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"Hey, guys!" Gemma greets, removing her starting soon screen. She waves at the camera for a moment. "I know I said cozy stream today but I have lore planned." She laughs, reading the chat. "It's also Sunday, so are there any eggs that need their tasks to be done?"

Helping with egg tasks has become Gemma's unique way of contributing to the server. Since she doesn't have an egg of her own, she jumps at the chance to lighten the load for other players, stepping in to complete tasks for those who might be tied up or just need a hand. The weekends, and especially Sundays, have turned into her unofficial help days, much to the gratitude of her friends across different time zones. It's a win-win: tasks get done early, and everyone can dive into their gaming or take a streaming break without worry. Gemma sometimes does Tallulah's and Chayanne's, or Leo's once in a while.

"Leo?" Gemma reads from the chat, waiting for confirmation. "Yeah? Okay, we'll have a fun day with our princess."

Gemma hits the login button and lands in the game, eyebrows raised at the unexpected emptiness. Only Badboyhalo and Cellbit are on, which gets her thinking, "Did they already do Leo's quests?" Curiosity piqued, she heads over to Foolish's dragon, wondering if Leo's bed is there. Every visit, Gemma can't help but stop and marvel at the tower and appreciate her friend's hard work. "I only have two hours before I have lore planned, so we'll see what we'll do with her." she muses.

As she strides into the tower and effortlessly hops to the second level, excitement greets her - the bed is gone, meaning Leo is awake. "Seriously though, who stole my baby?" she mutters, a touch of drama in her voice, though there's no one around to hear it. She's quick to type a message to Cellbit and Bad, inquiring about the missing egg, oblivious to the mini freakout brewing in her chat.

Her slip of the tongue - referring to Leo as her baby - had not gone unnoticed. To Gemma, it was a natural slip; she's always felt a special bond with Leo, protective and caring, and she's one of the few people Leo regularly wakes up for, family excluded. It's not until she glances at her chat that the full impact of her words hits her. A flush of warmth spreads across her cheeks as she reads the teasing comments, and she buries her face in her hands, embarrassed yet endeared by the notion that she's seen as Leo's mother.

she had thought of it before, of course. Of making it official, but didn't want to take Vegetta's place nor make the dynamic awkward. So she settles for being Leo's aunt, but seeing her chat's excitement makes her wonder. The chat's teasing turns to agreement and support and the chat gets full with headcanons and wishes.

Emboldened by the chat's reaction, Gemma decides to lean into the role. "Alright, my little dragon, let's find you and do your tasks." she declares with renewed purpose, her spirits lifted.

Gemma wanders through spawn for a few minutes, confident Leo will find her soon. Firstly, she runs into Bad. The man is giggling evilly when she notices him, standing near the train station. "Bad!" She calls, walking over.

"What the fudge! You scared me," he retorts, crouching in greeting. "Hi! How are you?"

"Good, better if you'll promise me you didn't just come back from pranking someone. Especially me."

Bad looks around frantically, shaking his head, "No," he says, dragging out the word. "Of course not! I never do pranks!"

Gemma gives her camera an unimpressed look. She's still not over the last prank - her base plastered with absurdly huge Cucurucho posters, the sneaky water frames hidden so well it took her an hour to find them. If it weren't for Foolish's previous experience with a similar prank on his dragons, courtesy of Bad, she'd probably still be searching. "Sure."

"I haven't pranked you in forever," Bad insists, his voice climbing an octave in mock indignation. "Speaking of pranks though-"

"No way, Bad. I'm not getting involved!"

Bad pouts, a performance worthy of an award. "Fine..."

Shaking her head with a smile, she leaves him behind. "Catch you later, Bad."

Gemma stumbles on Leo with Cellbit by accident actually. Somehow both her and the other two were passing near the Titan coming from opposite directions and they met in the middle. "Leo!" Gemma greets softly, crouching down when she gets near the two. Leo jumps in place, nudging into Gemma's avatar. Gemma had learnt early on this was how Leo showed affection for her, so she does the same back.

"And Cellbit," echoes Cellbit, amusement clear in his voice.

Gemma grins, turning to him. "Hey, man. I see you stole my girl." She can see Leo shake her head slowly at Cellbit - as if disapprovingly. "I know you and Richas wanted to build... Something, so I can be with Leo."

"Yeah? okay, nice." Cellbit crouches, "Bye Leo! Bye Gemma!"

