Finally! This is a fic based on the prompt: "Umm for a prompt, how about a 4 against 1 on Thomas? Like, maybe he was getting frustrated with something and he snaps at them, so they cheer him up and get revenge?" - HappyAnon.

This took me a couple days to write. Marching Band has been really hefty. I might take a three day hiatus from writing fics because I'm tired out. But I'll be back hopefully by saturday.

Without further ado please enjoy:

Excitement Extraction

(Ships): None

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It had been three days since Thomas had last called upon his sides for help. The human sat in the kitchen on his phone, elbow to the table and hand on his cheek. Melancholy would be the best word to describe Thomas at the moment. Not really happy, not really sad, just extremely lethargic and unproductive.

Logan had noticed this much before any of the other sides. His thought process became jumbled after the first day, unabling him to do much work. He tolerated longer than he would have because he concluded that Thomas just needed some space, but after two more days of this he had had enough.

"Thomas." Logan popped up with his arms folded, obviously in a very irritated mood. "Please. Engage your brain," He motioned to himself as he said this. "So I can be rid of this so called...funk." He picked out a vocab card for the last word to make sure he used it right.

"Yeah sure whatever." Thomas whisked the logical trait off by mentally pushing him back down into the mind space.

"Hey! Wai-" But he was already gone, out of earshot for the human to hear anymore of his pleas. Thomas knew Logan had went and complained to the others, because not a moment later Roman appeared in the same place.

"Excuse you! I am about as irritated as Logan right now and I-"

"Yeah yeah sure. That's great Princey." With that the human, pushed the aspect in the same manner as Logan, clearly being ignorant of anything the fanciful aspect had to say.

Next to show up was Patton. "Heya kiddo. You've been distant lately? Are you...avoiding us?" Patton looked at his feet then back up at his human. Thomas groaned in response.

"No Patton, I just don't want to be bothered right now. Nothing against you or any of the others. Please just go away."

"But kiddo-" Morality tried to reach out only to have Thomas shoot him down.

"Don't kiddo me and just sink down or Ill push you down like the others." Thomas didn't look up from his phone at all, so he did not see the heartbroken, pouty face the dad trait gave as he sank down slowly.

For five more minutes it was quiet. Thomas sighed in relief as he thought the others had learned their lessons. He did not see the black figure slowly rising from behind him.

"THOMAS!!" A voice yelled in his ear causing the human to jump and fall out of his chair.

"AAAAAHHHH!!" He whipped his head toward the source of the voice, in enough time to see Virgil hopping on top of the table and swiping Thomas's discarded phone.

"Thats enough of that." Virgil huffed as he sat criss-cross applesauce on top of the table and peered down at Thomas from his perch. "Start talking." He looked at his human sternly and shoved the phone in his pocket.

Thomas shook his head as he rose to his feet and sat back down. "Please Virgil...I just...I don't want to talk to anyone, let alone myself."

"I know. I've noticed. How do you think I feel when you keep pulling me into your videos? We are talking whether you like it or not. You owe me that much."

Thomas sighed as he got up off the floor and sat back in the chair he was previously in.

"Look...I enjoy talking to you guys...but I need my peace and quiet too."

"You got your peace and quiet! For three whole days we left you alone! Do you know how worried Patton has been? Or how restless Roman was? Even Logan couldn't keep himself together! You've just been sitting around doing nothing! I can't even do my job! What's the deal dude?! Do you hate us or something?!" Virgil accused feeling betrayed.

"No! No...its just-" Thomas quieted as he felt a set of hands carefully place themselves on his back lovingly. Virgil turned his attention to look at the cardigan-clad figure behind Thomas.

"I know what the problem is."

"You do?"

"You do?"

Just like that, the other two Sander's Sides popped out from the floor, pulled a chair over, and sat at the table as well. Both Logan and Roman were eager to hear Patton's take on the situation so that this predicament could be solved.

"He just went to New York, met a ton of really awesome people, and do a lot of really cool stuff! But now that it's over, he's-"

"-having withdrawals." Logan finished looking at Thomas as an epiphany struck him. "You are having withdrawals from the excitement that you were given over the weekend. Thus it is making you extremely lethargic." Eyes widening, he extended a hand motioning to Thomas, before bringing it back to rest under his chin.

"Aww...I wanted to explain." Patton pouted earning a snrk from Virgil.

"So...what your saying Logan is that I'm unmotivated...because..."

"Because the rush of adrenaline that you last felt three days ago is over, thus your body refuses to do anything until it feels the same rush of adrenaline once more."

"But that isnt going to happen on its own...is it?" Virgil added.The human lowered his head in shame, shaking no in response to Virgil.

"Then it is our job to raise his adrenaline level once more!" Roman pounded his fist on the table. "But ways to do this..." Roman thought as the others including Thomas leaned in to hear his ideas. "We can cook a meal together, or go see an action movie in theatres."

"Pillow fight!" Patton interjected earning a chuckle from everyone but Roman, who just glared at his fellow side. Thomas lifted his head, mood slightly lifted with a smile on his face.

"Well whatever it is before we begin I want a proper apology from you, Thomas!" Roman shaked a finger at the human sternly.

"Yes I must agree with Roman on this. That was extremely uncalled for." Logan frowned.

Thomas re-hung his head. "I know I should apologize, but I don't...really...feel like doing that right now...either...?" his voice trailed off and became smaller when he began to notice the looks on his sides' faces became more irate with each word that he spoke. Even Patton looked like he was about to give the human a stern talking to. Which, he did after a minute of awkward silence had passed.

