I have... returned. As usual, I follow a pattern where I update twice in a short span of time and then I'll just drop off the face of the Earth, as per usual. Anyways.

So. Big, big shoutout here to Anomonous for this idea! Among Us is a big thing right now, why not capitalize on it? I had admittedly really been thinking about using it in a chapter and that was a very good push. So thank you, Anomonous!

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So. Among Us. Y'all know the deal. It's the mobile game where 10 or so people get into a room and if you're a crewmate, you try to do tasks, try not to die, and try to expose Imposters, or try to kill and not get exposed if you're an Imposter. Some of the scenarios you can end up in there make for some amusing moments, which is why making it even weirder is kinda the perfect thing here.


Bramblestar, Squirrelflight, Leafpool, Crowfeather, Lionblaze, Hollyleaf, Jayfeather, Breezepelt, Ivypool, and Dovewing appeared in a launchpad. They all wore different color space suits.

"What's going on?!" Breezepelt hissed. "I didn't sign up for this!"

"Well, this could be a nice family outing." Leafpool said cheerfully.

Dovewing raised her paw. "I'd like to point out that I'm not part of the family, nor is Ivypool."

"Whee!" Ivypool began running in loops around several boxes set up in the launchpad.

"You're basically part of the family. You get into enough antics with the boys that you've basically replaced Hollyleaf." Squirrelflight commented.

"Okay, that has got to be against the Warrior Code. That sounds like you're disowning me." Hollyleaf began pawing through her ever-expanding rulebook.

"And what's Ivypool?" Dovewing asked, as Ivypool continued running in a loop.

"That one who comes to all the family events but nobody's quite sure how they're related?" Squirrelflight offered.

"…Alright then." Dovewing conceded.

"I don't want to be here!" Breezepelt complained.

"I'd really rather not spend time with my ex-in-laws. Or whatever this is." Crowfeather agreed.

"Oh shut up, they're not your ex-in-laws." Leafpool retorted.

Crowfeather narrowed his eyes. "We're not married. Or even dating."

"No." Leafpool retorted.

Crowfeather rolled his eyes.

"Okay, in case anyone was concerned, I can't see, nor can I smell anything, because I seem to be enclosed in some sort of bubble-thing." Jayfeather declared.

Lionblaze looked over at his brother. "Bro, we know you're blind."

"MY POINT IS THAT I'M VERY CONFUSED, OKAY!" Jayfeather snapped at him.

Lionblaze shrugged. "I'm confused too, and I can see." He paused. "Huh. Maybe if I shut my eyes I'll get a different perspective on things and figure out what's going on." He shut his eyes briefly before opening them again. "Nope, still confused."

"My dear Lionblaze, aren't we all." Hawkfire appeared in the center of the room. "Welcome, my pretties."

"Can I go now?" Breezepelt whined.

"No. Shut up." Hawkfire told him.

Breezepelt rolled his eyes.

"What's going on?" Dovewing asked.

"I'm so glad you asked!" Hawfkire chirped. "Welcome to Among Us!"

"What?" Bramblestar said. "Maybe I need to close my eyes."

"Trust me, it doesn't work." Lionblaze said to him.

"SHUT UP!" Hawkfire screamed. "ANYWAYS! Welcome to Among Us! The ten of you will be placed on a spaceship, where you will be given tasks to do to help your ride go as smoothly as possible. But beware. Two of you are not who you seem you are."

"Oh, I'll take a guess at that right now. Ivypool and Dovewing aren't actually family." Breezepelt scoffed.

Dovewing glared at him. "I'll have a go. Breezepelt and Crowfeather stick out like sore thumbs."

Crowfeather glared at her. "What did I ever do to you?"

"You're the only connection to a very annoying being, so I have little choice but to blame you for that." Dovewing shrugged.

"Maybe it's Squirrelflight and Leafpool for being two lying weenies and convincing me I had children!" Bramblestar snapped.

"For the love of StarClan, get over it!" Squirrelflight rolled her eyes.

