━━ SO IT WAS REVEALED.
You sat there silently as you tried to comprehend everything that was told. You have witnessed so many perspectives... so many angles and viewpoints... it was interesting yet so complex for one person to handle everything all at once.
Though you had to admit, you admired Sapnap's determination and love for humanoids who he sees as his people or rather say his family, it made you wonder;
"When you come back to RE:LIFE, you are aware that one of the consequences you have to face is that you might not come back whether it be alive or dead, right?"
Your words were upfront. Of course, it is as it should be since you didn't find a point in sugarcoating your words around him. He knew the truth. And perhaps maybe even more than what you could ask him as of now.
He isn't as gullible to be blind towards every possibility there was that could be settled in this reality.
"I know."
He had eyes filled with determination but he answered you with such ease. Skepticism filled you as your eyes tried to speculate him.
'He's definitely plotting something.'
Your eyes continued to look at him with suspicion and he could tell that you were confused and wary just by the look on your face.
"Maybe you should start packing your things now and head to RE:LIFE." He suggested.
"Cut the bullshit. What did you do?" You asked which came off as more of a demand for his answer instead.
"To be honest, I don't know myself but you won't like anything that will be happening anytime soon if you don't go now." He said, rather more like a warning.
You couldn't read his expression and there was no electrocution shocking him as well so he must be telling the truth. Does he really not know anything at all? Then why is he telling you to go right now?
You tapped your earpiece once to check if there were any faults within the lie detector.
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Current Form: Earpiece
Polygraph Detector: Online
Immobilization: Online
Electrocution: Online
Recording: Online
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'The electrocution is on but he didn't get stunned at all... Is this real?' You thought to yourself in disbelief.
You couldn't bare to waste more time. For whatever reason, your guts can't help but tell you that something bad is about to come. Like a heavy storm making its way to ruin your day.
"We have to go." You said as you ran to George's room.
You barged through the door of George's room as your eyes filled with panic.
"George, we have to go. Now." You said.
Knowing from the look on your face and the tone of your voice, he knew better than to save his questions for later and immediately got up from the bed as he tapped both sides of his goggles and the earpiece you once wore had activated its wings on the back of it and flew towards George.
It landed on the palm of George's hand and he balled his hand into a fist then opened it up again for it to turn back into its original form as a bracelet.
"Go grab the rest of your stuff and I'll meet you by the exit of this place," George said.
"But wait, we don't know where the exit is. We've never tried to go outside." You said and he gave you a cheeky grin.
"I think you've forgotten that I'm Georgenotfound. Finding an exit to this place wouldn't be a problem at all." He assured you. "Now, go."
You smiled at him, glad to know that he is one of the most understanding people you have ever encountered so far as you ran out of his room and started grabbing all the items you will be needing and Ranboo's journal.
And as you passed from one room to another, you eventually realized Sapnap was still sitting quietly on the couch from where you had last interrogated him. It seems like he is the only one not making such a fuss about this whole situation.
Knowing that you will need to bring all that is necessary to you, also means you'll have to bring him along as well. And so, you quickly took the sharp move to grab what seems to be a glowing cable which seems strong enough to strangle someone but sadly, you'll still be needing him along your journey so it's not your time to strangle him yet.
You pull on it for it to break and you noticed that half the lights that lit the room had turned off you let out a small 'oops' as you realized what you have done but again, it didn't leave you feeling guilty since it is the least important thing in your mind as of currently.
"First, you bullied me into doing an interrogation and now you're trashing my apartment. You guys are just being too kind now. I definitely adore you guys as guests." Sapnap said with a sarcastic smile on his face and you immediately rolled your eyes at him.
You walked forward towards him and swiftly tied a loop around his neck then down to both his wrist, keeping them locked together as you pulled on the rope, making it tighter around his wrist and neck.
"Sorry about that but I needed it because you're coming with me whether you like it or not." You said. "Besides, you're still my dog in training after all so you'll need a leash while we go outside and take you for a walk, yeah?" You insulted with a smile.
