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Tommy woke up a bit abruptly.
no reason for that,he just sort of did that sometimes.
Alright,so todays game plan is…oh holy fucking shit he has two jackasses in his home what the shit-
Alright,calm the fuck down Tommy,you brought them here,there wont be issues.
He got out of bed and began walking out of his room,once he got outside he saw Ranboo sitting on the floor and Tubbo lying on the couch,he jumped past the rail to the floor and- ow,okay that hurt a bit,but he’s fine.
He walked over to Ranboo,”hey,uhh,morning i guess?”
“Morning,”Ranboo greeted back.
“…so,has he woken up?”
“Unfortunately,”Tubbo slurred from the couch.
“Yeah,he’s uhh-“
“I'm hungover-“
“No,he’s uh,a bit loopy from whatever they gave him.”
“Im fucking hungover,thats what i am,dick.”
He sighed,”do you guys want something to eat?”
Ranboo nodded,”that’d be nice.”
“Alright,I'll get you something.”
He walked over to his kitchen and opened the fridge…yeah he uh, didn't have much…he had bread though,he could probably make some sandwiches.
So he pulled out some ham,cheese,lettuce and tomatoes from the fridge and put them on the counter before closing the fridge,then he walked to the pantry and pulled out the bread,it didn't take long for him to get the sandwiches ready,once he did he grabbed a large plate and placed the three of them on it before walking back to the living room,he placed the plate on the table and grabbed one of the sandwiches for himself.
“You got the remote?”he asked,Ranboo nodded and turned on the tv,”change it to the news,”Ranboo did so,they weren't talking about anything hero related.
Alright then,at the very least they weren't on the news right now,that's promising.
“Change it if you want.”
Tubbo nabbed the controller from Ranboos hand and began shuffling the channels around,until landing on…two fucking puppets,a pig and an orca.
Great,fun.
“Why must you be so irresponsible!”the orca asked.
“It is my vice,I do not pester you when you do foolish things,”the pig replied.
“Constantly,actually,constantly.”
He sighed.
The three of them ate their sandwiches in silence,with the strange puppets on the television,until they finally finished.
“Alright,turn that shit off we have to plan.”
Tubbo sighed.
“You are an imbecile,it is to my surprise you yet live Wilbu-“the pig was cut off by Tubbo turning off the television
“Alright,now that that is through,what's the plan?”
“Well we need to find a hero place so that i know about redstone,no leads right?”
He shook his head,”I do have a solution to that,it's just …not sure if i really want to take it.”
“What is it?”Ranboo asked.
“Ozzymandias,”he repplied,”the guy saved me from Dream- though i dint fucking need him too,i had it handled, and he asked to help for some reason.”
“No strings attached?”
“Oh no, there certainly is some string there,I'm sure of it.”
Tubbo hummed,”then maybe we shouldn't take it?”
“Ehhhh,”Ranboo shrugged,”we could use more allies,and that guy seems like a good one.”
“It's a risk we shouldn't take.”
“Well…think about it,we need to know where a hero base is that could give us what we want,Ozzymandias knows about one surely?”
He’s not wrong there…Ozzymandias said he wanted to help him just because he didn't like Dream,that seemed like a good motive on paper,but…enough to trust them? He tried to kill him,maybe he just wants to lure him back to get revenge.
….he’d take the guy in a fight now that he thought about it,so yeah,he didn't really care.
“Alright,we’ll go to him and see where it goes,now apart from that,you two need costumes.”
“The heroes know our identities already,that's sort of a waste.”
“You’re not wrong,but still.”
“It's fine,we leave our things in an alley,everything that's missing should be there.”
“Yup,”Tubbo nodded,”though I myself should probably get to tinkering,if not with redstone then just something we can use.”
He nodded,that seemed like a good idea,so then they would…go to the costumes,then go to Ozymandias, and if they find shit for Tubbo to use then they'd nab it.
Seemed like a good plan,all things considered.
“Alright,at what time should we leave?”
“We could probably leave pretty early, I mean what's stopping us?”Tubbo asked.
“Heroes,your identities may have been found but that dosent mean we can just go around without a care,”he said.
“Then when?”Tubbo asked.
“If you want to leave early then we should go at around eleven,that's just a bit before the heroes go back to headquarters to end the day,should be perfect,”he answered.
Tubbo shrugged,”sounds good to me,Ranboo?”
Ranboo nodded,”yeah,that's fine.”
“Alright then,in the meantime…do whatever i guess? I don't know.”
“Whatevers fine.”
Ranboo nodded.
Midnight struck,there were a lot of things on the agenda,but they were getting it all done.
First thing on the agenda,costumes,they split off for a bit for that one,it didn't take long before Tubbo had that brown jacket,Ranboo had that dark purple cloak and he had his red hoodie with black sleeves,and a fuckton of flowers on it,of course.
