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fucking misfits

Summary:

Superheroes-in-training Tommy, Tubbo, and Ranboo are mentored by the popular superhero group, the Dream Team. But being a hero takes more than having flashing powers and cool outfits, and sometimes the good guys get hurt.

or, a superhero au told primarily through emails, group chats, and social media.

Chapter 1: there ain't no looking back now

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SMP Craigslist Help Wanted

August 11th 11:32 PM

 

Subject Line: Looking For Third Member of Team

 

HI! My name is Tubbo aka Metamorph and I am a fourth year at Esempi Acadmy anf I accidentally fuxked up. You see me and my best friend Tommy accudentally applied to the Esempi superhero menyorshio program as a trio indyead of a duo and so we need another stufeny, prefrendably 16 or 17, wjo is willing to be part of out team. I dunno if iys too laye to apply to the thing bt yoi should email the person ajywya. 

 

If yu habe any auestions uou can reach me at [email protected]  

 

Sincererwly,

Metamorph

 

 


 

 

from: [email protected]

 

to: [email protected]

3:12 AM 

 

Subject Line: Craigslist Help Wanted 

 

Hi.

 

Do you still need another member for your group? I already applied for the Mentorship Program but I was advised to find a group instead of being solo. I’m also a fourth year and the top of my class at the academy. I can’t say I’m a team player and I’ve been told I need to assert myself more, and I have a terrible memory. But I’ve been told I have “great potential” when it comes to my powers. 

 

Let me know your decision as soon as possible.

 

Sincerely,

 

Ranboo Beloved

alias Ender Eyes 

 

 


 

 

from: [email protected]  

 

to: [email protected]  

7:22 PM 

 

RE: Craigslist Help Wanted 

 

you’re in, heres my number 

 

xxx-xxx-7638

 

Tubbo

 

 


 

 

from: [email protected]

 

to: [email protected]

7:30 PM

 

RE:RE: Craigslist Help Wanted 

 

Dear Tubbo, 

 

What the fuck?

 

Sincerely, 

 

Ranboo Beloved 

alias Ender Eyes

 


 

 

from: [email protected]

 

to: [email protected]

8:11 AM

 

Subject Line: Esempi Superhero Mentorship Program 

[four attached files]

 

Dear Mr. Theseus Danger Innit-Minecraft,

 

I am writing because you applied to be part of the Esempi Academy's superhero mentorship program. I have reviewed your application and am pleased to let you know that you have been accepted as part of section C for this year! You and the two other members of your team, The Bench Trio, will be placed under the mentorship of the Dream Team. 

 

Your personal mentor will be George NotFound, codename 404. Additional information will be found in the attached file, along with the program contract and liability form. 

 

You will be receiving additional emails about your housing placement and meal plans. If you have any questions, please email me as soon as possible. Congratulations and welcome to the program. 

 

Sincerely, 

Husani Mubarak

Assistant Director of Programming 

Esempi Academy

 

 


 

 

Family GC

[9:18 AM] 

 

Tom: [attached file]

 

Eldest: Oh.

 

Tom: can you at least pretend to be happy for me?

 

Dadza: congrats, Tommy, Wilbur would have been proud of you

 

Eldest: Would he, Phil? 

 

Tom: nvm i'm going to tubbo's 

 

Tom: you guys suck

 

 




New Group

[3:36 PM]

 

DreamWasTaken created a new group!

 

DreamWasTaken changed the name to Academy Mentorship GC

 

DreamWasTaken added five new members!

 

Sapnap: Thats a dumb name

 

DreamWasTaken changed their name to Dream!

 

Dream: you’re a dumb name 

 

Tubbo_Underscore: Wat is going on

 

Tubbo_Underscore: *what

 

Theseus Innit: oH GROUP CHAT?? GROHP CHAT?? ARE HAVING A GROUPCHAT???

 

Theseus Innit: I LOVE GEOUP CHATS

 

Dream removed Theseus Innit from Academy Mentorship GC!

 

Ranboo Beloved: :o

 

Dream: anyway

 

Dream: welcome to the official team group chat! :) This is where we’re going to send you three important pieces of information, like training schedules, academy news, and patrols.

 

Sapnap: so we’re just going to skip over you kicking someone out?

 

Sapnap: alright cool

 

Tubbo_Underscore: WAIT THAT WAS TOMMY WHYD YOU DO THAT????

 

Sapnap: isnt tommy george’s mentee?

 

Dream: yes :)

 

Ranboo Beloved: There’s something threatening about that smiley face.

 

Dream: :) :) :) 

 

George NotFound: wait what

 

Sapnap: dream just kicked your mentee out of the gc nbd

 

George NotFound: Bring him back wtf

 

Dream added Theseus Innit!

