TW//Description of murder, dismemberment of human body parts, and throwing up.

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"The eggpire base is exactly 42 blocks east of the Logstedshire gym. The eggpire base is exactly 42 blocks east of the Logstedshire gym. The eggpire base is exactly 42 blocks east of the Logstedshire gym. The eggpire base is exactly 42 blocks east of the Logstedshire gym..."

It was a simple sentence that lived in his head rent-free playing on repeat. "The eggpire base is exactly 42 blocks east of the Logstedshire gym." Of fucking course it was. The one place he hadn't thought to check. And he thought he knew the town well at this point.

Tommy wasn't stupid. He didn't just possess the information and do nothing about it. He possessed the information and immediately shared it with Phil and Techno. 

Tommy didn't care that it was 1 am and they all had work in the morning. He possibly found Tubbo. He possibly found Ranboo. And all the other missing people.

Tommy bookmarked the book and burst out of his apartment, locking it behind him and running to the closest phone booth. He entered a coin in the machine and dialed Phil's number possibly at record speed.

"Cmon Phil... Pick up, old man..." Tommy mumbled to himself as he heard the phone ring. He heard a click a moment later and I tired Phil responding. "Yeah...? Who is this?"

"Tommy! Phil, listen. I found it. I think I found them!" Tommy said hurriedly, trying not to break out into a full-on sob. "What? WHAT? You what??" Phil asked excitedly. "How??"

Tommy broke and fell into a full-on sob. "I think I found them. Ranboo found the Eggpire's base and didn't tell anyone. He wrote it down in a secret memory journal. We found it!" Tommy heard Phil getting up. "Where are you?"

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The Syndicate wasted no time meeting up, pinpointing the exact location of the base, and forming a plan. 

Tommy looked down at the armor they had specially made for him. His wings poked out of the sides. Considering he never used his wings and forgot how to fly with them, it was rather uncomfortable. 

Phil looked over at Tommy as he fixed his own mask. "You alright Tommy?" Tommy shot Phil a glare. "It's Thomas. Or in this case, since we're doing hero shit right now, Theseus. And no. This is very uncomfortable." Phil clicked his tongue. "C'mon... We had it specially made!" Tommy rolled his eyes.

"Maybe you should've been a better father and should've taught me how to fly rather than hating me for years." Phil's face fell as he froze, stunned. Phil looked away. "I'll teach you when we return. We should focus on the mission." 

"That's what I thought." Tommy hatefully thought. Tommy felt a hand on his shoulder. "Be nice, Theseus. You won't have to deal with him for long." Tommy sighed and turned to face Techno. "You're right."

Techno smiled at him. "Are you sure you want to go? You don't have to. We have it covered." Tommy shook his head. "They're my family. I owe them this." Techno's expression turned sad as if grieving. "It's your decision."

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On the outside, the place seemed to be your typical abandoned old drug place. The building was once occupied by meth addicts and alcoholics. The place was abandoned after they died of an overdose. Ironic.

Obviously, the place wasn't as abandoned as previously thought though. 

Tommy watched as some of the more stealthy heroes snuck inside the place and disappeared.

After a good silent 30 minutes and no word from the stealth team, the agility team went in after the stealthy people, Tommy going with them.

The inside of the building seemed to be completely bare aside from the signature vines of the egg growing along the wall, ceiling, and floor. An obvious sign that they had the right place.

The agile team + Tommy explored the inside of the building, eventually breaking off into smaller groups to get better coverage of the place. 

The deeper Tommy journeyed into the building, the more bloody red vines there seemed to be.

Tommy eventually reached an opened door in the house. 

He peaked his head in.

The blood-red, fleshy vines of the egg seemed to originate from the room due to how thick the vines were and the fact the vines were growing out of the room, making it impossible to close the door. 

The moment Tommy stepped into the room he could tell he wasn't the first to be down there. There were recognizable footprints on the ground. They were the stealth team's.

He could hear a loud throbbing noise coming from the vines.

The egg was alive.

It was some sort of creature. Some sort of living, breathing parasite. 

Regardless of what it was,

It was alive.

Tommy journeyed further into the room, doing his best to ignore the throbbing of the vines, the gross squishy sound underneath his feet as if he was walking on flesh, the sound of breathing.

Squish

Squish

He tried to not throw up at the sound and smell. Something must've died in there.

Squish 

Squish

Squish

He honestly couldn't tell how far into the hallway he was, but the further down he went, the more he started to get the feeling he knew what it was that he was in...

The place was eerily similar to a human digestive system. It was like walking from the mouth of a living, breathing creature to its stomach. 

Squish

Squish

Stop. Tommy froze.

Tommy felt his stomach contents that he was trying to suppress come up as barfed all over the sight in front of him.

Tommy looked back up from his throw-up to what he saw.

The throw-up covered the pink flesh substance in front of him, the room smelling no better than it did a minute ago.

Ba-doom

Ba-doom

Ba-doom

Tommy did his best to ignore the sound of a dying, somehow still beating human heart.