Great,step one complete,now,Ozymandias…great.
The three of them got to Ozzymandias’s bar without issue,now,how to get in without causing a scene? He doubted the guards would take their presence calmly after the whole-
“You tried to kill our boss,”the pink haired woman said.
“And I'm sorry?”
Tubbo sighed.
“We really should just kill you three,”the other man said.
“Oh please you couldnt do a thing to me, and you want a two on three?”
“L-Look we don't have to fight,Ozymandias said he wanted to talk to us…or something like that,”Ranboo muttered the last part.
“Oh yeah, I'm sure he’d love to talk to the guy that threatened murder,”the pink haired woman mocked.
He sighed,this shit was getting nowhere,how could they get in? Without force because he doubts Ozymandias would appreciate that…
If they were distracted then they could probably rush in…and if Tubbo changes their clothes colors,then they’d be fine.
“Fine,have a good day then,”he gritted out before walking away,”Tubbo and Ranboo confusedly followed behind him.
“We’re giving up?” Ranboo asked.
“Thank fuck Tubbo muttered.
“Nah,I've got a plan,we need a distraction,first of all,and once that's done we’ll need disguises to sneak in.”
“I could use my power for disguises,but for a distraction…i'm not too sure,”Tubbo said.
“Don't worry,I have a plan for that,” he began looking at his sleeves for what he was looking for,but he couldn't find it…did he not pack that flower?
“What are you looking for?”Ranboo asked.
“A fuckin flower,its like black and shit,is there one on my back?”
“Yup,”Ranboo said.
“Pass it to me then.”
Ranboo plucked the black dahlia from his back and dashed in front of him,before handing it to him.
“Thanks,”he crushed the flower in his hand,”I probably shouldn't put flowers on my back should i?”
“Prolly not bossman.”
He nodded before creating what looked like a replica of himself,just made of shadow instead of…well,meat and shit.
“Tubbo,can you make this thing look different? We’re sending it as a distraction.”
Tubbo nodded,before turning the thing yellow,after that he turned everyone's clothes different tones of blue.
Alright,that'll probably work,now to put everything in motion.
They were still close to the bar,but they were far enough for the guards not to notice them,so he sent the shadow towards them,and made it rush past them into the bar,the two guards panicked and ran inside.
“Alright,go.”
The three of them ran to the bar,and ran inside,they quickly walked down the stairs and entered the actual bar,they could see both guards chasing the shadow.
“Alright,go.”
They walked to where Ozymandias was,the guards never paid any attention to them.
They kept walking until they reached the door Ozzymandias was at last time, once he walked inside he saw Ozzymandias sitting in front of three chairs staring at a tablet.
“Not bad,have a seat, we’ve got some things to talk about.”
He took the seat in front of Ozymandias,while Tubbo sat to his left and Ranboo his right.
“Can I get any of you three a drink? Something to eat maybe-“
“No,”Tubbo cut him off.
“Just business then,alright,so let's talk,“Ozzymandias looked directly at him,” what's your answer?”
“We’re open to working together,we just want to know a few things.”
Ozzymandias nodded,”ask away.”
“First,why are you even entertaining this? Why try and work together?”
“It's better for me if the heroes have one less member,especially one as troublesome as Dream.”
“That's bullshit, last night you said it was none of my business,there's no way it's just that.”
Ozymandias shrugged,”what's a little ulterior motive amongst criminals eh? Isn't me wanting him dead enough?”
“Not if you can't be honest with me.”
Ozymandias sighed,”rest assured this motive will not affect you negatively, unless I've misjudged you.”
“Why not just tell us-“
“Oh please, are you telling me why you want Dream dead? Real specifics I mean?”
“That-“
“Dosent concern me, i fucking know, and as curious as i am i wont ask, i just ask the same courtesy of you.”
He grumbled,it would be hypocritical of him to push more,sure,but he needed to know Ozymandias was actually to be trusted…but whatever, at the very least he didn't come up with a lie, that will have to be enough, for now at least.
“Any other questions?”
He thought about it for a moment, there were other two he could ask…so he was going to ask them, gotta know all he can.
“The Champion was the one to tell me to come here, why?”
He could tell Ozymandias tensed slightly.
“I wanted to talk to you, i wanted you as an ally, someone with a gigantic chunk of redstone is someone who’s side you want to take-“
He shook his head,”i mean why you sent him specifically, how even, i mean how the fuck would the champion even listen to tou?!”
“We have a…bit of a business partnership, I give him a hand whenever he needs and he does the same for me.”
He can take that answer, even if it's still a little strange.
“And finally, just for curiosity's sake, what's your power?”
Ozymandias chuckled,” what do you think it is?”
He shrugged ,” i dont fucking know.”
Ozymandias hummed, “I don't want to tell you.”
