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Tommy’s life as a hero has been amazing. He became friends with the heroes he used to idolize. And he’s only 16!! But the others don’t need to know that of course (he’s listed as 18, he might be a hero but that doesn’t mean he never occasionally breaks laws). How did a 16 year old become a hero, let alone #4, you may be wondering?
He has a very strong power, telekinesis. That’s why his hero name is Poltergeist. He doesn’t have a tragic backstory, unlike the heroes Tubbo and Purpled. Those aren’t actually their hero names (thank god- well except Purpled. Why tf did he name himself that.) He just wanted to become a hero because it paid well and he wants to save people. He also wants to try to catch the Syndicate, thats another reason he wanted to be a hero. A while ago, Tommy’s best friend, Ranboo, got caught in between a crossfire with the Syndicate.
There hasn’t been a day that goes by without Tommy thinking of him.
Moving from the mildly sad backstory, you may also be wondering ‘Oh his parents must be proud of him!’ Fuck, I wish so! I was adopted from a young age. And I was adopted into a family that didn’t have a mother. It was a family of 3, Phil, and the two twins, Techno and Wilbur. Them also being adopted. They aren’t actually blood twins but when Phil got then, they apparently shared a birthday.
Anyways, all of us were inseparable. At least, thats what Tommy thought. About 2-3 years ago they started to leave the house more, and leave Tommy behind. Sometimes it would just be a few hours, sometimes even days. But they always made sure to tell Tommy and left the necessities there. They cared about him. But not enough to take him with them.
He’s asked “Where are you guys going?”
They never tell the truth. “Oh I’m going to a friend” “Oh I’m going on a business trip” “I have a concert to go to.”
He just wishes that they would be truthful to him.
Okay! That’s enough of that! The upside to it all is that he doesn’t regret being a hero. The tower is so so nice to him. Nicer than his family will ever be. They care for him, make sure that he eats while he’s filling out papers, make sure that he gets enough sleep, doesn’t over work himself, and he’s made amazing friends. Such as Tubbo, Purpled, Puffy, Sam, and Dream. He hangs out with them even outside of work.
He also makes a great team with Tubbo.
You see, Tubbo can create bombs with any object. That creates a lot of property damage. So I help minimize it by holding the buildings up and not letting them crumble to the ground. I can also shove bombs closer to the villains if needed.
Honestly it’s a shock that in all the time that heroes have existed, only 4 civilians have gotten killed and 1 villain got so injured that they couldn’t walk for months. And only a few villains have died! Of course, the heros mourn for the civilians that past and gave their condolences to their family. And the heroes tower has been around for what? 25 years? Actually then again, a lot of healers are on stand by.
You know, he never got the chance to tell his family he had powers. Sure him and Wilbur would always talk on hours on end, they would have movie night, Techno would teach him how to fight. But he never showed them his powers…he thinks. He should probably tell them, but what if they connect it to him being a hero? Actually, why hasn’t he told them he’s a hero? Would they stay longer? Actually he’s heard Wilbur talk about how he doesn’t like heroes. They might drive them away quicker-
O-kay I’m starting to spiral. Uh deep breathes. In and out.
…
Yeah I’m fine. What was I going to talk about? Oh yeah, he has the night shift. He fucking hates night shifts. Yeah yeah, he gets to save people. But there's so much petty crime! Like bro, cmon. Too much. L’manburg’s crime rate is high .
He finishes the last of his paper work (Really? A 16 year old doing paper works that adults do? Prime, he never thought his life would come to be like this). He then writes a quick little entry into his diary.
Yeah yeah, he’s 16 and keeping a diary, sue him! It helps to rant into a book sometimes! And he says goodbye to his coworkers before heading out, they had the afternoon shift. So he’s switching in with them.
“I’ll see you later, Tubs” he said while walking to the elevator.
Tubbo looks up at him after folding his suit and taking off his steam goggles, and waves enthusiastically at him. “Bye big man! Don’t get killed!”
“You prick! You think I, Tommy, will get killed by some lowly villains? You underestimate me big T!” He yells, putting what he would imagine a royal accent to sound like. He walks into the elevator and heads to the ground floor. Well, not without Purpled yelling a quick “I hope you fall off a building and die.” Ah, he and Tommy have just the best relationship.
While walking, he sees the Captain 一 Puffy 一 clocking out of her shift. He waves and she waves back. Can’t believe he’s friends with his childhood favorite hero. What has his life come to?
He readjust his ‘suit’. (author: his get up is like spider-man ps5 game ‘negative suit’) He has a whitish black hoodie, with black khaki pants with the pockets filled with everything he needs. He has red fingerless cloves and it’s outlined in black, and he has a mask that covers the lower half of his face and covers his eyes. Although theres tinted glass that cover them, it’s weird. He can see perfectly fine out of them, actually better than normal and nobody can see his eyes.
Sam is very very unique. Anyways, he leaves the tower and pushes himself up onto the roofs. Nothing big happens, he stops a few petty crimes, helps some people who seemed lost, stopped a bank robbery (happens more often than you think), all that good stuff. That’s until he hears a set of 3 footsteps coming in close to him.
