Tommyinnit's Guide To Surviving Space

by UnknownBee

Summary:

Tommy is an orphan, his two best friends are the only thing keeping him sane in the world, but all that changes when he gets kidnapped by aliens and taken to space. He spends his days just trying to survive and get home, but he also might accidentally make some new friends and get a family in the process.

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Chapter 1: Where The Pain Begins

Summary:

Tommy gets sold at a black market in space

               Tommy glanced around the weird space-cage he was in for what seemed like the millionth time that day, it was just a cramped, white box with some weird transparent blue force field thing for walls. Tommy had tried everything he could to break through any part of it but, to put it bluntly, he couldn't. There were several other cages next to his, each having their own weird monstrosity in them... Okay, maybe calling them monstrositys was a bit harsh, after all, they were just as trapped as him, and just like him, they were probably also kidnapped even though they haven't done SHIT to deserve it!

               In front of the cages were the three aliens that kidnapped him, they stood at a market table booth of some kind, the alien to the left was some kind of weird dark blue golem thing wearing a black cloak, it had no eyes and some weird fin things coming out of the sides of it's head that glowed turquoise at every sound, the middle alien was bat-like, dark brown fur covered it's body, it had wings for arms and, strangely enough, it had very human-looking legs. Well, if you ignored the bat fur and clawed feet, the bat alien wore a white tank top and black shorts. The third alien that was to Tommy's right looked a lot like a giant black and white rattlesnake, if rattlesnakes had arms that is.

               Tommy watched as a black... Dragon alien? That was wearing some sort of futuristic white and red space armor approached the table the three alien WRONGINS stood at. The dragon alien talked with the snake alien in some weird language that Tommy had never heard before, after a couple seconds the dragon alien pointed at one of the cages, the cage it pointed at had a small, light blue fairy thing inside. The dark blue golem picked up the cage and placed it onto the table where the dragon alien placed two black bricks with specks of gold, the bat alien took the bricks and the dragon alien picked up the cage with the fairy and walked off. Tommy's eyes widened in realization, they were being SOLD, he was going to get SOLD! This had to be some kind of black market shit!

               Before Tommy could get even more scared angry, he had a thought, if he gets bought, the alien that buys him surely won't want to keep him in this tiny cage, so he would probably be able to escape once whatever dumb alien unlocks his current prison. The blonde boy smiled to himself, he could figure other things out once he was free.

               It had been a couple... Hours, maybe? Tommy couldn't tell, but something he could very clearly tell is that every alien that glanced at him instantly made a face, he couldn't figure out what exact emotion it was 'cause, aliens, but based off of the fact each alien would either freeze or quickly walk away, it was pretty obvious that they were scared. The aliens were scared of him! Tommy didn't know how to feel about that, should he be upset? Relieved? Confused? Well he was already confused, but his point is he didn't know how to feel about random aliens being scared of him.

               Eventually, a goat like alien with blonde fur wearing an obnoxiously lime green coat and a lava alien that was mostly orange, white, and black approached the booth, eyeing Tommy. The boy watched as the goat alien talked with the three kidnapper aliens, gesturing to him a few times.

               After a couple minutes of the aliens talking in their weird space language, the goat alien placed fifteen black and gold bars onto the table, Tommy huffed out an annoyed sigh 'at least I'm worth a decent amount of money.' The dark blue golem walked over to Tommy's cage, picked it up, and placed it on the table, just like it had with the fairy alien's cage. The lava alien picked up his cage and the two aliens began walking away, the blonde flinched away from the place the lava alien first touched the cage. Okay... Maybe Tommy's escape plan wasn't going to be as easy as he thought, he could feel the heat radiating off of the lava alien, if that thing even touched him, he would definitely get burned, for now though, all Tommy could do is wait.

               The two aliens brought Tommy to, what he could only assume is, their spaceship, it was much bigger than the spaceship the three kidnapper aliens had, not to mention the several other spaceships in the area. As the aliens and Tommy got closer to the ship, the ship's door opened, stopping at the ground and creating a ramp to the inside. 'How the fuck did it just open on it's own li- oh, the goat thing has some sort of remote to it...' Tommy cringed at his slight stupidity.

               Entering the ship, Tommy looked around the best he could at the various holograms and panels in the room, he couldn't see much because of the lava alien that held his cage was blocking his view. The blonde human pressed his face up against the force field to try to get a better look but, all he was able to see was the space hologram he had seen upon entering the room and a brief glance at another alien that was light blue.

               The goat alien lead the lava alien down a frankly very boring hallway, it was completely white and made of metal, so not exactly cozy. The two aliens turned right down a different hallway, coming to a very secure looking door, the goat alien placed it's weird partially-hooved hand on a screen next to the door, after about one or two seconds the door opened and the two aliens walked through.

               Upon entering the new hallway, Tommy's eyes went wide with fear at what he saw, the hallway had several rooms on either side, each room had three white metal walls with one transparent wall and a transparent door, the actual scary part about it though, was the fact that nearly every single room had some kind of odd creature in it. Tommy was able to catch glimpses of some of the creatures, one looked a lot like the light blue fairy that was sold to that dragon alien, except this one only had the beautiful blue color on the right side of it's body, the other side was gray and it's left wing was a ghostly white. 'Are these fuckers collecting rare creatures or some shit!?' Tommy thought as he frantically looked around at all of the odder than usual aliens.

               "⏃⌰⍀⟟☌⊑⏁ ⌇⏃⌿⋏⏃⌿, ⌿⎍⏁ ⏁⊑⟒ ⊑⎍⋔⏃⋏ ⟟⋏ ⏁⊑⟟⌇ ☊⟒⌰⌰." The goat alien commanded, and before Tommy knew it, one of the force field walls of his current cage disappeared, and the one on the opposite side forcefully pushed him out into one of the empty rooms. Recovering from the fall as quickly as he could, Tommy ran to the door of his new prison, before he could reach it though, the cell door quickly snapped closed. Tommy banged on the door with all his strength, "NO! NO, NO, NO, NO! FUCK YOU! LET ME OUT, YOU ASSHOLES! YOU FUCKERS!" Tommy screamed, continuing to try to force the door open to no avail. The lava alien began to move towards the door but was stopped by the goat alien, "⋏⍜, ⟟'⌰⌰ ⊑⏃⋏⎅⌰⟒ ⏁⊑⟟⌇, ⏁⊑⟒ ⊑⎍⋔⏃⋏ ⋏⟒⟒⎅⌇ ⏁⍜ ⌰⟒⏃⍀⋏ ⍙⊑⍜'⌇ ⟟⋏ ☊⊑⏃⍀☌⟒ ⍜⋏ ⏁⊑⟟⌇ ⌇⊑⟟⌿." The lava alien took a few steps back as the goat alien took out a black stick from it's coat pocket and opened the door to Tommy's cell with some sort of card.

               Tommy immediately ran toward the goat alien, intending to tackle it to the ground and run, instead, the goat alien held out the black stick it had pulled out and pressed a button on it, the tip of the stick glowed as it pressed against Tommy's body. Tommy stumbled back into the cell when he felt his limbs painfully jolt inward as electricity coursed through his body, the door once again closed and the two aliens stared at him as he curled in on himself from the pain.

               When the pain stopped, Tommy stayed curled up on the ground but managed to shoot a tearful glare at the aliens. Seeing that their newest prisoner was still alive, the two aliens walked off, seemingly content with what they had just done to him.

               Once the aliens were out of view, Tommy finally let the tears that had welled up in his eyes fall, the blonde teen did want to be in a different situation when he was with the three aliens that had originally kidnapped him, and while Tommy didn't realize it yet, the situation he is in now, is much, much worse.

 

Notes:

Thank you for reading! This is my first fanfic so sorry if it's not the best.
Btw, please let me know if you guys want me to make some concept art for the characters.

Chapter 2: Snacks, Friends, and Alien Abductions

Summary:

Tommy thinks about his friends back on Earth and how he got abducted by aliens

               Tommy stared at the cuts, bruises, and burns that were littered across his arms. He thinks it's been a little over a month since he had been bought by the goat alien who he thinks is named ⎅⍀⟒⏃⋔? Tommy had no clue what it meant in English but he's heard the other three aliens on the ship say it and the goat alien responding to it so Tommy assumes that he's correct about that.

               The blonde teen looks up as he hears one of the aliens walking down the hall, wheeling a cart with it, as Tommy expected, the rabbit alien was feeding him and the other creatures today. This alien had long ears, a rabbit like face, blue eyes, and blonde fur. Tommy thinks this one's name is ⌿⎍⋏⋉? Anyway, ⌿⎍⋏⋉ finally gets to his cell, it takes Tommy's food out of one of the much smaller versions of those force field cages it had on the cart, opens a small trapdoor on the wall, and slides in a bag of water and a plate that held a weird space fruit and some type of cooked green steak, Tommy had no idea where the meat came from but, he knows that it's edible since he's been eating it for pretty much the entire time he's been here.

               Tommy waited for the rabbit alien to leave before he began eating the steak, the green meat tasted a lot like normal steak except with a more tangy aftertaste, the blonde teen actually quite liked it at first but, when you eat the same thing, for every meal, everyday, you get tired of it quick. Once Tommy finished eating the steak, he picked up the blue fruit, it was kind of shaped like a banana, had a crunchy texture when biting into it, and had an odd flavor that tasted like a mix of cheese and watermelon.

               Tommy had finished his food about an hour ago and was now staring blankly at the empty cell across from his, he thought about his life before all of this space shit happened. 'How did this happen? Why was it me out of EVERYONE on earth that got kidnapped and taken to space!? Why couldn't it have been someone else who got captured?' Tommy quickly shot down that last question, he wouldn't wish this fate on anyone, he instead thought about his first question, recalling the events that had led up to his capture.

 

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               It had been just a normal Monday for Tommy, he was currently walking back to the orphanage from school and his friend Eryn was walking beside him. "Hey Tom, has Jamie told you about what he saw yesterday?" Jamie is one of his and Eryn's friends, he's a very pog trans guy that Tommy has known since they were both ten. Tommy also may or may not have had a crush on him before he came out, but now that Tommy knows Jamie's a guy, those feelings are definitely 100% gone, after all, Tommy is straight, he only likes women! "No he didn't, what did he see?" Tommy asked, "He said he saw some weird giant machine in the forest on the mountain while him and his family were out hiking, he told me he was going back tonight to investigate a bit more and he invited me along. He also said I could bring some of my other friends so, do you want to come?" Tommy wasn't upset at all that Jamie didn't invite him, he wasn't! "Sure, why not?" Tommy replied knowing full well that the staff at the orphanage wouldn't let him go if he asked.

               Once Tommy got back to the orphanage he immediately started planning, he put some extra blankets and pillows under his bed for later use, put some snacks in his backpack (that still had his binder and books for school in it), made sure the window was unlocked, and quickly did his homework.

               The blonde was soon called for dinner, he ate as quickly as he could without seeming suspicious and went back to his room. Tommy put the extra pillows and blankets under his normal blanket to make it look like he was asleep in the bed, grabbed his backpack, and climbed out the window, which wasn't very hard considering he was on the first floor. Tommy began walking to the hiking trail at the mountain, he was lucky it wasn't that far or it would've taken him forever to get there.

               As the blonde got closer to the hiking trail he spotted Jamie and Eryn, jogging over to the two, they both glanced over at him, Jamie smiled as he approached. "Hey Tommy, sorry I didn't invite you in person, had to go to a dentist appointment so I had to leave school early." Tommy smiled "it's fine Jam, just make sure to tell me and not Eryn next time we go out for something" the blonde joked to the brunette. Eryn gave Tommy an offended look, while Jamie chuckled at the joke. "Heh, will do mate, you ready to go find a spaceship?" Eryn nodded while Tommy rolled his eyes playfully, "I doubt that what you found was a spaceship, it was probably some kind of tank or some shit." Jamie was the one who rolled his eyes this time but his smile didn't waver, "whatever, let's just go find it" the brunette said starting to walk on the hiking path while Tommy and Eryn quickly followed. "So where did you see it anyway?" Eryn asked. "Its just up the trail a bit, not too far." Jamie informed.

               The three teens had been walking for about 10 minutes before Jamie stopped them, "okay, the machine is a bit off trail this way" Jamie said, pointing to the right of the path. The two other boys nodded, following Jamie off trail.

               As the trio continued to walk Tommy noticed Jamie looking a bit worried, "hey Jamie, is something wrong?" the blonde asked his crush friend. Jamie sighed, "honestly, I'm kinda confused, we should've seen the machine by now..." "Maybe someone took it?" Tommy thought aloud, Jamie shook his head, "no, it was way too big for someone to just take it." Eryn frowned "so we came out here for nothing?" Jamie's worried expression morphed into a guilty one, Tommy elbowed Eryn in the stomach who gave the blonde an annoyed glare in response, "hey, how about we take a break, I have some snacks in my bag." Tommy suggested while gesturing to his backpack. Jamie nodded and sat down on a nearby rock, while the blonde teen instantly sat down next to the brunette and opened his backpack, taking out a bag of Walker's and offering them to Jamie. Jamie smiled as he took the bag of crisps from Tommy, opening the bag and starting to slowly eat the salty potato crisps.

               Eryn soon sat next to Tommy and took a granola bar from the backpack, "y'know," Eryn began between bites, "the machine you saw could've gotten moved, and, it's only been a day so it would be pretty hard to move it very far." Jamie looked up from his bag of crisps, still looking a bit unsure of himself, "hey, Eryn's right, whatever you saw could still be out here, besides, since when do you give up this easily?" Tommy pointed out, the brunette smiled softly and stood up with a determined look, "yeah, you're right, we shouldn't give up just yet, we have to keep looking." The other two teens stood up with motivated smiles, "alright, here Tommy," Jamie said, handing Tommy a phone. The blonde was a bit confused "uh, you're giving me your phone?" The brunette shook his head, "no, I'm giving you my extra phone, you can keep it by the way, but I'm giving it to you 'cause we're going to split up, this phone already has me and Eryn's phone numbers, if one of us finds the machine or is in danger we'll call eachother." He explained, "works for me," Eryn chimed in. Tommy nodded "alright, let's find that machine!"

               Tommy has been walking for a few minutes, he still couldn't believe Jamie gave him a phone! Now he'd be able to text or call his friends anytime he wanted! He looked at the contacts on the phone listed as 'Eryn' and 'Jamie', the blonde teen decided those were too basic, he changed Eryn's contact to 'E-boy' and Jamie's contact to '❤ Jam ❤', shut up! He only put the hearts 'cause jam is red! No other reason!

               As Tommy continued to walk he spotted something white out of the corner of his eye, the teen turned his head toward the unnatural color, all of the brush made it hard to see but he could definitely distinguish a white metal through all the bushes and trees. Tommy pushed through the brush and came to a small clearing with a giant white machine at the center, the blonde gasped at the sight and smiled excitedly, he had found it! This has to be what Jamie saw!

