"Are you sure going into a Pillager tower is a good idea?" Purple asked, skepticism about Green's sudden idea.
"Chillax, Purp. It'll just be a quick in-and-out. We'll go in, raid the place, kill some Pillagers, then run out and head back to the Nether. Boom! Easy!" Green answered brightly.
Once Green laid eyes on the Pillager outpost, Purple quickly realized Green wanted to raid the crap out of it. He could tell by Green's long intense stare at the tower on the side of a steep cliff that he was going to raid it, no matter what.
"Are you sure?" Purple asked, clearly still unsure about the idea.
"Of course!" Green quickly reassured.
"Well, if your sure we're not get into a life-or-death situation that's gonna have our friends freaking out." Purple said reluctantly.
"We won't, don't worry." Green said, a beaming smile across his face.
If only it were that easy.
After Green busted into the outpost with TNT, Pillagers began chasing them relentlessly until they reached the top.
While Green noticed the chest and began raiding it, Purple began trying to figure out a way to get them out of this particular predicament. While they could just escape, it wasn't so easy: Pillagers were swarming the place like crazy, and they were on the side of a steep cliff, so escape meant death.
"Purple! I found some rope in the chest!" Green called, hooking the rope in question to a fence. Purple grabbed the bag they had brought, which contained their phones, food, water, and radios just in case their phones died and they needed help and they were too far away from the Nether.
Green helped Purple begin to climb down while he barricaded the stairs leading down to the bottom, giving them safety from the Pillagers.
Or so he thought.
"Green! We might have a problem!" Purple screamed from midway down. Green ran to the edge of the platform, noticing the bag slipping off Purple's shoulder, while Purple was kicking at Pillagers that had manifested below.
"Shit. Hang on! I'll pull you back up!" Green grabbed the rope and began pulling Purple back up towards the top of the platform.
Pillagers were banging on the cobblestone he had used to barricade the stairs, and he knew it. He could feel the vibrations.
Once he pulled Purple back up, they climbed up to the roof of the building, weapons in hand.
Once up there, they realized one crucial problem:
The bag was missing.
"Where's the bag?!" Green asked frantically.
"Hate to say it, but when you yanked me back onto the platform, it fell." Purple said.
"How far down?!"
"Just to the second floor. It was hanging on a fence when I last checked." Was Purple's answer.
"Our phones are in there!" Green snapped, worry beginning to cloud over him. "Now we're stuck up here, and the minute we get back, if and whenever that is, King is going to absolutely murder me for getting you into this mess!"
"It's not technically our fault we're stuck here," Purple countered. "Can't blame me for the amount of Pillagers that just magically swarmed around the outpost!"
"True. But still, our phones are in that bad, there's no fence to get rope tied to, getting down there is practically a suicide mission, and since we don't have our phones OR the walkie I packed, we can't message Second or the others about where we are until we get that bag!" Green complained.
Purple glanced at the sky. It was nearing sundown, which made his heart drop. "The others will notice we're missing pretty soon if we don't figure out a plan, or get the bag, soon. Don't you have like...a fishing rod or something?" He said.
"I do...in the bag." Green said sadly.
Purple facepalmed. "Dammit."
Second was worried.
Green and Purple had left that morning with a quest to conquer a mountain in one of the Nether portals they had found, and hadn't been seen since. There was no text, or nothing on the radio, and Second had been pacing for the past 20 minutes waiting for something.
King, who knew Purple was fine up until Second started pacing, quickly began to realize something was really, really wrong.
"Still nothing?" He asked.
"Nothing! Green would've texted if they were in danger! Purple would, too! It's not like them to just not say anything. And they haven't messaged in hours!" Second was getting more and more frantic as he kept glancing at the unread messages from the past few minutes.
Second: Hey, everyone alright?
Second: Green?
Second: Green!
Second: Dude, seriously. Answer your phone!
Second: Come on, man! You and Purple are starting to make us worried!
Second: Dude, if your in some type of danger, and you have your phone, just text or call. Please! Just answer!
Second: Please...just answer...
The amount of messages that hadn't been read since he started sending them was starting to pile up, and he was really starting to want to go find them himself, mobs be damned.
They'd been gone for hours, and without a message, or SOS sign, they were missing.
And they didn't know what to do.
