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Civilians
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CIVILLIAN ONLY!

Caretaker: I made this group chat for us to talk

Super civilian: y'all I'm getting jumped

Taunt: u always are broski

Super civilian changed their name to sups

Sups: fair

Loveshot changed their name to Miku Miku beam

Miku Miku beam: I'll come over and help in abit

Banana peel changed their name to #1 artful hater

#1 artful hater: better

Artful: rude

Miku Miku beam: wait fucks artful doing ere

Artful I'm a civilian too mate

Taunt: I thought u were french not British

Artful: oi oi

I'll go now and cry

Artful left the server

Taunt: nice

Cloak: just saved sups

@caretaker or @carepad cmere rq

Caretaker: comin

Taunt: I'm bored what should I do

Block: go annoy harken so they fucking kill you

Taunt: I'm cracked at surviving him fym

Artful #1 hater: sneaky ragebait in the pocket

Taunt: I have a wonderful idea

Caretaker: fuck you

Taunt added Sarah to the group chat

Caretaker: this is worse than I imagined

How do u have her contact anyway

Sarah: @artful #1 hater KILL YOURSELF

Punch: what's their deal

Caretaker: Sarah is Elizabeth's older sister

Artful's #1 fan

She got killed during his crash out due to banana peels actions partially

Punch: jeez artfuls a bitch

Sarah: he was also basically extended family for us. Helping with stuff

Taunt: rest in piss Elizabeth

Caretaker: don't fall for his ragebait

Please

Sarah: I'll try

Revolver: wanna be part of our group

Sarah: wdym

Revolver: we fight against who as call the "killers" one of em being artful

Sarah: hell ye

Artful #1 hater: yay more ptsd for artful 🎉🎉🎉

Punch: we don't really use our actual names as you can see. We just call each other by what we do

Sarah changed their name to Guardian

Taunt: so watcha gonna do man

Caretaker: she likes misgendering people

Don't take it seriously or taunt in general

Block: @guardian how's that gonna work

Guardian: I'll get others out of the way of the killers. Kinda like cloak but more direct

Block: kay

Guardian: any paperwork I gotta do

Sups: we are just a ragtag group of people who try to help. No need

Also revolver is rich af he will help with ur situation if needed

Guardian: yippee

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Part 1: guardian’s first round
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Killer: artful (who could've guessed)

Pov: guardian

I arrive with punch and taunt. As I was deemed to complement their abilties well.

“Kay. So what's our objective here?” I say.

“Get the 12 normal civilians to the portal that leads to the bunker” punch says

“I'll taunt the killer to give you a window for a rescue. Let's go” taunt says. Didn't expect him to be more serious

“Didn't expect you to be serious” I say

“I'm just more serious in situations like these I guess. Let's go guardian” taunt says

“Taunt. Distract the killer. Guardian get the civilian” punch says clearly distressed

“YEAH COME GET SOME YA FREAKIN WUZZ!” Taunt screams out. Distracting artful just for long enough for me to grab the civilain

“Stay quiet. I'll lead you there”

After abit of running. I arrive at the portal. I see banana peel standing at the portal

“What are you doing here?” I say

“Guardin the portal” banana peel says

“Aint your banana gun kinda bad at that?”

“I can overdrive it to spew out tons of bananas. Though they will be weaker.” Banana peel says

“Now go retrieve the others. 8 are left” banana peel continues

I see artful attacking a civilian while cloak tries finding an opening. So I give em one.

I slam artful into the ground ans give a few punches for good measure.

“Go now. I'll take care of em”

Cloak becomes invisible with the civilian and goes to the portal

-civilians only-

Guardian: come over y'all I need help stalling artful

Revolver: k

Suddenly i hear a strong gun shot. He can't be crazy enough to try landing a shot from this far aw-

It lands. Nice

I get distance from artful

“How many left?” I say to revolver

“That's all. Move out”

We run to cloak and safely get away

Artful #1 hater: why wasn't he using any of his abilities.

Bonus pad: maybe he recognized guardian and couldn't bring himself to

Guardian: I got abit of a makeover. He still could recognize me maybe though

He did still chase after me

Taunt: thanks for saving my ass while I was at the portal

Artful #1 hater: any opportunity to give em more ptsd

Taunt: such a hater. Teach me

Miku Miku beam: calm down y'all

Carepad: tru

Caretaker: be thankful I healed u after u missed thrice in a row @revolver

Revolver: I still landed a snipe on artful while guardian was stalling

Dash: gambler much

Cloak: I call it quits for the day. We don't have any missions for today

Dash: kay

Guardian: so where do I go

Dash: we have a hideout. Follow me

Guardian: kay where ru

Dash: near the coffee shop on bloxum street

Guardian: coming

Part 2: killer meeting/GC
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Pov: pursuer.

Ah. Fresh meat.

I called the others to meet up in my forest. It seems they are coming. A big yellow statue thing. A french (ew) a killdroid and a computer guy

“Come on in. W-”

Oh yeah I'm stupid. Harken

I type out on my phone

“I sent you guys a group chat link. And for harken I'll give her a phone”

Everyone nods. Though harken seems confused on the device I'm using

I set up harkens phone. And artful quickly builds a music box to calm them down

Badware: why r we using a GC we are literally right in front each other

Pursuer: harken

Harken: what's this device

Killdroid: has many uses. Though right now will be used to communicate more silently

Harken: I'm surprised you guys understand me and I understand you. Seems the languages of our realities are extremely similiar

Artful: seems so.

