“When you said you had a plan, I thought it would be better than this.”
“Hey, man, don’t look at me. I’m not the one who stole a mermaid.”
“You can’t steal a person. Xb made the choice to come with me.”
Xb flaps his tail lazily from the center of the pool. The chlorine feels strange against his scales, but it’ll do for the time being, for being the first time he’s been in fresh air for quite a while. He tilts his head and watches Hypno argue with his chilly human, only to realize they’ve turned to him.
“Don’t look at me. I was the one who was stolen,” he says. Hypno sighs in a way that’s grown familiar.
“You told me I—I’m just saying that—this isn’t even ours, Cub!”
“We steal Keralis’s pool all the time,” the chilly human says. “He hasn’t called the cops on us yet.”
“I think he’s trying to Home Alone us,” Hypno mutters, “not that he’s an altruist.”
“Eh,” the chilly human says.
“When you said you had a plan—”
“I didn’t have a mermaid plan. I had a ‘Scar steals a manatee from the aquarium’ plan that I modified. Have to say, Hypno, didn’t expect you to be the one to make me use it.”
“…why would a Scar steal a manatee, and how were you planning on handling the chemicals in here?” Xb asks. It is, he figures, the only truly relevant part of the conversation.
“He’s Scar,” Hypno answers, at the same time as the chilly human answers:
“That was one of the steps I modified when Hypno told me you’d be able to just breathe a bit of air. Didn’t have to buy out the water treatment for fish from Petco.”
“What?” Hypno says.
“Fair,” Xb says, as though he knows what a Petco is. (He knows many human things after his time in captivity. That is not one of them.)
“Stop complaining so much,” the chilly human says. “Who else would you have asked who’d have a plan like this?”
“Jevin,” Hypno says instantly.
“Rude.”
“We can’t just keep Xb in Keralis’s pool. We have to have another place to put him later. Ideally, the actual ocean, but even before then,” Hypno continues.
“It is a little small,” Xb concedes. It is still better than his old tank by far, but if he’s being given the time to complain…
“Not just that,” Hypno says. “But—”
“Aha! I got you this time!” a sing-song voice from above says. “Naughty boys! Here to wreck my pool again. I have you now!”
In front of Xb, he watches Hypno and the chilly human move awkwardly as though to hide him from the man standing on the balcony. Xb, who is far more reasonable about these things. He doesn’t attempt to hide. He looks up at the human instead, curiously. He feels something in his chest looking at him, and something more when the human stops talking about catching Hypno and his friends, and locks eyes with Xb.
Xb bares his teeth and flares his fins in a threat display. Not because he feels the need to be threatening—he’s not frightened—but because he wants to see what this human will do.
The human’s face morphs into a wide smile.
“Oh! You’ve brought me a princess!” he says. “Hello, princess! I am Keralis!”
Xb regards him for a moment. “Xb,” he says.
“Lovely!” Keralis says.
There’s a moment of stunned silence from the others.
“It took me three months to get you to let me say your name!” Hypno says accusingly. “Three months!”
“Keralis is prettier,” Xb says instantly, dry as the outside of his old tank.
“True,” the chilly human responds, and Keralis giggles.
“I hate all of you,” Hypno says, and Xb knows that’s a lie. You don’t steal people you hate.
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doing a bit of analysis on all of our current collected information for the cursed team just to sort it out in my own head
3 eggs were picked by the wheel spin.
Chayanne
Richas
Ramón
3 groups of eggs were formed, with the above eggs all separately sorted in them, and all got matched with different biomes
Snow: Chayanne, Leo
Savannah: Richas, Pomme
Jungle: Ramón, Dapper, Tallulah
But one egg’s accessory was found in the maze at the moment Protocol AB got activated: Dapper’s hat.
3 eggs sent message videos to their parents
Chayanne
Richas
Dapper
Dapper sent a message instead of Ramon, breaking the pattern of eggs that were picked by the wheel. Dapper’s message told his dad to win no matter what.
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3 players spun the wheel.
Tubbo
Bagi
Carre
Tubbo broke in to spin it while the others were given an invitation to.
3 teams of players were formed, with the above members all separately sorted in them, and all got matched with different biomes just like the eggs did
Snow: Blue - Tubbo
Savannah: Red - Carre
Jungle: Green - Bagi
The egg war event happened, each team fighting to protect an egg statue with combined accessories that matched according to the groups the eggs were already in:
Blue: Chayanne, Leo
Red: Ramon, Dapper, Tallulah
Green: Richas, Pomme
You see what’s wrong here?
Richas and Pomme were matched with the Savannah, Red’s biome. Green fought for them instead.
Ramon, Dapper & Tallulah were matched with Green’s biome, the Jungle. Red fought for them instead.
All the other teams’ eggs swapped… except Chayanne and Leo stayed matched with the Snow, Blue’s biome. Blue was the only one that stayed the same?
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Tubbo breaking in to spin the wheel despite not being allowed to. Dapper’s hat in the maze upon activation of Protocol AB, Dapper sending a message to his dad, who is on Blue team, insisting that he needs to win… Blue’s egg statue remaining unchanged despite the others switching- Blue is the outlier in every single situation.
q!Tubbo’s theory that there was never meant to be 3 teams in the first place, and by him spinning the wheel he caused Blue to be created is looking really interesting. basically everything points to soulfire being the cursed team
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