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By the time Bad and Sapnap had gotten back, someone was trying to call Antfrost on his communicator. Velvet had since been sitting on the ground, so Ant pulled it out and answered.

"Hello?"

"Hi Antfrost, we're at the portal gate right now if you could let us in?" The voice sounded like George.

"Yeah sure! What took you guys so long?"

Another voice answered, "This colorblind brit got us lost in the forest." That was probably Techno.

"Hey!" George protested.

"Guys stop bickering," Philza said farther away. He sounded very annoyed, like he had been dealing with this for a while.

"I'll open the portal," Antfrost chuckled, running up towards the portal and opening it quickly letting them through. They all waved and said hi as they stepped out, and George stepped to the side to ease the dizziness from the portal. Neither Philza nor Techno seemed very fazed.

Bad followed close behind Antfrost. "I should put this on a much more secure lock for now. I'm the guard after all, and right now too many people know how to use this." Bad laughed a bit. He sounded very tired. Antfrost nodded. After a few seconds of fiddling with the tablet next to the frame of the portal, the portal closed and couldn't be opened with a simple button click anymore. Bad ran back to Skeppy as soon as he was done, right as the other three had gotten there too.

Techno noticed first, "Wilbur!?"

Philza looked to where Techno was looking and saw the yellow sweatered person too.

"What are you doing here son?" He asked, raising an eyebrow.

Wilbur waved to them with his eyes half closed tiredly. "I broke my guitar." Was all he said. He looked really tired and clearly wasn't balancing well as he body swayed from side to side.

"We'll get you a new one mate, but it looks like you could use some sleep first."

Wilbur nodded slowly and Niki spoke up.
"Dream knocked him out during the fight, but Dream is securely in prison now." She explained.

Philza nodded and turned his head towards the rest of the group. Sapnap had given George a huge hug with much protesting before George gave in, and was now exaggerating explaining the fight with Dream at the hub. Antfrost was carefully bandaging Velvet's arm and leg to stop the bleeding, and Bad was silently hovering over Skeppy with a worried look. The bleeding had mostly subsided, but the inky black color continued to spread very slowly under the makeshift bandages.

Niki spoke up again.

"Guys we should get the injured to the hospital right now. I'm sure we could also get a place to stay and rest for a bit if we asked nicely too; The place has been fairly empty for the past week or so so I'm sure it wouldn't be a problem."

"Good idea Niki." Antfrost said, starting to carefully help Velvet to his feet. Everyone agreed as well, most of them being exhausted.

Philza looked towards Technoblade, and they nodded at each other. "Me and Techno are going to head back to the ice place to check up on our house and Ranboo. You guys okay on your own?"

"We'll be ok," Sapnap said, nodding and looking behind him at the group. He stepped closer to Philza and more quietly talked. "Thank you for helping me in the woods. I probably wouldn't've made it without you."

"You're welcome mate. Take care of yourself," Philza patted his back with a kind smile before turning towards Techno and walking towards the ice dimension portal.

"How far is the place you were talking about?" Bad asked Niki.

"I'd say roughly 20 minutes walking." She answered.

He nodded, "We better get going now then."

Velvet climbed onto Ant's back since he couldn't walk on his broken foot and Niki guided Wilbur in the right direction. He was doing well enough to walk on his own, but still had a splitting awful headache. Sapnap looked towards Bad who was contemplating what to do.

"Do you want me and George to carry Skeppy, Bad? We can take turns since you've haven't had time to rest in a while." Sapnap offered. George looked annoyed at the idea, but seeing Bad's exhaustion, he didn't protest.

"No it's okay, I got him." Bad said. He took a deep breath and grew to a 9 foot tall demon again, picking up Skeppy bridal style very carefully.

"But bad you shouldn't use magic! You haven't had time to rest or-" Sapnap started.

Bad cut him off with a glare that said 'don't argue with me'. Sapnap was mad that Bad wasn't listening to reason, but knew arguing wouldn't help, so for once in his life, he shut up. George shrugged at Sapnap. Bad wasn't going to budge.

Sapnap noticed Skeppy's box that he normally wore on his head by the portal frame, figuring he could at least carry that to help out.

They all followed Niki across the hub, and because they had to carry or slow down for the injured, it took them much longer than 20 minutes. More than a half an hour later and they had made it. Bad's arms were sore and so were Ant's, but the sight of the building seemed to lessen the pain already.

Niki had called her friend beforehand, so by the time they arrived, she was already at the door waiting for them.

"Puffy!" Niki called over running to give her a hug.

"That's Captain Puffy to you!" Puffy said lightheartedly. She embraced the hug before glancing towards the strangers behind her.

"And who are these people?" She asked nicely.

"These are some friends, a few of which need medical attention quickly." Niki said, gesturing to Skeppy and Velvet.

"Oh my, what happened that got you all so beat up?"

"I'll explain later, but first can we get them to some beds?" Niki asked.

"Of course, of course." Puffy said, leading them inside. Bad shrunk down a bit, wincing, so he didn't have to duck under the door and risk waking Skeppy up. Sapnap shot Niki an odd glance motioning towards Bad. She nodded slyly so Bad won't notice. He was probably too tired to pay attention anyway.

Puffy led them to a few rooms down a hallway all next to each other. "This is where all of you can stay for the night, a few of you will have to share rooms. Take the injured to these two rooms and I'll have a nurse with you shortly." She said kindly.

"Thank you so much Puffy," Niki said, giving her a quick hug. "Missed you, haven't seen you around the flower shop lately." She whispered.

"Missed you too." Puffy said, leaning into the hug more.