King's phone was beginning to pile up with unread messages just as much as Second's was. Only they were more worried and concerned.
King: Purple? Please answer. Green's not answering his phone, and your starting to worry us.
King: Come on, kid. Just answer. I need you to answer, Please! Your starting to scare me.
King: Purple please just answer. If your in any danger, just please text back.
Knowing Purple wasn't gonna answer was becoming a very, very big possibility.
He sent one more message.
King: Your really starting to scare me, Purple. Please, just answer if you can. I love you, kid. I hope you know that at least.
If someone did something to his kid, they were going to pay dearly.
Purple paced around the roof, wondering if the rope could be of any use, even without a fence to swing down from.
Eventually, they came up with a plan.
"Okay. I'll carefully climb down to the platform below, hook the rope up to the fence, and I'll climb down and grab the bag, and then you'll pull me back up as fast as possible once I give the green light. Got it?" Purple explained.
"Okay, we'll do it. But please, be careful. If anything happens to you, there's a ninety percent chance King will have my head on a platter." Green said.
"Depends on if you go down with." Purple smirked. Grabbing the rope, he climb down to the edge of the platform below, hooked the rope up to the fence, tied the other end of the rope to his waist, and began to climb down towards the bag.
Green watched anxiously, waiting for Purple to give the green light so he could pull him up and they could get out of here.
That's when he realized it was nighttime.
Mobs began swarming the bottom of the outpost.
"Hurry, Purple! Night means mobs, and mobs mean-"
"GOT IT! HURRY UP AND GET ME UP THERE!" Purple screamed.
Green jumped down, untied the rope from the fence, and yanked it as hard as he could before catching Purple and the bag and running back up to the roof.
He dug out his phone and quickly sent Second an SOS message.
Green: Me and Purple got stuck on top of a Pillager outpost on the side of a cliff. Can't climb down without risking death. Forgot which portal it was, but it was one of the bottom ones. Send help pls.
He collapsed onto the dark oak planks and hoped something came out of the message.
Second almost fell out of his chair when Green finally texted back.
What he saw in the text made everyone's hearts drop to the core of the Earth.
Green: Me and Purple got stuck on top of a Pillager outpost on the side of a cliff. Can't climb down without risking death. Forgot which portal it was, but it was one of the bottom ones. Send help pls.
Second dropped the phone, standing in pure unbridled shock and horror.
Blue almost choked on his Netherwart, and Yellow stumbled into a chair, shaking severely. Red was standing still as a statue, unsure of what to do.
King was in the same boat as everyone, the theory that had been swirling in his head all night had finally been proven correct.
His kid was in trouble and he needed to save him.
But how?
A few seconds turned into a few minutes, and everyone was standing in complete silence, frozen with unshed horror.
Green and Purple were cornered by mobs and Pillagers and stuck on an outpost in the middle of the mountains with no way out.
Second was shaking and silently sobbing, while the others looked amongst each other for any type of idea or anything.
Naturally, they all turned to Yellow for something.
"Any ideas?" Blue asked worridly.
Yellow was at a loss of words. "I-I don't. If we can't get anywhere within 2 miles of the damn tower, they're kind of screwed until daybreak."
"Why daybreak?" Red asked. "Even if the mobs die by morning, they still have all the Pillagers to deal with."
"Well, they could try launching stuff," King suggested. "If they launch a distraction, they could escape."
Second glared at him. "Did you miss the part about the tower on the edge of a goddamn cliff that could be literal suicide if they fall?!"
Red placed a hand on Seconds shoulder to calm him down. "Calm down, Sec. King's just as worried about Green and Purple as you are, if not more. There's no point in arguing."
Second calmed his breathing. "Fine. But still, it's either commit suicide or die by Pillagers. There's no in between for them."
"Unless we pinpoint where exactly they are." Yellow said.
Both King and Second turned to look at him. "How?"
Yellow held up the Command Block Staff for them all to see. "I figure out which portal they went through."
King's eyes lit up. "So you can find them?!" He asked hopefully.
"I can try. I'm not sure if it'll work. What I can do is trace either Green's or Purple's DNA from somewhere, and then make, like, a...a tracker with it and figure out where they are."
"But getting them down from the tower and making the tracker. What about those?" Blue pointed out.
