Eridan sighed. He was chained to the wall because of his previous escape attempt. He should've thought farther ahead then "rip the bars with magic." Like maybe, get rid of the gaurd, disable the alarm spells, and get the inmates not to snitch on him. An escape attempt was serious business Eridan was not prepared for. On a positive note, his excecution date was postponed so he could be punished. On the negative side, he didn't get food for the day. Hopefully, someone would come for him before the day ended. Eridan didn't count on it.
Sollux groaned as he was placed on a bed. Feferi began performing some healing spells, getting rid of some of his pain. It was refreshing, honestly, he got a break from Karkat's constant ranting. He really wanted to get the whole thing over with quickly. He could get back to magic training, and he didn't want to hear Eridan's whining for long. At least, until Karkat slammed the door open.
"Eridan is getting excecuted tomorrow!" He yelled.
"KK, be a little quieter, my head is killing me," Sollux mumbled.
"Do you have any idea what I went through to get this fucking info?" Karkat said.
"Crabcatch, we all know it wasn't difficult," Feferi said.
Karkat grumbled, "Whatever. Just hurry up so we can save him."
"Calm down, we have all day. No need to get your panties in a twist. Besides, we don't even know where he is," Sollux said. Ok, no more talking, too much effort. The healing spells helped, but he still felt like absolute shit.
"Then I'll find out, shitlord," Karkat growled, slamming the door as he left.
"Crabcatch won't clam down, will he?" Feferi said, already off to prepare the meal Sollux requested.
"No."
Karkat grumbled, of course they didn't care about Eridan. Sollux hated the guy, plus he wouldn't mind being exiled like they were threatened, and Feferi didn't even know him! Honestly, he had no idea why Sollux of all people had been chosen to help him. So what if he was one of the smartest mages in the realm, he was an asshole when it came to Eridan.
"You!" someone yelled. The voice sounded familiar to Karkat, for some reason. He turned to face the voice, only to see the shopkeeper from earlier flanked by gaurds. He realized he forgot to pay. Instead of facing the consequences of his (accidental) theft, Karkat ran. He easily got ahead of the gaurds, he was pretty used to running for his life, much to his chagrin. Knight traning in the Aquarius kingdom was rough. Karkat went into a dilapidated cottage, and hid behind an old crumbled wall. He seriously hoped the gaurds were stupid enough not to look. While his initial reaction was fleeing, Karkat wondered if he take out the gaurds in combat. He was pretty good with his sword, and there weren't many guards. But that shopkeeper was shady. For all Karkat knew, the guy sold weapons on the black market. He probably sold something on the black market.
"Search the area, he has to be in here somewhere!" Karkat heard one of the gaurds say. He started sweating bullets. They couldn't find him, if he were in jail he couldn't get Eridan out-
Wait, maybe he could. Sollux gave him an emergency messenger spell. If he could get a message to him he might be able to communicate with Sollux even in jail. He might even be in the same prison as Eridan. . . Karkat heard the sound of metal hitting the floor, meaning the gaurds were closing in on him, it was now or never. Karkat said a simple mesaage, sending the spell to Sollux after he was done, just in time, too. The gaurds had found him, he fought back. He was outnumbered and tired, but he hacked and sliced through some of them. Now he was a murderer and would have dodge the Libra kingdom's lawyers. Great. He should've thought that plan through. Hopefully, he could plead self-defence. They were still capturing him in the end, so it didn't really matter. Karkat was taken to jail, flung into an empty cell.
"Fuck all of you!" Karkat yelled at the gaurds.
"Kar?" a muffled voice said. A very familiar voice at that.
"Eridan?" Karkat replied.
"Kar! You came to rescue me, I take it?" Eridan said, Karkat recognizing it was from the cell next to him. At least, he hoped it was.
"Yeah. Didn't go very well bulgemuncher," Karkat said, his frustration becoming very apparent to Eridan.
"At least you're here noww, I wwas getting lonely."
Karkat rolled his eyes, "You're almost always lonely, idiot."
"That's not the point, Kar," Eridan protested, "you wwouldn't happen to havve any food, wwould you?"
"You're going to get executed tomorrow, and all you can fucking think about is fucking food. You are the biggest idiot in the history of the fucking universe. Your bitch of a mother must've dropped you on your fucking head at least ten fucking times, asswipe. Your fucking dad only wants you as fucking collateral. He even told me that, that asswiping, nooklicking, bulgemunching bastard! You may be a fucking idiot, but you actually good at running shit!" Karkat ranted, quickly getting to the point he actually wanted to avoid.
"I knoww, Kar. I'm an idiot and my fucking dad is fucking up my country," Eridan said, flatly.
"Of course you do," Karkat muttered, "why don't we just get rid of your fucker of a father?"
"That wwould cause a powwer struggle betwween me and my bastard brother. The public lovves him, so it really wwouldn't be much of a competition," Eridan said, having already thought of the idea and realizing what would happen afterward.
Karkat was silent for a second, "What if we got other countries to support you?"
Eridan would have been looking at Karkat scepticly id he could see him, "Wwhy wwould anyone back me up? Most people don't wwant to evven get invvolvved with the Aquarius kingdom, let alone the constant political struggles."
Karkat was impressed, dissapointed, but impressed. He had no idea Eridan had already researched that far into this. He was dissapointed that they couldn't get Eridan, who could actually do stuff, on the throne.
"Wwait, if wwe could get someone from the Pisces kingsdom, then wwe might stand a chance," Eridan siad, though he was already sure they couldn't.
"We might be able to do that. The pisces kingdom has to be involved with political shit like this."
"The chance wwe could get there, let alone actually talk to one of the pompous snobs, is awwful. Besides, wwe're in jail, wwhat can wwe do?"
Karkat hoped Sollux got the message he sent. Sollux was smart, he could find a solution to all their problems, right?
Right?
Q: well, here you go. We are thickening the plot a little here. Also, please note I put no stock in politics, therefore don't actually know how they work all that much. However, I am in a government class and am learning(?) about these things.