing in various spots, the bright lights shining down upon their forms.
"Are you sure they're robots..?" Virgil questioned, keeping his voice low so the targets wouldn't hear the pair conversing. "They look awfully realistic..."
"Shut up Virgil. You wouldn't be able to tell a robot from a giraffe. Shoot them." Deceit commanded, eyes narrowing in silent fury as Virgil disobeyed him.
"...So they say!"
Virgil turned back to the stage, where one of the... robots had finished singing a song, and the other two politely clapped, before the previously singing robot began to sing another song, the other two occasionally chiming in to sing the chorus or to harmonize.
Virgil took aim, the barrel of the weapon aimed at the loud one, the robot in the king outfit who was standing on the middle of the stage, singing something about how everybody was a hero.
Virgil snorted, yeah right.
Virgil squeezed the trigger, but as he did so, the nicer looking robot, a fatherly looking one with a blue shirt and a grey cardigan wrapped around his shoulders, stepped forward, opening his mouth to join the kingly robot in their musical performance.
As the gun fired, the loud noise it created startled the robots on the stage which confused Virgil, as robots shouldn't be startled, but before he could react the cardigan-wearing robot jerked, a red stain forming on his thigh, blood dripping down his legs to pool on the surface of the stage.
The... 'robot' opened his mouth in a shocked 'O', eyes raising to meet Virgil's shocked ones, before he crumpled to the ground, the other two rushing over to him. As a stern looking robot with glasses knelt over the limp form on the ground, the other one raised his eyes, seeing Deceit and Virgil at the top of the auditorium, and letting out a scream of rage, and drawing a sword from a sheath against his leg, jumping from the stage and bounding up the steps to the top of the auditorium, eyes showing a bloodthirsty rage, a rage to avenge his fallen friend.
Deceit turned, cape swirling dramatically as he did so, hand gripping Virgil's shoulder as they sunk out, his haunting laughter, a cackle of glee and pure evil echoing throughout the mindspace.
As they resurfaced in the Dark Sides common room, Virgil pulled away from the deceitful side, face twisting in anger.
"You said they were robots!" Virgil cried, outraged at how he had been manipulated into harming another side.
"Oh... did I?" Deceit inspected his gloves, acting uninterested. "I don't recall.."
"Deceit!"
"It was a figure of speech, my dear Virgil. They're robots, cruel and uncaring. They abandoned the dark sides years ago, and prevent us from our mission to aid Thomas. They're Light Sides, us Dark Sides don't respect them and never will! They deserve to feel the pain and rejection we felt!" Deceit snarled, before raising his hand, bringing it down swiftly to smack Virgil in the face, whipping his head to the side and leaving a throbbing pain behind, the force of the hit sending Virgil to the ground, landing in a crumpled heap.
As Virgil sat up, huddled and scared on the floor of the Dark Sides common room, Deceit marched away heading down the dim hallway to his room, leaving the anxious side alone and guilty, lost in his world.
Just like always.
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It had been two years since Virgil hurt... Patton. The morality side.
Patton had never fully recovered. Thomas's fans thought his clumsiness was just acting, or just pure clumsiness, but it was because of the bullet wound in Patton's leg, which caused his right leg to cramp and lock up, or be really stiff, which wasn't easy or painless to walk on.
Virgil never got over his guilt.
It was his fault.
Just like always.
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Virgil sniffed, wiping his eyes as the tears threatened to spill.
Deceit had been particularly cruel today as Logan, the logical side, and Patton had convinced Thomas that lying to a professor about not doing a project was the wrong choice unlike what Deceit thought, causing him to take out his anger on Virgil, who was now making his way back to his room, lacking the strength to sink down and transport himself to the room.
As Virgil got to the stairs, he decided he was going to try to sink out, knowing that he would never make it up the stairs.
As Virgil closed his eyes and concentrated, he felt the atmosphere change as he transported, but it felt... different, unlike his room, or anywhere in the Dark Sides area of the mindspace.
It felt... nice.
Virgil hesitantly opened his eyes, finding himself in a bright room, an almost replica of the Dark Sides common room, but brighter and more... happy.
Virgil felt his heart drop.
He knew where he was.
The light sid-
"Hello?"
Virgil froze, before turning slowly, wide and fearful eyes meeting the confused ones of another side.
Logan.
The logical side was standing on the stairs, a book in hand and the other one resting on the handrail.
When it was clear Virgil wasn't going to reply, Logan sighed, waving his hand as he called out two names, Roman and Patton, before carefully making his way to the floor, creeping closer to Virgil but still maintaining a few yards between them.
"What is it Microsoft Ne- oh mY GOD." Virgil flinched as a loud voice rang throughout the room, turning to see... Roman, standing behind him, staring at the anxious side as if he had two sets of eyes.
"Hey, kiddos! Oh, and an extra kiddo?" Virgil trembled as he heard the voice of the side that had haunted his dreams for the past two years.
Patton.
"Hey... I recognize you!" Virgil flinched as Roman yelled at him.
"I-I..."
"You're the one that was with Deceit! Two years ago!" Roman angrily cried out, drawing his sword.
"No, I-"
"Get out of here, Dark Side!" Roman snarled, pointing his sharpened sword in Virgil's direction. "We won't let you hurt Patton again!"
Virgil cowered, before willing himself to sink out, leaving the hostile atmosphere of the Light Sides common room.
When Virgil felt the atmosphere of his room surround him at last, he let out a choked sob and fell onto his bed, curling around his cat plushie. Before Virgil could do anything else however, a strong hand falls on his arm, fingers curling to grip his shoulder, a sly and deceitful voice accompanying it.
"I told you so Virgil, don't you see?"
"You can... always trust me."
"And they'll never trust you."
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The End!
Why does Patton always get hurt in my stories?! I love Patton?
I also love Deceit but he needed to be evil for this story ;_;
Anyways, if you can guess what movie the songs Roman was singing are from, let me know! It's from one of my favorite movies! (although it's not the most popular, it's amazing in my eyes!)
Thanks so much for reading! I've been asked a couple of times if this Story will have a sequel/happy ending, and while I planned on this being just a one-shot, if I feel inspired I'd totally do a sequel! :) But it shall remain completed for now.
~Ren [Queen of Angst]