Artful: pursuer. Why did you bring us here. And more importantly. How did harken understand how to use the device

Harken: we had kinda similiar technology

Killdroid: interesting

Badware: do y'all use the same slurs as us

Harken: while I understand what is a slur. I suspect that our slurs may be different

Thanks for making this whole thing more silent by the way.

Artful: my pleasure

Badware: he's saying that because it's the most social interaction he had post the incident

Artful: don't mention it you bitch

Speaking of

I think I saw Sarah join the little ragtag group

Harken: who's that

Pursuer: not my problem. @harken it doesent really matter

Harken: why'd the device emit a noise

Pursuer: oh sorry for pinging u. Kinda forgot ur sensitive and scared of noise

Harken: that's called pinging?

Badware: yup

Harken: good to know

Pretence: I just got back from my gooning sesh what the FUCK is this

Badware: ur not out yet broski

Badware has removed pretence

Harken: what's a gooning sesh

Killdroid: something highly inappropriate. Don't think about it

Harken: kay

Pursuer: harken wanna team up tomorrow to kick their asses

Harken: hell ye

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Part 1: “WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU MEAN THEY REFUSE TO DAMPEN DOWN” aka taunt gets curbstomped by harken

I FUCKIN HATE PEOPLE

harken: pursuer I'll get this one

Harken types as she sees taunt

Pursuer: I'm scared

Public menace by idiotontheinternet starts playing

An empty street looms. Only a person and a construct. But unfortunately. They won't dampen down this time

Harken IMMEDIATELY opens her eyes. Stabs herself. And throws that spear at taunt

The spear is thrown at such power that it creates a Sonic boom. Dealing even further damage

Taunt tries to stand up but harken throws him at a building with the chain. Destroying it.

“Sh-” taunt is quickly silenced by a shockwave. Harken rushes in for a shot and launches a mean right hook shooting taunt in the air. Forming a spear of light in her hands.

Before she can react. She's hit with 2 bullets. One from revolver and one from loveshot. She wastes no time creating a shockwave with her foot towards both of them

Harken pushes taunt back into the air as he's about to fall. Tangling loveshot to themself and slamming taunt with loveshot’s body using the chain.

Harken creates another shockwave and prepares to impale them on a stake

She gets punched in the back. But after a short while recovers. Seeing that a healing potion was thrown at them. Even more agitated at the noise. She Creates 3 spars of light that create a chain onto a tall building. Before shortly collapsing it

They throw another spear of light onto taunt. before creating a shockwave to free themself from the collapsing building. Before she could finish the job another bullet hits her back.

Before she can retaliate cloak grabs them away from the collateral damage. Harken. Even more enraged. Creates 8 shockwave around the area. One of them hitting the three. Before long. They create another spear of light to catch them. But block blocks them.

Cloak quickly grabs them away into invisibility. And harken. So exhausted they are slowly falling apart. Finally dampen down . With pursuer using stalk with her to get away

A few hours later.

Part 2: chatificing time

Taunt is in the groups hideout resting. Carepad staying with them to heal the dumb fuck. While the others are busy

-civilains only-

bonuspad: how in the ever loving FUCK do you anger a being so much it's immideate response after seeing you is FIGHT OR FLIGHT WITH THE OPTION ALWAYS BEING FIGHT @taunt

Taunt: idk

bonuspad: WHAT

Miku Miku beam: you caused me to be tossed into a building and back into you

It hurts so fucking much

Punch: gotta admit that was a sickass fight

Revolver: more like a one-sided pummel. Taunt didn't even fight back

Miku Miku beam: @block my eternal gratitude for blocking that last spear or else we would be fucking dead

Also @punch for clutching last second before we got impaled

Sups: @taunt u now received what I experience weekly from them jumping me

I remember once badware pushed my head directly onto harkens spear

Caretaker: how in the ever loving FUCK did you survive that

Sups: drugs

Caretaker: fair

Taunt: why tf did they make a building fall down that was so extra

#1 artful hater: harken aura farming is wild

I say the more extra thing is keeping taunt in the air while getting loveshot chained to throw loveshot into him

Cloak: why we talking about a massacre like it's a smash bros ultimate finals fight

Taunt: feels like one

Cloak: fair

Guardian: anyway y'all didn't rlly tell me about the other killers since my first one was artful anyway

That's why I didnt try to help

Cloak: pursuer is an Apex predator. Being able to become invisible like me and speed up to find prey. Has a powerful sword and can howl so loud your ears hurt slowing you down

Badware is a computer virus. Able to place down computers that speed him up and do a strong dash forward that gets stronger depending on the amount of computers. Also able to teleport to a computer destroying it dealing heavy damage to people near and massively speeding up

Artful is artful

Harken is a powerful construct. Being able to throw spears that can link you to her with a massive chain she can control and throw you around with. Also able to create shockwaves and becomes way stronger when enough noise is made. Opening their eyes. Also able to stab herself with a spear to speed up massively

Killdroid is a safety bot gone wrong. Able to spit out missiles. Create traps that explode if ur near them long enough. Fly. And start a meltdown that makes them explode after abit dealing heavy damage

Taunt: cloak info dump was not on my 2025 bingo card

Guardian: thanks for the explanation

Cloak: I gotta go rescue dash

Bye

a/n: for that one guy that asked for more cloak I didn't rlly find a way to fit him into this but there will be more of em next chapter

SCREW CIVILIANS

Artful: fuck I needed more popcorn

Badware: harken locked in but not enough to finish off taunt

Pursuer: and they told me they'll be fine alone lol

So tired she started falling apart

Killdroid: as her condition seems severe. I will attempt to access goverment database for more info on her species

Pursuer: harken says thanks