Summary: It's time to leave! Not before Ranboo decides to give everyone a heart attack and Tommy proves that humans are seriously OP in normal things.

(this is a long one, my goodness)

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Notes: Tis time to continue plot! Mumza will keep in touch through Digipads and calling often, but we must go now!

Ender: Sorry for how long it took this is a very long chapter XD did not plan to make it this long my goodness

Edit Cyber: I am not sorry, Ender works hard and adult life is stressful. I feel no mercy for those who were impatient. Now for those of you who WERE patient, Thank you! I love you guys and I am so happy to give you this chapter!!!! For those of you who were impatient ( you know who you are I either ignored you or passive aggressively came for you) Hi, here we are, have a chapter I'm glad you like our story, but please be kind, your stressing Ender out and that TICKS ME OFF!!! Ender is in college. I have a slightly more loose schedule but I also run into Death regularly and live in a different time zone then Ender. We will finish this. We have a solid plan through the end of this fic, we have things prepped and ready, just be patient and don't stress out Ender!!!! *sinks into pond grumbling angrily* Oh wait!!! *pops back out* for those on Discord, I miss you kiddos, I'll be back eventually, thank you guys for letting me take a breather, I'm doing a bit better mentally right now, and when I come back I might have a surprise for you guys...maybe. Love youuuuuuuu, now enjoy the chapter

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These crowns were so cute!!! Kristin hadn't even known that you could MAKE crowns out of flowers, and she literally lived on a planet made up almost entirely of flowers!!

Kristin was beyond thrilled with the crowns that now decorated her flock mates. She was especially pleased with the various loops of flowers decorating Tommy, he seemed much happier then he'd been the past few days, and it settled something in her heart. She couldn't help but chuckle slightly as Tubbo stormed ahead pouting, he had been unable to get the delicate flowers to cooperate and had ended up eating every single one of his attempts to create a crown, out of both hunger and frustration. Based on his scowl though, Tubbo clearly felt bad that he had failed to make something for Tommy out of the flowers, sulking as he tried once more to weave some white flowers into a circle, but the petals kept crumbling in his hands.

Kristin couldn't help the low amused trill she let out, when Tommy rolled his eyes, stood up and gently plucked an electric green and black flower with a long stem, and then attempted to stick it into Tubbo's thick mound of hair and behind his ears. The trill faded into coo's and giggles, as Tommy discovered that Tubbo's Thick hair and soft ears did not allow for easy flower access. Grumbling and growling lightly under his breath, Tommy ended up looping the long stem around one of Tubbo's horns right at the joint before the first split. It reminded Kristin of the various bands and jewels Tubbo would occasionally decorate them with and she wondered if Tommy could make a chain out of the smaller flowers to replicate the looping gold chains that Tubbo sometimes twined around the branch like horns, she was distracted from her wandering thoughts when Tubbo began to fly around Ranboo and Techno proudly proclaiming that his little flower was far superior to their crowns.

Ranboo did not seem particularly amused though, and after staring balefully for a long moment at Tubbo, the Anthocapradae slowly deflated, and returned to the ground arms crossed and pouting as he reluctantly admitted that Ranboo's crown was possibly better than his own flower. Deciding that they'd probably spent enough time here, she gathered them together with a trilling call, and they began to pack up. Before long they were walking leisurely along the path back to the settlement chatting happily as they slowly traversed the meandering path.

After a bit Kristin realized that she couldn't see Techno but she wasn't really all that worried, Techno could handle himself just fine. But it is worrying that he'd leave right as everyone was headed back. IT was especially disappointing because they all had to leave by morning, and she wanted to spend as much time as possible with them all before they left. She wasn't terribly excited about them leaving already but the sooner they could get a working translator for Tommy the sooner they could return and she could properly meet and talk to Tommy.

Speaking of Tommy, just moments ago he was energetic and so bright! Now he's... well not dull or sullen, but his body language could be mistaken for anxious. Wary of his surroundings, looking about, his eyes darting nervously from side to side as he tilts his head side to side to hear better as though was scanning their surroundings for a threat.

It set her on edge, and she was worried that maybe someone or something was out there beneath the bushes and trees creeping up on them. Then she shook her head, her gaze sharpening beneath her gauzy veil, she was the biggest in this group, and she was [Redacted], she could easily defend herself and her flock, there was nothing in this system that could truly challenge her. Anything that tried to come for her flock would be in for a very NASTY surprise. She grinned slightly at that baring her sharp teeth and letting her second row of teeth flex out outward briefly, and even if the threat display was hidden beneath her veil, it settled her nerves and she want back to listening intently to her flock, but she did let her other senses spread to the forest around them, until she found what she was looking for. After a long moment she smiled, oh, there truly was nothing to worry about after all. Poor soul, he didn't know what he was getting into...

If somebody even thinks about doing anything she will be the first to respond and first to protect.

...Assuming Techno didn't beat her to it. Kristin chuckled darkly at the thought. Poor soul indeed.

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He crept along beside the flock just out of sight beneath the thick canopy, he is careful to walk smoothly keeping his wrappings and loose black clothing from rustling in the underbrush. It's a rather large group and he admittedly isn't totally sure if he can take them. His main worries are the younger adult Dura hybrid, and the full grown female Ivory. But the Dura had left the group a bit ago, leaving only the female Ivory as the protector of the flock. The male ivory is small and not much of a threat and the rest are young enough to be weak and easy to handle. He could handle one major combatant, female Ivory or not.

His target was the young Ivory fledgling. Golden feathered hair that looked almost soft enough to be fur, loud personality, a sort of innocence intrinsic to the young and foolish. Perfect size to get ahold of, and young enough to be easy to handle and force into submission. He was a beautiful specimen too, a stunning mix of the two Ivory partners of the flock with his golden hair and shifting black and purple wings.

He is a little odd though, his wings, while very emotive, are... lifeless? No, they are as lively as the boy who owns them. Still they have an air of falseness, magic perhaps? That's a shame, his wings are likely weak and not good for much more than decoration, but that does make his job easier, he won't be able to fly away properly if magic is the only thing the boy has going for his wings, so he supposes he doesn't mind.

He crouch low, gently and slowly lowering himself onto all sixes, his hands and legs burrowing quietly into the soft earth as he began to stealthily creep closer to the group, he does hesitate for a moment eyes narrowing warily as the young Ivories head whips to the side, his eyes darting about as if he'd sensed something. That puts him on edge, Ivories aren't generally that in tune with their surroundings, and it's usually especially hard for them to sense anything behind them or to their sides with those huge wings of theirs.