               Tommy pulled out his new phone from his pocket, before he could do anything though, he saw something big in the nearby brush move. The blonde froze, "hello?" He hesitantly called, instead of a reply or nothing happening, Tommy heard a small odd sound and saw a turquoise glow in the brush. Out of curiosity the boy took a few steps closer, a twig snapped under his foot and he saw the turquoise glow again, except this time, the glow lit up the eyeless face of a creature at least two feet taller than him. The creature stepped into the clearing in front of Tommy, revealing it's bulky frame and dark blue skin, the blonde let out a fearful gasp and gripped his phone tighter, quickly turning to run.

               Tommy was only able to get a few yards away before something coiled around his legs, causing him to fall and drop his phone, looking down to see what it was, the blonde found a giant black and white snake with arms coiled around his legs. The boy screamed. He frantically kicked the snake away from him and got back up, before Tommy could start running again, a giant bat-like creature swiftly landed in front of him. Running off of only adrenaline at this point, the blonde slung his backpack off his shoulder and swung it at the creature, the hit caused the creature to tumble to the ground and squeak in pain. Tommy suddenly felt something bite his leg, looking down, the blonde managed to register that it was the snake again before he stumbled to the ground, a feeling of exhaustion overtook his body and after a few seconds, he passed out.

 

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               Tears welled up in Tommy's eyes as he thought of his friends, 'I wonder if they miss me as much as I miss them...' The teen wondered as he began to cry, 'If I had just done something differently, if we had just stayed together, we would all still be on the same planet together.'

 

Notes:

So, apparently the ao3 author curse might be real? Right after I posted the first chapter to this story I got sick for 3 days, (I am currently on day 3 of being sick but I'm feeling better than yesterday)
Anyways, thank you to everyone who left kudos and the one comment on my first chapter for giving me the motivation to write an entire chapter in one day, I am way too much of a sucker for praise.

Chapter 3: Torture Methods and Possible Accomplices

Summary:

Tommy gets a few more injuries and meets a new alien

               Almost two months have passed since Tommy had been imprisoned, if he had been keeping track of the days correctly that is. Today the light blue alien who he had caught a glimpse of when first getting here was feeding him today. Tommy thinks this alien's name is ☌⟒⍜⍀☌⟒, ☌⟒⍜⍀☌⟒ actually looked pretty human-like, except for the fact that it had blue skin, pointy ears, lacked a nose, and the top part of it's head was a white-spotted mushroom cap. Okay, scratch that, it doesn't look human at all. The mushroom alien wore white goggles, a red shirt with a white rectangle printed onto the front, and black pants. Tommy also learned pretty quickly that this alien was the easiest to scare, which the blonde finds extremely satisfying considering all of the pain and suffering these bitches have and continue to inflict onto him. Plus it's also a good distraction from his thoughts.

               The mushroom alien hesitantly approached Tommy's cell after feeding the rest of the creatures, wheeling the food cart with it. The blonde glared daggers at the alien, making sure he looked as threatening as he possibly could, ☌⟒⍜⍀☌⟒ got the teen's food out of the force field box thing and placed the plate and bag of water in front of the trapdoor, Tommy watched as the alien looked between him and the trapdoor, clearly nervous to open it. The mushroom alien seemed to take a deep breath and quickly opened the trapdoor and slid the food inside, the blonde instantly ran to the transparent wall and banged on it as hard as he could, snarling at the alien while doing so. The blue alien jumped back, nearly knocking over the cart behind it as it stumbled backwards, ☌⟒⍜⍀☌⟒ recovered from the scare after a few seconds, grabbed the cart, and quickly ran off.

               Tommy quietly laughed to himself as he watched the alien flee, it was always so funny to him acting like a rabid animal whenever the easily scared alien was nearby. The blonde sat down on the floor, grabbing his plate of food in the process, the fruit today looked like and had the texture of a prepeeled orange, except it was purple. Tommy has already tried this fruit so he already knows it tastes kind of like a mix between a grape and a plum, the teen popped one of the slices into his mouth, enjoying the odd but good taste of the fruit. The blonde stopped himself from eating the entire fruit before eating the alien steak, he stared for a few seconds at the steaming meat, eventually taking a bite and gagging at the way too familiar taste.

               Tommy had finally managed to choke down the entire steak and was now slowly chewing on the last slice of the purple fruit, he laid his head on one of the metal wall of his cell, "how the fuck am I supposed to get out of this mess?" He asked himself quietly, as the teen's head was clouded with thoughts on how he could possibly escape this place, he was quickly snapped out of them when he heard the familiar clip-clop of ⎅⍀⟒⏃⋔'s hooves. Adrenaline instinctively rushed through the blonde's veins as the goat alien got closer to his cell, Tommy knew that there was only one reason why ⎅⍀⟒⏃⋔ would be here other than to feed him and the other creatures, and that reason was what made this place as scary as it is.

               The goat alien approached Tommy's cage, the same black taser in it's hand while a sheathed sword and knife was attached to either side of the alien's hip. The blonde cowered in fear at ⎅⍀⟒⏃⋔'s mere presence. The goat alien opened the door to the teen's cell with it's keycard, Tommy had huddled in the back corner, wishing there was a way out of this. ⎅⍀⟒⏃⋔ gave the blonde a look which by now the teen had recognized, it meant: 'do what I want you to do or I'll hurt you more than I had already planned to.' Tommy hesitantly stood up and shuffled towards the alien, the goat-like creature grabbed his wrist and the blonde desperately fought the urge to freak out, knowing if he did, he'd get hurt more than necessary.

               ⎅⍀⟒⏃⋔ practically dragged Tommy out of the cage, only looking back when the teen instinctively struggled when they were about halfway to the main door, the blonde quickly realized his mistake and cowered, trying his best to try to communicate with his body language that he didn't mean to. The goat alien clearly didn't notice or care though, letting go of his wrist and activating the taser, pressing it to Tommy's neck this time.

               ⎅⍀⟒⏃⋔ had tased the teen for at least ten seconds before relenting, the blonde's legs had buckled after the third second which left him now laying on the floor in agony. Tears spilled from Tommy's eyes as electricity continued to course through his body, the teen eventually blacked out, no longer being able to stand the pain.

 

               Tommy was being dragged back to his cell by ⌿⎍⋏⋉, ⎅⍀⟒⏃⋔ had still done it's 'little experiments' on the teen despite the fact he had passed out, so he had to wake up to the goat alien cutting open his leg, plus the awful pain and horrifying sight of his bloodied leg bone that came with it. Because of that, the blonde could not walk, thus why ⌿⎍⋏⋉ was now dragging him back to his cage.

               The rabbit alien roughly threw Tommy back inside, the door shutting seconds later, the blonde didn't even try to get up, instead looking at the stitches in his leg, a bit of blood seeped out of the wound still but, unfortunately, he'd live.

               It had been a couple hours and the teen managed to sort of sit up, although he was mainly using the transparent wall for support but, hey, he wasn't laying on the floor anymore. The blonde blankly stared at the empty cell across from his, it was one of about four or five of the around one hundred cages that were empty.

               Tommy had only realized he had spaced out when the sound of the main door opening made him come back to reality, the teen heard the lava alien, which the blonde learned was named ⌇⏃⌿⋏⏃⌿, walking through the hall. Tommy was confused, usually the only reason ⌇⏃⌿⋏⏃⌿ came to the... Prison hallway thing was to feed him and the other creatures but, it isn't it's turn to feed them yet, it also was nowhere near dinnertime. The blonde got even more confused when he heard an unfamiliar voice yelling in the alien language and buzzing, "⏚⟟⏁☊⊑, ⊬⍜⎍ ⏚⟒⏁⏁⟒⍀ ⌰⟒⏁ ⋔⟒ ⍜⎍⏁ ⏚⟒⎎⍜⍀⟒ ⟟ ⌇⏁⟟⋏☌ ⏁⊑⟒ ⌇⊑⟟⏁ ⍜⎍⏁ ⍜⎎ ⊬⍜⎍!"

               The teen watched as the lava alien came into view and it all suddenly made sense, ⌇⏃⌿⋏⏃⌿ was carrying one of those force field cages with an alien that he couldn't get a good look at inside. The caged alien was hitting the sides of the cage with it's entire body, desperately trying to get out, the lava alien stopped in front of Tommy's cell and opened the cage across from his, pushing the new alien inside and walking away with the now empty force field box.

               Tommy looked at the new alien that desperately hit the transparent door of it's cage, yelling and buzzing loudly while doing so. This alien looked a lot like ⎅⍀⟒⏃⋔'s species, except mixed with a bee, it had dark brown and yellow fur, two antennae, goat ears, bee wings, a little goat tail, goat hooves on its legs, and partially hooved hands, much like the other goat-like alien... The bee-goat alien wore a green shirt with a brown jacket over it and black pants, the teen watched as the brunette alien opened it's hand and a black stinger came out of it's palm, the blonde flinched at thought of being stung by it.

               The bee alien finally noticed Tommy after a couple minutes of trying to break the door down, and when Tommy says he saw the anger drain from the alien's expression, he means it. The brunette alien's rage quickly turned into shock when it saw that a human was right across from it's cell. The blonde gave the alien a weak wave and a tired smile, the alien's face morphed into one of what the teen assumed was confusion which Tommy supposed was fair, humans didn't seem to be common in space from what he's seen so it makes sense aliens wouldn't understand human body language.

               It was now the second, aka last meal time of the day and the mushroom alien had come back, giving all of the creatures their food. It was once again noticeably nervous at seeing Tommy again, the teen honestly didn't have the energy to scare ☌⟒⍜⍀☌⟒ again, so he just stayed lying against the wall while the blue alien pushed his food into his cell. The blonde noticed that the mushroom alien didn't take it's eyes off of him, even when getting the bee alien's food, pulling up the trapdoor, and pushing the food inside it's cage. This information didn't fully register right away, but when it did, Tommy will have figured out a way that both he and this new alien could escape from their current prison.

 

Notes:

Sorry about this chapter taking so long to come out, I've been having issues when it comes to motivation, anyway, I hope all of you readers enjoyed this chapter!

Chapter 4: Names And New Friends

Summary:

Tommy makes progress with becoming friends with the new alien

Notes:

Little note before you read this chapter,
Hircusians are what the goat aliens are called, and Anthopians are what the bee aliens are called, (just wanted to mention that since those words are going to be used in this chapter and in future ones).

               Tommy has been planning for a few days now and has figured out a way for him to escape this place, however, to execute this plan he'll need to gain the trust of the alien in the cell across from his. This proved to be more difficult than he had thought, not only was there a language barrier between him and the alien, but aliens were also scared of humans! And he didn't know why! The teen hasn't yelled or growled or banged on the wall since before the goat bee alien got here! Tommy supposed that it's possible that there are some alien rumors about humans or that they're just scared of things they don't understand very well (similarly to humans). Regardless, the bee alien was in a very similar situation as him, and the blonde teen wouldn't wish this fate on anyone.

               Looking over at the two or three foot tall alien, the blonde watched it as it flew to the roof of it's cell, banging on the metal every few seconds. Tommy could tell the alien was trying to find a way out, and he couldn't help feeling bad for the brunette alien when after a few minutes it lowered itself back to the ground in disappointment.

               After a few more minutes of examining the bee goat alien, the teen noticed that the alien acted pretty similarly to him when he first got here, which Tommy found a bit interesting considering this creature isn't even human. 'Maybe I should have a name that I call the alien, calling them just 'the alien' seems kind of rude' the blonde thought, 'what should I call them though? Okay... They kind of act like me and they're a bee and goat like creature... Goabee, no... Gommy? No, Tom-bee... To-bee... Toby! Yeah! I'll call them Toby!' Tommy smiled to himself from his minor success.

               The blonde had been thinking of ways to gain Toby's trust when he heard the main door open and the familiar footsteps of ⎅⍀⟒⏃⋔, the tall goat alien approached his and the brunette alien's cells. Toby immediately started yelling at ⎅⍀⟒⏃⋔ in alien language, Tommy was too frozen in fear to hear any of it though. Adrenaline coursed through the teen's veins as he hoped the blonde-furred alien would simply ignore him this one time.

               Unfortunately, the blonde human's wish came true in the worst possible way, ⎅⍀⟒⏃⋔ had opened the brunette alien's cage with it's keycard, taser in hand, what horrified Tommy more was when the bee alien immediately tried to fly past the goat alien to escape. The teen watched as ⎅⍀⟒⏃⋔ tased the small alien, Toby let out a heartbreakingly pained buzz and that's what made Tommy do something even he knew was crazy. The blonde shot up from where he was curled up on the floor and slammed his body against the wall "STOP IT ⎅⍀⟒⏃⋔! DON'T YOU DARE HURT TOBY!" The goat alien paused, looking at Tommy with what he could only assume was bewilderment. The blonde alien quickly forced the bee alien back in their cage, which the teen growled at, and went up to the human's cell.

              It had just sunk in for Tommy that he just yelled at  ⎅⍀⟒⏃⋔, fear crept back up his spine as the alien approached his cage, "⌇⏃⊬ ⏁⊑⏃⏁ ⏃☌⏃⟟⋏" the blonde alien ordered. The teen looked into the alien's rectangular pupils in fear and confusion, "⌇⏃⊬ ⟟⏁ ⏃☌⏃⟟⋏!" ⎅⍀⟒⏃⋔ yelled, slamming it's fist against the transparent wall in clear anger. Tommy flinched and shrunk himself into the corner of his cell, not knowing what to do. The alien made a weird goat noise, similar to a growl, and opened the door to the blonde teen's cage, stepping inside. ⎅⍀⟒⏃⋔  stepped closer to the scared teen, pressing it's taser to the blonde human's chest, hovering it's thumb over the button. "⌇⏃⊬. ⟟⏁. ⏃☌⏃⟟⋏." The goat alien repeated, Tommy didn't know what the alien wanted him to do, he couldn't understand what ⎅⍀⟒⏃⋔ was saying and that was what was going to get him hurt again, tears began to well up in the teen's eyes, "please... Don't hurt me" the blonde's voice cracked as he pleaded.

 

               Tubbo watched from inside his cell as Dream banged on the wall of the human's cell, "SAY IT AGAIN!" he yelled at the nearly hairless creature, honestly Tubbo was surprised himself, the human had just said Dream's name! No human in history has ever spoke Commish before, or any other non-human language for that matter... Most intelligent creatures in the galaxy actually believed humans don't have a 'language' and that they just have unintelligible sounds like Allays or Sniffers but, hearing what he just heard, Tubbo knew that it wasn't true. The human not only said a name in Commish but also used it in a sentence, sure the Hircusian-Anthopian hybrid had no idea what it said but he was confident that with enough time and effort he could figure out the human's odd language.

