After hours of Rs questioning the group, it was finally late evening. He had gotten a lot out of them, with force of course. He was amused to see them so caring for one of their friends. Well.. of course they would be.

The group had become a lot more co-operative the more questions Rs asked, since denying replying would just cause Tree more pain. He had to zap him here and there to force them to tell the truth, but other than that he was still alive.

Tree wished he wasn't. The pain was awful, he wished he just died there.

After finally finishing off the questioning, he had untied Tree and dragged him back over to his cage "I'm impressed. I really thought you'd die from that." He hummed, kicking him back into the cell where the others were held.

The rest of Rs' own group was still outside searching, the rain was still pouring, surprisingly. Everyone around kinda just thought it was a really bad storm, but they'll realise soon enough.

Tree weakly grunted as he was shoved back into the cell, landing on his knees. His whole body ached and burned on the inside, he felt numb and limp. Rf approached him as he was finally let back inside.

"T-Tree! Are you okay?!" She nervously asked, watching as he avoided looking at her. "I'm so happy you're alive.." the door to the cage was locked up again. "I-Im so sorry  that dickhead did that to you.. are you okay-?" She repeated.

"I'm not.." he muttered. He looked away from them, a little hurt that he had to pay for their refusal to answer questions. If they had been electrocuted because they didn't reply, it would probably be different.

"I-Its okay now.. " Anchor tried to comfort "It'll be-"

"Not to be rude.. but, I don't want to be spoken to right now.." He replied coldy, his words weak "..Don't..interact with me. At all." He turned away from them and leaned against the bars. He just wanted to rest after that awful experience.

Rf suddenly felt worse "...Wh-What? Tree..I.." she didn't know what to say, looking over to Needle for help. Needle glanced to the side "..I'm..sorry okay? We didn't.."

She noticed he wasn't listening, regardless. Nickel leaned forward "Just leave him. He's probably pissed and I don't blame him. Did you really have to be that snarky to Rubber Spatula, Needle?"

"Me?!" She suddenly spun over to him "You're the one who!-"

"Enough." Rs boomed, making them all be quiet in response to his threatning tone "I don't want to hear it. It's a little late to be making such a racket, hm?" He snarled, giving a grin.

"..Why are you doing this?" Anchor weakly asked. This caught the attention of Rs, who seemed intrigued at his question.

"What ever do you mean, old friend?"

"Why are you hurting us and doing this.." he held his arms "I ..I didn't want this. Nobody wanted this. This isn't our fault-"

Rs rolled his eyes, leaning on his stylus, the one that belonged to PDA. He found it in some ruins, and assumed he was dead. "Now now. Enough of that. You have no right to call yourselves innocent..you're engaging in unforgivable crimes against your friends."

"And so are you!" Needle shot back. Rs furrowed his eyebrows in annoyance.

"-and with good intention." They added on after. "I don't think you fully understand the harmful nature of your actions. However..how you get to understand. Right here, right now."

"But why US?!" Needle cried "We're just a small group! We've hardly done anything compared to!-"

"Oh, we will get to the others eventually. You're just one of many groups who will be tormented and taught a lesson of justice just like this. So will Two.. but you're all to blame, in your own ways."

"We don't really have a choice." Nickel grumbled, frustrated at their assumptions against the group.

"So you think that you're so good doing this, hm?! Why not instead of killing us, you go help the ones who are actually suffering!"

"I have." Rs chuckled, leaning on his other arm on the stylus "Well, we have, collectively as a group. But we can't help everyone." He looked up "Think of this as.. a meadow. You guys are the weeds.. and you're overtaking the other flowers, ruining the field. We can't just take the good flowers out can we? We have to destroy the bad ones and stop them once and for all."

"That's pathetic wording." Needle insulted. Rs frowned, walking towards her. She didn't show any fear or regret as he got close to her "You have quite the mouth.. don't make me tape it SHUT.." he threatened, growling lowly.

Nickel shuffled uncomfortably. Rf put her hand on Needles shoulder "Just give it a rest..okay? Everyones tired.."

Needle huffed and said nothing. This made Rs smirk, as he shifted his gaze over to Anchor, who was fidgeting nervously. "..You know.. I'm rather disappointed you would turn to them. " Rs sighed.

Anchor tensed up, glancing off "I-I didn't really have a choice.. Rs. Me and two others survived when blasted and we were the only ones assumed alive. So we were taken back with Two." he mumbled, hurt.

