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If you asked Dolos how he got into this situation he would tell you that he had no idea. He was just causing a little bit of minor terrorism. He did nothing wrong and none of this was his fault whatsoever. He was big man Tommy! Nothing was ever his fault and if anyone said otherwise you punch them because they are incorrect.

“ Tommy I swear to god. I leave the laptop for 2 seconds and I come back to you being chased by apocalypse and Morpheus? How the fuck did that happen? What the fuck did you do? ” Purpled said frantically as he tried to find Dolos on security cameras. There were cameras all around the city but there were many blind spots in their district because no one cares what happens in 9th.

“Well I just so happened to be walking by when I saw Apocalypse and Morpheus talking. I never see heroes in our district so I decided to eavesdrop on them! They must have really good hearing if they were able to hear me! I am the stealthiest person I know!” He defended. He was far enough ahead that Apo and Mor couldn’t hear him over the wind if he talked at a normal volume. He still talked loud enough they could hear him though. Just not what he was saying.

Purpled just sighed in response and was directing him around the district. Apo and Mor were slowly getting closer as Dolos got more exhausted. He looked behind him and saw just how close they were. Because of how close they were, Tommy, the smartest man alive, jumped off the fucking roof. It was only 2 stories so with his super cool, super special boots he would be fine. Maybe a couple bruises but it's better than being caught.

“ Tommy! What the fuck?” Purpled shouted through the coms as Dolos landed with a hisss from his boots. Damn. Those are some cool boots. 

“I think I might need some backup big man. They’re right behind me.” He whispered so the hero’s wouldn’t hear him. “I’m by Niki’s cafe. I’m passing the front doors now but I can keep looping around this area if needed.”

“ She’s on the other side of the district right now. Be there in 5 minutes, stay in the area. ” Purpled said as he quickly stood up to get his stuff.

Dolos was really out of breath at this point and his lungs were stinging. Tears formed in the corners of his eyes but he kept running because he couldn’t get caught. His chest feels the same way your nose does when you get water up it. It stung and felt dry and hurt. He made a loop around the cafe and ran into an ally just to meet a dead end.

He turned around and came face to face with Apocalypse. The heros backed Dolos to the corner. They walked slowly, probably to look cool. A mistake on their part really, it gave Purpled more time to get there.

“Heyyy big man! How have you been?” He had to stall. And what better way than talking to Apo! Morph stayed behind him at the front of the alley in case Dolos tried to run.

“Dolos. I don’t know what you are doing out today but you are under arrest.” Apocalypse said. As if. Dolos can never be caught, he is simply invincible. Saying they caught him is like saying that kid in his class made a cake that actually killed god.

“Sorry but I don't really feel like getting arrested today.” Dolos replied. He could see Purpled now but he’s still too far away. He just had to distract them long enough that Purpled could get their and do whatever he planned on doing. “I have wives to get back to.”

“You’re married?” Apo paused his walking. He really is stupid. Why dont he and Morph just arrest him already? Not that he’s complaining but come on. Is it really that hard to walk faster? If they did he would be behind bars by now.

“Of course! I have so many wives!” Dolos kept rambling so Purpled could get there.

“I can't tell if you're joking or if you’re just an asshole.” Apo said right before Purpled shot Mor in the leg. He shouted from the pain and that caused Apocalypse to turn around for a second. Morpheus is a full grown adult hero so Apo didn't run to his aid but he was distracted long enough for Dolos to run past him and escape.

Apo stayed in the alley because he couldn’t just leave Morph alone and injured. Tommy and Purpled made their way home in silence, choosing to talk once they were in the safety of their own home.

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Purpled stared at Tommy from across the table. They were sitting on opposite sides eating dinner. Tommy had been avoiding him for as long as he could but now Purpled gets to lecture him about being careful.

“Tommy.”

“Purpled.”

“Can you tell me why you thought eavesdropping on two of the top 10 heroes was a good idea when you were out as Dolos?” Purpled asked very slowly. He kept eye contact with Tommy the whole time. His voice was steady and his face showed no emotion.

“I could have gotten information from them.” Tommy defended. He broke eye contact and looked at his food. It was mashed potatoes and corn. Tommy had mixed the two together.

“Tommy. You could have gotten arrested or killed.” He paused. “You’re lucky I got there in time cause you would be rotting away in Pandoras for the rest of your life.” Purpled voice shook but he hid it by raising his voice the slightest amount.

“You do know what charges you would get right?” He paused once more but Tommy did not answer. “You are a wanted villain. You may not be in the top 5 but you’re up there. Do you know the charges for all of your crimes combined?” Purpled didn't yell at all, only slightly raising his voice, but you could feel his anger barely concealing his worry. 

There was a long pause before Tommy answered.

“Purpled-“

“What if they killed you?” Purpled kept his face blank.

“They didn’t. I’m still here.” Tommy said but it was weak.

“But what if they did? Just because they haven’t doesn’t mean they won’t, Tommy. You need to be more careful.” Purpled said.

The two just sat in silence for a moment. Purpled started talking again before Tommy could. “You need to get a job.”

Tommy knew he was avoiding the previous conversation. He also knows how much Purpled hates being vulnerable so he let it go.

 “A job? Where? Did you have somewhere in mind?” Tommy knew he needed one and he’d been looking but he wonders why Purpled brought it up.

“I did have something in mind.” Purpled stated but did not continue.

“Where?” Tommy urged.

“The hero tower. It sounds stupid and I probably is but you can get information on the heros we’re trying to kill.” Purpled rushed so Tommy couldn’t interrupt him before he explained his thought process. 

“Are you fucking insane? The Hero tower?” Tommy shouted. Purpled is smarter than this.

“If you need information on heros so bad you eavesdrop on them in villain get-up then you can at least try to get the job.” Purpled left no room for argument.

“I think it's stupid. If I get caught it's gonna be on you. I'm going on a walk.” With that Tommy stood from the table, grabbed his keys, and left.

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Tommy had been walking for about ten minutes. He had been going over everything that had happened in his head from running from Apocalypse and Morpheus to when he left the apartment.

He understands where Purpled is coming from with the job but Tommy is nervous. He hates heros and is fine fighting them but if he had to be in a tower with them all day as a civilian? That’s a lot.

Just as Tommy started considering applying for the job he walked into someone.

“Watch where you’re going asshole.” Tommy looked up and saw a short brown haired boy in an oversized jacket glaring at him.

“Oh my god I am so sorry about him!” A taller kid with white hair and a black mask apologized. He recognized this guy. It's the kid who made the cake to kill god in his culinary class last year. “Tubbo you can't just say that to people!”

“Well he's the one who walked into me! He should be apologizing” The shorter one, Tubbo, said. He recognized him from school as well.

Tommy looked at Rambo, or whatever his name is, and said “No he’s fine, I should have been watching my surroundings.” He turned to Tubbo. “I am really sorry for bumping into you.” Tommy decided to go along with this and pretend to actually feel bad. The kid was the real asshole here but Tommy could do something with this.

“Mhm.” Tubbo paused and looked at Mr. Cake man. “Let's go Ranboo.” His name is Ranboo then.

“Again I'm so sorry about him.” Ranboo said as the pair walked away.

Tommy watched as they turned the corner before he started heading home. He's been wanting more backup anyway, he might as well try to get them on his side. He remembers the last time he blackmailed and manipulated someone to work for him. It‘s a shame he killed himself.

As Tommy walks home he is much happier. He has a new thing to work on in his free time. He just hopes Purpled approves of getting two more roommates.

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“No.”

“But Purpled! I'm bored. Life is boring. I have nothing better to do with my time. It was fine last time.” Tommy complained. Purpled just stared at him.

“Being a villain is boring?” Purpled asked him. “And why on earth do we need two more roommates?” He didn't get it.

“Yes, being a villain is boring. And I don't need them. I want them. Like I said. It was fine last time so it will be fine now.” Tommy said. Eryn was a fun little experiment and now he wants a new one.

“Tommy. The last guy killed himself.” Well when Purpled says it like that it makes Tommy seem like the bad guy. ‘The other guy’ was just a sad person. He was depressed for reasons unrelated to Tommy.

“And? It was fun while it lasted. And since he’s gone now I need a new person. Or two.” 

“No”

“Why”

“Because”

“Why”

“Fine.”

“Really? You’re actually letting me?” Tommy was shocked by this. He really thought he would have to give up on this.

“It would be nice to have some more backup on the field. I will not pretend to be nice to them for you though.” Purpled admitted.

“Thank you my absolute best friend I love more than anything on earth!” Tommy shouted as he went to his bedroom for the night.

Purpled sighed once he was alone. He could only hope this doesn’t go wrong. It never has before, which only makes it more likely it will in the future.

He sat down on the couch and prayed to any god out there that would listen that sometimes the bad guys can win.

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In the morning Tommy woke up early before school. He threw on some clothes and made a bagel with cream cheese. He did not set any alarms earlier than he usually did but he woke up with the sun anyway.

“You’re up early.” Purpled walked into the kitchen still in pajamas.

“I couldn’t sleep. Well, I fell asleep last night but when I woke up I couldn’t go back to sleep.” Tommy replied with his mouth full of bagel.

Purpled pinched his lips together in a sign telling Tommy to chew with his mouth closed. “Have some manners.” It wasn’t sign language but it was a signal the two had for a while.

“And why couldn’t you fall back asleep?” Purpled asked.

“I have no clue. But I have been thinking about what you said.” Tommy took another bite of bagel.

“What did I say?”

“I think I’ll apply for a job at the hero tower.” Tommy set the bagel down.

“Really? Are you sure? I understand where you’re coming from when you said no. Don't feel pressured.” Purpled was acting like it wasn’t his idea in the first place.

“I’m sure big man” Tommy reassured the other. It was settled.

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Tommy had been having a great day. It started with his dad making pancakes because Purpled Punz and their dad were coming over. Purpled was going to stay for the night because Tommy’s parents, Purpleds dad, and Punz all had to go to this big event with the heroes. Tommy didn’t care enough to pay attention to all the details as he was just excited for Purpled to get there.

 He would later regret not spending more time with his parents before he left. He would later regret not telling them he loved them before they left for the event. But at the time Tommy had no idea what would happen that evening, there was no way he could have.

“I’m sorry we have to leave you overnight, dear.” Tommy's mom said. He didn't mind because he would be with his best friend.

“I’m 12. I’m almost a teenager. I can handle myself.” He replied not paying to much attention. Mainly focused on texting Purpled about when he would arrive.

Actual Grape

*We’ll be there in about 15 minutes*

Racoon

*Tell your dad to drive faster bitch*

Actual Grape

*Im not even in the car yet, have some patence*

**patience*

Racoon

*Imangine not being able to spell*

**Imagine*

*Fuck*

Actual Grape

*ok Tommy. See you soon*

*read 8:03 am*

“Purpleds family will be here in 15 minutes” Tommy stated much louder than necessary. His dad dropped the pancake he was moving to the plate onto the floor and cursed.

“That one is yours now.” His dad told him as he set it on the counter in front of Tommy. Instead of reacting verbally he just went back to playing on his phone. He quite enjoyed subway surfers but the constant ads made him bored quickly so he switched to another game. 

He was too excited(Nervous. Why would he be so excited to see someone he sees almost every day? He’s nervous.) to see Purpled that he was full of some kind of anxious energy. He doesn't know why he's so excited to see him but Tommy refuses to think about the fact something is obviously wrong. 

The doorbell rings and Tommy quickly gets up to go get the door. When he opens it he feels very upset. Like he is mourning people who are right infront of him. He feels like he is looking at a picture of an old loved one who passed away. He ignored that feeling and pulled purpled to the kitchen so they could get pancakes.

“Tommy, all that syrup is going to give you some kind of disease. You really don’t need that much.” Purpled had a disgusted look on his face seeing the pancakes drowning in the syrup.

“Meh meh meh, I’m Purpled and I like grapes and plums and blueberries and other purple things.” Tommy mocked Purpled.

“First of all, I eat things that arent purple. Just cause its in my name doesnt mean my life revolves around that one color. Second, blueberries? They have the word blue in them.” Purpled, the dumbass, thought blueberries were blue.

“Are you a fucking idiot? Blueberries are purple. You’re colorblind. Next your going to call Blackberries black.” Tommy said.

“Are they not?”

Tommy decided he was done with Purpleds bullshit and sighed, turning away. 

“Wait, are blackberries not black?”

