Dream POV
As the car slammed, I could feel the momentum still pushing me forward violently before coming to an abrupt stop. Quackity yelled a few words telling us our arrival has come.
Ted and Schlatt opened the back doors for us and we hopped out. We were in a completely empty parking lot, an abandoned one.
Me and y/n glanced at each other before the 3 people in front of us starting taking the lead. Quackity had a pep to his walk, almost like Skeppy. He was blabbering about whatever conversation he involved himself in before he let out a rushed "aha!".
The whole group stopped and Quackity simply looked at the ground, lifting up a cement parking blocker. He scanned the floor for a few seconds before seeing the number pad and jamming in a few numbers.
"Can they know?" Quackity asked. I saw Schlatt from my peripheral vision look at y/n then me and nodded.
"Why not. They're going to be here for a while."
"43659! That is the code, and no it's not that simple of course," Quackity chuckled a bit before continuing "Theres a word after all the code numbers! Uh- Now that i think about it-"
Quackity looked up at Schlatt. Schlatt let out an annoyed sigh and walked over to Quackity before muttering out curses under his breath.
"Who named it to fucking 'Schlagg'?!" He whipped his head around to Ted, Ted's face was red and his hand was clamped onto his mouth.
"Oh i'm going to kill you one day Vision...just wait." Schlatt pressed one last button before the floor opened up, with a little opening and stairs leading down. The cover awaited our entrance impatiently.
"Well let's get going boys."
When we were all walking I made tiny conversation with Ted. He seemed like a genuinely sweet person, odd to see him in this kind of field of business I guess. I want to be nosy.
"So what made you work here?" Ted looked up from the ground, getting back into thought.
"Hm..well for as long as I could remember I've always been here. I've always been helping business production." He said calmly.
"Why?"
"Why what?"
"Why did you stay?"
"Oh..well. Think about it like this Dr-Nightmare," He corrected himself "It's like a family business. You grew up with the company, not only did you grow but so did your surroundings and profits people earned. You grew up with the people and watched them morph into the people they have become now. You watched this place grow since it started with baby steps, and you're so happy. Why would you leave? Why would you leave the success? Your family? When you could just stay and still support it all the way through."
I silently nodded processing his words. Y/n and I just did what he said what people shouldn't. Leave the people we love, leave the success, happiness. Why?
Ted was mindlessly talking to me while I was zoned out. I zoned back in when I heard a pair of footsteps stop. I turned to face behind me and saw y/n there.
"Oi what's wrong?" I turned my hips to face her fully.
She quietly walked up to me to simply state.
"I'm just scared- no. nervous." Before I could speak to comfort her she blurted out one last thing.
"Also why the fuck is their hallway so long."
We both laughed at that. Once we calmed down I put my hand on her shoulder and looked at her eyes.
"We'll be okay, I promise."
She gave me a smile and turned back to catch up with Schlatt, Ted and Quackity.
"Oi come on fellas let's go meet the others! they're waiting for us!"
Quackity yelled, he stood in front of a big metal door ready to pull at it to open the entrance. The metal handles bolted to the cold surface to prevent whats not wanted out. Guess we're the lucky ones to be able to see the doors open..yeah. Yeah, lucky. I looked to my side to see Y/n gone and caught up, so I picked up my stalled pace making my way over to the bigger group.
"Say hello to home! Unfortunately the big man didn't exactly, well, tell us how many people were going to stay with us so we only have 1 open room. We can make another room but it may take a few-" Y/n cut off Ted from talking. I could feel her impatience settle into the atmosphere before she even spoke words.
"Please stop talking-" I scoffed and pinched my nose before she continued "I-uhm. I didn't mean for that to slip out." Her voice losing the confidence it once held. Quackity was was complaining in the background about holding the door open for too long, while Schlatt was laughing as hard as he possibly could. Ted just deadpanned and stared at her.
"Uhm-we're good with sleeping in the same room together. If either of us have a problem with it I'll inform one of you, thank you though." Ted just gave a thin lipped smile before finally walking in, to which Quackity gave a relieved sigh to.