After a moment's hesitation he decides not to let this deter him, using the scent of flowers around him to mask his smell in case the enderian smells him he carefully stalks even closer behind them, readying himself in a pounce, watching carefully as the young Ivory comes close to a flower bush that has berries within its petals. He doesn't get to lunge and quickly snatch the boy away as he'd planned though.

He is abruptly pulled roughly by the cloak at his neck further into the bush and he abruptly finds all of his limbs leaving the ground as he is lifted to come face to face with a very judgmental Dura hybrid, who raises a single clearly very bored eyebrow at him before saying,

"Bruhhh, stalking a Fledgling Ivory? Kinda cringe not gonna lie"

He's fucked.

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Que the scene of bushes being thoroughly rustled, hisses, grunts, and whines of pain emitting from the nearby leafy mounds. Leaves and sticks began flying about, flower petals flying in the wind in a futile attempt to escape the beating that is surely happening in the cover of nature.

Tommy blinks, staring at the bush that he had been closing in on for berries when the bushes abruptly started doing a WWE match right in front of him, For free too!

It keeps going... he's honestly kinda surprised the others haven't come over yet. For a long moment he just stands there staring at these strangely angry bushes as they move and jump like some sort of cartoon before he slowly just... walks away. Letting the bushes duke it out.

He's not judging, maybe there's plant fights that happen on this planet, who's he to ask? Nobody that's who, he wouldn't get an answer anyways!

He quickly gets back with the others, Kristin had kept her eyes on him but somehow didn't see the bushes having the fight of their lives? Sure okay, that makes sense (shut up)

Running back towards Kristin and almost tripping on a flower he's eagerly scooped into the safety of Kristins wings, he'd complain if it wasn't so damn cozy. He didn't think feathers could be fluffy, y'know what he means? Like, it's feathers, not fur, and yet it's fluffy in a way. Interesting how that works, but he's not particularly in the mood to question it.

They walk back into town, unable to really leave the 'picnic area'. Everything is covered in forest growth, bushes, flowers etc. So unless they decide to fly back to the village and risk Tommy's disguise this picnic is going to continue all the way until they arrive on foot back which Tommy's not all that against honestly.

And walk back they did.

Back into town and together as a group they browsed stalls again on their way back, though this time with no hurry. Tommy wondered where all the products that Phil bought went? Cause he sure as hell isn't carrying them. None of them are carrying anything they bought.

Was it like delivery? Did it get delivered to their house? Or to the ship?

He wants answers! Where the fuck did their shit go?

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"Oh Techno! You finally joined us again, where did you run off to mate?"

Phil greeted Techno with a chirp, briefly wondering how he'd missed the Dura wandering off earlier.

Techno waved a paw, gesturing lazily in a circle.

"Oh you know just around, tying up some... loose ends"

He seemed rather amused, and satisfied as he said this, flicking some odd green colored liquid off one of his claws as he spoke. It reminded Phil of how Techno would act right after a successfully completed mission.

Phil sent a stern and questioning glance his way, before Tubbo dragged him into a conversation about tasty flowers, the Anthrocapradae kept jokingly trying to reach for Phils. Phil drew himself to his full height and defended his crown fiercely from Tubbo's viscous onslaught, he is therefore suitably distracted as Kristin side eyed Techno, and leaned close to whisper quietly to the Dura,

"Did you have fun?"

"Immensely"

"Good"

The conversation dropped like it never happened.

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"This was such a short visit! Oh I wish you could stay longer, I love spending time with you all, and it's so nice to have a fled- a new flockmate!"

Kristin sighed deeply, she was very much not looking forward to their departure. Still the sooner they left the better. Tommy needed a translator, and she couldn't wait for him to come back so they could properly introduce themselves to one another; Still she found herself missing them already. Kristin shook her head sighing quietly to herself once more, they hadn't even left the planet yet and she was acting as if they'd died!

Phil chuckled at her, his eyes twinkling with amusement and fondness. There was an impossible softness to his gaze so clear and bright that even a blind min'kx would have been able to see the pure love and adoration that Phil radiated.

Phil gently curled a wing around her to the best of his abilities despite their size difference, and she laughed her wings were currently large enough to encircle them all in a hug and still have room to spare, but Phil was still doing his best. In response to his efforts she shrank just enough to accept the gentle comfort of his wings, nuzzling gently into his side and laying her head into his neck.

As she shifted though she was able to glance over his shoulder at Tubbo and Ranboo. Ranboo who had just unwrapped one of his arms revealing a raw jagged white and blue of a fresh scar. It was new enough that the very deepest parts of it were still oozing slightly. It wasn't exactly a gaping wound, but neither was it particularly pretty or healthy looking. Kristin let out a shrill cry of panic and pushed away from Phil rushing around him, to try and grab Ranboo's arm, preventing Tubbo from re-wrapping it with the fabric they'd gotten in town.

At the time when they'd asked if they could buy the fabric she'd thought nothing of it, figuring Ranboo just wanted a sash or maybe something pretty to hold, it was very pretty fabric after all, with its swirling interlocking patterns of bubbles and squares in purples and silvers across a black base. Now she regretted not asking about why they wanted it.

Still she felt her oversight was justified as she had not expected him to have A SCARRED UP WOUND!!!! Especially one that looked so new and raw, it looked as though it had happened very recently.

"OH, whoops- ow ow don't grab it like that!"

Kristin had grabbed it firmly as soon as she was in range. Which had startled Ranboo, but after loosening her grip she pulled him close, staring intently at the wound. It looked like a bite mark, but it also looked both corroded and burned as if whatever had bitten him had also inserted pure water or boiling acid on his skin, perhaps venom? The bite itself behind the corrosion marks was relatively small. It formed a perfect ring with rounded point marks, maybe the teeth had ridges??? Still despite being small in radius it had also dug into the thinner section of Ranboo's arm wrapping around his forearm about halfway, with corrosion marks finishing the loop like some sort of twisted bracelet with the bite marks as the gemstone in its center.

"What on earth bit you that could have caused this much damage? The radius of the original bite is relatively small but the damage is extensive!"

Ranboo shifts his gaze from hers to avoid her eyes even with her veil down, making it clear he didn't want to answer her.

Luckily or unluckily, Tommy heard his yelp of pain when she had grabbed Ranboo too hard and he had made a quick dash to Ranboo. There was a conflicted look on the young humans face as he glanced between Ranboo's arm and her grip on Ranboo's wrist. It was as if he was debating whether or not he should separate the two of them.

