Summary: Tommy do be sore after training with Techno, so he tries to take some naps and rest.

The crew really should have accounted for Nightmares, especially ones that still have a strong

hold on the boy.

Dreams aren't real, but they sure as hell feel real. Especially if they aren't fantasy.

Edit CyberGeist: I am still bitter about this chapter. She sent it to me and was like do you like, and I was like I'm not talking to you. You are hurting my children. But then she was like, but you're the one who ups our violence to the teen rating...and well. She has a point. I am straight up the one in charge of editing the torture/flashback chapters later....sooooo. Sorry? I am the editor for a reason I guess.

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Notes: I'm so excited! Are yall excited? I AM VERY EXCITED! :D This is gonna be great!

Btw I'm sorry for advance, I SWEAR MY RETURN WASN'T SUPPOSED TO START LIKE THIS I'M SO SORRY HAHA

Chapter updates are currently unknown, i just didn't want you guys to wait for too long cause i get the feeling, i get it. so here i am! alive!

Warning: Unedited, Torture? Past abuse? Minor Character death? Editor help XD)

(Edit from Cyber: No I refuse to help u, I will only make it more violent and you know it...oh wait too late I already did ;p hahaha)

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Tommy regrets that late workout/training with Techno. Like holy hell, he knew he was out of shape. But by god did he underestimate how out of shape he is.

Everything fucking HURTS.

He couldn't even get out of bed, his legs ache from running, his hands and upper shoulders hurt from hitting that punching bag continuously, even his chest aches from when he tried lifting some weird weight thingies that looked very similar to ones that he'd seen in gyms back on earth.

He didn't do much with those last ones though, it was simply too much of a strain on him, but apparently he did it enough that it affected him the second he woke up.

When he woke up that morning it was because Tubbo was trying to wake him up, and holy shit did he snap at him. He glared and sharply told him to fuck off while wincing in pain.

And then he immediately regretted it when he saw Tubbo flinch away, ignoring the soreness and ache he leaned up and snatched the boy in a weak hug, unable to tighten it.

"Sorry, Sorry, I'm just-"

He hisses in pain again, not really wanting to move and staying stuck in the hug.

"I'm just- hurting a little- fuck that hurts"

He shuts his eyes and leans tiredly against Tubbo, nearly toppling them over, heck they would have if it wasn't for Tubbos unnatural strength. At this point it was genuinely the only thing keeping the two of them upright, and from the shaking in Tubbo's shoulders it wouldn't be keeping them upright for long.. Tommy tried to get himself back up, and stop crushing Tubbo but found that his chest, hips, and thighs simply refused to work the muscles necessary to move himself into an upright position.

He groans tiredly and then moans when the simple sound causes him more pain. He doesn't know what time he and Techno stopped but it was definitely more than a few hours. Tommy was determined to gain strength but in his excitement he forgot to not overexert himself. And now he is suffering the consequences.

This fucking sucks.

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"Is he okay?"

"I don't know! Every time I move to adjust him he whimpers in pain! What happened?!"

"Did something happen last night? Did we squish him too much?"

"How the FUCK would we squish Choo-mi? Sure he's built like a flower stem but said flower stem genocided the dreamon ship"

"THEN WHAT HAPPENED!?"

"I DON'T KNOW!!"

They both abruptly shut up when Tommy hissed at them and groaned again in pain, pinning Tubbo down against the bed. Tubbo doesn't do anything about it, not wanting to hurt Tommy's odd aching. Tubbo winces a bit when he notices how much heavier Tommy seems to be, when he is unable to prevent his full weight from pressing too hard on Tubbo.

Tubbo gives Ranboo a pointed look, and then he swings an arm towards the door.

"Go get Philza! Or Techno! Literally anyone! He's not holding up any of his own weight and I think that at this point he might genuinely crush me on accident"

Tubbo isn't weak, it's already been proven time and time again, but that doesn't mean his body just up and grew itself stronger bones. So while he could 100% pull Tommy anywhere on the ship, it didn't mean he could pick him up or hold his weight.

Which meant he was genuinely really starting to struggle under his increased weight.

