To Be a Hero

Chapter 3

     That morning, his headache had subsided, and he luckily wasn't awakened by a pillow to his face. Tommy was already up, he could hear him brushing his teeth in the bathroom, so he started getting dressed. After a bit the two of them started downstairs for leftover muffins. School was closer than Purpled's house, so they were able to walk there.

"The party was awesome!" Tommy grinned as they walked, before shoving the chocolate chip muffin he'd grabbed for the road in his mouth.

Toby chuckled, "Yeah, it was an interesting night huh?" His mind wandered back to Schlatt, and Niki. He hoped she had made it home ok...he felt bad for just running away, but in his defense he had been panicking. But still...

Tommy nodded, and they made their way to school. The building was older than Phil, which according to Tommy made it as old as time itself. It was made of brick, and the only modern things in the classrooms were the air conditioning and the new screens some of them had. Several lights were constantly flickering or out entirely. The boys made their way to the cafeteria, which was probably the third largest room after the gym and the auditorium, in search of their friends. After scanning the room, which already had groups of people at every other table, they saw their friends huddled together, Quackity and Karl leaning over Purpled's shoulder as they watched something on the latter's phone. All three had looks of awe on their faces.

"Good day men!" Tommy said loudly, grinning as he and Toby approached the three.

"What are you guys watching? You looked pretty invested-" Toby asked, sitting across from then, Tommy taking a seat next to him.

"A video that was uploaded last night-" Purpled said, "It's gone pretty viral"

He showed them his phone. Toby read the title A NEW HERO EMERGES?, and an unfocused shot of an alleyway. His stomach dropped. Purpled pressed play, then turned the phone back to them. It was a low quality video of the last half of his fight with Schlatt in the alley last night- like someone had heard or seen them fighting and started recording. Faces and small details couldn't be made out, but there was no mistaking Schlatt's horns, or the fact that Toby had controlled him before he and Niki ran.

"Holy shit! They made him run into a wall-" Tommy cried, before laughing, "Serves that horned bastard right!"

"I've never heard of a hero with that power...or anyone with that power before..." Quackity mused, "Isn't everyone with powers registered..? I wonder why we've never heard of them or their power before...they seem pretty powerful."

"They seem really cool!" Tommy grinned, before turning towards Toby "What do you think Big T?"

"Oh, uh-" Play it cool Toby, play it cool- "I dunno. We don't really know much about them do we? And the video quality isn't great so it might have missed something...They're not really a hero, more of a vigilante-"

"I guess, but that doesn't change the fact that they saved that girl from an actual supervillain, right?" Purpled said, "I wouldn't be surprised if we started seeing more of them-"

"True..." Toby nodded, "Who knows?"

"I hope we do, they're cool!" Tommy grinned.

The bell rang before they could discuss it any more, and the five of them dispersed for homeroom and classes. Tommy and Tubbo made their way to their homeroom, and as they took their seats, they noticed a tall boy neither of them recognized in a corner. The bell rang again to signify the start of homeroom, and Mr. Nook (Or just Sam, as he let his homeroom kids call him, he was cool like that) got up from his desk.

"Alright guys, welcome to another week of school-" he chuckled, "As some of you already noticed, we have a new student today, I'll let him introduce himself-"