Early Revival

Emotional Connections

Pirithous landed in the snowy beach nation that was completely new to him.

“What is this place?” he quietly said as he put Tantalus down.

Tantalus shrugged and started to walk around the strange new nation. The two silently agreed to investigate the closest house to them. Once they walked in, they almost immediately recognized the singular framed picture that sat on a desk covered in papers. It was a picture of Tubbo, Schlatt, and Quackity from when Swag 2020 won the election. They looked at each other and knew that this house belonged to Tubbo, luckily the young ex-president wasn’t home, so that made their job easier.

Pirithous walked over to the cluttered desk and picked up a very damaged compass but it was still functional. He flipped it to the back where “Tommy” was engraved on the back. “I think this is what we’ve been looking for,” he said, showing Tantalus the compass.

Tantalus gave a small nod before something caught his eye, he quickly grabbed Pirithous and dragged him to the second level of the house. He pulled him into a corner of the room. Both remained silent as the front door opened and hard footsteps entered the house. There was a moment of silence before the sound of panicked rustling of paper and heavy breaths filled the air of the house. Fear filled the atmosphere of the house and the minds of those who were within it. There was a short moment of silence before both jumped from a loud slam from, what they could assume was, Tubbo angrily hitting the desk with his hands.

“Where is it!?!?” Tubbo yelled, verbally in pain.

Pirithous, no Wilbur, could see how much this was hurting Glatt. He was shaking and on the verge of tears. Wilbur had to get him out of here. He carefully picked up Glatt, quietly walked to the window, crawled out, and flew off to back to Techno’s house. Once they landed, Wilbur went to his room and sat Glatt on his bed.

“Maybe you shouldn’t come with me on these missions,” Wilbur said, sitting down next to Glatt. Glatt leaned onto him and cried into his shoulder.

“I am a horrible father,” the goat ghost sobbed.

Wilbur gently rubbed Glatt’s back “I know how that feels, but I think you can mend your relationship with Tubbo” he reassured.

Glatt sniffled “but I’m not Schlatt, what I do won’t mean anything if he gets revived”

“But Schlatt will know what you’ve done, and if he wants that positive change he’ll continue what you started. If he doesn’t I’ll have a serious discussion with him about it.” Wilbur suggested.

Glatt wiped his tears “ok, that sounds like a plan, but I’m not quite ready to face Tubbo right now”

Wilbur stood up and smiled “That’s ok, go at your own pace. In the meantime, I’ll go get the other items Dream is asking from us. You can stay here and rest.” Glatt returned the smile and nodded. Wilbur waved good-bye as he left the room and flew off to continue his mission.

Wilbur’s next stop was Eret’s castle, he quietly snuck in through a window and carefully searched the palace for anything that would be an emotional attachment for the king. He searched the monarch's bedroom last, then hesitantly searched the closet first. There he found Eret’s L’manburg outfit. It was in pristine condition and had a bag over it so it wasn’t collecting dust.

“They kept it?” Wilbur whispered to himself before carefully taking the outfit and gently folded it as he put it in his satchel. He walked over to the bedroom window and jumped out.

“Wha- hey!!” Eret yelled as they had entered the room just as Wilbur jumped.

Wilbur didn’t look back, he flew off to Fundy’s place, hoping to get there before Eret could possibly warn him.

Pirithous landed on the top of Fundy’s ‘totally secret hideout’ and quietly went inside. He went down the stairs and started to search the chests. He’d only found what he needed in the second chest. An aged picture of Wilbur and Fundy from before Wilbur started the drug van. Pirithous smiled a little before putting the photo with Eret’s L’manburg outfit and walked up the stairs to leave. When he got to the roof he heard the front door open. He quickly flew off before he could hear Fundy panic over the missing picture.

Once he got home, Wilbur put the items in a hidden chest for later. He took his disguise off and turned to Glatt “how are you doing?”

Glatt looked at him “ok for now, could I visit Tubbo tomorrow?” he asked.

Wilbur smiled “Of course, I’ll deliver the items to Dream after I drop you off at Snowchester.” he explained.

Glatt smiled “that sounds good”