-_Nikki & Jack_-

     "He just doesn't know when to quit does he?!" Jack sputtered, pacing around the lobby of the Big Innit Hotel. Niki leaned against the doorway and watched him with tired eyes. She shrugged in response but Jack just kept rambling on.

     "Okay, yeah he killed Dream. Big fuckin' whoop! It's like everyone forgot that Tommy was the other big reason for all the wars and conflict!" Jack huffed, pulling at his hair in frustration. "And now he's run off and made enemies with some random person? Or creature, whatever the hell he pissed off this time?! The only reason Dream did was he did was because of Tommy."

     Niki stayed quiet choosing to think to herself instead of wasting her breath. She knew how Jack felt, and she knew how she felt. It was the same, Tommy was a menace and him leaving had been a good thing. Him dying was just a bonus, too bad it hadn't been canon. But she also knew that not many people shared their opinion of the boy. Most were probably gearing up for a rescue mission.

     "Will you just shut up for a minute?" Niki snapped when Jack's blubbering started to give her a headache. Jack shot her a scandalized look. Niki just sighed and rubbed the bridge of her nose.

     "Are we going to do anything about this? Can we? I don't think we need to step in here, he's not even here anymore." Niki lamented.

     "Okay, I see your point. He's not here. But what if he comes back? What if Tubbo or some else with a fucking hero complex goes to save him from this new mystery threat?" Jack explained.

     "On one hand, we'll have to deal with Tommy again if they bring him back. And on top of that, we might have this new thing after us as well if we meddle with it. It's bad enough we still have to deal with Tommy, do we really need whatever entity he pissed off to come to the SMP?" 

     Niki rolled her neck as she thought and Jack tapped his foot impatiently. He had a point. And if they were going to do something it wouldn't take too much planning.

     "Okay. I have an idea. Hopefully it will get rid of Tommy and keep whatever killed him off our backs."

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-_Puffy & Sam_-

     Puffy and Sam had grown close during the Egg war and they were the main caretakers of Bad, Skeppy and Ant. It wasn't a surprise they were together when the death message flashed. Sam sighed like a tired dad, and squinted in confusion at the killer's name. He wasn't good with the languages of the different realms. He knew that Puffy was a traveler though so he was just going to ask her. 

     "Hey, Puff, can you read-" Sam stopped when he heard glass shatter. Puffy was staring at her hologram, frozen solid. The glass had been a potion bottle of holy water that she didn't even seem to realize she dropped. Sam approached carefully, not wanting to get zapped by Puffy's magic. He preferred to sleep sometime this week.

     "Puffy? Are you alright?" Puffy flinched and looked At Sam with wide eyes. She was back to earth, but not fully her mind seemed much further away. 

     "Yeah, I'm- I'm fine. I um, I need to go. I need to find- to find uh, Foolish! Yeah." Puffy stuttered before sprinting off, leaving a confused Sam with a shattered mess.

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-_Punz & Ponk_-

     Punz did not sign up for this. Now that the prison wasn't going to be used and Dream wasn't employing him, he had to make money through other means. Naturally he went to the richest man on the server to get work (besides Techno). He was not counting on Sam putting him on nurse duty.

     Ponk had woken up from the Eggs influence faster than the other's, but that was probably due to how badly he was injured. Sam had been the one set to distract Ponk while Sapnap and Techno dealt with Bad and Skeppy, and they even tracked down an old spark of Ant who was happy to help kill the thing that took his (ex?) boyfriend.

     It wasn't all smooth sailing. Sam was forced to kill Ponk, which resulted in a canon death, as most murders do. And then even after that, Ponk still wouldn't stop. It seemed that Ponk was the weakest strong member of the Eggpire. Because of Bad and Skeppy's blood bond they were able to fight the complete control of the Egg for the sake of each other. And Ant wasn't to the Eggs taste for a champion. So that left Ponk. 

     Ponk ended up losing an arm. Twice, the same one. The first time Sam cut his arm off it had just been a normal arm. The next time though, it was some thorny blood vine monstrosity that the Egg had 'blessed' Ponk with to replace the limb he'd lost. It wasn't an easy fight after that, Sam had some nasty scars on his chest from the fight. But in the end Sam was able to once more subdue Ponk via loss of limb. And then the Egg was dealt with by Hanna, Puffy, Fundy and Callahan. (R.i.p. Callahan, a real hero.)

