A City of Secrets and Masks

-Thirteen- The Calm Before the Storm

They ran in and saw Wilbur, Philza, and Techno crowded around in the back of the room. Finn was typing away furiously at his computer.

"What's up?" asked Dream, looking around at the situation.

"We've got a group mission to go on- all of us. Wil just got a message and Finn just got an anonymous tip pointing to an attack at the docks. Wil thinks it may be the Assembly group," Phil said. "Karl, go get Tubbo. He's taking lunch on the roof." Karl gave a nod and started up the stairs.

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The trio had been in the lobby, just enjoying the sun that came through the glass windows and chatting. Finn was typing  Wilbur had been trying to get as much sun as he could- he'd read sun helped illnesses and he may have not been sick, but he was hoping it could help the symptoms he'd been feeling.

Phil fixed Wilbur with a worried glance. Wilbur had noticed Phil had been sending him quite a few of these glances lately. Wilbur had probably flashed a red flag without even knowing, but Phil must have picked up on it. He'd have to be more careful.

They'd been sitting in silence, watching people walk by the Hub. It was calm. Finn's Everyone was a bit tense- as we've mentioned before, calm never stays in Illosia

Then Finn's phone rang. Everyone seemed to relax a bit like they were waiting for something to ruin this. Finn picked it up.

"Uh-huh... alright... Oh. Oh, okay." Finn looked up at the heroes before hanging up. "The docks. The Assembly gave us a tip, or it was a prank. Not likely though, we've kept all of this stuff top secret. They're going to attack at dusk."

"Oh shit," Phil said. The Sleepy Bois all stood up and started moving, getting ready to head out.

Wilbur's phone, which had been left on the chair he was at, buzzed. He walked it over and picked it up.

-unknown number-
one image attached

Wilbur frowned and opened the message. It was Niki's calling card.

-unknown number-
it may be best to bring the whole gang, no?
you don't want another... incident to happen, id suggest more backup.
It could happen to one of your friends, i don't know! :)

-You Have Blocked This Number-

"Shit, fuck..." Wilbur murmured. Phil looked up from where he was strapping on his sandals

"You alright over there, Wilbur?" He could tell something was up, because his next line was, "Oh. What's happened?"

"Just got a message from one of them. They make it seem like it's gonna be big. Finn, call an emergency meeting."

"On it." Phil hit a small button on the edge of the counter and an alarm flashed through the Hub.

A few seconds later, the others came running into the room.

A minute after that, Fundy, Karl, and Tubbo came down.

Philza got up on a chair to try and shush everyone.

"MATES!" A wave of silence fell over the crowd. "Thank you. We've gotten word that there's going to be an attack at the docks, and it's going to be bad. We need all hands on deck for this."

There was a murmur of agreement and Wilbur spoke up.

"We have about an hour until dusk. Everyone, get your stuff and meet up..." He paused, trying to think of a good place around town.

"At the clocktower!" Fundy spoke up.

"Yeah, there," Wilbur said.

The group all disassembled and started getting ready. No one noticed Fundy pull out his phone and send some texts.

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On the other side of town, Skeppy got a message. He read over it and thrust it towards bad.

"That's Punz's symbol... Oh fudge, they're going to attack the clocktower?" Bad looked up. "We've got an hour, we gotta get there!"

And so they got their stuff and started walking.

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The storm was approaching, the trap had been laid.

Now it's a question of if our heroes could survive it or not.

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A/N

Next chapter... will be filler lol. 5k special bc we'll have hit it by the time I get it out.

It's gonna be character descriptions,,, I'm in the mood to describe things with a lot of words.

THEN we'll hit what i have nicknamed "the storm."

Shit's gonna get real, tensions are gonna boil over.

Someone will punch Mr. Tommyinnit.

I am more excited about writing one of these things than the other.

-ace :)