"Ohhh shittt... I slept through that? ohhhh...ahhaah....!!"

I had to check the Dream SMP discord server once more to find out why pretty much everyone was on the server as of this moment.

Apparently there was some big lore thing that has been or was going on!

So- in a small summary, apparently Tommy blew up the community house. It's one of the oldest buildings on the SMP to date and now they're having a little scrap at the now destroyed building.

I want to watch- but I'm not very sure if it'd be alright for me to just waltz right in there unannounced.

Well- I mean... Dream mentioned that I was allowed to briefly before, but I would feel a bit rude.... Maybe if I just watched one of their streams?

I knew Technoblade was streaming the SMP on Youtube, and my top recommended streaming right now on Twitch is lé Tommyinnit.

Flipping a coin on whos pov to watch- the results told me to watch Tommy's stream.

Clicking on his channel, I brought his twitch up onto my other monitor and let the stream play as I walked around in game.

Right now, pretty much everyone was fighting Technoblade while Tommy fought with Tubbo.... from what I could tell anyways- it's hard to say when you see the screen spazz every other second.

hmmm.... now that I look at the stream more it makes me realize something...

It's been quite a long time since I even saw Tommy's face. It's-- kinda weird after all this time.

Usually when scrolling through Twitter, Instagram, or on rare occasions: Tumblr.... I'd see pictures of him or some of the other minecraft youtubers. Edits or just posts from the youtuber themselves, I haven't seen a live feed of face cam in so long.

His blonde hair was like how I remembered, a little ruffled but not completely messy. Because of the tone and quality of his camera, I could barely make out his blue eyes. Tommy wasn't smiling, he had his serious roleplaying face on-- since he was in the middle of roleplaying.

"THE DISCS WERE WORTH MORE THAN YOU EVER WERE!!" Tommy shouted, hitting Tubbo's minecraft character with his axe.

Well- this stream is already off to a fantastic start for my eyes and ears...!

After saying this, everyone was quite surprised and baffled. And after a while, Tommy realized what he said was wrong and decides to do what he thinks is for the best.

"I'm... I'm sorry... Tubbo..." Tommy said, expression full of regret "...give him the disc"

"...huh? a-are you sure?" Tubbo asked, shocked.

Tommy silently nodded.

"Give him the disc"

Tubbo then went into an enderchest located conveniently next to him, taking out the disc 'mellohi' all before finally tossing it over to Dream.

Dream then begins to laugh, and thanks Tubbo.

Tommy then seemed to be going through a mental breakdown... apologizing over and over again to Tubbo, saying that he was a bad friend... etc.

And to conclude everything after that-- Tommy decides to go back onto Tubbo's side- betraying Technoblade. Then Techno and Dream join up and publicly announce their attack on Manberg tomorrow at 3PM.

There might've been some-- uhh... errors during that time, but it's whatever!

Currently, the sun was going down (in game) and I somehow ended up in Manberg.

I ended up walking past the community house, griefed beyond repair.

"Oh god- the community house took an L" I muttered out loud to myself.

I continued walking through the place, taking in all the sights before it gets destroyed by Dream and Technoblade tomorrow at 3pm whatever the amarican timezone is...

I can't say I'll really miss this place, I wasn't an official member--- plus, all the good memories were gone after the first war... in my opinion anyways.

Soon enough, I ended up walking my way straight into a seemingly contemplating Tommyinnit. He was sat at a bench, listening to... music? But- I don't hear it in my game, it's on Tommy's stream.

He was just looking out at the sunset.

And all I did was stare.

Maybe it was because I had my shaders on during it all.... But I really couldn't look away, and I took a little screenshot as a little memento.

Though, once Tommy did move his character, he ended up seeing me.

Ah shit-

"wait- wha?" I heard Tommy mutter out over his stream.

I was about to look over to my other monitor, but I saw something appear in chat.

Tommyinnit whispered to you: Y/N?

Realizing the awkwardness of the situation I was in, I opened up discord and joined the vc he was in.

"Hey, Tommy... Contemplating about life?" I said.

Tommy paused for a moment, just staring at me. Then, he let out a sigh before turning back to face the sunset.

"Yeah, something like that- I guess..." He murmured.

I began to walk my character over to his one.

"So- tomorrow, huh?"

"....yeah, tomorrow" He responded.

I stopped and stood beside the bench Tommy was on, staring directly at him.

"You lot dont need to fight, there are always other ways to---"

"No." Tommy stated, turning is character back to face me "We gotta fight. We have to fight."

If it wasn't for plot convenience, then I would've thought suggested maybe about 20 different solutions to solve their current problems. But-- it is what it is.

"....If that's how you see it. But situations like this can be solved in many more peaceful ways." I pointed out.

"...I don't want to go the coward way out" Tommy tells me.

"Going about it peacefully or smart isn't a cowardly way out. It's just what would be best for this country.... But I can't really persuade you if you think violence is the answer to your problems..."

I paused for a moment before continuing to speak to Tommy.

"I wonder Tommy... Where did your prospective change on life?"

"Huh? what do you mean?" He questioned.

"Do you honestly believe that violence is the only option you can chose? You can resolve every conflict that you encounter in a peaceful matter... It's just a matter of if you could think up and execute that plan into motion. Talking it out wouldn't do much because of the current people you're dealing with... but possibly preparing for the worse... Like- making Manberg explosion proof would be beneficial.... or take away something they care about..."

Once I finally came to realize my rambling, I mentally scolded myself for blabbering.

"--uhh, sorry. I rant too much when it comes to things like that..." I mumbled, speaking quieter than usual.

"Nah- it's fine.... You actually give some pretty good points..." Tommy admitted. "But, I still feel like our way of going at it would be better"

"Gotcha... Then, I'll help as much as I can..." I say.

"Wait- really?"

"Yeah, I don't see why I shouldn't. I have to keep looking out for you every time Dream shows up.... And now I guess I'll look out for you if Technoblade goes after you too. He may be pretty terrifying, but-- how bad could he really be?" I say.

"You don't have to baby me so much, I can fight my own battles" Tommy states to me.

"Oh- clearly you can..!~ But I'm still not letting you die under my watch. Think of it as a parently instinct--! " As soon as I realized my weird comment, I decided to fix it up a little "--minus me being a parent and other shit like that."

"You're an actual fucking weirdo" Tommy chuckled a bit.

"You don't have to say that out loud... I knew for some time you've been thinking it- but hearing it out loud makes it so much more worse..." I whined a bit, half jokingly crying a bit as well. "You're such a meanie, Tommy... you killed Tubbo's dog, now you're bullying someone who was just trying to make you feel better....You're a sick bastard, you know that?"

"PFT----HAhaAhA! YEAAH, YEAh.... But I'm not the biggest bastard- that's Dream." Tommy comments.

"Lol- keg. You know what? Toast to that big man" I smirked.

After that little joke placement, I decided to go back to the lore bits.

"...Anyways, are you ready for tomorrow, Tommy?" I asked.

Tommy stares at me for a few moments before finally answering.

"...yeah. Yeah I am."