Summary: Landing (crashing) the pod, They escape through the forest and find themselves a decently deep cave to hide in, neither of them are.. really good at things survival wise. Luckily Tommy wakes up and despite no verbal communication, he's really good at making a fire.

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Imagine being a simple animal on planet For'estrx. Just grazing on the plants or having a nice quiet nap, the air filled with the sounds of nature, birds, and insects.

Now imagine all that, ruined. By the loudest fucking boom these poor animals ever heard, it shook the ground and startled the peacefully sleeping animals and they all flee, not knowing what the hell made the noise but they don't ask questions! They can't talk!

The area clears out, not a single animal willing to risk their lives for curiosity. All except for one, making them a witness to seeing a small alien running from a crashed escape pod, carrying some form of rations, a tall black alien who's carrying a tall, golden haired oddity with him.

Those 2 fleeing from the crashed site, with only the plants (and creature) as witnesses and a smoking pile of metal.

The little (big) creature stares at there retreating figures curiously from atop it's tree.

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"Gah I hate forests"

"Hey! Watch it! My whole planet is a jungle! Bigger than a forest- better than one too. Besides, you only say that because you're too tall and you keep hitting the branches with your horns"

"Okay and? Not my fault I'm tall."

"Debatable"

Ranboo gives a warbled huff while Tubbo snickers as he flies ahead, giving small heads up for Ranboo for a particularly big low branch.

They landed on the planet and in the more denser forests on the planet. With luck they should be able to get far enough away, and with better luck, find shelter. The forest itself is dense, the branches providing shelter on their own against strong wind and rain. But it would still be good to find more solid shelter.

Tubbo doesn't know how long it's been but his wings get tired and Ranboo starts slowing down, he's pretty sure they got pretty far from the crash. Now to actually focus on shelter, preferably near water. Him and Tommy could use a wash and from what he's observed, Tommy needs a lot of water. Far more than him.

Luckily they didn't need to travel far, they found a cave opening that reaches a little ways inside, not too small too, and it's in the direction away from the wind. So it'll be less cold for him and Tommy.

And! He can hear a nearby rush of water, there's a creek nearby that they can use. So this spot is going to be there hideout for now, until they can get a new comm and hopefully call for Phil and the crew.

Hopefully.

Heading straight for the cave, they 'set up camp'. Which really, he just lays the rations in one corner and Ranboo goes to lay Tommy down before Tubbo stops him, instead, telling him to be placed where moss and dirt is. Softer than the cold rock of the cave.

Ranboo warbles worriedly "Y'know, I think we should have taken those survival lessons from Techno seriously...." Tubbo feels inclined to agree. He didn't think he would need those lessons. Ranboo always had contact on him and Tubbo just eats basically any type of fruit or flower. Compared to Ranboo, he's more likely to survive nearly any planet.

But this puts Ranboo and Tommy at a risk, Tommy is injured and he doesn't know when he would wake up and Ranboo eats meat, Tubbo doesn't hunt and Ranboo doesn't know how to hunt.

"This is... going to be a problem.."

Yea no shit.

Shouldn't be that hard though right?

What's the first step when surviving? Shelter, check!

What's next? Find water, also check! There's a creek nearby.

Food? Well they have some rations but with no idea how they long they will last on the planet they can't rely on the rations, so they have to find food, preferably for Ranboo and Tommy. That's going to be harder to find- hunt really.

And also warmth, depending on the species. Ranboo is resistant to cold temperatures, his planet being furthest away from their sun while Tubbo can't regulate his heat well, so warmth is a priority for himself and Tommy. He doesn't think Tommy's body heat will be enough in such an open cave.

Surely it can't be that hard to find food and warmth for them?

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Tommy wakes up to the sound of alien warbling and humming talking a few feet away from him.

He feels better after that rest. Sore as hell, but better. He's actually really glad those aliens have been feeding him a shit ton of that weird space meat. It had a lot of protein packed into it, allowing his body to heal much quicker thanks to it.

If he plays it safe and careful, his body should be healed enough to not worry about his injuries or be sore anymore. But that was then, this is now.