After one more glance at the wound she released Ranboo's arm, she felt confident enough in her examination of the wound that she should be able to identify his attacker should she ever come across something with teeth like that, and then she'd- She stopped. She turned to look back at Tommy, something like recognition beginning to bubble in the back of her mind. She narrows her eyes at Tommy, or more specifically narrowing her eyes at his mouth as the human chatters worriedly at Ranboo. Tommy has very unique teeth she realizes, they are rounded at the bottom with sharp protrusions and four relatively obvious canines, two on the top two on the bottom with flat headed ones in between them. An omnivore's mouth, and the teeth sit in a now very familiar pattern of spacing.

She stares for another moment before slowly beginning to speak.

"Did... he..?"

The others follow her gaze and quickly realize what she's asking. Instantly there was an uproarious clamor as they began shouting over one another. Trying to explain, trying to defend Tommy from her, heck Tubbo even darted into the air between her and Tommy as if his small form could be able to shield the young human from her sight.

"He didn't mean it-!"

"I startled him awake-"

"We should have taken to account-"

"He calmed down with some music-!"

The only one that didn't jump into the cacophony of sound was Techno, but he did give her a long stare with a determined look in his eyes. She didn't doubt for a moment that if she were to start demanding answers he'd be the first to jump and defend Tommy. Likely with sharp, blunt words that were intended to hurt.

She's so damn proud.

She raises a calming hand, raising her eyebrow as she waits for the loud chatter to die down. For a few moments they continue insisting that she listen and not making any sudden moves towards Tommy. The human in question just stared at them all confused, his head tilted to the side as he joined the noise with his own confused warbling sounds. He clearly has absolutely no idea what they are talking about, but has clearly decided to add his voice to the chaos either way.

Her laughter is what finally cuts them off. Tommy watches them all settle down and follows their gazes to her, those electric blue eyes focusing in on her as he too quiets down. He still has no idea what's going on, but based on the light twitch of his lips and the gentle warmth in his eyes, he is having a good time. The blue of those eyes focused so intently and trustingly on her makes something in her heart twinge, a memory of a different pair of trusting blue eyes briefly overlaying the humans at the thought.

"I'm not angry, concerned yes, a little upset too, but not angry. Especially since you're all so determined to defend him, which means there is probably a good explanation for all of this." She's almost offended, yes she's protective, but she has already adopted Tommy as part of her flock, she's not going to just attack him!.

As if in response to her thoughts, Tommy, sweet Tommy who clearly has no idea what the hell is going on, walks up to Ranboo warbling worriedly clearly able to see Ranboo's distress. He gently tucks himself into Ranboo's side, wrapping his arms around the Enderian's waist, and humming softly. Ranboo returns the gesture wrapping his long arms around Tommy's shoulders, and his tail round Tommy's waist without breaking eye contact with Kristin, it's as if he's daring her to challenge him..

"You're... not?" came his quiet reply, and that sad worried look in his eyes as he wraps himself around Tommy just breaks her heart.

She chirped a tone of reassurement, Tommy perking up at the tone, clearly recognizing it.

"Of course not!"

She spread her wings big and wide, wrapping them all up in an Ivory hug, chirping and cooing proudly.

"I'm just proud you're all willing to protect Tommy, even from me"

Tubbo nods with the confidence of a Shelik, his chest all puffed up.

"Damn right! I love you mumza, I do, really. But I will kill for Mommy"

He ignores the hiss from Tommy, when he says this, simply tucking himself closer to the human in retaliation.

"That's assuming he doesn't kill for you first, or well he has killed for you first I suppose"

Ranboo chimes in. Techno chooses this moment to speak up squirming slightly in her hold.

"Please let me go, I've had enough socializing for the day, My battery is low"

"Techno we are literally your crew and pod"

"And dealing with you all is enough socializing for me Wilbur, I'm drained!!!!"

They quickly dissolve into bickering after that and the tension finally fades away for real.

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The crew had all agreed to spend one more night at Kristins. None of them are particularly excited to leave, especially Phil. He hardly sees his wife often enough as it is, so he will enjoy this night to the fullest, this chance to spend more time in her presence just basking in her close proximity to him. .

That evening as they got ready for bed, it was a source of great amusement to see Tommy take off his disguise. He had hissed and grumbled at it as he yanked it off grumpily before the feathers brushing against his face began to make him sneeze. They came out in violent little bursts of sound that left his face bright red, eyes watery, and his nose screwed up in displeasure.

It also apparently made him jerk abruptly, like most species and one of his particularly brutal sneezes resulted in him slamming an elbow into Techno's gut and another resulted in him harshly headbutting Wilbur's back, launching the unfortunate Orcam into a wall. Wilbur's misfortune continued when he tried to get up and proceeded to trip on one of the many rocks around them, and very quickly Wilbur was reintroduced to the ground, resulting in a particularly creative string of curses, that left Ranboo blushing, and Tubbo grinning viciously as he wrote several of them down for future use.

Techno had barely reacted to his own misfortunate attack by sneeze, but Phil had to stifle a laugh when Techno breathed deeply, glanced around to make sure no one was watching before, before opening his mouth and silently screaming behind Tommy. Phil lost the fight with his laughter when Techno's face went abruptly blank again as Tommy turned around to check on him, resulting in some painfully choked back giggles as he did his best to avoid bursting into booming cackles at the sight.

They continued onward after helping Wilbur back up, though he now stayed a bit away from Tommy who kept sneezing. Tommy didn't look all that enthused with his sneezing either as he kept angrily swiping at the few feathers still tangled in his hair doing his best to keep them away from his face.

Back at the flower, Kristin helped them all fly back in, holding in a laugh as Tommy hesitates before pouting and finally accepting that no, he could not climb the stem, stubborn human nature aside.

Tommy begins to talk loudly and excitedly the moment they get inside, most likely talking about the day, all the while keeping a close eye on his flower jewelry especially after Tubbo playfully threatens to eat a flower.

"I'll eat it! I'll snatch away the crown and fly off! Into the sunset I go!"

Tommy grabbed him before he could make good on his threat and they immediately started fighting.Tubbo wasn't a fool, he knew full well that Tommy is letting him win and he's more than happy to roll with it, standing on the defeated human like a warrior taking down a beast, monologuing away.

"I, Tubbo, have taken down the feral human beast! With nothing but my cunning, strength, and superiority!"

