Midnight Stars Hidden by Clouds

Chapter 6. Goats and their strange love for explosives

TW: implied/referenced child abuse

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This new place Tubbo found himself in is weird. He's father always said stranger danger but these people were nice. They helped him from his face and the rest of his body from hurting so much, even if the bandages were annoying. They gave him more food than he was allowed to eat, even when he was being bad! Quackity was even there!

Quackity used to come over to dad's house all the time! … until he stopped. Dad said he was a trader?? but he was always a lot more fun than dad. He helped Tubbo when dad hurt him when he got angry. Quackity said it was because of the juice he always drank. So if Quackity was friends with these new people then they were also Tubbo's friends.

Puffy and Quackity were the ones he stayed close to the most well- wanted to anyways. They had somewhere else to be most of the time, especially Puffy, but she had a son to take care of and Quackity apparently had to help clean up a big mess dad made. So he couldn't really blame them.

There were other people that helped take care of him (he didn't need to be taken care of by the way, he's perfectly capable of taking care of himself >:( ) but the ones that stood out the most were Mr. Nook and Skeppy.

Mr. Nook taught him so many things! Who knew you could do so much stuff with redstone! And Skeppy was so fun to be around. He pulled so many pranks and they were always really fun to help out with.

There was also another kid that Mr. Nook taught. He was pretty fun to hang out with but he wasn't in Pogtopia most of the time. He didn't have an arm, but Tubbo almost didn't have an arm so he couldn't really make fun of him for that. Plus he helped Tubbo out on some projects.

It stayed the same for the most part for a couple of years. Puffy was able to visit more after her son moved away. But other than that, mostly the same. Until around five years passed.

Tubbo was getting ready to go outside and he was pretty excited. Now he went outside before, but it was only for an hour or two, three max and was going to be for the whole day! And he gets it dad- Schlatt was a bad person, nobody liked him and if anyone connects the dots then it'll probably be bad news but he's barely been outside. From what he can remember from his time with Schlatt, he wasn't really ever allowed outside. So sue him if he was excited to touch some grass.

He was standing near one of the entrances to Pogtopia waiting for Puffy when a child came tumbling in. Tubbo basically lived in Pogtopia for five years so to see someone he didn't recognize put him on edge. He looked to be one or two years younger than Tubbo and wore a tattered red and white t-shirt, had messy blonde hair and had badly healed over burn scars poking out of his ruined shirt.

The kid kept lying on the floor unmoving. Tubbo poked them with his hoof. Still nothing. He crouched down to get a better look at the possible dead body. They were breathing however shallow it was, so they weren't dead sadly. They were also pretty thin, fed but clearly not enough.

Tubbo then took out his water bottle and dumped it on the kid. The kid shot up.

"UGH, what the FUCK!"

"Hey, you're finally awake"

"Oh GOD"

"Yes?"

"Tubbo? Who is this?" A sheep hybrid approached the two.

"I don't know. He was passed out when I found him"

"Oh my god, are you okay?"

"YES, I am perfectly f-f...ine" The kid wrapped his arms around himself, clearly in pain.

"Do you want us to take you to the hospital?"

"NO-" he winced at how that came out "No… please?"

Puffy looked somewhat concerned "Of course. We have some medical supplies here"

"No, I'm fine. I don't need any 'medical treatment' " He looked around "Actually where am I?"

"Not important" Tubbo answered.

"??????????"

"What the fuck"

"Sorry…" The child mumbled.

Puffy sighed "What's your name?"

"It's… uh- it's-"

"It's okay, you don't have to tell us"

"Can we leave? I've been waiting for this all week" Whined Tubbo.

"I don't really want to be here either"

"Fine" sighed Puffy "Wait here I'm going to get some potions and extra food for the kid" She then left to go get said items.

"Potions? How the hell do you have potions?" Asked the kid.

"You know, stuff"

"..." The kid leaned on the stone wall immediately wincing in pain as he sat on the floor and curled into himself.

"So… what's your name?"

"Didn't your mom say I didn't have to tell you?"

"She's more of an aunt"

"Whatever"

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"Theseus? What's going on?" Purpled worryingly asks.

"I gotta go, skedaddle out of here, make like a leaf and leave. Hopefully I'll be alive next time I see you-"

"THESEUS"

Fuck

Behind the pair appeared two figures. A taller one with horns and a suit and a much smaller goat hybrid with a gas mask with the nuclear symbol on it and a fluffy winter jacket. The goat hybrid seems very pissed off and looks very intimidating.

"HAHAHA! TUBBO! FUNNY SEEING YOU HERE!"

Tubbo simply stared.

"HAHA, Ender help me-"

"You got yourself in this mess" He shrugged "Could've stayed and avoided all this"

"Theseus"

"UM- sorry…?"

Tubbo's gloved hands start to emanate heat and glow a sickly green.

"WHOA WHOA- HEY- OKAY YOU BROUGHT THE GLOVES- UM- WE DON'T HAVE TO GO THAT FAR RIGHT????? BIG BOOM IN CAVE BAD"

"Heh, you actually thought of the consequences for something"

"...Tubbo I-"

He then gets punched in the face.

"AH- OW"

"Home. Now"

"But-"

"No buts. We're going home"

"...Okay"

"WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON" Shouts Purpled.

"...Who are you"

"Purpled?????"

"Sorry we had to meet like this Purpled. I'm sure you're a great guy"

"Thanks???" He responded "Still have no idea what's going on????"

"Don't worry about it Purpled. I'll be fine"

"Bye then... I guess"

"Bye!"

And with that the trio disappeared in a flash of purple.

Well that was the weirdest day I've ever had.

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A/N: Tubbo dressed to impress
and by impress I mean intimidate

Not very satisfied with this chapter but we're getting a new POV next chapter :)