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‘run,,,, run must run.’ tommy couldn’t take it anymore.

Being yelled at, crying, dream, War, Wilbur, techno , Phil, cant, hurt hurt HURT!.

He wanted death to see his mom, maybe even she doesn’t want to see him not letting him rest. Nothing made sense. Everything hurt, it even hurt to eat he couldn’t do anything without feeling in pain

The wind felt nice on his skin. It was kinda cold that morning even more cold when he left technos house at 12AM it was dark as hell he couldn’t see anything. Thank prime he had a lantern. He took anything he could that he need like armor, food, books, other things, anything he could get he even took one of the three or two now of technos capes. He was so happy he did. He was in a plains biome it was maybe 5am he had rested from time to time but he had been walking for a long time. No village, no houses, nothing. He has seen nothing for the last four or five hours He saw the sun start to rise Tommy’s eyes hurt. He hasn’t stop walk for five hours. Sure he took breaks here and there but most of the time its just walking. He thinks it’s five am he doesn’t actually know what time it. Tommy hit and put himself down for forgetting a clock One thing he doesn’t regret leaving his compass { your tubbo } and a little note

techno or whoever is reading this its big man tommy writing this. Well let me put this quick i cant take this bullshit and pain anymore. I left. Ran. Left and ran away from you and your hellhole you call the dream smp so please dont come looking for me if you find this am long gone from here so i don’t know what else to put just fuck you and your shit smp

Even though tommy wrote that maybe 5 hours ago he wishes he cussed them out more but its too late he’s maybe 6 hours away from the house by now so he hope they dont look for him and hunt him down and kill him but maybe he could change his name and look maybe he doesnt know

——- long 3 hour time skip because i cant write that long for someone just walking———-

He regrets not taking a horse. Would have made his life much easier

He hears loud noises

Talking maybe

“Huh?”

Tommy look up and saw it

A house…. A HOUSE A BIG HOUSE AND PEOPLE THEY AND CAN HELP HIM CHANGE HIM SAVE HIM

But it was maybe 100 block away ….

Shit

So he did the thing he could best

He ran to house

He ran a whole 30 blocks before he ran out of breath

He did the best he could and yelled as loud as he could for help

Thank prime they heard him but before he knew it he passed out his body couldn’t take it anymore

They he heard them

“ JAY, GAB, WE NEED HELP! “
a voice yelled they sounded so scared that was new to him
“ OH MY COD! FAIL HELP ME GET HIM TO THE HOUSE DAMNIT!”
A British accent yelled like his but better and older they all sounded way older than him
“SORRY”
the other voice that he heard first they were very concerned he was happy about that
“What happened!”
A faint voice yelled

He felt someone running and carrying him that was so new to him the lest time someone did this for him was when he was maybe 10 maybe 13 he doesn’t remember just he was so happy someone was actually doing something nice for him it all felt so new.

He heard other things like a door opening it crashed against the wall after awhile he felt a bed. Then he heard it

Weird noises coming from the people that saved him they weren’t human noises yet not hybrid noises they had nothing human about them

They sounded watery and gargled like they breathed water or something like that. It was so weird yet after he was fully passed out. He had wished he heard more of what weird noises and words they said he wanted to know what was happening.

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Tommy woke up to the bed being comfortable more comfortable then when he feel asleep. But he felt a something heavy on his side.

His eyes fluttered opened to see what freaked him the hell out.

There was a man who was asleepnest to him. He was sitting yet he was resting his head on the bed. Tommy didnt see the mans? Womans? He couldn’t see his face only its hair? Or whatever that was..

it looked like a squid thing or something its was a bright pink and its hat on his leg- Tommy’s legs. It’s its ears were pointed like a elf just weirder. Like he know how tech….. or wil.. phill…. No no not them. Likes RANBOOS pointed ears looked just they…. Theyre…. Weirder….

he wanted to know how it.. thing… him..her…what… the things hair if you can ever call it that felt. But it may wake the thing up. What if its hurts him. What if its kills him. Well the THINGS hair was in a ponytail yet there was a side thing of hair? What.

Well Curiosity killed the cat and tommy shakily touched the things what ever that replacement for hair is. It was soft and plush, even squishy yet felt NOTHING like hair or anything that was fuzzy. It was just smooth….tommy was so distracted playing with the thing hair thing he didnt even notice he woke it up.