"Okay, well, Ivypool and Breezepelt went to the Dark Forest, so maybe they're the fakers or whatever." Ivypool offered.

"Why are you calling yourself out?" Hollyleaf asked her.

Ivypool shrugged. "Just seems fun."

"OKAY, EVERYONE, KNOCK IT OFF!" Hawkfire screeched. "We don't know who's sus yet!"

"Sus?" Squirrelflight echoed.

"Suspicious. The imposters."

"Imposters?" Jayfeather echoed.

"Okay." Hawkfire took a deep breath. "So. Eight of you will be crewmates who need to do tasks. The other two of you will be imposters, who need to kill all of the crewmates. Crewmates can win by either figuring out who the imposters are or finishing all their tasks before the imposters win, which is just by killing all the crewmates or sabotaging their way to a win. Understood?"

"Absolutely not." Jayfeather hissed. "How am I supposed to play this game? I can't smell anything, I can't see anything, how am I supposed to do tasks? Or kill somebody?"

"Um. Okay. Question." Hollyleaf interjected. "We have to kill each other?"

Hawkfire rolled her eyes. "You will not be dead in real life."

"That has to be against the Warrior Code." Hollyleaf muttered.

"I don't care." Hawkfire responded. "And Jayfeather, figure it out."

"How?" Jayfeather retorted.

"I don't care."

Jayfeather rolled his eyes.

Hawkfire surveyed the group. "Any questions?"

They all had their paws raised.

"I'm very, very confused." Bramblestar declared.

"No? Good. Good luck!" Hawkfire clapped her paws and everything went black.

And then things became light again. The ten of them stood around a table in what looked like a cafeteria.

"Well." Squirrelflight said. "I guess we go find our tasks? Unless somebody wants to confess to being imposter right now?"

The group looked around at each other.

"No? Okay. I figured it was worth a shot." Squirrelflight ran off and so did the rest of the group.

Except for Jayfeather. Who stood at the table, annoyed. "This is ridiculous. I want out."

"I suppose I can grant you your wish." A voice said from behind him.

Oop.


Leafpool came wandering through the cafeteria and saw a decapitated space suit in front of her. And in her paw came a bullhorn. "OH MY STARCLAN!" She screeched. She pressed her paw against the button to start the bullhorn and suddenly, the remaining nine of them were gathered at the cafeteria table.

"What?" Crowfeather asked.

"Your son is dead and all you have to say is what?" Leafpool snapped at him. "What is wrong with you?"

"Oh, is that what happened?" Crowfeather responded. "I don't really know what's going on right now."

"He's not dead, he's just eliminated from the game." Dovewing pointed out.


Jayfeather, floating in ghostly form at the table, sighed. "They're absolutely not going to be figuring out my killer. Can I go now?" He asked Hawkfire.

"No. Do your tasks."

"I can't see them! I don't know this area!"

"Okay, then float there and hope they figure out the imposters and you don't have to win on tasks."

"These folks aren't that clever."

"Then I'd get tasking."

"Oh my StarClan. I don't even know what tasks I have!"

"Fixing wiring, scanning in medbay, unlocking manifolds, fueling engines, uploading data… good enough?"

"No! I have no idea what any of that means!"

"Go float until you find something."

"What?"

"You're not gonna run into anything, you're a ghost."

"How is that gonna help me find my tasks?"

"I don't know."


"Okay, who killed my son?" Leafpool asked, glaring at the group.

"I don't think the killer would admit to it." Squirrelflight pointed out.

"I don't care, because I'm gonna kill the killer."

"Not how this works." Crowfeather scoffed.

"I'm going to kill you for not taking more concern in the fact our son is dead."

"He's not dead!" Crowfeather argued.

"HE'S NOT HERE, IS HE?!" Leafpool snapped.

"Okay… so it looks like we need to vote." Squirrelflight commented.

"Well, since Leafpool has confessed she's gonna kill someone, I'm voting for her." Breezepelt declared.

"And I'd like to vote for you because you're just plain annoying." Dovewing said to him.