 

Sapnap: simp lmao

 

Dream: stfu

 

Theseus Innit: OH YOU KICK TOMMY OUT THE GC? YOU KICK TOMMY? OH JAIL! JAIL FOR DREAM WASTAKEN!! JAIL FOR A THOUSAND YEARS

 

Sapnap: nvm kick him out again

 

Tubbo_Underscore: TOMMY 

 

Theseus Innit: BIG MAN HOW ARE YOU 

 

Tubbo_Underscore changed their name to Tubbo!

 

Tubbo: I AM GOOD HOWRE YOY

 

Theseus Innit: NOT BAD MYSELF BIG MAN

 

Ranboo Beloved: Aren’t you two sitting next to each other?

 

Ranboo Beloved: We're all literally in the dorm room together.

 

Theseus Innit: MMMAYBE

 

Theseus Innit changed their name to TOMMY!

 

Dream: i can already feel the headaches 

 

Dream: this was a mistake 

 

TOMMY: YOUY FACE IS A MASKATE

 

TOMMY: MISTAKE 

 

Dream: George control your child

 

George NotFound: No 

 

TOMMY: I AM NOT A CHILD 

 

Ranboo Beloved: aren’t you technically the youngest? 

 

TOMMY: ....

 

TOMMY: i will murder you while you sleep, count your days, spaghetti man, they are numbered 

 

Dream: oKAY THIS IS NOT WHAT I WANTED 

 

Dream: LETS TAKE LIKE TEN STEPS BACK AND START OVER 

 

Ranboo Beloved: SO WE’RE JUST BRUSHING PAST TEH FACT THAT TOMMY THREATENED TO MURDER ME???

 

Tubbo: yes :D

 

Ranboo Beloved: :worried: :worried:

 

Dream: like I said, this is the official group chat for Section C of this year's mentorship program at the Esempi Academy, a.k.a us 

 

Dream: You shouldve already recieved an email with all our contact information but I figured it'd be better to introduce ourselves before the orientation trip

 

George NotFound: there's an orientation trip? 

 

Sapnap: dude they literally made us spend ten hours preparing for the trip on Sunday

 

George NotFound: bold of you to assume i paid any attention 

 

Sapnap: nOT EVEN TO THE CPR TRAIJING???×*@*

 

George NotFound: nope 

 

Ranboo Beloved: :worried: :worried: :worried: 

 

Tubbo: DONT WORRU RANBOO I KNOW XPR

 

Tubbo: CRP

 

Tubbo: CPR

 

Ranboo Beloved: :worried: :worried: :worried: :worried: 

 

TOMMY: WHO NEEDS CPR ANYWAY WHEN YOU HAVE MAD SKILLZ

 

Ranboo Beloved: :worried: :worried: :worried: :worried: :worried: :worried:

 

Dream: ignoring the worryingly lack of medical knowledge in this group

 

Dream: lets introduce ourselves :)

 

Dream: I'll go first! my name's Dream, he/him, a graduate of the academy and the leader of the Dream Team. I'm mentoring Ranboo for this year but you’re all free to come to me with any questions

 

Tubbo: wow ur name is dream and your superhor group is the dream team :/

 

Tubbo: seems kinda selfish to me :///

 

Dream: i

 

TOMMY: SO TRUE TUBBSTER

 

Dream: stfu Tommy your superhero name is literally your last name 

 

TOMMY: >:0

 

TOMMY: YOU BITCH 

 

Sapnap: L lmao 

 

Dream: okay ‘innitboy’

 

TOMMY: ITS INNIT MAN ACTUALLY 

 

Ranboo Beloved: this is turning out great :thumbsup: 

 

Ranboo Beloved changed their name to Ranboo!

 

Ranboo: My name is Ranboo! I use, uh, he/they I think and I'm 17! I'm kinda excited for this. :)

 

TOMMY: My name is TOMMY! DOn’t CALL ME THESEUS OR I’LL KICK UR ASS

 

Sapnap: this is your mentee george 

 

George NotFound: i know. 

 

Sapnap: just wanted to remind you 

 

Tubbo: hi i’m tubbo :D i also use he/him and im super excite d to finally be suprerhero !

 

Sapnap: technically you’re just a superhero in training, you don’t officially get registered until after the final examination 

 

Tubbo: D: 

 

Tubbo: but we had to take exsams just to get into thid program D:

 

Sapnap: L lmao 

 

Sapnap: I'm sapnap btw, i use he/him, i'm mentoring tubbo, and im the best member of the dteam >:)

 

George NotFound: lying is a sin, sapnap

 

Sapnap: shut the fuck up you crooked tooth idiot

 

George NotFound: yOU SHUT THE FUCK UP MR. I EAT SPAGHETTI WITH A SPOON

 

Sapnap: IT WAS ONE TIME I RAN OUT OF FORKS

 

George NotFound: IT WAS AT AN ITALIAN RESTAURANT 

 

Sapnap: F UCK YOU

 

Tubbo: :O the girls are figjting!