               Tubbo was pulled out of his thoughts when he heard Dream speak again "Say. It. Again." The Hircusian demanded, looking back over to the hall the brunette saw his captor pressing a taser to the human's chest, the voltage meter on the side showed it was raised significantly from when he was tased with it, the creature said something that Tubbo didn't understand, but the tone, the way it's voice cracked, and how tears fell from it's eyes told him everything he need to know, the human was scared. The brunette wanted to shout at Dream to stop but, he couldn't, no matter how many times he tried, the hybrid's words died on his tongue every single time he wanted to speak, his fear froze his voice and Tubbo hated it, he hated feeling weak, he hated how scared he was, and he hated that he watched the human as it screamed in pain from getting tased and that he had done nothing to stop it from happening.

 

               Tears slid down Tommy's face as he slowly recovered from the electrical shock, he barely registered the sound of his cell door closing and ⎅⍀⟒⏃⋔'s angry footsteps getting quieter and quieter. The blonde attempted to stand but quickly stumbled back to the ground, he looked over at Toby, the bee goat alien was looking at him with a new expression, if it wasn't for the fact the alien was pressing against the wall while looking directly at him, Tommy would've assumed it was fear, but for once, the alien looked like it wanted to be closer to him rather than farther away.

               The teen crawled over to the transparent wall, once he had settled to leaning against the wall he heard Toby say something, "⏃⍀⟒ ⊬⍜⎍ ⍜☍⏃⊬?" The blonde looked over at the alien in sad confusion, the brunette alien seemed to realize their mistake because they tried hand gestures instead, Toby pointed to him and then made a fist with their right hooved hand and brushed it upward on their face. After a couple seconds of thinking Tommy assumed that that vaguely meant: 'you good?' He nodded before realizing that aliens might not consider nods as a form of saying 'yes' to something, looking back over at the yellow and brown alien, they did seem pretty confused... The blonde instead opted to copying the hand signal that he assumed meant 'good', the teen raised a fist to his face and brushed it upward, just like what Toby had done, he also gave a small close-mouthed smile, even though it probably wasn't really an alien thing.

 

               Tubbo couldn't help feeling happy when the human had copied his hand signal, 'it is possible to communicate with them!' The Anthopian hybrid thought, he couldn't help thinking of all the possible things he could do to better communicate with the not-actually-savage creature, his thoughts landed on one in particular he wanted to try out right away. Tubbo looked at the human and pointed to himself "Tubbo" he said, trying to see if the creature would understand.

 

               "⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜" the alien said while pointing to themselves, Tommy looked at 'Toby' in shock 'is that their name?' He thought to himself, "Īæ... ⏁⎍ß- ⏁⎍⏚... ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜" the blonde repeated after a few tries, he watched as the bee alien fluttered up into the air for a few seconds in what he assumed was happiness or excitement. "⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜" Tommy repeated, pointing at the brunette alien, in which ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜ clapped twice while seemingly bouncing on their feet hooves, the blonde smiled and pointed to himself this time, "Tommy" he said, hoping the bee alien would get what he was doing. The brown and yellow alien paused "Ch- Cho..." The alien tried, "T" Tommy started, trying to help ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜ properly make the sound "Ch.. T" the brunette alien managed to repeat, "Tom" he continued, "Tun- Tum- Tom!" "Tommy" the blonde finished "Tommy" ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜ repeated. The teen smiled widely, nodding and clapping for the bee creature happily while the brown and yellow alien fluttered their wings again.

 

               It had been a couple days, Tommy and ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜ have been bonding and making progress with communicating with one another, Tommy has even managed to finally get ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜ to understand his escape plan! Unfortunately, ⎅⍀⟒⏃⋔ had been putting the two of them through a lot of experiments in which they both have had to endure a lot of pain from lately, however, that was not about to stop them from escaping this horrible ship, they just had to wait two more days and then they would finally execute their plan and get out.

 

Notes:

Thank you for reading, I'm planning on the next chapter being out quickly so y'all get ready for that!

Chapter 5: Escaping With An Ally

Summary:

Tommy and ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜ attempt to escape.

Notes:

Little note regarding a word that'll be used in this chapter:
The word yoke has at least 3 definitions, however, the definition for it that'll be used in this chapter is: a control wheel or a control column, is a device used for piloting some fixed-wing aircraft.
Ok thank you, enjoy the chapter!

               It has been two days since Tommy has managed to get ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜ in on his escape plan, now the only thing left to do was wait for ☌⟒⍜⍀☌⟒ to inevitably come feed them. The blonde looked over at the small alien in the cell across from his, the brown and yellow alien looked up at at him once they realized the teen was staring at them. Tommy smiled at them, some of the things he managed to get the bee-like alien to pick up on were thumbs ups, thumbs downs, nodding, shaking your head to indicate a 'no', and smiling, well... Kind of, the brunette alien often looked scared or uncomfortable if he smiled with his teeth but, closed mouth smiles were good, sometimes ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜ even smiled back at him!

               The blonde was pulled out of his thoughts when he heard the main door open, followed by the sound of footsteps and the food cart being wheeled down the hall, the teen locked eyes with his new friend and nodded, the small alien nodded back, signaling they understood what they're supposed to do.

               ☌⟒⍜⍀☌⟒ had finally gotten to the duo's cells, it watched Tommy warily while it got the human's food. The blonde glared at the mushroom alien, which caused it to fixate it's attention solely on him, the light blue alien quickly pushed the familiar food through the trapdoor of the teen's cell, and that was Tommy's queue, he leapt up from where he was sitting on the floor and slammed into the wall, snarling and making loud noises all the while to sell his savage beast act. ☌⟒⍜⍀☌⟒ flinched backwards and knocked over the cart, it quickly got ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜'s food and water, and opened the trapdoor to their cell, pushing the sustenance in without looking. The brown and yellow alien quickly wedged the bag of water into the space where the trapdoor would fall back so it could no longer lock itself closed, ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜ then opened the trapdoor again and crawled through it as quickly as they could.

               ☌⟒⍜⍀☌⟒ was still trying to get the cart back upright while still recovering from the scare from Tommy, the bee like alien flew up behind the mushroom alien while it was still distracted by the blonde teen, and stung the light blue alien in the back of the neck. ☌⟒⍜⍀☌⟒ instinctively held where it had been stung in pain before it quickly collapsed to the floor, Tommy looked at the now paralyzed alien in a mix of excitement and horror, 'okay, I definitely never want to get on ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜'s bad side' he noted to himself. ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜ fished the mushroom alien's keycard out of it's pocket, flew up to the scanner beside the blonde's cell, and unlocked the door. The teen walked out of the prison he had been in for around three months, he felt like this was a surreal experience, but the pain from his various cuts and bruises remained, letting him know that this was in fact real.

               The bee goat alien grabbed one of Tommy's fingers and tried to tug him along to the main door, the blonde started to move but then remembered the hand-scanner lock for it and stopped. ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜ looked back at him in confusion and the teen looked down at ☌⟒⍜⍀☌⟒, who was still paralyzed from the sting, the brown and yellow alien probably thought he wanted to help the mushroom alien because they only tugged at Tommy's fingers harder. The blonde grabbed one of the light blue alien's arms and started dragging it to the main door, the brunette alien let out an annoyed buzz but didn't stop him.

               Once the three had gotten to the door, the teen pressed the paralyzed alien's hand to the scanner, resulting in the door opening for the two prisoners. Tommy looked over at ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜ who was now clearly embarrassed from not thinking this far ahead, the teen dropped ☌⟒⍜⍀☌⟒'s arm and walked through the door, the brunette alien following closely behind.

               The two escapees ran and flew down the hall until they got to a three way split in the path, the blonde looked down each hall, not knowing which one to go down, looking up there were signs that indicated which corridor went where but it was in the alien language. Luckily, ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜ knew what the signs said and guided the teen to the right, the duo continued to navigate through the giant ship thanks to the bee like alien.

               Tommy and ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜ got to another split in the hallway, as the blonde waited for his friend to figure out where to go next, the teen looked down the right corridor only to see the lava alien who had just turned a corner, Tommy and ⌇⏃⌿⋏⏃⌿ locked eyes and the blonde panicked, the bee alien had seen the black, orange, and white alien too and tugged the teen towards the left hall. The blonde grabbed onto the brown and yellow alien's small hand and ran as fast as he could down the corridor while the lava alien quickly followed after it's initial shock.

               Running down the metal hallway, Tommy and ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜ eluded capture the best they could with a FUCKING LAVA ALIEN CHASING THEM! ⌇⏃⌿⋏⏃⌿ had actually caught up to the duo for long enough to grab the blonde's wrist which resulted in the teen screaming in pain from the burn the alien's 'skin' inflicted. Tommy hadn't stopped running though, he did let go of his friend to hold his wrist in pain but the brunette alien was still flying right beside him, ⌇⏃⌿⋏⏃⌿ however, had let go and momentarily stopped to cover it's 'ears' when the teen had screamed in pain.

               ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜ and Tommy kept running/flying down the hall, which had opened up into a decently sized room with several circular doors that led to smaller rooms. The blonde instantly got scared the lava alien was going to catch them but the brown and yellow alien quickly grabbed the teen's hand and guided him over to one of the weird doors. Tommy was even more scared and confused now but ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜ opened the door, pulled the teen inside with them, and shut the door. The blonde looked through the transparent door to see ⌇⏃⌿⋏⏃⌿ running to their door with a desperate look, Tommy thought that it was the end and that they had failed their escape, but the bee alien pressed a button next to the door and when the lava alien tried to open the door, it couldn't, the brunette alien pressed another button and the ceiling of the room they were in shifted, blocking off the door and opening the metal on the opposing side of the room so a transparent wall that acted as a window was now visible, the vastness of space now ever more obvious, two holographic panels appeared with countless buttons in front of the window and the blonde finally understood, they were in a space ship! No... That doesn't quite make sense, they're already on a space ship, plus, this ship is way too small... Er- escape pod! They were in an escape pod, the teen decided.

               ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜ flew over to the control panel and pressed a few holographic buttons, suddenly, the pod jerked forward, indicating that they just launched off of the main ship, not even a second later, two metal panels opened and a yoke with a short control arm was mechanically pushed out. The brunette alien immediately started steering the escape pod, Tommy looked through the window of the pod, mesmerized by all the beautiful stars and planets, the blonde quickly snapped himself out of his trance by thinking of home. 'I wonder how far away from Earth I am...' The teen thought, 'whatever, it doesn't matter, I'll get to go home soon, I just need to somehow communicate to ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜ where I'm from, they'll bring me back to Earth, and I'll get to see Jamie again!' Tommy smiled at the thought  getting to see his very cool friend again, and Eryn of course! Eryn was obviously pretty cool too but Jamie? Much cooler.

               The blonde shook away his thoughts before realizing his new friend was steering their small ship towards a light purple and blue planet, the teen noticed they were specifically heading toward a blue part of the planet. The brunette alien took a hand off the yoke and pressed numbers on a keypad like device with a speaker built into it on the left wall of the escape pod, "⊑⟒⌰⌰⍜? ⍙⊑⍜ ⏃⍀⟒ ⊬⍜⎍ ⏃⋏⎅ ⍙⊑⊬ ⏃⍀⟒ ⊬⍜⎍ ☊⏃⌰⌰⟟⋏⊑? ⍙⟒'⍀⟒ ⏚⎍⌇⊬ ⌇⍜ ⋔⏃☍⟒ ⟟⏁ ⍾⎍⟟☊☍!" A new voice said through the speaker.

               "Hello? Who are you and why are you calling? We're busy so make it quick!" Tubbo heard Technoblade's voice through the radio, "Technoblade!" The Anthopian hybrid yelled in delight, "Wh- Tubbo? Is that you?" The Piglin questioned. "Yes! It's me! Me and... A new friend were captured by Dream and taken to his ship, but we escaped together and are currently on an E.E.pod headed to Flornissa," the brunette explained "could you guys meet us there?" "ugh... Of course it was Dream..." Techno muttered in frustration, "Well, Phil and Ranboo took one of the extra ships to Honerthy while Wilbur took a ship to Planitree to try to look for you so, I'm the only one on The Argo right now, I can message them and head to Flornissa and they can meet us there, that would probably be the safest option to make sure you don't get captured again." Tubbo scowled "I'm not going to get captured again!" He responded, clearly offended, "but fine... Once we land I'll send you our location and you can come get us," "that's what I thought," the Piglin said, clearly happy that he was right.

               After a few seconds Tubbo realized he'd have to prepare Technoblade for when he sees ⏁⍜⋔⋔⊬, "Um... Techno, I need to tell you something about my friend..." He started, "yeah, what about them? Are they a hybrid like you?" The Piglin asked, "uh... No, that's not it, they um... They don't speak Commish... And... Their species doesn't... Have a very good reputation..." The Hircusian hybrid explained, "okay... I'll ask how you communicate with them later, are they a Warden? Is that why you're saying all this?" Techno guessed, "no... They- they aren't a Warden, uh, you'll see when we meet up, just please don't attack them or assume anything about them." "Wait wha-" the Piglin tried but Tubbo interrupted "okay! Thanks, see you at Flornissa, bye!" He said, turning off the radio before Technoblade could say anything else. 'Phil, Techno, and Wilbur are going to kill me' the brunette sighed.

 

Notes:

Thank you for reading! Next chapter will be out just as quick as this one!
(also if you wanna know what E.E. pod stands for, it's Emergency Escape Pod, yes it's pretty obvious but it makes sense)

Chapter 6: Survival Camping

Summary:

Clingy duo attempts to survive on an unfamiliar planet.

               Tommy looked at ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜ expectantly, to him the conversation seemed to not go very well since his friend now looked really worried, the bee alien glanced back at him for a second and then went back to focusing on steering the pod. The blonde looked at the purple and blue planet in front of them, they were entering the planet's atmosphere and the teen could now see many buildings in one place off to the side of where they were headed, nearly all of them seemed to be black or yellow but, Tommy mainly registered that it looked like a city, it kind of looked like the city his orphanage was just outside of. The blonde was reminded of all the times Jamie, Eryn, and him went to pizza places, looked at video games at the mall, or just fooled around at the city park, the teen missed that, but, he was going to get back to them, and maybe, he'll be able to have that kind of friendship with ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜ someday, the teen smiled at that thought.

              Tommy had eventually noticed that the brunette alien was steering the escape pod away from any buildings, which he supposed was fair considering other aliens found humans scary and shit, but, what the fuck were they going to eat? The blonde decided to worry about it later, even though he was hungry from already skipping one meal that day.

               ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜ landed the pod in a small clearing with a stream surrounded by a thick forest, Tommy couldn't help but be captivated by the beautiful blue flora on this planet, looking up, the teen noticed a red sun and a lavender sky which resulted in the water in the stream looking purple too. The brown and yellow alien pressed a few buttons on the keypad next to the speaker and then pressed a few buttons on the holographic control panel which resulted in the pod opening the doorway again.