Slowly sitting up, ignoring his aching muscles he looks over and realizes that they are in a cave, a big cave with an opening to a good view of the sky, which is... tinged pink? Like a pastel pink color.

It's pretty.

A familiar buzz grabs his attention and he's locked eyes with familiar black eyes with hints of brown in them and a goat pupil.

He perks up, smiling, "Tubbo!"

He hears a warble and then he spots tall bitch

He frowns, glaring. "Tall bitch"

Tubbo buzzes at him, shaking his head. Great, Tubbo seems to either be friends with this guy or he's.... he's... wait...

He peers at how close Tubbo and Maleficent are. They are side by side, Tubbo looking comfortable and relaxed along side the giant alien, who is peering at him nervously. Glancing between him and Tubbo.

Either he's Tubbos friend... or...

He's his parental figure or guardian.

Something about that rubs him wrong, he doesn't like it. He thinks he'd rather have the tall alien as Tubbos friend than a parent. After all, he was the one that was asleep, not Tommy, no sir! Tommy was wide awake, taking care of Tubbo.

Fucker was asleep the entire time, get good! He can't possibly be his parent, he looks like he could fold from Tommy's glare alone! What kind of good parent wouldn't tear down a planet just to get to their kid? Shouldn't the 'mother's adrenaline' be kicking in?

Granted, neither he or this tall guy are females, but it still stands! He got that adrenaline rush when Tubbo got hurt back on the ship! So why can't this guy be the same! If he sees Tommy as a threat to Tubbo why hasn't he at least done anything?

His eyes widened. What was he thinking?

Oh god.

His head lays in his hands in agony. "I've become a fucking mother"

Only now did it occur to him that he didn't want the idea of the alien being Tubbos parent or guardian simply because of the fact he's gotten attached in taking care of him.

Fuck.

He lifts his head up to stare at Tubbo. "I was joking about being your mother, but I think your nickname got to me brain little guy" He receives nothing more than a confused stare.

Well, he doesn't know about them, but they need to get to surviving. He doesn't know what tall alien can eat or do, but he'd rather get a fire started.

(he also wants to be distracted from the fact he's 100% in fucking denial)

He gets up, ignoring Tubbo trying to get him to sit back down. He doesn't know how long he's been resting, but it was hours, and it doesn't seem like the other 2 have even started a fire, nor gotten materials for one.

Did they not know how to start one?

Guess he knows what he's doing.

He tries to gently push Tubbo away, succeeding only because of his strength. "I'm fine Bambi, I need to get firewood and shit 'cause none of you guys got anything for a fire, or to start one! Honestly"

Tubbo tilts his head, confused at hearing the nickname, not understanding it.

Tommy only laughs and starts walking out of the cave, slowly though, he notices that he's limping and favoring his right leg. That's gonna be an issue. "I'll be back in a few, gonna get some wood, and dry grass... hopefully.." He knows nothing of this planet, but he knows he's in a forest, and you can find everything you need in a forest as dense as this one.

Before Tubbo could even attempt to stop him he's already walked out the cave and gone to search. Trying to ignore his pain for a little while, he'll rest once he gets a fire going.

Time to put that knife he stole from that alien to use.

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"There goes your human"

Tubbo stays put, feeling confident that Tommy will come back once he's... done with whatever he's going to do. He really wants to follow him, but he can't. Mainly because Ranboo won't let him. Claims that he's not letting him out of his sight.

"Oh my Queen! You're nearly as bad as Mommy!"

Ranboo looks down at him in a tired way a responsible friend would look at their chaotic friend. "Is that seriously his name?"

Tubbo buzzes, amused. "No, I just can't pronounce it, and I think it means something else in human tongue" Ranboo looks unimpressed.

"So a word that could possibly mean anything like an insult or a swear word and you're still saying it?" Tubbo was worried about that at first, but Tommy never made a truly angry move at him, only in annoyance.

"Well he never seemed angry, he gets annoyed and looked at me in horror the first time, but never tried to force me to stop, I think he secretly likes it" Tubbo looks quite proud at that.

Ranboo took awhile to comprehend everything that Tubbo had told him on the pod about

their human friend, the things he's found out about.