Rs made a surprised 'mm?" sound, curious "Really now? So.. what happened then, Anchor? Don't make me taze your friend again.."

Anchor wanted to roll his eyes but didn't want to show any disobedience "..Well,  were fixed up and Two gave us orders..I.." he looked over to the group, shuffling uncomfortably.

"You..??"

"Well..Th-Theres something that happened and I didn't agree with. I.. I don't really want to talk about it here.." he felt nervous with the others listening.

He knew they wouldnt say anything but the slight thought of possibility caused him to be pushed away from the idea.

"Hm.." they grabbed the bars and tilted their head "Tell me.." he growled, holding up their hand threatningly.

He began to use his powers on him, Anchor making a yelp of surprise and backing away. The powers were calm though..almost sedating him as Rs' hand glowed yellow, so did Anchors eyes.

"Wh-What are you doing?!" Rf snapped. She was about to intervene before Rs glared towards her with anger "Don't interrupt. I'm mind controlling him, see?"

"You could do that the whole time?!"

"I prefer to make you pay. It's better that way.." he payed attention to Anchor again.

" ..What happened that you didn't agree with, Anchor?"

Anchor couldn't talk for himself or push away. He was mesmerised and ..brainless. he was at the control of Rs, who could make him do anything at his will.

"Scissors was being used as a murder weapon.." He began, blunt "..I tried to ask Two for him to stop allowing this, but he didn't agree.."

"What happened, hmmm?"

"Two slammed me to the wall, and blackmailed me with my friends.." he told him obediently "He said if I didn't comply, he would just kill them. I was horrified, but couldn't tell them or anyone else about it..Two told me he was in charge.. so he makes the decisions; that I don't have a choice  "

The others listened..the day Scissors was put on Front Row.. that was a while ago.. had Anchor been hiding this all that time?

"..Is that true..?" Rs stopped using his powers. Anchor blinked, grunting and rubbing his eyes. He jumped as he realised what he said, darting his eyes around and noticing everyone had been listening.

"I-I mean! I didnt- I-" he tried to get his words out, but they were just a mess "Th-That was!-"

"Two doesn't even care about the other debuters.." Rs contemplated, thinking and putting their hand to their mouth "What an interesting discovery. I thought that was what this was all about.."

He looked at Anchor "...Hm.." he knew he was telling the truth, he wouldnt be able to lie while Rs used the powers. He made him tell him.

Two started the war because he hated Four after their fight, Fours blast and everything. But.. if Two didn't care about the debuters anymore, to the point he would kill them, then what did that say?

What was Twos real intention here?

Two was so annoyed at Four for what he did. But now Two was doing the exact same thing to his own.

"Dear oh dear, you really have been keeping that from everyone for a while, hm? You should see the look on everyones faces.." he sneered.

Anchor looked away, guilty. Before anyone could comment Rs spoke up again "Though, I'm fairly convinced you're innocent in all of this, Anchor..."

"What about the rest of us?!" Needle snapped, frustrated. She kept glaring as they gave her a smug smirk "You? You're far from innocent. Get a grip.."

"You think I want to do this out of choice?! I'd be killed! Or one of my friends would!"

"Yes yes, I've heard it all before. But you helped this lead to where it is now.."

He yawned, turning around "Well, I'm going to get the others back inside and call it a night.. thank you for all the lovely information~" they teased.

Needle growled "You'll regret this, you wait.."

"Threatening me are you? Not such a smart move. You know very well what I can do you.." he mocked, not turning around.

She rolled her eyes. He kept talking "I'd watch out. You should be more careful with your words, because they might come back to bite you"

He went to leave them alone to think about what happened, the door echoing as it shut behind him.

"Two blackmailed you..Anchor??" Rf asked, a little annoyed but also worried over him.

He fidgeted "I-I prefer if we.. didn't talk about it.." he glanced to Tree, before glancing down "..Let's just.. rest. There's no point in trying to escape or anything.." he gave a weak awkward smile, before leaning back against the bars.

They decided to just do what he said.

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It was now night, so everyone had retreated into their dorms for the night. It had been a long day. It wasn't time to rest yet, so everyone was just doing their own thing until they were told to sleep.

The surgery of Tennisball was still going on, though.

Donut had left his room and had his way to Fries'. He was determined to get some information out of him.. he knew he was the one who took it, and he could tell that Fries was aware Donut had connected the dots.

He wanted to know why he did it.. his motivations; and what it was that he took of course. Obviously it was something important, since Two threatened to kill over it.