Ranboo immediately teleported, searching for one of the adults on the ship, preferably Technoblade. If anyone can pick up the human without causing harm to themselves and the human then it's Techno. Ranboo could do it, but during checkup he had strained himself to pick Tommy up when he had to carry him to the ship to escape the cops.

Tubbo feels Tommy try to move but he lets out a whine and only ends up resting more on Tubbo, to the point that Tubbo is unable to stop himself from letting out a pained squeak, his wings being crushed under him in the uncomfortable position.

Immediately, Tommy's eyes shoot open, and he moves. His eyes pained and his movements slow, but Tommy props his arms on either side of Tubbo in order to lift himself off of him. Tubbo squirms his way out, being careful not to touch Tommy's arms in order to not unbalance the already unstable human and bringing him crashing down atop him.

Shimming his way out from under him, he also looks over at Tommy, worried he caught some sort of sickness from them and that it was incredibly delayed, or maybe enhanced by the humans' different biology. He didn't show any signs of any common sickness, but how is Tubbo supposed to identify them? Human biology or common sickness wasn't something he could easily get his hands on to study and figure out if it's affecting Tommy or not.

Luckily Tubbo doesn't have to think about that worrying thought for long, because Techno comes in followed by Philza and Ranboo.

Techno takes one look at Tommy and chuffs out amused chuckles.

Tubbo glares at him.

"What? What's so funny that you're laughing at him?"

Techno waves a dismissive hand.

"It's nothing bad, he worked himself too hard last night"

Tubbo and Ranboo blink.

Ranboo comes over from behind Phil.

"He... He what? He was sleeping with us.. I think"

Tubbo nods.

"Yea no, he was with us the whole night... right?"

They both look at each other, wondering if either woke up and saw Tommy leave at any point during the night.

"Well"

Techno walks closer, and gently nudges Tommy's arms, receiving a loud yelp and a very weak swing. So weak in fact that it didn't even make it halfway to touching him before it fell back on the bed, limp.

"He came back to the training room late last night, I was already in there starting to train when I saw Tommy walking in. Guess the kid wanted to continue"

Ranboo and Tubbo glance at each other, Tubbo looks smug.

"And... what? Did he go to the corner and train on his own?"

Techno glares silently at them, knowing exactly what they want to hear. He refuses to give in so easily to their highly unsubtle barbs.

"He must've pulled a muscle or something, might have even injured himself with how out of it he's been lately, can't imagine the last time he did any actual exercise"

Tubbo isn't deterred from his goal in the slightest, pushing his point instead.

"Or a certain security Dura may or may not have helped Tommy in exercising, perhaps even teaching him proper form and stances."

Tubbo gently lifts up Tommys hand, which had vivid pink discoloration on his knuckles. Tommy was faced towards everyone, watching them with a confused and tired look. Seemingly too tired to genuinely pay attention.

"His hand has redness all over the weird pointy bits that his fingers connect, right on the spot that you usually hit things with"

Tubbo places Tommys hand down and flies up on Technos face.

"And I remember clearly how Tommy didn't fight the guards with his hands, He either lunged, pushed, or bit his way out in every single fight"

Tubbo points back to Tommy's hands.

"The only time he fought with his hands was when he had a blaster in them and used the blaster to smash a guard's face in, so tell me, why are his hands red?"

Techno didn't know that.

But Techno can give credit where it's due, while Tommy could probably still do some damage to an alien even in his weakened state, it's logical and smart to note that he does not have enough strength to give a proper swing at an enemy. He could hurt himself, so the next best thing for him was to lunge for the enemy or use his jaw strength to his advantage.

Techno had wondered why Tommy's stance last night was based around lunging rather than supporting his weight to throw a punch. He had to correct Tommy's stance a few times when Tommy would unconsciously adjust himself into a lunging position again.

It's a smart and effective stance, if not reckless.

Not that he'll admit out loud that he really liked helping Tommy fix his stance and show him how to punch better without hurting himself. Granted Tommy's hand is much different compared to Technos paws, but they were able to adjust both of themselves quite comfortably.

After all, it's not much different when Techno had Piglins that helped train him to survive. He misses them.

He's also not going to admit to helping Tommy. Not to Tubbo at least, with how smug he's looking.

