It was a genius plan in Dream’s opinion. He’d struggled to get himself to glitch through the layer of bedrock, risking suffocation for this. And this, hopefully, would work in his favor. With a grin, he looks out onto the flat bedrock surface, listening to the George, Bad, and Sapnap grumble about how he was being annoying and that he should step through already and accept his defeat.
He rolled his eyes.
Honestly, those four should know better by now.
Well, it wasn’t as if they didn’t have reason to be confident. They’ve gotten extremely lucky up until this point with crazy good armor and close calls (thought the close calls were a thing that happened pretty regularly.) But to even entertain the thought that he would be obedient and step out like that?
Hah.
Dream could hear their taunts from his communicator, and he answers back with easy commentary, busy as he builds the second nether portal. He can already imagine the faces of disbelief that would paint his friends faces with his latest 9000 IQ stunt, as they’ve taken to calling these sorts of moments.
“I’ll come out,” Dream ‘concedes’ with a huff. “Just make sure that you’re nowhere near the portal.”
“Okay, of course,” Bad replies, sarcasm tinting his words. “Like, we’re not actually anywhere near the portals. You can come out.” And as if he couldn’t make it more obvious- “No, we’re like 500 blocks away.”
Dream, finally done with the last minute construction, almost barks a laugh at the obvious lie. Really, what could he do but call the man out on it?
“You’re probably right next to it.” Bad’s laugh is smothered, but still audible.
“N-no, we’re not.”
“You’re probably- you’re probably literally standing next to it.”
Digging out a flint and steel from his pockets, he lights the portal. The fire turning from red to a swirling, mesmerizing purple. Listening to them trying to convince him, it takes almost all he has to hold in the laugh as he says “okay… I’m coming out.”
The clinking of armor on the other side gives him the image of four figures, standing in front of a useless portal, waiting fruitlessly for him to step through as they ready their weapons. It’s entirely too amusing, really.
“I’m gonna come out~”
He steps out into sand.
“We are so far away, it’s crazy how far we are-”Bad tries once more, and yeah. It really is crazy how far away they probably are from him. The beauty of unrealized double meanings- unrivaled in its hilarity. With a laugh, he starts walking towards some random spiders.
He pulls up his coordinates, with a victorious smirk, cutting off whatever else the four were going to say next.
“I’m at 1450, -20.”
For a single moment, there’s silence on both ends of the line. A slight rustle as one of them probably raised their communicators to check just where they stood.
“Wait, there’s no way,” Bad says in disbelief, and Dream has seen his confused face enough to know he was probably squinting down at the numbers that definitely didn’t match the ones Dream had just freely given. Dream laughs, knowing the realization would hit in 3…
Another rustle.
2…
And then came the panic.
1.
“Wait, wait, wait,” Sapnap says. “He’s actually in the Overworld!”
The jumble of voices as they rush to check the compasses they all held.