"Bye Cell!" Gemma sings, turning to Leo once he teleports away. "DId Cellbit do your tasks yet, baby?"

yes but I'm not tired! Leo writes, looking up at Gemma. Gemma hums, thinking what to do with the egg. "Two options, one - we make a few gifts for friends, or two - we go explring"

gifts :'') She writes, jumping in place happily.

"Yeah! So, I was thinking of getting your father some netherrack, clean up a bit around the Titan, some couches and decorations for Bad, some food for Baghera and Roier and find you a secret gift."

secret gift :0 Leo writes, bumping into Gemma's legs. I can make the food!!

"Perfect!" Gemma smiles, thinking what to do first. "I'll go find something for you for being my helper today, find me when you make enough food?"

Leo nods, teleporting away, probably to her toast stand next to the dragon. Turning to her chat, she shares a secret. "I have the perfect idea for Leo," she reveals. "Last week, when I was exploring offline, I stumbled upon this stunning purple biome. How about we collect some blocks from there to create something special?"

Without hesitation, Gemma teleports to the biome, using her silk touch pickaxe to collect purple grass blocks, a couple of purple tree saplings, and two purple birds, before returning to spawn. She lays out a canvas, beginning a portrait of Leo holding flowers. Believing Leo is still busy cooking, Gemma then heads to the titan, diligently chopping down close trees and repairing creeper holes. She leaves behind a chest filled with three stacks of netherrack for the builder.

Next on her list, she crafts several couches and lamps intended for Bad, packaging them in gift boxes placed at the entrance of his base. She then makes her way from spawn to Leo's toast shop, only to find Leo sprawled out beside the pan of avocado toasts. "Working hard or hardly working, hmm?" she teases.

Gemma collects the scattered toasts, and divided them to 128 for Baghera and 100 for Roier. "I've already dropped off Bad's present at his base, and Foolish's is by the titan. Let's go deliver these to Baghera and Roier."

Thank you for the gift tia I love it T-T Leo writes quickly before running around the birds she let out inside the dragon tower in happiness. I have something for you too in vege's tower wait here

"I am not letting you go alone, if you die on the way your dads will kill me - Vegetta will come to my house and choke me to death." Gemma jokes, looking sadly at her chat. "I'll come with you, lets go."

The two teleport to the tower just as Quackity logs on. Technically, ElQuackity. Gemma awkwardly makes Leo hurry, knowing she will be needed soon. When Quackity asks for her location in the game chat she turns to Leo, "You should go to the dragon and I'll go see what he wants. You can give me something next time you see me."

Leo nods, bumping into Gemma's legs as a hug before she teleports away. Breathing a sigh of relief, Gemma tunes back in and types back, telling him to come to Vegetta's.

El!Quackity shows up after a few minutes and Gemma hurries out to meet him on the stairs. "Hey!" she says happily, "What's up, it's been a while."

"Yes, hi. What are your current thoughts on the Federation?"

"Negative," Q!Gemma states plainly. "Don't like what they do."

El!Quackity scans their surroundings, possibly checking for the watchful eyes of Cucurucho. He probably is watching. "I have something to do, but I want you to come with me."

"Sounds dubious. What kind of 'something'?" q!Gemma probes, her curiosity piqued.

"A mission, of sorts." he replies tersely.

"Sure, I'll come." Q!Gemma says, jumping in place.

"For someone against the Federation, you're really excited to come with me on a mission."

"I do hate them," Q!Gemma confirms. "It's not about the Federation; it's about us. This is our version of a family reunion!" Q!Gemma explains, her enthusiasm undimmed by El!Quackity's growing irritation as they make their way to the lake, where he signals her to board his boat. The journey across the water is a silent one, with El!Quackity deep in thought and q!Gemma buzzing with anticipation. The only thing q!Gemma knows is that he wants to bring her along. "You were the one to tell me to come. So you can't really blame me for coming, brother."

"Could do without your commentary, though," he snaps back, eyes glued to the horizon with that 'let's get this over with' look. "This is not some game, so act accordingly, Gemma."

"What's up with you? Too embarrassed to call me 'sister' after everything?" she teases, pushing his buttons. "Or is it all the mess you've been dragged into? too good to be my brother?"

"Shut the fuck up," he grinds out. The reminder of being the more-used sibling stings, but he's not about to admit it. "You're annoying enough without saying that."