“Oh come on, i’ll see it anyway.”
Ozzymandias chuckled,”you’d be surprised, no, i will not tell you what my power is, not until it is relevant, is that all?”
“Unless they have any other questions, then yes.”
“No pre-business questions here,” Ranboo said.
”Do you have like- scrap metal? Or something I could build something with?”Tubbo asked
Ozymandias shook his head,”afraid i don't.”
Tubbo sighed,”alright, that's all from me then.”
Ozzymandias clapped his hands together,”good, now that that's out of the way we can talk business, what do you need my services for?”
“We plan to kill Dream with the help of redstone, but to do that we need an idea of how that works, do you have anything, like some blueprints or…documents, anything?”Tubbo asked.
Ozymandias shook his head,”I know redstone is dangerous, that's it.”
“Then we’ll need to find some information, any idea of where something like that would be?”
“Well, hero headquarters, though I assume you don't have a death wish, so…that makes things harder.”
“Do you really have no idea?”
Ozymandias shook his head,”I'm afraid if there is somewhere heroes keep things apart from their headquarters it is hidden from me.”
”oh.”
He knew where the info could be…but he couldnt go back, not even because he didnt want to, wich…he didnt he supposes, but because of logistics, getting there was inpossible, unless they…fuck it, if its to kill Dream the he’ll do anything he needs to.
“The nether,”he cut in.
Ozymandias leaned forward, Tubbo seemed confused for a moment before realizing something, while Ranboo stayed confused throughout.
“What of it?”
“Dream has a base there, one i would bet my fucking life has what we need.”
“Then why’d you come to me if you already knew?”
“I didnt exactly want to march into fucking hell, and even if i wanted to the only portal i know of is in the hero headquarters wich is a fucking no go.”
Ozymandias laughed,”oh I know who has a portal, there's only one issue with that.”
“Which is?”Tubbo cut in.
“I don't exactly know where he is, so that's going to be an issue.”
“How the fuck are we meant to find him then?”
“I have an idea I've never played out because it wouldn't go well, but I trust you three are competent fighters?
He nodded, Ranboo shrugged, while Tubbo made a ‘sort of’ gesture with his hand.
Ozymandias sighed,”you’ll have to do then, i have an armory you three can raid so you don't get screwed.”
“Don't need it, you two do?”
Ranboo shook his head,”i dont think so.”
Tubbo nodded i have my fists and a lot of gadgets that got stolen, so my fucking fists,you wouldnt happen to have some weapon you could give me?” Tubbo asked as he turned to Ozymandias.
Ozymandias nodded,” course i do, you can get all of that after we do what we need to, follow me,“Ozymandias stood up and began walking to the exit of the room, the three of them followed him to a room a few doors down,which had a staircase leading down,the four of them walked down and- oh,when he said armory he expected something….more….
An empty room with 5 cardboard boxes brimming with discarded weapons stared at them.
More…cool? Or something? Maybe some lights and shit, organization?
“People, I present to you the best armory in any district, have your pick, have two or three if you can manage, have fun.”
That was a big lie.
“Uhh,Chroma?”
“Riight,”Tubbo slowly nodded before walking forwards and rummaging through the boxes. It took a while, but eventually he picked up a metal bat.
Tubbo twirled the bat around,”this will do for now i guess.”
Ozymandias nodded,”perfect, then let's go,” Ozymandias began walking out of the armory.
He ran up to him while the other 2 followed,”Wait, we don't even know what we’re meant to be doing, you haven't explained shit, so explain, you, plan guy.”
Ozymandias nodded,” the only other person with a nether portal is a crime boss, and a powerful one at that, i’ve never tried picking a fight with him since he’d destroy me completely, but with you three added to the little crusade i think we should have enough manpower to reach him and get what we want, that sound good?”
“Wh- you explained the idea, but not the plan, what are we doing?” Tubbo asked.
“Oh- right, we’ll be robbing a bank, he’s got a lot of territory you see, the high districts, people think crimes low there because of the heroes, but its low because they know what theyre fucking doing, we rob a bank then we’ve got their attention, and we’ll just need to get them to attack us, and get info from there,easy.”
That sounded…ridiculously stupid.
“And why, oh why, would you anger such a man for us? Whatever you want must be great if you’re willing to go all this way.”
Ozymandias shrugged,” dosent concern you, does it?”
He shrugged,” so long as Dreams dead I don't care.”
Ozymandias nodded,” then dont care, and let's go, there's money to be made.”
District 9 was their target, the central essempi bank.
As if the plan wasn't already stupid enough, now they had to worry about heroes.
He sighed, they should just get this over with.
The four of them stood in front of the entrance to the bank.
“So like…how are we doing this?”Ranboo asked.
“We don't need to actually rob it, we just need to cause a fuss, so we’ll do just that, you flower boy, got something to bust the door open?”