He shrugs.

"Maybe he decided to try and gain his arm strength back? See where he's at and build from there, I did see him hit the bag a few times"

That's as much as he will admit, and he will die on that hill.

Before Tubbo could continue to interrogate Techno, he was grabbed by Ranboo and carried towards the door. Tubbo fusses, demanding to be put down. Spewing various threats such as making Ranboo sleep on the ground, or headbutting him hard enough to bruise.

Ranboo just pokes him on the head and raises an eyebrow before turning to Techno right before he enters the hallway.

"Can you stay here with Tommy until we come back? I'm just going to get him some food, I don't think he'll be able to get up, and get it himself. I'll also get some food for Shroud, he seemed to enjoy the raw meat we gave him for his first dinner some time ago"

In Techno's opinion the only slightly good thing about Shroud being on board with them is that they don't have to feed him everyday, just enough to last him awhile. Strenx arachnids can last 3 days without food and be perfectly fine. (Think like Snakes, you don't feed a snake everyday, so it's like that)

Ranboo and Tubbo leave before Techno could deny or accept, and he stares out the door after them before sighing and going over to sit next to Tommy on the big bed. Before he manages to sit down all the way a very familiar warning hiss sounds from above and to the right of him. The Strenx crawls across the ceiling before slowly descending on a silken thread and landing beside Tommy. Shroud slowly and gently snuggles into Tommy's stomach keeping all twelve of his shining eyes focused on Techno as he did so. With one last warning 'hsssssssssss' he settles down beside his favorite person on this ship.

Tommy barely reacts, he lets out a groan when Shroud shifts, but other than that just watches them tiredly from his position on the bed.

So now that he's been thoroughly warned off, Techno just stands there. In the middle of the room. Awkwardly twiddling his paws.

What the hell is he supposed to do?

He slowly resumes his path towards Tommy and sits down next to the human. This elicits some majorly irritated hissing from the Strenx, before Tommy shushes him, weakly grabbing one of Shrouds many legs and petting it. Shroud either recognizes that Tommy is currently weak and needs comfort more than protection, or the petting calmed him because he stopped hissing and settled down beside Tommy with a sort of strange grumble hiss sound..

Techno hopes Ranboo doesn't mind a strenx on his bed.

Techno sat close to Tommy and the human didn't do anything, just kinda stayed as still as possible. If he had known Tommy would ache this bad in the morning he would have lightened up on the training, hell, even encouraged the human to take it easy.

Last night Tommy had given it his all, focusing so entirely on the training Techno set him at, Techno can only assume that in his eagerness the human hadn't realized he was pushing his body too hard. Now the human is lying practically comatose with severe aches in his limbs and muscles (that is if he had any muscles, he really was a scrawny thing which made his unnatural strength all the more baffling).

Techno's paw is lifting before his brain can catch up with the motion and he gently goes to shift Tommy's hair out of his face, he brushes it away and freezes when Tommy closes his eyes and leans into his paw. Techno stays frozen, not sure whether he should keep stroking Tommy's hair or retreat to the other side of the room at the fastest speed possible. That is he's frozen until Tommy lets out a pathetic whining groan and nudges Techno's paw with his golden head. Techno's eyes dilate as the shimmering strands get caught in his claws and tangle with his fear. Then he chuffs and hesitantly stretches out his hand once more.

Techno slowly and hesitantly begins brushing and combing Tommy's hair to the best of his paws abilities, mostly using his claws to act as the teeth of a comb. Whatever he was doing, he was doing something right though, because Tommy let out a deep rumbling hum and relaxed muscles Techno hadn't realized were tense, before the human nuzzled into his paws, shutting tired blue eyes.

Fuck he's attached isn't he?

He hears Ranboo's familiar footsteps in the hall and the buzz of Tubbo's wings, and he jerks away from Tommy. He quickly leans away from the human and puts his paws in his lap twiddling the fingers back and forth as he leans forward now sitting perched barely on the edge of the bed. He tries to act as if nothing happened and deliberately ignores the pathetic whining keen that leaves Tommy's mouth, even if his heart twists uncomfortably at the sound. Heck his instincts are going haywire at the noise, and part of him wants nothing more than to continue carefully running his paws through the brilliant gold strands of Tommy's hair. But he ignores it. He's not soft. HE'S NOT!