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“You two behave yourselves. There are leftovers in the fridge and if you want you can rent a movie for under six dollars” Purpleds dad said as they were about to leave. Three of the ones leaving were dressed in the fanciest clothes they owned. Punz was just in a white t-shirt with black dress pants. Tommy had this anxious feeling all day but it was ten times worse as they stood at the door.

“Of course dad, we’ve been left alone before.” Pulled answered as tommy stood their trying not to cry. He had no clue as to why though.

“Tom, its going to be fine dear, we will be back a little after midnight.” His mom must have noticed his eyes becoming watery because she came up and hugged him. He wished he could go back in time and show her how much he loved her. He wished he could have told his parents how much he loved them every night and every morning. He wished he could pause time and say how much he loved them. He wished he could tell Purpleds dad how he saw him as an uncle and tell punz he was like an older brother. But instead he just held his mom tight and when she let go he  just stood there and said a simple “bye”.

“See you kids in the morning.” Tommys dad said. He wished once more he could pause time and never leave this moment. He nodded.

He ran up and gave punz and his dad a hug before quickly letting go and said a “see you tomorrow” with a feeling he would not see them tomorrow.

When the door closed behind the four purpled spoke up.

“What was that about? Are you ok?” Purpled seemed concerned. Tommy could tell he did not share the feeling that something was wrong.

“Something is off. I’ve had this feeling all day but it just got so much worse.” Tommy whispered, trying not to burst out sobbing. He didn’t even know why he felt this way. “It feels like something bad is going to happen.”

“It’s going to be fine, the event they are going to has heroes. If anything happens they will save them.” Purpled said. “Some of the best heroes will be there! Like Bastet and Sol!”

Tommy just hummed in agreement. “Let’s watch a movie to get our minds of things.” He sounded defeated as he suggested it.

“It’s going to be ok.” Purpled whistered, as if telling a secret.

“Yeah.” Tommy really felt like it wasn’t.

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Tommy and purpled had heated up some leftover pasta and made popcorn while they decided on what movie to watch. Tommy wanted to watch Moana but Purpled wanted to watch Inception.

“Moana is clearly superior to whatever you want to watch.” Tommy said as he took his plate out of the microwave.

“That’s literally a Disney princess movie.” Purpled rolled his eyes.

“Are you saying you are to good to watch a Disney movie? Are you sexist Purpled? Are you saying it's for girls? Cause I do not think I am too good to watch an amazing movie with a badass woman main character.” Tommy accused Purpled.

“I am not saying that I’m too good for it. I am saying I would like to watch a different movie because I prefer it. Inception is about this guy who goes into a dream inside of dreams and stuff, it's really cool.” Purpled told Tommy about the movie some more and Tommy decided it did sound pretty cool.

“Fine. But only because I changed my mind. You did not convince me or win the argument.” Said the blond.

They eventually finished heating up their dinner and getting the popcorn ready. Tommy went outside to the garage fridge to get two cokes while Purpled rented the movie. When Tommy got back they pulled out the pull out bed from the couch and put many pillows and blankets. They finally turned off the lights and started the movie.

“I bet its gonna be shit.”

“Shut up and watch the movie tommy.”

They got about halfway through the movie when tommy got that feeling again. It started small with him thinking about how his parents haven’t texted him yet and how purpled dad hadn’t text him either.

Then the movie suddenly switched to the news showing the building their parents were in being attacked.

“Villain Minx is attacking the city hall! Police arrived at the scene not too long ago and hero’s are evacuating civilians! If you live or are near the city hall evacuate immediately.” The reporter's voice went fuzzy after that. Tommy couldn’t hear much anymore.

 He couldn’t hear Purpled asking him if he’s ok. He couldn’t hear the reporter updating the situation. He didn't notice when the movie started playing again and Purpled changed it back to the news to see what was happening.

When he could hear again, Purpled was shaking him lightly trying to get him back.

“mmy. Tommy, are you with me?” Purpled notices his eyes have gained focus again and were looking at him. “It's going to be ok. They are with the hero’s.” He was trying to reassure himself just as much as he was for tommy.

“No, Purpled, you don't get it. This is what that feeling was. They’re not going to make it. I knew this was going to happen. Maybe not this exactly but something like this.” Tommy was panicking. His breathing was speeding up when Purpled grabbed his shoulders.

“Tommy, breathe.” He said firmly. He was putting pressure on his shoulders but not enough to feel constricting. When Tommy's breathing slowed down the crushed Purpled in a hug and cried. He cried knowing his parents wouldn’t make it no matter what Purpled said. He cried from that god awful feeling he’s had all day. And he cried not knowing what would come next. It didn't take long for him to pass out.

A few hours later Purpleds exhaustion also won over and he fell into a restless sleep.

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(I have no clue how this works so forgive me)

Tommy woke up to knocking on the door. There were three quick knocks, a pause, then three more. Purpled woke up a moment after him.

“Coming!” Purpled yelled to the door because Tommy just sat there and never got it. He rushed to the door to open it. There stood some worker for the state.

The whole thing was fuzzy but Tommy could recall the worker telling Purpled their parents and puns died. They said they were going to find family members willing to take them in. Purpled said something to the worker and pulled Tommy to a room the worker couldn’t see.

“Tommy. We have to leave. They are going to separate us and send us to foster care.” He whispered so the worker couldn’t hear. He was suggesting they run away.

“Sure.” Tommy replied, still somewhat out of it.

“Tommy. I am going to need more than a ‘sure’ for this.” Purpled said. This was a big thing.

“Yes. We can run away. Do we go now? How? Where will we go?” Tommy started asking questions. Purpled just interrupted him.

“We don't have time to figure things out. Grab two backpacks and I’ll run and get some money from your parents room. Where is the emergency stash?” Purple whispered.

“It's behind the bed in a gray box that says ‘photos’. There should be a few thousand.”

“Okay. Get some backpacks and blankets. Put on a hoodie and sweatpants and get me some too.” Purpled told him as he rushed to Tommy’s parents room. They had to hurry so the worker wouldn’t get suspicious.

Tommy grabbed two backpacks, hoodies and sweatpants. He grabbed two pairs of running shoes and 4 blankets that could fit in one of the backpacks. Purpled ran in and they each put on warmer clothes.

“We need food and water. Get necessities, nothing you want, just things we need.” Purpled said as the two entered the kitchen. They got two metal water bottles and some plastic. They grabbed a loaf of bread and some apples, granola bars, hand sanitizer, and a brush. Tommy ran upstairs to get them each another pair of clothes.

“I think that’s all we can take if we don't want to get slowed down.” Tommy said to Purpled. As they were about to go out the back door, Purpled stopped.

”Wait, there’s one more thing we need,” he whispered as he ran upstairs. Tommy heard knocking and calls of ‘hello?’ From the front door. They were taking too long. Purpled rushed back down the stairs holding a baseball bat and a black case.

“You're taking my parents' gun? Isn’t that dangerous?” Tommy whisper yelled.

“So are the streets. The case has the gun and some amo. It's for protection.” Purpled said as he pulled Tommy out the sliding glass door. “Are you sure you want to do this? There is no going back.”

“I'm sure.”

And with that the two boys hopped the fence to the field behind the house and ran. They ran till they couldn’t and because they had so much stuff it wasn’t far so they took the cheapest train to Essempi.

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Tommy walked into class right before the bell rang. Despite waking up early he didn’t leave the house on time. Looking around the classroom he saw cake kid in the back right corner. They made eye contact but Ranboo looked away. Tommy went to his normal seat and decided to talk to Tubbo first.

English went fine. They started an essay but nothing too big, he went to social studies with Purpled and they were lucky to have gotten placed in the same table group.

Spanish went well but Tommy doesn’t understand the point of “menos” but it's not English, ASL, or German so it's obviously going to be weird to him as it's new. Tommy's just cool like that knowing multiple languages.

Break lasted two seconds as usual and math was decent. What he had been waiting all day for was PE so he could talk to Tubbo. They weren’t near each other in the locker rooms but that’s fine because who wants to talk to someone who you’ve only talked to once half naked changing for PE? 

He walked into the gym and stood in the corner waiting for Tubbo to walk out. He was watching the locker room doors when someone came up next to him.

“Oh! You’re the asshole who doesn’t look where he’s going!” Despite Tubbo calling him an asshole he didn't seem upset by it anymore. He just smiled at tommy.

“Ok? I'm sorry about that but do you need something?” Tommy asked. He tried not to sound rude like he didn't want him there. He had been waiting for this period all day.

“Nope.” He popped the p. ”I'm just bored and have no friends in this class. So now I'm going to follow you around.” He wasn’t smiling anymore but not like he was no longer happy but just because the excitement of knowing someone in his class had died down.

“Ok” Tommy didn't do much of the talking for a while, he just listened to Tubbo talk about whatever to fill the silence. They had to go to their assigned spots in PE for warm-ups but they started walking around the gym together afterwards Because it was a free day.

“So who’s your favorite hero?” Tommy needed to figure out their opinions on villains so he could get an Idea on how hard it would be to get them on his side.

“I fucking hate heros. They do absolutely nothing in the lower districts.” Tubbo was frustrated just thinking about Heros.

“Well then who’s your favorite villain?” Tommy was hoping Tubbo would be more find of villains but even if he wasn’t at least hes not a hero fan.

“Villains are even worse. Being heros and ignoring the poor people is bad but killing civilians is much worse. I’d choose a hero over a villain any day.

Well it's not ideal but Tommy can work with this. It will be more of a challenge because Eryn was already on the villain's side but Tommy is determined and has nothing better to do with his time.

“Ah, I understand. I can see all sides of things. Heroes do help some people and villains usually have a reason to be villains. But I completely understand your side as well. Does this mean you like vigilantes?” Tommy decided to see if he's against the hero and villain world completely or if he likes vigilantes. He may be one or know one even.

“They’re cool, they help out anyone they can. I like most of them.” So Tubbo wasn’t against the whole thing but only liked vigilantes. “Who’s your favorite from each?”

“Ah, for Hero, probably Hephaestus, villain, probably Apate, and for vigilante I’d have to say Lethe.” Tommy did not say he was his own favorite villain because who does that?

“Any reason behind why or just because why not?” Tubbo kept going with the hero and villain talk because even if he didn’t agree with Tommy he was still curious. He could respect the others opinion as long as he wasn’t some villain obsessed lunatic.

“Well Haphae is cool with how smart he is with tech, Apate is just a badass, and Lethe has cool powers and does good.” Tommy did genuinely like these people for the reasons he stated.  The hero and vigilante he still appreciated their work even if he is on the other side.

The two continued talking about heroes and villains and sharing their opinions. Turns out Lethe is also Tubbo’s favorite vigilante and if he had to choose a hero and villain it would be Ichor because the hero had cool powers and Artemis because she is also a badass woman.

They eventually got off the topic of the Hero world and talked about many different subjects before the bell finally rang and they could go to lunch.

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Tommy had gotten out of his gym clothes and was about to leave the locker room to go get lunch. Purpled had left during fourth period because school was boring and he didn’t want to be there so he was going to be alone for lunch so he planned on asking Tubbo and Ranboo to sit with them when he saw their table.

He stared walking to the Cafeteria when Tubbo ran up behind him.

“Hey! Want to sit with me and Ranboo today? Unless you have other friends you sit with of course.” Tubbo was breathing heavily due to running uphill to catch up with Tommy.

“Sure. My friend left school early today anyway.” Tommy looked over to the shorter as he gave a thumbs up in return. He was still catching his breath.

They walked the rest of the way in silence and Tubbo pointed Tommy to the table Ranboo was at before he went to get a school lunch.

Tommy had packed his own lunch so he walked over to Ranboo. He sat down loudly right across from him and they looked at each other but as soon as they made eye contact Ranboo looked away.

“Tubbo said to sit over here cause my friend is gone today.” Tommy said after a Moment of silence. “Also, are you uncomfortable with eye contact or something? Cause I’ve noticed you always look away pretty quickly.”

“Yeah, a little bit.” Ranboo admitted. “But it’s fine if you don’t feel like remembering to not it’s really not that big of a deal.” He seemed nervous as if Tommy would make eye contact anyway.

“Ok. I’ll make sure I don’t make eye contact with you then, it’s not that hard of a thing to do.” Tommy may be a villain but he’s not a complete asshole. If Ranboo was uncomfortable with eye contact he wouldn’t make eye contact.