“It's Ophrys dickhead, and yes, yes I do,”he looked at his arm and crushed an angelica from it, and sent a vine out to the door,throwing the door off its hinges back into the bank,immediately setting off a loud blaring alarm.
Ozymandias clapped, “come on, lets go.”
The three of them rushed inside, it was empty, obviously, a large room with green and white mosaic floors,two doors at the sides and an area for the tellers at the back.
“So,,,are we like robbing it, or….”Tubbo said.
“Eh,don't have to, I'm expecting someone to come along any minute now.”
“Like?”
“Heroes, but that's fine, we just beat them and leave and we’ll be on that guys radar.”
Great fucking plan, he dosent regret anything, nope, of course not…
Ranboo ran off to loot the vault with his power, while Tubbo flew outside to try and spot anyone, he and Ozymandias stood guard at the entrance of the bank.
Ranboo kept running back and bringing bags of money, Tubbo didn't fly back in once until around six minutes later, when he panickedly flew inside.
“THEYRE FUCKING COMING THEYRE UHH- two?”
“That's it? ….well shit thats not that many-'' Ozymandias was cut off as a barrage of metal was thrown through the entrance, Tubbo and Ranboo managed to dodge it by flying and phasing away respectively, him and Ozymandias were not that lucky,the scraps of metal threw into them and throw them to the ground, the weight of the metal effectively pinning them down.
He tried to reach for one of his flowers, but the metal was heavy…he could still get it if he just-
He was cut off as Ranboo phased to them, grabbed his and Ozymandias hand and phased them out of the metal with a dash.
Oh yeah, that'd work.
“Thanks for that,”Ozymandias said while stretching before pulling out two submachine guns from his coat, before anyone could do anything else, Equilibrium walked through the door, several pieces of metal flying around him, behind him he could barely see a pair of horns and a bit of white hair, Pyrexia then, that combination was….annoying,but they could win.
All the metal Equilibrium had thrown at them began floating back towards him, as it did he could see it visibly heat up, until it all melted into a silver liquid.
“Oh fuck this,” Ozymandias muttered before shooting at Equilibrium, the silver liquid moved to cover him and seemingly turned solid, blocking all the bullets with only a few dents to show for it.
The metal wall turned liquid again and threw itself towards Ozymandias,once it had covered him it turned solid again,encasing most of him in the metal.
Ranboo dashed towards Ozymandias and jumped up to grip his head before phasing away with him, taking him out of the metal, once Ranboo freed Ozymandias he dashed towards Equilibrium and drew his daggers, as Ranboo got closer the metal in the area turned liquid and flew towards Equilibrium, Ranboo swiped both of his daggers upwards towards Equilibrium,but the liquid metal flew between them and formed some sort of large blade, blocking the swings.
Tubbo immediately flew to the other side of Equilibrium and swung the metal bat to the side, Pyrexia immediately drew a sleek sword and blocked the swing before it reached Equilibrium.
He plucked an angelica flower from his arm and crushed it, sending the vines flying towards Pyrexia, she cut them away before they reached her, but that gave Tubbo the opening he needed to land a good swing to her gut, he was about to swing the bat again, but he suddenly shouted and threw the bat in the ground.
“ASSHOLE,” Tubbo shouted before sending a jab to Pyrexia, she dodged it and kicked Tubbo away, he crushed another angelica from his arm and sent the vines in front of Pyrexia and grappled there, once he landed he slid the vines on the ground and tried to sweep Pyrexia to the floor, but she jumped up and swung her sword at him, he ducked and smacked her back with the vines before crushing a chamomile from his arm and sending the energy towards her, she dodged it, but before she could run towards them Ozymandias threw three knives at her, one stabbing her shoulder, the other her arm and the last one her hand.
Before they could react further, Ranboo dashed past them, he looked towards where he was running from and saw Equilibrium with several blades of metal orbiting around him, Ranboo dashed behind Equilibrium and tried to stab him, but two blades spun to his back and blocked the hit, Ranboo dashed to Equilibriums front and tried to hit him again, but two blades spun to the front and blocked the hit.
He heard two clicks, and began hearing gunshots coming from Ozymandias, several bullets were flying towards Pyrexia,but as they got close to her they seemingly burned up, until he heard clicks from Ozymandias' guns.
“Mother- FUCK,” Ozymandias shouted and threw both guns to the floor, he could see a slight amount of steam coming from the guns.
Alright, this was a shitshow but they had the advantage in numbers at least, they just had to split Pyrexia from Equilibrium…they could do that.