“ [ h-hm what’s going on fail- ]“ the pink inkling gargle in the inkling language it scared the living hell out of their guest. “ AHHHHH! WHAT THE FUCK!” Tommy screamed almost hitting the pink thing. “ [ -AH! ] oh my god..” the thing started to speak language that he could understand.

“ WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU?!…. WHO ARE YOU!?” Tommy was scared out of his mind he didn’t know what the fuck that things was, at least he knows it can speak something he knows.

he heard something running for outside, and inside. Then he saw something that made him almost scream at the top of his lungs, he saw them one with yellow ‘hair’, one with purple, and one with light blue hair. Two of them hair weird circle things on their weird hair things

[“ GAB ARE YOU OK!? WHAT HAPPENED!”] the yellow one yelled with concern in his voice. [“ fail! Oh thank cod your here.] pink seemed happy to see the other creatures. Next thing tommy knew all of them surrounded him and he could do anything because he was laying down in a bed.

[“ oh my um-] sorry about all of that. Am gab, I am a.. uh..” pink- I mean gab as it calls itself seemed to hesitate on the part of it.. maybe it’s a he, his sentence. “ what are you and who are the others” they looked so weird. He knows how hybrids looks he know how phi-.. tech…. Wil… FUNDY AND PUFFY THEM. He know how they look he knows Fundy and puffy. But these thing were weird. Somehow weirder then fundy.

“ Oh they are my friends. Jay, fail, and fyrus.” Gab sounded happy saying that and he went in order so it was easier for him to know who was who. Purple was Jay, yellow was fail, and blue was fyrus, * they have some fucking weird names * Tommy thought to himself he broke out of his thought when he remembered.

“ ok cool but your dodging my question. What in XDs name are you” he needed to know. Gab looked to the others now wanted to answer that question than purp- I mean Jay look annoyed.

[“ fine I’ll answer his question..”] Jay sounded annoyed but then he look at Tommy “ we are inklings and octolings have you ever heard of that “

what the fuck was a inkling or octoling. What was a different they look different but what was what. “What the fuck is that?” Tommy needed to know. And make sure they weren’t gonna be like Phil, techno, and wilbur

“ you see me and fyrus.. yeah we are octolings. Gab and fail and inklings” Jay sounded annoyed and like he was explaining something to a baby. “ I know what your gonna say. me and fyrus are octopuses and fail and gab are squids. “

“ oh that’s really weird “ Tommy didn’t fully understand stand what was gonna on

“ rude.. anyways what’s your name we did save you and we don’t even know your name” Jay was just annoyed about the comment

“Am… am.. I am Tommy.”

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Tommy has been able to walk again.. kinda. Fyrus and Jay made him a walker to help and Gabb has been helping him walk around and been a great father figure to him, all of them have been great father figures to him theyre so nice.

Fail is so fun, He tell awesome storys from adventures he’s been on and other story’s from when he was in Inkopolis and the splatlands, all of them do.

Gabb is so kind, he does everything Philza wishes he could do, GABB IS SO MUCH COOLER AND FAIL AND JAY AND FYRUS THEY ARE SO COOL AND AWESOME !

Jay is makes him the cool gear and weapons in the world! Turns out they are inspired by these thing called “the great Octarian weapons” HES SO PO- … HES SO FRESH

Fyrus has been teaching Tommy how to speak the octoling and inkling language so he could understand all of them.

Sorry for Tommy’s long talk about about his new family

One day tommy was walking around the land were he lived when he saw something that he thought weird..
He saw something that looked like jays hair just it had eyes and a mouth with big lips. It grab something with the tip of its head and walked to somewhere and Tommy couldn’t help but follow it

After a short walk he found out the living hair thing was jays and he was shocked to say the least

“ what the fuck is that?! “ Tommy sounded scared when asked that

“Hey! One this is jr. two!.. He is part of my soon to be army.. /small army/ but still he is going to make sure nothing hurts us. He’s like my son.” He answered Tommy’s question with a slightly annoyed yet loving tone not wanting to hurt him but with his army part he said that with pride.