Tubbo leans forward as if to raise a weapon in victory, accidentally pressing his hoof harder on Tommy's stomach. Tommy wheezes and Tubbo curses both in Common and his native tongue, getting down and checking Tommy's stomach in case he broke a bone or injured an organ. He knows humans are strong, but with how squishy Tommy's skin is he finds it hard to believe he doesn't get injured more often.

"Are you hurt? Where? Point or speak! Something- c'mon stop moving so much I'm trying to- STOP MOVIN' BITCH"

His hands begin to roam and poke around, looking for some clear sign that something is hurt but all he gets is Tommy squirming and yelping every time he's poked. Tubbo keeps backtracking thinking that maybe a particular yelp was a sign of pain but Tommy just starts making a wheezing sound that sounds vaguely familiar until Tubbo, finally recognizes the bellows like movement of the rapid exhaling and inhaling beneath his hands. Tommy's whole body is shaking with the movement and a high pitched airy wheezing and whistling sound is emitting from his throat.

Tommy's laughing.

Curiously Tubbo pokes his belly again, earning a slap to his hand and another burst of choked laughter. Tubbo couldn't help the excited buzz of his wings, realizing he and Tommy share a possible biology.

Tommy was ticklish like him! Tubbos stomach was exposed with a soft belly, his nerves extremely ticklish there like any other Anthocapradae on their belly. He didn't expect Tommy to also be sensitive there however! Oh this is great!

Tubbo cackles.

"HE'S TICKLISH! Holy Queen he's ticklish!"

He attacked Tommy with purpose, Almost being tossed off with the force of Tommy's movements in a barely gentle controlled attempt to dislodge him from his mission.

He avoids the swinging legs and the hands that grab him, ignoring the fact that the swings seem to be carrying a lot more power then Tommy would usually exert on him. He is about a minute into his glorious torment of the human, when he is abruptly grabbed under the armpits and pulled away so he can't reach Tommy's soft belly anymore. Not deterred in the slightest Tubbo stretches out his hooves and genty begins brushing them against Tommy's belly, resulting in more cut off whistling laughter.

"Boo! Boo!"

Tommy calls out to Ranboo breathlessly, jostling Tubbo in a clear message to fully pick Tubbo up and away.

Tubbo squirms as Ranboo gladly picks up the Capra. Holding him hostage and away from Tommy. Who was finally just barely catching his breath.

"Nooo!!!! I just made a huge discovery and breakthrough! He's ticklish like my species! He has a weakness and I MUST exploit it!"

The last part was said with a growling mischievous tone. Phil and Kristin worriedly rush to Tommy, who hasn't gotten up from the floor, with the chirps filling the room as well as Tubbo claiming 'it was perfectly harmless and he just needs to catch his breath' all Tommy did was wave a hand at the two birds and grumble something at them.

Wilbur was fascinated at this, it made sense. Both Tubbo and Tommy have the most exposed bellies. Sure, unlike Tubbo, Tommy keeps it hidden but it's hidden behind a thin layer of clothing, nothing else. And that's not even mentioning literally every other soft point on Tommy, if Tommy's soft belly is filled with muscle, nerves and precious organs then what about every other soft surface? His sides? Arms? Neck? Should they be concerned about other weak points that can be attacked like Tubbo did?

"Do you think humans have armor they can wear? Or like- armor we can make?"

Techno, who was leaning against the wall and observing everyone, turned his head to him.

"Armor? Wilbur with skin as delicate looking and soft feeling as his I don't think armor would be comfortable or efficient, that and it won't do him good to have weight on him"

"But-"

"The kid is fast, and highly unpredictable when he wants to be. While armor would provide great protection, if we try to cover every part of him it'll slow him down a lot, and I don't think he'd like it"

Techno argues. He's not against trying it though, maybe there's the off chance Tommy will want some armor if they make it to suit his tastes and not inhibit any of his movement or comfort as much as possible when moving.

Wilbur closes his mouth, his tails clinking together in irritation but he does understand what Techno is saying. He just watches silently as Tommy gets up and glares at Tubbo before a mischievous twinkle lights up his eyes.

Tubbo quickly realizes his impending doom.

"Wait wait-"

He squirms in Ranboos grasp.

"We can talk about this- NOOHHAHAH- L-LET HAHA LET GO! NOOHAHAHUHE- RAN-HA-BOO LET GOOOOOO"

Ranboo did not, in fact, let go. Tubbo was left hanging in his hands and defenseless against Tommy's tickling.

Tubbo thrashed around, his legs trying to either kick Tommy away or make Ranboo let go but all the Enderian did in response was to hold Tubbo further away from his body with his long arms and tighten his grip.

Which turned out to be a terrible mistake when Tubbo accidentally stung Ranboo, who let him go and crumbled on his knees, groaning in pain and barely stopping himself from cursing in his native language, warbling half finished words and sounds that could be anything and everything. Phil immediately scolds and is at Ranboos' side.

"Tubbo!"

"I'M SORRY!"

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Something woke Tommy up.

He didn't immediately wake up, or startle awake. It was slow, but not in a calm well rested way, more like- Like his senses felt something off, and the pinging in his senses had slowly woken him up as the urgency of whatever was setting them off increased in frequency, It reminded him of that feeling you get when someone is staring at you, that uneasy sensation of your hairs rising as something watches you, or something off in the air around you. It made him think of that.

He carefully lifted his head up, slowly moving out from beneath the wings that are wrapped around him, he takes a quick headcount. Tubbo, Wilbur, Techno, Philza, Kristin.... Wait-Where's Ranboo?!?!

He spots movement from the corner of the room, a large dark figure walking slowly in the shadows. For a split second he wondered if alien zombies exist. If they do, he sincerely hopes that they are not on this planet.

Only when Tommy moves to sit up and the figure turns their head towards him does he recognize those glowing eyes.

"Ranboo?"

Quietly, he steps out of the nest and walks towards Ranboo, careful not to make any noise. All Ranboo does in reply is quietly warble at him before continuing to walk towards the balcony.

"Big man, are you sleepwalking? Let me just say this is a lot creepier than when I've seen others sleep walk, for one their eyes don't glow in the dark and for another their not usually the same size or shape as slenderman"

He rambles all this absently trying to distract both himself and Ranboo as he tries to come up with an idea on what to do. It works for a moment and Ranboo pauses once more at the sound of his voice. It doesn't work for long though.

Ranboo walks off once more, continuing his path to the balcony. Can Tommy touch him? They say to not wake up sleep walking people, just guide them back to bed. But does this apply to aliens? Cautiously he reaches for Ranboos arm, he can barely see the bite wound glowing silvery white and blue in the moonlight, but the sight makes him hesitate, but then he reaches forward once more. He's not going to hurt Ranboo, he's going to help him, this is fine.

