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Exiled. A six-letter word. Six letters that were about to completely break Ranboos feeling of safety. Of loyalty. When it had happened to Tommy, Ranboo knew it was unfair. He knew that Tubbo needed to stand up to Dream, that they couldn’t just be pushed around by another kingdom. But Tommy was exiled. And Ranboo was going to fix that.
He had a simple plan, wrote it down so that he wouldnt forget. Ranboo was going to find where Tommy was exiled and sneak him back into L’manburg. It honestly couldnt be that hard seeing how horrible the countries security was. Ranboo was 95% certain he had seen Techno, the literal war criminal, walking around the main square of the city at night.
Ranboo, of course, hadnt said anything about that. That was not an enemy he wanted to make.
But his plan wasnt secret for long. Quackity was nosy, pushy. Wanted to see what Ranboo was writing as he took notes on the cabinet meeting.
The cabinet meeting was boring that day, just talk of making a park around the L’mantree. Ranboo couldnt help but start writing in his other note book, jotting down ideas he had of where he could hide Tommy since there was a giant map of L’manburg on the table in front of him.
Ranboo wasnt paying enough attention, getting snapped out of his thoughts by Quackity huffing something about ‘just seeing for himself then’ and snatching the notebook out of Ranboos hands.
And all hell seemed to break loose.
Quackity’s eyes widened, Ranboo jumped up to try and take the notebook back but it was too late as the other read out what Ranboo had been writing. Everything was moving too fast, ‘traitor-’ ‘treason-’ ‘hiding-’, it was so much- so fucking much.
Ranboo couldnt say anything, there wasnt anything he could say to save this even if he was able to speak. Quackity seemed furious, Fundy was as well, and god Ranboo couldnt even look at Tubbos betrayed face for more than a couple seconds.
He barely heard Tubbo tell him to ‘stay in the van’ over the pounding of his heart, the three walking out of the camarvan and out to the fountain to talk. His head rested on the cool stone table infront of him.
He had fucked up. He had fucked up so fucking bad.
He saw Niki outside of the window. She gave a hesitant smile. A smile like when he had accidentally broke her door. A smile like when tommy had stolen her entire supply of cobble stone to build an ugly tower right outside of L’manburg. A smile like when Schlatt had come to her house to collect taxes from only her.
Ranboo knew he was done for.