Summary: Tension grows, Philza is trying to understand the situation. He starts to get it, but Wilbur and Techno reach them and do not have a calm reaction.

Tommy gets a rude wake up call.

Notes: Editing credit to CyberGeist. The chapter will look much different compared to the previous chapters.

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"Beforeyousayanything Please listen for just a minute or two! I swear we have an explanation! We're all good, this is the best scenario trust me, ignore the sleeping human"

Saying to ignore the sleeping human was easier said than done, as that's all his eyes and instincts could focus on.

His instincts were screaming for him to get the two away from the human, to get them behind him, before it could wake up. But he's also trying to think rationally, Ranboo would not by ANY MEANS have a sleeping human on his damn lap, if he didn't feel okay with it, or safe. Tubbo doesn't seem bothered by it as well, going as far as to get in front of them both in a protective manner.

Clearly more went on in that ship than any of them could could have anticipated or imagined.

Sure Philza speculated that the human could have been in play for their escape, the human could have helped them, he 85% believes they are sentient, but with all documented information they were always shown as rogue and beast-like, destruction following their paths and painting ships with the blood of species.

He tried his best not to rely on what others say, to see with his own eyes what humanity was like, but you can only avoid rumors and horrifying tales for so long before it's said so many times that it begins to stick to your mind like sap.

He can maybe see the human helping the two escape and in return maybe not murdering them as they escaped together. But he's surprised that the human stayed with them.

Unfortunately for Philza the only way to get answers to his questions was to ask the two themselves.

He slowly walks into the cave, but not too close, hesitating when the two tense up., He stops getting closer when he hears a low protective growl, begin rumbling from deep in Ranboo's chest. Ranboo jerks his head, startled by his own reaction to Phil's advance.

Looks like they have gotten attached to the human. Curious.

He slowly sits down, perched on a nearby small rock.

"Now"

He claps his taloned hands together, being careful to not be too loud. "Do you boys want to explain to me how you escaped the ship and obtained a human, then answer WHY you didn't go to the designated cords?

Both Ranboo and Tubbo looked at each other, Tubbo relaxed slightly from standing in front of his captain and sat next to the human. Philza represses the urge to trill angrily, his instincts frantically telling him to stop Tubbo from sitting right next to the sleeping human.

"Well you see, it literally all started with me being chucked into Mommy's cell"

"Who- Is that his name?"

"I can't pronounce it fuck off!"

"You'll wake him, keep your voice down!"

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"Mommy's been taking care of me since the moment I got chucked into his cell, He managed to get the spore flowers for me to eat by tossing me and having me grab them-"

"He tossed you!?"

"Stop fucking interrupting me! Yes, he tossed me and before you say anything it was literally the only way I could eat and not starve"

Tubbo starts from the beginning, explaining how Tommy did not, in fact, do anything to hurt Tubbo. The opposite really. Tubbo told Phil how Tommy seemed to have confused Tubbo for a child due to his small size and took responsibility for him.

"He- Mate are you telling me he took one look at you and said 'Ah yes! This is mine now, this is my Capra' You know I find that hard to believe right?"

Phil has never heard of a human willingly taking in another alien to care for them. There have only been two records of two humans who have befriended some aliens but leading to those friendships was a path of shredded blood and dead corpses. And a concern was that those humans were never heard from again. Nobody knows what happened, they were often told the story as a haunting of sorts, to be wary or else you will find a ship haunted by the humans who will also strand you and your crew.

But aside from the unknown humans, those possibly real bonds were mainly for survival, many knew humans were protective of their pack and their young. But to also accept another young from a completely separate species? That's... you're telling him that less than 8% of all Galactic Sentient aliens that have space exploration and travel, have instincts to care for other young aliens includes humans?

What does that say about how aliens have always treated each other if the 'feared and dangerous humans' are capable of caring for another being far more easily than the majority of the Galactic Galaxy?

Tubbo glares, "Well it's true! He gave me his rationed water, kept me warm, he's clingy, very clingy, Ranboo is starting to get a taste of it too"

Ranboo mumbled

"Oh really? I couldn't tell"

Tommy has not moved from his spot on Ranboo, and Ranboo doesn't want to rudely wake him up or cause a scene for him to panic if he spots Phil.