"Well, getting them down is easy. We just defeat the mobs. Making the tracker? Also easy. We just need their DNA." Yellow answered.
"How would we get their DNA?" Red asked.
"That's easy. I snag Green's DNA from one of his noteblocks!" Yellow answered. "And seeing as he said himself AND Purple were trapped, it's safe to say they didn't separate!"
"Good point." Second said.
"So...you can find them?!" King asked again, more hopeful this time.
"Yep!" Yellow answered cheerfully.
King and Second breathed out huge sighs of relief. Thank goodness for that.
"In the meantime, we'll gather items for the journey. There's no telling how far they went from the portal." Blue said.
"Got it!"
"HELLO?! IS ANYONE OUT THERE!? WE'RE STUCK A GOOD 2100 MILES ABOVE GROUND WITH NO WAY DOWN!" Green screamed out.
"Green? Keep it down a notch. I'm trying to get this radio to work so we can broadcast an SOS message." Purple piped out.
Sorry. Hold up, an SOS message? I sent one!"
"Well, maybe someone can get here sooner and help us!" Purple snapped.
"King's not gonna be...mad at you...right?" Green asked.
"He will be once he's done hugging me to death cause I almost gave him a heart attack." Purple deadpanned. "If I make it, that is."
"Uhm...Purple?"
"What?!"
"Spider to your left."
Purple's instant reaction was to scream and back up towards the edge of the platform, bag in hand. Green jumped up and attacked the spider. The spider jumped away and tried to attack Purple, before Purple was faced with two options: Jump and hopefully grab the rope, or die by a spider.
Within a second, he made a choice.
He jumped off the roof.
For a moment, Green was stunned. One second, Purple was at deaths doorstep. And the next, he was gone.
It took less than a second for it to process.
Purple had jumped down and grabbed the rope and was currently hanging for dear life over the edge of the outpost with mobs swarming down there.
"Purple! Hang on a second!" Green yelled down before stabbing the spider and realizing Purple had grabbed the fishing rod from the bag.
He jumped down and snatched the rope, reaching down to grab the fishing rod.
He heard Second screaming through the radio.
"Green, Purple, do you copy?! Come on, guys! DO YOU COPY!?"
Green grabbed the fishing rod and threw Purple up onto the roof before scrambling up there as well.
He snatched the radio and screamed as loud as he could into it.
"SEC! IT'S GREEN AND PURPLE, WE COPY!"
It was then that they realized the radio had fallen silent.
"Sec? Sec! Second, do you copy?! It's Green and Purple, we copy!" He yelled desperately.
"Green! The batteries are dead!" Purple snapped.
"Shit." Green lunged for his phone and desperately tried sending a message, only to realize his phone was dead, too.
"Try messaging King." He said.
"Even if you tried sending a message, there wouldn't be much reception, if any. We were lucky that message went through." Purple sighed.
The night was turning into sunrise, Green noticed.
"We should try getting the mobs away," He said. "It'll be easier to escape once we do."
"Good point. The sun should drive most of them off. We really just have spiders and Pillagers to deal with." Purple explained.
"True." Green muttered.
He just hoped Second got his message. It'd be so easy if he did.
"Green! Purple! Guys, do you copy?! Are you okay?! Please answer!" Second's voice broke as he screamed desperately into the radio.
"Sec, I think the radio died." Red said.
Second's heart dropped to the core of the Earth.
"No...nonononono. GREEN! God dammit, Green, just answer! PLEASE! DO YOU COPY?!" Second screamed.
King leaned against the wall, burying his face in his hands.
Oh Purple, where are you?
Was his only though amidst Second's sobs of desperations, and the others either trying to comfort him, or trying to get a hold of Green.
He glanced down at the unreads filling up his chat with Purple, and sent another.
King: Please, Purple. Be safe. I love you.
"Come on, Purple. Please be okay."
Purple had made a point. Zombies and Skeletons burned as soon as the sun came up, leaving mostly Creepers, spiders, and Pillagers roaming down below him and Green.
Which, if they could get to the chest below then, they could shoot them from the outpost and just escape to the Nether portal.
Wherever the hell that was.
The first night without Green and Purple sucked.
King was on the verge of an anxiety attack but mostly made it through the night without freaking out, but Second didn't have it that easy.
