Time stands still once Purple says the figures name.

The Dark Lord is standing in the box, with Purple and Silver, alive and unharmed.

Thinking what everyone else is thinking, Chosen turns on Victim.

"Did you have him here!?"

Victim recoiled, clearly not expecting the question.

"What?! No! I thought Second killed him!"

Second blinked at the mention of his name. "Wait I did what now?"

"You don't remember?"

"Didn't he come back with Second and Purple after the whole...Day Of Surrection thing?!" Red asked.

"Yeah!"

"Chosen, wasn't he with you?!"

"No! Well...he was, and then he wasn't...but that doesn't matter right now!"

"The fuck are we talking about?!"

"Guys! Focus!" Green shouts, getting everyone's attention. "Purple's in a box!"

"Relax," Victim said. "I'll be able to monitor them from out here, but it will take some time to get them out. Because SOMEONE-" He shouted, glaring at Silver, who eagerly returned it. "-Destroyed the lock and unlock panels while trying to kill me!"

"Oh, shut up! It's just some stupid technology!" Solver said, waving their hand dismissively.

Purple and Dark shared a mutual look of "yeah, stupid technology, my ass."

Silver then turned on Purple.

"Don't fucking try it, whoever you are," Dark snapped. "You got us trapped in here."

"Who said I was gonna turn this whole situation around and blame it on on Purple?!" Silver snarled.

"The fact that you've been doing it for years and have done it at least twice in the entire time I've been stuck here." Purple deadpanned, clearly not enjoying the conversation.

"Oh, shut up. At least I have a family."

"To be fair," Purple took a glance at King, who was trying to help Victim. "I do have a family. And, at least I have a clear future out in front of me, not like someone, who's working for a tyrant whom they almost killed and are now going to have to rely on while we rot in here." Purple shot back with a smirk.

"Well, I wasn't abandoned." Silver said.

"Hey, you were just as abandoned as I, and everyone else in the family, was. I just chose to accept that it happened instead of waiting eight goddamn years for so much as seeing him on the streets! I accepted that my father left, and there was nothing I could do about it. Why can't you accept your uncle left?!"

"Because I loved him, unlike you!"

"Really? That's the best excuse you can come up with? I did love my father. But hey, guess who decided to take those familial affections and throw them back in my face like a backstabbing, traitor coward!"

Silver didn't retort.

"I did love you, Silver. You were my older cousin, after all. But then you did exactly what my father did and threw those affections back in my face, and you go and kidnap me when I did nothing to you in the thirteen years I knew you existed, and I was out living my life like a normal person, without any type of problem! You had to go and ruin any sense of normalcy that I had been trying so fucking hard to bring back into my life because all I knew was abandonment!"

"Yet you didn't even try to come to us for help!" Silver finally found a chance to speak.

"Bull. Fucking. Shit. I called everyone for help when Mother fell ill. Nobody wanted to give any kind of advice or comfort to the helpless little kid who was still reeling from losing Father. I tried to call you and Auntie, but guess what? She basically told me to fuck off and everyone went no contact and acted like we were just diseases and parasites being spread across the ocean at such a rapid pace, there was nothing they could do or wanted to think of doing."

"Purple, I promise you, I wanted to help. Mama wouldn't let me because I was young, and she didn't want me mixing in with you because of what they thought!"

"Oh, so it was the whole fucking family who thought I was a whoreson?! Who thought I was born out of wedlock? A result of an affair? And my parents were still allowed to marry?!"

"I swear on my life, everything I said was everyone's own opinion that's stuck with me for the eight years we've been apart."

"Everything you said in that room?"

"Shut up. I'm doing just fine."

"Oh, please, a twelve year old was doing just fine being a servant to some egotistical maniac? I'm surprised you've survived the last three years."

"Of course you are. Nobody in your stupid family came to help, so what was I supposed to do? Move to another city? Kill myself?! What kind of person are you?!"

"Now, now, they're your family too."

"YOUR NOT MY FAMILY!" Purple screamed.

"Why? Because we abandoned you? Because we thought you were weak and worthless?! Because the entire family thought it better for you guys to just die anyway?! God, your dad was doing something right for himself! You and your whore mother were holding Navy back from being something he could be worth living for! And here you are, turning this around on my uncle like he was acting like an asshole?!"

"BECAUSE HE WAS! You weren't there, Silver! You don't know what me and my mother went through! We were abused in more ways than you can think of! I was thrown into a wall so often, every moment felt like my ribs were going to fucking break! He stormed out on us! All of us! Because he thought all of us were weak and undeserving of life! Be grateful that I'm still alive eight years later because I knew that I had a life worth living for! This is you eight years later! Defending an abuser and, if things had gone any more south, a murderer! You're defending your uncle, who walked out on all of us! How long has it been since you heard a word from the asshole?!"

Silver flinched. "Eight years..."

"Exactly! And your defending him when he walks out on you just like he walked out on me! Wow, you really are his sister's daughter."

Silver snarled. "Your whore mother-"

"Call my mother a whore one more fucking time, I will stab you." Purple snarled.

"You and your mother are just victims of manipulation. You were manipulated." Silver said simply.

It was taking all of Purple's willpower not to go through with his threat.

"The hell are you talking about?" He seethed.

"Your father manipulated you into believing that you were being abused."

Now Purple wanted to fulfill his threat. The hell were they on about?

"No the fuck he was not. You should have seen how we were afterwards. I almost broke numerous bones being thrashed around by that pitiful excuse of a father. My mother suffered the same. We were bruised beyond imaginable belief, and none of you came to help us. I'm surprised mother thought of you guys as family still, even after that. Hell, she expected one of you to take me in after she died."

Silver glared at him. "We tried.."

"Did you?! If you had tried, as you claim you did, would I be here right now, better off than I ever have been, happier than I was before the abuse started, and with friends?! Would I have a guardian who wouldn't hurt me, who swears on his life to protect me, who treats me like I'm a person who deserves to live and be happy?! Or would I be here, working alongside you as a husk for a tyrannical maniac who wants an innocent man?"

"Now, Chosen is not innocent-"

"You sure? Because with how your acting, it seems like your trying to perform your family's trait of guilt tripping. Turning everything around so it's someone else's fault, and not yours." Purple asked, most of his statements laced with as much sarcasm as he had left.

"Now, listen here, you little-"

"Whoreson? Worthless, weak, pathetic brat? Are those the statements about to come out of your mouth?" Purple was already reaching for his knife. He was thankful they hadn't taken his stuff.

Also surprised at how stupid they were for not. He had just threatened to stab Silver five minutes ago, and nobody had the nerves to even comment on it.

Jesus, these guys were stupid. What did they think he had in there?

Silver spluttered. "Now, listen-"

"No, I think I've heard enough. Now, King, my friends, and I are leaving. And you and your stupid little plot are going to leave me and my family alone."

"But-"

"No." The word was bit out. Pur ple stared at Silver with a hardened glare. "Don't even try it. You and the people you love are nowhere close to family to me. King and the others are my family, not you."

"Yes."

Dark blinked. "We done having family drama?"

Both cousins looked at each other. Purple sensed something from a mile away.

He was expecting a betrayal.

He clutched his bag tighter, his other hand already reaching for his knife.

Silver took something out of their pocket. Purple's heart dropped, and his eyes widened.

I fucking knew it.

"Nope." They threw it full force it Purple.

That's the last Purple remembered before he blacked out.

He did notice King and the others jump in shock and terror, and then the box was cloaked.

He did remember hearing Silver speak into their microphone. "Detain Victim and the others, and pull the lever. We're gonna be celebrating a fourth of July out here tonight."