He plucked an angelica from his shoulder and crushed it, using both vines from his arms he grappled to Pyrexia, the vines from his arms began wilting away,but they got him far enough for him to crash into Pyrexia, he quickly stood up and crushed a chamomile, before he could shoot it Pyrexia stood up and swung her sword at him, he stepped back and ducked once she swung again, he crashed into her and pushed her back a little before sending a jab to her head, she moved her head to the side and swung her sword again, he ducked beneath it and punched her in the gut, before she could recover from that he kicked her leg causing her to lose balance and shot the blast of energy at her head, sending her flying back and crashing to a wall.
He looked around his arms and crushed an angelica flower, making it into a sharp vine. As he walked towards Pyrexia he heard footsteps rushing towards him from the right, he turned and quickly blocked a sword aimed for him from…Angel?
“Fraid you can't do that mate.”
Another one? Fucking great, the other three dickheads better have Equilibrium beat by now.
Angel flapped his wings, sending a strong gust of air managing to push him back a step or two before running and swinging his sword at him, he ducked and sent the vine to the roof and grappled to it before sending it to Angels wings and tangling them as well as they could, Angel tried to flap the vines off, but he couldn't do it so easily, while he was distracted he crushed a chamomile and sent the blast to his gut, sending him flying back, he began walking to him, but he heard rushed footsteps behind him.
He quickly turned around and barely managed to duck down to dodge a swing from Pyrexia, she didn't stop though, swinging her sword twice again, he managed to roll away from one, but the other cut his arm, he kicked her away somewhat before standing up, Pyrexia quickly ran to him again, he looked for flowers on his arms and crushed a blue anemone, Pyrexia swung at him again, but this time he used his arm to block the swing, as he blocked the second swing he crushed a chamomile from his leg and shot it at her head, sending her flying back, he turned around and looked for the others.
They were all fighting nearby,he could see now Equilibrium was still standing and dealing with Tubbo, Ranboo and Ozymandias, though he did look like he was losing a little,and the Angel was looking at him now.
He groaned and looked for an angelica from his arms…he spotted one on his left leg and crushed it, as Angel walked towards him he used the flower to grapple over to where the other three were fighting Equilibrium, once he reached them he used the vines to grab Equilibrium while he was busy with the rest and chuck him away.
“Hey, so, you know, we’re running right?”he asked in an annoyed tone.
“Nah, we can take them,” Ozymandias said.
“Okay, i dont give a fuck, we’re leaving, Ether? Can you take the four of us out of here?”
Ranboo nodded and outstretched his hand,”just hold on and we’ll make it out of here.”
He nodded and held onto his hand along with Tubbo and Ozymandias, Ranboo looked at a wall and began dashing away- hoooooly fuck that felt like actual shit jesus christ- they were at a street now? What the fuck-
Ozymandias fell to the ground, he almost did but Ranboo caught him.
Tubbo coughed,”you'll get used to it eventually.”
“Right…then, let's run?”Ozymandias asked.
“Yup, we can meet up at that bar, sounds good?”
Everyone nodded, Tubbo began flying away while Ranboo dashed away,Ozymandias just began running.
…that guy was getting caught,fuck.
He sighed and looked for an angelica- one on his leg, he grabbed the angelica and crushed it, before using it to grapple next to him.
“Why are you following me?”
“Because you’re just running like a dumbass and if you get caught then this whole thing was for nothing.”
Ozymandias scoffed,”so little faith, go, i’ll be fine-” Ozymandias was cut off by a piece of metal flying at them, barely missing them.
He huffed before looking for another angelica…okay one on his leg, and crushing it, with vines on both hands he used one arm to grab Ozymandias and used the other to grapple onto a nearby roof.
“YOU WERE FUCKING SAYING?”
“SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU DI-”Ozymandias was cut off as they landed on the rooftop, they just had to lose three heroes, they could do that, just…just keep running.
He sighed and grappled off to another rooftop,he just had to keep jumping roof to roof, the heroes wouldn't be able to keep up surely.
“HEY ARE YOU GONNA FUCKING UNHAND ME?”Ozymandias shouted.
“I WISH I COULD ASSHOLE BELIEVE ME,”He shouted back as he grappled to another rooftop, a strong gust of wind could be felt coming from behind, he turned around to see a winged shadow, Angel, of fucking course.
He groaned and dropped Ozymandias on the rooftop before grappling towards Angel,as he got closer Angel flew up and flew towards Ozymandias with his sword drawn, as he got closer Ozymandias pulled out a pistol and shot angels left wing, Angel hissed and dropped down.
“Don't bring a sword to a fight with me dumbass, how many times have I shot you now?”
“Oh you bit-“
“Come on, fucking grapple away or whatever-“Ozymandias said but was cut off by a large amount of liquid metal reaching him and covering him, solidifying into a block,keaving only his head exposed.
He turned to the direction and saw a large amount of liquid metal float to him, he tried swatting it away with his vines, but it simply moved out of the way before reaching him,leaving him in the same spot as Ozymandias.