Yellow could hear him sobbing from across the hall, and how devastated Second sounded absolutely broke his heart.
By morning, most of them were top exhausted to do much of anything, let alone see if Yellow's tracker idea worked.
Yellow still tried it anyway.
He inputted Green's DNA from one of his note blocks, and waited for something to happen.
Minutes turned to hours, and nothing seemed to work.
Blue stayed by him the whole time, even after Yellow had a literal freak-out after hours of the tracker being completely useless.
"Maybe there's just..no major movement?" Red suggested at one point.
"Well, maybe. But still, there has to have been at least something. They can't just stand as still as a statue for 24 hours. If anything, a good sixty percent of the Pillagers won't notice if they escape! They should've been able to escape by now!" Yellow snapped.
Second glared at him. "What part of "We're stuck on a Pillager outpost at the edge of a cliff that could mean literal suicide if you fall" DID YOU NOT UNDERSTAND?!" He screamed.
"There's more than one way down!" Yellow screamed back.
"Guys, stop!" King said.
"Oh shut up, King Orange. It's not like you care about Purple anyway, so why do you care if he dies or not?" Second scoffed.
"Dude!" Yellow punched Second hard in the ribs. "Have you seen how worried King's been since Green got that SOS message out? Purple's in danger, and King's worried sick! Of course he cares about Purple. He cares about as much as you care about Green, if not more. How would you feel if Green fell off that Pillager outpost and into the cliffs below?" He yelled.
Second silenced his sentence.
"I'm sure you'd be just as devastated as King would be if Purple was the one who fell." He noticed the staff suddenly begin to detect movement. "And if your gonna sit here and bicker, I'm gonna go rescue Green and Purple. Red, stay with them, and Blue, come with me."
Green was thankful they had packed binoculars, and they could very clearly see the Nether portal from where they were.
The goddamn Nether was mocking them.
"I love how we're up atop a prison, whilst the Nether portal is standing right there mocking the crap out of us." Green said sarcastically.
"Yeah. That's real fun, isn't it?" Purple said quietly.
"Hey, we're stuck in this togethe-is that Blue and Yellow?!" Green cut off his sentence with an exclamation of shock and disbelief.
"Can't be." Purple scoffed.
"No, it actually is!"
"Your lying."
"I'm not! Look!" Green pulled Purple up and dragged him to the edge of the platform and shoving the binoculars in his face.
There, clear as day, were Blue and Yellow, racing towards the outpost with the Command Block Staff.
"No way..." Purple said.
"HEY! BLUE! YELLOW! UP HERE!" Green screamed.
Yellow dropped down from the staff, and landed a little ways away from the outpost, but still clear in sight.
"Green! Purple! Are you guys okay?!" Blue screamed.
Green flashed them a thumbs up.
"Just hang on a second! We'll come to you. Just focus on getting the Pillagers or whatever they're called out of your path!" Yellow yelled.
"Okay!"
Green jumped onto the third floor of the building and grabbed the crossbow from the chest and began attacking the Pillagers with it. From the corner of his eye, he could see Blue and Yellow climbing down the mountain and towards the outpost.
Sundown was nearing, but with the crossbow, it was easier to escape from the tower. And they were so grateful for that.
Yellow, being the intelligent one of the group, had a little camera set up attached to a drone he insisted followed them everywhere if they were ever in immediate danger.
Seeing as they were all worried about Green and Purple and making a plan, they didn't launch it.
Second knew this, and as soon as Blue and Yellow left, he launched the drone and it followed the Command Block Staff's radius.
Man, he was thankful it could track them.
However, once the video loaded, everyone's hearts dropped.
Purple was cornered by Pillagers, while the others dealt with their own Pillagers. King could tell Purple was trying his best to fight them off, but to no avail.
"Purple..."
"Man, he's really trying to fight back, isn't he?" Second said. King's heart broke.
"Why does he do this?" He asked softly, the question mainly towards himself.
"He's trying to make you proud. He couldn't do that with his dad. So he's trying to make you proud cause he thinks you'll abandon him like his shifty dad did!" Red exclaimed.
King suddenly realized how hard Purple tried to make him proud. Everything he's done...he's done for him.
"We have to get there. Now!" King said.
