TW/CW: slight mention of trauma, swearing, panic attack

Let me know if I missed any

(D!Techno's PoV)

I leaned back on the log pillar, listening to their conversations.

They were worried about getting home and some woman named Kristin.

I took a deep breath of fresh air. It has been a while since I could breath in something that wasn't lava ash and heat.

Dang it Quackity and Sam, I thought.

The only enjoyment I got from being in Pandora's Vault was annoying Dream and the bell.

The bell was fun :)

Maybe it was best if some of us didn't go back. Some of us could stay here and live a life not filled with trauma.

But then again, there is another problem with this.

It seemed like we were swapped out with this server's version of us.

Whatever life that they had here will not be the same if they stayed on the server.

I really don't want to take that away from those people.

It's both a lose-lose and lose-win situation.

"Hey."

I flinched as this server's Wilbur phase through the log pillar and stayed under the shade.

"What are you doing here all alone?" He asked.

"Let's just say that Theseus wouldn't be too happy to see me," I explained.

"Who?" Wilbur asked, tilting his head in confusion.

"Tommy," I said.

"Ah, right. Well I came here to check on you," Wilbur said.

"And why would I need to be check on?" I asked suspiciously.

"In this server, we're twins. I just want to check up on you because I'm a bit worried. You may be different than our Techno but I can see some similarities with you two," he explained.

"Similarities?"

"Your voices, aka Chat. Our Techno has that too," Wilbur said.

I hummed at this.

I had nothing else to say so I stayed quiet.

Ah yes, the floor is made out of floor, I thought.

Wilbur floated there uncomfortably before clearing his throat.

"If you want to join us, front door is always open. Not that you have to, you can join us at your own time," he said before phasing through the log pillar.

This Wilbur was almost similar to Wilbur before he turned insane. Before the wars, before anything and yet he was different.

This was getting too complicated for me so I decided to rest my eyes for a bit.

...

"TECHNO!"

I jumped and hit my head on the pillar.

"Ow," I muttered and turned around to see Wilbur again.

He looked scared, shocked and worried at the same time.

"We have a situation," he began.

(What happened earlier while Techno was taking a nap. O!Wilbur's PoV)

I phase back through the pillar to join in the conversation that everyone else was having.

"So we have no clue on how the f*ck do we go home. What do you expect us to do, stay here for the rest of our lives!" Fundy snapped. He was arguing with Jack.

"F*cking hell no! We just don't know how to bring you guys home that's it!" Jack pointed out.

"Can you guys please not fight? It's giving me a headache," Niki asked.

"Well what should we do?" Ranboo asked, sitting down on the counter with such poise like he was reminded everyone that they are of royalty.

This seemed to piss Tommy off because he muttered, "F*cking prick," under his breath.

"I don't know. I just don't know," Phil paced around the Pube nervously.

I hated seeing us being this nervous like this.

"Hey look! What's that?" Tubbo suddenly asked, pointing in the direction of the mountain.

"Is that a crow?" Tommy asked, squinting to see.

"It is!" Jack exclaimed.

The crow was flapping their wings in a hurry before landing next to Ranboo, breathing heavily.

They lifted their foot where a scroll was wrapped around it.

Ranboo carefully unattached the scroll from the crow's foot and unrolled it to read it.

"All it says is to wait for a cyan robed visitor," they said.

"Cyan robed? Are they the f*cker who is keeping my wife hostage!?" Phil snapped.

I haven't seen Phil this pissed. Well actually I did but I don't remember.

"Well I don't think so since the scroll says to wait. Maybe they'll explain the situation," Ranboo sighed as he set the scroll down on their lap.

"So all we can do is wait?! We have been waiting!" Fundy snapped.

"Hey this whole sh*tty ordeal is taking place within a span of a day. If this was taking a week then I get the impatience," I said.

"Fair enough," Tubbo agreed.

"I don't think we need to wait that long," Niki said suddenly.

"What the f*ck do you mean by that?" Tommy asked but she stayed silent, fiddling with her fingers.

"Niki what do you mean by that?" I asked, politely.

She still said nothing.

"Ahem. May I have your attention please?" A booming voice said.

Tommy fell off the crafting table that he was sitting on.

A masked cyan robed man stepped forward from golden light. The words XD was on the mask. A droopy halo was hanging around his head. That alone made me feel like this guy shouldn't be trusted.

Golden halos are usually shown as a good sign that this godly person should be trusted. Black halos are unsure. Either they can be trusted or not. Black droopy halos on the other hand...

That was a bad sign.

Phil was the first to react.

"Who the f*ck are you and what have you done with Kristin!?" He asked, angrily.

The man lifted his hand up to let us know to basically shut up because he was about to speak.

"She's fine. She was just send to the server where they are from to explain what I'm about to explain to you. She will be back in no time if you listen," he explained.

"And why should we trust you?" I asked, folding my arms.

"Because I am the god of their world," he said.

"Just because you are a god doesn't mean you are trustworthy," Tubbo pointed out.

"Yeah, haven't you seen DeathNote?" Ranboo asked.

"Silence!" The man yelled.

We all stayed quiet.

"My name is XD and I'm here to explain how you mortals from the DreamSMP can go back home," XD said.

Nearly all the DreamSMP people perked their heads up at this.

I glanced to see Tommy, hiding behind Phil.

