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Thomas Careful Danger Kraken Innit’s procrastination decided to be nice today.
Luckily, he had successfully finished the project.
Did he finish it at 4:00 AM? Maybe. Does it matter? Barely. Does he have to tell his teacher? Nope. Never.
But now he was at school.
He hated school, who needs school when you’re a top secret vigilante? Not Tommy.
“Tubbo, I think we should skip school. We can steal Ranboo from his class too.”
“Tommy, I think we should not skip school. Ranboo also does not want to skip school.”
Tommy groaned, “Fineeeeeeee. Skipping alone is boring anyway.”
“Sure boss man.”
Just as they finished talking, Mr.Grian walked in the classroom. He started talking about something— the homework? Tommy didn’t know, he wasn’t listening. He was too busy thinking about last night. His stomach still hurts a bit, but it’s probably fine. What was not fine however; the Syndicate probably hated him. They aren’t that strong… right? Well— sure one of them could (maybe?) kill him really easily. And sure another could possess him, and of course he didn’t know the last one's powers. But he’s just a vigilante.
“Did you do the homework?”
The voice brought him out of his small crisis, “Huh?”
“Did you do the homework?”
It was Henry, the guy who sat next to him and Tubbo. Tommy didn’t know him very well, but he seemed nice.
“Oh— uh, yeah. Here you go.” He dropped his homework on Henry’s desk. “Just give it back when you’re done.”
Henry just nodded. Mr.Grian was still talking about something. Tommy didn’t listen, Tubbo could just catch him up later. Henry put the paper on his desk again.
“Thanks Tommy.”
He just nodded and looked at the clock. Class was almost over.
He got out his phone and texted the group chat.
Bench Trio💪
are we meeting at the bench after school?
Ranboob
I think so?
Beeboy
yes odanciu of course we area
ughhhhhhh i hateeee running over there
Beeboy
sortry bsoiso s man
Ranboob
Ah yes, bsoiso man
Tommy could hear Tubbo holding in a laugh beside him. Neither him nor Ranboo would let Tubbo live that typo down.
RING RING RING RING
“Oh thank PRIME.” Tommy stood up and immediately put everything in his backpack.
“Don’t forget to turn in your homework.” Mr.Grian was collecting papers from kids as they walked through the door. Tubbo and Tommy handed him their paper and ran out the door.
Thankfully, that was the last class of the day. The duo ran through the halls and out the front doors. Ranboo was already outside, waiting for them on the bench.
“Ranboo how the fuck did you get out before anyone else?” Tommy was bent over trying to catch his breath.
Ranboo shrugged. “Teleportation, magic, enderman-hybrid stuff.”
Tommy just glared at him and opened his mouth to respond before Tubbo cut him off.
“Can we go to Puffy and Niki’s café? It’s both of your days off, right? It’s mine anyways”
“You want to go where I work on my day off for food? Really?” Tommy looked betrayed, he didn’t really care though.
The other kids were starting to leave the school.
“Well let’s go!” Ranboo grabbed both Tommy and Tubbo before teleporting to the nearest café.
“You are literally the fucking worst bitch boy,” he was going to throw up. He hated teleporting. It always felt weird. “And why to where I work?”
“Sorry Tommy, but teleporting is faster and this is the closest coffee shop.” Tubbo seemed unaffected and just agreed with Ranboo.
“I doubt Niki or Puffy will care that you’re gonna be here on your day off, not like we’re forcing you to go to work.” He just groaned and walked into the coffee shop, the others following him.
“Hi Puffy!” Tommy called into the shop as he walked to the counter. It wasn’t a huge café, it was pretty small; but a lot of people liked the place. Luckily, they got there after rush hour. Only 3 others were there. They looked… familiar. “Can we get some— uhh…”
“Tommy, have you ever ordered here before?” Tubbo sighed. “I’ll just have a hot chocolate.”
“Three hot chocolates.” Tommy just stared at Ranboo. “What? Do you seriously want coffee?”
Tommy glared.
“Alrighty! You don’t want any food? Cookies? Donuts?” Puffy grabbed some cups. She had split dyed hair, and had horns kind of like Tubbos.
“I want a cookie!” Tommy shouted, even though he didn’t have to. Puffy nodded in response. The trio sat down at a table by the window, Puffy came to their table with their order. “Thanks!”
“11.99” Ranboo handed the money to her.