You swore that if he were to be able to, he'd bite your face off right at that moment but he knew if he were to do anything with you as of now that you'll only try to bring him more pain. You were honestly being rather sadistic and that really reminded him of how Wilbur could turn to be.
Reflecting on his past, though his mind forgets most of the things that have happened due to the commands given to him though the mind forgets, his body differs. And so, he could only follow you with every command as of now while you pulled on the rope with guided him as a leash to trail behind you.
'It's all set.'
Your eyes skimmed the room one last time, check listing everything mentally that you will be needed before going back to the RE:LIFE headquarters, and you were assured that everything was packed.
"(Y/N), come over!" You heard George call out and you rushed to him as Sapnap stumbled behind you from the sudden pace.
You saw a room whose door was open and you didn't notice that there was another room within this space before. You took a few steps closer to the open door of the room only to see a large garage area with a great number of inventive vehicles. You mentally wowed at the sight of it.
Sapnap has detected that you were amazed. And as if he wasn't being threatened or held captive, he casually smirked at your reaction.
"Those are technically handmade by the way." He said.
"Well, technically it's machine-made if we want to be real for a second."
"You're not wrong... but it does feel kind of racist that you only see humanoids as a machine." He said.
"I don't. But from my experiences, some can be a pain in the ass and one of them is definitely you." You replied, glaring at him sharply.
"Ouch." He acted as if he was hurt but you knew it had no effect on him.
You looked over to search for a man with goggles and a blue jacket and fortunately, you found him standing beside what seemed to be a classic modern car in black color. It seemed elegant and expensive. As if the car would have had more worth in terms of money than you would ever have in your whole entire life.
"We should take this one," George said.
"You're saying this as if this was some kind of free car sale or something." Sapnap scoffed, rolling his eyes at him.
"Well," George put his hand on the handle of the white car and a soft glow of blue appeared, allowing the car's door to slide open. "Now it is."
The three of us boarded the car and George wasted no time activating the car while you and Sapnap sat in the passenger seat. George was a quick learner which you admired from him. Maybe his vast knowledge or skills to work and learn things fast is what makes people want him or even need him. If you had to be honest with yourself, Sapnap and George would have made a very good team in advancing technology but unfortunately, they seem to be incompatible with each other.
Though, knowing how they had reacted to each other when you first witnessed it yourself, you can say for sure that it wasn't the first time they've met and there was definitely history between those two which you didn't know about.
As George gripped the car's transmission, he lunged it forward and pressed on the pedestal as the gate to the outside had opened and with that, he wasted no time to drive us away from Sapnap's stay.
Feeling a sense of anxiety crawling within you, your palms felt sweaty against the rope you held on to as you tried to differ your mind to something else than the faces of the people you have left without a note back in RE:LIFE.
Sometimes you even wondered to yourself why you still even bothered to come back to that place when you could've just gotten back home– if that is, your home still exists and isn't destroyed to create new buildings.
Is it because you wanted to save everyone? A happy ending? Or has your moralities changed? Are you thirsting for a drop of revenge?
Your heart rate went up and Sapnap could feel it. He had the option to calm you down but knowing you're the one dragging him into this mess... he didn't seem like he would take that option out of selfishness.
As George sped up the drive, you could see a familiar building whose distance was coming short as you came closer to it.
You're back at RE:LIFE.
But as you remembered from your previous interrogation with Sapnap, you felt rather suspicious of the situation. Something felt off to you... as if something bad was going to struct at any moment.
"Hey, (Y/N)." Sapnap called and you snapped your head to him. "Don't let your bad emotions explode you."
Your eyes widened at his words and you felt your heart drop.
"BOOM!"
The tall building which you once saw standing on land has now exploded into breaking parts of its own construction. Pieces of walls are scattered like an asteroid as it hits the buildings around it.
Gray smoke had blocked the view of your vehicle's window but you could hear loud thuds surrounding you and so the three of you quickly rushed out of your seats before a huge chunk of the building's wall smashed the car down.