               The blonde couldn't wait and immediately got out of the pod, he breathed in the fresh air of the planet that actually seemed much clearer than Earth's and glanced around the clearing, his eyes eventually landed on a small slug sliding it's way up a blue-leaved tree with dark yellow bark. The teen went up to the small alien to get a better look at it, the slug had the pattern of a pastel rainbow, it was absolutely mesmerizing, Tommy wanted to touch the pastel slug but the teen quickly reminded himself that brightly colored wildlife was usually poisonous, and while the rules of wildlife could possibly be different in space, it wasn't worth the risk.

               ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜ eventually flew out of the pod, looking around for Tommy, once their eyes landed on him they flew over to the blonde human. The teen looked at the brunette alien while they glanced at the rainbow slug, the bee like alien grabbed Tommy's finger gently after a few seconds and guided him back over to the inside of the pod. The blonde was confused before ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜ opened some compartments he hadn't noticed, and pulled out several different packages that were labeled in space language. The teen looked at the winged alien, still confused, the brunette noticed this and opened the packages on a small table, revealing several alien flowers, meats, fruits, and clear bottles of different kinds of liquids, two of which Tommy recognized as water and honey. ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜ slid the bottle of honey and the flowers over to themself, they picked up a flower and popped it into their mouth as if it was candy before taking a sip of the honey.

               The blonde had been trying to figure out what was and wasn't edible for him while his friend ate, the teen settled on some cold cuts of some kind of orange meat, a red pear-shaped fruit, and some black colored berries. Tommy picked up one of the slices of orange meat and bit into it, it had an unfamiliar but decent taste, taking a bite of the pear-like fruit, it had a similar texture of the orange meat which he found... A bit odd, the fruit had a weird flavor that tasted too similar to a cough drop, the teen choked it down anyway and just hoped it wouldn't poison him. The black berries however, tasted similar to blueberries and strawberries which was a pleasant change from the rest of the food.

               The duo had finished their food and had moved to the clearing, Tommy was sitting on the edge of the stream, he had taken off his shoes and socks and had dipped his feet and lower legs into the water. The water was cool and numbed the pain from the remaining injuries on his legs, the blonde suddenly felt something slimy touch his foot, glancing down into the water he saw a weird looking green and white striped fish that was now trying to bite his toes. The teen freaked out a bit, he made a small startled noise before kicking the fish and pulling his legs out of the water, the fish went flying out of the stream and landed on the ground on the opposite side of the stream, flopping uselessly on the ground.

               ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜ heard Tommy and abandoned their perch on one of the tree branches to fly over and check on the blonde human, the brown and yellow alien glanced between the human teen who was now holding his legs to his chest and the flopping fish on the other side of the stream. The bee like alien seemed to realize what had happened and started buzzing in a way that sounded like a laugh, Tommy glared at the alien "oh fuck you! How the fuck am I supposed to know what is and isn't safe on an entirely different planet?" He said with no real malice behind his words.

               The sun was starting to go down on the new planet, ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜ and the blonde teen had already eaten their second meal for the day thanks to the remaining rations in the escape pod, Tommy was outside of the pod looking up at the sky when he just noticed the sudden temperature drop because of the faint goosebumps that littered his arms, looking over to where his alien friend sat, despite the fact they had a jacket, they were starting to shiver. The blonde quickly realized they were going to need something to keep warm or ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜ might freeze to death during the night, the teen got up and starting gathering tree branches and stones, once he had done that, he began digging a fire pit, in which Tommy surrounded with a circle of rocks and placed the branches in the middle of. Now all the blonde needed to do was light a fire, which he didn't know how to do... The teen tried to think of things he could do to start the fire when the sun caught his eye, 'maybe... No, it's probably too cold to do that... But, there's no harm in trying though...'

               Tommy ran to the pod and searched for anything made of clear glass, the only thing he could find was the glass bottles that were previously filled with honey and water, the teen grabbed the glass bottle that was filled with water and ran back outside where the winged alien was still shivering. The blonde lined the bottle up with one of the rays of sun left but the light became obscured from the double layer of glass, Tommy quickly broke the bottle against a nearby stone, which resulted in him getting a few cuts from the sharded glass, the blonde didn't care about that right now however, right now he needed to make sure his friend wouldn't freeze. The teen grabbed the biggest of the shards of glass and lined it up to the sun once again, this time, his plan worked, Tommy aimed the ray of light onto the pile of branches in the fire pit, he felt the glass heat up in his hand but, more importantly, he saw smoke begin to come off of the branches, which rapidly escalated into fire, the blonde smiled with excitement, he had just started a fire! By himself! The teen's happiness was short-lived when he remembered why he had started the fire in the first place. Tommy glanced over at ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜, the small alien was hugging their legs, trying to conserve as much of their body heat as possible, the blonde quickly scooped the bee goat alien up, and brought them over to the fire.

               Once the brunette alien was closer to the fire they started to shiver less, the teen gently placed his friend down and got up to go back to the pod, inside the pod, Tommy looked through every possible compartment for a blanket, all the while he couldn't help but wonder how the inside of the pod wasn't any warmer than outside, the blonde continued his search, and to his delight, his efforts weren't in vain, not only did he find two blankets, but he also found two round pillows.

               The teen brought the four items outside, ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜ turned when they heard him approach, Tommy smiled as he saw his friend's face light up when they saw what he had. The blonde placed one of the pillows next to the brown and yellow alien, and before they could do anything, the teen human picked the small alien up, placed their blanket down, and laid them down on top of the two items, Tommy began to wrap ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜ in the blanket, the bee goat alien seemed a bit upset about it at first, but quickly seemed to calm down at the newfound warmth.

               The blonde placed his own pillow and blanket down once he confirmed that ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜ was warm enough, the teen laid down and wrapped his blanket around himself. Tommy glanced over at his friend who was now softly buzzing in their sleep, he chuckled a bit at how fast the alien was able to fall asleep. The blonde teen relaxed and gazed up at the now star filled sky, he couldn't help but think about how this kind of felt like camping, with one last glance at ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜, Tommy finally allowed his eyes to fall shut and his consciousness to slip away.

 

Notes:

Thank you for reading! Chapter 7 will be out on the 30th of June!

Chapter 7: Mooblooms and Blades

Summary:

Tommy gets his first pet and meets a friend of ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜

               It has been two days since Tommy has successfully made a fire to prevent his friend from freezing, and the two escapees have run out of food... But, that's fine, because based off of ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜'s hand gestures Tommy knew that they went out to get more food for both of them! With nothing to do the blonde was thinking a lot about different things, like: when would he get to go home? Will he be able to see his friends again? Would it be possible for him to learn the alien language he keeps hearing? If it is possible would he get to learn how to swear in their language too? Just how scared are aliens of humans and why? Stuff like that.

               The teen was suddenly pulled out of his thoughts when he heard something rustling in the bushes, he grabbed the makeshift knife he had made the day before out of a stick, a sharp rock, and glue-like tree sap, and approached the bush. The alien that was causing the sound walked out from around the bush, it was a small, blue and white, cow-like creature that was no bigger than a house cat and had little purple flowers growing out of it's back. The flowered alien began eating leaves off of the bush it had been hiding behind, "Awww! you're so cute!" Tommy said, slightly baby talking to the small herbivore, putting his makeshift knife in his pocket, the blonde held out his hand for the small cow creature to sniff, the creature sniffed his hand and started gently licking the back of the teen's hand, "Aww," Tommy pet the alien's head gently as he cooed at the cute cow-like creature before him.

               After a couple minutes of petting and playing with the flowered alien, the blonde had an idea, "y'know I've always wanted to have a pet, maybe you could be my first!" The teen said, holding the creature's face in his hands. The cow-like alien let out a 'moo' in which Tommy once again found extremely cute "I'll name you Henry" the blonde said to the blue cow in which it mooed again in response, the teen smiled "I'm guessing you like that name?" He laughed as he retrieved the stick from the ground that he had been using to play fetch with Henry, Tommy threw it across the small clearing and the blue creature immediately started to gallop after it. Henry picked up the stick in his mouth and brought it back to his new owner, the teen repeated his action of throwing the stick, and watched as his new pet once again ran after the stick, 'heh, I wonder what Jamie and Eryn would think of Henry' he thought as he continued playing fetch with the blue and white creature, 'I wonder what ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜ will think'.

               Tommy and the small cow-like alien had been playing fetch for at least half an hour before Henry finally got tired, the purple flowered creature had curled up in the blonde's lap and fell asleep as his owner slowly pet him. The teen watched the small blue and white creature as he continued to pet it, Henry's small breaths were calm and even. It's so nice knowing this small animal trusted him this much already, Tommy needed that sense of... Well he didn't know what the sense in this case is, but basically, it felt good to feel like Henry needs or loves him is his point.

               The teen was interrupted from his thoughts when he heard the crunches of branches being broken, followed by a glimpse of pink and red that the blonde caught out of the corner of his eye. Tommy cradled Henry in his arms before standing up and silently running behind the escape pod. The teen heard hooved footsteps getting closer, he quickly but gently put his little flower cow down inside the escape pod and closed the door. The blonde pulled his makeshift knife from his pocket as he heard the footsteps approach the pod, "⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜!" he heard the same voice from the radio call, shock flooded Tommy's body before realization of what was happening set in, ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜ had asked this alien for help over the radio thing! He breathed out a sigh of relief and put his knife back in his pocket and poked his head around the side of the escape pod.

               Peeking around the side of the pod the blonde saw a pig-like alien with fluffy fur and sharp-looking tusks wearing a white shirt with a red sash tied around it's waist, black pants, a red cape, an emerald necklace, and a golden crown adorned with colorful gems. The teen also took note of the sheathed sword attached at the alien's hip and bottles of unknown liquid along it's belt, it wouldn't be smart to do anything that would surprise the pink furred alien so he decided to wait until the alien discovered him before doing anything.

               The pig alien stepped around the pod and finally noticed the blonde human, Tommy offered a small closed mouthed smile and a small, awkward wave. The monarch-dressed alien immediatley pulled it's sword from it's sheath and got ready to attack, fear very quickly came back to the blonde while his adrenaline helped him dodge the first swing of the alien's blade, he wasn't as lucky the second time though, the pink alien's sword slashed across his cheek, but he was able to get far enough away so the cut didn't go too deep. The teen tried to turn and run but the alien had grabbed his arm and pushed him to the ground, putting it's sharp blade to his neck when he tried to get back up.

 

               Tubbo was carrying as much food for his human friend as he possibly could, he had already eaten when he managed to find food for himself so he wasn't hungry and didn't need food for a while, the anthopian hybrid also wasn't sure what ⏁⍜⋔⋔⊬ could eat or even liked so, he grabbed as many different kinds of fruit as possible, he was almost back to the clearing where he and the human had been living for the past three days when he heard his name getting called from the direction he was headed. 'Is ⏁⍜⋔⋔⊬ calling me? No... That voice was way too deep to be thei- TECHNOBLADE!' Tubbo couldn't help being a mix of excited and scared as he flew faster back to the clearing, on one hand, Technoblade was here and he wouldn't have to live out here any longer, but on the other hand, ⏁⍜⋔⋔⊬ was at the clearing and if he wasn't there when Techno sees them, he might hurt the human pretty badly...

               The hircusian hybrid flew into the clearing, quickly spotting ⏁⍜⋔⋔⊬ and Technoblade, except ⏁⍜⋔⋔⊬ was on the ground, very clearly scared, and Techno had a sword to their throat. "Techno stop!" The brunette yelled, the piglin looked up from his target, "Tubbo, there you are! Where were you? Do Phil and I have to go over The Space Survival Guidebook with you again?" He scolded. "Ugh no! I was getting food for my friend since we ran out, now can you please let them go?" Tubbo explained before Technoblade's face changed to one of shock, confusion and anger. "This," the piglin gestured down at ⏁⍜⋔⋔⊬ with his free hand, "is your friend?" He asked while staring down the hybrid for an answer. The brunette suddenly felt very anxious, "um... Yeah..." He muttered, in that moment he felt like he had just betrayed all of his friends and family just by saying that. Technoblade stared at Tubbo for a few tics before sighing and putting his sword away, allowing the human to stand, however, ⏁⍜⋔⋔⊬ didn't stand, they didn't even move, it was then that Tubbo realized the blonde human was crying. 

 

               Tommy had every survival instinct rushing through his veins the moment that alien's sword pressed against his neck, his thoughts were racing, trying to figure out what he could do to keep himself alive. It's fine though! All he had to do was stay still and he wouldn't get killed, he might get hurt, but that's better than being killed... Right...?

               The teen was somewhat brought back to reality when he felt the blade leave his neck, he didn't dare move though, anytime ⎅⍀⟒⏃⋔ pulled a weapon away from him it never meant it was done threatening him, it always meant 'stay still', so that's exactly what Tommy was going to do.

               The blonde felt a small, hooved hand touch his cheek, the teen flinched back before opening his eyes, when did he close them? His vision was blurry and he had only just noticed the familiar sensation of tears dripping down his face. The hand came back to his face and this time Tommy didn't shrink away, the hand gently wiped the tears out of his eyes, allowing him to see the owner of the hand, which was ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜, the teen instantly got calmer at the sight of his friend, as well as the grounding feeling of their hand combing through his hair.

               Tommy had finally managed to get his breathing under control, despite the fact he hadn't realized how heavily he was breathing beforehand, the blonde looked over his shoulder at the pig alien, who was standing a few feet away with it's arms crossed, he was safe, everything is fine now, the teen told himself.

               Tommy stood from where he had been pushed to the ground, the cut on his cheek was still bleeding as well as the small cut on his neck, the teen glanced at some of the old injuries on his arms and legs and some of them had opened back up too.

               The pink-furred alien stepped into the blonde's view, it glanced at his injuries before pulling a bottle full of a bright red liquid and holding it out for him to take. Tommy hesitated, looking to ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜ for advice on what to do, the brown and yellow alien nodded and gestured for the teen to take the bottle.

               Tommy trusted the brunette alien, so, he took the bottle, the blonde looked at the liquid that fizzed lightly, almost like soda, he didn't know what to do with it. He glanced at ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜ once again and the bee like alien seemed a bit impatient now, they flew over to the teen and pulled the cork out of the bottle and guided the glass to Tommy's mouth. The blonde drank the liquid, it tasted like a mix of a type of melon and something else that soured the taste, he drank the whole thing anyway and despite the bad taste, he actually felt very rejuvenated. Looking down at his arms, he saw the injuries on his arms quickly close themselves back up and disappear, the teen's eyes widened at the sudden loss of pain, 'did that drink really just... Heal me!?' He thought to himself.