"No! Your not risking your life just so you can tell Purple your proud of him!"
"He needs to know I'm proud of him. I don't care what happens to me!"
"Uh-King? There's a little issue..." Red shyly pointed to the camera. Second and King ran up to the camera, and their hearts dropped.
The Pillagers had Purple at the edge of the platform, and one of them pushed him off the building.
"PURPLE! NOOOO!" King screamed in horror. Second stumbled back in shock, and Red froze.
Oh no.
Purple had gotten himself cornered by a bunch of Pillagers while protecting Green, and he knew it was a really bad idea, but he had no choice.
He's protecting the ones he loves.
He's making King Orange proud. Wherever he is.
It became the biggest mistake of his life less than a second later.
One of the Pillagers had him right at the edge of the platform, and his whole life flashed before his eyes the second he pushed him off the building.
He knew for a fact he was going to die I'm that moment.
"I'm sorry King. I'm sorry I couldn't make you proud."
Green could feel King's screams of horror when the Pillagers pushed Purple off the platform and into the rocky cliffs below.
In an instant, Yellows staff was in his hands, and he was jumping after Purple.
He launched a force choke hold spell put of the staff to keep him from falling, and spawned an elytra before catching Purple midair and flying up to the top.
When he realized Bluebhad planted TNT and was about to light it.
"BLUE WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?!" Purple screamed as soon as his feet touched the floor.
"ENDING ALL THESE PILLAGERS ONCE AND FOR ALL!"
He lit the TNT.
The building exploded. Right in front of King, Red and Second.
And without a doubt, there was no way to tell if Purple was okay or not.
"Purple...Oh, Purple, please be okay. I need you to be okay. I love you so much." He told himself.
He just wished he'd be able to tell Purple that, too.
King and the others watched in pure shock and horror as the Pillager outpost exploded, and the four sticks were nowhere in sight.
"PURPLE!" King screamed, moving towards the storage folder to do something.
Just as he reaches the Nether Portal, Blue and Yellow launch themselves pit of the Nether portal, carrying an unconscious Purple behind them. Green followed suit.
The room falls silent for a moment.
"GREEN!" Second moves after a moment, running up and tackling Green.
"I was so worried..I thought I lost you.." He sobbed.
Green wrapped his arms around him, rubbing his back to soothe him. "It's okay, Sec. It's okay. I'm here. I'm here."
King watched the two hug for a moment before shifting his focus back to Purple, who laid unconscious in Blues arms.
"Is he okay?!" King asked frantically.
"He's really not. A Pillager pushed him off the building from the second floor and got knocked out from that. Doubled with the explosion, I don't think he's okay." Yellow explained.
King's heart dropped.
"No..."
Blue noticed Purple beginning to stir, and his heart jumped.
"Purple. Purple, are you alright?!" He asked.
Purple jumped up out of nowhere, and quickly regretted it.
King ran up and stabilized him, keeping a firm grip on his arms.
"Purple?"
Purple looked up, his tired eyes meeting King's wide and concerned ones.
"King?"
King remained frozen silent.
"Look, King, I-"
King hugged him.
"Oh, Purple, I was so worried. I thought I lost you like I did Gold..."
"I'm sorry."
"Kid, what's there to be sorry for?"
"I almost killed myself trying to make you proud..."
Kinga heart broke.
"Purple, you don't need to make me proud of you. I'm already proud of you for what you do."
"Promise?"
"I promise. I love you, kid."
"I love you too."
Blue and Yellow are trapped in Red's tightening embrace as soon as King had Purple in his arms.
"Don't do that again, you two. That was stupid and dangerous!" Red said softly.
Blue and Yellow hugged him back. "We won't. Would that make you happy?"
"Very. I love you guys."
"We love you too."
If one thing was set in place over the next few hours, it was King wasn't gonna let go of Purple whatsoever.
Whilst Second stayed next to Green, keeping his hand in a tight grip, King had Purple next to him at all times for the next few hours, just to make sure it wasn't just a dream and Purple was really alright.
It wasn't long after that Purple fell asleep, the past couple days without a good night's sleep finally catching up. King wrapped his arm around him, smiling softly.
"Your kids finally home, safe and sound." He thought to himself.
Purple and Green were back home, safe and sound.
And they couldn't be more grateful for that.