“ is he the only one in your army?..” Tommy wondered almost sounding like he gonna laugh

“ oh no they’re a lot more to my army. I can let you meet them “ Jay again answered Tommy’s question just this time he sounded happy wanting to show off his ‘army’
Tommy thought it was gonna have maybe 20 other octarians, he was very wrong.

Tommy couldn’t believe his eyes. He was shown a whole large room filled with maybe 100 octarinans.
“Yeah it’s a small army but maybe one day if we build on more land to live on I can make my army so much more bigger!” Jay kinda yelled that last part but non of the octarinans seemed to mind

“ how long did this take for you to get this many?” Tommy question. He know stuff about octolings and octarinans and inklings he know a lot of the history.

“It… it took me over a year..” Jay didn’t sound to proud of how much he cut his hair and his many octarinans were in there because of how long it took

“This IS SO AWESOME! “ Tommy shouting this spooked jr but nobody else. Tommy really wanted to learn more about this

——— back at around techno cabin ———-

Someone finally found the note it’s been two day. …. Shit shit SHIT phil found it just at least it wasn’t techno…

“ what the fuck is this-“ Phil cut himself off

“WHAT THE FUCK!” phil sounded in pain and in rage. He read the note and he need to tell everyone. Techno was off somewhere but ranboo heard he was weirdly nearby.

“ oh prime! Phil are you ok!? “ ranboo sounded worried. Phil was crying then ranboo saw the note and took it from Phil’s hands and read it. He was in shock

“ prime… he ran away well what do we do know.. “

“ WHAT DO YOU MEAN WHAT DO WE DO KNOW WE HAVE TO GO LOOKING FOR HIM! SURE HES NOT THE BEST BUT HES MY KID! Ranboo please tell the others he might be fucking dead! it’s all my fault.. RANBOO PLEASE TELL ME YOULL HELL ME AND TELL THE OTHERS!” Phil may not have loved Tommy as much as his other kid.

or friend nobody really knew..

“I-… sure.., phill.,. I’ll look for the other and tell them what happened ok..” ranboo sounded scared yet understanding

“THANK XD THANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOU! You don’t know how much this means to me ranboo.” Phil sounded so relieved.

“ I promise we will find him.. he can’t be that far “

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Hey.. do you may have been wondering where is hat time….. so

Hello am sorry for leaving for a long time

I’ve been busy again I’ve not only gotten distracted with schools and band but also am more into splatoon and sonic I’ve been doing fandubs in a discord sever. I promise I will try to get the next chapter out before the end of this month this is a promise am not sure I can do but I will try my hardest to not keep you waiting

Some of you maybe wonder why don’t I post as much we all know I left the fandom but when I started This I thought I would stay in the dsmp fandom but I left and haven’t found much interest in the dsmp so that’s why it’s harder for me to make chapters because now I dont really know where to go

It’s kinda hard doing some VA shit, art, band and music, and writing but I am taking a small Challenge by my own will and this is not a “ am not doing this anymore” this is just for you all to look at when i stop posting for a long time

So I am sorry for not posting this is my apology by the time I post this I will start working on the next chapter and I hope you accept my apology and understand

-hatT1m3

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-the failingfour house-

tommy had been a lot more happy recently. Being far from everyone at that hellhole has been every great for him, he felt so free. it was a fresh start for him and he was loving every second of it. They dont know about what happened, they dont have to know! They never ask about Tommy’s scars, the only time was when gab was helping him and he was worried but he knew by Tommy’s reaction he shouldn’t ask anymore.

he was walking around the plot, trying to feel normal as he could. His favorite thing to do was spend time with gab. It was weirdly calming being around him.

“Hey, why is jays hair so… long?”

tommy was so confused as he watched as jay slowly walked to the house. To tommy the reason was unknown but he really wanted to know. He looked over to gab for answers 

“oh jay needs more hair for octosnipers and octocommanders. They why his hair is so long, but they take alot of hair to make and he has to get it perfect or else he will have to restart everything.”

Tommy oh’s. He eyes slightly widen with confusion as he watched jay come out the house with what looked like a paintbrush. It hasd a fine pointed tip that could definitely kill the strongest people. he learned that from gab, he learned alot from gab. Like the great turf war, from how they started from fun games to terrifying bloodbaths than ack to fun games played by the masses. But it was all inkling history, he wanted to know Octarian history. Gab didnt know much but if tommy wanted to know more he would have to go to jay, and only jay. Fyrus didnt know much about the underground as he was born in the splatlands and he looked like an inkling so he blended in with all the other inkling in inkopolis.

