A Place To Call Home // MCYT x OC

Chapter 42: Festival

(AND BACK WE GO TO THE DEPRESSING PLOT)

All too soon, it was the day of the festival. Wilbur was all hyped up to detonate the TNT. Techno was also excited, probably because they were about to destroy a government. 

Which left Nessa and Tommy. Neither of them were happy in any way about this. They hadn't wanted to go through with Plan Bomb, and now that it was happening, they were pretty upset. Stratch that, they were fucking terrified. The explosions would harm Schlatt, yes, but it would also destroy their home and injure people that mattered to the Pogtopians. Niki, Jack Manifold, Fundy, Tubbo... 

Nessa shook her head to snap herself back to reality. She and her friends were walking toward Manberg, ready to put the plan into action. Wilbur walked in the front, along with Techno, Tommy was after them, and Nessa was last. 

Before they had left, Wilbur had gone over the plan with them. Techno would go down to the crowd and pretend that he supported Manberg. Meanwhile, Wilbur, Nessa, and Tommy were going to get to high ground. After Tubbo's speech, they were going to shoot at Schlatt to keep him distracted. Then Wilbur would press the button, chaos (the bad kind) would unfold, and it would all go boom. 

Nessa took a few deep breaths, trying to calm herself down. It was going to be fine. Wilbur knew what he was doing, Tubbo was gonna get people to safety, and she had pouches of various healing plants and potions in case anything went wrong. She sighed and touched the pouch over her heart. It was the one pouch that had no practical use. Inside was the head of an allium flower. Nessa smiled softly. Those flowers never failed to cheer her up. They always reminded her of... 

Never mind. She had more important things to think about right now. As the group reached Manberg, Techno nodded and disappeared into the crowd, leaving the other three to carry out their part of the plan. Nessa scouted out for high ground, and eventually she found a pretty tall building near the stage. 

She clambered up the side and motioned for the others to join her. It took them a little longer to climb up because they weren't cats, but once they made it up, they looked out at Manberg. They were close enough to the festival stage to shoot, but hopefully far enough away that Schlatt wouldn't spot them. 

No more than a minute after they had climbed up, Schlatt and Tubbo walked onto the stage. As Schlatt took a step back, Tubbo walked up to the podium and (after a few adjustments due to being too short to reach the microphone) began his speech. 

"A wise man once told me that L'Manburg was like a lettuce. There are so many layers of tasty and healthy goodness, and once you wash off all the caterpillars and worms off the surface, it's a pretty goddamn good meal." For whatever reason, the whole crowd began to cheer about lettuce and make fun of Schlatt's fingers as the Pogtopians watched, confused as fuck. 

Tubbo went on after everyone quieted down. "Schlatt has successfully washed all of the insects off our great nation. And with that, he's allowed the goodness and tastiness to shine through." (Can we just acknowledge that during this part of the stream Quackity just shouted "LETTUCE") "Ladies and gentlemen, I'd like you to look around at what we've built today. Look at eachother. All of this, thanks to democracy, and the leadership of Jschlatt. And isn't that what this festival is all about? Democracy. (Yeah nope sorry Tubso) 

"Our people have been beaten down by royals, and by dictators, for so long. And now we are finally free." He stopped as Fundy just casually fired a gun at Schlatt. Yeah, this was going great. Everyone shouted at Fundy while poor Tubbo tried to finish his speech. Eventually, he got to keep talking. 

"Our people have been beaten down by royals and dictators for so long, and now we are finally free. Free to elect who we want, free to live how we want, and most importantly, free to go wherever we want without the confines of those huge black walls. So with that in mind, I'd like to thank everyone for coming to this wonderful event." 

The crowd applauded, and Tubbo stepped back to let Schlatt make his speech. Nessa took a deep breath and loaded an arrow into her crossbow. But before she could do anything, Schlatt started to speak. "Citizens of Manberg!" he called. "I hate to bring you this news, but there is a traitor here amongst us!" 

Nessa's breath caught in her throat as he turned and pointed to Tubbo. Tubbo, looking scared, backed up a few steps. "Wait, Schlatt?" he said in a shaky voice. Schlatt grinned. "This person," he said, looking out at the crowd, "Has been conspiring with the enemy. Which enemy, you might ask? None other than Wilbur Soot and Tommyinnit!" 

The crowd gasped. Nessa heard Karl shout "I thought they were dead!" As Schlatt turned back to Tubbo, the boy continued to back up. 

Nessa only saw the stone box-thing behind him when it was too late. 

Schlatt had her brother backed into a corner. 

The president continued to monologue. "Tubbo has been spying for the people that we exiled from our great country and telling them all our plans! We can't let this stand. Techno!" Nessa nearly vomited as she saw her oldest brother walk onto the stage. Schlatt turned to Techno. "Finish this traitor." he said, gesturing to Tubbo. 

Shouts of disapproval rose up from the crowd as Quackity ran forward. "Sir, Tubbo's just a kid!" he called to Schlatt. "We can't kill him!" Fundy stepped forward as well. "I agree." the redhead said. "You can't kill him, Schlatt." The president only grinned. "I can and I will. Techno?" 

All eyes were on Technoblade, who looked more stressed than Nessa had ever seen him. Then, to everyone's dismay, he pulled out a crossbow that had a firework loaded into it. He aimed it at Tubbo. 

"I'm being peer pressured." Nessa heard him say quietly.

Tubbo_ went off with a bang.

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