Tubbo arrived not long after they got out their lunches. He had some little snacks, a soggy soy burger, and some probably expired chocolate milk.

“Hey guys, miss me? I know you must have been so bored while I got my food.” Tubbo said dramatically. He tossed Ranboo his little pack of dried cranberries as he sat down and Ranboo slid across the table a granola bar for the shorter.

“That looks like shit.” Tommy said, pointing to Tubbos' food.

“It is shit.” Tubbo replied.

Tommy rolled Tubbo a peach from his lunch and then the three ate with Tubbo rambling about many things. Tommy quite liked these two but he would have to find out if Ranboo has the same views as Tubbo. He probably will but from what Tommy has seen he will be easier to convince.

Lunch went fine and it was soon time for the 6th and last period of the day. Tommy and Ranboo shared science next. They didn’t sit at the same table but the teacher let them sit wherever when they started working.

Their teacher was named Mr. Siensemen, pronounced sci-sense-men but people called him Mr. Science Man.

Mr. Science Man explained what they would be doing that day, something about minerals. When he was done talking and the class started going to their friends Tommy walked over to Ranboo who was sitting at a table with one seat left.

“Hello boob boy, cake man, whatever the fuck your name is.” Tommy knew ranboos name but because of how funny he was he just said other things.

“It’s Ranboo, hi Tommy.” Ranboo sounded like he was already tired of Tommy being there. He never even looked up from his laptop and just continued doing his work.

Tommy just continued to stare at him for about a minute as ranboo continued to work. Tommy had sat down in the chair across from him at this point. “What do you want?” Ranboo finally looked up from his computer.

“I am bored because I don’t feel like doing my work. And you are here so I figured since we are such good friends I could hang out with you.” Tommy had his arms crossed on the desk and his chin in the middle and was looking up at Ranboo.

“You're not getting my answers.” Ranboo said before looking back down at his laptop.

“That is not why I am here but it would have been nice. Anyway, what's your favorite color?” Tommy was going to ask him a bunch of random questions and write them all down because he’s a great friend and because then he will get his opinions on heroes and villains.

“Purple, why?” Ranboo still did not look up.

“Oh! Purpled also likes purple. Although his favorite color is actually green.” Tommy wrote down ranboos name at the top of a page in his notebook and wrote that purple was his favorite color under it.

“His name is Purpled and it’s not his favorite color?” Ranboo asked. It was confusing if you didn’t think about it too much.

“He didn’t choose his name, his mom did. His mom died. So I guess his dad just named him after her favorite color.” Tommy said as if it was something that is brought up in everyday conversations.

“That's dark.” Ranboo said, still working.

“What’s your favorite food?”

“I don’t know”

“Who is your favorite singer or band or whatever?”

“Lemon Demon”

“Video game?”

“Splatoon? I’m not sure”

“Soda?”

“Pepsi”

“Weirdo, who’s your favorite hero?” Tommy finally got to the question he had been wanting to ask.

“I don’t really have one.” Ranboo replied still just looking at his laptop.

“Why don’t you?” Tommy pushed

“Because they don’t do anything in the lower districts I don't really like any.”

“Who’s your favorite villain or vigilante then?” 

“Still don’t have one, I’m fine with vigilantes but that’s it, I don’t have a favorite” Ranboo didn’t seem to care nearly as much as Tubbo.

Tommy quickly moved past the topic and continued to ask Ranboo about his favorite things.

Tommy went back to his table a few minutes before the bell rang for them to go home. It rang and he walked the mile to his apartment to meet with Purpled.

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Tommy walked into the apartment to Purpled sitting at the table doing the schoolwork he missed from leaving school early. “Why do you go home early just to do schoolwork anyway?”

“Because if I come home I can start my work whenever I want and if I end early I don’t have to sit through hours of just being there.” Understandable.

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The week had gone by and it was finally Saturday. Tommy had introduced purple to Tubbo and Ranboo. The four had sat together at lunch for the whole week and Tommy had gotten more information on them. Essempi worked a bit different from other places. Many kids moved out half way through highschool because that’s just how it was. It was very common where they lived and in the surrounding areas. Most kids had roommates as well as it was a sort of dorm system but not on campus. But then living with their parents was something Tommy was worried about, luckily they were roommates already.

Some of the things Tommy had learned about them is that they did not live with their parents but Ranboo still had some. Ranboo had two moms and Tubbo’s dad died of a heart attack when he was three and got out of the Foster system when he turned 16 and got emancipated.

Tubbo and Ranboo did not know Tommy and Purpled had been living together since they were 13 and were homeless for a few months before they got a very shady Appartement from a landlord who didn’t care for legal documents and shit as long as she was paid.

Tommy learned things like favorite food, colors, activities, he also learned things like little mannerisms they have. Nothing too interesting. He planned on hanging out with them for a few more months before trying to get them to move in. He really has no need for them but he’s bored and willing to do unnecessary things to cure that boredom.

Back in the present Tommy was staring up at the hero tower about to walk in for his interview. Tommy was not broke but still couldn’t afford a suit so he was just wearing black jeans and a white long sleeved sweater. It wasn’t supper baggy but not form fitting either. His hair was fluffy and clean because he had taken a shower a while before coming. The building was very tall, it was probably only a few stories shorter than the Empire State Building in America. It had to at least be 80 stories tall.

When Tommy walked into the building he was surprised at how empty it was. There was an intern talking to the two front seat workers and other than Tommy no one else was on that floor. He had expected it to be full of people running around and doing work but it was just empty. There are so many floors he can’t expect them to have enough people to fill each one all the time.

“May we help you?” One of the front desk workers, Their name tag said “Kat,They/Them”, asked. They Had short lime green hair with sage green tips.

“I’m here for the interview for the SBI.” Tommy stated it as a question even though he wasn't asking anything.

“That would be on floor 63! The elevator is over there.” The other worker said. They had long white hair with purple streaks, some a light shade some a darker shade. Their name tag read “Melloney She/They”

“Thank you.” Tommy said as he walked to the elevator. He hit the button and waited. He could hear quiet rave music from the floor above but the elevator arrived before he could think much of it.

He stepped into the elevator and listened to the music it played after pressing floor 63. It was faster then most elevators but not quick enough to throw off his balance from not preparing for any quick sudden movement.

The elevator dinged as he got to his floor and when the doors opened it was much more crowded than the lobby. It was not full and more people would definitely be coming but it was still more.

He sat on a small couch that could probably seat 2 people but no one would just come up and sit on a tiny couch next to someone who they didn’t know.

Looking around the room there were probably around 50 people. He was sure it would reach around 100 by the time the interviews actually started.

Tommy just sat on his phone switching between playing subway surfers and flappy dunk. He sat there for around 20 minutes when the interviews started. Or at least we’re almost starting.

“Everyone will get a number, when your number is called you will go into the interview room that is on your slip of paper, there are 2 different rooms to make the process quicker.” Ichor had just arrived. He didn’t look very strong, he was around 5’10 and didn’t look like he had much muscle. Anyone who had even heard of him would know better though. 

Ichor, sometimes called “the blood god” like his alias, could manipulate water. It’s a common power but he made it much more than it sounds. He had perfected his power and became strong in using it. He got to the point where he could manipulate any liquid that contained water, including blood. That’s probably where he got the name. It took much training to get there and the average person with water abilities could not do what he could.

Anyway, Ichor walked in and everyone went silent when he spoke. “Form three lines to get your numbers from me, Morpheus, and Vulcan.” The other 2 hero’s had arrived right after he said that. It was probably intentional so they looked cool. They didn’t.

Everyone began lining up in a single file line. It was dead silent with the occasional sneeze or cough. The line moved quickly because while some of the people may be in the line of their favorite hero, everyone was being professional.

Tommy got to the front of Vulcan's line and was handed his paper slip. The hero’s face held little emotion, the “blindfold” covering his eyes not helping, but from what Tommy could see, he was just happy to be there, like a little puppy. You could see a very faint smile if you looked hard enough. He was also bouncing slightly on his feet. For such a cruel hero he did seem quite innocent. Though Tommy knew better.

His slip had the number 23 and it said “room #2”. Tommy sat down and waited for the interviews to start. He started jumping through games to keep him at least a little entertained while he waited. He also worked on his creative writing assignment he got Friday in English. He liked his idea but was struggling to write. He had to write 2000 words but was only half way done. To help with the word count he had some paragraphs just describing characters or rooms. His train of thought was cut off by the sound of someone sitting in a chair in front of him. 

Ichor had a red plastic chair and dragged it in front of the couch. He sat with his legs crossed. Aka, criss cross Applesauce. Tommy had no clue what else to refer to it as so he settled for what his kinder teacher taught him.

Ichor just stared at him as if he expected Tommy to talk first. The latter just looked back at his phone and continued writing about a land without heroes and villains.

Ichor cleared his throat to get Tommy’s attention. Tommy just looked up with his eyes and raised his eyebrows. “What is your name?” Ichor asked, sounding like he’d rather be anywhere else. He no longer sounded commanding like he did earlier.

Tommy looked back at his phone as he said “Tommy.” He found it very funny to watch Ichor struggle to make the conversation.

“Why did you decide to come here?” Ichor still sounded very uncomfortable.

“I need a job, this pays well. Plus my roommate insisted on it.” Tommy had set his phone down by that point  and was also crossing his legs on the couch facing Ichor.

“You have a roommate?” Ichor was trying to keep the conversation going but Tommy would continue to give short answers.

“Yes” He is hilarious.

“What do they do?” Ichor asked.

“Why are you talking to me? Is it part of the interview? Were you three,” Tommy pointed to the other two hero’s talking to people. “Told you to come talk to us to see what we are like out of the interview?” Ichor seemed shocked. He laughed a little bit.

“You are observant, aren’t you?”

“Of course.”

Just as Ichor was about to speak again there was a voice over the intercom.

“Number 23.”

Tommy pocketed his phone that was sitting on the couch next to him and stood up. ”That’s me.”

Ichor stayed silent as Tommy walked away. As Tommy walked he straightened out his shirt and brushed off anything on his pants.

He arrived at a door a little down the hall. He didn’t hesitate before opening it. Inside wasn't too large but most definitely wasn’t small. There was a wooden desk with a black metal file cabinet on the side. Behind the desk was Apollo. Apollo was a hero who worked with Ichor and Geras and formed a hero trio Called “SBI”. The trio was who he was trying to intern for.

Tommy had no need for fake documents as nothing on them could give away that he was a villain. He and Purpled kept the documents they had their whole lives and so nothing on them was fake. Other than their one big secret, they had nothing else to hide.

“Tomas Ennet?” Apollo looked up from the file he was looking at and gave a small smile with closed eyes.  He was wearing a yellow jumper with a white collared shirt underneath. He had gold wire rimmed glasses. He had curly brown hair and dark brown eyes.

“That’s me.” Tommy sat in the chair on the other side of the desk.

“Tell me about yourself.” Apollo crosses his arms and leans back in his chair.

“What about myself? There are many things about me. I could talk about how I work or where I’ve worked, I could talk about my favorite things, I could talk about anything really. I’m going to need more specifics.” Tommy sat up a little bit straighter and crossed his ankles.

“How about we start with how you handle stressful situations?” Apollo seemed slightly amused.

“Well usually I’ll just take a quick break so I can calm down and then figure out a way to get the task done.” Tommy answered. He was being honest for the most part.

“Okay, sure. I’m going to give you a few situations and have you tell me what you would do in them, okay?”

“Okay”

Apollo started giving the first situation. “Someone in the office dislikes you and is constantly doing things to annoy or inconvenience you. What would you do?” He tilted his head slightly when he finished speaking.

“Probably nothing for a while but if they don’t stop from a lack of reaction I would probably ask them why they don’t like me and see if there is any way for me to help with that dislike. If they don’t cooperate I would see if there was a way to avoid them by changing when I do things so our paths don’t cross.” Tommy had lied for a lot of it as he would not be so calm and would be much less kind. If it came to it he would even threaten them.

“Ok we will do a few more of these and then you can leave.” Apollo stated.

Apollo gave a few more situations before moving on. “Why do you want this job?” 

He didn’t. Tommy did not want this job so he wasn’t going to pretend he did. “I don’t, not really. Me and my roommate need the money and this job pays well. It seemed more appealing than any of the other options and it pays well. It would help me make rent easier and get us more than the bare minimum needed to survive.” Tommy could always rob a bank or some rich pricks house but that is hard and he can’t use all the money immediately. He would need to slowly add it to his account.

