"Tell me where you sent them you teleporting bastard!" Jasper yelled at Tabatha in her tower after appearing on a nearby teleport ritual.
The room full of people getting ready to teleport stared at him oddly, and one of them even left the tower.
"Who are you talking about?" Tabatha asked. "Jasper, you know I've sent thousands of people before. You need to be more specific on who you're asking about."
"My god damn group, woman!" Jasper yelled. "The head of the Sky Guild said that they went here, meaning they most likely were teleported by you!"
"My job is to teleport people you know. Why are you acting like I sent them off against their will? Calm down mister, you're getting stares."
Jasper lunged at the desk Tabatha was standing behind and grabbed her by her shirt.
"DON'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO!" The people in the tower pulled out weapons and aimed it at Jasper.
"Put the woman down if you know what's good for you." Said a man who walked through the door. The man wore a brown coat and had a badge on his shirt. The badge was the symbol of the Justice Guild, a guild known for not being good at actually distributing justice, but when they do they do so by locking away people who deserve it. "I was informed of a hostile person in this tower yelling at the owner, and it seems that person is you. Put her down, now."
Jasper hesitated for a moment, but put Tabatha down. The man walked over to Jasper and casted a binding spell on him.
"You're coming with me, kid. The guild is going to put you in a room to reflect on what you did, and you'll be released shortly af-"
"BUT I NEED TO FIND MY GROUP!" Jasper pleaded. "My group needs me, or they'll get hurt by being with those universe-hoppers!"
"Universe-hoppers?" Tabatha asked from behind the counter. "You're group travels with those siblings, where did you get the idea of them being universe-hoppers from?"
"They told us themselves, plus we almost died from the Adventurers Guild because they sent assassins after them! I need to protect them and separate them from the universe-hoppers!"
"Sorry kid," The man said. "But you assaulted an innocent. You're coming to the guild for a bit, and maybe after we'll help you find your group. I'm not sure I fully believe you, but we could get some lie detecting spells later. Let's go to the reflection room quickly so we can find your group after."
Jasper reluctantly followed the man outside.
The group was asking the assigner for the assignments why there wasn't any more of the harder assignments posted.
"You lot cleared them all," The assigner said. "We didn't have many, and you guys were clearing them fast. It might take a while for another one to be po-" A piece of paper magically appeared on the assignments board. "Well there's that one."
The group looked over the paper for a bit. The assignment was not just a hard one, but an extra hard one with better rewards. It would require the group to go to a bandit camp full of bandits with powerful spells and monsters. The camp was located in a well fortified cave, and the cave would take hours to reach from their location. The cave was also located nearby a town with an Adventurers Guild building, which would not be good for the group to have to deal with.
"Should we take it?" James asked Wade. "Sounds great for leveling up and stuff, and the rewards are pretty sweet. But there's a guild building there that we wouldn't want to go anywhere near. Plus, unlike the first Adventurers Guild building we cleared, this floating island is one of those that have the more powerful people and monsters. What do you think, Wade?"
"What do you think we can handle right now?" Wade asked. "That level up ability you gave us might increase our energy and reaction time, but unlike you guys, we haven't gotten any new spells. The normal way for people to get spells is to do loads of research, and that usually takes months. We might not be able to handle it if the guild and the bandits both try to kill us at once, but we could always just be stealthy and avoid the guild's attention entirely."
"I bet we can tear through them, right Jamal?" Zewei said. "I could rip the bandits apart before their spells hit me, and Jamal could pair up with me to go on a killing spree, leaving behind the corpses of the guild and the bandits!"
"I'll let you guys decide," Corin said. "I want to remain neutral in this."
"I honestly think we should go do it." James said. "The worst that can happen is that we get chased out and Janica has to use her shields more. I could always summon a grenade launcher if the enemies are close enough to each other, and like Zewei mentioned, we could probably tear through them!"
The group chatted back and forth for a bit, before deciding that they'll go and clear out the bandits and kill anything the guild sends their way. They accepted the assignment and made their way on the hike that would likely take them hours.
