I AM ALIVE I SWEAR

It's been so long since the last time I updated this book that I don't even remember when the last chapter was published honestly-

I'm sorry for being dead for so long, I just had 0 inspiration for a while and my massive author's block didn't help at all

Welp, what matters now is that I'm back at it again so here's my brand new Dream smp au and my first attempt at making a oneshot which is various parts long

Also from now on I'll probably stop doing oneshots introductions the way I used to because I got bored of them, I hope it's okay with ya'll

And now let's cut to the chase, we all know that Techno and Tommy teamed up a while ago, but what if there was something more sinister going on in the background?

(tw: mentions of manipulation)

(1672 words)

Techno was sure that if he hadn't just come back from Quackity and his friends' attempt to execute him, he wouldn't have noticed the low sounds of footsteps coming from under his house.

Normally he would've thought it was some kind of animal or something among those lines, but while adrenaline still rushed through his veins he couldn't help but think it might've been another attack from the L'manburgians, which led to him stomping on every single one of his basement's stones, looking for some kind of secret passage.

Saying he was surprised when he removed one of the rocks to find a ladder that continued pretty far down into a small cave would've been a lie, but saying he was surprised by what happened in said cave was not far from the truth.

The moment his foot touched the ground he heard a rather loud gasp and before he could turn around, a stone sword was thrown at him.

Technoblade easily dodged it and the weapon hit the wall and fell on the ground with a tud, cracking itself.

The sword looked very substandard but that didn't make Techno's guard fall and he started gripping his sword's handle as an insticit. What did make Techno's guard fall was the scrawny blond head that was looking up at him.

"WHY ARE YOU LIVING UNDER MY HOUSE TOMMY?!" The pinkette exclaimed dumbfounded looking around the tiny room where his brother had apparantly been living for a certain amount of time.

Tommy was sitting on his bed and Techno could clearly notice how he was trying to look extremely smug while in reality he was about to piss his pants.

"YO TECHNOBLADE, MY FRIEND-" The blond suddenly cut himself off in the middle of his sentence. "Wait no I just remembered that I hate you, anyway what brings you here to my tiny base?"

"THIS IS MY HOUSE" Technoblade repeated in response, he had noticed some of his old supplies laying in an half opened chest which had annoyed him.

"No, this is MY house." Tommy replied. "Your house is upstairs" He continued as he pointed to the ceiling with his finger.

"No Tommy it doesn't work like that, this is still my house and you need to get out." The older groaned.

"Oh yeah? Well if you want me to move, make me BITCH" The younger boy stated proudly as he crossed his arms, not realizing the mistake he had just made.

"Gladly." Technoblade smirked as he saw the prideful look on his brother's face turn into a I fucked up when he walked closer to his bed and he automatically bolted towards another side of the room.

"Woah Woah Woah Techno, there's no need to be so rude with me!" Tommy exclaimed as he raised his hands in a defencive manner. "Also has anybody told you that you look like shit?"

Technoblade rolled his eyes. "Thank you Tommy, I'm happy I can always count on you to remind me how ugly I am."

"No but seriously, it looks like you were attacked by a feral raccoon." The boy replied as he looked over his arms, giving his brother a sincere look as he stared him down.

"Yeah I guess surviving your execution and killing someone by shoving a pickaxe into their teeth isn't really what I'd call a relaxing afternoon." Technoblade just shrugged.

"What the fuck-"

"Yeah Quackity wanted me to pay for my war crimes or something like that, needless to say he ended up with one less canon life and I am on some kind of hitlist now."

"Didn't you want to give up on your violent ways or some shit like that?" Tommy asked as he furrowed his eyebrows.

"I did but those people literally tried to kill me, you think I'm gonna let that slide?"

"I mean I'd probably do the same if I could so I guess not." Tommy shrugged.

"Yeah, judging from how thorn up you look the best thing you could do to the L'manburgians would be scaring them." Technoblade commented.

"Fuck off!" Tommy simply replied, crossing his arms and looking away trying to seem offended.

"Dude you're the one who broke into my house and stole my stuff! Between the two of us I should be the one telling you that!" The pinkette protested as he swang his arms around.

"But you're never gonna say anything like that to me since you don't swear because you're a PUSSY"

Techno took a deep breath before responding with his usually calm tone. "You know what? I was about to propose a deal to you but if you're going to be this difficult I'm just going to throw you out straight away and it'll just be the end of this."