It was a close call but your panicked eyes couldn't help but wander around, searching for the people that filled your thoughts.
'Alexis? Ranboo? Wilbur? Tommy?'
You shoved the rope you held in your hand to George as you ran through the gray smoke, hoping to find them as you coughed out the dust filling your throat and nostrils.
You then saw a familiar figure from a distance, holding onto a smaller body. The smoke around you cleared up slightly and you could finally recognize their faces.
It was Wilbur carrying Tommy in his arms as Alexis ushered them out to safety. Your mind couldn't process the sight of it as you felt terror filling your heart but your feet ran to them as if they had a mind of their own.
"TOMMY!" You called out as you reached out to him and saw him unconscious in Wilbur's arms.
He had a scratched face and blood trickling down the side of his head and nose. You place a finger under his nose, checking if he was still breathing and thankfully, he was. But his breathing was shallow.
Fortunately, you heard sirens of ambulances and police cars coming by and it didn't take long for paramedics to approach you, taking Tommy into their hands.
"It'll be alright." One of them assured as they gently places Tommy onto the stretcher bed.
"(Y/N)..." You heard Alexis call faintly.
You could tell he had such scrambled emotions inside of him as he saw you but just as he was about to say something, he got another message from his earpiece and he knew he couldn't waste any time knowing there were still people within the building.
He took one last look at you and just then, you could tell his eyes held a look of pain and rage before running back towards the building.
You felt like tearing up but Wilbur grabbed the side of your face and examined it. As he did, you also examined his and noticed that he wasn't hurt at all, as if he was always prepared for the worst situations in self-defense. The only impact that it gave him was a scratch near the end of one of his eyebrows.
"Are you hurt anywhere?" He asked and you nodded slowly.
Despite the fact he can be rather ruthless sometimes, You tend to forget he has a soft side to him and he seems to have shown this more toward you. Suddenly, the image of him being a jerk to you disappeared. He was a real asshole when you first met him but he had never intentionally killed you.
Maybe that's when you learned, he's not as cold as he appears to be. He's just like ice. You can't help but make him melt.
Suddenly, your thoughts clouded as you still felt an uneasy feeling within your chest. Your eyes widened as you recalled one certain boy;
"Wait, where's Tubbo?!" You exclaimed and you quickly push both his hands away from your face as you rushed towards the building.
You heard Wilbur calling for you from behind, telling you that it's not safe but you ignored it. Your safety was the least of your concerns.
"HELLO? IS ANYONE THERE?" Tubbo called out as he felt his body being crushed under the pile of concrete, suffocating him.
"W-WILBUR?! QUACKITY?! TOMMY?!" His voice was strangled as he continued to scream as loud as he could. "ANYONE? ANYONE PLEASE!"
The concrete above him was slowly pressing heavier and heavier onto his body and He felt his body slowly weakening and his vision was slowly blurring.
"I don't want to die! I don't want to die! Please! I don't want to die..." He exclaimed in deep desperation.
He was facing his greatest fear. Death. He didn't want to die and he wasn't ready to accept it either. He doesn't know what to do as he wasn't able to get out of the concrete which trapped him and there was no one out there to help him either. He was helpless.
Suddenly, he could hear numbers counting down in his head before his last moments. Perhaps this was how his mind will cope without accepting his death.
5.
"You really think anyone cares for you?"
His mind recalled a familiar voice of a certain someone he had tried to ignore in his head.
4.
"You could have just died and no one would have batted an eye."
Tears started forming in the corner of his eye as every sentence of the masked man's words consumed him.
3.
"Trust me, you know this deep down. It's written in your past, everyone just wants you dead."
2.
As much as it stings his heart, he was convinced that the masked man who kept appearing inside his mind was right. No one would care enough for him to live. And so no one will bother if he was dead.
How ironic was it that the ones who he felt close with are the last people to think of him and that the one person he tried to ignore was right? At least Dream cared enough to advise and warn him for his well-being.
