Hope Has Crashed and Burned(Eburnean AU)

Prologue Pt. 2 : Sirens

TW: Mentions of stabbing, manipulation, death, suicidal thoughts

Please stay safe.

Reader POV:

Tommy and Tubbo decided to stop looking, but they kept hope that Ranboo just got lost mining, and Michael was somewhere safe. Tommy was walking as he does when he is thinking. 

Obviously, Tommy was concerned for his friends. Ranboo was missing, and Tubbo was in shambles. Tubbo would be sleeping almost all day for most days, and then when he wasn't sleeping, he was constantly just staring at the wall where Michael had drawn on with his markers, and Tubbo and Ranboo never had the heart to clean it up.

Prime, Tommy felt like a useless friend.

Tubbo felt quite the opposite. The past week, Tommy had stayed by his side. Tommy made him dinner each day, and would wake Tubbo up, or make Tubbo eat instead of staring at the wall. Tommy had even dragged Tubbo out of the house once. Tommy pulled him to the porch, even though everyone on the server knew that Tommy was not very strong. Tommy was Tubbo's shoulder to cry on. Tubbo couldn't have been more thankful. He decided he'd get up tomorrow. 

For Tommy, his most loyal friend.

Tommy was just walking when he heard a noise. One he had heard before. A sound that brutally stabbed his brain causing the memories of pain, manipulation, and suffering. A sound that rang in his ears because the last time Tommy heard that sound, Tommy died at the hands of a madman with a potato. A sound so bitter that even the crows in the distance shut up to hear it.

The sirens.

Not just any sirens, but the prison sirens that announced to the whole SMP that someone broke the prison. That could only mean one thing. Dream was out or someone was trying to get him out. Instant panic fell over Tommy. He had to make sure. Make sure this wasn't some dream or false alarm, and like the idiot TommyInnit was, he ran towards the prison.

When Tommy got to the edge, he saw Eryn, Sapnap, and many others standing there, all asking the same questions Tommy was asking.

"Sapnap, what's going on?!" Tommy yelled rushing into Sapnap's arms.{Don't be gross. They just both share manipulation trauma together} 

Sapnap looked down to see his young friend who had also been affected by Dream's manipulations and lies. 

"Tommy, it's okay. I'm sure it a malfunction in the system" Sapnap said as he tried to keep Tommy from going into a panic attack.

The small crowd just sat there for a while, hoping that Sapnap's words were true, that it was just a malfunction. That's when the group saw them. Dream, Technoblade, Ranboo, and ...Conner? Tommy didn't see, but he felt Sapnap tense up and heard Technoblade's yelling. Sapnap looked Tommy dead in the eyes.

"Tommy, run." Sapnap said with pure anger and betrayal. Tommy nodded and ran for the hills. He could help but turn back to make sure that Sapnap(and Ranboo) were okay. That was a mistake, his first major one in a while. As Tommy stopped and turned to look, he met eyes with Dream. The harsh green eyes that Dream had during the Disc wars. During the L'manburg wars. During exile. Eyes Tommy knew all too well.

Tommy was in trouble, and he should have just kept running. So he started again. For his house. For his amour. For security. For his weapons. Tommy would need the best weapon to defend himself. Like an axe with amazing enchantments, and-

An axe like the Axe of Peace. 

Which was in exile. 

Which is still in exile. 

Out in the open.

Where Dream can get it.

Tommy promised that he'd go straight home. He did, but if Dream got the Axe of Peace,  Dream would for sure cause havoc, and it would be all Tommy's fault. Tommy couldn't handle that. 

Tommy POV:

"I'll be in and out. I won't see him. He just escaped. There's no way that Dream's in exile," I said out loud as if it would make it true. 

I know I was lying to myself. Dream seem to always be a part of me, but he was in prison. In Pandora's box where Dream couldn't... do whatever it is he does to me! I just can't handle it. I know he's probably there. If he isn't there there, Dream will still BE THERE. It hurts to think about it.

I'll just get the Axe then run by Tubbo's, and maybe see Michael.

I started mumbling who knows what.

Before I knew it, I was in the Nether. I loved the Nether. Even if I have had so many... incidents here, it's so beautiful. This is why I tried to... ya know, here. If I was going to die, I'd want to die here. It has to much beauty, but also so much destruction. It's a nice balance. I could sit here for hours.

XD POV:

And that's what Tommy did. He sat on the bridge, just watching the Nether's world pass by him. He was at peace for those 2 hours that Tommy carelessly wasted. But Tommy wasn't a man who was always at peace so maybe they weren't as wasted as we think.

Peace is such a precious thing that Tommy values. That we all should value. But peace will be abused and soon lost for Mr. TommyInnit as it has been many times before.

This mortal's life continues to confuse yet impress me.

Guess who finally wrote after 3 weeks. This bitch. Sorry for the wait guys, and thank you for all the support

-your dear author