 

TOMMY: DID SOMEONE SAY GIRLS 

 

Dream: I genuinely thought we'd have a week before this gc turned into a mess 

 

Ranboo: It's better to ruin our expectations early. :) The inevitable disappointment will hurt a lot less.

 

Dream: ,,,,

 

Dream: thanks Ranboo 






Dream And His Two Bitches

[4:33 PM] 

 

Dre: stop fighting in the other gc we have a reputation to uphold!

 

Dre: also who keeps changing the gc name??

 

Gogs: sapnap 

 

Captain Sexy: george

 

Gogs: HA I SAID IT FIRST

 

Captain Sexy: YOU TRICK ASS BITCH

 

Gogs: GO FUCK YOURSELF

 

Captain Sexy: ILL FUCK YOUR MOM FIRST

 

Dre: literally wtf

 

Gogs: also im p sure only the academy cares about our "reputation"

 

Gogs: i don't think a bunch of kids would care if we banter a bit 

 

Dre: yeah but this is our first group we're mentoring and i want to be a good influence :(

 

Captain Sexy: look what you did, you made dad sad!

 

Gogs: NO I DIDNT

 

Dre: dad???

 

Captain Sexy changed Dre to Dad!

 

Gogs changed Dad to daddy

 

daddy changed their name to Dream!

 

Dream: what is WRONG with you??

 

Gogs changed Dream to dad!

 

Captain Sexy: that was literally my idea in the first place wtf?

 

dad: do i not have a choice in this?

 

Gogs: no

 

Captain Sexy: no 

 

Gogs: btw whens the orientation trip for all the mentoring groups?

 

dad: friday 

 

dad: classes are cancelled so we get to spend all day getting to know our mentees 

 

Captain Sexy: did you really not pay attention to anything?

 

Gogs: i must've spaced out, i spent the night before working on a new update for our comms and barely got any sleep 

 

dad: you need to sleep more, its starting to affect your waking self :worried:

 

Captain Sexy: why don't we just use the academy's comms? they give us free tech for a reason

 

Gogs: they all suck, sap, its too faulty when the weather is bad and the transmission doesn't reach when we're farther than 15 feet apart 

 

Gogs: also i'm fine, i finished it

 

Gogs: ive been sleeping more

 

dad: dont overwork yourself george

 

dad: ik we joke about you being our tech guy but seriously, you need to be more careful, it could cost our team 

 

Captain Sexy: thats Dream Speech for "i dont want you to get hurt cause im madly in love with you" 

 

dad: i will punch you in the throat 

 

Gogs: im fine dw

 

Gogs: anyway, what do you think of our new mentees? 

 

Gogs: what were their superhero group names again? bench trio?

 

Captain Sexy: sumthing dumb like that

 

Gogs: considering we're named "The Dream Team" we have no room to talk

 

dad: hey!! :anguished: :anguished:

 

Captain Sexy: the sapnap team would've been better

 

dad: it really would not have 

 

Captain Sexy: >:(

 

Gogs: tommy feels like a handful tbh

 

Gogs: not exactly sure what his powers are, it just says on the information sheet "discs and slight levitation" 

 

dad: he's probably still developing his powers, he's only 16

 

Captain Sexy: i got all my powers at 16

 

dad: thats because you're a blaze hybrid, dumbass, you had all your powers when you werw born

 

dad: *were 

 

Gogs: you think thats why i was paired with tommy? cause we're both human?

 

Captain Sexy: idk, i got tubbo and he's a human 

 

Gogs: yea but he's a shapshifter so i think that kinda counts

 

dad: p sure the academy just randomly chose for us lol

 

dad: also we're the only trios so far in the program so it makes sense that we're grouped together 

 

Captain Sexy: is ranboo a hybrid? 

 

dad: uh yeah but im not a hybrid so that theory doesn't really work

 

Gogs: i mean technically you're not human 

 

dad: uh

 

dad: i guess yeah 

 

Captain Sexy: serious talk for a second: do you really think we can do this? 

 

Captain Sexy: i mean we're still relatively new to crime fighting and it wasnt that long ago that we were in the academy too 

 

Captain Sexy: what if we fuck up?