He swirls around quickly, almost giving himself whiplash. And he’s met with the 3 big bad guys. The Syndicate.
“Well, well, well, look what the cat dragged in.” Narrator teased. And Tommy tensed.
Narrator has his hands in his trench coat, to his right is Beelzebub and Ichor. From what Tommy knows is that Narrator has a siren like voice, Ichor can blood bend, and Beelzebub has razor sharp wings. It reminds him of Phil’s wings but Phil’s are more softer.
“What do you want? Are you planning to hurt more civilians? Because I’m not letting that happen.” Tommy gritted out. This is the 3rd time he’s ever seen them. Last two times he escaped with a broken wrist and ankle. He’s usually with someone else and they engage into fighting. Then Tommy gets hurt in the crossfire. It’s a real bitch.
Narrator shifts his weight, “No, no not for tonight. We just want to know where you’ve kept something. And we really want it.” Yeah right, no matter what it is, the Syndicate aren’t getting it.
Beelzebub takes a step forward, Tommy takes a step back. “Poltergeist was it? Do you know what a totem of undying is?”
A what.
Beelzebub studies him, almost like he can see his eyes. But that shouldn’t be possible. Tommy feels very exposed right now. “Hm, by the look of it, it seems like you don’t. Narrator could you ask him?”
Narrator just crosses his arms, all while Ichor looks bored out of his mind. Yeah Tommy wishes he felt like that. “Yeah yeah, no need to ask me old man.”
“ Do you know what a totem of undying is? ” He asked with his voice coated in sickly sweet honey.
“No I have no fucking clue what you’re talking about!” Tommy yells. You know..he didn’t have to follow that command…
Narrator looks over to Beelzebub, “Well, his body language was telling the truth”
“Can we kill him now? Although the voices aren’t asking for blood一which is strange一But I’m the one asking for blood.” Ichor asks, like it’s an everyday occurrence. And it probably is!
“I’m right here you know!”
He goes ignored.
“Couldn’t we just capture him? Use him as bait to get Captain? The number 1 hero? She probably knows.” Narrator asks.
Beelzebub thinks about it for a moment, “Yeah we could use it as leverage.”
Oh no no no they are not doing that. “You guys一” he runs towards them “一are not fucking doing that.” And grabs his staff, he then launches himself into the air and forced himself to fall quicker so he deals more damage to these guys.
Then he remembers, These are the fuckers who killed Ranboo .
Ichor uses his sword to block the attack swiftly. Tommy launches himself back and brings out small一centimeter big一powerful bombs. Thank prime for Tubbo. He throws them and keeps them suspended in the air. Now if any of them walk where the bombs are suspended, it’s like walking through a land of mine fields.
Quickly realizing that he’ll have to do long distance attacks than short distance attacks he brings out some throwing stars. Beelzebub starts to slowly walk towards him, “Ah looks like the little ghost is deciding to fight back. You can try, but it’s not going to work-” The bombs go off and Tommy can’t help but smile. He minimizes the property damage too.
He knew it wouldn’t work, after the smoke cleared Beelzebub only has some singe marks. But Narrator on the other hand…he had a gash. Narrator had grunted and Beelzebub turned around to see him wounded and Ichor wrapping it up with fabric. Tommy took this chance and threw 3 stars at him.
He made them spin faster and aim for Beelzebub’s neck. Beelzebub turned around, fury radiating from him. He protected himself with his wings, and the stars just bounced off them. Luckily they didn’t break though.
“Well, I was originally going to play easy. You seemed young. But you’ve pissed me off. And you don’t piss off one of the top villains.” Beelzebub finishes the sentence with a dash, Tommy barely blocking the attack that Beelzebub made with his suddenly unsheathed sword.
The thing is, Tommy wasn’t originally going to play nice either.
He uses his ability to grab Beelzebub by the throat and lifted him up. Beelzebub tries throws his sword at Tommy, and Tommy caught it mid-air. He then tries to use his sharp feathers and throw them. And they were suspended too. Until one was aimed to ricochet off of one of the suspended feathers and grazed his arm.
Right as he flinches and falls from the sudden pain, all things suspended in the air were let go. And Ichor was right in front of him, sword held high. Tommy quickly rolls away, and Ichor changes his direction. Tommy stops the sword from crashing down on him, he then hears a cough and bounces up remembering about the other two. Ichor goes to punch and kick at him, he blocks it. Although it hurt like a bitch.
He can hear steps behind him and it’s Beelzebub. He swings his sword on it’s side. The sword digs deep before Tommy jumps up and keeps himself suspended in the air, but this is Beelzebub’s territory. And Beelzebub quickly flies up and attacks. Tommy maneuvers out of the way before landing again. He hasn’t flown much with his powers, and why does his side hurt so much-
“Stop fighting, Poltergeist”
…
Nothing happens.
One of the pros of having telekinesis is that sometimes it lets him get away from mind games. Mind controlling, hypnosis, all that good stuff.
Tommy throws a small bomb at Ichor and he shields himself so when it explodes, it doesn’t hurt him. It explodes and Ichor is pushed back. Marks litter his arms.