Dying with a feeling of betrayal... how absurd.
1.
"Tubbo, wake up." He heard as he inhaled air sharply.
The concrete wall which was previously crushing him was removed and pushed to the side, allowing him to breathe.
His eyes were blurry from tears while trying to regain his vision back to take a clearer look at who saved him.
He saw a familiar muscular man, standing with a green coat and a smiling mask tied around his waist.
It was Dream.
Tubbo looked up, eyes staring into his heterochromatic eyes. One side is green and the other red. Tubbo could tell he was previously hit on one side of his eye while escaping, causing a malfunction in one side of his vision and turning it red.
Dream helped Tubbo sit up as he couldn't help but stare with wide eyes and he couldn't help but burst into tears.
Dream could only stare at him, an unreadable expression on his face before crouching down to his level and patting his head in comfort.
"Is this... what it feels like to be on the verge of death...?" Tubbo sobbed in between his tears and Dream remained silent as he could only look at him, still processing his own thoughts.
Dream then proceeded to stand up, eyes still remaining on Tubbo's fragile state.
"Be brave. At least now you know who's on your side." Dream said and with that, he turned away and left, leaving Tubbo to wipe away his tears, eyes looking at Dream as he watched him disappear into the gray smoke before looking up to the sky.
"TUBBO!" He heard your voice call out for him but his gaze remained up at the sky as he felt an odd sense of tranquility.
In your eyes, Tubbo seemed to be daydreaming as he sat alone peacefully in a mist of chaos and you ran to him.
"Tubbo, are you okay?" You asked him and his eyes slowly averted to yours before giving you a closed-eyed smile.
"Never better." He said as he stood up from the ground. "I'll be checking on the others now if you don't mind." He said as he walked out, leaving you alone as if nothing had ever happened to him.
Confused and concerned, you watched the boy walk away and disappear from your sight before turning your back to where he previously but you stumbled backward at the sight of a cat, sitting down in that exact place instead.
"Woah–" You gasped at its sudden appearance.
Slowly, you started recognizing the cat and you realized;
"Patches?" Your mouth syncs with the name inside your head.
It let out a small sound of 'meow' at your call. You examined its figure and you noticed that it seemed to have its missing parts and fur repaired on its body. Without revealing its actual body, you wouldn't have recognized it as an artificial animal.
Before you could take a closer look at it, Patches stood up from the ground and ran away, jumping over the broken pieces of the buildings as a staircase for its escape.
And so, you stood there dumbfounded by everything that had happened.
The sound of screeching from a car's wheel could be heard as a man with dark brown hair and formal black attire got out of his car to witness the destruction of the RE:LIFE headquarters. It was Jschlatt.
"What in the shit is going on in here?" He exclaimed but instead of being outraged or stunned, he seemed amused and astonished at the sight of it.
"It seems that the headquarters have been... blown up." One of his bodyguards informed him.
"Inform me who had done this. A level-headed maniac and genius would have been the only ones to successfully plan and infiltrate this facility." Schlatt demanded but as one of his bodyguards tried to get an insight into it, they couldn't detect nor figure out who were the ones behind this massive destruction.
Schlatt was disappointed to hear that he couldn't grasp onto the culprit nor any information about them but he couldn't help but laugh and slowly it turned rather maniacal. He was insane and everyone knew that.
What they don't know was that things are about to take a worse turn and Schlatt is all in for it.
sorry, this took long because this chapter had so many layers and writing to do... and I am also having such a hectic time balancing out my student life... Also, my phone got confiscated so if the format is kind of weird, it's because I'm doing this on laptop :"D
but anyways, Divergent is such a good book ugh... I'm so glad I borrowed it from my school's library. I'm planning to watch the movie soon.
anyways, thank you for most of all of your support! I'm eternally grateful for the words and encouragement you guys have given me! I love you guys a lot! Have good days always!
Created on 4 March 2023
Edited on 4 March 2023
Edited by @hanamocha