Tommy knew he wouldn’t get the job if he kept acting like this but that was the goal. Apollo looked concerned for sons reason Tommy didn’t care to find out.

“Where have you worked before?” Apollo continued on with the interview.

“I’ve worked in restaurants and fast food places, I’ve been a waiter at Kinoko and I’ve worked at Wilburgers.” When Tommy mentioned Wilburgers Apollo made a small huffing noise that seemed to be laughter.

The interview went the same with some similar questions, typical interview things. When the questions were done they talked about what he would do in the job. When Tommy left not many people had gotten done with interviews. It made sense, there were only two interview rooms.

Tommy walked to the elevator and pressed the button for the ground floor. When he got back to the bottom he could still hear some quiet rave music. He ignored it and started to walk to the train station to get home.

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Tommy walked into his apartment and set his keys on a table near the door. He walked into the kitchen and Purpled was making lunch. It was grilled cheese and tomato soup.

“How did the interview go?” Purpled set the spoon he was using to stir the soup down on a paper towel and turned around to face Tommy.

“It went well.” Tommy’s reply was short because he had nothing much to say. “The people at the front desk have cool hair.”

“That’s nice, food’s almost ready so sit down at the table, we can put on a movie or something after we eat.” Purpled said as he flipped one of the sandwiches.

“I say we watch Moana.”

“Ok Tommy.”

And with that Tommy sat down at the table and waited for Purpled to join him and everything seemed fine.

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Everything was not fine. It had only been two days since the interview at the hero tower and Tommy and Purpled had gone out as villains. Tommy was bored and he decided to try robbing a bank because they were low on money

anyway and Purpled insisted he come with him. It had been going well, it was almost closing time so not many people were there, but enough to get a hero over there. Probably two because of who they are and because of the size of the bank. 

They were in full villain get-up which wasn’t much. They had black pants that were like a crossover between jeans and sweats. Tommy wore a red hoodie with a black pocket and hood and Purpled wore a colorblock one with red, blue, yellow, and white. Their gas masks each had a design that looked like vines wrapping around them, Tommys had red and there was Yellow on Purpleds. They each had colored contacts instead of any kind of goggles or eye covering. Tommy had black sclera contacts with a scarlet red circle where his iris was, Purpled just had pure black sclera contacts. There was nothing covering their pupils so they could see perfectly fine.

They walked in as if they were just civillains coming to do normal bank things. It took a second for people to notice they weren’t civilians. When people finally noticed no one screamed or ran, instead most people just froze up. A few people slowly backed towards the exit but Tommy was standing there blocking it. A Little kid was quietly crying and clinging to his guardian's arm but other than that the only sound was Purpleds footsteps as he walked up to the vault door in the back.

They were not stupid and knew that one or more of the people behind the desks had pressed the little button underneath that would alert the authorities. 

“What’s the code?” Purpled asked to anyone who would answer, when no one did Tommy pulled out a knife. 

Some worker stuttered out the code so no one would get hurt and Tommy put away the weapon.

Purpled opened the vault to find yet another vault. Once again he asked for the code and it was hesitantly given. Tommy had gathered everyone in a corner and stood near them as Purpled was in the vault. It was taking a surprisingly long time for any police or hero’s to show up that Tommy was considering just leaving without the fight he had been itching for.

Purpled walked out with a Walmart bag filled with neatly stacked cash. The whole robbery had been very quiet with no one making much noise and Tommy was getting bored.

“So, how have you been?” Tommy sat down in front of some random man and crossed his legs. He tilted his head slightly to the side and blinked at the man.

“G-good,” the guy was slightly shaking when he responded to the villain. The man wasn’t huge but he definitely seemed stronger than Tommy. However as Tommy was also the villain Dolos' strength didn’t really matter when he had his weapon and his strategies.

“What’s your name?” Tommy was very bored. Purpled just sat down next to him as they waited for someone to get there so they could get out their energy that had been building up.

“Eliot.” His voice was still weak and he was still shaking but he no longer stuttered.

“Well Eliot, do you have a wife? Or a husband? Or even a significant other?” What was taking the hero’s so long? “Actually, I don't really care. Tyche, should we just leave? The hero’s are taking forever.”

Purpled looked over to Tommy and just nodded his head. Tommy sighed very loudly so everyone could tell how annoyed he was. Just as Tommy almost reached the doors a large window shatters and Apollo and Ichor rush through the mess.

“Finally! A hero!” Tommy bounced on his toes and clapped his hands. 

“Really? A bank? Don’t you guys have better things to do?” Apollo asked as he pulled out two throwing knives and spun them around in his fingers. The civilians in the bank finally move and run through doors and the broken window. Anything to not be trapped while a fight is happening.

Most civilians were out at this point and Ichor pulled out his sword.

“Stop moving.” Apollo commanded. They all knew that it wouldn’t work on Tommy but it would on Purpled. While the latter froze Tommy stood in front of him and pulled out two darts. His main weapon was an axe but he needed something he could throw.

He threw one of the darts at Apollo and it got his arm. The needles were long but not long enough for the dart to stay in his arm. The barrel was heavy and it fell down and the needle was dragged up through his arm. The dart was painful enough for Apollo to lose his focus on Purpled and he could move once more.

While that was happening Ichor had started charging at Purpled and Tommy threw the other dart at Ichor to get him to pause. With that slight bit of time Purpled was able to pull out a sword as well. Each of the villains carry multiple weapons for multiple situations. They each have some darts, knives and a sword and Tommy usually has an axe but he did not bring it to this.

Apollo was throwing knives at Tommy while Ichor and Purpled fought with their swords. Eventually Tommy got close enough to Apollo to fight back. At that point the hero had run out of knives and it was now hand to hand combat.

Tommy was fighting Apollo and starting to get tired. He was about to signal to Purpled that they should go but when he turned around he watched as Ichor put a sword through his friend's stomach.

Ichor pulled it out immediately after and Purpled fell to the ground and started coughing. Tommy pulled out a knife and threw it at Ichor. It landed in the hero's shoulder and he backed away from the bleeding villain on the ground in front of him.

Tommy screamed out to his friend. He was furious but had to act more sad. He could get the hero’s to not fight as hard if he did. “ Tyche!”

Tommy ran over to Purpled and checked for his pulse. It was there but was getting slower. He threw a smoke bomb onto the ground, grabbed Purpled, and ran out the broken window. The heroes didn’t chase him. They most likely felt guilty. They weren’t supposed to aim to kill but they did anyway.

He ducked into a nearby alleyway and took of Purpleds hoodie to see the wound better. He looked around and took off anything that would give away that they were villains, and he took off his own hoodie. 

“Do you think you could take off your gas mask and take out your contacts?” Tommy asked Purpled. He had not passed out yet but could not use any of his muscles in his stomach. 

Purpled made a small “Mhm” noise. He began doing what Tommy asked and when they took out their contacts they threw them away because they were less important at the moment. They made a little pile of their things and left it behind a dumpster.

“Ok, we are going to a hospital and we will claim I, as in Dolos, stabbed you when you tried to escape the bank during the robbery, ok? Stay with me here.” Tommy put Purpleds arm around his shoulders and took most of the weight and started going to the hospital as fast as he could.

They were about a third of the way there when someone stopped them. It was Elliot. Luckily they were not in villain getup and looked like normal civilians.

“XD, do you need someone to drive you to a hospital?” Elliot seemed very concerned for Purpled wellbeing. He wouldn‘t be if he knew who he was but he doesn't so that's not something they have to worry about.

“That would be greatly appreciated.” Tommy and Elliot carefully set Purpled down in the back. “We were at the bank when Tyche and Dolos arrived. When the glass broke and we tried to run, Tyche did this with his sword.”

“I’ll drive as fast as I safely can, I’m sure he’s going to be okay.” Elliot tried to reassure Tommy. Purpled would be fine as long as they got there quickly. He had the gift of luck. Tommy doesnt know the specific things but it has a lot to do with percentages.

It was about five minutes before Tommy could see the hospital. They had called explaining the situation so there were people waiting on their arrival.

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Tommy was sitting in the lobby of the hospital, waiting for news on Purpleds condition. He knew he would live but he wanted to know how long his recovery would be.

When they had gotten to the hospital the doctors and nurses took Purpled to some room that Tommy couldn’t go into. He was informed Purpled would need stitches which Tommy could have assumed himself.

He had been waiting for a few hours when a nurse told him that he should go home because Purpled wouldn’t wake until the next day. While he wanted to stay he knew it would be useless to try to sleep in the hospital waiting room and decided to listen to the nurse.

He walked to the nearest train station and got on the next one going to 9th district. We just zoned out the whole way home and just thought about the heroes. He was relieved Purpled was going to be ok because even if he was almost 100 percent sure he would be okay it was still very worrying. He’s just glad his best friend would live, but he is very upset that he wasn’t supposed to. What Ichor did was meant to kill. He knew that, the heroes knew that, and yet they still did it.

Tommy was a villain so he was a hypocrite. His whole plan was to kill the hero’s but he’s allowed to be a hypocrite because it was his best friend who was hurt.

The train stopped and he started the short walk to his apartment. It was dark as the sun had set a little after they got to the hospital. Tommy looked up at the sky as he walked. Due to light pollution not many stars were visible but the ones that Tommy could see were beautiful. When Tommy was little his family used to travel a lot. They went to places like Valentia Island and Iceland to see stars.

He arrived at his apartment after about five minutes of walking. He went into his apartment and immediately went to lay in bed. He knew he wouldn’t be able to sleep easily but he wanted to be able to wake up as early as he could to get back to the hospital.

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What the fuck? 

Tommy was looking at his Email sitting in the waiting room at the hospital. He had gotten there early in the morning and Purpled hadn’t woken up yet.

He had gotten a notification that he got an important email and went to check it. It was from the SBI about the job interview. He expected to open it and “we regret to inform you…” but when he did he had to read it over multiple times.

He got the job? His interview was shit and he didn’t even try. Tommy did not want to be anywhere near Ichor or Apollo unless he was trying to kill them. He had no clue how he got the job and now he wanted it even less than he had before.

He just decided to ignore the fact that he had to go into his new job in three days. Three days after two of the people he will be working for almost killed his roommate and best friend.

He was freaking out over the fact that he will have to face these people. He watched Ichor shove his sword through Purpled stomach and not even look very guilty about it. He barely even looked like he regretted it. Tommy had felt a little guilty in his plan to kill the heroes because they might have been people who cared if they died and Tommy knew the pain of losing someone close to you. That guilt has died when the heroes showed no remorse for almost killing a child who they knew at least had someone.

“Thomas Ennet? Purpled has woken up and requests to see you.” A nurse calls into the waiting room and Tommy stands up to go to Purpleds room.

Tommy walked into the room and sat next to Purpleds bed. They didn’t have much to say because what could they?

“I didn’t know if you would be okay.” Tommy said this quietly. “I did but I didn’t. I know you have luck but it’s only luck. It’s not granted that you’re going to be okay all the time.”

Purpled took a second before responding to his friend. “So you know how I feel when you throw yourself into dangerous situations?” Instead of responding verbally Tommy just nodded his head.

The two sat in silence for a while before Tommy spoke up again.

“I got the job. I don’t think I should take it.”

“Why?”

“Because of what they did to you. I can’t work for people who hurt you.” Tommy had been looking at his lap but now he’s looking at Purpled. “Did you want me to take it?”

Purpled was quick to answer. “Yes. We can get information on them. I think you should take it.” The pair didn’t need to talk anymore and it was settled. Tommy would take the job and gather information on the heroes and kill as many of them as he could before he inevitably got caught or died himself.

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Purpled had to stay in the hospital for a week because of how deep the wound was and where it was. Tommy could not stay with him for the full week so he settled for visiting every other day. Tommy had left not too long after they talked about him working at the hero tower and Tommy had gone back home.

That was 2 days ago and now Tommy was standing in the lobby waiting for Kat and Melloney to get him his badge that would allow him access to any floors he may need to enter. Tommy was not looking forward to having to see Ichor and Apollo after their fight a few days prior.

“Here you go! The SBI floor is level 56.” Mellony handed Tommy his badge and her and Kat waved to him as he walked to the elevator. There was no longer quiet rave music from the floor above as Tommy got into the elevator this time. He pressed the floor 56 button and was prepared for the sudden quick movement so it didn’t startle him this time.

