Stronger Together, Forever

I ~ 𝕿𝔬𝔪𝔪𝔶 🂡

My name is Thomas Careful Danger Kraken Innit Watson, but everyone just calls me Big Man. They call me Big Man because I'm all grown up, that's what Ms. Puffy says anyway. Ms. Puffy is my teacher if you didn't know, she lets us use her first name, which is how you know she's cool. Anyways, tomorrow she's taking us on a field trip. Well, actually the trip is for everyone in 3rd-5th grade. It's awful because both Mom and Dad volunteered to chaperone us and they're going to embarrass me. Not to forget Wilbur and Techno, they're my annoying brothers and they're going on the trip too!

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"Tommy, get up!!" I only heard Wilbur's annoying voice for a second before I got a face full of carpet. The fucker pushed me off the bed.

"What is wrong with you?!" He didn't even give me a chance to get up before throwing a bunch of clothes at me. How have I lived with him this long?

"If we don't leave in the next three minutes, we will miss the bus to Manhattan and Dad will kill us." Shit. Like I said earlier, we're going on a field trip. It's to some place called Manhattan Gamma Labs and if you couldn't guess, it's in Manhattan. We're supposed to learn a bunch of science stuff. But, back to what Wilbur said. We need to get to school before the bus leaves for the field trip, which is over a half an hour ride.

In what felt like seconds, I threw my signature red t-shirt on and jumped into the car. Dad immediately started the car and Mom handed me a granola bar. It was already half gone by the time I had my seatbelt on.

The buses were already sitting outside the school. There were teachers ushering students and parent chaperones into their seats. We were immediately separated. Dad, Techno, and Wilbur were shoved into one of the fifth grade buses. Me and Mom were stuck in a third grade bus. Mom sat in the front with the other parents. I decided to sit in a three seater towards the back of the bus far away from her.

The ride was long and boring. I ended up falling asleep, but woke up right before we passed the ugly Stark Tower. Who has the money to put their name on a giant fucking tower? Not us, that's for sure. We've lived in a small apartment in Queens for as long as I can remember. It has two bedrooms and one bathroom, there's five of us. I've spent years wishing for nothing, but my own room.

The person working at the lab was weird. He kept going on about getting superpowers. Don't get me wrong, being a superhero sounds awesome, but the only person to come close was Captain America. He died like a hundred years ago. These strange lab people don't stand a chance.

My opinions no longer mattered (still right of course), as I heard Mr. Dude, Wil's teacher, start shouting for us to run away. The moments following are some I know I'll never forget. Glass shattering, frantic screaming, an explosion. I don't know what it was that Mr. Dude saw, but next he was on the ground, completely covered in burns and having shards of glass sticking out of his skin.

I was starting to get dizzy, but I could still move my head. I should never have tried. Maybe if I didn't, I could have passed out never seeing so much pain, so much suffering. Ms. Puffy wasn't awake to see her left leg slowly start to shrivel up, I was. Being unconscious was a gift not all of us were granted. Tubbo, my best friend, someone who has always been by my side, was fully aware. I knew, as I listened to his screams whilst his skin was slowly being melted away by freed chemicals previously hidden in protective containers. Then, blood dripped down over my eyes and before I knew it the world was nothing, but a black abyss.

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