Q!Gemma, unphased, prods him to stop the boat. "You're so slow. Let's walk."

With a heavy sigh, El!Quackity complies. As they hit the sand, he prepares to cast an invisibility spell on them since a few more people joined the server while they talked. "Come here, I need to make us invisible."

"You didn't bring two potions?" Q!Gemma's whisper-shout is more irritated than quiet.

"Nope," he says, dousing them both with a single splash. "Next time get your own."

"Jerk," she mutters under her breath, teleporting to their next location, Pac and Mike's murder mystery arena.

They proceed in silence to the Krabby Patty structure, navigating a maze of barrels and ladders until they locate the warp plate, which instantly transports them to their mysterious destination.

"Ever been here before?" El!Quackity inquires, breaking the silence. Shaking her head, q!Gemma follows as he smashes the warp plate, offering her a bucket of milk to counteract the potion's effects. They step into a brightly lit room, the glare from lava and quartz overwhelming for q!Gemma, though her brother seems unfazed-clearly, he's walked this path before.

"What's the plan?" Gemma asks, trying to make sense of their mission as they stand before a large enclosure. Without answering her question, El!Quackity moves to do what he has to do here. Not knowing her role just yet, she's content with staying where she is. But before she can scoff at nothing happening, her attention is caught by something unexpected-an egg.

Egg A1, as it's labeled, enters the room. "What's this? Another egg?" she blurts out.

"Shut up." He says with finality. He squares his shoulders and looks pointedly at the apprehensive egg. "Go."

Q!Gemma watches in horror as the egg jumps onto the first block, realizing that the final jump in the parkur course is impossible. "No, wait," she starts, understanding the grim fate awaiting the egg. This egg may be a random egg, but they deserve to live. Q!Gemma claws at the glass walls with teary eyes, hoping it will shatter and she'd be able to stop this. "Stop it, please." She pleads with her brother.

El!Quackity does not spare her a single glance, keeping quiet. Fuming, she turns to the door they came from, guessing she can get to the egg from there. The door requires a code. One q!Gemma does not know. Out of the corner of her eye she spots another door at the end of the course, presumably for the egg if they would survive.

Just as egg A1 jumps the last doable jump, q!Gemma runs to the other door. Seemingly knowing her plan, her brother wraps his arms around her torso, stopping her. "No!" She yells, trying to wiggle free. "They're going to die!"

The egg jumps. The egg plummets into the lava.

Q!Gemma screams, her brother's arms around her as she collapses to the ground in pain. "We can still save the egg! Let me go!"

El!Quackity smiles as the death message shows in the chat, still silent. He finally lets her go and she crawls to the door on the end of the enclosure. "An innocent egg!" She yells at him, all of her pain turned to anger. "What was the point?"

"It was my task to observe. Nothing more," El!Quackity responds coldly, dismissing her anguish. He comes to stand behind her, both staring at the egg's lifeless body.

After a few moments he tries to pull q!Gemma up from the ground only for her to claw at his hands in anger. "Why bring me here?" She asks as he yelps in pain. She had never hurt her brother on purpose before.

"You're weak," he explains venomously. "Caring about a random egg - a nobody, not even a name to that egg. You may not like the Federation, but for some reason they care about you. This was your test, and you failed."

With a final sniffle, q!Gemma stands up to face Q!ElQuackity. "I could have had my own egg."

"You don't get it, do you?" El!Quackity laughs, "if they'd want you to have an egg, you would have one. There's plenty of eggs, but you're not worthy of one."

Hurt and angry, she pounces on him. Her claws leave red lines over his shoulders. Blinded by her emotions, she is ready to kill her own brother. "I will kill you!"

Before she can fulfill her goal, her brother shoots her in torso. Q!Gemma falls on her front, a betrayed look on her face. "Not if I do it first."

Before she can utter another word, he shoots her again. Q!Gemma respawns with a gasp in her house.

Real life!

"Fuck," Gemma says after exiting Minecraft. There's actual tears on her face that she wipes with the back of her hand. "What do you think, chat?"

She reads the chat for a few moments. "Awesome, right? Heartbreaking, but so cool. Quackity offered to include me in his lore, I'm so happy."

Twitter!

heeeeere it is!!
only took forever:')
i made on picrew how I kinda picture q!Gemma (it's brown hair but looks kinda ginger here lol)
but it didn't save with a @ of the awesome artist :( if anyone knows I'll credit them!