Tommy felt nauseous as he looked at the thousands and thousands of eyes, torn flesh, open and bleeding pink and red guts in front of him.

Tommy took a step backward out of fear and felt something squish underneath him.  He fearfully looked down to see what it was- an eyeball. A hazel human eyeball.

An eyeball loose from its body. Free from the owner. The owner that was most likely in front of him, torn to shreds as if by a savage animal.

The beautiful colored hazel eye turned to face Tommy. 

It moved on its own.

Tommy felt his heart beat as if it was trying to escape his chest. The world was closing in on him. Was it closing in on him? The world was getting dark...

"Move"

Tommy tried his best to not turn and face the person who had been following behind him but failed to resist as he quickly turned to glance at the figure behind him.

A minion. An eggpire minion. 

Instantly filled with fear, Tommy turned around quickly and ran even deeper into the hall to get away from the minion, screaming from fear.

Squish

Squish

Tommy fell to his knees as he reached the end of the hallway and ended up in what seemed to be the basement of the building. 

The room was quite large and spacious. Even with all the fleshy, bloody vines that completely covered the room. In a corner of the room, a giant red egg colored the same as the vines grew, vines growing from it like some parasite desperate to stay. 

Hearing the minion calmly following behind him approach, Tommy jumped up and ran to the other side of the fleshy room. 

Squish squish squish squish squish squish Squish squish squish squish squish squish Squish squish squish squish squish squish Squish squish squish squish squish squish Squish squish squish squish squish squish Squish squish squish squish squish squish

"Well... Well... Well." Tommy looked up to see on the opposite side of the room from him, a familiar figure emerging from the wall. 

"Bad?! Why are you doing this?" Tommy shouted at the demon hybrid. Badboyhalo laughed. "Why? Why?? Tommy, because of the Egg." 

"The egg? You're crazy! You're fucking crazy!!!" Tommy shouted at the man once more. Bbh shook his head. "The egg has given me everything, Tommy. I did this for it." 

"You kidnapped millions of innocent people... Because of a FUCKING CULT?" Bbh shook his head and laughed in a villainous way once more. "Not because of the egg. Because of the Egg's plan. Because of the greater good, Theseus!"

"How is this the greater good?? Do you realize what you've done?" Badboyhalo smirked and turned his head to face the minion that had followed him. "Bring them out, Antfrost. And you know who." 

Antfrost nodded and disappeared into a wall of flesh. He and several other minions came back out, holding back Tubbo and Ranboo. 

"TOMMYY!!!"

"Tubbo... TUBBO!! RANBOO!!" Tommy ran over to them just as the syndicate also ran into the room from the same way Tommy did. As Tommy tried to run over to the two, some of the minions blocked the three from each other. 

"I see you know our hostages." Tommy turned to face BBH. "You... YOU FUCKING SICKO! LET THEM GO!"  Badboyhalo laughed.

"I'll let them go. For a price, of course." 

Tommy felt a hand squeeze his shoulder. "Tommy, calm down," Techno said, attempting to comfort him. "What do you want? Money? You could just get a job, Mr. Halo." Phil asked.

"Not money, no. Loyalty." Tommy breathed in sharply. "And if we don't?" BBH shot the minions a look, then the minors held swords up to Tubbo and Ranboo's neck.

"They die."

Behind him, Tommy hears Techno scoff, then sees him slowly walk over to BBH. Tommy followed him and knelt down, putting his hands up defensively. 

There was a moment of silence. Tommy looked up to see why and saw no one else kneeling. Instead, Techno and BBH we're in the middle of a staring contest, with the syndicate backing Techno up and the Eggpire for BBH. 

"Mr. Halo, this isn't even a quarter of my men. I've got double this and more surrounding your base and waiting outside the room. All I have to do is give them the word. We aren't scared of you or this cult. Give up now while you have the chance."

BBH cackled. "I'd rather die martyred."

Techno glanced around at the other syndicate members and knelt down like Tommy did. 

Tommy felt a wave of relief go over him as he saw the minions holding Tubbo and Ranboo hostage lower the sword a little. 

"See? That wasn't so bad! Now your little friends can be free! They don't have to suf-" BBH was cut off by a sword being slid through his leg like butter.

Tommy watched in fear as Techno materialized a sword into thin air using his abilities and cutting off Badboyhalo's leg. 

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH" A blood-curdling scream broke the silence as a red substance pooled around BBH's body where he laid. 

Tommy couldn't stop himself from watching in shock, frozen. The red substance pooled around the man faster and faster, staining his clothes.

Tommy watched the light fade from the man's eyes and his eyes grow cloudy.

Time passed, but slowly for Tommy. Everything was going in slow motion. 

Fights had broken out around him. Everyone was yelling, screaming, but for Tommy, everything was muted. 

People fell, dropping and dying like flies. But to him, the air was thick and he felt the pressure felt as heavy as several tons of bricks.

He watched the man die. The man bled put in front of him.