On his way up the elevator stopped to let in someone on floor 32. The doors opened and Hephaestus walked in. Looking through the doors it seemed he was leaving a workshop of some sort.

“Hello! Are you the new SBI intern?” Hephae pressed the floor 73 button as he asked his question. He stepped back as the doors closed and looked in front of him.

“That’s me.” They stood in silence for about 30 seconds before Tommy said something. “Talk to any women recently? Did you know I have many wives?”

Haphae huffed a laugh through his nose. “I’m sure you do,” He was about to continue speaking but the elevator stopped and the doors to the SBI floor opened.

Tommy shuffled out the doors and sighed when they closed. He closed his eyes and took a few breaths. He had no problem with the hero, it's just the elevator felt crowded with more than one person. It was already small and stuffy but when you add another person in there it's hard for Tommy not to start freaking out a little bit. Tommy was not very fond of small spaces due to an incident a few years ago.

“Hello! You must be Thomas.” The voice made Tommy open his eyes and look at whoever was speaking.

“Yes, but please call me Tommy.” He made eye contact with Geras, SBI’s third member. Tommy was glad he didnt have to see Apollo or Ichor yet. He would soon but now he had more time to calm down. He looked around at his surroundings a bit more and saw he was in a small room, not small enough to cause panic though, and there were three different doors.

“Of course Tommy, you can call me Phil. We will be together often so you wouldn't need to call me by my alias.” Tommy hadn’t even thought about the fact that he may learn the heroes' identities. He had only thought he could find out some of their habits and other small things. Ask them questions that would help him but they wouldn’t know they were helping him. He did not expect to know Geras name in the first five minutes of meeting him as Tommy and not Dolos.

“Your name is Phil ?” Tommy emphasized the name and scrunched his eyebrows together to make a disgusted face. “Are you the only one with a baisic as fuck name or is Ichor named Bob and Apollo named John?”

Phil laughed at Tommy’s response. “That would be funny but no, Ichor is named Techno-“

“ Techno ?”

“And Apollo is named Wilbur-“

“ Wilbur ?”

Tommy looked horrified that he had to work with people with such weird ass names. “Why? Can’t they change it legally once they are old enough? They are old enough to change their names, right? Why haven’t they?” Tommy’s voice sounded like he was very concerned for the two and that caused Phil to laugh even more.

“I don’t know, you can ask them later if you would like.” Phil laughed a little bit more before he motioned to Tommy to follow him as he started to walk to the door in the middle.

Phil opened the door and signaled for Tommy to walk in first as he held it open. Inside was a kitchen and living area. There was a big window replacing one of the walls and Tommy could see cars driving around and little ant sized people walking.

“The new intern is here!” Phil shouted down a hallway connected to the living room. Immediately there were hurried footsteps and Apollo quickly shuffled into the room. It took all of Tommy’s self control to not start glaring at the man. While he may not be the one who shoved a sword through his best friend's stomach he was still there. He looked at Tommy for a second before speaking.

“I forgot which one we picked, why did we choose this one again?” Apollo, no, Wilbur turned to face Phil who was on the other side of the small kitchen.

“Well, Tech said he wasn’t a fanboy like most of the other interviewees, and in your words, ‘They were all shit, but this one was a little less shit.’” Phil did air quotes as he gave Wilbur’s exact words from when they were deciding who to hire.

For a little while they just sat there in silence. Wilbur pulled out his phone and Tommy just looked at him with a face crossed between confusion and worry.

“Wilbur?” Tommy asked to get Wilbur’s attention.

“Yeah?”

“You know you can get your name legally changed, right?” Wilbur did not seem to understand what Tommy was implying and Phil resisted the urge to laugh because he wanted to see how this conversation went. That way Tommy said it was the way someone would say “You know you can tell me anything.’

“Of course I know that.” Wilbur seemed very confused as the concern on Tommy’s face grew. While Tommy still despised his existence and still wanted him dead, he felt bad for Wilbur. He got stuck with such a terrible name and that’s not his fault.

“Oh. Okay.” Tommy paused between words and spoke very slowly and let his worry show in his voice.

“Why?” Wilbur was starting to get a little bit concerned. He was still very confused and looked to Phil who was only covering his mouth trying not to laugh. 

“No reason.” Tommy knew that Apollo was stupid but he couldn’t even understand that Tommy was implying his name sucked? It really did so he was almost just as confused as Wilbur because how could he not know how much his name sucked? Did no one ever tell him?

Wilbur looked between Phil and Tommy still very confused when Phil spoke, “Mate, I think he’s implying that he thinks your name is bad and that you should change it.” Phil finally laughs a little as he explains to Wilbur what was happening. He sure does laugh a lot and it’s starting to get annoying.

Wilbur opened his mouth and scrunched his eyebrows to show his offense for a few seconds before he spoke, “You fucker! My name is perfectly fine!” Wilbur crossed his arms, huffed, then looked away.

“Okay Wilbur .”

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Ichor was sick that day so Tommy did not have to interact with him yet, although the entire time he had to be around Geras and Apollo he wanted to slice their heads off with his axe. They showed him around where he would need to go. They showed him his office and just had him follow them around for the rest of the day.

Tommy was now on his way to the hospital to complain to Purpled about his day. He was making sure he didn’t step on any cracks or else he would break his mothers back. His mother was dead.

It took about 30 minutes to get to the hospital and about 5 to be allowed to start walking to Purpleds room. He walked through the white halls with a red line going along the floors. It was probably to give the place a little color but it looked like someone dragged a bead body around and it left a trail of blood.

Tommy arrived at the room and pushed open the door. Purpled was on his phone and seemed very focused. 

“Purpled.” Tommy tried to get the others' attention but didn’t get a response. “Big man.” He walked over and sat in one of the chairs kept for visitors.

“Wait two seconds Tommy, I’m playing flappy dunk.” Understandable, flappy dunk requires your full attention once you get far enough.

“Well, I died, anyway what did you need?” Purpled set his phone on his lap and looked up at Tommy.

“I need to complain. Apollo is a bitch .” Tommy sighed and leaned back into his chair. “He kept calling me a child and doing bitch things.”

“Oh really?” Purpled really did not care.

“Yeah! Oh, I know the SBI’s names now though.” Now Purpled was interested. “Geras told me all of their names, his name is Phil, like the baisic bitch he is. Apollo is named Wilbur! His name is worse than Phil. But the one with the worst name? Techno. Ichors name is literally Techno. How stupid is that?”

“Ew, who names their kid Techno? Do his parents hate him? And they know they can legally change their names, right?” Purpled seems just as disgusted as Tommy did when he found out.

“That’s what I said! I asked Apollo but he didn’t understand what I was implying until Phil told him. Apparently they both just are fine with their names. Honestly, if I was named Techno or Wilbur I would become a villain to get back at the cruel world.” Tommy said the last part very dramatically like he was in a film.

“Tommy, you are a villain.” Purpled reminded Tommy. His brain paused for a second and he made a face similar to a goldfish.

“Oh shit, I am.” The two continued to talk and Tommy told him all about everything that happened.

They also decided they should start hanging out with Tubbo and Ranboo outside of school to get closer to them quicker. They decided to invite them over once Purpled got out of the hospital.

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“Hey bossman.” Tubbo waved to Tommy as he walked to their table. It was break and they had about two minutes to eat a snack before the bell rang for their next class. Ranboo was absent that day.

“Hello Tubso,” Tommy told them Tuesday the story they came up with on how Purpled got injured so they already knew why he wasn’t at school. “Me and Purpled were talking last night and do you guys want to come over to our apartment when he gets out of the Hospital?”

“Yeah, we can probably go, when will he be out of the Hospital?” The bell rang and the two continued talking as they gathered their things and started walking to their next class.

“He will be out Monday, so you guys could come over Tuesday after school?” Tommy suggested.

“Yeah, that works.” 

With that they parted ways and Tommy was thinking of ways to tell Tubbo and Ranboo about being a Villain. He had a few ideas but still had to decide. He walked into his math classroom and pulled out his laptop to start his work.

Chapter Text

It was Tuesday and the day after Purpled got out of the hospital, he had two more weeks off of work and one more off of school but at least he was out of the hospital bed and could walk around his apartment. 

Tommy’s job at the hero tower was the same as it had been on the first day. Ichor was still sick with something called Covid so Tommy had yet to have to interact with him, he wasn't sure how he would have stayed calm around him if he hadn't had a few days to calm down from the stress of Purpled getting stabbed. 

Ichor would be back on Thursday but Tommy was sure he could deal with being in the presence of the person who almost killed his best friend for a few hours each day if he was able to go without punching Wilbur in the face whenever he was near.

Geras and Apollo started introducing him to the work he would be doing like paperwork, running errands, and posting on their social media. There were PR people for the heroes as a whole but not for individual groups, Tommy was a teenager so they trusted him with their accounts.

After school on Thursday Tommy had went back to where he left his and Purpleds villain gear and was relieved to see it was still there. They would need a few things fixed or replaced but it was better than it all being gone. They needed new contacts and needed to fix Purpleds hoodie but their gas masks were okay.

School had just ended and Tommy, Ranboo, and Tubbo were walking to Tommy’s appartement. Tommy was looking at the concrete he was walking on to make sure to not step on any cracks. He was a bit nervous about the two coming over and hoped Purpled made sure all evidence of them being villains was hidden. 

They had been to Tubbo and Ranboos' apartment a few times and it was fun, they also found some interesting information about them when they had been left alone in Ranboos’ bedroom. Tommy just hoped what they learned didn’t affect their plans to have the two join them.

“-Bees won’t sting you if you don’t mess with them. They are so nice, I don’t understand why so many people don’t like them.” Tubbo and Ranboo were talking about bees while Tommy had zoned out for a few minutes. Tubbo huffed, then looked at Tommy, “Tommy, do you like Bee’s?”

“I love them, Ranboob over here is just a little bitch.” Tommy lightly punched Ranboos shoulder and smiled.

They continued to debate about whether or not bees deserved to exist and in the end Tommy and Tubbo won the argument. Ranboos' whole argument was they sting people but they gave up when he saw he wasn’t getting anywhere. By the time they got to the apartment Ranboo was telling them a bunch of facts about spatulas.

“Here it is, home sweet home.” Tommy dramatically opened his arms to show the building and started walking backwards to the staircase leading up to some doors. He turned around and started walking up the stairs, when he got to the top he unlocked the door and made a big show of opening it. He held the door open and bowed before lifting his head.

“Wow, so grand.” Tubbo said with as much of a monotone voice he could do. The trio walked in and Purpled was sitting on the couch watching a documentary about different berries. He heard them walk in and paused the tv.

“Imagine getting stabbed.” Tubbo said to Purpled as he walked over to the couch he was on.

“L” Ranboo said as he followed Tubbo.

“Thank you for being so concerned about my well-being, I assure you that I am fine.” Purpled rolled his eyes. “I didn’t realize you guys would get here so quickly, I would have picked up a bit more.” 

“Well you should have checked the time dumbass.” Tommy replied before leaning against a wall and facing Tubbo and Ranboo. “What do you guys want to do? We have a switch and a wii if we want to play video games.”

While Tubbo and Ranboo sat down on the couch Tommy stayed standing. He nervously looked around and noticed a bloodstain on the couch and hoped that Tubbo and Ranboo didn’t notice it as well.

After a bit of debating they decided to play something calm and decided on a video game called Stardew Valley.

Tubbo and Ranboo were getting into the game a lot and Tommy was glad he sat next to Purpled instead of Tubbo like he was going to.

“I am going to impregnate Pierre and force him to keep the baby so he has to piss it out.” Tubbo really did not like Pierre. Tubbo slammed his controller onto the couch in frustration and stood up. “I need to calm down.” He walked down a hall and into Tommy’s bedroom and Ranboo followed.

“Well that was kind of weird, surely he’s not that mad at the character he needs to step out?” Tommy started bouncing his leg before standing up and walking away.

Purpled threw his right arm over the back of the couch and twisted his body to see Tommy in the kitchen. He was feeling a bit shaky and needed to walk around. He paced around the kitchen for a bit and shook out his hands.

“You good man? I’m sure it’s fine.” Purpled was still looking at Tommy and was confused as to why he seemed so off today.

“Yeah, I’m just worried they will notice something around the apartment and think about it and make connections or ask questions.” He stopped pacing and started going back to the living room, and as he was walking Purpled started talking again.