               After the sudden shock Tommy had was gone, he noticed that ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜ and the pig alien were talking, his friend had said his name a few times so he knew they were talking about him. Once the two were finished talking, the pink alien turned to look at him, the alien pointed to itself, "⏁⟒☊⊑⋏⍜⏚⌰⏃⎅⟒" it said, 'are... They introducing themselves? After they just tried to kill me?' The blonde thought. It was then that he realized that that healing liquid was probably supposed to act as an apology, but even then, Tommy wasn't about to forgive them that easily, but... For ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜'s sake he guessed that he could at least tolerate the pig alien. Despite this, the teen turned his head away stubbornly, he promised himself he would tolerate the alien, he wouldn't forgive them or say their name though.

               ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜ looked a bit sad as the blonde refused to say the other aliens name, he felt a bit bad about it but the bee alien would get over it. Tommy then remembered Henry, who was still in the escape pod the teen had put him in. The blonde opened the door to the pod, scooped up Henry, and went back over to the winged alien.

 

               Tubbo was pretty disappointed when the human didn't accept Techno's apology, although, it's possible it might not have even came across as an apology to ⏁⍜⋔⋔⊬. The hybrid watched as the blonde human opened the door to the E.E.pod, they then pulled out a Moobloom and brought it over to him. Tubbo stared at the Moobloom in shock, how is it not scared of ⏁⍜⋔⋔⊬ at all? The brunette opted to think about that later, the sun was starting to go down and the human still hasn't eaten yet.

               Tubbo had finally gotten ⏁⍜⋔⋔⊬ to put down the Moobloom, which they had named ⊑⟒⋏⍀⊬, sit down, and eat, he took note of every fruit the human did and didn't like, it was actually pretty easy to figure out with how expressive they are, Techno in the meantime, kept watch for any potential threats, the piglin had told him he had landed The Argo pretty far away because of the lack of spacious clearings in the forest so, they would go back to it in the morning, rather than right away.

               ⏁⍜⋔⋔⊬ had once again made a fire and wrapped Tubbo up in his blanket near it, the human laid beside the hybrid, this time with ⊑⟒⋏⍀⊬ snuggled up with them. Technoblade was over by the E.E.pod, using his cape for a blanket, he had fallen asleep while leaning on the small ship and it wasn't long before the hircusian hybrid let sleep consume him too.

 

Notes:

This is probably going to be the last chapter for a while, HOWEVER that does not mean I'm giving up on this fanfic, I'm just taking a break because I kind of burnt myself out by giving myself deadlines for the last few chapters and I'll try to post the next one within a month.

Chapter 8: Golden Apples On The Argo

Summary:

Tommy, ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜, ⏁⟒☊⊑⋏⍜⏚⌰⏃⎅⟒, and Henry finally board The Argo!

               Dream pounded his fist against the table next to the projection for the tracker, "what do you mean he was able to turn off the tracker for the pod!?" He yelled at Punz. Punz's ears flinched back despite the rest of him remaining calm, "not only did you lose the human..." Dream started again, this time directed at George and Sapnap. "You also lost the hybrid that's part of The Syndicate!" The Hircusian snapped while glaring daggers at his two underlings, "you two are lucky we still have those spies, otherwise I wouldn't hesitate to kill the both of you!" George shrunk in on himself at that comment. Dream took a small breath, "while we wait for the reports from them, you two will search the nearby planets for the missing test subjects." Sapnap nodded obediently, "we will do our best Captain..."

 

               Tommy woke up to ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜ shaking him awake, the blonde groaned and pushed the bee alien away, "I'm up, I'm up, you can stop being a dickhead now" the teen muttered sleepily. Looking down he noticed Henry was still lying exactly where he had been the night before, only, he was already awake and nibbling on the nearby grass. Tommy smiled slightly and lazily pet the cow like creature before sitting up, ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜ was now hovering by the escape pod talking with... The pink alien... The teen was very suddenly put in a bad mood at the sight of the monarch dressed alien, regardless, the blonde stood up from his makeshift bed, glancing down at the charred branches in the fire pit while the two aliens talked.

               Suddenly, ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜ flew over to Tommy and grabbed his left hand, tugging at his fingers to follow them, the blonde looked down at Henry who was still occupied consuming the grass, he quickly scooped up the flower covered cow and followed the brunette alien.

               ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜ had flown over to the pig alien who was leaning against a tree, once it confirmed that the teen was following, it started leading the way to... Something, okay, give him a break! How is he supposed to know what this alien was leading him and ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜ to!? Anyway, the two followed behind the pink alien deeper into the forest, the monarch-dressed alien was slashing golden branches and electric blue vines with it's sword as they walked, Henry let out a moo a couple minutes into their little hike, guessing that his pet was hungry, Tommy grabbed a branch from a nearby bush and brought it up to the flowered alien's face and Henry started happily devouring the leaves while his owner smiled at the sight.

               The trio had been walking for what felt like at least an hour and Tommy was starting to get tired, he wasn't about to complain about it though! Plus even if he did, nobody would be able to understand him, so there'd be no point in trying. Anyway, while they had been walking, or in ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜'s case flying, the blonde had noticed some details regarding the pig like alien, such as, a few small braids in it's fur, some gold spike-like earrings on it's left ear, and various scars on it's arms and neck, there might be more on it's face but, the teen will have to wait until the monarch-dressed alien faced him again to get a good look.

               Tommy was feeling just about ready to pass out when the small group finally arrived at a big clearing with a spaceship in the center, it reminded him of the night he was first kidnapped, only this ship was bigger, not bigger than ⎅⍀⟒⏃⋔'s ship, but still bigger than his original kidnappers' ship.

               The blonde only noticed he had stopped walking when ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜ flew in front of his face with that worried expression that he first saw when ⎅⍀⟒⏃⋔ hurt him in front of the brunette alien. Tommy gave the brown and yellow alien a hopefully reassuring smile, ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜ seemed to be put a bit at ease from it and smiled back, the winged alien gently grabbed the teen's hand and slowly lead him to the ship, this made it a bit difficult to carry Henry, but the blonde managed to keep supporting the now sleeping flower-covered alien with one arm.

               Tommy was admittedly, a bit scared to board a spaceship again after everything he's experienced, but this was his only chance to get home, or at least back to Earth, so if he wanted to see Jamie and Eryn again, he'd have to get over this stupid fear and get on the ship. The teen slowly followed ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜ closer to the ship, he had to stop himself from squeezing the small alien's hand, after all, the last thing he wanted was to accidentally hurt his friend. The pig alien was right in front of the spaceship and took an object out of it's pocket, Tommy immediately recognized it as one of those remote-like devices that open the door to a ship, this one was differently colored and had a slightly different shape than ⎅⍀⟒⏃⋔'s but overall very similar, and the blonde's assumption was proven correct when the monarch-dressed alien pressed a button on the device and the door to the spaceship opened immediately after.

               The pink furred alien glanced back at Tommy and ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜, it was probably waiting for them. The blonde pushed down any remaining fear he had and forced himself to walk towards the ship at a normal pace this time, the two had caught up to the pig alien, Tommy made sure to stay an arms-length away from it. The tusked alien walked up the ramp that the door of the ship created while the teen and his bee like friend followed shortly after, the blonde shifted Henry in his arm, trying his best not to drop his pet, the cow like alien seemed to stir from his sleep at the change, he opened his eyes and sniffed the air before settling his head back down against the teen's arm.

               Tommy smiled down at the blue and white creature as he stepped onto the floor of the spaceship for the first time, he looked around the control room, it looked similar to the one on ⎅⍀⟒⏃⋔'s ship, which admittedly unnerved him. The pig alien pressed a button on the remote thing again which caused the door-ramp to close before stepping over to the control panels and pressing some buttons, one of which, caused the spaceship to power on and another causing the outside of the ship to be visible, it was kinda like a giant windshield except undoubtedly much stronger.

               ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜, who had been holding Tommy's hand the entire time, let go of his hand and flew over to the pig like alien and began talking with it.

 

               "Hey Techno?" Tubbo said as he flew over to the Piglin, "what now Tubbo?" "Can I show ⏁⍜⋔⋔⊬ around?" Technoblade let out a sigh, "sure," "okay, thanks Techno!" The hybrid was about to fly back to his friend before the warrior of their crew stopped him, "wait." He began in a commanding tone despite the fact he hadn't raised his voice, "if you want the hu- if you want ⏁⍜⋔⋔⊬ to stay with us you're telling that to Phil yourself," "what? Are you at least gonna back me up when I tell him?" The Anthopian hybrid asked, "no, I'm not about to defend you and get him mad or paranoid because you want to keep a species that was ranked a level 10 threat just because they helped you escape Dream's ship, and, while we're on the subject of the human, you are going to be responsible for any damage the human does on this ship, got it?" Tubbo scowled but shook his head up and down in agreement despite the fact he thought it was unfair, Technoblade gave the hybrid a look of confusion, "oh, um yeah, got it" he clarified realizing that what he just did was specifically  a human thing, or possibly just a ⏁⍜⋔⋔⊬ thing, 'wow, did ⏁⍜⋔⋔⊬'s mannerisms rub off on me already?' He thought as he flew back over to his human friend.

               ⏁⍜⋔⋔⊬ had clearly noticed that they were talking about them because they were staring at Tubbo with noticeable confusion. "Oh, by the way Tubbo, we're actually picking up Phil and Ranboo at Honerthy!" Techno said from across the room, the hybrid simply responded to the Piglin with an 'okay' as an indication that he heard the warrior. 

 

               Tommy watched as his friend flew back over to him after speaking with the pig alien, he couldn't quite place their expression but he assumes that ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜ is upset. The blonde briefly glares at the monarch-dressed alien before glancing back to the winged alien, he heard the pink alien say something else and the brunette alien gave a short response. The bee and goat like creature seemed lost in thought for a couple seconds but after the teen poked them gently in the shoulder they seemed to snap back into reality, they also seemed to have just remembered something because they started tugging on his hand towards the hallway, Tommy took a small breath, put Henry down on the floor, and followed his friend to the doorway.

               The blonde follows ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜ through, surprisingly homey hallways, the halls on this ship resembled the painted walls of a house back on Earth, they also weren't made of metal and even had the occasional window, in other words, this ship was a huge difference from the other two spaceships he's been on.

               The brown and yellow alien eventually led the teen to a very tall, white door, one thing Tommy forgot to take note on throughout his little tour, was how high up the ceiling was. In every hall and room, the ceiling was always at least twelve feet high while the doorways were at least eleven, and this door was no different. The teen looked around, sudden paranoia clinging to his mind like a leech, 'what the fuck lives here for the ship to need ceilings this high up?' Before the blonde could over think about this more, he noticed that ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜ had opened the door and was signaling for him to follow them inside.

               Tommy ignored his thoughts and stepped into the room and nearly immediately forgot his worries, the room had a golden honeycomb pattern across the walls, a sky blue ceiling with a hexagon shaped light in the center, and a light grey carpet flooring. He also immediately took notice of a smaller version of one of those bunk beds that don't have the lower bed in the corner of the room, the bed very obviously fit ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜ perfectly so, this was definitely ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜'s room the blonde concluded.

               The casualty of the room put the teen at ease, besides, he was probably just being paranoid from being kidnapped and sold at a black market. There were more things around the room Tommy didn't recognize, but considering he's in an alien spaceship, he kind of expected that. ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜ showed him a bunch of different stuff, one of which, was some kind of solid space-metal bracelet the bee like alien retrieved from a drawer. The bracelet was white and had a tiny camera-looking thing under a small light blue panel on it, the brunette alien pressed a hooved finger to the small panel(?) and Tommy quickly learned the thing that looked like a camera was actually some kind projector because a blue-tinted hologram appeared above the bracelet, the hologram showed what looked like a phone's home screen, except all the apps were labeled with alien language words, which was once again, expected.

               ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜ had been showing the blonde some sort of game on the hologram before they seemed to remember something, they turned off the bracelet thing and urged Tommy to the door.

               The teen followed his friend through the halls once again and eventually came to a big room that looked like a kitchen, this made the blonde realize just how hungry he was. It had been at least a couple hours since he first got on the ship, and he hadn't even had breakfast! ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜ led Tommy over to a decagon-shaped table with majorly different sized chairs at each side. 'Jeez, how many alien's live here for there to be ten different seats?' He thought to himself as he sat down at a chair that fit him the best, the blonde glanced over at the corner of the room when he saw something white, blue, and purple catch his eye, he was a bit surprised to see Henry sleeping in the corner, but smiled at the sight of his pet and turned back to see what his friend was doing, the winged alien had flown over to what seemed like a fridge and had started grabbing various things out of it.

               When the brunette alien came back over to the table, they had a plate of fruit, many of which the teen recognized as the fruits that ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜ had got him the day before that he had really liked. Tommy smiled to himself, his friend had made sure to get his favorites, why did something as simple as that make him so happy? The blonde happily ate the odd but tasty fruits, while the bee and goat like alien got themselves some food and ate too.

               When the two had both finished their meals, the brunette alien took both of their plates and brought them over to a weird-looking sink. ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜ then went back to the fridge and grabbed something out of it, they didn't let Tommy see it until they were back over at the table, only then did the bee like alien reveal a fruit that resembled an apple, this one however, had a gleaming golden color.

               The blonde looked in awe at the golden fruit, the brown and yellow alien held it out for him to take, in which the teen happily accepted and held it in front of his face, turning it around a few times to get a good look at it. ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜ watched him expectantly, and finally Tommy bit into the golden apple, it was a bit crunchier than a normal apple and the golden part had a slight metallic taste, but the inside was really sweet and tasted like a real apple. The blonde quickly finished the fruit, leaving nothing but the core, the teen suddenly felt full of energy, as if he could run a marathon no problem! Tommy smiled in delight and looked to his friend who had watched him devour the gifted apple, he nodded at them in a way that he hoped communicated that he was trying to say 'thank you', ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜ seemed to get more happy from the nod so he thinks he succeeded in that.

               The blonde softly smiled to himself, thinking about how nice this one alien had been to him for pretty much the entire time they've known eachother, 'I'm so lucky to have ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜ as my friend.'

 

Notes:

Hi, sorry it took three weeks for an update, unfortunately, when it comes to when each chapter is posted the updates from now on are going to probably be wildly inconsistent, so, sorry in advance about that lol.

I've just been mostly relaxing lately, I started playing Zelda Majora's Mask (the N64 version, not the 3ds version) again after a few months of not playing I was finally able to beat the Great Bay Temple, the Stone Tower Temple, and I was able to get all the masks in the game! and, side note, let me just say, the Twinmold boss is REALLY annoying to beat.

I also got my pride ver. Technoblade Good Game 25 shirt a couple days ago and one of the employees at Cracker Barrel recognized it yesterday and we bonded over it (which I'm VERY happy about).

Anyways, sorry about my little rant, I just kinda wanted to talk about this stuff with someone, you know? I hope y'all enjoyed this chapter and I'll try to write the next chapter faster.