They made jokes about how he was reverse Namida, he didnt know who Namida was but tommy knew that one, she’s the keyboard player for a band Called squidsquad and is now in frontroe. He didnt know much but thats all.

jay wasn’t so lucky, he was born and raised in the underground in till he escaped one day somewhere in 2015. He wanted to know what happened.

he knew it was something about wars and being a soldier, tommy could relate to that. He always saw stuff around the house and there was this small box that wasn’t allowed to be opened, it say ‘octo stuff’ and tommy always wanted to now wht it was or what jays past was. He knew thats were jay learn all this great octo weapon stuff from. But he didnt want to be rude.

“Hey gab?”

yeah tommy?”

”has jay talked about his time in the underground?

“Oh, no. But then we’ve never really talked about it.”…”why do you ask?”

”i just wanted to know.”

they had continued their quiet walk till they got back to the door of the house. That’s when he saw jay again walking back up the stairs, his hair was cut short and in a ponytail and he had alot of stuff in his arms and bag, from gun pieces to scopes and weirdly wasabi, and a bunch of blueprints and random papers.

tommy saw the perfect chance to learn, he quickly told gab that he was going to talk to jay but weirdly gab didnt say anything, but tommy brushed it off. He ran up to jay and was about to start talking but he noticed something weird.

his eyes.

They looked grey-ish. as if he was in a trance and was zoned out or on autopilot. It was like he was preparing for something. preparing for something bad.

He walked with jay till he got to his little building area. He already had the new octarians in a pen, they were rolling around and having fun. But jay, he looked determined. and scared? That was weird- jays never scared! Well he can get scared but not like this! It was like he was terrified, like he knew something he shouldn’t know. he also had these weird glasses on, hey were normal but they had a red outlining and a red dot on the left side.

one thing tommy didnt think he would find out today was jay builds weapons fast. scarily fast

he had tried to talk to jay for over 4 minutes but jay didn’t listen, only worked. It was like he was working himself to death or something. Tommy felt like he was back at his old home. back were he was ignored. back in that hellhole. Back in L’Manberg. 

Tommy was about to walk away in defeat till he heard something fall to the floor. He looked down and saw that jays glasses had fallen to the floor. The grab the glasses but he didnt give them back so quickly. He looked at the glasses carefully. he wanted to know what they were, exactly what they were. He was about to put the glasses on in till jay snatch the out of his hands.  looked up to see that jay looked scared that he almost put them on

”don’t” his voice was stern and he put the glasses back in his pocket. 

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Yeah at this point if you reading I’m sorry but this probably never getting updated💀 ive given up

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As days went by more and more Tommy watched as jay made more and more octarians but they started to die by the handful for strange unknown reasons. Tommy had watched jay almost work himself to death. It took Fail having to pull him away from his work to just act like a normal human. Or as normal as they could get. Tommy had been pushed away and told to just keep distance from jay and fail for the time being from gab but he couldn’t help it. He watched this before with Wilbur and everyone else in his life but he couldn’t let someone he care for, someone he loved drive themselves into madness. not again. He had to find out what was happening and what was wrong just to see if he could help in any way!

The problem had started to get to Fyrus too, he started acting more crazed and erratic. He kept talking about how something was going to happen. ‘He just felt it’ he said ‘something told him’ he says. Fyrus and jay were losing their minds over something bad that possibly wasn’t there. Something was driving them mad and it was freaking everyone out.

Tommy was walking around the land again but then he saw jay under a tree, alone. Just sitting there zone out like he had just seen something or been through some bad. Tommy started to walk around to jay, wanting to find out what was wrong. In till he heard a caw, like a crow. He looked up and at roof of the house was a crow just staring at him. It was creepy. It reminded him of philza. It creeped him out. But not long after did that some crow fly away. Tommy prayed to any god out there it was just some random crow and not affiliated with philza in anyway. That wouldn’t end well.

