Not Tommy Anymore

Chapter 14 - Mind Controlled Sleepwalking? AKA Enderwalking

Trigger Warnings - 

Tommy stood up from the table and started walking away, Phil stood up ready to offer him help but he raised his hand as if to turn the unsaid offer away before disappearing into the living. Shrugging it off Phil sat back down and turned to Techno. "What're you thinking mate?"

"You know exactly what I'm thinking, Phil." He smirked, a dark look overcoming his features. "Care to grab the weapons?" He asked, standing up to clean the dishes real quick.

Phil chuckled lightly and nodded. Standing up he left the kitchen for a moment to grab their weapons. Coming back down he tossed a sword over the table and Techno didn't even have to look up from the dishes to catch it. "Careful Phil, you could have broke the dishes." He joked before turning around and facing the blonde man.

Phil merely shook his head, "come on now, let's go, I think Tommy fell asleep on the couch." He smiled, gaining a smile back from Phil as they entered the living room to leave the house, quickly checking to make sure Toms did.

As they made their way over to Ranboo's house they noticed Ghostbur leaving with a smile on his face. Phil was quick to stop his dead son.

"Ghostbur, what's up with Ranboo?" He asked, making sure to keep on a friendly demeanor around the ghost.

He smiled wider and waved. "Ranboo? He was acting weird yesterday, he was carrying Tommy through the forest and I stopped him, but he said he had no memory of any of it when he woke up from it." He answered, the honest ghost completely oblivious to what was about to go down.

"Woke up from it?" Techno repeated questioningly, Ghostbur just nodded before building on it.

"Yeah! He said he was asleep and he must have been sleep walking! or something like that. I think it's an enderman thing. Oh did you know Enderman don't like water either? It hurts them like me!" Ghostbur rambled, the echo in his voice always present.

Phil and Techno just shook off his rambling and waved goodbye, now knocking on Ranbo's door. When Ranboo opened the door he had expected to see the forgetful and wholesome ghost everyone knew and loved, not two menacing looking men who made him feel daunted.

(Omg... I'm sorry but I just scared myself so hard cause I thought I had just accidently deleted my entire chapter so far... anyway... sorry, and yeah- they are about to threaten Ranboob.)

Ranboo stepped away from the door nervously, an apprehensive feeling coming over him. "Do you two need something?" He asked, ready to dart if they began attacking him.

Technoblade stood in the doorway, a tight grip on the handle of his sword as he pretended to inspect it. Phil had a sword in his sheath with his hand on the handle ready to pull it out whenever. "We just wanted to know what happened last night, Ranboo."

The hybrid gulped, hands raised in submission. "I just remember finding myself in the snow with Ghostbur keeping me down..." He answered quickly. "He told me I was taking Tommy somewhere but the last thing I remember was going to sleep! Tommy had been sleeping on the couch." 

"Is that so?" Phil asked, looking around the house calmly. "We all care about Toms here, right mate?" He looked back at Ranboo, who seemed to shrivel up and parish under his gaze.

"Yeah. I only want Tommy to be safe! I would never do anything to harm him." Ranboo defended himself, but it seemed Phil wasn't ready to buy his word just yet.

"Ranboo, you were taking Tommy somewhere, so why don't you just tell us where?" Phil asked, a hidden threat just beneath the surface of his voice.

Ranboo's eyes widened at the suggestion Phil was throwing his way. "I already told you I don't have any memory of the occasion!" He spoke up. "And yes I have bad memory, but not that bad I'm sure! I must have been sleep walking- or- or something!" He stumbled on his defense trying to get it out as fast as possible, rather fine with keeping his head attached to his neck.

"You kidnapped Tommy, while sleep-walking??" Phil cocked an eyebrow, being entirely honest he did want to believe Ranboo, because he thought Ranboo was a chill guy, but you really couldn't trust anyone's word on this server.

"Yes!" Ranboo exasperated. "Wait- no! I wasn't kidnapping him! Well, I don't know!" He started falling into a minor panic as he tried to dig his small bit of memories.

Phil watched him for a moment, trying to think about possibilities. Ranboo seemed to really not remember sleepwalking, but sleepwalking usually doesn't include taking a child somewhere, or to someone. To someone? What if he was bringing Tommy to Dream?? What if Dream got him to do this?

"Did Dream make you do it?" Phil queried more urgently. "Were you taking Tommy to Dream?" Ranboo's eyes widened and he seemed to be panicking even more than before.

"I don't know!" He shouted. "I- I don't think so! I couldn't remember if I tried."

Phil nodded slowly, Techno cut in. "You're part enderman?" He looked for confirmation from the hybrid and after receiving it he took a moment before building on his question. "Enderman can be forced into this thing called- enderwalking. Usually they aren't, per say... controlled. But- I wouldn't past Dream to find away to do that." He offered the theory onto the discussion table.

"What's enderwalking?" Ranboo questioned, calming down slightly. "Controlled?"

Phil gave Techno a questionable look as well before Techno continued with a annoyed sigh. "Enderman sometimes fall into this thing- and can be forced into it as well- called Enderwalking. Basically they're asleep but not- Sleepwalking but different. I wouldn't be surprised if Dream had found a way to force you into an Enderwalking state and control it as well." He answered.

(I'm very aware this is probably not how it works, I don't really watch Ranboo lore, I'm a TommyInniter myself, but this is an AU anyway so I'll do what I want, and you'll just have to deal with it, Haha sucker!)

Ranboo's eyes widened and fear took over him again. "H-he what?" The thought of being controlled without even knowing it was quite scary honestly, Dream could completely ruin his entire life that he's built so far. "N-no.. I- I don't want to be controlled..." He muttered. Phil removed his hand from his sword's handle and put it on the hybrids shoulder comfortingly.

"It's alright, mate." He smiled, relieved that Ranboo had no harmful intentions, somewhat ashamed of not being able to trust him, but again, you can't really trust anyone on this server so his false assumptions were justified.

Techno just turned and left, ready to go back to Tommy. He didn't close the door behind him, making Phil scoff at him. "See you around mate. Gotta go back before he forces Tommy to drink a regeneration potion for nothing." 

Ranboo nodded and closed the door behind him before sitting down on the couch, resting his head in hands. Enderwalking... sleepwalking? Controlled? It was a bit too much to wrap his head around, but he knew that meant he was a danger to Tommy, and being a danger to Tommy was the last thing he wanted.