 

dad: we won't fuck up. there's absolutely no one i trust more than the two of you, and the academy trusts me. they wouldn’t let us do this if we weren’t ready

 

dad: as long as we communicate and remember whats important, we'll be fine 

 

Captain Sexy: ig you're right

 

Gogs: yeah

 

Captain Sexy: it's a lot of responsibility tho

 

dad: I believe in you, Sapnap, you got this

 

Captain Sexy: aww thanks Dad

 

dad: your actual father is frothing at the mouth rn

 

Gogs: Bad doesn't froth, there's no way

 

dad: he's literally a demon, there's no way he doesn't froth

 

Captain Sexy: can we stop talking about my dad and frothing? :/

 

Gogs: can you stop being a bitch?

 

Gogs: lmao bitchnap

 

Gogs changed Captain Sexy to bitchnap!

 

bitchnap: my fist would look really good slammed into your face rn

 

Gogs: try me

 

dad: at least wait until training practice tomorrow

 

Gogs: can't wait for when i finally move in with you two losers so that i can punch sapnap whenever i want

 

bitchnap: i will strangle you while you sleep

 

dad : kinky

 




Boo & Drem

[6:23 PM] 

 

Drem: do you need me to bring anything? dad just dropped off some dinner for sapnap and me and its endermen-hybrid friendly!

 

Boo: Nah, I don't want Tommy and Tubbo to question where all the food came from in our shared mini fridge. Also I think they want to eat dinner together.

 

Drem: are you ever going to tell them?

 

Boo: What? That I'm an half-endermen half-???? hybrid? Or that we know each other even outside the academy?

 

Drem: i was gonna say the fact that you're allergic to 15 different things but those two works

 

Boo: I don't know, maybe. We're all still new as a team and I don't entirely trust them. 

 

Boo: Tommy and Tubbo have already known each other since forever, I'm the outlier.

 

Drem: its just the first day, I'm sure you'll all be good friends 

 

Boo: Just because you were able to find two friends that would die for you doesn't mean everyone else can.

 

Drem: I don't really want them to die for me but

 

Drem: you're a wonderful fucking kid, Ranboo, and one day everyone is going to know that

 

Drem: and you'll be able to find your own group of friends who will sing your praises, trust me

 

Boo: If you say so....

 

Drem: trust me

 

Boo: I do. 

 

Drem: anyway, do you need me to bring you anything else? 

 

Drem: I can't really help if you start sleepwalking again but if you need me, call me 

 

Drem: your number always go through, so don't be scared if you think i'm busy, you're my first priority 

 

Boo: Thanks, Dream.

 

Boo: I think I'll be fine, you don’t have to worry.

 

Drem: i'll never stop worrying. you still have the spare key to my old apartment, right? i'm still paying the lease so dont worry about anyone coming in, if you ever feel unsafe, go home and lock the door, and text me

 

Boo: Yes mother.

 

Drem: dont be mean, i get worried!

 

Boo: Yeah, I know.

 

Boo: Hey Dream?

 

Drem: yeah? 

 

Boo: Nvm.

 

Drem: are you sure? you can tell me anything, you know 

 

Boo: well, it's just that

 

Boo: are you ever going to tell your friends about me? 

 

Drem: tell them what, that i technically kidnapped a random hybrid and made them my pseudo-brother? or that i bribed the academy to get said random hybrid as my mentee? 

 

Boo: "kidnapped" implies that I had a place to go back to.

 

Boo: I have no memories prior to you finding me and bringing me home.

 

Drem: true. i probably will tell them but now is too soon

 

Drem: i have to go, sapnap wants me to watch a movie with him

 

Boo: Have fun :)

 

Drem: get to know tommy and tubbo, make friends. get out of your comfort zone a little 

 

Boo: but I like my comfort zone :(

 

Drem: go make friends, Ranboo

 

Drem: I'll text you tomorrow 

 

 


 

 

Wilby & Tommy

[1:11 AM]

 

Tommy: sorry i couldnt text you earlier, i had to move into a new dorm at the academy 

 

Tommy: its for all the new mentees in the program, theres 24 of us total i think. our first day of the program is tomorrow and i’m too excited to sleep! 

 

Tommy: idk why i’m explaining this, you were in the program back then too 

 

Tommy: tubbo and i have a new teammate! his name is ranboo and he’s freakishly tall, it’s creepy. I think taller than you. He’s a bit weird but not in a bad way. tubbo really likes him for some reason. but then again tubbo likes everyone so that doesn’t count. 

 

Tommy: we’re being mentored by dream! remember dream? he used to babysit me when you were in class, i dont think he remembers me tho. he’s not my mentor, some dude named george is, but i think things might turn out okay

 

Tommy: i’m one step closer to becoming an official superhero now. would you have been proud of me? 

 

Tommy: ah fuck fuck fucking shit fuck

 

Tommy: fuck you wilbur

 

Tommy: i wish youd fucking answer me for once

 

[1:42 AM]

 

Tommy: i still miss you and i hate it 

 

Tommy: gn wilby