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“Techno wake up.” Wilbur shook his brother relentlessly. “What do you want Wil?” Techno groaned turning over on the couch. “We have to go see Tommy before dad wakes up. Come on.” Techno rubbed the sleep out of his eyes and followed behind to get to his room.
They greeted the guards and helpers they saw as they passed and went into Technos room shutting the door behind them. The room was empty which was usually a good sign. Wilbur peeked in the closet while Techno checked to see if Tommy took the books again in attempt to read to himself.
“Wilby!” Tommy smiled jumping at his unofficial brother. “Hey Toms! Did you sleep alright?” Tommy nodded. “I didn’t even cry! I’m a big man!” Wilbur and Techno chuckled, both of them silently envying the energy he had this early in the day.
“Yes Tommy. You’re the biggest man.” Wilbur mused. “Are we gonna play today?” Tommy wondered wiggling out of Wilburs hold. “Yes Tommy, we can play tod-” Techno was cut off by a knock on the door.
“Boys? Are you in here? Wilburs not in his room so I assume your both here.” Phil called from the hallway. “Shit.” They both whispered. “Who’s that?” Tommy had never heard that voice before so naturally he was curious. “That’s Phil. Go hide in the closet like we practiced and don’t say anything.” Techno instructed.
Tommy rushed off to his hiding spot and Wilbur closed the closet door behind him. Wilbut gave techno the thumbs up and Techno nodded and opened the door. “Come in Dad.” Phil walked in and sat on the bed and motioned for them to join him.
“I got you guys out of taking classes today so we’re free to do whatever you want. We can go to the village or the garden or train or play with the animals. Whatever you want.” Phil offered. They both looked wearily at each other.
“Well..we actually have to tell you something before we do anything.” Wilbur nervously said. “Alright. What is it?” Phil looked between the two skeptically. They were both glancing at each other, not wanting to be the one who tells.
“Well...we uh….” Techno looked at Wilbur expectantly. “We...we uh….” “Go on.” Phil encouraged. “Techno!” Wilbur clapped. “You tell it better so...go ahead.” Techno sent his brother a death glare but wilbur just smirked back.
“Oh uh well...While you were gone...we...uh…” Phil motioned for him to continue. “I beat all the trainees and guards! Yeah! Lazar and Vik and Sam were all humiliated.” Wilbur glared at his brother. Sure he wasn’t lying but thats not what he was meant to tell him.
“Oh thats great Mate! We can spar if you want? Maybe you can finally beat me.” Phil offered. Techno nodded excitedly. “Lets go after breakfast! Me and Wil will get dressed and meet you there.” Techno pushed Phil out of the room and Phil laughed thinking it was just excitement and he closed the door and went off to the kitchen.
“You were supposed to tell him about Tommy!” Wilbur sighed exasperatedly. “Well so were you. You can’t put that on me, the child with anxiety, and expect me to actually tell him.” Techno retorted. Wilbur just rolled his eyes cause his brother had a point.
“Look we can always tell him Tomorrow. For now, we have to find a way to sneak Tommy food.” Techno reasoned. Wilbur dropped the topic realizing he was right. It was easy to sneak food through the tunnels when they were the only ones eating. One person distract the guards and the other sneak it into the tunnels.
If they couldn’t distract the guards they would wait for guard shifts. With Phil here he would definitely notice if one of them went missing during meals. He always insisted family meals were important so there was no way they could eat by themselves.
The only time they ever didn’t eat was a family was if he was really busy or if someone was sick and being isolated in their rooms. They could ask to go to the bathrooms but Phil didn’t know about the tunnels so they would have to go through the doors and someone would definitely notice them bringing food out the front door.
The only time bringing food out the dining room was allowed was if the king was really busy and had to eat in his office, if someone was sick, when the food was being brought to anyone n the medical area, or if Ranboo was over and they were ‘bringing him a plate.’
They usually bought enough for both Ranboo and Tommy to eat saying that Ranboo being a hybrid made him want more food. The only way for them to get food out is if they either take some from the cart being brought to the medical wing or if they somehow distract Phil long enough to get the food into the tunnels where Tommy can bring it back to the room and eat.
They’d have to go with the second option. “Toms, your going to have to hide in the tunnels and we’re gonna hand you food and you can sneak back to the room.” Wilbur said. “When do I get to eat with Pa-Phil? And you guys?” He whined. “Soon Tom tom. Real soon.”
Tommy sighed and went in the tunnels. “Aw come on. With the silk pajamas?” Techno groaned. “What?” Tommy didn’t know why his brother was throwing a hissy fit. “The tunnels and dirty and silk is hard to clean.” Techno explained taking him out of the tunnel and handing him some of the town clothes.
“Okay. I’ll change.” Tommy changed into the village clothes and folded his pajamas and put them on the bed before crawling his way back into the tunnels. Wilbur and Techno quickly got dressed and ran to the dining room.
They got there a little bit before Phil somehow and Techno made Tommy a plate while Wilbur kept watch. “Dads coming. Hurry up!” Wilbur said. Techno finished putting eggs on the plate and grabbed one of the many syrup things, having to trust Tommy wouldn’t spill it since they didn’t have time to put it in a smaller container, and a small milk carton and rushed it to the tunnel entrance.