It was rare of him to threaten his own side.

Donut fidgeted with his hands awkwardly, exhaling softly and staring up at Fries' door. He knew he was in there.. he wasn't sure why he was so nervous. Well, actually he did know. Fries was crazy, if he wanted to hide something surely he would go to extreme lengths to achieve that.

Especially if it was something of such extreme importance.

He brought his hand up to the door and went to open it without knocking, surprised as it was unlocked.

He walked inside quickly, looking around the room. Fries had been at his desk, minding his own business, so jumped as someone opened the door to his room without warning, swiftly snatching his shovel as it leaned against the wall, putting it up in defense and swooping his body around.

Except it wasn't Two...like he had expected. It was remarkably worse. Donut out his hands up in defense, looking away "Hey!"

"Hm.." he lowered the shovel, Donut lowering his hands in response to the lack of threat "What are you playing at???" Donut hissed

Fries had to muster up an excuse "I assumed.. you were an intruder" he lied, flatly.

Donut grumbled to himself. He felt uneasy in Fries' presence. He acted so brainwashed and merciless.. it freaked him out.

"I came here to discuss something. I think you know what that something is." He shut the door.

Fries tensed up. What was he supposed to say? He stared at him and tried to think of a way to reply, clutching onto his shovel harder than he realised.

Donut was obviously here because of what happened. He hoped he would just forget about it but he was seeming persistent. He didn't want to tell him anything. Donut would probably deliver any useful information he got out of Fries to Two.

"I..haven't a clue what you're talking about." Fries spat, "Now..would you care to leave my room? I have busy work tomorrow. Not like you'd care."

He turned around away from him, softening up his expression since Donut couldn't see. He was really stressed..Donut was smart - he knew very much so what happened. What if he tried to look through his things? Fries hid the documents safely.. but still.

"Fries, you know exactly what I'm talking about" Donut argued coldly, crossing his atms  "Do you remember earlier? I ran into you lurking through Twos things.. then later Two reports something important is missing. You're telling me that's a coincidence?"

"Might be." Fries growled, turning over to him again "I apologise for my intrusion. I was not feeling the best."

"Don't talk to me like I'm an idiot. You can't just lie your way out of this.. " Donut snapped. Fries felt worse hearing this, dreading as Donut continued "Do you really think I'd forget? I know you took whatever it was."

"I did not take anything."

"Yes you DID! Don't play dumb " Donut hissed. He was getting frustrated. "Why would you take something from Two? You're meant to be loyal to him, aren't you?"

Donut hated that. He knew everyone else who was insane was loyal to Two by default. However, Fries in this situation was assuming the exact same thing about Donut.

Donut decided to threaten and lie to him too.. in a way that would make this more realistic. He didn't know Fries' intentions, so it was hard to get across to him. "If you don't tell me what you stole, I'll just tell Two I saw you in his office when he was gone."

Fries felt extremely uneasy, anxiety growing inside him. He couldn't have Two find out about this.. he would not survive his wrath. Donut was so selfish for not caring about how this would affect him..

Well, of course he wouldn't. He was close with Two.. he didn't care.

He couldn't let him know. "..I.. didn't take anything. Do you reaaally want to mess with me?" He walked up to him slowly, Donut backing off.

"My whole group will back me up. They hate you..and will have no problem going against you.." he lied lowly, not knowing if Donut would take the bait.

Donut didn't make an visible responses, but on the inside he was thinking hard about what he said. Free Food disliked him? Why? That caused him to be on edge.. did they know something was up? Or..did they know something about the powers? He began to think about the millions of possibilities.

"..You're very stupid for trying to hide this, Fries. I will find out what it is.. and why you took it." He growled and walked backwards to the door "Count on it."

He quickly left, closing it roughly behind him. Donut exhaled and frowned as he leaned his back against the roor, groaning quietly to himself.. he got absolutely nowhere. Honestly.. now he was just more worried.

Why was Fries so persistent to lie to hide this? What was happening here? He was confused.

He couldn't wrap his head around Fries betraying Two.. or.. did he? He couldn't tell!

He went to walk off back to his room, trying to solve this and think straight.

Fries sighed out, sitting back on the bed and letting out a long groan of relief, but also annoyance. This was extremely stressful.. he couldn't keep this hidden forever. He kept it a secret from Donut for now.. but eventually he wouldn't take anymore bullshit.

He didn't know how long he could keep all this up. Yf was getting suspicious, and now Donut was too.

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