Phil feels slightly less stressed, if what they say is true then this human has been helping them since the ship. "And the... fire?"

He gestures to the fire, a leaf basket and the fish. Tubbo perks up

"He made them! He started the fire when we got here, made that leaf bag thing. And! He fished- well these aren't the fish he brought, but he fished the first time and brought them so Ranboo could eat some meat"

They were both surprised when Tommy came back and they saw him bringing fish for both himself and Ranboo, it wasn't enough, the two fishes one for each of them, but the thought was considerate and showed Tommy wanted them to survive in his care.

Luckily they got more fish from who they now know was Shroud. The fact Shroud didn't come bursting in the cave when Phil entered was surprising, maybe Phil had actively kept out of its sight and hearing?

Phil eyes the sleeping human, and how comfortable Ranboo is holding him. Ranboo is an anxious boy, so to see him relaxed, is the visual sign that's convincing him honestly, and everything that Tubbo is saying is registering in his head. Processing.

"What's his name?"

Phil tilts his head. He would like to know the name of the human that has been helping his youngest members. Ranboo answers him,

"His name is Tommy, Tubbo can't pronounce his name correctly, as he's already mentioned"

Tubbo sharply turns to glare at Ranboo.

"I can't make that sound at the beginning! The 'CH' sound!"

"You mean the 'T' sound?"

"I said what I said!"

Phil muffles his laughter that's begging to come out. Tommy huh? He gazes down at Tommy, noticing his torn clothing, his bruises and injuries. How he seems tired even in his sleep, leaned against Ranboo who has been idly scratching his head and has had his tail swishing behind him lazily and relaxed.

Something in him tightens and aches, an urge to pick the boy up and clean his wounds, heal him. That even with the lack of communication he wants to help Tommy. To protect him like he has for Tubbo and Ranboo.

"How is he? Does he have trouble eating? Is he sick? Can he walk? Does he need immediate attention?"

The words just come out of his mouth, the more he stares at Tommy the more his instincts replaced his frantic blaring of 'Protect Tubbo and Ranboo' to 'Heal. protect. Fledgling Hurt. Heal'.

There's also no way that this human is an adult, he's lanky, not as skinny as one would think from being mistreated, but his limbs are lanky in the way a young teenager would be.

Both Ranboo Tubbo give him a look, Tubbo looking far too smug and mischievous for his liking and Ranboo just sighed, but seemed to be smiling.

Tubbo tilts his head,

"He's... he tends to favor his right leg when he walks and stuff, eats fine, gave him some fruit earlier- oh speaking of! Did he eat some Ranboo?"

Tubbo looks over at Ranboo, who nodded and gestured to the eaten fruits, some pieces left untouched, probably inedible or doesn't taste good to Tommy.

"Are you sure he can eat any of this mate?" Phil knew that humans could basically eat just about anything as long as it's edible, but he still felt worried for him. Foreign foods are a concern after all, there's multiple machines meant for detecting potentially harmful foods for many species. He worries about the potential ill food the human could have eaten.

"Well, he hasn't vomited it out or gotten sick while he ate it, and he seemed to really like the first one"

Ranboo answered. Tommy shifted around a bit, for a moment it looked like he was going to wake up but was quickly calmed when Tubbo gently ruffled his hair.

"So from what you've said... Tommy is basically- what? Are you in his pack now?" Nobody knows how human 'packs' work, just that they get easily attached to things and people, specifically things more than a person.

Either the human kills everyone in the crew and disappear, or they die in captivity. Rarely does a human attempt to bond with any alien- and for the right reasons obviously, nobody would want to be forced to bond with their captors. The many attempts that aliens have made to illegally take humans from their homes and figure out how to weaponize them have all failed in either a deadly escape or in killing the subject. Disgusting acts that he would not hesitate to teach a lesson against.

Tubbo taps his chin, thinking,

"I think so, I'm pretty sure he adopted me. He's taken care of me as if he was my hive queen and protected me. He went fucking feral at this one Elite Dreamon that got me on the side"

Tubbo shows his side, the bandage still there, wrapped and slightly blue but not overflowing.

A deep rage made its way through his veins. His wings stretched for a second. The urge to drive back to the ship and give those dreamon fuckers a fight they won't forget. How DARE they harm his young crew- wait what was that about being adopted? By a human? He didn't say that specifically earlier! Just that he took responsibility for Tubbo.