He quickly opened it and shoved in the food. Tommy looked startled at how quickly his brother was moving. “Try not to spill please and be as quiet as possible. We’ll get to you as soon as we can.” Techno closed up the entrance before Tommy could react.
The toddler frowned wondering why they didn’t just introduce him to his new dad already but decided he would trust his brothers and grabbed the food and went back. He sat in the room playing with his toys for a little while before Wilbur and Techno came in.
“Hey Tom tom.” Wilbur greeted. “Wilby!” Tommy dropped the toy car he was playing with and ran into his brother. “Story n’ song.” He said with puppy dog eyes. “You read my mind.” Wilbur smiled grabbing his guitar and tossing Tommy on the bed.
Techno grabbed a book and jumped in next to him. Tommy got comfortable on technos lap and Techno wrapped him in the blanket and put the book over so that he could see. “You wanna read a book on the history of hybrids?” Techno asked just looking at the book for the first time since grabbing it.
Tommy nodded excitedly and snuggled in. “Okayyyy.” Techno hummed. “Once long long ago, there lived a world of only humans. Before there were really any established civilizations and it was just villages and people who wandered.
Everyone lived peacefully. One day the first hybrid popped up. A man cursed by a witch in his youth to have phantom genes, making him strict on sleep and unable to to go out in the day, but allowing him to communicate with phantoms, got married and bore a child.
Originally, nothing was thought of this. When they first got married they figured the curse would not effect him until the child was born with piercing light green eyes that were unnatural at the time, and he kept making himself invisible.
He grew and had children who grew and had children and there was a small population of phantom hybrids arising. People were weary of them at first but since their powers were harmless, they allowed them to live amongst the normal humans and even found jobs that would put their powers to good use.
Then came along herobrine. A child cast out by the gods for bearing too much power and taken in by perhaps the devil himself. Everyone feared him for his cold white eyes and hated him because he was different.
They shunned and mocked him until he finally snapped. He found out about the phantom hybrids and decided to set his ‘children’ free to curse those who had hurt them with different mob genes of their own that their children would suffer to bear.
Things from mooblooms, to salmons, to zombies, to piglins, to endermen. Any mob you can think of, even the ender dragon herself, had a hybrid gene coursing through someones DNA. They didn’t know it at the time and it allowed the hybrid population to skyrocket seemingly overnight.
There were kids with powers and features nobody had seen before. They were different and everyone was scared and when people are scared, their fear turns to hatred and bad things happen.” Tommy interrupted the story. “Wha bad things?” He asked both nervous and curious.
“Well,” Techno looked to wilbur for help who just shrugged as if to say ‘go for it’. Techno sighed and continued. “They would try and harvest the powers at first, so that everyone would have some. When that didn’t work they’d kidnap and experiment on hybrid children and babies. If they weren’t captured they were slaughtered.
Many hybrids took refugee amongst other hybrids or people who didn’t believe in the hate that was being sent their way. The most hated were perhaps, those who were descendants of admins and herobrine. They were some of the most powerful non-animal hybrids so they were both the most sought after and the most feared.
Though if they knew how to control their powers, you were fucked.” Tommy chuckled at Technos bad language and Techno apologised and continued. “This went on for hundreds of years. Eventually mob trafficking rings came about, especially in the newly establish at the time country, 2b2t.
Hybrids lived in fear. Besides Admins and Herobrine descendants, Phoenix, Witch, Ender Dragon, Blaze, Enderman, and Piglin hybrids were sought after the most. Witches for their unmatched talent for potion making, Ender dragons for the magic that couldn’t be obtained elsewhere, Piglins for their natural ability to fight, Blaze for their fire that once lit could only be put out by them, Enderman for their teleportation that could get you anywhere, and Phoenixs for their fire and their feathers.” Tommy perked up at that, not having any feathers himself. Only fur.
“Wha‘bout feathers?” Techno sighed and settled him in closer. “Well a Phoenix's feather could-” Techno was quickly cut off by a knock at the door. “Boys are you in there?” They both froze. It was Phil.
If they stayed quiet, they’d get in trouble. If they answered he may see Tommy. Techno got an idea. “Yeah we are.” He quickly pushed tommy under the covers and covered him in stuffed animals. “Stay down, stay quiet.” Techno took his silence as a confirmation.
Phil peaked his head in. “Hey, I was wondering if you wanted to see the charts I got of all of El Rapids stars.” He knew the boys loved stars so he was really surprised when they turned him down. “Sorry dad. We were just going to have twin time, you know? Its been a routine for the past few months you were gone and it just feels weird to break the tradition.” Techno explained.
“That’s uh, that’s fine. I’ll just be in...my office if you need me.” Phil sighed and turned away closing the door. Techno went to bring Tommy up only to find him sleep and curled in on the stuffed animals. Techno chuckled and book marked where he left with Tommy before continuing to read the story himself as Wilbur played his guitar.
He could deal with Phil tomorrow. For now, they would just have brother time like they said.