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On a beach not too far from Snowchester, there was a small wooden hut. Scattered around the hut were large craters, and the air smelled less like the salty beach and more like the residual dust from a creeper explosion mixed with the stench of rotting carcasses. A mooshroom laid below the ground, and there were no animals aside from the vultures circling something, probably wherever the stench was coming from. Footprints in the ground showed that a human once lived there. And if you look, about three-hundred blocks in the distance, a boy travels away from the carnage.
"Stupid Dream, stupid exile, stupid Logstedshire," Tommy mutters. "I will leave this hellhole of a server, Dream, mark my words!" Tommy hiked on, just until he was far enough to make his plan a reality. He had been working on a hub portal, because the main hub portal was locked by Dream. He built it slowly, over months, saving a few pieces of crying obsidian and glowstone. Every time Dream insisted on having a 'bonding session' and forced him to shove all his stuff in a hole and blow it all up he managed to save a small bit.
Walking towards the hidden chest of materials, he sees a small child, no older than a year, crawling through the grass. A spider hybrid, skinnier than Tommy. And Tommy is skinny as hell, being malnourished for most of his teen years. He's still malnourished, actually. Feeding the kid a piece of bread, he asks a few questions.
"Hey, you alone, kid, if you are, you can come with me, I promise I will try my absolute hardest to keep you safe," Tommy offers.
"Yes! Pwease lemme go with you! I'm Shroud!" The kid says.
"You can come, Shroud, I'm gonna keep you safe," Tommy says, scooping the kid in his arms and ruffling the kid's hair.
Yeah sure, he maybe might be missing a block, but it's one block, and he really can't go to the Nether now that Dream blocked all the portals off! He jogged to the materials bin. Making a hub portal was easy. Make a Nether portal frame, but use crying obsidian and make sure that the corners are left untouched. Put glowstone dust to fill in those corners. Except the one corner he doesn't have enough glowstone for. Then light the portal. The second the portal lights, Dream is teleported to Tommy, who shoves Dream to the side and steps through the portal. Light swirls around him, and he waits.
Tommy is spit out into the middle of the Void, clutching the kid close. "FUCKING HELL, NOT THE VOID," Tommy screeched, grasping at the code of the universe and looking for any server nearby. He finds one and latches on, and as his health drops dangerously low, he pulls himself out of the void and rips through the firewall, almost dying as he does so. His energy draining, his magic depleting, and his health dropping as he claws through the firewall, ripping through the huge shield. Then he falls, dropping towards the ground. He sees water below. Wrapping around the kid to protect him, Tommy braces for the giant slap of water and a huge splash.
Dragging himself and the kid to shore, Tommy sees a huge forest. He shuffles over into the forest, putting together a shoddy dirt hut for himself and the kid. He collapses onto the ground, and the second his eyes close, he sleeps.