"Are those your final words Thomas?" The other three sides stared at him in surprise. The fact that Patton had actually said his name instead of the nickname he commonly used unnerved them all. Virgil, wanting to get away from the angry Patton, slowly crawled off the table and backed away a couple steps, wanting to observe from afar.

"What...Patton...?" Thomas meekly asked for clarification on Patton's words.

"I said..." Patton stomped up to Thomas and looked at him straight in the eyes. "...are those your final words?"

"...yes...?" Thomas gulped feeling extremely intimidated, but was soon replaced with bewilderment as a small, mischievous grin appeared on the parental trait's face.

"Well then I guess we'll just have to find some way to get that apology out of you." Patton stepped behind Thomas and motioned something to the other aspects that the human could not see.

Judging by the smile that spread on Roman's face and the grins of both Virgil and Logan, he could tell they were up to something.

"Thomas. I believe we have found a way to both restore your adrenaline and bring forth an apology." Logan arose from his chair and began to walk towards Patton.

Once Roman also decided to advance, Thomas finally felt the adrenaline pulsing through his body, compelling him to apologize and stop their plans. "Hehey guys! I feel the excitement again! You don't have to do this...I can apologize now!! I'm sorry!! I didn't mean it!! I was just....cranky...you know..." His words seemed to have no effect on any of them and he realized this as he felt his arms being trapped above him.

"Do you really think we are going to listen to you after all those mean words Thomas?" Not a second later, Roman trapped both of his legs underneath his arms.

Thomas began to giggle with anticipation. "Noho tickles!!"

"Yes tickles!" Patton teased as he used his free hand to scuttle along Thomas's side, while Logan got in position to tickle his kneecaps.

Thomas's giggles turned into laughter like lightning. "Hahahahaha!!! Nyuhuhuhuhu!!"

"Hey Virgil! Wanna help?" Anxiety looked upon the restrained, laughing human and shrugged.

"Sure. Not like I got anything better to do." He casually walked over and positioned himself next to Thomas's stomach.

"GUHUHUHHUYSSSS!!! I'm SOHOHOHOHORRRYYY!!!" As Logan scratched his fingers behind Thomas's kneecaps and Roman began to work off his socks and shoes, all aspects were hellbent on getting their revenge. Virgil casually rested a hand on Thomas's stomach and began to squeeze the loose bits raising Thomas's laughter even more.

"Hahaha! I forgot how ticklish Thomas is!" Roman scuttled his fingers up and down the trapped humans sole.

"Heeheehee! He is! But that also means we are too!!" Patton moved his hand from his side up into his armpit swirling slowly and teasing as he went. "Tickle tickle Thomas! Maybe this'll teach you not to mess with yourself!"

"Patton that sounded wrong." Virgil commented, now lifting up Thomas's shirt and spider tickling his soft skin.

"THEHEHEHEH TAHAHAHAHLKING MAHAHAHHAKING IHIHHIHHIT WOHOHOHOHOHRSEEEE!!!" Thomas was howling with laughter as tears of joy splashed down his face.

"Oh it is? Well then...perhaps some more exposition will speed up this process." Logan gave a silly grin while he squeezed the human's inner thighs.

"Pffffahahahaha! Good one Logan." Roman was now slowly stroking his fingers in between and under Thomas's ticklish toes.

"GUHUHUHUHUYSSSSS!!! I CAHAHAHAHAHAHAN'TTT TAHAHAHAKE IT AHAHAHNYMOHOHOHOREEE!!" Thomas had been trying to flail and escape, but in this situation he was his own captor.

"Yeah...he needs a break. I'm his fight or flight reaction so...you'd kinda think I would know when to stop." And stop is what he did, but not before dishing out a sharp poke to Thomas's belly button and putting his shirt down.

"Oh alright." Roman stopped tickling but held his feet in place. Logan lifted his hands off of Thomas's thigh and took a step back.

"Awww..." Patton pouted, clearly not wanting to be done yet. "Oh fine. But not before I do this!" Ever so slightly did the parental trait wiggle his fingers against the sides of Thomas's neck, eliciting several squeals from the human. Everyone chuckled at the human's reaction.

"Alright Patton. That's enough." Roman nodded back to Morality at which he reluctantly ceased his attack. They all carefully released the giggling human and stepped back as Thomas began to stand up.

"Hehe...what wahahahas this...youhoohoho are all...ahahs ticklish as mehe?" He looked up at them, bright red in the face and panting, with danger shining in his eyes.

"SCATTER!" Roman yelled as all the sides ran different places around the apartment.

Thomas just laughed. "Guys I'm johoking! You'd just all gang up on me ag-"

"PILLOW FIGHT!"

"Patton wha-asdfhjkkl" The rest of Thomas's words were smothered by a pillow to the face thrown by the moral aspect. The pillow dropped to the floor in enough time to see Patton pelting the other sides with pillows. He shrugged, laughed, and joined in the fun. After five minutes of all the silliness, the five clones sat down together on the floor, all giggling their hearts out.

"Looks like Patton got his pillow fight." Virgil commented. They all nodded in agreement.

"How about you Thomas? Do you feel better?" Roman asked.

"Yes. I do. I'm really sorry. I won't ever say anything like that again. To any of you. I love you all so much!"

"We love you too Thomas! We love you too."