One second Tommy has a gentle but firm grip on Ranboos arm, the next he's gone. A small trail of purple particles was the only thing left in his wake.

"Shit"

He sprints as quietly as he can around the flower home, searching for the tall stick like alien. Then he hears a distant warble. He dashes to the balcony. Please don't be outside please don't be outside-

He's outside.

Tommy leans over as far as he dares against the rails and watches as Ranboo walks off into the flower forest below. Tommy looks around for a way to get down but it's clear that the only way in and out of the house was through the balcony with a pair of wings.

Or teleportation apparently.

He looks back into the house, should he wake the others? That's what you do in a situation like this right? If you can't do something on your own the next best thing is to call for help right? Call for help from the people you trust? Or adults who are capable of helping? Will they listen? He knows some adults back on earth get grumpy at night when you wake them, dismissing things angrily if they were woken for any reason other than for work, or the restroom.

He takes a deep breath. He can trust Phil, the bird man will listen, Ranboo is gone and that will cause the others some concern right? They do care right?

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Phil feels himself getting moved around, shoved with barely restrained panic and a slightly excessive amount of forcefulness. He hears Tommy talking to him, urgently shaking him again. He wakes up in panic for a second before seeing Tommy there, safe and unharmed.

"Tommy? What's wrong? He watches as Tommy points out the room, then gesturing to everyone by pointing at them one by one. First Tubbo, then Wilbur, then Techno..... wait...

He looks around urgently.

"Where's Ranboo?"

Tommy once more points out the room.

Stars dammit. He's not here.

Quickly he gets up and wakes the others. Tommy panicked at this and tried to stop him but Phil responded firmly, and calmly to the human, he knows the human can't understand the words but hopefully his tone would get his point across.

"This is a crew and family emergency, everyone helps"

Then as an afterthought he quickly chirps a long trilling note of

"Urgent"

he doesn't know if Tommy knows that one but Tommy stopped trying to stop him so maybe he does?

Quickly the others were woken up.

"Whut... whutz wrong?"

"Phil please, my beauty sleep"

"Phil look at him, he needs it Phil"

"Oh fu-"

"Boys!"

Phil shrieked the tone is low but it's definitely loud enough to get their attention, his tone making it clear that this is no laughing matter.. They all sit up straighter, and Kristin helps Tubbo sit up. He glances around for only a moment before his eyes narrow and he stands stingers sliding with schhhick from their places in his wrists as he speaks "Where's Ranboo?"

At least one of them noticed quickly.

They all go quiet, all of them standing and quickly scanning the house for the familiar head of white and black hair. It takes them only a moment to realize that Ranboo is not here, not anywhere in the house, and Techno is the first to step out of the nest, his hand going to his hip searching for the blade that usually would rest there at his hip. He snarls when he finds nothing and turns to Phil,

"Phil? Where's Ranboo?"

"I have no clue mate, Tommy woke me up, I think he knows"

Tommy hears his name, and yells something at them probably something along the lines of 'finally' and he grabs Phils arm, pulling him out of the nest room and towards the balcony, pointing down into the dark flower forest. The message is clear. 'Ranboo left'

Phil stares out into the forest, hoping to find a Ranboo shaped figure just under a tree and praying that he didn't really go into the forest, but after a long moment of spotting nothing he turns back to the others.

"Everyone get your things ready, we need to find Ranboo"

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It didn't take long for everyone to change and gather themselves together enough to start searching for Ranboo. It honestly reminded Tommy of that one time he had to go searching for his foster family's dog at 3 am.

Tommy was sticking close to Wilbur, scanning the dark moonlit forest while the others used their various enhanced skills to their advantage. Wilbur's eyes were glowing bright and ominous in the dim light as he searched the woods around them, Techno's ears were at a constant swivel, Phil, Kristin, and Tubbo had all taken to the sky and were currently flying what appeared to be a grid style search pattern above the leafy canopy. Now that he could see them all flying together Tommy was finally able to compare their different flying patterns, Tubbo flitted about turning at sharp intervals like a hummingbird, Phil flapped rhymically up and down swooping and bobbing through the air like a swallow, and then there was Kristin. She had grown once more to the size she'd used when she'd carried him and the others to her home, and her wings spread across the night blocking out the stars as she glided soundlessly through the air, her wings tilting with every breeze, and her hair glowing like a beacon against the sky, and yes Tommy was slightly freaking out about the fact that apparently Kristins hair glowed in the dark, and could also apparently move on its own. But currently he was more worried about Ranboo, and delegated the glowing hair to his list of "Weird Alien Stuff I Will Definitely Be Asking About Once I Figure Out How to Speak Alien" That list was perhaps longer then he would like, but that was a problem for future Tommy. Present Tommy had a giant cat/slender boy to find.

He should probably stop focusing on his confusion and instead actually start helping search for Ranboo. Not that he'll be much help in the dark, but hey! He should at least TRY, maybe his humanity will be useful.... Somehow.

Then he notices that Wilbur is slowing down, which is odd cause they haven't even been running for long, heck they weren't even running honestly, a jog at MOST. Which is honestly depressing considering he's not exactly at his own peak shape at the moment, he had only had the one training session with Techno, and a casual walk around town, it's not like his stamina had magically increased overnight! So why the heck is Wilbur going so slow, and getting slower too!?!? What the Hell?

He nudges Wilbur a little.

"Big man, why are you slowing down? I thought it was urgent that we find Ranboo? Now is not the time to take a stroll"

He spends another few moments watching as Wilbur staggers nearly tripping on his own weird lanky bent legs, and then has to catch him when Wilbur does trip over one of his own tails. He then comes to the abrupt realization that Wilbur is getting tired..

He's getting tired? Already? It's only been a few minutes at most! Then again, his feet look a little too long for comfortable running or for even pacing for a consistent amount of time, he should file those claws down maybe.

Tommy watches as Wilbur calls out Ranboo's name again, staggering drunkenly once again before Tommy makes a decision. A terrible decision, but a decision nonetheless.

He scoops Wilbur up with one swoop, swaying for a second as he adjusts to the added weight before picking up the pace slightly, and settling into an easy steady rhythm of pacing through the forest in the same direction Wilbur had been heading. Wilbur unleashes an ABHORRENT sound that could have only come from a video game when he is picked up.