George headed to a room and fell asleep quickly, while Sapnap basically rolled his eyes at George and scoffed. He wasn't nearly as tired because he had died and respawned, but he had still done significantly more fighting than George had even after that. He was a little annoyed that George didn't stay awake longer to help the others, but ooh! The prince must have needed his beauty sleep!

Bad and Antfrost walked into the bigger of the two rooms carrying Skeppy and Velvet, while Wilbur walked to the smaller room next to it. Sapnap ran in to place the box by Skeppy's bed on the ground then ran out so the others could have their space. Antfrost carefully set Velvet onto the bed and tucked him under the covers. Most of the bleeding had subsided so Velvet could rest peacefully for a while. Bad carefully placed Skeppy on top of the bed next to Velvet's bed, eyeing the gash on Skeppy's side with worry. Antfrost held Velvet's free hand over the side of the bed and smiled at him.

A nurse walked in with the name tag "Callahan" with Puffy following close behind. The nurse didn't say anything as he rolled a cart with medical supplies.

"We have to ask you to leave the room while we clean and bandage their cuts, it won't take long."

Bad and Antfrost looked towards Skeppy and Velvet with worry.

"If it makes you feel better, you can sit right outside the door, it should only take about half an hour at most."

Velvet turned slightly to Antfrost, "I'm going to be fine, go get some rest."

"But-"

"What did we say about buts? Get some sleep in one of the spare rooms, I'll be okay."

Antfrost smiled in defeat, and squeezed his hand one last time before heading out of the door.

"You have to leave too sir; Your friend is going to be ok." Puffy said with a small nod.

Bad didn't say anything, but took one last long look at Skeppy before reluctantly leaving. He found a chair right outside the door and sat in it with his back straight and his legs crossed. Now he was alone with his exhausted thoughts.

"I never should have left Skeppy alone, it's my fault and I need to make sure he's okay." He made a tight fist. "I could just slip through the shadows under the door and-" "No... we have to let them work in peace... I'm fine and Skeppy is going to be fine." His thoughts were starting to loudly crowd his mind until someone snapped him out of it.

Snapmap. (Get it?)

"Hey Bad!"

"Huh-..oh hi!" Bad said sitting up better again.

"Hey we planned a meeting with those scientists I told you about; Do you want to come?" Sapnap asked cheerfully.

"Oh I think I'm good here."

"You might get some answers about what hurt Skeppy." Sapnap tempted. Had to get Bad's attention somehow.

"What do you mean?"

"Bad, we both know he wasn't hit with a normal weapon. The inky black color says it all, and not to mention I've never seen a weapon like the one Dream used before."

Sapnap had noticed it too. Bad's fist clenched tighter. He was absolutely exhausted but refused to sleep. Not until Skeppy was better. He didn't respond and looked to the side to avoid eye contact.

"It's just a few hallways down, we are meeting in a spare room to talk about what happened with Dream. It should only take a few minutes." Sapnap pushed.

"Fine. But I have to be back here when Skeppy is awake." Bad said.

There was no convincing him, and Sapnap knew it. Sapnap nodded once. Bad got up and ignored how he wobbled and how much his legs hurt when he stood up. They begged him to sit down again and let them rest, but he continued to walk forwards. He followed Sapnap a few hallways down, and saw Niki waiting for them.

"Hi Niki..." Bad said trailing off a little. He didn't notice the towel she had behind her back.

"Hi Bad! We are meeting Fundy and Tubbo in this room." She pointed to the door next to her and opened it to let him go through. He walked in first wondering why the lights were off, but before he could ask, the door was slammed behind him, locked from the outside, and the towel was shoved under the small opening at the bottom.

"What's going on!?" Bad said, turning around quickly.

"You need rest, Bad! If you aren't going to take care of yourself then we are going to." Sapnap said with a little anger in his voice. Bad started to bang on the door.

"LET ME OUT! I need to make sure Skeppy is ok!" Bad sounded desperate.

"No Bad! We aren't letting you out until you sleep!" Sapnap yelled more quietly than Bad.

"It's unhealthy, Skeppy wouldn't want this for you." Niki reasoned to Bad.

"Let me out!" Bad yelled again. The exhaustion was starting to get to him in the dark room but he ignored it and forced himself to stay awake.

"No! You need to fucking sleep!"

"LANGUAGE YOU MUFFINHEAD! Let me out right now or I'll break your legs!" Bad yelled, shaking the doorknob. He tried to jump into the shadow of the door, but the towel prevented him from getting through.

"You can't keep me here!" Bad said, trying to kick down the door. Lucky for Sapnap, Niki, and whoever would've had to replace the door if it was broken, Bad didn't have nearly enough strength to kick it down.

After some struggling and some worried glances between Niki and Sapnap, Sapnap spoke up.

"How about we make a deal then?" He asked.

"What deal." Bad was suspicious of anything Sapnap would offer after he trapped him in the room.

"Lay on the bed under the blankets and close your eyes. If you are still awake in 10 minutes then we will let you out, okay?" Sapnap offered.

"10 minutes?"

"10 minutes."

"You promise?"

"Yes."

"Fine." Bad said reluctantly, mumbling under his breath. If it was his only way out, then he could stay awake for 10 minutes.

Bad laid on the bed, got under the covers, and closed his eyes. "Just 10 minutes and I can see Skeppy. Just 10 minutes and I can make sure he's okay. Just 10 minutes...." Bad thought to himself loudly. "Just 10 minutes..." His thoughts started to fade out slowly.

And in exactly 11 minutes, Bad was out cold.

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Thanks for reading! If you're over-working yourself like Bad is then take time to rest! I hope you're having a good day or night, bye!