His face was place white, blue eyes widening with horror and holding onto Phil's robes for dear life.

I wanted to comfort him but I had this feeling that XD isn't done talking.

I'll check up on him later.

"So you know how we can go home?" Tubbo asked.

"Yes but it's a difficult procedure. You have to go to a place where you have never been before. In order to go back to your server, you have to slay the Ender Dragon and beat the game. Doesn't matter who does it, it will affect all of you," XD explained.

Ranboo leaned in with interest.

"So they have to go to The End and slay Mom? Eh seems cliche to go and slay a dragon. It's like a plot of every fantasy book," they said.

"Wait Mom? Is the Ender Dragon your mother? And you are ok with us slaying her?" Tubbo yelped.

"She technically has infinite lives so she'll just revive herself again. Besides I don't care about her," Ranboo explained.

"As the Majesty here said, you'll have to journey to The End and slay the dragon but! But you have to prepare. Besides you can't die while doing this task. If you end up dying, both servers will glitch and crash. Therefore causing you all to stay stuck in the wrong server," XD explained.

"WHAT?! So if they don't succeed or if one of them dies, they are stuck here?" Jack asked.

"Even if their counterparts somehow defeat the Dragon on their end, nothing happens and they would have broken the server's rule which in that case I'll just have to punish them," XD's mouth corners twitched, almost like he was smirking.

That little f-, I thought but Niki spoke up.

"What would happen if any of us Origins die?" She asked.

"Nothing. You all technically live by your own rules so the server doesn't crash. I know someone here died," XD's masked gazed turned towards me but I looked away.

"How much time do we have?" Tommy finally spoke up.

"A week. So get ready as much as you can," XD said.

"A week?!" Fundy cried.

"This server does not recognize you and it already has your users in its data so having someone with the same user confuses it," XD explained.

"What would happen if they don't slay the Dragon in a week?" Phil asked.

"They die. Permanently. No ghosts, no revival, nothing. And that goes for their Origin counterparts as well," XD explained.

Everyone and I mean everyone went dead silent at this.

I was panicking internally.

Even though I barely know these people, they didn't deserve to have this perma death. And if their Origin parts also don't manage to slay the Dragon as well, they also die.

That can not happen! They are family and I can't stand living without them.

I heard sharp inhales and exhales and turned around to see that it was from Tommy.

He walked backwards and into a corner.

"I can't die. Not again. I can't die again, I don't want to return there and this time not having a way back. Nonono," he cried, placing both hands on his mouth.

Wait...what does he mean by that? I thought.

Tommy sank down and began to tremble.

Phil went up to him and whispered some comforting things to him.

Tommy continued to tremble though.

I whirled around to see that XD was softly chuckling. I couldn't hear it but I saw his shoulders going up and down like he was laughing.

I seriously wanted to punch that prick in the face.

Even if this is a different Tommy, nobody makes my little brother feel unsafe like that. NOBODY!

Niki also looked pissed, her fists clenched up.

"We will get them prepared for this! And you better shut the f*ck up before I step out and punch you in your f*cking face!" She yelled.

"Whooo Niki popping off!" Jack and Sneeg cheered her on.

XD stopped his laughing then whirled around so his back was facing us.

"You have a week," was all he said before he vanish in a thin golden light.

"I have to tell him," I said and phase through the wall to tell Techno about the situation while everyone else was discussing what the hell just happened.

(Present time)

"So we have a week to prepare," Techno said, folding his arms.

The two of us were sitting, crisscross in the shade with the sun setting.

"Yeah, you have to use that time wisely," I explained.

"Alright then," he stood up, "guess I'm starting tomorrow."

"Wait where are you going?" I asked.

"Going to find a place to sleep," Techno said.

"You can sleep over at my house. We can be roommates!" I said, excitedly.

"Heh?" He looked confused.

"Yeah! Besides it takes so-ooo long to make a shelter even if it's for a week," I explained, getting up as well.

"No I shouldn't bother you. Besides how can I trust you?" Techno asked.

"Nah it's fine and come on, I told you a while ago that in this server you and I are brothers. How can someone backstab their own kin?" I asked.

"Sometimes kin can turn on each other," Techno replied.

...

"Well true I guess but I won't do it! The worst I can do is fill your sleeping bag with whipped or shaving cream," I said, placing one hand on my heart and another in the air.

"I don't know...," Techno said.

"Come on! It'll be fun and I'll help you prepare although I doubt you need it," I said and grabbed his arm.

I pulled him to my house, excitedly.

"Not shabby," he noted as we entered.

"You should thank Phil for that. He made it," I said.

"Cool," Techno said.

"Here's your bed," I patted the spare bed that was in front of mine.

"Thanks," he muttered as he sat down.

I floated back to my own bed as night began to make her appearance.

"I guess good night?" Techno said before lying down.

I smiled to myself.

"Good night...brother," I said before laying down to sleep myself.

A/N: I believe in TwinsDuo supremacy (not in a romantic shipping way. In the words of the great Philza Minecraft: "your honor! They are brothers!" So no romantic between those two)

Anyway first chapter of December whooo!

I left some headcanons in this chapter so yeah.

After completing this book, I may make an origin book for the Origins. My headcanons of course and what's considered canon in Origins.

But completing this book will take a while so that book will take a while to come out.

Anyway hope you enjoyed it!

Cya in the next one -Flare