Beelzebub flies down and his sword clashes with Tommy’s staff. Tommy did notice him, so he lessened the impact Beelzebub was about to do to him. “Why isn’t it working, Narrator?” Beelzebub grunts out. “I don’t know!” He yells back.
Ichor just sighs and Tommy starts to feel his blood be pulled from his side. No thank you very much, he would actually like it if he kept his blood in his body.
Tommy uses his powers to try and keep his blood in place, but his ability wasn’t meant for that. Ichor’s was though. So it’s not very effective.
He might bleed out here.
He’s overused his powers, and he’s loosing blood. He would retreat and say it’s a tactical retreat but no. No he can’t let them go.
They killed Ranboo.
They killed Ranboo.
That gets him riled up. Ranboo was the nicest person to ever exist. He didn’t deserve what happened to him.
He’s done. He’s tired. He wants these villains to feel the same pain as Ranboo felt. And now he’s getting his morals messed up, and he doesn’t even know it.
He uses the strength he has left and tighten the pressure around their throats. All of them choaking to death. Narrator claws at his throat while Ichor and Beelzebub are calm. They know they have a time limit now. And they act fast and efficiently. Ichor pulling at Tommy’s blood and both of them striking Tommy, each attack coordinated. Tommy’s running out of breath. But he can’t loose now.
He presses a button that calls in backup. If Tommy is the one that needs help, then strong heroes will be coming. All of the heroes are very protective of him.
Tommy lifts them up, he’s growing dizzy. Beelzebub flaps his wings, and Ichor starts to pull at his blood so much that it hurts so much. It hurts.
He just want the pain to stop.
But he has to continue. Make them pay for what they did-
“S-Stop”
And Tommy stops. He falls to the ground. He doesn’t know if his eyes are teary or if it’s just because of the rain ( when did it start to rain?) , maybe even the blood lost, but he can’t see well. He’s coughing. He thinks theres more red but it might just be because of his gloves.
He can’t stop here. No he has to keep going-
But his muscles won’t listen.
He’s propped up against a wall, it’s nicer than being on the floor.
Beelzebub walks towards him, he says “I was wondering why you were only” he clears his throat, most likely being messed up from being strangled twice. “Number 4, now I see why. Ichor, want to do the honors?”
Ichor nods, “I would be honored to.”
“No no no please, I still have-” Why is he begging? He shouldn’t be begging. No. He won’t beg.
“-so much to live for? Yeah, like we haven’t heard that one so many times.” Narrator says.
He sees Ichor hold his sword up high. Poltergeist smiles for the last time and closes his eyes. At least I’ll be with Ranboo-
一一一一一一一一
Poltergeist goes limp. Signifying his death.
“I wanted to use him as a hostage…” Wilbur whines.
Phil rubs his throat, “I would have too, but he was too dangerous. He almost single handedly, killed us all.” He sighs
Techno is silent through all of this, I wonder why. Anyways Wilbur does the honors of unmasking the victim they killed. Well he looks over to Phil first before doing it, he nods so he goes for it. His gloves getting coated in a little bit of blood.
He unclips the mask, it’s really cool. He shins it in the light thats on top of the roof. He might use it himself. He is then greeted with a…familiar face.
Tommy?
“H-Hey um- can you guys come over here? Just to double check. This isn’t some mind trick. Right?” The other two walk over and kneel down. Phil quickly scrambles away, realizing what it is. And Techno..he continues to stay still.
“So you guys are seeing it too?” Phil is frozen in place, Wilbur will take that as a yes. So it’s Tommy- wait they killed Tommy. Wait wait- “Poltergeist was Tommy- Phil, Phil do you have any contacts that can resurrect the dead- no we couldn’t have killed Tommy. No no”
Techno finally talks, “I-I killed Tommy. I pulled at his blood- that’s why the voices weren’t asking me to kill him. I should've known- I was the one that showed him those moves-“
Wilbur crawls forward, and puts Tommy’s head in his lap. He doesn’t care he’s getting blood all over himself. He mind controlled Tommy. He forced Tommy to do things against his will. He helped kill his brother.
They all killed his brother.
Phil gets back his senses and slowly crawls over, his wings going from razor sharp to soft and silky. The boy he helped raise, the boy he adopted, the boy he murdered.
This must be what the families that were affected by them feel.
He doesn’t like it. Nobody says anything when a grieving father screams for his lost boy. People close their windows when they hear the screams, but Wilbur and Techno, they don’t move. Never have they heard their father scream like that. It’s heart wrenching. Only making them feel worse.
That’s when Techno breaks.
He falls to his knees and produces an ugly sob. And it’s only natural that Wilbur does the same, as they are twins after all.
He repeats a mantra of ‘I’m sorry’s ‘forgive me’ ‘i didn’t mean to’ and ‘my sunshine’
He heard footsteps but didn’t look up and away from Tommy’s body. Acting as if he looked away, Tommy would disappear.
When he heard a gasp, thats when he looked away. Scared it was Phil or Techno that gasped. But no, it was the Haywire and Purpled who gasped.
He doesn’t have the will power to fight anymore though.