Ranboo opens the door and walks in, oblivious and unaware of what went on while they were gone. Tubbo zips by them both and immediately flutters up next to Tommy, reaching out and grabbing Tommy's hand in a gentle grip. Then Tubbo jumped when he heard a particularly vicious hiss from Shroud. Tubbo hissed back and stuck out his tongue for good measure before once again picking up Tommy's hand. He held it carefully between his two much smaller hands he held onto Tommy's hand like it was something more precious than anything he'd ever owned. Tommy grumbles happily at that before relaxing into the bed once more.

Techno returns his attention to Ranboo, who holds two plates, one filled with a large assortment of foods and the other holding only raw meat. They have all seen how quickly Tommy healed from his wounds and various injuries, but they don't know how sore muscles work for humans. It's not really an injury, but what would that sort of strain do to the human in the long term. Hopefully there was no permanent damage.

Ranboo sets the plate of assorted foods next to Tommy and they wait. Techno peers curiously at Tommy, who doesn't move to eat his plate. Then before he can stop himself he says,

"Are you sure it's a good idea to leave him alone?"

Tubbo and Ranboo both tense. Ranboo glares at him with a startling amount of hostility in his eyes.

"Don't you trust him?"

Oh, maybe he should have worded that differently.

Techno shakes his head, lifting a paw and laying it flat towards them.

"Not like that, I mean is it alright to leave him here alone without one of us with him to stay in case he needs us? I know he wanders around alone sometimes around the ship, but he's always rested and slept with you two"

He points to them.

"How have his nightmares been? Is there a chance he will get one and nobody will be here to help him?"

They've had nights where Tubbo would talk to them during dinners together about how worried he is about Tommy's mental health. It's already been established how darn clingy he is. But clinginess aside Tommy had made it clear he hated having Ranboo and Tubbo out of his sight. Constantly checking on them as if to make sure they're alright, and truly there.

Nightmares had become common for Tommy, not overwhelmingly, thank the stars. But enough that Tubbo had, on many occasions, been forced to change spots with Ranboo on the bed for his own safety. He'd been nearly strangled too many times in Tommy's sleep during a nightmare to safely rest on Tommy's chest anymore.

They've suggested Tubbo just return to his room but Tubbo had refused, to the point where he'd threatened violence if they tried to separate him from Tommy at night. He had agreed to switch spots with Ranboo, in his words he was: "Letting Ranboo get a taste of being strangled by a sleepy and cuddly human"

to which Ranboo would always reply with

"You are literally the first to jump into his arms".

The only response he had received back was an annoyed humming buzz and Tubbo cursing colorfully at him. Which had Phil scolding him firmly, then Wilbur had started snickering, and Tubbo's target had switched from Ranboo to Wilbur, and he'd lunged at the Orcam which made Wilbur let out an unholy screech as he dived out of the way. A beautiful chain reaction if you asked him, anyways back to the conversation at hand.

Ranboo warbles worriedly, looking down at Tommy, who was currently struggling to lift his head to look at them.

"Well... we'll leave the door open, he has Shroud, and we won't leave him alone all day! We'll come to check on him"

"Damn right we will, I'm not leaving him alone!"

Tubbo emphasizes this by squeezing Tommy's hand gently. Tommy grumbles softly before Tubbo feels a weak squeeze back.

Techno remains unconvinced. This would be the first time Tommy would be sleeping alone since meeting Tubbo. He doesn't know why, but the thought of Tommy sleeping alone- or rather- potentially trying to sleep but too anxious in a lonely room sets off something dark and uneasy inside of him. The brain is a mysterious thing unique and strange in every living creature. Add in trauma and a whole lot of trouble tended to occur, and reactions to trauma varied for every species and individual. There was no doubt that Tommy had trauma, even if they didn't know the details, he'd been captive for a very long time, and none of them knew how he'd react to the trauma that had been inflicted upon him.

He lifted a paw and subtly tapped on his tusks with one claw, he shifted his tongue around them feeling where they deviated from the rest of his teeth, and ran the tip of his tongue along the razor sharp edge nervously as he thought.