"You were going WAY too slow- actually why are you so light? Are you eating enough? Is your height a lie and you were stretched? You should sue someone for that man, that's a form of torture on earth I'm pretty sure"

It was weird holding onto Wilbur, He was lanky as hell, like crazy lanky, so Tommy was holding him bridle style to try and compensate for the alien man's insane length, but because of how weirdly built Wilbur was, with the odd angle of his legs tails and spikes,Tommy had to stretch his arms out quite a bit to try and keep a good grip on the wannabe Avatar.

Heck don't even get him started on those tails! Swishing away to their hearts content and nearly tripping Tommy up so many times he's debating on just dropping the idiot.

He had hissed a bit though, when he had jumped over a dead tree and Wilbur dug his claws into his back. Immediately the pressure was gone and a worried mixture of a croon and growl rumbled from Wilburs chest. After that he shifted Wilbur once more, tucking a suddenly much more compliant Wilbur's knees closer to his chest and nearly folding the stick like alien in half.

"You're good Wil, I just- can't SEE bitch WHY ARE YOU SO TALL? AND LANKY?? WHO MADE YOUR BIOLOGY!? IT'S A MISTAKE!"

He nearly trips on a tree root again since he can't really see where he's going, he's honestly just hoping that if he were about to run right off a cliff Wilbur would stop him.

He is sticking to going in a relatively straight line, and is just hoping he's getting somewhere, anywhere honestly. He keeps looking from side to side, hoping to see something he can use to figure out where Ranboo might have gone. Then he starts to recognize a little bit of the surroundings. A boulder that looked vaguely like a potato, some broken branches in the trees, a couple bushes with an oddly high amount of crushed alien berries. Wasn't this the way he ran from the ship?

Tommy perks up when he realizes they're close to the ship, if Ranboo went anywhere surely it would have been towards the ship right?!?!

"Wilbur! Point me to the ship! You're the only one with eyes cause SOMEONE can't keep a simple pace. I thought Phil was the old man but I guess I was WRONG"

All he got in response was a stuttered warble followed by the odd sound they sometimes made, that he was starting to associate with confusion. Then Wilburs two tails swirlied with each other in the air, reminiscent of someone fiddling with their hands.

In the heat of the moment he had forgotten for a second that Wilbur did not in fact know English, so Tommy was just talking to him like an idiot. He'll have to improvise. How do you tell an alien to lead you to a ship while you're carrying them, and therefore cannot use very useful hand gestures?

Tommy thinks for a moment, and as he does Wilbur helps him move to the side to avoid a couple trees. His hands are holding Wilbur so that's out of the question, his mouth maybe? Mimicking might help, he could mimic the sound of an engine, it's not a car engine sound with the stereotypical vrooooom sound. It's more of a hum with a growl sound he's gonna need to make.

He grunts, starting to try to mimic the sounds of the ship engines. His first attempt made him cough like his throat had chocolate stuck in it. He coughs whatever abomination crawls up his throat before trying again, making a scuffed hum growling sound. It's the closest he's gonna get unless he practices. Wilbur looks down at him in what he could only guess was bewilderment. Which, fair honestly but he's not going to let Wilbur know that.

"Wilbur, come on! What else could possibly sound like a tiger trying to purr but is choking on a pelican? A SHIP THAT'S WHAT! Y'know! Vroom vroom?"

Tommy pauses in his speech for a moment, never feeling more devastated and in agony than he had ever been before at himself. He had un-ironically just told an alien Vroom, vroom what even was his life?

"Did I really just say vroom vroom out loud? What is wrong with me-"

He groans and goes to make the stupid sound again when he feels the tip of one of Wilburs tails tapping him on the head. He looks up and sees that Wilbur is now pointing his tail to the left. It takes a moment but once he turns to that direction the tail straightens forwards instead of left.

Yes! Finally! Directions!

He paces, going any direction that Wilbur points his dual tails without any hesitation, straight, straight, little bit to the right, don't trip, dodge the dozens of trees, jump that log.

He starts to recognize the surroundings, much more than before, and he thinks he sees his own shoe print on the ground, must've been muddy at the time. He is so distracted by the thought that he doesn't notice that Wilbur is now pointing in a different direction and his only last minute warning of their impending doom was a screech of his name before he abruptly trips over a root, falling face first and dropping Wilbur in the process, or more accurately launching the poor blue creature into the air

He doesn't even get to scream, the second he opens his mouth to yell he gets a mouth full of dirt. Oh and Wilbur is gone, long gone- oh wait no, there he is. Thrown against a tree.

Wilbur is whining in pain and holding his face after being launched straight into a tree head first, Tommy's honestly surprised Wilbur's still conscious he must be adapting to Tommy's shenanigans, also his tails are actually twirled around the tree from the force of his impact. Which-

"Pfft- blegh- get-"

He chokes on a laugh when he tries to taunt the unfortunate alien. Before he begins spitting out as much dirt as he can. Ewwww it's gonna turn to mud in his mouth. This sucks. Everything sucks. Where's Ranboo? And what is that banging... sound?

He looks up and kinda feels stupid when he sees the ship right in front of him. Oh hey! There's Ranboo! Banging his... head at the entrance....

He's kinda mad he didn't see the big ass ship but to be fair he had Wilbur to blame for being so tall and lanky. He deserved being dropped..... yeeted! He deserves to be yeeted. How dare he block his vision, how dare he do that to Tommyinnit. It's very rude. He firmly ignores that he technically could have waited and figured out a better way to carry Wilbur, that's something to ponder later, aka never. Anyways-

He hears and sees Ranboo banging his head again on the entrance doors, quickly scrambling up and running to his friend.

"Boo stop doing that you'll get a concussion you idiot! Usually people say 'stop hitting yourself' as a taunt but SERIOUSLY STOP HITTING YOURSELF!"

He reaches up and holds Ranboos' face and tears him away from the entrance, and now he's holding the face of a slowly angering tall alien. Or at least he assumes the slowly increasing purple glow, and screwed up nose is anger, regardless he quickly mimics the same purring noise Ranboo has made in the past and it seemed to do the trick, Ranboos ears slowly eased down and his- W H Y ON EARTH IS HIS TONGUE LONG?? ew ew ew ew what the hell?!

"GAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH! WHAT THE HELL BOO? SINCE WHEN DID YOU HAVE A LONG ASS TONGUE? WHY DO YOU NEED A TONGUE THAT LONG? IF YOU LICK ME I WILL ACTUALLY BITE YOU ON PURPOSE!"

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Meanwhile....