"Wait wait wait, a deal?!" Tommy exclaimed. "Why on Earth would I want to make a deal with you?! You're nothing but a traitor!"

"I don't know, maybe the fact that being my alley you'd not only have access to all of my gear but you'd also be under my protection meaning not even Dream would be able to do anything to you. It's literally more convenient for you than it is for me!"

Tommy gave his older brother a thoughtful look before responding, letting a tense silence fill the room.

"Why are you trying to help me? You literally have no reason to ask me to join you."The blond boy replied in a defeated tone, which was very unlike him.

"Last chance Tommy, are you in?" Technoblade bluntly responded.

"Let's do this."

Techno nodded and smiled slightly under his mask as he turned around and started making his way up the ladder while Tommy just stared silently at him, giving him a confused glance.

"Are you coming or not?" The pinkette asked, breaking the boy out of his trance.

"O-oh yeah, just give me a second!"

Techno could swear that his younger brother looked quite nervous, which was very unlike him, but to be completely fair it's not like he hadn't expected for him to change, he knew that something was going on between him and Dream.

He just sighed as he reached the top of the ladder. He didn't know what Dream had done to his brother but he hoped he would eventually get back to his former self.

Technoblade would never admit it but at the end of the day he cared about Tommy.

He really did.

Too bad he didn't know his sentiment was one-sided

As Tommy heard Techno leave the room above him, his footsteps getting quiter and quiter, he broke into a giggling fit.

A giggling fit that pretty soon turned into a full on laugh.

"I can't believe that actually worked! He really thinks I'm on his side!" He laughed to himself, a very wide grin growing on his face.

"This went even better than I thought it would! He asked me to be his allay, he trusts me!" He chanted to himself as he picked up the stone sword that was still laying on the floor.

Tommy was quite surprised about how he managed to pull that insecure and scaredy act off when Techno spotted him, he was planning to get some sort of revenge on the pinkette but he didn't expect to get such a great opportunity!

He sat back down on his bed as he stared blankly at the rocky blade before letting out another giggle.

Dream thought he had broken the blond down, he thought he had manipulated him into thinking that he was his friend and that nobody cared for him, but he didn't know that the one pulling the strings all along wasn't him!

After all, why try to fight someone who could easily overpower him when he could just play along to his sick little games waiting to find a weak spot?

Tommy had pretended to believe Dream and it was not an easy task at all, one of the worst parts of it was certainly try to contain a smile from appearing on his face every time he noticed Dream's prideful smirk as he burned his gear.

Every single one of his friends thought he was a gullible little soul that always put his heart before his head, and although he couldn't deny he used to be just that, he had changed.

Was it a change for the better?

Well, for himself it really was.

Tommy had always let his emotions take the best of him, and that led to him getting hurt and betrayed over and over again.

After his exile he had a LOT of alone time to think about his situation and that led him to the conclusion he was so desperately looking for.

What did he have to do to stop getting hurt?

Easy! He had to wear a mask.

And by the time Tommy realized it he already had the best mask he could've asked for: his former self.

Nobody would expect the loud and annoying Tommyinnit to learn from his mistake, to plot a revenge in the shadows, to be something he wasn't in the past.

For once in his life he wasn't going to be the helpless puppet who followed the orders he was given, he was going to be the puppeteer.

And this puppeteer had a king to kill.

He gathered all the strength he had in his arms and he slammed the sword against the walls, leaving its blade stuck against the hard surface.

He needed to go meet Techno before he raised any suspitions.

Tommy quickly sprang to his feet and stood still for a moment, he took a very deep breath and the grin on his face disappeared, only to leave place to an annoyed and tired face.

He climbed up the ladder and went to meet Technoblade into the main room of the house.

"I'm here, what did you want shit head?" He yelled to catch the other's attention.

He had gotten very well at pretending.

That's right peeps, a villain Tommy Au!

I got this idea as I was listening to a song called Queen (or Kill The Queen, I think it was pretty famous in the gacha community for a while) and I just went "sure why not"

This oneshot will have three different parts so if you end up liking this one make sure to leave an heart to motivate me to write the next!

I feel like I could actually make an entire book with this au and that is actually something I plan on doing in the future but right now I have a lot, and I mean a LOT of story drabbles that I'd like to finish so I don't want to add even more to that pile.

Welp that's all for now, I'll try to be less dead I promise, I actually have quite a few oneshots drabbles in here and it shouldn't be too hard finishing some of them