"How about I stay here? Only until he falls asleep and no Tubbo, I see the look in your eyes"

He points at Tubbo, who had narrowed his eyes and buzzed angrily for a second.

"He's always slept with someone at least nearby, I'll just stay until he's asleep"

Tubbo raises a hand.

"No Tubbo, you can't be the one to sit here and wait, you haven't eaten anything yet."

He lowers his hand, not without quietly mumbling his complaints angrily as well as several colorful threats including,

"I'll stab your fucking ears"

And

"When I'm done with you, your tail will be in so many knots you'll never be able to untangle it."

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Tommy whined again when Techno sat down next to him after the others left. Why are they leaving? He knows he can't really move without his limbs aching like a bitch, but he can handle it! He's a big man! He's just gotta... he's just gotta sit up, he can do that.

He tenses and tries to jerk his body up, trying to use momentum to get his body up.

He feels his back pop and instantly he hisses in pain, flopping back down and he instantly regrets everything that led to that decision because FUCK does that hurt. That's what happens when you don't exercise for months on end and then suddenly decide that your going to act like superman in order to impress a bunny alien. Only to realize oh yeah you're not superman, and there's these things called, overexertion, and exhaustion, and he is not in fact ready to exercise that much.

He groans in pain, honestly just whining at this point. Would he do this on earth? No, but he's on a ship with aliens that can't understand him so he's going to whine as much as he wants dammit. He deserves at least that much.

Shroud hisses and puts his spider face next to his, nudging him a little before going over to the plate that Tommy assumes is Shrouds food, considering it's raw meat and the crew already knows Tommy doesn't eat raw stuff.

Tommy tries to turn around, and maybe get some extra sleep before he hears a huff and a gentle hand- paw, a gentle paw gets placed on his shoulder, stopping him from turning around and sleeping like he very much would like to do right now.

He half-heartedly hisses at the pink bunny.

"'mm what? Can't you see I want sleeeep? Let me sle'p"

Techno does not let him sleep. He carefully helps Tommy prop himself up, stopping when Tommy winces or hisses in pain before eventually Tommy is in position to eat.

Tommy glares at the floor. He just wants to sleep the ache away but now that he's more awake and sitting up he can smell the food. His stomach growls, Techno jerks his head around, obviously trying to find the source of the threatening sound.

Tommy doesn't bother stifling a laugh, before shutting up when his gut tightens painfully. Fucking hell all he did was exercise why does this shit hurt so much?!

"It's just my stomach Techno"

He grabs the alien's attention and points to his stomach. Techno stares at his stomach, his ears angling themselves this way and that, like he's listening to his stomach. Tommy shifts uncomfortably.

"You're being weird, stop listening to the song of my people and give me the fucking food already"

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Human stomachs can growl?

Who the hell decided to have stomachs growl?

For what reason would a stomach need to make that sound!?

Tommy talks to him, glaring, before huffing and putting his hands out, waiting for Techno to give him his plate of food. Techno gives him another look over, just to make sure it really was his stomach before Tommy impatiently snapped at him and his stomach growled again.

Tommy snatches the plate from him, and Tommy ignores him as he digs into the meal. It consisted of some small pieces of cooked meat, a few berries, and two whole gapple's. Tubbo had told Phil how much Tommy had enjoyed the Gapple in the medbay earlier and now he has a nasty habit of giving Tommy whole Gapple's at random intervals.

The first gapple also happened to be the first thing Tommy ate, within moments of beginning his horrifying demolishment of the fruit the entire thing was gone. Techno wasn't afraid of Tommy or the threat he posed anymore, but the way those ridged teeth with their odd double sides ripped into food was disturbing enough to make his ear twitch for just a brief moment..

Techno sighed, before sitting down to lean back against the bed to wait for the kid to finish eating so Techno could take his plate. The room was silent, the only sounds were of tearing, shredding, slurping, and chewing as Shroud and Tommy ate their respective meals. He shuts his eyes, keeping an ear out just in case Tommy needs something.

He didn't know how long it was, just listening to the sound of them eating until he felt his head get nudged.

"What is it?"