“I think we need to discuss last night,” Tubbo whispered after the woman walked away. Tommy already knew what was about to happen.
“Whatttttt, no we don’t! Nothing memorable or concerning happened at all. Nope. I never ran into the Syndic-” He was quickly cut off by Tubbo’s hand over his mouth.
“Shut the fu- DID YOU JUST LICK MY HAND?!” Tubbo pulled his hand away and wiped it on his shirt.
“Ranboo, do you think we have to discuss last night? I mean sure they probably hate me now, but it doesn’t matter.” Tommy took a sip of his hot chocolate.
“I think we do have to discuss last night. It is kind of a big deal. Dunno, just guessing,” Ranboo also took a drink of their hot chocolate.
“Fuck you,” Tommy muttered under his breath. “What do we ever have to talk about? ‘Oi, Tommy fuck you! You did something stupid again and now we have to talk about it so you don’t do it again, blah, blah, blah.’ I’m fine!”
“Well no shit you can’t do it again?” Tommy’s head snapped over to Tubbo. “You could have died?”
Hah, that’s funny. Tommy can’t die. Well— except maybe to Azrael. Or maybe if Wither can do some kind of death shit. But he wasn’t gonna test that. He wasn’t ready to experiment.
“But I didn’t!”
“But you could have.”
“But I didn’t.”
“But you could have.”
“Good point, however, I will ignore it,” Tommy started eating his cookie. “Where are we going with this?”
“You can’t keep running towards danger, that was stupid of you.”
Tubbo looked very disappointed. Ranboo was just looking back and forth between the two. Tommy did not know what else to say. He can’t just say, ‘Oh! I can run toward danger anytime I want! I’m immortal! A god won’t let me die in peace! I’m totally safe!’ They wouldn’t understand.
“I know it was stupid, I won’t do it again. That good enough?” Tommy meant it somewhat, that’s the best they’ll get from him.
“Yes, thank you. Anyways— what now?” Tubbo looked at the rest of the group.
“There was a mouse in our laundry,” Ranboo said flatly. Everyone just stared at him.
“S— sorry? And you didn’t tell us?” Tommy and Tubbo were both speechless.
“I told Aimsey?” Ranboo shrugged.
“Aimsey doesn’t— Aimsey doesn’t live with us? What could they have done to help?”
“Emotional support. And I left it there, no clue where it is now.” Ranboo looked a little too calm about this.
“Well we have to go find it and get it out of our apartment, probably took a shit in our laundry.” Tubbo stood up, still holding his drink.
“Fineeeee, thanks Puffy! Tell Niki I said hi, wherever she is!” Puffy smiled and waved goodbye to the group as they ran out the door.
—
They found the mouse. Did it take an hour? Yes. Yes it did. But it’s alright, cause now Tommy was getting ready for patrol.
“ Can you hear me? ” Tubbo was incredibly loud in his ear.
“Tubbo, you are in the other room. I can hear you both on the earpiece and in real life,” Tommy was already halfway out the bedroom window. “Can I leave now?”
“ Yes, there’s a fight— robbery? Something going on at Mumbo’s Lab again.”
“Oh fuck this. Again?” He climbed onto the roof, jumping over towards the lab. “Is it the same people?”
“ No, it looks like Nemesis and Thunder. ” Tommy heard Tubbo doing something. Didn’t know what, but he sounded busy.
“That’s nice. I see them, they’re just… walking around? I don’t fucking know,” he was watching the two villains.
One of them, Nemesis, had a cloak over their shoulders. They have pink hair, it was mostly covered by a hood though. They looked like they were going in and out of the shadows. Oh right, they had shadow manipulation. They looked familiar too. Like the people in the café. It was probably nothing.
The other one, Thunder, had a very colorful outfit. They had a blue striped shirt, red pants, and (he thinks) 3D glasses. Tommy couldn’t really tell. He knew their power was light manipulation. It was night, so that seems like a pretty useless power to Tommy.
They weren’t even carrying something, they were both bare-handed and walking around.
“Oi! Motherfuckers!” Tommy shouted from above them, “Whatcha doing?!”
“ Tommy I am going to fucking murder you if they d- ” He cut Tubbo off by turning off the earpiece.
The villains were staring at him. At least, he thought so. He couldn’t tell with the glasses and masks.
“You gonna answer me?!” He jumped down from the roof he was standing on, holding his boomerangs. Just in case.