He tried moving his vines, but they’d never be able to cut through metal, he cant even see whats going on with his flowers…fuck, Ozymandias better have some stupid trick under his sleeves.
He tried to turn to Ozymandias,but he couldn't turn his head far enough, the metal trapping him began levitating off the roof and to the street, once he landed he could turn enough to see that he was next to Ozymandias.
“You got some stupid last resort or stupid power to show off? If so nows your fucking time.”
Ozymandias looked away.
“...your power is useless here, isn't it?”
Ozymandias sighed,” it's…not…no, it's not useful in combat.”
He sighed,"Well, at least I'm not getting hauled off alone.”
Equilibrium floated down on a disk of metal in front of them, Pyrexia and Angel also floated down on two separate disks behind Equilibrium, once everyone landed the discs floated away and melted, before floating around Equilibrium.
“Looks like we finally have you Ophrys, to think Dream couldn't deal with you, a shame really.”
“Oh shut the fuck up, you know this is bullshit.”
“It was three on four, which seems more than fair to me.”
“You-”
“Just shut up will you? You’ll be taken somewhere secure soon enough, so until then do us all a favor and shut up.”
He scoffed,” im going to fucking break out of this and rip you three limb from fucking limb you dumb fu-”
“This is annoying, someone shut him up please, maybe Angel, since you aren't even meant to be here,”Equilibrium lazily said.
“I'm a hero, i saw you needed help so i came here-”
“The situation was under control, Angel, but it is fine, at the very least you didn't get in the way.”
“Oh fuck off, the least you could do after all of this is not be a complete dick-”
Ozymandias began laughing, he turned as far as he could to see him, through a crack in his mask he could see his eye…it had a certain glint to it, as if he had won.
“Oh you heroes are such good friends arent you?”Ozymandias asked.
“The hero's business is none of your concern,”Angel repplied.
“Oh come on, if you’re going to be so…unprofessional then you might as well share, come on, what's gotten you so mad?”
“None of your concern villain, soon enough Dream will be here to deal with this fucking mess.”
“Oh that's no fun, I mean really just when we're getting to know each other? Pyrexia hasn't even said a word, i want to know how she feel-”
“I feel that you should shut up,”Pyrexia said.
“Tough crowd, tough crowd, Angel, Equilibriums being a real dick innit? What say you break us out and blame it on him?”
“Wh- are you fucking- did you actually think i’d say yes?”
Ozymandias shrugged with his head,”I mean a little?”
Equilibrium sighed,"I'm this close to shutting you up, you’re lucky Dream wants to interrogate you himself.”
“Mhmm? My my, this Dream character sure is important innit? Why does he even care about little old me?”
“As if you’re the one he cares about, does anyone even know who you are?”Angel asked.
“I'm sure you do, my nemesis,”Ozymandias taunted.
“I am not your fucking nemesis dick,”Angel chided back.
Whatever Ozymandias was trying to do was not working, at all.
Equilibrium levitated Ozymandias’s block and smacked it on the ground,“SHUT UP, THE BOTH OF YOU.”
He could hear heavy footsteps coming from behind.
“Who th-''Equilibrium muttered, even with the mask he could see the blood drain from his face, several cars and stray pieces of metal were levitated above, Angel drew his sword, and Pyrexia did the same.
The footsteps got closer,till they passed right through the middle of him and Ozymandias, and there with two simple things he knew who it was.
A boar skull mask, and a red cape.
The Champion had arrived.
The three heroes stayed in position, ready for the Champion to strike, but he waited, amd Equilibrium was the first to cave, all of the metal around him solidified and was thrown directly at the Champion, the Champion merely pointed his palm towards the metal and threw a small blast of energy at the metal,once the two collided a bright explosion appeared, and once it subsided all of the metal was thrown away in different directions.
The Champion huffed,”that's it?”
All of the metal from around threw itself at the Champion, the Champion created a blast of energy around him, sending all of the metal flying back.
“And you are top two? Pathetic,”The Champion shot a blast of energy behind him and threw himself to Equilibrium's back,in a flash he drew his sword and was going to stab down,but Angel shoved Equilibrium out of the way and blocked the swing.
The Champion placed a hand behind his back and swung his sword again, Angel meeting it in the middle, the Champion kept swinging the sword clinically, but Angel managed to block every swing, he could see Pyrexia sneaking up behind the Champion with her sword drawn, but once she got close he sent a shot of energy from the hand at his back,sending her flying away.
The Champion and Angel kept clashing swords, Equilibrium tried to interrupt from behind, but as he did to Pyrexia, the Champion shot him away, this kept on until Angel's sword was knocked away by a particularly strong swing from the Champion, leaving him defenseless.
The Champion huffed,” if only they let you out of your cage more often, you’re not a bad fight.”