He turned his head and was surprised when Tommy held out a terribly sliced piece of the Gapple for him.

He's sharing it.

Instantly, his ears flopped down, his facial expression didn't change, but the ears said it all, he was flustered and didn't know what to do. Tommy tilted his head curiously at his ears, but still held out the slice, looking a little frustrated that he wasn't grabbing it.

Did Tommy know offering and sharing food to a Dura is a culture thing? Sharing was a way to show favorites to sounders and family. His foot thumps a bit before he quickly stops in its tracks, Luckily it gets Tommy to look down at his feet, taking his curious and frustrated blue eyes off of him so he can take a moment to bite back any fond chitters.

He quickly grabbed the slice and just kinda, held it. Tommy smiled and said something, nodding his head in approval before leaning back and continuing his meal. Techno relaxed, glad that Tommy wasn't staring him down, waiting for him to eat it.

He looks down at the slice of golden fruit, turning it around, just idly fiddling with it. Debating if he should eat the offering before he sighed, his ears slowly went back up as he ate the slice, accepting it.

From then on all he was really doing was waiting for Tommy to finish eating, while the human was indeed eating, it was oddly slow. His limbs looked delayed in their actions. But aside from that? He's eating. And that's all Techno could really ask him to do.

Tommy finishes up his meal, pushing the plate towards Techno as he opens his mouth wide. Exposing his mouth and all of his teeth, nearly sending all of Technos fur on end until he realized Tommy is not showing aggressive signs. It didn't seem intentional anyways, not with how sleepy Tommy looked after the... odd action he made.

He takes both plates, Shroud had finished quicker than Tommy, and goes to take them to the kitchen before Tommy stopped him-

"Ow! Tommy- watch the tail!"

Tommy had grabbed his tail, making Techno squeal and whirl around to unlatch his tail from the hands of Tommy, who kept a hold on it, glaring at him.

Techno narrowed his eyes.

"Don't you dar-"

YANK

This little-

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Shroud looks up as he hears his companion shriek. At first he was an edge. Ready to attack anything that dared to hurt his Cluster, but he only finds Pink gently "attacking" Golden. He stares at them, watching Golden shriek again but not in distress. Shroud relaxes from his attack position and lays back down, merely watching them both playfully interacting.

Is Pink showing Golden how to fight? It's flimsy, neither have fangs like his, and neither can produce Web to capture or trap prey.

Golden is hopeless at survival. But he will protect Golden, he's his Cluster now, and Shroud will protect his Cluster.

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Tommy got tired hella quick, flopping back on the bed. He tiredly kept his eyes open, staring down Techno challengingly as he sat back down on the floor next to Tommy. He appreciates the close presence, it's calming, especially since Techno is warmer than either Ranboo and Tubbo could ever hope to be. It's almost familiar, if you ignored all the fur.

He fights to keep his heavy eyes open. He doesn't really want to sleep just yet. It just feels so ....empty here without Tubbo or Ranboo sleeping beside him.

"Where's Tubbo and Boo big man?"

He peers at Techno tiredly, only getting a single chuff sound in response and then Techno places a paw on his head, making him rest his head down and he shuts his eyes, sighing contently when Techno starts rubbing his head.

He resists the urge to sleep, but inevitably, with Techno gently carding through his hair and in gentle warmth of someone else's presence, his brain feels safe.

His eyes shut without him meaning to.

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"LEAVE ME ALONE!"

Tommy stays at the very back of his cell glaring at the bars and at the aliens beyond them. The aliens who keep trying to coerce him to come toward them like some-some-ANIMAL! Like he's a dog that could be easily placated with a few treats, and some head pats.

He keeps himself low to the ground, he feels even more like an animal in this position but it's the best position to lunge, whether it's to lunge past them or to attack them he hasn't figured out.

They grow tired, and two of them bring out a familiar stick that springs to life with electricity.

Tommy thinks the void of space itself will always ring with his screams.

The world shifts, and suddenly he's on a table, new aliens appear, one was a small purple armored alien, some odd purple floaty bits that gravitate around them. Tommy doesn't care exactly what it is, only that it pulls out what he could only assume was a scalpel and some plier look-alikes.

