Assumption's and Falsehoods

Chapter 8: Meetings My Abhorred

Phil walked Tommy through a new section of the Hero Building. It was just as impressive as the entry room had been, high ceilings with pillars going up to the top. They passed by many doors that Phil told Tommy were meeting rooms for different jobs in the facility. Lawyers, Advertising, Marketing, and other such jobs had their own rooms. Matters where every faction had to discuss something happened in the biggest meeting room. Tommy could only imagine how decked out that one had to be.

Today though, they would be meeting in the Hero Room to discuss placement and patrol schedules. Tommy could guess how it was going to go, SBI would patrol factions one through three (not that The Blade had ever cared about what anyone told him to do), Blaze and 404 would patrol four, and Nihachu and Puffy would patrol five and six. Of course, seven through sixteen had always been a 'whoever wants to' situation. No one had patrolled there until The Blade. Tommy didn't know how to feel about that.

Phil opened the door and Tommy walked in, the interior of the meeting room was different from any other room that Tommy had visited. The floor was a dark green carpet, the walls had wood paneling up to Tommy's waist, and the table was also wood. There was a whiteboard on the wall that someone had written: "George is a pussy lmfao" on, which Tommy almost lost his shit at.

Something else he'd noticed was that everyone was infinitely more well dressed than Phil and himself were, Tommy was wearing the only nice clothes he had which amounted to one of Dream's old dress shirts and some slacks. Phil wore something similar, a white dress shirt and slacks, although, unlike Tommy who was wearing his torn-up velcro shoes, Phil had on dress shoes and a dark green tie similar in color to the floor.

"Hello, Phil." Niki said politely, "Is this the new intern?"

Phil nodded, "This is Tommy, he finally made it so I can walk in my own home."

"Yeah I believe he lives with the kid who came into the bakery the other day, I think Puffy mentioned it."

"Oh? You didn't tell me you had a roommate Tommy." Tommy had intentionally left out his two friends, lest the heroes find out that Tubbo and Ranboo kick more ass than the heroes could even dream of.

"I just never thought it was relevant. There are cooler things about me than my lame roommates."

Phil laughed and continued his conversation with Niki, Tommy chose to wander off and talk to the two guys who were arguing. He recognized them as Blaze and 404, former villains turned heroes, though Tommy didn't know how they did it. He knew that they were teenagers when they were criminals, but Tommy was only around six when they were caught. He was too busy bouncing from home to home to care about what was happening.

He wondered if Ranboo and Tubbo could follow a similar path, they weren't even full-blown villains. 

"Hello, gentlemen."

"Oh uh hi." Blaze turned to 404 to whisper something, 404 just rolled his eyes.

"Why are you here? This is, like, important." 404 paused "confidential hero stuff."