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If Techno manages to make it out of this alive, he's gonna treat Ranboo to the best fucking meal that he had since moving to this god forsaken city. Maybe he'll even call Phil and Wilbur, tell them he loves them. Because when staring down the barrel of a gun, showing emotion doesn't seem so daunting anymore.
It's just his luck he got picked out from the crowd. The assembly hall of L'manburg college was packed with every student who'd been unlucky enough to attend today and out of all of them, it was Techno. B. Craft who got picked out to be the "damsel in distress."
But, well, it's not exactly like Techno blended in. From just the way he dressed he would be easy to spot in a crowd. Black clothes, platform shoes, spikey accessories. And that wasn't even mentioning the waist length, cotton candy pink hair or blood red eyes.
The villains grip on Techno's hair tightened and he winced at the array of news people below him. Gods this was embarrassing, being held captive in front of all these people. From the roof of the college he had a perfect view of all the reporters, policemen and whatever other government agency had been called in.
It was just a waiting game right now. Waiting for whatever superhero was being sent in to deal with this little problem. Techno wished they would just hurry up so he could go home.
If there was anything good to take from this, it was the fact he now had another day to work on his English essay.
The villain seemed to be getting impatient, they'd long since run out of things to say in their monologue, shuffling around awkwardly and pulling on Techno's hair. Techno hadn't bothered to learn their name, or listen to their speech. He'd been too busy wondering if he could maybe get a day off school because of this, to listen to a word they said.
As time stretched on things became increasingly awkward and slowly techno realised the villain probably wasn't going to shoot him. The rest of the students were being kept in the assembly hall by some barrier the villain conjured through whatever power they had. They were pretty close to the edge of the roof but their grip on Techno's hair was tight, but maybe if he could take them by surprise they would loosen their grip and Techno could flip them off the edge. He'd taken many self defence lessons and knew how to fight so it could work.
Technos hands that lay uselessly by his side twitched. The villain had forced him to his knees - they didn't like that even without his six inch platforms Techno was still taller - he could just reach up for the villians wrist, bend it until it snapped, sweep his leg out and let gravity to the rest.
As he was contemplating this, his eyes caught sight of a flash of blue on from one of the rooftops from the buildings across the street, it took him a few seconds to piece together that it was the archer hero 404 and by then there was already an arrow lodged in the villains shoulder. They cried out, finally releasing their grip on Technos hair as they stumbled back.
Techno stood up, grabbing the villains wrist and using the fact he was stronger to haul the villain across his shoulder and throw them off the roof.
As he stood there, high above the ground and the wind blowing through his hair, Techno felt weirdly free, although the realisation there was no way off this roof was slowly beginning to set in.
Footsteps came from behind him. He should have known - wherever 404 goes, his partners Blaze and Nightmare aren't far behind. Techno turned around to see the number one hero Nightmare standing behind him, signature green colour scheme and smiley face mask.
"Hallo," Techno greeted awkwardly.
Nightmare just ignored him, putting a hand to his ear as he began to talk into thin air. "404 make sure the villain doesn't somehow manage to escape, Blaze, those barriers should be down now, start escorting everyone out."
Techno doesn't hear a reply as Nightmare gives his team their orders. He'd heard of the legendary group of superheroes since the moment he moved to L'manburg. It was kinda hard not to when they were on every poster known to man.
"Thanks for your help, citizen," Nightmare said, almost automatically as his attention shifted to Techno who only shrugged.
"Can you get me down from here please? There's no doors or anythin' and I'd rather not break a leg jumping down."
Nightmare said nothing, just stepping closer to Techno and wrapping his arms around the pinkette waist. It was unbelievably awkward, especially with the fact Techno standing at 6'9" thanks to his platforms easily towered over the hero.
"Hold on tight," Nightmare mumbled.
There was a rush of air on Techno's face as Nightmare jumped off the roof, landing easily on the ground despite the drop being over three floors.
Deciding not to question how that worked, Techno just unlatched himself from Nightmare, stepping back, muttering a "thank you," and walking away on slightly shaky legs.
God's he hoped Ranboo wasn't watching the news, he'd rather tell his brother about this himself. Ranboo had a tendency to start teleporting everywhere when he was stressed.
As Techno found himself back in his English classroom, he took his bag and slung it over his shoulder, holding his leather jacket in his hands. Technically class should still be on, but no one seemed bothered about continuing after all that. Thank god, really. He fished his phone out of his bag, turning it on to see his lock screen overrun with notifications from Ranboo.
memory boy
Techno im watching the news rn are u ok????
Repl
Reply
Please tech I'm worried
Oh shit
Ok
I just realised why you aren't replying
That's vaif
Valid*
I'm just really worried
Don't die or smth
OH WOW
DID YOU JUST FLIP THAT GUY OFF A ROOF????
OH SHIT IS THAT NIGHTMARE
THAT'S POG
Oh wait
um techno
We should probably talk when you get home
Sighing and closing his phone again, Techno started the long walk back to his and Ranboos apartment.
This wouldn't be fun to explain to Phil.
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"You're trending." Is the first thing Ranboo says to him as he opens the door.
Stepping inside, slowly pulling off his platforms and dropping his bag to the floor, Techno just mutters a "heh?"
Walking through to the living room where his brother is stood in the middle of the room, eyes flicking between Techno and his phone screen. "Look, number one in the world,"
As Techno stood next to his brother and looked at his phone, there in all its condemning glory was the photo. Nightmare has his arms wrapped around Techno's waist, the pinkettes own hands on Nightmares shoulders, their faces were close, Techno seemingly staring at Nightmare with half lidded eyes.
Nightmares Boyfriend - #1 on trending
In a recent attack on L'manburg college, top hero Nightmare came to save the students, a picture of him with one of whom he rescued has been going viral, people claiming it's Nightmares boyfriend. No official statement regarding their relationship has been released yet.
"Ya gotta be fuckin' kidding me," Techno groans. He really does have the worst luck in the world.