“You know-“ Purpled was cut off by Tubbo storming into the living room holding something in his hand. His eyes were wide and he seemed horrified and furious at the same time.

He stopped at the end of the hallway he had come from and raised two bulkey objects and when Tommy realized what they were he sucked in a breath and made eye contact with him for a moment before Tubbo moved on to glaring at Purpled.

“Tommy. Purpled. What the fuck are these?”

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Tubbo noticed something off about Tommy as soon as they started walking to his apartment. He was more fidgety and bouncy than usual, not in the way that made him seem excited but the way that made him seem nervous or worried.

He was quickly distracted from Tommy’s strange behavior when Ranboo squeaked and swatted at a bee that landed on them.

“Don’t hurt it! It didn’t do anything to you.” Tubbo swatted Ranboo like they had to the bee.

“It landed on me.” Ranboo defended himself.

“Yeah but it didn’t hurt you, Bees won’t sting you if you don’t mess with them. They are so nice, I don’t understand why so many people don’t like them.” Tubbo crossed his arms and tilted his head at Ranboo. Tommy had been awfully quiet the whole time so he decided to involve him in the conversation. Tubbo huffed before speaking. “Tommy, do you like Bee’s?”

“I love them, Ranboob over here is just a little bitch.” Tommy lightly punched Ranboos shoulder and smiled with his eyes closed. 

Tubbo was glad he bumped into Tommy that day because he had a good feeling about this friendship. 

(He would later regret ever talking to Tommy but for now he was happy.)

It wasn’t long before Tubbo and Tommy won the argument and Ranboo started telling them facts about spatulas. Soon they arrived at Tommy’s apartment.

“Here it is, home sweet home.” Tommy spread his arms wide and grinned at Tubbo and Ranboo as he walked backward to the staircase. He led them up the stairs and held the door for them.

They made fun of Purpled a bit and decided on a video game to play. Tubbo noticed a blood stain on the couch but just brushed it off as something small light a nose bleed as it wasn’t very large.

Eventually Tubbo just had to ask Ranboo if he noticed the strange mood Tommy was in so while they were playing the game he couldn't remember the name because he just wanted to be upset because of some character. It wasn’t a very good excuse to leave but it would have to do.

“I am going to impregnate Pierre and force him to keep the baby so he has to piss it out.” Tubbo decided to say. He slammed his controller down onto the couch and stood up. “I need to calm down.” He walked down a hall and into the first room he saw.

The room ended up being Tommy’s bedroom. Tubbo sat down in his bed and looked around as Ranboo walked in and closed the door. Ranboo walked over and sat next to Tubbo while he waited for the shorter to speak.

“They’re acting really weird.” Tubbo crossed his arms and turned to Ranboo. “They invited us yet they’re acting like they don’t want us here. Well, not so much Purpled but Tommy is acting really strange.”

“Yeah, I know what you mean but I think it’s fine. He’s probably just nervous because it’s our first time hanging out after school.” Ranboos' response made sense but Tubbo just felt like something was off.

“Yeah, maybe you’re right.” Tubbo flopped onto his back on the bed. “Pierre really is a bitch though.”

Ranboo laughed and layed down with him. They sat in silence for a few seconds before Tubbo got bored and stood up to start walking around the room.

“Should we go back out?” Ranboo asked the shorter of the two.

Tubbo stopped walking. “Maybe in a minute,” he looked at something on the ground and laughed. It was a loose floorboard. “Maybe they are hiding something and the loose floorboard is actually hiding their biggest secret.” Tubbo jokes and Ranboo laughs. It was ridiculous.

“Open it, see what’s inside.” Ranboos' suggestion was meant as a joke but Tubbo walked over to it anyway. He leaned down to pull on the floorboard but Ranboo stopped him. “I was joking, don’t take it off, I doubt anything’s in it, don’t break their floor.”

“Come on Boo, it will be Fine.” Ranboo just looked at him and didn’t respond. Tubbo pulled up the board and was surprised when it actually came out and revealed a black duffle bag stuffed inside. It seemed to barely fit due to its size.

“Oh shit, there is something.” Tubbo reached for the zipper to see what’s inside but Ranboo stopped him once again.

“Okay, I let you look in the floorboard because I didn’t expect it to come off but now that’s just an invasion of privacy.” They had a point but Ranboo was still in the bed with their legs crossed and couldn’t do anything if Tubbo opened it really quickly.

Tubbo looked between Ranboo and the bag a few times before quickly unzipping it.

“Tubbo! I told you not to open it.” Ranboo started to get up to pull him back but before he could Tubbo grabbed the bag and dumped out the contents all while still looking at Ranboo. When the latter froze he looked at the pile on the floor and froze as well.

“What the fuck?” Tubbo was horrified by the gas masks and hoodies he recognized as the ones Tyche and Dolos wear.

“Maybe they are just like, fans of them or something.” Ranboo was trying to make an excuse to why their new friends had the villains gear.

“That’s still not good. But what the fuck? Tommy and Purpled aren’t villains. They can’t be.” Tubbo picked up the Tyche hoodie and saw a hole in the middle covered in blood. “Holy shit. Purpled is Tyche and that’s how he was stabbed. What the fuck.”

Ranboo couldn’t think of much to say so he just walked over and started inspecting one of the gas masks. “These are real, not some kind of prop. What do we do? We can’t just pretend nothing happened but I also don’t want to be killed.”

“They wouldn’t kill us.” Tubbo stated but he couldn’t be sure.

“Yeah but we also didn’t think they would be villains.” Ranboo responded. Tubbo picked up Tuches gas mask and snatched the other from Ranboos hand before storming out of the room.

“Tubbo! What are you doing?” Ranboo whispered so Tommy and Purpled could not hear as he followed the shorter. Tubbo did not answer and Ranboo froze as Tubbo reached the end of the hall.

He made eye contact with Tommy for a moment then moved on to Purpled. He was pissed and the two could tell. He saw the moment Tommy realized why in the way his eyes widened.

“Tommy. Purpled. What the fuck are these?”

—————

Tommy’s mouth opened and closed a few times, he tried to think of an excuse but couldn’t. This wasn’t how they were supposed to find out, he was supposed to tell them and convince the two to join him.

“We’re cosplayers on tiktok.” Purpled finally spit out, although said way too quickly to be convincing. He seemed panicked and fidgety. Tommy was just staring at them with his mouth slightly open.

Tommy could see Tubbo shaking but couldn’t tell if it was because of his anger or fear, maybe both.

“Don’t give me that shit, Purpled. Are you two fucking villains? Tell me you’re not fucking villains. Is that how Purpled got hurt?” Tubbo turned to Tommy and glared at him, his face was scrunched up in disgust.

“‘ He was stabbed by Tyche’ He fucking is Tyche, isn’t he?” Tubbo was shouting now and Tommy was worried other people may hear.

“Tubbo, don't be so loud.” Tommy said with a firm voice and demanding tone as he took a step forward,Tubbo tried to take one back but he was too close to the wall. He frantically looked around the apartment even though he knew no one would be there.

“I’ll be as loud as I fucking want.” Ignoring what he had just said lowered his voice by just a little. Probably not because he didn’t want Tommy caught but because he was scared of him. He was backed against the wall, not quite touching it, with one of the city’s most dangerous villains in front of him and another in the room with them. His fear was understandable.

Tubbo just stared at Tommy with a horrified expression before shouting at Tommy again. “Tommy, are you Dolos? I can’t fucking believe this-“ Tubbo was cut off my Tommy pushing him into the wall. He had one arm over his chest and one hand on his mouth.

“Tubbo. I don’t want to hurt you but you need to shut the fuck up.” Tommy’s head was tilted slightly down so he could look at Tubbo from the tops of his eyes. He could feel Tubbos racing heartbeat under his arm and could tell he was terrified.

It felt like time had stopped for a moment, their breaths were heavy and no one spoke. Ranboo was still frozen and Purpled just stood a little behind Tommy and to the side. Purpled seemed to have calmed down for the most part but his fists were clenched and he stood like he was ready to help pin down someone if needed.

After that moment of sitting there Tubbo finally moved, he pushed Tommy off of him and shakily stepped to the side and a little into the hallway to grab onto Ranboo 

“Get the fuck away from me.” Tubbo said, it sounded threatening but what could he really do against two villains?

“Tubbo-“ Tommy was cut off.

“I said get the fuck away from me.” Tubbo repeated.

“Tubbo. Please just let me explain.” Tommy pleaded and he sounded desperate. In truth he was just annoyed, frustrated, and slightly panicked. He would hate to have to hurt his new friend but he may not have a choice.

“Explain what? Why you kill innocent people? Why you’re a fucking villain?” Tubbo kicked the gas masks that had been dropped during the argument towards Tommy when he said his last sentence.

“Yes!” Tommy exclaimed. “Please, it may not be a very good reason but I swear, I don’t do it cause I think it’s fun.”

“Fine. Beg for my forgiveness, you better have one hell of an excuse.” Tubbo let go of Ranboo and crossed his arms.

Tommy explained how the heroes are corrupt and used Tubbos hatred for heroes to convince him that Tommy being a villain wasn’t as bad as he thought. He used his power to influence Tubbo and Ranboos opinions on this and it worked quite well.

Tommy told him the reason they became villains was because Apate had taken them in and taught them how to be villains. It wasn’t just something they thought to do but it’s what they were taught.

Tubbo spoke once Tommy was done telling his and Purpleds story. “It’s still not okay but I understand where you’re coming from.”

“Great! I have an offer to make actually, I’ve been wanting to ask you for a while but now that you know we are villains I think this is the perfect time!” Tommy’s mood switched concerningly quickly from begging Tubbo for forgiveness to clapping his hands together and bouncing on his toes.

“We want you to move in with us and help us with our villainyness, before you say no hear me out.” Tubbo and Ranboo did not look like they would want to do this but Tommy was sure he could convince them otherwise.

“You wouldn’t have to hurt anyone, just help us take down the hero tower. That is our main goal, people are only hurt and killed when it’s necessary. Contrary to popular belief, I don’t like hurting people. I’m just willing to do it when needed.” Tommy most definitely liked hurting people. He finds it cathartic, although when he first started he felt disgusted with himself but he doesn’t care much anymore.

“Tubbo, you're smart so you could help us with tech stuff and Lethe over there could be brought in for emergencies, he wouldn’t have to hurt anyone though, just get us out if we are hurt or something.” Tommy laughed when he saw the panicked look on Ranboos face when he called them by their vigilante alias.

“How did you know that?” Ranboo asked.

“You guys aren’t the only ones who look inside suspicious looking bags that were hidden somewhere.” Tubbo slapped Ranboos arm lightly for not being careful.

“Well, what do you say?” Tommy tilted his head and crossed his arms.

“I don’t want to be a villain, Tommy.” Tubbo said. They went back and forth a bit with Tommy adding more reasons to join and Tubbo adding more reasons to not, but eventually Tubbo caved.

“Fine. But only if Ranboo is okay with it.” They all looked to Ranboo and he started fidgeting with his hoodie strings.

“Um, that’s fine.” Ranboos' voice was weak. Tommy smiled and clapped his hands together.

“Then it’s settled. You think you could move in by next week?”

Chapter Text

Two days later and Tommy was in the hero tower again, the difference was that today Ichor would be back. While Tommy was still pissed that Purpled got hurt he understood why Ichor did what he did and had time to calm down from the incident.

Tommy had gone out as Dolos to watch a meeting between Apate and the vigilante Argus. He was there as backup in case there was a fight then Apate wouldn’t be alone. Argus had brought along Plutus and they had attacked, they got out relatively unharmed but Tommy was stabbed in the leg and would need to hide his limp at the hero tower.

“Tommy!” Kat called out to him as he was about to step into the elevator, they were carrying a pretty big box and running over to him.

“Hi Kat, do you need something?” Tommy turned around as he spoke.

“Yes! Could you give this to Geras?” Before Tommy could answer they shoved the box into his hands, was very light and didn’t put any extra weight on his injured leg. “I’ve been helping Apocalypse with some stuff but if you’re going to the SBI floor anyway could you just drop it off at geras’ office for me?” They spoke very fast as if they were in a rush, instead of waiting for an answer they started walking back the way they came and called out to say thank you before disappearing into a different room.

“Well okay then,” Tommy muttered to himself as he walked into the elevator. He pressed the button for the SBI floor and as the elevator started moving up he looked in the box he was handed.

Inside there was a single packing peanut. What the fuck.

