16 + 99, Ego x Wazon (oc)
16. Prison AU + 99. Magical Accidents
So, to be honest, I don’t know why Ego would end up in prison. There is many possibilities but the biggest one is being very, very unlucky. And because of his perpetual unluck this small, very nerdy guy with bad anxiety end ups surrounded by very mean looking and mean acting men. And if it wasn’t the worst he was put to cell with the biggest, gloomiest looking man of them all. Over 2m high, big muscules, harsh voice, ugly face
and he says
“Hi. I’m Wazon. Nice to meet you” like the most cultured man that he can be.
Ofc Ego is confused at that and then he realizes that Wazon is reading poetry on his bed?? And then he is even more confused??
So a few days later he knows that this Wazon is even weirder than he seemed before and everyone is low kay scared of this big fucking nerd. But this fucking nerd decided to kinda protect this smaller nerd, and together they nerd out about... How biology intersects with computer studdies??? Ego lived through many weird stuff, but being protected by big fucking literature and biology nerd in a prison may be the weirdest.
But, of course, it is not the weirdest thing, oh no.
Another few days later something weird wakes up Ego. Something is crawling through his hair, like a bug but a very long bug, so he immediately jumps out of bed and starts trying to get this bug out of there. But what he finds is not a bug but a... twig? A small one, green and with tiny, tiny leaves. It kinda looks like its still growing??? Wild. and weird.
So he goes back to his bed and inspects. There is nothing. Literally nothing. Not around the bed, not under the bed, not even on the ceiling. And only Wazon is snoring loudly as never.
The day after this Ego finds a similar twig growing near the place he and Wazon ten to hang up.
The day after this other prisoners start finding wierd plants all over the place.
And on another day Wazon start’s to talk about weird plants that sometimes can grow only because of mutation and radiation and how it MUST BE that the place they are right now is radiated or posioned or maybe even everyone is trying to kill them. He talks a little bit too loud for Ego to like, so Ego tries to hush him, but Wazon is clearly giving him signs that he knows what he’s doing? Ego does not know what is going on and is a little bit scared. But at this point he grew found of this strange guy, so he doesn’t question it. Not in the open.
But when they go back to cell and when no one is listening Ego asks and he hear an answer.
“So, you see, I’m a strange guy.”
“No way, I would have never guessed” snarks Ego, a little bit suprised by his own temper. But Wazon only chuckle.
“Yea, but even weirder. You even heard about those types from The Wilds? I’m weird Like That.”
And ofc Ego is again confused bc he heard about The Wilds and what they supposedly do to plants and animals and even people, but wasn’t that just a rumor? But if it’s true then Wazon can... Do some weird shit probably?
“So wait. Are you telling me that you’re growing these plants?”
“Yep.”
“But why?”
“You said you like greenery. So I decided to add some green to the neiborhood.”
There is a pause while Wazon is clearly waiting for a laught but all he can hear is a little confused sigh.
“All right, all right, it’s not all there is to it.” And after this Wazon tells Ego about his big plan for An Escape.
It is simple - if he can grow flowers how he wants then he can move earth the way he wanst. At least partially, right? So he checked and he is able to make a tunnel and escape! And if they make others kind of riot over weird probably polluted water or something then they can make it out a lot easier and it will take the guard a lot longer to find them!
Ego isn’t really happy about this plan. He didn’t plan on escaping. He kinda wanted to sit his five years and go home. But also he knew that he was given only five years in hope that he wont survive it. That they wanted him gone and gone silently.
And in this moment he asked himself
“Do I have anything worth living for?”
And looked at Wazon. At this weird, weird man.
And he thought of this little girl, that was lost in the world somewhere there, withut a mother and with a big big trauma.
He even thought about the plants he left in his apartment and that are probably dead by now.
The answer was yes, he had suprisingly much worth living for. So he agreed.
They proceeded with the plan the next day. It was easy to make a lot of people angry very quickly after a few more suggestions that they might be already dying. Was it cruel? Yes, it was. But it didn’t really matter at the time. It was just... Another thing they had to do in order to escape this hell.
(Ok, maybe they didn’t have to but they also didn’t have any better idea. They were nerds but also idiots.)
So the people of prison are angry. AS FUCKK. The riot is here, everyone is screaming, the police is as the police is always in this kind of situations. Somehow Ego and Wazon make to the place where the tunnel starts and...
And they escape. Like that. They are free men, as free as a criminal can be. And as criminals they have so much worth living for.