(little side note: I have been trying to learn Swedish lately and I'm thinking about making a Swedish translation for this fic, so I'd like to know what you guys think of that idea if y'all don't mind)

Chapter 9: A Blade Always Has a Side That's Blunt

Summary:

After waking up from a nightmare, Tommy finds that ⏁⟒☊⊑⋏⍜⏚⌰⏃⎅⟒ isn't as bad as he once thought.

               Tommy slowly walked through the woods on the hiking trail with Jamie and Eryn, "yeah, and then my mom got really mad at me." Jamie said, finishing his story, the two other boys laughed a bit, "well yeah! You thought she wouldn't get mad at you for dying your cat's fur without permission?" Eryn asked. "Well she was okay with it last time!" Jamie argued, the blonde of the group just laughed more at that answer.

               The three friends had continued to walk down the trail for some time when suddenly something grabbed Tommy by the neck, he was pulled backwards onto the ground. When he looked back at his friends they were being restrained by ⌿⎍⋏⋉ and ⌇⏃⌿⋏⏃⌿, ⌿⎍⋏⋉ had grabbed Eryn and ⌇⏃⌿⋏⏃⌿ had grabbed Jamie. The blonde teen watched as Eryn struggled against the rabbit alien and Jamie screamed from the burns he was getting from the lava alien, Tommy tried to get up to help his friends but for some reason, no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't move.

               Still he continued to struggle, but then, something stepped from behind the blonde and circled around to his line of sight, it was ⎅⍀⟒⏃⋔. Tommy stopped trying to move, his blood somehow felt like it had both gone cold and filled with adrenaline at the same time, he looked up at ⎅⍀⟒⏃⋔, fear settling deep in his bones. The goat alien looked at him, "did you really think you could get away from me that easily Tommy?" It said, it's eyes seemingly glowing. The blonde tried to move away when ⎅⍀⟒⏃⋔ reached to grab his face but he still couldn't move, "you belong to me. And now, so do your friends," it continued, looking Tommy dead in the eye, it's rectangular pupils constricting as it spoke.

               The blonde teen was paralyzed in fear, he could faintly hear the screams of Eryn and Jamie, but it was drowned out by the sound of static rising in his ears, the goat alien then drew it's sword, rising it above Tommy's head, and brought it down over his face.

 

               Tommy shot up from the bed, his heart racing and adrenaline pumping through his veins. He looked around and suddenly remembered where he was and how he got there, 'it's fine, it's fine, you're fine, Eryn is fine, and Jamie is fine, you're in the bedroom ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜ brought you to yesterday,' he quickly reminded himself, trying not to panic.

               The blonde looked around at the room, the walls and ceiling were white and the floor had a soft, light blue carpet, the bed he was in was huge, bigger than a king-sized bed, really comfortable, and had white, circular pillows, and a black blanket. The teen felt his heart-rate slow down as he identified the things in the room, he knew there was a desk on the other side of the room and a panel on the wall that let you choose the brightness of the hexagon-shaped light on the ceiling which was currently just barely giving off light.

               Tommy slid his finger on the panel slowly to brighten the light and stopped when it was at nightlight brightness, the blonde teen looked over at the brown door, his shoes and socks right next to it, he then looked across the room at the desk, there was a chair pushed into it that you could adjust the height and shape of, above the desk was some sort of clock that had 24 different symbols on it, the tics of the second hand were soundless.

               Tommy's eyes eventually found Henry, he was sleeping in what looked like a dog bed. The teen got up from the bed and walked over to the cow like creature, gently petting him. The flowered alien stirred from the physical contact and opened his eyes, letting out a tired 'moo' as he raised his head to look at his owner. The blonde gave his pet a tired smile and walked over to the door, putting his socks and shoes on before opening it, and by the time he did, Henry had gotten up and was now following behind the human. 

               Tommy left the room, making sure his pet had followed him out before closing the door. He walked over to a nearby window, looking out at the distant stars, planets, and galaxies, it was all so beautiful and unbelievable. 'Am I the first human to be this far from Earth?' The teen thought to himself, 'or am I just the first to survive?' He quickly shook away that train of thought, that wasn't something he wanted to think about right now.

               The blonde walked to the next hallway where ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜'s room was, when he got to the white door he paused for a few seconds before knocking on the door. Tommy heard some tired buzzes and bleats from the bee and goat like alien, "⎍☌⊑... ☊⍜⋔⟒ ⟟⋏ ⏁⟒☊⊑⋏⍜" he heard his friend call out, followed by the sound of movement. "Uh, ⏁⎍ß⏚⍜?" The teen called back, he heard the movement of the alien pause, "⍜⊑... ⎎⎍☊⟊, Ton- Tommy?" They said, "uh, yeah, it's me..." The blonde said, knowing that even though ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜ doesn't speak English they'll know his voice and recognize he's not speaking their language.

               A few seconds went by before the door opened. The brown and yellow alien lazily flying next to the door wearing a baggy dark green shirt and equally baggy dark green pants, their longer fur that resembles hair was messy and wasn't covering their eyes which surprised Tommy a bit since he's never seen their eyes before, their right eye was brown while their left was blue, and their pupils were the same rectangular-shaped pupils goats have. ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜ looked up at him and let out a bleat that seemed like a sigh, the blonde suddenly felt bad for disturbing them, 'shit, is it not morning yet?' He thought to himself. The teen watched as the brunette alien struggled to stay awake, their eyelids drooping every few seconds, Tommy then held his arms out, picking ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜ up from under their arms and then cradling them in his. The bee like alien was a bit surprised by this but didn't buzz threateningly or try to move away so he kept his friend lying in his arms.

               The blonde felt himself getting hungry and heard Henry's hungry moos from behind him so he closed ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜'s door and carried them to the kitchen. By the time the teen got to the kitchen, his friend was already asleep again, he didn't mind carrying the small alien though, they weren't very heavy and they made him feel safe.

               When Tommy got to the kitchen, he was jump-scared by the presence of the pig alien he couldn't be bothered to remember the name of. It was sat at the ten-sided table, eating something that resembled a granola bar and three fruits, one of which, was one of those golden apple things ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜ gave him. The pig alien looked over at the blonde, it's expression didn't seem to change other than a slight narrowing of it's eyes. The teen tried to avoid eye contact as he stepped over to the fridge, should he be going through the fridge? He was a guest and good guests don't just rummage through their friends' fridges unless they're really close right? Wait... Was he a guest?

               Tommy only realized he was hesitating to open the fridge when he was brought out of his thoughts from the sound of hoofsteps approaching him. The blonde quickly turned to face the monarch-dressed alien, instinctively shielding ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜ despite the fact they were the least likely to get hurt. The pink-furred alien opened the fridge, gesturing to the inside while looking the teen in the eye, the boy hesitated again, looking at the foods in the fridge while cautiously glancing at the tusked alien.

               Eventually, Tommy quickly grabbed a few fruits and some green leaves from the fridge and scurried across the room. The teen warily watched the pig alien, while it in turn, watched him. The boy heard a small 'moo' by his feet from Henry, the cow like alien was looking up at him, very clearly hungry.

               The blonde crouched down to give his pet the green plants when they were snatched away from him before Henry could get a nibble, Tommy flinched back into the wall at the sudden movement of the pink furred alien, he hadn't even noticed it approach. The teen glared up at the pig like creature who was holding the green vegetation out of reach of both him and Henry.

               The monarch dressed alien went back to the fridge and got some purple leaves before walking back over to the blonde and handing him the lavender plant. Tommy took the vegetable and cautiously examined it, after a couple glances between the pig alien and the plant, he gave it to the flowered alien who happily munched on the leaves.

               The tusked alien soon went back to it's seat at the table and continued eating it's own food, leaving the blonde annoyed and a bit confused, 'why did they do that? Was there something wrong with the green leaves?'

               Before the teen could look into what had just happened, he felt ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜ shift in his arm, looking down at the winged alien, Tommy watched as they slowly woke up. The bee like alien rubbed at their eyes, glancing around before eventually sitting up and flying out of the blondes arms.

               ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜ had flown over to the fridge to get some food, which made the teen remember the various fruits he had gotten for himself that he hadn't yet eaten. Tommy cautiously approached the table the pig alien still sat at, but before he could work up the nerves to even pull one of the chairs out for himself, the monarch dressed alien got up from it's seat and left the kitchen without even glancing at the blonde. This annoyed Tommy, and he didn't know why, the boy pulled out one the chairs and sat down with a huff, angrily eating the fruit he had grabbed from the fridge until nothing but the occasional stem or core was left.

               ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜ had finished rummaging around the fridge and was now flying over to the table carrying a bottle of water, some frozen flowers, and those green leaves Tommy was going to feed Henry. The blonde looked at the brunette alien and then to Henry who was curled up on the floor, when the winged alien sat at the table and laid their food out before themself, the teen decided it was the best time to 'ask' for an explanation. "⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜" Tommy said to get the alien's attention, they looked up from their food with a questioning look, the blonde then pointed to the green leaves and then to Henry to try to communicate his question. The bee and goat alien's face took on a more serious look as they quickly shook their head, indicating that the teen definitely shouldn't give his pet the green plant.

               It had been around forty minutes of Tommy trying to decipher ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜'s hand gestures before the blonde finally understood why he shouldn't give the cow like creature the leaves that the brown and yellow alien was now eating, and, from what he had managed to decipher, apparently for Henry's species that green plant was poisonous. Figuring that out felt like a punch to the gut for the teen, after all, he had almost given his pet something that could've killed him! How was he not supposed to feel bad about that?

               ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜ had eventually left after finishing their meal and Tommy had been hugging Henry for at least twenty minutes thinking about the fact his little flower cow pet could be gone if he had fed him that plant, and if the pig alien hadn't stopped him, he would have. 'The pig alien...' The teen let out an annoyed sigh before putting Henry back on the ground and getting up from his seat.

               The blonde wandered around the ship, looking for the pink furred alien, eventually making it to the control room or whatever it's called. Tommy looked over to the Captain's seat(?) Again, he didn't know, how was he supposed to anyway? He's in a fucking spaceship! Anyway, looking over to the Captain's seat, the tusked alien was seated in it, pressing various buttons every few seconds. 'Is this a bad time to do this?' The teen thought before dismissing it and walking over to the monarch dressed alien.

               The pink alien's ear flicked in Tommy's direction as he approached, letting him know the alien is aware of his presence. When the blonde stopped he still had a few feet of distance between him and the pig alien, hearing his movement stop, the tusked alien glanced over at him with that same emotionless expression they always had. The teen paused, he had crossed his arms to look more confident than he was at the moment, eventually he took a deep breath and looked back at the monarch dressed alien. "Tommy" he said, pointing to himself, the pig alien stared for a few seconds which made Tommy's uncertainty rise. "Tommy" the pink furred alien repeated, the teen let out a breath he hadn't realized he was holding, the tusked alien then looked at the blonde human and put a hand to their chest, "⏁⟒☊⊑⋏⍜⏚⌰⏃⎅⟒" they said, introducing themselves for the second time, "⏁ø- ⏁⟒ðč⋏æ... Ugh... ⏁⟒šþ-" Tommy growled in frustration as he messed up.

               After a couple more failed attempts at saying the aliens name, the monarch dressed alien put a hand on the teen's shoulder, the blonde tensed from the sudden contact, but lifted his gaze back up to the pink alien, "⏁⟒☊⊑" they began, "⏁⟒☊þ- ⏁⟒☊⊑" Tommy repeated "⋏⍜" "⋏⍜" "⏚⌰⏃⎅⟒," "⏚⌰œ⎅⟒," "⏁⟒☊⊑⋏⍜⏚⌰⏃⎅⟒" "⏁⟒☊þ⋏⍜⏚⌰œ⎅⟒" 'damn it I messed up again' the teen mentally face-palmed. "⏁⟒☊⊑⋏⍜⏚⌰⏃⎅⟒" the pig alien repeated with a patient expression, "⏁⟒☊⊑⋏⍜⏚⌰œ- ⏁⟒☊⊑⋏⍜⏚⌰⏃⎅⟒" the blonde finally managed to repeat, the tusked alien, er- ⏁⟒☊⊑⋏⍜⏚⌰⏃⎅⟒, patted Tommy's shoulder and turned back to the control panels, while the teen, couldn't help but smile to himself as he walked away.

               The blonde couldn't say that he forgives ⏁⟒☊⊑⋏⍜⏚⌰⏃⎅⟒ for the 'misunderstanding' when they first met but, this felt like a good start.

 

Notes:

Yeah, yeah, I know this feels like a filler chapter but Tommy has to do SOMETHING while he, ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜ and ⏁⟒☊⊑⋏⍜⏚⌰⏃⎅⟒ are making their trip to Honerthy, lol.

Anyway, thank you for reading this chapter, hope y'all like it,
I have been playing more Zelda, and not just Majora's Mask, but also Twilight Princess' Hero mode, which is admittedly more disorienting than I expected due to all the areas in game being opposite than when in normal mode. I have also been trying to get my guinea pigs a bigger cage lately (my guinea pigs' names are Artemis and Persephone) because Persephone keeps trying to pick fights with Artemis and I feel like giving them more space will ease the tension at least a little bit.

Chapter 10: Purple Stained Alliaks

Summary:

Tommy meets ⍀⏃⋏⏚⍜⍜

Notes:

Important note: I do not support Wilbur Soot.

               Tommy and ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜ stood in the control room while ⏁⟒☊⊑⋏⍜⏚⌰⏃⎅⟒ steered the spaceship toward a yellow and mint green planet. The blonde teen was, pretty justifiably, on edge because of this since he had no clue why they were stopping at another unfamiliar planet. Tommy had tried to communicate to the two aliens he wanted to go home a couple times in the past two days but, unfortunately, they didn't seem to understand, 'maybe we're stopping here for supplies or something,' the teen hoped to himself as the ship entered the new planet's atmosphere.

 

               Tubbo's body tensed from his nervousness as The Argo entered the atmosphere of Honerthy, he had no idea how Philza, Ranboo or Wilbur would react to seeing a human, especially since humans are widely known across galaxies to be savage beasts that are immune to most deadly toxins and are some of the only creatures that produce epinephrine, (aka adrenaline), as a natural hormone! Obviously the other creatures on the humans' home planet produce this substance too, but with how intelligent and aggressive humans are thought to be, they are considered vastly more dangerous. The Anthopian hybrid looked up at ⏁⍜⋔⋔⊬, 'are they really as dangerous as everyone thinks? How could they? ⏁⍜⋔⋔⊬ has never hurt anyone and has mainly been afraid of every creature they've come across,' Tubbo thought to himself. The brown and yellow furred hybrid had heard many stories of creatures trying to land on their planet only for humans to manage to destroy their ships before they even get past their moon, but then, how did anyone manage to kidnap ⏁⍜⋔⋔⊬ in the first place? Surely those stories weren't true if someone actually managed to capture a human, barely any of them even leave their planet, and the ones that do barely even get to their moon. Something about this wasn't adding up...