"What the fuck? How did- "

Ranboo looks at Tubbo, suddenly remembering the scene that was before him when he was waking up.

"The guard that he mauled?"

"Yup, hit him hard in the face with the gun, was absolutely brutal, but he was protecting me, I think that's also when his adrenaline kicked in and he smashed the guard so hard against the reinforced glass he cracked it"

"His WHAT!? That's real? Not just a myth?"

"Nope! Not a myth! Choo-mi almost killed Ranboo when he thought he was kidnapping me"

"WHO THE FUCK IS CHOO-MI!?"

"INSIDE VOICES PLEASE!"

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"Phil really just flew off without us huh?"

"Can't blame him, he's been on edge and making Ivory calls the whole time since we reported that ship, out of all of us he's got the best shot at finding them. Doesn't mean we shouldn't try obviously"

"Obviously, I'm no quitter"

"Literally lost to a pen but go off"

"What the fuck Techno"

"I am simply speaking the truth, and they know it too"

"Uhh... 'they'? Who's they?"

"Don't worry about it"

Wilbur slows down, staring at the back of Technos bunny looking ass head in disbelief and slight concern on who the hell also saw him lose to a cursed pen. He trails behind him again, careful with roots that have been uprooted or are in prime position to trip him.

"Pen is cursed anyways, haven't seen it since it got lost in the vents"

Techno gives a huffing sound, his form of chuckling, easily hopping over a fallen tree while Wilbur fazes through it.

"It'll come back, if it's really cursed as you say it is then you won't escape"

Wilbur smacked the back of Technos head- or he would have if Techno didn't move his head out of the way and a branch replaced his head, arched and bent. It strikes Wilbur.

"AH FUCK!"

He hisses in pain, blindly trying to move the branch.

"DAMMIT TECHNO- ow ow ow, you know my skin is sensitive! And don't even joke about that pen coming back, don't need the damn thing haunting me!"

Wilbur cradles his face, checking to see if he's possibly bleeding. Luckily he's not.

Techno looks back, looking only slightly apologetic.

"I'm gonna be honest, I really thought you would dodge it"

Wilbur gives him his best deadpanned look while in pain.

Wilbur lets out a small hiss towards Techno, baring his teeth slightly, Techno knows Wilbur means no harm from his display, ignores him entirely and he checks his comm. He's been using it to track Philza. In Technos opinion, he would have appreciated it if Phil at least told them he was gonna start flying around.

From how Phil seems to be still on the same spot for a while on the tracker, he might have found something. Why hasn't he sent anything to them or sent a ping? Is Phil okay? Sure he's an old man, but even Techno knows better than to assume Phil is alright, he's got hollow bones. There's a number of possibilities, but his job is to protect his crew, so questions come last until he makes sure everyone is safe. Then the questions can be asked.

Wilbur peeks over his shoulder, glancing at his comm. He makes a noise of confusion,

"Is he just sitting somewhere? Maybe he dropped his comm"

Techno moves a low branch again, this time making sure Wilbur passed over before letting it go,

"Phil never drops his comm, Phil is like Ranboo, keeps his comm on him at all times and in good care, checks it regularly"

They both stew in their thoughts, thinking over what could have caught Phils attention and made him not report back to them. Techno only worried for safety reasons and Wilbur out of curiosity, and maybe a little worry.

Following the tracker, they close in on a very small clearing, against a mini mountain if you can call it that, more like just a really rocky hill, it's got a sharp rocky point at the top, surrounded by vines, grass, moss and the obvious bushes and trees. There's an opening cave entrance.

Techno puts a hand out, stopping Wilbur from proceeding,

"This could be a den, you don't just walk into a den"

Wilbur points to the comm

"Well either this creature stole Phils Comm or this is where Phil is"

He's right, the tracker's telling them that Phil is in there. Techno walks slowly and cautiously, keeping his steps light and soft, Wilbur using his ability to go invisible, following Technos steps while analyzing the possible den.

"Maybe Tubbo and Ranboo took shelter in here?"

It's plausible, surely they remember the steps for survival. They didn't see any possible leftovers of carcasses- oh, that's bones, bones that look like fish? Fishbones?