He expected the Champion to finish Angel off, but instead he simply blasted him away and began walking to him and Ozymandias.
“The fuck are you doing here?”Ozymandais gritted out,” i told you not to come-”
“And I told you not to get caught, so this is your fault really-”the Champion was cut off as he was surrounded by a metal liquid, and in the blink of an eye it solidified into a solid block.
Ozymandias sighed,“And now you are too.”
The Champion scoffed,”you think so little of me that you think this cheap trick has done anything?”
A bright red explosion shot out from the Champion, and all of the metal surrounding him was gone.
“Now,to finish the job,”the Champion turned around to see Equilibrium knelt on the street,a gigantic tornado of metallic objects surrounding him, as more and more metal objects reached him, the Champion outstretched his hand, and a bright red light began emanating from his hand.
All of the metal formed into a gigantic spear and lunged itself towards the Champion, in response the Champion sent out a large beam of red energy,the beam crashed into the metal,sending it all flying in different directions.
The Champion huffed, before creating several blasts of energy around him and sending them all to Equilibrium, several metallic objects moved to block the blasts, but several went through to Equilibrium, causing him to fall to the ground.
The Champion huffed,”what a waste.”
A pink ball of energy began growing on the Champions outstretched hand, and it slowly got darker, it got up to red,but Angel interrupted him from behind with an attempt at a stab, the Champion simply kicked back, energy shooting from his kick, the Champion kept charging the blast of energy, until it turned pitch dark.
The dark beam of energy shot out to Equilibrium,but before it reached him it collided with something, exploding in a sort of dark light, once the explosion cleared, all that was left in the air was a dark smoke, but before long the smoke converged where the beam collided, and began forming- Dream, the smoke converged into Dream.
“Leave and take the captures, I'll deal with the Champion.”
The Champion sent a blast in front of him, using it to send himself flying back to them, he touched the metal encasing Ozymandias and it began cracking slightly, red light emanating from the cracks, until it fully shattered.
“This guy too?”The Champion gestures to him.
Ozymandias nodded,”he’s with me.”
The Champion nodded and sent a wave of energy to the heroes to push him back, before breaking the metal around him as he did to Ozymandias,”you two run, i’ll hold them off-“
“Oh yeah, just hold off four fucking heroes including Dream, as if you-“
“I think you should remember i never picked my villain name,”the Champion began shooting energy below him, using it to fly in a way, amd flew directly to the heroes, a large line of energy being created as he flew, once he was above the heroes the line moved and circled him, before turning a large ball, the ball began shooting beams of energy at the heroes as the Champion flew down.
He looked around his suit, he didnt see any angelicas…who gives a fuck, the Champion would hold them off surely, so he simply began running, he looked back and saw Ozymandias looking at the lights from the Champions fight.
Fucking idiot.
He ran back and smacked him in the head, eliciting a yelp from Ozymandias.
“What the fuck you asshole?!”
“Lets go, before he loses-“
“We need to help him he-“
“No we fucking dont, he’ll be fine, if we go then we get caught by the metal bullshit again and the Champion has to bail us out, we need to run.
Ozymandias looked at the fight again and sighed,”yeah, let's go.”
The two of them bolted in the opposite direction of the fight, the bar was somewhat far away, but they could run, they just needed to keep it up until they made it.
Frankly,the bar wasn't that far all things considered.
Maybe running like maniacs the whole way played a part, sure, but they made it? Yeah, they made it so who cares.
As always, the bar had those two jackasses guarding it, but Ozymandias being there made things easier, they all just nodded and let the both of them pass.
Now they just needed to find Tubbo and Ranboo…they were probably in the same room they all talked, so that's where he started walking, it seemed like Ozymandias agreed as he began walking in the same direction.
After walking through all the people and a few doors, they reached the room, where they found Tubbo and Ranboo sitting on the floor.
“See? They lived,”Tubbo said.
Ranboo sighed,”you two fine?”
He nodded,”yup, but right now we need to plan ahead, Ozymandias, was that stunt enough to get their attention?”
Ozymandias groaned,”most definitely, especially with the Champion interferi-“
“I'm sorry, WHAT?!”Tubbo shouted.
“The Champions on our side apparently,”he supplied.
Ozymandias sighed,”I didn't want him in this,but now I doubt he’ll let himself be rid of.”
“But why don't you want his help? I mean with him we'd be unstoppable.”
“Thats-“
“None of your business,”the Champion said from the door, his costume covered in blood.
“T-“Ozymandias was going to shout,but the Champion cut him off
“It's not mine.”
Oh,that was…a fun statement.
“A-alright tjen, uhhh-“
“You’re right, you aren't getting rid of me,”the Champion stared at Ozymandias before switching to Tubbo,”and so are you, now we’re unstoppable.”
This…either went leagues better than he could have dreamed…or he's gotten into something he really shouldn't have.
