Prompt link: https://augustwritingchallenge.tumblr.com/post/660108833326301184/utopia-boring-lets-make-chaos-is-there
A/N: This takes place in the same universe as AU-gust Day 5: Science Fiction because I felt the universe for that also fit this prompt. You don't need to read that one for this one to make sense, however.
TW: major character death mentioned (although it's only a temporary death and said character is brought back to life immediately afterwards)
Donut never should have rebelled against the alien overlords. While he was only trying to help the people around him, all he did was make things worse. And now, he was forced to be on the run from the government, along with everyone else he had gotten involved into this mess. (Except Bomby, he left a while ago to get some bananas and just never came back. Donut just hoped that he was okay and hadn't been caught by the government.)
To be fair, the ones who first talked him into this were Tennis Ball and Golf Ball. They had asked him to participate in an experiment where they would transfer the anomalous properties of Four, an alien they had somehow managed to capture, and transfer them into a human subject. While Donut was understandably wary at first, he agreed upon them convincing him that if a human like him had anomalous properties, then maybe they could overthrow the alien overlords and life would be back to the way it had been previously.
And the thing is, it worked. Somehow, the anomalous properties of Four got transferred to Donut instead. Unfortunately, a whole army of aliens who have long been familiar with their anomalous powers was still much stronger than a single human being who still wasn't completely used to his anomalous powers.
The result was inevitable. Donut was mercilessly killed by the aliens and they sent out a bounty for the heads of anyone who had ever helped him. Those sickos even tried to force Copy and Paste, the two humans that the aliens actually liked, to broadcast his dead body to the world as a warning to anyone else who would try to rebel. But even if Copy and Paste hadn't refused to do so, (which they certainly did, because even if the aliens favored them, they were still people with morals and emotions,) it still wouldn't have been possible.
Because Donut wasn't dead anymore.
Apparently, Four still maintained some of their anomalous properties even after the transfer, allowing him to bring Donut back to life, which he did. At first, Donut was baffled at why Four would do such a thing, but then Four revealed that as much as he despised him, Tennis Ball, and Golf Ball for making him go through the transfer, he despised the other aliens even more so, and as much as he hated to admit it, Donut was one of the best chances they've got to end the other aliens' tyrannical rule. Four warned him however that he had used up the last of his remaining powers to revive him, so he had better be careful not to die next time.
Although Four did say that, Donut still wasn't so sure he could really help bring down the other aliens' regime. In fact, he couldn't help but regret this whole thing as he had no choice to do anything but stay on the run this past decade.
It felt like it was all for nothing. He had put the people he cared about in danger and he didn't even make a difference at all. People were still being chosen by the aliens yearly to venture into the biggest cave on the aliens' planet, something which nobody ever came back from.
People were still suffering and dying, and as much as Four called him their best bet against the government, or how Gelatin called him the leader of the revolutionaries, or even how Barf Bag attempted to get Donut to see that the oppressed humans saw him as a symbol of hope, he still couldn't help but feel useless.
Sometimes he thought that if maybe Tennis Ball and Golf Ball had asked for a different volunteer to transfer Four's anomalies to, things might have been different. Maybe if they had picked someone more competent...
But nothing could be done. They had already made their decision on who to ask, and he had already made his decision to trust them and go through with it. There was no way to go back in time and take back what had happened.
Or is there-?
No, no, he had to remind himself he had already went over this. Despite both scientists claiming they built a time machine but it was now lost, probably in one of their other laboratories, Donut sincerely doubted it actually worked.
But then again, aliens did take over their government and started what was essentially a dictatorship. So maybe anything was possible after all...
"Hey Donut!" Four yelled, snapping the pale brown haired boy out of his thoughts. "Are you even listening to what I'm saying?"
"Shh, not too loud," Donut scolded. "Your fellow aliens might hear what you said and come here to capture me."
Four rolled his eyes. "Fine, whatever. Anyway, as I was saying, the reason why I hate all the others of my kind is because they captured my lover X, all just because he's from a different alien race! Oh dear, he was never able to defend himself well. The government might very well be hurting him right now!"
Meanwhile...
"So you're sure you won't hurt me?"
"Of course I wouldn't hurt you," X said. "Why would I hurt you? You're helping me stay in hiding from the government!"
"Well, I still don't get why the other aliens dislike you anyway, but as long as you don't stab me in the back or get in my way, I guess I can help you," Fries said. "But you've been held captive by the other aliens for years. But why did you escape only now?"
"Because I heard that Four must be out there..."