               Shaking away his thoughts, the hybrid noticed that Technoblade was steering the ship toward an abandoned part of the planet and calling Philza on his intercom, Tubbo decided to fly closer to the controls to better listen to the call, which the Piglin didn't seem to mind.

               Phil answered the call, happily starting the conversation, "Hey Techno, you and Tubbo almost here?" "Yeah, we'll be at The Comb Hollow in about four clicks," the Piglin answered. "Comb Hollow? Techno that place is abandoned, I told you me and Ranboo are at the landing pad in Flauno, Wilbur is already here with us right now." Technoblade glanced at his intercom, confusion obvious on his face to anyone who knew him well, "I sent you messages telling you I had to land The Argo in Comb Hollow," "well I- hold on." Tubbo and Techno heard the sound of Phil's talons pressing something on the holographic part of his intercom. "Oh... Sorry I guess I didn't see it..." The warrior sighed at the Avian's realization, "it's fine Phil, we'll just... Go over to Flauno..." The Piglin sighed, "wait we can't! What about ⏁⍜⋔⋔⊬?" Tubbo chimed in, "they can stay on the ship Tubbo," Technoblade replied sternly. The Hircusian hybrid buzzed angrily, "fine, but I'm staying on the ship with them," he replied stubbornly. "I... Wait I'm confused, who's ⏁⍜ðð⊬?" Phil asked, "someone Tubbo insisted would be a good new member of The Syndicate," Technoblade answered.

               The Hircusian hybrid glared at the Piglin, "their name is ⏁⍜⋔⋔⊬, and yes, I think they'd be a great member of The Syndicate, and it doesn't matter what species they are Technoblade." The warrior let out an annoyed huff, "don't you think they'd want to go home after everything they've gone through?" The Piglin questioned, Tubbo was about to try to defend his opinion but he stopped himself and thought about Techno's question, he had been so focused on getting back to his home and making sure the human was safe, that he hadn't considered what they even wanted.

               The Anthopian hybrid looked over his shoulder at ⏁⍜⋔⋔⊬ who stared out the windscreen, a worried expression plaguing their face, with a defeated sigh, Tubbo looked back at Technoblade, "alright, I guess they probably do want to go home, but you do realize that's not exactly going to be easy, right? Do you even have a plan on how we're going to get them home?" The Piglin huffed, "yes, I can think of a way we can get to ⏁⍜⋔⋔⊬'s planet safely, and I'll discuss it once we pick up Phil, Ranboo, and Wilbur and explain the situation to them." Tubbo buzzed thoughtfully at what Techno said, "wait what's going on? Why would we need a plan to bring Tubbo's friend back home?" Philza asked through the intercom. Technoblade glanced at Tubbo before responding to Phil, "Tubbo will explain what's going on when we pick you guys up," the Anthopian hybrid glared at the Piglin, "alright... I'll see you both soon then," Philza responded before ending the call.

               Flying back over to his human friend, Tubbo couldn't help the anxiety he felt as Technoblade changed the course of The Argo. ⏁⍜⋔⋔⊬ glanced at the brown and yellow hybrid and did that weird thing with their mouth that looked like a snarl without the showing teeth part, Tubbo has done the half-snarl back ever since he realized it was one of the many ways humans show comfort or affection, and this time wasn't any different, looking back at his blonde-furred friend, the Anthopian raised his mouth into a small snarl, which caused ⏁⍜⋔⋔⊬'s to widen and show a bit of teeth.

               The Hircusian hybrid still got a bit nervous anytime the human showed their teeth, but Tubbo knew they weren't trying to scare him or be menacing so he ignored the reduced feeling of dread in his gut and stayed close to his friend for the rest of the flight.

 

               Ranboo fidgets with his claws as he waits on a bench with Philza and Wilbur for Technoblade and Tubbo to arrive at the landing pad. Phil had explained to them and Wilbur that Tubbo had made a new friend who the Anthopian hybrid thinks would make a good member of The Syndicate, now, Ranboo has no problem with Tubbo making new friends or the fact that he wanted this new friend to join The Syndicate, no, no, what Ranboo was worried about was that he has never met this new friend of Tubbo's, and they really want to make a good first impression. Problem is, the Enderian and Farlander hybrid has no idea what this new person is going to be like, heck! He doesn't even know their name or what species they are!

               "You okay mate?" Phil asks, breaking Ranboo out of their thoughts, "o-oh, um yeah, just excited to see Tubbo, I just... Hope he's okay after being stuck on Dream's ship for so long..." This technically wasn't a lie, Ranboo is excited to see Tubbo! They we're so worried when he went missing and constantly wondered what had happened to him, when the Enderian learned his friend was alive, they had nearly cried out of relief, Tubbo was Ranboo's first and best friend, just the thought of losing him terrified the black and white hybrid more than anything else in the universe.

               "He's fine Ranboo, Techno said so in the messages he sent us, and that's not even mentioning the fact that Tubbo sent a message specifically to you saying he was okay," Wilbur spoke up from the other side of the bench, not looking away from his intercom. Ranboo sighed "I know, I know, it's just... Dream is always bad news, he's always trying to cause problems for us and we still don't fully know why!"

               Right as the Enderian finished speaking their intercom glowed white for a tic, indicating that someone sent him a message, Ranboo quickly turned on the intercom around their wrist and clicked on the holographic screen to get to his messages. The hybrid opened their messages with Tubbo, rereading the one the Anthopian had sent him two rotations ago, 'hey boss man just leting ya know im alive'. Ranboo had sent a bunch of messages afterwards asking their winged friend a bunch of questions, which, unsurprisingly, were left unanswered. The Farlander hybrid fondly purred to himself at their friend's chaotic nature before scrolling down to Tubbo's most recent message, 'hey boo jsyk im gonna be staying on the argo with my friend since they dont rly know what's going on' Ranboo's thoughts instantly went back to the anxious mess they had been not even a click ago, though for a different reason this time.

               'What dym they don't know what's going on?' The Enderian messaged back, 'they don't speak commish' Tubbo responded simply. The black and white hybrid took a couple tics to process the information that was just given to them, before he could type out a response though, Tubbo sent another message. 'itll make more sense when you meet them' Ranboo stared at the message for about a click before deciding turning off their intercom and waiting in silence for his best friend to arrive was the best course of action.

               It had been about four clicks and Phil had been explaining a show he likes to Ranboo while Wilbur groaned in annoyance when the sound of a ship landing caught the trio's attention. Looking over at where the sound was coming from, the three Syndicate members quickly recognized it was The Argo.

               Philza got up from the bench and started making his way to the short distance ship that him and Ranboo had taken, "Wil and I are going to go get The Emerald Heart and The Milo, could you let Techno know so he opens The Argo's garage?" Phil asks Ranboo, "oh uh, yeah, sure" the Farlander hybrid responds.

               Wilbur got up and made his way towards his own ship, leaving Ranboo to be the last to start their task.

               The Enderian eventually started the walk over to the large ship section of the landing pad, avoiding eye contact with anyone and trying not to trip over any of the Anthopians, who are all around five times shorter than him.

               After trying to navigate through hundreds of ships, Ranboo was finally able to find The Argo, Technoblade was waiting outside of the ship reading which, admittedly, made it a bit easier.

               The Farlander hybrid walked up to the Piglin who glanced up from his book when he heard them approach, "hey Ranboo, where's Phil and Wilbur?" Technoblade questioned, "Phil is getting The Emerald Heart and Wilbur is getting The Milo, so uh, could you open the garage?" "Already did," Techno responded, pointing over his shoulder at the open garage. The Enderian's face flushed violet in embarrassment, 'how did you not notice that!?' He mentally scolded himself. "Right, well uh I'm gonna go inside and meet Tubbo's new friend..." Ranboo awkwardly tried ending the conversation, "good luck with that," Technoblade muttered monotonously, well great, now Ranboo was even more nervous about meeting this person.

               Entering the ship, the Farlander quickly took note of the empty control room, not thinking much of it, the Enderian hybrid decided to check if Tubbo and his friend were in the Hircusian's  room.

               Approaching the door to Tubbo's room, Ranboo knocked on it, waiting for a response, when the black and white hybrid didn't get a response he started to worry, "uh, Tubbo? Can I come in please? I'd like to meet the friend you mentioned." 

               After a few tics of waiting, the Enderian decided to just open the door, inside, the room was empty, 'alright... Maybe they're in the kitchen, or the projection room watching a show or movie' Ranboo thought to themself, eventually deciding it was more likely the two were in the projection room.

               When the Farlander hybrid found that the projection room was also devoid of life, he ended up just sighing in slight annoyance and starting the walk to the kitchen.

               As Ranboo entered the kitchen and was once again faced with an empty room, he ended up just accepting that he wouldn't find Tubbo and his friend on his own. The Enderian hybrid turned on his intercom, before he could message Tubbo though, they caught some movement out of the corner of their eye.

               Looking over at the corner of the kitchen, Ranboo was surprised to see a moobloom just waking up from a nap, "aw, hey buddy, where'd you come from?" The Farlander cooed, slowly approaching the small creature. Upon quick examination, the black and white hybrid realized the flowers that grew on this particular moobloom, were alliaks, Ranboo's favorite flower. The Enderian purred in delight, "did Tubbo or Techno get you for me?" They rhetorically asked while picking up the small creature. "Whatever, I can just ask Tubbo about it after he introduces me to his friend," the Enderian says more to themself than the moobloom while resuming their action of messaging Tubbo on their intercom.

 

               Tommy was playing some kind of weird card game with ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜ in his room that the bee like alien managed to teach him, each of the cards had some kind of odd symbol on them in either blue or orange. The blonde had managed to win twice out of the nine games they've played so far and this round wasn't going any better for him, but before the teen could endure another humiliating defeat, Toby's phone-bracelet thing flashed white (also yes, Tommy does still call ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜ Toby from time to time), the winged alien put down their cards and turned on the device, almost immediately typing something.

               Once the hooved alien finished typing, they turned off the bracelet thing and returned to the odd card game, almost immediately securing another win for themselves while Tommy groaned in faux annoyance.

 

               A few minutes had passed and the two friends were in the middle of another round of the alien card game when the blonde heard the door open, 'about time ⏁⟒☊⊑⋏⍜⏚⌰⏃⎅⟒ got ba-' the teen's thought was cut short when he looked up to see a huge black and white alien in the doorway, leering down at ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜ and him with red and green eyes. Quickly glancing down at the creature's arms Tommy saw that it was holding an unconscious Henry and the blonde instantly assumed the worst, he shot up from the floor, "LET GO OF HENRY!" He shrieked, before the teen could make his way towards the tall creature, ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜ yelled something in their alien language right before the thing grabbed their arm. The red and green eyed monster's sharp claws dug into the winged alien, drawing blue blood from their arm while the bee like alien buzzed in pain.

 

Tommy saw red.

 

               The blonde flung himself at the large alien, tackling it down into the hallway, however, it didn't let go of Henry or ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜, the blue eyed teen tried prying the black and white creature's arm off of Toby but due to how tightly it was holding them, Tommy couldn't get his hands around the limb, it also made the brown and yellow alien bleat in more pain. The tall alien growled and hissed, baring it's huge teeth at the blonde. Running off of only adrenaline at that point, the teen instead held down the black and white alien's arm and bit down into it as hard as he could.

               The creature let go of ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜ and Henry, it's scream echoing through the hallway, "TOMMY ⌇⏁⍜⌿!" The bee and goat like alien yelled, when Tommy ignored the yell and kept biting down even after he had tasted what he assumed was blood, he felt a painful sting pierce the back of his neck. The blonde pulled away from the black and white alien's arm, cursing and holding his wound in pain, "⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜ what the fuck!?" The teen yelled, 'shit, am I going to be paralyzed like when they stung that mushroom alien back on ⎅⍀⟒⏃⋔'s ship?' He quickly thought to himself.

               Looking back down at the tall alien, Tommy quickly took notice of the purple blood bleeding from the bite mark on it's arm, as well as the steaming tears that were running down it's face while ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜ was... Comforting it? 'Oh... I fucked up, didn't I...' the blonde thought, the realization filling him with guilt, the bite mark was also noticeably steaming too, making the teen's guilt worse.

               Tommy picked up Henry, who had thankfully just been asleep the entire time, and slowly made his way back into his room.

               The blonde gently closed the door and sat against it, "fuck..." The teen started, hugging Henry close to his chest, "how am I supposed to fix this?"

Notes:

Hey guys, sorry again that it took a month to update this fic, (also tysm for all the nice comments I got on the update chapter I deleted)

Anyway, I was hoping to get this chapter out before I started school again (I'm a high school senior, yay...) But that didn't really work out...

A couple things have happened since I last updated, for example, I got a new cage for my guinea pigs! They seem to be much happier with the new space.
I have also been playing Cult Of The Lamb a lot ever since the new update, and... I think that's all I have to talk about rn, well, other than the ending of Murder Drones but that's on Youtube, so...

Hope y'all like this chapter, sorry if it wasn't really worth the wait...

Chapter 11: First Impressions

Summary:

Tommy meets the rest of The Syndicate.

               Tubbo gently wrapped Ranboo's arm in an ace bandage, the anthopian hybrid had managed to guide the enderian to the infirmary and disinfect their wound, now all that was left was to try to get them to stop crying so the burns from his own tears didn't get any worse. Tubbo grabbed a towel and flew up to Ranboo's face, gently wiping away the liquid, "hey, it's okay boss man, you're gonna be fine" the hircusian started softly, "I didn't know that they would do this... I'm sorry..." The farlander hybrid opened their eyes, looking at Tubbo with a serious expression, "really Tubbo? Your friend is a human? And you didn't think to tell anyone?" "Well they're not dangerous-" the anthopian tried to defend, realizing his mistake too late. Ranboo gestured to their arm while glaring at Tubbo, "okay... I worded that poorly, obviously they shouldn't have bit you, but I think they were just trying to protect me and their moobloom." The hircusian tried to explain, "please just give them a second chance..." The enderian hybrid stared at Tubbo's pleading expression, sighing after a few tics of silence, "fine, but they better not bite me again."

 

               Tommy laid in his oversized bed, contemplating what he had just done and how he could make it up to ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜'s friend. In hindsight, it should've been pretty obvious that the tall alien lived here, they were nearly as fucking tall as the doorways! Whatever, all he could do now is try to make it up to them, but how? The blonde can't apologize due to the language barrier and he can't get or make anything for them because he doesn't know shit about the alien he bit and doesn't know what they'd even like.

               Before he could think about it further, the teen heard a knock at his door, getting up from his bed, Tommy made his way over to his door and opened it just enough to see into the hallway, once the blonde saw that it was just ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜, he relaxed a bit and let the brown and yellow alien into the room.