Jasper sat in an empty room in the Justice Guild, when the man that put him here walked through a door.
"Time to help you find your group, Jasper right? First we'll have to check if you were lying about your situation."
The man led Jasper to a room nearby where they there was a table with a robed man on the other side.
"Hello there," The robed man said as the other man sat down on a chair next to him. "We'll check if you were telling the truth about what happened to you. Please, sit down." He gestured to a chair across from him, where Jasper plopped himself down.
"Your name?" The robed man asked.
"Jasper." Jasper replied.
"Age?"
"Sixteen."
"Guild affiliations?"
"Sky Guild."
"You aren't telling us the other guild you're affiliated with." The robed man said.
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Jasper hesitated for a moment before talking. "The other guild was the Adventurers Guild, but I didn't help them or anything, I swear!"
"THIS KID HELPED THE ADVENTURERS GUILD?!" The robed man asked the other man. "Oh jeez, we should kill him on the spot! Those evil pricks kill universe-hoppers for no apparent reason!"
"I DIDN'T MEAN TO HELP THEM! I thought if I told them where those siblings were located, they would get rid of them without hurting the Sky Guild or my group! I don't know what happened to them, but I was kidnapped by the Adventurers Guild shortly after they sent people after them."
"Why would you try and get rid of the siblings that travel with your group?" The other man said.
"Because they compromise the safety of the group! They get assassins sent after them left and right, and eventually the group will get hurt alongside the universe-hoppers!"
"He's telling the truth," The robed man said. "But that doesn't justify his actions of HELPING THE FUCKING ADVENTURERS GUILD! Jasper, everyone in this world knows what those pricks do, and you decided to help them? I know you were concerned about the safety of your group, but that might've put them in even more danger than if you didn't. I don't think we should help you go after group, in fact your not leaving this place for a while. We'll make sure you realize what you've done after you've spent a bit of time reflecting."
Jasper's face twisted itself into an angry expression, and he tried to storm out of the room but he was locked to his chair by invisible bindings.
The group had stopped for the night, setting up a tent and they chatted inside.
"Man, I wish I could facetime a friend from Earth." James said. "Imagine how confused they would be if we showed them I could summon a gun."
"Do you think we should ever try to find a way back?" Janica asked James. "Like sure, this world is really cool and amazing with all this magic stuff, but I don't really like the fact that we're constantly chased by some guild who is this world's equivalent to racists."
"Maybe one day," James replied. "But honestly, what reason would we have to return to Earth? If we grow powerful enough to get rid of the Adventurers Guild, then this world would be safe enough for us to stay. If we returned to Earth, we'd have to go back to our pointless lives, where I'd continue to sit in my room and play games all day."
"What if we grow more powerful and then return to Earth?" Janica asked. "I could heal so many injured people on Earth with a simple spell. Anyone that loses a limb could be easily healed by me, and you would be able to join the military or something."
"What if you guys return to Earth, but lose your spells and abilities?" Wade asked, listening in. "Also, what if we found a reliable way to go from Earth to here and back?"
The group theorized about going to Earth and other Earth related things before going to bed. What they didn't notice is that there were spies watching their tent from afar that are currently informing the Adventurers Guild of their location.
The head of the guild was sending groups of people to ambush the group while they slept.
"Don't you think it's a bit cruel to attack them while they're asleep?" Derek asked the head.
"Fuck that, they killed hundreds of my men and I won't stand to see them survive."
After talking with the head of the guild for a bit, Derek teleported into his house, where he teleported again to the town with the Adventurers Guild building that the group was heading to. He rushed to the location the group's tent was, but it would take him a while to travel all the way to the group. He hoped he would make it before the other groups ambushed them.
Derek ran as fast as his strong muscular legs could run, and he eventually made it to their tent before any of the other groups arrived. Derek wore a hood so no one recognized him. He entered their tent and all the teens woke up immediately, before they pulled out their weapons and aimed them at him.
"NO NO WAIT!" Derek suddenly yelled before taking off his hood. "It's me, Derek! You guys are in a lot of danger right now, there are a lot of guild members coming your way! I'm going to teleport you guys to the nearest town where I hope they won't find you if you guys do what you needed to do and book it out of there."