Wilbur rubbed at his face, trying to untie his tails from the tree. Somehow during the crash they had twined around the tree and tied themselves. He can understand the twirling, with the force Tommy had thrown him and the abrupt stop it made sense. It didn't make sense that they managed to tie themselves up. So he sits on the ground, grumbling to himself about 'stupid human strength' and 'I was warning the child'.

He looks up when he hears leaves being rustled and dried petals being crushed under feets. He turns around and easily spots Techno walking towards him while looking over at Tommy and Ranboo. Techno was rubbing his ears, irritated by Tommy's loud screaming.

"Why is Tommy screaming?"

Techno glances over at Wilbur, clearly annoyed as he watches Tommy look at Ranboos tongue in... disgust? The Human's facial expressions are so vast it's hard to tell but he's pretty sure that's disgust.

"Think it's about Ranboos tongue, can't blame him. I remember when I saw it for the first time too, I almost broke a lot of medical equipment"

"You did break the medical equipment, specifically the scanner"

"IT WAS IN THE WAY OF MY PANIC!"

Wilbur's righteous moment of indignation is interrupted as he winces when he pulls on his tails a little too harshly and Techno comes over to check on him, all the while continuing keeping an eye on the boys, or well an ear.

"How did you even get here so fast? You're not faster than me and you don't have much stamina, so how did you beat me and everyone else? I'd give you the benefit of doubt with everyone else, as they weren't exactly headed here, but you beating me, now thats odd"

Wilbur jerks his head to Tommy's direction.

"You can ask the kid how he's able to carry me and keep a consistent pace without any breaks headed anywhere, sure I guided him. But that was it, but by all means please ask him. I made none of that trip, at least not willingly"

He watches Technoblades ears shoot up, and swivel to face him in surprise.

"No breaks? How? I took a few breaks- actually... you mentioned a pace? He was pacing himself?"

Wilbur nods.

"Aside from slowing down a little to be cautious cause he couldn't see a single thing he kept a pretty constant pace the whole time"

"That probably helped with lack of exhaustion. I remember him pacing on the Runner earlier he was there for a bit...that's really smart"

Techno nods to himself approvingly as he stands and finally begins to help Wilbur untangle the two tails, it wasn't that it was too tangled to begin with, it was just that the tails kept moving in response to Wilburs frustration making it ten times harder for him to unknot them himself. Techno and Wilbur fall into silence for a moment, as Techno gently begins to loop his tails under each other, tenderly undoing the knots as he carefully avoided bruising Wilburs already abused tails. With one last gentle tug, they came loose from each other falling limply to the ground for a moment before Wilbur flexed them experimentally. Wilbur sighed in relief, standing up and going up to the entrance to confront the two boys.

"Should we call Phil?"

"He should be here in a bit"

Technos ears perk up, swiveling around until they point directly at the skies. Phil is gliding down alongside Kristin, both of them relieved and calling out to them through calls. "Thank stars you're here, did you find- oh, there he is"

Phil watches, a little bewildered as Tommy continues to shriek at Ranboo.

"You mean you didn't hear Tommy screaming at Ranboo from the sky?"

"I was more worried about you lot! I couldn't see any of you anymore"

"Ah, so not worried about Ranboo I see"

"MATE THAT IS NOT WHAT I SAID! Kristin help me out here"

He looks over at her, his feathers poofed in a silent plea for help. She does not help, nope, instead she stares at him with an amused smile before walking over to Ranboo and Tommy, abandoning Phil to Techno and Wilbur. Both of whom begin to immediately bombard him with insults.

"Kristin, don't leave me!"

"You should smooth your feathers, you'll be so poofed up they'll fall off and give you bald spots"

"THAT'S NOT HOW IT WORKS??"

"Denial"

"Oldza, is going to go bald early whatever shall we do?"

While Phil dealt with the boys, Kristin happily ignored their verbal attacks on Phil and instead focused on The human and Enderian. Tommy's yelling had somewhat subsided now that Ranboo's tongue was no longer hanging out and freaking the little human out. She can still hear him grumbling angrily in his language. She doesn't doubt there are more than a few colorful words mixed into his grumbled tirade and snorts at the thought.

"Alright you two, Ranboo are you awake yet sweetie?"

All she gets in response is a warble and him turning back around to the entrance door, Tommy keeping a firm grip on him. Barking something at Ranboo and even shaking him, which does nothing. She can't really tell Tommy that Ranboo can't be woken unless he completes whatever it is his mind is set on.

Quickly she opens the door to the ship and Ranboo immediately teleports inside, escaping Tommy's grip and causing the human to fall backwards and roll off the ramp, screaming all the way.

That seemed to stop the rest of the crew's good natured bickering as they all paused to watch Tommy screaming on his way off the ramp. Rolling and screaming like some sort of possessed ball heading towards a goal. Phil immediately ran over, face drawn up in worry and wings ready to hold Tommy while Wilbur cackled, and Techno twitched his ears, clearly highly amused.

Kristin giggles before turning to head inside the ship. Before she can though a black blob darted past her in a blur of pure sound and dark color, much like an asteroid. Screeching she whirls around, worried that whatever darted out of the ship will hurt her flock before hearing a startled screech and watching, utterly bewildered as Tommy is affectionately tackled by an......Arachnid.

Oh! This must be Shroud!

Tommy yells and barks at Shroud, who doesn't listen in the slightest until Tommy starts making Clicking and hissing noises. That seemed to work as Shroud finally reluctantly crawls slowly off Tommy, and the Arachnid stays frighteningly close to Tommy as the human makes a beeline for the ship..

Phil is the next to walk up the ramp followed shortly by Techno and Wilbur, all of them clearly tired and exhausted. The extra boost of energy of worry and fear is gone and now everyone is more tired. As much as Kristin would rather they head back to her home they are already here. It would be a good head start for them to leave in the morning as well. Her thoughts are interrupted as for the second time tonight something flashes by her in a burst of sound and black, the buzzing sound is familiar to her though and she merely trills fondly as Tubbo proceeds to knock Wilbur face down into the ramp not even pausing as he chases after his friends.

Heaving a world weary sigh of exasperation she goes over and begins to herd everyone else inside the ship, though she does keep her distance from Tommy's little...friend. Shroud has wrapped himself like a backpack around Tommy and the human does not seem phased in the slightest.

She sighs again, exhausted. Hopefully they get more rest in the morning

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The ship rumbles as it slowly lifts itself in the sky, the petal trees bending away from the ship as the air forces them away, Everyone is awake except for Tommy. Well the human is technically awake but with the way he's leaned against the wall for support, and apparently very much not bothered by the turbulence of the ship he could very well be asleep, or at least well on his way there.