But the moment he did die, Tommy watched in terror as the fleshy room sucked up his body and digest him, later spitting out the bits of the man that once was without mercy. 

He was in the stomach of a beast. 

The egg wasn't a bird about to be born and introduced to the world- it was a horrifying parasite from who knows where that ate and used anything and everything it could without mercy. 

"TOMMY!!!!" Tommy, still in shock, looked up just in time to see the swords held at Tubbo and Ranboo's neck got pulled closer to them as they tried to fight their way free. Unable to activate their abilities due to the ability cancelling handcuffs trapping them. 

Tommy watched as heroes tried to free them, angering the minions.

Slice

An even cleaner cut than BBH's. A simultaneous an instant death.

Tommy's eyes horrifiedly watched as the heads rolled over to him.

Tommy picked up one of them and turned in to face him.

Ranboo stared back. 

WHY WAS HE STARING BACK?

His eyes were open, but he saw nothing.

He didn't have earplugs in, but he didn't hear anything.

He was physically fine, but he shut down completely. His senses shut down, his thoughts shit down- he was numb. The bleeding, detached heads of his family got sucked in the floor and devoured. As if they were just food rather than people.

They died. They got brutally murdered by a cult. Inside the growing stomach of a parasite- A fate Tommy swore them to never have.

And now they were gone.

Tommy didn't realize he wasn't breathing until he'd heard someone call his name.

Tommy closed his eyes, hoping he wouldn't have to reopen them.

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Tubbo Schlatt was born to a family of an abusive politician and an absent mother. He suffered silently in the care of his father for years until his father died. After the death of his father, he was sent to foster care where he then had to suffer the abuse of the system and the families that took him in.

A while after finding out his childhood friend and friend from school (who was also in the system) committed suicide he ran away in the middle of the night to a shitty town no one would find him in- Logstedshire.

He didn't expect to find his "dead" friends in that town, but was more than glad to stay with them. 

They raised each other. Argued from time to time. They helped other people who were just like them. They became vigilantes and saved hundreds or maybe even thousands of people. They had each other work on their abilities. They were there for each other. Always, regardless of the fighting. They were found family. More family than by blood.

They would sacrifice themselves if it meant saving the other. And they did.

Tubbo died instantly, ending a decent life with people that cared about him more than anyone else had ever cared about him. 

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Ranboo Beloved was born to a family he never had the chance to meet. He was dropped off at the doorstep of a fire station when he was only a couple of months old. He was probably 3 or 4 months old when he had been given up and spent the next few years of his life growing up in foster care.

When he was a teenager about age 15, he had been put into a somewhat okay family that always made him somewhat uncomfortable. They were alright people, they just ignored his enderman side. He has plenty of scars from then when the water would burn his skin and they wouldn't care.

School was alright. He got close to someone else he met at the school who was in foster care. He was a goat hybrid named Tubbo. They became friends quickly and remained that way till the end.

At school, he met Tubbo's best friend. He was a lonely, tall, blonde kid a year younger than him. He would show up every day with a new mark and bruise. When you didn't know him, he seemed very funny and happy. But he was really just suicidal and distant.

One day he began distancing himself from people more than before and began ending his friendships with everyone. This kid- Tommy, seemed to not want anyone to like him or want him around anymore. 

Ranboo went out for a walk one day. It wasn't supposed to be anything more than that. Just a simple trip to the store to grab groceries for his foster family, then go back. But what do you do when you see someone you consider to be a friend (even if Tommy didn't see it like that and more like his friend's friend) on a bridge getting ready to jump?

He watched as the kid took off his shoes, set them on the ground next to where he stood, and hide a suicide note inside his shoes. 

He watched as the kid prepared himself to die. He watched in fear as his friend let himself fall into the river underneath him from such a great height to let his body be dragged into a nearby ocean. 

So, he teleported over and saved him. He listened as the kid broke down in front of him and told him everything. Ranboo in turn told Tommy everything that went on with him as well. About how he hated himself and felt depressed from time to time knowing he wasn't good enough for his family to want to get to know him as he aged.

He told Tommy about him finding his family happily married now with plenty of happy, well raised, and taken care of kids. And how his birth family wanted nothing to do with him regardless of him reaching out.

It took the two about 24 hours to leave town. They faked their own deaths and ran away together to a town no one would care if they were there alive. A town no one cared about anyone.

They got an apartment and jobs. They reunited with Tubbo, and Tubbo moved in with them. They broke several laws to illegally change their names and fix government information and shit to create 3 new fake people for them to be. 3 new lives for themselves. Bo Underscore, Mark Eye, and Thomas Underscore.

They lived a good life together. They became illegal heroes, saved thousands of lives, and became family. 

Ranboo died young by being beheaded by a cult. Him and Tubbo's bodies were torn into pieces and were used as food for the egg before anyone had the chance to collect their bodies.

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Another blood-curdling scream pierced the air. This time, heartbroken and traumatized beyond recovery.