Even if Tommy was strapped down he was going to make this a living hell for all of them.

Shouts, screams, whimpers and finally a jaw snapped down on a limb so hard the bone itself shattered.

Tommy can still feel the way they shoved him back in his cell, his eye bruising a dark purple, his mouth bleeding, cuts on his arms, face, even a few claw marks. A disgusting green liquid stains his mouth and teeth as he grins victoriously and sinisterly at the aliens that still remained, the ones that were still brave enough to stay and look at him.

They may have taken his hair, skin, blood and even sampled a bone fragment.

But he made sure that they think twice about going near his mouth.

The world changes once more, now he's in another cell, one not unlike the one on the dreamons ship, but smaller, more cramped, damp and dark. The walls feel like they are getting smaller and smaller, his chest tightening as he pleas with his owners to let him go.

They don't listen, they never do. Instead, they try to prove rumors and theories about humans, past ships have tried to get him to break. Break him and rip from him everything that makes him who is, and then put him back together into something they want. A pet, a guard, a tool, a toy. He didn't know and he didn't care, he just knew that he wasn't going to cooperate.

He had a companion once, they were small, oh so very small, they were like a baby cow, but smaller and the spots on its fur changed patterns. He was food, but Tommy, desperate to love something and receive love in return, never harmed the creature. He cared for him for 2 days.

Then he was ripped away from his arms when the owners realized this, slaughtered it in front of him as he screams and even tears off an alien's leg trying to get to his only companion as he watches it die in front of him.

They tried to feed him the meat, he refused to touch it when he knows it's Henrys meat being offered.

Once more the world shifted, suddenly he sees a familiar cell and a familiar bee companion. Tubbo's pinned under the same alien that tackled him, that pinned him, that hurt him. The rage is a familiar one, he remembers the feeling of running into that alien, feeling it bleed under him as he hit it with its own gun. Caving its skull into itself until more aliens came through the door trying to save their brethren who had already passed.

He feels the same sadistic blood lust when he went after them, falling into a mindset that he once had, to treat them like animals, treat them as monsters so the guilt would never come back to eat him alive. To pay for what they and the others have done to him.

A final shift of the world, he's forced back to remembering an old cell, where he broke and refused food and water. Begging for death to escape the universe that had cruelly placed him there.

Starved and his spirit severed to a point no other damned ship could hope to break him, he watches as a tall shadowed alien towers over him, glowing purple eyes stare down at him as it reaches closer and closer before-

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Tommy's eyes shoot open.

Tears flow out of his eyes and through his blurred vision he sees something close to him. A hand reached out to him and a figure towering over him.

He doesn't bother trying to process the world around him better, he is running on fear and anger alone, he doesn't make a sound, he doesn't think, he doesn't even pause no,

He lunges.

He pins it down.

And he bites.

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Notes: I didn't specify who it would be great for! How did the dream go for yall? Did you enjoy it? Was this whole journey worth it? Did you enjoy the lure? You thought this whole story was going to be all Momma Tommy and fluff moments?

Yes Tommy had a companion once, yes this means that Tommy always hid Tubbo for this very reason, to avoid what happened before. Yes Tommy clung to the first soul that was given to him after said Creature (It was indeed Henry)

For those wondering about the last figure in the dream, no it wasn't Ranboo, just in case there were some ppl thinking it.

How'd i do? first time doin that stuff. or any of this stuff really, AO3 and Quotev appear to really like this.

By _peachyy_ : https://twitter.com/pepapeachyy/status/1523391408476164102

Edit-CyberGeist:

Sup y'all we're all caught up now, and soon we should post our surprise. The reason we've delayed for so long, and then we should get back to our regularly scheduled updates.....probably. Hope you guys are doing well, also yeaaaaa if you don't like the violence level in this chapter we will warn you for every chapter like this. This was actually relatively mild, so we are rating this and all the violence prior to this at a one. So if you were ok with this level of violence then any chapter with Violence Level 1 should be fine for you. But do be prepared cause there are one or two chapters where it gets worse and those will be rated Violence Level 2 reader discretion is advised.

Again Ender and I can't believe the level of support you guys have given us, seriously thank you so much!!! Hope you enjoyed the edits!!