Tommy finally walked up to jay. His eyes glossed over. He looked almost dead

“Uh.. jay?” Tommy sounded worried yet a little weirded out

“[HUH WHA—-] OH! Oh tommy—“ jay sounded and looked so scared in till he realized it was just Tommy. Laughing and trying to calm himself down.

“Oh boy. Um haven’t talked to you in a while.. what’s up?” He tried to act so calm and chill like he normally would but jay just couldn’t keep himself that calm. He still had a hint of panic in his eyes. He always did since he started over working himself.
Jay started to relax more as tommy sat down. But he had this vibe of protection, like he was trying to keep tommy away from any danger. He always was protective of tommy, all of them were. But recently all of them have had never let their guard down. It’s too the point were gabs and fail were basically taking shifts of keeping watch over him 24/7. It was starting to scare him.

“Jay. Can I ask you a question. Just something simple.” Tommy sounded worried but his tone was as calm as one could be in this situation. He wished he never be this stressed again but here he was. He looked at jay with worry and fear behind his eyes.

“Sure go ahead” jay smiled

“Whats going on. Why are you and everyone else so stressed. Please tell me” tommy looked so stressed and sad. The little demon was making jay feel so bad for hiding what was happening, he knew he made a promise to not tell tommy but he couldn’t leave the little dude (that wasn’t even little) in the dark anymore. But all tommy wanted was answer. Just something he hope for something good but he knew by the way everyone was acting that was nothing but a fantasy. With the way his life has gone and the world he lives in there is no way he will get a good answer

“Youre in danger.” Jay answer sincerely.

But that didnt really answer Tommy’s question . If anything it left him more worried more confused and even concerned. But not for his well being no. But for the failing fours. For jay, fyrus, fails, gabs life. He was worried that if he was in danger his family was in grave danger for even being near him.

“What do you mean in ‘danger’ that doesnt really answer my question.” Tommy was slightly annoyed. He was really annoyed but he didnt wanted to kick someone while their down he knows how that felt. “Tommy listen to me.” Jay finally turned to look at him in the eyes

“You are in danger.”

”Grave danger.”

jay grabbed tommy by the shoulders and held him. His hold was firm and a little painful but its nothing compared to his past

“Someone or a a group of people are after you. Me and fyrus just have this feeling but there are people looking for you. We feel this bad. We aren’t fully sure but we just feel it. I feel— no i know something bad going to happen” jays voice was stern as he talked. Stern and serious.

”Tommy. I need to ask you this and answer it truthfully.”

jay stared into Tommy’s eyes. The octoling’s serious glare meeting the demons terrified eyes.

”tell me. Why did you run away.”

shocked tommy they knew he ran away they didnt know his past! It was scarying that jay just knew he had a messed up past. Sure he showed signs and all but he was getting close to the actual story

“How do you!—“

Jay cut him off

”trust me it was obvious from the start. Now tell. Why did you run away”

jays stare was deadly. If looks could kill tommy would have been a unrecognizable mess.

with having to say everything came flooding back. L’manburg, the war, the whole vote thing, exile, tubbo, ranboo, philza, techno, Wilbur and every other version of him dream!

GOD IT WAS A NIGHT MARE JUST TO REMEMBER. ALL HE WANTED WAS TOO FORGET WAS THAT JUST TOO MUCH TO ASK!!

tommy hadn’t realized he started to cry. Tears streamed down his face and he was being held by jay. It was so comforting yet he was so stuff in this shellshocked state he just couldn’t talk. It was a nightmare.

“I-i.. they wanted me dead. I ran from my home because I wasn’t wanted..i was wanted dead and i— i didnt wanted to die” Tommy’s voice was shaky and he was doing his best not to start crying but all he could remember was his ram best friend, tubbo.he missed tubbo so much. Yet he knew that there friend wasn’t going to last long. So he had to leave him too. Even with the few people he loved and still missed. It was for his own good he left. “I’m sorry.. WHAT!?” 

jays grip on tommy became a lot tighter as he just found out a whole group of people wanted this little teenage boy dead! they wanted a whole kid DEAD! sure jay wasn’t the biggest fan of kids— (mainly demon kids) but he could never actually wish death on one!

jays yell of just disbelief ended up alerting the other four. Tommy was more or less dying inside as he would need to open up and be vulnerable and lord know he doesnt want to do that. But maybe he could trust them.

Just maybe