     What that meant for Punz however, since the other three were still unsafe, and Sam was too guilty to do it himself, was that he was stuck taking care of a comatose Ponk. He was rewrapping the bandages on Ponk's arm when he got the message. 

     He felt a thrum of adrenaline and excitement flow through him. Finally some action around here instead of all the peace and quiet. Finally something to get his blood pumping again. He refused to sit this one out after all these months of just sitting around playing doctor with a sleeping guy.

     "You better wake your ass up, so I can go on an adventure dammit."

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-_⎓੭੭ꖎ¦ᓭ⍑_- 

      When he heard the message ping he ignored it at first. He was elbow deep in soil and flower bulbs, he was pretty busy. It was maybe an hour before he checked his hologram, too preoccupied with the rose bushes him and Karl had planned along the edges of the main clearing. The chat had been buzzing at a steady pace but he just chalked it up to a normal conversation that didn't involve him.

     He regretted his aloofness as soon as he did check it. He was confused at first why a meeting at the community house was finalized and why Puffy was asking where he was. He scrolled up as fast as he could with new messages still popping in. His heart almost stopped when he read the familiar swirls and dashes of text. He quickly kicked the bulbs to the edges of the clearing and spread them out in case any of them took root.

     And then he let himself grow to his full height of 23' and made his way to the community house as fast as his feet could carry him which was pretty damn fast. Not fast enough though, he still used his Trident and landed with a splash beside the community house  thankfully Puffy was there looking for him. Everyone else (Tubbo, Ranboo, Micheal, Niki, Jack, Fundy, Purpled, Punz, Sam, Sapnap, Quackity, and Karl) were very surprised to see him arrive in such a way. 

     He ignored them, leaning down, so that Puffy could sit on his shoulder. Standing up straight the two whispered back and forth in a garbled language as the other's continued planning what to do as they waited for a few others to reach them. Probably Techno and Philza.

     "¦᛫⌇ɾ⧶᛫⧶੭⅂᛫˧੭.₋.᛫¦᛫⍑ɾ⍊ᒷ᛫ɾ᛫⟍̅⚍⅂ǁ᛫⅂੭᛫⅂⍑ᒷ᛫¦⧶⫶⚍∷ᒷ⟍̅.₋.᛫¦᛫ɾᓭꖌ᛫⅂⍑ɾ⅂᛫ǁ੭⚍᛫˧੭,᛫ⅰ!ꖎᒷɾᓭᒷ.₋.᛫ǁ੭⚍᛫ᒲ⚍ᓭ⅂᛫ꖎ੭੭ꖌ᛫ɾ⎓⅂ᒷ∷᛫⍑¦ᒲ.₋.᛫" 

"ᴵ ᶜᵃⁿ ⁿᵒᵗ ᵍᵒ. ᴵ ʰᵃᵛᵉ ᵃ ᵈᵘᵗʸ ᵗᵒ ᵗʰᵉ ⁱⁿʲᵘʳᵉᵈ. ᴵ ᵃˢᵏ ᵗʰᵃᵗ ʸᵒᵘ ᵍᵒ, ᵖˡᵉᵃˢᵉ, ʸᵒᵘ ᵐᵘˢᵗ ˡᵒᵒᵏ ᵃᶠᵗᵉʳ ʰⁱᵐ."

     Puffy muttered into his ear. He blinked his large emerald eyes at her, and nodded.

     "੭⎓᛫⌇੭⚍∷ᓭᒷ᛫¦᛫∴¦ꖎꖎ᛫˧੭.₋.᛫⧶੭⅂⍑¦⧶˧᛫∴੭⚍ꖎ⟍̅᛫⦣ᒷ᛫ɾ⦣ꖎᒷ᛫⅂੭᛫ᓭ⅂੭ⅰ!᛫ᒲᒷ.₋."

"ᴼᶠ ᶜᵒᵘʳˢᵉ ᴵ ʷⁱˡˡ ᵍᵒ. ᴺᵒᵗʰⁱⁿᵍ ʷᵒᵘˡᵈ ᵇᵉ ᵃᵇˡᵉ ᵗᵒ ˢᵗᵒᵖ ᵐᵉ."