"Something's definitely living here-"

Wilbur tugs on his arm lightly pointing into the mouth of the cave and whispers.

"I see Phils wings Tech, it's a little hard to see but look! There's light in the cave"

His eyesight is poor, unlike Wilburs, he twitches his ears towards the cave and sure enough, he can hear voices, he hears Phil and the young crewmates!

"And I hear Tubbo 'n Ranboo, the hell is Phil doin' just talking? He should have reported to us"

Wasting no time and becoming less cautious they eagerly hurry towards the cave, Techno with a scolding ready in his mouth.

"Phil! You were supposed to ping or message us when you find Tubbo and Ranboo, what are you-"

Wilbur shrieks and does not shut his mouth in time to stop the shriek from escaping his mouth.

There was a fucking human on Ranboos LAP. His lap! Like if it was a PET.

And Wilburs shriek woke it up.

A pair of the brightest blue eyes he's ever seen blink up at them with confusion and drowsiness. Then it narrows into anger and alarm. The human shoots up with energy that it should not have, having literally JUST woken up.

They hear Tubbo and Ranboo shout in alarm.

"Wait wait! Mommy it's okay-!"

"Tommy, they're not threats-!"

Before he could process their words or even the fact they are trying to calm the human it lunges for them with a- WHERE DID IT GET A THERMAL KNIFE!?

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Fueled by one of the worst adrenaline wake ups he's ever had, Tommy lunges for the bunny fucker with his alien knife, he doesn't care if he looks adorable- HE'S TOO FUCKING CLOSE! WHY DIDN'T THEY WAKE HIM UP!? WHEN DID THESE FUCKS GET HERE!? HOW LONG HAVE THEY BEEN HERE!? (god he really sounds like a mother-)

AND HOW DARE THEY RUIN HIS NAP?

"GET YOUR ASS CLOSER I'LL TURN YOU INTO STIR FRY AND SPACE KFC CHICKEN YOU FEATHERED FUCK AND FURRIES!"

He hears his name and nickname called out but he was just focused on getting these strangers AWAY! He makes an animalistic sound he remembers hearing from a previous ship, a predator that looked like Griffin, but entirely black and with 4 yellow eyes. The sound felt harsh at the back of his throat but came out as a hissy roar that started as a whistle and grew louder. It startled all the aliens in the cave and he tried to use that hesitation to stab the bird.

He was pulled and stopped however. He thrashes in panic before quickly thrashing... less panicked when he realized it was Ranboo and the last thing he wants is to accidentally hurt the guy.

C'mon just let him at them! He can make them never come back!

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"CHOO-MI PLEASE! THEY AREN'T THREATS!"

Tommy could either not hear him or was too panicked with the three unknown aliens in front of him. Tubbo can't blame him in the slightest, waking up to a group of aliens in front of him after whatever the fuck happened to him when this many aliens were around on the other ship is not a good atmosphere to wake up to.

Tubbo tries flying in front of Tommy, barely succeeding when Tommy nearly stabs Philza with his knife and is picked up by Ranboo. He's confident that if he just gets in front of Tommy and tries talking to him he'd listen, knowing that Tommy would never hurt him or Ranboo intentionally, he shouts over his wings, not taking his eyes from Tommy

"Back up, all of you! He sees you as a threat, just get out of the cave and we'll calm him down"

Wilbur shrieks back, not taking his eyes off of Tommy as well

"Like hell we will! That's a fucking human! There's no way you'll calm that thing-"

Phil shrieks back at Wilbur, spreading his wings to prevent either of them from stepping forward, making them all walk backwards, slowly and carefully out of the cave.

"Wilbur, let them handle this"

Both Techno and Wilbur stare at him in shock, which is understandable, there's a very aggravated human, and if it were any other situation he would NOT be doing this. But he trusts Ranboo and Tubbo's judgment, they would know Tommy the best, he knows from everything they said Tommy would not undo all his progress of protecting them by attacking them.

Techno is the one to speak this time, his instincts to protect his crew rearing their head, screaming to the point he just can't ignore it.

"Phil, I trust your judgment I really do, but this is not some critter that you can pick up and pet, that's a human who is definitely gaining more adrenaline as we speak-"

Techno nearly shoves Phils wings away when he sees the human break out of Ranboos hold. Phil had quickly grabbed him before he could hop away to the cave.