               The small alien flew over to the teen's bed, turning their bracelet like device on and gesturing for Tommy to come over. The blonde complied and sat down on his bed next to the winged alien. They seemed to be scrolling through photos on their device when they seemed to remember something, turning back to the blue eyed teen, ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜ pointed to the middle of their hand, where their stinger was and then pointed to Tommy's neck. 'Oh, they're asking about the sting,' the blonde realized, the sting had hurt, and he felt a bit weak for maybe five minutes afterwards, but surprisingly, he hadn't been paralyzed by it. The teen made that 'good' gesture to his alien friend to indicate that he was okay, the brunette alien seemed a bit confused and maybe a bit scared? at first but seemed to brush it off, continuing to scroll through the photos on their bracelet thing.

               ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜ eventually stopped at one specific photo, tapping it and causing it to enlarge, the bee like alien then turned the holographic screen towards Tommy, showing him the photo. The photo had ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜ sitting on the backrest of a sofa with the black and white alien sitting in the seat to the right of the brunette alien, to the right of them, was an alien that kind of looked like a bird, they had brown eyes, dark brown and sand colored feathers, and wore a red beanie, a brown trench coat on top of a yellow sweater, and black pants. To the left of the ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜ in the photo was another bird like alien, this one had blue eyes, yellow and sand colored feathers, and wore a green and white striped bucket hat, a green trench coat with gold highlights over a black shirt, green pants, and a red heart shaped necklace with a black oval on each side of it, in other words, they looked much cooler than the other bird alien. To the left of that alien was ⏁⟒☊⊑⋏⍜⏚⌰⏃⎅⟒, who was wearing a much more casual outfit than normal, which was a white shirt and black pants, in the photo they were reading a book while everyone was at least generally looking in the direction of the camera, seemingly uninterested in the fact that they were being photographed.

               After Tommy was done examining the photo, ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜ pointed at the tall alien that the blonde had bit, "⍀⏃⋏⏚⍜⍜" they said before moving onto the green clothed bird alien "⌿⊑⟟⌰⋉⏃" and then "⍙⟟⌰⏚⎍⍀" when they got to the poorly dressed bird alien. 

               The blue eyed teen repeated what he assumes are names, and although he admittedly, messed up a few times on all three, he was eventually able to pronounce each one, with a bit of help from ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜.

               The brunette alien turned off their device as they got up from the bed, gesturing to Tommy to follow them. The blonde obliged, walking beside the bee and goat like alien as they left the room.

               Walking through the hallways of the ship, the teen couldn't help wonder what ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜ wanted to show him, however, thinking about it for more than five seconds, Tommy realized that Toby was either going to try to find a way for him to apologize to ⍀⏃⋏⏚⍜⍜, or they were going to introduce him to the two bird aliens, and both of those possible scenarios were anxiety inducing for the blonde. Shaking away those thoughts, the teen decided to just try not overthink it too much.

               The brunette alien paused before the doorway to the control room of the ship, Tommy stopping right next to them. ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜ turned to the blonde and made a couple hand gestures that pretty clearly meant 'stay here', knowing that something could go terribly wrong again if he didn't, the blue eyed teen listened and stayed just next to the door frame out of sight while the bee like alien left him there.

 

               The hircusian hybrid flew into the control room where Phil and Wilbur were waiting for him to explain what was going on. Technoblade was also in the room, but considering what he had said before, Tubbo doubts he's going to get any support from the piglin. 

               "Hey Tubbo," Phil greeted, approaching the anthopian, "um... Where's Ranboo? Techno said you were going to tell us something regarding your friend?" Tubbo paused, "...uhh yeah, yeah, well, I already told Ranboo about everything so they don't really need to hear it again," the hybrid lied, trying to cover up the fact that ⏁⍜⋔⋔⊬ had hurt the enderian for the time being. "Alright..." Phil replied, suspicion obvious from his expression and tone of voice. The hircusian cleared his throat, glancing at Wilbur who was talking with Technoblade, Phil followed Tubbo's gaze and glared at the other avian, "Wil!" He yelled to his son, gaining the brown feathered avian's attention. 

               The musician sighed before making his way over to Phil and Tubbo, "yeah?" "Tubbo needs to tell us something, remember?" The yellow feathered avian reminded. "Okay, okay" Wilbur responded, a bit of annoyance slipping into his voice. Phil turned back to the hircusian hybrid who anxiously glanced between the two avians, "okay... So uh, my friend's name is ⏁⍜⋔⋔⊬, and they are a... human..." The anthopian muttered the last part but if their shocked expressions were anything to go by, Phil and Wilbur still heard him.

               It was silent for a couple tics before Wilbur spoke up "you're joking... Right?" He asked, fear causing his voice to waver a bit. "No, I'm not joking, but please, just give them a chance! They aren't... As dangerous as everyone thinks-" "As dangerous?" Phil questioned, "just-" Tubbo buzzed in frustration, "just listen!" "Tubbo, you brought a deadly creature onto The Argo without even-" Phil turned to look at Technoblade who was sitting at the control panels despite the ship being off, "Techno!" The piglin turned to look at the avian, "why did you let him bring a human onto the ship!?" "He wouldn't let me take off without them" Technoblade responded simply. Philza turned back to Tubbo "really?" He questioned, disappointment lacing his voice "they helped me escape and put their full trust in me when doing it, I couldn't just leave them on a random planet to die!" The hybrid exclaimed. 

               "Humans are durable, it would've figured out a way to survive, but instead you brought it here and are currently putting us all in danger!" Wilbur scolded while Phil worked on composing himself, "I'm with Wil on this Tubbo, even if it helped you, that doesn't change the fact that it could hurt or potentially kill one of us," the anthopian buzzed in rage at that, and before he knew it, he was yelling, "you have no right to judge them! You haven't even met them! Plus aren't you the one who's always going on about how we shouldn't judge someone based off of the stereotypes of their species!?" The two avians stilled with shock, Philza opened and closed his beak a few times, trying to find a valid answer but sighed in defeat when he couldn't think of one. "Alright, we'll meet it- them first and then decide what to do with them..." Phil decided, "but-!" Wilbur tried to protest but was immediately cut off by his father, "all species in the galaxy have hurtful rumors about them, including us, and as we know, those stereotypes aren't necessarily true, and as Tubbo said, it's only fair that we meet this human first before judging them." Wilbur still looked upset about Phil's decision but didn't try to argue further.

 

               Tommy continued to wait next to the door frame, he had eventually sat down when he got tired of standing, he had heard some yelling in the other room, which was probably not a good sign...

               A few more minutes had passed before ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜ came back, when they did, they were smiling at the blonde, which made him a bit hopeful, did the conversation he had with the bird aliens actually go well? From what the teen had heard, it sounded like a disaster. "Tommy" the brunette alien said, getting the human's attention, they were holding out their hand for the blonde to take. 

               Tommy took ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜'s hand, standing back up in the process, the alien's hand was much smaller than his, it was almost like he was holding a child's hand. The teen mentally paused at that thought, is Toby a child? They do seem like they're a similar species to ⎅⍀⟒⏃⋔, but that wrongun was much taller than ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜. Although, on the other hand, the brunette alien is also very bee like, and bees are really small, so ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜ could also be an adult.

               The blonde decided to think about this later, snapping back to reality to find himself in the control room of the ship, the bird aliens staring at him. Tommy shifted uncomfortably under the two aliens' gazes, he had to make a good first impression though, he didn't think he could handle having another ⏁⟒☊⊑⋏⍜⏚⌰⏃⎅⟒ or ⍀⏃⋏⏚⍜⍜ situation. 

               The blue eyed teen resisted the urge to smile in greeting as he looked at the two aliens, 'smiles are considered rude or some shit,' he quickly reminded himself. The badly dressed bird alien seemed to give him a weird look regardless, alright, fuck them then! The cool-looking yellow bird alien was being much more polite, they were giving Tommy the same expression they had in that photo ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜ showed him. The blonde made eye contact with ⌿⊑⟟⌰...? That was their name right? Anyway, he made eye contact with ⌿⊑⟟⌰, they looked even more pog in person might he add, and he waved, hoping that that was a well-known gesture across species. The yellow feathered alien saw his little wave and tilted their head a bit to the side, 'FUCK! they don't understand-!' Tommy mentally panicked, quickly deciding to move to introductions. The teen put a hand to his chest, "Tommy" he said without breaking eye contact. ⌿⊑⟟⌰ still seemed a little confused when Toby spoke up, "⏁⊑⏃⏁'⌇ ⏁⊑⟒⟟⍀ ⋏⏃⋔⟒ ⌿⊑⟟⌰, ⏁⊑⟒⊬'⍀⟒ ⟟⋏⏁⍀⍜⎅⎍☊⟟⋏☌ ⏁⊑⟒⋔⌇⟒⌰⎎ ⏁⍜ ⊬⍜⎍" they seemed to whisper to the bird alien, who seemed to look less confused afterwards.

               ⌿⊑⟟⌰ dipped their head at the blonde teen, "⌿⊑⟟⌰⋉⏃" they said, and wow did Tommy feel dumb right now for forgetting an entire syllable of their name. The blonde quickly pushed away the feeling to focus on what to do next, he decided copying ⌿⊑⟟⌰⋉⏃'s action was probably his best bet. Tommy dipped his head back, which seemed to surprise both bird aliens and ⏁⎍⏚⏚⍜, the teen looked around at the other aliens in confusion, wondering if he did something wrong. Looking over at ⏁⟒☊⊑⋏⍜⏚⌰⏃⎅⟒, who had been watching from their seat over at the control panels, seemed unphased, although it was always hard for Tommy to see the subtle changes in their expression, so it could just be that. The blonde looked back to Toby, still scared he did something to upset or offend ⌿⊑⟟⌰⋉⏃, but when the bee like alien smiled and nodded at him, Tommy instantly breathed a sigh of relief.

 

Tubbo was ecstatic,

               The anthopian hybrid watched as ⏁⍜⋔⋔⊬ looked around in confusion, they probably didn't even know what they had just done, well that or they're confused as to why everyone is shocked about it. Tubbo quickly tried to reassure his human friend that they were doing something good, he did that weird half-snarl and repeatedly dipped his head which seemed to help ease the concern ⏁⍜⋔⋔⊬ seemed to be feeling.

               Wilbur turned to the hircusian, "there's no way it just copied Phil in order to greet us, you had to teach it to do that!" He snapped. Tubbo gave the musician an unamused look, "I didn't teach them anything other than our names! They did that on their own!" He shot back. "Boys." Phil spoke up, "not the time for that." Both Wilbur and Tubbo quickly shut up, although they still exchanged a few angry glances. 

               Philza turned back to the human, the yellow feathered avian was a bit unsure of how to proceed, but eventually, he cautiously reached out a taloned hand, ⏁⍜⋔⋔⊬ flinched back a bit, causing Phil to hesitate for a moment. "What did Dream do to them when he had you both held captive?" He asked, looking back at Tubbo. The hybrid hesitated to answer, if he admitted what he saw happen to his friend, Philza would definitely know something similar happened to him. The anthopian swallowed his nerves though and answered, "he... often did experiments on them and tased them at dangerously high voltages anytime time they did something he didn't like..." He muttered, purposely not going into detail. 

               For a few tics, the yellow feathered avian was silent other than a single, barely noticeable, worried chirp, "did he do those things to you too?" He asked, his expression unreadable. Tubbo hesitated again, "...yeah..." He whispered, hating how vulnerable he sounded in that moment. The hircusian hybrid heard Technoblade let out a protective grunt from where he was still sitting at the control panels and silently listening to the conversation. He had a dark expression as he stared down at the panels, the same one that always screamed that he wanted revenge. Phil had let out more worried and irritated chirps, his wings fluffing up in a way that made him look ready for a fight, Wilbur's wings had fluffed up too, but he stayed silent, staring down at the floor in anger.

               Tubbo was about to try to reassure everyone that he was fine, even though he wasn't, but before he could get a word out, ⏁⍜⋔⋔⊬ approached him, seemingly sensing his emotions. The human leaned down and gently picked up the anthopian before hugging him close to their chest. Tubbo froze up a bit from the physical affection, but surprisingly enough, he felt safe in their arms, the hybrid slowly felt all of his grief, anger, and most of all, fear that he hadn't realized he bottled up ever since escaping Dream's ship bubble up all at once. The hircusian clung to his friend's shirt, trying to hold back his tears, but ultimately failing. He pressed his face into ⏁⍜⋔⋔⊬'s shirt as he cried, Tubbo hated that he was falling apart in front of almost everyone, they were going to think less of him- they were going to think he was just a fragile and weak insectian now, he had to stop- he had to stop-!

               The anthopian hybrid was brought out of his thoughts by ⏁⍜⋔⋔⊬ gently rubbing his back and imitating his comforting buzzes. Tubbo nearly forgot Techno, Phil, and Wilbur were still in the room. The buzzes sounded so much like an anthopian's other than the slight accent, it made the hircusian instantly relax and subconsciously copy the sounds.

               Philza eventually approached the two of them, gently running his filed down talons through Tubbo's fur, the yellow feathered avian always made sure his talons were dull so he didn't accidentally scratch any of them. "Tubbo? Are you okay?" He asked softly, "I'm fine" the hybrid replied bitterly, Phil sighed, "it's not healthy to hold in your emotions you know, especially after going through something so traumatic... Do you want me to schedule an appointment with Captain Puffy?" "no, we don't have time to, we need to help ⏁⍜⋔⋔⊬-" Tubbo began but was quickly cut off, "we do have time, helping the human get back home will take a lengthy process, plus, they'd probably be more than willing to wait for you to be emotionally ready," Phil said. 

               If this was any other time, Tubbo would've immediately refused and insisted they get his friend home first, but right now, the anthopian was too mentally exhausted to argue. "Fine..." He muttered before realizing the implications of Philza's words, "wait so, ⏁⍜⋔⋔⊬ can stay?" He asked, perking up a bit. The yellow feathered avian sighed, "for now, they don't seem like they want to hurt anyone, so yes, until we can get them home, they can stay." That seemed to lift Tubbo's spirits a bit, he hugged closer to his human friend, letting out a few happy buzzes which then caused ⏁⍜⋔⋔⊬ to seem less worried too, maybe things would be alright after all.

"Now, you didn't quite answer my question earlier, where's Ranboo?" Phil asked, causing Tubbo to freeze up again.

Well, fuck.

Notes:

Hello, I'm back, I'mma be honest though, I can't promise that I'll have a consistent schedule, but I'm going to try to get one going again,
Anyway, a couple things have happened, such as the fact that, as of posting this, it is my birthday! Although, that's the good news, the bad news is that my mom is in the hospital, so mixed emotions ig.
I can't really think of what else I wanted to say rn, but I'm stressed about a lot of things, I hope this chapter was at least a bit worth the wait, and I'm sorry if it isn't, but regardless, bye!