“We’re just—” Thunder looked back at Nemesis, “looking around?”
“I don’t believe you, I’m too cool to fall for that,” Tommy did not believe them. However he probably would fall for that any other day, but he had just fought the top 3 villains yesterday.
“We don’t even know who you are?”
Oh Thunder was a true bitch. Villain and impolite. Even the top 3 were better than this.
“Theseus.”
Thunder scoffed. Absolute bitch.
“We don’t want to fight, we’re just waiting for someone. Something,” Nemesis took a step in Tommy’s direction.
“Like who? Or what? Why shouldn’t I just beat you up right now?” Tommy held up his boomerangs, he was ready.
“Because you can’t beat us up— ow! God damn it Ni- Nemesis!” Nemesis had elbowed him, which Tommy appreciated.
“Excuse me, I’ll have you know I beat up the top three villains yesterday. Right here too. You guys are only what… top five? I can beat that.”
Both of the villains looked shocked. They were clearly amazed. Then Thunder turned to Nemesis and whispered something to them. Tommy could still hear it. “They didn’t mention that. We gotta make fun of em later.”
“Hell yeah we do,” Nemesis agreed with Thunder.
“Well after this, they can make fun of you too! Now why are you guys here?” Tommy got ready to throw his boomerangs.
“Well you’ll see pretty soon, Theseus.”
They both looked above him. He glanced behind him and saw a pair of big black wings. Fuck. Again?
“Ohhh well this is really fucking great isn’t it?” Tommy paused. “I get to beat up five villains one night!”
“No no no, you’re gonna let us get what we need,” Nemesis said as shadows hid her from her surroundings.
Well this is great.
At least Thunder couldn’t do that. There wasn’t any light but street lamps, and those weren’t close to here at all. So, in honor of that realization, he threw a boomerang at Thunder’s face.
“OI FUCK YOU!”
Just as Thunder started yelling, the Syndicate came up behind him. This was going well. Tommy turned around fully.
“We meet again! This is nice, isn’t it?” Tommy had to hide his very obvious worry. “I wish we could meet under better circumstances this time. Hah, cum.”
Karma looked like he was trying to hold in a laugh. His nose looked slightly deformed and messed up, Tommy didn’t even punch him that hard.
The other two villains however, did not think that was funny. Wither got out his sword, when did he get a sword? Azrael also looked ready to fight. No sword though, boring.
But for once, Tommy was going to be smart. Before he could say anything though, he got hit in the head by something Thunder threw at him from behind. Bitch. At least it didn’t hurt.
Tommy then ran away, back into another alley. Wow, he really likes alleyways. Well. Time to ask Tubbo to call the police.
“Heyyy guess what? The whole Syndicate’s here.”
“ I know, the police are on their way. Wait— where are you? ” Tubbo wasn’t mad, that’s good.
“Another alleyway, I hit Thunder in the face. Nemesis is— somewhere? She went into some shadows. I don’t know where the fuck she is.”
“Right here,” Tommy turned around faster than he thought he could move. She was in the alleyway with him. Tommy just turned off the earpiece.
“Oh great! Are we fighting or just standing here?” Nemesis stared at him. Then something punched his back. God damn is shadow manipulation strong. “Why are you not in the top three? Shadow manipulation is so cool.”
Nemesis seemed shocked at that. She probably didn’t expect to be complimented. “I’m a woman? I don’t know.”
“That’s sexist,” Tommy kicked her in the stomach. “Nobody even knows Wither’s power, therefore you automatically beat them.”
“You’re weird Theseus, keep being you,” A shadow punched him in the nose. Fuck that hurt.
“Thank you! I will!” He blocked another punch from a shadow, and kicked Nemesis in the shins. “Sorry about this fight, but the heroes are too ass to do anything.”
Nemesis just nodded, and disappeared again. Tommy heard sirens in the distance. Fuck, they couldn’t see him. He climbed up a ladder in the alleyway onto the roof of a building. He could still see Mumbo’s Lab. It looked like the villains were running. Well, flying. Karma looked beat up, again. Wither looked fine. Azrael was flying perfectly well. Thunder was nowhere to be seen, same with Nemesis. Weird.
Wait, how did Karma get beat up? Tommy leaned to his left to get a better view. Then he saw Dolion, Soulflame, and 404. Top three heroes. Absolute vigilante haters. He is a vigilante.
Fuck.