Phil trills, gently trying to soothe Technos nerves and instincts,

"Mate, look at them"

They all look over and see that Tubbo is staying in front of Tommy, blocking the exit- well blocking is a strong word, the mouth of the cave is big, if the human really wanted to it's an easy trample, not even, just a swift swat and Tubbo is out of the way.

But the human makes no move or gesture to harm Tubbo or swat him away, glaring, hissing, yelling and barking sharp words at the crew from the cave, but does nothing to go past Tubbo. Well not nothing, he does try going left and right, around Tubbo, but Tubbo meets him at every turn.

Ranboo also joins, Techno is the only one who can hear what they are saying, Ranboo seems to be mumbling reassurances to 'Tommy'. He assumes that's the humans name. How they got it is a mystery for now, but it seems to slowly be working.

"Trust them"

Is all Phil says, looking on as the youngest members of the crew calm one of the most deadly and feared deathworlder species in the galaxy.

They all see Ranboo placing a gentle clawed hand on Tommy's shoulder, going next to him and pressing himself against the human, Tubbo flying close to Tommy and holding his hands. Whatever words they are saying to the human, seems to be working and the contact from the two teens begins greatly calming the human. He still glares at the 3, but with less murderous intent in his eyes.

Soon enough, the human is calmed by both Tubbo and Ranboo, displaying signs of affection by leaning against Ranboo and ruffling Tubbos hair. Talking to them and gesturing his anger to the rest of the crew waiting outside, showing and displaying his displeasure about the adult aliens.

They don't know how long they've been standing outside the cave, watching the teens calming a deathworlder, but they can recognize protective signs that 'Tommy' seems to be displaying when they start walking outside the cave, Tubbo and Ranboo walking on both sides of Tommy.

Said human glares at them the second it gets outside, saying harsh words and sounds and... lifts its hand raising its middle finger towards them. They can take a wild guess that it's a rude gesture.

They all stand there awkwardly, none of them knowing what to say, or even where to even start.

Ranboo clears his throat, clapping his hands together. He gestures to the crew,

"Captain Philza, Wilbur, Technoblade, we'd like to introduce you to Tommy, the human who helped us escape. Tommy, this is our crew"

He gestures to Tommy, who only glares at them standing slightly in front of both Ranboo and Tubbo, in a defiant stance, daring them to get closer to the teens.

Clearly Tommy doesn't give a shit about introductions.

Ranboo only chuckles nervously, He took the lead on introducing Tommy, knowing that if Tubbo tried he wouldn't even pronounce his name right.

They hear a loud hiss, and look up at the rocky hill to see a Strenx Arachnid rearing its legs up and hissing at them. It charges from its rocky spot, throwing a decently large boulder at them. Techno quickly shoves his crew away and takes a stance, ready to fight off the beast before the human shouts something at the arachnid, halting the spider and making... cooing sounds?

Tubbo looks back at the arachnid before dismissing the one predator that could turn him into a fucking snack.

"And that's Shroud, He's Tommy's pet I'm pretty sure"

Wilbur breaks first.

"ARE YOU GOING TO EXPLAIN WHAT THE FUCK HAS HAPPENED SINCE YOU LEFT!?"

Tommy snaps and hisses at Wilbur for yelling at Tubbo as the Strenx arachnid crawls down from the rocks and approaches to get behind the human, hissing quietly at the three strangers.

Phil is starting to understand what Tubbo meant by

"You've been replaced"

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Notes: I HAD FUN WITH THIS! HAAAA, the whole crew is here! And they get front row seats at the big display that is: Mommyinnit.

They'll have to pry the teens from his cold dead hands.

I would also like to give Editing credit to CyberGeist. They offered to edit my chapter and let me tell you I did not realize how often I put '2' down. My god.

They did a brilliant job on making sure sentences made SENSE. Yall can say as much as you want how smooth and great the story is but you know damn well there were some weird wordings in here.

https://twitter.com/Lone_Bloodhound/status/1484274739954819076

https://leva-prava.tumblr.com/post/677260712024883200/tubbo-from-who-said-family-is-blood-by

Fanart!

(Why does wattpad not allow me to link these this is horsecrap)