Before Tommy could think of why Apocalypse would give Phil a single fucking packing peanut the elevator doors opened.

Tommy balanced the box on one hand as he opened the door to SBI’s kitchen, he struggled with the doorknob for a second but eventually got the door open.

He stepped into the kitchen and saw Phil sitting on a barstool and Ichor sitting on the couch. He walked over to Phil and set the box on his lap.

“Kat told me to give this to you.” Phil set his phone on the counter and looked into the box, as soon as he saw what was inside his eyes lit up and he stood up with the box in his hands. 

“Finally! I’m going to be in my office, if you need me get someone else.” He was smiling and rushed to his office excitedly.

“Why the fuck did he get so excited? It was one fucking packing peanut.” Tommy looked over to Ichor who looked just as confused.

“I have no clue. A packing peanut?” He repeated what the blond had said to make sure he had heard it right.

“A packing peanut.” Tommy confirmed.

They stared at each other for a few moments before Ichor started speaking again. “Well, anyway,” Ichor moved on. “You’re the new intern?”

“No, I’m actually Dionysus. I broke in and I plan to kill you all.” Tommy replied sarcastically.

“Oh no, my worst enemy.” Ichor deadpanned. After a few seconds he spoke again. “Your name’s Tommy, right? You can call me Techno.”

“Your name sucks, you should change it.” Tommy walked over to the couch and tried to hide his limp. Techno seemed to have noticed as a look of concern flashed across his face.

“What happened to your leg?” Techno asked, his voice was concerned.

“Uh, nothing, I’m fine.” Tommy didn’t have time to think of an excuse.

“You were limping, what happened?” Techno repeated.

“A mugger, I live in the lower districts.” Tommy said.

“Why didn’t you just say that?” Technos eyebrows furrowed in confusion. He did not seem to be suspicious of Tommy, just worried.

“I just don’t really like people worrying about me.” Before Techno could reply Tommy stood up. “I should get to Wilbur now, I think he had some work for me.”

Tommy rushed to the offices and paused once he was in the hall.

In the hallway there were six doors, three being SBI’s offices, one being a restroom, and two being for storage. One of the storage rooms had been empty for Tommy to have his own office. They had told him he could decorate his door however he liked.

Phil’s door was painted with vertical green and white stripes and had many things hanging from thumbtacks. There was gold jewelry with emeralds and old keychains, there were silky green ribbons and fairy lights. Each door looked like an art project or the cover of an artist's sketchbook. The doorknob was gold and had many swirls carved into it. His door was covered in small photos of the three from the past few years they had been working together as heroes.

Techno’s door was similar to Phil’s but instead of green and white it was red and black, and instead of striped it looked like tie dye. There was a gold crown hanging on a small hook and a purple bow tied around the gold door knob. Similar to Phil’s there was gold jewelry hanging on thumbtacks but instead of emeralds it was mostly rubys. The bottom of the door was covered in small pen doodles making their way up the door but stopping about halfway up.

Wilbur’s door was a bit different. It looked like there was white dripping down from the top onto brown. There were splatters of white everywhere on the door and like Technos there were doodles at the bottom but instead of black they were white. His doorknob was also gold. Wilbur had silver jewelry all over his door and many charms. Tommy saw five guitar picks connected by a gold chain and a feather charm hanging under the last one and a crown charm under that. Recently he noticed a gold ring was added as if another charm would be added soon.

Tommy had yet to decorate his door, it was plain white and the knob was silver. He was thinking of swirling red into the white like technos door had and then having red drip down from the top like Wilbur’s. 

At the center of each door there was a door knocker, Phil had a crow head, Techno had a boar skull, and Wilbur had a siren. Tommy’s door had a plain knocker that he could switch out if he wanted to.

“Knock knock bitch!” Tommy yelled as he kicked Wilburs door open. The door wasn’t fully closed yet Wilbur still didn’t hear Tommy coming down the hall.

“Oh my fucking god-” Wilbur grabbed his chest where his heart is. “Knock next time, you almost gave me a heart attack.”

“Well that’s because you’re old, just be younger and you’ll be fine.” Tommy sat on the couch Wilbur had in the office. 

Wilbur’s office was small but a big window facing the city made it much more tolerable. His office was decorated like a bedroom, there were posters all over and a bunch of random trinkets covering every surface.

“Okay, says the child. How old are you again, 7?” Wilbur tilted his head before resting it in his hand. “You should get older.”

“I’m 16. And why would I want to be old? I don’t want to have bad joints and gray hair.” Tommy was starting to get bored talking to Wilbur. Usually it’s entertaining talking to him but today it just feels annoying. He’s starting to regret leaving Techno.

“Literally none of us have gray hair.” Wilbur said. Tommy wanted to leave.

“You can’t gaslight me about this Wilbur, I can literally see them.” Tommy made an annoyed face mainly to mess with Wilbur but didn’t have to try hard to fake it.

“I’m not-“ Wilbur grabbed a handheld mirror from the corner of his desk and looked at his hair. “You fucking child, my hair is fine.”

“Suuuure Wilbur. Anyway, I can here to ask if you had any work for me.” Tommy shifted on the couch.

“Aww, you didn’t come just because you wanted to see me?” Wilbur fake pouted.

“No, do you have any work for me?” Tommy tried not to sound upset because Wilbur didn’t do anything wrong. His voice must have come off as more annoyed and exhausted then he had meant because Wilbur furrowed his eyebrows together in concern.

“Um, not really.” Wilbur replied.

“Well then I’ll be leaving.” Tommy turned around and left the room, closing the door on his way out.

With nothing to do Tommy went back to the living room. Techno had left while he was in Wilbur’s office so he took the couch and sat on his phone, not wanting to speak to Techno.

He sat there for a few hours before Phil came back out of his office.

“Hey mate, do you not have anything to do?” Phil asked. He was very carefully holding a small box the size of his palm.

“Not really.” Tommy answered.

“Well then, you can just go home early if you’d like.” He offered. Tommy was happy to be able to go home. Yeah he would be doing the same thing he’s doing here but being at home just feels better.

“If you’re sure, thank you.” Tommy smiled at him before standing up and walking to the elevator.

“Tommy, are you okay? You’re limping a little bit.” Phil furrowed his eyebrows in concern.

“Oh yeah, I’m fine, I just rolled my ankle tripping down some stairs the other day.” Tommy lied.

“Okay then, have a good night!” Phil responded.

“You too.” Tommy walked out of the kitchen and closed the door behind him. He waited for the elevator to arrive.

He stepped Into the elevator and pressed the ground floor button.

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Techno walked out of his office and into the main room. He saw Phil at the counter just starting at this tiny box. 

“Hey Phil, was that Tommy who just left?” Techno had heard some people talking out here before he heard the elevator.

“Yeah, he doesn’t have anything to do today so I let him go home early.” Phil responded.

“Okay, we should really have some more people patrolling the lower districts more, I saw Tommy limping today and apparently it’s because he got mugged yesterday.” He sat on the couch and pulled out his phone.

“What? He told me it was because he rolled his ankle yesterday.” Phil looked up from his box and to Techno.

“Oh, that’s weird.” Techno looked back at Phil. “Why would he lie about that?”

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When Tommy got to his apartment he flipped onto the couch and buried his face into a pillow.

“You good bossman?” Tubbo had walked into the living room from his and Ranboo’s shared bedroom.

To make room for Tubbo and Ranboo in the apartment Tommy moved into Purpleds room and Tubbo and Ranboo share Tommy’s old room. It was crowded but it worked, they each had their own mattresses but that left not much space left in the rooms.

“I’m fine, Wilbur’s just exhausting.” Tommy said, his words were muffled by the pillow he had his face on.

“Wilbur? Who was that again?” Tubbo asked.

“Apollo, he’s an ass.”

“Oh!”

Tommy’s phone dinged so Tommy rolled off the couch and stood up to get his phone from the dining table.

His phone kept dinging until he finally picked it up.

Niki

*Tommyyy*

*tom*

*tommy*

*tommy*

*Tom*

*tommy*

*answer me*

Tommy rolled his eyes at his phone before responding.

Tommy

*oh my god what do you need*

*im just trying to relax after a looong day at work and I am INTERRUPTED by dinging*

*ding*

*ding*

*how does it feel niki*

*to hear the buzzing*

*ding*

*fuck you*

Niki

*wanna help me commit murder*

*I was hired to kill some dude who does government things*

*i need help tho cause he has a good security system ig*

*or purp could help if u don’t want to*

Tommy thought about it for a second. His foot still hurt and he was pretty tired but he always enjoys hanging out with Niki, even if hanging was committing murder.

Tommy

*ugh*

*fine*

*I’ll help u*

Niki

*thank youuuuuu*

*we need to interrogate him about ovum first tho*

*before we kill him*

Tommy clicked off his phone and set it back on the table.

“Apate needs help interrogating and killing some dude, could you go get Purpled for me?” Tommy said to Tubbo as he walked to get something to eat from the kitchen.

Tubbos face was disgusted but there was nothing he could do so he went to go get Purpled anyway.

Tommy

*where and when are we meeting*

*and what am I going to need?*

—————

Tommy was starting to regret not asking Purpled to go instead of him. Him and Niki were hiding in trees and watching some old guys house while they waited for him to get home. They had been sitting there for two hours with nothing to do other then talking to each other.

“Tommy, I think that’s his car.” Niki whispered into her communicator as she pointed at a car coming down the street. The house was in a secluded area so they hadn’t seen many cars.

“Okay, I’m ready, are you?” Tommy held a hand to his earpiece. He looked to the tree a few yards away that niki was in and watched her give him a nod.

Tommy climbed down the tree and snuck closer to the house, waiting for niki to do the same.

Once they were on the ground they watched the car pull into the driveway and a tall man in a suit stepped out of the passenger seat. As soon as he closed the door the person driving the car dove off and left the man alone.

“I’ve had Tubbo loop the cameras watching the back door, the security system should be off right now.” Purpled said through Tommy’s earpiece.

He followed Niki as they made their way to the back door, avoiding all other cameras.

He watched as Niki picked the lock and pushed the door open.

“Wait, shit, you need to hurry and take him somewhere else. It turns out the alarm system is still on and it’s calling the police right now. If you don’t think you can get him before the heroes arrive then just run.” Purpleds voice was frantic and Tommy could hear him typing quickly.

“I think we can get him.” Tommy turned to Niki with wide eyes.

“Are you crazy? We need to go now, the heroes are quick.” Tommy was backing away from the house as he spoke. He was waiting for Niki to follow but she never did.

“If we’re fast enough we can get him, we’re getting paid a lot for this.” Niki started walking into the house and Tommy couldn’t just leave her there so he followed.

“I don’t care about the money, I’d rather we don’t get arrested. Niki, we’d probably be killed.” Tommy said as he walked behind her.

“You’re wasting time trying to convince me to leave, let’s just get him and go.” Tommy didn’t reply as he knew he would not convince her to go. They made their way to the front room where they saw the man huddled in the corner with a phone to his ear.

As soon as he saw them the man froze up in fear. He opened his mouth as if to say something but no words came out.

Tommy watched Niki raise her dart gun and shoot the man in the arm. His eyes rolled to the back of his head as he slumped against the wall.

“You tie him up, I’ll check the house for any other people.” Niki said. Tommy did what she said and when he was done he picked him up and carried him outside.

“I’m outside, are we good to go?” Tommy asked with his communicator.

“I don’t see anyone, take him into the trees behind the house, I’ll be there in a second.” Tommy walked into the trees and dropped the man in a bush when he got far enough. 

He waited for Niki and began to worry once he heard sirens. 

“Niki?” He pressed a hand to his earpiece. “Niki, is everything okay?”

He got no response. He looked at the man and figured he wouldn’t wake up for another few hours so he took off back towards the house.

He ran out of the trees and looked around, he saw Niki backed against a wall with Apollo and Vulcan standing right in front of her. They seemed to be talking to her but he couldn’t hear what they were saying.

There were 3 police cars and 4 police standing with their guns pointed at Niki from their cars.

Tommy pulled out one of his throwing knives and yelled to the heroes. “Apollo, heads up!”

He threw his knife at Apollo, aiming for his throat, before running over to them. Apollo dodged the knife and it barely grazed him.

Guns when off but neither villain was shot. Apollo yelled to the cops to get out of there before they could get hurt.

While this was happening Niki used the heroes surprise to her advantage and ducked behind Vulcan. She kicked him to the ground and plunged a knife down towards the hero. Vulcan rolled out of the way just before the knife hit him.