He's still processing some stuff, like how the human is resistant to Tubbos paralyzing sting!? Tubbo admitted to stinging the human on accident and fearing the worst before becoming shocked that Tommy was better in only a few minutes!

Although it still hurt the human, Tubbo explains while recalling how Tommy was laying on the bed, whining and groaning in pain.

Scary.

After a short while of talking, Tubbo went to clean himself at the creek, so it was just Ranboo in the cave. He doesn't know how long it's been, but he's been munching on the meat rations, it's a form of dried meat. Doesn't taste familiar but that's to be expected, it's pretty bland.

Soon he hears footsteps, he looks out the cave, expecting to see Tubbo but instead he sees the human carrying- or rather, dragging a bunch of stuff.

He has a bunch of stuff on top of a massive leaf that he must have tore from a tree, when he says massive, he means like, nearly his height. It's big and wide, and he seems to have used it to carry a bunch of materials for... something.

He has Sticks, Wood, some... vines? A blue flower that's cone shaped (think of a Lily, but with nothing inside) some small leaves, more sticks, and some rocks. A bunch of stuff that seem.. pointless really.

He warbles curiously at the human. The human only glances at him before taking some of the rocks out, sticks, pieces of wood, and a shinier rock off. He also notices the human is limping slightly. He knew the human was still hurt, no way he could have healed that quick.

The human makes a small circle with the rocks, places 3 small 'logs' on them, then surrounded the logs by stacking sticks in a tent-like shape, sprinkled some leaves on it- oh, the leaves are dried. What is he doing?

He.. formed something, it does look familiar, like something he's probably seen in a history book for some species maybe? He's unfamiliar with what 'Mommy' is doing.

Once he was satisfied with his.. creation... he grabs another spare rock and the more shinier black rock and started banging them together.

Ranboo looks on in confusion as he stares at the human banging 2 rocks together. Is this a human thing? Some form of activity to escape boredom? He wishes Tubbo was here, Tubbo knew more about Humans and their customs than Ranboo could hope to know.

He hears him yell out in a cheer, he glances over and chokes on a surprised screech. The human made fire, he made fire! None of the galactic forces or councils of any species really go out of there way to make fire! The classic way to create heat and light was through using minerals dug up from the ground to create long lasting flames, using said materials from underground to create them.

What the human did was a primitive way of creating that, and yet, was far more effective and quicker (probably safer too) of creating that. Enderians never bothered, they are resistance to the cold and don't mind eating raw meat (they've become more civil, but raw meat is still on the table for them)

Tubbos home was almost always the same temperature, they eat flowers and fruits, no reason to start a fire to risk burning down the forest.

Many species had reasons for never bothering with fire, some lived in planets where fire is everywhere, some lived where fire couldn't form due to lack of oxygen, some underwater, some too cold for fire to even be thunk of. The list goes on!

So to have seen first hand how the human used materials from the area around him from a completely different planet to create fire? It was impressive, extremely so. So impressive he couldn't help but let out a warbled noise in awe, staring at the fire.

The human puffs his chest out, barked out something at him but with a twinkling light in his eyes. The human must be proud of themselves.

He hears buzzing. "I'm back! That water was freezing- THERE'S A FIRE! HOLY SHIT! Did mommy make it?!" Tubbo came in to see the human proudly next to his fire and buzzes rapidly in excitement.

He chuckles when the pride in Tommy dropped to shout at Tubbo for the use of nickname, who then marvels at the fire a little too close for his liking, luckily the human seemed to agree and was holding Tubbo back from getting too close to the fire, shouting at him.

He thinks this will go better than he expected.

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None of them notice eyes looking at them from the corner mouth of the cave. Peering curiously at the aliens and at the golden oddity that was the human.

They stay for a little longer, marveling at the yellow flames of the fire before turning around and disappearing into the forest.

Tommy looks over, having felt eyes watching him, but sees nothing. Tubbo pulls his attention back to him but Tommy still steals glances at the cave entrance, wondering if it was just his paranoia getting to him.

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Notes: This was nice, I actually had to remind myself that Tommy is indeed injured, he's going to suffer from those injuries for awhile but be too stubborn to sit down for too long.