Breezepelt narrowed his eyes at her. "Why are you even here? You're not family."

"Closer to family than you are." Dovewing scoffed. "I'm at least in the same Clan as the rest of your siblings."

"It's not my fault my father decided to have a cross-border affair with a medicine cat." Breezepelt retorted.

"Oh, knock it off." Crowfeather snapped at the two of them. "I regret everything."

"DADDY, THAT'S RUDE!" Lionblaze shrieked.

The players locked in their votes and the results were as follows:

Breezepelt voted for Dovewing. She was being annoying.

Dovewing voted for Breezepelt. He was being annoying.

Hollyleaf skipped voting. There wasn't enough evidence of anything to be voting against someone.

Crowfeather skipped voting. Nobody said anything worthwhile that was getting them anywhere.

Lionblaze voted for Crowfeather. Crowfeather's statement of regretting everything had cut deeply.

Leafpool voted for Crowfeather. He had not shown enough care in the fact their son was dead, so she was deeply offended.

Squirrelflight voted for Crowfeather. She was just trying to be a supportive sister/adoptive mother/aunt.

Bramblestar simply missed voting. He was still rather confused.

Ivypool voted for herself. She just thought she was funny.

Crowfeather was not an Imposter.

2 Imposters remain.


Bramblestar, the confused leader that he is, meandered along behind Squirrelflight as she headed off to her tasks. They went into electrical and Bramblestar played with some wires as Squirrelflight diverted some power.

Suddenly, a spacesuit popped out of the vent and Squirrelflight was beheaded.

A bullhorn appeared in Bramblestar's hand and he looked at the Imposter. "You killed Jayfeather!" He exclaimed.

"Maybe I did. Maybe I didn't. What's it to you?" The Imposter said to him.

Bramblestar went to press the button, but the Imposter put their paw on his arm and said, "Bramblestar… do me a favor and just wait a minute?" They looked at a watch on their wrist. "Actually, wait about ten more seconds before you report?"

"Why?" Bramblestar asked.

"Just to be nice?"

"But you're a killer! Why should I be nice to you?"

"Because."

"Because why?"

"Because!"

"Because why?!"

"Because I can now do this!"

Oop.


"Hi, guys!" Bramblestar greeted the other ghosts.

Squirrelflight rolled her eyes. "You had the Imposter! Why didn't you report?"

"I got confused." Bramblestar responded.

Crowfeather groaned. "Can I go now?"

"NO!" Hawkfire screeched. "You sound like Jayfeather!"

"I still want to go home, you know."

"Stop complaining and do you tasks!"

"No!" Jayfeather retorted.

"We're going to be here for a very long while, then." Squirrelflight noted. "Half of the living are just running around aimlessly."


At that point, Ivypool came through the main entrance of electrical. "Ooh! Double-kill!" She chirped. She pressed the bullhorn and the group gathered around the table.

"NOT MY SISTER!" Leafpool wailed.

"And your brother-in-law." Ivypool added.

"AND MY BROTHER-IN-LAW!" Leafpool wailed. She then paused. "Actually, that one's not as big of a blow. He dies a lot."

"That's fair." Ivypool conceded.

"Where were the bodies?" Dovewing asked.

"Electrical." Ivypool responded.

"See anyone?" Dovewing asked.

Ivypool shrugged. "Nah."

"Does anyone have any ideas?" Breezepelt asked. "The sooner we vote out these 'Imposters', the sooner we can be done with this."

"Don't you think if anyone had any ideas, they would've mentioned those ideas?" Dovewing snapped at him.

"Or, maybe, we just die and let them win." Ivypool offered.

Ivypool's comment went unnoticed as Breezepelt retorted to Dovewing, "Well, maybe somebody just needs the encouragement to speak up. Just trying to push this along, I want to go home!"

"We're never getting out of here, are we?" Jayfeather commented dejectedly.

"Doesn't seem like it." Crowfeather muttered.

"No, we'll get out of here, but Ivypool's gonna kill everyone before the crewmates can win." Squirrelflight scoffed.