Apollo pulled out a knife and stood ready to fight. “What is your goal here? What do you get from killing innocent people?” He threw his knife at Tommy but it barely cut his arm.

Tommy pulled out a knife and ran towards the hero. He swung out his arm but Apollo stepped out of the way of the blade. “I get a lot from it actually.”

He swung again and missed. “I get a lot of money.”

He swung again and Apollo grabbed his arm and twisted the knife from his grip. “And these people aren’t innocent. I don’t kill for no reason, hero.”

Apollo threw Tommy’s knife to the side and ran at Tommy with his own. Tommy stepped to the side and Apollo stumbled forward. Tommy used that chance to knock him to the ground.

“It sure seems like it.” Apollo rolled tk the side and stood up. “Even if they aren’t completely innocent, they don’t deserve to die.”

Tommy stepped back and was about to respond when he felt a wall against his back. Fuck .

He looked over to Niki and Vulcan was handcuffing her. He looked back to Apollo. He kept pressing this small button sewn into his suit on his thigh. It would send an alert to Purpled that he needed help with escaping ASAP.

Apollo smiled as he pulled out handcuffs. “Well Dolos, looks like we’ve finally got you.”

Tommy looked around frantically to see if help had gotten there.

“No one is going to come save you. This is it, you’re caught.”

Just as Tommy was about to be arrested he heard a strange buzzing sound from where Niki was. Him and Apollo both looked over just in time to see Lethe Teleporting away with Niki.

Tommy used the distraction as a chance to get out from between Apollo and a wall. He ran out of between them as Apollo looked back. 

“Are you sure about that?” Tommy laughed as he pulled his knife back out and ran towards Apollo. 

Right before he could reach the hero he heard the buzzing again and his vision was turned to static.

His body felt like he was dunked in a pool of carbonated water and it sounded like he was surrounded by a swarm of bees.

After what felt like minutes but was probably just a few seconds he could see and hear normally, although his body still felt a little fuzzy. He looked around and saw that he was in his apartment.

“What the fuck Ranboo?” He looked over to his newer roommates. They both look a bit confused on why Tommy seemed so pissed after Ranboo just got him away from the heroes.

“What? Did I do something wrong?” Ranboo started fidgeting with their fingernails.

“Of course you did something wrong.” Tommy stomped over to Ranboo while Tubbo and Purpled just watched. Tubbo looked just as confused as Ranboo. “What the fuck is wrong with you?”

“What did I do?” Ranboo asked.

Tommy grabbed Ranboos shoulders tight and squeezed as hard as he could while he spoke.

“I almost fucking had him. I almost had Wilbur but you took me away before I could do anything.”

After he finished speaking he pushed Ranboo away from him. He stumbled over a few things and his back hit the wall hard.

Tommy hadn’t noticed when Tubbo had came over to them until he was pushing him away from Ranboo. He looked over to Ranboo who was rubbing his shoulders like that actually hurt.

“Dont fucking touch him Tommy. Ranboo, are you okay?” Tubbo seemed pissed that Tommy squeezed Ranboos fucking shoulders too hard.

“Why are you so mad Tubbo? It’s not like I actually hurt him at all. He’s fine. Right Ranboo? You’re fine.” He looked at Ranboo who just nodded.

“Still dont fucking do that. I understand you’re mad but that doesn’t mean you can take your anger out on other people.” Tommy rolled his eyes.

“I’m not taking my anger out on anyone. Ranboo’s just fucking weak.” That did not seem to calm Tubbo down at all.

Tommy spoke again before Tubbo could. “I don’t want to argue with you about this right now. I’m tired and just want to go to bed. It’s been a long day.”

He walked over to the door but before he left he stopped and turned to face Ranboo.

“I’m sorry Ranboo, I didn’t mean to hurt you.” He was surprised to find that he actually meant it. Usually he wouldn’t care but he actually felt guilty.

“It’s not okay but I forgive you.” Ranboo said. And Tommy left and walked to his room to talk to Purpled.

Chapter Text

That’s all I have written so here’s the chapter summary’s I wrote for the rest of the fic when I was planning it, some of the things will likely be out of order because sometimes I switched things around while writing but it should be good enough

The chapters were also split up differently in the planning so it won’t be by chapter, just my very unorganized ideas for what should happen in the story

I’m also gonna include the chapter plans for the stuff that already happened

Tommy is running from apocalypse and morpheus while taking on coms to purpled. Tommy talks to apo and mor before purpled yoinks him out. They go back to their apartment and talk about how he has to be less reckless. They also talk about how Tommy needs a new job. Tommy goes on a walk where he bumps into tubbo and ranboo who starts apologizing and Tubbo gets mad at him for not looking where he’s going. Tommy is bored so he plays into it apologizing and decides to mess with these guys in his free time. It's always nice to have extra backup. He gets their number and goes back home and tells Purpled. Purpled says yeah. Tommy is at school and he had a class with Tubbo and tubbo was like “yooo ur the asshole who doesn't look where he’s going” and tommy keeps talking to him. They end up talking about heroes and villains, Tubbo hates heroes and villains but loves vigilantes. Tommy thinks “damn” but lets it go. They go to lunch and talk to ranboo. After lunch tommy has a class with Ranboo and talks to him about heroes and villains as well. He has the same views as Tubbo but is less firm about it. Tommy decides to take advantage of this. After school he meets up with purpled and on the walk home he tells him about School.

Tommy goes to the interview at the hero tower and waits in lobby for interviews. And ichor and Morpheus are walking around talking to people and Tommy is approached my Ichor. They talk and Tommy is called in, he is interviewed and they know his age cause it’s a paid student internship. Tubbo and ranboo go to Tommy and purpleds apartment for a bit and while they are there tommy gets an email saying he got accepted for SBI intern. When they leave tommy and purpled decide to go out and set off an explosive with Niki cause she has to for sm. Apollo and Ichor arrive while they are running away after setting off the bomb, Apollo almost kills purpled and Purpled has to take time off of work. Tommy is mad at hero’s cause fuck them. Tommy goes to school next day and tells tubs and ran purp was mugged and stabbed so he will be gone for a bit.

Tommy goes into work and is met by Phil. He gives Tommy SBI names and Tommy meets purpled in hospital after work day. Ichor was not there. Tommy  goes to school next day and Tubs and Ran are like “where u been” and tommy gives excuse. They set up a hangout at Golden Duo home when Purpled can go home.

Tubbo and Ranboo are at golden duo's apartment and Purpled was in the kitchen getting food while Tommy was in the bathroom. Tubbo notices a loose floorboard in the corner and tells ranboo they should look in it, not expecting anything serious. Ranboo says to let them have their secrets but Tubbo goes to it anyway, the two are horrified to find the villain gear Dolos and Tyche are known for having. Tubbo and Ranboo add two and two and get four. Bingo. Gasp, Omg Tommy and purpled are villains

Tommy meets techno, at this meeting techno notices Tommy is hurt and if like, why he hurt? Insert crimeboys bonding so next chapter hurts a little bit, Tommy goes home and Bee duo is on the couch just chillin then Tommy goes out as Dolos and almost kills Wilbur cause he's abt to be arrested and apate is cornered by Ichor, Lethe has to pop in and take Tommy out of the situation so he doesnt get hurt. When they are teleported to the apartment tommy is mad cause he almost had wilbur, he pushed Ranboo to the side in frustration and they just take it but Tubbo is like “dont put your fucking hands on him”

More crimeboys bonding and techno is suspicious of Tommy. Phil is there and Tommy fucking hates them all. Tommy is an asshole to SBI btw. Tubbo says he wants out and Tommy gets pissed. He’s like “you already agreed so suck it up”. And goes to work. Wilbur is being clingy and it pisses Tommy off. “I don’t like you, I just work for you.” Wilba sad arc Ooooo time skip. Phil: “Is something going on at home tommy?”  Tommy:“Oh yes, Tubbo is abusive” Tommy: “Ranboo if you don’t go along with it I’m killing Tubbo. Would you rather him be in prison or dead?” Tubbo: “he’s lying, he’s a villain, he’s Dolos, he’s lying” but there is more evidence supporting Tommy. Techno: “Will, maybe Tubbo wasn’t lying” Wilbur: “That’s bullshit” Dolos is fighting Haphe and Vulcan. He is backed into a corner so he stabs Sam throught the heart. Sapnap is shocked. Vulcan is abt to kill dolos when toomy is like, nope, and so toms throws a knife at him and it goes into his eye and hits his brain. Tommy is impressed with himself but does not feel guilty.

this is what was written for the backstory:

Building gets attacked because of an event with the heroes. Tommys parents and Purpleds Mom and brother were in the building. The Heros saves the rich people who donate and the news reporters but left multiple people who weren’t ”important enough” Punz (Purpled brother) made it out alive but Tommy and purpled were already gone. They were 12 and punz was 14. Tommy and Purpled ran from their house when they found out their parents died. They were left alone at home while punz went with their parents. That assumed all three died and left when police tried to take them to foster care. They lived on the streets for a little bit before being taken in by Niki 4 months later. She was 15 but had a small apartment and just enough space (she had a living room with a couch and carpet with blankets, its better then the streets) and money to spare as long as the kids got jobs that 12 year olds could get so they could get most of their own food. They found out she was a villain and they didn’t care because the heroes sucked and could have saved their parents.

thats where the chapter plans end so here is a list of points I wanted to get to in the story, they are mostly in order but not all of them, if they have a little * that means I got to them, if they don’t then they weren’t written yet but we’re going to be

• tommy meets Tubbo and ranboo *
• Techno almost kills purpled*
• tommy gets a job at the hero tower*
• tommy gets Tubbo and ranboo to work with him*
• techno talks to tommy about his injuries*
• techno gets suspicious of tommy*
• tommy kills sapnap and Sam
• Tubbo wants out but tommy blackmails him
• tommy fights with Wilbur about how he doesn’t like him, he just works for him
• Lethe makes his first appearance in months saving dolos and apate*
• it’s been like, 4 months at this point
• Tommy’s injuries are brought up again and he says Tubbo has been abusing all three of them and threatens ranboo to go along with it
• Tubbo tells the hero’s tommy is dolos but no one believed him cause its a big accusation with very little evidence.
• techno brings up to Wilbur his suspicious of tommy but Wilbur Ignores him
• techno confronts tommy and tommy denies it
• hero tower puts more ppl on dolos’ case
• tommy is cornered by techno and techno thinks its tommy. Purpled gets tommy out.
• Techno yells at tommy saying how he wont get away with it when wilbur walks in and gets mad. Techno yells saying tommy is dolos and tommy acts scared and starts crying.
• Techno keeps blaming tommy and is suspended from hero duties.
• Techno visits Tubbo and they talk about what to do about the tommy situation and tubbo says to get ranboo on board
• Tommy kills phil.
• Techno screams at Tommy and keeps telling everyone he is Dolos and Wilbur is very mad “TECHNO. THIS IS SERIOUS AND YOU NEED TO UNDERSTAND THAT YOU ARE INSANE. I KNOW YOU HATE TOMMY BUT HE. DID. NOT. KILL. PHILL.”
• Purpled and Tommy talk about how their life will either end in death or imprisonment because there is no way they can take out the whole tower. But they don’t want to stop so they are conflicted
• Techno talks to Ranboo about joining him and Tubbo and swears he won’t let him get hurt and will hide him at the hero tower if needed. Ranboo agrees
• Ranboo goes to the hero tower and tells them tommy is dolos and people are believing it now
• Tommy finds out Ranboo did that and threatens him. He’s about to hurt him when he runs outside. Tommy follows him out and Ranboo calls techno asking him to come help him and hide him.
• Purpled and Tommy frantically pack up their stuff so they can hide because they now have more than 2 witnesses and need to hide.
• Techno knocks on the door hard and is about to ducking murder tommy on the spot 
• act is up and Tommy literally stabs tech and he dies
• wil is distraught
• Tommy tells Purpled he thinks he’s going to die soon and Purpled is quietly crying not knowing what to do
• HUGE bounty on Tommy’s head and he’s being hunted down by literally everyone.
• Wilbur is patrolling and Tommy goes out to kill the last of SBI but instead wil stabs Tom and Tommy just slowly bleeds out to death (In add later doc
• the last chapter is Purpleds, Wilbur’s, and Ranboos reaction. We are never told what happens after and that is the end. No sequel.