Schlatt walked in shortly after and I followed in with y/n by my side shortly after. It was a spacious area; it looked like a home but much bigger and a bit more professional. When one entered you were met with with walls at first guiding the door entry but then you were split into areas. To the right was a nice open kitchen with tables and chairs. I guess it depends how you felt that day was deciding where you would sit. To the right was a large couch with 2 lounge chairs off to the sides. All facing a tv with boxes and boxes of gaming consoles under it ready to be turned on once more; but every side had an outlet ready for someone to put it to use. There were desks placed along where a dining room table should have gone, but sometimes everybody needs a focus space.
Schlatt and Quackity gave us the tour, but Quackity was mostly doing the talking. Schlatt was walking crossed-arm as a bottle of whiskey sat between one of his arms and chest. I could see Y/N happily keeping up with Quackity; she fit in so well. She hit it off with Schlatt so quickly in the van and now Quackity. It was like she was their missing puzzle piece that our agency was keeping; trying to fit it into our own puzzle.
Soon we made it down to an L-shaped hallway.
"These are all the rooms! They're a lot more distanced than what the doorways show. So if theoretically if stuff goes down," Quackity turned to Y/N and winked "no one will be able to hear you! If you're trying to be loud, then yes. You will be heard. But lets start with the rooms!"
Schlatt leaned over to Quackity and whispered something quickly before taking a swig from his bottle.
"Oh, Ted how many people are on a mission right now?" Ted looked up to the ceiling pondering the question for a minute before giving him an answer.
"About 7 of them if I am not incorrect."
I felt my own eyes widen. 11 people was not a lot; at all actually. Why were they hooked up with such big drug dealers if they have such a small amount of people?
Schlatt must have seen me widen my eyes because he scoffed about at the same time he looked over me.
"We have a lot more than 11 people; 11 just live here. We have people over here constantly, never a boring place." He chuckled before a hiccup interrupted his nostalgia-induced laughter.
"So whos here? As in, whos living here?" I heard Y/n speak up. Quackity threw his hand in the air as if he was a student ready to answer the teachers question. Schlatt just nodded as a snicker left his mouth from Quackity's behavior.
"Well we have Ranboo, Slimesicle, Jack Manifold, Ponk, Connor, Tubbo, Vikk and Alyssa! They live here but we have a lot of people over all the time. Oh which reminds me! Ted who stayed home?"
It was odd to hear someone call an agency home, they really seem to love it here with each other. While back at our agency we always found it unfortunate to stay there unless we had someone to hang out with. It always was so empty..like a void that could only be filled if you were surrounded by the people you loved.
"I think Charlie did! Oh Schlatt you haven't seen him in forever! Go! Go say hi dude!" Ted was pushing Schlatt around like a rag doll. He was complaining but wasn't putting up any fight to stop from going closer to the room; I assume he wants to go see Charlie.
"Charlie!! Come out!" I saw Y/n flinch a bit at the dropping of items and frantic steps rushing around a room, soon a human emerged from a room and we saw him come out with rustled hair.
He had a darker green baggier shirt and glasses; wearing dark blue jeans. His face contorted into confusion then a wide smile.
"Schlatt! My man!!" He ran over and hugged Schlatt in what seemed like a suffocating bear hug. Schlatt let out a laugh while being squeezed like an orange. Slimesicle let go, a smile still on his face.
"Hows it going idiot?" Schlatt asked while through his tilted smile.
"It's going good! I see you brought guests over!" He turned to me and Y/n, she backed up towards where I was when she saw the commotion of Charlie coming out of the room. He held his hand out to us for us to shake. Y/n took it first. "I'm Charlie! It's nice to meet you..?" He waited for an answer.
"Oh Black Star, Star for short. It's nice to meet you too!" She shook his hand with a smile. Then it was my turn.
"And you are?" He raised an eyebrow and his hand waited patiently. I took his hand and shook it gently.
"Call me Nightmare." I gave a small smile. He let go of my hand and threw his together emitting a small clap noise.
"Well! Welcome home!"