UTØPIA | TomTord |

Great War Apollo: I

Matt didn't answer the door.

I knocked again and called out for his name.

But there was still no response...

I decided just to walk in, the door was unlocked anyways.

I opened the door and walked in, the lights were off.

I looked around the apartment and Matt was not there.

It was 2 AM, where is he?

I sat on the bed and tried to call him, but there was no answer.

About 30 minutes had gone by.

I started to get worried.

Really worried...

Until the apartment door opened and Matt walked inside.

"Edd! You're back!" Matt cheered.

Matt took off his jacket and came to hug me.

"Where have you been?" I asked.

"..."

"I just went to the laundromat-"

"MATT!" I snapped.

Matt flinched in fear.

My heart ached for a moment, but only for a moment.

"I'm sorry..." I apologized. "It's just you always use that excuse, and I don't see a bucket of clothes in your hands."

"Please just tell me where you were... I was getting worried..." I said.

Matt looked down at the floor.

"I..." Matt said.

Matt thought for a moment, and he thought hard.

"I can't tell you..." Matt claimed.

"And why not?" I asked.

"..."

"Evil prevails, The Children of the Harvest our coming, and when they do... Armageddon will rage..." Matt said.

"What's that supposed to mean?" I asked, clearly confused.

"..."

"I'm going to shower, Edd," Matt said.

"At 2 in the morning?" I asked.

"I need one," Matt said before walking off and getting his clothes.

I lay in bed thinking about how I would tell Matt I would have to leave again.

I hear the shower turn on and the sound of the water fills the silence of the room.

The next day
Tom's POV

I looked.

When Tord was busy.

I looked in the lab.

I was... Confused, by what I saw.

A lot of testing rooms.

A lot of stuff I saw in there that I cannot explain.

And I was going to confront Tord.

I stormed into the room.

"Hey, Tom," Tord said simply as I entered.

"What is in that lab?!" I exclaimed.

"What do you mean?" Tord asked.

"I looked in there, I KNOW what is in there!"

Tord stood up.

"I told you not to go in there!" Tord exclaimed.

"Yersinia pestis? Buboes? Rats!?" I yelled, "What are you doing in there!?"

Tord didn't answer.

"Oh? So that's the fucking game we're playing?" I asked.

"TELL ME WHAT YOU'RE FUCKING DOING WITH THE PLAGUE?!"

"It's not like that!" Tord exclaimed.

"YERSINIA PESTIS! YERSINIA PESTIS FOR JEHOVAH'S SAKE!" I yelled.

"And what do you think I'm doing over there then?" Tord asked, clearly annoyed.

"I don't know! That's why I'm asking YOU!"

"Do you know what an Aerosol Weapon is?" Tord asked.

I shook my head.

Tord pinched the bridge of his nose.

"Do you at least know what a Bio-Weapon is?"

"Mhm"

"The Bubonic Plague has been used in Biological Warfare before, Tom..." Tord said.

"..."

"No..."

"No, you have to be fucking with me," I said.

Tord looked me dead serious in the eyes.

"Y-you're army is weaponizing The Bubonic Plague?..." I asked.

"Mhm,"

"A-and what do you plan to do with it?" I asked.

"The first part ...Of Utopia... Is to purge two-thirds of the entire human race..." Tord said.

I felt chills go down my spine.

"No... No, I can't let you do that..." I said.

"We're still debating whether or not it should or shouldn't be done," Tord said.

"No, I cannot let you go this far... I will DIE before I let you do that," I said firmly.

"Tom?" Tord said.

"What?"

"Look at me," Tord said.

"What do you see when you see me?" Tord asked.

"Uh..."

"I see Tord... My love... Red Leader, I don't know!" I exclaimed.

"No... I meant what do you see when you see... me?"

"..."

"I see the man I fell in love with... The same man who will kill his friends to achieve what he wants, the same man who would let his best man die when it easily could've been avoided, the same man who kills and tortures innocent children..." I ranted.

"..."

"And do you think I wanted that?"

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