Tubbo laughs, a quiet bleating sound and walks Tommy back to Ranboos room, everyone else was up and about though, heck Phil is downright pouting about leaving the planet. It happens every time they leave Kristin, they wish they can take her but she's stated in the past that she's taking a very long break from space. Something about laying low. Phil seems to be the only one to know what she means.

"C'mon big man, please don't lean on me your heavy enough as it is"

Tommy had slowly begun to lean more and more into Tubbo as they walked, creating an uncomfortable angle for both himself and Tubbo.

"Choo-mi get your ass on the bed! You'll crush me again and I'll guilt trip you, you know I will"

After finally getting Tommy inside Ranboos room, avoiding some randomly piled blankets on the floor on the way there he pauses to think for a moment before he just pushes Tommy on the bed causing him to fall face first onto it.

Tommy didn't even move from his spot! It's like he wants to suffocate himself in his sleep! With as much force as he could while not trying to hurt Tommy he rolls Tommy over, glaring and cursing Tommy's name all the while. Finally he gets the human face up on the bed and all his limbs are also atop the bed, which honestly took Tubbo some serious finagling with one particularly heavy arm.

"Good"

He finally huffs and he pats Tommy's head for good measure, he is sooooo done with him. He goes to leave before stopping himself and looking back at Tommy. The last time they left him to sleep alone it... didn't go well. But luckily, he got just the thing for that.

Walking back he takes out a small triangle box, the same box that he used to record the crew when they were all at the market and making those weird crowns of flowers. He wanted to get something special for Tommy, maybe find something to help him sleep. He thought of getting one of those Species call machines that makes the familiar calls of certain species to ease and soothe stressed crewmates. But clearly there's an issue with no machines having any sorts of calls for humans.

So he got what he knew seemed to work so far for Tommy! He hopes it works and helps him sleep well.

He places the small Triangle on the wall shelf near the bed and presses a button. He waits patiently. Soon enough, a recording started to play out the experience of yesterday. Everyone talking quietly amongst each other, laughing and struggling with making silly crowns of flowers. Wilbur talking smugly in the background, Ranboo scolding Tubbo for eating yet another flower, The sound of the quiet wind and shuffling petals and leaves. He even hears Tommy in the recording, all the sounds are perfect and clear, like he's there again. He watches in satisfaction and warmth when Tommy noticeably relaxes with the sounds, humming quietly as he burrows into the blankets, a small smile on his lips.

Tubbo stays for a minute or two, watching Tommy sleep on with a relaxed expression before he reluctantly decides to get up and leave the room, stepping as quietly as he can and he leaves the door open, just a crack in case Tommy wakes up so he can search for the crew uninhibited by the door.

Tubbo leaves very satisfied. He may not have been able to make a flower crown for Tommy but he's happy that he still gave him something to help.

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"FINALLY! We got to this planet, you sure this is where the lead is?"

"Yes George I'm sure, good luck not getting all those flower petals on your skin"

"Why can't Sapnap join us? It can't just be us two"

"Cause I need to get supplies for us and fuel up the tank. As well as one teensy tiny detail your forgetting George"

"What is it?"

"I'M ON FIRE! I'LL END UP BURNING EVERYTHING!!! IT'S A PLANT BASED PLANET GEORGE! Even if I cool myself down long enough for me to help you guys, I will overheat eventually. Do you really want my core to explode!?!?! Are you trying to kill me George?! Huh?! Are you?!?!""

"OH DON'T GIVE ME THAT CRAP WE BOTH KNOW THAT YOU CAN FLY, AND IF NOT THAT, WE BOTH KNOW YOU CAN HOLD NULL FORM FOR AT LEAST SIX HOURS BEFORE YOUR CORE STARTS OVERLOADING, YOU JUST DON'T WANT TO DEAL WITH THE FACT YOU CAN'T TOUCH THE FLOWERS WITHOUT CHARRING THE EDGES!!!"

Dream sighs, rubbing his face as he puts his disguise on, absently petting the earth cat that's next to him. George looks up at the sudden motion, and stares at the cat who then immediately glares at him.

"Pitches is staring at me again, you're sure it's not going to attack?"

"First off, her name is Patches, it has an A in there-"

"The hell is an A-"

"Two, She's not going to attack.. maybe swipe at you but that's about it"

"Can't believe you're comfortable with that thing"

"She's lovely leave her alone"

Dream then proceeds to ignore all of George's following protestations and looks out and watches a ship that is flying out of the atmosphere and speeding away, he keeps that ship in mind and where it's headed as they land on the surface of the planet, one filled with an abundant amount of flowers and flora. Hmmm.... something about that ship tickles something in the back of his brain....eh it probably doesn't matter.

He just hopes to pick up the pace again.

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Notes: Ender: FINALLY OH MY GOODNESS, I STRUGGLED SO HARD WITH THIS! Sorry if the ending is all weird and off, I kinda rushed it near the end, I tried to tidy some spots but tis a bit hard. The long wait was mainly me not knowing how to word things and That I have 3 college classes that decided I'm going to be writing essays and research papers, I don't like doing those XD Cyber has helped me with that though! So that's good.

Edit Cyber: *thumbs up* I tidied up the ending. I think we're good! This was an amazing chapter as usual Ender I had fun!!!

Ender: I hope you enjoyed and hopefully it doesn't take so long next time, I am not writing chapters this long again XD

Edit Cyber: Y'all have NO Idea, I loved editing this, but usually I edit a chapter in two days, the first day to read and review and note and plan what I need to add to the story, overhaul entirely, or just minorly tweak, and then the second day I do all of that. This chapter took me...fiveish days??? Yikes!!! I loved doing it, it just took me longer than anticipated whewwww! Also for those looking for the cannon art of this story I have tumblr now, it's still under my handle CyberGeist so watch for that we will link new art there, that way we can stop having just art chapters. Also when I go to overhaul all of the old chapters and edit this into a more cohesive unit, I will be entirely removing the art chapters except for one which will have links to all of them for reference. I am also working on a youtube series that will explain and showcase each of our main casts, planets, and cultures so keep an eye out for that!! Ender and I have been super excited for this chapter so do enjoy!!!

Ender: Also, yall calm now? The box was just a recorder XD relax!

Edit Cyber: .......I will not speak cause I remembered why it made me nervous and I aint spoiling but I feel like my reaction was justified Ender *glares balefully*

Ender and Cyber : AAAAAART!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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