Derek didn't wait for them to respond as he opened a black circle under them, teleporting them to his house and then to the town they were headed. The group landed on the floor of a tavern, still in their sleeping bags as they held in their vomit.
"Well that's a way of arriving." The tavernkeeper joked. "I guess it doesn't matter how people arrive, as long as they do business."
The group payed for a room and slept in there, except Zewei volunteered to take first watch just in case.
The next morning the group made sure that no one was watching them, and they made their way to the bandit cave. When they arrived, they saw the mouth of the cave covered by a sturdy looking wall of logs, with a metal gate in it. The gate was locked with some magic locking spell, and the group was about to discuss how to open it when Jamal pulled out a flamethrower and burnt the log wall.
"Hey, I was about to do that!" James joked.
They entered and saw that the cave was the size of the dining hall from Harry Potter, which was decently sized in length more than width. Bandits surrounded a long table in the center, with a throne made of skulls sat on the opposite end of the entrance. All the bandits were covered in suits of black armor, and the bandits sitting on the throne wore spiked black armor with red trimmings.
"Who the fuck are you lot?" The spiked one said.
"We're here to have dinner with you guys!" James joked. "Kidding of course, we're here to kill you guys, take your dinner, and then go run back."
"And you guys think you can kill us?" The spiked one said as he and all the bandits stood up and wielded their weapons.
"Hell yea we do." James confidently said as he summoned his legendary .50 Cal machine gun from Fallout 76, and his group brandished their weapons too. Janica summoned shields on the group as they rushed towards the bandits. James and Jamal mowed the bandits down, Corin moved the table as a cover, Zewei was picking off stragglers, and Wade pointed out where James and Jamal should shoot. The spiked bandit however did not go down as easily as the rest, and after all the bandits died, he was still standing. Even the anti-armor .50 Cal didn't put a dent in him. The group backed away as he chased them with a black mace.
James and Jamal didn't know what to do, so they just summoned the first gun they thought would do something. James summoned a maxed out legendary fatman, which is a mini-nuke launcher from Fallout 4. Jamal summoned the BFG 9000 from Doom Eternal, which was a giant futuristic hunk of a gun that fires a giant green ball of plasma. James and Jamal fired both weapons at the same time when they were a reasonable distance away from the spiked bandit, and it shredded both the bandit himself and their energy. James and Jamal collapsed to the floor, breathing heavily as Janica moved in to heal their energy supply. The cave was now a mess, with all the furniture gone and a giant hole leading fairly deep into the ground caused by the mini nuke and ball of plasma.
"Maybe you guys shouldn't use such powerful weapons." Janica suggested. "I think the more power a weapon has, the more energy is takes from you guys."
The gate at the entrance burst open after Janica finished talking, and a bunch of adventurers stormed in. James and Jamal summoned their .50 Cals again and fire rapidly at the gate, mowing down even more people. Janica summoned her shields and covered her eyes as blood started to spray everywhere. The rest of the group just watched as the two annihilated anything that walked in. After a few more seconds, the place was silent as bodies were slowly sliding their way. The bodies disappeared shortly after as they dissolved into blood and that blood soaking the stone floor.
"Ooh, goodies!" James said as he looked over the pop up listing all the items they got from that, along with two more levels. They were now level 8, and were really close to being powerful enough to start working on the Adventurers Guild situation.
"Let's head back to the previous city were we at." Wade said. "That might be a good idea now that we surely made our presence here known."
The group made their way back to the previous city, chatting about random Earth things on the way.
Meanwhile, back at the Justice Guild, Jasper sat alone in a nicely furnished room where they had told him to reflect on his actions. What they didn't know is that they have made the grave mistake of handing him a knife to go along his lunch. Jasper was now carving his way into a wall, trying to escape while not killing anyone in the guild. He knew they were good people, but didn't want them to keep him here. When Jasper carved a hole in the wall big enough for him to escape, he stepped through, only to immediately get paralyzed.
"FUCK!"