Oop.

Breezepelt voted for Dovewing. She was being annoying. Again.

Dovewing voted for Breezepelt. He was being annoying. Again.

Hollyleaf skipped voting. There wasn't enough evidence of anything to be voting against someone. Again.

Lionblaze skipped voting. He was just too confused.

Leafpool skipped voting. There just wasn't anything there to give her any idea who she should be trying to get rid of.

Ivypool voted for herself. She just thought she was being funny. Again.

No one was ejected (skipped).

2 Imposters remain.


The tasks resumed and the crewmates wandered off.

Breezepelt headed off towards the reactor and found Dovewing there.

"Oh, come on, why are you here?" He complained.

"I'm doing my tasks, why are you here?" Dovewing asked dryly. "If you're gonna kill me, could you just do it, please?"

"I wish I could kill you. Maybe you could kill me so I could get away from you!"

At that point Ivypool came into the reactor. Seeing the two of them fighting, she then declared, "Guys! Guys! Let me settle this for you."

They turned to her.

Breezepelt scoffed at her. "How so?"

Ivypool killed Breezepelt.

Dovewing stared at her sister. "Ivypool!" The bullhorn appeared in her hand and she immediately pressed the button.


"Finally! They're gonna do something!" Crowfeather exclaimed.

Jayfeather groaned. "Took them long enough!"


"It's Ivypool. She killed Breezepelt right in front of me." Dovewing told the group.

Ivypool rolled her eyes. "Sure, sell out your sister for doing you a favor. Real nice."

"You killed right in front of me! I've gotta bust you, that's the point of the game!" Dovewing exclaimed.

"Why would you kill right in front of her?" Hollyleaf asked.

"DID YOU KILL MY SON, SISTER, AND BROTHER-IN-LAW AS WELL AS MY STEPSON?!" Leafpool screeched at Ivypool.

"Breezepelt isn't your stepson." Hollyleaf pointed out.

"YES HE IS, CROWFEATHER AND I ARE MARRIED!"

"I don't think you are." Dovewing said.


"We're not married." Crowfeather commented.


"Yeah, I killed them all. My fellow Imposter isn't doing anything!" Ivypool complained. "I'm carrying all the weight of this team."

Dovewing voted Ivypool. She'd seen it with her own eyes, how could she not?

Hollyleaf voted for Ivypool. The evidence seemed overwhelming.

Lionblaze voted for Ivypool. He had to trust Dovewing.

Leafpool voted for Ivypool. She just had to get rid of that murderer.

Ivypool voted for herself. She just thought she was being funny. Again. Again.

Ivypool was an Imposter.

1 Imposter remains.


The rest of the time went by without incident. The other Imposter indeed was not doing anything.

It got to the point where it was Jayfeather who needed to do his tasks and they would win.

"Jayfeather, man, do your tasks!" Breezepelt complained.

"I CAN'T SEE THEM!" Jayfeather snapped.

"I WILL GUIDE YOU!" Breezepelt exclaimed.

"That was really all I needed!" Jayfeather huffed. He paused. "That's uncharacteristically nice of you."

"I just wanna get out of here!" Breezepelt whined.

"Aw, that's nice. Enemies bonding over a common goal." Hawkfire sighed contentedly.

"If you had offered to help, this could be going a lot quicker!" Jayfeather snapped at her.

"Nah, I wanted to drag this out." Hawkfire responded cheerfully.

So it was victory for the crewmates. They all appeared back in the launchpad.

"Wait, so who was the other Imposter?" Dovewing asked.

Ivypool rolled her eyes. "Hollyleaf, you were useless!"

Hollyleaf had pulled out her great big Clan Code book and was urgently looking though it. "There has to be something against this game in the Warrior Code!"

Oh, right.

Classic, rule-following Hollyleaf, spoiling everyone else's fun.

There's nothing in the Warrior Code about Among Us.


Forget your astrological sign, what's your Among Us color? Mine's cyan. Do with that information what you will.