Fucking shit.
Phil woke up at… the hero clinic, great, again?
“Hello Phil, what did you do this time?”Bad asked, somewhat annoyed.
“We fought the Champion…didn't go well.”
Bad hummed,” yeah, i wouldn't fight a guy named ‘the Champion’ myself, but what do i know i'm just the medicine guy,by the way, rest for a week taking extra care to not work your wings and you should be fine.”
“Great, good to go then?”he asked.
Bad nodded,”by the way,Dream was looking for you, he said he’d be at the apartments.”
“Oh,alright,thanks again Bad.”
“You shouldn't thank me, Phil, but you’re welcome, now go.”
He nodded and got off the bed,and began walking out of the clinic and jp the stairs, until reaching the apartment floor, instead of going to his he went to Dreams and knocked on the door, a few seconds later Dream opened the door, he was wearing his usual hero costume, including the mask.
“Phil, come in.”
He nodded and walked inside, once he did he closed the door.
“So…I heard you fought with Ophrys?”
That…wasn't what he thought Dream would focus on.
“I guess you could say so, but the main one was theChampion.”
Dream nodded,”right right, just try not to…you know? Only me,George and Sapnap have clearance to go for him, if one of us brings you along then sure, by all means go, but try not to engage without us.”
“What? Why?” That's weird all things considered, Ophrys is powerful, sure, but he's not some herculean threat, sure he can't beat him 1 on 1, but the more heroes there are, the better, right?
“That information is classified, a clearance i'm afraid you don't reach.”
He scoffed,”and when can I expect to reach said clearance?”
Dream shrugged,”could be weeks, could be gears, u cant say-“
Oh bullshit.
“Years?! You- I killed the Shadow, I did, and the only reason you’ve got that much power, that much fame is because of what I did, can i atleast get to know what's going on?!”
Dream looked to the side slightly,”I can't make an exception Phil, im- look if it were all up to me i'd ride you through the ranks, you’re so capable even without a power, but unless you have a golden ticket i can't just do that because of your skill.”
“And how would one get this…’golden ticket’?”
“Prove yourself supremely capable, taking out the Shadow would have done it but…you’ll need something else for obvious reasons.”
He sighed,”yeah i- my power? If its powerful enough to just fucking desintegrate an immortal, then…then that could get me up?”
Dream nodded,”once you learn how to use your power I will gladly raise you up in the ranks, and as always, if you need any help with that then feel free to tell me, I'll be there in a flash!…assuming im not out, but- you get the idea.”
He nodded,”I do Dream, thank you, I think I'm going to go train now, try and get that power out of me.”
Dream nodded,”of course Phil, I hope you join me up here sooner rather than later.”
Phil nodded,”i’ll do everything in my power to make it possible,”he nodded again and turned around,walking out of Dreams apartment and heading to the training grounds, lets see if todays the day he finally gets his power.
Being at the training grounds always made him happy in a way few other things could.
Because here he didn't have to worry about who he is, who he was, and what he needs to be, all he needs to focus on is the targets, and kicking their ass, that's it.
The first time he went up here it was surprising how easy it was to hold a sword, when he swung it ge felt so…right, like a cut limb had been returned to its place, he felt so…so right, as if this was what he was meant to do, as if centuries worth of skill just laid at the sword.
He managed to do quite well, beating all the past scores, did it have to do with his wings? Suree, but nobody could deny he had skill with a sword, maybe even better than Dreams, he’d say the Champions too if his ego was bigger, but he was definitely humbled.
…yeah, maybe he isnt better than Dream, still, he’s got potential, he killed the Shadow,a monster, the fucking bogey man, an immortal, that was his legacy, even if no one can ever know, he will, and that felt like enough, there was just one issue though, his power, it just…didnt. come out for some reason.
A flash of light, that's how Dream described it, and he hasn't even produced a flicker, a slight spark, he’s missing something, he must be…he just has to draw his power out.
So he’ll keep training, he’ll stand atop everyone, he’ll beat the Champion, catch Ophrys, and finally arrest Ozymandias, because that's who he is.
He is the Angel, and he will cast out the shadows of this world.
He kept training, for hours, taking out all the mannequins, flying through targets, fighting against a fake machine, even Dream came up to spar against him, he lost, but even so he could tell he got close, he just needs to train more, unlock his power, and he’ll be unstoppable, he won't let anyone else cower from an unstoppable threat, he’ll be the hero they need, give them the safety they deserve.
He just needs to be better, there's Shadows all around them, everyone has one, some bigger than others.
And as much as he’d like to pretend not to notice, Dreams Shadow is bigger than most.
And as much as he’d kike to pretend its not, his Shadow feels heavy on his shoulders.
Yet that dosent matter, because light can always get rid of Shadows, and he’ll be the one to bring it.